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Australian Community Climate and Earth-System Simulator (ACCESS). Based upon the UK Met Office Unified Model system. ACCESS G is the global numerical forecast model operated by the BoM. It is run twice daily (00Z and 12Z) and provides forecast data out to 240 hours with a horizontal resolution of 25km and 70 vertical levels.
Weather News
Turbulent Thursday in Vic, Tas, SA
Parts of Victoria, Tasmania and South Australia could be lashed by storms and damaging winds on Thursday as a cold front sweeps across Australia's southeast.
How to protect yourself from lightning strikes
It is storm season in Australia and, while being struck by lightning is considered a rare occurrence, there are several steps people can take to keep safe.
Storms plaguing NSW, Qld
Storm-weary parts of southeast Queensland and northeast New South Wales are preparing for another bout of wild weather today.

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August 14, 2013 —
Sullivan County, along with the Town of Warwasing in Ulster County, is one of five special zones in the country designated as Rural Economic Area Partnership (REAP) Zones. The REAP Zone status allows the region to have priority access to federal funding from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA); in 2012 and 2013, communities and organizations in the county received over $485,000 in federal investments.
On August 9, Senator Kirsten Gillibrand and Congressman Chris Gibson travelled to Cornell Cooperative Extension of Sullivan County (CCE) to say they are pushing to pass a version of the federal farm bill that will maintain the county's REAP Zone status.
Gillinbrand said the projects that can be funded by the USDA include rehabilitation of rural housing, developing local and regional food systems, supporting rural entrepreneurs and small businesses, infrastructure improvements to community facilities, water and other similar projects that are critical to the area's overall economic development.
She said an example of a project that is taking advantage of REAP zone funding is a commercial community kitchen. She said, "Cornell Cooperative and the Liberty Community Development Corporation teamed up to create a commercial community kitchen that will become part of Sullivan County's food hub and incubate new food industry- and agriculture-related economic activity."
Gibson said, "My top legislative priority for the fall is getting a farm bill enacted into law. It is essential not only for our farmers, but also for our rural communities that we have policies in place, like the REAP designation, that support their future. I have put a focus here in Sullivan County, with an office and a staff that are dedicated to helping Sullivan County succeed. I am proud to join with Senator Gillibrand in this effort, and appreciate her continued commitment to getting this farm bill done for our New York communities," said Congressman Gibson.
Among the approximately 100 people who turned out for the event were Sullivan County legislators Cora Edwards, Cindy Gieger, Gene Benson, Ira Steingart, Kitty Vetter and county legislature chairman Scott Samuelson, who said, "The Sullivan-Warwarsing REAP zone has been a great assistance to Sullivan County over the years for our economic development goals, especially in our rural and farming communities. We are grateful to Senator Gillibrand for her continued support of the REAP Zone and her commitment to extending those benefits."
Greg Sandor, executive director of the CCE, said, "We applaud Senator Gillibrand for her willingness to get out into the community and work 'hands on' with farmers not only relating to production issues, but for her tremendous help with our marketing efforts".


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Times New Viking's three members live in three different cities now, and live shows are scarce. But the band that brought international attention back to Ohio's historically skewed and skuzzy underground rock tradition is still alive — though certainly mellowed and refined — and a new EP is coming out on Siltbreeze this Tuesday to prove it.
Over & Over presents 14 minutes of TNV at its most wistful. Jared Phillips' guitar and Beth Murphy's keys are reined in from former ear-splitting aggression into melancholic pop experiments sewn together by Murphy and Adam Elliott's hypnotic vocals. It's an immensely appealing version of a unit that has already proved its ability to rip. If this is the sound of TNV hitting their 30s, let's get an entire album of it pronto.


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Ken Clark – Steve Benton
Yvette Vickers – Liz Walker
Bruno VeSota – Dave Walker
Jan Shepard – Nan Greyson
Michael Emmet – Cal Moulton
Gene Roth – Sherriff Kovis
Filmed in the Florida swamps, a true land of massive heat and prehistoric visions, Giant Leeches has a very familiar premise to fans of atomic age sci fi: typically benign creatures, in this case a pair of leeches, have been turned to giants by radiation- in this case from the nearby rocket station at Cape Canaveral. These leeches have also become intelligent as well, attacking the sad denizens of the swamp only when they have an advantage.Our story opens with a poacher, Lem Sawyer (George Cisar) tooling his flat bottomed boat through the reeds of the swamp, checking his otter traps. He sees something odd near a weedy bank, something large and dark. He squints for a moment, then his eyes go large and white as the creature makes a hideous sort of howling sound. Without any further hesitation, Lem grabs his lever-action 44-40 off the boat seat and just keeps working the lever until the magazine is empty. The thing, apparently completely unharmed, slips away under the thick sludge of the swamp and vanishes. Lem, breathing hard and blinking, takes a quick guzzle from a pocket pint and poles his way quickly back to shore.Once on solid ground, Lem hot-foots it to the local hangout: Dave Walker's bait shop and dry goods store; and in the grand tradition of everyone that spots an alien or a monster in the movies, he can't wait to blab hysterically to all his friends about it. True to form, his backwoods buddies assume he's either gone crazy or was drunk (the latter being the favored assumption since every one of these peckerwoods seems to carry a jug around at all times). As the boys yuk it up, blaring jazz from a back room becomes so loud Lem shows a moment of irritation (how's a man supposed to come off crazy as a shit-house-rat with all that racket going on?)."Hold on a second, Lem," says Dave Walker (Bruno VeSota). He turns toward a room off behind the store's counter. "Liz!" He barks. This gets him nothing but an uncomfortable silence. He turns to the door manfully. "You hear me girl?"We hear heels clacking casually over a wood floor, and Liz Walker (Yvette Vickers) makes her entrance. The tinkling piano of the unseen phonograph suddenly seems quieter as all the boys wipe their mouths and turn, stretching their necks like turtles, eyes growing round so as to absorb all of this vision they can. Liz is wearing a loosely adorned kimono bathrobe and plenty of leg and underwear, working a toothbrush in and out of her mouth. She leans back against the doorframe, looks at her husband coolly, and takes the brush out of her mouth. "What do you want now?" she asks him.Dave shoots a nervous glance at his sweat-stained amigos, but manages a mannish swagger as he walks over to his wife. "You have to play that thing so loud?" he says at high volume, then leans in closer and says softly. "What you wanna come out dressed like that for?"Again the toothbrush comes out. "Oh, don't bother me," says Liz, and turns on her heel and somehow manages, in only three strides, to give the boys another neck-stretching show as she moves back into the bedroom.
