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In the last three of my Marginalia columns I described the adventures, successes and failures of astronomers who in the 18th century set out across vast expanses of the then relatively unexplored world to observe Venus on two of the rare occasions it comes between the earth and the sun and so is seen to transit the solar disk. The reason for such extreme endeavors was that those observations, if made from widely separated places on the earth, would lead to a greatly improved estimate of the scale of the solar system. This, we now know, would form the next step in an ongoing ladder of distance scales that would eventually reveal our place in our Milky Way galaxy, and the scale and age of the universe itself. Also, the immense efforts to observe these transits in 1761 and 1769 were in part inspired by the knowledge that no further such transits would take place until 1874 and 1882, and after those there would be none until 2004 and 2012.
Having looked at the adventures of the 1761 expeditions, as well as the horrors of Le Gentil's ill-fated travels for both transits, we here consider two of the other 1769 expeditions.
You may recall that Jean Chappe d'Autoroche succeeded in observing the 1761 transit from the town of Tobolsk in Siberia, having spent much of a Siberian winter getting there by sled, as well as narrowly escaping a lynch mob when an early thaw that flooded the town was said to be caused by his interfering with the sun. Nevertheless, he volunteered to observe the 1769 transit, asking only relief from snow and ice. The Académie Royale des Sciences in Paris obligingly sent him to Baja California.
Chappe's entourage was slight. Besides Chappe himself, it included an artist, a clock maker and a man named Pauly, described as an engineer-geographer. Two Spanish assistants were added for political reasons, and the party sailed from Cadiz on March 8, 1768, hoping to reach their assigned site before the transit some 15 months later. Getting across the Atlantic alone took 77 days, and after landing at Mexico's east-coast port of Vera Cruz, the group set off northwestward to cross nearly 1,000 kilometers of wild terrain. Pauly, who would be the sole survivor of the expedition, writes of "high mountains, dreadful precipices, dry deserts . . . . We came near dying a thousand times. We were besides crushed by an excessive heat which hardly left us strength enough to drag ourselves around," especially after the heat ruined their food supply and left them to live off the countryside.
Two months of this brought them to "San Blas, on the rosy sea" some 200 kilometers south of Mazatlán. There followed six weeks of navigating 500 kilometers of the Gulf of California to reach San José del Cabo at the southern tip of Baja California ("so dangerous that nobody ever dared to land thither . . . because of perpetual waves foaming with rage against rocks"). Despite the foaming waves (one sometimes suspects Pauly of laying it on a bit thick) they got themselves and their equipment ashore with 13 days to go before the transit on June 3, 1769. That was the good news. The bad news came when "some savage people . . . informed us that a most dreadful epidemic was laying waste to the country." The expedition was advised to move immediately at least a hundred leagues (450 kilometers) to the north, but they had yet to unpack, clean and set up their instruments; there was no time for more travel. They stayed where they were.
Chappe's observations of the transit were among the best made of either transit anywhere in the world. Moreover, his subsidiary astronomical observations to establish the latitude and longitude of his site (crucial to the final analysis) were done with an accuracy unprecedented in arduous fieldwork.
But already the epidemic had the expedition in its grip. Pauly writes, "We used to feel the most unspeakable pains, and every one of us . . . was wishing most anxiously for death as a supreme cure. You would hear all around but heavy groanings; every day used to carry away some of our Companions." Chappe himself died on August 1. "We were all dying, myself and my companions, when I closed up his eyes…. Our situation did not allow us to attend to his funeral with many ceremonies."
Pauly, now default leader of those left, packed up "all the papers concerning the object of our voyage . . . in a casket which I directed to the Viceroy of Mexico. I begged most earnestly some savages of good standing . . . to see that it would reach its place in the case we should all pass away, and to tell the Viceroy to have it shipped [to the Academy in Paris]."
Pauly, clutching the casket, and the remaining two expedition members set off on the fearful journey homeward in September. These other two both died en route, and Pauly himself had to pause for strength, sometimes months at a time, before finally arriving in Paris a year later on September 5, 1770. "I hasted to the Academy the observations made in California. That body of men has bestowed on me the highest Eulogy . . . ." The king, Louis XV, awarded Pauly a pension of 800 francs a year. Sadly, though, it seems he remained an invalid, and eventually had to petition for an increased pension.
The Royal Society of London organized two expeditions for the 1769 transit. One of these had as its leader William Wales, at one time a computing assistant at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich. Aware of Chappe's horrific experiences in the Siberian winter preceding the 1761 transit, Wales requested a warm and not-too-distant site. The Royal Society sent him to Fort Prince of Wales, a Hudson's Bay Company fur-trading post in northern Canada. Even today, as the town of Churchill, Manitoba (population 1,143), on the coast of Hudson Bay, it has no road link to the rest of Canada and is famous for its polar bears. As to payment, Wales and his assistant, Joseph Dymond, would be paid £200 if, upon their return, their work was judged well done.
Still, the journey was to be straightforward. There were regular sailings of Hudson's Bay Company ships to and from the trading post, so there would be no unpleasant overland treks for Wales and Dymond. On the other hand, pack ice limited the shipping season to two months at Fort Prince of Wales, and it would only begin after the June 3 transit. Thus they would have to be there in the late summer of 1768 and winter over. They sailed from England on June 23, 1768.
By July 18 they were crossing the Labrador Sea and entering the Hudson Strait, well north of 60 degrees latitude. On the 19th they "passed within a cable's length of a very large island of ice . . . [it] was adorned with spires; and indented in the most romantic manner that can be imagined." Navigating the islands of the straits, they had their first meeting with the Inuit people when "Eskimaux in their canoes, or, as they term them, Kiacks" came alongside. Wales was intrigued by their clothing, especially that of the women, which included "boots [that] come up quite to their hips, which are there very wide, and made to stand off from their hips with a strong bow of whalebone, for the convenience of putting their children in. I saw one woman with a child in each boot top."
July 27: "This evening I told 58 islands of ice . . . ." Two days later the ship was among the remnant floes of the pack ice. "It is really very curious to see a ship working amongst ice. Every man on board has his place assigned him; and the captain takes his in the most convenient one for seeing when the ship approaches very near the piece of ice which is directly a-head of her, which he has no sooner announced, but the ship is moving in a quite contrary direction, whereby it avoids striking the piece of ice [directly] . . . . In this manner they turned the ship several times in a minute; the wind blowing a strong gale all the time . . . ."
And then there were the weird atmospheric effects of the high Arctic. On August 7 they caught their first glimpse of Cape Churchill, and yet "though we saw the land extreamly plain from off the quarter deck, and, as it were, lifted up in the haze; yet the man at the mast head declared he could see nothing of it. This appeared so extraordinary to me, that I went to the main-top-mast-head myself to be satisfied of the truth thereof; and though I could see it very plain both before I went up, and after I came down, yet could I see nothing like the appearance of land when I was there."
