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If Penelope Milford clambers to the top in Hollywood, it will owe, aside from talent, less to her Tarzan-esque agility (left) than to her Jane. Fonda that is, whose apolitical pal Milford played in her first big movie, Coming Home. "Jane is a class act," she applauds. "She might have had a million things on her mind, but when the camera was ready for her she was there, totally." Fonda similarly praises Milford, 30 this week, as "brilliant. Her role was pivotal because her character was a real person, and you could feel her anguish—no matter what you thought about Vietnam."
Indeed, Coming Home's sweep of the Oscar nominations (best picture, director Hal Ashby, Fonda, Jon Voight, Bruce Dern) also included, in the supporting category, Penny—as all her overnight friends began to call her. "The minute the nominations were announced the phone started ringing," Milford notes. "A lot of people now are telling me they always knew I had talent and how wonderful it is that I've been nominated. They're the same guys who wouldn't take a phone call from me last week. I'd like to blast them," she continues. "But let's face it, that's not the way to play the game. You've got to keep cool."
One other reason for coolness is the strength of Milford's competition in the category this year: Maggie Smith, Maureen Stapleton, Dyan Cannon and Meryl Streep. Another humbling aspect of the unexpected acknowledgment by her peers was that she got her Oscar shot before her better-known ex-boyfriend Richard (Looking for Mr. Goodbar) Gere. Though his Days of Heaven was slighted by the Academy electorate, Gere gallantly phoned Milford to say that her nomination "was the best news he'd ever heard," she reports, adding with a sigh, "Richard is still very important to me."
Milford grew up with the stability to cope in the Chicago suburb of Winnetka, where her father published a trade magazine and her mother sang in the Christian Science church. "I still consider myself very religious, although I don't attend regularly," she says. Penny became a star of New Trier High School's distinguished drama department. After graduation she studied in Switzerland, which gave her an excuse to hitchhike around Europe. "The headmaster thought I was pretty racy," she reports. "Actually, I was pretty straight. I had slept with a couple of guys in high school, but I was a long way from being promiscuous." She returned to the States for night classes in New York, daytime auditions and a brief marriage to a composer. Penny wound up rooming with her younger brother Kim, also an actor, who later played the title role in the stage Rocky Horror Show. Nights, they hung out with a wild bunch that included Judy Garland.
Penny was by then breaking into theater, with multiple roles in Lenny. She also appeared in Norman Mailer's movie indulgence, Maidstone. ("Norman was raging drunk during most of the filming, but it was interesting.") But, personally, her most important part was her first with Gere in Richard Farina: Long Time Coming and a Long Time Gone as Farina's sister-in-law Joan Baez. "Richard and I did not have an easy relationship," she says of her seven-year hitch with Gere. "It was really more like one year because most of the time he was somewhere I wasn't. We each wanted things the way we wanted them and there was a lot of ego involved."
Meanwhile, Milford won admiring notices in the Broadway musical Shenandoah in 1975, then announced she "was going to Hollywood to become a movie star. I think it's ridiculous to pretend that you are going to Hollywood to become a better actor." She played a quickie nude sex scene with Rudolf Nureyev in Valentino, but found little else until Ashby cast her in Coming Home.
Penny is now settled in a house on a road that's more like a goat trail atop the Hollywood Hills. There she meditates and waits for the phone to ring. "My love life is in suspension," she confides. "So is my career." She has Danny Travis, a film with Richard Harris and Karen Black, completed and she and brother Kim are dreaming up a rock opera he wrote based on Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray. But even that presumably awaits the Oscar verdict April 9. "An Academy Award means you are a known and valued commodity," she reckons. "That means you get good roles. But right now it's wait and see."
'Coming Home' to Penny Milford Means Climbing Hollywood's Greasiest Poll—the Oscars
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1952 Topps President Harry Truman "Look 'n See" Original Card Artwork #5
Starting Bid - $400.00, Sold For - $1,508.00
Original 1952 Topps "Look 'n See" card artwork (3 x 4.25 inches). This is the original painting used to produce card #5 Harry Truman from this extremely popular set which features full-color portraits of famous people from all areas of history. The artwork features a detailed portrait image of President Truman set against an American flag background. This is one of the most spectacular, important, and striking cards from this classic non-sport set. The fact that this card was issued in 1952 while Truman was at the end of his second term in office as the President of the United States gives this artwork all the greater significance. It was a special honor for Topps to include the President in this set, and it is obvious that great care was taken to present the President in a most flattering and patriotic light. "Look 'n See" original artworks are extremely rare. This example and the other two "Look 'n See" artworks presented in this auction are the first original paintings from this set we have seen. This is an extraordinary original artwork from one of the 1950s most highly regarded non-sport sets. There is a very light glue residue along the bottom from the original mechanical stat pasteup. Excellent to Mint condition. The artwork is accompanied by an example of the issued card. Reserve $400. Estimate $800/$1,200. SOLD FOR $1,508.00
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The county town of Exeter, in the north, offers a cosmopolitan city buzz and blends eclectic shopping experiences, entertainment and dining, with the history of an old cathedral city.
Travelling south through the county, you will cover a variety of landscapes, coastal, rugged, picturesque and commercial sit side by side, finally reaching the port city of Plymouth, rich in maritime history, from the Mayflower pilgrims, to the present day, and home to the National Marine Aquarium.
Visitors to Devon can explore the wild natural beauty of Dartmoor, take in the chic little seaside towns of the north coast, and enjoy extreme water sports in the impressive surf. The diverse area of this county offers something for every visitor; art galleries, festivals, fine food, gentle sailing, open air opera, traditional crafts and modern sports. One visit will never be enough, and you will return again and again.


