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Skip to comments.'Obama's Katrina': an Illustrated Timeline
Posted on 05/02/2010 12:16:54 PM PDT by Matchett-PI
20 April 2010: An oil rig rented and operated by BP in the Gulf of Mexico explodes, killing 11 workers.
21 April 2010: All 115 workers are evacuated from the Deepwater Horizon offshore oil rig.
22 April 2010: The Deepwater Horizon collapses into the sea and sinks.
22 April 2010: President Obama delivers a speech on Wall Street to advocate more government intervention in the country's financial sector, but offers no reforms for Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac, which helped precipitate the 2008 meltdown. He also delivers a speech regarding the contributions of Earth Day to environmental awareness.
Meanwhile, 200,000 gallons of oil are spilling daily.
23 April 2010: President Obama blasts the Arizona governor, state legislators, police officers and residents for backing federal laws that prohibit illegal immigration.
23 April 2010: The oil continues to flow.
24 April 2010: The president delivers his weekly radio address, which focuses on further regulation of Wall Street. He also calls upon certain segments of his original supporters -- African-Americans, Latinos, Hispanics, and women -- and asks them to mobilize for political action.
24 April 2010: Efforts to contain the spill are hampered by lack of resources and difficult weather.
25 April 2010: President Obama interrupts a weekend getaway to meet with the Rev. Billy Graham in North Carolina.
25 April 2010: Oil spreads across the gulf and heads toward the Louisiana shoreline.
26 April 2010: President Obama appears in a "Vote 2010" video, distributed by his political action wing Organizing for America, which serves as a stark appeal to blacks and Latinos -- specifically -- for their votes in November.
26 April 2010: The Coast Guard warns that the spill could become one of the worst in United States history.
28 April 2010: The President holds a rare, impromptu press conference on Air Force One, addressing "questions on the Arizona immigration law, the financial regulation bill and other issues." Obama also prepared to make his second nomination to the Supreme Court and warns of a "'conservative' brand of judicial activism in which the courts are often not showing appropriate deference to the decisions of lawmakers."
28 April 2010: large pools of oil are spotted close to the Louisiana shore line.
29 April 2010: the White House Flickr Feed is updated with a photo of the President meeting with Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano and senior administration officials, including National Security Advisor Gen. James Jones, which indicates that they are urgently working the issue of the oil spill.
29 April 2010: Meanwhile, local officials, the Coast Guard and private citizens continue their efforts to prevent damage to the Louisiana coastline.
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Perhaps if the oil breached the Louisiana levees, then caught on fire, and then turned New Orleans into a Dresden-like inferno, the President would stop campaigning for a couple of days and actually pay attention to his own, personal Katrina. Even The New York Times has noticed, decrying the President's lackadaisical response. But I'm guessing that somehow, someway, it's all President Bush's fault.
At 8:27 AM , Anonymous Anonymous said...
Let's also not forget that Big Sis Napolitano admitted yesterday that she had no idea the Defense Dept. had equipment that could have helped disperse the oil slick. She only dispatched two planes to drop the substance? Two Planes? Please! It's time the adults get back into the White House......if this was W he woulod have been raked over the coals, another wonderful energy producing fossil fuel.
Great post, Matchett. It puts things into perspective. Thank you for posting it.
Obama wants this to be as large a disaster as can be accomplished. "Never let a crisis go to waste."
effective and devastating —another arrow for your quiver would include the part where he took time out to (get ready, this is not a joke) ENCOURAGE ENTREPRENEURSHIP OF MUSLIM IRISH IN DUBLIN.
No, I did not make that up.
Bush got skewered by the press for Katrina because he was a Repulbican and the press hated him. The real screw ups were by the Democrat Governor of Louisiana and the Democrat Mayor of New Orleans.
Since there is no Republican politician to attack in this scenario, BP will catch all the heat. Obama will be declared a hero.
Could Federal Thumb-twiddling Have Led to Disaster?
Former oil spill response coordinator for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Ron Gouget, says that federal officials should have started burning off oil much sooner, even immediately after the event:
Ron Gouget, who also managed Louisiana's oil response team for a time, said federal officials missed a narrow window of opportunity to gain control of the spill by burning last week, before the spill spread hundreds of miles across the Gulf, and before winds began blowing toward shore. He also said the heavy use of dispersants instead of burning the oil has likely knocked so much oil into the water column that portions of the Gulf may be on the threshold of becoming toxic to marine life. Add in the oil spreading into the water as it rises from the seafloor, and Gouget said he expected officials would have to begin limiting the use of the dispersants.
There's more at the link, but if Gouget is correct, then federal officials appear to have completely blown the response. What may have been a garden variety spill now has the potential to wreak havoc on one of the most productive and pristine shorelines in the country. Some experts are saying that the spill could grow into one of the worst in US history.
Why didn't Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano use the in-situ burn procedure sooner?.....
Extra Point: Money Quote from Gouget: "This whole thing has been a daily strip tease. At first they thought it was just the diesel, then they said the well wasn't leaking. It's unfortunate they didn't get the burning going right away. They could have gotten 90 percent of the oil before it spread."
Obama's coast guard cuts: a recipe for disaster By Rep. John Mica (R-Fla.) - 02/26/10 04:11 PM ET
Problem is, the MSM manufactured Bush's Katrina. Somehow I don't think they'll do the same to Hussein.
I'd envision a graphic something like this:
It would not have to be that, but any photo that showed the concept as being a bit strange, or at least strikingly remote from the concerns of average Americans.
I think your timeline is HIGHLY EFFECTIVE.
Kindly be advised that the 'president' didn't do anything because...
A 'Typical' Angry Old White Guy
How's it feel when the shoe's on the other foot?
