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Mar. 16, 2009
Cold Poem
A cold has put me on the fritz, said Eugene O'Neill,
how can I forget certain things?
Now I have thirteen bottles of red wine
where once I had over a thousand.
I know where they went but why should I tell?
Every day I feed the dogs and birds.
The yard is littered with bones and seed husks.
Hearts spend their entire lives in the dark,
but the dogs and birds are fond of me.
I take a shower frequently but still
women are not drawn to me in large numbers.
Perhaps they know I'm happily married
and why exhaust themselves vainly to seduce me?
I loaned hundreds of thousands of dollars
and was paid back only by two Indians.
If I had known history it was never otherwise.
This is the song of the cold when people
are themselves but less so, people
who haven't listened to my unworded advice.
I was once described as "immortal"
but this didn't include my mother who recently died.
And why go to New York after the asteroid
and the floods of polar waters, the crumbling
buildings, when you're the only one there
in 2050? Come back to earth.
Blow your nose and dwell on the shortness of life.
Lift up your dark heart and sing a song about
how time drifts past you like the gentlest, almost
imperceptible breeze.
It's the birthday of poet César Vallejo, (books by this author) born in Santiago de Chuco, Peru (1892).
It's the birthday of novelist Alice Hoffman, (books by this author) born in New York City (1952). She was raised by her single, working mother on Long Island. She loved reading Grimm's fairy tales and Ray Bradbury novels, and watching fantasy movies. She started writing stories, dividing them into two categories: fantasy and realism. Then she read One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967) by Gabriel García Márquez, and she realized you could "take everyday realities and transform them into something fabulous." She said that One Hundred Years of Solitude changed everything for her.
She published a short story in the magazine Fiction. The editor of the magazine asked her if she had written a novel; she lied and said she had, and she immediately started writing the book that would become Property Of (1977). She has written many novels since then, including At Risk (1988) and Practical Magic (1995).
It's the birthday of Russian writer Maxim Gorky, (books by this author) born Alexi Maximovich Peshkov in 1868 in Nizhny Novgorod, a city now named Gorky after him. He is considered Russia's first "proletarian writer," and he was friends with Lenin and Stalin.
He had a miserable childhood, and worked manual labor jobs when he was a teenager. He published his first short story at the age of 23 and signed it "Maxim Gorky," or "Maxim the Bitter." He was sympathetic to the plight of peasants and supported an uprising, but he believed in anarchy more than he believed in rule by the people. He was imprisoned on various occasions by Czarist authorities, and he went into self-imposed exile. He wrote his first novel, Comrades (1907), in the United States, and he lectured across Europe and America. He lived for awhile in Capri, an island off the coast of Italy, and there he wrote many of his best-known works, including A Confession (1908) and a trilogy of memoirs about his unhappy childhood, beginning with My Childhood (1913).
He went back to Russia in 1913. He was a pacifist, and he opposed Russia's involvement during World War I. He also opposed the Russian Revolution of 1917, and he criticized the Bolsheviks in his writing. He and Lenin were close friends, but Lenin told Gorky to go live abroad, so Gorky spent most of the 1920s in Italy. He came back to Russia when Stalin was in power to lead the first "All-Soviet Congress of Writers." He stayed silent and went along with Stalin, and was rewarded with a comfortable life for five years. But he died in 1936 under mysterious circumstances; many scholars believe that Stalin ordered him to be poisoned.
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The legendary Ducati Moto brand extends their branding with the opening of the first Ducati Caffe in Rome. Located at 35 Via delle Botteghe Oscure, the Ducati Caffee is a full service dining and meeting experience. What is most interesting is the stylings of the new space. Motorbikes and accessories line the walls and help project the Ducati lifestyle.
"Ducati Caffè is the new concept restaurant and lounge bar signed by Ducati. Inspired by renowned Italian talent, it expresses all the passion of the brand's values in a concentrate of class, fashion and authenticity. Caffè, food and wine, merchandising, and clothes meet in a one of a kind and unforgettable place."
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The Bears are pretty high on Joe DeCamillis, their new special teams coordinator who came over from Dallas earlier this year. Read »
The Cowboys are reportedly trying to buy out Auburn assistant Rich Bisaccia to replace Joe DeCamillis as the team's special teams coach. Read »
The Cowboys don't have a problem at kicker, or seemingly at kicking coach. But Chris Boniol's job seems to be in limbo with Joe DeCamillis' departure. Read »
Special teams coordinator Joe DeCamillis will depart Dallas in order to take the same position with the Chicago Bears. Read »
Cowboys special teams coordinator Joe DeCamillis is reportedly out of contention for the Bears' head coaching vacancy. Read »
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According to a report today, the Dallas Cowboys denied the Oakland Raiders' request to interview special teams coordinator Joe DeCamillis for an assistant head coaching position. Read »
Veteran linebacker Bradie James is contributing on special teams, after a conversation with special teams coordinator Joe DeCamillis prior to the Washington game. Read »
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PLACERVILLE, CA - A bankruptcy attorney who claimed he moved to El Dorado County the same week he filed papers to run for district attorney has abandoned his campaign after just 17 days.
Judson Henry called current District Attorney Vern Pierson at 1:30 pm Monday to say he was dropping out of the race and would support Pierson in the election.
Henry was dogged by questions about his residency after he filed election paperwork March 7 claiming he was living in the two-bedroom Placerville home owned by political consultant Cris Alarcon.
Contacted by News10 last Monday at the Rocklin townhouse listed by the State Bar of California, Henry explained that he spent weekends there with his 7-year-old son.
During a brief interview outside the El Dorado County elections department, Henry once again insisted he lived at the Placerville house, but conceded the circumstances didn't look good.
"Many people might consider it inappropriate and I respect and understand that," he said.
Henry said the main reason he was dropping out was to spare his son further exposure.
Henry's attempt to unseat Pierson was largely seen as political payback for the prosecution of El Dorado County Supervisor Ray Nutting, who faces trial on fraud charges next month.
Nutting gathered Henry's nominating signatures and works with Alarcon, who provided the Placerville address.
When reached by phone Monday afternoon, Nutting expressed surprise at Henry's decision to drop out.
"I have no idea why he got into the race, and I have no clue why he got out," Nutting said.
