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Celebrate the wonders of our beautiful National Parks with this ten-disc expanded collection, now including Glacier National Park, Canyonlands, plus two bonus programs: Appalachian Trail and Pacific Crest Trail. This breathtaking collection takes you beyond the tourist hot spots to explore these amazing places as never before.
Trek to the high-altitude summit of Denali Park's Mount McKinley, kayak through the hidden secrets of the Everglades, and face the wild extremes of life in Death Valley. With stunning cinematography, National Parks Collection travels off-road to reveal the real Yosemite and Yellowstone. It's an awe-inspiring collection you'll want to journey to again and again.
The collection includes: Secret Yellowstone, Secret Yosemite, Extreme Alaska: Denali National Park, Everglades, Grand Canyon, Death Valley, Hidden Hawaii, Canyonlands, Glacier National Park, Appalachian Trail, and Pacific Crest Trail and features 6 interactive, printable guide maps.
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Secret Yellowstone
National Geographic goes beyond the tourist hotspots and travels deep inside the 2 million acre national park to reveal the backcountry wilderness few have seen. Explore some of the 300 newly discovered waterfalls and learn how wolves, back after five decades of absence from Yellowstone, are helping restore the balance in the ecosystem alongside the grizzly bear and bison. Finally, discover how the geology of Yellowstone with its giant well of molten lava underneath the surface is sometimes more dangerous than the wildlife.
50 minutes. © 2007
Secret Yosemite
Known for its steep granite cliffs, impressive waterfalls and the world's largest living treesthe Giant SequoiasYosemite attracts vacationers all year round. With more than 700,000 acres of land, this terrain is home to a host of wild creatures ranging from black bears, bobcats, foxes, snakes and a variety of bats. Discover this vast wilderness as National Geographic explores the life within the wilderness found beyond the postcard-perfect views.
50 minutes. © 2007
Extreme Alaska: Denali National Park
Located near the top of the world, Denali National Park is home to more than six million acres of extreme wilderness. Venture beyond the tourist hotspots and join National Geographic on a low-to-high-altitude trek through Denali's breathtaking ecosystems. Elevation sets the rules in this subarctic land where only the most hardy creatures can survive.
50 minutes. © 2007
The Everglades is many things to many people, but above all else, it is a wilderness1.5 million acres of the most extraordinary and unique habitat. 1,100 species of plants and 350 species of birds live here for at least part of the year, and some of those species live nowhere else on earth. We'll journey into the Everglades on foot, by airboat, on a helicopter and by kayak to see what secrets this wild space is hiding.
50 minutes. © 2009
Grand Canyon
National Geographic joins a rare scientific expedition to explore the Grand Canyon's entire 277-mile length. Explore the canyon's geological history, study the microscopic colonies of vegetation that survive where no other plant can and examine its many unique creatures to unlock some of the mysteries of this wonder of the world.
50 minutes. © 2008
Death Valley
Journey with National Geographic, from Death Valley's highest peak at 11,049 feet, to its lowest point, a staggering 282 feet below sea-level, and meet the scientists who are working to protect this wild place as the mercury rises.
50 minutes. © 2009
Hidden Hawaii
America's newest marine sanctuary, Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument, encompasses the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands. The monument is bigger than all U.S. national parks combinedyet the majority of this environment has never been seen. What is in this vast marine conservation area? And, what will it take to protect it?
50 minutes. © 2009
Canyonlands is the little-known jewel of the American National Parks. This stark landscape of extraordinary features contains more than 300,000 acres of desert wilderness, towering spires and spectacular canyons. But this rugged terrain is more than a pretty pictureit is a history book of time. Its stories stretch from the geologic forces that created this land, to the beginnings of life on earth and from ancient people, to the cowboys and outlaws of the Old West. Venture beyond the tourist hotspots and discover the hidden secrets of Canyonlands National Park.
50 minutes. © 2009
Glacier National Park in Montana is arguably America's most stunning landscape, with carved massive glaciers and a melting ice cycle that supports ecosystems of more than 2,000 species of plants and animals. However, the glaciers are disappearing at a rapid rate and may be gone in just 10 years. Following the collapsing of the park's most prominent mountain of ice, National Geographic treks into the Continental Divide to uncover the hidden secrets of this transforming landscape.
50 minutes. © 2010
Appalachian Trail
For more than half of the U.S. population, the Appalachian Trail is less than a day's drive away. Yet despite its proximity to many major cities, few truly know the splendor of this national treasure. National Geographic travels off the beaten track to discover the remote and often unknown corners of the 5-million-step journey.
50 minutes. © 2009
Pacific Crest Trail
The Pacific Crest Trail zigzags some 2,650 miles from Mexico to Canada. It cuts through seven national Parks and 24 national forests as it travels through California, Oregon, and Washington. It's a trail of ever-changing obstaclesfrom some of the highest mountain passes in the west to some of the hottest desert in the country. The two to three hundred hikers who attempt the PCT each year often find out quickly if they have what it takes for the journey ahead.
50 minutes. © 2010
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GREAT collection!
This is one amazing idea, fantastic collection of the different areas in the US! Some of them are older than others, but at the end of the day they make you open your...Read complete review
This is one amazing idea, fantastic collection of the different areas in the US! Some of them are older than others, but at the end of the day they make you open your eyes a bit more about the areas. Now if you have done extensive research on an area it will more than likely not give you anything NEW per say, but that doesn't mean that they lack content at all. Overal an AMAZING collection! Just note the casing feels a little bit more flimsy than your average DVD collection casing. Like the paper isn't as strong.
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We are extremely disappointed with the purchase. the DVDs all focus on 1 agenda global warming and the narration centers around areas that are inaccessible to the general public. I would rate this in...Read complete review
We are extremely disappointed with the purchase. the DVDs all focus on 1 agenda global warming and the narration centers around areas that are inaccessible to the general public. I would rate this in the negative number. We were expecting to learn information about the(1) geological information of various sites in the parks, (2) the various plants and wildlife that live in the parks, including how they co- exist where applicable and (3) opportunities that visitors have to view the various areas.
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I bought this collection to decide what parks to visit in retirement. Very informative and spectacular photography.
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National Parks DVD set
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Took them to work. My disabled gentlemen were amazed and sat quietly watching the entire set of DVD
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Best Documentary Ever Of National Parks
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I would love to watch this DVD Collection on America's National Parks.
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Great Companion to the Book
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This is a wonderful companion to the National Graphics Complete National Parks of the US Book. The two together made a perfect Christmas gift for my parents who visit many parks every year.
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Breathtaking does not describe it!!
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For anyone who wishes to travel inside the United States, this video series will force that wanderlust upon you. Visually stunning and well researched, this series is the best gift I could have purchased for one of my sons. He is going to be thrilled, and I expect he will have a marathon movie night when he gets this.
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First DVD scratched.
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Packaging is not good. Created scratches on DVD.
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perfect in every respect.
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Great reference for travel
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Awesome DVD
I watched the DVD and visited NP. Whole family had a lots of fun.
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Disk production quality poor. CDs do not play steadily - many starts and stop on several players.
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Col. ("Bill") William P. Rorabaugh, eighty-five, retired army officer, died at his home on Veterans Day. Born in Mountville, PA, he was a son of the late Mortimer and Alice Irvin Rorabaugh and was a member of Our Lady of Perpetual Help Chapel, Dover Air Force Base.
He is survived by his wife of sixty-five years, Veronica ("Bonnie") Bonner Rorabaugh, and daughter, Dorothy Anne ("D'anne") Rorabaugh, Castle Shannon, PA. Also surviving is one granddaughter, Lauren Sanker (Dan) of Pittsburgh, PA, two great-grandchildren, Kyler and Arianna Sanker, and one sister, Mary Rorabaugh Skiff, Youngstown, AZ. He was preceded in death by his brothers, Col. James Russell Rorabaugh (Ret.), Matthew Irvin Rorabaugh, and his sister Mildred Rorabaugh. In addition, there are a number of nieces and nephews plus great-nieces and great-nephews residing from the east coast to the west coast.
