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Tuesday, 28 July 2009
Home Alone
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Saturday, 18 July 2009
Another stressful week
This week has actually been ok i suppose. It was the tail end of the week that was a little more challenging. Since starting to drive I have come to rely on my car very much. This doesn't actually bother me as long as i am getting out and about. But it was time to put my car into the garage to get some serious work done. I had originally been given a quote for the work, and although it was a bit steep, i figured it was worth it as long as it keeps me on the road. So yesterday the car was out into the garage which left me without wheels for the first time in ages. Hmmmm. I didn't like it very much, but only because it was a change and we all know that change isn't welcome ha.
I did well during the day actually. I went out walking and went to the shops and things as usual, just as i did before I had my car. I knew i would only be without it for a couple of days and it would all be worth it when my car came back all mended. Oh well i spoke to soon. I awoke this morning to the mechanic calling me to tell me that the car will cost much more than i expected to repair. Well its silly money really and i would be cheaper buying a brand new car. But I don't have much money so what do I do??? Life without a car just doesn't seem to appeal to me. As much as i was out yesterday, i certainly didn't venture out as far as I would in my car. So i got a little worried at first but then took action. I collected my car before the guy done any work and went about car shopping. I looked at a few models and finally found one I am really happy with. Ok it's nothing flash but its nice and comfortable to drive, much more reliable and much newer than my car. In the end the new car will cost me the price i would have been paying for repairs...and its new and shiny and all mine! As pictured above.
Also this week i took on another challenge. A visit to the cinema. Well the cinema near me is massive. I think it has 20 screens or something so you can imagine this isn't a small intimate building. This place is like a supermarket inside. I wasn't actually worried about the building, just how i was going to manage to sit at piece for the 2 hour show. Waiting to leave for the cinema i was getting anxious. I told myself that it would be far easier to just cancel. Why do i need to go?? Ill just call it off. And then i remembered that that kind of behaviour is exactly how i ended up agoraphobic. Why deprive myself of a nice day out, and possibly seeing a good movie, just because of nerves?
Yes i was nervous on the journey there, and also inside i was a little on edge. During the movie i was thinking all sorts of things. but mostly it was this.... it is so dark in here. When i walk outside and its suddenly very bright is the rapid change going to freak me out. will the light be too much stimulation and will i panic?? Bit if a bizarre one isn't it, but hopefully you'll understand none the less. Eventually I decided that I would take a walk to the toilet and see how i reacted with that. As obviously leaving the dark cinema into the slightly lighter hallway would give me an idea to how i would react. Panic over.. i felt ok. I chilled out throughout the film. Which was 'bruno' and was pretty good. And afterwards I enjoyed a McDonalds with friends. Not a bad day out and totally worth the initial apprehension.
Next time i may have news of.... a job!!!!
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Tuesday, 7 July 2009
Moving On
What a horrible time. It really has been a nightmare! I had discussed my pregnancy in the past and it really was a total rollercoster from the start.
I was told that i may be having a miscarriage at around 5 weeks. Due to my agoraphobia i wasn't able to get to the hospital to have it confirmed. Finally at 8 weeks I went for a scan to be told i wasn't miscarrying, but had a cyst on my ovary which was causing the problems. Phew! Total Relief. I started to grow excited and enjoy my pregnancy. Although most people wait until 12 weeks have passed before telling people they are expecting, i thought that since baby was ok at my scan, i could start spreading the news. So i told everyone in the family and basically anyone i met when i was out and about. Worst of all i told all my nephews.
I was calm again. The agoraphobic symptoms were getting less and I was feeling more at ease day to day. Obviously I still had my worries. I had never felt that great making the drive to the hospital, and when at the hospital I wasn't exactly enjoying my visits. So i thought about the labour and didn't actually worry about the pain (naive?) but i was more worried about having the baby and then being told i had to stay in hospital for a few days. I wasn't sure how i would cope with that at all, but told myself that I would be fine and would want to stay wherever my baby was.
Then the bleeding returned. Not only a little. I wont be too graphic but basically if i had been 9 months pregnant i would have thought it was my waters breaking. On 2 occasions i was soaked. Must be the cyst i thought. Perhaps this is what happens when a cyst bursts?? I didn't know. But all the while i didn't worry about the baby, because deep down I knew the baby would be ok.
I am not here to discuss the miscarriage, but my agoraphobia, so i wont go into detail but basically i was asked to go to the hospital again for another scan. This is when I was told the bad news. In the hospital we were kept for what felt like hours. I don't like lifts so had to walk up and down 4 flights of stairs several times. Eventually we were put into a quite room to discuss our options with hospital staff. Wow i DID NOT want to be there. Obviously the stress of the news was having an effect. I went from feeling ok, to pacing the room and wanting desperately to leave. We were kept waiting as we needed to speak to a doctor, but the doctor was busy on the labour ward. I couldn't think about the news that had just been given to me, but instead kept thinking about the drive home. Now that my nerves were completely shattered I really didn't think I could manage the drive home. It seemed too far, too difficult, too busy. But at the same time i couldn't imagine allowing someone else to drive me, i needed to be the driver. Maybe once i started to drive I would be distracted and id make it ok. In the end i knew i didn't have any other option. (Well none that I would be comfortable with).
I drove home. And although I'm sure i didn't break the speed limit, i was definitely driving at the maximum speed allowed. I'm sure my mum and friend who were with me were scared, but no one would say anything knowing what i had just gone through. We all made it home in once piece. Now what?
All my plans have stopped. I can stop my lists now. Baby names, what I need for the nursery, what i need for my hospital bag. I can't believe it. I feel empty.
I was told that i would need to go back into hospital but i couldn't face it. By then I had completely lost my nerve. The experience in the hospital was not a happy one and it seemed even more difficult for me to get there now.
On the days that followed i continued to go out. I have basically kept up everything that i could do, but i have noticed I haven't really attempted to venture any further. I think its just too much at the moment. My body and mind are both completely exhausted!! I hope that as the days and weeks pass I'll regain my motivation. It is horrible that at times like these, we should be able to grieve and perhaps spend a few days in bed, but that agoraphobia wont allow this. If i took to my bed for a few days I know i would risk the agoraphobia coming back. OK, it may not be extreme agoraphobia, but its not a chance that I am willing to take. And so although i am tired I plod on. Obviously I have broke the news to all of the family, but how do you explain this to children. I have told them though and they all seem to understand.
