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Why is shopping for a new car more stressful than getting married? That's what we asked comedian, author and car aficianado Adam Carolla, who volunteered his time - and deadpan wit - to man the live help feature for car buying website Edmunds.com on Monday. Before he jumped into helping prospective buyers, Adam talked with us about what drives people crazy about car shopping, and how exactly he planned to make it easier.
We also had time to chat on a few more topics: we revisited his back-to-back wins at the Toyota Pro/Celebrity Race at the Grand Prix of Long Beach in 2012 and 2013, once as a celebrity and once in the professional category.
And we asked Adam how racing a good car compares to the rush of confronting shady contractors on his Spike TV series Catch A Contractor, which will return for its second season this fall after its series premiere in March scored as the most-watched debut of a Spike original series in almost three years.
For more on Adam Carolla, you can visit his website (adamcarolla.com) and follow him on Twitter (@adamcarolla). Watch our video interview with Adam below!
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Our clients use a vb6 version of our software.
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Most of them probably already have 2.0 anyway.
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Times-Picayune reporters Nakia Hogan and Mike Triplett and columnists John DeShazier and Jeff Duncan select the play they believe was the defining moment of the New Orleans Saints' 2009 Super Bowl season.
The New Orleans Saints' game at Miami in Week 7 looked like the classic trap game.
The Saints were coming off an emotional "statement" victory against the Giants and had to travel to Miami for a road game against an unfamiliar opponent.
The Dolphins, meanwhile, had won consecutive games before taking a bye week to rest and prepare for the Saints. They looked like a team on the rise.
I clearly remember Saints vice president of marketing Ben Hales jabbing me in the press box before the game about picking against the Saints. It was the first time I'd done so all season.
When Miami raced to a 24-3 lead, I looked like a genius. The Saints looked lethargic and unmotivated, nothing like the juggernaut that rolled through its first five foes.
But things changed right before halftime. The Saints desperately punched in a late touchdown thanks to a careless Miami turnover and a coaching blunder by Tony Sporano.
It was the spark the Saints needed. One of the great comebacks in team history was under way.
The Saints finally took the lead for good on a quarterback sneak by Drew Brees. After the fourth-quarter score, Brees emphatically spiked the football over the goal post in the far end zone. It was an uncharacteristically emotional display by the Saints leader.
The symbolism was evident. This wasn't the same old Saints. This was a team on the rise.
Before it was over, the Saints would score 29 points in the final head-spinning 16:09. As the clock expired, thousands of Saints fans celebrated in the near empty stadium, effectively turning Land Shark Stadium into Superdome South. Anthony Hargrove and Darren Sharper traded Who Dat chants with fans on the way to the tunnel.
This was the kind of game past Saints teams lost. But this was different.
And Who Dat Nation recognized it. Thousands of fans greeted the team at the airport. They could sense something truly special was under way. They believed. And so did I. I never picked against the Saints again.


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Where is the line between legitimate photo and hurting the privacy of the person photographed?
The 'dry' rule says that everything that happens in public is by definition, well... public. But then there are restrictions for underage children and/or something that intentionally humiliates the subject.
Different countries got different rules and attitude towards our privacy and lately it seems that our right as photographers is under attack - The 'I'm a photographer and not a terrorist' uproar swept Twitter and the net only a few days ago. Although not directly connected to the question I asked at the beginning of the post, it's still got something to do with our rights (or obligations) as photographers with a freedom of "speech" - When this freedom is also bound to what we believe is right and wrong, both as a society and as individuals.
How do you decide if the photo is legitimate when confronted with the question?
Late addition - I can blame the late hour or my progressive (almost 30!) age. Forgot to add my favorite blog of the week!
Here it is - This week I would like to recommend a blog of a good friend of mine, Mahbubur (Mickey) Rahman. His blog excels in two (at least!) things that I enjoy very much - Photos... And posts that always makes me think and rethink my attitude towards photography or my works. Pay a visit to his photoblog - Learning to fly - and send him a warm hug from me. You can also find him on Twitter under @mickrhm.
I would like to thank all who left links to 'Still life' photos on the previous post! I had real fun going over the links, there are some incredible works!
... Late addition to the post.
Some of you might remember the photo-video project I posted here few weeks ago - Around the World, Street Photography in BNW.
Case you don't remember, here is a reminder -
Well, the thing is that it was published on one of the biggest Israeli news websites today - calcalist.co.il! (Translated link, scroll down for the video - Click 'ok' if error message pop-ups)
And another P.S :) -
Read David Bennett's reaction to this post - Photography After The Fact – A Glance And A Stare


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Charles Fort (August 6, 1874 – May 3, 1932) was an American writer and researcher of anomalies (anomalies are observations and facts that challenge prevailing scientific paradigms).
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Comment from: Sara, 55-64 Female (Patient) Published: October 21
Nothing on my body sweats except for my face. If someone that I don't really know looks at me, my face will start sweating and sweating as if I was sick with a disease. Hyperhidrosis is embarrassing. My sister and sons have this problem as well. I have tried putting regular anti perspirant on my face, because I read that models do that. It didn't work. I will try the facial ones and if I have money, the Botox.
Comment from: beneye, 25-34 Male (Patient) Published: August 05
I started excessively sweating in my armpits recently after I graduated nursing school. My hyperhidrosis seems to be related to situations that make me nervous. Before, when I got nervous, my voice would be shaky, my heart would race and I'd feel a knot in my stomach. All that is now gone and redirected to my armpits. Now when I get into one of those situations my armpits will start dripping immediately. I have tried OTC antiperspirants and they have not worked.
Comment from: anna, 35-44 Female (Patient) Published: August 04
Excessive hand and feet sweating is hereditary for me. I remember my grandfather had sweaty hands, and my mother does, too. I've suffered from excessive hand and feet sweating for as long as I remember, and since about three years ago, I've noticed that my underarms were starting to sweat excessively as well. Every year the amount of sweating seems to be getting worse. Recently I'm starting to sweat on my scalp, face and neck. It is so bad that I have to shower and shampoo at least three times a day, and I can never use a blow dryer to dry my hair because by the time I've blown my hair for 10 minutes, I have to take a shower again from excessive head and facial sweating! The area in which the hyperhidrosis affects me seems to be enlarging yearly. It's so embarrassing and frustrating -- I hate this!
