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Dr. Russell Kridel is one of the first in the Texas Medical Center area to offer Ultherapyâ"¢ procedure, known also as Ulthera, for lifting and toning loose, lax skin.
At Facial Plastic Surgery Associates we continue our commitment to providing our patients with the most promising facial rejuvenation procedures and treatments available.
Ultherapyâ"¢ is a face and neck treatment, which uses micro-focused ultrasound waves for non-invasive tissue lifting of the brow, cheeks and neck.The sound waves deliver energy directed deep under the skin to the same tissue addressed in surgery. This gently heats the tissue to lift and tighten loose skin without cutting or disrupting the surface of the skin. This results in a lifting of the brow and jowls and a redefining of the jawline.
Because the surface of the skin is not affected there is no downtime with Ultherapy. A full-face treatment can be completed in under an hour.
The Ulthera ultrasound device used in Ultherapyâ"¢ was cleared as a first-of-its kind device by the FDA (Food and Drug Administration) for use in achieving a non-invasive eyebrow lift. In the clinical trial, nine out of ten (90%) patients had a significant lift of their brow line. The patients also reported firmer skin in other areas of the face and neck as well.
There has been a great deal of press coverage of Ulthera in national magazines and television shows. Many celebrities, including Courtney Cox have had the procedure and speak highly of their experience and results.
While Ultherapyâ"¢ is not a replacement for the more dramatic results of cosmetic surgical procedures, it can offer a natural, "no downtime" approach to improving mild to moderate lax skin.
The best way to get started on facial rejuvenation is to come in for an individual consultation. In that appointment, we will discuss your issues and determine if you are a good candidate for Ultherapyâ"¢ and design a patient treatment plan that is specific to your needs.
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Ultherapy™ is a face and neck ultrasound treatment developed by Ulthera, an ultrasound-based medical technology company. Ultherapy™ lifts, tightens, and tones loose skin to counteract the effects of time and gravity.
It is the only energy-based aesthetic procedure that has been FDA-cleared for non-invasive lifting.
Ulthera Amplify is a new software system upgrade that has added effectiveness and decreased patient discomfort.
The system update has new treatment guidelines, which add 33% more energy to the Ulthera treatment. Recent studies have proven that by decreasing the baseline ultrasound energy of individual pulses (lines) patient comfort during the treatment is much improved without any diminution of clinical effect and results. It is thought increasing the number of "lines" of a standard treatment from 500-600 lines to now 800 lines will result in greater lifting and tightening of the face, neck, and eyebrows.
The three key elements of the Ultherapy Amplify software upgrade include:
Improved patient comfort – Patients do not require medication for treatment. However, patients can request it.
Increased efficiency through a more intuitive user interface for the physician
Updated treatment guidelines which include higher density treatments.
The new guidelines with Ulthera Amplify have increased the full Ulthera treatment time slightly, from one hour to one hour, twenty minutes.
Ultherapy™ is an ideal treatment for men and women with mild to moderate skin laxity. Patients often describe their skin laxity as skin that has "relaxed†or "sagged†to the point of looking and/or feeling less firm.
Ultherapy™ has become a very popular treatment among patients, both young and old, who are not yet ready logistically, economically or psychologically for surgery.
"Our patients appreciate that there is no need for anesthesia and that a full face treatment can be completed in as little as 45 minutes. Patients also like the gradual, natural change that occurs over time and that their friends and co-workers don't need to know that they have had anything done --- just that they look much more refreshed."
Ultherapy™ can also benefit younger patients who are taking a more proactive approach to the aging process and are looking to slow down the clock. This treatment allows them to maintain healthy collagen in order to help them stay one step ahead. Ultherapy is also a nice complementary treatment to other facial rejuvenation treatments and procedures that target surface issues, such as peels, injectables and fillers.
While it does not duplicate the results of surgery, Ultherapy™ is an inviting alternative for those who are not ready for surgery.
With Ultherapy™ a smooth applicator is placed upon your skin which projects an image onto a screen. This allows us to plan and direct where the energy will be sent. This same applicator is then used to deliver low levels of focused heat at just the right depth below the skin to achieve a positive effect, all the while leaving the surface of your skin undisturbed. A gradual tightening and firming occurs, resulting in a natural lift of the skin over time.
Click here for a short video demonstration of how Ultherapy™ works.
The Potential Benefits
Like all treatments, results can vary from patient to patient. However, with just one Ultherapy™ treatment the regenerative process has begun and some patients express some immediate results, but the full effect will build gradually over the course of two to three months.
Ultherapy™ helps slow down the aging process, with results lasting an average of 12-18 months.
There is no downtime following treatment with Ultherapy™ and our patients are able to immediately resume all normal activities and there are no special measures you need to take.
Your skin may appear a bit flushed immediately after the Ultherapy™ treatment, but any redness should disappear within a few hours. There is no bruising and little to no swelling.
Treatment times for Ultherapy™ will vary depending on the area being treated. Small areas can take as little as ten minutes, while larger or multiple areas, like a full-face treatment, may take closer to an hour to complete.
Comfort thresholds can vary from patient to patient while the energy is being delivered. On average, our patients have described the discomfort level as mild.
With the new software upgrade, Ulthera Amplify, comfort levels have shown improvement. Patients do not require medication for treatment. However, for even greater comfort during the Ultherapy treatment we can apply topical cream. And, we can also use nerve blocks to further numb the skin if desired.
Most patients do not need to take any pre-medications for their Ultherapy™ treatment. If you prefer to take medication, this can be discussed at the time of your initial consultation.
Ultrasound energy has a proven track record, with use in the field of medicine for over 50 years and clinical trials have demonstrated the safety of this latest application.
The majority of patients have just one Ultherapy™ treatment. In some cases, a second treatment is recommended. At 90-days post-treatment we will have you come back into the office for your follow-up appointment to photograph and review your results.
Ultherapy™ is a nonsurgical skin rejuvenation procedure that can specifically target and strengthen the deep foundational layer of tissue. The ability to treat not just the skin but its underlying support, from the inside out, helps to provide both safe and satisfying results, with no downtime.
Ultherapy is not a laser treatment, it utilizes ultrasound technology to addresses skin laxity. Fraxel addresses pigmentation and skin texture.