So i need to go back to hospital but to be honest I have been putting it off. I need to be rescanned to see if it is all over. I don't want to go into that scan room again. It holds such horrible memories. I will say though that should i get pregnant in future i know i will be nervous, but i will go to any appointments with faith that all is well. I think just now its a little too fresh. My head is very messy and I'm sure my hormones are all over the place so i guess its understandable that i am a little drained. I want to be proud that I still fight my battles everyday, its just hard sometimes when you are so tired. I know all will be ok in the end.
I also wanted your opinion on something. A friend of mine suffers from agoraphobia, and we actually met after he contacted me about my blog. This guy is fantastic and continues to fight his agoraphobia no matter how down he gets. He is always thinking of new tasks or ways to challenge himself but lately he has been facing a tough time. We all know that at times our anxiety levels can leave us with the fear of being alone. I remember my fear being so acute that I would actually need someone to be with me even when going to the bathroom. Anyway (Ill call him John) John has recently begun to fear being left alone. He lives with his parents and during the day when they go to work he is left home alone and HATES IT. He used to be able to relax at night once his parents came home but now he spends his nights anxious, imagining what the day ahead will bring. Will he completely lose control? John's safe person is his mum and when things get really bad he relies on her being at home in order for him to feel at ease. So... this week John's parents are off work and he was looking forward to a more relaxed week, he hoped he would feel calm enough to focus more on his tasks and going out, instead of being home stressed out.
John has recently started to see a new 'helper' referred to him by his doctor. When his helper was visiting last week his parents told of Johns recent attachment to them and asked for advice. The helper has told John's parents that they must go out regardless of how John feels. No matter how much he pleads for them to stay, they have to leave him on his own. So... I think this is a bit harsh. I can completely understand what the helper is trying to do. They don't want John to develop an unhealthy attachment to his parents, for him to rely on them so much that whenever the HAVE to leave the house he becomes ill. But this has caused John to stress EVEN MORE than he had been about being alone. Obviously he is thinking so negatively and is completely freaking out because now his parents have announced that they WILL be leaving him alone, no matter how much he protests and that they are taking the advice of the 'professional'. I feel so badly for him and I wish i could talk to his parents. I know the helper means well but as an agoraphobic and having suffered from this problem myself in the past, i know that i would have been a trembling panic stricken mess had i been left. I was lucky that I had a stay at home mum who rarely went anywhere. So, what would your advice be to Johns parents or do you agree with the helper?
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GSW Hall of Fame
William (Willy) Mathis
Men's Basketball/Men's Track
Averaged 12 points per game
Averaged 8 rebounds per game
2nd Recipient of the Hussman Hustle Award at GSW
Albany State Christmas Classic All Tournament Team
GSW Track team 1969-1971:
In the GSW Track's Team 3rd year, GSW broke sixteen track and field records.
With an 8 win/1 loss record, the team ended the season with a second place finish in the G.I.A.C. In 1969, this was the most successful athletic team in GSW's history.
1973 Bachlor of Science in Education
1976 Master of Education
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Reprinted from Allergic Living magazine, 2011
The baseball game hadn't even started when Kishari Sing began to feel that something was seriously wrong. She knew that, like her father, she reacted badly to alcohol; even a small taste of Irish Cream in high school had made her wheeze. Still, in the parking lot outside the San Diego stadium, her college friends tried to convince Sing that she could build up a tolerance to alcohol, and specifically to their drink of choice – a cheap boxed rosé. She drank one glass and remembers little after that.
"It completely whacked me out. I was sick the entire time," recounts Sing, now a marketing executive in Los Angeles with a blog called The Food Allergy Queen.
"There's a picture of me at the game, and there's this row of fraternity guys cheering – but I'm all red and puffy and trying to sleep on someone's shoulder. I was completely incapacitated."
Fortunately, the reaction to the cheap vino didn't progress any further – but it was serious enough to keep Sing away from wine for good. "It made me so ill," she says. "So it really wasn't worth it."
Sing is not alone. In fact, roughly 8 percent of people worldwide suffer from allergic-type responses to wine, and even relatively small amounts of the age-old drink can lead to symptoms including redness, itching, swelling, runny nose, headaches and asthma flare-ups.
Some people have true allergic reactions to wine ingredients – in rare cases to the point of anaphylactic shock.
But a new study out of Denmark may be the first step in turning those avoiders into connoisseurs who can sip hardy cabernets and oaky chardonnays with impunity. Until now, sulfites – which are used as a preservative in many wines and also can occur naturally – have borne the brunt of the blame for the allergy-related reactions.
Yet only a fraction of people who are sensitive to wine are sensitive to the common preservative. Yeast, tannins and grapes in the vintages are also known to set off allergy symptoms, while histamines and salicylates are linked to intolerance.
The Danish study, published in the Journal of Proteome Research, reveals a completely different potential allergy culprit: glycoproteins. Titled "Glycoproteomic Profile in Wine: A 'ÄòSweet' Molecular Renaissance", the study looks at the molecular makeup of wine – a 2008 Italian Chardonnay to be exact – and identifies 28 glycoproteins (proteins that are coated with sugar during the fermentation process).
Ironically, the study's lead author Giuseppe Palmisano, who grew up helping his Italian winemaker father pick and press grapes, had not intended to study the potentially allergenic components of wine.
But in the process of analyzing the glycoproteins, and looking at what similarities they shared with other foods, he made the stunning discovery that they have a very similar structure to the proteins in known allergens, including latex, ragweed, bananas, tomatoes and kiwi. Palmisano, who is a post-doc in chemistry at the University of Southern Denmark, was so surprised that he checked and re-checked his data many times.
Once he was certain the data were solid, he was both thrilled and somewhat afraid, since the tiny Italian town where he grew up, along with many others like it, are highly dependent on the wine industry.
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Fittipaldi takes McLaren's first title
Season's results | Drivers' Championship | Constructors' Championship
This was one of the closest championships for years, in which Fittipaldi and Regazzoni battled for top position. In a dramatic finale Fittipaldi claimed his second title - a first for McLaren.
At the year's end Denny Hulme retired. The winter of 1973-74 was one of the busiest in memory. The big news was that Fittipaldi quit Lotus to join McLaren, along with substantial new backing from Texaco and Marlboro. Hulme stayed on as his team-mate, while a third car - in Yardley colours - was entered for Hailwood.
