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In searching for the perfect colors to use for my Family Room re-d0, I started by perusing the websites of different color experts to see what they've forecasted for this year. When I came across Brentano Fabrics 2012 Color Trends it was love at first site. I knew these were the perfect color choices- and a sign from decor heaven-as they match the rug in my kitchen perfectly! Here's how Brentano describes these colors.
Marine: A continuation from 2011, Marine is a navy that plays up the rich, jewel-toned aspect of the color while keeping true to its classic appeal.
Sprout: This bright, yellow-green shade is perfect for livening up an atmosphere. Use it for accent pieces to give interiors a fun, current twist.
Tangerine: A saturated orange with a touch of red, tangerine offers a fresh counterpart to sophisticated neutrals.
Paper White: 2011 saw a move from creamier neutrals to this "true white" that is pure, clean, and luxurious–the perfect basic to continue using in 2012
Graphite: While Brentano's 2011 color forecast called for silvery, platinum hues, 2012 will see grays shifting to a darker charcoal that looks beautiful with colors (such as deep yellows and purples), or pairs perfectly with neutral shades.
Linen: This color looks beautiful as a crisp white or dyed a vibrant color, but also has a natural appeal in its unprocessed, raw form. Its comforting, clean feel works as a neutral, but also offers stunning warmth that makes it the perfect color for a subtle palette.
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Today, May 15, is GiveBig, Seattle's third annual "day of giving" event. Created by the Seattle Foundation in 2011, the idea is to focus attention on charitable giving, raise the public profile of the Seattle Foundation and of course raise some dough. There are similar events in many other cities now, and even a national "GivingTuesday" event right after Thanksgiving.
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Full detailed profile on Kin Shriner playing Scott Baldwin on General Hospital Daytime Soap Opera.
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He is a whopping eight minutes older than his twin brother, Wil. Their father, Herb Shriner, was a TV host and humorist. During high school, Kin's parents were killed in an automobile accident and he and Will moved to Texas to live with their grandmother.
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Updated: 01/10/2013 1:34 PM KSTP.com By: Cassie Hart
President Barack Obama announces his nomination for Treasury secretary is Jack Lew.
The President points to Lew's past work of balancing budgets during the Clinton administration.
The president says he feels "bittersweet" about losing Lew as his White House chief of staff but says "my loss will be the nation's gain."
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Last week I had the pleasure of joining Peter Silva (Technical Marketing Manager at f5) and Telemachus Luu (Director of Business Strategy at GoGrid/ServePath) in a podcast hosted by f5 on their DevCentral community site. The topic of the podcast was "Cloud Computing" (of course) but specifically how using f5 technology, ServePath and GoGrid were able to create a full spectrum of hosting solutions ranging from Dedicated and Managed Hosting (ServePath) and Colocation hosting(ColoServe), up and into the Clouds with GoGrid.
The podcast titled "Hosting in the Cloud with ServePath and F5" covers a variety of topics including:
- ServePath's product extension from managed hosting to cloud hosting with GoGrid
- The "Cloud Pyramid" and distinctions within the various Cloud layers
- Understanding the nuances within the Cloud Infrastructure layer: "Infrastructure Web Services" & "Cloudcenters"
- How f5 was paramount in creating a Cloud Computing Infrastructure offering
I encourage you to listen to this 30 minute podcast (forgive the audio quality, we were in an empty conference room) which is available at the following locations:
- On f5′s DevCentral site
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Legendary Lovers: Cecil Beaton and Greta Garbo
BY Christopher Harrity
February 11 2014 8:00 AM ET
Candid images of Garbo and Beaton in London and New York
Cecil Beaton was the multitalented British dandy of the society set from the '20s to the mod '60s. Would his friends and male lovers have identified him as bi? Possibly not, but times have changed, and we can view Beaton's obsessions with the great female beauties of the time as what they were: manifestation of his bisexuality.
Garbo, the famously private screen goddess, had perhaps the most photogenic face of any decade. She was involved in a notoriously on again-off again relationship with the womanizer Mercedes de Acosta (pictured at right). De Acosta was also involved over the years with Isadora Duncan, Marlene Dietrich, and Eva Le Gallienne. Perhaps the devotion Garbo received from Beaton was a safe harbor during her continuing affair with de Acosta.
Two of the interesting books documenting the complex relationship between the two creative powerhouses: Greta and Cecil by Diana Souhami and Loving Garbo: The Story of Greta Garbo, Cecil Beaton and Mercedes de Acosta by Hugo Vickers. Vickers has also worked on a collection of wonderful books on Beaton, including editing Beaton's prolific diaries.
After a chance meeting in Hollywood in the early '30s that was punctuated with an flirtation, the besotted Beaton angled his way back into her life 15 years later like a lover obsessed. For Garbo, it was a fling with a handsome and devoted admirer, for Beaton it was something a little more possessive. Beaton worshipped her perfect beauty and was entranced by her mystique. The more unobtainable she became, the more he clung to her.
Eventually his objectification of Garbo became the fatal flaw that ended the affair. Beaton's book The Happy Years, published in 1972 and which was the third volume of his diaries, spelled out in hoary detail the minutia of his affair with Garbo, giving the world a glimpse into her ferociously protected private life. She ended their relationship.
Beaton wanted to marry Garbo. She trusted him enough to make him one of the few people allowed to photograph her after her screen career ended. Ultimately, it was a love triangle, with the third partner being the camera.
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Connecting on BiggerPockets: Followers & Colleagues
Connecting with others on BiggerPockets just got easier. There are two ways that you can connect -- as a Follower and Colleague.
Followers & Colleagues: What are they?
When you follow another user, what you're telling our system is that you're interested in seeing their various activities around the site, including posting of property listings, blog articles, and files, as well as other actions.
Colleagues can see everything that Followers can see, but they can also send one another private message. In addition, if you've got a profile that is private to everyone but colleagues, your colleagues will be able to see the details you've got posted, whereas followers or others will not.
How to Connect as a Follower or Colleague on BiggerPockets
On a user's profile, next to their forum posts, and next their blog posts, you'll find a Connect link. Once you click that link, you'll see a dropdown that will allow you to follow or send a colleague request to that user.
Simply click follow and you'll start following them. If you click "Send Colleague Request," you will be taken to a page where you can send a personal message with your request. It is in your best interest to provide a professional introduction, and to explain why you're looking to connect with that user.
Once you've entered your note and click "Send Request" the other user will be notified on their Notifications on site and by email of the request. If you've entered a message, that will appear in their inbox.
They can then choose to accept, reject, or ignore the request.
Now, the recipient of a colleague request can also elect to respond to the message in the request before or after responding to the request itself, just as you would respond to a private message.
Other Conditions:
Adding a Colleague Request After Following Someone - Just click the connect link and you'll see that you can send a request there.
Spontaneous Colleagues - When users follow one another, they become colleagues spontaneously.
Removing a Colleague - Just go to the Colleagues link on the left of your dashboard and click the red circle with the minus sign in it to remove any colleagues.
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This is one thing I've been a bit confused about, can you be someone's follower and their colleague simultaneously?