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The church, with its wooden-truss ceiling and open sanctuary, its unanchored chairs, live acoustics and all that natural light pouring in through the tall windows, is reminiscent of the sort of space evangelical Christians once used for their tent revivals.
The Church of Our Savior, an Episcopal parish on rural Johns Island, was established a little more than 30 years ago to serve the growing populations on the nearby barrier islands of Kiawah and Seabrook.
Its austere interior contains unintentionally Celtic elements, especially the cross inside a circle, which has pagan-Druid origins. When the Rev. Michael Clarkson arrived at Our Savior three years ago from England, where he had been forming Anglican congregations and working for the Church of England for two decades, the Celtic characteristics of his new parish immediately were evident.
And soon he understood why a Celtic theme, which emphasizes the connections between faith and nature, was appropriate for his new parish home.
"Celtic Christianity came out of the earth," Clarkson said. "It clashed with Roman Christianity, which was more cerebral."
But at this spot on Johns Island, where the open ocean is near and the marshes produce their bounty of sea creatures and birds and long silver-green blades of grass, where farmers still till the soil and the grand oaks form their own cathedrals, the landscape is respected and admired, he said.
Our Savior "needs to reflect the islands," it needs to offer "a sense of connecting with nature," he said.
Some months ago, as the parish's 30th anniversary approached, Clarkson consulted with artist and church member Mary Whyte about beginning a slow, modest transformation inside the building. Today, the apse of the church features a naturalistic mural that taps into the very character of the Lowcountry.
The artist
Whyte is a respected painter who typically works in watercolor. A resident of Johns Island, she is best-known for her detailed, realistic portraits of Lowcountry figures. Her works can be seen at Coleman Fine Art gallery downtown and in museums, including the Gibbes Museum of Art.
For years, she has created images partly referencing the tradition of the Charleston Renaissance, which was spearheaded by, among others, Alice Ravenel Huger Smith in the last half of the 19th century. Whereas Smith tended to idealize and romanticize Lowcountry landscapes -- their rice fields, marshes and slave communities -- Whyte has produced her own brand of portraiture that doesn't shy away from harsh reality.
Angela Mack, executive director of the Gibbes, which soon will host a show devoted to Whyte's new work, said she thinks the watercolorist can be compared to important national figures such as Andrew Wyeth and Stephen Scott Young.
"Alice Smith was not about spreading the word about being an artist, she was about spreading the word of the Lowcountry," Mack said. "Mary is using her talents to promote art. Her subject matter just happens to be the Lowcountry, and now the wider South."
Whyte's most recent book is "Working South," a collection of images portraying laborers whose livelihoods are disappearing: the fisherman, elevator operator, textile mill worker and shoeshine man. A museum tour of 50 works is under way. The tour arrives at the Gibbes on May 4, 2012.
"Her reputation in the watercolor world just exceeds all bounds," Mack said. "I'm eager to see what happens next with her."
The project
The project at Our Savior began in 1999, soon after the office and education annex was built, Clarkson and Whyte said. The annex had an octagonal intersection with four bare walls that Whyte decided to fill with art: portrait representations of the four seasons, featuring the children of the church.
Her husband, Smith Coleman, a guilder, made the frames using a sgraffito technique where gold leaf is laid on the frame, then painted over. The paint then is "scratched" to form shapes and designs that reveal the gold underneath.
With Coleman's help, Whyte applied some of the gold leaf to the paintings themselves.
When Whyte and Clarkson were deciding what to do in the sanctuary, they settled on the idea of egrets flying into the sky.
In the Christianity of the Mediterranean, a dove signifies the Holy Spirit, Clarkson said, but in the Celtic tradition it's a wild goose. Since the earthly symbol can change, why not find something that's particular to the Lowcountry Sea Islands? They settled on white egrets, and Whyte got to work, volunteering her talents and time.
She said the mural project was a group effort. A team of painters applied the blue to the walls, and parish seamstresses made the green chasuble, or liturgical vestment worn by priests presiding over the Eucharist, and green altar frontal, both of which feature the egret theme.
Shirley Salvo and Paula Adamson, experienced seamstresses and members of the parish, created the vestments and frontal piece according to Whyte's design.
Salvo earned a master's degree in home economics with a concentration on clothing construction and has taught tailoring but never made it a career. She referred to it as "a passion" that ran in the family.
Clarkson asked for her help with the project, "but the reason I did the vestments was because of my love of God," Salvo said. "This was a way to honor God, a way to honor God with the talents that he gave me" -- and a way to honor her mother and muse who died at 32, when Salvo was just 13.
The spirit
The flying egrets, which also are made with gold leaf painted over, and positioned upon layered walls in a circular shape, provide an uplifting feeling, Clarkson and Whyte said.
The visual effect conveys "the wildness of God and beauty of nature," Clarkson said.
He noted that the Celtic wild goose never travels on its own. It is only itself when with others. And the egrets in the sanctuary evoke a similar sense of togetherness. "I love this because it isn't a lone symbol, but a sense of spirit in the whole flock," he said.
Christianity, after all, is mostly about community, he said.
When the sun crosses the sky and the light in the sanctuary shifts, the egret flock seems to come alive, Clarkson said. The birds "look different than they did 10 minutes before. It's magic."
And it echoes visually the transformation that occurs within the soul when the Holy Spirit takes hold, he said.