Ickx left Ferrari to join Peterson at Lotus, while Tyrrell found himself needing two new drivers. He hired Scheckter from McLaren and French newcomer Patrick Depailler. Revson also left McLaren, joining French youngster Jean-Pierre Jarier at Shadow. Hill's team swapped from Shadow to Lola chassis, while Hesketh built its own car for Hunt. BRM had new French sponsors, and Beltoise led a squad of three French drivers. Amon's career took another dive as he tried to run his own team.
Regazzoni rejoined Ferrari after a year at BRM, and brought with him Lauda. From the start the revised Ferrari line-up was competitive. Hulme won the first race in Argentina, but Regazzoni qualified on the front row and Lauda took second in the race. In Brazil Peterson and Fittipaldi duelled for the lead until the Swede punctured, leaving Emerson to score McLaren's second. At last, Reutemann came good by winning in Kyalami - Brabham's first success for exactly four years. Sadly, in pre-race testing Revson was killed when he crashed the Shadow.
At Jarama Ferrari's promise produced results when Lauda won. Fittipaldi scored a second win in Nivelles, and then Peterson triumphed at Monaco. Two weeks later Tyrrell new boys Scheckter and Depailler scored a brilliant one-two in Sweden.
Lauda and Regazzoni scored a Ferrari one-two in the French Grand Prix at the new Dijon track, and then Scheckter took his second at Brands Hatch. At the Nurburgring Lauda threw it away on the first lap, leaving Regazzoni to save face for Ferrari. Reutemann won in Austria, and then Peterson was on top at Monza when the Ferraris failed.
Fittipaldi made his claim in the penultimate race at Mosport, winning ahead of Regazzoni. Incredibly, they went into the final race on equal points. In the end a fourth place was enough for Emmo, with neither of his rivals scoring. McLaren also beat Ferrari to the constructors' title. But the race was marred by the death of rookie Helmuth Koinigg.
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Location: Hamburg, Germany
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The event, held every two years in a different location in the world, is the world's largest gathering of tug, towage, salvage and OSV experts. Over the past 44 years, the ITS Convention has earned an enviable reputation for being the best of its kind, thanks to meticulous attention to detail. It attracts the most senior players in the business from all over the world, affording them a unique opportunity once every two years to meet, learn and do business.


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Last night, I was awakened at Stately Batista Manor as a hypocycloid lit up the sky.
It can only mean one thing: The Steelers report to training camp today.
To the keyboard!
I know I've been very quiet this offseason here in the hills of Yonkers, a few Hail Marys from the town that's nicknamed Gotham City.
You're probably all wondering what I've been doing.
One thing I haven't been doing is working on a book on the 2009 Steelers season. If I were, I'd have called it "We've Had Our Hands on Balls," an actual Mike Tomlin quote that typified how just a few dropped passes meant the difference between playoffs and mediocrity.
Here's what I have been doing: Making money in my underwear.
No, it's not the kind of work where the money is stuffed into my underwear. Get your mind out of the gutter. The money is going to my PayPal account after I edit, and then approve or reject, articles of various subjects for the Internet.
This is a side job for me. My real job is at a newspaper (but not as a writer). Somehow I have avoided being thrown from the Titanic that is the newspaper business, but I need outside employment because A) The ship will sink eventually, and I need to know how to do something else, and B) The extra money doesn't hurt.
So I basically have two jobs, or at least a job and a half. This is why I haven't had the time to post an update on every blip of the Steelers' offseason.
However, one recent event I will say something about involves the untimely passing of Kaye Cowher, wife of former Steeler coach Bill Cowher. She died last week of skin cancer at age 54.
My take on this is that in retrospect Cowher made the right move stepping down as coach in 2007. At least it gave him a chance to spend more time with his wife while he could.
The lesson here is don't put work ahead of family.
Going forward, I am hoping against all hope that I can carve out the time to at least check in a few times during training camp and do a column on every regular-season (and hopefully) playoff game. No more power rankings. No more mid-week columns, unless Ben Roethlisberger rapes a motorcycle and doesn't wear a helmet.
This could change, of course, if someone sees fit to pay me as a Steelers blogger. That hasn't happened -- yet. I did apply for such a position this summer, but did not get it.
I actually have made a little bit of scratch here and there selling links on my old Steelers website, Steelahs.com. Generally, however, starting your own blog and trying to make money on it is like looking for change under the couch cushions.
This is one of the reasons I moved to the Blogger platform. It's free. The money I did make on Steelahs.com wasn't enough to cover the annual fee for the server and for the domain name. I'm still going to keep Steelahs.com up for at least a few more months. After all, those who bought links on my site paid $35 for an entire year. I can't just give them nine months of exposure if they paid for 12. I'm an honest businessman.
Even if I don't always wear pants.
Speaking of people who have a hard time keeping their pants on, the way I see it, the Steelers have two seasons coming up, one without Ben Roethlisberger and one with Ben Roethlisberger. Through the first four to six games, when Roethlisberger serves his suspension (I doubt it will be eight games), I'm going to be rooting my heart out for Byron Leftwich or Dennis Dixon to lead the Steelers to a 4-0 or 6-0 record so Roethlisberger loses his job and never takes another snap for the Steelers.
Of course, that probably won't happen. Even if Roethlisberger sits out just four games, those four games will be home to Atlanta, at Tennessee, at Tampa Bay and then home to Baltimore. Without Roethlisberger, the Steelers start the season 2-2 at best.
But hey, it's a new season. The infamous five-game losing streak has been wiped clean. And unlike my old Steelers site I'm not going whore this site out to lame links from halfway around the world. So without a profit motive, I can post this inspirational YouTube link from "scifiradioguy" without reproach.
Toe hits pigskin in 44 days.
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My five-month-old has a girlfriend.
It seems a love affair, albeit one-sided, has developed between our Beckett and Dora the Explorer. We are not exactly sure how to take it at such a young age, but it seems harmless at this point. He is equally fascinated with Dora's cousin, Diego, who has his own cartoon "Go Diego Go" and is featured in the "Dora the Explorer" show as well. It appears Beckett loves his Diego, and his infamous rescue pack, as much as his Dora. I prefer to think he favors Dora, but his mother thinks he has more of a fascination with Diego.
Yes, I an fully aware how ridiculous it is that I am writing about cartoon characters, but it all falls under the category of the weekly adventures.
As most parents know all too well, a key to raising an infant and toddler is maintaining a routine. Part of the early-morning ritual around our house is a few minutes here and there with Dora and Diego. It's during this time our little boy gets his first semblance of exercise because he flails his chubby little arms and kicks his husky legs in absolute excitement. There he sits kicking in his bouncy seat with his arms bopping along like only a little one can. Add a few high-pitch giggles and shrieks and it's easy to determine he's enjoying himself.