Previously, you could. That is no longer possible. You're either a follower or a colleague.
Good to know. Thanks.
I have no problem with it being colleague or follower but I still have a few that are still both. I noticed my followers list dropped to very few which I understand. I guess some of the doubles were missed.
Let us know if this is the case tomorrow morning, and if it is, we'll investigate. I believe that the script is still running. Thanks.
Updating the new colleague request feature so you can reply is great, but now all my conversations are titled "New Colleague Request". It would be nice if we could edit the title of our conversations. Thanks Josh for all your hard work and making this site what it is!
is following function on forum still active/useful? I don't see where the benefit/use is for "following" someone.
The value comes in seeing that user's blog posts, dashboard posts, and new forum posts in your dashboard feed.
really? in my dashboard feed, i see a lot of other people outside my following list. is that a bug or am i missing something? thx for the quick feedback!
I was just wondering what these things are. Thanks for the article. :)
Note there is a typo in the first line Joshua Dorkin... "couldn't just got easier"
My goodness -- the post is over a year old and no one caught that until now. Thanks! I just fixed it.
Because I can't resist taking something too far, I'd like to add that you can hold the ALT key and type 0151 on your numberpad, and it will produce an em dash when you release—unless you are really partial to those double hyphens. :-P Also, this is a great article! Because your comments appeared in my dashboard this morning, I remembered to go and follow a few more of my favorites here at BP.
Jesse - I don't have the time to press ALT 0151 -- that takes me 3 times as long as it takes to do a double dash. ;) I'm glad you found it to be valuable, though. The dashboard works if you use it . . . .
I didn't say it would be valuable! I'm full of useless tidbits. My focus for the year is to quit collecting them so that I can mind my business, as Robert would put it.
I guess I'm sorry you don't find it to be valuable. We do our best here, but not every tool is for everyone. I suppose I must have misread your intent...
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Home > Biomedical Engineering > Faculty & Staff Directory > Rick Haselton
Rick Haselton
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Professor of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences
Ph.D., Bioengineering, University Of Pennsylvania -1981
PA. B.A., Mathematics, Haverford College -1969
Research Interests
We seek to develop technologies for diagnostic and research applications at the nano and molecular level using both in vitro and in vivo systems. Our laboratory has a strong collaborative and experimental focus as indicated by the current examples listed below.
Current Projects
"Coffee Ring Diagnostics for Malaria" – The goal of this Gates Foundation funded project (with David Wright in Chemistry) is to develop a low-cost & simple diagnostic device for the detection of malaria suitable for low resource environments. Our current design uses the presence of a malarial biomarker to alter the microfluidic transport of particles in an evaporating drop and produce visually detectable changes in particle ring formation.
"Multi-spectral quantum dot-based retinal imaging of molecular expression in vivo" – The unique optical properties of quantum dots offer the potential for new optical methods to study molecular events. This NIH funded project (with Ash Jayagopal in Chemistry and John Penn in Ophthalmology) seeks to develop a platform for the real-time, in vivo analysis of multiple cellular and molecular events in vivo using quantum dot nanocrystals and retinal fluorescence microscopy.
"Retinal imaging of prognostic indicators of atherosclerosis" – This quantum dot NIH funded project (with Sergio Fazio in Cardiovascular Medicine & Ash Jayagopal in Chemistry) seeks to use novel retinal imaging agents as a tool to predict the progression of atherosclerotic lesions in coronary arteries.
"Development of DNA Logic Operations for Viral Diagnostics" - The goal of this NIH funded project (with David Wright in Chemistry, Jim Crowe in the Medical Center) is to develop and evaluate a new paradigm in virus detection. The approach is based on a combination of nanoparticle surface chemistry, tag-specific DNA sequences, and DNA ligation logical AND operators.
"The role of Bves in the human cornea" – In this NIH funded project (with Min Chang in Ophthalmology) our long term objectives are to understand the role of the junction protein Bves, and more broadly, the molecular basis of corneal regeneration both in homeostasis and wound repair. Our central hypothesis is that Bves is important in corneal epithelial cellular migration and proliferation mediated through regulation of adhesion junctions.
Russ PK, Pino CJ, Haselton FR, Chang M, Bves Modulates Tight Junction Associated Signaling, Plos One 6(1):e14563; PMCID 3024319, 2011.
Williams, C.S., Zhang, B., Smith, J., Jayagopwl, A., Barrett, C.W., Pino, C., Russ, P., Presley, S.H., Peng, D. Rosenblatt, D.O., Haselton, F.R., Yang, J.L., Washington, M.K., Chen, X. Eschrich, S. Yeatman, T.J., El-Rifai, W., Beauchamp, R.D. and Chang, M.S., BVES regulates EMT in human corneal and colon cancer cells and is silenced via promoter methylation in human colorectal carcinoma, J Clinical Invest 121(10):4056–4069, 2011. doi:10.1172/JCI44228.
Perez, JW, Vargis, EA, Russ, PK, Haselton, FR and Wright, DW, Detection of respiratory syncytial virus using nanoparticle amplified immuno-PCR Analytical Biochemistry 410(1): 141-8, 2011.
Ashwath Jayagopal, Jin-Long Yang, Frederick R Haselton, and Min S Chang, Tight junction-associated signaling pathways modulate cell proliferation in uveal melanoma, Invest. Ophthalmol. Vis. Sci. 52(1): 599-93, 2011.
Bordelon, H., Adams, N., Klemm, A.S., Russ, P.K., Williams, J.V., Keipe, H.K., Wright, D.W. and Haselton, F.R., Development of a low resource RNA extraction cassette based on surface tension valves. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 3:2161-2168, 2011.
Adams, Nicholas M., Jackson, Stephen R., Haselton, Frederick R., Wright, David W., Design, Synthesis and Characterization of Nucleic Acid-Functionalized Gold Surfaces for Biomarker Detection, Langmuir Sep 28, 2011), PMID 21905721.
Swartz, J.D., Gulka, C.P., Haselton, F.R. and Wright, D.W. Colorimetic diagnostic using Ni(II)NTA functionalized Au and Ag nanoparticles, Langmuir 27(24):15330-15339, 2011, PMID 22026818.
Trantum, J.A., Wright, D.W., Haselton, F.R. Biomarker-Mediated Disruption of Coffee-Ring Formation as a Low Resource Diagnostic Indicator, Langmuir Dec 9, 2011, PMID 22148855.


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I am at an impasse. I can touch an object with my finger and it will follow the movement. What I then want is for the object to continue in a decaying arch once I have picked up my finger. I have all of my touch controls in the FinalUpdate function. Any help would be appreciated.
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If your object is a rigidbody you could add a force to it that is proportional to your finger's movement speed before you release the object.
If it's not a rigidbody you could implement a kind of smoothing for the acceleration of the object. On release start a coroutine that interpolates you movement speed between last known speed and 0 over a given time.
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I think there could be a better method to this problem. I have a ray going from the mainCamera to the object and I have noticed that this ray will point in the direction that I want. So I can take the ray's direction and notice that the x value is negative then throw left. If the ray's direction has a x value of positive, the I know it should throw right.