Someone else also made that point in the comment section:
At 10:13 PM , Anonymous Anonymous said...
Didn't he also have the Muslim Entreprenereal Summit during this time?!
At 2:38 AM , Anonymous Anonymous said...
During the 2008 election cycle, BP-linked donors gave $71,051 to Barack Obama's senate campaign, more than they gave to any other senator that cycle.
good one!
Now we need a timeline of Bush during 9/11 or Katrina. Which timeline would be longer...
That would be comparing apples and oranges, though. This comment makes the point:
At 6:12 PM , Blogger Darleen said...
My only quibble with the "Katrina" equivalence is that the evacuation of New Orleans and surrounding areas was a local/state issue and President Bush could not go in before being invited. IIRC the LA Gov Blanco specifically rebuffed offers from the admin to come in and coordinate. The BP oil rig is far beyond the 3 mile limit of state jurisdiction. It was the Fed's responsibility from the get-go. Obama and his administration is far more responsible than what happened during Katrina."
You're welcome. Thank you!
.....he can't do anything without his handlers saying so.....
the true Manchurian Candidate.
Exactly. bttt (See post #18 above)
I think the reason he didn't do anything is because here in FL we have been trying to drill for years, but a lot of people were concerned because of the tourism industry.
Check this out: The story in our Tampa paper the day before the blast:
Just in the past month finally drilling plans were being put forth in the legislature and covered in the news. There were a lot of stories on how people were actually changing their mind to allow drilling in just the week before the explosion.
Now suddenly it's all turning the other way. The timing is just too coincidental.
He can't be bothered with every little national environmental disaster that comes down the pike. He's a very busy man after all. /sarc
I have a post coming up I think you'll enjoy.
Yes they did. But what they "manufactured" against Bush (relying on a reliably ignorant, uninformed public as to how government works to get away with it), is actually true in B.O.'s case. Unlike with Katrina, it was the Fed's responsibly to contain the fall-out from the oil-spill from the get-go. (See post #18 above)
I think this one is going to stick to the man-child.
Be fair! Let's give him credit.
At least he showed his ugly face, unlike Christmas when an terrorist attempted to bring down an airliner.
Kidding aside: excellent timeline. Thanks!
The St Petersberg Times, our superlib rag (horrid paper - it reminds me of what CNN would be if they had a print edition) actually ran an editorial on how Obama blew it.
Of course, they did it on Saturday morning, probably the worst day to get news from the paper. They just couldn't bring themselves to print it on a regular news day.
Excellent thread for posterity! Thanks for posting.
Penelopesire: While you've been away, a thread you don't want to miss.
BP2: You will appreciate this one.
In the case of this platform failure, it is the same type of behavior. And, I am very suspicious about how this high technology drilling platform allowed combustible gasses to gush out onto the platform deck. How is it possible? These platforms are engineered to such an advanced technology, there is no way that such an event could happen unless it was intentionally allowed to happen. I say it was intentionally allowed to happen to score points against the drill here, drill now efforts. It was intentionally allowed to happen to score points for the environmentalists who are failing in their efforts with the global warming carbon credits scheme.
This disaster will hurt America, no doubt about it. It is the burning down of Capitalism before our eyes.
"Why waste a good disaster?"
I agree.
1. When a double-dip recession arrives, Obama will blame the oil spill (and the greedy oil companies responsible for it).
2. When damages rise to hundreds of billions of dollars, Obama will be first in line to offer up the federal Treasury to bankroll them—but will insist on the enactment of a VAT to ensure that this new spending is "fiscally responsible."
3. When cap and trade comes to a vote, Obama will argue that the oil spill proves we cannot rely on expanding domestic drilling and that he has concluded that reliance on nuclear power likewise would be "too risky;" hence only an aggressive cap and trade policy can wean us from dependence on foreign oil and avert global warming.
4. And heck, why not use this opportunity to socialize the oil companies to prevent future "irresponsible" behavior?
The possibilities are endless.
Read my post #30 for more thoughts on the matter.
This expert is mincing no words - he thinks it was a political decision not to take the short window of opportunity they had to burn off the oil and contain the spill early on:
MOBILE, Ala. -- Federal officials should have started burning oil off the surface of the Gulf last week, almost as soon as the spill happened, said the former oil spill response coordinator for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
Ron Gouget, who also managed Louisiana's oil response team for a time, said federal officials missed a narrow window of opportunity to gain control of the spill by burning last week, before the spill spread hundreds of miles across the Gulf, and before winds began blowing toward shore. ...
Gouget, now an environmental consultant with Windward Associates in Seattle, was part of the group that created the 1994 plan designed to allow federal responders to begin burning oil as soon as a major spill occurred, without an approval process.
"They had pre-approval. The whole reason the plan was created was so we could pull the trigger right away instead of waiting ten days to get permission," Gouget said. "If you read the pre-approval plan, it speaks about Grand Isle, where the spill is. When the wind is blowing offshore out of the north, you have preapproval to burn in that region. If the wind is coming onshore, like it is now, you can't burn at Grand Isle. They waited to do the test burn until the wind started coming onshore." ....
He said the NOAA officials involved at the Unified Command Center in Louisiana know how to respond to spills, and know burning should have started as soon as possible after the initial release was detected.
Gouget said they may have been overruled.
"It may have been a political issue.
The burn would make a big big plume and lots of soot. Like Valdez, the decisions to get the resources mobilized may not have occurred until it was too late," Gouget said.
"This whole thing has been a daily strip tease. ...It's unfortunate they didn't get the burning going right away. They could have gotten 90 percent of the oil before it spread."