His first military assignment following graduation from Penn State University was the Engineer School, Ft. Belvoir, VA, starting as a student, then as an Instructor. He served in the Korean War commanding a Combat Engr. Co. Completing a photogrammetry semester at Perdue University, he was next assigned to the Army Map Service, Washington, D.C. Graduating from the Senior Advanced Class at the Engineer School, Ft. Belvoir, VA, he earned a Master's in Industrial Engineering from New York University.
After commanding a Combat Engr. Co., Bad Hersfeld, Germany, he was assigned as a Senior Instructor at the Engineer School, Ft. Belvoir. Missile defense assignments while attached to the Air Force, were in CO, WA., and WY. A tour of duty in Bad Kreuznach, Germany, included TDY, Bitburg AFB. He served two command assignments in Vietnam during the war in that country. After graduating from the Armed Forces Staff College, he served with SENSCOM, Red Stone Arsenal, Huntsville, AL. He assumed command of the 44th Engr. (Broken Heart) Bn., Korea, as the Battalion Commander. The Pentagon in Washington, D.C., his next-to-last assignment, was followed by duty at Ft. Meade, MD, where he concluded his distinguished military career of thirty years. He was the recipient of numerous citations, awards, and medals throughout his service, the last being the second awarding of the Legion of Merit Medal (with Oak Leaf Cluster), prior to his retirement in 1975.
George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, recruited him for the position of Project Engineer to take care of the huge expansion on that campus. He continued in that capacity until his "2nd retirement" in 1996. Bill and Bonnie have been residents of Dover since 2003.
A gathering will be 6-8 pm Friday, November 16 at the Pippin Funeral Home, 119 W. Camden-Wyoming Ave., Wyoming. Mass of Christian Burial will be 11 am Saturday, November 17 at the Carpenter Chapel, Dover Air Force Base Housing Side, Dover where friends may also gather one hour earlier. Burial will be at a later date in Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA.
Page 2 of 2 - In lieu of flowers, the family requests donations to the Home of the Brave, 6632 Sharps Rd., Milford, DE 19963.
Letters of condolences can be sent via www.pippinfuneralhome.com.
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Our agreement with Aretha Franklin for this year's American Music Masters program was that she would attend the tribute concert but would not perform. Of course, I always hoped that she would decide to sing a song, but I never pressed the issue. After all, hasn't Aretha given us enough? We were gathered to honor what she has accomplished, not to demand more. We wanted to recognize, in professor Daphne Brooks' words, "her brilliant body of work as a musician who materially and emotionally connected with mass audiences in complex ways that went unmatched by her peers." The night's fantastic performers did her justice and then some, as Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Inductees Jerry Butler, Dennis Edwards and Ronald Isley, in addition to Cissy Houston, 2012 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Nominee Chaka Khan, Ms. Lauryn Hill, Twinkie Clark, Carla Cook, Melinda Doolittle and Mike Farris all brought their A-game.
After Dr. Franklin received her honorary degree from Case Western Reserve at the beginning of the evening, she watched the show from the audience with her family. We worked it out that she would return backstage during the last song of Ms. Lauryn Hill's set to receive her AMM award. I was prepared to ask Aretha whether or not she would be willing to sing. When she and her family appeared backstage, I waited for them to get settled side stage, hoping for the perfect moment to ask Aretha to perform. Before I could say anything, Aretha leaned over toward me, and said in my ear, "I'd like a piano, please." Talk about music to my ears – not only was she going to sing, but also she was going to play! That was more than we could have hoped for.
As our production team – led by the Rock Hall's fabulous production director Rob Weil – scurried to reset the stage and bring forward the piano, Aretha called together Hall of Fame Inductees Dennis Edwards, Ronald Isley and Jerry Butler, as well as legendary singer Cissy Houston. Bernard Purdie sat in on drums, and David Hood played bass. The curtain rose on that extraordinary tableau, and Aretha launched into "A Song For You," a song written by Hall of Fame Inductee Leon Russell and recorded by Aretha on her 1974 album, Let Me In Your Life. Purdie and Houston performed on the album, so it was a special treat to have them on stage. During the entire AMM planning process, one of our main goals was to communicate Aretha Franklin's artistry at the piano. With Aretha playing the piano on stage at the culmination of our weeklong tribute, her artistry came to life amid loud applause in PlayhouseSquare's State Theatre. It was a gift to all of us there, and a perfect reflection of Aretha's generosity and grace throughout the weekend. (pictured, l-r: Cissy Houston, Jerry Butler, Aretha Franklin, Ronald Isley, Dennis Edwards)
She visited the Museum on Saturday afternoon during the AMM conference, and toured the exhibits, reminiscing about being on the road with Sam Cooke and listening to "Frantic" Ernie Durham on the radio in Detroit – she donned the headphones in our exhibit on disc jockeys and listened to Durham's air checks. U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder was in the Museum at the same time, attending the American Music Masters conference in the Foster Theater, and he came down to say hello. They met in the Beatles exhibit.
The week was a great success overall—our goal was to celebrate and educate, and we had a lot of help. American Music Masters needs many voices to work, to tell our honoree's story from many directions. The Blind Boys of Alabama, Spooner Oldham, Daphne Brooks, DJ O-Dub, MC Lyte and Mick Boogie, Joe Lauro, Bernard Purdie, Cissy Houston and Aaron Cohen all came together to tell Aretha Franklin's story. It was fitting that the Queen of Soul end the weeklong tribute on such a resounding note at the concert. Long live the Queen.
To view a photo gallery from the American Music Masters tribute concert, click here! For photos of Aretha Franklin's visit to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, click here!


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The School of the Art Institute's student fashion show, The Walk, is always one of Chicago's most anticipated style events, but this year the festivities carried special significance. Not only was SAIC's Fashion Design department celebrating its 80th anniversary, but the school's own Nick Cave, one of the contemporary art world's most respected figures, was the recipient of the prestigious Legend of Fashion award.
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If you enjoy male a cappella groups, and you've probably heard several, you will find yourself breathless when you hear Home Free on Wednesday, Jan. 30, at the Ed Stafford Theatre on the Otero Junior College Campus. Their performance begins at 7 p.m. and is part of the current 2012-2013 concert season presented by the Arkansas Valley Concert Association.
While Home Free singers producesall the percussive effects with their voices and microphones like the other a cappella groups, Home Free is carving new ground, expanding their audience's horizons and introducing its own unique flavor to the musical world. Their genre of music is an expansive mix ranging from pop songs to classical and even techno, all successfully done with only the human voice, their mikes and a state of the art sound system. However, their music is put to the explosive beats of one of the most exciting vocal percussionists in the a cappella scene. This specialist's name is Adam Rupp, and in their concerts he will be featured as a vocal percussion soloist. Other members of Home Free include Adam's brother Chris Rupp, Chris Foss and Matt Atwood, plus one or two backup singers who join the group when needed. They travel with their own sound system and sound man.
Home Free has performed for a diverse clientele, ranging from the Minnesota Vikings to the Mall of America as well as concerts at colleges, schools and, of course, many concert series concerts on Allied tours in recent seasons. They also devote their time to educating and encouraging music in the schools through innovative workshops and performances for students.
Home Free is doing what they love, anxious to continue pushing the boundaries of what they can do, both musically and professionally.
If you are not a member of the Arkansas Valley Concert Association, you can still attend this exciting concert by paying $20 at the door, $10 for students.
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Months after the results of the Women's Health Initiative were announced in July 2002 — that replacement hormones raised the risk of heart disease, breast cancer, stroke, blood clots, and dementia — millions of women went off hormone therapy, many cold turkey. Doctors followed suit and abruptly stopped prescribing them. "HT prescriptions have gone down tremendously, but hot flashes haven't," says Nananda Col, MD, an associate professor of medicine at Brown University Medical School, who still prescribes hormones, but infrequently.