The relatively unadorned sanctuary presents other opportunities for Whyte, she said. She's got her eye on a blank wall by the chapel (which is not a distinct room but part of the larger space). And perhaps the white columns could benefit from the Whyte treatment, too. Salvo said she stands ready to assist by producing a new altar frontal for the chapel, "as soon as Mary designs it."
Since the egrets mural was revealed in November, people have been visiting the church during the day to meditate or pray, Clarkson and Whyte said.
The church, which has for 30 years offered a sanctuary for fellowship and worship, now has become a place where the spirit can soar.
Reach Adam Parker at 937-5902.
If you go
WHAT: 'Mary Whyte: Working South.'WHEN: May 14-Sept. 9, 2012.WHERE: Gibbes Museum of Art, Main Gallery, 135 Meeting St.COST: Regular admission.WHAT: Women in Art Lecture Series, running in conjunction with the exhibition 'Breaking Down Barriers: 300 Years of Women in Art' (Whyte's work is featured in the show). A wine and cheese reception follows each lecture.WHEN: 6 p.m., Nov 2, 9 and 16 (Whyte is scheduled to speak Nov. 2).WHERE: Gibbes Museum of Art, 135 Meeting St.COST: Tickets cost $20 each for members, $50 for the series of three; $30 each for nonmembers, $80 for the series of three. Reservations are recommended.


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She was never seen next to a calf since the research has started in 2006 so we believed Twende was a male dolphin. Pictures taken last week, on the 27th January 2010, show Twende next to a new calf. The two never separated during our 30 minute sighting, and have shown a lot of interaction like rubbing and breast feeding.
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Proprietors Bill & Cathy Stoller purchased the nearly 400-acre property that is now Stoller Vineyards, which was originally his family's turkey farm, in 1993 and crafted their inaugural Pinot Noir in 2001. The rest, as they say, is history. Located in the heart of Oregon's Willamette Valley in the Dundee Hills, Stoller continues to produce world class wines in a stunning setting that features, among other amenities, a panoramic view of Mt. Hood.
I have always been of the opinion that Oregon produces the very best Pinot Noirs in the U.S., and the 2008 Stoller JV Estate is yet another stunning example of that assertion. By the way, the JV refers to Jeunes Vignes, "junior vines," the younger vines on the estate.
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In the coming decade, NATO faces growing fiscal austerity and declining defense budgets. This study analyzes the impact of planned defense budget cuts on the capabilities of seven European members of NATO:the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, the Netherlands, and Poland. The authors assess the implications of the cuts for NATO capabilities and strategy and for U. S. policy.
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Following on a series of RAND Corporation studies of nation-building, this monograph analyzes the impediments that local conditions pose to successful outcomes in these interventions. It examines how external actors and local leaders in a variety of societies modified or worked around those conditions to promote enduring peace.
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The lovely weather that rolled into town this week appears to be here to stay – at least for a couple of days.
The National Weather Service in State College is forecasting a continuation of bright, mild sunny weather for the rest of the week.
Daytime highs will be in the low 80s through at least Sunday, with mostly sunny or partly sunny skies forecast for the same time period. Lows in the evenings will dip down to the high-50s and low-60s. There is no rain expected the rest of the week.


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Each year, World Breastfeeding Week is celebrated Aug. 1-7. This year's campaign celebrates 20 years with the theme "Understanding the Past, Planning for the Future."
It is a special time to raise awareness and show support for breastfeeding families in communities around the world. I have chosen this year to pursue a career as an international board certified lactation consultant.
I have been busy reading and preparing for the exam. Scattered throughout my house are textbooks, study guides and practice exams. I often discuss the benefits and importance of breastfeeding with anyone willing to listen.
One evening while studying on the couch with my children playing around me, I noticed my 9-year-old daughter playing with her dolls. She was pretending her big doll was caring for her smaller doll.
I stopped to watch her play, then found myself compelled to ask, "does your doll nurse her baby?" I was unsure how she would react to this question.
She simply said, "yes, she does!" She proceeded to position the doll and her baby in a beautiful skin-to-skin pose all on her own. She used a small blanket to fashion a sling-like wrap, saying, "this is how the baby nurses best," just as she has seen in pictures from my books.
In that moment, I realized a simple lesson I would not have learned from textbooks. My daughter has gained an understanding of the importance of breastfeeding by the examples set by our family. She grew up seeing her younger brother and sister breastfeed and learned breastfeeding is normal and natural. She understands my role in supporting successful breastfeeding experiences for other families.
Our children learn from our actions and examples. I plan to share this year's World Breastfeeding Week events with my daughter and share the picture of her dolls to symbolize this simple lesson.
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When the vicar's bride arrives in Hatfield, she __________________ herself as the arranger of entertainments, usurping the role that Emma Woodhouse has hitherto claimed as hers.
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A panel of real estate, urban planning and architecture experts studying how to create more open, green spaces in downtown New Orleans will reveal their recommendations at a meeting Wednesday night.
The panel, organized by the Urban Land Institute of Louisiana and the Downtown Development District, recently spent two days going over the possibilities for an area of the city that has transitioned into a residential neighborhood as office towers are converted into apartments.
"The DDD is working to be a leader in creating a greener environment, and to improve the access to public space for an expanding group of downtown users,"Downtown Development District President and CEO Kurt Weigle said in a news release. "We want to be creative in determining what, where, and how these types of spaces can and should be incorporated into downtown New Orleans."
The meeting will be held from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. at the AIA Design Center, 1000 St. Charles Ave.
The experts gathered input from residents, other developers, hotel and other business owners and city officials, the two agencies said.