Fraxel is a laser treatment. It breaks up the laser beam into thousands of tiny columns of laser light. With our Fraxel Dual™ laser, we have two Fraxel™ options: the Fraxel Re:store™, which requires a series of treatments, and the Fraxel Re:pair ™,which is typically a one-time procedure but has more downtime. Both give excellent improvement in texture, wrinkles, brown spots and scars.
The Ulthera ultrasound device used in Ultherapyâ"¢ was cleared as a first-of-its kind device by the FDA (Food and Drug Administration) for use in achieving a non-invasive eyebrow lift. In the clinical trial, nine out of ten (90%) patients had a significant lift of their brow line. Ulthera has also received FDA clearance for the device to lift tissue on the neck and under the chin.


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Why do people get embarrassed for you?
i hate it when i noticed someone getting embarrassed for me over something i myself do not find embarrassing. for example. the other day two old friends of mines and my cousin who is a teen were here and we were all talking. then a very touchy subject came up and i cried. (my biological father passed) my two friends were consoling me and my little cousin was like "omg stop! stop!" but she was laughing and i knew right away she felt embarrassed. another example i was going to check into the hospital for a few days. when i took off my shoes my mother noticed i had mismatched socks and just like my little cousin was going nuts before my eyes. she said "oh god! oh god! why did you wear that" looking all over the room being so nervous. trying not to laugh. i just don't get what makes a person embarrassed for you about something you yourself do not see as shameful?
Because they are With you so what you do they feel reflects upon themselves.
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Saturday, May 30, 2009
Is It Autism?
I actually took the quiz 3 times. For Sarah the results indicated a likelihood for a mild case of PDD-NOS. I agree with the results. We have our first DAN! appointment in a couple of weeks and I will have her evaluated at that time.
I took the quiz twice for Jake. The first time, I answered the questions based on his symptoms at the onset of his autism. Of course, the results indicated a likely autism diagnosis and the charts depicting the severity of symptoms showed that he probably fell within the moderate to severe range.
The second time through the quiz for Jake, I answered the questions based on his symptoms today. Those results indicated a likely PDD-NOS diagnosis. Based on the charts he fell solidly within that diagnosis, but the severity of symptoms varied between categories (i.e. social, language).
PDD-NOS is still autism. But, in Jake's case it indicates an improvement in many areas. Could this mean that we are moving off the spectrum? If nothing else, we are certainly heading in the right direction.
I'd recommend taking the quiz whether you have a diagnosis or not. If your child is already on the spectrum, you might find this is a useful tool for estimating progress.
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Wednesday, May 27, 2009
Evolution of a Question
Before his regression just over 2 years ago, he was able to ask for water just like any other kid. Then, autism arrived and he lost the ability to verbalize this ordinary question. Here is the evolution of Jake asking for water beginning 2 years ago and ending with yesterday's request:
Water please!
You want water?
I want water.
I want water please.
I want water in the cup on the table so I can drink it.
I may have overshot it a little in working with him on location terminology. At the moment, he is quite fond of prepositional phrases. But I think that is a natural experimentation with language and he will continue to amaze me with his progress. He's doing great!
Speaking of experimenting with language...
Jake picked up the "F" word at the park. (That's my story and I'm sticking to it!) I tried a number of different techniques to rid him of this new vocabulary word including ignoring it and later consistently giving timeouts every time he said it. Boy, it's hard to punish him for saying something given how hard I've worked to get him to talk, but I had to stop him from dropping the "F" bomb all the time. Want to know what finally worked? I convinced him that it was much more fun to say 'marshmallow'.
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Friday, May 22, 2009
A New Jakism
For my fellow word counters, yes, that is a 14 word sentence.
I also had another proud mommy moment today...
Good news: Sarah went pee-pee on the potty by herself for the first time!
Bad news: She forgot to put the lid up before sitting down.
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School Daze
On Wednesday, I had a telephone conversation with the principal of Jake's school. He was very nice to me and seemed reasonable. However, he was unwilling to agree to anything that would enable Jake to begin the next school year in a typical class. He said that he would rather err on the side of 'too much' (meaning the separate class) and work up to the typical class. He believes that the IEP as it stands is a good plan, but admitted that he was not personally familiar with Jake. He did agree to speak to Jake's teacher and 'look into it.' I know nothing will change unless I force another IEP meeting with all the 'decision makers' present.
So far, I have offered the following compromises:
1. I offered to volunteer in the class either to help Jake directly or free up another aide to work with him.
2. I asked for a trial period (2 or 3 months) in the typical class with assistance. This way, they would not be committing to a full year of extra help in advance. We can evaluate the situation and make necessary changes if it isn't working.
3. I suggested that Jake attend kindergarten for a half-day, which would free up the aide to work elsewhere in the afternoons.
All of these suggestions have been rejected.
Jake's pre-k teacher, who has taught him for 2 years, believes he should be placed in a typical kindergarten class. She has volunteered to write a letter on his behalf and is working on setting up another IEP meeting for us. It still amazes me that they would reject the observations and knowledge of the 2 people who know him best (and also have the most comprehensive knowledge of autism). I know I shouldn't be surprised by anything the school system does, but this entire situation defies logic.
Nothing is resolved at this point, but I am still working on it.
Thanks again for all of your support. I'll keep you posted.
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Tuesday, May 19, 2009
Your Opinions Please...
I sent in a letter outlining why Jake needs to be in a typical kindergarten class and had all of these items included in his IEP. To start, Jake is well above the kindergarten readiness standards academically. He can read very well, count to 100, knows all colors and shapes, etc. He is eager to learn more and needs to be with his typical peers to improve his social and language skills. He can now speak in sentences and has a desire to interact with other children (he just doesn't know how). I believe that if he is placed in the Life Skills class he will not receive an education and it will most likely result in behavioral regression. As I reiterated this point with the director today, she kindly informed me that they no longer refer to it as "Life Skills" but instead call it "someridiculousoverlyPCphrase". Since I cannot remember the new name of the class they want to sacrifice my child to, I'll just call it "Life Skills".
I have also explained in writing and verbally why Jake needs an aide in order to navigate kindergarten. He will need help with all self care needs including diaper changes/toileting, hand washing and meals. He also needs continual prompting to remain on task and to participate in classroom activities. He needs someone with him in the hallways, at assemblies, in the library and cafeteria, during PE and on field trips. He has the tendency to run off unexpectedly and has a limited understanding of danger. An aide would help ensure his safety while at school. Obviously, all of this would be too much for a teacher to manage and still be able to work with the other 25 students in the class.