So how do we soothe our symptoms? Many of us turn to compounded — or custom-made — mixtures of bioidentical hormones, or hormones that are identical to those produced in our bodies. These formulas are touted as being free of the side effects and the long-term risks of synthetic hormones.
Believers make it sound as if bioidenticals can turn back the clock on aging as well. Best-selling books proclaim these hormones give you energy, make your brain work better than ever, clean your arteries, slim your figure, strengthen your bones, and make your nipples point north instead of south.
But we learned — the hard way — to be skeptical of pharmaceutical companies and doctors who pushed every woman of a certain age onto hormones. Are we now buying equally unproven claims and safety assurances from the promoters of natural hormones? By using bioidentical hormones, are we unwittingly volunteering for a new and uncontrolled experiment on our bodies? To get some answers, I talked with doctors, pharmacists, and researchers to determine the hope and the hype, the knowns and the unknowns, the facts and the fictions of bioidenticals.
Bioidenticals: Facts and Fictions
The Pitch: "Bioidenticals are natural."
My college roommate, devoted to all things natural, cried with disbelief when a boyfriend told her that her beloved vitamin C was also the chemical-sounding ascorbic acid. I thought of her as I considered the new hormone lingo. There's a whole vocabulary that carefully distinguishes the two types of hormones. Promoters of bioidenticals refer to their products "natural," demonizing commercial products as "synthetic" or even "counterfeit." Supporters talk about replacing the hormones your own body makes. Bioidenticals, they say, augment your natural hormone production and create balance, while synthetics merely mimic female hormones and create a state of hormonal imbalance. Sounds convincing, until you consider that the conjugated estrogens in Premarin and Prempro could arguably be called "natural" too, because they are derived from the naturally produced urine of pregnant mares.
The Bottom Line: You won't find bioidentical in a medical dictionary yet, because it's a marketing term — one with an environmentally friendly resonance, much like biodiesel, biodiversity, and biodegradable. There's no standard definition, so what you're buying may not be standardized either.
The Pitch: "Bioidenticals come from plant products."
This makes them sound less foreign or invasive than hormones produced from other sources. But actually, bioidenticals don't come directly from any botanical source: They are all synthesized in a laboratory by manipulating plant hormones from yam or soy. If not altered, some plant hormones can't be absorbed or used by the human body (which is why wild yam "hormonal" creams sold in health food stores are a waste of money).
"Some women prefer to use plant-derived estrogens, and that's fine," says Michele Curtis, MD, associate professor of ob-gyn at the University of Texas-Houston School of Medicine. "But if they think that implies something better, more natural, or safer, that's just not the case."
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Scientists at Yale University say they will be able to test a new theory of inflammation and chronic disease as a result of a $10 million grant from the Blavatnik Family Foundation. The grant supports the work of immunobiologists Ruslan Medzhitov, Ph.D., and Richard Flavell, Ph.D., who have posed a unifying theory to describe how inflammation can impact the body's homeostatic control mechanisms to trigger the onset of disease.
"The Blavatnik Family Foundation is committed to the advancement of breakthrough scientific discoveries," said Len Blavatnik, founder and chairman of Access Industries. "This new theory represents a paradigm shift in the science of chronic diseases and may lead to new prevention strategies, treatments, and even cures for many disorders."
The healthy human body regulates its own tissues and organs to maintain key physiological variables in a beneficial homeostatic balance. The body even gets some outside help from microbes, or commensal microorganisms, that reside in locations such as the digestive tract and play a part in maintaining core body temperature, blood pressure, blood sugar, sleep patterns, and a host of metabolic processes needed for fitness and survival.
When infection or tissue damage occurs, the body's innate immune system activates inflammatory mechanisms that help to combat these dangers and restore a proper balance, at least in the short term. Drs. Medzhitov and Flavell postulate that these same inflammatory mechanisms can have a damaging effect on homeostatic controls, an effect they see as a root cause of many serious health disorders. They plan a detailed study to define the molecular links between inflammation, commensal microorganisms, and chronic disease.
"The Blavatnik Family Foundation's generous grant will support game-changing research in the field of immunobiology," noted Robert Alpern, M.D., dean of the Yale School of Medicine. "This work offers a whole new way to look at the causes of many chronic illnesses, including cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes, autoimmune diseases, asthma and allergies, neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's disease, and cancer. A few years from now, I am optimistic that, as a result of this important research, we will be in a position to develop new therapeutics that can broadly impact human health and quality of life."
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Zoo-ologie 2014
On May 17th the Auxiliary Board of Lincoln Park Zoo hosted their signature fundraiser, Zoo-ologie. The event was held both inside, amongst animal cages, and outside under the night sky. Guests where able to enjoy delectable food options from some of the city's best chefs and restaurants, a silent auction, and a dance floor energized by a live DJ and band. Thanks to all that attended, the zoo is able to continue to be open and free 365 days a year.
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Flabby Prof Gets Moving
Throughout most of my life, I had a healthy weight, which I managed to maintain alongside varying levels of activity. But then I took a tenure track faculty position (in 2004). At that point, I had one kid, and my husband stayed back at our alma mater trying to finish his PhD, so I was effectively a single mom for the first two years on the tenure track. The first year was absolutely brutal. Lots of teaching duties, all new courses, writing innumerable grants. I was extremely stressed out. During that year alone, I packed on 20 lbs.
Over the following years, slowly but surely, I ended up packing 30 lbs more. I had two more kids, but the physical act of pregnancy is not particularly fattening in my case, as I vomit a lot and lose weight in early pregnancy. After giving birth, I lose weight quickly in the first couple of months, when the universe gives me permission to just feed and care for the baby and nap whenever I want to. But eventually comes the time to resume all my usual duties, including caring for the rest of my family and doing my work, and my weight begins to climb back up. The main reason is that there are not enough hours in the day, and the only place to generate them is to cut back on sleep. Now that I have a baby, I sleep very little (probably no more than 5 hrs per day, and not in a row), and in order to keep functioning I tend to consume too much carbs.
Even without an infant, every time there are additional deadlines or elevated workload, stress levels go up and more sleep is lost, and the intake of food goes up.
So here I am, about 50 lbs over what I had when I came into the tenure track position. I am pretty tall so I don't look horrible and I am quite healthy (great blood pressure, lipids, cholesterol, the works) but lugging all that extra weight around is bad for my mood and my energy levels, and makes me look too matronly for my taste. I have a baby of about 20 lbs and a 4-year-old of about 50 lbs. Picking my kids up gives me a vivid reminded of how large a weight 20 lbs or 50 lbs actually is.
When you are a working parent, finding the time to exercise can be tough. You need to have iron will to squeeze exercise into the schedule, while keeping enough time for kid pick-up/drop-off, cooking dinner, cleaning up house, and perhaps spending some time with your partner. Having a very young child throws you another curveball, because they have erratic sleeping schedules and are often much more demanding on one parent than the other. With multiple kids, both you and your partner are stretched thin just covering extracurriculars, dinner, cleanup, and bedtimes; it's easy to simply plop on the couch and watch TV after the kids are in bed or spend time surfing the web.
A couple of years ago, I finally started exercising at a women-only club in the neighborhood. It was great! They had fun classes that combined aerobics with strength training, and I went there three times a week early in the morning. After several weeks, they announced that they were going out of business. My husband teases me to this day that it was me who jinxed them out of existence.
Meanwhile, I got pregnant, had another baby, and a new fitness franchise moved into the premises occupied by my former club. One of my sabbatical resolutions was to get in shape, but I have been busier than usual with the infant, associate editor duties, and a fairly large conference I am organizing in the spring, in addition to all the things a faculty must usually do -- grant and paper writing, advising students, etc.