Pierson, who had not been challenged for reelection before, said he appreciated Henry's call.
"It became clear others had attempted to use him to create a distraction," Pierson said. "I wish him the best."


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The city-wide clean up is on Sunday. They were looking for suggestions for a theme for this year's clean-up, but they didn't use any of my suggestions (I wonder why).
Mike's top five not-used theme suggestions for this year's clean-up.
#5. Let someone else do it.
#4. It'll probably just blow away.
#3. Hey, look at all these Canuck car flags!
#2. It's probably someones job to pick that up and I certainly wouldn't want to be responsible for someone losing their job because there's nothing for them to pick up.
#1. Don't touch that, you don't know where it's been!


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CRJ 301 Week 5 DQ 2
Connecting the Dots - What is an Effective Program?
In Chapter 10, the text addresses primary, secondary and tertiary prevention programs. What are these levels? Give an example of an effective program in each level. Give a brief description of each program, its intended purpose, and target juvenile population. Why do you think they are effective?
When responding to one of your classmates, address one of the programs with a focus on one of the text's questions below concerning prevention programs. Select one bullet below and present the positives and the negatives for the issue addressed:
- Does every juvenile who has been arrested need treatment? Should all juveniles arrested receive the same treatment services? Why or why not?
- Should prevention programs be given to everyone, and if so, where? Should we consider ethnicity, race, education, socio-economic standing?
- Are the services worth the taxpayer costs? Consider both financial and social costs.
- Should we mandate prevention for school aged children, their parents, or for both? What if the parents refuse to participate?
- What role does the state have in addressing pre-criminal, status offenses or delinquent behavior? Should the state have the authority to force parents to participate? What sanctions should the state have to enforce compliance?
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U.S. workers may not trust their boss, but they do trust their colleagues. More than a third of workers (34%) say they "very much" trust their work colleagues and another 38% say they "moderately" do, according to a survey of 475 workers by consultant Lee Hecht Harrison. Only 28% say they trust their co-workers either "slightly" or not at all.
To help build interoffice trust, the group suggests managers "find opportunities to connect, stay visible, communicate more and show genuine interest in employees."


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Robert Dowd is talking about legalizing drugs again. He's sitting in an old easy chair -- vanilla with copper crisscrosses -- that clashes intensely with the sea of yellow and gold shag carpet flowing across his living room. Dowd is a mellow dude and a vegetarian who wants world peace. But something's wrong here. He doesn't fit in with the psychedelic crowd. He's a Southern Baptist, a World War II veteran, and a Republican. Dowd says he has never even tried marijuana, much less cocaine, heroin, speed, 'shrooms, peyote, acid, or Ecstasy.
Finally the retired lieutenant colonel offers a dose of reality: He has taken drugs. In fact, he is on them right now: beta-blockers, which his doctor prescribed to lower his blood pressure. Dowd is 77 years old. His wife Rosemary, whom he married 56 years ago, takes them too. "I did get drunk one time to see what it was like," he confesses. That was 1945 in a tent on an airfield in northern France. "I know what it's like to get a buzz on," he insists. "I was the life of the party for a while." But he always refused the celebratory shot of whiskey that awaited aviators upon their return from a mission. He also abstained from taking the Benzedrine in air force survival kits.
"More Americans have been killed due to the drug war than were killed in the Korean and Vietnam wars," Dowd calculates. He includes in his assessment the deadly violence between law enforcement officers and traffickers, as well as among rival drug gangs. "You don't have the liquor or tobacco dealers shooting each other," he notes. "They don't have to because they have legitimate markets and legitimate ways of resolving their differences." The federal government reports more than 14,000 people died in drug-related incidents nationwide in 1995, the last year for which statistics are available.
Dowd grew up in Miami, attended Edison High School, then left for the University of Florida. When World War II broke out, he joined the air force. His 30-year tour as an air force pilot took him to Europe, Korea, and Vietnam. He retired from military service in 1973, returned to Miami, and took a job in the mortgage division of the now-defunct Southeast Bank. He retired from Southeast in 1986.
Over the next few years, Dowd slowly organized his assault on the war on drugs. Headquartered at his pistachio green, canal-side home in South Miami, he assembled his primary ordnance, a book called The Enemy Is Us: How to Defeat Drug Abuse and End the "War on Drugs." After six years of rewrites and rejections, Dowd decided to self-publish. In 1995 he resurrected the Hefty Press, which his father-in-law, Caspar Hefty, founded in 1912 and dissolved during World War II. In 1997 the treatise was printed. Dowd issued 1100 hardcover and 3200 paperback copies; he has sold about 2500 and given away 1200.
In the book Dowd traces the history of federal drug-control efforts, from the Harrison Narcotics Control Act of 1914 to the Comprehensive Drug Abuse and Prevention Act of 1970 to the wars on drug traffickers declared by presidents from Nixon to Clinton. Despite those actions the supply of illegal drugs increased. "Eradicating the drug supply by destroying drug crops in source countries and the attempted interdiction of drugs along smuggling routes have never been successful, going all the way back to Teddy Roosevelt," the author contends.
Dowd concedes that his book doesn't break new ground. It synthesizes the ideas of drug legalization proponents of yore, from free-market addict Milton Friedman to Princeton professor Ethan Nadelmann. Since the Seventies conservatives and radicals have smoked peace pipes over the issue at various times. In the late Eighties, politicians such as Baltimore Mayor Kurt Schmoke advocated drug legalization, while others such as Washington, D.C. Mayor Marion Barry used them. News magazines, including Time and the Economist, gave the debate extensive coverage. In the Nineties the polemic has centered on legalization of marijuana, especially for medicinal purposes.
Treat drugs like tobacco, Dowd argues. Turn the illegal trade over to pharmaceutical companies, regulate it, and tax it. Ban sales to minors, then expand education and prevention strategies like the ones that have helped snuff out tobacco use. "The United States can save over $40 billion of tax money spent on the drug war by all levels of government, plus reap over $20 billion in drug taxes to fund education, prevention, research, and rehabilitation," Dowd estimates.
