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Snoopy's last episode left off with someone getting shot and the movie 'Rush' being made of the story. Today, Snoopy keeps telling us about movies he was in.
I was in 3 secular movies and one Christian movie. I used to really get a kick watching people who thought:
1. They were going to get to buddy up with the stars
2. They would be discovered and become instant stars
Like when I worked on a set with Tom Cruise. All these people were going to get a signature or just meet him. Yea right! You had to get thru the 5-6 bodyguards first.
The most fun I ever had was the movie I did that Stuart Margolion was directing. I hit the set first day and they had a breakfast layout to die for. It was 7am and already, it was going to be a good day! Stuart walked onto the set nodding and speaking to people and making them seem just as important as anyone.
The way I got hired is the real story here. I was just starting to can sweet pickles and I got this call from my talent agency:
"Snoopy, what are you doing?"
"Canning!" I retorted
The voice came back "I need you to go to 'such and such address', in Deep Elm to meet this casting Director". She was 'matter-of-fact' with no hesitation or concern that I was canning.
"No can do." I said, just as matter-of-factly' as she was.
"Why?" She asked, sounding a little bum-fuzzled.
"I'm canning and I just put my cucumbers in their ice bath!" I snapped back thinking 'This woman doesn't have a clue about canning!' and that really made me irritated!
"But you've got to go!" she said . . . still without a clue.
"NOT NOW! I barked back raucously.
"How long?" she pled.
"3 to 4 hours! I exclaimed.
"OK", she said, "But they're not going to be happy. Bye-bye."
Two hours later, my phone rang again and it was the same woman saying "Snoopy! Is there ANY way you can go for this casting call? They've had all kinds of weird people show up in wigs and everything they really want to see you in person!" she pled.
"OK", I finally said.
I had my canning process far enough along I told her "I don't think my ole lady can screw this up. How do I dress?"
"Like you always do, hippie-biker sheik and hurry up!"
So I went to the place where I was ushered in by this drop dead gorgeous, 6ft tall, coulda-been-a-movie-star, 20 year old, assistant. She was another starry eyed wanna-be . . . oh well.
She took me to meet the Casting Director, who was a short, bad tempered, foul mouthed, Jewess that was having a bad day.
Side bar: Before anyone jumps to the conclusion that I'm racist against Jews, I'm Jewish/Cherokee and proud of my heritage.
The girl said to the Casting Director "Excuse me; the extra you wanted to see is here."
The woman only turned half way around and said "Get him the f— outa here!" and turned back around.
The girl was stuttering, bbbbuuuutttt and said again "You wanted to see him!" However she got the same response. The poor, young thing was looking from me to the lady's back.
The third time the Director turned and looked her in the eyes and screamed "I said get him out of here he doesn't need a F---ing thing! He's hired!"
At that I left and went back home to can. I went back when they were to shoot the part I was in but I never did see that sweet thing again. I hope she got a better job.
The movie was 'Paramedic'.
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The 85th Annual Academy Awards®March 15th, 2013
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An Apple A Day Keeps the Doctor AwayDecember 2nd, 2010
This article was originally featured in the Queens Chronicle on Nov. 18, 2010
by Andrew Benjamin, qboro Contributor
Apples. Apples. Apples. They're a healthy food, make a thirst-quenching juice, and a well known computer company has taken a bite out of the fruit in its company logo.
For children interested in learning more about the doctor's purported foe, "Hands-On History: Apples, Apples, Apples!" at King Manor Museum takes a crisp new look at the fruit from which our city gets its nickname. (more…)


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Harold Lee Miller is a fine art and advertising photographer who lives in Indianapolis and travels the country on assignment and personal projects.
In 2005, he began photographing people and their animals at county and state fairs in Indiana. Over the next four years he created a body of work documenting the unique subculture that inhabits fairs, resulting in the publication in 2010 of Fair Culture, a photography book published by the Historical Society Press.
Miller will talk about:
•Initiating a project with the end use predetermined, and the risks that entails
•How to identify a project worthy of your time, effort and resources
•How important is it to define a project carefully before you begin?
•Should an artist focus attention on one area of interest, or spread it out over lots of different, divergent subjects and techniques?