Excuses, excuses... right? So when I heard on the radio that the new franchise in my neighborhood was starting a 10-week fitness challenge, I knew it was time to do something.
As of tomorrow, I will be starting a 10-week, 6-days-a-week fitness program. The total cost is roughly $400. It's three days -- MWF-- of kickboxing (I've got some pent-up rage to release) and three days of resistance training; Sunday is off. We had the orientation yesterday, they measured our weight, body fat, pulse after a 4 min step test, time on a mile run, and the number of push-ups and sit-ups in a minute. They repeat the tests after 5 weeks and then again after 10 weeks. The person who improves the most in these stats after 10 weeks receives $1k; the catch is that you must let them take and use a "before" and "after" photo in a two-piece bathing suit. Being a faculty, I am really not comfortable with bathing suit pictures of me available freely on the web; I would not be comfortable even if I were super hot -- I think there are just some things that my students and colleagues should never know out about me, so I won't be going for the handsome monetary prize. But, we all got cool boxing gloves and, surprisingly, my eldest son thinks it's super cool that mom will be doing kickboxing -- who knew?
I will be going to the 9 am session, after all the kids have been sent to their respective schools; thank God for the sabbatical, which is the only way I can pull this time slot off. I know that it's about a lifestyle change and committing to exercising for all eternitiy. When I get back to work, I will likely have to do the early morning (5 am or 6 am) slots, but hopefully by then the baby will be sleeping more predictably so I will be able to manage the early times without compromising everyone's morning routine.
There is a whole class of about 90-100 people starting with me tomorrow (at different times in the day), so we're all in the same boat. One interesting observation -- there are about equal numbers of women and men signed up for the program. Women are overwhelmingly there to lose weight; most men who signed up are quite fit already, and are doing this for additional exercise. There was an occasional overweight man, but most are quite fit, whereas nearly all the women who signed up are overweight. This tells you that men and women seem to want to exercise for different reasons, likely linked to what is expected of them (looks vs strength/stamina). Most people of both genders were young and without wedding rings. There were a few people older than me, but not many.
Anyway, I am quite excited about this program (if a little sore from the testing yesterday), and can't wait to break in by kickboxing gloves!!!
To my readers who are working parents: do you exercise at all? If yes, what do you do, when in the day, and how often? How did you manage to squeeze it into the schedule? Is your partner supportive? Does s/he exercise too?
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- Comrade PhysioProf said...
Being a faculty
You are not a "faculty"; you are a "faculty member". A "faculty" is the collection of all faculty members who are within a particular school or subspecialty within a school, such as a Faculty of Arts & Sciences or a Faculty of Medicine, etc. I don't doubt that you gained weight on the tenure track--I sure as fucke did, too, and have a serious fitness plan in the works, so good luck to both of us--but there is no way you gained enough to make you a "faculty".
- January 8, 2012 at 4:07 PM
- Ianqui said...
I only have 1 kid, so it might be a bit easier for me. My husband gets the preschooler out the door at 8am to get to his school, and I go to the gym at that time. I work out for about 45-60 mins, then come home to shower (it's right across the street). I'm in my office at 10am, which is probably a bit indulgent but my department is a late bunch so I'm one of the first ones in anyway. On Mondays, I go in the evening instead b/c I have a kickboxing class at 7pm. I personally dislike working out at night, but I can't make it to the 6 or 7am classes and they don't have any classes at this gym again until after 5pm.
My husband (not an academic) is a runner. He usually goes on Tues & Thurs at 6pm for about 1.5 hours, and then on Sat morning while I take Yo to karate. So yeah, we make it work, but I probably work fewer hours than you do on the whole :)
- January 8, 2012 at 4:59 PM
- Cherish said...
What a topic! I have always been a walker, but a few years back, I did a triathlon. However, a week after I completed it, I fell and hurt my knee, then my MS got in the way, then I hurt myself again, then grad school got rough...and on and on. I've intended to do one again ever since, but I really had a bunch of stumbling blocks until recently.
I bought a treadmill about 5 years back, and it's been one of the best things I ever did. I rigged up a desk on it. When I need to read papers, I walk on it very slowly and read because reading is a surefire way to put me, as a sleep-deprived person, to sleep. I started running a couple months ago. I'm too embarrassed to go up to the local track and run, so I use my treadmill. (Although, with the nice weather tomorrow, I'm going to be brave and run outside...just hope the neighbors don't see me and laugh.)
My schedule is somewhat peculiar. What seems to work best is working in the morning, running and then having lunch, then I take care of kids in the afternoon and work on dissertation at night (if I can stay conscious). I have simply had to make a point of doing it, but my schedule is more flexible than most people's. My husband is very supportive as he says he can tell I feel better when I do it. (I fear this is a euphemistic way of saying I'm less bitchy.) His exercise is taking Gigadog for a walk around the neighborhood. During the summers, we like to ride bike together.
- January 8, 2012 at 5:28 PM
- feMOMhist said...
JMJ what would we do without the semantic police?
anywho EFF YES, I tot. expected to be in kick ass shape by now and sadly sabbatical has not proved the exercise friendly lifestyle I'd anticipated. In fact I guesstemate that even with holiday weight factored in as a normally annual occurrence I'm still up. It is like all my discipline goes into the book and I've none left for exercise. I really need to get back on the cardio because I'm pretty sure this is shaping up to be peri-menopause sabbatical year and I'll be damned if I'm coming out fatter at the end than I started.
GL with the boot camp approach!
- January 8, 2012 at 6:19 PM
- Alyssa said...
Ugghhh...I SUCK at incorporating exercise into my life. Since I got pregnant (over two years ago now), I haven't worked out seriously even once. I know this needs to change, because I feel so out of shape, but I just do NOT have the motivation.
Good luck with your program - it sounds awesome!
- January 8, 2012 at 7:22 PM
- Clarissa said...
I have a very similar history of weight gain on the tenure-track (only without the kids.)
Your program sounds super cool. Good luck and have tons of fun!
- January 8, 2012 at 8:40 PM
- Cloud said...
Exercise... a perennial issue around our house. We both used to be pretty fit, my husband more so than me. We've both gotten less fit since the kids arrived- particularly kid #2. I'm about 15 lbs heavier than I should be, and 10 lbs heavier than pre-pregnancy.
I love, love, love kickboxing. I used to do Muay Thai. It was awesome, even if my classmates were all Marines who insisted on calling me ma'am. I can't find any sort of martial arts class that fits my schedule now, which sucks. But for Christmas, I got a heavy bag, and I am now coming home one day/week and beating the crap out of it for 30 minutes. It is great fun, and a pretty good workout.
I also bought a 10 minute workout DVD. It is a dance workout, which is so not right for me. But I can do one of the 10 minute segments while my husband gives the kids their bath (we alternate nights giving the bath), so it gets some use. Sometimes, one or both of the girls ask to join me for one of the workouts- which is hilarious, and at least a little bit of exercise.
Other than that, I walk. Anytime I have no meetings at lunch time, I go out for a ~20-30 minute walk. Walking helps me think and I solve a lot of problems on my walks, so I hardly even consider it a break from work.
I also try to take an hour walk one weekend day, usually while pushing a sleeping toddler in a stroller.
I miss yoga, too, and keep trying to find a way to make it a part of my routine. I've been failing pretty comprehensively on that front these days.
My husband likes to run and mountain bike. He mountain bikes with some friends at work most Fridays. He's now trying to add a run into one of the weekend days.
We're both pretty supportive of the other's workout needs. We'd both like to do more active things as a family, but we're struggling with that. I think that will get easier as the kids get older, before it gets harder because the kids get their own ideas about how they want to spend their weekends. We'll see what actually happens.
- January 9, 2012 at 12:00 AM
- inBetween said...
That program sounds awesome! I wish I could partake...
I have always been pretty into running and exercise, but my husband is not so much. Moving in with him was theproblem for me. Being single when I started my TT job meant that I could create a fantastic schedule that included excercise.
