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Started the last one late and lost interest/forgot about it after the thread was unstickied, maybe, just perhaps, we could do a new one starting Jan. 1?
Propose that rules are: Do 12 metric centuries over the year, starting Jan. 1. Update after each one (pictures encouraged). No prizes other than a virtual pat on the back from fellow members.
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Face Off 3 Recap: The Masterful Makeup Monster Mash Is Back!
August 21, 2012 11:00 PM by Ryan Haidet
It's back! One of the best reality shows on television has returned with yet another awesome season filled with talent. But there was a bit of mystery heading into tonight's big debut of Face Off's third season. If you look at the official cast photos, you will only see 11 new contestants. But throughout tonight's big 90-minute premiere there were 12 people in the game competing for the $100,000 top prize. Joe is the missing 12th contestant from those images despite being a major focal point throughout the entire premiere. But why on earth would SyFy leave out one of their contestants from the official cast photos? I'm guessing it has something to do with his unexpected actions at the reveal stage prior to the first elimination. On top of that, he's part of an absolutely terrible final makeup that is so bad the judges don't even want to look at it.
The First Challenge
Shortly after the new contestants were welcomed to a rooftop pool party in Los Angeles, they were greeted with their first challenge of the season. Each contestant had to use one element from the pool party to create a unique face on a model. I've seen better work in the first challenge of previous seasons, but this episode was so entertaining that it didn't really matter that the introductory makeup was lackluster. Actor Sean Astin was on hand to choose the winner of the first contest and he selected Eric, which gave him immunity from the first elimination.
Modernizing "Star Wars"
For the first major challenge of the season, the 12 new contestants were paired up into teams of two as follows:
- Alana and Nicole
- CC and Derek
- Joe and Tommy
- Roy and Rod
- Laura and Sarah
- Eric and Jason
Upon learning their first challenge was to create an alien that would fit in a modern version of the classic cantina scene from "Star Wars," the contestants were totally geeked out. They were even more excited to learn that the winning work would be posted on the official "Star Wars" website. Shockingly, Alana said she had never seen "Star Wars" all the way through. Hard to believe somebody so entrenched in movies hasn't seen "Star Wars."
Throughout the process of working to create their aliens, every duo seemed to get along extremely well — except for Tommy and Joe. For seemingly the entire time they were together, Tommy and Joe were butting heads. And it was primarily Joe's negative attitude and controlling ways behind the battle. He was constantly talking to Tommy like a child and even wiped some of his ongoing sculpture away because he didn't approve. Meanwhile, Tommy was trying to keep his cool by not snapping.
On the flip side, Roy and Rod worked flawlessly as a team. It was almost like they had known each other for years. Those guys were perfect together.
The First Big Reveal
Heading into the final reveal, it was clear there was one team that would be losing and that was Tommy and Joe. This wasn't even a contest. These two created the single worst makeup I've ever seen in the show's history. More on that later.
Based on the judges, they ranked Eric/Jason and Nicole/Alana in the middle of the pack.. We didn't hear the judges offer any direct opinions on either piece because they were immediately offered safety, but here's how each looked:
Eric and Jason
Nicole and Alana
The judges said the best teams were Laura/Sarah and Rod/Roy.
Laura and Sarah: They earned big praise from the judges for their work. "It feels like it has a story when I look at it and it feels like it belongs in the cantina." Glenn said. He even called it the cleanest makeup they had ever seen edge-wise." I agree. Fabulous work. Definitely screen-ready.
Rod and Roy: They were eventually selected as having the best makeup for the week (Rod being named the official winner of the first challege). Glenn said taking on this much work can be a team's failure on this show — but in this case it was a massive success. Patrick loved the immense detail. Seriously. Take a look at how incredible that makeup work is. So amazing they were able to create such stunning work in a small sliver of time.
The judges selected the worst makeups were created by CC/Derek and Tommy/Joe.
CC and Derek: Ve didn't like the color because she felt it looked like a bad burn job. Patrick, too, said he wasn't very impressed — especially because of the extra eyes they placed up the forehead. I thought it looked like a badly burned pepperoni pizza. But this one really wasn't bad at all when you compare it with the next piece.
Tommy and Joe: Admit it. When you first laid eyes on this green gob of garbage you either laughed your ass off or you spit out whatever liquid you just sipped on. Wow. Before the judges offered up any opinions of the makeup, Tommy spoke up to apologize to the judges. He said he wished he would have painted it and taken more of a leadership position. He added that he was ashamed to present their work. Tommy said that he wasn't trying to throw Joe under the bus, but Glenn disagreed and asked Tommy to stop talking. When the judges started weighing in, they really bashed the makeup. Glenn said it was "singularly unexceptional." Ve hilariously said, "It looks like a squished frog that you put an Easter hat on." I seriously had to rewind that comment and watch it again because it was so damn funny. I wasn't expecting it at all. Go, Ve! Neville, the new judge, said it was hard for him to look at.
Now, to their credit, I'm sure Tommy and Joe are talent makeup artists — otherwise they never would have made it on the show. They had to prove themselves in some capacity. This just proves that their lack of cohesion strained their ability to succeed. I found myself feeling bad for Tommy, too. It can't be easy to have somebody over your shoulder criticizing your every move.
But the big shocker of the episode came while the contestants were sitting in the makeup room as the judges discussed who should be eliminated. Suddenly, Joe stormed out of the back door and quit the competition without saying "goodbye" or "see ya later." His decision to leave the game meant everybody else was safe from the elimination, which was clearly a massive relief for Tommy. I guess it all makes sense now why he wasn't included in the official cast images. He obviously didn't like what the judges had to say.
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Seven Favorite Things: Azalea Women's Collection
This week, Azalea, a Hayes Valley stronghold, celebrates 10 years in SF. With a freshly remodeled space, and a collection chock-full of edgy brands like Acne and In God We Trust, there's much to celebrate. This week, our seven picks hail from the Azalea women's collection, and can be worn together for a complete look.
Look of the Week: Local Valentine's Gifts for Her
This year, skip the flowers and box chocolates and, instead, step it up with a thoughtful gift that's perfect for her. We pulled from SF's best and found hip, fun Valentine's Day gifts for every personality.
SF Street Style: Casual Chic, Printed Scarf + Button Leggings in the Financial District
I caught up with Jaynelle St. Jean, owner of Oakland's PieTisserie, last week at the Super Duper opening party. Not everyone can rock tan, high-waisted leggings, but Jaynelle wore them with confidence and she wore them well. I also love how her scarf and heels add color and instant sophistication to this otherwise casual outfit.


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World Learning/SIT is pleased to announce the creation of the Alice Rowan Swanson Fellowship Fund. This $100,000 fellowship fund established by the family of SIT Study Abroad Nicaragua '06 alumna Alice Rowan Swanson, is a living tribute to Alice's life, her passion for bridging cultures and helping others and the role that SIT Study Abroad played in her life. An Amherst '07 graduate, Alice was killed while riding her bike to work in 2008.
Alice's family believes that Alice would have spent her life working for human rights abroad, particularly in developing countries. This fund will annually award fellowships to SIT program alumni who would like to return to the country of their program to pursue further development projects that benefit human rights in that region.
Alice Rowan Swanson always wanted to live abroad and experience cultures different from her own. She began traveling with her family at the age of 10 and continued to follow her passion for international learning at Amherst College. Alice spent the first semester of her junior year in Cairo. Although abroad, she lived in a traditional dormitory, spoke English in class and never felt immersed in the local culture.