•How important is a photographic style to a project?
•What is a photographic style?
•How to present your idea to a book publisher in a way that has a chance of interesting them in publishing it;
•How much money can you make doing a fine-art book? (Spoiler alert: little)
•If there's no money in it, why are you doing it then?
•What has been the result of having a photography book published?
•How does it serve your personal ambitions and your economic needs?
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This project is based in the night. All images were captured in my apartment between the hours 12 and 3 AM, always after a long day of school and work. Using a mini trampoline, an overhead projector, various found objects, extended shutter time and flash, I created images that capture the kind of unposed, chaotic beauty that comes from moments we don't have complete control over. These photographs mimic those taken at a party, yet have an air of solitude and intimacy that is not often found in a crowd. Caught mid-air, each pose has a sense of suspension and etherial weightlessness, but there is also an element of tension and physical strain present in the figure.
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Dance Insider Directory
Web Picks
Here at The
Dance Insider, we love our cirque. Flasher, choreographer, and dancer Maura Nguyen
Donohue loves it so much, in fact, that one summer she ran away to join
it, or at least study aerial dance at Colorado's Aerial Dance Festival.
Maura came
back with some tricks, and while you shouldn't try those at home (kids), Maura
also returned with some web tips -- sites of various cirque companies and enterprises.
So if you want to cyber-run away from Home and link to the cirque...just click
on any of the following and we'll take you there.
Alban Elved
Dance Company (Winston-Salem, NC) - www.albanelved.com
- Founded by Karola Luttringhaus in Berlin, Germany. Since 1999 the company resides
in the US.
Flyaway Productions
(San Francisco, CA) - www.flyawayproductions.com
- Artistic Director Jo Kreiter
Frequent Flyers
Productions (Boulder, CO) -
www.frequentflyers.org - Artistic Director Nancy Smith
Legs On The
Wall (Marrickville, NSW, Australia) - www.legsonthewall.com.au
Cycropia (Madison,
WI) - www.glitter-box.com/cycropia
- a collective troupe.
CirKids (Vancouver,
Canada) - www.cirkids.org
Project Bandaloop
(San Francisco, CA) - www.projectbandaloop.org
AirDance New
Mexico - www.aquilaarts.com/airdance
Ouroar (Germany)
- www.ouroar.com
Stage Fright
(London, UK) - http://220.127.116.11/sf/
Theater Co (Leeds, UK) -http://www.expo7.demon.co.uk/page2.html
Viva Aerial
Dance Co. - http://www.vivaaerialdance.co.uk/
Aircat Aerial
Arts (Boulder, CO) - www.aircat.net
- Cathy Gauch, Artistic Director.
Here at The
Dance Insider, we are inundated by press releases announcing the imminent arrival
of "The Queen of Flamenco." But Flamenco Insiders know there was only one true
Queen of Flamenco: Carmen Amaya.
the moment in 1917 when the four-year-old, skinny, dark gypsy girl
started accompanying her guitarist father to the seedy Somorrostro
taverns, where she would sing and dance for customers who paid by
throwing coins on the floor, until the day in 1963 when she died
of too many toxins in her compact and fiery body (Amaya was reportedly
drinking 15 cups of coffee per day, rising at 6 p.m. and dancing
until 6 the next morning), Amaya was an eternal dancing flame, never
no place better on the web to get an intimate, multi-media view
of Amaya than Flamenco-world.com.
site includes generous excerpts from Paco
Sevilla's "Carmen Amaya, Queen of the Gypsies."
In one chapter, Sevilla first recounts the popular legend of how
Amaya, whose father "El Chino" finally brought her to Madrid at
the urging of the great Flamenco guitarist Sabicas, made her first
big splash at Villa Rosa, known as the cathedral of flamenco. "Look
here," Sabicas is reported to have proclaimed, "you have among you
a Catalan gypsy who does very well and knows all you could want
to know about this business of dancing!" At this, a cantaor named
"El Peluco" reportedly guffawed and protested: "A Catalana? She
has to be a fraud." Sevilla - who doesn't necessarily endorse the
legend -- continues:
is seated to the left of Sabicas, and at her side, El Chino. Peluco's
comment does not sit well with Carmen. She rises abruptly, faces
the cantaor, and says to him, 'Fraud? Watch this...!' Carmen Amaya,
the Catalan gypsy, breaks into a dance, while Sabicas and El Chino
hum some ancient verses of soleares under their breath and their
hands beat on and caress the marble tabletop. El Peluco opens his
eyes in amazement. Carmen is dancing for him! There is no sounds
of guitars, only an audience who knows about these things. Carmen
improvises. Suddenly, El Peluco rises from his chair and, to the
amazement of the rest, leans against a wall and, while beating his
head forcefully against it, cries out wildly, 'Fraud, fraud?...