Mar 19, 2010 at 06:42 PM Ed
This tutorial has an interesting inertia code after dragging and rotating an object, you might find it useful.
source code is here:
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With a lineup of over 200 documentaries at this year's Hot Docs Film Festival, it's hard to fathom a time when the act of capturing reality was not possible. And yet, just over 50 years ago when D.A. Pennebaker began his work, there was no such thing as a documentary genre to speak of. Up until that point the act of capturing reality was reserved for mediums like news broadcasts or educational films, force-fed to teens in an effort to warn them against the dangers of sex, drugs, poor hygiene and other threats to American values. But even these non-fiction films, like any other Hollywood product of the day, required deliberate planning and set up, which didn't exactly lend itself to the spontaneous nature of reality-proper.
The mere act of recording sound was so obtrusive, that no subject could truly "act natural". Pennebaker, an engineer by background, had the genius revelation to construct a sync-sound camera, freeing him to move around the room with a loose unobtrusive shooting style. In doing so, true observation become possible for the first time, thus changing the face of history. Not only film history, but with the advent of capturing and archiving time came a new-found ability to explicitly learn from the past and thus affect the future. Today's equivalent of home movies were, at the time, considered to be Avant-Garde art films. In this era of controlled non-fiction, Pennebaker's quest for the plain truth was known as Direct Cinema or Cinéma Vérité.
Pennebaker first applied his fly-on-the-wall technique to the world of rock and roll. His first five seminal, genre-defining Rockumentaries offered candid profiles of artists with names like Dylan, Joplin, Hendrix, Redding, Bowie, Lennon, and on and on. I've already written a love letter to these works, which I needn't rehash here. Suffice it to say, these films were instrumental in allowing the best music of the 20th century to be seen clearly by future generations of fans and musicians alike.
Cut to the '70s when Pennebaker formed a partnership with Chris Hegedus, an art school grad turned filmmaker, with an appreciation for the cinematic mission at hand. In Hegedus, Penny (as she calls him) found a voice with whom he could collaborate; an equal partner to join him in his quest. While Pennebaker's early docs focused on subjects of mass interest, with the expansion of the genre and his newfound partnership with Chris the range of subjects grew broader, allowing the life and times of the ordinary to enter into the realm of the significant by framing periods of time into story arcs.
This is not to say that the partners lost interest in music. Far from it. Hegedus and Pennebaker continued to capture the evolution of music, with subjects ranging from Depeche Mode to Michael Stipe, Bruce Springsteen, the legends of Stax records, the heavyweights of bluegrass, and most recently an epic YouTube telecast of a concert by The National. But now, the partners also turned their sights on subjects like Broadway, the Delorean car, pastry chefs competing in France, internet startup companies, and – perhaps most famously – Bill Clinton's '92 presidential campaign as seen through the strategy room of Clinton's campaign office.
The War Room celebrates its 20th anniversary on Thursday at Hot Docs. Pennebaker and Hegedus will be in attendance to discuss the production of this rare glimpse into how elections were once won in the pre-historic days of "what's the internet?" As in all of Pennebaker's most marveled-at works, there is a big element of chance. Like Forrest Gump, his right-place-right-time reputation is somewhat stupefying. When the project began, Clinton was 4th in the polls with little chance of presidential success. How could Pennebaker and Hegedus have possibly known that they were filming history in progress? Perhaps they were making history. Maybe making history is largely in the recording of it. However these things come to pass, Penny and Chris' genius was in their sensibility to sniff out a worthy story and allow it to happen without affecting the events with their presence.
Pennebaker/Hegedus films are so successful because, in addition to telling rare, large stories, they have set the zeitgeist of the last 50+ years firmly onto the record in a way words never will. They watched the '70s become the '80s and '90s and so on and because they did so too could I, despite the handicap of my birth date. Now, after a long career and full filmography, the world is left not only with the passionate characters they've brought into the light, but an entire genre of films that will forever serve as a document to the experience of life as we know it. Pictures don't lie. Directors do. And as Penny says below – "I'm no director."
Pennebaker and Hegedus were kind enough to chat with Society Vernacular and share with us some insights into their esteemed careers as they prepare for their Hot Docs appearance. This rare Toronto event, like the masterful War Room film itself, is not to be missed. Enjoy..
SV: Chris, why did you seek out Penny in the '70's for employment?
DA: I think she had her mind set on getting a hold of my camera.
CH: Yeah, I mean, it was partly that. My career started as an artist, basically, and I really didn't think women could be film directors in the Hollywood sense of the word because I'd never heard of any woman being a Hollywood director. When I was in art college I was exposed to a lot of the American filmmakers who were a part of the art film movement of the '60's. It was just a very political time – it was the Vietnam war and the women's movement and civil rights and everything else – y'know just making these very formalistic art films. So after I graduated from school I got a job as a camera person for the Burn Center at the University of Michigan.
SV: Were you aware of D.A. at this time?
CH: Oh yeah, I was aware because a lot of those films that he'd made – the early cinéma vérité films – were not distributed anywhere, they didn't play on television or anything, but a lot of them were distributed in the same catalogue that distributed the art films. I put on a festival at the school and I'd rented some of those cinéma vérité films because I'd been reading about them and they seemed very interesting to me and once I saw them I was totally blown away because they seemed just like fiction films and they followed a story in kind of like a real life drama with characters and dramatic arch and it seemed like, oh, I could do these films too and I think that was a lot of my impetus coming from the art field where you actually do everything yourself. That you could take the camera and shoot the story was very appealing to me.
SV: On the Criterion website, both of your top 10's are posted and there are a number of French new wave films on your respective lists. I'm wondering if the new wave emphasis on reality-fiction had any influence on your non-fiction?
CH: Oh yeah, because at the time when I started making films all of those new wave films and foreign films were very influential in the United States. The happening thing was to go see what was new in foreign films or the burgeoning Hollywood Indie film scene that was happening. For me, film was untouchable – far away and hard to do – but to do documentaries, following real life stories, was something that I could do. When I moved to New York I decided to do these films full time and the real problem was trying to get experience and equipment. The equipment was very difficult to find. It was expensive. There wasn't that much of it out there.
SV: When you go about making a new film is there a subject you tend to gravitate towards? How do your films tend to come about? And how has it changed over the last 40 odd years?
DA: Usually someone brings us stuff. I once worked at Time and Life magazines. We had people from all over the world sending us back story ideas all the time. But when you're independent you can't afford that so the only stories you know are the butcher on your block or your mother-in-law or somebody and you need people to bring you a story that they found and you figure out how to do it as something you know how to do.
SV: So when you adopt a subject, how do you go about figuring out the approach? Do you familiarize yourself with your material or do you allow the story to just unfold?
DA: Well, you kind of bite on it, sort of, and taste if it's possible. And then you figure out how to do it. You don't need to raise the money right away cause making films now is fairly inexpensive. You're using video cameras, digital whatevers – little things that fit in your pocket. You're just spending your time looking into something and figuring out what's there. It's only toward the end that the film gets expensive. You have to make it so that it can be shown in theaters and can be released and distributed because if you don't do that the film really doesn't exist. You know it's just something you did and you show to your friends and that's the end of it.