The possible projects include a dog park, a children's playground, tiny green spots known as "parklets," and green belts along streets, among other options, according to the Downtown Development District's website.
The panel members are: Peter Aamodt, Stirling Properties; Joseph C. Canizaro, Columbus Properties LP; Brian Gibbs, Brian Gibbs Development; Gary McNamara, First Bank & Trust; Wm. Raymond Manning, Manning Architects; Jordan B. Monsour, Butler Snow LLP; Elizabeth Mossop, Spackman, Mossop & Michaels; Sarah Olivier, Trust for Public Land; John Renne, University of New Orleans; Marcel Wisznia, Wisznia Architecture & Development; Cindy McSherry, ULI Chicago.
On Wednesday, the panel will reveal its recommendations on five questions:
- What are the best opportunities for open space enhancements downtown given its current conditions?
- Where should these spaces or amenities be located?
- What is the best development model for New Orleans?
- What financing or incentives are possible to encourage private development to incorporate each of these types of spaces into their projects?
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BROWNWOOD, Texas - A project to enhance safety began to see the light Wednesday morning.
The Ron Jackson State Juvenile Correctional Complex teamed up with the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDot) to install a crossing signal on the crosswalk between the juvenile center and the parking lot.
"It's a flashing yellow beacon and it's a warning light," TxDot's director of operations Carl Johnson said. "So the lights just flash for the drivers to see that something's happening and they need to be aware for pedestrians."
It is not a stop sign for drivers, but they need to slow down when they see the flashes down the road.
The Ron Jackson unit's training specialist Buddy Vaughn said he wanted to install a crossing signal ever since a fatality occurred there. Several years ago, a coworker was crossing the street at night when he was hit and killed by a vehicle. The center planted a tree and built a small memorial in his honor.
"It was devastating for our campus when that happened," Vaughn said. "It's been in my mind to bring awareness, not only to our staff, but also our volunteers and our visitors. It's imperative to ensure safety when they're crossing the road."
Johnson said this will be beneficial especially to those who get off duty at night.
The crossing signal, which was paid for by TxDot, costs $2,500.
Vaughn said everyone should remember the advice they often give to kids: look both ways before you cross the street.
Local News
- Brownwood police asking for public's help in finding escaped man
- Blanket man gets 15 years for two separate agg. assault cases
- Brownwood woman gets 20 years in prison for injuring child
- Brownwood City Council approves bid for sports complex additions
- Brownwood City Council unanimously passes new budget


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Wendler 5/3/1....Good workout ! Got 9 reps on my last set of 5 on OHP.
5x10 60kg slow squats - all in my new VFF - took squats easy as I didn't want to strain my feet (that sounds odd!)
3x 1min of fast skipping
3x10 shoulder press @ 40kg
3x10 myotatic crunch
3x20 medicine ball throws @6kg
3x10 press-ups on reversed bosu - taking it easy as I think I've damaged a muscle or ligament in my chest.
3x10 single arm bent-over row @ 32kg
3x10 shoulder fly @ 6kg
3x10 bicep curl at 14kg
Starting weight: 104.5 kg / 230 lbs (29th July 2011)
100.5kg / 221 lbs (5th August 2011)
Currently: 99.2kg / 218.6 lbs (23rd September 2011)
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Wendler 5/3/1....Good workout ! Got 9 reps on my last set of 5 on OHP.
Yesterday, felt kindda tired after work, but because my husband was picking me up from the rec centre, decided to do a steady state cycle instead of the last part of my walk (rec centre to home stretch) for 30 min. WRONG! I was struggling to keep HR at 120 bpm (normally shoot for 150), and then 25 min in, shaky, dizzy... didn't know at the time if I was crushing on calories or overtrained, so rested in the steam-room/hot tub, came home, re-fed. Crushed on calories, thanks goodness. Because of those episodes, I still think there is something wrong with my sugar/insulin/whatever even if the fasting glucose is Okay. A gal can't eat a decent lunch at noon, and have an episode like that at 4:30 after a light stretch and sitting on her butt and a light cycle for no reason. Checked my weight this morning just in case, and there was no alarming drop, basically looks like a maintain plus some expected water retention.
Madcow/3x5 this morning. SQT to 85 lbs; OHP: 3x5 @ 55 lbs felt so light (after a couple of struggling workouts), I loaded 60 lbs for the 3rd set (pressed 5, no problem), and then tried a single of 70 lbs (F), tried a single of 65 lbs (F). Gave up and did DL's, to 158 lbs (HARD!). Finally, a vanity set of frontal delts, 3x8 with 15 lbs (failed at 17.5 after 3rd rep) & a few chins/pull-ups. Tried dips to see if the tricep got the message, failed on 4th rep, so kicked myself out of the gym. Gosh, would have given a fortune to crawl into bed and sleep it over....
Will walk at lunch and do free-flow/stretch w/o planks and push-ups, since the arms feel worked in every which way. Push-ups are getting pretty cool lately, I touch the floor with my nose, chest and thighs, neato. Time to switch to the tricpe push-up!
Tomorrow, no f'ing about, a bona fide recovery day, just walking. And that's an order.