I called her a fraud! That is what it means to dance, girl!.'
without stopping, comes close to El Peluco, corners him, drives
him crazy... The spectators, astonished, stand on the chairs and
tables in order to see the spectacle of El Peluco crying and bleeding
from the wound in his forehead that he got from hitting the wall.
The impassioned gypsy girl, such a little thing, has kicked off
her shoes and is dancing, spitting fire from her eyes, all because
they have called her a 'fraud'. Meanwhile, a voice sounds a cante,
a profound cante, that speaks of passion, of mountains, sun, and
bramble patches [zarzales]. Carmen Amaya, the Catalan gypsy, dances
to the rhythm of that cante. El Peluco shudders and continues singing.
El Peluco sings for Carmen Amaya and Carmen Amaya dances. But now
Carmen has forgotten that they had called her a 'fraud,' she has
forgotten El Peluco, she has forgotten everything. Carmen Amaya
now dances for herself. In reality, Carmen Amaya never has danced
for anybody!"
than explores how much of this is legend, and how much fact.
If you want to get an audio sense, at least, for what drove El Peluca
to bang his head against a wall, Flamenco-world.com also offers
a Real Audio clip, "Alegrías
(taconeo)" from the CD "Grandes Figuras del Flamenco
(Vol. 6). Carmen Amaya." To be able to listen to this, you'll need
RealPlayer. (Warning: the RealPlayer
site is somewhat difficult to navigate, but somewhere
on there you do have the option to download a free version!)
site contains information on ordering the above book and recording,
as well as Amaya's
last film, "Los Tarantos," made in the last year
of her life; she didn't live to see it's release.
site also offers a general, but colorful, biographical
sketch of Amaya.
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York is not the only place where great dance -- or great dance criticism
-- happens. One of our favorite dance critics is Marcia B. Siegel,
currently writing for the Boston Phoenix. Siegel brings to her work
a lifetime of watching dance as well as an ability to make the reader
feel like he or she is with her in the theater. You can check her
current reviews weekly by clicking
at The Dance Insider, we love our dance art and photography, but
also drawings and paintings. The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
have a kick-ass website which is a great resource for art-lovers,
featuring a database of 70,000 (and growing) images. Go to http://www.thinker.org.
Scroll to the bottom of the page, where you'll find a bar for "The
Thinker Image Base." Next to keywords, type in dance--and see what
happens! (Hint for better viewing: Once you select an image, select
Zoom 20" on the Display Options to maximize the size of the image.)


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BOULDER - The Pac-12 Student-Athlete Advisory Committee has voted the University of Colorado student-athletes as the recipients of the 2013-14 Pac-12 Sportsmanship Award.
The Buffaloes were honored for both their resiliency and humanitarian efforts in helping the Boulder community recover from the record rainfall and subsequent massive flooding last September.
"I can't express enough how proud I am of our student-athletes and their well-deserved award," said CU-Boulder Chancellor Philip P. DiStefano.� "Many of them sustained flood damage to their homes and lost their possessions.� Yet amid their own distress, they stepped up for the community. �Their generous acts brought feelings of solace to our community's first responders and displaced residents."
"The way our student-athletes, coaches and staff responded during that difficult time was most rewarding to witness personally," CU Athletic Director Rick George said.� "I had only been on campus a month and it really gave me a look at all the wonderful people we have in our program.� They put aside their own concerns at the time to help out others in the community in numerous ways."
