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At the Fan Fest, fans have the opportunity to get an up close look at the all-star uniforms, the chance to bid on authentic memorabilia during an auction, an opportunity to participate in a home run derby, multiple autograph sessions and much more.
Major League Baseball also has some pieces from the Hall of Fame that they bring along to display, along with the trophies that can be won by players and teams throughout the season.
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Saturday, July 13: All-Star 5k & Fun Run — 5k at 8 a.m., Fun Run immediately following
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Monday, July 15: Home Run Derby at 8:00 p.m. The event that everyone tunes in to see.
All of the festivities will then come to a conclusion on Tuesday, July 16 when the Red Carpet Show is held leading up to the start of the 2013 MLB All-Star Game.
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Arbiter Flats Portable Drum Kit
- Friday, September 01, 2000
By Philip Van Peborgh, courtesy of {{Christian Musician}} Magazine
There is a distant hope of drummersa holy grail, if you willthat playing the drums does not mean you have to buy a station wagon to transport your kit. Your kit always feels and sounds fantastic and is never too loud. You are never the last person out of rehearsal, and your back never aches from carrying big, heavy cases up and down stairs. Are your eyes welling up with the dream of utopia? All right, maybe Im overstating the case a little, but Flats by British drum company Arbiter may be the answer to a few of those perennial drummers problems.
There have been shell-less drum kits before: Leedy flirted with the idea in the 30s, Flat Jacks in the 50s and, more recently, Purecussion in the 90s. The problem was that they never sounded quite drummy enough; never felt quite solid enough. Plus, youd have to be very thick-skinned to show up at a gig with them. The theory behind all of these kits is valid enough. They offer the drummer portability, a very small setup space (because you dont need 22 inches of fresh air in front of you for your kick drum), a reduction in volume (because there are no shells to project the sound), and the feeling and majority of the tone of real drums (because youre playing real heads). The two main reasons that they never took offaside from the fact that drummers didnt want to be seen behind something so, well, um, flatwere hardware that made Weebles look secure, and how do you tune them if there is no shell to fix the tuning lugs to?
This is where our story returns to Arbiter Drums. The story goes that Mr. Arbiter was tinkering with the engine on his boat and he noticed that the high-pressure joints were held together using a V-shaped ring. Now Mr. Arbiter, being a clever man, investigated the method further and thought, I can attach drum heads to drum shells with this system and leave the drummer with only one tuning lug! So the AT, or Advanced Tuning, system was born.
Basically, the drum shell has a collar fitted to it that goes around the outside of the shell, leaving just enough shell showing to make a bearing edge for the head to sit on. This collar has half of a V-shape with the edge of the collar pointing up. Next, the head sits on the bearing edge, and a counterhoop is placed on the head whose half V-shape is pointing down. The half Vs form a flange which, when tightened using the V-shaped ring, cause the head to be tensioned between the counter hoop and bearing edge. Its as simple as that. To tune the head higher you tighten the lug, to lower, loosen the lug. There is almost even tension around the head because there are no individual lugs to over-tighten. Not only does this mean that you can tension quickly and evenly both top and bottom heads and replace them in seconds, but the need for a shell to mount hardware on suddenly disappears. Bring on the Flats.
They arrive in a small cardboard box just big enough for a flat kick drum. The kit I had to review consisted of a 22 kick, 10/12/14 toms and a 14x2 snare drum. The first thing you notice is how heavy they are considering they are just a head and some tensioning hardware. The mounting hardware is superb, well engineered and flexible. The kit comes complete with tom holders which have the tom arm mounted on ball joint, just like Premier and Tama, which you can clamp to your existing cymbal stands. The drums themselves have just enough wood to mount the collar and mounting bracket to and also provide a wooden bearing edge for the head. This small circle of wood is one of the great advances of Flats over the kits that have gone before. Unlike the Purecussion RIMS which relied on pre-tuned heads, Flats sound and tune just like drums, without the shell and bottom head.
So having grabbed your hardware from your other kit and mounted the Flats you begin to tune them. You grab the really cool drum key that comes supplied, fit it on the tuning lug and tune. It really is that easy. The kit comes with Remo Pinstripes which work very well because they are damped enough to reduce overtones but, on this kit, live enough to be useful. The toms are great: up front attack lacking in warmth but you can go through any number of different tones all with the ease of one tuning lug. Changing heads is easy, takes about one minute and youre back up and running.