"Liz—" says Dave, but she's gone. He stands there a moment, looking at nothing, then gathers himself and looks at this pals. "Someday, I'm gonna give that she-cat the whopping she's been asking for," he says loudly.The guys exchange glances, stifling grins. "Sure you are, Dave," says Cal Maulton (Michael Emmet), who is obviously the bully boy, cock-of-the-walk. "Lay the law down to her. Show her who wears the pants around here." A snuffled chuckle is heard, and Lem shakes his head and snorts openly."I'll be right back," said Dave, pretending he hasn't heard as he walks into the back bedroom.Once Dave is barely out of sight, Cal says, "Any whopping gets done back there, I'll lay you a jug she'll be doing it." This gets moonshine-soaked guffaws all around, and then the boys get back to the business at hand; which is making a standing fool of Lem over this business of "octopus things." Eventually, Lem - totally drunk now - staggers off to tend his otter lines and the party breaks up.In the back bedroom, we find Liz and Dave having words while Liz dresses to go "out" (by herself, that is). She expertly torments Dave, who is a good 10 years older and 100 pounds fatter than his cheetah-sleek wife, putting lotion on her legs and putting clothes on in a heated reverse striptease. "Don't touch me, " she snaps, as he succumbs with a trembling, seeking hand. "I'm your husband," he says, "I'll touch you any time I want." But there is a pleading wish in his voice as he follows her around the room, his stomach at the foremost. "Where you going?" He demands, but it's all air. "I'm going out," she says as though she had just been asked the most stupid question ever phrased. "Maybe I'll be back, and maybe I won't." Slam (looks like ol' Cal just won himself a jug!).Meanwhile, out in the swamp, we find Game Warden Steve Benton (Ken Clark) and his girlfriend, Nan Greyson (Jan Shepard) searching for the very traps cracker poachers like Lem have littered throughout the soggy terrain. Girlfriend Jan is a Florida native (though, judging by her actually clean clothes and diction, clearly of a higher social strata than the previously seen customers at Dave's General Store), and she warns him the locals aren't going like having their trap lines confiscated. "You're new here," she tells her big, stalwart bo, "these people aren't like other folks." Steve, though, is obviously a terribly unimaginative, ramrod straight warranted officer of the Florida Department of Fish and Wildlife, and has dedicated his life to the preservation and protection of the land and it's animals (yawn). He bushes away his girlfriend's extremely valid concerns with a few "let 'em try" comments then crushes his girl in an embrace. As Jan declares her love, we hear screams from somewhere off in the swamp; first a man's – high and pitiful, then a woman's (one of the many fine aspects of this movie is the sound effects throughout, particularly the screams. They actually sound filled with human terror and pain, that is, not theatrical at all, and very disconcerting). Steve grabs his revolver from the truck and he and Jan go dashing into the heavy brush.They find Liz Walker screaming her head off while Lem, or what's left of him, clings to a tree. Lem has horrible lesions, bloody tears and round pits, all over his face and body (his clothes have been nearly stripped off) and is in some fish-eyed catatonic state (a particularly effective shot here as Lem stares briefly directly at the camera/us – a shot that shouldn't work as well as it does). While Liz screams and screams, Lem slumps to the ground, deader than yesterday's halibut.When Warden Benton dutifully makes his report to the local Sherriff, he gets his first taste of what his girl tried to warn him about. The local law, Sherriff Kovis (Gene Roth), has nothing but contempt for this interloping, snot-nosed warden from the State and doesn't bother to interrupt his lunch. He sits hunched over his bowl of stew, barely taking his eyes of his seed catalog, while Benton demands an inquiry. Nope, says, Kovis around a mouth of possum gruel. Coroners' Office called it death by misadventure, meaning a gator got him. Now, what say you go piss up a rope, young fella? But what about the sucker marks, pleads Benton to no avail. The Sherriff isn't about to go sloshing around in the swamp for some gator that messed up a poaching, moonshiner like Lem Sawyer; and, not for nothing, the good Sherriff is not the sort of man who has a sympathetic ear for outlandish tales. After some heated words with the Warden, Kovis gets back to his bowl of stew and this season's seed selection.Benton heads back to his girlfriend's house and discusses things with Doctor Greyson, Liz's father. While the men weigh the matter, Liz serves up some coffee. It's decided that maybe Lem wasn't such a 'shine soaked fool after all, maybe he really did see something unnatural out there. In typically humorless fashion, our game warden swears to uncover the truth, even if he has to search "every backwater, channel, and wet spot in the swamp. If it's there, I'll find it." (again: yawn). Benton and his wildly loyal girlfriend spend the next few days in a flatboat, poking through the weeds, their faces shiny with sweat (the actors, particularly the game Ms. Shepard, appear genuinely exhausted and uncomfortable, which isn't hard to imagine. A short, personal note: I live in Florida and have spent afternoons in the swamp, in a flat-bottomed boat. I did this when I was younger. Much younger. Suffice to say, I will not ever have that pleasure again unless I am knocked unconscious and awake to the experience. If you watch this movie and think the film makers have overdone the sweaty, filthy look of all the locals, think again. You look like that before you've poled 20 feet from the bank).Back at Dave's General Store, there's trouble. Liz is tearing into her husband, while Dave stoically puts together an order for a customer. Her contempt is scorching, but Dave continues to tell her how much he loves her. This, of course, drives the curvy Liz into a nearly hissing frenzy. Actor Bruno VeSota is a tremendous frump, shuffling around the store, barely lifting either his voice or his eyes as he carries the carton of groceries out to his truck for delivery. He exits the store to the sound of merchandise clattering to the floor and his wife's curses. Luckily, Dave's best friend, Cal, is lounging around out front to comfort him. Trouble? Asks Cal helpfully. Ah, you know women, says Dave, nearly managing a scrap of dignity, they have to let their hair down sometimes. Yep, you sure know a lot about women, says Cal. Thanks, Cal, you're a real pal - now I gotta make this delivery.Cal, naturally, is Liz's lover, a responsibility he attends to promptly the moment Dave's truck pulls away from the store. Inside, we find Liz waiting, leaning against a doorframe. 'You want something, Cal?" she says. "I sure do, honey," answers Cal.The two take a drive to a secluded patch of swamp and make love. Dave, though, has made short work of his delivery and surprises them with a double barreled shotgun. He walks the pair through the swamp and into the water, meaning only to scare them, but they are attacked and dragged beneath the warm, dark surface by the pair of giant leeches. In a great scene, the pair go down kicking and screaming while Dave, horrified, can only watch while stumbling backward in terror.The Sherriff and his deputies show up and, after listening to Dave's story, simply arrest and all but lynch the browbeaten Dave for the murder of his wife and lover right there on the bank. The Sherriff's men search the swamp for bodies, but find nothing. OK, Dave, demands the Sherriff, after you killed them, where did you stash the bodies? "I loved my Liz," says Dave, his eyes still glazed with horror. "I wouldn't do anything to hurt her.""Sure, you loved her," says Sherriff Kovis. "That's why you chased her through the swamp with a shotgun." Though lunkheaded, it's hard to fault the Sherriff's cynicism in this instance, although Bruno VeSota is so good as the pathetic Dave, we know his misplaced love for Liz was complete.