After watching some of his favorite cartoon, Beckett usually goes down for a nice mid-morning slumber. That's always welcomed around the house, especially if he was up to no good the night before. For whatever reason, every once in a while, he will wake up at 3 a.m. It's unexplainable. He's not hungry, not wet or dirty, just bored of sleeping and wanting to play. It becomes a battle of wills. We always win, but it does not keep the playful one from getting in a few full-body chuckles here and there. Some not-so-gentle tugs on a nice bottom lip, nose or ear keep him entertained for a couple minutes but eventually he gives in after giving up the good fight.
It's been interesting to observe the role television has played in our little one's life. It's not something he watches a lot of at this young of an age, but he does seem to really enjoy colorful cartoons or Baby Einstein videos. It provides a little break while opening the mail, doing a chore around the house or just in need of some peace and quiet. During a recent six-hour road trip to North Carolina (more on this in a future column), a couple Baby Einstein DVDs in the vehicle came in particularly handy and successful in getting us through the frisky, restless times.
Before becoming parents, we always said we would never raise our kids with television. We still feel that way today, but we must admit it does help at times when a respite and two hands are needed. When he was smaller and not so mobile and strong, my wife often used to put Beckett in the Baby Bjorn around the house, allowing for two free hands, but with him now tipping the scales at 16-plus pounds and those active arms and legs, it's become difficult to get stuff accomplished with him in tow. The weight alone pulls on some rarely used back muscles, but add to that a case of the jimmy legs and curious hands and its usefulness is questionable.
One thing I got to thinking about the other day was what it would be like when my son starts getting into video games. Maybe he will be one of the nature lovers who never wants to be inside and only wants to play sports and wander the great outdoors. Realistically, no matter if this is his preference, there's going to come a time when video games will be a part of his life. His friends will have them and he will need all the latest and greatest games without a worry in the world for how much they cost. That's years away, but I have to wonder if we are setting the bar a little too high with him.
You see, a splurge item a couple years ago was a 52-inch Plasma television. Beckett seems to share my affection for it. Imagine this scene: a little boy, measuring all of 25 inches in length, in his swing, decked out in a onesie that reads "iPood", sitting 12 feet away from the big screen. Too much closer and he stops blinking and that just seems highly inappropriate.
I wonder the other day if the television's size is spoiling the little boy. Is he going to fuzz if the television malfunctions some day? That would be a really tough day for my wife. She likes the television okay, but the problem she will have to deal with is the constant whining from the two males in the house.
While my wife usually sides with cartoons as the baby's TV watching time, he and I watch sports together on the weekends. Sure it's entertainment, but it's more about brainwashing him at an early age into becoming a fan of my teams so we can cheer them on together in future years.
He even tried his hand at politics the other night. During his last feeding of the night, he watched the presidential debate with his parents for five minutes or so. I think the red carpet kept his attention for a bit, but he soon nodded off and went to bed at peace, something the debate did not inspire in his parents. It was nice to see him go down because he will have plenty of time to be frustrated by politics in the years ahead.
In the meantime, the love affair with Dora, and Diego continues and seems to be deepening. All the while we understand what this means. Today, it's a short television program. Tomorrow it will be Dora the Explorer sheets and pillow cases and Diego stuffed animals and posters. The adventure continues.


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Sandy Hook Lingerie Party Massacre 2000 Review
Sandy Hook Lingerie Party Massacre 2000
Directed by: Tim Beckley
Starring: Debbie Rochon, Stephanie Hudson, DiDi
Review by Luisito Joaquín González
So here we have Sandy Hook Lingerie Party Massacre. Let's say that again, SANDY HOOK LINGERIE PARTY MASSACRE! What do you think of when you see that combination of words? What's in a title anyway? Does it have a cryptic meaning? Who is Sandy Hook? What on earth am I writing about? Let's move on…
Ok this is another of the many party-massacre flicks that includes the likes of: Bikini Party Massacre (Not to be confused with Bikini Girls on Ice), Bachelor Party Massacre, Rock Party Massacre, Pajama Party Massacre and the daddy of them all, Slumber Party Massacre.
Very hard to find on any format (I picked up mine in Moscow), Sandy Hook is another Debbie Rochon carried feature. Let me explain what I mean. Ms Rochon has built a successful career on being a half decent actress with an awesome pair of boobs. What she specialises in is attaching her name to modestly funded features, turning up for a second (usually to expose aforementioned 'twin peaks') and then disappearing with a healthy paycheque. Everyone's a winner though, because she gets paid, the producers get a fairly experienced name to place above their title and her fans get to appreciate those two bad boys in all their bra-less glory. As she generally sticks to no-budget efforts, it's fairly obvious that she has done her share of slashers. Check out: Final Examination, American Nightmare, Bleed, Bikini Bloodbath, Blood Relic and Santa Claws. Basically she's the Linnea Quigley of the noughties.
I have a six hour train journey before me from London to Newcastle and on my fully charged iPad, I have Massacre at Rocky Ridge, Porn Shoot Massacre and this little beauty. These are three zero finance and totally obscure entries to our beloved grouping. Let's see how I get on with the first…
Some strippers head off to a seaside resort for s break. They are told the legend of a lighthouse keeper whose reckless drinking caused a ship to crash, killing close to one hundred sailors. Soon after, he killed himself and was never brought to trial. Rumour has it that when a storm comes, he stalks the area looking for revenge and many people have disappeared. As night falls, the girls are chased and systematically slaughtered by a loon in a gimp suit.
Oh boy… Right, so I've had my say on lunch-money productions before, but just to recap I will tell you that as a critic, I appreciate that it's hard to make a decent feature when you've got no money. I have kept this in mind and will only rate this on what I thought the crew did right and wrong. So we have our six (or seven?) strippers. They have the boobies for sure, but aside from Debbie Rochon, they also have the bellies to match. Here begins the film's fundamental flaw.
It's not just because these girls are awful actresses. We are used to that by now. It's just that they're incredibly unappealing and a runtime filled with them gets very long and very boring very quickly. To break it down: We get to watch fat chicks dancing on a bridge for ten minutes. Then we get fat chicks playing beach-ball for the same length of time. Then, said fatties go to an abandoned amusement park for a while and then we see them make dinner. By this point in the runtime, I was literally screaming: "F**king slaughter them already!" Perhaps the film's kill shot in terms of a decent ranking comes during the lightweight lesbian scene, which could in effect be a sumo match. Yes, it's poor; – astronomically so. Also, Dios mío, I didn't mention the nipple and tongue piercing scene…errrrrghhhh!
