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FRESNO, Calif. - On a national stage, junior pitcher Michelle Moses tossed her first career no-hitter to power Fresno State to a 5-0 win over No. 20/25 Hawai'i on Friday night before an ESPNU audience.
"It's unreal that this game happened," Moses said. "It feels amazing and it's such an accomplishment not only for me but for this team. I just took one pitch at a time and didn't think about the no-hitter."
Moses became the 19th Bulldog to record a no-hitter while throwing the 66th overall in program history and it came against a nationally-ranked conference rival. The feat was also the first by any pitcher against the Rainbow Wahines since 2007 when future Olympian Monica Abbott threw one while starring at Tennessee.
The victory marked the fourth this season by Fresno State (20-8, 4-0 WAC) against an opponent ranked in the Top 25 of the USA Today/NFCA and ESPN/USA Softball polls. Fresno State also owns wins against then No. 5/6 Michigan (3-1), No. 8/10 Missouri (6-3) and No. 19/18 Oklahoma State (4-3).
"This was a great moment for the team," head coach Margie Wright said. "It's rare for a pitcher to get a no-hitter in their career and Michelle was able to do it against a top rival on national television. There's not enough to say to express how proud I am of my team."
Moses (7-6, 2-0 WAC) showcased a calm focus from start to finish as she won her seventh game of the season and recorded her ninth complete game this year. Her presence garnered praise from Olympic gold medalist Jessica Mendoza, who served ESPNU's color analyst for the game.
"To see Michelle Moses, so calmly feeding off that pressure and the crowd was special," Mendoza said.
The Bulldogs' bats caught fire early with three runs in the first and never looked back while adding a run in the fourth and fifth for the 5-0 win. Fresno State chased UH's starter and 2010 WAC Pitcher of the Year Stephanie Ricketts (15-8) after 4.1 innings.
"Our hitters did their job excellently," Wright said. "I'm very impressed we had nine hits tonight."
During the evening, Moses delivered 11 strikeouts and allowed only a pair of Hawai'i baserunners courtesy of two walks.
Senior catcher Caitlin Stiglich, who went 1-for-3 with an RBI single, appreciated the opportunity to play on ESPNU and before the Dogs' supportive crowd.
"It was a great game not only because it was against Hawaii and on national television but the crowd and stadium were great," Stiglich said.
The environment also caught the eye of ESPNU's play-by-play announcer Cara Capuano.
"This was my first time in Fresno and I had heard of the mystique of Bulldog Diamond," Capuano said. "I was really impressed with how meticulous the ballpark was and the crowd. Fresno State has earned the support over the years."
Fresno State and Hawai'i will complete the WAC series on Saturday afternoon with a doubleheader that starts at 1 p.m. at Bulldog Diamond.
"We Are Your Team!" --- Fresno State continues WAC play on Saturday afternoon with the final two regular season games against No. 20/25 Hawai'i. Fans can purchase tickets by logging on to www.gobulldogs.com, calling 559-278-DOGS or by visiting the Bulldog Ticket Office.
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I-4 speed limit being lowered in DeLand to Daytona construction zone
Published: Wednesday, July 10, 2013 at 5:25 p.m.
Last Modified: Wednesday, July 10, 2013 at 9:47 p.m.
The speed limit on a wreck-weary construction zone along Interstate 4 in Volusia County will be lowered by 10 mph starting as soon as Friday, officials said.
The Florida Department of Transportation has granted the Florida Highway Patrol's request to lower the speed limit on Interstate 4 in a construction zone between DeLand and Daytona Beach.
With at least 60 wrecks in the road-widening area since the beginning of May, FHP requested FDOT lower the 70 mph speed limit to 60 mph on I-4 between State Road 44 and U.S. 17-92.
"We just want drivers to obey the speed limit," FHP spokeswoman Sgt. Kim Montes said.
FDOT spokesman Steve Olson said the agency saw FHP's request as reasonable, and hopes to have the new speed limit in effect by Friday.
"Right now we're in the process of installing the (new speed limit) signs," Olson said Wednesday.
He said FDOT decided to grant FHP's request because speed was often a factor in the nearly 60 wrecks in the construction zone since May, though none were fatal.
"People were going faster (than 70 mph) in that construction zone," Olson said.
He said nine miles of the nearly 13-mile construction zone will have the speed lowered to 60 mph with 24 new signs (12 westbound and 12 eastbound) displaying the new speed limit.
Olson said FDOT will also use two mobile flashing signs that display motorists speed as they pass through the zone.
Montes said motorists should remember that the posted speed limit is for optimum driving conditions, and in the case of factors like road construction, motorists "really should be going below the posted speed limit."
"It's driver error," Montes said. "There are plenty of people navigating that roadway who aren't crashing."
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College Hockey:2006-07 Alabama-Huntsville Season Preview
When asked about the CHA, one coach noted the talent and the young players coming into the league, then mentioned Alabama-Huntsville and said, "Huntsville, they're downright scary."
Yet, year in and year out, the Chargers can't seem to get over the hump and notch the CHA's automatic bid by winning the postseason tournament. In years past, UAH has relied on one or two forward lines for the bulk of its offense, but not this season.
"We have a tough team this year," senior defenseman Mike Salekin said. "We're more physical and we'll pound teams so that by the time the third period rolls around, the other team just wants to give us the puck. We'll also roll four solid lines and that's a change from the past where maybe we relied on one top line."
Goaltender and co-CHA player of the year Scott Munroe has graduated to the pro ranks and was the No. 3 goalie for Philadelphia during last spring's NHL playoffs. Defenders Jeremy Schreiber and Jeff Winchester are also gone, along with sniper Bruce Mulherin.
That being said, UAH doesn't have one worry, only optimism.
"We have higher expectations this year," junior forward Tyler Hilbert said. "We've been to the tournament and never won it, so enough is enough. Every one of the guys brings something different and that's exactly what we need. Guys are pushing each other for spots and competition between teammates never hurt anyone."
Newcomers Tom Train, a forward, and defenseman Davide Nicoletti both played in the North American Hockey League last season and Train captained the Texas Tornado to their third straight NAHL championship. Train, he of a unique hockey name, had originally committed to UAH for last year, but an academic snafu hit and Train had to wait a year.
Nicoletti popped 16 goals from the blue line and will be eased into the lineup with Salekin as his early mentor.