Dowd has also penned numerous letters outlining his position and has dispatched them to members of Congress, journalists, doctors, drug scholars, and Gen. Barry McCaffrey, director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy. In a 1996 letter McCaffrey thanks Dowd for a copy of his book. "I agree with you that both the military metaphor and reality of a 'war on drugs' is unhelpful," McCaffrey continues. "However, complex problems generally involve multifaceted solutions. While demand reduction is primary, supply reduction is complementary." He closes by recommending Jill Jonnes's book Hep-Cats, Narcs, and Pipe Dreams: A History of America's Romance with Illegal Drugs. "Her insight and research support our national strategy." Jonnes concludes that legalizing drugs would spawn 20,000 new addicts nationwide.
Better thousands of addicts than thousands of dealers gunned down by police and DEA agents, Dowd retorts. "I've looked through our experience with alcohol and drugs, and I conclude that we're going to be a lot better off in a legitimate market selling openly and not throwing everybody in jail for using it. [We should] try to get everybody to use their good judgment. Just like we do with alcohol."
In February of this year New York Times columnist Anthony Lewis, a critic of Washington's drug eradication strategy, corresponded with Dowd: "Thank you so much for your book. ... You perform a real service with your ideas. I have not seen it put better than your simple challenge: 'Show us one addict saved from the drug habit because there were no illegal drugs to buy.'"
But then a March setback showed it is difficult to break through mainstream thought patterns regarding anti-drug policy. Rep. J. Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.), who sat on a congressional drug task force this year, seemingly missed the volume's point. He wrote Dowd: "Thank you for sending your book The Enemy Is Us. I found it very interesting and insightful. I, like you, am committed to fighting the war on drugs. I appreciate your commitment to winning this war and commend your efforts in doing so."
Dowd gained a tenuous foothold in May, though. He was speaking to a men's group at the Kendall Methodist Church when he spied in the audience Rear Adm. Norman Saunders, commander of the Seventh U.S. Coast Guard District. The colonel gave the admiral a copy of The Enemy Is Us. U.S. Coast Guard spokesman Mark Woodring relayed this comment to New Times: "The admiral says he has not read the book, but that obviously the colonel did a lot of research to form his argument and that a lot of research would have to be done to counter it. His argument is very logical and very convincing. But that does not mean the admiral agrees with it."
"That's typical," Dowd observes impatiently. "The people involved in this thing don't have anything to counter my argument. But they don't want to agree with it."
Dowd is pressing on. In September he opened a letter from Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Fla.) congratulating him on his induction into the Edison High School hall of fame. She wrote: "As the distinguished author of a book on the war on drugs, a successful businessman, and a 30-year aviator who served our nation from World War II through the Vietnam conflict, you definitely deserve this recognition. ... Please accept my best wishes for future success in all your endeavors."
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Dowd quickly sent Ros-Lehtinen a copy of his book, hoping her encouragement extended to his quest for drug legalization. In the past the congresswoman has supported the federal policy of combining interdiction with prevention. "I am proud to be of the World War II generation -- a generation forged in the Great Depression, hammered into form on the anvil of war, then tempered and honed by our love of God, family and country," the letter accompanying the manuscript stated. "It is a generation of ordinary people who were called to an extraordinary task. In meeting our challenge, we achieved beyond our expectations. Now I am fighting my last war. I have spent this decade studying, researching, writing, and speaking about the tragedy of America's drug policy and more particularly, the failed 'war on drugs.' ... Attempts to stop the drug supply at its source have failed upon every occasion. Nary a soul has been saved from the drug habit for a lack of illegal drugs to buy." Ros-Lehtinen has yet to respond to Dowd's letter.
Jim Hall, director of the Miami Coalition for a Safe and Drug Free Community, supports Dowd's call for an expansion of education and prevention efforts. But he thinks Dowd may be confused. Hall argues that making all drugs legal would simply create a new illicit drug market to meet the demand of minors. "What would be a safe potency of cocaine for drug companies to sell? And if it's not a high enough potency, wouldn't you just be creating an illegitimate market for other things?" he wonders. "I don't think he's made the case that legalization will reduce the number of people who try drugs."
Dowd's answer: "All I'm asking them is to think about legalization. The individual should be the regulator of drugs. What's the difference really between a heroin addict and a skid row wino


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Balancing Blocks
Quentin Jones for Mercedes Fashion
The Russian Winter
Christian Nation
Interview with the Robot
Ada Kokosar for Mercedes Fashion
John Forté & Sunsay Windsong
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Challenged by APM's Marketplace to create two videos for their Robots Ate My Jobs series, Joe & I decided to search out the robots we use everyday, but might not think of as robots. Which begs the question, what qualifies as a robot?
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Elizabeth Streb is an extreme action architect. Born to Fly traces the evolution of Streb's movement philosophy as she pushes herself and her dancers from the ground, to the wall, to the sky. Guided by Streb's theory of movement – to walk on walls, dive through glass, move so fast you disappear and…fly; the film asks: Can adrenaline be a form of medicine? When does movement become art? Why be a part of it? How do race, gender, sexuality, and class appear on the dancers' performances, on their bodies?
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Brooklyn-born John Forté was a Grammy-nominated musician in The Fugees at 21 and a federal prison inmate at 26. When his prison sentence was remarkably commuted in 2008, Forté was given a second chance to share his talents with the world. This feature documentary chronicles his concert tour across Russia, a journey of musical and personal discovery. The Russian Winter debuted to critical acclaim at the Tribeca Film Festival 2012.
Directed by: Petter Ringbom
Cinematography: Ian McAlpin & Petter Ringbom
Produced by: Le Castle, Inc.
Creative Producer: Dream Hampton
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Imagine an America in which President John McCain has died, and his successor Sarah Palin begins dismantling the separation between church and state. Christian Nation paints a disturbing and all-too-realistic portrait of a nation whose government slowly marches towards full-blown theocratic rule…
Find out more about Fred Rich's dystopian novel at readchristiannation.com.