After an hour (you read right – a full sixty minutes) the masked killer turns up (awesome mask btw) and we get down to business. Most of the murders are too dark to see but one of them is ok. There's a twist that you couldn't give a flying flip about and an open ending too. The maniac uses a hook-like weapon and stalks using typical POV. A film really has to be abysmal to get slated by me on this site, because I always hope to uncover a title that no one else has given time to. This however is most DEFINITELY not one of those.
So what did Mr.Creepo (The film's producer and a guy so egotistical that he makes his characters discuss whether they would go to bed with him) – do wrong? Well, in the UK, they have the descriptive term 'chav'. If that word is unfamiliar to you, then this explanation will not be. 'Chavs' are people generally aged between fifteen and thirty-five who don't work, live off benefits, have minimal education, wear baseball caps, swear a lot and generally offer nothing except a tax burden to society. They reside in every country and are easier to find than you might think. I don't like them, you don't like them and we certainly don't care to watch them in a movie. Now although I can't say for sure that these girls are actually chavs; I can dislike their vulgar talk, lack of class and generally low-level conveyance. The plot could have instead tried to build personalities that we care about, but there's not even one.
Every second word from their mouths is either about sex or their lady lumps, which to be fair is all that they have to offer. It's perhaps worth noting that Hook is billed as a horror/comedy, but the only horror to be found here is the inane attempt every now and then to be humorous. These 'jokes' are so unevenly placed that they make little sense.
There is one, believe it or not, very good shot. It shows the killer creeping up behind our final girl, who as you may have already guessed happens to be Ms Rochon. One and only the one decent moment in a hundred and twenty-five minute flick is just not good enough and the film, like the aforementioned chav, has nothing left to redeem it.
A wiseman once said that the key to a good life is making the most of every minute because as each one passes, you never get them back. I urge you not to waste yours on Sandy Hook as it is without a shadow of a doubt as rancid as a night in a decaying concrete tomb. Forget it
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Gore: √
Final Girl: √√
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Legal analysis of UK blocking Injunctions
Multinational, industrial-scale copyright holders continue to pursue a number of inappropriate means of enforcing their rights. IFPI, the BPI and MPA continue to lobby for new, intrusive enforcement rights. The Digital Economy Act offered two new possibilities:
Section 17 of the Digital Economy Act gives the Secretary of State the power:
by regulations [to] make provision about the granting by a court of a blocking injunction in respect of a location on the internet which the court is satisfied has been, is being or is likely to be used for or in connection with an activity that infringes copyright.[i]
This power is the subject of discussion in this document. In part 1, we look at the broad problems with internet censorship, especially blocking for copyright infringement. We show that it is a very broad measure, with severe problems. In part 2 we examine the current legal position of web blocking injunctions following the Digital Economy Act. In part 3, we offer a brief conclusion.
There are several significant problems with the prospect of utilisation of web blocking powers.
By the very nature of the industrial-era regulations of copyright (which were developed to govern the expensive and difficult task of making industrial scale copies of books, music, visual arts, etc.) any and all internet sites are potentially of use in violating copyright.
Copyright is not a clear cut set of restrictions. Quite rightly, given the potential impact on commerce, education, culture, news reporting, academic research and many other areas of life, copyright and neighbouring rights are expressed relative to the whole situation and not absolutely.
The legal support for so-called digital rights management technological prevention measures in the WIPO Copyright Treaty and the relevant implementing legislation, mean that over-strong restrictions on legitimately held embodiments of copyright material may prevent lawful access for educational, research, criticism and review.
Obtaining unrestricted copies from elsewhere to enable the exercise of these rights is not a violation of copyright, but the legality of such copying needs testing in a court of law in each individual case.
Further restricting the general availability of material which can be used to exercise one's lawful rights would push the copyright bargain even further from a sensible balance between the rights of creators and middlemen, and those of (re)users.
Internet sites, unlike physical items containing an embodiment of copyrighted material, are highly malleable in both current content, source of that content, and their logical structure (the physical structure has very limited impact on their logical structure).
The nature of the World Wide Web is that of interlinked documents potentially shared on any server online. As was seen with the shutting down of Napster, the closure of centralised services serving customer desires simply drives services away from potentially profit-making centralised sites and onto ever-more distributed services (Gnutella, Kazaa, BitTorrent). The closure or blocking of "The Pirate Bay" would not lead to the demise of BitTorrent, but would simply cause the generation of more distributed tracking methods, and the emergence of interlinked applications providing temporary tracking information.
Blocking access to a site on the internet either prevents all traffic to that site, preventing standard communications such as email as well as web or file sharing traffic, or will be utterly ineffective at preventing sharing since the very protocols of the Internet are designed to be completely flexible, allowing any two machines to transfer information over any agreed port using any commonly agreed protocol.
Blocking is an all-or-nothing proposition on the internet and hence should be used only for serious criminal activity (such as hosting child abuse images).
Supposedly legitimate digital download sites such as the Apple iTunes Music Store (ITMS) have carried material which is found to be infringing copyright. The copyright violations in question are complicated and regarding the exercise of rights by recording companies beyond their contracts with performing artists and/or composers.
However, given the importance of the ITMS as a sales channel it is unlikely that the recording companies would request that it be closed down. The recording artists themselves are unlikely to have the financial wherewithal to seek the closure of ITMS over such matters, and the ITMS may be providing them with income from properly authorised sales.
The ability to seek for a whole internet site to be blocked thus raises the question of equality under the law for sites, raising some of them beyond such measures even where they may be the most significant source of copyright infringement due to their total scale.
Blocking of whole internet sites will likely lead to a number of undesirable side effects.
Section 17 of the Digital Economy Act 2010 appears to permit the government to make regulations that would allow a wider class of injunctions to be made against "service providers" than at present.
In this discussion, a "service provider" refers to anyone who operates an "information society service" -- which includes all commercial services available online, such as website hosting, and is not confined to merely those providing access to the internet which we informally refer to as "ISP's".
This discussion attempts to outline what the state of the law is at present and what section 17 might do. Part 2.1 contains a brief summary of the existing situation and a list of reason that rights holders might think it inadequate. Part 2.2 is an example case (in fact the only case that properly considers the law at all) that illustrates what rights holders are able to do, and what they are prevented from doing. Part 2.3 contains a more detailed background of why we are where we are now, and what rights holders have pressed for in the past. Part 2.4 looks briefly at what changes section 17 may bring about. Part 2.5 provides an alternative, narrower view of Section 17.