SV: Do you think technology has hurt the genre in any way?
CH: Well, it hurts that there's a lot more competition. But at the same time it really turned filmmaking into the hands of the masses which is good because people can tell their own story. You know when we started it was almost totally in the realm of one man telling everybody else's story. That's a big change.
DA: The pencil didn't make for a lot more Shakespeare's. Films, like plays, like books are made in somebody's head and the number of heads is somewhat limited. But it's hard to know which is a head and which isn't when you get 1000 films offered to a Festival. So, you know, the problem is telling – but then that's always been the problem. I mean probably 200 books are published every week – nobody can read them. Or 200 films are made in a week – who can see them all? So you don't have a good way of evaluating, except maybe by critics.
CH: Also, one thing about the whole digital revolution is that nobody really knows how long it's going to last or how to archive it or what's going to be around. We've all fallen into this unknown category, whereas at least with film people knew it lasted 100 years. Now, well, it's like, okay, here's this device that will play this thing, this file or capturing plug in the hard drive and then two years later, we fall into these new problems of how to archive our film. For most films it's important but I think especially important for documentary because it's the history of our time and you never know what part of it is going to prove valuable.
DA: I mean it's kind of like fashion which has some sort of periodic rotation – where everybody's used to it – and nobody worries much about getting at the history of fashion – getting out the old books to look at pictures – young people going out to look smart in their culture. That's not something they need. More and more what happens to people in a period of time becomes sort of interesting and essential to be understood in future periods of time and that's why I think this kind of film – the independent film – is maybe the only method of transferring that history to the future… I think we all live on the edge of a kind of cliff in which there are people climbing up all around us, bringing us things that we had no idea existed. So I think that the future is more uncertain now than it ever was, but still nobody really knows.
SV: Going back 20 years to The War Room, I'd like to ask how that project came about. Was it brought to you by a fellow mountain climber? And if so, why did you feel you two were a good fit for the subject matter?
DA: Yeah, it was there. We're like chefs in the bakery, y'know? If somebody comes and shows us a new kind of cake we just have to make it.
CH: I think that Penny also started to do a film about Bobby Kennedy running for president, which is something that never happened for… various reasons. It was something that we always wanted to do, you know, do a film about a man becoming president. I mean wouldn't this be amazing?! We tried to do it several other times but we couldn't get funding. As a matter fact, even that year several people came to us about the idea but they really never got together money. And that's what R.J. Cutler and Wendy Ettinger really helped us with.
DA: They nudged us. We were just sitting there. Nobody else was nudging us. So we listen to them, you know? They didn't bring a lot of experience either. They'd never made a film and they just thought it was a good idea… but, there's hundreds of good ideas floating around. Somebody has to take us by the hand and lead us to the trough where the ideas were somehow embedded. And the whole process of filmmaking is such an obsessive thing to do that once you get started you're like a detective. You must solve the problem.
CH: I mean, in the end, we really didn't make a film about a man becoming President. We really never got that type of access. But we made something else and I think we stumbled on something. There's so much about character and James Carville – you couldn't ask for better character than James Carville.
SV: Given that when you began shooting The War Room Clinton was 4th in the polls, odds were against your making a film about a man becoming President. What type of film did you think you were making?
DA: It's a walk in the woods. You don't expect anything exactly. What you expect is that it'll be an interesting walk. And that you'll constantly be set and sort of shown things that you know will be interesting to you because once you've unlocked somebody's mind or their brain and they've allowed you to veer in, it's fantastic, you know? So, you don't care what happens in one way. I mean if you're friends with that person then generally you do – you want it to be an okay ending for them, that's what you really want. You're not a director, you don't discern these things. They do and so you just watch what they do.
SV: In your Governors Award acceptance speech you say Bobby Neuwirth taught you how to see without interfering and observe the plain truth. How did you apply that to your filmmaking approach? How did you succeed at being a fly on the wall?
DA: I don't know it just comes naturally to me I guess. I'm a born watcher. And I'm certainly not a director. During the war when I was in MIT they would try to assemble people to wake up in the morning and march and things in a military fashion. I was a sergeant for two days but then I got fired because it's not something I know how to do.
SV: Do you think it's possible to film something without your presence affecting the behavior of the subject?
DA: Oh yes. I mean it happens all the time. I mean you take pictures of bacteria, they're not bothering with you. They do what they need to do. And if you go on with a lot of equipment and a lot of crew I think people feel besieged and they generally want to get it over with and they just try to please you as much as they can, but I think what you really want to do is to have yourself seen as a consort. As a mountain climbing companion. It's complicated and it's hard work and they have to spend time figuring and doing it and when pleasing you is the last thing on their list then I think you have a chance to make an interesting film.
CH: I think people are passionately involved in what they're doing. And after a while they can't be bothered paying attention to you and I think one of the most important things that we can do is not let our filmmaking get in the way of them living their lives. And sometimes that means sacrificing some of our style or whatever so that we can really get the story and not be the story.
SV: What sort of docs interest you these days?
DA: Oh boy. An idea comes to you for no reason. Just walking down the street. And then the next day somebody says you know I'm making a film about that idea and right away you have to talk to them because you want to know more about it. And whether or not you feel they're taking a film away from you is much less a factor in this thing that you're going to find more about that interests you. Curiosity is the key thing in this entity. If you're making a film only to show what a marvelous filmmaker you are or how smart and clever you are then it may be very effective – you may enjoy enormous rewards – but it doesn't necessarily appeal to your curiosity. Curiosity wants to know much more.
CH: I think films that interest me really drop me into a world that I've never been to before and sort of introduce me to people in a way where you feel like you're gonna do something with them in their lives. There's so many amazing films out now because people can take this new digital device almost anywhere. And so many great filmmakers are…
DA: Curious people
CH: Yeah.
SV: How do you feel about docs that take the opposite approach to invisible filming? Like personal visions that blur the line between reality and fiction in a manipulated manor?
CH: Oh yeah, I mean right from the beginning we loved all the personal diary films and experimental docs.
DA: We love Fred Wiseman, for example. I mean, all the people you know when you go into a bar, they may not drink the same thing or beer, or even if they do, they may not drink it in the same way.
CH: I do love people who can do their own personal view on something.
SV: How do you find the compromise in your two respective visions when you're editing all the footage you've accumulated?
DA: Well, editing is peculiar because it's different from the gathering. In the gathering, the shooting, you just go out and get everything you can get your hands on. And you need someone to help you – especially when the people that you're gathering with lose their interest in the project. You need somebody to sort of hold your hand. But when you sit down to try to make theater out of it… theater's such an imagined device and yet we all know when it works. When we see a person do a perfect dive, that's theater. We know in looking at it – nobody has to tell us – we know it's worth something. And when a film works and it's theater, it comes out of your imagination; it comes out of your creative energy. And creative energy is a hard thing to share. And so you have to learn to sort of share it with somebody and be happy with how it works out. That's a hard thing to do.