Things descend sharply after Dave's arrest. For starters, Dave hangs himself in prison with his belt, unable to free himself of the visions in is head. Also, poachers and fishermen begin to vanish at a fair clip, along with local deer and livestock. Coincidentally, all other life in the swamp, including gators, have vanished. In one of the film's best set pieces, we discover the fate of the missing: They have been dragged below to an underwater cave, a pocket of rank, fetid air that exists somewhere near the swamp bank. Here, the leeches devour the victims slowly, their terrible round appendages sucking flesh and blood from the faces and bodies; turning Liz, Cal, and all the other unfortunates into living food sacks - no longer possessing the strength to do anything but wail in anguish as divots and rings of flesh are taken bit by bit (in one tremendous sequence, it even seems that one of the giant suckers, attached to the side of a victim's head, is sucking the brains right through the ear canal). We see them in the dripping darkness, their white, bloodless faces nearly glowing in the dank luminescence, their weak howls echoing against the cavern's walls.Above ground, Game Warden Benton, Doc Greyson, and Nan pursue a solution in their grim, plodding fashion. Displaying perhaps his backwoods Florida roots, Doc Greyson does come up with an idea pretty damn quick, and that is to toss enough dynamite into the swamp to turn the whole stinking shithole into a pit of steam. What this concept lacks in sophistication it more than makes up for in brute force, and Nan likes it. Under the circumstances, a few swamp rats, catfish, and gators are a price all concerned seem willing to pay. Not square-head Steve, though, who is a great big hunk of dull blonde if there ever was one. Benton has sworn to preserve and protect the wildlife of the State of Florida, blah, blah. Even Nan, who has sat on a hard boat slat and sweated through many a blouse for her man, looses patience. Steve's stance is particularly rigid considering that, by all available evidence, all life either in or near the swamp is already gone.One afternoon Doc and daughter manage to slip a few sticks dynamite into the swamp, unbenounced to Benton (this despite Benton's promise to arrest the Doctor if he uses explosives). Benton shows up just in time to watch a pair chalk-white bodies bob to the surface (the dynamite has dislodged them from the leech's lair). A coroner quickly establishes that all the bodies, despite having been reported missing days ago, are all freshly dead and drained of blood. Steve forgets about the sanctity of rats and mosquitoes for a moment and theorizes that the leeches are keeping their groceries in underwater caverns. The Doc takes it a step further, figuring out that Liz Walker, the last person still missing, might still be alive – meat on the hoof, as it were.Steve and an old war buddy get some scuba and decide to investigate. While below, Steve is attacked by a leech and shoots a spear home (the leeches, when not actively sucking brains, seem fairly inoffensive at this first extended viewing – sort of like large, immobile trash bags). Steve comes back to the surface to get a fresh spear. Need any help? asks his buddy. Naw, says Steve, oddly confident considering the preceding carnage. I got this. While Steve is below the dead body of Liz Walker floats to the surface, and Steve's pal pulls her white, bloodless body from the water and flops it into the boat like a net of fish.Meanwhile below, things are not going very well for Steve in round two. This time, the leeches (due to some clever editing) seem far more menacing, and Steve is battling for his life with spear and knife. He begins tugging frantically on the lifeline, which summons his buddy into the fray. The two just barley manage to flounder to shore with their lives. Steve, nearly suffering now from shock and covered in a blanket, has a complete change of heart regarding the use of dynamite. Screw the ducks and turtles. His only concern now is how fast can a charge be rigged up and is there enough explosives on hand to do the job good and proper. "It'll blow the bottom out," assures the war pal with a grin (I can't find credits for the actor playing Steve's war buddy, but he's solid as a rock. His character seems to have missed the action of war and is having the time of his life)."Let her rip," says Game Warden Benton, still huffing for breath, no longer concerned one little bit about reports, promotions, or egrets.The place erupts in a ball of swamp gas, the leeches float to the surface, and Steve and Nan exchange an obligatory embrace while war buddy grins. The End.And so, to the Good Stuff:Good Stuff, Pt. I: A Cast of Characters.Steve Benton, erstwhile Game Warden, and his dutiful sweetheart, Nan, are the heroic duo of this tale. They are also two of the dullest folks that every strode the globe and the film falls flat whenever they give yet another expository speech while paddling around or drinking coffee. This is a film that loves the little people, and Kowalski's direction seems to spring to life whenever he has these filthy, sweaty corrupt character together in a scene. The torrid tale of Dave and Liz Walker, and Liz's brutish swamp boy, Cal, seems to come straight from a 1950s pulp novel by Jim Thompson. "Honey," says Cal, "You could tell me you killed your ma and your pa, and your whole family, and I'd still fight to protect you."All three characters hold our attention, are well written and particularly well acted. Yvette Vickers, a screen immortal for her work in Attack of the 50 foot Woman, is the sex-soaked vamp here again, and she takes the part and runs with it straight across the finish line. Vickers wasn't capable of giving a bad performance, and her commitment to any part she was given was complete. "You call yourself a man!" she howls at Cal, who blames her the moment Dave points a shotgun at his belly, "You and your muscles!" Vickers spits in his face like a frenzied cat. He smacks her in response, calls her a tramp. She gathers herself and spits on him again, putting her whole body behind it this time. In this scene, and others, her anger and pent up sexual power is nearly a tangible force, instantly turning her into the most interesting thing on the screen. Her voice flings insults and contempt like splashes of acid, and one wonders if her spit wouldn't cause blisters. Yet when she tells her tale of bad husbands and bad luck to Cal, it rings true and touching. Great actress.In love with this leggy harpy is Dave, and actor Bruno VeSota gives us nothing short of an acting tour de force. As the husband and store owner, he is all pathetic subservience and desperate need under a thin veneer of swamp-cracker bluster. He has managed a showcase wife several levels above his station in appearance (Liz tells Cal that Dave is the first man that ever talked nice to her), and he is forever under the thumb because of it.