Happily, though, on August 9 the ship worked its way up the estuary of the Churchill River, and at two o'clock "she was safe moored." The local officials "behaved to us with great civility," and soon the visitors were exploring their surroundings. "Mr Fowler was so kind as to walk with us about ten miles up the country, which, as far as it went, was nothing but banks of loose gravel, bare rocks, or marshes . . . . Our errand was, to see if we could not find some land likely to produce corn; and in all that extent we did not find one acre, which, in my opinion, was likely to do it." What they did soon find, however, were "three very troublesome insects. The first is the moschetto, too common in all parts of America . . . to need describing here. The second is a very small flie . . . . These in a hot calm day are intolerably troublesome: there are constantly millions of them about one's face and eyes, so that it is impossible either to speak, breathe, or look, without having one's mouth, nose, or eyes full of them…. The third insect is much like the large flesh-flie in England; but, at least three times as large: these, from what part ever they fix their teeth, are sure to carry a piece away with them, an instance of which I have frequently seen and experienced."
Also, of course, there was very little by way of building materials. This they had anticipated by bringing with them a complete observatory and cabin for living quarters, which they now hastened to reassemble "having hitherto had no where to lie but on the floor." They set up and tested their observing equipment, and made some of the necessary auxiliary astronomical observations.
The hot calm days and insects soon gave way to intimations of winter. September 9 brought two inches of snow, and by mid-October "we began to put on our winter rigging; the principle part of which was our toggy, made of beaver skins: in making of which, the person's shape, who is to wear it, is no farther consulted, than that it may be wide enough, and so long that it may reach nearly to his feet."
On November 6 "the river, which is very rapid, and about a mile over at its mouth, was frozen fast over from side to side, so that the people walked across it . . . . Also the same morning, a half-pint glass of British brandy was frozen solid in the Observatory."
"In the month of January, 1769, the cold began to be extremely intense: even in our little cabbin . . . in which we constantly kept a very large fire . . . . The head of my bed-place, for want of knowing better, went against one of the outside walls of the house; and notwithstanding they were of stone, near three feet thick, and lined with inch boards, supported at least three inches from the walls, my bedding was frozen to the boards every morning; and before the end of February, these boards were covered with ice almost half as thick as themselves." Their sleep was constantly interrupted "by the cracking of the beams in the house, which were rent by the prodigious expansive power of the frost. But those are nothing to what we frequently hear from the rocks . . . along the coast; these often bursting with a report equal to that of many heavy artillery fired together, and the splinters thrown to an amazing distance."
March finally brought relief from the cold, and by the end of April "the ground was in many places bare," and the hunters started preparing for the spring goose season. Wales and Dymond turned their attention to final preparations for the coming transit of Venus on June 3.
One would guess that the chances of clear weather at that site on that date would not have been much better than 50–50, but as it happened, all went well. There were cloudy intervals during the six-hour transit, but at the crucial times of ingress and egress "the Sun's limbs [were] extreamly well defin'd," and the astronomers' observations proved a great success.
The ice in the river finally broke up on June 16, allowing a spate of salmon fishing ("I have known upwards of 90 catched in one tide . . . ."), and Wales and Dymond enjoyed a generally relaxed summer while awaiting the supply ship due in late August. They sailed in early September, and after a relatively calm voyage, were back in London on October 19. Wales, however, was greatly angered when a British customs officer confiscated his much-prized toggy, moose-skin shoes and other items of Hudson's Bay Company winter clothing. As always, engaging in a violent argument with the customs officer did no good at all.
Little is known of Dymond, and not much more about Wales, but Wales did later accompany Captain James Cook on his second and third voyages to the Pacific. He ended his career teaching mathematics at Christ's Hospital School in London. Among his students were Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Charles Lamb, one of whom remembered Wales as "a good man of plain, simple manners, with a large person and a benign countenance." There have been worse epitaphs.
My next column will be the final one in this series. It will deal with the most famous expedition of the 1769 transit, that of James Cook to the South Pacific, and also summarize the scientific outcome of all the transit observations. How well did they do in improving our knowledge of the scale of the solar system? Had it all been worth it?
© J. Donald Fernie
I am indebted to Professor Emeritus Dael Wolfle of the University of Washington, whose great-great-uncle was Pauly, for sending me a translation of an unpublished manuscript of Pauly's with permission to quote from it. Professor Wolfle has donated the original document to the Special Collections Department of the University of Washington Library.
You can find this online at http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/num2/1998/9/transits-travels-and-tribulations-iv/4
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Gameplay wise I think that Last of Us could be something new and refreshing, since we haven't had something difficult to the point where you have to plan your attack recently. But, Last of Us has to bring an amazing story full of twists and turns and lots of feels to try to be on par with Bioshock Infinite's story. Even though Infinite's gameplay wasn't amazing the story completely blew me away. The last Naughty Dog game with a truly great story was the Jak Trilogy so let's hope Naughty Dog brings that kind of ingenuity to this game.
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I've got high hopes for it. But I'll wait till I get my hands on it.
@Hippo: Man I feel the same way. It's an amazing game, but after some much time and seeing the demos, you expect more. Honestly I think they had too much time. Allows for too many builds an changes. But, let's stick to TLoU.
I mean Bioshock Infinite is still an amazing game,I think they didn't add some of the footage shown from the demo because they probably couldn't,but again they let down a lot of customers so I really doubt that it would win GOTY really. Like the Boy of Silence,as Ken Levine said,walking security cameras,including they use sound as an weapon,in the game they ended up just standing in one freaking spot and didn't even use sound to locate you,but instead use their eyes (which by the way they're blind) to find you. Honestly the first Bioshock was much better in my opinion. Again I still love Infinite though,and even though it did disappoint me with a lot of things,I'm still happy I played the game.
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Really I think the only chance of it giving GOTY is with the DLC,but I'm really putting my bets on The Last of Us.
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Also the story wasn't as good. Bioshock 1's plot twist was so amazing because it complete changed your outlook on the whole story l so when u play it a second time the story feels completely new. infinites plot twist was pretty generic Imo it was your standard (SPOILER) oh I'm the bad guy and she's my daughter plot twist. Which doesn't have the same impact as bioshock 1's plot twist and when playing through the game a second time it isn't as fun because you start to see some flaws in the twist like why is Comstock racist? And why does he have a different than you?
Also infinites biggest most memorable moment was big and memorable BECAUSE (SPOILER) you went back to rapture. You went back to bioshock 1.
All in all bioshock infinite is more forgettable than its predecessor. Even in the enemy design. Nothing tops the big daddy still. And most of the enemies were basically reskined enemies from bioshock 1. Like the fire guys were basically the grenaders from bioshock 1 and the crow guys were basically houdini splicers. And the basic enemies are just bad guys with guns. Which isn't as cool as splicers.
Also the game is more linear and scripted. Bioshock 1 would let you loose in a massive open ended level where it would let you explore and it would let u choose how you go about it on the enemies. But infinite is more linear and every fight plays out the same. Enemies come out and you have to kill them.
