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First of all, sorry for the inactivity around here. Much going on in life right now. : )
So I have decided I could need to lose some pounds, I have no goal of an exact amount at this moment. I'm not going to struggle, I will really let it take time this time. The ca
use of this is of course I want to get more fit, but this is also an experiment of my body. Will two simple steps work? I'm going to do two small things everyday in order to reach my goal within 4 months.
1) I'm going to fill up my schedule a lil bit more. Before, I used to do cardio workouts five times a week. Wednesday and sunday was resting day. Now I'm going to workout with cardio at home seven days a week. That means no resting days. This will be similar to the p90x2 workout.
2) As for the second thing, I'm going to eat smaller portions at dinner everyday. The reason for this is that I understood the importance of it even better now. Let me explain: I'm usually very inactive physically after dinner. That means that everything I eat won't be burning up as easily as it would during daytime when I'm walking and running all day. I might get hungry before bedtime which is going to be hard to get used to. But I don't need much energy when sleeping, now do I? Worst case, I'll eat some hassle nuts or a fruit.
These are two very simple steps to lose some weight, I don't guarantee it will work for everyone though. Some people really can't sleep on empty stomach.
When to eat? It's something that you wouldn't expect to be nearly as important as it is.
For example, if you eat a pizza for breakfast, it's not that bad as you will burn all those calories during your day.
But.. if you eat it right before bed, you won't burn much of it as your body starts saving calories. You need to have energy during the day, not in bed!
However, you shouldn't eat pizza at all, unless there's something special, but if you really are a pizza lover, I'd recommend to try diabetes pizza.
Here are some guidelines to follow when you're creating a daily eating routine:
* Don't eat right before bed.
* Eat a steady breakfast. Really steady! What you eat is less important.
* Keep your lunch 3 hours after breakfast.
* Nuts, fruits, and other small meals during afternoon.
* Dinner portions should not be too big, but still enough.
If you hold on to these guidelines, you will definitely reduce the risk of getting type 2 diabetes.
A lot of people thinks that the less you eat the more weight you lose. In principle, it's true, but there are some exceptions.
Lose weight by eating breakfast & drink water at the right time
Eating breakfast will make your metabolism much better during the whole day and therefore burn up more calories. You will also feel much more energized and focused. It's not very important what you eat – Of course, the best breakfast is a good mixture of fiber, protein, carbohydrates and some fat.
By drinking water as soon as you wake up will make your taste bud better and also make you feel hungry, study; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8287852.
It is proven that drinking water before meals will make the food more tasteful. Therefore, it's a good simple step for people who tend to give up breakfast because they aren't feeling hungry. Moreover, drinking water after a meal will get your metabolism to work immediately and therefore burn more.
I have always believed in goals. If you have goals, you know where you're going.
Six advices for you to set goals to get motivated:
1. Answer the questions how, when, how?
2. Get help if you can not answer them myself. (E.g how – personal trainer)?
3. For what reason? Is that enough justification?
4. How will you measure your performance when you are 'advanced'? When are the target to be achieved and what happens if it is not?
5. How will you reward yourself? (Reward spurs)
6. Once the plan is nailed, it is reasonable? You can follow this plan along your options?
In order that a case should be motivating enough, you should have about 50% chance of doing it. This means that it will be difficult to achieve, beacuse if the goal is too easily achieved you won't feel motivated enough to struggle.
Similarly, if the goal is too hard it will be easy to hang because of performance requirements.
This is a full body cardio workout program. Ten exercises, 30 reps per exercise, which is 300 reps in total.
No need for expensive equipment. A video showing how to do each exercise is included below.
Perform the exercise shown in any order.
* jump squat
* staggered pushups
* alteranating split jump
* explosive pushups
* prison squat
* hindu pushups
* kneeling band row
* burpees
* pull ups
* double crunch
Have fun!
My Life as a Sicilian – a three-year dieting journey in the land of antipasti
It began simple enough. Our family relocated to Sicily, Italy by way of California, complements of the United States navy. I had just lost the forty-five pounds of post-baby weight and was down to fourteen percent body fat. I was happy, content and thin. Then the news that we would be moving abroad came into view and I instantly became frantic. I had heard the rumors of Sicilians walking the streets, eating pastries, enjoying large ten-course meals at lunchtime, and lots of alcohol consumption. I had seen the pictures of brooding Sicilian mothers forcing their large families to "mangia! Mangia!" and not to leave the table until every morsel vanished. I knew of several Italian families living here in the United States that only enjoyed their family reunions because of the pasta-gorging and pizza-baking. These people were serious about their food! I wanted no part of it. I decidedly refused to be a part of the Sicilian culture and especially reminded myself that of course there was a commissary on the navy base and certainly I could continue my current eating lifestyle. Luckily, this was not the case and thankfully so when we landed on Italian soil in march 1997.
The first sampling of fine Sicilian cuisine was at a ristorante in a little village close to the navy base. They served all specialties of pasta, and their main following was for the wood oven-baked pizza that was routinely made with buffalo cheese. It was incredibly delicious, light and filling. I was pleased and so were my family. We decided that this little restaurant would become a regular for our family.
As the months went on, our tastes became even more refined as we traveled throughout all of Italy, attuned to the differences in the sauces of Florence versus Rome, and got to know whose pasta was the most al dente. During the first year of life in Sicily, I became increasingly aware of how much better I felt, how much clearer my skin was, and how I had not gained any of my weight back! I was even eating more bread, more pasta and staying at exactly the same body fat as I did before moving to Sicily. What remained more of a mystery were the Sicilians themselves. The girls and women there were not overweight and in fact were slim and beautiful. They did not beat their bodies with exercise, did not starve themselves, and did not take supplements. They did eat more slowly, drank gallons of water and ate only the freshest food possible, all with a slight coating of olive oil. They did not run five miles a day, nor did they have to have gastric bypass surgery.
After the first year of eating well and being amazed at the lack of overweight people that surrounded me, I investigated further by becoming one of the Sicilians by learning their language and immersing myself in their culture and lifestyle. I would find out why they were thin and Americans were, well, not so thin. Within the second year of eating delicious pasta, staying thin still and conversing fluently in Italian with my new friends, I discovered that the Sicilians had many, many things going for them. They had their families, they valued their relatives, they did not snack on empty foods, and they drank lots and lots of bottled water. They did not appear to have the stressors that we Americans had. They ate fresh, unprocessed foods. They shopped frequently for fresh ingredients. They baked their own bread. They grew their own vegetables and fruit, even if their gardens were scanty in size. They talked with their friends and neighbors often, and were seemingly always with their families, including the extended family. They rarely ate out in restaurants. They ate very, very little refined sugar. They drank very little milk. As well, they drank very little alcohol.
Wrapping up our third year in Sicily, I was still at the same body fat, still wore the same size clothes and still happily ate an entire Mediterranean diet. I knew now that the secret to staying thin was something that the Sicilians knew better than any of we Americans could ever know. I miss my Sicilian friends and miss the smell of fresh bread being baked at our local panificcio. I miss the outdoor markets in each of the tiny cittas and I long for the pizza margherita that we used to buy down the street from our home from the tiny ristorante known as Vittorio's. More than anything, I miss the simple pleasures of good, fresh food eaten slowly on a summer's day while watching the lava flow down mount Aetna, hearing the sounds of young boys playing soccer outside in the street and smelling the orange blossoms from the blood orange groves that surround us in the countryside.