Alice spent her second semester in Nicaragua as a student with SIT Study Abroad's Nicaragua: Revolution, Transformation, and Civil Society. Through this program, she felt connected and engaged with the local community and fully immersed in Nicaraguan culture. She discussed with local community members the need for clean drinking water and improved medical help. Alice realized that she wanted to engage in development work with local partners to improve social conditions and human rights. Upon returning to the US, she applied for and received a grant to continue her work with local communities in Nicaragua following her senior year of college.
When Alice returned from her second stay in Nicaragua, she served a four-month internship at the Middle East Institute, and obtained a job at IREX, an international nonprofit organization. Her co-workers observed that Alice "helped to build bridges of understanding between often disparate cultures, a task for which her welcoming personality and sharp intellect made her uniquely and excellently equipped."
To continue Alice's legacy, her family has established the Alice Rowan Swanson Fellowship to support SIT alumni who seek to devote some months of their life pursuing a project that supports human rights: education, nutrition, medical care and freedom from tyranny. In so doing, each fellowship awardee will honor and pay tribute to the work that Alice had undertaken to make the world a better place and her desire to make a difference in the world for those less fortunate whom she viewed as part of her global family.
Ideal candidates for this fellowship will possess qualities resembling those of Alice Rowan Swanson, in the words of her family, friends and co-workers: "…intelligence and passion for learning; great warmth and friendliness; a smiling, welcoming personality, sharp intellectual rigor and fine writing, and an adventurous desire to experience untraditional locations, and through her personal initiative, to make the world a better place."
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Formal name: Haptoglobin
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I like to take my two dogs to Ramsey Creek Dog Park but it chaps me that every time I go to the park, there is poop laying around that other dog owners have left. This park it not your pet's private dumping ground. As a dog owner, it is your responsibility to pick up your pet's poop in public places. The park provides poop bags and a trash can to put it in. Show some respect!
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Mother's latest Moneysupermarket.com ad follows the transformation of an everyday man, Gary, who becomes a superstar in his own Magnum, PI-inspired TV series, The £1,000 Man.
After using Moneysupermarket.com to save money, he shows the full extent of his savings in the 80s-themed ad, which features a montage of Gary's adventures.
Mother has created 60-second and 40-second spots for the launch, as well as five 20-second executions focusing on four core products – car insurance, home insurance, energy and credit cards.
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we'll probably name him phoenix--risen from the ashes. maybe our luck will change too.
he is a bull calf which is fine since we'll butcher him to feed us when time comes. we plan to fatten him out on milk for a long while.
so now we have two calves and two cows fresh in milk. feast or famine...
after much effort we have contacted the people who did rory's artificial insemination. she was bred to a show bull and rory's lineage is excellent. what i'm trying to say is we have a "show-heifer-calf"--jocelyn.
we have to do something very sinister. i hate the idea of it but given our circumstance we must. we have to burn off the horns on both calves. we'll do it ourselves and it will be evil. we can't leave the horns on any of the cows because we have cows without them and accidental goring happens frequently. plus we enjoy letting our kids frolic through the fields and having cows with horns is way too dangerous even if they are friendly. also we want to pasture our bull elsewhere and no one will take a cow with horns around their herd of hornless cows.
i fixed tristan's bike and put training wheels on it. he has been walking up the little hill in the back yard and riding down for the past few hours. he'll sleep good tonight. i had to walk behind him while pushing for a few trips but he got the idea fairly quickly.
kassi and toly were his support team. they would push him and cheer him on. kassi would say "keep trying, never give up." cute kids.
oops tristan's first bicycle accident.
we were going to pick apples today but we got ruined by the stress of having a new calf this morning. we might go visit the folks that will sell us our pigs. i guess they have a cheap way to make a waterer for the pigs. we plan to let them into the garden to till things up. i'll include the new garden annexed yard. they will likely root up and till the area. i still plan a scorched earth burning of the garden but pigging the area first seems like a great idea. we'll also train them to the electric fence during their term in the garden.
i'd like them to work a few areas so we can plant grass for pasture. this will be quite an adventure. controlling them with electric fence is allegedly fairly easy. they are smart creatures.
we are hoping to sell quite a bit of milk this freshening. there should be tons of cheese, yogurt, cottage cheese, sour cream, butter and so on. two fresh cows will probably cost us $8 per day. that means we need to sell ten gallons of milk per week to make them pay for themselves during lactation. rory is roughly making four gallons per day and if nimue does the same we'll be over loaded--8. the calves will take two gallons per day--6. we drink and use two to three gallons per day--3. if we sell one and a half per day--1.5. we give our friends with a large family milk three gallons per week--1. that leaves one gallon of milk per day and all the whey and milk waste for the pigs.
chances are nimue will freshen with a bit more than four gallons per day so we'll have a buffer. if we find that the pigs need more milk we can trim a few areas and shuffle things around.
our new printer has been a big help around here. the kids especially enjoy printed coloring pages and work sheets for home schooling. i'm glad that lazer printers are finally affordable. the one crappy thing is we didn't get our rebate. the fine print got us again. whatever...
i have been burning to finish my root cellar especially since ron is making such great headway on his.
i'm gonna go figure out where the fence line will go to contain the pigs.
Sunday, September 21, 2008
nimue had her calf this morning.
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- Polar Bear and The Dodger said...
those are the most adorable knees i have ever seen. learning to ride a bike is such a fantastic feeling. here's to things looking up (we're hoping for an upswing as well).
YOU are teaching Tristan to ride a bike? Poor kid doesn't stand a chance. Get him a helmet...and some knee pads...and elbow pads.. and football shoulder pads...and a good therapist for his teenage years.
At least all that milk will help his bones heal. Oh, and introduce him to black gun powder too.
- Art Blomquist said...
Thanks for the tip about your root celler. I am in the market for one now and discovered a couple of hundred plastic sandbags out near the barn..
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Musto hearing rescheduled
WILKES-BARRE - A federal judge has rescheduled Tuesday's hearing regarding a request by former state Sen. Raphael Musto to be released from a federal medical prison in North Carolina.
The hearing, originally set for Tuesday, will now be held at 1:30 p.m. Friday at the federal courthouse in Wilkes-Barre, according to a scheduling order by Senior U.S. District Judge A. Richard Caputo. Attorneys for Mr. Musto recently requested he be released from medical prison because he is battling late-stage non-Hodgkin lymphoma and may have as little as two months to live.
Mr. Musto, who turns 85 Sunday, is currently held at Federal Medical Center at Butner in North Carolina.
Judge Caputo ruled in January that Mr. Musto was not mentally competent to stand trial on bribery and kickback charges and ordered him to Butner for evaluation to determine if he could regain the capacity to stand trial.
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WILKES-BARRE - Students from Wilkes University and the Commonwealth Medical College will help enroll people for health insurance through the Affordable Care Act at a meeting today.
The meeting will be from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Wilkes' Nesbitt School of Pharmacy, located on the first floor of Stark Learning Center.
After the open enrollment period under the federal law ends, people without insurance are subject to federal tax penalties. The deadline was March 31, but the White House extended the open enrollment period Tuesday for anyone who claims to have started the enrollment process on or before March 31.
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J.J. Hickson is trying to expand his game, people.
During the Denver Nuggets' practice before their game against the New Orleans Pelicans tonight, Nate Robinson whipped out his phone to capture Hickson's attempt at showing off his handles. The first sequence wasn't bad for a 6-foot-9 power forward who isn't really known for anything but…sorry, guys, I'm drawing a blank here. Oh, wait, rebounds. Yeah, that's it. Rebounds. And dunks, right?