Ive been informed by a reliable source that a set of Remo Ambassadors and some Moongel (another must for drummers when you havent got time to figure out why your floor tom sounds like an opera festival being buzzed by a small plane!) will give a range from jazz to big band tones. The snare is just fabulous: very crisp, cutting and dry, but it has no snare strainer. Now, I wasnt convinced about this omission. There is mounting for the snare, so why not a strainer? Having said that, I didnt miss it. Its a great sounding snare drum for any playing situation, unless you want to turn the snares off!
The only weak point for me was the kick drum. Dont get me wrong, its solid enough and sounds fine. It just doesnt sound like the kick drums were used to hearing. Its just a bit, well, how can I put this, flat. We have been so indoctrinated into what a proper kick drum should sound like that it is virtually impossible to recreate that without 22 inches of depth to give it punch. However, it is perfectly useable. The revelation came when I put a mic in front of it. It still lacked a bit of low-end rumble, but produced a very useful thud. In fact, all the Flats mic up very well, giving a wonderful open tone more than sufficient for all but the most demanding of playing situations.
So, there you have it, all the playability, plenty of great sounds, sounds superb micd up, half the volume and you can fit it in the back of your mothers new Beetle. Is this the Holy Grail I see before me?
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2014 FIFA World Cup Column
Kyle Beckerman had a dream. The midfielder had long desired to play for the United States Men's National Team. When he was a teenager, Beckerman would play soccer at all times of the day. When he left his parents a note saying where he was, he would sign it with his autograph and the identifier "USA No. 15."
For long parts of his career in soccer, his dream was just that, a thought squared away in the back of his mind. Try as he might, Beckerman never fell into the plans of U.S. managers Bruce Arena and Bob Bradley.
Things changed in 2011, when Jurgen Klinsmann took over as the national coach and Beckerman saw more action. When the preliminary roster was released for the 2014 World Cup, Beckerman's name was listed, as he was expected to backup defensive midfielder Jermaine Jones.
Monday against Ghana, Klinsmann rolled out a lineup with two defensive midfielders, meaning Beckerman would start. Beckerman strolled onto the field in Natal, a 32-year-old man, living out the dreams of his childhood. Everything was complete. Even his number, 15.
Beckerman's case is just one example of the dreams that can be fulfilled at the FIFA World Cup, the quadrennial soccer showcase that has halted civil wars, put small, not so powerful nations on the map and often elevates its performers to the level of demigods. Dreams come true for fans as well as players, because the brightest stars shine on the highest level.
At this World Cup, fans have received more than their money's worth. The 2010 World Cup in South Africa was a very defensive affair, with teams trying simply not to make a mistake. The 2010 final between Spain and the Netherlands was a grim watch, with 14 total yellow cards and several harsh sliding challenges.
Brazilian soccer is traditionally the complete opposite of what took place in South Africa. The nation holds the most World Cup titles with five and has always been known for an attractive style that captivates fans. After all, this is the country that produced Pele, Ronaldo, Ronaldinho, Kaka, Neymar Jr. and more.
Simply put, this is not your slightly older brother's World Cup. Just to demonstrate the more impressive offensive play we've seen this tournament, the total number of goals scored in 2010 during this same time frame has been more than doubled. Those who slogged through South Africa were dreaming of a beautiful tournament in Brazil. So far, the World Cup has delivered.
Of course, all of the World Cup stars have their own dreams. In many cases, big names have started in a big way. The host nation's talisman, Neymar Jr., is Brazil's present and future. At age 22, there may be up to three more World Cups in Neymar's future, depending on how gracefully he ages. With two goals already this World Cup, Neymar looks poised to break Pele's 77 goal record for Brazil.
Other stars have swaggered into the spotlight this World Cup as well. Robin van Persie, a Dutch mainstay, has shrugged off his shaky club performance with Manchester United and scored two goals in the opening game. His teammate, fellow Dutch legend Arjen Robben, added two goals as well, topping out at 37 kilometers per hour on one of his furious runs. World Cup 2010's golden boot (top scorer) award winner, Thomas Muller, is well on his way for another scoring award. Muller's hat trick against Portugal puts his career tally at eight World Cup goals. At age 24, Muller could well break Ronaldo's record of 15 goals in the tournament.
The game's greatest current player and one of its best ever, Lionel Messi, removed some criticism from his previous World Cup play by scoring a beautiful goal against Bosnia and Herzegovina. Some, however, have not been so lucky. England's Wayne Rooney played a rough game against Italy, furthering his World Cup struggles. Fellow top star Cristiano Ronaldo also languished against Germany, losing 4-0. Bear in mind though, that Ronaldo's talent surrounding him is not that strong. Sometimes when watching Portugal, it looks as if Ronaldo is competing with himself, surrounded by 10 red jersey wearing mannequins. For some, the World Cup dream can become a nightmare.