Lunge Jumps is an exercise that is effective for the legs. To perform this
1. Stand in a lunge position, right foot forward
2. Make sure to keep your hands behind your head
3. Jumping up and switch foot position in mid-air, landing in a lunge position, with the left foot forward, keeping the hands behind the head.
4. Repeat 10-15 repetitions, or timed
After you have practiced this workout a lot, you can add dumbbells for extra weight, as you can see on the video included below.
When I first started out as an artist in 1990, there were hundreds of struggling artists in Austin complaining of not finding any "real" work. Of course an artist who works regularly is successful, and balances their energy between being creative and being entrepreneurial. Many talented people refuse to do it this way. They focus on the art itself… the fun part! That's important, too, but almost not as important as the business side. It's like my design professor said at university, "Talent is only 10%. That piece of paper is only worth 5." There are plenty of gifted people out there who never achieve their goals because they don't know how to package, sell or market what they have to offer.
Everything soon came together for me, and I realized this business approach works in every aspect of life if you truly want to find direction and make tangible progress. It even works for health and fitness. In fact, it works quite well!
Think of this as a business workshop for your health. Begin by looking at the development of a diet and fitness program as if you were starting your own small business, and the product you are manufacturing is a newer, fitter, healthier, better-organized, more motivated, sexier you.
Industrial-Strength or Lemon Scented?
Begin by choosing a name for your Product and writing a mission statement for your company ― one which means a lot to you and will drive every decision you make about your "business." For instance a name like "No Excuses" or "Be Ready" tells you instantly each time you read it what your objective should be for every decision you make. My personal brand name is "I Will Be Unreasonable: I will not reason my way out of anything by making excuses." I'm an artist so it only makes sense that I live my life as unreasonably as possible. But my business aim is in the statement, moving towards a targeted goal. Concentrate on your name and mission statement every time you blow out the candles on your company's anniversary cake, and every other time you need to remind yourself about what's most important to you and to your life.
The Sweet Smell of Sweat!
I'm no athlete. When I was a kid, I was always picked last for team sports. I'd run the other way before a dreaded dodge ball nailed me in PE. I scored a soccer goal once! For the other team. But just because I have a checkered athletic history doesn't mean I don't like to exercise. In fact, I've learned over the years that I pretty much love it.
I thank my lucky stars that my parents signed me up for the Champions Swim Team at the age of 4. Not only because it was fun (and sometimes I was picked second to last for team sports), but also because it was there that I learned to swim and to compete. I was not a strong swimmer. I was always a delicate build. I had no strong muscles like my friends were born with, and had a deep fear of heights which prevented me from the Diving Team. So the second year my parents decided that we would just swim for fun and that made all the difference. Now I go swimming as often as I can. It makes me ridiculously happy to be immersed in water.
The days of disco introduced me to roller skating parties and roller derby, enticing us with "speed skates" and "couples skates," Xanadu, and a whole lot of girl fights. I still have a tendency to pull out my old roller skates (the ones with the pink wheels) and roll around the ad agency where I work ― for speed purposes, of course. But you would be surprised at how much traction you can get from the office carpet and get a incredible 3 o'clock energy boost, unlike the usual office party birthday cake sugar fix. It also gets me out of the office quicker so I can have more quality time afterhours.
The best exercise for me was always jazz, tap, and ballet. My most strenuous programs. Three classes three times a week plus recitals! And I excelled at it. I was always good at ballet, tap and jazz. I may not have been blessed with muscles, but I had definite rhythm and from the time I was born I loved music. I enjoyed jazz more than anything. Later in life this resulted in taking weekly Jazzercise classes that with a friend when we got off work. And I still take ballet classes to this day.
Then one day at our office gym I wandered into a yoga class when I wasn't in the mood for aerobics or stepping. I was immediately hooked. Obsessed. Yoga changed my life. Now I've tried just about every kind of yoga there is. They're gonna make me go to rehab.
Of course, sometimes a swim is just a swim, a yoga class is just a yoga class, ballet is just ballet, and there's nothing life changing about it. But when a swim or a class is pretty darn good, it's just great. All this to say, when it comes to exercise, find your bliss.
Change Your View to Increase Results
I believe the most important difference between this time and all of my failed attempts at weight loss is the change in my thoughts and views. I viewed exercise as a short-term weight loss plan or something that athletes and naturally fit people pursued. I figured it would be very difficult for me because I was not athletic and therefore was inept at exercise. This of course, meant that I should give up and leave it to the "natural born athletes." Boy, was I wrong…
Remember, just as in business, the choices you make today have a direct effect on results you will experience tomorrow. Many people starting a new fitness routine work too hard or long, and consequently feel overwhelmed and quickly give up. Avoid this "jump start/failure cycle" by starting small. Start with the type of challenge that you will be most comfortable completing on a regular basis. The smaller the challenge, the quicker it will begin to feel easy. Seeing and feeling your physical fitness improve provides fantastic motivation.
Use this knowledge to motivate yourself to make healthier choices today and empower yourself to create a healthier tomorrow.
Valerie Johnson is an Advertising Creative Director and Independent Beachbody Coach. Read her month long series "If You Build It, You Will Become" beginning May 3rd on TheTotalEffect.wordpress.com
This is a video showing how you can do a full body workout outdoors with cardio. Without any equipment and it's really simple. Much better than being a couch potato, right?
"Break up boring cardio into shorter segments, and you will burn more fat!"
Begin with warm-up, jogging for about 15-20 minutes to get your heart going.


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'Pitch Perfect's' Elizabeth Banks Slams Deadline's Nikki Finke for Writing 'Beautiful Actresses Are Not Funny'
"Beautiful actresses are not funny. They don't know how to do comedy," Finke wrote on Sunday night, adding that Bowen "isn't a comedienne just like Brooke Shields wasn't and a zillion more."
The following day, Banks, 38, posted a rebuttal, titled "Ugly or Pretty Has Nothing to do With Funny," on her own website.
"Wouldn't it be great if older, more experienced women like Ms. Finke were kinder to her fellow females in the entertainment business?" Banks wrote.
"She might do more for our cause — better, more fully realized roles in all types of entertainment, which is the territory all these amazing Emmy-nominated actresses are striving for."
What other words did the Pitch Perfect star have for Finke?
"I agree 'humiliation' can be funny," Banks continued in her rebuttal this week, "but it is not a state of being reserved solely for the ugly, whatever that means to Nikki Finke."
Banks gave a shout out out 30 Rock actress Kay Cannon and called her "a gorgeous woman with a wicked sense of humor. Cannon is also the brains behind the Pitch Perfect script.
In her Emmys rant on Sunday, Finke also referred to a 30 Rock star: Tina Fey.
Finke wrote, "Only women who grew up ugly and stayed ugly, or through plastic surgery became beautiful, can pull off sitcoms or standups," using Fey as a prime example.
"[Fey] always points out she looked like a troglodyte when she was younger," according to Finke.
For more of Elizabeth Banks' comments on Nikki Finke's Emmys rant, check out Banks' website. What do you think of Finke's claims that 'beautiful actresses are not funny?' Share your thoughts below.

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Gay playwright and screenwriter Paul Rudnick was assigned by The New Yorker to mock the Hobby Lobby decision and those religious freaks who support it. This came naturally, since Rudnick wrote the satire "The Most Fabulous Story Ever Told," in which God makes Adam and Steve, along with the first lesbians, Jane and Mabel. In the script's introduction, he writes "I believe in what human beings can do when you give them fifty bucks to guy some cheap red polyester velvet. Some people need more, something with vengeance and commandments and jihads."