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My daughter has been suffering from excessive sweating of the palms and feet since she was a baby. I remember when she first started to walk, she would leave little wet footprints on the timber floor! She is now 10, and it is really bothering her and seems to be getting worse. She struggles to do her school work as her hands are always wet and she struggles to hold onto the pencil. I have not been to the doctor with her yet, but am keen to hear any successful remedy stories!
Comment from: Anonymous, 35-44 Female (Patient) Published: March 26
I am a teacher and have had excessive sweating under my arms for years. It was embarrassing to lift my arms to write on the board. I even had a student ask why I sweat so much. I about died! My nephew was diagnosed a few months ago with excessive sweating. I did not know that there was a thing called hyperhidrosis. I just thought I was weird. I went and asked my doctor about it. I have been on an underarm medication now for two weeks. It is amazing! No sweat! I can finally write on the board and not be embarrassed!
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I have been suffering from excessive sweating ever since I was very young, my mom, brother, cousins, aunts and uncles on my mother side all suffer from the same thing. I can just be sitting and relaxing and my feet and palms starts sweating. it is so embarrassing and what worries me is I can get pulled over by a cop and when I'll start sweating, they might think I'm guilty of something! I don't even want to shake somebody's hands because I'm embarrassed. And sometimes they think I'm rude.
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Since high school I've been disturbed by this illness. I so hate it most especially the time when we were having our sports festival. I just moved a little but my sweat is flowing like water in all parts of my body. I think it's hereditary because my father has it too. I want to end this suffering! I've tried almost all kinds of anti-perspirant deodorant but it just makes it worse. My armpit sweats like hell! It's so embarrassing! Please I want to end this.
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President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the bill on Flag Day.
ALEXANDRIA, Pa. (AP) — The Rev. George M. Docherty, whose sermon before President Dwight D. Eisenhower helped push Congress to insert the words "under God" into the Pledge of Allegiance, has died. He was 97.
Docherty died on Thanksgiving at his home in central Pennsylvania after a lengthy illness, according to his wife. Sue Docherty said her husband of 36 years had been in failing health for about three years.
"George said he was going to live to be a hundred, and he was determined," she said in a telephone interview Saturday. "It's amazing that he was with us this long."
Born in Glasgow, Scotland, Docherty moved to the United States in 1950 to become pastor of the New York Avenue Presbyterian Church in Washington, D.C. He was unfamiliar with the pledge until he heard it recited by his 7-year-old son, Garth.
"I didn't know what the Pledge of Allegiance was, and he recited it, 'one nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all,'" he recalled in an interview with The Associated Press in 2004. "I came from Scotland, where we said 'God save our gracious queen,' 'God save our gracious king.' Here was the Pledge of Allegiance, and God wasn't in it at all."
Docherty then wrote a sermon saying that the Pledge of Allegiance should acknowledge God. There was little effect after he first delivered the sermon to a group of clergy visiting Washington in 1952; a 1953 bill went nowhere.
But two years later, after learning that Eisenhower would be in the congregation, Docherty decided to deliver it again, hoping it would inspire the president.
From the pulpit that morning, he said the pledge was missing "the characteristic and definitive factor in the American way of life. Indeed, apart from the mention of the phrase 'the United States of America,' it could be the pledge of any Republic. In fact, I could hear little Muscovites repeat a similar pledge to their hammer and sickle flag in Moscow with equal solemnity."
The next day, Rep. Charles G. Oakman, R-Mich., introduced a bill to add the phrase "under God" to the pledge; a companion bill was then introduced in the Senate. Eisenhower signed the new law on Flag Day.
In addition to his wife, Docherty is survived by his son, Garth; and two daughters, Julie Jancosko, of Miami, and Bridget Fouse, of Alexandria.
A memorial service is planned at New York Avenue Presbyterian Church on Dec. 21.
May God bless him for eternity and his family. We need more moral people to step up and promote Christianity. Far too many today are trying to extinguish Christianity from America.
Good story! Now maybe all of those uninformed people who claim that "under God" was put in the pledge by "the founding fathers" will gain a better understanding of history. It's interesting that the man primarily responsible for influencing this alteration of the pledge was a Scot, who argued that "under God" would help us distinguish ourselves from the "Muscovites." Food for thought.


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Fullbody with a painterly scenery window background for GypsyCorset !! ;v; The inspiration pictures she showed me were so beautiful, I tried my best to portray the feeling she wanted in this piece! I don't draw backgrounds very often so it was really fun, it's calming to spend time in little details
Brisa means "soft gust of wind" in Portuguese, the feeling I wanted to pass
Brisa means "soft gust of wind" in Portuguese, the feeling I wanted to pass
a quick question, if i might ask. how do you make certain things like the hair and background, appear so faded as they enter farther back? my artwork always looks so harsh and has that weird "shiny digital" look, even when i attempt at the faded stuff and softer tones and what nots. thanks! your artwork is beyond incredible and very inspiring! you always choose such great colors!
A tip for you then! When you want things to vanish in the background you can blend the background color with the thing you're trying to fade in, then use the color created to paint more hair or clothes! Try using saturated colors to highlight areas instead of using plain white, the less white you use the softer it looks and always set a layer with a black color on top of all the others in the "saturation" mode so you can check your values! ;v;
love the clothing details and hair. very pretty piece ^o^
Absolutely lovey! *O*
So beautiful!
great colors and gorgeous pose
great colors and gorgeous pose
She looks lovely ! And her name is really cute too
What a beautiful character! The background is stunning as well!
I love how you did the tree roots and all the little details!
She is so rich and inviting!!
I love how you did the tree roots and all the little details!
She is so rich and inviting!!
The colour scheme for this is stunning- it's very ethreal and charming! It has an autumnal feel to it as well! I love the shading and textures on her outfit and the glowing flora and fauna around here is simply enchanting!
thank you so much! the fun thing about drawing backgrounds is that they give that extra ''feeling'' to the drawing ;v;
The painting is just beautiful. I can feel the soft gust of wind in this piece !
really cool. I like the softness of this piece.
very pretty
beautiful * w * b
Nice work I like these colors
Oh, she is so beautiful! The colors are really stunning, too!
Oh it's beautiful!
I really like the detail on her knee and leg - it shows you think about anatomy!