Gouget said portions of the oil will still burn, especially the stuff bubbling up from the broken well. (Watch Coast Guard video of test burns here.)
Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to have been ANYONE in his administration who might have figured out early on that this could be a dangerous situation, and did anything about, or told him what HE should do about it.
We have The Mob from the Southside of Chicago along with their far-flung international "interests" ensconced in the White House, so we can't legitimately rule out anything. They have too much at stake already as they've been laying the ground work for many, many years. Their mind-set is to do what they have to do.
We have more to fear from the enemy within than from the enemy without.
We must pull out all the stops to defeat them in every election...even if the 'RAT is only running for dog-catcher in a little town of 50 people.
And anyone who votes third party is casting his vote for a 'RAT.
See post 34 above
LIAR, is right.
I don't think he'll get away with it this time, however. See post #34 above
Love it! LOL bttt
I'm sure I will!
If You Want Blood...You Got It
If the Democrat Party wants a blood, they got it. Or as El Rushbo says, "They have a bloodbath coming on Election Day."
You got it!
Great, and accurate commentary. Thanks!
Great post.
Also, I'm glad you pointed out that Pres. Bush called the governor of LA several times and told him that, by law, the president could NOT take action to help unless the governor asked for it. Blanco refused each time. Still, NOLA was BUSH'S FAULT according to the media.
Thank you for reading and for the post. I do appreciate both.
Never in a million years would he forfeit trillions of dollars and agree to off shore drilling for real. Never. Therefore, next comes that Cap and Tax bill, to "pay for" potential accidents like this on in the future. Bingo! Oboma becomes a multibillionair! $$$
Excellent post. I will email it to family and friends.
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The Week 2 college football polls were released on Tuesday, and unlike the preseason editions, there was much disagreement between the AP and Coaches'.
Entering Week 1, the exact same 25 teams were ranked in both, but now that number has moved to 24. There also used to be just six teams ranked in different spots, but this week, 17 teams differed between the two polls.
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BOWLING GREEN, Ohio — For the longest time this season, Watterson coach Vince Lombardo didn't talk to his players about the possibility of reaching the state basketball tournament next week in the Value City Arena.
The topic, however, bubbled to the surface last night in the Stroh Center after the Eagles battered and shattered Sandusky Perkins 53-34 in a Division II regional semifinal.
"I never talked about the state tournament to the guys at all until a couple of weeks ago," Lombardo said. "I told them we could do it. I really think we're playing our best basketball of the season. We've gotten better and better throughout the year. But forget all that. We have to have focus for about an hour and a half Saturday to take care of business."
The Eagles (25-1) took care of the Pirates (21-6) in every way possible while recording their 19th consecutive win. Their defense forced 15 turnovers that produced 17 points. They crashed the offensive boards enough to forge a 13-2 edge in second-chance points.
The offense overall spread the ball nicely. Andy Grieser scored all of his 12 points in the first half. Cody Calhoun counted 12 of his team-leading 14 points after the break. Matt Hughes added 12 points and seven rebounds to the win. Watterson also got a handle on Perkins' star Brandon Smith, who scored all nine of his team's points in the first half but only 18 for the game.
Grieser had the hot hand early, scoring nine points in the first quarter and adding a three-pointer in the second as the Eagles moved ahead 24-15 at the half. Calhoun took off in the second half.
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Grieser admitted that he "slowed down a little" in the second half, but he had a reason. He was guarding the athletic, 6-foot-5 Smith.
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Middle East peace talks in pictures
With a new round of direct discussions taking place in Washington, The JC looks back at some other attempts to bring peace to the Middle East and what we wrote about them:
The Camp David Accords: "Camp David had to succeed in establishing a framework for peace...if in discussions held under such total secrecy, over so long a period, and under such auspices, they were unable to agree on a blueprint for a settlement, the likelihood of their ever coming to terms in any other forum or at any other time was less than remote. It was impossible. And there was only one, terrible alternative to agreement - another pointless and bloody war from which, yet again, neither side could emerge as victor."
The Israel–Jordan Treaty of Peace: "Israel and Jordan sealed this week what is likely to prove the warmest peace in the Middle East...both the Jordanian monarch and the Israeli Premier know that their peace, must, as King Hussein put it, not simply be a piece of paper. It must be real."
The Oslo Accords: "The milestone draft accord between the government of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Yasir Arafat's PLO is, of course, only a beginning. Even if the final textual details are satisfactorily resolved, Mr Rabin faces public anger at home over an accord denounced by its opponents as a formula for Israel's destruction. Still, it is an immensely important beginning…it represents an opportunity to put in place a process whereby peace, though by no means assured, is at least possible."
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... 86 today at one point. Not quite as humid, but enough.
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... By this point we had been to all the sections in the park and wanted to see the band and the final parade. Both great and finished the day off perfectly. We realised we had spent 11 hours here. Not bad for a Monday. After a day chilling out we went to Old Town San Diego today. We got the metro there and had a walk around the village. We saw there was a free tour at 2pm so decided to get lunch and head for that. It was really interesting. We got to find out about ...
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... that I have made such incredible lifelong friends on this trip that genuinely care. And care Not just about me, but about my family, and given their hours of service this summer, they also care about the well being of our whole country. Damn. I dare you to try to find friends as good as I have. That 20 miles was also special in that I was living out a dream my mom always had of doing with her own dad. The fact that she got to share a bit of this journey with me Was incredible and ...
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Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star (2003)
Jenna Boyd performs almost a miracle by making this otherwise appallingly bad comedy an overall enjoyable experience.
Dickie Roberts is a comedy that doesn't make you laugh, unless you want to laugh at bad acting and writing. It does, however, have Jenna Boyd, who lights up every scene where she appears. And she appears a lot.