CH: I think a lot of it is based on a mutual respect and if you don't respect each other's work and creativity then it's never going to work out as a partnership. We have a certain way that we work together editing. I'll usually put together the first rough cut of the film then Penny sort of sits down and looks at it. And then we'll kind of work together and shave it down in different ways. I mean it's changed through the years because, you know, you used to cut on Steenbeck years ago, and then moved into the digital realm with Avid and things like that. I mean, right now, Penny doesn't really use the editing programs…
DA: She has control. I'm obligated to sit and cry..
CH: Yes, so I have control.
DA: She knows which buttons to push – it's very frustrating.
SV: Chris, you've done a lot editing on some of Penny's archival concert footage. You've revisited Monterey, Woodstock, Sweet Toronto, to name a few. How do you go about sifting through this priceless footage?
CH: I mean, I think in terms of dealing with some of the rock icons, for me it was always really exciting because a person like Jimi Hendrix – to be able to go into the outtakes, which I did in both of Penny's films – Monterey and Woodstock – you know it was a real honour. I'm such a fan. But you're still making films and trying to put it together. I'm trying to make it into an experience, and I think that's pretty much the goal of concert films. Not let the filmmaking get in the way of the artist.
DA: Sweet Toronto, she chopped quite a bit of herself so that wasn't even necessarily mine. I think Town Bloody Hall is a good example. Having filmed it, it seemed to me that there were a lot of laughs. And I knew that I didn't want to make a joke film about women's liberation. So, she seemed a much better person because she herself had been involved with films that dealt with that so it was a natural thing to have her take that film on.
SV: Is there any footage that to this day you just can't believe you got?
CH: I mean, mostly you are obsessed about what you didn't get. I think that's the hardest part in these real-life films.
SV: Is there something you didn't get that you'll never forget?
CH: Yeah, so many you can't even think of it. But that's your challenge, to make the film anyway.
SV: Throughout your vast canon, you guys have witnessed some pretty intense moments. Like in 2009's Kings of Pastry, for example, when the pastry-chef drops his huge sculpture. Despite being commissioned for some of these shoots, are there ever moments of unbearable tension, when you feel really awkward to be in the room?
CH: Well, having shot that guy dropping his sugar sculpture in Kings of Pastry, that was really one of those moments where you just felt so bad behind the camera. And having watched this person's dream which he'd been preparing for for 20 years of his life literally shatter on the ground. I mean, you just have to keep filming away and get the story. But I felt very happy in the end because he was able to recreate something else and he really was someone who was of that caliber. To see him win was really satisfying. With KOP, we were barely allowed to be there. That day I had to stand in a box that was 2′ x 2′ at the end of the table and shoot from there so it was a very difficult thing to film. And very limited permission. Other times have been very difficult too and interesting. Actually in the War Room that whole scene of the Bush materials being printed in Brazil is kind of an interesting moment because we really thought at that point Clinton was going to win the election and Bush was going to lose because of this printing thing outside of the United States. Sadly, the whole thing fell apart. It was interesting because the press didn't know anything about it.
DA: But you know, in the end, the thing I think you remember is not all the fantastic scenes that we may have gotten by luck, some incredible achievement, the thing that really gets at you is when you finally see the film with the people you made it with, the people that it's about, and it works for them. Their memory somehow is now on a wall in a way that makes it permanent and that makes you feel really like you've done something of value… At least for me. Much more than any one shot in a film. The thing of watching Jacquy lose (KOP), which could be a really humiliating thing for him, cause he lost to the kind of people he would hire to do something and yet in the end he made it work for him in his life. It all came together for him and other ways that he had expected. and that made me feel really good about that film.
SV: With your 50 years of concert history behind you, what was it like shooting something as recent or modern as the 2010 telecast of Brooklyn's The National concert? That seemed to have 8 or 9 cameras shooting. How did you go about orchestrating such a thing?
DA: Isn't The National great? It was the first time we've ever done anything like that and we really weren't sure what we were supposed to do. We sat in the (green room) trailer and pointed our hands (at the 8 screens) and there were 8 cameramen. Luckily there was a guy there from New Zealand who knew exactly how to do it (laughing) so we were watchers of that too. The whole thing of watching a program like that through 8 cameras is really something.
CH: We also helped with positioning the cameras(In addition to choosing the shot coverage live). We had a lot of conceptual input as well. We expressed a style and they tried to shoot it in a way that we can attest ownership to.
SV: How did that telecast come about? Were you approached by The National?
CH: Yeah, basically their band and management approached us through American Express to do one of the first online (laughing) i-concerts. One of the exciting things is we had two of our sons shooting on it so…
DA: You can see how well they did.
SV: Was it it the band's idea to do the Don't Look Back reference with the lyric cards and Penny in the background standing in for Allen Ginsberg?
CH: When the concert got divided into individual song videos, we needed extra little things. I don't remember everything that happened. I think (the cards) were a collaborative idea
DA: They also had me acting as a bartender. They made a music video.
SV: What's your favorite part of shooting concerts?
DA: Well, the good thing about it is it happens in a day so it's over and you can go home and sort out the film. And the best thing about it is, if they're really good and interesting musicians, this is the best thing they'll do – not necessarily in their lives – but at least up until this moment. They have to do it as well as they possibly can. It's the walk in the woods in which you see the eagle. It's amazing.
SV: Are there any other contemporary bands that have your interest?
DA: We stay home most nights and have dinner with our children. (Concerts) are not something we do as much as we did when we were baleful youth.
CH: I mean, I'd love to do something with Arcade Fire now that you mention it. There are so many interesting musicians out there and we don't know half of who they are. From the period of Bob Dylan until now it's mostly been someone comes to us and says "we'd be good to do a film about…"
DA: …This and that.
SV: When you take on a band do you listen to their records leading up to the shoot or do you just try to watch objectively?
DA: We learn by doing the film. That's our learning. The less we know going in the more eager we are to find out. Though, I think Chris might be a little more researchable than I am. I like to just be surprised… to make them all a first-hand experiences. I kind of like that notion even though it's foolish, I think.
SV: Do you think there are any directorial similarities from your first documentary short Daybreak Express that are still with you today?
DA: I think they're pretty much all the same film. The sound just got better. Though unlike Daybreak Express, I really wanted to go for dialogue. I liked the idea. Even at the start I wanted my movies to be like plays in which all the action, all that happens, is driven by the dialogue you can hear. Led not by you, but the people in the film, so I think Daybreak Express is the last film I would've gotten involved in. My interest is in going some place you haven't been.
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Cameron could see that Jordan still loved [basketball], loved talking trash to their on-court opponents. That, combined with Major League Baseball's
efforts to convince Jordan to be a replacement player the following
spring, when the game was still in gridlock as a result of the strike
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"I think if the strike hadn't taken place, basketball may have been rewritten and baseball may have been rewritten," said Cameron. "When they had the strike, they
asked him to play the games. He said, 'I'm in a union, too.' And he
It's sometimes startling to recall how cynical and, let's face it, plain stupid the Lords of Baseball were back in those dark days. I mean, their whole farkakte labor strategy was bad enough, but the fact that they actually thought that (a) Michael Jordan would cross a picket line; and (b) his fame, but complete lack of major league baseball skills, would save their replacement player gambit shows just how demented they were.