Anyway, after the first snippet, things took a turn for the worse, as he lost the ball twice, once while dribbling the ball behind his back and later, when he was showing off his limited ability to do one of the basics – the figure-eight. It seems like his teammates got a kick out of it, though. Nate Robinson was clearly egging him on, Ty Lawson couldn't help but smile when he said, "Look at this garbage!" and Randy Foye spilled the beans that Hickson will do anything to get a follow.
Tough crowd, J.J. Tough crowd.
Oh, and I nearly forgot about Nate's video description, which was…something:
@mrhickson88 thinks he got pats lol not!! #NohandleLife @dribble2much @foyeboy@tylawson3 lol he can't be serious fellas lol … #holdatnation #stateofnate #holdat#noPats #teamdarkskin lol
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Credit Rating Agencies
Still Superman?
There have been many reactions to S & Ps action in downgrading the credit rating of the US, Apart from the widespread annoyance and repudiation of S & P and its procedures, there are some who are saying that it won't have much effect on interest rates. Others even saying that it is a "non-event," and still others saying that S & P should be investigated and prosecuted on a number of grounds. However, I found two views of the "non-event" particularly interesting. Read more about Still Superman?
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Standard & Poor's Tugs on Superman's Cape
Last December, my friend beowulf had this to say at the time Moody's began to make noises about downgrading US debt. He said:
"I don't think we'll see Moody's or any other rating service based in the US ever downgrade US Treasuries. It would cause a tremendous amount of financial loss and would leave Moody's and its executives exposed to criminal prosecution. If I were Moody's general counsel, I'd tell the CEO in no uncertain terms, Do Not Tug On Superman's Cape.
14th Amendment, Sect. 5
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Standard and Poor's: Bring It On!
(Author's Note: In December I posted a piece on Moody's threat to downgrade the US's Rating in International Bond markets. I argued that Moody's action was foolish. Today, Standard and Poor's actually revised the US ratings outlook from stable to negative, but continued its sovereign credit rating at 'AAA/A-1+'. Read more about Standard and Poor's: Bring It On!
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Moody's: Bring It On!
Yesterday, as reported in Money News, Moody's made me laugh, with the following pronouncements:
" . . . it could move a step closer to cutting the U.S. Aaa rating if President Barack Obama's tax and unemployment benefit package becomes law. . . .
"The plan agreed to by Obama and Republican leaders last week could push up debt levels, increasing the likelihood of a negative outlook on the United States rating in the coming two years . . .
"A negative outlook, if adopted, would make a rating cut more likely over the following 12-to-18 months.
"For the United States, a loss of the top Aaa rating, reduce the appeal of U.S. Treasurys, which currently rank as among the world's safest investments.
"From a credit perspective, the negative effects on government finance are likely to outweigh the positive effects of higher economic growth," Moody's analyst Steven Hess said in a report sent late on Sunday."
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Navy Korean War Veteran Gerald Canaan arrived at the same POW camp where Chaplain (CPT) Emil Kapaun was sent. Though he arrived after the chaplain's passing, Canaan immediately heard of CH Kapaun's inspiring acts. Canaan's wife Ruth attended the 12 April 2013 Medal of Honor ceremony at the Pentagon and shared her husband's story.
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March 30, 2011 | The Economic Times
Pepsi-Tata JV to launch glucose beverage
NEW DELHI | MUMBAI: PepsiCo India's joint venture with Tata Global Beverages is set to launch a glucose-based beverage next week. 'Lehar Gluco Plus' , a lemon-flavoured , noncarbonated drink, will be rolled out in pockets of Maharashtra through a pilot project and will be priced at Rs 5.
"We are creating a new category with this product in the affordable packaged beverage space. The product works like an instant re-charger ," said Geetu Verma, PepsiCo India executive director (innovation).
The beverage is being brought under PepsiCo's Lehar umbrella label. It will be the second product after Himalayan packaged water to be manufactured and marketed under the 50:50 joint venture NourishCo Beverages Ltd. India's health and wellness segment is seen touching 55,000 crore by financial year 2015, up from the current Rs 10,150 crore, according to a report by management consulting firm Tata Strategic Management Group. PepsiCo has an alliance with Unilever under which it sells Lipton ice tea, but the firm has maintained that both JVs will not overlap. PepsiCo Tata JV CEO Punita Lal told ET that plans were underway to roll out more health and wellness beverages this year.
"We are looking to unlock the value segment in the mass hydration space. It is a very large opportunity," she said. Lal said the JV was exploring options across categories for healthier beverages, but did not give details. PepsiCo and Tata had signed an MoU last April to set up the joint venture for non-aerated beverages. The JV seeks to leverage the Tata brand and expertise in low-cost consumer products and couple it with PepsiCo's distribution muscle, go-to-market expertise and R&D strength.
Gluco Plus will target segment B and C consumers , which according to Verma, has a base of 600-700 million. Through the alliance, PepsiCo hopes to be seen as a wholesome beverages company while Tata Global Beverages gets a larger foothold in the segment . Although Tata Global Beverages has acquired Tetley, Eight O'clock Coffee and Good Earth, its wellness and health beverages portfolio in India is limited to Himalayan packaged water and Tion.


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Today's NEDA post is going to be about lightweight rowing. This is not to say that eating disorders and the like can't and don't happen with heavyweight or open weight rowers because they can and do, but the potential of disordered eating amongst lightweights, particularly lightweight women, is drastically higher. Even knowing this though, it's still not something that is often openly talked about or discussed amongst coaches and rowers. If you're a heavyweight rower and you're suffering from an eating disorder or think you might be engaging in some of the behaviors (voluntarily or involuntarily), this post is in no way meant to minimize those issues because they are just as serious.
What is lightweight rowing?
Lightweight rowing is a specific category of rowing that sets a maximum weight limit for each individual member of a crew. It was created as an offshoot of open weight and heavyweight rowing in order to give "average sized" athletes a chance at being competitive against similarly built rowers. Heavyweight rowers are typically taller and have more build on them, so they often had a physical advantage over the smaller competition. FISA's politically correct rationale for creating an international lightweight racing program is "to encourage more universality in the sport especially among nations with less statuesque people". In layman's terms, it levels the playing field.
In high school and college, the weight limits are 160lbs for men and 130lbs for women, with no changes to the minimums for the coxswain of a lightweight crew. In international competition, things are slightly different. Instead of looking at the weight of each individual member of a crew, officials look at those plus the average weight of the entire crew. Individual weights for men should be no more than 159.8lbs and 154.3 for the crew. Women should average no more than 125.6lbs for the crew and 130lbs for each individual.
Averaging is becoming a more and more hotly contested topic and most recently came up at FISA's annual Congress meeting a week or two ago. Here is what was said about it with regards to potential rule changes in the press release:
"Lightweight Averaging – The Congress rejected the proposal of the Council to eliminate lightweight averaging in order to establish a system in which each athlete is responsible for his own weight, and not have to undergo sudden weight loss due to a teammate just before the race. Many delegates expressed the opinion that the current system of averaging allows a wider spectrum of participation in this category which might be lost if there is only one weight limit. The vote was 62 in favour of the change and 72 against."