Basically if infinite wins game of the year I'll be disappointed. It is still a great game and it's refreshing but when compared to bioshock 1 it really isn't that amazing.
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Having a process means having a repeatable series of actions. For example, what steps should you take when a problem report arrives? In this case, you should clarify the content, accept the problem, prioritize, and, If urgent, contact the software automation and technology team (SWAT). A process can guide you when you take action and when you reach decision points, like a critical problem report case. When the decisions can be automated based on available data and the tools and mechanisms are in place to support the actions, a well-defined process can lead to successful automation. When a process is automated, problems can be repeated and are much easier to diagnose and correct. As the problems are corrected, we attain higher quality.
Let's examine the following three steps that deal with process: Defining the process, automating the process, and improving process quality.
Building a Software Configuration Management Process
To successfully build a software configuration management (SCM) process, you must have a solid understanding of the objects you need to manage and a good feel for what SCM is supposed to accomplish. If your focus is good version control and repeatable builds, you're heading in the right direction but falling short of meeting your requirements.
The goal of having an SCM process is to successfully deliver a software product to a customer or market in concordance with your business plan. This may mean little to a programmer, but the configuration management (CM) team's decisions needs to take into account both the customer and the business case.
When you initiate SCM in your project as simply a version control and a repeatable build process, you may find that the bigger picture is harder to achieve, because the practices and tools used to support this limited view of SCM can hinder growth. For example, by selecting a version control tool that does not support change packages at its core, you may end up teaching developers that file versions are the key unit of product advances rather than change packages. Once the tool is engrained in the environment, it's not easy to change the tool or the practice without dealing with a lot of resistance.
Additionally, if you begin with a version control tool and then realize that you need problem tracking, activity/task management, requirements/test case management, and so forth, you are working on an add-on tools approach, and in this case, it's not easy to change the tool. Using add-on tools means there's more integration required (between tools), more administration (different tools), more difficulty upgrading (as an upgrade can easily break the integration glue), and so forth. This is a common problem when the approach is "tools first."
To counter this, you must ensure that you understand your end-to-end process and the technology capabilities needed to support such a process up front. If you have flexible enough technology that supports an integrated process definition within a CM framework, "tools first" is not necessarily bad because the tools are helping you implement the process.
However, in the more general case, I suggest the following steps:
1. Identify "first-order objects" and those that should be, such as change packages or updates.
In a typical SCM shop, the product team manages the following processes and items: problem reports, defects, and bugs; feature requests, requirements, and user stories; files and directories; file and directory branches; file and directory revisions and versions; change packages and updates; baselines; builds; test cases; and verification sessions and test results.


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At the outset, on Eugene Lee's wide-open, purposefully cluttered set we see cartons of bottled water. In an action not in the script, one of the characters packs them into an oversize suitcase and throughout the play struggles to lug around this untapped relief. In an even more prominent metaphor, the only door is set in a wall of electric fans — at first inert, eventually balky, ultimately full-powered, as the unrelenting winds of change blast past all resistance.
In the opening, we don't see the beating that Jake (Benjamin Grills) has given his wife Beth (Britt Faulkner), we just hear his lamenting on the phone to his ever-forgiving brother Frankie (Charlie Thurston). Jake is convinced that he killed her this time. But she survived, though her face is black and blue and her head is clamped rigid in her hospital bed. Her mind is confused and her speech muddled ("Who fell me here?"), but her brain damage has given her a childlike simplicity ("I'm above my feet!"). And clarity. To her comforting brother, Mike (Billy Finn), she declares of Jake: "He is my heart."
That last line is a throwaway here, observed lightly, though in the heart-wrenching interpretation at Trinity in the 1980s it was so anguished that I can still bring it to mind and feel a chill. This production has taken a more balanced approach, with other troubled characters sharing our sympathy. Sometimes humor relieves the tension, as when Lorraine uses a bag of ice cubes to breathe into like a paper bag, our only indication that she is stressed.
Beth and Mike's parents are scary American archetypes. Mother Meg (Anne Scurria) is an ever-beaming, "yes, dear"-ing adapter to spousal tyranny. Father Baylor (Timothy Crowe), a Montana rancher, is the sort of bellowing, angry "Get me a beer!" patriarch that keeps red states crimson. Crowe makes him deeply unsettling; to say his temper is volcanic sounds too passive.
Jake's upbringing was hardly more benign. His father died when he was a young boy, so his only manly influence was his mother, Lorraine (Janice Duclos). She knows that he will never take his anger out on her or his brother Frankie, but outsiders? — well, she observes, "inevitable." Duclos makes her scarily chirpy, increasingly smug as strangers perish, although we can't help but love her spirit as a survivor. Daughter Sally (Rebecca Gibel) is the one dragging around the suitcase but never slakes her existential thirst.
Yet Jake is no facile villain. He seems to feel victimized by his own anger, though not to absolve himself; helpless, rather. The proof is his getting so depressed, immobile, that even his mommy's spoon-fed delicious soup can't move him. His jealousy, which prompted his violence, is entirely baseless and irrational, so there's no chance it will stop. As he calmly says to Beth, "Everything in me lies. Tells me a story." Jake hasn't given up the desire to change, but he knows himself too well to think he can.
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#1 Wed 05 Dec 12 4:35pm
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Bread recipes
I have just purchased an Andrew James food processor and having difficulty in understanding the process for bread baking. Can anyone advise, please?
#2 Wed 05 Dec 12 7:40pm
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Re: Bread recipes
http://www.amazon.co.uk/product-reviews … 1M5AEOVQRJ
Seems to be the instructions are for bread making are false.
'The bad points: ignore the recipe book. For the first couple of loaves I followed the instructions to the letter and ended up with sunken bricks. Use a good bread maker recipe (search online). If you put water, then yeast and sugar, then flour then salt you won't go far wrong. Don't do it in the order the manufacturer says!!'
I have a bread machine and any recipe works as long as the liquids are added first.
#3 Thu 06 Dec 12 1:05am
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Re: Bread recipes
By hand, old school, Jamie or Gennaro Contaldo for italian bread. Gennaro really knows his stuff.
Bread makers? If my gran was alive today, she would be turning in her grave!
I love needing dough.
I miss real bread, Bavaria makes the best bread in the world, seriously the best.
That said there are a few pretty good Bakers in the U.K.
Anyone knows a good one list it here.
Exploding Bakery Exeter
Flour Station London, I recall they did something nice.
Ermington Sustainable
The Bakery Plymouth, try their Date and Pecan Rye.
Good luck.
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Re: Bread recipes
It's great fun, doing your own bread using your own hands:
http://chris-cookingaroundtheworld.blog … andom.html
Otherwise, I don't know too much about baking bread.
#5 Fri 07 Dec 12 1:15am
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Re: Bread recipes
This is the food processor bread recipe I have used:
1 tsp dried yeast
1/2 tsp sugar
150ml warm water.