In a perfectly arrogant example of the self-congratulating secular superiority of The New Yorker and its readership, Rudnick apparently found it hilarious to merge tacky crafting with tacky religious metaphors:
I'll admit that I wasn't always such a fervent believer, either in God or in the sort of homemade Mother's Day cards that can land a person in the emergency room with a hole-punch wound. My commitment to the twin glories of Jesus and yard-sale-ready collectibles began when I was fourteen years old and my parents dragged me to a Christmas Midnight Mass. As I was yawning, and wishing that I was off with my friends in someone's unchaperoned finished basement, guzzling eggnog laced with cranberry juice, I happened to glance at the Nativity scene on the high altar—where the miracle of Jesus' birth had been imaginatively interpreted with sock monkeys.
At that very moment, I heard a voice telling me, "Eleanor, go ye forth and tell of the Lord's wonders, using pipe cleaners, Popsicle sticks, and enormous Day-Glo crêpe-paper sunflowers with plastic googly eyes and refrigerator-magnet grins." By the very next day, I had crafted a miniature replica of the Last Supper, entirely out of those tiny Jet-Puffed marshmallows, empty bottles of mini-bar vodka, and human hair.
I soon joined a fast-growing church called Our Lady of the Decoupaged Trinket Box. Our beloved pastor, the Reverend Lionel Harmwater, has led his flock in scrapbooking the entire Bible by adding doily borders to every page, along with oaktag-framed photos of bowling pins on which parishioners have enamelled the faces of their patron saints. This Bible now weighs more than fifty-eight pounds and rests on a reinforced redwood picnic table in the sacristy, surrounded by beeswax candles set inside coffee cans that have been spray-painted to look like spray-painted coffee cans. I love to page through this Bible, to discover pop-up tinfoil angels holding antiqued parchment banners reading "Pray & Crochet!" or "You Can't Commit Adultery with a Staple Gun!"
Of course, there are plenty of folks who just don't believe, either in God or in using frayed extension cords to wire together old Frisbees and oven mitts to create a one-of-a-kind holiday wreath for a nursing-home front door. These nonbelievers, or, as I like to call them, people without hand-tooled Navajo-inspired Naugahyde change purses, live mostly in the northeastern portion of America, which, frankly, is a crafting sinkhole.
There is hope, however: a Crafters' Gospel has just been discovered, rolled up inside a Clorox bottle that had been repurposed as a piggy bank and hidden in a cavern outside Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. This Gospel includes a revelatory sermon in which Jesus, in no uncertain terms, condemns any undecorated surface, including simple pine coffins, which can be made so much more appealing, and therefore more righteous, by adding bottle caps dusted with clear glitter and arranged in snowflake patterns. Jesus also tells us, and here I'm quoting Him directly, that "any truly Christian apron must include both colorful rickrack and a hand-embroidered image of a dancing pepper mill."
When it comes to the Court's decision on contraception, I think I can be of service. For my five beautiful daughters, and the other one, I have used a cheerful heavy-gauge yarn, mixing strands of cashmere, alpaca, and barbed wire, to knit what I call a Crotch Cozy. When my girls wear their Crotch Cozies, they not only receive endless compliments in the locker room but sexual intercourse becomes impossible. Any additional form of birth control is unnecessary. Case closed.


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A child's imagination, like the universe or a confused soccer player, knows no bounds. Nurture blossoming creativity with this Groupon.
Choose Between Two Options
- $20 for five pop-in play sessions (a $40 value)
- $149 for a weekday birthday party for up to 10 kids (a $235 value)
During open-jump play sessions, kids need only their imaginations and a pair of socks to romp about the inflatable playscape. See the pop-in schedule.
For birthday parties, the guest of honor and nine adoring celebrants get their run of the facility for 80 minutes of uninterrupted, private playtime. Once the littluns have tuckered themselves out, they can retire to a private party room. Though parents should bring their own cake, or purchase it at Pump it Up, the staff takes care of everything else, including invitations, party supplies, and setting up and tearing down the party room.
Pump It Up of Lake Forest
Pump It Up's indoor inflatable arenas launch socked striplings into the air with a plethora of kid-friendly bounce pads. Staffers supervise fun-filled visits, during which adult counterparts leap around with their kids through gargantuan bounce houses, skip down air-filled slides, and slither like snakes covered in bacon grease through an inflated obstacle course. Occasionally, the staffers switch off the lights, arming the roomful of players with glow sticks and bracelets as they navigate the air-cushioned obstaclescape.
The colorful venue also hosts custom birthday parties and private team parties, each themed to please the partygoers in question. These soirees immerse children in a schedule of interactive activities befitting a pirate or a superhero while melting off youthful energy faster than ice cubes thrown into a running DVD player. The birthday boy or girl even gets to blow out the candles on their cake seated in their blow-up throne. Relying on the staffers' vigilant, watchful eyes, guardians can rest assured that their charges will stay safe, and each piece of the inflatable playground is held to the wall by a complex series of anchors installed according to strict safety standards.


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GTC orders now available for spreads
Option spread trading are strategies which advanced traders have used to limit risk and limit rewards to increase the probability of success. We have outlined several spread strategies through the years which can be found in our webinar archives
I am happy to announce to spread traders we have the added functionality on the OptionsHouse platform to choose the duration – Good till Canceled (GTC) for their multi-leg spread orders.
What this means for you is if you are a credit put spread seller, you can place a closing trade as a GTC order the moment you establish the position and not think about it again. Being disciplined with your exit strategy, to take profits (and cut losses) when your profit or loss targets are met is critical to be a long term successful trader.
For example say you sold the SPY 27 June 192-190 weekly put spread at 50 cents. You could place a GTC order today to close this position at 15 cents – your hypothetical profit target which would realize a 35 cent gain. You don't have to re-enter this order every day. Additionally with our spread alerts you could set an alert to notify you if your spread price increases to a stop loss point of say 1.00 dollar. You cannot place a stop order on a spread at this point, but being alerted and having the discipline to close trades which have gone against you, is equally important.
Additionally with our advanced order functionality you could actually place an OTO spread order. One order Triggers another Order. The opening spread order which would trigger the closing order both GTC orders. This is kind of a set it and forget it, you always have your spreads working in the market. To learn more about the advance order functionality click here.
At OptionsHouse you can trade up to 4 legs in one spread ticket. Iron Condors, Butterflys, Calendar Spreads can now all be done GTC.
This added functionality allows you to be even more efficient with your trading on the OH platform. Enjoy!
Steve Claussen
Chief Investment Strategist
The above information is provided by OptionsHouse for informational and educational purposes only and is not intended as trading or investment advice or a recommendation that any particular security, transaction, or investment strategy is suitable for any specific person. You are solely responsible for your investment decisions. Commentary and opinions expressed are those of the author/speaker and not necessarily of OptionsHouse. Neither OptionsHouse nor any of its employees, officers, shareholders or affiliated companies guarantee the accuracy of or endorse the views or opinions of guest speakers or commentators. Projections or other information regarding the likelihood of various investment outcomes are hypothetical in nature and are not guarantees of future results. Results may vary with each use and over time. Any examples used that discuss trading profits or losses may not take into account trading commissions or fees.


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Flirtation and pushing sexual boundaries is a normal part of growing up and becoming a teenager, according to many experts, but one technology-driven form of exploration can lead to more than embarrassment.