While I am all for having and allowing as many athletes to compete as possible, I draw the line when it involves those athletes putting themselves or others at risk due to unsafe weight management practices. I've always been fairly supportive of FISA (despite not ever competing at the international level) but this is something I really disagree with. It comes off as a very "quantity over quality" move, in my opinion. There's also the issue of more athletes = more exposure = more money, etc. but that's an entirely different topic of discussion.
In collegiate rowing, the entire lightweight program across the country is small when looking at the number of schools competing vs. those who compete in the open weight or heavyweight categories. Part of this is due to funding, part of it is the school, athletic department, and/or coaches don't think it would give their program a competitive advantage, and part of it is due to the stigma surrounding the propensity for disordered eating and the subsequent issues that arise with that when combining competitive athletes (particularly women) with weight restrictions. It's understandable and I don't fault anyone who doesn't have a lightweight program for those reasons, but I think that if schools, ADs, and coaches were willing to lay out ground rules and standards, have closely monitored training programs, the necessary resources available, etc., lightweight rowing could become a more popularized thing in college sports.
One thing that's always bothered me, both at the high school and collegiate levels, is how lightweight rowing is deemed "lesser" than heavyweight rowing because it's not the "main event". It's like how the WV8+ races aren't as big of a highlight as the MV8+s because of all the usual reasons. (Allow me to briefly digress and direct your attention to the 2-time consecutive Olympic gold medal winning women's eight. Annnd I'm done. That fills my "go women!" quota for at least the next 25 years.) Truthfully, if you hop down off your high horse for a moment and compare the two programs, it's like comparing apples and oranges. Lightweights have the added pressure of weight restrictions, which means that in order for them to be at their most competitive, they have to finely tune their body composition so that it's at the ideal muscle:fat (or vice versa, whatever) ratio. This category of rowing focuses less on brute strength and far more on one's technique and physiological makeup. That isn't to say that heavyweights don't focus on those things too and that they're just a bunch of gorillas, but come on…do I really need to explain this?
Lightweight rowing, eating disorders, weight management issues, etc.
It's often said that due to the limits on weights, lightweight rowers have a higher chance of developing eating disorders. I've probably said it over the past week too. It seems like an obvious, "duh" kind of thing to me, but when looking at the research (which I've done before and did again for this post) a lot of studies found no measurable correlation between the two. What some studies did find, however, is that lightweight rowers were more highly associated with increased caloric restraints, diuretic misuse, and disordered eating patterns. If you're scratching your head and saying "…wait a second" don't worry, so was I. What I interpreted that as (and I could be wrong) is that even though there was no measurable correlation, lightweights (at least the ones participating in those studies) are on the fast track to potentially developing eating disorders since they're already doing many of the things that are clearly spelled out as warning signs and/or symptoms of them. Thoughts? Other studies showed that while women were more prone to eating disorders and indulging in drastic weight control methods, men suffered from more frequent and greater overall weight fluctuations, which are dangerous in their own right (see "yo yo dieting").
It's important that whatever training and dieting regime you conclude works best for you is monitored by your coaches and/or training staff. Ideally the plan you come up with would be a collaborative effort. Athletes who are closely monitored (in a good way, not in a Big Brother I'm standing over your shoulder and making sure you eat every last bite of your dinner kind of way) tend to be more successful in managing their weight because of the resources and support available to them. It is when those things aren't there that things tend to go poorly. In 2000, a rower from Germany who was trying to make a lightweight boat died because he/she wasn't being closely monitored. If someone offers you help, guidance, assistance, etc. during your lightweight career, don't be stubborn and brush it off. You might not need them now (although you probably do) but down the road, you will, for any one of a number of reasons.
One study that's cited a lot when talking about weight loss and lightweight rowing is this one. Some of you guys have asked me about this too – can a smaller heavyweight rower lose weight and be competitive as a lightweight? This study found that it is possible, but what I think is worth noting is that the "heavier" heavyweight athletes lost more muscle than fat mass over the course of the 16 weeks this study was conducted. 16 weeks…that's roughly four months. Winter training through mid-spring season is about four months, so think about that if you are considering making the transition. Preparation must start well before the time you plan to fully compete as a lightweight. The rowers who suffered the greatest loss in muscle mass weren't able to be competitive as lightweights because of the drastic reduction in power output, energy, etc.
Regardless of whether or not you're a heavyweight trying to become a lightweight or if you're already a lightweight, your weight loss needs to be a season long priority, not something you try and achieve four hours before weigh in. I say priority because that's what it is, plain and simple. The recommended amount of weight loss per week for anyone, athlete or not, is 1-2lbs. Is it a lot? No. Does progress take time? Yes. Compare that to rowing though…were you a great rower when you started? I'm guessing no. Did your skills develop and get better over time? Yes. What would have happened if we'd thrown you in a race the second day of practice on the water? It probably would have been disastrous. It's the same with weight loss. Losing weight rapidly is dangerous. This is the one time in rowing where slow and steady wins the race. Plus, the benefits of losing weight slowly and responsibly ensure that you aren't compromising your muscle mass.
If you're weighing yourself, don't do it every day. You're not going to see any changes except fluctuations in water. Weigh yourself once to start (in the morning when you first wake up) and then again one to two weeks later (again, in the morning when you wake up). Just because the scale only shows a one or two pound difference doesn't mean you're doing something wrong and you should resort to other techniques to speed up the process. Weighing yourself too much (every day, multiple times a day, etc.) does nothing for you except fuck with your head. Raise your hand if you know what I'm talking about. You should be consistently weighing yourself – that's just part of being a responsible lightweight – but be smart about it.
One of the things I briefly talked about yesterday with coxswains is dehydrating oneself as a way to get closer to the minimum or in the case of lightweights, to make weight. Other than what I hope are painfully obvious reasons as to why you shouldn't do this, here's some more evidence as to why it's harmful. (I hope to do a more thorough post on this soon.) Let's assume this is for a 132lb woman trying to make weight for her boat.
- 2% reduction (roughly 2.5lbs in this case) in water volume leads to a decreased ability for the body to cool itself, but for the most part, her ability to perform will remain unchanged. She may experience some fatigue or dizziness and will probably appear very flushed.
- 3% reduction (roughly 4lbs) results in a decrease in muscle endurance, which will lead to a faster onset of fatigue. Her heart rate will be elevated because the blood is thicker, so it has to work harder to pump it through the body. Confusion, fatigue, dizziness, etc. will start to become apparent as oxygen is more slowly transported to the brain. She may also be experiencing muscle cramps, thanks in part to the increased amount of lactate that is accumulating in her body due to the increased amount of energy she's expending (which is due to the body's decreasing ability to pump blood and slower delivery of oxygen to the tissues).
- 4% reduction (roughly 5lbs) or more leads to a severe decrease in endurance, loss of the body's ability to cool itself (which means she won't be sweating at all), very low blood pressure, a rapid heart rate (due to the increased thickness of the blood and the increased amount of energy the heart has to expend to pump it), dizziness, and/or fainting.
If you're a lightweight, raise your hand if you've ever put on several layers of thick clothing and gone running around a regatta site a few hours before weigh-ins to make weight. Keep your hand up if you've ever put a trash bag on over all those layers. Now keep your hand up if you've done that and felt any of the symptoms I just listed. I'm guessing nearly all of you still have your hands up. I'm just going to leave this here and let you ponder that.