This is the single most amazing thing that has ever happened on my computer screen. EVER. I just want to touch all over it forever! AHHHHHH!
yes yes yes ilu and this
yes yes yes ilu and this
oh lovely background, fits it so well owo
I absolutely cannot get over just how beautiful she is!!!
She is beautiful ♥
it's so beautiful !
Ooh a background too! The girl is beautiful, and the background adds so much more beauty as well Great job!
thank you so much! Backgrounds, although time consuming, can add to the overall feeling of the picture ;v;


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White-footed mouse on the towpath
What do the rat snakes that seem to be abundant in the woods along the C&O Canal eat? These white-footed mice (Peromyscus leucopus), probably.
This one ran onto the towpath out of the forest and just stood there looking at me. It didn't mind me getting closer and closer with the camera. After I took several shots, it ran into the grassy strip on the other side of the towpath. I followed it and took some more pictures before it finally disappeared in the undergrowth. Its body, without the tail, was only about as long as the anterior half of my index finger (~50 mm).
Butch Norden of the Maryland DNR, who confirmed the identification from this photograph, wrote in his e-mail: "This is the species that frequently comes into houses in the fall. It's also said to be a major carrier of the tick that carries Lyme Disease! Frankly, Aydin, this individual looks too young to be away from its mother and I doubt that its mature enough to fend for itself...Chances are the nest had been disrupted and it was confused."
Perhaps, its immaturity explains its unusual tameness. If its mother didn't recover it, the chances are a black rat snake did.
In the closest picture of it I noticed a brownish object (arrow) under its left eye. Is it a tick?


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The Ministry of Finance and Microsoft signed a memorandum of understanding for strategic collaboration for promoting Information and Communication Technologies. Deputy Minister of Finance Mickey Levy, Government Chief Information Officer Carmela Avner, and CEO Microsoft Israel Dani Yamin signed the memorandum which acknowledges technology's potential to leverage and accelerate economic growth, in light of Israel's ICT comparative advantage. The collaboration includes mechanisms for exchanging information and knowledge in various fields and developing joint infrastructure to boost investments in national ICT ventures.
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Mock banners around the Superdome triggered speculation Friday that the famous building's name may have, at long last and like so many other modern stadiums, been sold to the highest bidder.
As of Friday afternoon, it had not, according to Superdome and New Orleans Saints officials.
It is well known, however, that the franchise would love to rake in millions by throwing a corporate moniker onto the gleaming gold-and-white stadium that anchors one edge of downtown
"The New Orleans Saints were granted the rights to sell the name and title sponsorship to the Louisiana Superdome as part of the renegotiated long-term lease extension two years ago," the statement read. "The team has discussed the opportunity with a number of companies since then, which is no secret. It makes sense that as part of the sponsorship promotional package the team would need to create some mock banners to illustrate their collateral material and presentations. We are all very hopeful that someone would obtain the naming rights to the Superdome and that a deal will get done at some point in the future."
The Saints have tried in the past without success to sell the Superdome name to a corporate fatcat, and both rotten economic conditions and the lack of Fortune 500 companies headquartered in
But that situation may have altered. By once again landing the host duties for a Super Bowl and an NCAA Final Four, the Superdome has re-established itself as a premier venue that will bask in national and international spotlights, making it a more attractive advertising possibility.
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Talk about a quick campaign. The latest one in Israel lasted about a week, and there wasn't even an election at the end.
Mitt Romney's Truth-Free CampaignMay 09, 2012
The former Massachusetts governor has no use for honesty in his campaign.
Lugar Sounds the Alarm against GOP ExtremismMay 09, 2012
After conceding to Tea Party challenger Richard Mourdock, Senator Dick Lugar released a statement assailing his party's ideological rigidity.
The Price of PrejudiceMay 09, 2012
Amendment One passed yesterday, 61-39 percent, making North Carolina the 30th state to put a ban on same-sex marriage right in the state constitution.
Tired of WarMay 09, 2012
Americans continue to sour on the decade-long war.
Richard Lugar, the Tea Party's Sacrificial LambMay 09, 2012
In yesterday's primaries, old-school Republicanism fell prey to the right wing.
The Lost CauseMay 08, 2012
Even anti-marriage equality conservatives don't think they'll win.
Romney Takes Credit for the Auto Bailouts. Again.May 08, 2012
The Republican nominee decides to abandon his naysaying, and adopt retroactive credit taking.
The Good LyndonMay 08, 2012
Finally, Robert Caro lightens up on LBJ.
In Voter ID Case, Court Tells Texas to Quit StallingMay 08, 2012
Unless it produces key documents and meets deadlines, Texas will not be able to implement its voter ID law in time for the November elections.
Obama Can Stop "Evolving"May 08, 2012
The downside to supporting marriage equality is not as big as the administration imagines.
The Difference Between Republican Moderates and Democratic ModeratesMay 08, 2012
It isn't just that Republican moderates get purged.
Super PACs Already Spending BigMay 08, 2012
Ignore the presidential numbers, it's at the congressional level where they'll have the most impact.
Coming to Dinner at Clooney's?May 08, 2012
Deciding whether to donate to the Obama campaign can be a tortuous process.
Dreams from My PresidentMay 08, 2012
Three and a half years after his election, Barack Obama remains a mystery to many Americans.


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If watching the Australian Open has you in the mood to see live action, head over to the Lifetime Fitness in Lakeville this weekend. That's where the top juniors in the Northern Section's Boys 18s will be competing. The event, which gets under way Friday, Jan. 29, 2010, is free and open to the public.
Newcomer to the Section, Nelson Vick, a five-star recruit heading to Ohio State, is the top seed . Only the top 16 boys are eligible to compete in this level-four event. Wyatt McCoy, a state champion as a seventh-grader, is seeded second, followed by Hamish Weerasinghe, a four-star recruit headed to Bradley University. There will also be doubles action before the event concludes on Sunday, Jan. 31.