Once a famous child star, Dickie Roberts (David Spade) is now unemployed, approaching middle age and still dreaming of a big comeback. The opportunity appears to present itself when Dickie is offered a role in a movie. However, having missed a normal childhood, Dickie doesn't have what the role takes. To fix this shortcoming, he decides to relive his childhood, and rents himself a family for a month. The family is a comfortably normal mom, dad, two kids and a dog, living in a nice house in a sunny suburb. The father is mostly absent, and the movie revolves mostly around Dickie's interaction with his new mother and siblings. The children, a boy and a girl, are both about ten years old. The girl, Sally Finney, is played by Jenna Boyd.
While Jenna isn't written any more remarkable lines than any other characters in the movie, she effortlessly steals every scene where she appears with her sheer beauty and happy sweetness. Jenna hasn't been a bubblingly energetic or headstrong character in any of her movies, rather the opposite. In this movie, Jenna provides a pleasant, soothing contrast to Spade's endless sequence of awkward one-liners and funny faces.
Another way Jenna gets to show off her style is in her cheerleading audition. Her character Sally is competing against her enemy, the school's most popular and sexiest girl Heather Bolan (Ashley Edner), who is a year or two older than Jenna. Ashley utterly, definitively nails the sexy part with her performance, making the judges blush in confusion, and Sally all but despair. Sally's dance, shown next, is in comparison cuteness and innocence itself, and makes you go aww every time you see it.
The movie isn't all bad. There is couple of jokes that made me laugh, and it's a pleasant and sweet enough story. These merits wouldn't earn it more than one star in my books however. Throw in Jenna, and we're at two stars, and the final half a star comes from Ashley's remarkable dance.
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The Jervis McEntee Diaries - April 28, 1886
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Wednesday, Apr 28, 1886 Booth sent me a box with seats for four. I went over and told Mary and Marion. Called at Mrs. Custers apartment to invite her but she has not returned. McCann says she is expected tomorrow so I asked Bowyer in stead. Remained to lunch. Tried to paint a little picture of an effect I saw on the river Saturday, but it is poor. I am in no mood for painting, my picture came back from Gills today. I dont think I will send there again. I dont think he tries to sell my pictures. Mary, Marion, Bowyer and I attended the Salvini-Booth Othello representation this evening and had box 31 on the left side, first tier next the proscenium box. The house was packed to the ceiling with an intelligent audience. The moment Booth came on we all noticed something was wrong. We could not hear a word and his voice seemed thick and as the noise of people coming in late subsided it was apparent Booth was hampered by some disadvantage. Of course we suspected what was the matter and we were all full of anxiety. He had to be prompted several times, his utterance was thick and spiritless and he repeated his phrases. In the scene between him and Othello where he insinuates Desdemonas infidelity and where the Moor in his phrensy throttles him and flings him on the floor, he arose, staggered backward towards the front of the stage and fell backwards at full length upon the foot lights breaking the guard rod in his fall. Some one from the audience sprang and assisted him to rise, when he went on with his part. But the strain of anxiety was terrible. I went over to Mrs. Stoddards box on the opposite side of the house to see if she noticed any thing wrong. She only said "those horrid people in the next box said when he fell, he is drunk." Salvini acted with great power but Booths performance of this one of his greatest characters was disappointing and discouraging. I had a feeling of the greatest pity for him and wished I could hide him from what seemed to me a situation which must cover him with shame. It was an awful evening to me and to all of us.


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The New Gary Burton Quartet: Common Ground
Burton has always had remarkable instincts for scouting out guitar talent, but he's never introduced a prodigy like Julian Lage, who trumped Metheny by more than two years when he appeared on Burton's Generations (Concord, 2004) at the age of 17. Continuing to work with Burton on Next Generation (Concord, 2005), his growth has been palpable across gigs with drummer Eric Harland and pianist Taylor Eigsti, not to mention his debut as a leader, Sounding Point (EmArcy, 2009), where he married Jim Hall's warm-toned economy with youthful exuberance, while avoiding the trappings of excess that usually go along with it. That's not to say he can't burn up the frets; his solo on Sanchez's fast-swinging blues, "Did You Get It?," combines lithe dexterity with aggressive picking that becomes, at times, staccato-like in its rapid-fire punctuation, all the while mirroring Burton's inherent precision and perfection. Lage's solo on bassist Scott Colley's more relaxed "Never the Same Way" explores motivic development and frightening inevitability, even as the support from Burton, Colley and Sanchez renders ambiguous who is pushing and who is pulling.
A quality that only further supports the egalitarian feel of Common Ground. Burton has never been a prolific writerhis sole contribution, a more delicate yet expansive treatment of the dark-hued "Was It So Long Ago?," from Times Like These (GRP, 1988)but Common Ground focuses, even more than his last "working band" discs, on contributions from his mates, along with two tracks from Next Generation pianist Vadim Neselovskyi. Still, a liberal treatment of "My Funny Valentine"its first half occupied by an a capella guitar solo that draws a clear line between Joe Pass-era traditionalism and more sophisticated modernityand a new look at pianist Keith Jarrett's gospel-tinged "In Your Quiet Place," with a similarly definitive opening from Burtonmakes clear that however strong the material is, it's the quartet's intrinsic chemistry that makes it great.
Lage's knotty, arpeggio-driven "Etude" demonstrates the effortless virtuosity assembled by Burton, opening up to solos from the guitarist and vibraphonist that are amongst their best in recent memory. Colley and Sanchez solo less, but their fluid conversational support consistently elevates Common Ground, an album that may reflect its participants' shared interests, but is anything but common.