This is certainly true for one of the world's top teams and the defending World Cup champions, Spain. The Spaniards have enjoyed a storybook six years, winning three consecutive major tournaments. The story took a dark turn in Spain's first game, a 2010 final rematch against the Netherlands. Many expected Spain to dominate, but the Dutch played inspired, transcendental soccer, winning by a score of 5-1. With a tough group remaining, some have doubted whether the champions can come close to defending their crown.
While traditional powers falter, there is always a team on the rise. The United States has long been regarded as a land of opportunity and the U.S. appears to be making the most of its World Cup, even against challenging odds. When the World Cup Draw was over, the U.S. fans gaped in horror. Germany, the three time champions, headlined the group. Portugal, with Ronaldo, loomed large as well. The real terror though, came from seeing Ghana in Group G. Ghana, the same side that had eliminated the U.S. from the last two World Cups, would play the U.S. first, on June 16 in Natal, Brazil.
With a true American spirit, however, the United States was able to dream big and move past Ghana 2-1. The game was not without its tough moments though. After Clint Dempsey's goal 30 seconds in, Ghana took control of the match. After Andre Ayew scored for Ghana in the 82nd minute, it looked like the U.S. could possibly be heading towards the same fate that had befallen it in 2006 and 2010.
John Brooks, the 21 year-old German-America national team convert, wasn't supposed to be on the field when he scored in the 86th minute. The only way he worked his way onto the pitch was because Matt Besler, who Brooks backs up, had to exit the game with tightness in his hamstring. Brooks did more than defend, as he also scored the game winning goal off of a Graham Zusi corner kick, looking completely shocked that he had just defeated Ghana.
Brooks' dream, as it turns out, was an actual dream before he even scored the goal. Two nights before the Ghana game, Brooks actually dreamt he entered the game as a substitute and scored off a header from a corner kick to give the USA the victory.
Whether it's a dream from two nights before, or a 20 year desire of representing your homeland, that's the true power of the FIFA World Cup. The cup is a competition where the lines that separate dreams and reality, which often remain parallel and never intersect, blur and merge together on a 120 yard long, 80 yard wide canvas.
Kyle Gibson can be contacted at email@example.com. He writes a blog about soccer that can be found by going to www.kickingitsoccer.wordpress.com.
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What a wonderful year 2008 was for the Harrison County Clothing Closet. With the help of your generous donations of gently used clothing and the monetary donations we were able to help 2,045 less fortunate people.
First I want to thank each of the ladies and gentlemen that take time out of their busy schedules to help out each Monday and Wednesday at the closet. We can not operate with out them.
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On a recent news assignment this past week, I spoke with a man that lost his special place.
In the middle of Nebo Road, I spoke with Charles Bell about the arson fire that had destroyed his mother's family home only days ago.
Needless to say, he was very emotional as he looked up at the house that once was white, but now was a burned black.
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Current events concerning the present crisis in Gaza, deadly quakes in Indonesia, famine in third-world nations and our own collapsing economy and war in Iraq bring to mind the words of our Lord from Matthew 24, "For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places" (verse 7, KJV).
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One thing he wrote in his e-mail caught my attention and I've thought -- and prayed -- about it all week, in case he's right and I have this whole grace thing wrong.
One of the things I love most about my job is getting to talk to people, especially those people that have a passion for what they do.
I talked to many passionate individuals this holiday season.
I believe Christmas couldn't have come at a better time for all of us this year. With the economy at record bottom and so many families struggling to make ends meet, it was such a breath of fresh air to welcome the hope of Christmas into the community.
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Michelle's bangs are contagious
Eight of eleven of you find the Michelle Obama bangs Modern & Stylish. Two of you say they're Egyptian inspired and one of you think they resemble The Beatles.
I love the Obama family, but the Michelle bangs and parade outfit didn't work for me. Watching her walk down Pennsylvania Avenue in that outfit seem like something a Wesley Snipes co-star would wear in a Blade movie. She was definitely striking but I'm attracted to glam.
Now, the ball gown was on point, although the hair still distracted me.
I checked with my good friend and Chester hairstylist Leroy Wood of Hair World and asked him about the Michelle bangs. He described them as classic. He laughed at my survey saying that he's already received four appointments from women who want that same style. He also believes that those four will inspire several more.
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I thought the bangs speak to the youthful side and the coat was classy. I thought she looked fab!ReplyDelete
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Rubber could fix sidewalks, put bounce in our steps
Winnipeggers were eager to get out of the house to take advantage of the nicer weather in recent weeks, only to find the freezing and thawing -- and the presence of pushy tree roots -- caused many sidewalks to fracture and shift over the winter, making them not only a nuisance to replace, but also a potential danger.