So, now you know why I want him to attend a typical kindergarten and why he would need an aide to do it. I was told today that I would have to meet with the principal of the school and ask him to supply assistance to Jake. Of course, I was told at the IEP meeting that the only person who could approve an aide for Jake was the Director of the EC program. Now I'm caught in the middle of the 'not my job' game. I will meet with the principal, but I do not have high hopes for that given the fact that he has had to lay off tons of aides already and many of our teachers are being forced to work one month without pay during the next year (big budget crisis here).
The director believes we should continue with the IEP as it is written. This means that Jake will be placed in the Life Skills program and after the 3rd week of school he will be allowed to visit the kindergarten class for 30 minutes to 'see how he tolerates it'. If it doesn't go well, he gets sent back to Life Skills. If it goes well, they will slowly increase his time there. At this point, there is no assistance for him while he visits the class. I might be able to get the principal to agree to supplying some help for at least 30 minutes, but I doubt he'll be able to provide much more as the time in the class increases.
The director said we would use these trial visits to 'collect data' to determine if Jake really needs an aide. She said an aide would be the 'most restrictive' service and would only result in Jake's dependence on assistance. Pardon me, but that is the biggest load of BS I've heard in a while. If it is handled properly, dependence should not be an issue. And, I think the 'most restrictive' environment is isolating him from his peers in a room of non-verbal, severely disabled children. Feel free to correct me if you disagree.
At the end of our conversation, I asked once more for her written refusal for an aide. She will not do that because she says that she is not refusing the service, she just wants to collect data before making a decision. Jake has attended that school for 2 years already, there is plenty of 'data' for her to review. His current teacher and therapists are all in agreement that he should be placed in a typical kindergarten with assistance. The director is just trying to buy herself some more time.
If I proceed with the IEP, I am afraid the next year will be a waste. I've already mentioned the trouble the Life Skills class is likely to cause. And, I'm very worried that once he goes in there, I won't be able to get him out. Even if I can get the school to agree that he needs an aide, how long will it take for them to provide him with one? Also, it's possible that the transitioning between the classes will be too difficult for Jake. I'd like for him to start the year off in the class he belongs in.
Here are the options that I am considering. Please feel free to offer your opinions on these or let me know of any other ideas you have:
1. Accept the director's decision to proceed with the IEP as planned. Allow her to collect data during the school year to determine need for an aide. If I do this, I will have to call an emergency IEP meeting shortly after the start of the year to force them into making a decision. Otherwise, they will try to put me off indefinitely.
2. Call the director and explain that she has 2 year's worth of data to go on and if she is not willing to provide assistance based on that, then I need her written refusal immediately so that I can take the fight to the next level.
3. Trust that the school system knows what they are doing and just go with the flow. (Sorry, had to put a joke in here somewhere.)
I'm looking for input from my fellow battle weary mothers. Any thoughts on how I should proceed? I'm looking forward to your suggestions!
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Wednesday, May 13, 2009
The Dreaded IEP Meeting
I arrived early and dimmed the lights in the room. I lit a lavender scented candle and placed it in the center of the table. As each team member arrived, I greeted them with "Namaste." Once we were all comfortably seated, we took a cleansing breath. We proceeded with the meeting only after all team members were fully focused on providing Jake with the best education the public school system can provide.
Ok...seriously. It was nothing like that. But, I had fun envisioning that scenario before the meeting. Here's what really went down...
I arrived early and took a quick puff from my inhaler to ward off a stress induced asthma attack. Then I visited Jake's classroom as I always do before meetings. Only this time, when I went to leave, he launched into a massive meltdown and I had to leave him there to scream it out with one of the assistants. I then discovered we were meeting in a different location from all of our previous meetings. This new room was smaller than my closet and barely held the NINE team members in attendance. I made it there in time with all of my typed notes still intact.
I presented a written request for a one to one aide for Jacob. As expected, no one in attendance could approve this request (I've given the school system 2 weeks to respond). We then went on to attempt to build an IEP that would allow Jake to have an education. In short, I was pushing for placement in a typical kindergarten class with assistance. Knowing that the one to one aide could not be approved during this process, I had hoped that we could outline specific times when additional aides (the school has some that float between classes) could assist Jake throughout his day. The school wants to toss him in the "Life Skills" program where he would be the most high functioning student in the class. I don't believe he will gain social skills or an appropriate education in this setting. Unfortunately, the school was unwilling to provide any sort of assistance to make the transition to typical kindergarten possible at the beginning of the year.
With the current arrangement, Jake will be placed in the Life Skills class next year. We did agree to allow him time (30 minutes to start) each day in the kindergarten class after the 3rd week of school. So, the best case scenario from the IEP as it stands now is that he will slowly be worked in to the kindergarten class. This same process was supposed to happen this year at the pre-k level. He was initially placed in a typical pre-k class where he was ignored all day, left to himself in a corner and rarely had his diapers changed. When I learned about the problem, I pulled him from that class and returned him to the special pre-k room and added to his IEP a minimum of one hour a day in the typical class with an assistant. Want to know how many times they followed through with that IEP item? Zero! Not one single time. So, you can understand why I don't have a lot of confidence in this plan.
Now I wait for a response to my letter requesting placement in the kindergarten class with a one to one aide. It's a long shot, but I have to try. If it is not approved, I am prepared to jump through whatever hoops I have to in order to get this service for him. Academically, he is at and in some cases above grade level. He just needs some extra support to make it work. If we handle things right during kindergarten, it's entirely possible that he will be able to manage nearly independently for the next year. Try explaining that to the bureaucrats.
I am disappointed with today's meeting. I want his teachers to be as excited about his intelligence as I am. I want them to see him as a smart, kind-hearted boy who just happens to have autism. One day he will show us all what he is capable of. Jake just needs to be given a chance and, of course, an education.
I'm not finishing fighting for Jake. I've only just begun.
Some of our families have been told to put their child in an institution. We're hoping for Harvard.
- From the TACA website
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Sunday, May 10, 2009
Happy Mother's Day!
Mothers of Disabled Children
Erma Bombeck, 1980
Most women become mothers by accident, some by choice, a few by social pressures, and a couple by habit.
This year, nearly 100,000 women will become mothers of handicapped children. Did you ever wonder how mothers of handicapped children are chosen?