But when VeSota, carrying a shotgun as though born with it in his hands, comes upon the unfaithful two stretched out on their private patch of grass, it is immediately clear the balance of control has shifted. "Get up," he says darkly, shotgun pointed down at the pair. Cal tries a brief stab at bravado, but Dave shatters that like a windowpane with a shotgun blast that blows a hole in the swamp at Cal's feet. Cal actually buckles at the knees in fright, and VeSota sends the pair running through the swamp, stumbling and falling, while he stalks them in measured, unhurried strides. While hunting, he calmly refills his side-by-side with double-ought buck, blasting the air now and then to keep the pair nimble. "Run!" he roars after them, his mouth a hate-torn slash in a full face close-up. "Run 'til you drop!"Finally Dave is through torturing the haggard pair and corners them at the swamp's edge. By this time there is something positively demonic about VeSota, his eyes deep and black in his face, his mustache suddenly inky and satanic. Bully boy Cal is crushed into a yammering tear-stained wreck, simply begging in a hysterical whine for his life. "Get going," says Dave, ordering them into the water, "or I'll kill you where you stand," The pair believe him 100%. They back up slowly, yelping all the way, until they are about hip deep in the slime and stink, and only then does Dave relent. He elicits a promise from Cal to leave the county in exchange for his life. As the two begin to make their way to shore, we see Dave's face suddenly go blank in fear. "Oh, my God," he mummers, gesturing numbly. "Behind you . . .look out."Later, when being question by the heavy-jawed Sherriff (played perfectly by long time B-movie veteran, Gene Roth), VeSota has been reduced to a fat, scared baby with round eyes, words bubbling from him as he stands with his small, fleshy hands handcuffed before him. He is completely ruined in both mind and body and it is perfectly believable when we discover, as does the turnkey, his massive body hanging from a overhead pipe in the jail cell.The Good Stuff, Pt. II: The Nightmare Fever of the Swamp!If you have ever walked through a Florida swamp and had the sudden realization that your feet have sunk a bit into the black muck, and been made aware in a flash that all around you is more black muck with no high ground, you will have touched upon the nightmare potential that dwells in the cypress and Spanish Moss. Humans like us were never meant for the swamp. It is the place for things that never need firm ground, that can wallow like snakes and alligators in prehistoric sludge and rot, can slither or slide through it; that can actually eat and digest filth like snapping turtles and catfish; or suck blood from other living things - like mosquitoes, green bottle flies, and leeches. Humans simply drip sweat here, get terrible headaches, and try not to get eaten while they slap continually at the biting parasites. Every living tree or bush, every growth, seems to hang with a kind of grey-green heaviness as it is absorbed forever down into the corruption of the earth.The film makers of Giant Leeches capture this surreal reality admirably, particularly in the scenes of the leeches dining on their human stash in the underwater caverns. This is the swamp hyper-realized: a place without firmness or escape, stinking of dead flesh and vegetation – where the human soul is nothing – the transient human vessel simply a piece of matter, falling eventually into the mire. Faces loom white and shapeless from the darkness, mouths only black holes full of moans. No salvation. No reward – just meat and substance in a cycle of ever darkening evolution.Please watch this film and notice how the white shapes float through the black water. -- Radiation Cinema!


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Early Independence Day Fireworks For The Phillies
The Phillies have been playing an unusual and frustrating game of hide and seek with their offense for well over a month now. Tonight against the Pirates, play time ended in the 3rd inning when the offense finally came out and yelled, "Here we are!" while scoring 5 runs.
The Phillies scored in 6 out of 9 innings tonight, making some wish they had saved a few runs for the next game. But the early Independence Day offensive fireworks display was long overdue. After scoring just 8 runs in their last 3 games, the Phils exploded tonight to the tune of 12 runs.
Every starter in the game had at least one hit. Ryan Howard and Jimmy Rollins each collected 3 RBI on 2 and 3 hits, respectively. Shane Victorino also had 3 hits and 1 RBI. Cody Ransom was called up from the minors and took the place of Brian Bocock on the roster. Ransom, right off the airplane, contributed immediately with 2 hits and an RBI.
Last year, Ransom filled in at 3rd for the Yankees when Alex Rodriquez was hurt. A knee injury this year delayed his call up to the Phils big club until today, but Ransom is healthy now and will fill need to a big hole as Placido Polanco recovers on the DL. But Ransom's defense came into question tonight when he dropped an easy pop-fly in the 8th inning. The 10-run lead made it less of an issue, but Ransom had better shape up quick. This team needs him to be solid at 3rd.
Ben Francisco started in place of Raul Ibanez who has just not been hitting. Francisco looked rusty his first few at-bats, but after a couple nice swings, he belted his first home run of the year and collected 2 RBI. The job in left field should be his for the taking if he continues to hit.
The only player who still looked perplexed at the plate tonight was Jayson Werth. He did hit an RBI double in the 4th that almost went for a homer, but he looked terrible in every other at-bat. Werth is taking strikes and swinging at balls. He struck out in his first at-bat on a ball in the dirt.
But with most everyone else hitting, Werth's struggles do not make a huge impact. Plus, Kyle Kendrick pitched a very good game, allowing just 3 earned runs in the 12-4 win. And for the first time in his major league career, he pitched a complete game. Congrats to Kendrick!
Having lost the first two games to a very bad team, the Phillies really need to come away with a split here and build momentum going into the Braves series which starts Monday. Joe Blanton will pitch in the finale tomorrow; game time is 1:35pm.
