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Some years before his death in 1993, Cesar Chavez was asked if he wanted to be remembered by statues and public memorials. The man who helped bring the plight of America's farmworkers before the world throughout the 1960s and 1970s simply replied, "If you want to remember me, organize!"
Today, there are schools, murals, streets (including one in Los Angeles), memorials and statues honoring the man. In 2012, President Barack Obama dedicated the Cesar E. Chavez National Monument in Keene, 30 miles southeast of Bakersfield, where the labor leader and his United Farm Workers movement operated. In fact, the organization's motto, "Si, se puede," loosely meaning "Yes, it can be done," was an inspiration for the president's own "Yes We Can" campaign slogan in 2008. And on Monday — Chavez's birthday — California and other states will celebrate Cesar Chavez Day.
But while there are plenty of reminders of the man, many Americans would be hard-pressed to remember his accomplishments. The film "Cesar Chavez," opening Friday from Mexican actor-director Diego Luna, hopes to not only remind people of Chavez's legacy but inspire some discussion of its own.
It stars Michael Peña, the son of Mexican farmworkers himself, as Chavez; America Ferrera ("Ugly Betty") as his wife, Helen Chavez; and Rosario Dawson as Dolores Huerta, the labor activist who co-founded the UFW with Chavez.
Delano, a town 31 miles north of Bakersfield, was headquarters for the union and is a focal point in the film. It concentrates on about a decade of Chavez's life, beginning with his years in the early '60s when he traveled through California working in the fields and making connections with the farm workers.
Luna, who starred in Alfonso Cuarón's 2001 hit "Y Tu Mamá También," says he was reminded of the labor leader when he began living in Los Angeles, seeing Cesar Chavez Avenue and his picture on murals. So he decided to research the man.
"It was a beautiful story, a lovely message," says Luna, 34, who also has been in Steven Spielberg's "The Terminal" (2004) and Gus Van Sant's "Milk" (2008). In fact, his experience working on "Milk" — which was about assassinated gay activist Harvey Milk — influenced the way he approached "Chavez." "They were both part of something bigger," he says.
Bringing Chavez's story to the screen was no easy sell, however. Few in Hollywood thought the story was sexy enough. The actor-director eventually found funding in his native Mexico and produced the movie with Canana Films, the company he founded with "Y Tu Mamá También" co-star Gael García Bernal and producer Pablo Cruz.
The $10 million film was shot in Sonora, Mexico, the center of the country's grape industry. Temperatures often soared past 110 degrees during the shoot. But the area resembled California's Central Valley of the 1960s, says Luna, explaining the state's vineyards look completely different today because of technology. Sonora also was the source of real-life fruit pickers who worked as extras in the film. "Those faces look real," Luna says.
Like the life of any great man, the labor leader's stirs some debate, particularly in reference to his later years. Luna, though, wasn't out to turn him into a saint. His aim was to tell an "intimate and personal story," including Chavez's difficult relationship with his eldest son. He hopes people will connect with and see how his story is still relevant today.
Luna says his most difficult task was to compress those 10 years into a 101-minute film and that it was impossible to include many important figures of the movement.
"There are many people still around and fighting. Many of them are very active," he says. "You don't want to disappoint anybody, but you know, you lose your voice by trying to please everyone."
Chavez's beginnings
Chavez was born in 1927 in Arizona. When he was 10 his family lost their small farm and moved to California. They traveled from farm to farm for work until finally settling in the San Joaquin Valley. Chavez dropped out of school in the eighth grade and joined the Navy at 17. When he got out, he married his high school sweetheart, Helen Favela. In the early 1950s, a priest, Father Donald McDonnell, introduced the future labor leader to the writings of St. Francis and Mahatma Gandhi, inspiring him to be a force for positive change.
"You know what I love is that Cesar was so far away from the stereotype of a Latino and of a Mexican-American," Luna says. "You can't portray Cesar with a huge sombrero, a glass of tequila and eating burritos. He was a vegetarian and a Catholic, but he meditated in the morning, did yoga, liked jazz and read Gandhi. There's an interesting complexity to him."
The director adds that Chavez felt insecure in front of microphones and was not a great speaker; so he didn't seem a likely leader. On the other hand, he was known for his organizing abilities and would go house to house to hear from the farmworkers. "He was about giving people confidence that change was in their hands," Luna says. "Like many said, he was about listening."
Of course, having a central character like say, Muhammad Ali, a brash talker, is dramatically easier to portray. To play Chavez, Luna cast Peña, whose own parents were farmworkers in Mexico before emigrating to the Midwest.
Born in Chicago, the 38-year-old actor did not know much about the labor leader until taking on the role. "He wasn't a born charismatic leader," notes Peña, whose Hollywood breakthrough came in 2004 with prominent roles in "Million Dollar Baby" and "Crash."
"So for Cesar, it probably took a lot more courage to do what he did," he adds. "He did what had to be done, and I thought that took true courage."
Move to activism
What Chavez did that was revolutionary was redefine the farmworkers' struggle. After years of picket lines and strikes that yielded little progress, he moved the focus from the fields to the consumers by urging the national boycott of grapes. That way, the American public began to recognize that there were people toiling in abysmal conditions to provide their food.
"The farmworkers would get out of their communities and go talk to people," Luna says. "Mothers would talk to other mothers, telling them behind those grapes there is my 6-year-old who can't go to school."
What had started as union organizing became known as La Causa. When some members of the group began using aggressive tactics in 1968, Chavez began a fast (the first of several in his lifetime) to recommit the movement to nonviolence. When Robert F. Kennedy, who was running for president at the time, visited Chavez in his weakened condition, it focused even more attention on the cause.
"It was crazy for an entire nation to join this fight with these Mexicans working in Delano," notes Peña. Both the actor and director say it was helpful to get to know many of the people who were involved in the movement, many of whom are still active in the cause today including Helen Chavez and Dolores Huerta, both now in their 80s.
"It's interesting, they're a humble bunch," says Peña, who remembers how when he first came to Los Angeles in his late teens to pursue acting, many people he met would talk about who their parents were. "Chavez's kids are the exact opposite. They feel lucky and very humble, and I really got a sense of who Cesar really was."
While the recent Los Angeles premiere and White House screening of the film were exciting for him, what Luna was most concerned about was Helen Chavez's reaction when she saw the movie.