Somehow I visualize God hovering over Earth selecting his instruments for propagation with great care and deliberation. As he observes, he instructs his angels to make notes in a giant ledger.
'Armstrong, Beth, son, patron saint Matthew. Forrest, Marjorie, daughter, patron saint Cecelia. Rudledge, Carrie, twins, patron saint...give her Gerard. He's used to profanity.'
Finally he passes a name to an angel and smiles, 'Give her a handicapped child.'
The angel is curious, 'Why this one, God? She's so happy.'
'Exactly,' says God. 'Could I give a handicapped child a mother who does not know laughter? That would be cruel.'
'But has she patience?' asks the angel.
'I don't want her to have too much patience, or she will drown in a sea of self pity and despair. Once the shock and resentment wear off, she'll handle it.
She has that feeling of self and independence that is so rare and so necessary in a mother. You see, the child I'm going to give her has his own world. She has to make him live in her world, and that's not going to be easy.'
'But, Lord, I don't think that she even believes in you.'
God smiles, 'No matter. I can fix that. This one is perfect. She has just enough selfishness.'
The angel gasps, 'Selfishness? Is that a virtue?'
God nods, 'If she can't separate herself from the child occasionally, she'll never survive. Yes, here is a woman whom I will bless with a child less than perfect. She doesn't realize it yet, but she is to be envied. She will never take for granted a spoken word. She will never consider a step ordinary. When her child says Momma for the first time, she will be present at a miracle and know it! When she describes a tree or a sunset to her blind child, she will see it as few people ever see my creations.'
'I will permit her to see clearly the things I see...ignorance, cruelty, prejudice...and allow her to rise above them. She will never be alone. I will be at her side every minute of every day of her life, because she is doing my work as surely as she is here by my side.'
'And what about her patron saint?' asks the angel, pen poised in midair.
God smiles, 'A mirror will suffice.'
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Monday, May 4, 2009
Gifts for Mother's Day
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Sweet Potato Pancakes
3/4 Quinoa flour
1/4 cup Arrowroot starch
4 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon nutmeg
1/4 cup maple syrup
1/4 cup canola oil
2 eggs
2 - 3.5 ounce containers sweet potato puree (I used Gerber)
1 cup milk subsitute (I used almond)
Combine all ingredients in a bowl and mix until well combined.
Cook on pre-heated non-stick skillet. Pancakes will be ready to turn over when bubbles form and burst on top.
Makes about 30 small pancakes. Freeze and reheat for a quick fix breakfast.
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HVAC refers to the equipment, distribution system, and controls that provide space conditioning for a commercial or industrial facility. HVAC systems are typically the primary energy consumers in commercial structures, accounting for approximately half of all the energy used in U.S. buildings. In addition to lowering energy and demand costs, high-efficiency HVAC systems can improve the health, comfort and productivity of building occupants. Incentives are available for high-efficiency equipment such as gas cooling and heating, electric chillers, ground-source or geothermal heating and cooling, and electric unitary systems
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Most CHP systems include a natural gas-fueled combined cycle combustion turbine to produce both steam and electricity from a single fuel source located on-site. These highly efficient technologies recover the heat that would otherwise be wasted during the generation of electricity and make use of that heat for commercial or industrial processes. This thermal energy may be used for direct heating, as a source for producing hot water or steam, or even for space conditioning and dehumidification.


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For the seventh straight year, Gonzaga is graduating its largest class ever as 2,019 undergraduate, graduate and law students donned caps and gowns for the University's 116th commencement ceremonies. Graduate and undergraduate ceremonies were May 9-10, respectively. The Law School commencement takes place Saturday (May 16).
Graduate Commencement was held in the McCarthey Athletic Center on May 9. The keynote speaker was author and former Jesuit Scholastic Christopher Lowney, who received an honorary Doctor of Letters degree from Gonzaga. Lowney authored "Heroic Leadership: Best Practices from a 450-Year-Old Company that Changed the World," among other books. Dr. Anna Ledgerwood, director of trauma and professor of surgery at Wayne State University School of Medicine, received an honorary Doctor of Laws degree. Dr. Ledgerwood earned a bachelor degree in psychology from Gonzaga in 1963. Senior Commencement was held at the Spokane Arena on May 10. Gonzaga President Rev. Robert J. Spitzer, S.J., who steps down from the position July 15 after 11 years, was the keynote speaker. Father Spitzer received the DeSmet Medal, Gonzaga's highest honor. Longtime Gonzaga benefactors Tom and Camilla Tilford received honorary Doctor of Law degrees. Tom Tilford, a 1966 alumnus, has been a member of Gonzaga's Board of Trustees and is now a Trustee Emeritus and director of Gonzaga's Hogan Entrepreneurial Leadership Program. The Law School Commencement will be held in the McCarthey Athletic Center beginning at 9:30 a.m., Saturday (May 16). The Honorable Ryan C. Crocker, former U.S. Ambassador to Iraq, will receive an honorary Doctor of Laws degree and will be the keynote speaker. Thomas J. Greenan will be honored with Gonzaga's 2009 Law Medal, awarded to individuals who have provided exemplary service to the law profession. Twice an alumnus, Greenan has served as a Gonzaga Regent and Trustee is currently Trustee Emeritus. |


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In a statement released by the Mets yesterday, Bret Saberhagen admitted responsibility for the July 27 bleach-spraying incident in the Shea Stadium clubhouse. The pitcher agreed to make amends for his actions and offered a formal apology both for his behavior that night and for his failure to acknowledge his role at an earlier date.
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Interview with Tetsuya Suzuki on the future of honeyee.com & .fatale part 1
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Keyman of the Tokyo street fashion scene and chief editor of WEB magazines "honeyee.com" and ".fatale", Testuya Suzuki. We asked him today, about honeyee.com's recently announced modification in management structure, and what they have in store for the future of honeyee.com.
- Your WEB magazine "honeyee.com" is already in its 8th year, and it has been 2 years since the establishment of your women's WEB magazine ".fatale" in 2011.