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Jen... I am wicked sore from those presses yesterday, I'm feeling it mostly in my traps/back of my shoulders... Chin-ups just take practice, practice, practice unfortunately. I once did 13 chins when I was put on the spot in front of a bunch of buff guys for a job position as a personal trainer... I had so much adrenaline during my set I was shaking when I was done! I'd be shocked if I could get that again! I don't do much practice with them now, but might start putting some weights in my backpack. I prefer to do lower reps rather than higher reps with chins because.. well.. I'd like the pain to be over quicker. ;-)
My worst fear is "losing" it in an OHP. I really ought to learn how to "drop" weights safely. My biggest sticking point is my squat, and the fact that deadlifts make my erectors ache (they are chronically tight from over-use/straining unless I am very good with my active recovery..), so I can't work on that much either. I think my back is my weak point, and that kills me. I just want a 135# squat!! :-(
Sandbag Hill Sprints today - 10 hill sprints with a sandbag over the shoulders, 10 squats at the top of each hill.
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Jane--My back is my weak point too and have a similar fear about dropping weight! I am working on those chin-ups, slowly but surely. I am sore, too, from OHP.
Coach Palfrey--I think I am going to try this workout. Don't have a sandbag, but maybe a heavy book bag? I really like your workouts, tho.
Today I worked on inverted rows, assisted pull-ups, push ups, heavy deads and static dip holds. Then five rounds of five deadlifts and 10 burpees. 7:35.
Walked the dog 2 miles
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Reverse Grip Push Ups off Power Stands x 20
Sit Ups x 20
Dumbell Rows x 10 each side
Kettlebell Swings x 20
Burpees x 10
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60 minutes of walking 8.5 incline 3.0 mph
Uhm, piece of unsolicited advice: I too feel that my back/core limit my squat, and what I do is walkouts and lift-offs. Walkouts is simply loading heavy weight on and stepping back to where you would squat & holding for ~ 30 sec. Lift-off is loading even heavier weight, unracking and holding on for 30 sec. My max SQT is 130 lbs, so I do a walkout with 200 lbs now, and LO with 250 lbs.
Anyway, just walking today, really need the recovery. I guess, the plan that I can do 3 HIITs in a week in addition to 3 lifting session is not going to work. Will see if I can manage 2 HIITs....
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Conspiracies and their theories
Each year in September conspiracies and conspiracies theories about 9/11 are being discussed all over again. The old questions – and a few newer ones – about the sequence of events, possible manipulations of the public and a possible involvement of US agencies are being raised anew.
But, do we really have good reasons to believe that the "true" conspirators are yet to be found? There is no lack of alternative plots on the internet, of course.
"Nothing but conspiracy theories!", many people will say. While there is no shortage of real conspiracies in politics, finance and sports, the term "conspiracy theory" is used to imply a wild speculation without any foundation in the real world, or even a plain defamation. But how would we know? Is there a way to tell a real conspiracy from a devised one? There are, indeed, a number of indications. Real world conspiracies follow certain rules, rules which most invented conspiracies happily ignore.
Machiavelli about conspiracies
About five hundred years ago, the Italian statesman Niccolò Machiavelli wrote his famous works The Prince and Discourses. With a rational mind he analysed the mechanisms and conditions of governance and didn't shy away from the conclusion that a good and stable government cannot not always afford to be fair and just. He saw the stability of the state as an important value because a decaying state cannot guarantee the safety of its citizens. In Machiavelli's time, northern Italy was divided into a large number of city states that were constantly at war with each other. They formed and breached alliances for short-lived advantages. They hired mercenaries (condottieri) who regularly turned against their employers and overthrew governments. Machiavelli was a successful diplomat for his home town Florence, but one day he was falsely accused of a plot to murder the city ruler. He was imprisoned and tortured, but to no avail. Eventually, he was released, gave up his profession and began to write his books.
Therefore, Machiavelli's chapter about conspiracies is more than just a theory. He stated that:
most conspiracies fail (many are started, but only few succeed)
In spite of this, a conspiracy is the worst thing that can happen to a ruler. While only a few people will have the means to start an armed rebellion, everyone can plot against him.
Conspiracies should not last long and should not have more than three or four conspirators, because otherwise the risk of betrayal gets out of control.
While a conspiracy lasts, the plotters risk life (or death) sentence if the plot fails, therefore betrayal is always a temptation.
On the other hand, Caesar was murdered by a gang of more than 50 conspirators, and the gunpowder plot lasted more than one year. Still, the 36 barrels of gunpowder were only found one day before the planned attack on parliament and the king. This shows that a large and long lasting conspiracy is not necessarily doomed, but the probability that it fails increases dramatically with time and the number of conspirators. Certainly, a conspiracy running for centuries like Dan Brown depicts in "Angels and Demons" is extremely unlikely.
Conspiracy theories
While conspiracies are everywhere, conspiracy theories do not draw a realistic picture of them. In fact, they emerge from the suspicion that other people or groups may secretly be responsible for failures, accidents, catastrophes and unsolved crimes. This not a recent phenomenon, it has been known for thousands of years, even in the earliest hunter-gatherer tribes. Why are our hunters not finding any game? Because our enemies have secretly displaced or bewitched it! And the bolder the enemies deny any responsibility, the more certain we are that they are behind this. Let our warriors take revenge!
Nero accused the christians of plotting to burn Rome. They took revenge by accusing him and his henchmen of starting the fire. In medieval times, the Jews were the scapegoats for all kinds of epidemics and unsolved crimes.
The Bavarian Illumates were forbidden and dispelled in 1785, nonetheless they were made responsible for all kinds of subsequent events including the French revolution (together with the ungodly philosophers, the encyclopédists and the freemasons). The American geographer and minister Jedidiah Morse even declared that they were all French (as he held them responsible for the French revolution) and wanted to overturn the American government. From that time on, the Illuminates have spooked American conspiracy books mostly in the Latinized form "Illuminati". Over the years, they became more and more spooky until Dan Brown made them into an centuries-old secret society, with Leonardo da Vinci and Galileo as members.