Boulder's usual sunny September skies clouded and over the course of eight days in first half of September, Colorado's Front Range received record amounts of rainfall; Boulder had more than 17 inches, almost its annual average.� In what was eventually called a millennium event and the 100-year flood, more than 300 homes were destroyed, over 1,000 people had to be evacuated by air and damage to the roads alone surpassed $150 million. And all that was just in Boulder.
CU postponed and subsequently rescheduled all sporting events for the weekend of Sept. 14-15, two days removed from the worst day of the rain when more than nine inches fell, and after Boulder Creek, which splits the city in half, had crested and reached its top flow of over 5,200 cubic feet per second.
The football team was scheduled to host Fresno State that Saturday; tons of food had already been delivered to the stadium. But with the game canceled, CU student-athletes representing all sports spent the day feeding CU's family housing members, most of whom were displaced from their homes which were located in the flood plain, along with first responders who had been working tirelessly around the clock.� The basketball teams also had the opportunity to serve at CU's Center For Community building in the dining areas.
On Oct. 19, Charleston Southern stepped up and was the only school willing to come to Boulder without requiring a hefty game guarantee to replace Fresno State on the schedule, CU student-athletes helped raise almost $5,000 for the CU-Boulder Disaster Recovery Fund.
CU also had its own affected, as almost every athletic team had members displaced. Although the Boulder campus had minimal damage compared to the rest of the city, some of the worst hit parts of Boulder were where students live, and student-athletes were among them. Many would room with teammates for extended periods of time (three or four living where only two were meant to be comfortable), many lost possessions, electronics, clothing and other personal items.
And because campus, long referred to as be the old guard in town as "on the hilltop," overlooking Boulder Valley, the Coors Events Center became a shelter for hundreds of Boulder residents for several days.�


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I had a chance to sit down with actor Mac Arellano for an interview this week, and what a dedicated and brilliant actor he is! Read below to find out more about this incredible talent.
PL: Where are you from?
MA: I was born in Guadalajara Jalisco, Mexico.
PL: How and when did you first get into performing?
MA: It's a funny story actually, when I was 8 years old my brother and I enrolled in a summer theater class at the Centro de la Cultura de Zapopan, mainly because my brother, who was a little bit older than me, wanted to meet a girl that was supposed to be in the same class so he asked for my "support". We showed up the first day but it turned out that the girl never enrolled in the first place. My brother never came back, but I stayed for more than 10 years! The Centro de la Cultura de Zapopan provided all kinds of art classes – ballet, painting, drawing, sculpture and of course drama and theater. I took everything! I knew I loved the arts, but there was something special about the theater. The rest of the classes came and went, but the theater was always present. In the end, acting was the art form that I connected with the most, it was the one that aloud me to communicate what was truly in my heart.
PL: Who were some of your biggest inspirations?
MA: Marlon Brando and Robert De Niro were my biggest inspirations, even at a very young age I was really amazed by their performances, I loved how committed they were to their characters.
PL: Can you tell our readers a little bit about the film and television projects you've done?
MA: I worked on a sitcom for HBO Access called "The Failures," it's a pilot that was produced by Joe Ferris Films Inc., and it incorporates a very modern and interesting approach to comedy. The show follows four guys who have been friends since kindergarten as they get together for the father of the Riley brothers (two of the main characters) funeral. During the first episode the camera follows the group on a road trip where they spend time remembering, and pretty much hating, the abusive father all over again. I play the role of Martinez, one of the four main characters and Mike Riley's best friend. The pilot was filmed in Los Angeles and is currently in postproduction, we should know the release date by September.
I recently worked on a film called "Graduation," which is currently in postproduction as well, where I play a middle-aged father and widower named George. George is a hard worker who was got married and started a family at 20, only to watch it crumble in his 30s when his wife dies. George's daughter Dana is all he has left and he wants the best for her, but everything changes when she gets pregnant and decides to give up school.
I also worked on the film "The Call" where I play Marco, an illegal immigrant who needs to report a crime but can't because he fears he may lose his freedom. He is an artist and a poet, who also works as a cook in a restaurant. A new friend offers to help him report the crime, but it forces Marco to reveal his past.
PL: They are all very different, what made you choose to participate in these films?