Almost exclusively, concrete and asphalt have traditionally been used for sidewalk construction in North America. Yet, neither is particularly well-suited to the task. Both materials are brittle, prone to cracking when trees grow beneath them and vulnerable to weather damage. Their lack of porosity deprives the soil of groundwater and increases runoff problems.
In the early 2000s, entrepreneurs in the United States sought to better meet pedestrian needs by finding a type of pavement less likely to break. Searching for a malleable material, they ground up discarded tires and designed resilient rubber panels that are harder than a running track but softer than concrete or asphalt.
This solution proved extremely effective. Not only did the rubber bend to accommodate tree growth, but when roots became too unruly, the individual panels could be removed, the path re-graded, roots trimmed and the same panels re-laid.
In fact, city workers discovered roots actually grew more slowly beneath rubber as water could seep through the seams between the panels, reducing the need for roots to spread in search of sustenance. It was also realized that once installed, the ease with which the panel sidewalk could be disassembled and reassembled made it faster and less expensive for utility companies to complete any maintenance or other underground work than having to dig up or drill into concrete slabs.
Best of all, the alternative material was good for its users, as walking or running on a rubber, shock-absorbing surface is easier on one's joints and more forgiving when someone falls. Cities using the rubber sidewalks often experienced a reduction in liability claims from pedestrians tripping, as broken and uneven concrete sidewalks were no longer a hazard.
Recognizing these benefits, in the past decade rubber walkways have been put down in nearly 100 American municipalities. Canadian cities, however, have been slower to explore their potential. A handful, including Kelowna, Vancouver and Calgary have launched pilot projects.
Yet, with Canada's extreme temperatures, a material less susceptible to weather damage may be even more advantageous here than it is down south. After all, the annual freezing and thawing process can force the replacement of concrete walks in as few as three years. Tests have shown rubber stands up well against excessive heat and cold, and the panels are estimated to last up to two decades without cracking. Additionally, where installed, the panels remain undamaged by snow-clearing equipment and have been designed so as not to be slippery in winter. This means that while they're about a third more expensive than concrete initially, over the long run they are very likely the most cost-effective and safest option.
It is often said Winnipeg has only two seasons: winter and construction. To curb the disturbance and costs of this second season, the city should do what it can to find building materials that withstand our climate without frequent replacement. To that end, rubber-panel sidewalks seem a highly promising alternative for future development. With rubber proving itself so favourable elsewhere, the municipal government ought to consider launching its own pilot project to see if it could be a good fit here. The result could be fewer injuries and fewer scarce funds devoted to maintenance. Like the new sidewalks themselves, that is bound to put a little spring in anyone's step.
Benjamin Gillies is a political economy graduate from the University of Manitoba, where he focused on urban development and energy policy.
Republished from the Winnipeg Free Press print edition March 27, 2012 A11
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Well today i spent the morning cleaning a friends house! Lots of exercise ;) And then i was supposed to go to a meeting, however no one bothered to tell me that it had been changed to this morning ;( The person who's is charge is just lucky that i was going to get a ride over, because if i had taken the bus all the way across town to find out that it had already happened i would have been majorly ticked off!!
It must be one of those days because my daughter forgot to change her alarm so she was half an hour late for work!!
So my plan this afternoon is to do some cleaning, do my push up challenge, go to the store for some fresh veggies and relax!
Here's my push ups for today:
at least 20
Wednesday, August 20, 2008
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Glad you got some activity in.ReplyDelete
cleaning can be quite a workout. I have often wondered how many calories I burn just doing the home things! The push up challenge killed me today :( but I'm pushing onReplyDelete
Thanks for stopping by my blog -- love yours! Your weightloss stats are awesome -- congratulations!ReplyDelete
Cleaning is great exercise. I like to listen to music and dance around while I clean. :)ReplyDelete
So did you do over 50 push ups? At once or throughout the day? That's great!
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Not only did Ramon Foster suffer a high-ankle sprain against the Buffalo Bills on Sunday, rookie safety Shamarko Thomas happened to sustain one as well. While the grade of the sprain is not known like Foster's, Thomas' injured ankle will be enough to force the former Syracuse start to miss Pittsburgh's upcoming game against the Detroit Lions according to Scott Brown of ESPN.com.
The absence of Thomas will be a significant blow to Pittsburgh when it comes to their special teams coverage units and in their defensive sub-package sets. "Shark" has been one of the Steelers' best kickoff and punt coverage players this fall, and his ability to corral and perform with consistency will be sorely missed.