Track Listing: The Late Night Sunrise; Never the Same Way; Common Ground; Was It Long Ago?; Etude; Last Snow; Did You Get It? My Funny Valentine; Banksy; In Your Quiet Place.
Personnel: Gary Burton: vibes; Julian Lage: guitar; Scott Colley: bass; Antonio Sanchez: drums.
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As soon as he finished his California primary victory speech in the Ambassador Hotel, Los Angeles, Senator Robert Kennedy slipped out through the kitchen to avoid being mobbed. Bill Eppridge, a photographer on the campaign trail, was hard on his heels. Suddenly there was the sound of gunfire.
Eppridge found Kennedy lying in his own blood, his head cradled by the kitchen porter whose hand he had been shaking. "There's nobody around," Eppridge later recalled. "He's still alive, his eyes are open. I remember thinking, you just changed job. You've become a historian, not a journalist."
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Kickboxing, spinning, and pilates are some of the most fun ways to get fit. Unfortunately, they may not be right for youat least not yet. According to Richard Cotton, former chief exercise physiologist for the American Council on Exercise, one of FoodFit's Resource Associations, "you should get in shape to do kickboxing, not do kickboxing to get in shape."
So if the spirit is willing but the rest of you isn't, don't despairpeople with special needs have many other ways to get and stay fit. Read on to find the best exercise for you, whether you're in great shape, on the mend, overweight, over 65 or under 18, plus tips for everyone.
If you're already in shape:
Kickboxing is a great calorie burner. Be sure the instructors know about martial arts as well as aerobics; there are a lot of moves that if done incorrectly can be harmful to knees, shoulders and elbows.
Spinning (indoor cycling set to music) offers an intense workout requiring stamina and a good imagination!
Pilates marries calisthenics with stretching movements and requires good muscle control.
If you're on the mend:
Weight lifting allows you to focus on healthy parts of the body while you're nursing an ankle or knee injury.
Stationary biking can actually strengthen bad knees.
Rowing is great exercise for the upper body while your bad hip (knee, ankle) mends.
Swimming and water aerobics help repair a sore back and are also good cardio exercises.
If you're overweight:
Your first goal should be to start exercising, even if it's just 5 minutes a day.
Yoga and low or non-impact aerobics are a good combination, which explains why most aerobics classes end with 10-15 minutes of "cool down" stretching.
Water aerobics and swimming offer cardiovascular activity using water as moderate resistance.
If you're over 65:
Weight training jump-starts the body with terrific results, even for people in their eighties. Twice-weekly workouts of 30 minutes each have been shown to reduce the risk of osteoporosis and fractures among postmenopausal women.
Tai Chi may effectively treat fibromyalgia and arthritis. It also lowers blood pressure almost as much as 30 minutes of daily brisk walking.
Ai Chi is a water program that coordinates breathing techniques with flexibility, relaxation and strength.
Most styles of yoga involve gentle stretching exercises, easing pain from arthritis while increasing flexibility and balance.
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Exercise helps strengthen growing bones, so encourage children to be active for at least 30 minutes a day.
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Writing lists, the actual act of ranking films, is absurd. For most of us who aren't OCD, there's really no way to rank one film above another. That said, yesterday I ranked my bottom fifty or so best films out of a hundred. So let's finish this list out like a boss, yeah?
49 Five Easy Pieces
Bob Raeflson nailed this portrait of a genius who has given up but can't quite let go. A man with father issues, he's the man who can't help but lose. Jack Nicholson gives an all timer here.
48 Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
There is no better film about how relationships fall apart and how we have our petty jealousies but that we hope we can still fit together than this film. Well, maybe there's another one or two on this list, but still, when you put Michel Gondry together Charlie Kaufman you get screen magic.
47 Singin' in the Rain
Not only a great history lesson about the evolution of cinema (even if it creates a myth as much as it tells the truth), it's simply one of the great musicals of all time. Gene Kelly dancing in the rain is one of the purest expressions of joy to be found.
46 Breathless
First time filmmakers often have a f- you contempt for what's come before, but how Jean-Luc Godard breaks the rules and obeys genre conceits with panache makes this the greatest (and sexiest) senior thesis of all time.
45 Pulp Fiction
This makes for a good double feature with the last film. Though I could have gone with the indelible Inglourious Basterds, simply for its zeitgeist status Pulp Fiction trumps — if only because pork chops taste good.
44 Only Angels Have Wings
Howard Hawks, as I've said, is one of the greatest directors of all time, and this is the purest example of his love of showing people working. Of People who are good at their jobs, and know the risks. Who's Joe?
43 The Big Red One/ Come and See
There are basically two filmmakers who ever went to war as grunts in America and became directors. Sam Fuller and Oliver Stone. What makes The Big Red One a great movie (especially in the director's cut) is that everything in it is something that happened. On the flip side is Come and See which shows the truth from another side, a side that was beaten even when it was victorious. I don't want to sound flippant because I'm not, Come and See is one of the most haunting and powerful war films ever made. Together they show the horror and power of war.
42 Manhattan
If the late Gordon Willis shooting black and white anamorphic widescreen wasn't enough to make this an all-timer, it's also Woody Allen wrestling with himself and what is of value in the world. Some may see his turn Tracy as a triumph, for me it's about a middle age man realizing that a seventeen year old girl might be smarter than him. Also Gershwin.
41 La Dolce Vita
If I am to pick one Fellini, it's the one I relate to most (though I Vitelloni makes this a hard choice, as does that one about the director). The scene grows old, and not everyone is who you think they are, both famous and not. It's hard to connect as a human being, and the nightlife goes on forever.
40 Citizen Kane
It would be too easy to put this Orson Welles film at the top of my list, but there's no denying this is perfect and like so many great films, causally hilarious. It's also playful, but its status as THE BEST has worked against both the film and Welles. It's still great, though.