"She knows about the Cesar that you can't know from history books, what happens in those moments between what history tells us," he says. "And when she came to me afterward and said, 'You got it right,' I had my first good night of sleep after years of working on this film."
With issues like immigration and better wages still on the table, so to speak, the filmmakers are hoping the movie is not merely a history lesson or another memorial to the man. Luna screened the film for 1,000 farmworkers Tuesday in Delano.
No one is using the word "organize" in connection with "Cesar Chavez," but as Pena observes, "The film opens up debates to a lot of subjects."


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There is no relation between a full ASHI-level home inspection and an in-depth energy audit. There are similarities and even some crossover of components inspected, but the language (of Maryland's bill at least) would view an energy audit in the same way as an electrical or plumbing inspection. That is, conducting an energy audit does not imply an assessment of the overall condition of the house except where it affects energy performance and indoor air quality, whereas a home inspection does. And a home inspection does not attempt to determine any specific improvements, such as air sealing strategies or the cost effectiveness of conservation measures.
There is no comparison between the two types of inspection. I would be amazed, especially since the law's founders had no such intention, if this law was applied to a sub trade such as energy auditors. If you feel the need to stress that you are performing an all-encompassing, whole-house performance inspection, then perhaps you need to provide a simple disclaimer.
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Mr. Fisher's recommendation is consistent with what we would like to see in Wisconsin. Unfortunately, the Wisconsin statute precludes such an understanding, stating that home inspector means an individual who, for compensation, conducts a home inspection, and, No individual may act as a home inspector ... unless the individual is registered under this subchapter.
The law also specifically prohibits disclaimers like the one Mr. Fisher suggests. The only provision allowed is excluding a component of an improvement to residential real property from the inspection, if requested to do so by his or her client. Licensing, fees, testing, and annual training to meet the ASHI model are still required.Pool Cover Mysteries Uncovered I read with interest Miscellaneous Water under the Energy Bridge and the accompanying sidebar on pool covers (Mar/Apr '99, p. 8). The sidebar focused on features of pool covers--such as color, transparency, and insulation qualities--that affect pool convection and radiation losses and gains. However, a point was missed: the major benefit, by far, of a pool cover is simply that it prevents evaporation. Evaporation accounts for the majority of heat losses in most indoor and outdoor pools, and the enormous impact of pool evaporative heat loss is easily and often misunderstood. Free information, fact sheets, and pool energy analysis software are available at the U.S. Department of Energy's Web site, Reducing Swimming Pool Energy Costs, at www.eren.doe.gov/rspec.
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The same question applies to the pool pump example, a 3/4 hp unit rated at 860 watts. Also, if the high example uses a grossly oversized 2 hp unit, rated at 39 gpm, it is hard to understand why the motor would draw 2,000 watts, as indicated, because the duty point of the pump load (39 gpm at some unspecified head pressure) is oversized--therefore the motor is not working hard, it's hardly working.
Pardon my kibitzing, because Home Energy is one of my must reads, but if there are other assumptions that underlie this matter and lead the author to conclude the wattage values shown, I would like some clarification.
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Home Energy's technical editor, Steve Greenberg, responds:
Your math is correct, but as you state, you're ignoring motor efficiency. At 100% efficiency, a motor will consume 746 watts of electrical input power per horsepower of mechanical output. But real motors--especially the relatively small, single-phase ones used in residential equipment--are significantly less efficient.
The well-pump motors in the table were assumed to be 57% and 62% efficient for the 1/2 and 3/4 hp units, respectively; the pool pump motors, 65% and 75% for the 3/4 and 2 hp units. These efficiencies are pretty typical for the most common standard-efficiency motors in these applications (there are high-efficiency versions of these available with about 10 percentage points higher efficiency).
Regarding the high pool pump estimate, you are correct that if both pumps are connected to the same pool system and have the same flows, then if the 3/4 hp unit is fully loaded the 2 hp unit would be running below 40% of full load. What we neglected to point out is that many oversized pumps are pumping more than the desired flow. In such applications, the pumping power required scales approximately with the cube of the flow, thus selecting a pump that would create 54 gpm instead of 39 gpm would create the difference between 3/4 hp and 2 hp, asssuming the pump efficiencies are equal.
Thanks for helping to clarify these points.
Comfort Home Flattered I read with interest the article by Christina Farnsworth, Southwest Utility Offers Energy Cost Guarantee (Mar/Apr '99, p. 24). Having met with Tucson Electric Power before they finalized their plans, I find it interesting to note how closely they aligned their program to our own Comfort Home program. We consider that a compliment to our own efforts, and perhaps it reflects why we are one of the few programs endorsed and recognized by the National Association of Home Builders.
We have promoted the combination of guarantees and performance testing as a key mechanism in ensuring quality control in the achievement of energy-efficient homes since the inception of our program in 1990. Since that time, we have certified more than 35,000 homes as energy efficient and have taken part in programs sponsored by utilities (both electric and gas), builders, and manufacturers. This makes us, I believe, one of the largest energy guarantee providers in the country.
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The National Quilt Collection (view a video tour) contains both quilts made for functional, utilitarian purposes as bedding, and others made mainly for decorative purposes. The parlor throws or crazy quilts of the latter part of the 19th century, as well as more recent art quilts, are examples of quilts as ornamental objects. The Collection includes quilts that were made to exhibit needlework skills and were entered in contests or shown at fairs where they won prizes.
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Preinstalled trial versions of useless software have been slowing down new PCs for years, and Microsoft is finally offering a solution: bring your PC into a Microsoft Store and pay them $99 to install a clean copy of Windows.
The new program is an outgrowth of Microsoft's "Signature" PC initiative, which sells bloatware-free versions of PCs from Microsoft's partners in Microsoft stores. AllThingsD reports that Microsoft is now offering to change any computer into a Signature PC if customers bring it into the store and pay the requisite fee. Signature PCs also include Microsoft's Windows Live Essentials programs; the ad-supported, Word and Excel-only Microsoft Office Starter edition; the Microsoft Security Essentials antivirus package; and the Zune media player software. Users can choose not to have these programs installed, and can also specify if they would like other third-party browsers or programs installed. Ninety days of free phone support is also included.