- Simon DelMonte - Mar 5, 2010 at 9:33 AM
Wrong blog to ponder this at, but that quote from MJ is the sort that has hoops fans pondering what the player-turned-owner will do when the current NBA CBA runs out.
- Rays fan - Mar 5, 2010 at 9:47 AM
"It's sometimes startling to recall how cynical and, let's face it, plain stupid the Lords of Baseball were back in those dark days."
"Were?" Not competely convinced they deserve that as past tense.
- Joey B - Mar 5, 2010 at 10:13 AM
""Were?" Not competely convinced they deserve that as past tense."
Well, they virtually print money. They might not be quite as dense as some would make them out to be. IRT Jordan, he had no shot, but it is not like the media recognized this and pointed it out to anyone.
- Steve Flack - Mar 5, 2010 at 10:17 AM
Luckily, when he left baseball, his super-secret-suspension in the NBA was over.
- Joe - Mar 5, 2010 at 10:20 AM
His demonstrated leadership in the front office hasn't produced anything. MJ go golfing, you were great don't mess up you legacy any more than you have.
- hop - Mar 5, 2010 at 10:32 AM
I can't wait to see Cameron in the baston lineup, this guy strikeouts a LOT and its going to be great seeing all those strikeouts and his usual lousy batting average in that lineup. nice pickup theo
- BTfromVT - Mar 5, 2010 at 10:49 AM
Cameron struck out less than Jason Bay with more AB's
- Peteinfla - Mar 5, 2010 at 11:19 AM
Exactly! And still is a great fielder, works pitchers, and has power. Plus, he has been considered a great teamate every where he has played. I hate the Red Sox, but think this was a great signing.
- Phil - Mar 5, 2010 at 11:40 AM
He said, 'I'm in a union, too.' And he left.
Love it! I realize these guys aren't "working stiffs" but anybody anywhere that works for his bread at anything is a goddam fool if he expects management to take care of his best interests.
- Omega in Colorado - Mar 5, 2010 at 12:05 PM
I hate Michael Jordan, I do, I don't know why I do, but I sure do.
However, "He said, 'I'm in a union, too.' And he left." has earned my respect.
- Aries - Mar 5, 2010 at 12:11 PM
Also interesting to point out that Terry Francona was MJ's manager in the White Sox system.
- Rays fan - Mar 5, 2010 at 3:31 PM
They (the owners) were virtually printing money before the strike too. I'm not saying that I think they are stupid people, but I am saying that how they handled the labor talks was stupid. I'll also say I think they have handled labor situations around the CBA renewals pretty consistantly for the last 30 years. They've not done a good job forming anything other than an adversarial relationship with the union and totally misjudged the union's resolve. At the same time, I'd say the very same things about the union too. Where I think using past tense might be a bit generous is that I do not believe either side has really learned anything because greed for money and power comes first. I will be surprised if a future work stoppage is allowed to kill a World Series, but I fully expect there to be more work stoppages in the future.
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This past weekend I was humbled and honored to be part of LTS Master Trainer Summit in Atlanta. It was three days of intense learning and intense workouts as Marc Lebert, Jenn Hall, and Sharon Mann led us in training to become master trainers for LeBoot, LeBarre, and LeHip. Their experience, qualficiations, and expertise was mind boggling....BUT not only were they such an inspiration, there were 39 other fitness professionals there whose talent was out of this world. As we interacted and shared things, I realized I was surrounded by some of the best in our industry. It could have been intimidating to me; however, I realized that the only way I can get better and become stronger at what I do is to surround myself with people like this. When you are surrounded by people who inspire you, challenge you and movitate you, your only choice is to become better at what you do. I definitely feel like I walked away a better instructor, a better personal trainer, a better entrepreneur, and just a better person than what I was prior to our summit. What about you? Do you want to become healthier? Do you want to become stronger? Do you want to become more fit? Do you want to be more positive? Do you want to be more successful???? You may want to check out the people that are closest to you and with whom you spend most of your time. Are they pushing you towards your goals? Or are they holding you back??? I'm not saying to get rid of all of your friends and stop hanging out with your family. I am saying that you need to evaluate how you spend your time and with whom you spend your time. Are you part of a community that supports your goals? Are you part of a team that is going to help you become stronger? I would suggest that you take some time and look at your goals and then evaluate whom you spend most of your time with. If you're the same person you were last year and you aren't any closer to your goals, than maybe it's time to make some changes. Remember, you get to make choices and you want to make those choices count. Choose wisely!
For those of us who live in the South/Southeast, we had a little more snow than usual this winter. So there were quite a few snow days where events were cancelled, businesses didn't open, and we were pretty much confined to our homes. Our first few days hit after the beginning of the year, and I'll admit I got a little antsy. Here I am a fitness professional and wanting to help people on their wellness journeys but we're having to cancel fitness classes because of the snow. AND, it's the beginning of the year when people are really wanting to commit to working out; momentum will decrease quickly especially when everyone is being stuck inside and just sitting and eating. So, those first few snow days, I did not embrace nor welcome the change to my daily scheudle. In fact, I was quite stressed. I dislike being confined to my house and not able to get out and about; furthermore, I don't enjoy just sitting and watching TV or movies. I want to be busy helping people and teaching my classes. I finally had the "aha" moment that being confined to my house was a welcome break in a crazy, hectic shedule and that I needed to learn to just go with the flow and enjoy the time that I was being given to get caught up on some things, read a little more, rest, catch up with some friends via the telephone, and just "BE". By the time our third snow came around and i knew we would be inside for at least a day again, I willingly embraced the day and looked forward to it because I knew that it might be another year before another day like that would come along. As a result of the snow days, I've decided that I need to allow some more rest days into my life because rest brings renewed passion and purpose and it refuels and revives us. May we all learn to just relax a little bit more!
While having lunch with a friend, she shared an interesting conversation that she and her sister had in regards to life and its cycles of ups and downs. All of us have times where we are feeling happy and on top of the world; and then we will have those down times where we feel sad, lonely, depressed, and like nothing is working out for us. Some people cyle through those good times and bad times more quickly than others. It's so wise to understand this and to know how your own cycle of emotions works. This way when we have a low time and are feeling sad or that things are falling apart, we can pause and check to see if it is part of the cycle of life and our emotions. I've heard it over and over again that one should never make decisions while feeling sad, depressed, angry, or alone because usually the decisions that we make during those times are not for our good and most of the times we will regret having made them. It may be beneficial to keep a journal or a calendar to chart the cycle of your emotions that way you have something to refer to when you're having one of those days where it seems as if nothing is working in your favor and that life is falling apart. Then you can remind yourself that those feelings will pass and all will be well again. What you say and do during those low times is very important. You can make it worse and sink lower and lower into negative feelings/emotions if you allow the negative thoughts and words to spiral out of control. Instead, recognize what it is and surround yourself with positive quotes, sayings, and affirmations because it will pass and happy days will be back again. Let's remember that life is full of ups and downs and our actions and choices are important in both seasons. Thanks, Angela W., for sharing the wisdom from you and your sister, Kristy. Pass it on!