We established our new women's fashion WEB magazine ".fatale" centered around our "honeyee.com" model. We managed to turn the cash flow positive by 2012 just with advertising revenue. I believe we have succeeded in creating another business model for "honeyee.com". This has already been announced, but as of September 2013, our shares have been transferred to Aratana Inc., based in Miyazaki prefecture. Ever since honeyee.com's establishment in 2005, we were faced with the problem of what to do with the company in the future. Unable to decide on a concrete answer, we've postponed this problem up until now. However, this also meant the postponement of the question to whether our activities at honeyee.com can be considered successful or not. This was a question I wanted to straighten out at any rate, being entrusted the company by shareholders such as Hiroshi Fujiwara, Hirofumi Kiyonaga, and Hiroki Nakamura. I wanted to be able to report that "honeyee.com is a success!" Right at that time, Shinji Hamauzu of Aratana Inc. came into the picture, and highly valued the current presence of honeyee.com as well as its possibilities for the future, hence leading to our transfer of shares – M&A. This pretty much marks the end of our first chapter. I guess we can say it's a happy ending.
And now the start of our second chapter. Actually, honeyee.com is not the only one in the midst of entering a new phase. In comparison to the last time I attended an interview on this sight, I think the situation surrounding WEB media and the Tokyo fashion scene has undergone a big change. In my last interview, I mentioned men's clothing to be the hot topic, but now, the heat has cooled down and I think there is more possibility in women's clothing. To be frank, I feel there is a hint that Tokyo's independent women brands are becoming more "Ura-Harajuku (Harajuku Back Street) style".
Until now, designers of women's clothes in Tokyo tended to focus on craftsmanship. In other words, they focused on creating beautiful clothes, but lacked the mindset of creating trustworthy "brands". On the contrary, Tokyo street brands that have succeeded abroad, such as Ape, all began their business through branding. For example, visvim have considered the "creation of good products" in itself a branding method ever since their establishment. Of course, making good products should be the major premise of a brand and the quality of Japanese brands on a whole is very high. However, visvim pushed this idea to its extreme. Their "claim" that they will commit themselves to handmade products to the extent of ignoring reasonability, is what distinguished their "brand". Such obsession to their concept and production surprised people throughout the world. Plainly making something "good" will lead to nothing. In order to be a brand, your obsession towards creating something "good" needs to be thorough on a global perspective. If a brand is to do wholesale, it is impossible for them to "sell their concept" without owning their own store. The concept of a brand is its actual core. Brands must not only concentrate on creating something good, but also work on transmitting their concept. You can say COMME des GARÇONS specializes in this field, as they made "avant-garde" into a brand.
- I understand "honeyee.com" to be a media established by 4 persons: Hiroshi Fujiwara, Hiromfumi Kiyonaga of SOPH., Hiroshi Nakamura of visvim, and you, Chief Editor Suzuki. At the beginning, honeyee.com used to feature many street brands such as Back Street Harajuku brands and Nike. Now, however, it features Hermes and Gucci, and .fatale also features luxury brands such as Chanel, Cartier, and Saint Lauren in parallel with independent Tokyo brands such as UNDERCOVER, sacai, and HYKE.
With regard to that aspect, it is completely intentional. Especially in the case of .fatale, we wanted to show domestic brands as true "brands" for the autumn-winter season, and so put together a number of special articles where we attached interviews to fashion shoots. For example, with regard to the ambitious piece UNDERCOVER presented at the collection, despite it being a perfect example of the brand's concept, it is rarely featured in any media, due to the fact that it is a unique piece that can only be purchased on limited occasions. I feel it is .fatale's mission to feature such pieces. In addition, featuring domestic young brands such as mame in parallel with Saint Lauren follows the same concept. Such concept is our message to .fatale readers that we want them to like and understand both luxury and Japanese brands.
Our features of brands such as visvim and KITSUNE on honeyee.com were partly due to my personal attraction to the personalities of their designers as well as their clothes, as it enabled me to grasp a better understanding of the brands. I also buy and wear their clothes as a genuine customer. I don't wear them because they are popular. I find enjoyment in being the one to discover a brand before anyone else, and follow the process of their development. What to wear? UNDERCOVER, sacai, or mame. Grasping an understanding of the trending atmosphere and being able to share it with its designers is something we can only do in detail with domestic brands.


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Trade groups merged and pushed universities to recognize risk management practices and practitioners long before actually teaching the discipline in the classroom. And it's likely that there are no other industries where a trade group was instrumental in creating the risk management concept.
But it was only following much of the political unrest and student protests in the 1960s that caused so much destruction on college campuses that university insurance managers really started to come together. With campus turmoil and destruction or property rampant, the schools needed money for policing, repairs, clean-up and protection.
Rates skyrocketed on everything--fire and liability premiums, with the tripling and sometimes quadrupling of deductibles.
Only through the relentless efforts of a few individuals who served as insurance managers of a handful of major universities did the groundwork get laid for a risk management organization.
In 1963, in seeking out others to share higher education insurance concerns with, William Hustedt, insurance manager of the University of Wisconsin, contacted College and University Business magazine, now University Business, to ask whether a university insurance manager association existed: It didn't.
"Hustedt's request is significant in that it reflected the growing needs and awareness of college and university risk and insurance managers," according to "The Historical Compendium of the University Risk Management Insurance Association," compiled in 1986 by Charlie Emerson, risk manager at the University of Kentucky.
By 1966, a so-called East Coast group of insurance managers formed, which included the University of Pennsylvania, Rutgers, Brown and 12 other schools. A Western group formed, too, which consisted of the Big Ten schools plus Notre Dame and Marquette.
The planners thought their first meeting would work best with only a few larger schools "with some natural division," according to the URMIA history report. The hope was to accomplish "a close personal friendship among the managers, and to avoid unwieldiness," according to the compendium.
But because university administrators were skeptical of these new insurance or "risk" managers, and didn't perceive them as true professionals, the universities wouldn't foot the bill for any meetings. As a result, attendees would have had to pay any traveling expenses themselves. So the distance and shortage of money kept the groups separate.
The Western Group had its first meeting at the University of Wisconsin in April 1966. The Eastern Group had its first meeting two months later at the University of Pennsylvania.
These early annual meetings set the stage for twice-a-year meetings, where university insurance representatives met to discuss general and specific concerns of mutual interest based upon requests by member schools. They gradually moved from discussing risk management, fire insurance, manuscripts/papers/standards, general liability and Medicare to broader discussions about "the growth of risk."
While the Western and Eastern groups progressed based upon the knowledge gleaned from each other's seminars and conferences, each still operated separately. However, both groups also realized that some kind of union was necessary in the not-too-distant future.