It's nice that this new arm of the Signature program will do for regular users what power users have been doing themselves for years, but it's hard not to see this as a solution to a problem that Microsoft had a hand in creating. Installing bloatware and trialware is one way for PC makers to keep costs down—a goal many consumers appreciate—but by not enforcing stronger restrictions on what OEMs can and can't preinstall on their PCs, Microsoft and its partners have created a situation where the default Windows experience on new computers can be pretty terrible. It's nice that the Signature program offers a way around that, but it would be even nicer if the Signature program didn't need to exist in the first place.


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On the heels of the Boy Scouts introducing a merit badge for game design, the Girl Scouts are going one better by developing a badge program to bring girls into the world of video game development. The effort is a collaboration between Girl Scouts of Greater Los Angeles and Women in Games International.
According to a report by Girl Gamer, the two organizations are developing an education program designed specifically for the Girl Scouts that meets the organization's requirements for skills badges. "Creating this badge will get young girls excited in technology and science and let them know that they, too, can have a career in the video game industry," WIGI Vice President Amy Allison told Girl Gamer.
Currently, the Girl Scouts of the USA offers four official badges in the area of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education—"Science of Happiness" and "Science of Style" badges being the only ones for older scouts. The Boy Scouts introduced a Game Design merit badge in March, but its description doesn't specifically call for actual game software development. The WIGI-GSLA effort will use Gamestar Mechanic, an educational development tool from E-Line Media, to allow scouts to develop and create their own video games.


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The price of Bitcoins surged this week, rising above $9 for the first time in almost a year. The increase suggests growing public interest in the peer-to-peer cryptocurrency.
Last month, we marked the one-year anniversary of the Bitcoin bubble popping. We noted that after plunging for the last six months of 2011, the price of Bitcoin had begun to stabilize around $5. But almost as soon as we published that article, the currency began appreciating rapidly. Today, one Bitcoin is worth about $9.20—a 40 percent increase in a month.
The transaction volume of Bitcoins has increased dramatically since April. In April, there were rarely more than 10,000 transactions in a day. In July, there have consistently been more than 20,000 transactions each day.
What explains the newfound popularity of the cryptocurrency? We suspect the factors we identified in last month's article—vices like pornography and gambling—continue to be a significant factor in the currency's value.
But other new uses for the currency continue to pop up. Coinbase, a startup aiming to make Bitcoin more accessible to the masses, has been accepted by Y Combinator's summer class. That comes with a $164,000 investment.
The Verge notes that a student in Germany has built a Bitcoin vending machine. Insert a €1 coin in the slot and it will dispense a slip of paper with a link that can be used to cash in an equivalent value of Bitcoins, currently around 0.13 BTC.
And New World Notes points out that that there has been a growing volume of transactions between Bitcoins and Linden Dollars, the official currency of Second Life. Given that exchanges that convert Bitcoins to dollars have faced legal challenges, the ability to convert Bitcoins into other virtual currencies that are more readily tradable for dollars could boost the liquidity of the cryptocurrency.
Disclosure: The author owns some Bitcoins.


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Microsoft announced Wednesday that it is adding git support to TFS and Visual Studio, putting the distributed version control system on an equal footing with its current centralized system. In so doing it makes Visual Studio and TFS much better choices for distributed development teams and open source developers. Many of them were put off from even looking at TFS for one reason in particular: centralized version control. With git support, that could start to change.
Microsoft TFS is an all-encompassing application lifecycle management platform. Both the on-premises Team Foundation Server and the cloud-hosted Team Foundation Service provide version control, bug tracking, software building, testing, and more, all in one integrated platform. But a lot of people aren't interested in TFS at all, because of that version control component. It's a centralized version control system, so there's a single source code repository that every developer uses, and that repository tracks all the branches and modifications that everyone uses.
That model still has its adherents, and especially for corporate users, it works well. But there's competition from distributed version control systems (DVCS), which have become extremely popular. In these systems, developers have their own repositories with their own branches and modifications. These repositories are published, and patches can be moved between repositories. In particular, this model has thrived in open source projects and in any situation where developers or developer teams work in multiple locations.
The lack of DVCS support in TFS is a major stumbling block for these developers. Version control isn't the only thing that TFS does, but it's fundamental to the product and how it's used, and since it hasn't supported DVCS, the other features it does offer are largely irrelevant to any potential users.
With today's announcement, that all changes. Microsoft is developing DVCS support for TFS and Visual Studio, with the first preview version of that support available today.
git a load of this
And not just any DVCS. Microsoft is supporting git, the DVCS system initially developed by Linus Torvalds so that he could better manage development of the Linux kernel. git is arguably the most popular, most widely used of all the DVCS systems. It has found particular prominence with the success of GitHub, a project hosting service that's a kind of modern-day SourceForge without the same stench of decay.
Both Server and Service will host git repositories, and a plugin for Visual Studio will provide full support for source control operations such as merging changes between branches. Though designed "together," the Visual Studio's git support is just plain old git, and as such it will work with GitHub, BitBucket, or any other git repository.
Underpinning Microsoft's git support is a project called libgit2. This is GitHub's own git implementation. It's licensed under the GPL, albeit with an exception to allow unmodified versions to be used by closed source software. Since September last year, Microsoft has made a number of contributions to libgit2 in order to improve its functionality and reliability on Windows. Many of these contributions have been integrated into libgit2.
Future versions of Visual Studio will incorporate this git support in-box (not that anyone buys boxed copies these days), likewise TFServer. Today, TFService can host git repositories, and there is a "community preview" of the Visual Studio git support available to download. This preview needs, in turn, a preview of Visual Studio 2012 Update 2.
The DVCS model is very different from the centralized model, and Microsoft is not trying to marry the two together. When using TFS with git, it will use git-style terminology (commit changes to the repository, push changes between repositories, and so on); with its centralized repository, it will continue to use existing TFS terminology (check in changes). Migration from centralized repositories to git is possible with the Git-TF tool Microsoft released last week.
TFS's git support will, however, include the same kind of TFS integration as the centralized repository. As a basic example, commit messages will be able to link directly to their corresponding issues in the issue tracker. In the future, the full range of TFS functionality, such as automated builds, will work with git repositories; presently, only manual builds are supported.
It's still a bit surprising to hear about Microsoft embracing an open source project in this way. While users of competing DVCS platforms such as Mercurial might be a little disappointed, Redmond is delivering what a lot of developers actually want: git support. Microsoft is embracing a market-leading open source project and striving to provide first class support—and providing numerous contributions to the community in the process. This is a pragmatic decision, and as an occasional GitHub user myself, it's an enormously welcome decision.