The idea of secret demonic societies instigating monstrous crimes in the background is not very plausible, but it presents an easy explanation for misadventures and all the evil in the world. If everybody tries to make the world a better place, why doesn't it work? Very simple: secret evil forces sabotage every effort! Depending on one's standpoint, these can be international finance organisations, big oil, multi-national corporations, age-old secret societies, black helicopter folks, Jews or western intelligence agencies.
However, if we apply Machiavelli's criteria for conspiracies, most of these theories are extremely unlikely. So why do they thrive and prosper? The real reason may be a different one: humans tend to view their peer group as better, friendlier and more cooperative than other groups. This even applies to ad-hoc groups, as psychologists established more than 40 years ago1. But its gets worse: humans tend to be altruistic to their peer group (ingroup) and distrustful of other groups (outgroups). In psychology, this is called "parochial altruism"2,3. While the phenomenon as such has been known for quite a while, there is an ongoing debate if it is an evolutionary or a cultural trait. A simulation, published in Science in 2007 showed that this behaviour indeed constitutes an evolutionary advantage and therefore may prevail among humans. If so, conspiracy theories can be viewed as the rationalisation of our inherited mistrust against outgroups. Therefore they do not need any anchor in reality to gain adherents. Even if a poll states, for example, that 20% of the participants believe that the US government was somehow involved in the terrorists attacks on 9/11, this wouldn't prove anything about the attack, it would only prove that at least this percentage has a general mistrust against the former US government under President George W. Bush.
[1]Tajfel H, Billig, M, Bundy, RP & Flament C (1971) Social categorization and intergroup behaviour. European Journal of Social Psychology 1(2), 149-178
[2] Bernhard H, Fischbacher U, Fehr E (2006) Parochial altruism in humans . Nature 442, 912-915
[3] Choi JK & Bowles S (2007) The Coevolution of Parochial Altruism and War . Science 318, 636


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Joost Vrouenraets fainted the first time he danced The Rite of Spring. He was new to Maurice Béjart's Swiss company, and all the jumping in Béjart's version got to him during the initial rehearsal.
"I was so into it, I just fell on the floor. My colleagues had to carry me and smack my face so we could continue," recalls the Dutch choreographer, 34, who has been in Dallas since February creating his own Rite for Southern Methodist University dance students.
Set like dozens of other versions to Stravinsky's landmark ballet score, Vrouenraets' take premieres at SMU's Spring Dance Concert. In fact, by the time this weekend is over, North Texas dance audiences will have witnessed three versions of Le Sacre du Printemps, a.k.a. The Rite of Spring, this year.
Along with the SMU performances Friday through Sunday, the Paul Taylor Dance Company brings Taylor's Le Sacre du Printemps (The Rehearsal) to the Eisemann Center on Saturday.
Starting the Rite wave in January was the Joffrey Ballet's re-creation of Vaslav Nijinsky's original choreography, presented by arts organization TITAS at the Winspear Opera House.
It's no coincidence. The Stravinsky music and Nijinsky movement are 100 years old, and celebrations are under way worldwide. Like Vrouenraets, the Paris audience that saw the Ballets Russes' 1913 premiere was overcome but for different reasons.
Old-line classicists were outraged by Stravinsky's radical score, now considered one of the founding documents of musical modernism, and by Nijinsky's anti-ballet of knocking knees and stomping feet. A riot broke out in the theater.
Taylor believes Ballets Russes founder Sergei Diaghilev staged the conflict. "The so-called riot was set up by Diaghilev. It was manufactured," he says in a phone interview. "He seated young students next to rich people, and they didn't agree on anything."
By 1914, Stravinsky's innovative genius had been recognized, and The Rite of Spring began to be regularly performed by orchestras as a concert piece. In contrast, the choreography depicting a tribal sacrifice was lost after just a handful of showings in Paris and London when Diaghilev fired Nijinsky.
Since then, such choreographers as Martha Graham and Pina Bausch have come up with their own startling versions. In 1980, Taylor created The Rehearsal, a story-within-a-story. Using Stravinsky's two-piano arrangement, the modern-dance pioneer shows a company practicing a noir plot in which a woman seeks help from a private eye after a gangster steals her baby.
"There are simultaneous back-and-forth references, and the style of all the movement is very similar to the style in Nijinsky's version, very two-dimensional, flat, sort of like Egyptian hieroglyphics," Taylor says.
For SMU, Vrouenraets, co-founder of the Netherlands-based Gotra Ballet, decided to root his Rite of Spring in 21st-century rituals of greed, manipulation and fast, impersonal relationships.
"What I see is there is a lot of manipulation going on in the world, people manipulating each other, governments, corporations manipulating people," he says during a rehearsal. To express these societal controls, Vrouenraets dresses the 21 dancers in school uniforms and has built a set of five greenhouses for them to perform in and around. There is also a puppet that the Chosen One is supposed to mate with to create a superhuman, a comic-book twist on the Rite's original human sacrifice to spring.
The movement vocabulary is different from Nijinsky's, but it's just as frantic. At one point, the male dancers kick the females in the back and later jump on their necks.
Vrouenraets says he borrows imagery from everything he sees in our media-drenched culture, from graphic novels to YouTube videos.
"I don't want to be a purist," he explains. "I want to be a purist in my vision, but my vision is eclecticism. Everything I have in my luggage, I use."
Plan your life
SMU Spring Dance Concert at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday at the Bob Hope Theatre in the Owen Arts Center, 6101 Bishop Blvd., Dallas. $7 to $13. 214-768-2787. smu.edu/meadows/areasofstudy/ dance.