Recently, I had the privilege of attending the MindBody FitPro Conference in LA; this conference is put on by Mad Dogg Athletics, and it was a great weekend of education, workouts, networking, and fun. I brought back a lot from the weekend and was "wowed" by the fabulous presenters. However, there was one man that impacted me the most and I think of him daily. I met him at the Friday night social hour and we hit it off immediately. His name is Hank and he had this way of working a room and connnecting with everyone. Hank is a Spin(R) instructor from Arizona and is 85 years old....yes, you read that correctly....85 years of age! He teaches daily Spin(R) classes and is a great resource for music - he loves the mixes from Europe but likes to put in some hip hop and top 40 hits. Talk about being current!?! Hank has lived all over the world and his stories were fascinating to listen to. He made a friend of everyone he met and we were all in awe of him. Conferences can be exhausting by the time you workout 5-7 hours but it didn't seem to bother him. He truly lives my philosophy that age is just a number and nothing to really consider when pursuing dreams, passions, relationships. He looked fabulous, had great energy, and a twinkle in his eyes. I doubt he has any idea that he was the most motivational, inspiring person there at the conference. He does not buy into the thinking that one has to become less active or less flexible because one is getting older. He is a living example that it's our choices that make us into the person we are - how fit do we want to be? How healthy do we want to be? What about you? Are you making excuses for how you look - how you feel? Do you say, "I'm not as flexibile as I used to be and that's because i'm no longer 18?" Do you ever say, "Someone my age can't do that." Maybe it's time to change your thinking -we are what we say we are and we are how we think and act. Stop the negative self talk and stop the excuses. A lot of times we make excuses because it's easier to make the excuse than to push ourselves out of our comfort zone and try something new. Decide today to refuse to let a number define you - define your fitness level - define your dreams. Forget the number...what would you do if you didn't know how old you were? How would you live? What would you try? Think about these questions - write down some answers - and then.....just go and do it, be it and live it!!!!
Recently, I received a booklet with coupons in it for our local Sonic. It was advertising food that is "Perfect for a study break....after school & evening snacks." One could purchase a 44 ounce drink or a mini blast or two corn dogs for 99 cents. There was also a coupon for $1 off the molten cake sundae. Well, being the curious person that I am I decided to go to their nutritional menu section on their website. (By the way, if you did not realize that most restaurants have this option available on their websites, it's something to take note of. Most of the time you can know exactly what you are eating and how many calories, fat grams, sodium content, etc that you are consuming.) If you decided to snack on the two corn dogs for 99 cents, you would eat 460 calories, 30 grams of fat, and 1,140 milligrams of sodium. Now, I'm grateful that Sonic offers the mini size of their Blasts and 99 cents is a really great deal - however, should you choose one of the five flavors that they have you are still consuming 510-530 calories and 27-29 grams of fat (based on the flavor). Most of their 44 ounce drinks would add 350-400 calories to your day....should you choose the green iced tea flavors, you will save a few calories but will still be consuming 260 calories. Heaven forbid you choose to "snack" on the molten cake sundae because this "snack" will have 800 calories and 34 grams of fat in it!!!! I'm horrified that Sonic would suggest these items as after-school snacks because all of these items are way above the recommended calorie amount for a snack. If one would choose to snack on one of these items every day in addition to his/her regular items, one would potentially put on ONE POUND of body fat just from "snacking" at the local Sonic. Parents and Guardians, please be smart! Yes, your students will benefit from an after-school snack but they do not need to be consuming 350-800 calories as a snack. The recommended calories for a snack is to keep it under 200 calories; obviously, one is going to look to veggies, yogurt, fruit instead of fast food, packaged food, liquid calories, or processed food. Apples or celery or bananas with peanut butter, hummus with raw veggies, smoothies, greek yogurt, string cheese, granola/yogurt/berry parfaits, fruit kabobs, veggie pizza on a pita, homemade trail mix. The options are limitless - making your own snacks will save you money and calories. Don't become part of the statistics - go against the norm. Be healthy - live a quality life - teach your children the importance of making good food/drink choices. Give them a snack that is going to help them be healthy, study better, and feel better!
Sugar is one of the main culprits in our fight to get Amercians healthy and fit. We have oversensationalized our sweet tooth and let it have way too much control in our daily lives. The more we get...the more we want....the more we eat; and it is an unending cycle of being way tooooooo sweet in the United States. When I go to my favorite smoothie place and order my favorite green drink, I have to remember to ask them to NOT put turbinado sugar in it NOR do I want Splenda. Excuse me, but the drink has pineapple and banana in it - isn't the fruit enough to sweeten it????? For me it is and I find it very disheartening that the average American requires the extra sweetener. We start the sweet cravings at a young age. I read a tweet from IDEAFIT that said: "Research shows that 46% of 2 and 3 year olds consume sugary drinks every day." Children's consumption of fruit juices, drinks and sodas should be limited. Our decisions to allow them to have these sugary drinks are increasing their risks for obesity and diabetes. Do you really realize how much sugar you are consuming??? Do you know how much you are supposed to have in your daily diet???? The American Heart Society has recommended that men consume NO MORE THAN 150 calories a day from added sugars....that's about 9 teaspoons. Women should consume NO MORE THAN 100 calories a day from added sugars...that's about 6 teaspoons. Our society is consuming much more than that!!! Men are consuming about 335 calories a day from added sugar; women, 239 calories. These statistics are sugars that are added to processed and prepared foods and but do not include sugar added at the table. Our children are consuming just as much - boys consume about 362 calories a day, and girls consume about 282 calories. (This info was from an article in USA Today on May 1, 2013). Knowledge is power, my friends; and it is at your fingertips. Don't ignore the information that is out there - we live in a technology driven society. Use those tools....the internet, your smart phone, the apps that have been created to help you. Be Smart. Train Smart. Eat Smart. Drink Smart. We need to stop being too sweet when it comes to our food and drinks!
June is fast approaching and that means we are halfway through the year. How are you doing with your new year's resolutions? Have you forgotten them? Do you feel like you have botched up and don't even want to try any more? Don't give up and don't quit. Take an hour or so and go to your favorite place and take another look at your goals. Are they attainable? Are they realistic? Are they specific? Are they measurable? Do you know how you can put them into action today? Sometimes we fail because we set unrealistic goals or we have a goal for a certain date and then there's no plan to continue moving forward after that date. Just recently I had a client realize that she needed to re-think her original reason for losing weight. She began making better choices and attending fitness classes because she wanted to be a "skinny mother-of-the-bride." Well, a stressful week and a wedding date that was moved up caused her to realize she may not reach her goal. I advised her to reevaluate and determine what other things would motivate her to be healthy, well and fit. You see, one is only "the mother-of-the-bride" for one day....if one only wants to be skinny for the wedding, then what does one do after that day is over? Most of the times, people will go back to old habits. Being healhy and well is more than a number on the scale or being skinny for a wedding, class reunion, or event. Those things can help motivate you but they shouldn't be your primary goal. So, take the time to see how you can tweak your goals for 2013 and begin today to make sure you finish the second half of the year strong! "Someday is NOT a day of the week."