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It's before sunrise, and the janitor at Burns High School has already been down the length of a hallway, cleaning and sweeping classrooms before the day begins.
This particular janitor is painstakingly methodical, even as she administers a mental quiz on an upcoming test. Her name is Dawn Loggins, a straight-A senior at the very school she cleans.
On this day, she maneuvers a long-handled push broom between rows of desks. She stops to pick up a hardened, chewed piece of gum. "This annoys me, because there's a trash can right here," she says.
The worst, she says, is snuff cans in urinals. "It's just rude and pointless."
With her long, straight dark blonde hair and black-rimmed glasses, Dawn looks a bit like Avril Lavigne. But her life is a far cry from that of a privileged pop star.
She was homeless at the start of the school year, abandoned by her drug-abusing parents. The teachers and others in town pitched in - donating clothes and providing medical and dental care. She got the janitorial job through a school workforce assistance program.
Post by: Martin Savidge
Filed under: 360° Radar
This is awesome! I just got an email from my alma mater with a similar story (Colby College), ah-mazing. The gal used the term "throw-away teen" when describing how she found herself homeless after her mom decided she was expendable. Thank you for covering!
harvard seems to have a thing for homeless. whenever we hear about a homeless person getting into a college it always seems to be harvard. they should all apply
Harvard targeted students from elite backgrounds for centuries before realizing, under its current Dean of Admissions, that genius arises from a wide range of settings and they had been missing out on their share. They now actively seek top students from less-advantaged backgrounds and give those with annual family incomes under $60,000 full tuition, room and board scholarships.
Awesome story!! This is news I like to see and hear about... Success!! I think the media gives way to much credit by placing thugs and criminals in the spotlight...They need to be exposed but not glorified... more success stories like this of good things would be great! Way to Go Dawn Loggins!!
Its an inspiring story but I wonder how many negative comments would have been posted by conservatives and teapublicans had she been a young black woman or man!!! There are countless stories like this in urban America! It happens everyday!
What an inspiring story... My hats off to the young lady and everybody supporting her... May she be blessed with the best of all worlds ... Thank God we have kids like her ...
These are the type of stories the media should look for , to inspire our youth, as for you Dawn you touched many peoples hearts, you will prevail, GOD bless you
I am not sure there are too many more inspirational people out there than Dawn. She is a role model that everyone, especially young people, can look up to and aspire to emulate. I truly hope that she succeeds at Harvard and with the rest of her life.
Such a touching story, that should serve as INSPIRATION to all kids around the world. The name Dawn Loggins should be forever attributed to any time that the word HERO is used in a sentence. Thank you Dawn for touching the hearts of millions. I wish you all of the success and happiness in life that you have richly earned.
Also, thank you Mr. Savidge for your outstanding talent in journalism,, for bringing this amazing story to us.
Congrats young lady! I admire your dedication and courage. You have a bright future ahead of you!
Proof our kids can do so much better than we give credit for. And she did. She DOES. Thanks for a story that inspires change.
Very encouraging story. Oo
Dawn Loggins... ladies and gentlemen, hats off to this young woman,who has shown such drive and determination and left the cards they were dealt behind...Dawn has shown all of us, what hard work and dedication and a touch of fate can accomplish... shoot for the stars Dawn, and much love and respect...
How can your heart not go out to this kid?
Great person.
Great story.
Community coming together to make sure one of their children would not be left behind.
Sort of builds and re-energizes your faith in humankind, doesn't it?
Nice story, good to hear that someone who deservingly triumphs over almost seemingly obstacles. What is sad though, she has yet to overcome stoic emotionless feelings, to be able to feel the joy of success and good fortune, like my kid did when being accepted into an Ivy League College or any college for that matter. It should be a happy day with each acceptance letter.
I completely agree with your very insightful comment....seems like the unfinished part of the puzzle
I have never been as proud of anyone as Dawn Loggins. She makes me ashamed of my time wasted when I was in school, and I had the support of family. I just wish some of her friends at school could have helped her do some of her work so she could have a little free time for herself. Otherwise, her community shone brightly.
I know her tuition, room and board are paid for, but if there is going to be a fund to help her with any other expenses, please let me know. I'd like to donate.
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Strawberry Rhubarb Crisp
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So I'm officially a college sophomore. Could my freshman year have gone by any faster?
After classes ended, I headed up to Maine to spend a week with my boyfriend I- and his family in the pine tree state. My last trip was full of snow and bluster, but this time, sunlight broke through the morning fog and the coastline couldn't be bluer. Maine is beautiful in the spring – all crabapple blossoms and forsythia flowers. It makes you want to grab plastic sunglasses, tumble through grassy fields, and buy fish and chips from the roadside seafood shack.
The food in Maine is good. My theory is that the town is so small, your business has to be solid or people won't come back. In the mornings I ate eggs, sunny-side up, blueberry pancakes, home fries and chewy bacon. I tried a sweet potato and carnitas burrito (mind-blowing) and a triple-decker crab BLT. For dessert, we gorged on soft-serve hot fudge sundaes.
The food at I-'s home was delicious too. My first night there, I practically inhaled my dinner. It was such a comfort to eat a hot, home-cooked meal that didn't come out of a can or a microwave. For dessert, I-'s mother gave me a spoonful of strawberry rhubarb crisp and a generous scoop of ice cream.
"By the way," she added casually, "the rhubarb is from the garden."
I can count the number of times I've eaten rhubarb on one hand. I know it's not an uncommon ingredient, but we don't grow it, and my family generally passes it as overpriced in the grocery store. Rhubarb is a luxury for me, something that elicits oohs and ahhs. "Will you make it again with me?" I asked.
I-'s family has made this crisp for years. I-'s mother pulled a card from a tightly packed box of recipes. His parents cut the recipe out of a newspaper 30 years ago – the paper is yellow and faded, and they can't remember which paper it came from anymore. The clipping is full of cross-outs, changes and substitutions as they made the recipe their own over the years. I told them that made it officially theirs.
She cut a bunch of rhubarb from the plant outside. They sat on the counter, striped red and pink and cream, billowing into dark green leaves. I couldn't believe how vivid and thick the stalks grew. Then I tried fresh rhubarb for the first time. I bit off an end, gnawing down the fibers, and slowly chewing. It was definitely more bitter and stringy than I'd expected, but I dipped the end into sugar and discovered tangy bliss. I-'s mother peeled off the rhubarb skins, like glossy ribbon on a birthday present.