"Every year you lose guys, but that's the nature of the game," said Salekin. "Guys take a step up in their role every year and now, with guys like Schreiber and Winchester gone, guys like myself have to handle those roles. The freshmen will come in and play and so far, they look great."
Right wing Joe Federoff transferred to UAH from Robert Morris at the semester break last January and will be eligible to play in three months' time.
The Chargers got past Wayne State in the tournament quarterfinal last season and then fell to eventual champion Bemidji State in the semifinals. During the overall season, UAH only surrendered 103 goals, good for second in the conference. The Chargers scored 105 goals, third overall in the CHA.
With Mulherin off to the ECHL's Gwinnett Gladiators, offense this year will be spread out over the four lines, Salekin noted. And that's quite OK, according to Huntsville.
"We're going to be a grinding team this year," added Salekin. "We'll score goals, but we'll also outwork other teams. Losing guys happens, but every other team is going through it, too, and trying to find replacements. It's going to be tough to play against us, I can say that."
One problem may be in net — the net sans Munroe. Senior Marc Narduzzi has played eight games over three seasons and sophomore Jordan Erickson played a total of 75 minutes a year ago. Reason to tap the stereotypical panic button?
"No, not at all," quipped Hilbert. "One of those guys has to step up and we're definitely confident in either one of those guys."
Co-captains Grant Sellinger and Shaun Arvai will head a strong forward corps; both have been through the CHA wars the first three years of their college careers. On the battle subject, the Chargers open up their schedule with a couple of nationally-ranked teams.
Salekin and Hilbert agreed it will be a huge test as on Oct. 7, UAH travels to Colorado Springs to play Colorado College and ex-CHA member Air Force before traveling to Ann Arbor to play Michigan a week later.
"We've always been a tough team and this year, I can't say it enough, will be no different," Salekin said. "Our goal is to outwork other teams and if we do that consistently, we'll see where it takes us."
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As China's dynamic economic growth transforms many aspects of the daily life, more and more incongruities arise between the forces of modernization and greater openness of the Chinese society, and the official communist state ideology. The two are increasingly coming to a clash in the country's universities. Beijing's renowned Tsinghua University – one of the most prestigious Chinese schools – is a good example of the difficulties in applying old philosophy to new realities.
The university's website proclaims that "Tsinghua has retained its character and charm [since the founding over 90 years ago] while promoting rigorous scholarship research, ensuring academic and educational prestige in China and abroad." At the same time, its recently founded Research Center on Marxist Journalism and Journalistic Education Reform champions the concept of "Marxist journalism." Understood as journalism that the government views as improving society, it was introduced by the Party in 2001 but sounds more like something from the days of the Cultural Revolution. The Washington Post comments:
The center has in its first year of operation become a vivid example of the tension between China's rush toward modernization and the Communist Party's insistence on retaining control over the flow of information. Journalism students at Tsinghua are taught not only about Watergate and the rise of the Internet, but also about the restricted role reporters are expected to play under a Marxist government such as China's. In China, that role traditionally has been to support the government by spreading propaganda and suppressing news that contradicts policy or puts officials in a bad light. But as the country has opened to the world in the last three decades, many journalists — and journalism students and their professors–have acquired new ambitions for their craft, such as investigative reporting on official corruption.
Taking a course in Marxist journalism may be a good career move, since – as one of the students commented – the mainstream media are more likely to hire someone "with a good sense of Marxism." But can censorship under one-party rule done in the name of "guiding public opinion" really be reconciled with the need for journalistic integrity in reporting? And can fostering rigorous scholarship and academic excellence be reconciled with teaching how to restrict freedom of the media?


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College Hockey:WCHA set to add Northern Michigan as sixth member for 2013-14
The WCHA is on the verge of adding Northern Michigan to its lineup for the 2013-14 season.
Formal approval of the Wildcats' application for membership will happen next week, the league announced in a statement Friday afternoon.
Administrators from the five schools that will remain from the current-day WCHA after formation of the Big Ten and the National Collegiate Hockey Conference strips seven teams away in 2013 met Friday in St. Paul, Minn.
The move brings Northern Michigan to the WCHA for a second time. The Wildcats started in the CCHA in 1977 before joining the WCHA along with Upper Peninsula rival Michigan Tech in 1984. They returned to the CCHA in 1997. (See conference changes timeline.)
Five of the 11 teams in the present-day CCHA have committed to another conference for the 2013-14 season. Michigan, Michigan State and Ohio State will join the Big Ten. Miami will move to the NCHC.
Notre Dame and Western Michigan also have been linked with moves away from the CCHA.
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The A&E TV series "Bates Motel," inspired by Alfred Hitchcock's genre-defining 1960 film, "Psycho," is a contemporary exploration of the formative years of "Psycho" killer Norman Bates (played by Freddie Highmore); the relationship with his mother, Norma (played by Vera Farmiga); and the world they inhabit. Viewers will have access to the dark, twisted back story and learn first-hand how Norma helped forge the most famous serial killer of them all.
The Season 2 finale of "Bates Motel" was televised on A&E on May 5, 2014. A week before the finale aired, Highmore and "Bates Motel" executive producer Carlton Cuse did in telephone conference call with journalists. Here is what they said.
Since the taking the iconic role of Norman Bates, how has your style of acting has evolved as a child actor? How have you avoided the pitfalls of other former child actors?
Highmore: I've always remained I guess relatively distant from the sort of film while growing up whenever I wasn't doing one myself. And so, I carried on sort of going to normal school and right now I'm just a couple of weeks away from doing my final exams at university. And so having always combined acting with my studies and always have a [home] back here in England I think that's given me a kind of nice sense of distance in terms of not falling into the pitfalls that you mentioned.
In terms of evolution, I guess you become more aware as you get older of how lucky you've been to sort of been on these fantastic sets. And also aware of I guess the learning process that goes on kind of subconsciously just by being on the set from a young age and learning from actors. Having never been to sort of acting school myself, I guess you become more aware of the things that you learn and traits and other actors that you see to sort of replicate or ways that they've approached certain scripts or material that you find inspiring. So I guess it's recognition of being lucky and also kind of maintaining this certain distance from it, which has always been rewarding.
Norman Bates certainly is different, but I never sort of transitioned from a sort of child actor to a young adult, so I don't think it to be sort of particularly problematic in the sense that I just saw it as a natural thing. You know, as you get older you start to play all the characters and so I wouldn't say I'm kind of doing anything different now than I did before, it just seemed natural to me.