Photos by Jenn Zambri Photography
*Read more about the Phillies at my other home page, Phightin' Phils Phorum in the My Team Rivals network*
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You just watch– Werth will turn it around. Last night, he had fire in his eyes and with a little work He'll use his anger in a constructive way. What a beauty tonight! It's just what we needed. I hope that it carries through till tomorrow.
Just when you want to turn away a bit, they bring you back in.
Awesome that the boys remembered how to score runs. With the M*A*S*H unit going on in the trainer's room, it is great that the assembled Phillies got their game focused and rocked the house.
So many teams that were expected tobe at the toptier have seen their year take a weird bounce in the first half.
Only a week more of games then they teams can refocus and retake the standing. That is what the second half surge is all about…..right?
Rays Renegade


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#88243 - 12/02/02 05:00 AM ambilingual, equilingual
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Anyone here run across these? Any thoughts? I was chatting the other day to someone who explained that many academics have taken to using quite a range of new vocabulary when it comes to defining people's capabilities in languages. Although I do on the one hand understand the need to determine fairly accurately between different levels of knowledge, I think we've have got a neological shambles based on a pseudo science here. This site explains (authoritatively) on..
#88244 - 12/02/02 05:32 AM Re: ambilingual, equilingual
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An interesting site, by.
I was struck by this definition -
An equilingual can use all of his/her languages with equal, but not necessarily native proficiency in one, more or all of his/her languages
By this definition, I am equilingual in at least five languages - the ones in which I can say "Hello", Goodbye", "Thank you", "Please" and "Two beers", but nothing else.
#88245 - 12/02/02 05:41 AM Re: ambilingual, equilingual
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I am equilingual in Finnish, Swahili, Polish, and, now, Urdu. The other languages in which I can say, "I don't speak/understand/know [name of language]" I can also say a few other things.
#88246 - 12/02/02 01:30 PM Re: ambilingual, equilingual
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Your mention of Urdu brought to mind a surprising factoid I picked up from the CIA factbook. I already knew that Urdu, the language taught alongside English at my Dad's alma mater, was a minority language in Pakistan, despite being the official language of the country. What surprised me was how much of a minor language it is there. Many non-Maaori here are upset that a language spoken by, at the very most, 8% of the population should have dual status with English. According to the CIA, that's the percentage of Pakistanis for whom Urdu is their first language. That seems a vfery low percentage for a language designated as the sole official tongue of a nation. On the subject of equilingual, I'm with you and RhubC on this one , or as Steven Wright said, "Im a bilingual illiterate, I can't read and write in two languages."
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I was under the impression that Urdu is an artificial lingua franca similar to Esperanto, developed so that communication could take place amongst the many differing cultures.
If that is so (and I admit that my belief is based on a fairly shaky foundation!) then it is hardly surprising that it isn't the mother-tongue of many people - more surprising that it is as many as 8%.
(How many people speak Esperanto as a first language?)
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I don't know about the lingua franca thing, but it is the mother tongue of Ismail Noormohamed Abdul Rehman (aka Merchant), born in Bombay, so it has a long reach. Apparently, the preservation of Urdu culture and literature is an abiding passion of Mr Rehman, and he even made an entire film devoted to the subject (if it were an autobiography he might have called it "Rehmans of Bombay"). It seems somehow unlikely to me that an "Esperanto" would develop such a culture, though not impossible.
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unlikely to me that an "Esperanto" would develop such a culture, though not impossible.
True enough, sjm. However, as an example of the possibility, the Nigerians have taken Pidgin - a language developed by the white rulers so that their "servants" could understand enough to serve, but not enough to really know what was going on - and turned it into a very vibrant language, with its own newspapers, books, song-lyrics and slang.
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Urdu is an artificial lingua franca
Might bear looking in to. I always thought it was more a natural lingua franca, not unlike Swahili. Basically Hindi with additions from Arabic, Farsi and Pashtu (mostly).
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Baron Davis has 9 TOs? What a "marginal" player. *sarcasm*
Bucks couldn't hit the broad-side of a barn. Air-Ball symphony - a tour-de-force, other than the terminator dunleavy. (probably the one guy I would pay money for to see join the knicks - hes a beast)
Without Mike Dunleavy ( who should be a starter ) - they were at risk of a 40-50pt blow-out by the 3rd quarter.
If the Bucks had shot as they have in the last 2 weeks, we would have been blown out - with just average showing.
Credit Chandler, Carmelo - BEASTING it on the Rebounds & shutting down dunleavy), JR Smith HUSTLE, and some Novak rebounds - for a lot of that win. Shumpert nails some shots toward the end that hold the lead - and Melo holding steady @ the free throw-line. We won with hustle and free-throws, we shot relatively poorly as well ( Melo did well shooting in the 1st Q ).
JR Smith made some solid moves to shoot inside the arc and take it to the basket.
Baron had several mistakes, turn-overs, was turning into a gas-less player at times, walking, just slow-motion dribble then slow-motion shoot then brick. Getting stolen from because he was just slowing down. He held it down though, needed him to play this one and hold it down for the team - in a must-win.
* getting pissy, blaming teammates for his own-travel because Jenning draped his body almost spread-eagle on BD.
* some people on these forums don't seem to realize that Baron could easily reinjure himself or have the same season-ending injury or related injury as Amare. All you guys are telling me is you have no experience with injuries and maintaining athletic performance - those that keep speaking as if Baron should play bulk minutes. Your going to end his career if you get what your asking for. I'm pretty much disgusted with several posters with no concern of Baron's future. The guy doesn't deserve some of the fans on these forums that want him to destroy his body - that is still on the mend.
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Baron Davis has 9 TOs? What a "marginal" player. *sarcasm*
Did I really name him Jenkins? That's what you get for trying to type a message at 6:00 a.m. Which brings me on to my next point. The reason I was up at that time was because I watch every Knicks game, despite having to get up for work around 2 hours after it's finished. If I went based on the box score, I would single out Davis as one of our worst performers. 25% shooting, and 9 TO's (that's more TO's than assists). In truth however he was one of our top performers. His defence was close to brilliant for the better part of 3 quarters. Both players he was responsible for guarding at different times had incredibly tough times (also indicated in their shooting %) Jennings only really looked dangerous in the 4th (logical to expect Davis to be dead by then considering his lack of conditioning). Davis' defence was intense most of the time he was on the court. His EFF was as good as Tyson Chandler's leaving the rest behind by miles.