We tossed the rhubarb chunks and strawberry halves into a bowl, and let them macerate in sugar and their own juices.
After dinner, I made the topping with I-'s father. He popped the butter in the microwave until it was just shy of melty. I used my fingers to rub it into the almonds, oats, and flour. Together, we tumbled the fruit into a pan, blanketed it in crumble, and slid the dish into the warm oven. "It's that easy!" he said, smiling at me.
As the fruit bubbled and I walked up the stairs, I realized how much I'd missed family time in the kitchen. It's not just about good food, though I ached for that too. I missed the intimacy of standing side by side at the counter, slicing potatoes and whisking salad dressing. I haven't danced around my parents in so long, the three of us weaving among each other to grab pots and pans in our too-small kitchen. I suddenly wanted to sit at the dinner table after a long meal, listening to water run while my mother filled the dishwasher, a sleeping dog against my toes.
In my year away, I'd started to forget that family is the smell of simmering beef broth, and that home is the warmth of hot oven air. I called my mom, dad, and grandma that night. As much as I loved Maine and half wanted to stay forever, deep down I also wanted to see my family.
I'm home at last. I already long for the bustle of Boston. Sometimes I get bored without the rush of classes, work, and extracurriculars. I miss my friends, my roommate, and especially I-.
But Seattle is sunny and even greener than I remembered. I love the familiar murmur of rain on the roof at night, the way the towering trees nestle around our house. When I came home my mother showed me around the yard, pointing out where the groundcover had spread and the plants that had burgeoned forth.
She led me to the vegetable garden, dotted with slender green stems and tiny leaves. I saw the apple trees, lush and fragrant with blossoms – I can't wait to see the branches bowed over with ripe fruit. But most hopeful of all? Our strawberry plants, which have seriously flourished, carpeting the entire ground.
They make me crave rhubarb.
Strawberry Rhubarb Crisp
An I- Family Original
Makes a 9×9″ pan
Crisp Topping
1 cup toasted slivered almonds
1 cup flour
3/4 cup packed brown sugar
Pinch of salt
8 tablespoons unsalted butter, softened
1/2 cup oatmeal
Fruit Filling
6 stalks rhubarb
1 1/2 pints of strawberries
6 tablespoons sugar
2 tablespoons flour
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Combine flour, brown sugar, salt, oatmeal, and almonds. Mix the softened, room temperature butter into the flour mixture with a fork or with your fingers until crumbly.
Peel off outer skin of rhubarb and cut off the ends. Cut stalks in one-inch pieces, enough to make three cupfuls. Hull the berries, cut in half. Toss fruit together with the sugar and flour until evenly coated. Place the fruit in a 9×9″ baking dish. Sprinkle the topping evenly over the fruit. Bake for 1 hour, or until bubbly, brown and crisp.
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My great grandmother used to make something extremely similar to this – it's what I remember most about her. She passed away without passing on the recipe to anyone, though… I've been searching long and hard for something close to it.
I enjoy your writing so much…This strawberry rhubarb crisp is wonderful…spring arrived early in Iowa this year so I went out to cut a few stocks after reading ran to the store for berries will be serving it up for Easter evening…He has Risen…Happy Easter..Thanks for sharing…
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CNN's Gary Tuchman visits a Colorado animal shelter housing hundreds of pets after wildfires forced their owners to flee.
Post by: Gary Tuchman
Filed under: Wildfires
I love to see somebody helping pets. It warms my heart that people care about these animals and will take action to help them. Thank you for doing a story about these important furry family members.
Hi Anderson,
I felt so glad that these animals got saved, for their owners, from the wildfires. So wonderful to see them reuniting.
Thur.'s #AC360 had so many interesting stories on there, so very good.
Bev F.
The word 'gifted' is some of the issue. The assumption that I think I am 'gifted' in law. A gifted person would not give up so easily. Not quite. It gets into seeking God's guidance, and only half hearing the answer. The answer was law( what to study in school), BUT, it was CUSHIONED by a request to be unselfish. It makes sense that I study it, but not pursue it as a career. It's become clear to me that I can only have it as a career, if I do so selfishly. It actually makes perfect sense. It is all about context and degrees of understanding. I should not still be hearing about it, or anything relating to it. I heard it as recently as last night.
One clarification: My decision about JLA has nothing to do with you personally. It is not dependent upon you. It will remain the same, regardless. I think I felt an obligation to explain myself to you, given your involvement. I also have no further obligation, nor is anything I have previously stated subject to change. That's all. R-
I liked this coverage.
Hi Anderson, just watched your clip about the animals left behind during the wild fires, how can we help- I am sure they need donations of food or supplies or cash but where can we send it
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;Goal: Let's a full repeal of the CFAA[http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1030] .
;Questions: How would we construct good law in these areas, from scratch?
;Questions: How would we construct good law in these areas, from scratch?
: How do different areas of law, policy, and internet governance view the law and its impact?
: How do different areas of law, policy, and internet governance view the law and its impact?
Latest revision as of 01:59, 10 January 2014
Draft of Principles being edited online
- Goal
- Let's decsribe what a full repeal & replacement of the CFAA[1] should look like.
- Questions
- How would we construct good law in these areas, from scratch?
- How do different areas of law, policy, and internet governance view the law and its impact?
- What would it take to generate support for a [repeal + replace] action, in each area?
- What are the professional and philosophical circles for each of these areas, where these issues are discussed?
The CFAA was developed over time as a merger of ~7 different areas of law. It has developed in an aggregate way, and few groups are happy with the current law. It is so broad that prosecutors like it because they can use it to force plea bargains, since it applies to almost everything in its sphere of action (relying on prosecutorial judgement).
Different parts of the story: National defense, cyber war, data sec, corporate law, contracts online. Authorization based on code, contract, social norms. Legal frameworks used to push political means. Career standards for prosecutors defined in political ways.
- Aaron's Law
- Analysis from January, EFF suggested changes
- June update via Lofgren, July update via Wyden
- EFF action page - send a letter to your senators
- Govtrack updates
- H.R. 2454 (Lofgren bill; referred to House Judiciary subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations)
- S. 1196 (Wyden bill; referred to Senate Judiciary)
- H.R. 2077 (Perlmutter bill; referred to House Judiciary subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations)
- S. 1426 (Blumenthal bill; referred to Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee)
Comparative Law[edit]
- Aspects of the search
- "Advanced technical crime" -- The deployment of the SS was a bit peculiar; but they were the only fed. agents trained in what they were looking for.