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Review 2, 5-19: Going with the Tide
Sasha Waltzes with the Tsunamis
By Paul
Copyright 2006 The Dance Insider
PARIS -- Speaking of
would-be choreographer-healers, as Chappelle Chambers does today
in her Flash
of Heidi Latsky, personal illness isn't the only malady dance makers
would treat these days. If I had a Euro for every press release
I receive that promises a response to the all the disaster, death,
and destruction, I'd be writing you right now from my own private
island (buttressed by Bechtel, bien sur). Unfortunately,
like Wim Vandekeybus's recent torture
fest, in the end most of these efforts that I've seen
simply replicate the dark deeds without offering any kind of real
response, invariably leaving me asking, "You're dancers; what do
you know about suffering?" I'm not saying artists need to solve
or cure our troubles; but where they have promised a response to
them, I think it's fair to expect that they're going to use the
tools available to them to shed some light.
For her new "Gezeiten"
(Tides), receiving its French premiere through tomorrow night at
the Theatre de la Ville - Sarah Bernhardt, Sasha Waltz wanted to
use her skills "to give an account" of how our constant exposure
to natural and man-made disasters -- in this age of information
globalization -- affects us individually and as a society. She also
wanted, she says in the program notes, to exploit that the theater
setting would not allow us to simply switch the channel but assign
"more active participation" to the spectators. Like Ernest Borgnine
on the Poseidon, we'd be trapped.
Well, not really; fleeing
the theater is an acceptable reaction over here. Having done this
before when choreographers subjected us to chalk dust or eardrum-piercing
noise -- critics don't get hazard pay, folks! -- I might have been
expected to join the handful of audience members exiting this time
when the stage started going up in flames and smoke filtering into
the house, both apparently real. (A visible fire extinguisher was
also at hand, but they sure took their time using it.) But when
a serious choreographer-director like Sasha Waltz, who has proven
herself not to be capricious, torches the proscenium, you cut her
some slack.
By this point, Waltz
had already lived up to her promise, in the program notes, to take
her time with this theme. The first 20 minutes of the 100-minute
tale sets it up, depicting a group of dancers in mostly pastel-colored
civvies going through a drill of weight-based routines. My dad found
these purposeless; I appreciated both Waltz's facility and the dancers'
agility in the different intersections at which bodies connected.
On a couple of days'
reflection -- we saw the piece Tuesday -- I realize that in the
context of the work this prelude was essential. Besides the obvious
narrative contribution -- much of the weight-shifting involved leaning,
as in lean on me, setting up a norm that would be more or less levelled
when the disaster struck in the second part -- Waltz also wanted
to show us this particular society during normal times, so we could
better appreciate how its members dealt (or not) with catastrophe.
When the disaster strikes,
she insures we won't be able to distance ourselves by immediately
making it personal: As just about everyone climbs up on a clump
of desks -- as onto higher ground during a tsunami -- one man doesn't
make it. A man on even higher ground -- a sort of shed over one
of the doors to the space -- warns the others not to jump in after
him, as if he is contaminated. The man in the 'water,' struggling
-- perhaps drowning -- beseeches his fellows for help. Finally,
a woman in a yellow nurse-like dress can stand it no more and, donning
surgical gloves, retrieves the man, strips him and bathes him, before
taking him off. When she returns alone, stricken and wailing, the
impression is that he's perished. Here also Waltz starts to show
how her approach to this theme will be different; instead of simply
letting the nurse woman drop her role and become a neutral dancer
again before rejoining everyone else for the next tableau as if
nothing has happened to her, she more or less stays in character
for the rest of the dance-play, retaining the weight of the man's
I should pause here
to say that, besides the smoke and flames, the disaster is indicated
in the physical space by spouting water, the sound of Earthquake-like
tremors, and the gradual dissolution of the playing surface, as
planks are dislodged -- and at one point even shoot up -- from the
It's mostly indicated
in the comportment of the players, most effectively and -- simultaneously
-- problematically in a long comic section towards the end of the
piece, anchored by Juan Kruz Diaz de Garaio Esnaola, dance's own
Stan Laurel. Covered in 9/11-evoking white dust, Esnaola becomes
a sort of carpenter-doctor, taking one subject, for instance, and
stuffing sticks into his shirt until the man's head is surrounded
by them. Later, he uses his hammer to assault the feet of a woman
with wide slats of brittle plywood inserted in her pants (which
she'd just use to give the effect of her knees cracking when she
bent them). We don't realize until after he's whapped them that
her feet, too, are long cloth-covered pieces of wood. Claudia de
Serpa Soares, another Waltz veteran, joins the human-puppet fun,
sitting down at a table facing us as if it's the most natural thing
in the world that her ears have turned into bricks.
On the one hand, what
Waltz is doing here is structurally sound, providing some levity
before we get back to the chaos and carnage. But it also bears too
much resemblance to other pieces in which she shows a weakness for
Bauschian noodling with props whose place is not always as clear
as it is chez Pina. If its purpose is more apparent here
-- one man, Esnaola, is responding to the destruction by coming
apart, trying to re-assemble the wood, but on human beings -- this
slapstick also risks disenthralling us from Waltz's story.
She wins us back with
an ending as clean as it is ambiguous, as three large larvae (each
made up of two dancers, one standing on the other's shoulder, both
totally wrapped in fabric) emerge slowly from the rubble, squirming,
their upper parts weaving about. The tableau could indicate that
only the worms survived the apocalpyse; or it could promise a new
"Gezeiten" is performed and co-choreographed by the pristine actor-dancers
of Sasha Waltz and Guests, who include, in addition to those mentioned
above, Davide Camplani, Maria Marta Colusi, Matija Ferlin, Gabriel
Galindez Cruz, Maria Ohman, Pinar Omerbeyoglu, Friederike Plafki,
Koen De Preter, Virgis Puodziunas, Sasa Queliz, Maria Eugenia Rivas
Medina, Xuan Shi, Davide Sportelli, and Laurie Young. Music includes
selections from J.S. Bach's "Suites for Cello," smoothly rendered
by James Bush, and an effective sound score from Jonathan Bepler.
Thomas Schenk designed the sets with Waltz.
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BALTIMORE, Md. (Ivanhoe Newswire) –Fifty percent of Americans will suffer from hemorrhoids by age 50, but do you really know what you need to about this painful condition?
Dan Collins found his calling with Community Theater.
"Being on the stage and acting gives me the opportunity to shine some of my own light. This is my creative expression," Dan Collins told Ivanhoe.
However, offstage Dan is shining the spotlight on a personal problem.
"I found this lump. So, I ran off to my doctor and he said, 'oh you got a hemorrhoid,'" Dan said.