Were you both fans of the "Psycho" movie? And then for Carlton, how much has that affected how the series compared to the movie and how has that changed from the beginning?
Cuse: Oh yes, I was a huge fan of the movie. I think it's kind of in the pantheon of nearly perfect movies. And so I was actually very afraid about making a show that would sort have fall too heavily in the shadow of that. And so right from the get-go when Kerry Ehrin, my partner on the show, and I started working on it the very first - the sort of first and most important decision that we made was to do the show as a contemporary sequel which I think put the show in a different place than the movie.
I think if we had done it as a period show it would always be kind of in the oppressive shadow of this amazing master work that Hitchcock made. And for us what we really wanted to do is just take these characters take the idea of it's like Tom Stoppard took Rosencrantz and Gildenstern and brought them to life from these two minor characters from Shakespeare and gave them their own existence.
You know, we took these two major characters from this Hitchcock movie and we sort of just placed them into a different time and gave them their own existence. And I think one of the things that's been really rewarding as the show has gone to a second season is I think people are really beginning to see that "Bates Motel" is really its own thing. It was inspired by the Hitchcock movie but it's really an original show taking some elements from the original Hitchcock movie, but our goal is to tell a wholly new story.
Highmore: I think I saw ["Psycho"] for the first time when I was 14. And then saw it one more time or a couple more times before finally doing "Bates Motel" and starting the first season. I haven't sort have returned to it since. I guess, as Carlton said, he was slightly sad in terms of taking it on.
I guess he did a great job, both Carlton and Kerry in making us all feel free to bring our own ideas. And to not feel tied at all to this original material which I think is so key really to the show. And I guess whilst there are certain aspects of kind of Anthony Perkins classic performance that people sort of see that or that you might have sort have in some instances sought to replicate, there was never a sense of mimicking him. It was more sort of seeing him in the original film as an inspiration and one of several forms of that.
In the roles of Anthony Perkins in the original "Psycho" movie or even Vince Vaughn in the "Psycho" remake, have you felt or come across any challenges in regards to their portrayal of Norman Bates as an older person in making a younger Norman? Or have you felt like not even the need to kind of portray their essence and kind have made it your own character and any challenges in regard to that?
Highmore: No. In terms of the sort of narrative art it's something that Carlton will know more than me. But I've never see the sort of individual from my perspective being Norman arising exactly at sort of Anthony Perkins enrollment. And so Carlton maybe sort of certain thing taken from that, it wasn't a sort of end goal of mine to kind of have Michael end up in the motel. He's actually like Anthony Perkins.
I imagine because I guess this is my first TV show but you sort of are slightly uncertain as to where your character is going to go and the terms he tends to make and so there's that excitement. But from my perspective, it's this constant build towards ultimately Norman going psycho. And whether that's necessarily sort of in the since of the original movie I don't think so but there's certainly that build towards a climatic moment. Norman's a nice guy; he's lovely.
You talked about the series being it's own entity and I think it absolutely has emerged as that. But given that we all do know the source material, how wedded to that are you?
Cuse: I think that's the key to a great tragedy — and tragedy is a great storytelling form. It worked extremely well for Shakespeare. It worked extremely well for Jim Cameron: "Titanic" as a tragedy, and in that movie you kind of hope that Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet don't meet their inevitable fate. I think that that tension between sort of your expectations as to what's going to happen to these characters and what's actually occurring now on their journey is that dramatic tension I think is the essence of what we are trying to accomplish as writers.
And I think that Freddie and Vera, no one could do a better job than the two of them executing that. We do foresee that there are some bad things that loom ahead for Norma and Norman, but I think it would actually rob the audience of the enjoyment of the journey to be too specific about how we're going to play that out. We think that a literal necessitation of the events of the movie would not be fully satisfying.
How does the Season 2 finale of "Bates Motel" compare to the Season 1 finale?
Highmore: I think the whole arc of the second season has been fantastic for Norman and there's always a sort of time that you need in terms of establishing a character and seeing them as they are before they start off on this journey. I said a couple minutes earlier that Norman was a lovely guy but I think in the 10th episode especially and perhaps number eight that we've already see, we start to see this small manipulative side to Norman that starts to question whether or not question our allegiance to him and sort of support and backing of it, which has been great fun as an actor to play because you play against the sense of what people thing Norman should be like.
But then there comes a point where I think to what extent can you continue to support his actions and with Norman's kind of growing realization of who he is and who he might become and what he's capable of comes this sense of power for him. And what I think is great about the 10th episode is to what extent would that power Norman take as sort of a selfish decision. And by the end of the episode, are we still with him or not?
There's going to be a "Friday the 13th" TV series, and it's going to kind of follow a similar format by going back to the origins of Jason Voorhies. What do you think of that new view? Do you feel there is going to be a trend where people are taking older characters and then do you think going back to the origins to try to refresh the story for television?
Cuse: I think it's already it's happening in some sense. "Hannibal" is a is a sort of parallel example of another example where I think ["Hannibal" executive producer] Brian Fowler has done a really great job of sort of reinventing that character in a different context. As writers, Kerry and I really don't think too much about what other people are doing. We're just kind of worried about our own show.
And I think for us I think what distinguishes our show is we've tried to make the show very kind of heartfelt and it has a lot of humor and emotion. And I think it operates on kind of a level that you don't expect from a show that's extensively about a guy who's a serial killer and I think that's one of the things that's sort of surprising about it. So we just kind of focus on trying to make the best version of our show.
And just to go back to your original question, I personally think that the season finale is better because I think it moves the overall narrative a big step forward and I don't want to spoil that too much. But I think that it's pretty evident as we've moved downstream here that there are these really significant looming questions. One is what is Norman's ultimate culpability in the murder of Ms. Watson? And secondly, how aware is Norman of what it is that he's done or is capable of doing?
And to us those are really important questions because the character's self knowledge is a huge factor in how he moves forward. And we're going to jump right into the heart of those questions in the finale. And it's really satisfying as a writer to have a chance to take those kinds of questions on and Kerry and I sort of loved writing that stuff. And it was just made all the better by how well Freddie executed it. It's I think I think the finale is my favorite episode of the season and a lot of that has to do with just how great the performances are by Freddie, Vera and also Max Thieriot.
We've talked a lot about the references to "Psycho." Can we expect an answer by the end of this season about who killed Ms. Watson? And Freddie, what was the greatest challenge for you of making the audience constantly question back and forth whether Norman was the one to kill her?