But there were still too many issues that each group didn't see eye-to-eye on, such as bringing in outside speakers, setting up some kind of constitution or maintaining a loose organization, limiting the membership or allowing more universities to join.
"Though all institutions suffered the circumstances of the times, it appeared that those Western managers believed they had more common problems and solutions among each other rather than collectively with the Eastern universities," according to the compendium.
A breakthrough came in October of 1966 when the Western managers structured a constitution and formed the University Insurance Manager's Association, the predecessor organization to URMIA.
By the time of the first meeting between the Eastern and Western insurance managers at Penn State University in May 1969, both groups had seen the benefits of their meetings. Membership, meanwhile, was growing rapidly; A group of insurance managers on the Pacific Coast also began coming to meetings. But there was no time to celebrate.
It was the peak of student unrest and burning campus buildings were becoming all too common. Carriers in response demanded outrageous rate increases and huge mandatory deductibles. So, to address the insurance industry through a single voice, the two groups, along with the Pacific Coast schools, completed a three-way merger in 1970: 60 university members were represented by UIMA.
By the early 1970s, as more responsibilities were loaded upon the insurance managers--the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 increased attention to fire and life safety codes and medical-malpractice issues--it became clear that the insurance manager's roles reflected their real jobs as risk managers.
The organization followed suit, and in 1976, the association's name was changed to today's name--the University Risk Management and Insurance Association.
"The name change was enacted in order to more accurately reflect greater involvement of university insurance and benefit managers with risk management concepts," according to the official history.
Ironically, perhaps, according to the Risk and Insurance Management Society Inc., those same universities didn't add risk management to their curriculums until the 1980s, and it wasn't considered part of the academic mainstream until the 1990s.
SUSAN GUREVITZ lives in Philadelphia.
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My name is Joey and this is my story. During my off time from the USA army, I would come straight home in Texas to spend time with my beautiful wife Rebecca and new baby Elise. If you have ever been to Texas then you know that we do everything BIG around here. That goes for the mosquitoes and other insects around here as well.
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Thread: NFSU Save game files???
June 20th, 2004, 09:28 AM #1
NFSU Save game files???
Hey all,
A friend of mine is just wanting to format his PC, but wants to keep his save games from NFSU...
I've had a good look for the save game files on my own PC but have been unable to find them!
Anyone got some idea's where EA are hiding them?
June 20th, 2004, 09:31 AM #2
lol ok, never mind... Just found them... For future reference:
C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\NFS Underground
July 7th, 2004, 11:32 PM #3
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I'm having the same problem and I went to where you said I would be able to find it and its not there. I reinstalled the game and my save games are still in the game but still cant find where they've been saved 2
July 7th, 2004, 11:46 PM #4
Application Data is a hidden folder
Open a folder, goto tools --> folder options --> view tab --> check the box that says "show hidden files and folders"
July 7th, 2004, 11:50 PM #5
copy this and click on run then paste this C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data then hit enter
July 7th, 2004, 11:53 PM #6
Ok, does this also apply for Win98?
July 7th, 2004, 11:55 PM #7
Not sure =(
win98 doesnt really have the same whole "documents and settings" setup for user data.
My first guess for 98 would be the NFSU program files directory somewhere
July 8th, 2004, 12:03 AM #8
try to search the c drive put this *.opt if successful you can find the dir from there
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thanks for the help guyz
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The Resonance of Endings
Endings are treats. Endings are rewards. Even when your story has an unhappy ending remember that your audience has travelled the road with you and your characters. That means they have earned its resonance so don't deny them if you can make it work.
Having said that, the shortest route to undercutting all your hard work is to play an ending too strong or too long. Don't let your audience leave with the wrong kind of bad taste in their mouths. Less is always more here and deciding how long to let your ending 'breathe' is another one of those tricky judgment calls.
Here are a few pointers to help you think it through.
Play your ending as a reprise of your opening. Show us a changed world or show us your protagonist in a new relationship to that world. The end of 'The Searchers' is a perfect example. There's Ethan framed in the doorway, a reference to the film's opening image. He is an outsider, unable to be part of the family he has restored. An up ending for the story world. Not so much for Ethan.
Play your ending as a new beginning. 'How to Train Your Dragon' does this and references the opening in Hiccup's narration as well. At the end of the Swedish vampire movie 'Låt den Rätte Komma In' ('Let The Right One In') our protagonist is on the train to a strange new life. His vampire love is in a box on the floor next to him. He taps out a message in Morse code on the lid…
Leave us in limbo. At the end of John Carpenter's 'The Thing' the last two survivors face off. They don't know if they are both human or… not. More importantly, neither do we. They are outside in the ruins of the polar research station as the temperature drops. MacReady says: "Why don't we just wait here for a little while? See what happens." And that's it.
End on a reveal. We all remember the ending of 'The Usual Suspects' which solves the puzzle of the movie in the final frames. Verbal Kint is revealed as 'Keyser Söze' and we are out. The audience leaves on a big deal. You can bet they are talking about it right after.
Deny us resonance as a kind of resonance. Sometimes a film should just end at the moment of its thematic resolution. Bang. Story's over. Deal with it. Speaking of bangs, the ending of 'Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid' goes out on several. Butch and Sundance are cornered and they decide to go out shooting. They burst out of their hiding place firing. The image freezes and turns sepia like an old photograph with the sound of gunfire over. Without actually seeing their deaths the myth is somehow sustained.
This is only a sample of the many possibilities. Whatever choice you make just remember that it should resonate with your theme and be a fitting pay off for your audience's attention. Don't fall into the trap of being cute or playing false for no reason other than to overturn expectations. That's another common sophomoric trap that catches young writers.
The 'W' Model of Movie Structure: Part Five
Act Two: The Second Down Angle
Whether your midpoint has redirected your protagonist's wants or just forced them to finally take the plunge and give their all to get where they need to be, the rest of the second act should be an accelerating slide downhill through crisis. They have not yet been seriously tested. They may think they have, but a narrow escape from a trash compactor will look like a walk in the park when your Jedi mentor just died at the hands of Darth Vader.
We have already talked about the shift from avoidance to commitment as the watchwords for our protagonists at the fulcrum of act two. I won't repeat myself here other than to remind you of the importance of this change. It signals that our protagonist is getting serious about becoming a… hero or heroine.