Hemorrhoids affect about 10 million Americans at any given time, but Dr. Sergey Kantsevoy says most people have no idea hemorrhoids could kill you.
"Hemorrhoids by itself can cause significant blood loss. It is life threatening, if you're losing a lot of blood," Sergey Kantsevoy, MD, PhD, Clinical Professor of Medicine at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, Director of Therapeutic Endoscopy, Institute of Digestive Health and Liver Disease, at Mercy Medical Center, told Ivanhoe.
Chronic blood loss can lead to anemia, or worse.
"If they are bleeding from hemorrhoids, this can provoke heart attack in people with bad coronary arteries," Dr. Kantsevoy said. "Also, I think it's very important that people don't attribute all rectal bleeding to hemorrhoids."
The bleeding could be a sign of colorectal cancer, or a digestive disorder, something Dan is monitoring.
"I have an uncle that died of colon cancer. So, it's in my family history," Dan said.
He's also implementing prevention strategies, like eating foods high in fiber and staying active. Swelling and itching can be reduced by ointments, less straining, and not turning bathroom time into downtime.
"So, all reading materials should be eliminated from the bathroom. Bathroom is not library," Dr. Kantsevoy explained.
Advice Dan is following in his daily life.
It's interesting to note that being sedentary can be just as big of a risk factor as working out by lifting heavy weights. Both can put undue pressure on your bottom half, causing hemorrhoids to grow larger.
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TC TO ALEXANDER CARLYLE; 29 March 1819; DOI: 10.1215/lt-18190329-TC-AC-01; CL 1:171-173.
Edinr29th March 1819—
My dear Brother,
I snatch a hurried hour from the German lesson, to answer your kind and entertaining epistle, which reached me this forenoon. I need not say how pleasing it is to me to learn that you are all in good bodily health, and comfortable spirits. The most important part of my task will be accomplished, when I have assured you that the same is the case with me. I still walk out before breakfast—and for an hour or two after; of which practice I find the beneficial effects in an increased appetite for victual, and a general vigour of body. I have no doubt that two or three months of summer exercise will completely restore this my digestive apparatus (as our Professor calls it) to that state of activity which a person at my age, not addicted to excesses of any kind, and gifted with a sound constitution, ought naturally to expect.
I was interested by the intelligence you transmit to me. Poor Latimer's hunting-tunes, recall some by-gone scenes to my recollection. The paraphrases need not be pushed beyond moderation: they must in time come to be generally employed.1 It is greivous to learn the misconduct of poor Mary Brown.2 An unlucky race, as you rightly remark: but your consolation is well founded too;—'every herring must indeed hang by its own head.'3 I think I recollect the Hash4 that has done the mischief—a large, square soft-looking lump, about a year older than myself. Jock Carruthers5 (of Har[e]gills) staid in his Mother's house. Does the slut-thief propose to marry the unlucky creature?
I am glad to understand that the library6 is in a prosperous state. It is to be hoped that our native village will no longer be the scorn of neighbouring districts, for its deficiency in this particular. You are very right in stating that the Abbé Raynal7 is rash in some of his conjectures. He was a jesuit priest in his time; but afterwards quarrelled with them—renounced their society, and with it, all moderation in treating of their religion. He was obliged to leave France for his opinions, & resided for a time in England and lastly in the Netherlands. The man seems to have had a fiery temper; and it is only for the facts that his books contain, that anyone can respect them[.] There is no wonder that you feel it impossible to find much time for reading in the present season. Keep doing a little at your hours of relaxation—both in writing and reading; and you will never repent it. In reading Raynal, you will of course attend to the geography of the countries.
What ails that indolent young person, Doil,8 or more properly speaking, Jack, that he will not write? If I had any time, I would send him a letter this very night.
With respect to my occupations at this period; they are not of the most important nature. Berzelius' paper is printed—I was this day correcting the proof-sheet—. The translation looks not very ill in print. I wish I had plenty more of a similar [sor]t to translate and good pay for doing it. Let us wait a while. I am still at the German, as I hinted above. My teacher9 is not a man (any more than he was a boy) of brilliant parts; but we go on in a loving way together—and he gives me the pronunciation correctly, I suppose. I am able to read books, now, with a dictionary. At present, I am reading a stupid play of Kotzebue's10—but to-night I am to have the history of Frederick the Great from Irving. I will make an affu' struggle11 to read a good deal of it & of the Italian in Summer—when at home.
The young man Hill is going away in about a week—a few days after which, I in[tend t]o be in Forrest's No. 3. S. Richmond st. Not that I profoundly a[d]mire the character of Jock—for I believe him after all to be a '[Tu]rk in grain';12 but his wife is a trusty neat-handed, excellent body; and the room will do as long as I live in it—for I have thoughts of coming down to you, about June or so. I hate to go to a stranger; and Forrest's in other aspects is an eligible place.
There is nothing new here that I wot of—fierce sort of weather, which I daresay is no stranger to you. How do the farming operations proceed? I hope to help you at the hay-time. But time is our tedious scroll should now have ending.
I am always, / My dear Boy, / Your's faithfully, /
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The 60-year old (60!!) star of "Sons of Anarchy" has barely aged since her "Married With Children" days. So what's her secret?
"I take really good care of myself," she told ABC News. "I don't smoke and I don't drink. I sleep a lot, I just think it's an inside job too. I think it's attitude, a lot of it's attitude. I try to have a good one."
In that vein, Sagal isn't letting the end of the hit series get her down, "I haven't gotten sad, I'm sort of not in that yet," she stated. "I'm just not thinking about that. I suppose it will get sad. This one I'm sure there will be sad moments, but it has been an amazing ride."
Sagal just happens to be married to the show's creator, Kurt Sutter. The pair has been married since 2004, but their decade-long relationship doesn't mean that Sutter is letting her in on any of his plans for the series finale.
"No, no, no, he doesn't tell me," she said.
The actress doesn't have any plans for her life after "Sons." "I don't know yet [what's next]," she said. "I'm about to go back out there and see, see what happens next, so. I have been so blessed and so grateful to have had this job and the previous ones I've had. I feel very fortunate to have been here to have found this and to have [Kurt] write it for me.


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Any news from the salt lake trial this weekend?????