I read various posts on social media & hear stories of people paying lots of money for a special program/challenge that is going to ensure weight loss success. Every time I see this or hear of it I cringe. If weight loss & healthy living were in a special pill, powder or drink, we would not be where we are today in our society...fighting a battle against obesity and all of the diseases that happen because of our food choices & sedentary lifestyle. If you have known me for any length of time, you realize that I am all about making good choices and being smart about our choices. A vast majority of the people who are selling these types of products do not have a nutrition degree....especially if they are selling a line that is in a home-based business. Most of the time they are taking the word of the creators of the product and the home-based business.....they do not have to submit a resume or pass any kind of test; all they have to do is put the money down and start selling the product. What works for one person may not work for another.....we are all unique. Most of the time, these are just temporary fixes. If it sounds too good to be true, it is. Before spending a few hundred dollars to become a part of the newest, greatest marketing plan - I would highly suggest taking that money and applying it towards hiring a personal trainer and a nutritionist. The trainer and nutritionist will equip you with information that you can apply to the rest of your life. If you take any kind of prescriptions, you definitely want to be smart and check with your doctor before taking anything. One cannot live off shakes forever - you will want to eat real food. And I believe that God created everything we need to be healthy and disease free and I don't believe that it comes in a bottle, powder, or pill. Legumes, seeds, nuts, fruits, vegetables, water, fish, lean cuts of antibiotic-free meat, etc - knowing what is in your food - knowing where you get your food - not eating processed food - not eating junk food - not eating fast food. Be smart. Making good choices is really not complicated or difficult and it doesn't have to be expensive. Ask questions of the people who are selling you the products; see what their background is and ask if they have a nutrition degree or certification. Take the time to research the ingredients; you may be able to get it cheaper at your locally-owned health food store. Support local businesses and support your local farmers. Yes, it really can be this simple - all you have to do is be smart!
"It's not a diet...it's not a phase....it's a lifestyle change." This quote - along with some questions from class participants - is what inspired me to write this blog this morning. Too many times we set ourselves up to fail when it comes to losing weight and losing inches. We will fail when we diet - we probably will fail when we just want to look good for a wedding or class reunion that is in three months. Those are temporary fixes - temporary reasons - temporary goals....there's a deadline on them and once a person reaches the deadline, the desired pounds on the scale, the desired inches measured, a person usually goes back to their previous choices of eating whatever he or she wants and not exercising. These reasons cannot be WHY we want to lose weight. You need to make decisions and choices that you can turn into a lifestyle change. Wellbeing is a daily journey and it's not a destination....we will continually have to make daily choices that will help us live quality lives and that will continue until the day we die. Our reasons to be healthy have to be more than a certain number on a scale. Now, looking good and losing weight and inches are all benefits of choosing lifestyle changes, and, I agree, those are great benefits!!!! But wellbeing is much BIGGER than that! Being able to kick out 20 pushups is very rewarding when you couldn't do that one month ago. Crossing the finish line at a 5k is very powerful when you couldn't even run for more than 30 seconds three months ago. (I'm just using these for examples....there's many more accomplishments that I could mention....you have to decide what would make you feel powerful and proud!) Having more energy and stamina is very fulfilling when you used to only want to come home and lay down after a day at work. Feeling better mentally, physically and emotionally are powerful reasons to choose lifestyle changes. Lifestyle changes will help you understand that it's going to take longer than one or two weeks to undo years of poor choices. A person doesn't gain 50 pounds overnight so that 50 pounds isn't going to come off in two weeks just because you started exercising. Everyday we make choices that will affect us tomorrow - the way we look and feel tomorrow is determined by what we choose today. Surround yourself with people who get this - follow motivating people on twitter.....find them on facebook....find yourself a fitness coach, a personal trainer, a nutritionist that will help you with your lifestyle changes. Find quotes and pictures that will motivate you and inspire you. Join a network or group of people that are on the same journey that you want to be on. Get the word "diet" out of your brain.....we don't go on diets!!!! We make lifestyle food changes that we can do the rest of our lives.... You can do this - you can succeed - you can have energy - you can have the body you want...you have to want it more than you want that Big Mac...Whopper...donut....large pizza...super sized diet soda.... What will you choose today???? A destination or a journey????
This week on The Biggest Loser is was time for the contestants to face their fears - they did and they discovered that the reality of what they feared wasn't as big as the fear itself. Fear is a crazy thing - it can immobilize us, cause us to react negatively, cause us to make bad choices, and keep us from living the life we dream of living. Just this week I had two different women tell me that they would love to try my boot camp class but are afraid to do it - rather than face the unknown many people would rather continue living unhealthy, continue feeling disappointed and upset at the person they've become, and keep making excuses for where they are and who they are. This makes me sad and, at times, makes me upset and angry. Many people go through life and never realize all they are truly capable of doing and being simply because they allow fear to keep them from taking the first step. The first step IS the hardest - i know this and have experienced it for myself....I've made many first steps where i totally felt like i was stepping off a cliff and was just trusting that a staircase would magically appear to keep me from falling too hard. Guess what? I have always survived and been so thankful that I took the step. I love the quote from Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.: "Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step." I have never been skydiving but I know several people who have. They all said that the first step is very frightening but the exhilaration that follows is worth it and the fear is forgotten; in fact, most people end up doing it again. Eleanor Roosevelt said: "You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing you think you cannot do." 99.9% of the time the fear is in our mind....it usually isn't even a real thing; and if we aren't careful, we can dwell on the fear and make it bigger and bigger. How does one know he or she really can be afraid of something unless he or she tries to do what he or she is fearful of doing???? For instance, the ladies that said they are afraid to try my boot camp class - unless they've tried it, how do they know to be fearful of it? They have no truth to base their fear on - it's only a fear of the unknown and that which they imagine it to be. Think about something you are afraid of doing. What can you do to help you face that fear? Life is too short for you to not live your dreams and to live a life that is below your potential. If we don't face our fears, we take the chance of getting to the end of our lives saying, "I wish I would have.....I should have...." I don't want to live my life and then look back with regrets and wish I had done this or done that...especially when it was within my power do it and I chose to allow fear to hold me back. The only way to get rid of fear is to face it head on and conquer it. Make the choice today to NOT allow fear to hold you back from anything. Live the life you dream about - pursue your purpose - pursue your passion - pursue your dreams. "The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized - never knowing." ~Jim Rohn It's time to look fear in the face and just do that which we are afraid of doing. No more excuses - no more putting it off - no more avoiding the fear and allowing it to get bigger. Do that which you fear and enjoy the freedom that comes from discovering we have "nothing to fear but fear itself!" Ready...set....GO!!!


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