MA: As an actor, is very important for me to have as many life experiences as I can so I can use them in my work. It is a challenge for me as an actor when I find a character that is so far from my personal life, but at the end of the day those are the performances that I value most.
PL: You get approached all the time to work on films with people, what makes you pick one role over another?
MA: There are different factors that I consider; first of all I have to like the project as a whole not only my character, if you are in love with the project the rest will fall in to place. I like characters that are complicated, and have many layers and dimensions. Characters that will challenge me as a performer, and that I know will help me learn more about myself, and the human condition, those are the ones that appeal to me. I try to have fun with every role, and I really enjoy the work that goes into the creative process before we actually come to the set.
PL: Can you list some of the theatre projects you've participated in up until now, and the roles you've played?
MA: In "Tastoanes" I play the role of Santo Santiago, the religious leader that exhorts the people to fight against the rebels. The play is about the change of religion from when Mexico's indigenous people worshiped many different Gods to the time when Santo Santiago spread Christianity. "Que Planton!" is a musical about ecology and the idea of saving the world through plants. I played the role of the Mango who brings the sensual aspect to the play in a very funny way. Memo Mendez created all the songs, as well as the original idea.
"Quien anda ahí?" is a comedy about a married couple that has to fight two dumb smugglers who run in to their home by accident. The two thieves try to get away as soon as possible explaining that there has been a mistake, but the couple wants them to get violent or at least do something because their lives are so boring, so in the end, this little "accident" brings them the excitement that they were missing in their relationship.
PL: What has been your favorite role so far and why?
MA: The role of Definitely Santo Santiago definitely has a special place in my heart. We performed the play in the two most important theaters in Guadalajara and it was a huge production. Another role that I really enjoyed was the role of Martinez in the sitcom "The Failures." The director, Joe Ferris, really believed in working with long scenes with very little editing which gave the show a very interesting and intimate look. I really loved the chemistry we created organically with the characters.
PL: As for genre, what is your favorite? (Comedy, Drama, Horror, etc.)
MA: Comedy has been an important part of my career. It is the genre where I feel most comfortable and it is where people know me best, but I also grew up in the theater where I worked on a lot of big dramas. I've worked on plays by Shakespeare, Chekhov and Tennessee Williams, and I absolutely love them all. Now that I'm working on more films, I really look for those dark characters with very dense and depressing lives. So dramas and thrillers are also my favorites.
PL: What projects do you have coming up?
MA: Right now I'm working on a film called "Muñecas," where I play the role of Oscar Villa. Oscar lives in a small house in San Luis Rio Colorado, Sonora where he produces black tar heroin out of a small barn shed outside his home. He uses his son Pablo to carry dolls filled with the heroin across the border where he delivers them to his distributor. It is a very strong and challenging role and I am very excited to be working on it. We start shooting at the end of May and the film will be submitted to a lot of huge film festivals.
I'm also working on a web series that is going to be released this summer called "Gur Talk." We filmed the first three episodes and I play the role of Miguel, a gay Mexican nurse's assistant who has dating issues. All the characters on the series are hilarious.
PL: What are your plans for the future?
MA: At the moment I'm focusing on film and television. TV is coming back strong; the most important production companies like HBO are now making programs with "film" quality. I love being on stage but the film process has my heart. For me, working on set offers more of a collaboration with other artists.
PL: What do you hope to achieve in your career as an actor?
MA: I have always been involved in the arts, and as an actor consider myself an artist, I look forward to being continuously inspired by all the amazing roles that are out there. I want to connect with the audience and I want to master this profession, I know it takes time, but as actors we never stop learning.
PL: What is your advice to other aspiring artists?
MA: Never lose focus. Being an actor is tough, I don't think there is an easy way for anyone really; you have to work and prepare a lot. This is a very demanding and competitive career so we need to be at our best at all times. Study, read, and take all the classes you can. You'll most likely find yourself in challenging times, but if you never lose focus you'll get there.
PL: What kind of training have you done?
MA: I am proud to say that I started training at a very young age; at 8 years old I was already learning the Stanislavsky method. At that point in life I really wanted to do everything so I took ballet, musical voice, even sculpting classes, but little by little acting took over so I chose to focus 100% on that. I took voice classes, speech, movement, script analysis, scene study, everything I could get my hands on, if it was related to acting then I wanted to know everything about it. I've been in training for the last 10 years, but honestly, as an actor, you are always in training.