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Spearfish, S.D. - Due to field conditions the Black Hills State University Softball game times have changed as well as the location. The Yellow Jackets will take on Dakota State University on Sunday, March 21 at 1 p.m. and 3 p.m. The Yellow Jackets will face the Trojans again on Monday, March 22 at 2 p.m. and 4 p.m. All games will be played at the Parkview Softball Complex in Rapid City, S.D.
The Park View Softball Complex is located southeast of Rapid City Regional Hospital. The address for the complex is 4221 Parkview Dr. located just off of E. Minnesota Street.
The games against Dawson County Community College that were slated for March 27 and March 28 have been cancelled. After the Yellow Jackets take on Dakota State University, they will then travel to Chadron, Neb. to take on Chadron State on March 30.
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College Hockey:Gifis, Panthers Take NESCAC Title With OT Win Over Bowdoin
MIDDLEBURY, Vt. — In a battle between NESCAC powerhouses number-one Middlebury and number three Bowdoin, revenge, bragging rights, and home ice for the NESCAC playoffs were all on the line. After a tight defensive game in regulation, Middlebury rookie Lorna Gifis scored the game winning goal at 3:19 of overtime to give the Panthers a 2-1 victory and the right to host the NESCAC tournament.
After Middlebury's narrow 3-2 win at Bowdoin early in the season, both teams came into the game expecting a hard-fought battle. The first period was marked by back-and-forth action but strong defensive play that kept both teams off the scoreboard. Both the Polar Bears and the Panthers worked to establish the forecheck in each other's zone, looking for turnovers and creating pressure as the opponent looked to bring the puck out of the zone. Yet despite defensive zone turnovers by both teams, neither Bowdoin nor Middlebury was able to notch the first goal. Each team fired only four shots on net in the period.
The second period saw Bowdoin kill off a penalty early on, but once again, strong defense on both sides thwarted scoring opportunities. Finally, at 16:00 of the second, Middlebury's Catherine Elkins found the puck on the right side of the Bowdoin net and lifted in into the back of the goal for a 1-0 lead.
The lead would be short-lived, though, as Bowdoin's Jess Burke got the Bears on the board at 17:32.
The third period saw both teams earn their chances, yet neither team could earn the go-ahead goal. Middlebury was hit with two penalties at 8:19 and 8:30, to Meghan Stone (hooking) and Erin Neil (cross-checking), yet the Panthers held Bowdoin at bay on the five-on-three until Marissa O'Neil was whistled for interference at 9:15, but Bowdoin was unable to capitalize, as was Middlebury once their two penalties expired.
In Middlebury's second overtime league game against Bowdoin in two years, the Panthers finally were able to tally the game winner, as Gifis took a breakaway in on Bowdoin goalie Emily McKissock for the 2-1 win.
McKissock finished the game with 19 saves in the game, while Middlebury's Megan Hutchinson made 13 stops.
With the win, Middlebury's record in NESCAC play moves to 15-0, and 18-1-1 overall. Bowdoin drops to 12-2 in league standings and 18-3 overall. Middlebury's win gives it a bye next weekend after Sunday's game against Colby. Bowdoin has games against Williams and Colby remaining; a win in both guarantees it second place for the NESCAC tournament, while one or two losses could bring seeding placements down to tiebreakers against Colby.
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FRESNO, Calif. --- Earning its fifth academic award as a program, the Fresno State lacrosse team was named to the 2014 Intercollegiate Women's Lacrosse Coaches Association Academic Honor Squad on Monday.
This is the third straight IWLCA honor for the Bulldogs under head coach Jessica Pausewang, who has been at the helm of the program since 2011.
"I am very proud of the team for being able to balance academics as well as athletics last season," said Pausewang. "Being nominated to my third straight season coaching here as an all-academic team is great, it's what we strive for."
The IWLCA recognized 84 schools as IWLCA Division I Academic Honor Squads for the 2014 season. To qualify for the award the team must earn a GPA of 3.0 or higher.
Fresno State was one of seven schools from the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation to earn squad honors for this past season. Joining the Bulldogs on the prestigious list was Oregon, Saint Mary's, San Diego State, Stanford, University of Southern California and the reigning conference champion, University of Denver.
In addition to being named an academic honor squad this past year, the Bulldog lacrosse team totaled over 1,200 hours of community service in the Valley.
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Three league wins a year. That was debbie downer basketball.
I think it was 4-12 in conference pretty much every year, but yea it was terrible. Pretty sad going to games in Hilton and expecting to lose all the time on our own court.
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What is the Parenting Media Association?
The Organization
Current Leaders of the PMA Organization
Parenting Media Association (PMA) was established in March 1988 as Parenting Publications of America (PPA), a national trade association of regional parenting publications that reach across America, from Boston to Seattle and from Minneapolis to Miami, and around the globe to Australia. Some of our publications are tabloid newspapers, others are magazines, with 4-color, glossy, covers. Typically our publications come out monthly. All of the publications have marketing/editorial calendars which are available upon request - contact information is available for each publication on this site.
Since the first regional parenting publications appeared on the scene more than 20 years ago, readers have grown to depend on our newspapers and magazines. Each of our publications provide a unique resource for parents, educators, professionals, and child care providers, by supplying information on what to do and where to go with children in their own town, school district and neighborhood.
Regular features include a monthly calendar of events for children and their parents, practical advice for parents, information about outings, and reviews of current plays, movies, books and local restaurants. Feature articles discuss a range of important issues affecting families, from prenatal care to teenage parties.
History of PMA (formerly PPA)
Birth of an Industry
It was 1978. Chrysler announced the hiring of Lee Iacocca. The first minivan was nothing but a twinkle in the eye of a station-wagon mother. Home prices were rising steadily, and in some states, rapidly. More mothers of school-age children were beginning to head back to work.
Ann Bergman lived in Seattle, Washington. She wanted to start a business. The mother of a 10-year-old stepdaughter and a 1-year-old, she was part of a typical '80s family -- a blended family. Bergman describes herself as one of the first baby boomers, and she sensed the boomers' need for new parenting information presented in a new way. This generation of parents, unlike previous generations, could no longer rely on the extended family as a primary source of parenting information. They approached parenting as if it were a profession. Typical families of the '80s took a long, hard look at division of labor in the home. Parents had a fresh perspective on fatherhood. And many families became two-income households. In April of 1979, Bergman published her first issue of a regional parenting publication, Seattle's Child. She began the wave of regional parenting publications, a wave that would sweep across America providing a new generation of parents with finger-on-the-pulse, parenting information.