- Civil rights concerns
- Part of the prosecution that was particularly troubling: at one point in the invest., it felt that they were keeping the prosecution going b/c they'd spent so much time bringing it along. There was no will from victims to keep it going, and not necc. any other desire, but the prosecutors for their own reason wanted conclusion.
- Suggestion: employ economists to remind people of sunk costs
- Three levels of problem
- Occlusion of different agendas and sets of laws
- Compare pre-computer to post-computer laws for identical crimes.
- Problems with prosecution as it happens today
- Motivations for initiating/closing cases
- The nature of CFAA as it's been employed
- Failure of proportionality
Legal elements[edit]
There are 7 planks to 18 U.S.C. § 1030
- Knowingly accessing a computer without access or exceeding access, and obtaining security, foreign relations, atomic info
- rarely used, as it is substantively overlapped by other ares
- Intentionally accessing a computer without access or exceeding access, and in so doing obtaining "information," financial records, or U.S. government info.
- the biggest and most frequently used for access-and-downloading type offenses
- Accessing without authorization (not "exceeding") a US government owned or controlled computer
- Equivalent to the statute on wire fraud, but replacing "wire" with "computer" and tweaking the details
- Overlap with WFA, rather irrelevant in current environs
- Computer damage
- three separate crimes ("damage" = impairment to integrity and availability of data; "loss" = reasonable cost of responding to offense, including costs of damage assessment)
- knowingly cause transmission of program and intentionally cause damage
- intentionally access a computer and as a result recklessly cause damage
- intentionally access a computer and as a result cause damage and "loss"
- three separate crimes ("damage" = impairment to integrity and availability of data; "loss" = reasonable cost of responding to offense, including costs of damage assessment)
- Password Trafficking
- Extortion through use of computer
Guiding principles[edit]
- compare Necessary and Proportionate principles
What substantive things should be in a rational computer crime law?
- Parallelism with non-computer crime law
- Proportionate punishment
- Avoid confusion/overlap between different parts of the government
- in terms of means and ways
- b/t different parts of the government
- b/t different phil and pol goals
- b/t social-good and infosec goals
Points of consensus[edit]
Based on conversations with folks at the Cambridge/Boston hack, these principles emerged as points of agreement. Other groups feel free to chime in as well.
Reasonable defenses[edit]
- Scope should be limited - the law should not run to the boundary of what we find ethical or moral. We want people to have freedom to "mess around" with the web (perhaps with some negligence-based liability if they cause actual damage). As with media law and "bad journalism", copyright and "plagiarism," the law should leave the edge cases for the community to set up a moral/normative/shame-oriented punishment scheme.
- we feel as though there is sufficient persistent identity in the community that even pseudonymous hackers care about their reputations.
- Focus on bad access, leave use to other laws - laws on copyright, trade secret, identity theft, espionage, extortion, and fraud govern most of the "scary" use cases.
- In this way, we are leaving the "hats" (black/white/grey/green) discussion for the community norms or existing law.
- Consent should always be a defense - server owners ask members of the public to do some weird stuff against their systems, but as long as they ask for it, it should never be a crime to access one's computer in that way.
- Consider technical effectiveness of site design for its intended use. For code-based vulnerabilities and authentication measures, a "reasonable" standard may not be appropriate: defining what is "reasonable" may lead to unnecessary confusion. But some consideration should be made to ensure that trivially-overcome measures are not within the scope.
What should be unlawful[edit]
- Setting up and triggering an exploit - even if it was not done on that person's computer. Hold the party intending to do the bad behavior culpable. [ex: sharing a tinyurl that carries out a sql-injection]
- Circumvention of a code-based authentication measure - leaving proportionality for another discussion. This includes cracking, password guessing, or human-engineering password disclosure.
- Once we get to this set of actions, we're in fraud-land. [this still shouldn't be penalized more than non-electronic fraud]
- Exploiting a code-based vulnerability to obtain information should be unlawful (leaving proportionality for another discussion). We are thinking of things like a SQL injection hack.
- Knowingly deleting or impairing the integrity or availability of the data should be unlawful if done intentionally or recklessly. Moving down to negligence or strict liability at a certain damage threshold is harder to say.
Uncertain areas[edit]
- Penetration testing is squishy. An open call for bug bounties should be treated as consent to access the site (again, using other laws to govern bad uses)
- "Obtaining information from accidentally-open" sites is squishy. E.g., sites that were supposed to be behind an authentication layer but are not. To a certain extent, it may be best to place the fault of this onto the coder of the site, with the comfort that certain uses by the obtainer of information may still be unlawful.
Open questions[edit]
Feel free to suggest brief answers, pointers to where this is discussed.
- Does 'authentication' make sense as the basis for such a law?
- As opposed to other corollaries re: trespass and access. Compare historical ways of handling these issues.
- Is feigning authentication fraud? (when simply making up a new account; impersonating yourself, and not someone else)
- Where do the following edge cases fall?
- 'sockpuppeting' authentication where it's assumed you have one-account-per-user?
- This is rarely prevented clearly.
- Not the worst thing to do; it's not the same as impersonating a real person
- Circumventing the auth process altogether?
- This tends to be pretty bad. It's clearly defeating the system, when it requires finding a subtle exploit
- Can be less bad when a system has an auth system but doesn't use it (e.g. it's never checked)
- What's the ECTF doing? Who could provide oversight?
- (cf fix-hacking-laws essay and Robert Graham's comment)
- Do MIT and other tech institutions care?
- See this question on MIT's Swartz Review site.
Active proposals[edit]
Aaron's Law[edit]
Lofgren & Wyden
- Lower some of the penalties for crimes that produce little or no harm,
- Delete a provision that is repeated elsewhere in the statute
- Amend the Wire Fraud Act
- Clarify once and for all that violating terms of service agreements is not a crime.
- NB - Chin in US v. Drew - precedent that an individual, violating a TOS without a script, is pretty clearly not a crime. But it is still always used as a threat to amplify perceived risk.