"A lot of kids don't realize that they can be arrested and charged with a felony," San Bernardino County sheriff's Deputy Frank Navarro said. "When they participate in sexting in any way they can be facing production of child pornography, possession of child pornography or disseminating child pornography. "
High school and even middle school students have been found taking pictures and videos of themselves in sexually explicit situations and them sending them electronically, usually through a smartphone to others.
Navarro and sheriff's Crime Prevention Program Coordinator Clark Marrow regularly go into the community to inform parents, educators and students on the legal consequences of sexting.
"Parents many times are not aware of what is going on with their kids and have a not-my-child kind of mentality," Navarro said.
Navarro and Marrow also talk to parents about sexting during the parenting portion of the Juvenile Intervention Program held at county jail.
Lorena Garcia, a mother of four children who range in age from 4 to 19 from Alta Loma, said she wasn't aware of the legal consequences until she attended a presentation on sexting several years ago.
"I remember thinking, 'Sexting? What's that?'" Garcia said. "I didn't think it was that big of a problem and kids have no idea that the consequences are pretty harsh. They would have to register as a sex offender. "
At that time, her oldest son attended Los Osos High School.
According to a study done by the National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy and Cosmogirl.com, 20 percent of teens - 22 percent of girls and 18 percent of boys - sent nude or semi-nude images of themselves through a cell phone or smartphone device or posted them online.
Another survey shows nearly one in six teens between the ages of 12 and 17 who own cell phones have received naked or semi-nude pictures from someone they know.
In one recent case in San Bernardino County, a 12-year-old girl was being investigated for manufacturing child pornography for taking videos of herself and sending them to various people, officials said.
However, Navarro says taking or possessing explicit pictures of oneself does not shield them from being charged.
"They can still be charged with manufacturing child pornography if they took the picture of themselves and disseminating child pornography if they send it to anyone," he said.
The goal for law enforcement, though, is not necessarily to arrest and ultimately charge the juvenile with the felony offense.
"We don't want to ruin kids lives," he said. "When this law was written it was aimed at the sex offenders and was meant to be harsh. Instead what we're trying to do is educate and prevent this from happening. "
It wasn't immediately clear how many juveniles have been charged with child pornography felonies in San Bernardino County.
After learning about sexting, Garcia sat down with her oldest child and explained how devastating sexting can be not only to him but to the girls in the pictures.
"I just think things are so different than when we were young," Garcia said.
Navarro agrees and says the easy access to smartphones and other electronic devices makes it easier for children to engage in this behavior.
"Before you maybe had access to a film camera but then you had to worry about developing it and someone at the photo lab finding out," Navarro said. "There may have been a Polaroid Instamatic but today it's so easy to just pull out a cell phone or a smartphone and take a picture and send it off. "
After going through the sexting presentation at Los Osos High School, Garcia said she tries to speak to her children regularly about appropriate behavior.
"Now that I know about it, it's important to teach my kids that it's not right to take those types of pictures or share them either," she said.


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Pigg said a local consumer could search which local businesses offer a certain product in Wilson County using the database. He encouraged local business owners to spread the word about the search engine to increase the number of businesses in the database.
I think we can service every aspect of everyones life here in Wilson County, Pigg said.
The online directorys goal is to provide an easy access to a comprehensive list of all Wilson County businesses, non-profit organizations and government entities. However, Vanatta and others said there were too many kinks to go live with the project at this time.
There are Franklin and Davidson County businesses on here, because they are chamber members, but I would like to see them removed, said Helene Cash, owner of the Crystal Couture on the Lebanon Public Square.
Kevin Pigg of Creation Keepers speaks to business owners at a Shop Wilson County First meeting on Tuesday.
Pigg and District 19 Commissioner William Glover, who spearheads the Shop Wilson First campaign, said the Lebanon/Wilson, Mt. Juliet/West Wilson and Watertown Chambers of Commerce contributed to the directory with their member lists.
Monica Alsup, owner of A-PLUS Printing and Design, another business on the Square, said the difference between a free and $100 listing for businesses confused many other business owners she has contacted about the directory.
Individual business owners manage their own accounts on the directory and the service is free, unless they want to upgrade for $100 per year, to have their own website designed by Pigg.
He said wording on the business accounts needed to be changed as it currently indicates an account is not active until the owner upgrades to the $100 listing. Alsup said she supports the endeavor but wanted to see the kinks worked out before it goes live.
Pigg said if business owners dont encourage others to join the directory, the effort is not going to succeed.
This system isnt going to work if we dont have as many businesses on here as possible, he said.
Business owners also pointed out if the system isnt working properly, people will not be inclined to use the directory or depend on it to find stores. Vanatta said many local businesses are listed under the wrong categories.
Pigg said business owners choose the categories their businesses should be listed under. While there is no limit to how many categories business owners can choose, Pigg said they should pick only those that are specific to their business.
Vanatta also referred to work Pigg has done for the Donelson-Hermitage Chamber of Commerce where the Chamber received money back from sales generated from a Quick Response (QR) Code campaign and an online directory for their chamber businesses.
While she didnt want the Lebanon/Wilson Chamber to receive money back, she suggested giving money back to the Shop Wilson First campaign committee to raise money for future marketing.
Pigg noted the Donelson-Hermitage Chamber put $2,000 up front in that project, and Vanatta mentioned the local chamber could find money to put up front as well. Pigg said he never stated that wasnt an option.
Glover agreed to forming a committee to look at the concerns raised by those in attendance and added they will address those concerns when the panel is formed in the near future.
However, some business owners said they would not market the directory until those issues are resolved. Alsup said people arent going to use it if the businesses arent listed correctly, and Cash said she cant endorse the product at this time.
Im not ready to recommend it because it needs some cleanup, Cash said.
Staff Writer Patrick Hall may be contacted at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Is God Answering Tim Tebow's Prayers?
Wow. Tim Tebow, the famously religious quarterback who kneels in prayer before, during and after games, led the Denver Broncos to another apparently miraculous win yesterday. And, as if the win itself weren't dramatic enough, the football phenom passed for an astonishing 316 yards in ten throws. That would be 31.6 yards a throw. Does that number sound familiar? It should. It's the verse from the Gospel of John (3:16) that Mr. Tebow had written on his "eye black," the patch of paint under his eyes to cut glare. For those without your Bible handy that would be: "For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life."
All this raises the inevitable question, and one that I've been asked numerous times over the last few months: Is God answering Tim Tebow's prayers?


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Kelly Ripa's New 'Live!' Co-Host: 7 Things to Know About Michael Strahan
Strahan will take the seat alongside Kelly Ripa as her permanent co-host on Live! With Kelly — a post that's been vacant since Regis Philbin stepped down last November — Broadcasting & Cable reported Tuesday.
The news broke just a day after Live! announced that Kelly's new partner in crime would join her for the debut of the show's new season on Sept. 4.
Strahan, 40, has made many appearances — 16 in this year — as Ripa's guest host since Philbin's departure. He once even stripped his suit off a la Magic Mike while Channing Tatum was on the show.
Given his rapport with Ripa, rumors have pointed to him as a frontrunner — out of 59 auditioned contenders — for the position.
"I try to not think about it as replacing Regis because nobody could ever do that," Strahan told HLN in May. "When you put it in that aspect, when you think about it [like that], it's just too big. So I just look at it as an opportunity to go on TV and tell stories and have fun."
So what's the down-low on this former footballer?