In 1980, with no knowledge of Bergman's work, Dixie Jordan of Berkeley, California, also the mother of a baby, read an article about a regional parenting publication serving the state capitol, Sacramento. Jordan knew right away that this was the business idea she'd been looking for. She had firsthand knowledge of what parents needed; after her child's birth, she had quickly discovered the parenting-information gap. She published the first issue of Parent's Press, in Berkeley, in June 1980.
Meanwhile in Los Angeles, an English major named Jack Bierman was now completing journalism school. Bierman was impressed with the high caliber of students who were graduating with him. He saw the opportunity to harness the energy and talent of these young professionals. he intended to launch a publishing business. Bierman had several ideas but the one that struck a cord with everyone he spoke to was the idea of a regional, free controlled circulation, parenting newsmagazine. An avid admirer of the existing children's magazine, Cricket, Bierman chose a name he felt similarly captured the emotion of childhood. The first issue of Pony Ride was printed in October 1980. Bierman remembers, "The first ad guy I hired told me to get rid of the name!" It took him a few months to let go, but eventually he changed the name to L.A. Parent. At the time Bierman had no children. But the idea of collecting local resources for parents and printing them in a monthly paper became a self-fulfulling prophecy. As the parents in Los Angeles soaked up the information he provided, Bierman began to understand the intensity of parenthood, '80s-style. Parents' response to the paper communicated their profound understanding of the responsibility they felt toward their "job of parenting." L.A. Parent became an extension of that responsibility. Bierman thrived on the positive response. He added editors and more staff and formed a board of advisors. Over time, Jack along with his brother Carey, held the largest, family-owned regional parenting business in America with publications that reached almost 500,000 readers in Southern California.
All over the United States, the seedlings of what was to become Parenting Publications of America (PPA) kept sprouting. In the early '80s, several California publishers met annually, beginning a group they called California Dreamin'. From this headstrong group of entrepreneurs, a national forerunner to PPA was established. Then finally, in March 1988, with 27 founding members, Parenting Publications of America was formed.
In January of 1990, the first Northwestern University Medill School of Journalism Awards were presented to PPA members. While the basic editorial content still provided useful resources and discussed trends in parenting, such as new-style dads and stay-at-home moms vs. "working" mothers, gone were the days of bland, kitchen-table, editorial. PPA member publications took the challenge and were soon running features with headlines, such as "Caught in the Cross Fire," a story about inner-city street violence and kids; "Gay and Lesbian Parenting in the '90s; and "When Love is Not Enough," the story of a teen AIDS victim as told by his father.
Meanwhile, in the world of publishing, niche marketing gained tremendous popularity. Free controlled publications gained respectability. And regional parenting publications were right there in the midde of it all--perfectly placed for growth, now that "family" was a "viable market." As recession took hold of the country, regional parenting businesses continued to flourish.
In a June 1992 Folio article, Richard Cohen, director of investment banking at the New York based Furman Selz, was asked which publishing properties looked good to buyers. Cohen said simply, "definable niches do better." Niche publications promise targeted, loyal readers.
The next chapter in the PPA industry was starting. Chicago Parent, Grand Rapids Parent, Columbus Parent, Minnesota Parent, Carolina Parent, South Florida Parenting and Kids Toronto all changed ownership. And the new ownership came in the form of the established publishers of business journals, city magazines, weeklies and even daily papers, a trend that has continued through today. Publishers of the dailies, especially, saw the writing on the wall as they consistently struggled to be all things to all people. The targeted, niche publications had loyal readers, an appealing commodity to the dailies.
In 2011 PPA changed its name to Parenting Media Association (PMA) to better reflect the shift from print dominance to a multimedia-focus, as well as to recognize that membership extends beyond the United States.
Today, the PMA member publications represent a monthly circulation nearing 5 million and a readership, based on an independent 1998 study, of close to 11.5 million. That number is growing daily. Parenting continues to be a powerful and productive niche for publishers delivering targeted ads and editorial.
And for parents, regional parent papers..."have become the network. They sponsor events, they go on line...They provide a community base. I think this will continue to grow," stated Anne Russell, editor of Folio.


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Monday, October 14, 2013
I did it! I did it!
I finished my first FULL MARATHON! 26.2 miles done in one go! I finished in 5:55:33, so I am not any kind of speed demon, but I finished! I FINISHED! I set a goal to complete a full marathon in 2013 and I did it!
It was crazy. It was fun. It was awful. And it was amazing!
I woke up at 4:30 AM. I drank a coffee, ate an English Muffin and egg. I got dressed. I woke my hubby up and the kids at 5:30 then we drove the hour to Baltimore. They dropped me off and I spent about an hour and a half just twiddling my thumbs. I was so anxious I went to the bathroom 3 times in that hour and a half! But, then it was time to line up. This marathon is self seeding, so I set myself up behind the last pace group of 5:15 finishers. I set off just after 8AM.
The first half of the marathon was easy peasy. Really, it was. I'm pretty experienced at half marathons and so I was trying to just really pace myself and keep it slow and steady. I did a bit of walking to keep my pace down and yet, I still found myself in front of the 5:15 pace group, but after the 5:00 group. I knew that this was probably a bad idea, but I struggled to bring myself back behind the 5:15ers. I stayed in front of them until mile 12. They passed me and I was okay with it, because I knew I still had 14.2 miles to go and I needed to save some gas. I wanted to keep with them in my sights though and I managed to do that until mile 16.
Mile 16 was a landmark for me. My training had been very haphazard and 16 miles was the longest I had ever run in one run. So, every step was a victory after that point. At mile 17 I was "all out of run". There was no more run in me. I was walking. At this point I was texting my good Sparkbuddy, 4EVERADONEGIRL. She was giving me encouragement and pushing me through. She kept checking in on me and told me it was okay to crawl if I needed to! (Thanks so much Kristen!!!) She asked me at one point if my body hurt or if my mind hurt. In that moment, I didn't have the strength to text back, but I was really thinking, "Its all my body. I'm determined to finish. My mind is strong!"
Mile 20 was awful. It was around a lake and it took me nearly 20 minutes. I was limping and dragging myself around. I was in so much pain. But, guess what? It really was my brain, not my body that hurt the most.