As far as his absence on defense is concerned, I will look for Detroit's already pass-happy offense to exploit Pittsburgh's secondary in subpackages. A staple in Pittsburgh's nickel, dime, and quarter defenses, the Steelers will likely have to call upon backup free safety Robert Golden or backup cornerback Curtis Brown to chip in with Thomas on the sidelines.
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Who owns the code?
Posted on 18 Jun 2010 at 17:44
Contract developers save Kevin Partner from a digital lynching, but open source software could be the key to his long-term survival
My recent column "Paying for code doesn't mean owning it" kicked off an interesting debate, which to begin with felt like a digital lynching with comment titles including "You wouldn't work for me" and "This is a shady practice".
Other people weighed in to restore some balance, though, and broadly speaking the developers sided with my point of view and the clients against it. Not surprisingly, given the complexity of the issue, there was misrepresentation and misunderstanding of what I'd said.
It isn't fair is for the client to benefit from my library code via reduced costs, then also expect to own that code
To recap, I've created a set of standard libraries that are embedded in a number of my clients' web applications, and I can't sell exclusive ownership of that code to any one client since that would also confer ownership of, say, 25% of the code of other clients' applications.
However, my toolkit code is object-oriented, so the fact that no client owns an unencrypted version of the source doesn't prevent them amending or updating the custom parts of their application – they can simply replace a call to one of my objects with a new method. Most clients are happy to enjoy the benefits of this library without needing to own it.
In that column, I pointed out that the intellectual property rights to code I write for clients under contract remains with my company even after the client has paid, but in practice I'm happy to agree with the client to hand over the source so they can change developers if they wish: this might include a formal transfer of ownership of the unique parts of the code, or simple agreement to share ownership. What isn't fair is for the client to benefit from my library code via reduced costs, then also expect to own that code.
I'd be the first to agree that contracts are a good thing, but if a client needs the job within, say, three weeks, it isn't sensible to waste the first two in contract negotiation.
My standard practice was to draft a "letter of understanding" that states what's been agreed, but sometimes there isn't even time for that. In my experience, being reasonable, prepared to compromise and acting with integrity all influence the success of a project more than the most watertight contract, but even so I've decided that proceeding without one is no longer viable, having just been shafted by a client who refused to pay their final instalment (even though in this case a contract did exist). I shall be much tighter on this in future, even if it means losing the job.
So what's the answer? I can think of several, the first being to replace my in-house library with a third-party open-source framework. For PHP projects this might be CodeIgniter, and I now use this in all new projects.
"the problem is that the existing code is licensed to clients already and can't be open-sourced without their permission"
It is fine (and indeed common) to make code available under multiple incompatible licenses. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-licensing
At least, I assume that your clients aren't really insisting on a "you cannot open source any of this code" clause in their contract?
also: please ask your web team to get rid of that tynt nonsense. and make the comment box larger.
By robtoo on 18 Jun 2010
Incompatible licences
It's not really fine to release your code under agreements which aren't compatible. It means that your obligations under one agreement conflict with your obligations under another one. It means you're stuck. Try to avoid doing this.
By steviesteveo on 24 Jun 2010
Need to address the fundamentals
Having read both articles and comments I think there are three fundamental issues:
Firstly, it seems that you don't have a standard set of T&C's that are attached to any "letter of understanding" you may draft, a practise that is generally frowned upon. If a client wishes you to proceed 'yesterday' then at least commence work with minimual contract cover with the "letter of understanding" being T&M based agreement with a report/specification as the deliverable. Over and above this, you may take the risk and incur the cost of commencing manufacture of software during this time, but no software is actually delivered until such time as a contract is signed (in the ideal world, you complete the development before the contract is signed and so deliver a product to its first customer complete with a price tag fully reflecting the risks and costs of development and the value of rapid delivery!)
Secondly, it seems that many software people are under the false impression that their standard libraries are part of their 'toolkit', this is totally wrong!
Taking your analogy of the plumber, if you take a look in their van, you will see that they carry around TOOLS and STOCK PARTS. In completing a job such as replacing the kitchen tap, a plumber will: with the customers involvement purchase a new tap, secondly they will fit it using their tools and stock parts as necessary to join the new tap to the old water pipe. When the plumber leaves, you are left with (the bill) a working tap and associated installed parts that you now own and can do what you like with, additionally, the plumber will has assigned to you any manufacturers warranties associated with the parts supplied and added their warranty. Translating this into software, you can see: your computer(s) and SDE are your tools and to some extent your van, your standard libraries are your stock parts (which may be stored within your SDE/van) and the tap a COTS package.