In addition to everything I've listed to this point, women can also suffer from what is known as the Female Athlete Triad. If you've taken a college nutrition, psychology, physiology, kinesiology, sports medicine, athletic training, etc. class, you've probably talked or at least heard about this. (Let's ignore the fact that the abbreviation of this condition is FAT. Well done, whoever thought that one up.) The Female Athlete Triad is comprised of three serious conditions – disordered eating, amenorrhea or irregular periods, and decreased bone density. Something like this is easy to hide because losing your period can just be attributed to training hard (yes, that actually is a thing) and people with eating disorders know how to hide them. This is another topic I hope to go more in depth with in a separate post, but I just wanted to point out it's existence.
In conclusion…
One thing I first noticed when I was coxing lightweights and since I've started to research the issue more this week is that USRowing, the United States governing body for rowing, has nothing published with regards to safe weight management practices, rules for ensuring weight loss is done in a healthy manner, etc. Maybe I'm just not looking hard enough on their website but I see that as a problem. For an organization of it's caliber and who is in charge of several lightweight national teams (from U-23 up to the elite level), I'm a little surprised that they haven't put something together. I've not yet attended one of the annual conferences, so I don't know if this is something discussed there or whatever, but I'm going to go out on a limb and say it's probably not. With the medical professionals they have on staff, this is something I feel needs to happen sooner rather than later, if only to show younger athletes who are just entering the sport the importance of taking care of one's self (mentally, physically, etc.) if competing at the lightweight level is something they plan on doing.
Also, I highly recommend that everyone check out this article from Rowing News in 2003. If that link doesn't take you directly to the start of the article, it starts on page 30 and is titled "Drained and Confused". It's very informative and talks about a lot of issues regarding lightweight rowing, in a lot more depth than I'm qualified to do. It's five pages long but I encourage you to take some time after you finish reading this and go check it out. Share it with your coaches and teammates as well, including your coxswains and heavyweight counterparts.
And, just to finish this off with my request from the last few days…I'd love to hear your stories if this is something you're dealing with or have dealt with in the past. I'm going to be posting everything I receive TOMORROW, so you've got ONE day left to email me. Everything will be kept anonymous, I promise. The goal is to let other rowers and coxswains know that they aren't the only ones dealing with these issues and that they're something that effects all of us. Please consider sharing your experiences and being a resources to your fellow athletes.


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PISGAH is the name of the mountain from which Moses was finally able to view The Promised Land after his journey through the wilderness, according to the Judeo-Christian bible. Last Tuesday Australian viewers reached their Pisgah after a climb that had taken 54 years – the moment when free to air television achieved the peak of its evolutionary cycle.
So what did we see when we staggered onto the summit just after 11am on January 11, 2011? A Scottish talk show host fondling a kangaroo scrotum (no longer attached to the animal) and helping an American actress to perfect her Australian accent by repeating the phrase "A dingo stole my baby". That was how Channel Ten chose to symbolise the whole new universe of choice that we are now entering.
Ten launched its latest mini-me spinoff with a program called The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, which is normally broadcast at 12.30am on the US network CBS. To celebrate the addition of a trans-Pacific audience, Ferguson displayed the scrotum and encouraged Mila Kunis to expand her linguistic repertoire. Later that day Eleven broadcast The Brady Bunch, Sabrina The Teenage Witch and Happy Days, just to prove it is the final nail in the coffin of Pay TV (the previous nails being called GO!, 7TWO, 7Mate and Gem).
Both shows are duplicated on Pay TV and Free TV
The free to air networks are doing a very good job of convincing us that anything Pay can do, they can do cheaper. Consider the overlap in these lists …
What Australia watched last week on Pay TV: 1 Cricket Twenty 20 Big Bash (Fox Sports 3) 184,000 viewers; 2 Avatar (Showtime Premiere) 167,000; 3 Lewis (UKTV) 113,000; 4 America's Next Top Model (Fox 8) 128,000; 5 The Simpsons (Fox 8) 133,000; 6 Futurama (Fox 8) 112,000.
What we watched on the mini freebie channels: 1 Jonathan Creek (7TWO) 388,000; 2 Pie in the Sky (7TWO) 344,000; 3 Heartbeat 337,000; 4 Big Bang Theory (GO!) 291,000; 5 How I Met Your Mother (7mate) 245,000; 6 The Closer (Gem) 242,000.
What we watched in the first 48 hours of Eleven: 1 The Simpsons 326,000; 2 Neighbours 274,000; 3 Futurama 269,000; 4 The Cleveland Show 181,000; 5 Everybody Loves Raymond 169,000; 6 Nurse Jackie 155,000.
It does seem that pretty much all the ancient sitcoms, soaps, US dramas and chat shows that filled the schedules of Foxtel and Austar for a decade are now available all day long at no extra charge.
So why would anybody continue to subscribe to cable or satellite? What can Pay promise that can't be seen from the free-to-air Pisgah?
Two possible answers: 1) A number of lesser sporting events; 2) Reality shows so trashy they have not so far been considered suitable for mainstream TV – such as 16 and Pregnant, My Super Sweet 16, Toddlers and Tiaras, Kendra, Holly's World, Bridget's Sexiest Beaches, and Jerseylicious (all officially euphemised as "guilty pleasure television").
To predict how long before the mini-freebies act to ensure Number 2 ceases to be Pay TV's point of difference, go to Comments.
This is The Tribal Mind column, by David Dale. It appears in printed form every Saturday in the News Review section of The Sydney Morning Herald, and also as a blog on this website, where it welcomes your comments.
David Dale teaches communications at UTS, Sydney. He is the author of The Little Book of Australia - A snapshot of Who We Are (Allen and Unwin). For daily updates on Australian attitudes, bookmark The Tribal Mind.
The column above was published on Saturday January 15. On Monday January 31, we received this response from ASTRA, which represents the Pay TV industry.
I read your article titled See the Promised Land: it's on TV and it's Free and feel compelled to respond. I am concerned that there is a lot you are missing on subscription television if you have found the only things on offer to be as you write "a number of lesser sporting events and reality shows so trashy they have not so far been considered suitable for mainstream TV."
With over 200 channels available, 18 of these HD, I guarantee there are exclusive quality programs on-air every day. If we look at the children's genre alone—where else can parents find eight channels of kid-friendly programming 24 hours a day? Over the last few years the children's channels have offered their own Australian productions as well—As the Bell Rings on Disney Channel, Camp Orange on Nickelodeon, and PenelopeK on CBeebies. Popular children's programs that are now in their second run on FTA, premiere on STV first: Hannah Montana, Dora the Explorer, Spongebob Squarepants and iCarly.
If we look at the news and documentary channels, the majority of programming on Animal Planet, Discovery, History and National Geographic Channel is exclusive to STV. And with 3x 24 hour news channels that even Parliament prefers to watch for breaking news, nothing compares to the coverage of SKY NEWS. In total, there are 25 news and documentary channels to choose from, which is something digital channels will never be able to provide.
In terms of drama, STV has always been at the forefront of providing the latest and very best-- first. For example, the award-winning series Mad Men commenced on Movie Extra in 2007 and was only picked up by SBS in 2009. The same can be said for Dexter, True Blood, Nurse Jackie, Entourage and Breaking Bad. All of these high-production value, quality dramas began on STV. FTA traditionally pick up the rights only when the buzz reaches a critical level (and the price tags have been slashed over time). This trend will continue in 2011, commencing with Martin Scorsese's much-acclaimed HBO series Boardwalk Empire to premiere on Showcase in March.