Wow that was an ugly game of basketball!
Only positive about is that the Knicks escaped with the victory, but boy both teams played like ****.....Milwaukee were shocking, D-League style.
The Knicks weren't much better. In the end it was Chandler and his offensive rebounding that won us the game (Shumpert made some nice plays in crunchtime).
But in this current shape, neither the Knicks nor Bucks deserve to be in the Playoffs to be honest.....Chicago will tear us a new one if we play like this.
Wow, we win the game, and were in here arguing about BD vs LIN, people, there both on our team, and we won, just enjoy the win.
Not many people on here talking about the true postive of the game was Melo's game tonight. He played really well tonight and did not force much of the action. 8-20 from the field is not great but a lot better than what we saw of late. He also had 12 boards and played really solid D.
Dang missed it got stuck at work last night but sounds like a gutty win......Back to .500...
Regardless, we need both of them to play at the same level when they are on the court.
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Johnson was outstanding during the state tournament run, but particularly during the championship game against Cheyenne East. She led her team and all players on the floor with 13 points and 8 rebounds.
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Pam Chergotis, a full-time resident at York Lake in Barryville, argued in favor of Local Law 3. "We have tremendous natural resources here and if we don't adopt this local law to protect us against hydrofracking, we're going to lose all that," she said. "I have FOILed the comments, and overwhelmingly, the taxpayers of the Town of Highland want a ban against hydrofracking. If this were a democracy, this law would be passed tonight."
Jim Hanson, of Beaver Brook Rod and Gun Club, spoke in support of changes that came out of the work session. "I have to commend the board for taking out all the extra garbage that we found offensive as larger property owners that would have affected us," he said. "My concern has always been about having private property rights protected. That's all the hunting clubs are looking for."
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- Gratings were recorded on the surface of nickel by ablation without formation of ripples using an interference of two p-polarized femtosecond laser beams at a π/4 angle of incidence. The mechanism of ripples' suppression is explained by formation of a polarization grating and by ablation at the locations where the polarization is normal to the Ni surface. The aspect ratio of the ablated grooves was ~3 with the period !570 nm at the central wavelength of irradiation of 800 nm. This method is applicable for laser structuring of different materials and a recorded grating structure can be scaled with the irradiation wavelength.
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- Optics Express, Vol. 17, no. 6 (Mar 2009), pp. 4388-4396
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- 2009
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- 0205 Optical Physics; 0903 Biomedical Engineering; 1113 Ophthalmology and Optometry
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- Ablation; Femtosecond laser pulses; Gratings; Nickel; Polarization; Ripple formation; Ripple suppression
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- Optical Society of America
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Agnes Aurelia Brown Keyes was my great-grandmother. I never knew her. My mother, her granddaughter never knew her. My Grandmother and her daughter, Agnes Laura Keyes Sigford, never knew her. Now my grandmother and mother too are both in their graves, and that long ago life of Agnes Aurelia recedes further into the mist of memories, then into the thinning mist, so all that is left is this slender spire on a hill.
My lips tingle as I repeat her name, Agnes Aurelia; "Aurelia" hangs on like a lost song in my head. I do not want the memories of her to dissipate into nothingness. I look for her, and search for bits and pieces of the short life of Agnes Aurelia.
She was born on March 6th, 1860, at the family homestead in Dufur, Oregon, along 5 Mile Creek in the hills south of Fort Dalles. The fifth child born to her parents, Sarah Almira (Duty) and Jonathon Perry Brown who came over the Oregon Trail in 1854. She joined her older sisters, Clementine, Elizabeth, and Sarah Ellen, and brother Erasmus Wellington.
The family lived on the Dufur homestead along 5-Mile Creek in the hills above Fort Dalles for over seven years, when tragedy struck. An accidental gunshot took the life of her 14-year old sister Elizabeth and devastated their mother Sarah.
New homesteading land in eastern Oregon combined with the grief-stricken memories cemented the choice to again strike out for a new home. Eight year old Agnes was of an age that she had lots of chores along the trail to eastern Oregon, what with trailing stock, setting up and taking down campsites each night, cooking, washing dishes and clothes, as well as watching her two younger sisters Molly and Effie May. They traveled through wild and desolate country that was still feeling the ravages and fear from the 1864 Shoshone uprising.
From Fort Dalles to eastern Oregon was a bone jolting trip. Agnes and her family followed landmarks many now strange to our ears: along the Old Dutchman road towards Fort Dalles, to the crossroad of the Old Military Road where they turned south, past Mud Springs, Haystack Creek, Buck Hollow, and Great Hollow near Tygh Road, past Antelope Valley, then turning westerly they paralleled the John Day River past Cherry Creek coming through the Painted Hills to their new homestead.
Agnes and her older sisters would have helped set up housekeeping in the log cabins at Johnson Creek, and later at Girds Creek. The Girds Creek home, nestled along Girds Creek with a steep northeast-facing hill behind the cabin, was better protected from the elements, as well as marauding Shoshone. For several years, Agnes Aurelia, her sisters and mother were the only white women in the area.
Family stories indicate that the cabin at Girds Creek burned to the ground. So the family, which now included two more daughters, moved a few miles north to a homestead on Shoo Fly Creek. a few miles north of Girds Creek.
About this time, early 1870s, two young Tennesseans, James E. L. Keyes and his cousin Zachary Keyes, drove a herd of Cotswold ewes from the Keyes' farm near Philomath in Benton county over the Cascade Mountains to Cherry Creek in eastern Oregon. Soon thereafter the cousins moved to just to the east of Mitchell, Oregon, where they established their homestead. They were energetic, handsome, and well to do young men who accumulated cattle, horses and mules, in addition to the sheep.
Eastern Oregon hills had a dearth of young women but Jonathon and Sarah Brown had three young daughters of marriageable age. The sixteen year old Agnes Aurelia caught the eye of James E. L. Keyes. He courted her, and on June 28th, 1877 they were married at the home of her parents. The young couple moved into the handsome Keyes homestead house on the hills east of Mitchell. Those were heady days for the couple. Keyes relatives came from not only Corvallis and Benton County, but also far way Tennessee, to visit or to stay before getting their own homestead
On March 30th, 1878, James A. Keyes, was born to Agnes Aurelia and James E. L Keyes. A little sister, Almira Jane, joined her brother, on January 8, 1880. Then a scant 1 ½ years later, and just four years since their marriage, Agnes Aurelia gave birth to her third child, another daughter, Agnes Laura, born June 8, 1881.