PL: Why did you choose this profession?
MA: You know some people say that it is cliché to say that a profession chooses you instead of you choosing it, but for me, that is how it happened. I was an actor without even knowing it; I grew up in the theater, I grew up in the arts, it was always my life. As I got older my parents encouraged me to have a degree so I could have an "alternative" to make a living, and I did. I have an international business degree and I'm proud of it, I even worked in the field for several years, but after a few years of working behind a desk and sitting through executive meetings, I realized just wasn't happy and I knew I had to go back to acting. Acting is what rewards me the most, it is where I feel at home.


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My wife and I are heading to Germany for 10 days this summer. Have thought about renting a car but am now leaning toward getting a German Rail pass. Second Class is the best deal, but am open to getting a First Class if it guarantees us seats on a full train that a Second Class won't? Has anybody traveled by train that time of year? Is that ever an issue? Are there really any other benefits going the First Class Route?
I haven't done rail in Germany but I have in other countries in Europe and 2nd class was always fine. If you're staying in Germany the whole time then none of your trips will be overnight so you don't have to worry about sleeping.
Rick Steves just recently had a podcast in the last month that talked to a guy that advises tourists in Germany on which passes to get. You may want to check it out.
We spent a week over there visiting friends a couple years ago. We were going to get a rail pass also but my friend talked us into renting a car. You're on your own schedule that way and with the built in GPS we had no trouble finding our way around. Also, I got to drive a BMW on the a****ahn.
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We spent a week over there visiting friends a couple years ago. We were going to get a rail pass also but my friend talked us into renting a car. You're on your own schedule that way and with the built in GPS we had no trouble finding our way around. Also, I got to drive a BMW on the a****ahn.
I would drive also if you're going between small towns but there is no way I'd want to park or drive in the bigger cities.
Done Germany by rail and car. Either works. 2nd class is fine. Best way I found was to work with a travel agent, I used AAA. Had all the train stuff lined up beforehand.
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I believe this is the podcast i was talking about.
Skip the rail and get a car. Driving 140mph on the A****ahn is awesome, and with GPS driving in the cities and parking is no problem. Parking lots are clearly marked with the big blue "P" sign, and the rates are reasonable. Also, the nice part is you can easily venture into neighboring countries (we left Cologne and drove through the Netherlands over to Brussels, Belgium for a beer and back through Luxemburg over a 3.5 hour drive). And you can always spend an afternoon on the Nurbergring if you rent a decent car.
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Yeah, I think it highly depends on where you'll be going. Will you be spending your whole time in major cities? Then go rail pass for sure. Will you be spending your time going between smaller, more rural areas? Then get a car.
I've done both with regards to train and car. I, personally, prefer rail (unless if I am going someplace way out of the way) just because then I don't have to deal with traffic (the dreaded Stau in the summer can be pretty terrible) and parking. But both definitely have their advantages/disadvantages.
As others have said, it depends on how flexible you want your itinerary to be. If you are hitting major cities, there are enough options connections-wise that flexibility is never really an issue with taking trains. Also, if you buy tickets in advance, I've never had an issue going up to the ticket counter and changing my departure times the day of travel (provided trains aren't sold out, but usually the worst case scenario is that I don't get a seat right away and have to stand).
Another thing that I'd encourage you to do is look on the bahn.de site and think about booking individual journeys rather than getting a RailPass. In a lot (most?) cases, at least for me, it has been cheaper to book individually, particularly if you are booking well in advance to take advantage of the discount on IC/ICE trains (the fast ones). I'm not sure that I've ever had a situation where I would have come out ahead with a RailPass in the 8 or so times that I've been over there. If I remember correctly (it has been a couple years), you can get pretty good deals on day passes if you are staying within a state (i.e. Bavaria) and don't mind using the RB (slow trains with more stops).
But there is something to be said for going 120 mph on the A****ahn... :)
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JavaScript Persistent Object Notation (JSPON) is a convention for using JSON to facilitate JavaScript referencing and complex object types to provide the necessary semantics needed for efficient and meaningful persistent objects.