If we look at original production, the reality-type programming available on STV is reflective of consumer trends and demands for such shows. Some of the top-rated original programs on STV in 2010 were Selling Houses Australia, Grand Designs Australia, Come Dine With Me Australia—all exclusive to The LifeStyle Channel; Tough Nuts: Australia's Hardest Criminals on Crime & Investigation; Australia's Next Top Model on FOX8; News coverage from the 2010 election on SKY NEWS; and, NRL on FOX SPORTS 2. Drama productions have included award-winning series Love My Way and most recently Tangle— both of which will never be available on FTA. In 2011 Showcase will present the highly anticipated Cloudstreet, bringing to life Tim Winton's classic novel.
David, there are other exclusive elements to STV: from the four dedicated channels for the Winter Olympics to the hundreds of hours of first-run blockbuster, indie and international movies, to the ground-breaking technology of the IQ and MyStar. Ultimately, we have found that digital channels are only taking viewers from the commercial networks, cutting the FTA pie ever narrower rather than drawing from the STV viewing base, and eventually these viewers will question what else is available? How can I watch exactly what I want to watch when I want to watch it? And the answer is subscription television.
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It's hard to even fathom the huge change that has taken us from 2009's Ghost of Girlfriends Past star Matthew McConaughey to 2012's potential Oscar nominee Matthew McConaughey. There's one tiny bit of connective tissue there in last year's smart legal drama The Lincoln Lawyer, but the way McConaughey mined his charisma in that film was only a fraction of what we've seen this year, in the one-two-three-four punch of Bernie, Magic Mike, Killer Joe and The Paperboy. Even though Magic Mike is the only one of those movies that's been widely seen, it was more than enough to get that Oscar buzz rolling, and to remind audiences in a single line of dialogue in the trailer ("I see a lot of lawbreakers up in this house tonight ") why we made him a movie star to begin with. It's fantastic having him back.
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Valley Stream Target construction finished, doors open
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After being closed for more than six months during renovations, the Valley Stream Target store reopened its doors earlier this month with a few more amenities and a few more square feet to show its customers.
The store, which shut down on April 29, had a soft opening on Nov. 8 and its grand opening on Nov. 11. As customers entered the remodeled store for the first time they might have noticed some of the changes in its layout, as well as the products now being sold.
The biggest change, Michael Cannata, a regional human resource business partner for Target, said is the addition of fresh produce, meat and pre-packaged baked goods that the store now offers. Cannata estimated that the Valley Stream location's food section offers about 90 percent of the items that a customer could find at a Super Target, which has a full grocery store component.
"It's meant to be a destination for the guest for those fill-in purchases," Cannata said of the new food section, "maybe trips in between the grocery store."
The front of the store was moved out 60 feet and Cannata said the store added 14,000 square feet. With some of the extra space a Starbucks was added, which has been a big hit with customers.
Anaele Hernandez, a ninth-grader at Memorial Junior High School, likes the new amenities Target has to offer. "It's great that they chose to put a Starbucks inside of the Target," she said. "It gives my friends and I a good place to take a break after lots of shopping."
Resident Valeria Weiland said she is happy to see the additions of the Starbucks and a grocery section. "I'm glad I can go there and do all my shopping in once," she said.
The outside of the store was also completely redone with a new design and a reconfigured parking lot that now stretches further out. Valley Stream resident Christopher DeVoe said he liked the new Target, but the lot is tough to navigate. "The parking lot is a little worse," he said. "It sort of disconnects it from the mall."
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I have a warning when I run my GTK (Python GObject introspection) application and I can't figure out its source. When the application is loading and I'm populating a GtkListStore, after the very first time I append a row, I get the following warning:
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/gi/types.py:44: Warning: g_object_set_qdata: assertion `G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed
return info.invoke(*args)
The rest of the rows append without any further warnings. In fact, it's always only raised once, always on the first item to be appended. But, the actual contents of the row don't seem to matter; it raise the warning no matter what. When the program finishes loading, all of the rows seem to be ok when I browse them in the TreeView.
My list store looks like this:
self.list_store = Gtk.ListStore(bool, str, str, str, str, str, str,
str, str, str, str, GdkPixbuf.Pixbuf,
str, str, str, object, Pango.Weight)
The last few columns are hidden from the associated GtkTreeView, but the warning occurs before the TreeView is created, so I'm sure it's coming from the ListStore.Needless to say, I'm sure that all the rows I'm passing are in the correct format since, like I said, the warning is always raised after the first row, no matter which row I add first.
Does anyone have any idea what could be causing this? It's not preventing my application from running, so it's not an emergency, but I'd rather not have it spitting out warnings for the end user.
I confirmed using Python's
-W all commandline argument that the warning is actually being raised for all rows.
I tried stepping into the
append() method using
pdb but, interstingly, it gets stuck in a loop in the
gi code when it tries setting the value of the column containing the GdkPixbuf, so I never actually see the warning raised when debugging the program. My guess is that the Pixbuf is causing the problem, but I have no idea how to change it to get rid of the warning. The Pixbuf renders correctly in the TreeView, so I'm not sure what is going on.


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The Gift of Life
Organ transplantation is one of the most remarkable success stories in the history of medicine. But despite continuing advances in medicine and technology, the need for organs and tissue is vastly greater than the number available for transplantation.
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Venezuela, Guyana To Discuss Seized Oil Ship The top diplomats of Venezuela and Guyana agreed to meet to discuss the fate of an oil research ship seized in disputed waters as the captain of the U.S.-chartered vessel was being charged Monday in Venezuela with violating its maritime economic zone.
Chavez Never Able To Foster Image As Savior Of American PoorIn the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez offered to send thousands of soldiers, firefighters and volunteers to help with the cleanup. He also pledged $1 million in aid plus fuel to help rebuild hard-hit cities like New Orleans.
Report: Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez Dead President Hugo Chavez, a world leader known for his brusk government policies and who also declared a socialist revolution in Venezuela, died Tuesday at age 58 after a nearly two-year bout with cancer.
Altuve Gets First Big League HitJose Altuve, one of the few Astros prospects to get excited about, made his major league debut in Tuesday's game against the Washington Nationals.


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U.S. Department of State 2001 Trafficking in Persons Report - Haiti
|United States Department of State
|Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons
|Publication Date
|12 July 2001
|Cite as
|United States Department of State, U.S. Department of State 2001 Trafficking in Persons Report - Haiti, 12 July 2001, available at: http://www.refworld.org/docid/4680d77028.html [accessed 30 May 2016]
|This is not a UNHCR publication. UNHCR is not responsible for, nor does it necessarily endorse, its content. Any views expressed are solely those of the author or publisher and do not necessarily reflect those of UNHCR, the United Nations or its Member States.
Haiti (Tier 2)
Trafficking of children occurs primarily within Haiti's borders for purposes of prostitution or labor. The practice of parents sending their children, mainly girls, whom they feel they cannot take care of to work as domestic servants in exchange for that child's room and board has existed in Haiti for centuries. These children are called "restaveks" (derived from the French words rester avec' meaning to stay with'). While many restaveks are well taken care of and receive adequate care including an education, a significant number are subjected to violence, threats and other forms of physical and mental abuse. Some of the former restaveks end up as prostitutes because they lack the resources to return to their families or other opportunities when their services are no longer needed as restaveks. To a lesser extent, Haiti is a country of origin for trafficked men and women to the United States, Europe (mainly France), Canada, and the Dominican Republic.