Mix and leave 10 minutes until frothy
225 strong flour
1/2 tsp salt
15g oil or butter
Mix in the fp with the plastic blade. Pour in the yeast mixture (through the feeder tube if you wish) and keep mixing until it has come together.
Tip onto a floured surface and shape into a ball. Leave to rise in a warm place for about an hour until doubled in size.
Knead (or return to the machine for another minute).
Shape loaf, rolls, plait etc. Place in tin or on tray, prove until doubled in size again (30 or 40 minutes). Sprinkle with caraway or sesame seeds. Bake at 220c.
20 minutes for rolls, 40 - 50 minutes for loaf.
Hope this helps
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#6 Fri 07 Dec 12 4:52pm
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Re: Bread recipes
Bread. I have a breadmaker. Is there some confusion here with food processors v. breadmakers? For a breadmaker, you must carry out the recipe to the book and the ingrediments in the order your manufacturer recommends. I've been using breadmakers for 12 years and with arthritic thumbs, they come into their own. Just taken delivery of my third Panasonic - the R-R of breadmakers, in my opinion.
#7 Fri 07 Dec 12 7:05pm
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Re: Bread recipes
My friend says the most important thing in the type of bread maker that takes liquid first, is to use the fast acting yeast and it has to be fresh. saf-instant is the type of yeast he uses. He also uses Red Star active instant dry yeast. After first kneading cycle, check the moisture content, it works better if the dough is on the moist side. If you increase the yeast, increase the sugar.
I'm not sure if the OP is talking about a food processor or bread maker . . . either way, people have reasons for using machines to make life easier, so that's fine. If you prefer to do it by hand, that's fine too.
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When we began our Let's Move! initiative four years ago, we set one simple but ambitious goal: to end the epidemic of childhood obesity in a generation so that kids born today will grow up healthy…
Today, we are seeing glimmers of progress. Tens of millions of kids are getting better nutrition in school; families are thinking more carefully about food they eat, cook and buy; companies are rushing to create healthier products to meet the growing demand; and the obesity rate is finally beginning to fall from its peak among our youngest children…
Yet some members of the House of Representatives are now threatening to roll back these new standards and lower the quality of food our kids get in school. They want to make it optional, not mandatory, for schools to serve fruits and vegetables to our kids. They also want to allow more sodium and fewer whole grains than recommended into school lunches…
Our children deserve so much better than this. Even with the progress we have made, one in three children in this country is still overweight or obese. One in three is expected to develop diabetes in his or her lifetime. And this isn't just about our children's health; it's about the health of our economy as well. We already spend an estimated $190 billion a year treating obesity-related conditions. Just think about what those numbers will look like in a decade or two if we don't start solving this problem now.
The House Appropriations Committee voted, 31-18, Thursday to advance a fiscal 2015 agriculture spending bill with a controversial rider that would allow schools to opt out of nutrition rules requiring more fruits and vegetables, less sodium and more whole grain-rich products if they are losing money from the healthier meals…
Rep. Robert Aderholt (R-Ala.), chairman of the House Appropriations subcommittee on agriculture, told POLITICO after the vote that he's confident Republicans will ultimately prevail in giving school districts the option of a waiver…
White House spokesman Jay Carney responded to the House Appropriations Committee action during the daily briefing on Thursday, calling the rider on school lunches "a provision that replaces the judgment of doctors and nutritionists with the opinions of politicians regarding what is healthy for our kids."
"The House Republican proposal would undercut school nutrition standards that have already been successfully implemented in over 90% of schools," Carney said. "These are the same people who just last year declared pizza as a vegetable and who now think that decisions about kids' health should be made by politicians instead of pediatricians."
At the White House event, school nutrition directors from New York City to Los Angeles to a rural county in Georgia told the first lady success stories about implementing the standards and said they would be disappointed to see any roll backs.
"We're not just talking about food, we're talking about education," said David Binkle of the Los Angeles Unified School District. He said participation is up in his district, along with test scores and graduation rates, since they made school foods healthier there.
The first lady asked the group for advice about how they can better respond to schools that are struggling, and suggested that the conversation should be focused on helping those schools rather than rolling back some of the standards completely. She said the government and schools can also do more to work with students to get them interested in what they are eating.
According the USDA, some 90 percent of schools are in compliance with new rules, as outlined in January 2012. In the fall, there are lower sodium mandates, and the rules expand to food sold outside the cafeteria and inside the cafeteria. The USDA said Wednesday that schools can have a two-year waiver from the requirement that pasta be more than half whole grains. But these latest rules, which include serving 100 percent whole-grain products rather than the current 50 percent requirement, are onerous and potentially budget-busting, some school districts contend…
"Many families in the Southwest will not accept whole grain tortillas. Schools can't change cultural preferences. And with sky-high produce costs, we simply cannot afford to feed our trash cans. Every penny spent on whole grains and produce needs to go into the mouth of a hungry child." Lyman Graham, Food Service Director, Roswell ISD, Carlsbad Municipal and Dexter Consolidated Schools (NM)Come September, there will be new guidelines for foods sold outside of the cafeteria in vending machines and at bake sales as well. Lynn Harvey, Chief, Child Nutrition Services, North Carolina Dept. of Public Instruction…
The SNA calls it "plate waste" — kids just dumping what they don't want in the garbage — and they also point to declining school lunch and breakfast participation rates. A Government Accountability Office study released in January did find a decline in the number of kids who buy school lunch, yet attributed much of the decline to a drop in the number of students paying full price, a trend that began in 2007, but was especially high in 2012, the year the new rules were implemented.
Attending a school lunch with his 10-year-old grandson over Thanksgiving recess last year, Ribble said he witnessed the consequences of the Healthy Hunger-Free Kids Act, such as food waste.
"We watched child after child after child have an empty apple core," he said. "They ate the apple and threw away pounds and pounds of fresh broccoli. It was astounding."
"Almost every single plate got thrown away with the food," Ribble said. "Healthy eating has more to do with what children like and how you can help shape those tastes than it is just with some policy decision that some mom wants to make. We'd all like to have our kids eat broccoli, I know my mom wanted me to eat broccoli. I never ate it. I never liked it. I like it now as an adult, but it has to be prepared with lots of Wisconsin cheese on it."
More than a million kids confronted by healthier school lunches are turning up their noses, leaving the cafeteria and heading out to get a burger instead…
Agriculture Department statistics show the number of school children in the National School Lunch Program dropped from 31.8 million in 2011 to 30.7 million in 2013.
School boards are asking Congress to allow schools to opt out. Some schools are raiding their teaching budgets to cover the costs of mounds of wasted fruits and vegetables, Lucy Gettman of the National School Boards Association said.
"Every school is probably impacted a little bit differently … there isn't comprehensive data available," she said. She noted that one school district in Alaska reported having to transfer $135,000 from its education budget to meet the new requirements — and that the incident was far from unique.