Paul Taylor Dance Company at 8 p.m. Saturday at the Eisemann Center, 2351 Performance Drive, Richardson. $45 to $65. 972-744-4650. eisemanncenter.com.


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The Tuxedo
Undoubtedly, first-time director Kevin Donovan dreams of a golden shower. What other explanation is there for opening your first movie with the image of a deer launching a blast of warm piss into a stream and then having the camera follow the urine molecules all the way into a bottled water factory? Clearly, there's some fascination with urine here because urine-contaminated water has virtually nothing to do with this film.
I really have no clue what this guy is trying to get at. Is he suggesting that bottled water has urine in it? Even the lowliest of water treatment plants in the U.S. manage to rid our drinking water of most foul smells and chemicals. Sure, the main bad guy in this film, Diedrich Banning (Ritchie Coster) has concocted some plan to introduce some dehydration chemical into the world's drinking water, but I still don't know what that has to do with a deer urinating in a stream.
Maybe Jennifer Love Hewitt was really pissy on the set and Donovan was overwhelmed by his lack of directorial control? Hewitt plays Del Blaine, a CSA operative and partner to Clark Devlin (Jason Isaacs), an agent she's never met. This is fortunate because Clark gets hurt and his driver, Jimmy Tong (Jackie Chan), impersonates him. Consequently, Del doesn't know that Jimmy isn't Clark, even though one supposes she at least knows Clark has an English accent. Del must assume that Clark is just really deep undercover.
Jimmy discovers that the secret to Devlin's suave, debonair, secret agent schtick lies in a suit that looks like a normal tuxedo but which is really a unique piece of technology that allows him to do Kung Fu and sing like James Brown. A secret agent just never knows when he might happen upon James Brown and be forced to sing like him. Del and Jimmy team up to stop Banning from poisoning the world's water supply (with bugs, not urine) so that he can sell his unique brand of bottled water. Gee, you think anybody might suspect the one guy who seems to have the clean water?
Jackie Chan and Jennifer Love Hewitt have all the sexual chemistry of Bert and Ernie. I don't know what instructions were given to Hewitt, but apparently even the book on "acting like a bitch" was too complicated for her. Watching her in "The Tuxedo" is like watching the elementary school acting prima donna lose her temper on stage after flubbing her lines. Donovan deserves similar disdain for having no idea about the role good pacing serves in an action film. The movie goes down like an Ecstasy overdose -- it just ramps up and stays there, which is great for drug-induced psychosis, but not so good for a Jackie Chan film where the word "breather" does have an actual point.
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HANAHAN — The city's former human resources director is accused of embezzling $24,354 worth of free health insurance for herself and her family.
State Law Enforcement Division agents on Friday charged Kimberly Crolley Murdaugh, 48, of Hanahan with embezzlement of public funds, a charge that carries up to 10 years in prison.
Murdaugh is the second Hanahan human resources director to come under scrutiny for alleged improprieties with public funds in recent months, authorities said.
In August, Berkeley County sheriff's deputies arrested Murdaugh's successor, Keyonda M. Garry, 31, of Murray Drive, on a charge of embezzling public funds. Garry is accused of using an automated transaction system to deposit $10,000 in city funds into her account at First Citizens Bank in June.
SLED had been investigating Murdaugh since March 2010, City Administrator Johnny Cribb has said.
Murdaugh, who was also the payroll director, secured city health insurance benefits for herself, her husband and her children but only made one partial payment toward her monthly premiums over a five-year period, according an arrest affidavit. But between December 2005 and March 2010, numerous claims were made on an ongoing basis with their insurance provider for her health care services for her and her family, the affidavit stated.
Cribb has said SLED handled Murdaugh's case because her husband, Mark Murdaugh, worked previously as an officer with Hanahan police. Mark Murdaugh, a lieutenant, has since retired from the force, police said.
Murdaugh held the human resources position from July 1994 until she was fired in March 2010, city officials said.


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Hello Cougar Nation! A most excellent Thursday to you all!
Today, we mark the start of a new era; one that will heretofore be known as "Khan-Tucky Fried Thursday." Suffice to say, this feature will run on a semi-regular basis, meaning, it will run until such time that the season starts or I get fired from this blog for the 7th time in the last four years.
Anywho, today I am en route to the mighty west coast, ready to feed some "knowledge" about Finite Mixture Modeling (Unfortunately, I'm not kidding about this) to a bunch of fellow super nerds at a conference.
So, in the spirit of getting all academic on the American people, I thought it appropriate to insert a bit of disciplinary lingo into today's title…..
For more on that, read on…
Nation, in the coming weeks, we will start to witness a variety of pre-season Top 25 polls. While each of these polls are exciting to sports dorks like myself—particularly when my team is included in them—they're also often pretty clone like. Meaning, notwithstanding a few important outliers, these polls tend to look increasingly the same as May becomes June, as June blurs into July and so forth. The reason? Many of the CFB pundit folk not named Miller or Condotta tend to rely on the opinions of others in lieu of forming opinions of their own.
(As an aside, this is one of the primary reasons why I never read. Some think that makes me uninformed, but I prefer to view myself as a practicing expert of irresponsible originality)
Of course, this tendency to co-opt the takes of others is problematic for several reasons. But chief among them is the fact that relying on the "word" of others often means ignoring the nuances of each team's schedule, including how a tough loss here or there can significantly impact the way that a season unfolds. For example, if their early season schedule was properly evaluated, I believe that a certain school from Western Washington would NOT be ranked in ANY pre-season poll!!!