The Government of Haiti does not yet fully meet the minimum standards; however, the Government has acknowledged its internal trafficking problem and is making significant efforts to address it despite severe resource constraints. There is no evidence that the authorities are complicit in trafficking. There is no law specifically prohibiting trafficking in persons, and the Government does not adequately enforce existing labor laws regarding child labor. However, the Government devotes its entire social welfare budget to combat the trafficking of restavek children. For example, the Government ran a media campaign to prevent the mistreatment of children and maintained a hotline for victims. This effort resulted in the removal of 760 restaveks from abusive households. Government officials then placed rescued victims in shelters and in the care of NGO's. The International Labor Organization, at the Government's request, is developing a framework for addressing the gap between practice, national legislation, and international standards with regard to combating child domestic labor.


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£50 million for victims' services
In an overhaul of victims' services, up to £50 million would be generated from offenders to help create a speedier, more supportive system for victims of serious crime.
Criminals will be forced to fund victims' support services and those with unspent convictions could be banned from claiming compensation, under new proposals announced by Justice Secretary, Kenneth Clarke.
The planned shake-up, which is now out to public consultation, includes:
Ending payments for minor injuries such as sprained ankles, cuts and grazes and speeding up payments for serious injuries;
Greater funding for victims' support services, better targeted at those most in need;
Stopping criminal injuries compensation payments to people with unspent convictions - totalling at least £75million over the past decade;
Banning criminal injuries compensation payments to people who have been resident in the UK for less than 6 months (except for UK and EU/EEA nationals);
A new statutory Victims' Code including the right for victims to make a personal statement and to request a meeting with their offender;
A simpler route of complaint and redress for victims;
Giving new Police and Crime Commissioners a key role in deciding the priorities for local victims' services;
Ensuring more voluntary victims' organisations have access to long-term funding.
Justice Secretary, Kenneth Clarke, said:
'Victims in this country must be able to rely on a justice system which punishes offenders properly and ensures that victims who suffer serious consequences are properly helped and supported.
'Cash compensation should be better focused on blameless victims of the most serious crimes and more support for victims should be funded by offenders rather than taxpayers.
'Victims should be supported and not be let down by the criminal justice system. They are the people to whom we have the greatest responsibility. I believe all these proposals will go a long way to putting right the failings of the past.'
The Government will also, for the first time, compensate British victims of terrorist atrocities abroad on the same basis as victims of terrorism in Britain. Those with ongoing disabilities from attacks after 2002 will also receive financial support.
The intended boost of £50m from the Victim Surcharge and financial penalties for victims' services is in addition to the £1million that the Government aims to take from prisoners' pay packets through the Prisoners' Earnings Act.
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From Sepinggan airport in Balikpapan, which is the entry point to East Kalimantan, we can take land or air transportation to Samarinda. Some airliners provide local route of Balikpapan-Samarinda. You can also take a taxi to Samarinda for a 2.5-3 hours drive.
If you use land transportation, you will be amazed by the beauty of Mahakam river in area called Samarinda Seberang. You can see busy sides of the river in Samarinda city center.


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The New York Post story is a lie. Zac didn't speak to any of the paps. It was the crew members telling the paps to stand back so they would not be in the shot. Somebody sold a fake story to the NY Post for money.


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Big Opportunities - Little People, Big World TV Show
By Joan Leotta
Photo courtesy Daniel Hennessy/TLC
Finding inventive solutions in a world designed for people without disabilities makes each day a reality adventure for people with disabilities. The Learning Channel (TLC) has packaged that adventure into a reality-style television show featuring a couple with dwarfism, Matt and Amy Roloff, and their four children, one of whom, Zach, is also a little person. The show, "Little People, Big World," premiered to critical and community acclaim in March 2006 and started a second season in October 2006. On April 9, with a new time slot of 8:00 PM on Monday nights, the latest season of "Little People, Big World" will begin.
Brooke Runnette, the program's executive producer for TLC, says that the idea for the show developed when TLC decided to do some shows about family relationships. Gay Rosenthal Productions, a television production company, located the Roloffs. The family had had their television debut on a Discovery Channel special in 2004 called "Little People, Big Dreams." The special proved so positive that TLC decided to do a series. "They just struck us as a perfect example of an inspiring family," says Runnette. "We developed the series around them.
"Our research and focus groups have shown that viewers who have average abilities are incredibly inspired by the story of the Roloffs," Runnette continues. "Stories like theirs often make the ordinary challenges everyone faces seem both more real and more surmountable."
TLC's website notes that "television's reality rarely includes the daily struggles of life in a world to which the person with disabilities must always adapt." With "Little People, Big World," TLC exposes the challenges of living with disabilities to the rest of the world. For the Roloffs, everyday tasks such as driving a car, peering over a bank counter, or making a trip to the grocery store are made more difficult when things are designed for people one or two feet taller than they are. The show highlights how, for the Roloffs, "the tasks of daily living are magnified a hundredfold in difficulty, while you still face the same struggle of education, finding a job, doing the job, and raising a family."
But TLC did not set out to create a show that focuses on the negatives of disability. "Our goal is to first and foremost present a compelling story," says Runnette. "This series just happened to feature that (kind of story) in the context of a family consisting of both little people and average-height people."
Who Are the Roloffs?
In many ways, the Roloffs are an average family: a husband and wife raising four children and facing financial difficulties. In the Roloffs' case, finances were especially tight when Matt lost his job as a software programmer and the family focused on their "u-pick" peach and pumpkin farm and another side business. But in addition, the Roloffs face complications related to their physical stature.
Making Ends Meet
Matt Roloff, the father of the family, at four feet tall, is no stranger to media attention. Matt's dwarfism is the result of the third most common cause of short stature, diastrophic dysplasia. Because his condition affects bones and joints, he walks with the aid of crutches and often gets around with a motorized scooter.
Before the series began, Matt had served as president of the advocacy group Little People of America. He also authored the book Against Tall Odds, which chronicles his experiences with dwarfism (Multnomah Press, 1999). The proceeds from the book enabled the family to purchase a 34-acre plot just outside of Portland, Oregon that became Roloff Farms. (www.mattroloff.com)
Matt also worked as a software salesman to make ends meet. Now, together with wife Amy and the children, he focuses on Roloff Farms and on Direct Access Solutions (www.lp-access.com), a firm that markets products for the comfort and safety of little people as they stay in hotels. The company's products, available to hotels in a "Short Stature Accessibility Kit," include a custom stepstool with an easy-open handle, a grabber for reaching items on high shelves, a push-pull tool to control switches and buttons mounted high on walls, a closet adapter that provides a lower rod for hanging clothes, and a device that can latch security locks mounted high on a door frame.
Amy Roloff, also just four feet tall, was a stay-at-home mom for years but now holds down two outside jobs, helps with the farm and with Direct Access Solutions. In the past year, Matt also accepted a job within the software sales industry to provide more income for the family.
Family Life
(l to r) Zach, Matt, Amy, Jacob, Molly and Jeremy Roloff on their 34-acre farm in Oregon. The family appears on TLC's hit series 'Little People Big World.'
Photo courtesy Daniel Hennessy/TLC
Matt and Amy have been married for twenty years and have four children: 16-year-old twins Jeremy and Zach, 13-year-old Molly, and 9-year-old Jacob. The drama of family life with teens has taken the show through sibling rivalry, first crushes, schoolwork, and dances. Zach and Jeremy are both involved with sports, and Jeremy also enjoys working with his dad on projects.
The family has also had its share of crises. In April 2005 Zach, the twin with dwarfism, underwent emergency surgery to repair a shunt he has in his brain. Again in January 2006, Zach had to have similar surgery.