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production designer: Kendall Fleisher
The second of two videos for Marketplace's Robots Ate My Jobs series. The talented Max Silvestri interviews a robot of questionable talent... and motive.
directed by Joe Posner & Ian McAlpin
cinematography: Ian McAlpin
starring: Max Silvestri
music: Kelly Pratt
robo linguist: Emma Tsujimoto Cunningham
director: Matt Black
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producer: Coveteur
cinematographer: Ian McAlpin
One long shot in the Moscow apartment I lived in with John Forté's band during the filming of the documentary The Russian Winter. With appearances by Alina Orlova, Brian Satz, Ryan Vaughn, Patrick Firth, Dirty Lick-Lick, and Grunge John Orchestra Explosion.
Directed by: Petter Ringbom
Cinematography: Ian McAlpin
Photographer Cass Bird street-casts the real people for her shoots. Each brings his or her own unique energy to the shoot and then Cass orchestrates it all like a conductor of beautiful chaos, which makes my job easy. Shot in Santa Monica, Malibu, & San Pedro, California.
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Cinematographer: Ian McAlpin
Client: Levi's Europe
The Sea Floor Sea Urchin Dance Troupe perform a
Busby Berkeley inspired number to Javelin's hit song,
Soda Popinski!
Official Selection SXSW 2009!
A film-symphony for The Roosevelt Island tram.
Shot on one reel of super-8 film, in camera editing.
Official Selection of the Straight-8 Festival, 2008.
Directed & Shot by Ian McAlpin
Assistance by Purva Amar
Music by Sam Posner
Kyle of Sit & Read re-upholstering a RISOM chair with left-over scraps from a UNIS collection, to be displayed in the UNIS store. As with much of my work with Part & Parcel, a blend of stop-motion animation and observational cinematography.
co-directors: Part & Parcel
cinematographer: Ian McAlpin
music: Garrett Morin
Faustian pacts! Dueling suitors! Diabolical doppelgängers! A re-imagining of the 1913 "grandfather" of German expressionism, The Student of Prague combines silent film aesthetics and the latest in movie-making technology to provide the discerning spectator with a uniquely modern silent film.
Directed by: Ian McAlpin & Spencer Collins
Produced by: Karla Stojakova
Cinematography by: Klaus Fuxjäger
Horror author Hanns Heinz Ewers, excited about the mew medium of moving pictures, wrote a screenplay, "Der Student von Prag." His tale borrowed elements from Faust, Edgar Allan Poe's "William Wilson," and E. T. A. Hoffman's "The Double." Stellan Rye directed the film in 1913 with Paul Wegener in the title role. Predating Das Kabinett der Dr. Caligari by six-years, Der Student von Prag awed audiences with its trick filming techniques, making it one of the earliest examples of German expressionism. It was subsequently remade twice, in 1926 and 1935, the '26 version starring Caligari's somnambulist Conrad Veidt in the title role.
director: Ian McAlpin
co-writer: George Ducker
cinematographer: Aaron Kovalchik
costume designer: Erika Munro
assistant director: Adam Abada
gaffer: Davina Semo
sound design: Sam Posner
still photographer: Elisabeth Bernstein
patient: Anna Kull
caretaker: Peter Hlinka
voice: Joe Ullian
Shot on location in New York City's only romantic ruin, the Renwick Ruin on Roosevelt Island. The film appeared in the 2007 Straight 8 festival and strictly adheres to the Straight 8 credo:
One cartridge of super-8mm.
No editing.
Blind soundtrack.
Ian McAlpin tells stories with pictures. He studied film, photography, and semiotics at Brown University, with additional study at the Czech Film Academy (FAMU) and the Rhode Island School of Design.
Ian has worked in almost every aspect of film production—development, production, and post-production,. His ten years of set experience have left him versed in multiple forms of filmmaking: short, feature, analog, digital, documentary, animation, experimental, & narrative.
Past clients include: Google, NPR, Vogue, Mercedes-Benz, Banana Republic, Newsweek/The Daily Beast, Levis, and The New York Times. Ian is a founding investor and board member of Hive Lighting, Inc. and editor of Funeral Photography–a digital shoebox of analog images.
When he's put down his camera for the day, you can find Ian obliquely strategizing in Brooklyn, NY.
ian [at] ianmcalpin.com
Running on Stacey coded by Ian Hatcher, designed by Ian McAlpin.
Icons from The Noun Project. "Super Eight Camera" designed by John Caserta. "Headphones" designed by Fredrik Jansson.


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I made this cak e in January for a friend's grandson. It is Rose's all occasion downey yellow butter cake filled with vanilla whipped cream ( stabilzed with gelatin ) and iced with white chocolate mousseline buttercream. Last year I made him a yoda cake, which was extactly the same flavor combinations ( loved it so much that they wanted this one to be exactly the same ) The little guy has quite the obsession with star wars.
This one completely stressed me out!!!! I don't think I want to do anymore character cakes.
I am only posting it now because I only now figured out how to send pictures from my iphone to my computer. I am a slow learner.
The R2D2 is made from rice krispies and covered with fondant, which caused me nothing but heartache. I really hate working with fondant!!!! I'd much rather use buttercream. I don`t mind fondant accents but dread covering anything with it. Besides buttercream is so much tastier than fondant.


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Morrissey followers know it's something of a tradition for fans to get up on stage and hug the singer during his concerts.
But things got out of hand May 7 at the City National Civic in San Jose. A few overenthusiastic fans chased Morrissey offstage during his encore and cut the show short.
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Monday, April 05, 2010
Hydra Takes Its First Steps!
So I have been way behind on the blog posts over the past week, but we just hit a pretty major milestone with the Hydra multi-headed manufacturing machine project. The mechanical construction for the cartesian positioning system was finished at the end of last week and all of the major parts we were waiting on had also arrived by the weekend. Many many hours were spent over the weekend to get all the motors, couplers, electronics, and software working as desired. I'll go into more detail below, but for the impatient ones, here are some pictures of our progress
Close-up of the Bosch Colt router mounted on our Z-axis assembly. The router fits very snuggly in it's custom mount and appears to have some very impressive runout figures. You can also see that a second support was added to the Z-axis to help prevent it from wobbling. The additional of 2 more sleeve bearings definitely made the assembly more rigid.
Overview of the whole machine with all the motors mounted and electronics wired up. Taking a piece of advice from Tony Stark, we decided to run before we could walk and attempted some simple milling. A small piece of low-density wood was mounted to the table and cut using a general purpose dremel cutter. The Gcode was written by hand and tested using the Hydra-MMM host software file previewer before being sent to the machine. The cutting path was very simple, but it proved that the machine worked and that the spindle was more than capable of cutting these low strength materials. We then moved on to bigger fish...