JSON provides a simple straightforward mechanism for serialization of objects that can efficiently and easily be read by humans and machines. JSON is adequate for the persistence of simple small objects. However, applications that have large complex object graphs and sets of data generally require the exchange of smaller subsets of the data/object graph to be transferred and persisted at a time rather than requiring an entire object graph to be treated as whole, as well as allow objects to be referred from multiple fiels. Such operations on subsets of data entail identifying objects within a graph and allowing for transfers of subsections of object graphs (and not just end point subsets). JSPON provides the common language so that objects can be passed with proper identification and reference information. This also allows objects to be referred to more than once (not possible within a normal JSON object graph). Standard JSPON simply defines four fields (id, $ref, array, basis) that can be added to JSON objects to assist in data description.
Object identification is necessary for any object that is referenced from multiple other objects to maintain correct referencing. This facilitates complex object graphs that have cyclic references as well as other forms of multiple objects referring to a single object. Another motivation for JSPON is that when dealing with large persisted object graphs, it is not feasible in terms of scalability to always download an entire object graph. If there are subsets of an object graph that are downloaded in different requests, it is necessary to use identification of objects to correctly reassemble the object graph.
If I have a large object database and I want to transfer an object that has several fields with pertinent information, but one of the fields references an object that references other objects in such a manner that downloading the entire object graph starting from the original object was several megabytes, it may be quite inefficient to transfer the entire object graph. JSPON is intended to provide the means for marking objects as not loaded, but still identifiable so that non-leaf subsets of object graphs can be downloaded while maintaining the graph correctness and coherency so that data can reassembled across mutiple data transfers. This is a important ability for robust scalability.
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The "exergaming" craze really ignited in the fall of 2006 when Nintendo launched its Wii gaming system. In just two years, over 10 million Wii units were sold just in the U.S. and more than 100 million worldwide, with the numbers still climbing. Exergaming is a cross between video game playing and exercise, and is a growing trend across the world. The standard Wii system uses a handheld remote and an interactive video screen, prompting the player to use real-life movements as if she or he were playing the sport displayed.
Is it fun or exercise?
In a word, it's both. There's no denying that there's a fun element involved – which is a great motivator for those who want to exercise with it. Also undeniable is the fact that any movement at all burns some number of calories, so it's fair to say that exergaming can be a form of exercise. Some people – such as public education officials in West Virginia, who have made Wii an integral part of the physical education curriculum – place great faith in exergaming's fitness benefit. Whether it yields a significant cardiovascular or musculoskeletal benefit is another question.
Real-life use and experience
Local families we surveyed enjoy exergaming for fun and fitness in almost equal amounts. Average use was about three times weekly. In most cases, moms use the system for fitness while dads and kids see it primarily as entertainment. Many of the fitness users report that their Wii workout is less intense than the gym or pounding the pavement, but that it's better than sitting on the sofa or trying to schedule childcare so that they can escape to the gym.
Miryam Chae, a Decatur mother, says, "I think it's great because I don't feel like I'm working out. I love seeing how many calories I just burned playing a game. Plus, I like that it tells you when you're not in balance." Diana Rugh Johnson is a mom of two and reports, "My primary activity is jogging, but I hate to run in the cold, so the Wii is a life saver in the winter. I generally do 30 minutes in the morning while having my coffee and another 30 after dinner. My husband built a riser for the balance board, which allows me to get a little more of an aerobic workout while doing step aerobics and rhythm boxing. While Wii isn't the most intense workout in the world, it allows me to add some physical activity to my day without getting suited up in special gear or making sure my husband is home to supervise the kids."
The research
Exercise scientists at the University of Wisconsin – LaCrosse studied a group of volunteers in their use of a standard Wii system with the Wii Sports bundle. The group was evenly divided by gender, and all participants were 20 to 29 years old. They were asked to simulate the actual body movements one would make in boxing, baseball, tennis, golf and bowling. The researchers studied two benchmarks of fitness: "VO2 max", which is maximum oxygen uptake, and maximal heart rate.