- Limit scope of "exceeding authorized access"
- current status
- referred to the Committee on Crime, Terr, Homeland Security subcomm of Judiciary Committee (chair: Sensenbrenner)
- lower penalties for crimes that produce little or no harm
- cleanup: delete repeated provision, delete provision repeated in WFA
- clarify once and for all that violating TOS is not a crime (nb: it can still be prosecuted civilly)
- Fork the Law page, listing legal history and proposed changes
Creating something new[edit]
- Manifesto
- A la necessary and proportionate manifesto created after PRISM: https://necessaryandproportionate.org/text
- Hack on this version: CFAA replacement
- Drafting example legislation?
Additional needed resources (1 hour projects)[edit]
- mapping out where the CFAA overlaps with existing law; identifying areas left untouched.
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Report: Harmful chemical found in tap water of 31 U.S. cities
Millions of Americans in at least 31 U.S. cities could be drinking tap water contaminated with the harmful chemical hexavalent chromium, according to a report released Monday by the non-profit Environmental Working Group.
While the dangerous carcinogen, otherwise known as chromium-6, may sound foreign to most people, perhaps the name Erin Brockovich will ring a bell.
After chromium-6 was discovered in the water supply of Hinkley, California, Brockovich helped bring about a lawsuit that ultimately ended in 1996 with the utility company, Pacific Gas & Electric, paying more than $330 million in damages. Norman, Oklahoma; Honolulu, Hawaii; and Riverside, California, top the non-profit organization's list of cities with water supplies contaminated by chromium-6.
The Environmental Protection Agency has classified the toxin as a carcinogen to humans if it is inhaled. The EPA is proposing to classify it as "likely to be carcinogenic to humans" if ingested as part of a risk assessment the agency is currently conducting. The agency says water utilities are required to test for total chromium levels in the water but not explicitly for chromium-6. Chromium-6 is a natural byproduct of total chromium.
"In order to protect people's health, EPA has had drinking water standards for total chromium, which includes chromium-6," the agency said in a statement to CNN. "When this scientific assessment is finalized in 2011, EPA will carefully review the conclusions and consider all relevant information, including the Environmental Working Group's study, to determine if a new standard needs to be set."
"I was expecting to find hexavalent chromium in some of the cities we checked, but I didn't expect it to be so widespread," said Rebecca Sutton, a senior scientist with the Environmental Working Group and the lead author of the study.
Sutton said there is a well-documented corollary between exposure to chromium-6 and a greater risk of stomach cancer in humans. Additionally, there is ample animal evidence showing a broad risk of gastrointestinal tumors in rats and mice exposed to the toxin, she said.
Worse, skipping tap water in favor of bottled water does not guarantee you'll be protected.
"Bottled water is not necessarily any safer than tap water," said Sutton. "We just don't have any guarantee that hexavalent chromium isn't in that water."
So how can you protect yourself? Sutton says your best bet is buying an effective water filter.
"Getting the water filter is a great way to protect yourself and your family," says Sutton. "It's a step you can take yourself; you don't have to wait for government action."
Samples from the test provided a "one-time snapshot" of water systems that serve 26 million people, the Environmental Working Group said. But the organization said the results show that more federal regulation of the cancer-causing chemical is needed.
The National Toxicology Program has said that chromium-6 in drinking water shows "clear evidence of carcinogenic activity."
California's state environmental agency has proposed capping levels of the chemical in drinking water at 0.06 parts per billion. The Environmental Working Group said 25 of the cities it tested showed exceeded that level.
To conduct its test, the organization said it recruited volunteers in 35 cities to collect tap water samples "from unfiltered taps in homes or in public buildings such as hospitals, libraries and malls," the report said.
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1. Norman, Oklahoma
Not detectable: Indianapolis, Indiana; Plano, Texas; Reno, Nevada; San Antonio, Texas
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Do you feel that buzz in the air? Or maybe you can actually feel the vibrations under your skin and drumming in your ears. You might even be thinking "I don't have time to read Hack Library School right now!" It isn't just the caffeine you've been living on. If you're like a number of our fellow LIS students, professionals, and hackers what you're surely feeling right now is STRESS.
Even if you are done with your own finals, if you're working in a library or around any type of student population, by osmosis you are picking up on the stress hormones of those around you. Patience is hard to come by. Deadlines feel like do-or-die. Your brain feels like it is careening around the blackness on the back of a TRON bike.
Breathe, friend, and let's talk stress management.
First, you're doing one of the best things for you right now: discovering what you can do for self care. There are tons of resources out there for dealing with stress — but likely you are too strapped for time to find them right now (or hearing "finding aide" or "keyword search" makes you want to scream a little). I therefore offer some hacks and tips I've picked up along the way:
- Breathe. Seriously this is the best tip I can offer. In fact, stand up from your computer or put down your portable device right now and take 10 deep breaths. Close your eyes and ease your shoulders down. Stare at the back of your eyelids. Breathe in through your nose and out through your mouth 10 times. Repeat once an hour or as needed.
- Make a list. The big, scary, undefined is a Goliath on steroids. If you break your tasks down, write them down, stick deadlines on them, they become littler gremlins. The list also helps you prioritize and see if there are demands on your time that you might be able to release or slide. I did this with this very post, as I was scheduled for last week and knew I just couldn't get it done. What a difference a few days can make! The list also lets you see there is some end in sight.
- Reach out to your Professors or others to ask for help. If that major project or term paper is just not coming together and completely overwhelming you, send an email to your professor and let them know. Offer to show proof of work and ask (politely) for an extension. Or offer to turn in the assignment as it is at the deadline but ask if you can work on it for an extra few days or discuss it's failings to make corrections in the hopes of improving your grade. The point of this schooling after all is to teach us to be professionals. Just as you could and should be upfront with a boss about a need for an extension to make a work product better, so too could you do the same with coursework. It never hurts to ask.
- Talk to your friends and family. I certainly benefited from Zack's advice to let friends and family know what you are facing in advance and tell them that you're just not going to have a whole lot of time to enjoy their company or other extracurriculars. This eases some of the social pressures and lets you focus on what you need to get done so you can enjoy later. Venting to a good friend about all you are dealing will can also greatly help you get it out and move forward.
- Take some time for you. This might be counter to the advice above but breaks are super important. There are some studies that suggest we just aren't built to concentrate for long stretches. As Laura advocated in her article on Work/Life Balance: Work when it is time to work and then set it aside. Give yourself permission to nap, watch a movie or tv, read for pleasure, eat a good meal, take a yoga class or a long shower — whatever you like to do and gives you a real break from whatever your working on. You'll come back refreshed and more efficient.