The long getting-pregnant phase was not good at all for my weight, as I used a fear of it affecting my chances at getting and staying pregnant as a reason to not work out. I gained about 10 pounds, but then gained about 50 while pregnant. Towards the end of my pregnancy I gave up completely on that healthy crap.
I have found that the last three months of single parenting have done wonders for my weight. I don't really have time to eat, which would normally translate into lots of snacking for me, but since I also don't have time to shop I don't have junk food in the house. So I took to having lunch at school and then eating the baby's leftovers for dinner.
Additionally, I set up persnal training sessions at the Y starting around the time that my husband left for the field. I only went for 45 mins once a week but after a few weeks I was able to figure out how to work out twice a week. I didn't get to hit the gym over the holiday b/c I was traveling. But hopefully I will be able to keep up the gym thing this semester even though I am teaching again and my-not-so-supportive-of-formal-workouts-husband will be back.
good luck with your program! you have inspired me to get back on the horse...
- January 9, 2012 at 1:03 AM
- Pika said...
Possibly not applicable in your place or in this decade (because I don't see people doing this anymore, or maybe I'm in the wrong place, because I remember seeing many biking families in my PhD country a few years back), but when I was a kid, we used to go biking, the whole family together, parents and two kids. This weren't long trips, perhaps an hour or so long, but we did it consistently, all four of us, every 2-3 days or so, whenever my parents felt like it. And on the weekends we went hiking into the mountains or nearby hills. I liked both these activites, but neither are possible where I am now (no biking paths, too dangerous to drive on the roads and no hills), but perhaps if I move, this will change...
- January 9, 2012 at 6:48 AM
Good luck with your programme - I envy anyone who can fit in exercise alongside 3 children and a faculty position. I have long resisted exercise and been at the top end of the "normal" weight for my height. However, what I was doing dwindled to zero since returning to work after my second child was born. I used to walk to work, but needing to get the kids to and from childcare and not lose too much time in the office has put paid to that. I follow a diet plan ok during the week, but it gets hit hard at weekends, or when I'm procrastinating at work.. I promised I would do something about it this year - but haven't yet - so well done you!!!
- January 9, 2012 at 7:12 AM
Somehow I managed to hang on to 15 pounds of extra weight even after breastfeeding a ravenous baby for 18 months (!yikes!) after baby #2. So last spring I finally buckled down and lost the weight by watching what I eat carefully. Somehow exercise never made it into the equation, though. I find it nearly impossible to fit exercise in because it's just too low on the priority list. It shouldn't be, but it is. My husband is the one who wakes up before the crack of dawn to go to the gym, and so I'm left with the only rest of the day to find a time to exercise, and as anyone in this career track knows, 8:30 am - 10 pm is nowhere near enough time to get everything else done, let alone exercise ;)! Good luck, and keep posting updates, maybe I'll finally find the motivation to get off my own lazy butt.
- January 9, 2012 at 10:10 AM
I have the same problem! The extra weight didn't come with the kids, it came with my faculty position (basically sitting on my ass writing all the time). I've been slowly trying to work more exercise and better eating habits into my routine, but when grant deadlines or holidays come up, all that stuff goes out the window! I feel more motivated after reading your post - good luck with the program....
- January 9, 2012 at 10:31 AM
It is disheartening when scientists equate lower weight with higher health, when it has been shown that health correlates much better with healthy behaviors (exercise, mostly) than with actual weight. I applaud you trying to get active again, though, even if I don't think weight loss is an admirable (it's moreso a completely aesthetic and unhealthy) goal. You should check out health at every size (http://www.haescommunity.org/), which is a movement (started by a scientist who actually wrote a book summarizing literature on health/weight loss) to get healthier in the absence of focusing on how one looks. Check it out, if you are open to it. It's the only thing that makes sense, scientifically, since intentional dieting/weight loss leads to decreased health (and, surprisingly, higher weight) in 85-95% of people.
- January 9, 2012 at 1:01 PM
- Barefoot Doctoral said...
Before Epsilon, I would gain weight during term, and then either go hit the gym or a lot of hiking during the breaks.
Post Epsilon is the first time I've ever had to diet to loose weight. Ever since Epsilon was 1, we got a little bike trailer for him, and biked him to daycare, and then ourselves to work. That's the exercise I can fit into my day. It's harder during winter than other times of the year, but it's good for most of the time.
- January 9, 2012 at 5:39 PM
Way to go!
I feel sooo much better when I exercise. When Babe was 6 weeks old, I started biking to work again, and have been doing so nearly every day since (1.5 years). Until a few weeks ago I hadn't really started a running or gym routine (now, I do so at lunch 3x week). I can already tell I have more energy. Yes, I'm still tired a lot, because, heck, I'm TT with an active toddler who still wants to breastfeed all the time. Exercise cuts into my work time, but I think I have more cylinders firing post-workout.
- January 9, 2012 at 7:34 PM
- DRo said...
I work out 3 days a week at the gym (elliptical machine), during work hours. I try to do a DVD-workout (The Firm -- highly recommend) on one of the weekend days, while my kids are napping. Now that they are on the same nap schedule it is a little easier to fit it in. Sometimes my husband takes them on an outing and I work out then.
But you are right. With your (and my) commitments, you either have to sacrifice sleep, time with kids/husband, or work time. I sacrifice the latter. It is frustrating. But, I do feel like I think more clearly and work more efficiently when I am exercising regularly. So perhaps it is worth it to cut into the work time. Hopefully I am making the right choice.
- January 10, 2012 at 8:20 AM
The best way to lose weight is to eat less, IMO. I lost almost 25 pounds over a year just by slowly transitioning to smaller portion sizes of healthier foods. (I did it slowly because I figured that would be the best way to establish good habits that would continue after I reached my target weight.) I didn't exercise much at all. I find that exercising more tends to lead to eating more, which is often counterproductive.
I did gain 5 pounds over the holidays, so I'm going back to small portions for a while until I'm back to where I want to be.
- January 10, 2012 at 3:58 PM
- Dr. Sneetch said...
I gained 40 pounds with three kids. It is a struggle to lose weight. The best I can do is not gain more. Since the begining of the yearI'm going to the gym frequently. Just walking and cycling. Maybe I'll work an exercise class in. I throw my knee out easily if I'm not super careful all the time.
- January 11, 2012 at 5:47 AM
- Cath@VWXYNot? said...
I totally sympathise - I don't even have kids, but I put on weight pretty fast as soon as I left the lab (a surprisingly decent workout!) and took a desk job. I'm trying to get more "exercise snacks", as a helpful blog commenter put it, throughout the day, and I've been going swimming with a friend at least once a week, plus cycling to work as usual 4-5 days per week, Canadian winter weather permitting! But it's still not enough. It's never enough.
My friend who had a kid 2.5 years ago jokes that kids are the best arm-toning workout ever: you start lifting a low weight but with lots of (i.e. constant) reps, and build up to fewer reps with a much heavier load. Just like you're supposed to do it :)
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Posted: Mon May 02, 2011 3:15 pm
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Can someone explain to me why as a new person in charge, you have to carry through with policies placed by the past person in charge? That doesn't make sense to me. Maybe I have no sense?
I would guess that when a program is funded by congress for a specific period of time, it runs unless congress votes to de-fund it...? Can anyone chime in here?
KarenS, I think it's very cool that you're bringing such interesting films to your community. Michael Moore is beginning to annoy me a little, he's so into pushing his agenda that he can get a little slippery with the truth. And I say this as someone who agrees with a lot of his agenda. I much preferred Inside Job, which I found far more shocking. Hope everyone enjoys it (or whatever it is you do when watching a movie that makes you kinda sick). What other films have you showed/will you show?
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Posted: Tue May 03, 2011 9:29 am
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bookmark wrote:
While I'm at it, why do we continually cut funding for public schools? That should be one of the last place that should be squandered or have the message be sent that it's not important. You know it's bad when education doesn't rank that highly with a nation.