Taking this approach, you can now correctly account for and price the maintenance and use of your libraries, which in turn will lead you to selecting an appropriate licensing strategy for them, which in turn will feed into your standard T&C's.
Thirdly and finally, you are now in a better position to determine what it is that you are actually delivering and its value: Are you just providing a body shop or are you delivering a solution/product to it's first (and maybe only) customer? The outcome of this thinking will reflect not only in your pricing and standard T&Cs, but also in the way you package your deliverables along with the ownership and disclaimers on them.
You only need to look at the history of Microsoft/IBM DOS to see the importance of getting the IPR and Commercial exploitation clauses right. Also major package vendors will contract for installation and configuration/tailoring of their package, even though such configuration can include the development of substantive amounts of software.
Having established you standard T&Cs, you now have a defined starting point in any customer negotiations.
By RBell6 on 13 Jul 2010
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When I first started reading his poetry, I started with the stereotypical - The Raven. I was around thirteen I believe, and despite how gorgeously it is written, I was so disturbed. I never get frightened, no scary film has ever affected me, but The Raven really did. The rest of Poe's poetry equally shifted me, which makes him yes one of my favourite poets and one who is undervalued in my opinion. His poetry always feels like short novels, I come away from all his works remembering everything that took place like it was a scene in my head. Poetry moves people, but very few poems you remember twenty minutes after reading them like you would a plot line.
Well, technically this isn't the correct name for the novel. It's official title is 'These Foolish Things' but I didn't know that when I saw it on the bookshelf at Watestones. I for one am not a fan of books with movie covers, so I approached the sales assistant to ask if they had another copy and they said no. I thought that was rather odd, but I really wanted to read the book so I took it home anyway, telling myself that I sincerely doubted it would be a life classic which I'd like to have an aesthetic value equal to its content, therefore the cover didn't much matter.
I can't believe that even to this day there is a book I read, as a child, which I can still recite off by heart: The Story of Tracy Beaker.
I read this book over, and over and over, and then I bought the cassette which I listened to every night before going to sleep, and it continued whilst I slept, hence why I'm pretty certain this novel is engrained in my head nine years later.
Believe it or not, I really didn't like reading when I was a teenager. I was so obsessed with drawing and painting that I never had time for reading, I went to sleep with paper and paints on my bed and would wake up with paint all over my duvet. It's easy to be obsessed with art when your mother is an artist, but since I moved out a few years ago I stopped painting and reading became my dominant obsession.
Oh this is quite hard. Because the cliche answer, which also happens to be the answer which my childhood/teenage self would give, is the Harry Potter series. But if a magic fairy came down and asked me, truthfully, which one today I would love to live in, the fist one that pops into my head is this:
A Room with a View by E.M. Forster. Forster is one of my favourite authors, and being a young British woman whom has an Italian name, Italian heritage, and a very close cousin named Charlotte, this novel has always been my fantasy life story and thus very dear to me.
Ok, so two books equally enter this category and I can't decide which one made me cry
more so I shall enter two. The first is a short story which I remember really badly effected me when I was a very young child, and that is The Little Match Girl, a short story by Hans Christian Anderson. This tale was utterly heartbreaking. My mother read it to me as a bedtime story the first time and I remember asking her to reread it afterwards just incase she had made mistake and misread it, I refused to believe it ended that way. If you've never read it, prepare to be ever so slightly heartbroken, but it's beautifully poetic also so it's worth the little tears.
A Little Princess. Sobbing comes closer to the state I was in when I first read this book. Sobbing and wailing on my bedroom floor was the state I was in when I watched the film.
I was, perchance, a little underage when I read this book. I was just thirteen years old and I had started watching the BBC drama on it, for it was based in the school my cousin attended at the time, a local school to me, so I wanted to watch it. Half way through one of the episodes mother informed me it was a book, bought it for me. Simultaneously, my English teacher had set us homework to read a book over the weekend and review it in front of the class.
Oh gosh, I feel awful writing badly about a book, because obviously I'm ultimately attacking something which people out there love but I honestly couldn't stand. If you do love this book, my review is not a critique accusing you of having 'poor taste' or 'bad judgement', it is merely that I personally did not enjoy this book for my own reasons.
So, here we go.
I picked up this book many, many years ago when the hype had just literally started. This was the years before tumblr and I used xanga and photography of books (which I admired as I still do today) kept containing images of this book within the photo. Now, the sites were run by American teenagers on the majority, Twilight hadn't hit the UK yet so I was rather curious. I really didn't know what it was about and I naively went into Waterstones to purchase the book to see why this novel was appearing on all the sites I visited. A vampire plot didn't bother me really, didn't thrill me, but I didn't mind. Like I said, this was in the years before vampires became a massive thing (today you can't flick a channel without some vampire spinoff popping up on the screen), so, needless to say, vampires hadn't started irritating me like crazy with their tedious overuse.
Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
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Earnest Hemingway, one of America's greatest writers, married four times, but his first wife, Hadley, was whom he moved to Paris with. It was she who witnessed the beginning of his creativity, it was she who watched him casually chat to the newly published and unknown F. Scott Fitzgerald, it was she who cradled their child in her arms whilst he wrote, and it is she who lay in bed beside him, pretending to be asleep, whilst his mistress lay on top of him…
There's always the shadow to someone's fame, and Hadley was that of Hemingway. Whilst he rolled in his imagination, the jazz age, art and sexual promiscuouness, his shadow has to admit defeat, admit that she has lost her grip on the love of her life once and for all. This novel is painful to read, as a woman I felt like screaming at her passiveness, at her reluctance to stand up for herself. Whilst playing the role of the shadow she forgets she, too, is a human like her husband. I always enjoy reading biography styled fiction novels, and McLain owes a lot, obviously, to Hemingway's own work A Moveable Feast when writing about his Paris years, but she adopts the voice of the wife ever so cleaverly. I had the pleasure of meeting Paula last year where I got to ask her a question. I asked "You say you got a lot of Hadley's thoughts and feelings from reading the letters that she wrote. Now, in this novel she puts up with so much, she's so passive, she doesn't scream, she doesn't yell, she lies there and takes it. Was that a personality which she indicated in her letters or was that an authoritative creation? Did she not hate herself for being so weak to her own human sense of pride? Because in the novel she never scolds herself for being so allowing of Hemmingway's cruel ways."
McLain, as elogant and charming as she was, was a little taken aback and just grinned in response "I actually never thought about that," she replied "In her letters she never indicated self loathing or shame for how she handled the situations, but actually now that I think about it she didn't really express much emotion behind her actions at all. I suppose you could say that is my own creation. I doubt we'll really ever know how Hadley truly felt."
So, if you're looking for an utterly true and realistic read of Hadley's true emotions, feelings and expressions, I'm afraid sadly that won't be available.
However, I get the impression McLain brought together the most realistic possibility of who Hadley was. The novel itself is brilliantly well written, it was certainly my favourite novel of 2011, and meeting McLain personally strengthened my affections for it even further. Those who haven't read anything of Hemingway, like myself at that time, needn't worry of the chance of being 'lost' or 'disconnected', because you can't be.
You are a reader witnessing all the greatest artsists of the twentieth century casually mingling together, unaware of who they will grow to be, unaware of their future effect on the world of art, unaware of how their casual dining together over a bar would sound as mythological and unrealistic as reading about Shakespeare having brunch with Charles Dickens. The notion of putting them together is absurd, incomprehensible. Yet the novel contains such a fantastical collection of brilliant novelists and artists all nonchalantly collecting together that you're thrown into a state of disbelief that this was, in fact, reality. That's such a fantastic notion. In fact it's wonderful. You don't realise how close artists were until you put them all into one location, one of the most wonderful places in the world, Paris. I'm unable to state how delightful this novel is; despite being biographically influenced it is not historically heavy, for you can easily forget whilst reading that it's not a complete work of fiction. McLain is an author to keep an eye out for, I'm pretty certain this is just the starting point of a brilliant twenty-first century writer. ★★★★★
So, the Oxford English Dictionary. A masterpiece in itself. But did you know they couldn't have done it without a murderer? An insane, Yale graduate surgeon who butchered a man and spent his life in a mental asylum devouring books, through which he developed the skill of compiling quotations which were used to illustrate ways particular words were used, making him one of the biggest contributers to the OED. This isn't fiction, it's all true, but the book is so well written it flows like fiction. It made me squirm, it made me squeal, but it also fascinated me. You never get through to understanding this intelligent man's thought process, but at the same time you are left questioning what the borderline is between insanity and genius. How do the two fit so easily together with this one man? I guess we'll never know. Am I being too generous with my ratings? No, I just happen to have some fantastic books recently.★★★★★
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Bowed Legs – Another Knee Issue
February 27, 2011 at 9:32 pm 22 comments
Though I've written much about knock knees and a little bit about normal knee alignment, I have yet to address bowed legs. It's time!
True bow legged-ness comes from malformed femurs and tibias that arc laterally. It is normal for babies to have bowed legs before the bones ossify and are still cartiligenous. Eventually, the knees knock a bit and then straighten out remaining slightly knock kneed in normal knees with the femurs tilting inwards/medially.