- Move. This somewhat goes with the above but exercise is incredibly good for the brain. Take a walk, go to kick-boxing or Zumba, run, bike, or simply stand up and do 40 jumping jacks — studies also show that just taking quick breaks from sitting for long periods helps with overall health. Get your blood flowing and release some of that tension.
- Change your venue. I know too well the lock yourself in your bedroom, hunch over your laptop, books and notes and grind it out mentality. It turns out that practice is probably not good study practice. Going to sit somewhere else, working in a coffee shop or the library, taking your laptop onto the porch for a while, changing positions, or otherwise changing your environment helps your brain distinguish what you are learning and make new connections. Even if your retention doesn't statistically improve, it can be much better for your general outlook on life, while working around others working can help you focus and make you more productive.
- Eat, Drink, Sleep. Make sure you are getting proper sustenance and sleep. Read: a diet of power bars and coffee with two hours of sleep is grossly hurting not helping your productivity. Take the time to eat and sleep well and you'll be much more effective than if you pulled an all-nighter on Red Bull to try to cram in your notes.
For more advice, check out Alyssa's guest post on dealing with library school anxiety and The University of Manchester's guide to exam stress. New LISers who might be pre-stressing about starting school this summer can find some good tips from Zack and Heidi. And if you are done with exams and already looking towards your break, maybe re-read this or this for ideas for how to spend your well-earned free(er) time.
Finally: Know yourself. What works for "everyone" might not work for you. Take a moment to think about what has helped you in the past and try to replicate it. But definitely breathe.
Good luck with whatever you are working on today!
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Do you remember this old commercial: "You've got your chocolate in my peanut butter," to which the reply was, "you've got your peanut butter on my chocolate?" It was a very memorable ad campaign designed to show how two sharply different tastes can go great together.
In the fitness world, the two widely different tastes are a 1-on-1 personal trainer and a group fitness instructor. In many health clubs, these two worlds very rarely collide, yet they are a magical recipe of success for fitness professionals interested in reaching a new audience of potential clients while simultaneously creating a way to provide additional services to existing ones.
If anyone had ever told me that I would make a living as a group fitness instructor I would have collapsed from laughter because I am not rhythmic, can't dance and the only time I had ever taken a group class was when I played football in college and we were "encouraged" to take the step classes offered by the girlfriend of one of our captains to help our footwork and coordination. However, for a number of years, between 2000 and 2006, I was teaching up to fifteen group fitness classes a week and managed a schedule of regular clients. It has been so successful to me that even as a full-time employee for ACE, I still teach group fitness part-time at a club here in San Diego.
In 1998, I was working part-time as a front desk associate when I started learning about the business of personal training and group fitness. As a front desk worker, I saw that the most successful trainers in my club taught group classes AND worked with clients on a one-on-one basis. By 1999, I had earned my ACE Personal Training Certification and took the workshop to teaching the Spinning™ indoor cycling program. With the guidance and mentorship of a number of friends, I set out to start my career as a trainer and instructor. (Side note: the most important mentor was the assistant group fitness manager for the region who I am now extremely fortunate to call my wife.)
It turns out that teaching group fitness classes is an excellent way to meet new clients and an even better way to create extra "touches" for existing clients. What I learned early in my career is that individuals who show up to participate in a group fitness class are extremely interested in achieving results from exercise. People new to group fitness classes are looking for guidance from an experienced instructor while regulars are looking for fun, hard-charging workouts that make them sweat. The hardest part of the job is catering to both audiences at the same time.
I quickly realized that I would rather be in a group fitness room than trying to fight for space on the floor with my clients during the busy times in the club. Teaching classes also provided an opportunity for me to provide value added services to existing training clients. For example, if I was working with a client on strength training, I could have him or her take my cycling classes to meet his or her needs for cardiorespiratory training. Another example is having a client take my sports conditioning class to provide additional opportunities to work on footwork and agility.
Besides indoor cycling classes (I used to race BMX and mountain bike regularly, so this was an natural format for me), I also teach sports conditioning, strength training, core conditioning, flexibility and circuit training class formats — basically anything that DOES NOT require actually moving on the beat.
I approach teaching group fitness classes like I would coaching a sport, and have developed a style that allows me to interact with the students while creating fun and appropriately challenging workouts. To learn how to teach different formats, I would regularly attend workshops and fitness conferences to get instruction on how to apply the latest research and use the newest fitness equipment.
The awesome thing about being an instructor for a large health club is that it allowed me to develop rapport with both new and regular participants and both types would ask about my training services. The new participants would want to learn how to exercise safely and effectively while the die-hard regulars were interested in ways to spice up an existing routine or training for a specific event like the annual marathon. I wasn't too concerned about whether or not anyone ever retained or continued with my services, I just wanted them to have a positive experience at the club so they would learn how to make exercise a consistent part of their lifestyle.
Teaching group fitness classes provided me the opportunity to meet club members that I would not normally have. I developed many friendships as an instructor that I still cherish (it also led to a four-year gig working part-time for the Washington Redskins). My favorite thing about group fitness was the positive environment created by each class that would expand beyond the health club; different classes would get together for happy hours or celebrations throughout the year, so the community expanded into the participants everyday lives.
When someone shows up for a class they are taking one hour out of their day and trusting it to us as instructors, it is critical that we return that trust by providing a positive experience; the most important thing to remember when teaching group fitness is that everyone should feel successful. In addition, it's critical to make the newest member feel like they're welcome and part of the group so they'll return the following week. Once people start telling you when they'll be out of town or providing excuses for why they missed last week's class, you will know that you have become an integral part of their lives.
Just as mixing the tastes of peanut butter and chocolate can make a delicious treat, combining the skills of personal training and group fitness instruction can lead to an extremely rewarding and successful career as a fitness professional.
If you're interested in earning a second certification as a Group Fitness Instructor or Personal Trainer, ACE offers a discounted rate for additional certifications. You will also earn the 2.0 CECs you need to renew your current certification.


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Dr. A.J. Cummings, ER doctor at OSF Saint Francis Medical Center, offered some safety tips so he doesn't have to see you at the hospital during the Independence Day holiday. Also, in addition to fireworks, area fireworks tents are offering safety tip handouts with every purchase. They include tips on the safe way to handle fireworks, as well as how to treat a burn. They are:
Don't let kids light fireworks and keep children out of fireworks' range.
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