We're cutting funding so we can "dumb down" the electorate. Uninformed voters can be manipulated so it's in the best interest of the party that depends on emotionalism to win elections to make certain the voters can't see through their lies.
Other countries value education but America has always had a love-hate relationship with bright, intelligent, thoughtful people who look at issues from all the sides before deciding. We often call thoughtful people as being indecisive when they are studying the subject. If you are conscientious you want to have all the facts before making a decision.
What education we want the masses to have and the education the upper class wants for their kids are two different entities. So we play games with the public school system to dilute the education process.
If kids don't want to learn, separate them from the kids who want to learn. If certain kids have learning disabilities provide them with extra help so they can learn. Often the kids with learning disabilities are the most eager to learn but they need extra help. The kids that are the normal, regular students who comprise probably 80% of the classroom should be given every chance to excel and given the best curriculum so they can succeed.
Some of the best alternative schools are the ones where the kids set the curriculum themselves. They study what they are interested in. Of course they are private schools but those kids learn and do very well. It's nice if you can afford those schools and one is near your home.
I don't blame the schools so much as I blame the parents. Don't have kids if you are not prepared to send your kids off to school with a learning attitude and respectful attitude. They have to want to learn or they will be left behind. So parents need to make certain they have kids who have the ability to learn and also know it's their job to learn.
Schools can always do better by making certain the teachers are competent and idealistic enough to want to make a difference in their students lives.
The School Board needs to make certain the education they are providing to their community is progressive. Their curriculum should provide an opportunity for the kids to earn a decent living, learn what it means to be a productive member of society by being good citizens who look after those who come after them.
We should demand better of our educational system. Yet how many of us can agree on the definition of quality. As a progressive I know my views differs from a conservative's. So throw that into the mix and education becomes the battle field for ideology. One example is the teaching of evolution. Evolution belongs in the classroom while creationism should be relegated to Sunday school. That's my feeling on the subject. But a good Christian thinks public school kids should be taught creationism. Who is right and who is wrong?
So some progressive parents find secular private schools that teach their kids their idea of a quality education. Then some religious parents find private schools who re-enforce their values so their kids get what they think is a good education.
So those kids who attend public schools get an education in spite of the bickering and cut-backs. It's to their credit and to the schools as well they are learning when we politicize the educational process.
Our problem is that both sides sees education as a means to influence the hearts and minds of future generations.
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All I know, KarenS, is that we all better wake up soon and fix our education system. I don't have kids so it's not even about me wanting a better world for my kids, but I do know education is key to growth and improvement to any civilization. I know in the US one doesn't need education to have financial success, but we need to look at education as something beyond a way to make more money or getting rich. It's knowledge. About other worlds and civilizations. About ethics. About different time periods. About literature. About biology. About sociology. On and on. From that we evolve as intellectual, educated people with more opportunities for technological and other advances. Stagnation is not what we should let happen.
You look at some poor countries where the kids would love, love to be educated but they don't have that opportunity. Here we are, with all the education presented on the table, and we don't value it.
Which kids don't hate school? That's natural, but it's incumbent upon the parents to instill in them the value of education. To make them know that it's important and influences all aspects of their lives and it makes them a more rounded individual.
I was on youtube the other day and was reading comments people make. A lot of the grammar is atrocious. All the texts and emails nowadays that comprise of abbreviations and such. I shudder to think in the future with this new language and less education.
Sorry if if seems to anyone like I'm sitting on my high horse looking down, but I just feel like we should all constantly be improving instead of staying the same or deteriorating. I always look at all the beautiful architecture and history of different countries that existed so many years ago when people didn't have as much yet they were able to accomplish so much. Now we have more yet we're not as talented, innovative, etc...as our ancestors, I feel. But, I digress...
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KarenS, I think it's very cool that you're bringing such interesting films to your community. Michael Moore is beginning to annoy me a little, he's so into pushing his agenda that he can get a little slippery with the truth. And I say this as someone who agrees with a lot of his agenda. I much preferred Inside Job, which I found far more shocking. Hope everyone enjoys it (or whatever it is you do when watching a movie that makes you kinda sick). What other films have you showed/will you show?
We're having fun with the film series! The first movie we showed was "Who Killed the Electric Car." It was well received by the group. One set of friends who attend the series also owns a Smart Car so they were interested in this one. Our second showing was Moore's movie and our third one will be "Inside Job." We just started the film series with those two under our belt. Another couple that we teamed up with to do the movie series are part-time Florida residents who will be away during the summer. They live in Madison, Wisconsin so we are going to miss them. They will be back in October but hubby and I have agreed to keep it going through the summer.
We're trying to show thought provoking movies in order to question what is going on around us. Mostly we are older folks(older than 50) with an interesting perspective of the world. Everyone is welcome to attend.
So we will see how long our run is. We are willing to try it and see what happens. My little town is pretty quirky so interesting folks have turned up for the two movies.
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Posted: Sat May 21, 2011 12:36 pm
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So much news, so little time! Start with Democrats and Republicans getting together to force a speedy vote on renewing the Patriot Act. Why the rush?
The deal between Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and House Speaker John Boehner calls for a vote before May 27, when parts of the current act expire. The idea is to pass the extension with as little debate as possible to avoid a protracted and familiar argument over the expanded power the law gives to the government.
God forbid we should have a debate on expanded powers given to the government by the Patriot Act, especially now that Osama bin Laden is dead. Given a debate, Americans might start questioning the need for the surveillance state and we can't have that, can we? Where are all the people who recognized the threat under Bush? Can't they see that nothing has changed under Obama?
Next, we have the war in Libya, which as of today is definitely illegal. Some said it was illegal from the start, but defenders of the president claimed he was acting under the War Powers Act. This was a bit of a stretch but whatever, just about everyone decided to give Obama the 60 days granted under the Act to get congressional approval for this war. He needs that approval because our constitution is very clear about the division of power concerning war: the president as commander-in-chief gets to wage the war, but only Congress can authorize it. In fact, Alexander Hamilton explained in Federalist #69:
The President is to be commander-in-chief of the army and navy of the United States. In this respect, his authority would be nominally the same with that of the king of Great Britain, but in substance much inferior to it. It would amount to nothing more than the supreme command and direction of the military and naval forces.; while that of the British king extends to the declaring of war and to the raising and regulating of fleets and armies all which, by the Constitution under consideration, would appertain to the legislature.
It is very clear what the framers of the constitution intended here. The system has been abused over the years by congress refusing to actually declare war (in Korea, in Vietnam, in Iraq to name a few) but instead authorizing military action. (Personally, I think this is a disgrace and congress is a bunch of cowards for refusing to stand up and cast a vote for or against war, but that's another story). But call it war or military action, congress still has to authorize it--and they haven't authorized Libya.
Typically, very few in congress are complaining that Obama has apparently declared himself king and committed the US to a war in Libya on his own imperial authority. He didn't use his War Powers Act 60 days to convince congress--he didn't even try. He is just carrying on as if he is perfectly entitled to both declare and wage war...and our craven, pathetic congress is doing nothing to stop him.
So reporters have been asking the Obama White House how they can justify this war, and their answer has been, according to ABC News White House Correspondent, Jake Tapper: "WH today repeatedly insisted it's in compliance with War Powers Act re: Libya but refused to explain how."
As Glenn Greenwald said:
Talk about "secret law." You're not even allowed to know the White House's rationale (if it exists) for why this war is legal. It simply decrees that it is, and you'll have to comfort yourself with that. That's how confident they are in their power to operate behind their wall of secrecy: they don't even bother any longer with a pretense of the most minimal transparency.
We are currently engaged in multiple wars, both open and "secret." Our president no longer bothers lying to congress to get authorization for military action, he just goes ahead and does it--and then refuses to explain himself when questioned by the press. This is serious stuff, folks, and coupled with the rubber-stamp renewal of the Patriot Act, we are seeing a fundamental shift in our government.