Attempting some PCB milling using PCB-Gcode and some Eagle board layouts. A piece of cheap double sided copper clad from radio shack was mounted on the table and the Drewtronics 45 degree bit was used for the cutting.
If you want to see a video of Hydra doing PCB milling, I posted our first attempt on YouTube so you can see how this thing performs: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1v6gg4_JAmI
The final result of the PCB milling. The PCB drill bits from Drill Bit City have not arrived yet so no holes were drilled, but the accuracy of the traces was very promising! By the way, in case anyone was wondering, the board is a PIC stepper motor driver that I designed similar to the ones I posted about a week ago.
So now to the details...
There were a couple big setbacks that kept the project from doing any cutting earlier in the weekend. The first, and most dangerous was the fact that the couplers we had made to connect the motors to the ACME screws were slipping. The set screws we had used weren't holding well enough and the screws were simply tearing up the surface of the ACME screw shafts. To fix this we made the couplers have double set screws (one on each side) and also filed a D-face into the ACME screw shafts so that one of the set screws could grip that instead of the round surface. This seemed to solve the problem, however, we have also added some loctite to our shopping list as I have a feeling the vibrations from the motors are the culprits here.
The second hurdle was figuring out how to mount different materials to the work table. The intention had always been to use some type of clamp set with a wide array of tapped 1/4-20 holes, but we hadn't really thought much about how long this would take. We ended up drilling and tapping 49 holes (7x7 with 2" spacing) in the 0.25" thick aluminum table. This was no small task and took a pretty long time especially for the tapping. The end result looks very professional and has more than enough strength to hold the parts we intend to machine.
Finally, there were some minor issues with the electronics as well that will need to be addressed before further testing is performed. The stepper motors we are using have a 2.5 Ohm resistance per phase. If they are being run in a unipolar configuration, this means there is only 1.25 Ohm resistance from the coil end to the center tap. We are running the motors from a 5V supply which means we are pushing about 4 Amps per motor. The motors are only rated for 3 Amps so extended operation at these conditions may very well damage the motors. However, the larger concern is the fact that we have 5 motors that are each drawing 4 Amps. That is 20 Amps just for the motors! This is causing some serious heat issues within the electronics. The plan is to add some TO220 power resistors to decrease the current draw to around 2 Amps and add some heatsinks to boot. This will have to work for the time being as I am still having trouble getting my a3982 motor drivers working. I actually got one to work for about 30 seconds, but then I started to increase the current and am pretty sure I ended up blowing the chip again. No idea how I am doing this as I am using the exact values the reprap stepper driver v2.3 circuit is using and I have checked them against the a3982 datasheet and it shouldn't be possible to exceed 2 Amps current output. Not sure how it's happening, but the chips keep dying so I may have to look at some other alternatives. The Pololu a4983 stepper drivers with microstepping seem very nice at inexpensive as well. If I can't get my own circuit working, I will likely end up buying a few of those.
It's been a long day, so that is all for now, but we are hoping to have the extruder working by the middle of the week so keep an eye out for some more updates!
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January 26, 2013 in Economics
January 26, 2013. For those active in the movement to abolish or audit the Federal Reserve, they're surely aware of the website titled End the Fed. On the front line since the site was launched in 2008, the website's owner must now move onto other endeavors. Therefore, they are looking for an individual or group to take on the responsibility of maintaining and administering it. Otherwise, End the Fed will be shutting down.


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Subject: [Weyhrauch] Kleimenhagen/Breitungen Reunion - Saturday
Date: Sat, 11 May 2002 12:40:41 -0700 (PDT)
The Actual Reunion / Picnic is SUNDAY, July 14, 2002 at (Veterans)
Memorial Park in Shakopee, MN, USA.
For those of you who would like to come to town a day early, I'm trying to
plan on a Dinner Saturday night at 6 p.m., for all of us to gather and
socialize. The Dinner would be at Park Inn & Suites. You do NOT have to
stay at the motel to come to the dinner. We will have use of the banquet
hall from 6 pm to 10 pm, so there will be time to socialize after dinner.
Saturday during the day, there are many things you can do in the
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arboretums, to museums, to amusement parks.
I again need your HELP in spreading the word about dinner on Saturday
The cost is $20 for anyone over the age of 12, and $10 for anyone age 12
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Roasted Turkey with Wild Rice Stuffing
Whipped Potatoes and Gravy
Fresh Steamed Vegetables,
Garden Salad Bar with Condiments
Fresh Raw Vegetable Tray with Dips and Relishes
Variety of Imported and Domestic Cheeses
Vast Array of Fresh Seasonal Fruits
Assorted Rolls and Whipped Butter
The $20 fee includes meal, tax, 18% gratuity, and rental of the banquet
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In Future Babble, award-winning journalist Dan Gardner presents landmark research debunking the whole expert prediction industry and explores our obsession with the future.
In 2008, as the price of oil surged above $140 a barrel, experts said it would soon hit $200; it then plunged to $30. In 1967, they said the USSR would be the world's fastest-growing economy by 2000; by 2000, the USSR no longer existed. In 1911, it was pronounced that there would be no more wars in Europe—we all know how that turned out.
The truth is that experts are about as accurate as dart-throwing monkeys. And yet, every day we ask them to predict the future—everything from the weather to the likelihood of a catastrophic terrorist attack.
Here is the first book to examine this phenomenon, showing why our brains yearn for certainty about the future, why we are attracted to those who predict it confidently, and why it's so easy for us to ignore the trail of outrageously wrong forecasts. How good you are at predicting the future doesn't depend on your education or experience. It depends on how you think: like a fox or like a hedgehog. Foxes know a little about a lot of things. They have doubts. They often sound wishy-washy. And you don't see them on television much. On the other hand, hedgehogs know a lot about one thing. They are absolutely certain. They are confident. Almost every popular expert you can think of is a hedgehog. And they are experts at explaining away predictions they made that turned out to be wrong. For real insight into what is coming next, you need to consult foxes and think like one, too. Future Babble explains in detail what that means, and how you can tell foxes and hedgehogs apart.
n this example-packed, sometimes darkly hilarious audiobook, journalist Dan Gardner shows how seminal research by UC Berkeley professor Philip Tetlock proved that the more famous a pundit is, the more likely he is to be right about as often as a stopped watch. Gardner also draws on current research in cognitive psychology, political science, and behavioral economics in delivering this reassuring message: The future is always uncertain, but the end is not always near.