Highmore: It's tricky in terms of not wanting to spoil too much but, yes, they're toying with the audience and also just stretching the relationship between Norma and Norman has likened in the past to this sense of an elastic band and it's kind of stretched out but then ultimately it returns to the original shape. And you kind of stretch it and you think it's going to break but it never quite does.
And Norma and Norman always seem to get over whatever challenges they've had previously up until now. And I think that with the tenth of it especially it's inconclusive as to whether that bond has been set and whether Norma and Norman can kind of continue along the path that they were going before, or whether they can't ignore such key facts about each other any longer.
Norman and Norma are usually so close but the secret that she's been keeping about his blackout and really driving a wedge between them. Will their relationship kind of continue down the strained path or is there reconciliation in the near future?
Cuse: Norma and Norman's relationship is at the very heart of the show, and so that I don't think ever will change. That's what makes the show I think wonderful is this incredible dynamic that exists between these two characters as portrayed by these two actors. That's the very heart and center of the show. The nature of that relationship however will evolve over time.
And I think what's really interesting is that Norman is going from being sort of a boy to being a man, that's part of his journey over the course of the show. And I think that as he becomes more of a man that has cumulative consequences in terms of how he and his mother relate to each other. And so I think Kerry and I certainly don't see that relationship as being static, but we definitely see it as always being very close and very intense.
Freddie, how was it filming that scene where Norman was just abducted in the house? Were you generally scared?
Highmore: You're sort of aware really that someone's going to take you, so I guess it's not the same shock as Norman's real one. But in time of course you sort of as I guess I try and put myself in Norman's shoes or socks as he's coming down the stairs.
And then yes, and try to make that reaction and genuine as possible and by gosh ultimately yes you are hopefully as shocked as Norman was. And I think it just sets up for just this fantastic episode for Norman. Where having been kidnapped, he spends the entire episode in sort of solitary confinement, completely alone and that just further kind of increases the pressure and build towards the tenth episode.
Freddie, what is your personal current pop-culture fix? And what do you believe Norman's would be?
Highmore: I'm always so used to these questions. It always seems like I'm lying and trying to sort of cover up some favorite of mine that I don't want to say. But I guess at the moment my circus is actually these sort of final exams at university which sounds pretty boring but they're only a few weeks away now. And so I've been reading loads of Latin American literature which has been great but I'm not sure if that would count.
Cuse: I think that Freddie is the anti-pop. Drop a few literary bombs here, Freddie, because you're entitled. What have you been reading?
Highmore: There have been some great books. I've got a fantastic professor at the college here and he does lots of novels … The Norman character, I think that would be kind of similar to me.
Cuse: I think actually it's true. You know, Norma and Norman sort of intentionally in their own environment are sort of out of time. And I think that Norman would be excited about seeing like a Preston Sturges movie. You know, maybe reading some Hemingway. He is not a guy who is really caught up in the present. He has an iPod but he's probably most likely to be listening to Beethoven on it instead of Katy Perry.
Carlton, since "Lost" alum Nestor Carbonell plays Sheriff Romero in "Bates Motel," do you have any other "Lost" actors that you would like to have an appearance on the show?
Cuse: There are so many wonderful actors on "Lost." I don't think there's anyone on "Lost" I wouldn't I would not want to work with again; they're all so great. It just so happened that when we were creating Sheriff Romero's character, Nestor popped into my mind and it was just - he so vividly encapsulated everything that we wanted in the character.
But I really actually kind of never think about that. You know, I don't sort of think about intentionally taking someone from one show and using them in another. Hopefully, it will happen that a character that that we create might lend itself to being cast by someone else from "Lost" that would soon be opened up but I don't have any plans immediately to add anyone else from "Lost."
Is George too good to be true?
Cuse: Yes, I think part of the story arc this season has really been about seeing how kind of close to the sun Norma can fly. She's always had this vision of kind of moving to this idyllic small town and being in with the right people and having the right relationships. And George sort of personifies kind of acceptance and admission into the society of this town. And in the [Season 2] finale, we will sort of definitely see where that leads and where that leaves Norma at the end of the season, so it will pay off.
Norman Bates has gotten it on with several women on the show. If Norman were to suddenly be well, which woman on the show do you think he would end up with and be happy?
Highmore: I guess his mother really isn't it? They would just be great together or awful, I don't know. I think there's this still kind of unexplored relationship with Emma. They've got tension there that's constantly been and has never quite gone as far as it could have at different moments. And that's another pair off I think that comes in the last episode. We see Norman's relationship with Emma take a twist and perhaps the one that we expected.
Freddie, could you talk a little bit about what you enjoyed most about that relationship between Cody Brennan and Norman. What is it like working with Paloma Kwiatkowski, who plays Cody?
Highmore: Paloma's fantastic and has such a different synergy I think that is brought to the show. It not only kind of serves to kind of revitalize Norman in many ways and I think to come up to this whole other world, but also in terms of the audience in keeping things kind of constantly changing in Norman's world outside of the home. And yes, been great to work with and loads of energy and always comes incredibly well-prepared. I guess, for now, Cody has left the world of White Pine Bay, but certainly not without going incredibly noticed and leaving her mark upon Norman.
Carlton, what were perhaps some of the biggest writing and production challenges you faced going into Season 2?
Cuse: From a writing challenge, it was just kind of fun to figure out how we most effectively could expand our knowledge of the world in which these characters inhabited both sort of interpersonally and also externally with the community at large. We really wanted to sort of show the characters in White Pine Bay to get to know more about that community too. And to really sort of deepen the audience's connection with Norma, Norman and Dillon kind of throw out the season.
I guess to kind of summarize, you're making a show that is extensively about a serial killer but the goal on a writing standpoint was to make the audience really care deeply about Norman and about Norma. To like them, to root for them and so you have these sort of two things that are kind of in opposition.
You sort of know this character is sort of in dissent towards the kind of sort of kind of a difficult and being this pathological, but at the same time we want the audience to really relate to him and connect to him. What we didn't want was the audience sort of kind of looking in at him from the outside sort of pathologically.
Kerry and I, our goal always in the writing is to have the audience be really deeply connected on an emotional level to Norma and Norman and be right there with them as they go on this fun but also perilous journey. And I think that's the challenge is to is to kind of be able to take a genre like a serial killer a show that's extensively about a serial killer, but to make it heartfelt and emotional and funny and humanistic. And I think that's what we work really hard at as writers.