Celebuzz is breaking down all you need to know about Ripa's new co-host.
1. He won the Super Bowl with the Big Blue.
Strahan is a returned New York Giants defensive end. The lifelong athlete, who played at Texas Southern University, helped the G-Men capture the Super Bowl XLII title, taking down the previously undefeated New England Patriots. Shortly after that win, he retired after 15 NFL seasons in 2008.
2. He already appears on a TV show.
Strahan serves as one of the hosts of Fox NFL Sunday, a popular pregame program that runs during football season. If reports of Strahan landing the Live! co-host spot prove true, he won't drop his Fox gig. But the busy schedule will turn Strahan bi-coastal: Live! shoots in New York City, while Fox NFL Sunday is produced out of Los Angeles.
3. Once upon a time, he had his very own sitcom.
Strahan starred in a short-lived FOX sitcom called Brothers, in which he starred as a former NFL star (shocker) dealing with post-gridiron life. The ex-Giant also made numerous guest appearances on other shows, such as Chuck, and appears in commercials for Subway, Snickers, Dr. Pepper and Right Guard.
4. He is engaged to Eddie Murphy's ex-wife.
After two failed marriages, Strahan is now engaged to Nicole Murphy, who was married to comedian-actor Eddie Murphy for 13 years. From his previous relationships, Strahan has four kids, including seven-year-old twin girls. Nicole has recently stepped out of the shadow of her famous ex, making a name for herself on the new VH1 show, Hollywood Exes.
5. He adores Kelly Ripa.
"I think the show fits my personality," Strahan gushed to HLN of Live!. "I get along with Kelly great. I love her. She's really a sweetheart. But it's a contrast. Here I am, this big athlete guy. Here she is, this little woman. But I think we relate in a lot of ways because of kids and family, and life in general."
6. He's pro PETA.
Following the 2007 arrest of Michael Vick on dog-fighting charges, Strahan appeared in a public service announcement for PETA, urging viewers to make dogs part of the family by allowing them indoors during the winter.
7. He went through a headline-hitting divorce.
In his 2005 bitter divorce battle with now ex-wife Jean, Strahan was accused of domestic abuse and carrying on multiple extramarital affairs. A judge eventually awarded Jean a whopping $15.3 million, a sizable chunk of Strahan's reported $22 million net worth.
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The sequence of events is: Machine locks up - probably related to some Xwindows/application problem (we use the Nvidia drivers) Machine is reset Kernel boots Fails to mount the root (XFS) file system - either with an oops of some error telling us the file system is corrupt etc. Attempts to reset again produce same results above. Booting in rescue mode, running 'xfs_repair -L' and rebooting "fixes" the problem. xfs_repair finds some lost file and puts them in lost+found - these are usually files from /tmp or /var/tmp. This doesn't happen every time a machine locks up, but it occurs may be once a week or so on one or another of our 60 or so workstations. James Pearson Stephen Lord wrote: > > On Mon, 2002-10-07 at 07:45, James Pearson wrote: > > We have a number of workstations running RedHat 7.2 with a 2.4.18 XFS > > 1.1 kernel - every now and then a (different) machine will crash/hang > > and fail to boot with a kernel oops and/or with XFS errors when it tries > > to mount the root file system. > > > > The fix is to boot from floppy/CD in rescue mode and run 'xfs_repair -L' > > on the root partition. The root file system is them mountable and the > > machine reboots OK. > > > > I don't have exact error messages (don't have time to write down the > > exact errors, as the priority is to get the machine up and running ...) > > > > Is this a known problem? If it isn't, I'll attempt to get more > > information when it happens again. > > > > James Pearson > > > > Actually, a change just went into the cvs tree this weekend which might > be related to this, there is some zeroing of part of the log which is > always supposed to happen during mount. For a readonly mount this was > not happening - and the root is mounted this way. Should the machine > be shutdown and rebooted very shortly after this there is a possibility > of the second mount getting confused by the log contents. > > Is there any way this could be what is happening? Is this happening > on the second of two boots which are close together? > > Currently there is no way to get this code except from a cvs kernel, > we just put out some images of the first alpha of xfs 1.2, the next > spin of these should include this fix (hint hint Eric). > > Steve
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LA MIRADA - A year after being ousted in the first round of the CIF-SS baseball playoffs by Damien High, La Mirada returned the favor.
Trevor Lancaster and Ethan Lopez delivered back-to-back two-run doubles in the second inning, and left-hander Cody Kruip pitched into the fifth for the Matadores in a 7-5 Division 2 first-round victory Friday at home. The triumph avenged a 5-2 first-round loss to the Spartans a year ago and propelled La Mirada (20-10-1) to a second-round contest Tuesday at Santa Barbara.
"Damien and La Mirada have a history," said longtime La Mirada coach Kim Brooks, whose 1997 team fell to the Spartans in the Division 2 final. "I'm glad we finally won one."
The Matadores stormed to a 7-0 lead through four innings, then withstood a furious Damien comeback. Jordan Abernathy laced a two-run double off the left field fence in the Spartans' four-run fifth inning, and Damien (17-11) sent the go-ahead run to the plate in the seventh before La Mirada secured the victory.
"We've done this all year," Damien coach Al Leyva said. "We have talent, but we also have character, and our character shows day in and day out. Today, we fell a little short, but we hit some balls right on the screws."
La Mirada loaded the bases in the first against sophomore right-hander Jonathan Olsen, but didn't score. In the second, Olsen walked the bases loaded, and Lancaster made him pay with a two-run double down the left field line. Lopez followed with a screaming line drive to left-center that split the fielders and scored two more runs.
In the fourth, Johnny Hills scored on a throwing error, Lopez scored on a balk and Blake Wilson banged a two-out RBI single that chased Olsen. Isaiah Carranza came out of the Damien bullpen and induced a 4-6-3 double play to end the inning.
"(Olsen) was competing," explained Leyva, "but he threw a lot of pitches in the first two innings."
Kruip allowed just one hit through four innings, but ran into trouble in the fifth. Damien loaded the bases with three singles, and Mikey Watson scored the Spartans' first run on a wild pitch.
Following a walk to David Banuelos to load the bases again, Abernathy doubled to left, ending Kruip's day.
"I probably should have (gone to the bullpen) a little sooner than I did," said Brooks, "but he's a senior."
Reliever Darren McElroy held Damien to one more run - charged to Kruip - in the inning, and the Matadores took a 7-4 lead to the seventh. The Spartans, however, still had life. Grant Woodward, Olsen and Josh Silvestro all delivered two-out singles for another run, and Watson came to the plate representing the go-ahead run.
Facing Wilson, who relieved MeElroy with two outs in the seventh, Watson worked the count to 3-2, watching a 2-2 fastball called a ball that had La Mirada's bench and fans groaning at the home plate umpire. But on the very next pitch, Wilson got Watson to swing at a high fastball to end the game.
"This is the CIF playoffs. Teams aren't gonna quit," Brooks said of Damien's rally. "But we withstood the charge. I thought our relief pitching was excellent, and Cody got us there."
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On this evidence, Russell Crowe's Robin spends 80% of the film angry and the other 20% brooding, but hey! He's pretty darn accomplished at both. Cate Blanchett once again (after The Golden Age) gets to don armour and fight with the lads, while Oscar Isaac looks thoroughly hissable as Prince John.