Agnes Aurelia did not live to raise her children as she died on June 15, 1881, a week after the birth of baby Agnes Laura. At the age of just twenty-one, young Agnes Aurelia lay dead, leaving her grieving husband James and three young children, two toddlers and a babe.
All that is left to remember the incomplete life of Agnes Aurelia Brown Keyes is slender white marble spire marks the place where she lay in eternal sleep in the old Mitchell cemetery on a windswept hill north of the little town of Mitchell.
(Note:Ruth Evangeline Sigford, my mother, the daughter of Agnes Laura, and the granddaughter of Agnes Aurelia, remembered hearing that her grandmother was blind before she died. A great-great-granddaughter of Agnes Aurelia, who is an M.D., told me that after the childbirth Agnes Aurelia most likely had a blood clot that lodged in the brain or possibly an aneurysm which would have cause blindness and death.)


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For decades, Manabí Province in Ecuador has endured destructive weather extremes. It has suffered the strong impact of the "El Niño" phenomenon that floods huge areas and destroys crops and properties, and kills animals and sometimes even people. It has also endured droughts with similar disastrous consequences.
Of course, both extremes cause other serious problems like food scarcity, water pollution and health epidemics. It is easy to understand why the inhabitants of this province live in severely unsanitary conditions and why their quality of life is so poor.
Where Does Their Water Come From?
"The water we consume comes from different sources," says Anet Delgado, Director of Estrella de Jacob Student Center in Manabí. "About 20 to 25 percent of the population consumes potable water – that only comes every other day. The rest of the people, who generally live in higher zones, don't have pipes and consume water from tank trucks. Others take it out of wells."
Other families fill containers with water from the river and use animals to transport it.
All the various origins of the vital liquid have one thing in common: None provide the people with safe water, and the province's health statistics confirm this.
Eddy Delgado, administrator of the new water purifying plant, reports, "One of the most serious problems of the families in Manabí is parasites. That's what we see all the time at public health centers. Another problem is the constant presence of skin allergies and infections caused by a kind of water that is not even good for taking a shower. How can it be good for human consumption?"
The high incidence of parasite-related diseases, gastrointestinal problems, skin allergies and infections, and cavities in children is the consequence of poor water quality. And this was the definitive reason that motivated Compassion, along with Camino de Santidad (Righteousness' Path) Mission, one of the organization's church partners, to do something about it.
Why Don't We Build a Water Purifying Plant?
Pedro del Hierro, pastor of Camino de Santidad Church, has gained a significant amount of experience in his 22 years of ministry in Manabí. Such experience guaranteed the successful construction and operation of a water purifying plant in Montecristi Township.
"Some time ago we opened a little plant at El Florón. It was donated by people from the United States," Pastor del Hierro recalls. "But its supply was just enough for El Florón community. Brother César Parra (Program Implementation Manager of Compassion – Ecuador) visited that little plant and suggested the idea of finding a donor to finance a new purifying plant here in Montecristi."
Making this venture come true has benefited thousands of children and their families. The cost was more than U.S.$55,000, which was covered by Compassion and a local contribution from Camino de Santidad.
Thanks to the devoted work of Pastor del Hierro, along with groups of interest and influence like the Municipality of Manabí, the Rotary Club of Portoviejo city, and Leopoldo Izquieta Pérez National Institute for Hygiene and Medicine, all obstacles were surpassed in order to obtain high quality unprocessed water at a lower cost, receive all the necessary official permissions, and begin construction and operation of the water purifying plant.
This brand-new plant will supply, among other areas, the 21 Compassion-assisted centers in Manabí Province. These child development centers assist 6,394 boys, girls and adolescents. With the consumption of this water, the number of cases of parasites and cavities among children is expected to drop from 80 percent to 50 percent.
The Water Purifying Plant
The water purification process at this plant is meticulous and meets all quality standards. "This plant can offer excellent quality purified water. We'd like the health authorities to visit this plant just to see their faces of surprise," says Alcides Castillo, quality control technician at the plant.
The 60,000 liters of safe, purified and fluoridated water the plant can produce will benefit two groups of people at a reasonable price: the 21 centers and, of course, the families of the sponsored children and the churches that these families attend. "Many families don't have sponsored children but are part of our congregations, so we will help them, too. About 12,000 families attend the churches located all around Manabí Province," says Eddy Delgado.
The Beneficiaries of this Venture
Eddy believes this venture benefits many people directly and indirectly. "The direct beneficiaries of the water from the purifying plant are the children and their families. From my point of view, the indirect beneficiary is the government because we are helping them to improve the health conditions of this entire community. We are helping to stop a problem that hasn't been eradicated in Manabí in a very, very long time."
"There's no doubt that the plant will promote positive cultural changes because," according to Ana Vinueza, Director of Antioquia Student Center, "the people are going to learn to consume safe water, to take better care of themselves, and to prevent various diseases."
This safe water will cost a little bit more than they are used to paying to the tank trucks that provide them with risky potable water. "But no matter the cost, this water will keep these families from lots of illnesses. We have to educate them and make them understand the benefits," says Pastor del Hierro.
Once the plant begins fully operating, the improvement in children's health will be quickly noticeable. This can be nothing but a great reason to be thankful to all the people who made this significant improvement in the living conditions of hundreds of families from Manabí province.
"I think that we should congratulate them for their vision first," says Eddy, "because improving the health of human beings is an excellent way to invest money."
The changes brought about by the water purifying plant will definitely be positive for Pastor del Hierro. "There's no doubt about it," he says, "because we believe it's more important to prevent now than to heal later."
Anet Delgado doesn't forget the sponsors and donors whose financial support made this venture possible. "We're deeply grateful to them because it was God who put the desire of doing this within their hearts," she explains, smiling broadly.


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But keep in mind that those people in there pouring sweat, gritting their teeth and doing crazy, unbelievable exercises were once just as soft, bloated and nervous as you.
"I think it has a lot to do with the fact that everyone walks in here with the same goals," JoJo Gonzales, the owner and one of the trainers, said.