This is the angle where their commitment to the cause against all obstacles and all the odds makes your hero or heroine worthy of that appellation. Another way of thinking about it is this is the angle where their experiences finally force them to see themselves (their internal problem) for what they are. It will strip them bare emotionally and give them nowhere to hide from the truth. Only by doing so, Hollywood storytelling would have it, will they be able to see past themselves and understand the bigger picture. When they do this they will see their way to resolving their problem in the final act and angle.
Of course proving your heroism in a story might be about learning to have the courage to become an activist, or start a new career in middle age, or come out of the closet, or commit to your boyfriend, or reconcile with your mother, or stand up to your bullying dad, or finally walk out on a toxic marriage. It does not have to involve swords and guns and dodging dragons or laser blasts. Unless your mother is actually a killbot in disguise of course. Hey, it's commoner than you might think.
In mainstream movies the second down angle is probably the most loosely structured of the four that make up your screenplay. Even in Hollywood movies the order in which things happen in the second down angle is not 'set in stone' and that's a good thing for writers. On the other hand that doesn't mean it's easy to write.
The angle is actually quite a straightforward set of accelerating and intensifying beats. Enemies or bad situations pile on top of one another until there's nowhere for your protagonist to hide, literally or emotionally. That simplicity enables a whole lot of raising of the stakes. Writing that intensification as satisfying drama rather than empty hyperbole is where the difficulty comes in.
The 'W' Model of Movie Structure: Part Four
The midpoint
As we have already established, midpoints are vital story moments after which nothing can be the same again. They are not the solution to your protagonist's story problem. They are not the moments of revelation which finally allow that protagonist to see their way towards solving that problem. No, midpoints are the moments where your protagonist makes a commitment that – should she survive the crisis that is about to engulf her – will allow her to reach those goals.
This is a classic Hollywood story move. The first up angle is usually about one or both of the following: either it is all about slapping the pretense out of the protagonist to prepare them for a real commitment or it gives them what they began by wanting only to find that they no longer do. They get the easy thing only to find they want the hard thing that was hiding underneath it the whole time.
I'm in the middle of writing a big case study of How to Train Your Dragon for an upcoming project, so its example is fresh in my mind. In that movie we get both options together:
1. Our hero, Hiccup wins dragon training, which theoretically puts him right back on track with his want line – ahead of the game in fact. He gets what he always wanted. Only now it has become an empty victory. He won't kill a dragon so not only is the reward bitter, it takes him even further away from his thematic goal of fitting in with his fellow Vikings.
2. Through his second angle successes Hiccup has learned that the Vikings are wrong to hate and fear dragons. That gives him a moral obligation to try and change things. But what can one kid do against an entire culture and centuries of tradition? It would take a much deeper commitment to his theme, indeed a more altruistic – for which read heroic – commitment. Now his own need for acceptance has been eclipsed by the greater need of a whole species.
I hope you guys see how wonderfully neat this is. It is an intractable problem for Hiccup and one that is really worthy of a hero. In screenwriting, 'neat' may imply 'simple' but should never mean 'simplistic'.
At the midpoint in How to Train Your Dragon, Hiccup has decided to leave the village rather than be forced to kill a dragon in public. As he is leaving he and his friendly dragon are discovered in the forest by Astrid – his B Story 'love' object. She runs to tell the village and Hiccup has to decide is he really running away from everything, including any chance of getting close to Astrid, or is he going to try and do the hard thing? Cut to Astrid running through the forest, she is grabbed by a dragon – it's Hiccup and he wants to show her the truth. He didn't run, he jumped. Nothing will be the same again, buy maybe he has it in him to be a hero yet.
Welcome to the midpoint. Everything is going to get much harder in the next angle and that will be the subject of the next post.
The 'W' Model of Movie Structure: Part Three
Act Two: The First Up Angle
As you can see from the diagram this angle shows a positive move up to the midpoint. Our protagonist is making progress here but they are working on their opening skill set and will not be fully tested until after their second commitment at the midpoint. This angle is about showing their potential while making things hard enough that they will reach a point of impasse.
Remember that the watchword of this angle is avoidance. Your protagonist decided to try and solve their story problem at the end of act one, but they have not yet fully accepted the personal weight of that decision. Typically, in a Hollywood movie they are skating by on their natural abilities and not giving their all yet. Alternatively they are working hard enough but avoiding facing up to the hardest part of the challenge they face.
This angle is about paying the audience back for coming to see the movie. It is where you do the storytelling work you promised in your trailers and ads. This is where we have fun with the concept that sold the movie in the first place. It's where Reece Witherspoon goes from being merely blonde to Legally Blonde. It's where Hiccup actually does learn to train his dragon. For those of you who know his book, this is what Blake Snyder called 'the promise of the premise'.
You need to get your protagonist to a moment of realization at the end of the angle. That's when they have done as much as they can to resolve their problem without getting their hands too dirty. They will then end all the avoidance with a second commitment and that will be the watchword of the second down angle (of which more in a future post). It's either that or give up, so that makes your story and plot goals for this angle clear. You must get your protagonist to a point where the audience sees the essential nature of their choice.
Making the second commitment at the midpoint is what begins to transform a simple protagonist into a real hero or heroine. We should understand the nature of that commitment and applaud their courage in making it. We will discuss the midpoint commitment in more detail in the next post.
The 'W' Model of Movie Structure: Part One
[NOTE: This is the first of a series of posts offering a quick introduction to the 'W' model of screenplay structure I offer in my little book. (The posts are not extracts from the book however.) You can find the beat sheets and diagrams here. The 'W' is one of three linked models we talk about in the book. You will see that it owes debts to a number of other common models, both published and implicit in screenwriting circles. Full acknowledgment of this is made in the book, so I won't repeat myself here. (The purpose is to distill, adapt and contextualize familiar approaches in a particular way for teaching purposes.) To start us off here are a few notes about the way first acts tend to work in many mainstream - and a lot of not so mainstream - movies.]
ACT ONE / First Down Angle
The first act and angle of a typical screenplay is all about your protagonist recognizing two linked truths. The first is that there is a problem either in herself, or in her world or, ideally in both that needs addressing or bad things will happen (or continue to happen). The second is that they are the poor sap that is going to have to do something about it. It is a down angle because these revelations signal an immediate future filled with nothing but trouble and right now trouble feels like a major downer.
In a well-written screen story, the problem the protagonist faces will manifest in both the story and the plot. At the very least the revelation of a problem in one will inform and affect a linked problem in the other:
Plot problems are external to the protagonist but still affect her directly in some way. Forces in the world may threaten her or those she cares about, for example.