Do you have a sense yet of what the shape of Season 3 will be or what would you expect given how much has been covered already in Season 2?
Cuse: Our goal is to continue to write the show on a high level and make Season 3 hopefully even better than Season 2. I mean our expectations are that high. Kerry Ehrin and I have actually spent a fair amount of time talking about it, and we do have a preliminary game plan that we're very excited about. It's tough to say too much about it because a lot of it is driven by events that are in the finale that I don't want to spoil on this phone conference.
But I feel very confident that we can make a really engaging Season 3. We do have a plan and in fact we're already kind of now that we've been picked up [for a third season]. We're hard at work in terms of just sort of kind of laying out the architecture of the new season. And I think it's going to be great, I'm really excited about it.
How much has Alfred Hitchcock's larger body of work influenced the tone of "Bates Motel" or just in the way that you write things?
Cuse: I think Hitchcock is one of my favorite filmmakers, and I think his ability to kind of find suspense in very human moments and kind of connect them to characters. There are just so many ways in which I've been influenced by him in terms of what he does as a filmmaker. I'm just kind of thinking in my mind of working on the show and just thinking about "Rope" or "Vertigo" or "North by Northwest."
And just he's just such an amazingly talented filmmaker in terms of his ability to tell these stories that were deeply suspenseful but also deeply psychological at the same time. And he had this incredible ability to both really put characters in really tense and dynamic perilous situations and also really get you inside their psyches … just the way in which he connected his characters to the psychological and physical dilemmas of storytelling is something that was a huge influence on me.
What is it about the Bates family? They kind of came into White Pine Bay as outsiders, and yet they've cast a spell over the entire town.
Cuse: I think that's what this season arc was about was sort of Norma came here with this dream and this idea that she was finally going to find a place where they would fit in where she would be socially accepted where she would be someone important, where she would be hanging out with the right people. And so we wanted to explore whether that was possible.
I think what's really interesting about Norma as a character is that there's this gap between her perception of what she should be and the reality of what she's actually able to pull off. And she is sort of she sort of dragged everyone in her slip string to White Pine Bay, and we really wanted to the thematic question I think of Season 2 is sort of "Who am I?" And I think for Norma, it's all about can she be the person that she wants to be? Is that possible?
You know, for Norman that question is really about his growing awareness of the fact that he has these blackouts and what happens when he's blacked out. "Who am I?" is sort of kind of goes right to the fold of Norma's character.
And for Dillon, the question is really about "Who am I? Am I really a drug dealer? I started out, I just took a job, I needed to make some money." I was guarding some pot fields and now I'm in the middle of a frickin drug war between these two families in this town. You know, so that was kind of a thematic drive for the second season of the show and our goal was to try to give them a version of a life that they wanted and see what the consequences of getting that was going to be for our characters.
Will we get to see that brotherly relationship between Norman and Dillon or will Dillon always be the odd man out?
Highmore: No. Even just talking about it right now on the phone on this conference, you realize how many different things that kind of brought together and how many new directions are suggested from the last episode. And one of them certainly is that to what extent Dillon is needed by Norman in Episode 10 and when his brother needs him most.
Will Dillon kind of flip to one side, whatever issues he has with Norma or with the family in general and be there to save his brother? That's another kind of linking in this finale.
Highmore: Everything just converges; it's wonderful. I remember when Carlton and Kerry were sort of pitching it to me and this final idea of how it was all going to end up. It's just fantastic. I just think I was really excited to do it.
Are the incestuous or inappropriate undertones between both Dillon and Norma and Norman and Norma are intentional?
Cuse: Obviously, there's a sexual tension that is a part of Norma and Norman's dynamic. I think with Dillon, it's really much more incidental, I don't think that it's or it's not really intentional. I think though that Norma and Norman have this very close relationship that borders on being inappropriate.
But I hope that as writers Kerry and I have tried to make you kind of understand why it exists. And I guess it's just up to I was joking before because I don't think that they think that it's inappropriate. And it's just I think that's just part of the tension of the show is. "My gosh, you're sort of closest relationship is between mother and son."
It makes sense at a certain age, I'm not sure it makes sense as a young man moves into adulthood. So that just creates that's just part of the tension that's very much at the center of the show. So we're intentionally playing into that, but I think we're at the same time there's certain lines that we as writers don't feel comfortable crossing.
When you were starting the idea of "Bates Motel," did you have Freddie Highmore in mind? What was it about Freddie that you knew would make him the right person for the role of Norman Bates?
Cuse: I have to give great credit to April Webster, our casting director, who is really a genius at what she does. And she put Kerry Ehrin and me on a Skype call with Freddie very early on, and we were just immediately charmed and captivated. We, along with the network and studio sort of did our due diligence and we read a whole bunch of other actors. It was kind of one of those things where we were just spoiled right at the gate.
Once we had talked to Freddie and kind of reviewed his work, it was just so clear that he was the guy and no one else even came close. So this is one of those things that I think is always what's so interesting about television. Whatever your intentions are, however good a script you write there's this alchemy that has to occur.
We had to get lucky enough to find Freddie, to get Freddie to do the show. I can't imagine the show working or existing or being half as without him. It's one of those things that just it just happened. It was to our great fortune, and I'll take it.
Freddie, your "Bates Motel" co-stars have talked about what a great actor you are. Can you talk about your relationship with Vera as an actor? Did you immediately know the chemistry was there when you first started working together?
Highmore: Yes, yes. I think so. Obviously it evolves over time. That's sort of the joy of being on a TV show is that the relationship I have with the stars is obviously completely sort of different relationships that I have right now with Vera. Having growing incredibly close to her and then and her husband and children and spent time at their house, I guess they've been sort of my family away from home.
And thankfully, spending evenings over there and sleeping over in their spare bedroom. And they've just been absolutely wonderful and they're certainly my very best friends. So I'm just incredibly lucky on a personal level to have met them
And then as an actress, I think there's just always something going on. Every single take, she's alive and trying something new. And I think especially with the TV show, because you spend so long with each other and you spend so much time shooting different scenes with each other, that there could be a tendency to kind of think beforehand, "Oh we know how the scene will go because it's another scene with Norma and Norman."
And I think part of it is due to the quality of the writing in keeping everything different and there's never been any moment that we thought to be kind of repetitious in any way. And also down to Vera in terms of constantly arriving in every single take with a fresh approach in keeping on your show as an actor and never slipping off. I think you could, as I'm sure Carlton and Kerry have wanted to do many times, you could shoot an entire scene just on Vera because she carries the motions, not only when she's speaking but when she's listening of the entire scene. It's just a joy to work with her.