The courts have a statutory power[ii] to grant an injunction to prevent someone doing anything that would infringe copyright: usually because that person was sued for past copyright infringement, but an injunction may also be used to prevent future infringement. The courts also have a newer power in s97A of the Copyright Act[iii] (introduced after pressure from rights holders) to grant an injunction against a service provider where they have actual knowledge that another person is using their service to infringe copyright.
These two powers are seen by rights holders as being insufficient, particularly to deal with online infringement. They have also been reluctant to even use the s97A power for fear that it is far weaker than they hope and that to use it and fail would set a negative precedent.
The problems they perceive include:
This is, however, probably the way the law should work.
The case of Twentieth Century Fox (and others) v Newzbin[iv] illustrates the rights holders concerns.
Newzbin is a website that indexes (but does not store) USENET content. It has a normal (free) and premium membership. Premium members were able to use it to obtain easy access to the large numbers of films available in binary format on USENET – in most cases with infringement of copyright.
Six film studios sued Newzbin for damages and an injunction to prevent it "from including in its indices or databases entries identifying any material posted to or distributed through any Usenet group in infringement of copyright."
On the basis of a number of factors, including the focus on movies and games, a list headed "Shows you are likely to see posted" (which included many films in copyright) and the way in which movies were categorized, the judge found that Newzbin were secondary copyright infringers for many reasons: authorisation, procurement, participation in a common design, making available and communication to the public.
An injunction was granted that required Newzbin to filter any material that matched the studios' copyright works in a database that the studios supplied.
What the studios had wanted was a much wider injunction, that covered all infringing material, whether or not it belonged to them. The judge refused to do so.
The studios had tried to use s97A – a new power (see below) for the courts to grant injunctions against service providers (like Newzbin) that had actual knowledge of infringement. The judge refused to make the order because:
The judge was quite clear that the injunction should go no further than he had indicated.
The courts have a general power to grant injunctions ordering one or more parties to do or refrain from doing a wrongful act. An injunction is a powerful weapon because anyone who acts in breach of a court order risks proceedings for contempt of court, the ultimate sanction for which is imprisonment.
Because breach of an injunction is such a serious matter, the courts apply a number of principles to the scope of the injunction – that is exactly what is or is not ordered:
An injunction is also a discretionary remedy: a court may refuse an injunction for many reasons and, in particular, if it thinks that an injunction would not be just or necessary in the circumstances. Injunctions may be used both as an "interim" remedy, before any rights or wrong have been finally established, and a "final" remedy as a result of a final judgment.
As part of a scheme to encourage electronic commerce, the E-Commerce Directive[v] introduced a set of provisions intended to protect service providers from liability for innocent infringements of copyright. The way the directive does this is to identify three kinds of activity a service provider might be involved in:
As a general rule a mere conduit would not be liable in damages for any copyright infringement as a result of information flowing over its network. Someone providing a temporary cache would be in a similar position provided they complied with general internet standards (such as to when the cache is cleared).
Those storing information for others – which would include those hosting websites – have a much more limited liability, they are free from liability for damages only as long as they do not have "actual knowledge" of the infringement or take prompt action when they do. The exact extent of this liability is unclear – does knowledge require certainty, or would mere suspicion be enough?
Despite the general way in which these defences are phrased in the directive, each defence is qualified by the proviso that:
"This Article shall not affect the possibility for a court or administrative authority, in accordance with Member States' legal systems, of requiring the service provider to terminate or prevent an infringement."
This means that the directive does not prevent injunctions being made against an ISP to prevent infringement. This would seem to allow an authority like HADOPI in France to require service providers to disconnect infringers. It is less clear whether it can be used to impose a requirement on an ISP acting as a mere conduit to use filtering software to prevent infringing works being transmitted over its network – as happened to Tiscali in Belgium[vi] – which would seem to be contradicted by article 15 of the directive which states that member states may not impose a general obligation to monitor.
In 2001, the Copyright Directive[vii] required that the UK government ensure that "rightholders are in a position to apply for an injunction against intermediaries whose services are used by a third party to infringe a copyright or related right".[viii] In its consultation on the implementation of the directive, the government felt that there was no need to make any specific provision in UK law for the granting of injunctions:
"Regarding Article 8.3, it is already possible under UK law to seek injunctions against intermediaries. It is also possible to notify an intermediary of an injunction served on an infringer so that the intermediary is liable for contempt of court proceedings if he aids and abets an infringer. It is considered that this meets the requirements of Article 8.3."[ix]
The rights industry was not happy with this and expressed concern that unless there were specific legislation, there would be uncertainty as to whether right owners can apply for injunctions. In response the government included what is now section 97A of the Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988.
Section 17 contains a framework for website blocking – to be fleshed out by regulations to be made by the relevant minister. Like many other aspects of the Digital Economy Act 2010, the devil will be in the detail.
Injunctions under (or regulated by – see my pedantic end-note) section 17 have the following properties:
Section 17 constrains the kind of location that may be blocked into one of three classes. Each class consists of those locations which either in the past, at present or it is likely in the future that they will be
This means that section 17 injunctions are quite a different animal from section 97A injunctions, for instance:
Note that the injunction sought in Newzbin would probably not be covered under section 17. Although Newzbin did assist infringers in finding infringing material, it would be hard to argue that it was "used to gain access" to the locations where that material was kept. Section 17 does not cover injunctions against the infringing locations, but at intermediate service providers who provide access to them.
Section 17(5) does provide some safeguards – for example the court must take into account the importance of freedom of expression and whether the injunction would have a disproportionate effect on anyone's legitimate interests. What is more it must take into account the "steps taken by the copyright owner, or by a licensee of copyright in the qualifying material, to facilitate lawful access to the qualifying material" – which may provide a safeguard against the abuse of copyright.
The section has the following technical defects:
But the more obvious concerns relate to the potential for over-wide application.
Section 17(1) begins:
(1) The Secretary of State may by regulations make provision about the granting by a court of a blocking injunction in respect of a location on the internet which the court is satisfied has been, is being or is likely to be used for or in connection with an activity that infringes copyright.
Read literally, this does not create a new power by the courts to grant injunctions, rather it allows the Secretary of State to make regulations that govern what they must do if they make a blocking injunction. Contrast with section 97A(1) which says "(1) The High Court (in Scotland, the Court of Session) shall have power to grant an injunction" (emphasis mine), which clearly grants a new power to the courts. So far, everyone has been proceeding on the basis that section 17 does create a new power, and its possible the courts may, especially if no-one raises the point at an early stage, proceed as if it did.