A report by local Washington D.C. news station NBC4 indicates that over 60,000 low-income students in the metro area are skipping lunch, dissatisfied with the food offered to them by their schools…
The kids' failure to eat is costing the schools big money, as they lose $3 in federal subsidies every time a student on free lunch forgoes taking a meal. That's $180,000 a day, adding up to over $32 million in a school year lasting approximately 180 days. School officials say the lost subsidies are straining their budgets, as they need the money to pay for healthier food options mandated by Congress.
It isn't new information that many children are rejecting the food offered them. A January report from the Government Accountability Office suggested that many students were rejecting healthier lunches because they did not enjoy the food offered. Another suggested factor was that students avoided eating a free lunch because they would be stigmatized as poor.
When it comes to schoolkids, Mrs. Obama is just as emphatic that decisions are best made in Washington, rather than in the countless cafeterias of the nation's 100,000 public schools. Some House members, she writes, "want to make it optional, not mandatory, for schools to serve fruits and vegetables to our kids. They also want to allow more sodium and fewer whole grains than recommended into school lunches."…
According to a new Centers for Disease Control study, the obesity rate among kids that age is 8 percent, down from 14 percent in 2003. That's all well and good, but the authors caution that one year doesn't make a trend, especially since that group makes up "a tiny fraction" of the population. Indeed, the same report also notes that obesity rates among Americans 19 years and younger had already stopped climbing by 2003 and has been flat ever since, at around 17 percent. Other accounts suggest that youth obesity rates peaked even earlier, in 1999. Over the same general time frame, adult obesity rates have stayed steady around 30 percent. This all came after a tripling of rates between the 1970s and 1990s…
[I]f we can't trust our schools to figure out how best to fill their students' stomachs, why the hell are we forcing our children to attend such institutions in the first place? When is the last time you heard kids who attend schools of choice—whether private, religious, or public charters (which enroll disproportionately high numbers of low-income students)—even mention food?
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It's actually disturbing how you selectively ignore facts and apply your knowledge to support what is a simple biased opinion--you didn't like much in Kim's skating, you liked Sotnikova's. In the end, you're just the same as the hardcore fans of skaters you're dismissive of in believing what you want to believe, yet you flaunt an air of superiority and objectivity through it all. The fact that you claimed to be in favor of "fair arguments" regarding Sotnikova is pure hypocrisy when your own arguments have not been built on objectivity or fairness or with honest intentions in an honest debate.
I don't post on skating blogs by the way. If you know who I am, then surely you know that I spend most of my time on another forum, where these types of discussions generally aren't done, and certainly not in this manner when they are... Conspiracy theories are still fun, though. Humor me.
I've made it pretty easy to understand, so if you fail to its cause you choose not to.
Also, I've never been dismissive of Sotnikova's UR. I've only been interested in knowing why you people continuously harp on it while ignoring Yuna's URs that she clearly got away with. I mean, any excuse is believable when it comes to justifying clear faults in her technical elements yet the people who point them out (in a pretty undeniable fashion, mind you) or do it for another skater are Pro-Sotnikova Anti-Kim haters? A bit of a stretch, don't you think? You show them pictures and video, and they blatantly deny what is obvious. It's like showing someone a picture of a Cat and having them tell you it's a Giraffe, and then try to defend it.
My post broke it down pretty well for you. If you don't want to accept it that's on you. My last post pretty much summed up how I feel about discussing these matters here. If they can't win with facts or fail at geometry, people resort to battling with reports, instead :-) If you do not like the manner in which I post or the content of my posts, when it is unfavorable to your favorite skater, then IGNORE me. I don't have a problem with that.
I didn't change the subject of this thread.
It's as if you people completely ignore facts and then blame it on some sort of deep-seated bias while still pushing forth the same faulty arguments.
P.S. Everything you wrote in your post was wrong. That's why I was dismissive. It was DEAD WRONG.
Apparently you missed the previous Video and Photos that show that jump being clearly short and obviously UR. That's why I started my reply with those words, because I stopped reading your post at this sentence. Again, read my post, and reply to it and then go from there if you wish to continue conversing with me: about both Sotnikova's (which I have said was clearly UR, it's just that no one here disagrees with it so it doesn't really get much discussion due to that) or Yuna's URs (gets tons of debate cause people get hysterical when these things are pointed out about her) which were overlooked by the technical panel.And you've all missed a previous point made about Yu-Na Kim's landing on the second lutz--that by the time the blade was on the ice, she was within the 1/4 mark anyway.
For the last time. The moment the toe pick is on the ice, that's the point at which the landing is judged. The tech panel can [and do] easily gauge rotation by simply looking at the angle of the blade vs. the direction the jump travels in. The angle of the skate in relation to the direction of the jump determines how short of rotation the jump is. The judges don't wait for her to start gliding back before they check the rotation, they check rotation at the instance the toe pick touches the ice. If it was as others say it is, there would hardly ever be any jumps called UR in competition, since many skaters will actually UR and finish the rest of the rotation on the toe pick, even (and indeed, I've seen lower level skaters with doubles that did exactly this, they basically landed flat on the pick and didn't put the skate on its rocker until they had finished rotating... on the ice - it's still a UR jump, but nice try :-) ).
For the last time. The amount of pre-rotation on take-off is not factored in when determining if a jump is under-rotated. That is checked if the skater is thought to have pre-rotated too far to cheat the jump by removing too much rotation (more than allowed) at the front end of jump execution. The only thing that is checked is the angle at which the skate comes into contact with the ice relative to the direction of travel when it touches back down to the ice. Calling a jump UR for a landing being short has nothing to do with the take-off and the take-off is never taken into consideration. That whole line of thought is not only faulty, it's flat out wrong and judging by some other posts/threads on the forum it is also confusing some people.
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Jun 1, 2013 at 12:19 am #1303649
Kind of related to my previous yosemite post. This is another trip that was suggested for a 1 nighter.
Anyone have any thoughts on this route?
Also, I'll be arriving very late on Fri night and was hoping to just car camp near the trailhead.
Anyone have tips on where to do that?
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first – you should verify camping is allowed at Sunset Lakes. in many parts of the park camping is not allowed within 4 miles of the road, and on the map these lakes appear to be less than 4 miles (from Tenaya Lake area).
second – like I said before, the Cathedral Lakes-Pass area is nice but only average by Yosemite standards, there is so much beauty in the park. never been to Sunset Lakes though.
third – which entrance of the park are you coming in ? this is a very big park. from the west entrances to the Cathedral Trhd can take 1.5 to 2 hours easy. if by car camping you mean illegal car camping, its not allowed in the park. just outside the west entrances there is legal free camping but it is a long ways to the Trhd.
as for official campground camping, Tuolumne Campground is closest. it is part reservation and part walkin but the reservations fill fast. there are a couple other official campgrounds along the road leading up to tuolumne.
fourth – this would not nearly be as nice an adventure as the Donahue Pass option in my opinion.Jun 1, 2013 at 9:31 am #1992169
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I did a backpack 2 weeks ago to Glen Aulin. I drove up on friday and got in about 8 pm and stayed in Lee Vining in the Mono RV park and paid $22.40 to pitch my tent for the night then drove in about 8 miles and started the backpack the next morning.Jun 1, 2013 at 11:05 am #1992190
Thanks Art. Yes I'll probably end up doing Lyell to Donohue Pass. Just checking all options.