But what about true bow legs. They could come from rickets or Blount's disease, but if you don't have these diseases and still have bowed legs…what is it from and how can you "correct" them or strengthen so that they don't become painful, arthritic, etc.?
Well, it seems that healthy people with bowed legs get it from activities that demand the bones to grow outwardly like horse-riding/jockey . Some people don't ride horses but still have bowed legs. Often times, people who press back in their knees while standing in their youth develop imbalances that can cause a bit of bowing of the bone. Also, habitual patterns cause legs to look bowed, but may actually not be bowed.
As an adult we need to look at the alignment of our knee caps to our feet. Just as I wrote in the previous article Knock Knees and Pilates, the middle of the knee cap ought to align with the middle of the foot (2nd toe joint and center of ankle). When I used to think I was bow legged, I was really pressing back in my knee caps, nearly hyper-extending and rotating in wards/medially. My inner thighs were rather weak and my external rotators were tight and over-worked. With much imbalance, I do believe I was rotating inwardly in order to fight the pull of my external rotators wishing to rotate my knee cap outward because of my weak adductors.
And that seems to be the "going" thought about bowed legs that are not from disease or horseback riding: weak adductors.
Wait a minute! Wasn't that the issue with knock knees? And other normal knees? Yes, yes, indeed. The issue with human knees, in general, is weak adductors. Weak inner thighs and mis-alignment from imbalances and lack of awareness.
We all need stronger adductors. Even with strong ones, that doesn't mean that you'll correct your seemingly or slightly bowed legs. There are 2 issues connected to this:
1 – Balance
It's about balance…and…those gemelli and obturators that I wrote about in One more tidbit about knees…all knees…. You must make sure you or your client is not pressing back into the knee joint, but is stacking bones and stabilizing them them with well balanced strength of muscles and healthy ligaments and tendons. Both knee caps and feet facing straight forward and proper support/engagement from gemelli and obturators, adductors…and balanced quadriceps, hamstrings, glutes…and more.
2 – Development
If you actually have bowed femurs and tibias, you cannot correct the bow of the bone once your bones have calcified (when you've stopped growing). All corresponding muscles and other bones have developed in ways to manage this bow. Strengthening and restoring balance to the muscles and some alignment will never straighten the bones, but will help support the knees (hips, ankles and feet, too) so that the bowing doesn't create problems in the future. What sort of problems? Arthritis, mainly.
Now, that's just a start on bowed legs. Will you please ask me questions about it so I can know what you need and then provide?
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for the most part, will people with knee issues (knocked or bowed) need to be slightly externally rotated to maintain a heel and midline connection? what about running on the reformer for someone who is bow legged? Would you externally rotate in that exercise or do parallel hip width?
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[…] Bowed Legs – Another Knee Issue | The Vertical Workshop's Pilates … http://theverticalworkshop.wordpress.com/But what about true bow legs. They could come from rickets or Blount's disease, but if you don't have these diseases and still have bowed legs…what is it from and how can you "correct" them or strengthen so that they don't … […]
I have slightly bowed lower legs but unfortunately, since I am fully grown( 37), there is nothing much I can do to change the appearance of my legs. If you look straight at me, my lower body looks odd and the line that should be vertical in a normal lower leg, where the ankle meets the tibia, is not straight. I believe I did not get enough vitamin d and calcium growing up. Also, I think the strain of having abnormally distributed standing weight contributes to the calf muscles working overtime, causing them to be bigger permanently. This can look odd on someone who is otherwise thin. I have not worn dresses or shorts in 19 years now because of how funny my legs look.
Okay my doctor said my knees are aligned normaly but i still have a gap between my knees how can i trength my inner abductors/thigh to pull them together im 16yrs old
Hi. I really dont understand the exercise procedures. Could you be more explicit by excluding the medical terms and rather using a layman's language? I'm 19 and i think am done with growth, but is there really no hope of re-aligning my legs to be atleast straighter or to reduce the severity of it?
Hi m randeep from india.. I am 27 year old.. My legs are unshaped means bow legs.. Thats why i always feel shy in front of others.. I want streighten my legs can u help me out.. Really i am very dipressed..
Hello, even I am bow legged but for last 1 month I have started doing squat exercise, I can feel that my lower leg is straightening gradually, also I feel a pain in my lower leg and knees after doing exercise but that is because bone is turning inward.
For me my bowed legs were straightened quite significantly with ballet! I still struggle with using my inner thigh muscles as they are quite weak but having done 17 years of ballet they have become a lot straighter than any of my other family members with Bowed legs. My parents chose not to put my legs in braces but enroll me in ballet and it has worked wonders to help my muscles work around my deformed bones haha
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