©2011 Dan Gardner (P)2011 Gildan Media Corp
"We can only hope that this brilliant book will shock the human race, and particularly the chattering expert class, into a condition of humility about proclamations about the future." (John Mueller, political scientist, Ohio State University; author of Overblown)
"Sobering and Informative"
I'm a bit surprised at the other 2 reviews listed here and I fear they may have missed the point. In particular, judging a book based on what it "implies by omission" is inexplicably poor logic. Defending unfulfilled predictions based on the idea that they may one day come true is similarly difficult to digest.
Dan Gardner points out in this book that expert predictions are wrong far, far more often than we'd like to think (equivalent to a monkey throwing darts) and yet people put far too much trust in those predictions time and time again. He does not recommend any particular course of action to remedy this (other than reasonable caution), but so what? He points out this error and points out that it continues to be made despite scads of evidence showing why we should consciously try to avoid making it. He shows why we make this mistake. He explains the science behind the book, which is solid.
He does not imply (even by omission) that we should not plan for the future. He merely points out that using expert predictions has proven to be an ineffective tool for decision making. For example, we SHOULD develop and improve renewable, environmentally friendly energy sources because it makes perfect sense to do so, not because some "expert" predicts huge oil shortages.
We all love to have answers and we all love to believe we have insider knowledge of what the future holds. This is a serious weakness that can be and is exploited by people time and time again. You are far better off with no answer at all than you are with a wrong answer. At least understanding that we don't know what the future holds is a reasonable position to take, and we can move forward ready for anything.
"A must read for all futurists and visionaries"
Great to get the facts that most predictions are wrong. Quite funny that people still like to hear experts give more predictions even when the last one was wrong.
"Just plain babble"
I wanted to like this book and thought I would correct the previous reviews. Unfortunately this is just bad science and not well researched. Some parts are accurate but lots suffer from the same problems he complains about. Yes predicting the future is difficult. However, anypne can selective cherry pick data to make a point. Yes there are lots of biases that may cause this problem. One which he does not seem to recoginize, despite talking about the origins early in the book is publication bias. People do not buy books that are about happy and cheerful outlooks. People want to read about disasters and problems. There are better books out there, I would pass on this one.
"Future Babble Babble"
Besides being endlessly repetitious, I disagree with Gardner's premise that expert predictions, especially those of what he terms"hedgehogs" who have a certainty about their predictions, are almost always wrong. Gardner's reasoning lacks (1) an accurate frame of reference and (2) is completely non-scientifically supported. For example, Paul Ehrlich, predicted massive famines, resource depletion and environmental degradation as a result of overpopulation (and endless growth). Gardner emphatically claims, over and over, that Ehrlich was wrong, because his predictions of human and environmental catastrophes that were supposed to occur in the 1970's didn't happen.
If you read Ehrlich carefully, he does not state with certainty that everything he predicts will come true in the 1970's – only that it will come true, eventually. Simple logic will tell you that. The human population cannot continue expanding indefinitely. The earth is finite. Sooner or later, human numbers will outstrip both food supply and the ability of the earth to produce enough food. Sooner or later petroleum, copper, titanium, etc. are all going to run out, and it will not be possible to produce the products that depend on them, except at exorbitant cost. The more people, the less resources per capita and the bigger the gap between the "haves" and the "have-nots". This is not a recipe for a peaceful and stable future.
Ehrlich's message is really that we have to be aware that there are limits to growth and to our consumptive way of life. What Gardner does not state but implies through omission, is that we can blithely go on with whatever profligate agenda we have in mind, and something will always come along to mitigate our effects. I don't personally believe this. Sooner or later the piper will have to be paid, and fundamentally Ehrlich is right.
Gardner has his own ax to grind, and he does so ceaselessly. Perhaps his form of babble makes him the biggest hedgehog of them all.
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Explaining his qualifications to be leader of the free world, Barack Obama places his judgment in opposing the Iraq war at the forefront. During his primary battle against Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, who voted to authorize President Bush's taking military action against the regime of Saddam Hussein, Obama and his surrogates repeatedly referenced a 2002 speech he delivered at an anti-war rally in Chicago. This foresight in opposing what Obama referred to as a "dumb war," he and his supporters claim, is testament to his sound foreign policy analysis.
But not only has the relevance of Obama's objection to the war been exaggerated, his judgment on the more timely subject of how to extricate ourselves from the conflict has been woefully deficient.
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First, there's no indication that Obama, had he been a United States senator at the time, would have voted against the Iraq war. Given his newness to federal office, he has no record on foreign policy from which voters can divine any sort of ideological predisposition about America's role in the world and the use of force. The other hole in making hay about Obama's early opposition to the Iraq war is the enormous distance between the foreign policy knowledge of a state senator in Chicago and a U.S. senator in Washington. The latter have high-level access to confidential intelligence reports, and, thus, nearly all of them believed that Saddam Hussein was in possession of weapons of mass destruction. This is the reason why the Senate's vote on the war resolution was 77-23 in favor. (No amount of postwar conspiracy theorizing has been able to prove that anyone was "tricked" into supporting it).
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Not only is it unclear how Obama would have viewed the war had he been in Clinton's shoes, it's also manifestly ridiculous for anyone to claim that he demonstrated as much as an ounce of courage — like so many of his supporters say — in opposing it. Obama's Hyde Park constituency is one of the most liberal enclaves in the country, which is why he was able to get away with a line like "What I am opposed to is the cynical attempt by Richard Perle and Paul Wolfowitz and other arm-chair, weekend warriors in this administration to shove their own ideological agendas down our throats." Supporting the war would have been a politically dicey move. In light of his distance from relevant political power and the far left environment in which he operated, his opposition to the war looks less wise and more like the rather obvious position that most people in his position would — and indeed did — take.