I did hear that parts of the trail in Lyell canyon are flooded though. Is that true?
Thx!Jun 1, 2013 at 4:30 pm #1992283
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Sounds like you've already decided on doing a different hike but I'll just include the info so that you have it for another time.
This hike from Cathedral TH to Sunrise TH at Tenaya can be done just as easily from either direction but I'll describe it starting from Cathedral TH.
If your permit is for the next day you can stay at the Backpackers section of the Tuolomne Campground, $5 per person, no reservations needed or taken, have you wilderness permit ready to show the rangers when they check.
Walk, take the shuttle or drive two mile west from the campground to the Cathedral TH, limited parking along the road, a couple of bear boxes for any extra food.
First legal camping is 3.5 miles in at lower Cathedral lake. As Art pointed out the hike up until this point is unremarkable, but the destination most certainly is not. Lower Cathedral lakes is one of the gems of the park, the views of the surrounding peaks are second to none. One nice option would be to set up camp and then spend the day exploring the peaks without the pack, returning to camp for a swim, dinner and enjoy the alpenglow in the evening. Downsides to this popular destination is that you will have company at the lake, there are often bears that come to visit and permits are usually booked up well in advance.
Next day continue 5 miles towards Sunrise camp(it is sunrise not sunset) hang a right and another mile or two to Sunrise lakes. Again these are spectacular high alpine lakes. Middle Sunrise in particular is not to be missed, not visible from the trail, with several nice areas to camp, and a sweet island in the lake makes for fun swimming. You could day hike from here to several locations, among them Clouds Rest.
If you are heading back to the Sunrise TH at Tenaya Lake it is 3.5 miles from Sunrise Lakes, most of that distance down the switchbacks. As with Cathedral Lakes, Sunrise is one of the most popular destinations so you will be sharing the lake with others, bears do visit and the reservable TH quota fills up in advance.
Once back at the TH the shuttle stops here, so it is easy to get back to your car whether it is parked at Cathedral TH or Tuolomne Meadows.
Hope that is helpful, feel free to PM me if you need more Yosemite info, I visit often.
PS. Camping is legal and popular at both Lower and Upper Cathedral Lakes as well as at all three Sunrise Lakes.Jun 1, 2013 at 4:48 pm #1992290
James CastleberryMember
The campground might still be closed. I just parked on the side of the road and caught a few Z's in my little car. I parked right across the river from the campground.
Also, yes, some parts of Lyell Canyon trail were flooded, but easy to get through/around by stepping on tussocks and small rocks, etc.Jun 1, 2013 at 5:33 pm #1992302
Art …BPL Member
its very common in early season to have to cross thru some water at several spots along Lyell Canyon trail.
it is not deep and not rushing water. no danger, just that your feet might get wet.
also if you are still considering the Tuolumne to Donahue Pass trip, you should be aware that the last 2 miles up to the pass is pretty rugged. but that's part of the beauty of it.
the trails in the Cathedral-Sunrise area are more user friendly (aside from the numbers of people).Jun 1, 2013 at 7:16 pm #1992319
Just saw the premier of mile, mile and a half. It's was all I hoped it would be, and on top of it all it showed Lyell canyon and Donohue pass!!!
Perfect!!!!! Looks awesome!Jun 2, 2013 at 2:31 pm #1992507
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@kennyhel77Locale: Scotts Valley CA via San Jose, CA
That area is awesome Chris….maybe hike to Mammoth so that you can see 1000 Island Lake, Garnett Lake. You can take the bus back to Yosemite
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SCOTT COUNTY, Va. - The wilds of Scott County, Virginia are a little bit wilder with the introduction of two new bears to the Creation Kingdom Zoo.
As we discovered, these bears weren't really classified as bears when first found, and they're more endangered than the panda.
If Fuzzy Wuzzy was a bear, he may look something like the new arrivals at Creation Kingdom Zoo in Scott County. These bears have a lot more fur than your average bear, and they're not ordinary by a long shot.
"They're sloth bears. Their natural habitat is Sri Lanka. They're one of the most endangered bears on the planet actually,
said zoo director Marc Bradley. "They don't get quite as much attention as some of the other bears. We tend to think a lot of times as the pandas as being more rare, but there are actually more pandas in the world than there are sloth bears."
Maybe one of the reasons is the fact that the sloth bear was thought to be, just as its name implies, a sloth, not a bear. "They have long white claws and they also have a couple of patches of fur on their backs where their babies cling to. Unlike most bear babies that walk with their parents, the sloth bear babies ride on moms' back. When they first found them they thought they were sloths," Bradley said.
Another unusual fact: they don't have any bottom front teeth. "They roll their tongues to suck up termites out of the ground. You [can hear them] up in their enclosure sucking [termites]. You can hear that sucking noise up to a hundred yards away," Bradley said.
Bradley tells us that they are partnering with the Species Survival Plan, along with other zoos, to ensure that the species doesn't go extinct and that Creation Kingdom is the only private zoo to have a pair.
The other four pairs in the U.S. are in public zoos.
"They tend to be a little bit more of an aggressive bear; not like the grizzly in that they will stalk humans from time to time, but if surprised they tend to be a little bit grouchy," he said.
That's because they are hunted by tigers, so they're always on guard. And guess who lives next door at the Creation Kingdom? Bengal tigers.
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A difficult trip home to Oklahoma: Record reporter surveys tornado devastation
MOORE, Okla. — I know this path, the one the tornado took. I know this town.
Walking through the remains of people's flattened homes on Wednesday, tracing the indiscriminate path of destruction that connects my childhood home and a demolished school gymnasium nearly a mile away, I rediscovered some old truths about the people of Moore, a suburb of about 50,000 just south of Oklahoma City. Their fortitude, their stoicism and good humor in the face of tragedy — the type of tragedy that has become all too familiar over the past 15 years.
Photos: Record reporter surveys hometown damage in Oklahoma
Two days after the latest twister killed 24 people and caused untold damage, the stories of staggering loss were leavened by heroism, survival and resilience: a 13-year-old boy who saved a classmate from being ripped out of a school gym by furious winds, a couple who hid in a closet as the walls around them were stripped away, and a family that escaped by car minutes before their house was pulverized.
Many families returned on Wednesday to salvage something meaningful from the ruins. They dug out videotapes of children's birthdays, pictures, family heirlooms. While doing it, they cracked jokes, lit up barbecues and repeated a common refrain: "At least we have our lives."