But it is quite possible that a court would take the view that that section 17 doesn't give any new powers to the courts. If that were the case, section 17's application would be very, very limited.
Copyright is a private right, that needs careful establishment in each case. Web blocking is an intrusive and wide-ranging tactic that has broad effects. These can include censorship and stopping the legitimate circulation of material. Broad uses would be likely to create inequalities before the law, and bring copyright into further disrepute.
Powers to grant web blocking injunctions have existed in the UK for some time – arguably powers given to the courts that predate the Internet would allow for such Injunctions. New, defined powers were introduced in the early 2000s. They have not been widely used, the first instance being the Newzbin case, in part because rights holders felt they were too narrow and were worried by the impact of failure. They are now under pressure to use these powers in order to demonstrate any need for further legislation introduced under s17 of the Digital Economy Act.
It is important for the courts to take great care (as the court did in Newzbin) to ensure that individual rights holders can uphold their individual rights to prevent particular copyright infringements, while at the same time ensuring that wide-ranging injunctions should not become used in order to penalise service-providers for not providing the monitoring and policing functions which rights holders are trying to induce them to provide.
Judge Kitchin touched on many of these concerns in the Newzbin case:
I do not believe it would be appropriate to grant an injunction of the breadth sought by the claimants for a number of reasons. First, it is apparent from the terms of Directive 2001/29/EC that it is contemplating the grant of an injunction upon the application of rights holders, yet the claimants are seeking an injunction to restrain activities in relation to all binary and all text materials in respect of which they own no rights and about which I have heard little or no evidence. Second, I do not accept that the defendant has actual knowledge of other persons using its service to infringe all such rights. Therefore I am not persuaded I have the jurisdiction to grant such an injunction in any event. Third, the rights of all other rights holders are wholly undefined and consequently the scope of the injunction would be very uncertain. In my judgment the scope of any injunction under section 97A(2) should extend no further than that to which I have already concluded the claimants are entitled, namely an injunction to restrain the defendant from infringing the claimants' copyrights in relation to their repertoire of films.[x]
In the case of any future web blocking powers, introduced by Section 17 of DEA, there would be new additional dangers. The powers potentially could very wide. Services that are dealing with, or have dealt with, copyright infringement may be affected. Rather than targeting actual incidents of infringement, it attempts to target services where copyright infringement has been taking place. This, we note, makes no reference to whether such sites have means to deal with infringement, nor whether such infringement has stopped.
ORG does not believe new powers would be in the public interest. The current, more specific approach makes more sense.
Credits: Section 1 by Profession Andrew Adams, Section 2 by Francis Davey. Additional material from Lilian Edwards, Kuan Hon and Jim Killock.
[i] http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2010/24/section/17
[ii] Section 37(1) Senior Courts Act 1981 http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1981/54/pdfs/ukpga_19810054_en.pdf
[iii] Strictly, the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1988/48/contents
[iv] [2010] EWHC 608 (Ch) http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/Ch/2010/608.html
[v] Directive 2000/31/EC http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=CELEX:32000L0031:EN:HTML
[vi] Sabam v Tiscali, District Court of Brussels, 29 June 2007. The question of whether the Belgian law under which the court made its order is compatible with EU law has been referred to the European Court of Justice.
[vii] Directive 2001/29/EC http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=CELEX:32001L0029:EN:HTML
[viii] Directive 2001/29/EC, Article 8.3
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The Texas Tech women and Oklahoma State men were crowned the 2008 Big 12 Cross Country Champions - the first for both programs. OSU ended the 12-year win streak held by Colorado, becoming the second men's team to win a Big 12 Cross Country team title. Meanwhile, TTU is the third women's squad to win the event.
The league championship came full circle as runners gathered at the Iowa State Cross Country Course in Ames,
Iowa - the site of the inaugural event in 1996. Tech's women's team
walked away with the championship scoring 44 points, followed by Baylor
(71), Nebraska (102), Texas (117) and Colorado (145). In the men's
race, Oklahoma State took four top-five finishes and totaled 26 team
points for the win. The second and third place finishers were separated
by one point as Colorado (66) placed ahead of Iowa State (67), followed
by Texas A&M (95) and Missouri (155).
Tech's Kipyego had a record-breaking performance as she led the women's field for the third consecutive year. She ran an ISU course record time of 19:45.0 in the 6K, finishing over 50 seconds ahead of teammate Lillian Badaru who came in second with a time of 20:36.8. Kipyego now owns eight individual titles all-time, and is the first women's cross country runner to win three consecutive Big 12 individual titles.
It was a close race from start to finish on the men's side. However, it was freshman German Fernandez (OSU) who pulled ahead of the pack clocking a 23:47.4 in the 8K race. Texas A&M's Shadrack Songok came in second (23:53.1), followed by three additional Cowboys rounding out the top-five - John Kosgei (24:01.0), Ryan Vail (24.01.6) and Colby Lowe (24.05.9).
Junior-transfer Badaru and freshman Fernandez were named the Big 12 Newcomers of the Year - given to the top newcomer finisher in each race.


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Friday, December 05, 2008
Out of here
We're getting up at 3:45 to fly to Naples, Florida via Chicago to visit Jon's parents. Then on to New Jersey on Monday to see my mother who isn't doing so well. When I called tonight the nurse answered. My mother was in a panic because she couldn't find Carol's phone number. Carol died 17 years ago. But after I talked to my mother for a while, she was laughing about it.
But you can see, things aren't going well. I'm not taking a computer so this blog will be quiet until after Wed. night when I return.
5 comments:
- Namowal said...
I'm sorry to hear your mother isn't doing well. I wish the previous sentence didn't sound so "canned," as I'm sincerely sorry. Bad things seem to be happening to a lot of people.
I'll be thinking about you when you're away.
- Dec 5, 2008, 8:31:00 PM
I'll be thinking about you when you're away, too.
- Dec 5, 2008, 10:00:00 PM
I hope your mom's OK.
- Dec 7, 2008, 11:31:00 AM
- A Wanderer said...
I'm sorry to hear about your mom not doing well too.
It brings to mind some memories of mine; without going into it, I'll just say that, to some extent, I know the feeling.
- Dec 7, 2008, 6:52:00 PM
- Sally said...
Thanks for all your concern.