Are you much of a social media guy?
Highmore: No, I've stayed away from it up until now. I get email and stuff but I'm sort of cut off in technology.
Freddie, what are your plans for your hiatus? And how much time do you have before you start the third season production? And for Carlton, you talked about a blueprint for the third season, but do you have an overall plan for however many seasons "Bates Motel" goes? Have you decided how the show will end?
Cuse: Yes, I'll start there and then we can kind of go back to Freddie. But I Kerry and I have a plan. We're having discussions with A&E and Universal Studios about just how many episodes we're going to do to finish the show. It's definitely a show that has a beginning, middle and end.
I think we're kind of getting to the point where we need to sort of define that with the studio and the network and kind of figure out exactly how many more total episodes we're going to do, and I hoping that we'll be able to work that out. Because we do we do know where we're going to end and in terms of just we're planning to start some time later this fall, so Season 3 we've got also up in the air.
Highmore: A large part of the hiatus has already passed in the sense that we finished shooting just before sort of winter kicked in last year and since I've just been back at Cambridge and carrying on with this last year of school. As for the summer, I guess it depends to some extent what time we actually end up sort of starting up again with the third season and so I guess we'll see.
Carlton, do you and your writing partner ever think that you've pushed it too far on "Bates Motel"?
Cuse: I think that we certainly haven't crossed the line and had Norman and Norma having sex. I think the show is this very intentional cocktail of very pulpy storytelling and very nuance of character work and that's what we're trying to accomplish week to week as writers.
And I think that one of the great things, in terms of the kind of the feedback from the audience is … you're at least sort of getting our intentions. I think it's hard when you start out and you're making something that's under the cycle monitor and everybody's got their expectations and kind of thinking about the original moving and stuff. And I think now that we're kind of akin to the second season and we're a long way from that origin I think people are beginning to understand sort of what we are trying to do as storytellers. And so we try to make the stories very kind of pulpy and larger than life. But the characters' journey to those storylines is very nuanced and measured.
Freddie, what part of Norman would you like to see portrayed in the following season that maybe hasn't been explored completely these past two seasons?
Highmore: I guess something that's sort of hinted out in the finale of this year is I guess the continuation of blurring the boundaries between "this is Norman" and "this is Norma." We've already seen earlier in the season Norman at times assuming, especially with Katie in the motel room, kind of assuming his own identity and there's this kind of continuation I guess of somewhat merging between them at time and an ability to distinguish that. And so, I guess seeing is that is kind of further pushed out in an incredibly dramatic way in the last episode. I'm excited to continue on exploring that, if Carlton and Kerry decide to.
Freddie, how do you sort of tap into that strange yet unique connection between the Norman and Norma?
Highmore: You kind of completely disengage from the relationship that you know you have with Vera … with any sort of more intimate or more sort of borderline moment thoughts and never feel awkward. I guess you both sort of commit to whatever it is on the page. So yes, exploring that relationship has been wonderful and certainly one of the best things about the show.
And building in taking various care in the sense of having so many subtle ties and building up the characters and this relationship with not only events but moments or shared connections between each character than then can return in different episodes and in different seasons. Having never done a TV show before, I guess I'm kind of really enjoying the chance to get into a great introduction into Norman but also into the sort of character and the relationship in general than you do in [90 minutes] or two hours on the show.
Will Norman and Norma kind of reconnect before the end of this season?
Cuse: Don't spoil it.
Highmore: I'm not sure, but even myself I think one of the great things about the show is that it's never overly conclusive. You'll never sort of shove the conclusion down your throat saying, "Oh, this is your take on Norma and Norman's relationship." And so, I imagine and I hope that various people will see the end differently and come out of it with a different opinion from the person sitting next to them.
And I think that's what makes the show great. So they're overly conclusive it's suggested and sort of sparks debating in that way. Even amongst I think everyone on the show, there's this since of constant dialog and constant discussion that has certain boundaries been crossed or what stage is certain relationship. And it's nothing kind of definitive or easily distinguished. It's just more a sense of reality than fiction, I guess.
Alfred Hitchcock once said that the best way he could rid his fears was to make films about them. If the two of you can make a movie about your greatest fears what would they be about.
Cuse: Freddie, I'll let you tackle that first while I think.
Highmore: I'm going to come up with something corny, aren't I? People that you love or the fear of death or something. I can't think of something intelligent. Certainly, a big fear at the moment is whether or not my soccer team are going to make it into first place. Every year, I had the same fear last season. I think that's a pretty dramatic ending to the primary season and certainly one that would make sort of a great film.
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WOODLAND, Calif. - Seniors Jacob Murphy and Ben Hohl of the UCLA men's water polo team have been named first-team and second-team All-MPSF selections, respectively, as announced by the conference office on Tuesday.
In addition, senior Emilio Vieira, junior Cullen Hennessy and freshman Cristiano Mirarchi each were named honorable mention All-MPSF selections.
Murphy was one of nine first-team selections, finishing his senior campaign with 25 goals and a team-leading 39 earned exclusions. Hailing from Corona del Mar, Calif., Murphy secured All-MPSF acclaim for the first time in his career. He scored in 16 matches this fall, including five of the Bruins' final six games.
Hohl was among eight second-team All-MPSF honorees, leading UCLA with 42 goals in 23 games. Hohl's 1.83 goals per game average ranked ninth among MPSF field players. The resident of Atherton, Calif., tallied 12 assists and led UCLA with goals in 18 matches (13 multiple-goal games). Hohl gained All-MPSF acclaim for the second consecutive season (second-team selection in 2009).
Vieira, Hennessy and Mirarchi were three of the conference's 14 honorable mention All-MPSF selections. Vieira finished his second season at UCLA with eight goals, a team-leading 17 blocks and 16 steals. Hailing from Sao Paulo, Brazil, Vieira transferred to UCLA in the summer of 2009 after two years at Golden West College in Huntington Beach, Calif.
Hennessy secured honorable mention acclaim for the second consecutive year. The native of Fairfax, Calif., finished his junior season with 21 goals, the sixth-highest total on the team. Hennessy led the Bruins with 13 assists and registered 11 steals.