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I'm not sure it's possible to compare family finances to government finances, but, in a way, the bailout was much like fixing a leaky roof on one's home. One may not have the money at the moment to repair it, but if it isn't repaired, the entire house will be damaged more and the value and everything else the house represents will be diminished greatly. I would, I think, borrow the money I didn't have in order to keep that from happening, thinking that it's better to be in debt than for the house to be further damaged. Even though I might not get out of that debt for a long time, the house will retain its value and, if circumstances are right,
grow in value. And it serves as collateral for the debt, even if the debt continues. Had I not borrowed to repair the roof, the house would deteriorate and eventually fall and I would lose it and thus lose the potential for collateral as well.
In the case of the bailout, as long as the US exists, its huge wealth and productive power serves as collateral for its debt in the same way the house does for you or me. But that wealth and productive power would have been diminished greatly had the bailout--the debt--not occurred.
This is one of the best analogies I've heard on this... really insightful.
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Posted: Tue Nov 29, 2011 3:01 pm
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Back in April we talked about McCain's proposed bill that would grant govt. the power to indefinitely detain Americans' without due process. I was upset about the idea, but others thought it was just a tempest in a teacup. markskl had this to say...
maryskl wrote:
I also think John McCain has less power than he did before. His run for the presidency weakened him instead of strengthening him and choosing Sarah Palin for a running mate did not help matters. Bills get introduced all the time that never see the light of day. In fact most bills that are introduced are not passed. The Patriot Act was originally passed when the country was in a state of fear. As that fear subsided, lawmakers began to see that power could be and was abused.
I guess McCain is still kicking--and so is his quest to make due process a government-granted privelege instead of a constitutionally guaranteed right. Ten years into the War on Terror (or whatever they're calling it today), Osama bin Laden is dead, Al Qaeda is dismantled, and yet we still need to declare the world a battlefield--including the U.S.? We have to now take away the right of due process for any American accused--not convicted, but merely
--of being a terrorist? I hope everyone is paying attention to this debate, which going on in the Senate right now.
From DemocracyNow.org: The Senate is set to vote this week on a Pentagon spending bill that could usher in a radical expansion of indefinite detention under the U.S. government.
A provision in the National Defense Authorization Act would authorize the military to jail anyone it considers a terrorism suspect anywhere in the world without charge or trial.
The measure would effectively extend the definition of what is considered the militarys "battlefield" to anywhere in the world, even within the United States. Its authors, Democratic Sen. Carl Levin of Michigan and Republican Sen. John McCain of Arizona, have been campaigning for its passage in a bipartisan effort. But the White House has issued a veto threat, with backing from top officials including Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, and FBI Director Robert Mueller. This would be the first time since the McCarthy era that the United States Congress has tried to do this, says our guest, Daphne Eviatar of Human Rights First, which has gathered signatures from 26 retired military leaders
urging the Senate to vote against the measure, as well as against a separate provision that would repeal the executive order banning torture.
In this case, weve seen the administration very eagerly hold people without trial for 10-plus years in military detention, so theres no reason to believe they would not continue to do that here. So
were talking about indefinite military detention of U.S. citizens, of lawful U.S. residents, as well as of people abroad
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Posted: Thu Dec 01, 2011 3:24 pm
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In case anyone is interested, the bill passed the Senate. Who says Washington can't get anything done?
From the NYT: A related provision would create a federal statute saying the government has the legal authority to keep people
of terrorism in military custody, indefinitely and without trial.
It contains no exception for American citizens.
It is intended to bolster the authorization to use military force against the perpetrators of the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, which lawmakers enacted a decade ago.
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Posted: Thu Dec 08, 2011 2:09 am
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I don't really know much about this bill, but I can say with some confidence that without some exception for American citizens it will not fly constitutionally (regardless of the composition of the Supreme Court).
If it does go into effect, it will be challenged (no way it can go under the radar) as a violation of a citizen's right to due process. So long as there is not a major terrorist attack on American soil close to the time of challenge, SCOTUS would most likely knock it down.
This is not a shadow I would be jumping at quite yet.
Personally, I am more concerned with the monstrosity that is the Patriot Act. I am a conservative who is willing to suspend some of my rights to protect national security, but that willingness definitely has a shelf-life. I do not like the idea of indefinitely granting a degree of authority to the national government that fundamentally augments its role to Big Brother.
I practice a live and let live brand of conservatism (i.e., I live conservatively and as long as your decisions and actions don't personally affect me and mine, you can do whatever you want). Our government, with the Patriot Act and its ilk, has increasingly reached its hand in to our lives and attempted to mandate how we live and interact with each other. This worries and angers me.
We are creeping toward the point where we no longer look inside ourselves to distinguish between right and wrong. Instead we wait and see what the demagogues tell us is right or wrong and how to make decisions. If we, as people, continue to lose the ability and desire to make conscientious decisions, and allow the government to make our choices for us, we cannot expect that the leaders we choose will put our interests as a country ahead of their own. If they lead our decisions, they have no reason to let us decide anything that does not immediately benefit them, regardless of what effect those decisions have on us as individuals and as a country.
Huh . . . this turned into something of a meandering, soapboxy rant.
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Posted: Tue Jan 03, 2012 6:01 pm
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erhea13 wrote:
We are creeping toward the point where we no longer look inside ourselves to distinguish between right and wrong. Instead we wait and see what the demagogues tell us is right or wrong and how to make decisions. If we, as people, continue to lose the ability and desire to make conscientious decisions, and allow the government to make our choices for us, we cannot expect that the leaders we choose will put our interests as a country ahead of their own. If they lead our decisions, they have no reason to let us decide anything that does not immediately benefit them, regardless of what effect those decisions have on us as individuals and as a country.
Huh . . . this turned into something of a meandering, soapboxy rant.
Here, here! (Or is that "hear, hear!"?) Whatever, well said.
Unfortunately, I don't have your faith that the Supreme Court will save us any time soon. Just look at Jose Padilla and Anwar al-Awlaki and you'll see that the president has long claimed the power to 1) hold an American citizen for years without charging him with a crime and 2) assassinate an American citizen, also without ever having charged him with a crime, let alone convicted him of one. As far as the assassination went, Obama's justification was a legal memo--which is a state secret so we the people can't know what's in it. So basically, we are now subject to a law that gives the president the power to assassinate us, but we're not allowed to see it.
These aren't shadows, this is already happening, but since it's not happening to old Johnny Smith from down the block (yet) people are content to shrug and say, "Well, if the president said that Anwar guy was a terrorist, then I guess he was." Talk about losing the ability and desire to make conscientious decisions! "Sure, it sounds unconstitutional to assassinate an American who isn't on a battlefield without ever having proven he is actually guilty of a crime, but you know, I'm just gonna trust the government on this one."
I agree with you about the Patriot Act, and I am also totally appalled that this new bill passed, though not that Obama signed it. You can't listen to a word the guy says, you have to watch what he does--covert wars, drone strikes on civilians, fighting the effort to ban cluster bombs. . . And you're dead-on about who is ultimately responsible. When you have a government of, by and for the people, it's our job to pay attention.
So here's hoping for a consciousness-awakening 2012, and a happy and prosperous new year to you all!
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Posted: Tue Jan 03, 2012 9:06 pm
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For me, it is not so much about SCOUTUS stepping in to save us, because frankly it does not have that authority. Most of the instances you mentioned have been cashiered out as political questions (SCOTUS's way of punting an issue it does not want to deal with). However, despite what the presidents ultimately have done (Bush or Obama), SCOTUS has consistently upheld due process in a slew of enemey combatant litigation for both citizens and non-citizens - they have allowed detention of "enemy combatants" but not without charges in a "reasonable" amount of time for US Citizens. The fact is, SCOTUS is limited to interpreting the Constitution and is hemmed in by the fact that it cannot enforce its own rulings.