Average-height Molly shares a birthday with her little-person mom, and one episode revolves around Matt's plans for their joint celebration. Molly, the only girl among three brothers, distinguishes herself as the best student in the house.
Jacob is a skilled soccer player and his mom, though shorter than many of the nine-year-olds on the team, is his coach.
The fishbowl effect of a camera peering into intimate family life during six months for ten hours a day has changed the life of this typical family. As a result of the show, thousands of people flocked to Roloff Farms during pumpkin season—so many that one weekend in October, the police had to close the farm to visitors.
That same month, the Roloffs experienced a tragic accident: Jacob and an adult neighbor were injured while operating a pumpkin catapult when they were struck in the head by falling concrete. The show's cameras were on the farm at the time, but not filming in the area where the accident occurred. Jacob has recovered, and the effects of the accident on the family are featured in the first episode of the new season.
How does the film crew capture the life of these six active family members? Says Runnette, "The challenges are mostly for Matt, who is of course both a little person and has to move around with the aid of crutches or a scooter—but still manages to exhaust the crew that has to follow him."
Runnette notes that viewer response to "Little People, Big World" has been extremely positive. "The show's ratings are terrific," she says. But in addition to being entertaining, the show has also proved enlightening.
According to Runnette, people have written in to say that through watching the show they are developing a new understanding of the abilities of people with dwarfism.
"We hear all the time from families who say that the show has spurred discussion in their living room about what it means to be different, and that's incredibly gratifying," says Runnette.
"TLC and the Roloff family both receive tremendous response in the form of hundreds upon hundreds of emails from little people, people with disabilities, and the general public," she relates. "Almost to a one, the letters and emails call the show inspiring and thank the Roloffs for doing it. So do we."
Another positive outcome of the show has been that the Roloffs' Direct Access Solutions business has gained exposure, which may translate into more sales of Short Stature Accessibility Kits to hotels. In addition, Matt Roloff now hosts an interview show, available via video podcast from TLC's website (http://tlc.discovery.com/fansites/lpbw/mattschats/mattschats.html), where he chats with people inspiring to him. Past interviewees include Pam Danberg, an active member of the Dwarf Athletic Association of America, and Meredith Eaton, a clinical psychiatrist, little person, and actress with a recurring role on the TV series Boston Legal .As for the future of "Little People, Big World," Runnette sums it up this way: "We (at TLC), along with viewers, hope the Roloffs will continue to let us into their lives for many years to come."
Edited by Mary-Louise Piner.
Copyright © 2007 The Solutions Marketing Group, Inc. All Rights Reserved


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Red Hawk Casino
One of the newest casinos in Northern California, Red Hawk Casino is owned by the Shingle Springs Band of Miwok Indians and is located in, unsurprisingly, Shingle Springs which is right outside of Placerville.
Somewhat blurry shot of the standard casino layout with lots of blinky neon.
Rather large slot machine that was taller than I am. Bigger slots = bigger payout?
Large birds of prey seem to be a standard motif of casinos around here.
The buffet, looking promising. Service was somewhat slow, however. I understand that it was dinner time, but really, we shouldn't have practically kidnap our server in order to get our drink orders in.
Multiple rounds of the buffet: ribs, deep fried shrimp, prime rib, italian bread and mashed potatoes all quite good. Cannoli was "meh", but I was very spoiled with the cannoli at Vito's in Pacific Grove. Overall, pretty good for a buffet and not too badly over priced.
The "please do not throw your needles in our trash cans" sign. I have been assured that this is for the diabetics and not the druggies, but still, it threw me for a moment.
Really pretty, and very large, chandelier above the escalator. Somewhat off center and blurry as I was doing my best not to fall backwards down the escalator. That would have been embarrassing.
EEEEEEEEE Princess Bride slot machine! Sadly, it was not kind to me, but just getting to play it was worth it. On the plus side, I was not attacked by ROUSes.
Move over Godzilla vs. Military, Bruce Lee may be my new favorite slot machine. His wild card high kicks were very kind to me.
Awesome-O-Meter: 3 Awesomes. All in all, a fairly standard casino experience. Good amount of fun themed machines and I scored big on the free play when I signed up for the players club. Good, tasty food selection at the buffet, though I wasn't impressed with the service.


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CCPE maintains a customer-focused market-driven approach to developing and delivering programs. As a result, the programs may change often to adapt to the training and educational needs of the marketplace. CCPE offers both professional development (non-credit) and credit programs, in many different subject areas. Whether the program is credit-bearing, or not for university credit, CCPE strives to provide the following features in every course:
In addition, CCPE provides companies, organizations, and government agencies with customized professional development programs for employees at their work site or at CSULB.
For a free catalog of the latest comprehensive program listings and descriptions, call the CCPE Customer Service Center 800/963-2250 or visit the web site http://www.ccpe.csulb.edu.
Following is just a sampling of the many types of programs offered by CCPE.
Degree programs offered by CCPE are in partnership with other CSULB colleges.
The American Language Institute provides English as a Second Language instruction to international students. ALI offerings include long-term and short-term programs, and credit and non-credit courses. Programs offered through the ALI include the Intensive English Program, a non-credit program offered year-round, 3 sessions per year, in which students are in class up to 25 hours per week.
Open University provides an opportunity for those people who are not currently admitted to and/or registered at CSULB to enroll in most courses offered by the university. Enrollment is on a space-available basis, and subject to approval of the instructor and department chair. Students receive Open University Special Sessions credit. For more information, call the CCPE Customer Service Center at 800/963-2250.
Continuing Education Units (CEUs) are a permanent record of attendance in professional development (non-credit) programs. They are provided by The American Council on Education (ACE) and administered through CCPE. CEUs can enhance ones resume and provide another opportunity to showcase a commitment to professional development. CEUs for specific professions are also available.


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Pineapple leads police to burglary suspect
The pineapple on the car antenna was a give-away.
The fruit was there because James Piacente, 35, of Shickshinny stole it, prescription medicine, a Nintendo Wii and a checkbook July 4 from a home on Skapura Road in Fairmount Township, police said.
According to arrest papers, Piacente and Eric Butka went to 166 Skapura Rd. and said they were looking for "Michael," the son of the homeowner. The men left, then later returned and said they needed help jump-starting their Volkswagen Beetle. The owner went to help them and noticed that medicine and a checkbook were gone from his truck.
Later that day, state police pulled over a yellow Volkswagen Beetle with a pineapple mounted on the roof antenna.
Police said Butka told them he and Piacente went to 166 Skapura Road looking for their friend, but left when they learned he wasn't home. They went back to the house after Butka's car stalled, Piacente disappeared and returned with a black backpack containing pill bottles, a checkbook, a Nintendo Wii and a pineapple. The men drove to a friend's house in Plymouth and Piacente took the items inside.
Police searched Butka's car Wednesday and said they found medicine and a checkbook belonging to the victims, a Nintendo Wii, hypodermic needles and the top of a pineapple. Police also said they found chemicals that can be used to make methamphetamine, but they did not file any drug-related charges against Piacente.
Authorities charged Piacente with burglary, receiving stolen property, theft from a motor vehicle, theft by unlawful taking and receiving stolen property. Butka was not charged.
Piacente was arraigned before Magisterial District Justice John E. Hasay and went to Luzerne County Correctional Facility in lieu of $25,000 bail. His preliminary hearing is scheduled for 10:10 a.m. Aug. 21.
570-821-2051, @CVBillW
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