Monday's tornado rumbled on for 17 miles through central Oklahoma, but its most deadly streak was in Moore. My parents' home, while in the tornado's path, was spared, and they were unhurt. But only 200 yards to the north almost no structure is intact.
This is where Kathy and Donald Easter rode out the tornado — in a four-person storm shelter under their house, which came tumbling down.
"This was the living room," Kathy said Wednesday, pointing to a 10-foot-high pile of bricks and wood.
Despite that, she said she was in good spirits.
"We expected worse," she said.
How could it get much worse?
"If everything had blown to Kansas," Donald said, holding on to some crystal decanters and other collectibles they had retrieved.
"We're alive and the dogs are alive," his wife added.
The area, just off Tower Drive, used to be a wide open field of tall grass, where neighborhood children built forts from spare construction materials, rode mountain bikes and looked for snapping turtles in empty creek beds.
In the past decade, it became a new subdivision, representative of Moore's stable housing market and rapid population growth, fueled by young families, many of whom work in the oil industry or at nearby Tinker Air Force Base.
But several residents who have lived in the area said Wednesday they were undecided about rebuilding in a community that has been crossed by powerful tornadoes three times since 1999.
"I don't know how much more this town can take," said Cecil McCoy, the father of a close high school friend. "We've been cut in half three times."
The McCoys live just to the east, across Eastern Avenue. Their home was damaged to varying degrees by all three twisters.
"We're pushing our luck," he said.
Cecil asked for a hand nailing plywood boards over holes in his roof, caused by projectiles riding 200 mph winds, and I lent it. That's what neighbors do in Moore.
A block to the north on, SE Ninth Street, Mandy Rhoads-McLearen-was looking through the remains of her childhood home. She found a mud-soaked cheerleading outfit from her high school days. Her mom, Sara, picked up a dog bowl. Their car was thrown 30 yards away. Luckily, they heeded the warnings, blaring from tornado sirens and television meteorologists, whose expertise predicting the path of springtime tornadoes make them household names in Oklahoma City.
Mandy and her father were at a school talent show starring Mandy's children. Jackson, 9, the oldest had a pogo-stick routine planned. But it was canceled as the storm approached from the southwest, and several parents decided to take their kids home. Mandy and her father stopped by her mother's home, picked her up, and drove south, minutes before the twister struck.
"I'm so thankful they canceled that show," she said.
An old friend, she reminded me that on days I missed the bus, I'd ride my bike to school and drop it off in her front yard, where I knew her mother would watch over it. I'd walk the rest of the way, these same streets, to Highland East Junior High. But the place was no longer recognizable to me.
"I'm sorry I couldn't clean up more before you came over," Mandy said with a smile.
Her sadness, she said, had turned to determination. And like others, she said she had been buoyed by support. Friends are raising money. Strangers are offering help.
"The first day we felt sick," she said. "Now we're over that. We will rebuild."
Heading northeast, I gingerly walked over piles of debris: purses, propane tanks, cracked vanity mirrors, shoes. Police had blocked off the neighborhood entrance to cars, fearing looters. Even residents were turned away.
But Charles Mustin, 47, found a way in and brought a small group of family members. A renter on Eastmoor Court, a block filled with military families, Mustin was trying to save anything of value. He had no insurance.
The roof of the house had been torn off, and its contents were scattered throughout the neighborhood and beyond.
"Twenty-five years of my life is gone," he said. "I have nothing, but we'll get by."
He had been at work when it hit. His wife was home alone. His 18-year-old son, Chaz, had run home from Moore High School when he heard the storm was approaching. He and his mother piled into a closet, put a mattress over their heads. They survived, but the family took a financial hit.
The couple had just spent most of their savings on a high school graduation gift for Chaz, a down payment on a new truck. The truck was destroyed in the storm. And the tornado picked up about $20,000 worth of equipment and tools from the garage, said Mustin, a general contractor. It probably carried it away, he said, pointing to the northeast.
Two blocks in that direction, on South Patterson Drive, Garry Wright, 56, was sitting on his porch, smoking a cigarette and talking about how he almost didn't make it. And how he'll "never, never, never," live in a house without a storm shelter again.
After the meteorologist on the television said to leave your home or get underground or "you will die," he, his wife and his aunt ran from the front porch to a closet in the back of the house.
The rumble got louder and louder. "Then the house just imploded."
The pressure blew off the door to the closet and sucked him partially out. A metal cap from a fence post pinged him on the head. His eyes were closed, but he could feel the debris piling on top of them.
"I'm surprised more people didn't die," he said, standing on the obliterated home's foundation.
As they searched through the rubble Wednesday, they came across signs of life: five motherless baby rabbits in a hole in their back yard. The mother was nowhere to be found. So Wright's family adopted them, fellow survivors.
"We Oklahomans, we're all just survivors," he said. "It's like they say: 'If you fall off a horse, you get back up.'Ÿ"
The tornado skipped across Avery Drive and toward the Highland East Junior High gymnasium behind the school. It sheared off the gym, where I remember watching pep rallies and playing kickball in physical education class.
On Monday as the storm hit, a choir class was inside the gym. Dylan Ellis, a 13-year-old seventh-grader, and other classmates piled into the locker rooms. Following the teachers' instructions, he hunched down, put his arms over his head and locked arms with the students next to him.
"First the power went out," he said. "Then it was just the loudest noise I've ever heard. It took off the roof and everyone was screaming," he said.
Next to him was a classmate, Diane.
"I looked up and I saw her feet in the air," he said. It was pulling her out. "I jumped on her, and debris started falling on us."
Dylan's teacher, Nubia Holland, said he may have saved the girl's life. None of the children in the gym was seriously injured. Two days later, Dylan's back was a little sore from the rubble falling on top of him. But mostly, he seemed unfazed.
"Yeah, I was scared, but I wasn't thinking about that," he said. "I was just thinking about saving her."
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About Atlus U.S.A., Inc.Located in Irvine, California and founded in 1991, Atlus U.S.A., Inc. is a publisher of compelling video games for a variety of platforms, including the Nintendo DS™, PSP® (PlayStation®Portable) system, Wii™, Xbox 360™, and PlayStation®2 computer entertainment system. Atlus U.S.A, Inc.'s library of critically acclaimed video games includes Odin Sphere, Trauma Center: Second Opinion, Magna Carta: Tears of Blood, and the award-winning Shin Megami Tensei series. For more information, visit http://www.atlus.com. ©2007 ATLUS Growlanser is a trademark of Atlus USA. "PlayStation" and the "PS" Family logo are registered trademarks of Sony Computer Entertainment.


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It is a morbid element of journalistic paranoia, only inflamed in the past four years. Macabre and inhuman as it might sound, every foreign correspondent in the US (or every voter, for that matter) would surely admit the thought has at some stage crossed his or her mind. Will the President survive his term? Where and how would it happen? What would happen in the aftermath? How on earth would the world react?
Lincoln, Garfield, McKinley and Kennedy. There's good reason President Obama's victory speech was delivered behind walls of bulletproof glass.