Mirarchi was among the conference's top freshmen, finishing his rookie campaign with 35 goals, second most on the team. In 24 matches, he averaged 1.46 goals per game, the 17th highest mark among MPSF field players (fifth-highest among freshmen). Mirarchi also added 10 steals and six assists.
USC junior goalkeeper Joel Dennerley was named the MPSF Player of the Year. Pacific freshman attacker Balazs Erdelyi secured MPSF Newcomer of the Year acclaim, and USC's Jovan Vavic was named the MPSF Coach of the Year.
UCLA finished the season with a 19-6 overall record and fourth-place finish in the MPSF Tournament.


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Because French is still taught in the schools and most of the older people speak it, the Acadian French are given most of the credit for the Cajun culture, but in reality, the culture has been shaped by the intermingling of a number of nationalities. The French, Spanish, Portuguese, English, Caribbean, Irish, German, Italian and African influences have been blending in Houma for more than two centuries. This amazing evolution can be seen in the diversity of the people's faces and exhibits a lifestyle that is both distinct and marvelously indefinable. Each nationality has retained some of its native heritage, yet inspired a shared way of life that is a perfect blend of all the others.
The perception of most tourists is that jazz, Mardi Gras, the Saints football team and the 9th Ward in New Orleans are the most important interests in Louisiana. That's because few have ever seen or experienced the overpowering ecological treasure of Houma and its unique cuisine at local eateries!
One has to begin their introduction to Cajun cooking at A-Bear's Cafe on Bayou Black Drive in Houma (985-872-6306). This is an authentic family owned Cajun cafe that operates out of an 83 year old building. The gumbo is beyond description, and other plates come piled high with local stews, catfish, and white beans. A-Bear's is also famous for their great selection of homemade desserts...including their decadent chocolate peanut butter pie!
The Bayou Delight Restaurant is also on Bayou Black Drive (985-876-4879), but offers many different Cajun delights and live Cajun music on Friday and Saturday nights. This restaurant is known for their fried chicken dinner with a side of dirty rice.
Another tasty and interesting place to dine is Boudreau and Thibodeau's Cajun Cookin' Seafood Restaurant http://www.bntcajuncookin.com. The chicken and sausage gumbo is fantastic and the poboy sandwiches are probably the best in the area. This place also has an unforgettable atmosphere with its decor of Cajun jokes and a giant stuffed alligator named Gaston.
For the freshest seafood in the area, take a 30 minute ride out to Sportsman's Paradise in Chauvin, Louisiana (985-594-2414). Connie Townsend always has the latest catch on the menu...plus great gumbo, poboys, and salads. Connie is also the daughter of one of the Dolittle Raiders who bombed Tokyo in B-25s only a year after Pearl Harbor in 1942. You can see lots of memorabilia on the walls of the restaurant.
All the bad press about the oil spill hurt this area, but none of it was true! Houma was not even touched by that disaster which only affected areas farther to the east. This section still has the best Cajun cooking and retains the raw beauty of coastal Louisiana with its unique culture, which is one of the most valuable assets in our country!


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As part of GSAPP faculty member Hilary Sample's very interesting spring studio about stress and wellness in a urban context (Soweto and New York City, in particular), there will be a panel discussion on April 22 beginning at 2:00pm in Buell 200 North that addresses questions like: How has urban health shaped cities? How has the form of cities shaped health? How can wellness and stress inform our perspectives on designing for better cities?
With CURE's Vishaan Chakrabarti, Joanna Frank (Director, Active Design), Karen Lee, MD (Deputy Director of the NYC Department of Mental Health and Hygiene), Marc Norman (Syracuse University), and others.


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The 2014 Chelsea Flower Show in London may have concluded but the photos highlighting the annual event are still pouring in, especially on social media photography site Flickr, where a gorilla made of purple flower petals is but one example of the craftsmanship recently on display.
"Flora the gorilla" was on display in the Polly Fields garden section of the flower show event, according to The Telegraph on June 2. And the large exhibit did not disappoint, numbered among the best presentations this May.
Another eye-catching presentation was that of a male statue sporting ground cover for a hat, as well as the Royal National Institute for the Blind's garden cube, which had water slowly cascading down the exterior of it--and wildflowers surrounding it. The "Best in Show" presentation gave attendees standing in its interior the opportunity to see what a garden might look like to someone losing their sight, since it created a blurry image of the outdoors lying beyond its water-covered glass wall.
Flower lovers were not disappointed either, with every color amply represented and arranged for maximum impact. And Hydrangea lovers learned that their favorite flower is the 2014 Plant of the Year now. But if you live in the North Georgia climate, you can't go wrong with choosing one of the hydrangea plants from Southern Living Plant Collection, like the "Big Daddy" Hydrangea, which has blooms up to 14 inches in size.
To see some local flowers and outstanding plant sculpture displays created from dried flower petals and more check out the Atlanta Botanical Gardens, which is currently showcasing "Imaginary Worlds: A New Kingdom of Plant Giants."
The larger-than-life displays are fun and intriguing--and just as captivating as any display featured at London's annual flower show event this year. And Gorillas and Orangutans will be the featured June displays during Imaginary Worlds at Night, which casts an evening glow on the fantasy world currently sitting in the midst of the sprawling Atlanta city.
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Author Andrea Cremer, an Ashland native who has found bestseller success with her "Nightshade" trilogy of young adult novels, is featured on the Los Angeles Times book blog Jacket Copy today, before the finale "Bloodrose" is released on Jan. 3. She talks about feminism, sexuality, the wages of war and whether she thinks her ending might inspire hate mail from fans.
Her series is about Calla Tor, a teenaged girl who is a shape shifter and her wolf-mate Ren Laroche. It's set in Colorado. The series includes "Nightshade," "Wolfsbane" and now "Bloodrose." Cremer says in the interview:
I'm very much a feminist, and as a girl I was so needing strong young women to be heroines to me in the books I read. Eowyn in Lord of the Rings, I lived for the moment when she ripped off her helmet and said, "No living man am I!" I wanted a character with all those qualities, but the parameters of society were constantly around her telling her she couldn't do that. You're allowed to be a warrior but only to a certain extent before she would have to submit to someone else, and that someone else was always going to be a man.
The Los Angeles Times said of "Nightshade": "(It's) a fantastical mash-up of religious warriors and witch hunts, of feminist will and societal oppression … 'Nightshade' is a book for well-read hopeless romantics who like their heroines conflicted, their love interests smoldering and their passions triangulated and torrid, yet unfulfilled."