Anyhow, notwithstanding the Muttlakes to the West, we all have seen how one unanticipated hiccup can really ambush the fortunes of a pretty good football team. I mean, twice in the past six years, CAL
has taken a No. 2 ranking into a contest against one of the Oregon schools and has proceeded to all-but lose out after falling to the Beav-Quacks.
Similarly, Oregon (with Dennis Dixon hurt) and Arizona (which started the end of Ole Yeller) both turned 6-1 starts into 7-5 finishes in recent years. And, last year both Arizona State and Washington took 6-2 starts and top 25 rankings and proceeded to all-but flush the rest of the season right down the drain.
Of course, those choke jobs occurred with programs that had been to bowl games within the previous two seasons; SELDOM do we witness the type of miracle, season-saving comebacks that we saw two years ago when the Muttlakes survived three straight do-or-die weeks en route to turning a 3-6 start into a 6-6 finish. And the reason why such an end of season surge is so uncommon for bottom feeders is that the psychology of those teams is just much more fragile than it is for winning programs. Simply put, teams with histories of losing usually need to gain senses of confidence and competence early on in the season if they are to truly turn things around.
Which bring me to the "meat" (cough! cough!) of today's rant…..
At the beginning of last year, we here at the WSU Football Blog were resolute that the key to the season rested on two key swing games. The first of those games was against the San Diego State Aztecs, and the second was to the UCLA Ruins.
Of course, in both of those games, we entered the 4th quarter leading the football game. But, because we ultimately lost both of those games, all of the remaining potential/quasi "winnable" games left on the schedule (Oregon State, California, Washington/Utah) became "must wins" just to become bowl eligible.
So now, as we look forward to the 2012-2013 season, we can see that the schedule once again shapes up for a favorable start. UNLV once again figures to be significantly less talented than ourselves, Eastern will pose little problem to us in the second half, and Colorado, though improved, still figures again to be a bottom feeder, made even more vulnerable by the loss of their All-Conference candidate WR to a season ending ACL injury. In other words, win the games that are the near "gimmes" on paper and this team is half way to bowl eligibility after the first four games alone!
From there, well, we have the Oregon game, which Bud Withers recently described as "intriguing if not richly competitive." And then we have Oregon State, the game which two years ago signaled the start of Wulff's resurrection, while last year signaled the near certain end of his demise…
Of course the point in all of this is that there are two games on this schedule which figure to mirror our games against San Diego State and UCLA. And they are the road opener at BYU and the Week 6 roadie against Oregon State. Mind you, both BYU and the Beavs figure to be improved football teams this upcoming year. But, their improvement aside, we really shouldn't kid ourselves: BYU got PASTED 54-10 by their instate rivals (Utah) last year and would probably be picked to challenge WSU and OSU for the basement if they were in the Pac-12 North. Oregon State, though potentially bolstered by a strong secondary a decent D-Line, not to mention a quarterback and WR with a strong upside, should not be confused with an upper division threat. In fact, even folks who think the Beavs will be much better this year
are thinking about measuring the Beavs' potential success within the context of a lower tier bowl.
Now, will we win either of those two games this fall? Well, that's for a future post. But suffice to say that we will HAVE to win one of those two games just in order to become bowl eligible. And, while winning both is certainly no guarantee of anything, a 5-1 start coupled with Leach's mystique will signal that a November to remember on the Palouse is forthcoming.
And for a program which has 7 wins the past three season, that prospect alone is reason enough to celebrate.
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Stop Ordering Off The Kids' MenuSierra Black
When I was pregnant with my first child, I read a memorable humorous essay on how to take a baby to a restaurant. The advice was simple and compelling: Don't.
It's advice I've happily (and sometimes unhappily) ignored for six years, as I've dragged my kids through restaurants ranging from high-end downtown places with star chefs to our local pizza joint. Few of these places have kids' menus.
Which means we could probably enjoy a family meal at I Trulli in New York. The owner, Nicola Marzovilla, explains to the New York Times this week why he believes children's menus are the death of civilization.
Marzovilla correctly points out that the family meal is an important part of a child's development. Your parents' table is where you learn your manners, acquire your taste in food, eat the stuff that nourishes you day to day and connect with your family.
Children's menus are the opposite: they're about sidetracking kids to something fast, cheap and easy while the parents enjoy their meal. The message, to kids and parents, is that children can't enjoy complex, novel flavors.
On the one hand, I couldn't agree more. I have fearlessly fed my kids everything I like to eat since they first began grabbing it off my plate. My kids love sushi more than pizza, and for her birthday dinner my 6 year old requested Indian food.
However. Many kids don't enjoy trying new things, and are prone to throwing tiresome fits when forced to. Maybe the morally righteous thing to do from a cultural or nutritional perspective is to press through the tantrums and help your child develop a more eclectic palate. But it's probably not in anyone's best interest to choose a restaurant as the battleground for that fight.
Moreover, even adventurous little eaters can get overwhelmed by a restaurant environment and want something safe and familiar. Most of the restaurants we go to are ethnic restaurants that don't offer a dedicated children's menu. But the ones we go back to over and over are family-owned places where the owners come out to the table and spoil the girls with little sweet breads and fruit plates while mom and dad enjoy their curry.
What I'd love to see is more restaurants following the example of Full Moon, in Cambridge, Mass. They offer healthy, delicious, interesting food for kids and adults, accompanied by a large children's play area and a lovely wine list.
How do you handle restaurant menus with your kids? Do you order from the kiddie menu, or challenge them to try new things?
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