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The Carolina Hurricanes lost 3-0 to the Montreal Canadians at the Bell Centre, effectively snapping both the Hurricanes' three-game win streak and captain Eric Staal's 11-game consecutive point streak. The Hurricanes were playing without defensemen Joni Pitkanen and Tim Gleason (both missing time with lower-body injuries) and without forward Jeff Skinner (upper-body), but they were able to keep the score tied 0-0 going into the third period of play. Brandon Prust, Tomas Plekanec and Max Pacioretty all scored in the third period for the Canadians, while Canadians' starting goaltender Peter Budaj made 17 saves to secure the shutout.
The first period saw both teams held to a lower number of shots (five for Carolina and seven for Montreal). The Hurricanes failed to convert on a late power play to give themselves a 1-0 lead. Although both teams fired more shots on goal in the second period (eight for the Hurricanes and 11 for the Canadians), neither team could find the back of the net due to stellar play by both Cam Ward and Peter Budaj.
The Canadians took a 1-0 lead early in the third period on a goal by Brandon Prust. Prust took a pass from teammate Alex Galchenyuk and beat Cam Ward with a quick wrist shot to give the Canadians a 1-0 lead. The goal was Prust's second of the season and was assisted by Galchhenyuk and Lars Eller.
The Canadians would add two more goals in an 18-second span later in the third period, with the first goal coming at the 12:03 mark when Tomas Plekanec beat Cam Ward for his eighth goal of the year (assisted by Max Pacioretty and Alexi Emelin); the second goal came in at the 12:21 mark when Max Pacioretty dumped a wrist shot in from center ice that took an awkward bounce and beat Cam Ward on the glove side to give the Canadians a 3-0 lead. The goal was Pacioretty's first of the season and was assisted by Davis Desharnais and Rafael Diaz.
The Hurricanes' starting goaltender Cam Ward let in three goals on 26 shots, while Canadians' starting goaltender Peter Budaj saved all 19 shots he faced to record the shutout.
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Here, Samiah Ilamdi, 40, a social worker from Amadia, near Dohuk, describes her work at a shelter for women who have suffered from domestic abuse.
I'm normally at work by 8am at the Women's Rehabilitation and Preparation centre in Dohuk that I manage.
The big problem here is that traditionally women do not have rights.
Many women are prisoners within their family and are not allowed to be human.
Some women have been killed by their relatives for the crime of falling in love.
Religion makes big problems, it doesn't allow women to live their lives and they have to live like a servant.
For some, if they don't cover their face, they aren't allowed to go to college, to socialise, to choose a husband by themself or even to have a job and many suffer from violence.
Women in Iraq don't get to plan for the future - their family plan their lives for them.
At the shelter we try to give women a choice.
We offer them refuge and a place to think.
We can help them with a lawyer to divorce their husband. There is also a teacher to help with education - many of the women are illiterate.
There is training available as well as help in finding a job.
They also get taught the law so they realise the modern role of women in society.
We also do this work in schools, allowing young women to protect themselves by knowing their rights.
On the run
I have a girl, aged 10, and two boys, 8 and 6. My husband is very supportive now about me working, but I had to make him understand. I take my responsibilities at home seriously - I always cook my family their meals.
After my father's home in Kurdistan was blown-up three times, my family now all live in exile in Europe and the US. I am the only one left.
My husband is now a politician, but he used to be a leader with the Peshmerga, for 30 years he lived in the mountains fighting Saddam's regime for 33 years.
Saddam put a price on my husband's head many, many times, but they never got him.
We used to live on the run all the time, living a hard life in the mountains.
Three times I have been in prison. They used to beat us very badly and try to make us sign confessions and ask us why we were not in the Ba'ath party.
But now life is better.
I hope that Iraq can grow without Saddam and his party or any terrorists.
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Teen girls who smoke are more likely to experience obesity as adults, according to a new study featured in the American Journal of Public Health.
The study from Finland, found young women who smoke were more than twice as likely to become overweight than non-smokers in their early twenties.
Teen girls who smoked more than 10 cigarettes a day were at greatest risk, particularly for abdominal obesity, with waist sizes almost 1.5 inches larger than non-smokers' waists are as young adults.
Manager of Quit Support Programs, Mr Luke Atkin, said he hoped the study would discourage young women from starting to smoke.
"Unfortunately many young women still associate smoking with being thin, but this study shows smoking as a teen could actually increase you chances of obesity when you are in your twenties."
"The sad fact is that half of all long term smokers will die as a result of their habit, with many of these people starting to smoke in adolescence. We welcome findings like these, that potentially turn young people off cigarettes and dismantle any myths around perceived benefits of smoking."
"For decades the tobacco industry have pushed the idea that smoking somehow equates to being fashionable or glamorous but as this study shows, a teen girl who smokes could be on a fast track to obesity and all the health problems linked with it."
The study followed twins born between 1975 and 1979 with questionnaires mailed shortly after their 16th birthdays. Researchers collected more data on the 2,278 women and 2,018 men when the twins were in their 20s.
Mr Atkin said many people continued to put off quitting smoking for fear of putting on weight.
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you may also look in to a new desk or chair – height and seat position play a lot when it comes to strain on your arm – if you have an adjustable chair try moving it up a little so your arm is in a more natural downward position rather than elevating it to the table / desk surface.
Over 9 years of working for myself at a computer for 15+ hrs per day I have come to realize that a height adjustable chair with good back support – a decent desk and I even purchased a – HoMedics back and neck massager – is worth every penny!
I had a similar problem, with all sort of pains from long hours at the computer, here is what i did:
- joined a gym & bought a mountain bike
- invested in a good chair (herman miller mirra)
- bought a better monitor, tablet and pen
- forced myself to take regular breaks
- stopped eating my lunch at my desk
- read up on how to sit correctly at a desk.
Now I have no pain at all. I think the best thing was the chair, you can adjust everything on it and it makes it pretty impossible to slouch.
I do use a chair similar to this and never had problems (the hand support is almost parallel to mouse/keyboard position). Ofcourse, due to working from my home, I can never sit more than 2 hours in one place which saves eyes, hands and everything.
I do use a chair similar to this and never had problems (the hand support is almost parallel to mouse/keyboard position). Ofcourse, due to working from my home, I can never sit more than 2 hours in one place which saves eyes, hands and everything.
Nice! do you work outside by the swimming pool? lol
Nice! do you work outside by the swimming pool? lol
I never seen a swimming pool except through cinema/TV
Edit: wait… I was there once when I went to a themepark
Good advice is to align the arm rests of your chair with your desktop, possibly add a footrest so your legs are in a perfect angle. Get a good chair. Use anti RSI software which reminds you of taking breaks and suggest some small exercises. A very good one is http://www.workpace.com/rsi-software-download/ Remove your mouse and get a pen and tablet. Use a powerball to strengthen your arms.
Push ups on your fists…yeah it's tough but it will strengthen your wrists AND get you into shape.
Some time ago I bought a nice chair for my office. It was a huge change, now I feel really comfortable when sitting in front of the computer.
I think that any desk/chair/mouse/keyboard that improves our comfort is always a good way of spending our earnings.
I never seen a swimming pool except through cinema/TVI see one every day when I look down from my balcony
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I guess you have enough information now.
The one advice I did not found on the thread (might have overlooked it) is this: go to a doctor. You are talking about your hands and those are your tools, and you are going to need them. So go visit a doctor. It is the best thing to do.
But I still want to add some information to the thread. You might want to take a look at this:
- Here is some information from a Harvard' Student group on RSI :
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A TV celebrity is helping a Guiseley mum to raise thousands of pounds for charities which help seriously ill children.