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Posted on September 17, 2012
The DC Commission on Arts and Humanities (DCCAH) hosted a ribbon cutting Friday, September 7th at 4:00 pm to celebrate the opening of its new gallery location on 200 I Street, SE. The gallery is the first phase of the Commission's move from Columbia Heights to the Capitol Riverfront.
Remarks at the celebration were given by Mayor Vincent Gray, Ward 6 Councilmember Tommy Wells, DCCAH Chair Judith Terra and Executive Director Lionell Thomas. Attendees also toured the new gallery space. Click here for more pictures from the ceremony.
The gallery is the first and only District-owned interior space created specifically for fine art exhibition. It features three tiers of wall space, soaring ceilings and a plinth for site specific sculptural installation. All exhibits will be open to public view each day during normal business hours, Monday through Friday from 9:00 am to 5:30 pm. The newly renovated building will also be home to four DC Government agencies and over 1,200 employees.
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BoingBoing covered the release of Mimi Ito's report called "Digital Youth Research". For those who don't know, Mimi recently moved into the department of Informatics here at UCI (perhaps soon to be an adjunct faculty member?). She may be eligible (individual circumstances vary), although perhaps not available, to serve on graduate student committees. (The most qualified blog post in history)
Digital Youth Project: If you care about kids and want to understand how they use technology and why, this is a must-read – Boing Boing
"The Digital Youth Project, a MacArthur-funded three year, 22 case study, $3.3 million ethnographic study of what kids are doing online, has wound up and published its results. The project was undertaken by the eminent sociologist Mimi Ito and her talented colleagues (including the incomparable danah boyd) and is the largest and most comprehensive study of young peoples' internet use ever undertaken in the US.
The conclusions are sane, compassionate, and compelling: in a nutshell, the "serious" stuff we all hope kids will do online (researching papers and so on) are only possible within a framework of "hanging out, messing around and geeking out." That is to say, all the "time-wasting" social stuff kids do online are key to their explorations and education online. "


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I just recently discovered a fantastic resource for pictures of men with shaved pubes:
If you get off looking at beautiful men with smooth bodies and hairless crotches like I do, check it out. It is so fantastic to know how many men out there, and very beautiful men, love to shave it all and aren't afraid to show off their smooth beauty! I can't get enough.
If you get off looking at beautiful men with smooth bodies and hairless crotches like I do, check it out. It is so fantastic to know how many men out there, and very beautiful men, love to shave it all and aren't afraid to show off their smooth beauty! I can't get enough.
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Re: shaved pubes imagesSun, March 6, 2011 - 12:41 PMJohn, thanks so much. This is a find!
Re: shaved pubes imagesSun, March 6, 2011 - 2:06 PMThe first pic in this set was so fucking hot, the hung dude in front of the red mustang
Re: shaved pubes imagesSun, April 3, 2011 - 4:16 PMthanks john that site is so hot. i would like to be friends. thanks again for the site. time to go pleasure myself with my new found pictures.
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Re: shaved pubes imagesTue, April 12, 2011 - 2:29 PMThat is just what I am doing, Steve. It's like a candy shop. I keep going and realize I wasted hour and nights sometimes doing this. If you and others are doing this, too, then I don't feel so silly about it.
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Re: shaved pubes imagesMon, January 26, 2015 - 3:51 PMAs a hairy man with hairy sons and hairy grandsonsm I tend to find other hairy men hot but hairy teens like I was and watching my sons having full beards at 15, chest and belly hair at 13 and cock hair at 11 is sexy to me but to high school kids it's odd and often reviled. Shaved cocks are always expected in my home. If you are your dad's fuck boy you show that boy at all times. I watched my musclehead son build his body andd wax the hair off. He looked like stone sculpted to cause me to spill a load when I saw him. As an artist (a sculptor, actually) the muscles and valleys and texture of the hairless dark skin of my middle eastern father is what appears when the heavy straight black dense fur iis deforested and then pulled out with strips of cotton and sticky hot honey. The naked god in the waxing chair gets a hard on from the pain. ...I know I''ll jump on that tool and embarrass him. Dad, the guys think you're so fucking gay///??? Good! I know how gay they are too.
Rambling on and lusting after my hot sons which only gets more intense as thecocy get older and more rugged....the sight of a man with hair on jhis body but shaved cock, a young teen up till 30 with smooth ...neck to balls HOT. Guys shaving their junk at the gym while they bullshit with buds....fuckmeat! Dad shaving teen son at the gym while other men stare and walk out of the scene....priceless.
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Got a late start today at writing this because we were having our internet fixed today. So it's finally working the way that it's suppose to. :) Yesterday was definitely interesting to say the least, I was unable to calculate my calories until this morning. But thankfully, I was right at my calorie goal. My carbs and protein were a little over but my calories were right on. Plus 112 oz. of water. :)
Like I said yesterday, I went out to dinner with my parents tonight at this delicious Italian place. I plan had some pasta, salad, a few pieces of bread, and 3 mozzarella sticks. It was absolutely delicious and I don't feel bad about eating more than I normally would. In fact, I only ate a small portion of my pasta, so I still have some left over for lunch tomorrow. :) Today I ate a little lighter than I normally would for breakfast and lunch, so that I did have the calories to spare. It was wonderful to spend that time with my parents, we never go out for a meal at a nicer restaurant. The only thing that would have made it better is if I could have had a glass of their delicious wine, but alas, my antibiotic prevented that from happening.
I've got to be honest here, I've been craving sweets like crazy today. I really just want a cookie or some ice cream or cheese cake. Not entirely sure why I'm craving these things but I am. Thankfully we don't really keep many sweets in the house, we do have ice cream but I've been able to resist thus far. If it were up to me we wouldn't buy ice cream at all, but my dad and my nieces and nephew's like it. So instead of eating tons of sweets, I just had a few chocolate chips and it helped soothe my craving.
It was too cute this afternoon, Abid calls me on Skype at 12:50 (11:50 pm his time), he doesn't ever stay up that late. But he told me that he couldn't sleep because he hadn't seen me on Skype for a few days because of my internet, so he missed me. He's just too sweet. :) I could tell by what he was saying at just how worried he was that we weren't able to talk, it was too cute. Honestly, I was trying not to laugh but he looks too adorable when he's so worried like that. This just reminds me of why I love him so very much.
Well it's getting late and I need to get ready to Skype with my love. So until next time.
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