Story problems are internal but also manifest practically in the world. A character flaw or challenge is good story material when it affects not only the protagonist but also those around her.
In How to Train Your Dragon for example, poor old Hiccup (the movie's not very Vikingy protagonist) realizes that he can't kill dragons. This is a bit of a problem in a world in which dragon killing is the very definition of cultural achievement. This plot problem arises from an internal story problem. Hiccup finds he thinks differently from his fellows. For a start he has empathy for the enemy. That revelation threatens his relationship with his community and thus his future hopes for any kind of happiness and success. The first angle of How to Train Your Dragon is all about helping both Hiccup and the audience to recognize the enormity of that problem and preparing Hiccup to get off his skinny behind and do something about it.
Bruce is a dinosaur in a world where 'ooh look… your wife's a mammal!' See his problem
In my 'W' model we break the angles down into ever-smaller elements to help us understand how they work. As a first stage, we split each angle into two half angles.
In the first act, each half angle deals with one of the two truths we began with.
The first, Primary Exposition, is all about recognizing your protagonist's opening problem. The second, From Rejection to Acceptance, deepens our understanding of their problem through witnessing their initial struggle to decide what to do about it.
In order to observe how each of these tasks is achieved in more detail, we can make a further split in each half angle. (This same pattern of halving and halving again will be repeated for all four angles of the story by the way.) In this way, the first half angle is comprised of two beats. The first: in a world where 'ooh look, stuff' introduces us to the story world and sets the protagonist and their problem within it. The second beat: if only… sets up their desire for change.
We do the same thing with the second half angle, which divides into its own two beats. Shan't… reflects initial resistance to dealing with the problem – change is hard! Oh, all right then brings us to the end of the act and angle as the protagonist recognizes they have to do something and takes a first step onto the path of change.
Heroic Refusal by Proxy in 'How to Train Your Dragon'
Usually in the second half of the first act and angle of a screen story the protagonist debates with herself and with others in her social world whether or not to take action to resolve the story problem that is plaguing her. The beats typically play out a move on her part from resistance to an initial, but usually only partial, acknowledgment that something has to be done and (sigh) Muggins here has to do it.
In my 'W' model of story structure I think of this half angle as a move From Rejection to Acceptance and I call its constituent beats: shan't and oh all right then.
Sometimes, however, a pesky protagonist tries to bypass, ignore or delay some or all of these beats. There are a number of possible reasons for this move, including being faced with a situation where there really is no alternative right now other than to be carried along by duty or events. Internal decision making and moral judgments will come later if at all. This is typical of heroic adventure movies like the James Bond series. In this kind of story debate may still occur, but it will most likely revolve around tactics, not ethics.
Another variant is when your protagonist is utterly committed to dealing with their problem – or at least their initial understanding of their problem – from the word go. In stories like this there can be a deferral of internal debate because the Primary Exposition has already done all the setting up of the conflict between sad boy and his world. Just such a sad boy is Hiccup in the wonderful animated adventure How to Train Your Dragon.
Hiccup sucks at being a Viking. What's more, he knows he sucks and is desperate to do anything to fit in and prove himself worthy to his community. What makes things worse is that his father, Stoick the Vast is the very model of a modern Viking warrior. Oh and he's also the village chief, so no pressure there.
At the end of the first half angle Hiccup has made a mess of things for the village and generally got in everyone's way yet again during a nighttime dragon attack. Unknown to everyone else (mainly because they won't listen to him or believe him) he has also managed to bring down a semi legendary Night Fury dragon with his catapult and he goes off in a huff to find the proof of his deeds so as to impress the village. No shan't from Hiccup yet, but we still get our shan't debate beat, only initially by proxy.
While Hiccup is trudging across the island in search of his quarry, we cut back to a meeting in the village hall. Stoick calls for the long ships to go out on a dragon hunt. They need to end the menace once and for all. His fellow Vikings are less than enthusiastic about the idea because past practice has shown these trips never work and everybody who goes on them tends to die. Stoick is losing the crowd so in desperation he offers his direst threat: "Those who stay will look after Hiccup." Immediately, all the hands go up and the beat has its first moment of rejection. The community would rather face fiery dragon death than Hiccup's accident-prone inadequacies.
The hall clears, leaving only Stoick and the one-legged village blacksmith Gobber the Belch. Stoick tells Gobber to stay and train the new recruits in dragon killing, but what to do about Hiccup? "Put him in training," Gobber tells Stoick. Stoick refuses: "From the time he could crawl he's been different… Even as a boy I knew what I was, what I had to become. Hiccup is not that boy." Gobber replies: "You can't stop him Stoick. You can only prepare him."
Playing the first part of the shan't beat by proxy responds smartly to Hiccup's determination to become a proper Viking by showing us the true height of the hill he has to climb. The whole village, with the possible exception of Gobber, has completely written him off. His dream of self-transformation seems hopeless. Stoick is right; Hiccup is not "that boy". Now he has to work that out for himself and see where the realization takes him.
This happens right before we get to witness the start of a different kind of transformation. Hiccup will reject an opportunity to become a conventional Viking hero in the second half of the beat. He has the chance to kill his dragon but instead sets it free. In doing so, he starts down a path towards a very different resolution to his internal crisis and, thus, of the external conflict between Viking and dragon. The irony is that he will do it just when Gobber has persuaded his father to relent and let him train as a dragon killer.
The proxy beat lets us see our hero through the eyes of others. It clarifies his position and, in the case of Hiccup, teaches us that he could never really be a normal Viking, no matter what he does. (We will see further evidence of this in the second angle when Hiccup does his best to become a warrior.) His only hope lies in changing the definition of normal and that sets up the internal debate and the central conflict yet to come.
The resolution of the shan't beat involves a near simultaneous reversal from both Hiccup and Stoic that is satisfying because the beat has been split between the two characters and we understand how each comes to his new position. It is also funny because Hiccup ends up reluctantly resigned in oh all right then to accepting what only minutes before he wanted more than anything else in the world: training to kill dragons.
Why is this so important? Well because the village (here embodied in the person of Stoick) is the true antagonist of How to Train Your Dragon. To succeed, Hiccup has to overcome their traditions, expectations and prejudices. The dragons are just an externalization of that central conflict.


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