The study results
The researchers found that the Wii games offered an appreciable increase in each benchmark. As common sense suggests, the bigger a player made his or her movements, the greater the fitness impact. Only the boxing game was found to meet the standard of maintaining or improving cardiorespiratory endurance.1 However, the other games offered a calorie burn as well, in this decreasing order: tennis, baseball, bowling and golf.
If you're looking to improve your fitness level, the bottom line is this: actually playing a game will offer a greater fitness result than simulating it with video. For example, conventional sparring in a boxing ring burns 10.2 calories per minute, while Wii boxing burns about seven. But if your choice boils down to exergaming or no exercise at all, then Wii is your way to go. It may also be useful in a few "outside-the-box" ways:
- Exergaming can introduce kids to various sports or forms of exercise – and if that's the case, parents can use their interest levels to guide decisions about signing up for soccer camp, dance lessons and the like.
- It can also be a great rainy-day activity to release some pent-up energy when it's impractical to get outside (and unfathomable to drop in to your local bounce-house AGAIN).
- People without the full use of their bodies – those who use wheelchairs or are stuck temporarily in a cast – may find exergaming to be a fun and useful fitness tool.
- The visual and physical demands of exergaming may also serve as an informal type of therapy for those who need help with spatial perception or proprioception (the ability to sense where one's body is in the spatial field).
For fun or fitness, exergaming is a trend that is here to stay. Each new generation of the gaming systems seems more popular than the last. Balanced with plenty of participation in real-life exercise, sports or play, exergaming can be an entertaining way to work a bit more movement into each day.
1Cardiorespiratory endurance improvement threshold as defined by the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM).


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....just a little historical perspective from the last time Insmed was included in the Russell rebalancing.
---4/12/11 $7.82
---6/1/11 $10.31
---4/12/13 $7.55
---6/1/13 $ ?
On the last trading day of May (tomorrow), Russell ranks the 4000 largest US stocks by market capitalization. After the initial list of 4000 eligible participants is determined, the shares outstanding for each company are adjusted for corporate cross ownership and large private holdings. Therefore, the Russell Indexes include only the Investable portion of the universe - that segment that can freely transact shares.
June 14 - Preliminary additions and deletions to the Russell Global, Russell 3000, and Russell Microcaps
June 21 - Updates to the list of Additions and Deletions
June 28 - Updates to the List of Additions and Deletions. Reconstitution Final after close of US markets.
July 1 - Final Membership posted for Russell Global, Russell 3000, Russell 2000, Russell 1000, and Russell Microcap.
Can someone explain what the "Investable Portion of the universe...." means to a stock or to Insmed in this case in the above paragraph?
I believe this is in reference to free float, those shares available to the public. According to Yahoo, INSM's float is 17.7MM shares.
Seeking Alpha lists INSM as one of it's expected additions to the Russell 2000.
insm is operating on all cylanders
OK, Yahoo won't let me post a prediction, which I have tried to do twice, with a rationale.
What is it with Yahoo? New posts often don't show up. This also a test.


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You are going to love this idea. I promise!
I am not a dancer. My computer geek husband is not either. We both knew that nobody wanted to watch us sway back and forth on the dance floor for our first dance. So what did we do?
Well it just so happens that one of my best friends in the world used to be a professional dance instructor at the Cupertino, Ca. Arthur Murray dance studio. She also just happened to get married herself a couple of years ago, and I knew she would love the opportunity to wear her wedding dress again. So I came up with a plan....
When it came time for the first dance? My hubby and I walked to the center of the floor. All of a sudden.... Christina and her professional, award winning, dance partner for the evening, Juan De Dios Garcia, stepped onto the floor and sent us to our seats.
The music started... It was that really dramatic classical piece you hear in the De Beers Diamond commercials. Then the real show began! Christina and Juan De Dios performed a gorgeous flamenco tango, much to the shock and delight of our guests! They, and the dance, were absolute perfection!
Towards the very end, they spun off the floor and my sweetie and I swooped back in just in time to execute the final dip and take all of the glory! It was so fun! And funny that by not dancing ourselves we made our reception even more personal by doing something all of our guests said "Only we would do."
Idea submitted by: Stacie Tamaki of The Flirty Bride
Photos: Todd Rafalovich
The Professionals in action...
Us stealing all of their glory at the end... LOL