Mile 21, this gal taps me on the shoulder. "I'm Heather and this is Chuck! We picked each other up at mile 16 and have been running together since then, want to join us?" Oh my! How I needed that! I was so much in my head and fully focused on how much I hurt that I am not sure I would have finished with out them. We talked each other through it. "Look, here's a down hill. We can run to the end of the hill, to the far side of that traffic light, right?!" "YEAH! we can do that!!" "Let's run to the mile marker." "Where the *bleep*is that mile marker?" "Okay, guys, we can do this!" And so on and so forth to the finish line.
Heather finished a bit before me, Chuck a bit behind me. But, we finished and while I will never see them or likely have any communication with them... Chuck and Heather are my marathon heroes!
Sunday, I was amazed at how not sore I was. I had planned on skipping church, but I woke up energized and got up and went to church. My little boy had a birthday party for a friend at the bouncy castle place and he asked that I take him, so I did. I felt good enough I chased him through the bouncy castle obstacle course a few times. I've got a bit of shin splints in my right leg and my back hurts, but my plantar fasciitis doesn't hurt and my ankles feel fine and I went for a walk this morning after walking my son to school.
I really couldn't be happier with how it turned out. Despite some rain and bad weather, I finished. I finished before the 7 hour finish limit.
Thanks to all who encouraged me, answered my questions, and tolerated my anxiety. You mean the world to me. Thank you.
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Great job on your marathon and thanks for sharing it with us! :)
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Nice job!! I did my first in 5:55 also. Not very fast, but who cares? We finished!!
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I am seriously impressed! What a goal to accomplish. You should be proud!
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I seriously could NOT wait to hear the entire race recap!!! I'm so super proud of you Mel!!!!!! You are a hero and such an inspiration...and not just because you finished a marathon. You are a hero and inspiration because you fought through the darkness and persevered and came out the other side - with a medal and an awesome story about finding heroes along the way and conquering your mind and body!
Definitely a victory!!!!! Now just know that you will be my go-to when I do my full marathon next year! :-)
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WOW! What an amazing day. I'm so impressed. I'm dealing with plantar faciitis now, running six miles puts me in pain for a day or two, I can't imagine running a marathon with it!
You are my hero!
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Great job on the marathon. You now can put your 26.2 sticker on the car. One thing that helps my calves and shins are compression sleeves. I got the zensah brand after asking seabreeze and live2runforlife of the galloway group.
I have helped pace other runners to the finish line. They have helped me too. We all want to get better.
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Congratulations! This is great motivation to get back into running :)
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It sounds to me like you did GREAT! Congratulations on becoming a Marathoner!
Next month, my challenge is a 10K, so, you know, Marathon looks like running to the moon and back. You're a Marathon hero, too!
Go, Mel!
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Thanks for being an inspiration. I ran/walked my first 5k last week :)
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Bateman produces, directs, and stars in "Bad Words." Bateman is Guy Trilby, a man who exploits a loophole in the rules of a middle school spelling competition. Despite parents of his competition strongly opposed to it, he enters and does everything he can to win. Bankrolled by an online journalist (Kathryn Hahn), Guy aims to conquer a tournament meant for kids, all the while dodging questions as to why. When a precocious boy named Chaitanya refuses to leave him alone, the two unlikely friends path a dysfunctional relationship.
Yes, the film is dark and profane, but like "Bad Santa," it has a big heart. By balancing the innocence of youth and the scorned protagonist, the film creates an uplifting story of friendship. Both the boy and the man have broken relationships with their fathers and share a great deal of baggage, making the two of them partners.
Bateman takes Andrew Dodge's script and keeps the tone sharp and frank. The humor mostly comes from the audacity of the dialogue and situations. Though the film will likely be forgotten quickly, this is a film definitely deserving of a cult following. Bateman's multi-hyphenate execution shines, even more on those other than himself. Kudos for going for the jugular because "Bad Words" succeeds. 3.5 out of 5 stars.
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Today I read an article titled Black Women: Does Submitting to Your Man Make for a Stronger Union from Ebony Magazine. In my 20's I have struggled to find a balance between voluntary submission vs. being a doormat. I had a relationship where I thought doing everything to please the man would make him love me. Later I found out submitting to a man wasn't about neglecting my own needs. It was more about being in touch and comfortable with exerting my feminine energy. No, I did not exert my feminine energy with the please him all relationship. In fact, I felt like I had to be the man in that relationship and it was miserable in every sense of the word. He was a serial cheater and emotional abuser. Honestly being in such a miserable circumstance made it feel more challenging to find myself and branch into full womanhood.
Then I met a wonderful man that made me feel inspired to submit to him, but it didn't feel like I was giving up who I am. I felt the total opposite…I felt empowered. I still feel like that when I submit to him. It feels natural and I feel strong with him. I am slowly learning to balance my passion for women empowerment with traditional roles of being a woman that loves and nurtures her man, her family, and her home.
You can cook. You can be a mother. You can keep up a healthy household. You can also have a successful professional career and be a true community leader. I am a firm believer that as a woman I can have it all.
When you learn to fulfill your self-love and remain curious about the world, you empower yourself and learn to submit to your man in a fashion that empowers both of you.
I have the freedom to love and be loved because I don't see submission to my romantic partner as something that degrades me. I choose to submit to him out of my own freewill. He leads well and that inspires me to be a better woman everyday. I can see myself being his wife. I can see myself carrying his seed. I can see myself living out the professional career I envision for myself. I can see myself doing all these things, because everything I inspire to be starts with love. I want to be this man's wife and mother of his children because I feel love from a deep place, a spiritual place. I can see myself achieving my professional aspirations because I have a passion for what I do that it doesn't feel like a chore to me.
I don't have to be a strong willed woman, specifically a strong willed Black woman, anymore because I realized the world needs me as I am… a being full of feminine energy. It's my strength. It's the full experience of being me.
If you need some inspiration to get in touch with your feminine energy, here are some biblical verses from holy books:
The Bible has lessons in Ephesians 5:23, 1 Peter 3:1, and Colossians 3:18 (just to name a few).
The Qu'ran has lessons in Suras 4:34, 2:223 and 66:5 related to the roles men and women for strong, healthy and happy unions.