39 Straw Dogs
As we've seen recently, pop culture, and even the intelligentsia often wants art to hold their hand. Wants it to make the viewer feel smart without actually challenging them. Racism is bad. Rape is bad. Brute force is bad. But great art often puts your face in the crap for purpose. And there's nothing wrong or bad about looking into the abyss, even if we don't like what we see. Sam Peckinpah, with this film, wants to make the audience uncomfortable. He wants the audience to have conflicted feelings about rights of masculinity, and to push buttons. How much pleasure that's derived from that draws into questions the purpose of art.
38 The Adventures of Robin Hood
And to about face on that, Hollywood was often a pleasure dispenser, and few films deliver that as well as Michael Curtiz's Robin Hood. I could have just as easily included Casablanca in this spot, but the spirit of high adventure and the perfect casting makes this the ultimate great film made by good artists.
37 The King of Comedy
There are few films I've seen on this list as infrequently as The King of Comedy, but that's also why it deserves its place here. Martin Scorsese takes many ideas that he had been playing with and takes them to a whole new level with Robert De Niro's Rupert Pupkin. Like The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, this is one of the most insightful films about celebrity and fandom.
36 Jackie Brown
Post-Pulp Fiction, Quentin Tarantino made his best film while people were too ready to pre-judge a sophomore slump. Instead he made his deepest and most realized film about people. Didn't he blow you mind this time?
35 Miller's Crossing
There aren't too many directors who got two films into my top one hundred, but the Coen Brothers deserve it. This slot could just as easily go to Blood Simple, Fargo, Barton Fink, Burn After Reading or Raising Arizona, but this was the film that made me fall in love with the duo, and their love of language. "Take your flunky and dangle" is just a taste of the film's elegant construction.
34 Memento
As someone who love films that play with structure, no film has done a better job of messing with an audience that Christopher Nolan's breakthrough effort. And no film has done a better job of creating an earthquake under an audience's seat. Alternate: The Prestige, which is a great film and easily Nolan's most underrated.
33 Barry Lyndon
Look, 2001, Paths of Glory, The Killing and Eyes Wide Shut are all great films. That said, if you want to know the best Kubrick film of all time, it's Barry Lyndon.
32 The Conformist
What is the best shot film of all time? Acceptable answer: This. Also, it's a great story about a coward in the midst of war told with the visual gusto of a director (in this case Bernardo Bertolucci) at the height of his powers. Though I could have just as easily put Last Tango in Paris here.
31 Contempt
By the time Jean Luc-Godard made this film, his relationship with Anna Karina was ending and so he made the greatest film about both hating your ex-partner and hating yourself and selling out. On top of which it's gorgeous, and widescreen and Bridgette Bardot gives her finest performance and Jack Palance and also everything else about it.
30 To Be or Not To Be
Ernst Lubitsch, known for his elegant sexual touch, was mad as hell at the Nazis. And so he made a film that was as elegantly constructed as his best work, but wanted to grab Hitler by his package and squeeze and twist. In doing so, he made an angry comic masterpiece.
29 Annie Hall
It's one thing to make the one of great films about relationships, it's another thing to do it while breaking every rule of cinema, and having a blast while kicking at conventions. Regardless of how you may or may not feel about Woody Allen the person, this move is alive in ways that are only comparable to new waves. This is revolution.
28 The Long Goodbye
I was torn between putting this film or Nashville in this spot, but I went with the noir, perhaps because I love Elliot Gould's performance in this film so much, and because the coke bottle scene — which has been stolen repeatedly — has never been topped.
27 Blue Velvet
David Lynch is a master of form and this film, which walks the line between parody and melodrama, is one of cinema's great Bildungsroman because it tackles our complicated relationships with sex and how sex makes people adults and how that creates fetishes and the good and bad of that. On top of having an avant-garde filmmaker working at the height of his powers.
26 The Right Stuff
Perhaps the greatest portrait of the America I love (though it's definitely a warts and all presentation) it also showcases that history is made by humans. On top of which it's epic and hilarious, with one of the greatest ensemble casts ever assembled.
25 Happy Together
Wow, I struggled between picking this and In the Mood For Love, which may be the better film, but this is my list, so I'll go with the Wong Kar-Wai that first made me fall in love with the master director. This story of a couple who loves but can't live with each other is a heartbreaking portrait of how relationships can both work and not work at the same time. Also, the music. Astor Piazzolla. Frank Zappa, so much greatness.
24 Grand Illusion/The Great Escape
Jean Renoir is the best director to ever touch a camera, and it's partly because he is such a humanist that he even has sympathy for the Germans. This portrait of gentlemen in war is perhaps overly sentimental, but it's deeply felt and deft. It's also a prison break-out film, which is why I'm tying it with one of my favorite ensemble efforts. I could and have watched The Great Escape on more weekends than I care to count.
23 Army of Shadows
And if Grand Illusion and The Great Escape are too nice and too fun for you, then Jean Pierre Melville's greatest triumph is the flip side. Following the French resistance, there is a job to be done, one that costs lives and one that sends most to their graves in pursuit of liberty. Listmaking makes me sad to leave off Melville's other great films like The Red Circle and Le Samourai.
22 The Purple Rose of Cairo
Woody Allen is one of two director to get three films on my list, but there's a case to be made for many more. But the film of his I love most is Purple Rose because it's about fantasy versus reality, it's both one of the greatest and most damning portraits of the power of escapism. Is the ending happy or sad? Either way, it's a powerhouse.