It is most unlike the Catholic Church, of course, to ever be considered at all behind the times. What a relief, therefore, for the Pope to join the norm of most political positions of power, in relinquishing top office before slipping off to the other side. It just tends to make transitions a little tidier.
Eight US Presidents have died while still in office, and Barack Obama at least appears to take practical steps to avoid a premature departure. We're told he exercises regularly and at every speech or photo-op his appearance is pre-empted by scores of Secret Service agents, armed and utterly humourless. Rumours abound Obama even occasionally dresses in specially tailored, bullet-resistant clothing.
But the importance or not of a President lasting his term has been emphasised this week, not just by the Pope's premature passing of power (not to be confused with his premature passing), but by an off-hand comment from the former White House doctor, who served sitting presidents. Dr Connie Mariano was asked to consider the presidential potential of Republican Chris Christie.
"I like Chris Christie," she said of the New Jersey Governor. "I hope he runs. I just worry about this man dying in office."
Christie possesses a physique you might kindly describe as "jolly". You might also, less kindly but more realistically, compare his silhouette with that of Violet Beauregarde in Roald Dahl's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Violet eats a forbidden treat and is subjected to a rapid and violent expansion.
A Swiss Ball on steroids, Christie's silhouette cuts a near perfect orb but for the quiver of his mighty jowls.
These observations, I should add, amount to Christie's own, frank, admissions. Controlling his weight is an ongoing issue. But his own admissions are usually more tactfully crafted than to publicly question his chances of carking it on the job. There's more to health than just his fat, Christie retorted this week. He appeared on late night TV smashing a doughnut. Unless the doctor gives him a physical or examines his family history, Christie says Mariano should "shut up".
But surely the doctor has a point.
It's true Obama continues to struggle with cigarettes, and that his nicotine addiction could one day spell his end. But one need only look at Christie to know he probably risks a much more sudden departure.
If tax returns, birth certificates and religious leanings are considered fair fodder for Presidential nominees, I don't think it entirely unreasonable for a pulse to be a prerequisite, too. Being obese might not stop a person doing the job, but being dead would be a hindrance.


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Most parents recognize the importance of nurturing literacy in their children. Learning to read and write are celebrated milestones. Parents start early by reading to their infants, introducing them to the alphabet and phonics in the early preschool years, and then sending them off to kindergarten to solidify their pre-reading skills and becoming novice independent readers and writers by the end of first grade. These skills are further developed and enhanced over the ensuing 11+ years of formal education and into and throughout adulthood.
While a great deal of energy and attention is rightfully devoted to developing this type of literacy, much less time and attention is spent on developing a child's physical literacy, despite the fact that nurturing physical literacy from a young age is essential for a child's lifelong success.
Physical literacy describes an individual's ability to understand and execute movement with confidence, apply movement to physical activities, recognize the benefits of movement, be competent in movement on numerous levels, and inherently enjoy moving and being physically active. Kids with higher physical literacy are more likely to commit to a lifestyle of physical activity and reap its many benefits, including improved school performance, health, social skills, self-esteem and overall well being.
Unfortunately, as more children, adolescents and adults opt for screen time rather than physical activities, and as physical education classes are engineered out of the school day, the physical literacy of children and adults in the United States is at an all-time low. And just like kids who don't learn basic reading skills at a young age will struggle with reading, kids who don't learn basic physical movements at a young age will struggle with physical activity and sports.
Dr. Avery Faigenbaum, author of ACE's Youth Fitness Manual , believes that lack of fundamental movement skills, such as running, jumping and catching, in the first five years of life leads to decreased motor skills and coordination in elementary school, which in turn leads to decreased movement confidence in tweens. I ncreased sedentary behaviors in tweens and teens then leads to increased disease risk factors in teens and young adults, which leads to increased adverse health outcomes in adulthood.
What can be done to reverse this trend? Here are five tips to help you improve your child's (and, in many cases, your own ) physical literacy:
1. Start nurturing motor- skill development from infancy.
In the first five years of life, the typical child will have at least 11 well- child visits. At every visit, the pediatrician will assess development, including gross and fine motor skills. Take advantage of this opportunity to see how your child's skills are developing and how you can help to facilitate continued improvement. Here are some typical motor- skill development milestones (as advised by the American Academy of Pediatrics here) and how you can help your child enhance these skills:
2. Advocate for physical education in your schools.
While parents are largely responsible for a child's physical literacy in the early years, physical education programs and participation in sports help older children continue to develop and enhance their physical literacy skills. In many states, local physical education and recreation programs are being cut back due to budget concerns. Start letter- writing campaigns and phone calls to your local government asking them to implement more P.E. and recreation programs.
3. Start slow.
When a child learns to read, they don't start with a novel. Physical activity is no different. Start slow and w ork at your child's speed, not yours! Success leads to a positive attitude and improved self-esteem, while failure leads to negative attitudes. Compliment and pat your child on the back, reinforce positive physical behaviors, and build his or her ego. Physical activity can build confidence and spark more interest in future physical activity.
4. Emphasize fun.
It's not about winning or losing, it's about having fun and enjoying being active. Kids who have fun participating in activities will participate more, be confident and have more success. They will also be more likely to develop a high level of physical literacy.
5. Model physical literacy.
Remember, physical literacy continues to develop and improve over a lifetime. You hear this time and again: your kids are watching you and will model after you. Let them see you increase your physical literacy as you practice your walking, running, balancing, jumping, swimming, cycling, throwing and kicking skills. Kids who grow up with active parents are more likely to be active themselves. Create a family activity plan in which you go for walks, bike rides or hiking on a regular basis. Many children enjoy family time, so why not make family time active time?
Len Saunders is a P.E. teacher in New Jersey. Saunders has been distinguished as a leader in the field of children's health, fitness, and wellness for almost 30 years. He has won awards at the local, state, and national levels for all his efforts to reduce childhood obesity. He has teamed up with the President's Council and the American Heart Association on various projects through the years. Len is best known for creating Project ACES (All Children Exercise Simultaneously), an internationally recognized program that literally has millions of children from all 50 states and over 50 countries exercise in unison during the first Wednesday in May. He has created dozens more nationally recognized programs that teach children about leading a healthy lifestyle. Len is also an accomplished author of five books, with his most recent, "Keeping Kids Fit," available at amazon.com. He can be reached at www.lensaunders.com.
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"Typical Morehead!"..................and he didn't even mean that as a compliment..
I think he's doing fine in the system he's in now.... True, there are a lot of quality QBs in the league, but not all of them are toting the hardware like our guy.
He can't take a hit at all and he knows' it. That's why he's always wimping out when he thinks he might be hit. I guaranty he get's the big money and he starts spending lot's of time on the sidelines. We replaced Smith and Eli will make the next guy after Cruz if necessary. like others have said though; probably no ones going to gamble giving this guy big money plus losing a fist. We can always hope though. remember, Randle still has huge potential and Nicks is really the man.


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