Of course, for those who believe that the decision to invade Iraq was a mistake, Obama's early opposition to the war is as close to an airtight argument for his being president as one can get. His prudence about Iraq, these people argue, is not only ample substitute for his complete lack of experience in foreign affairs; it actually means that he's better equipped to deal with overseas challenges than the vast majority of the Washington establishment, which — Democrats and Republicans alike — supported the war.
Regardless of where voters stood on the original decision to invade — and, to be sure, far more Americans now believe that the Iraq war was a mistake than those who think it was the right decision — what ought to be equally, if not more, important remains the question of what we do now. And on this question there can be little debate: John McCain's judgment vastly exceeds that of Barack Obama.


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YAY! If you guys want to see something funny check out their forums. Go ahead and register if you want. You'll notice that after anyone tries to logically come up with a reason why Starforce protection totally screws up a system or causes problems they immediately either blame the user, call them ignorant, make fun of them, call them a liar, and then quickly close the thread. I don't have any links for that, but there are so many closed threads that you can find that it shouldn't be hard. YAY UBISOFT! Hopefully this drives Star-Force under!
wow the boycott worked!!!! even tho some of their games sucked reguardless
@ sisph ... like this one here. LOL! http://www.star-force.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=907
Finally after all these years, and so many complaints, its over. I wonder what kind of protection they'll use now.
this company needs to be investigated for illegal activitys what i am starting to get tired of is all the software that is being produced with you have to install google search bar spyware or you have to install google desktop spyware or you have to install weatherbug spyware it is quite anoying when you want to try out freeware or shareware and it contains all of this garbage even themes for windows are doing the same thing
Starforce sucks regaurdless they have alot of issues andthos that bent or broke the law to harass others need to be fired or sued,they might can stay in bissness if they use a commen since simple CD checking program but like most companys they want soemthign that will crash the system if it cant do what it wants ....
Good. Starforce is crap! People are alwasy going to download games and crack them, it's just the nature of the beast. However, when I pay X amount of dollars for my legit copy of a game, I am under the pretense that it will work. Thansk to Starforce that was not the case and when I contacted Ubisoft's tech support...they said the game would not work on my computer becasue of my hardware... Funny, I am a gamer and every other game I play on my high laptop works, just not games with Starforce....
Quote:Oh, If only. I hope other companies follow suit. I'm surprised the FBI allow such complaints, but then again, it being a copyright organisation, it's above the law anyway.
Finally after all these years, and so many complaints, its over.
The biggest problem with StarForce is that it was hard-coded into the protection that it would NOT work with DVD-RW drives (Which are fast becoming the ONLY ones available!).
How do you mean?
I always thought Starforge was like the best protection games could have but it is still annoying software that you have to install or you don't get to play the game which is not fair after paying for the thing although saying that it did stop a lot of piracy until it got cracked. Still am pretty shocked Ubi dumped it, must be some truth in the lawsuit.
p4_tt now that star force is dead people need to look over STEAM forced Stat gathering feels a bit to much big brother is playing with you,forced online only with auto updates and stuff.so what happens if I am offline or STEAM goes under or net is down? I cant paly the game like you cant paly HL2 from the CD becuse it has steam forced onto it....yes it offers a offline paly mode but once you update it it becomes online only.
Steam is a pain in the backside, but it's far less illegal than starforce is. I'm glad some game developers have actually realised that starforce is a breach of the law, and have acted in the right way. I'm just hoping we can keep the SF infestation down before SF4 takes hold - instant reboots don't sound too pleasant.
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I thought this tea was so nice I made it twice! Although this time I am using a gaiwan and short steeping it. Anyway, moving straight on to the tasting notes:
Sipping from the first steep, the grainy character is very bold. I guess it's the sort of thing that comes out a lot in the first steep, and since I used more leaves it's very powerful. The other flavours still quite remind me of Sun Moon Lake black tea, but not 100%.
The second cup definitely smells similar Sun Moon Lake black tea. Drinking the liquor, a tangy/zesty tomato flavour comes out and there is a bitterness similar to biting into tomato seeds.
Third steep was a bit tame, but much like the second steep flavour-wise.
On the fourth steep this tea shifted gears a bit. Now I'm tasting something kinda spicy or peppery, soft malt, and something that almost becomes sweet like cinnamon but doesn't quite get there. This had less of an edge or power to it than the earlier steeps, but transformed into something with a bit more charm.
The fifth steep was light and refreshing. Overall a much weaker tea but not in a disappointing way.
With the sixth and last steep, what tea flavour remained at this point is sweet with a bit of the grain character. I can't taste my original water yet, but I think it's weak enough to stop resteeping.
I liked short steeping this and it sure brought out some nice changes. Following along with today's theme, I'll take a break and short steep the oolong-black Sakidori later.
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The "Penguin" daily threads were originally conceived to emphasize that all members of the community have a place on the boards. Encouragement, motivation, a little love nip (you will love one, give it a try!) or even a little kick in the pants when needed -- it can happen here. Basically, we celebrate just getting out there and moving our tails!What is "slow"? "Slow" is a perception but one of the common benchmarks is the 10:00/mi pace; but there's no firm line. In fact, there are many of us that have slipped past this, and just hope that no one notices and revokes their "igloo privileges." It can be confusing for the forum newbies, but we're not one of the teams in any of the fine games. It's a totally open group, so stop lurking, post an introduction of yourself dive in and join the fun! No application necessary! There might even be a lovely picture for Scotty (we love pics!)
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Good Morning Penguins!
Yesterday I did legs and abs at the gym, ran 1 1/2 miles on the TM, then at home I rode an hour on the bike trainer, and had just enough steam left to get my myrtl exercises done - too much leg work for one day in that short a time.
Hope your inner child finds the cookie jar!
Good morning Gustav, nice workouts for you yesterday.
Today should be an easy 5 or so when I get up. Have I told you Pengs lately how much I hate night shift? Well,.......I hate night shift, I only have one more this week. I had an awesome tempo run Thursday night before work, 8.11 miles with 6 @ 8:25ish.
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Hello Gustav, Mr early bird. Hope everyone has a great Friday. I'm about to be off work for the weekend so gonna go home get a little sleep and do some miles then do some work around the house.