21 Do the Right Thing
Spike Lee's revolutionary third film was explosive at the time, and now – some twenty five years later – it's sad that it didn't provoke a stronger cinematic dialogue. Regardless, Spike Lee dealt with race relations in a way few attempted before or since. On top of making a sexy, provocative, relateable, hilarious film that culminates in a number of tragedies.
20 Sunrise
F.W. Murnau died too young, but this American made silent film showcases why visual poetry is what can make a movie great. This is visual storytelling in the most powerful and emotive way, but is also so simple in its presentation of a marriage going through a bad patch that might not be salvageable.
19 The Godfather I and II
Francis Ford Coppola's two Godfather films are just great storytelling. Cinema is pulp and the first film is brilliantly executed at that, material which is deepened by the second volume that shows how much power can corrupt. I really shouldn't have to convince anyone these are great movies, though, right?
18 Marnie
Alfred Hitchcock's much maligned Marnie takes Freudian ideas and uses them in distinctly cinematic ways. This film is the heart of Hitchcock (as Robin Wood has always said) as it finally gives a reason for Alfred's ice princess blondes to act as they do.
17 Blow Out
Which I'm putting right next to Brian De Palma's Blow Out for a reason. The oft-mocked 'cock disciple understood the power of tragedy and melodrama and mystery, and this film showcases the director using visual storytelling to create one of the best thrillers in cinema. It's also amazing how De Palma can create one of the greatest sneak attack endings of all time. That's hiding in plain sight. That said, I'm sad to leave off Femme Fatale, Body Double, The Fury, Phantom of the Paradise and more from this list.
16 Trouble in Paradise
Romantic comedies are often garbage narratives about people the poster tell you will be together by the end. Rarely are they about the carnal pleasure and attraction in the way Ernst Lubitsch told it eighty some years ago. The elegance of this film is unparalleled, but then so was Lubitsch. This is a movie about f-cking. It's about wanting to f-ck, it's about how much fun it is to be wanted, and how much fun it is to circle and about sets ups and payoffs that you didn't know were being set up.
15 The Passion of Joan of Arc
Falconetti has long been shorthand for great central performances because of the work of Renée Jeanne Falconetti as Joan of Arc in this film. Asked to deny her beliefs, asked to deny that she heard the voice of God, Joan's faith is so strong she would rather die than betray it, and the cumulative power of this movie is such that it's impossible to deny. Though I could just as easily put a handful of Carl Dreyer films here because he was a master.
14 Faces
John Cassavetes is one of the great gods of cinema in that he can film something that feels alive in ways that few other filmmakers can (even if the events are much more plotted and scripted than his reputation might suggest). This portrait of love and loneliness feels so lived in and so revolutionary that it's both surprising and not that it inspired numerous attempts to recreate that magic that most failed miserably.
13 McCabe and Mrs. Miller
Robert Altman's "western" took a familiar narrative of the end of the west and turned it into one of his greatest accomplishments. With an impeccable cast that includes Warren Beatty and Julie Christie, the ending of this film is still one of the most bleak and powerful put to screen. This is violence that's about pain and death, not excitement.
12 Taxi Driver
God's lonely man Travis Bickle is one of the greatest antiheroes, a man who helps create his own alienation, a powder keg primed to blow. Sadly, the film's portrait of an alienated loser seems more relevant than ever. The film might not be watchable if Martin Scorsese's visual sense didn't make every scene electric.
11 Seven Samurai/Laurence of Arabia
I swear this is my last bit of cheating, but it's hard to do this, and really who's going to play police here? These feels like the shortest epics ever made. Both paint on a large canvas but also are great in how they lay out their stories. The former is the master of construction as it pulls back the bow in the first two hours and change as it sets up its warriors and then lets them fly into combat, the latter is the reason why people like me revere the widescreen frame.
10 Jaws
I could talk about how this really isn't the template for summer action movies to follow, or the character work, or the direction, but I saw this film when I was eight and it was the movie that made me love movies. And for a good reason. It's a masterpiece.
9 The Earrings of Madame De…
Max Ophuls moved a camera better than anyone. Stanley Kubrick, Martin Scorsese and Quentin Tarantino swear by him, and it's a film like this that cements his reputation as the master. The Reckless Moment and Caught also deserve to be mentioned here.
8 Vertigo
Destructive obsession at its most cinematic. Few moments are so perfect as the final confrontation, while Hitchcock shows everyone that suspense is more powerful than surprise. Also it's a contender for the greatest score ever. Alas, picking three Hitchcock meant leaving off The Birds, Rear Window, The 39 Steps, and so many more.
7 The Wild Bunch
Many westerns were about the end of the west, but few people could end it as spectacularly as Sam Peckinpah. Mixing the new rating system with a sense of outrage at what was going on in Vietnam, this story of antiheroes who just want to go out on their own terms (to enter their house justified, as it were) not only features some of the most breathtaking editing of all time, it is fantastically entertaining to boot. But if you're tired of this film his Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid is equally brilliant.
6 Swing Time
Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers dancing together is why cinema exists, and though there's a case to be made for Top Hat and more, this is my favorite of their films. That said, my favorite number in this is when Astaire dances with his shadow. The skill….
5 Touch of Evil
Orson Welles is one of the great geniuses of cinema, though it might be hard to tell that from his movies, most of which were either made with no money or were cut to shreds by the studios post-Kane. The restoration of Touch of Evil gives Welles his best on screen role, while also showing why he was one of the most inventive of directors. He could throw every trick at the screen but it never felt like a man whipping out his junk because he does it for purpose, and the film's story of the downfall of a terrible but not unredeemable man is always gutting for me.