"Some of them may just want to lose weight. Some of them may just want a healthy lifestyle change. Some of them want to become better athletes."
And CrossFit does all that and more.
Workouts are described in "The CrossFit Training Guide" as "constantly varied, high-intensity, functional movement."
And this isn't a gym either. It couldn't be further from it. There's no mirrors or contracts. Everyone who shows up, shows up to work hard and enjoy the intensity these workouts offer. There are more than 6,100 CrossFit affiliations throughout the world, and BTX CrossFit is one of them.
Gonzales added, "There is no age restriction for CrossFit. With the combination of all that and the intensity of the workouts, they all know that they're not just competing with the person next to them but also within themselves."
Gonzales is a personal trainer himself, who started Bootcamp a few years back and has since added CrossFit to his repertoire.
And his BTX Fitness Studio is now surging with energetic men and women of all ages – not just burning calories but transforming themselves.
"CrossFit just doesn't do something physically for you, I feel like it does more for you emotionally and mentally."
And adding to the fact that the workouts occur in what is basically just a warehouse adds to CrossFit's gritty charm.
"It's just that grungy type atmosphere where people are within four walls and you see the camaraderie between all them," Gonzales said.
"It's just kind of the mentality CrossFit carries."
And Gonzales' little spark of a sidekick, Anna Childs, is there, too.
"A lot of people don't try it based on the intimidation factor," Childs adds.
"They see it and think, 'Oh, I can't do that.' But you have to tell them that everything is modified, and you won't be doing that right now."
I think it's something different, and you're in and out. A lot of people can't find time to work out, and this is convenient.
"Workouts don't usually last more than 15, maybe 20 minutes. I think they like the quickness. You don't have to spend hours at the gym to get results."
And whereas in a gym you're basically just working out without supervision, it's easy to lose focus and drive. At CrossFit, you have two qualified trainers who are willing to help you out and make sure you're getting the best results without hurting yourself.
Gonzales mentioned, "I've seen it before; you'll have 1,600 plus members at a gym, and we're probably only getting 20% of those people actually checking in, and everyone else is just paying dues basically.
"So this gives you the chance to work with a trainer and a certified CrossFit coach, and it just becomes an addiction."
Childs added, "They're used to the mirrors and the air conditioning. You're coming here to sweat. If there's air conditioning, you're not going to sweat."
And the family aspect of the community that drives CrossFit is one of its major selling points.
"Once you're in, that's all you talk about; that's all you want to talk about," Childs said.
"You make a lot of good friendships with these people because you're not coming in to a gym and doing your own thing.
"You're here meeting people, you're interacting with them, you're cheering them on in a workout. I think it builds some good camaraderie.
"Even if you're the last one done, who cares, you finished. Everyone's going to be cheering you on."
Connie Flores is 55 years old and in 2008 was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease.
But watching her tear through her workouts you couldn't tell. Sweat pours from her brow and her toned arms bulge with every pull-up and pushup.
She's tough.
"I really enjoy it," Flores said.
"And you know because I have Parkinson's so it helps my muscles stay strong.
"I didn't know anything about CrossFit. We had about a week tutorial on how to do the exercises and the basics of CrossFit. You can just see the inches coming off and the muscle."
And Flores is one example of how it totally transforms you both inside and out.
"CrossFit has given me confidence over all, especially with my disease.
"I want to keep walking and stay out of a wheelchair, that's my goal. I'll be doing CrossFit until there's no more CrossFit. I'll be doing it until I leave this Earth."
Childs added, "And with a lot of the girls that come in here, they said, 'I don't want to get big.' And I say, 'Do I look big?'
"But once they get immersed in it they're excited to build that muscle and they figure out it's hard to get big. It's going to be easier to lose than it is to get big."
Christina Childress had injured her lower back, having ruptured two discs on top of becoming pregnant with twin girls.
She's been with CrossFit since it began last June.
"I was afraid I was going to hurt it. Like I wasn't going to be able to do a lot of the stuff.
"I completely surprised him and myself. It's actually been a lot better for my back, strengthening it and everything. It hasn't bothered me in a long while.
"I couldn't imagine a day without it. Just the workouts themselves, they challenge you. Something you didn't think you could do or accomplish, you do."
Being an avid runner, too, her doctor broke the news that she shouldn't run any more. But since joining CrossFit, Childress has competed in and completed two half marathons.
"You just start to feel better, and it's such a good release," Childress added. "I have 4 1/2-year- old twin girls and it's tough. But working out is such a great outlet.
"I completely love it, it's changed my life.
Gonzales said, "It's the sport of fitness. It's high intensity, functional movements.
"There's just never been a strength and conditioning workout that will get you fitter, stronger faster. And doing it in a group environment with great coaches that know how to take care of you. The results end up speaking for themselves."
And both Gonzales and Childs aren't sitting behind a desk in an office tucked away in the corner somewhere.
They're on the floor with you in the heat making sure you're doing every exercise properly and getting the best from every workout.
"We're there monitoring their form and their mechanics, making sure they're doing everything properly so they don't hurt themselves," Gonzales said.
"There are no setbacks for anyone. We control your intensity, we scale the workout depending on the person. It's a person to person type thing."
And if you're still on the edge of figuring if you'd want to make a change in your life, just step in to the fitness studio and watch.
There is a four-week mandatory class that you must take in order to join called the "Onramp."
Childs added, "And once people go through the 'Onramp' they're going to learn the basics.
"It teaches them how their body works. So once they learn how to control their body then this stuff becomes more fun for them.
"Then they want to learn something new. They want to lift more weight, they want to get stronger."
I know deep down we were all kids at one point and we all knew how to play and that's kind of what we're doing now.
"We're playing with different types of toys, which is now equipment, and we're just reliving what we did when we were young.
"And that's what CrossFit is. It's functional movement. We all sit and squat, we all bend down to lift things off the ground. CrossFit is just showing that, but we're doing it with weight.
"When you CrossFit and you go out in to the real world, whether it be a kayak trip or a golf game, you're going to be ready for it."
You can get more info on joining the CrossFit Onramp at www.facebook.com/jojogonzales10. Classes begin May 6.
Paul Gonzales is the entertainment writer at the Bee-Picayune and can be reached at 358-2550, ext. 116, or at email@example.com.


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