I got 6 in yesterday, not sure if I even posted that or not. Think I averaged like 10:45. Really don't think my legs appreciated the 10 miler on Sunday and then the tempo run Wed. My legs were so tired, I kept trying to talk myself out of the run about every half a mile.
Going to go see "Mama" tonight with a bunch of people that my wife works with. Movie looks really creepy but I'm a big Del Toro fan (Pan's Labyrinth, The orphanage, Hell Boy 1 and 2...) so hopefully it will be good. Saturday is going to be pretty dull my wife is going to a "naughty girl only party" while I sit at home and watch our daughter, aint I just the good husband. Then Sunday I get to go riding! I have not rode a horse since I was 5yr old, fell off and broke my leg in five different places, so really excited about Sunday!!!!
Anyways, my relief just walked in so I'm off, TTYL!
My parents said I could be anything when I grew up, so I decided to be Awesome!
Will run for beer.
Gustav - a fine start as usual! That is a solid lower body work out for sure.
Mitch - so, what are your thoughts on the late shift? I understand 100%@
JBJ - here is my unofficial unsolicited review of "Mama." Decent movie. Direction was good. Visual effects not bad. Cinematography was very good. Story line kept you bought in all in all. Enjoy!
AFM - SRD is the plan. I didn't get my second run in yesterday, which is fine. I ended up working the floor my entire shift yesterday and a fellow supervisor went home sick so I covered his shift until 6pm. We were busy. With that - I have to get going. Everyone have a great day.
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Good morning and Happy Weekend !!! Not sure if we are running as we had a MLR yesterday. Wanted to go to health club, but its snowing right now and I don't drive in snow if I don't have to.
DW wants to see The Impossible. No horror movies for us (although the tsunami would be kind of scary).
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Nice run yesterday after work on the San Antonio Riverwalk. Sunny, 77 degrees, low dewpoint and humidity, blue skies and sunshine. My run ended at my favorite Riverwalk eatery, "Mad Dog Pub", where I enjoyed a post-run Alamo Brewery Golden Ale, watching the barges floating along on the Riverwalk, and being surrounded by the lovely pub waitresses in their Scottish Highland kilts and knee-high socks.
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Good morning everyone.
Trying to get as much work done as I can in case I leave work early due to the weather. I work 30 miles from home and unfortunately, the route I have to take home is NEVER maintained very well at all when snow hits. I swear that my county is an orphan where PENNDOT is concerned! You can tell exactly where my county starts because at that point, nothing is ever plowed or salted. Salt isn't going to matter anyway since it is so cold.
Anyway....once I start getting messages about the weather up at home (because the weather down at work compared to up there is always night and day) and find out the snow is laying down, then I will head for home. We are on the border of 4-6, while here at work is getting 2-4.
And it is looking like my runs this weekend are going to be on the treadmill due to the weather as well. I was looking forward to getting outdoors for the 5 mile run, but now they changed the forecast for Sunday. Oh well, I guess just look forward to the heatwave we have coming next week...we are going above freezing!
Gotta go...BBL.
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Gustav, you are becoming an over-achiever!
Sleep well, Mitch, and good luck with your miles. Yeah, night shift sucks, I hated doing those shifts when I was in the military.
Enjoy your long weekend, Jimmy! Being a nice husband might pay off for you, you might get 'benefits' when she comes home from her naughty party. Horse-riding! Good luck with that. I rode a horse when I was a kid...fell off the darn thing, my foot was caught in the stirrup, my head was bouncing on the ground as the horse went up and down...finally the Supermarket Manager saw what was going on and unplugged the damn thing...
Enjoy your rest day, Vance, sounds like you earned it after a shift like that.
It's finally snowing in Chicago, Jerry? So the no-snow streak is broken. Enjoy the movie if you go. I'm with you...no horror movies for me either.
Trying to get as much work done as I can in case I leave work early due to the weather. I don't think we will have that problem here in San Antonio, Jen, lol. 30 miles from work, that is quite a commute! Especially in bad weather. Stay safe up there! You get tired of all that cold and stuff, feel free to visit here any time.
Ginny, just read the rest of yesterday's thread. So sorry about your stress fracture, that sucks! Wishing you a speedy healing!
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Just got back from the gym - I can now deadlift my bodyweight plus 15 pounds for 5 reps Was scheduled to add 10 pounds to my squat too, but my legs felt wrecked from all the squats and lunges at PT yesterday so I stuck with 85, same as last time.
Hoping to get out for a 1 mile run at the track later this afternoon.. super busy day so I'm not sure if I'll have time.
Jimmy - ooh have fun tonight/this weekend - I'm jealous! I need to find some time to go out and ride soon.
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Morning, penguins! Today and Monday are grading days for our school, so I think I can get home at a reasonable time and do my LR after work today. If that goes well, plus I have a good easy run tomorrow, then I will be officially "back" from whatever was wrong last week!
This weekend my DD is turning 15. I think I'm making an orange layer cake with chocolate sour cream frosting and chocolate ganache. She wants chocolate curls on top so I guess it's finally time I learned to make those.
Gustav- Nice job keeping up the old routines as you add running back in!
Mitch- TGIF!
Jimmy- I am also finding that adding new distance plus quality workouts the same week is tough!
Vance- Hope your day is a little easier today!
Jerry- Enjoy the snow!
Scotty- That sounds like a mid-summer run up here!
Jen- Hope you get home safely.
Lauren- Nice job on the weights!
Good morning everyone!
Today it is group PT with the wing. I don't know what we are going as I haven't been to a session yet. We'll see how it goes.
SRD for me.
Seem like everyone had a good day. Watching movie, watching waiteress and getting some runs in.
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Morning! Sounds like evertone had good workouts. I overslept today due to too much NyQuil last night, so Ive been off all day. After work I'm going to the LRS to pick up my race packet for the 10K I'm DNSing tomorrow, and while I'm there I'm going to hace them fit me for shoes. I think my shoes may be wearing out already even though they have onlyabout 200 miles on them.....I apparently strike heavily with the outside of my heel becauae the treads there are worn down a lot. Could be contributing to ITBS. Either way can't kill me to see if there are better ahoes for me, or to get another to rotate with since I only have 1 pair.
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