Former Coronation Street actress Wendi Peters is supporting an attempt by Sarah Bishop to raise funds for the The Cardiomyopathy association and Great Ormond Street children's hospital.
Sarah began raising money after her son Marty was born with a rare heart condition, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.
Before Marty was even born Sarah and her husband Darren were warned that he might not survive. But now, aged three and a half, he is doing well, under the care of Great Ormond Street.
Now Sarah has set up Marty's Penny Bank – www.martyspennybank.co.uk – to raise funds and awareness for the two charities which supported her family.
She is organising two big fundraising projects and has the support of TV star Wendi, who reached the Celebrity Masterchef final in 2009.
She said: "Wendi read Marty's story and is also a friend of a close friend, so she decided to help and we developed the W M Cake Challenge. Wendi supplied me with two recipes, and I am now selling these recipes for a minimum donation of £2.
"There are prizes to be had including meeting Wendi and tickets to the Cake and Bake Show in Manchester next April."
Sarah is hoping to raise £1,000 with the cake challenge and a further £3,000 with a performance at the Carriageworks Theatre in Leeds next April.
The show will feature around 50 children from Little Cherries, a children's drama and musical theatre club run by Sarah.
She is being supported by local West End performer and TV actor Phil Cole and his fiancee, singer Jude Hill.
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Evaluation of the Aggression Suppression Program, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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In October 1998, the Milwaukee Police Department was awarded the first federally-funded Aggressive Driving Demonstration Grant by the U.S. Department of Transportation. This 18-month demonstration project was designed to study aggressive driving and provide information and enforcement results to law enforcement agencies across the U.S. The total grant of $650,241 included a local match of $173,716. Milwaukee competed with law enforcement agencies from 26 other metropolitan areas for this grant. The goals of the project were to develop and evaluate an innovative enforcement strategy to reduce aggressive driving and to develop and evaluate public information and education programs to discourage aggressive driving. The first six months were devoted to gathering baseline data and developing the publicity plan and enforcement schedule. Milwaukee launched the six-month enforcement and awareness phase on March 30, 1999. This phase was organized into a series of three-week enforcement and publicity "sub-theme" campaigns, each focusing on a specific traffic offense commonly associated with aggressive driving and each with a distinctive slogan. The final six months provided time for the project to be evaluated and this report to be prepared. The process evaluation indicated the program was exemplary in terms of planning, coordination, and implementation. Considerable special enforcement was undertaken, and a number of innovative strategies, including innovative technologies, were useful in identifying and apprehending aggressive drivers. Based on an outcome evaluation, the program demonstrated the effects of targeted enforcement. More citations were issued for violations associated with aggressive driving (not just speed citations); red light-running behaviors changed at targeted intersections; and crash reduction was demonstrated citywide, with greater reductions on corridors with targeted enforcement. Programs of this type could likely be improved with paid media as well as earned media so that more visible, focused media attention could be gained.
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Anglicans are deeply divided about whether homosexual couples can be allowed a blessing of their relationship in church, and about the ordination of gay clergy.
The ordination of a gay man, Gene Robinson, as the Bishop of New Hampshire last year created a split in the 72 million-strong Anglican Communion which remains unresolved.
Traditionalist bishops - many from Africa - have travelled to America to minister to parishes that reject the ordination of homosexual clergy.
Canadian solution
These unofficial 'flying bishops' have carried out duties such as ordaining clergy and confirming members of the Church, which would normally have been the preserve of the resident bishop.
Another cause of the split in Anglicanism was the decision by the New Westminster diocese in Vancouver, Canada, to bless same sex relationships in church services.
Another diocese, Niagara, has now voted to do the same thing, although its bishop has so far refused to ratify the decision.
Liberal Anglicans believe the Church should be able to reinterpret the bible, taking modern circumstances into account.
Canadian bishops have now voted to allow 'episcopal visitors' - including from overseas - to intervene in dioceses where same sex blessings are allowed.
It overturns the decision made by Canadian bishops last spring to reject flying bishops.
Similar measures were introduced in England 10 years ago to let parishes that opposed the ordination of women to bypass their own bishop in favour of a traditionalist who shared their view.
The system was controversial but may have helped to prevent a split in the Church of England over women priests.
However, a special commission set up to find ways to defuse the Anglican Communion's crisis over homosexuality last month condemned the use of flying bishops because it had inflamed the dispute.
The report also called for a moratorium on the ordination of homosexual bishops.
Mounting pressure
Others of the 43 individual churches that make up the Anglican Communion will watch closely to see whether any system of 'episcopal visitors' can help to keep liberals and traditionalists within the Canadian Church.
Some may want to allow 'flying bishops' to look after traditionalist parishes that reject gay bishops and which would otherwise break away from the Church.
Even if the Canadian experiment is successful, 'flying bishops' may be more effective at preserving unity within Anglican Churches than between them.
The greater challenge may lie in persuading traditionalist Anglican churches, such as that in Nigeria and Kenya, to co-exist with liberal ones, such as the Canadian Church.
The world's Anglicans may have to adopt a looser federation in the future rather than allow the existing split to widen into irrevocable disintegration.


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Fashion Fiends Flock to The Glamour of Italian Fashion Exhibition in London
Checking out Italy's contribution to the industry, some famous faces headed to the Victoria & Albert Museum in London for The Glamour of Italian Fashion exhibition on Tuesday (April 1).
Making a daring statement herself, Rita Ora wore a low-cut fringed white dress with a furry collar while Elizabeth Hurley chose a stunning black cutout halter gown.
Working the red carpet like a runway, Naomi Campbell opted for a black fringed dress with a matching furry collar. Nearby, Poppy Delevingne wore a slim black and white patterned dress with a back cutout.
According to the museum, "The Glamour of Italian Fashion 1945-2014, will be the first major show to examine Italy's rich and influential contribution to fashion from the end of the Second World War to the present. It will draw out the defining factors unique to the Italian fashion industry – the use of luxurious materials; expert textile production; specialist, regional manufacturing; and its strength as a source of both dynamic menswear and glamorous womenswear."


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When it came to the fourth annual Buckeyes Got Talent event Tuesday night in St. John Arena, that was true even for an individual sport like track and field.
The Buckeyes men's and women's squad – as well as some women's cross country racers – came together to win the title, topping nine other sports in the talent show that boasted record attendance and a record dollar amount raised of almost $10,000 for the Boys and Girls Club of Columbus.
"Track is an individual sport, so it was nice to have everybody together and having fun," said women's jumper Alana Gray. "It was a big collaboration and we put it all together. A lot of people didn't feel we could win, even some of our teammates. It was very fun. It feels great to win. They put our name on the plaque and it's going to be there forever."
The win marked the fourth in as many years for at least some subset of the track and field and cross country programs. The men's cross country team lost a tiebreaker in the inaugural event in 2007 before winning a tiebreaker with men's track a year later. Last year, men's track was victorious for a rendition of the "Single Ladies" dance before joining forces with the women's squad this year.
"This year everyone was like, 'How are you going to top (last year),' and I'm like, 'I don't think we are, to be honest,' " said men's distance runner Taylor Candella, who won the trophy for the third year in a row. "We weren't as confident this year, but getting the three-peat is sweet. To go our on top is awesome."
This year's winning performance included nearly 20 members of the squads in an elaborate dance routine that started with the men's and women's teams having a dance-off after starting the set by arguing about how the men nipped the women for last year's title.