4 Chinatown
Speaking of misunderstood geniuses…. This is a perfect film noir, has one of the greatest endings of all time, brilliant performances and is one of the great poison pen letters to California. Like so much of this list, this is as close as anyone's come to making a perfect movie in how it has so much to say, both about the time it was made and the time it was commenting on.
3 Duck Soup
The sublime anarchy of the Marx Brothers in this movie makes this the greatest comedy of all time:
Secretary of War: How about taking up the tax?
Rufus T. Firefly: How 'bout taking up the carpet?
Secretary of War: I still insist we must take up the tax.
Rufus T. Firefly: He's right, you've gotta take up the tacks before you can take up the carpet.
2 Rio Bravo
The ultimate hang out movie, Howard Hawks opens the film with a three minute sequence with no dialogue and yet you never feel like he's making a show of it. It's because all acts are done with purpose in what might be the most rewatchable film ever made "took you two!" Howard Hawks even makes a musical number seem like the most natural thing in the world, on top of giving John Wayne his sexiest role. That's how you know this is a master work: Hawks makes John Wayne sexy.
1 Rules of the Game
With France on the verge of war, Jean Renoir made a supposed bedroom farce that was actually about the world and power and privilege and the human condition. The film is famous for the quote "Everyone has their reasons." And that's the philosophy of all great cinema. It's the philosophy of Jean Renoir, and it's the reason why he can twist the knife when he needs to. Seventy years later – for those who are paying attention – this film is alive and dangerous.
Painful ommisions:
Alan J. Pakula (All the President's Men, Klute), To Kill a Mockingbird, One False Move, Yasujirō Ozu (Late Spring, Tokyo Story, etc.), Kenji Mizoguchi, Pier Paolo Passolini (too many), Rian Johnson, Never Let Me Go, Vittoria De Sica (too many), Arthur Penn, John Frankenheimer, John Waters, extra Johnathan Demme (Something Wild, Married to the Mob, Melvin and Howard), Louis Malle, The Crowd, Sweet Smell of Success, Charlie Chaplin, American Graffiti, Straight Time, Nicholas and Satyajit Ray, George Cukor's A Star is Born, Unforgiven, so many Carol Reed films (The Third Man, Odd Man Out), Abel Gance's Napoleon, Evil Dead 2, David Cronenberg, Dog Park, The Way of the Gun, Ridley and Tony Scott, Mean Streets, and many, many more.


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Woodrow Wilson "Woody" Guthrie (1912 - 1967)
Woody Guthrie was a noted American folk singer and
composer of "This Land is Your Land" and "Dust
Bowl Ballads". The photo on the left is from the
1940's before the onset of the disease. The photo on the right
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Florida Gulf Coast University and New College were jointly awarded a New Florida Cluster grant to "create a collaborative nexus for the targeted integration and dissemination of research related to the sustainability of the unique Gulf coastal watersheds of Southwest Florida." Both institutions undertook various pathways to seek effective methods of communicating and educating selected target audiences in the region in the most up-to-date and relevant science regarding watershed sustainability. The effective delivery of findings to a lay audience was a critical objective. One such approach was the Southwest Florida Coastal Watershed Workshop, held at the Sugden Welcome Center on the campus of Florida Gulf Coast University on April 25 – 27, 2012. The purpose of the Southwest Florida Coastal Watershed Workshop was to bring together researchers, managers, and policy makers to present recent research findings and to discuss how to better share such findings with the general public, elected officials, and educators regarding southwest Florida's coastal watersheds. By sharing our collective knowledge and experience in disseminating scientific findings, our aim was to develop a list of action items to implement to better reach our target audience.
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On July 13th, The Responsible Travel Club of Vietnam (RTC) held an inspection trip to Catba Island where are really well-known destination beside Halong Bay. The aim of this trip to encourage some tour operators to building some new eco-friendly products, especially the members of RTC.
Footprint Vietnam Travel is one of the RTC founders aslo knowns as an official member of RTC. As we known, All our programs & products we built focused on responsible tourism, this trip is a really good chance for us to build some new programs which could make something different from available ones.
We spent 3 days in Catba Island with a lot of activites & experience.
On the first day, we decide a responsible movement by a good comfortable public bus to Haiphong. On the same brand, they provide us the whole services transfer from Hanoi to Catba Insland (bus & speedboat)
We arrive at Cat Ba homestay. This is a beautiful ancient house set in a green lush garden. We are warmly welcomed by our hosts and can refresh and have a cup of tea while our lunch is getting prepared.
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Linens that include a pillow, bed sheets, towel, and washcloth will be available for purchase for a small fee on the day you arrive. You do not need to bring these items. During the week of orientation, we will provide transportation to area shopping centers so that you can purchase any groceries, personal items, room supplies, or any other things you will need for your stay.
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A laid-off Kirkland & Ellis associate has bested another lawyer to win The Apprentice.
Lawyer Brandy Kuentzel won the competition overseen by Donald Trump in the season finale on Thursday evening, according to the Daily Mail and AOL Jobs.
Kuentzel is a University of Chicago law graduate who started a cupcake truck business after her layoff from Kirkland, according to the University of Chicago's JD/MBA Blog. Kuentzel disclosed that her favorite law prof was Todd Henderson and her most embarrassing moment was receiving her real property grade.
The blog asked Kuentzel for advice to law grads whose career plans have "taken a detour."
"Just think of how much more prepared you will be to weather the next storm," Kuentzel answered. "I am a firm believer that everything in life happens for a reason. This past year has been an amazing adventure for me, so I am finding it difficult at present to think of a detour in life as anything other than the correct path."
A different blog post notes several University of Chicago law grads have done stints in reality TV and on game shows. Three grads appeared on Jeopardy, one on Survivor, two (including Kuentzel) on The Apprentice, and one on The Mole.
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