However, in terms of the bill we have been discussing, all it would take is one citizen wrongly detained to cry out and our culture of media will be all over it. That will open the door for American citizens and voters to decide how far they are willing to suspend their liberty (if at all) and bring pressure to bear on the branches of government that wield the greatest authority.
The only time SCOTUS ever successfully stands in the face of the executive and legislature is on the rare occasion that it is ahead of and among public opinion. Ultimatley, it comes down to who is going to pay attemtion and how far we allow ourselves to be pushed. Personally, I feel we are being steamrolled and buffetted about by extreme positions on both sides that are putting ideology (not principles) ahead of practicality. I am in many ways a pragmatist. There are certain things in which I will not compromise (most of those are personal and affect only me) but everthing else is subject to compromise for the betterment of our country. We were founded on principles of debate and disagreement - those often bring more ideas to the table - but we have warped our system into one of vitriolic public discourse and private back door collusion.
Until we, as a country, take the initiative to insist on educating and informing ourselves without adherence to the different factions telling us what to think (in lieu of giving us information and allowing us to come to our own decisions) we will not stand a chance of putting our country and system of gevernment to rights. I do not want anyone to save us, I want us to save ourselves. We are meant to be the stewards of our own lives and our own country. As a country, we have been derelict and we are paying for it.
As an aside, I am in law school and my school's newspaper had an article in it discussing the killing of Al Awlaki. It poses some interesting questions regarding the issue.:
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Posted: Wed Jan 18, 2012 10:32 pm
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The thing about the Supreme Court is that they only hear cases that get to them, while our government has a way of shutting down litigation by invoking the state secrets privilege. Obama used it to block a lawsuit brought by the ACLU and Anwar al-Awlaki's father, and it has also been used to block cases brought by victims of rendition and torture. Warantless wiretapping was clearly illegal, but that case never made it to court because Congress stepped in and granted retroactive immunity to the telecoms, effectively blocking legal recourse for the victims of the crime.
As for the media being all over anything, I don't agree. The media has been reduced to the position of government stenographer, unquestioningly repeating the "facts" fed to them by anonymous sources.
I don't see these trends as bettering our country--quite the opposite, in fact--but as long as the changes generally affect only minority populations, there won't be much outcry. Trouble is, once those rights are gone, they're gone for all of us.
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Posted: Wed Jan 18, 2012 11:18 pm
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I don't disagree with your assessment of SCOTUS's ability to hear cases, but in some special cases SCOTUS can certify cases for review and dare congress to challenge jurisdiction . . . again, this only happens when SCOTUS is alligned with public opinion and congress is in the positon of not wanting to piss the public off (a seriously rare occasion).
LizE wrote:
As for the media being all over anything, I don't agree. The media has been reduced to the position of government stenographer, unquestioningly repeating the "facts" fed to them by anonymous sources.
There is where I must disagree with you. The media . . . every outlet of it . . . has an agenda and pushes that agenda hard. They shape the narratives and embroider the "facts". There is an interesting book that discusses how our modern media has affected the current political landscape. -
The Press Effect: Politicians, Journalists, and the Stories that Shape the Political World
I don't see these trends as bettering our country--quite the opposite, in fact--but as long as the changes generally affect only minority populations, there won't be much outcry. Trouble is, once those rights are gone, they're gone for all of us.
I am not really a fan of these trends, but in an era where national security is a primary concern I see the necessity for some of it. The biggest problem we have is in achieving the appropriate balance between our security and the rights we hold dear, and identifying and protecting the rights we view as sacrosanct (good luck finding any broad agreement there). Until we make the choice to leave behind our ambitions as the world's governess and nanny, we will always face a heightened concern for national security that leads to the restriction of our rights.
Such is our current condition and I see very little potential for that to change in the near future. Hell, the closest any politician comes to that position is Ron Paul, and he is kind of nutty.
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How would you assess Barack Obama's first year in office? How far has he gone in meeting your expectations? US President Barack Obama was elected by a landslide and brought hope to millions not only in America but around the world with his promise of genuine change. How would you assess his first year in office? Has he met your expectations?
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[quote="faulgoony"]How would you assess Barack Obama's first year in office? How far has he gone in meeting your expectations? US President Barack Obama was elected by a landslide and brought hope to millions not only in America but around the world with his promise of genuine change. How would you assess his first year in office? Has he met your expectations?
You posted this on Friday April 20, 2012, regarding POTUS's first year in office. Is this a joke? Where have you been? 2012 is election year, so who really cares about Obama's first year in office at this time???
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PALOS VERDES, Calif.—The seventh-ranked Arizona State women's golf team returns to action for the spring season at the Northrop Grumman Regional Challenge, hosted by Ohio State, in Palos Verdes, Calif.
Held Feb. 9-11, the 54-hole tournament will be played at the par-71, 6,017-yard Palos Verdes Golf Club. The field for the tournament features 16 teams, including Arizona State, Arizona, UCLA, USC, and Washington from the Pac-12.
The Sun Devils finished the 2013 fall season strong with four top-five finishes out of the five tournaments in which the team competed. Finishing second at the Mason Rudolph Women's Championship, ASU topped nine teams ranked in the nation's top-25. The Sun Devils also cruised to a second-place finish at the 40th Annual Betsy Rawls Longhorn Invitational, where ASU separated itself from the field finishing 11 strokes ahead of the third-place team.
Junior second-team All-American Noemi Jimenez sits atop the Sun Devil lineup. Jimenez holds a 71.33 scoring average through five tournaments and has finished in the top-10 in four out of five tournaments competed, including tying for second at the season-opening Dale McNamara Invitational.
The Sun Devil lineup also features junior Emilie Alonso, senior Justine Lee, freshman Monica Vaughn, and freshman Saki Iida. Vaughn has emerged as a fledgling contender for ASU, recording two, top-10 finishes in the last two tournaments, including tying for third place at the Pac-12 Preview at Nanea. Iida will be representing the maroon and gold for the first time when she steps onto the course this weekend.
Last year, the Sun Devils finished in 12th place at the Northrop Grumman Regional Challenge. Jimenez tied for ninth place overall, shooting 7-over 220 (76-73-71) for the tournament.
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As a part of the Colorado Safe Routes to School program, the City of Boulder is requesting community proposals for infrastructure improvements that would enable more students, parents, faculty, and staff to walk and bike to schools in Boulder. The required proposal materials are available online at www.goboulder.net.
Completed proposal forms must be returned to GO Boulder by 4 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 30, to be considered for inclusion in the city's 2013 grant application to the Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT). In addition, a tally sheet summarizing the number of students currently walking and biking to school is due by Thursday, Nov. 15, and letters of support are due by Friday, Nov. 30.
Community proposals for Colorado Safe Routes to School infrastructure improvements must meet all of the requirements listed below in order to be eligible for funding. All proposals must:
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establish that the Boulder Valley School District will assume responsibility for promoting and evaluating the success of the improvements (if the proposed improvements are near a public school).
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Since 2005, the city's Transportation Division has been awarded more than $1 million in Safe Routes to School funding for infrastructure improvements. The city's 2012 project, proposed by the Manhattan Middle School community, was awarded a $250,000 grant to install a traffic signal and sidewalk improvements at the intersection of South Boulder Road and Manhattan Drive. The project is anticipated to be completed in fall 2013.
This fall, a 2011 Safe Routes to School grant allowed the city to complete a sidewalk along Linden Avenue that will benefit students walking and biking to five schools in Boulder. For more information, view the Safe Routes to School in Boulder Program Update.
Detailed information about the proposal requirements and a schedule of deadlines for submitting proposal materials are available online at www.goboulder.net. Interested applicants can also contact Bicycle/Pedestrian Planner firstname.lastname@example.com or at 303-441-4138.
For more information about the federal Safe Routes to School program, visit www.saferoutesinfo.org.


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