The men's team danced to the Jay-Z track "On to the Next One" after the women began with Ester Dean's "Drop it Low." Members of the women's track and field team then joined to the tune of Miley Cyrus' "Hoedown Throwdown" before the entire ensemble finished dancing to the tune of "All I Do Is Win" by DJ Khaled.
"(Men's distance runner) Skyler Schmitt and I collaborated with the whole idea in general and then I went home and started on some dance moves," Gray said. "I have danced from the time I was 5 up until now so it's kind of natural to me."
Gray added practice for the routine sometimes took two to three hours per night.
For the third year in a row, football player Evan Blankenship wowed the crowd but fell just shy of victory. This year, the defensive lineman crooned a fantastic solo version of the Luther Vandross song "If Only For One Night" that had his head coach, Jim Tressel, tapping his feet in the St. John Arena stands.
"Evan is very talented," Tressel said afterward. "He did a great job. I'm proud of him. He's good. If it went to one singular talented person, he was the hands-down winner."
Considering that one of the qualifications for the title is costuming and Blankenship took the stage in a black button-down shirt and dress pants, he realized he was behind the eight-ball from the get go.
"I keep saying every year, I'm like, 'I'll wear something funny and just sing,' " he said. "I even thought about mentioning it – 'I don't have a costume, I don't have an act, all I do is get up here and sing.' "
As for the voice that has made him a Buckeyes Got Talent fan favorite during the past three years, Blankenship said, "It's just a god-given talent, to tell you the truth. I never took formal classes, I never took choir in high school. Just singing in the shower and practicing and doing my vocals up there. It's a nice gift to have."
An electric guitar performance by men's volleyball freshman Eric Dates earned third place.
The only other individual performer was softball All-American Sam Marder, whose dry humor was on display when she performed a rhythmic gymnastics routine in response to the fact that her Olympic dreams were dashed when her sport was recently dropped from the Summer Games.
Other teams to compete included men's soccer, rifle, wrestling, men's cross country, cheerleading and women's soccer.
The event was put on by OSU's Student-Athlete Advisory Board to benefit the Boys & Girls Club of Columbus. Judges were instructed to rate the teams on items like costumes, talent displayed and the reaction of the crowd to the performance.
OSU alum Kelsey Webb, a host of the "Morning Zoo" show on local radio station WNCI-FM, served as the emcee. The title sponsor, Safe Auto, was represented by two judges in former Buckeye men's basketball player Michael Redd and spokesperson Justin Case.
Other celebrity judges included Mike Commodore of the Columbus Blue Jackets, Mindy Kaling of NBC4 and Allison Pegg of Easy Columbus as well as representatives of the Boys & Girls Club.
"It takes a lot of coordination with a lot of different people," said Zach Stolarsky, an OSU wrestler and SAAB member. "I think everyone had a great time, and we raised so much money for the Boys & Girls Club. Hopefully they can keep providing great services for the people of inner-city Columbus."


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Surprise is an important element in comedy: a poem
You have a cough
A little cough
What do you do?
It might be cold?
It might be cold -
It could be flu -
What do you do?
You see the doc,
He says, 'say ah!'
So you say, 'ah!'
He says, 'congrats,
You've got pneumonia!'
Oh ah ha ha!
You have an itch
A little itch
On your left foot,
You little toe
On your left foot
Begins to itch
Begins to twitch
Begins to shake
A little bit
Within your shoe -
What do you do?
Take off your shoe?
(You take it off.)
Your leg drops off -
A little bit.
You're dead. Not dead.
You're almost dead.
The bombs have dropped
The power's down
The food is gone
You are the last
Survivor in
This post apoc-
-alyptic world.
You're dead. Not dead.
You'll soon be dead,
And as you lie
Stark raving mad
Upon the floor
Then what should burst
In through the door
Except a clown?
A happy clown!
A laughing clown!
With funny hair!
And bright red nose!
And bright red mouth!
And bright red eyes!
And honking horn!
What should he cry?
I do declare -
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Many residents chose to take a trip to Ethiopia to escape the bitter cold yesterday.
Spicy foods, hot coffee and warm smiles greeted visitors at the Shriners Hall in Brandon's east end as day two of the 10th annual Lieutenant Governor's Winter Festival kicked off for the Ethiopian pavilion, which saw 100 visitors pass through the doors in its first hour to enjoy what the Horn of Africa had to offer.
A choice of kay wot beef dish, alisha wot curry dish and a minchet abish beef dish are all served on injera — a traditional piece of thin bread served with almost all meals.
For the vegetarians, a choice of lentils, cabbage and spinach is on the menu.
While visitors enjoyed the oasis from the cold, dancers hit the stage to entertain the crowd.
While the children were the first to break the ice and hit the dance floor, it wasn't long before the dancers robed in vibrant reds and blues spilled off the stage, and pulled people from the audience into a dance circle.
Even the shyest wallflowers couldn't resist the pull.
Adding to the African heat was the brewing of Ethiopian coffee. A tradition in social gatherings, white, raw coffee beans are roasted in a pot, before put in water and served with popcorn, the cornerstone of any social visit in Ethiopia.
"When you'll try it, you'll never have Timmies again," said 24-year-old Sam Horsa, who's been in Canada for seven years.
Horsa acted as bartender for the night, offering up African beers including Dragon Fire, Tusker and Castle Lager.
This year marks a return for the pavilion after an absence in last year's festivities and this is the first year Banchiun Tekel has organized the Ethiopian pavilion.
"I love to do this," she said. "But it is a lot of work." She's not alone though, with 12 volunteers giving a helping hand with the event.
Tonight, the pavilion will host a fashion show, showing off Ethiopian dresses, tops, kids clothes, bags and other clothing for purchase.
The Ethiopian pavilion continues today starting at 1:30 p.m. at the Shriners Hall at 1110 McTavish Ave. East.
The Métis setup — a festival mainstay — is located at the Western Manitoba Centennial Auditorium, one of the biggest pavilion venues in the city.
Today, the Métis schedule is stacked, with continuous on-stage entertainment all day.
That's including Fiddlefest beginning at 7:15 p.m., which will be the biggest draw for the pavilion.
"All of our fiddlers are going to be on stage, and it's one of the moments when everyone stops everything and everybody wants to see what's going on," said Jason Gobeil, pavilion organizer. "It's really kind of majestic the way it's presented on stage."
In the lobby of the auditorium, a trading post is open, traditional furs, a teepee and a trappers tent are all set-up for visitors to look with more than just their eyes.
The Métis pavilion has become a homecoming for Métis people in the region, with visitors coming from as far as The Pas for the weekend.
Food is also served throughout the day in the Bannock Barn.
The pavilion continues today starting at 1 p.m.
FIRST NATIONs PAVILION
Over at the Brandon Friendship Centre, the bitter cold wasn't enough to keep the First Nations pavilion from seeing 200 visitors in its first 90 minutes on Friday.
"We're really rugged and tough people," said organizer Delvina Kejick.
The pavilion is serving up bison burgers, rice, bread pudding and bannock.
Included in the pavilion is a slew of First Nations artifacts, various fundraisers, and Innuit demonstrations while art covers much of the walls.
Today will see more powwow demonstrations and dancers throughout the day.
"We're outgrowing our venue, we could have had a larger space … but that will come," Kejick said.
The First Nations pavilion continues today at the Friendship Centre at 205 College Ave.
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