- Dec 11, 2008, 5:46:00 PM
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Many things have changed in Flex 4 and with the new Flash Builder 4 Beta, you can already start trying these out. This little tutorial will walk you through a simple FB4 HTTP Service example to explain the differences. If you want to do this, download the Flash Builder 4 Beta.
First – there are multiple new namespaces in Flash Builder 4. These appear to be confusing at first but you should not be scared by them.
Fx is for the Flash Catalyst packages and contains some new drawing primitives and more. Some of the old namespace qualified elements are now qualified including Script.
Flex defines two other sets of components: Halo and Spark. The Halo component sets were included in previous releases of Flex, and are defined in the mx.* packages. The Spark components are new for Flex 4 and are defined in the spark.* packages. The Spark components use a new architecture for skinning and have other advantages over the Halo components.
The Halo and Spark component sets contain many of the same components. For example, both component sets define a Button control, TextInput control, and List control. However, while you can use Halo components to perform most of the same actions that you can perform by using the Spark components, Adobe recommends that you use the Spark containers when possible.
Another major change is that many non-visual components of an application must be bound by the element. You might notice if you are trying to declare an HTTP service, the will not auto-complete unless bound by the declarations tag. If you want to manually build this project, you can add an HTTPService like this:
A third thing you will see is that the layouts are no longer contained in the header. Instead, they are declared inside a
container as shown below:
1. Start a new project in Flash Builder 4. Select no server type and either option for the AIR/Flash toggle.
2. Grab a browser and you should be able to validate the servers are up and running by hitting the following URL: http://www.nickull.net/xml/Wines.xml You should see the following XML file:
Note 1: In order for this to work, a small file called crossdomain.xml is in the same directory as the Wines.xml on the server. This file helps Flash Player mitigate cross domain scripting attacks. Describing what this file does is beyond the scope of this tutorial, however more can be read at http://livedocs.adobe.com/flash/8/main/wwhelp/wwhimpl/common/html/wwhelp.htm?context=LiveDocs_Parts&file=00001621.html
Note 2: All the wines on this list are favorites and make great gifts for Adobe Evangelists who post tutorials to help you with your work ;-p
3. Copy the URL (Command -C on Mac or Control-C on PC)
4. At the bottom of the Flash Builder IDE, click on the Connect to Data Services link shown below.
5. This will bring up a dialog box with a number of choices for services. Select the HTTPService option as shown below:
6. Click "Next" and then fill in the next screen by adding the name of the service ("srv" in this case) and add the URL.
7. After completing this operation by clicking "Finish", you will see the data services in the panel at the bottom.
8. Next we need to add an object to bind our data to. Switch to Design view and drag a DataGrid onto the middle of your application. If you manually add it in Code view, just start typing the angle bracket and "datagrid" and let Flash Builder complete this for you.
9. Highlight the DataGrid, then right-click (Control Click on Mac) the DataGrid object and select Bind To Data from the men
u as shown below:
10. This will bring up the "Bind to Data" dialog box. Click on "Configure Return Type" to configure the datatype for the returned object.
11. The next dialog will prompt you for a datatype. NOTE: on other projects, you might wish to use one of the default data types; however on this one, we are going to create our own object type called "WinesArray" as shown below.
12. Click "Next"
13. The next dialog will invoke the service request to get a sample of the data to inspect. For this lab exercise, select the radio button labeled "Enter complete URL …" and enter the URL of the XML file in the "URL to fetch" box below and click "Next".
14. Flash Builder will go to the URL, retrieve a sample of data, and break down its structure for you. In this case, it has selected that it may be an array. Rather than accept the first option as is, use the drop down list to select a context root of "Vintage" as shown below.
15. Now you will have the following
16. Click "Finish"
17. Close the last dialog by clicking "OK"
18. Your project should now reflect the DataGrid being bound to the data as shown below:
19. Run the project and you Flex 4/AIR application will build and display the XML from the server.


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This afternoon—like nearly every afternoon after Jay wakes up from his nap, works out his crankiness, and agrees, finally, to let us put his sandals on—Caroline, the boys and I walked three blocks down Pine Street to quiet Fitler Square.
There are other parks in Philadelphia that offer better people watching (Rittenhouse) or amusements like swings and a sprinkler (Taney). Fitler's offerings are understated: A bubbling fountain; a retiree in bloomers, the park's gardener, who it's said bites the heads off toddlers who tread among her begonias; a sense of remove from the hustle-bustle of the city and the din of apartment living.
The best part about Fitler Square, though, is that every time we go we see the same handful of families. There's Shareena and Shaun, Molly and Davis, Katie and Owen, Rebecca and the other Owen, Claudine and Max. Everyone comes out to play at the same time each day, after naptime, when it's not quite so hot anymore. By the time we arrived today they were all there, soccer balls, sidewalk chalk, pails and shovels strewn about.
None of the kids were particularly engaged, though, at least not with each other. Owen was playing tee ball with his mom. The other Owen was wandering around dragging a green plastic pail behind him. Max was off by himself filling a dump track with grass clippings.
The six toddlers, all born within months of each other (and most of them at the same city hospital), glanced off each other and then passed on, looking for something more fun to do. Jay picked up the soccer ball and dropped it. He took a half-hearted swipe at Max's truck. He considered a stick of chalk but then thought better of it. Often we come to the park and it's like this. I'm still stunned at a two-year-olds capacity for boredom.
In the two years since Jay was born I've probably spent a thousand hours at the parks around our house. For the first nine-months I went mostly for the company of other parents and because being outside soothed Jay. But once he began to cruise, the park opened up for him: He could make his way to toys that weren't his and introduce himself to all the infants he'd spied for months from inside his Baby Bjorn.
But for all the hours I've spent watching tiny kids play, I haven't figured out yet why sometimes they play together like puppies and other times they orbit each other like strangers.
I remember very clearly the first time Jay played euphorically with other kids. It was a rainy afternoon in March. We put on his rain boots and headed over to Rittenhouse to splash in the puddles. I saw a Ukrainian boy named Alexei who we knew from the previous Fall. He was running around screaming and his nanny told me, "He thinks he's a dinosaur."
Jay was scared but intrigued by the yelling and he followed Alexei at a short distance. Arms out at his side like a pterodactyl, Alexi stomped both feet in a puddle. Jay did the same. Alexei stomped again. Jay stomped back. Then they were off, running from puddle to puddle, splashing and screaming.
A prim girl named Masha came through the Square with her mom. She was wearing a black dress, white tights and ballet flats but her mom let her jump in the puddles anyway. Now there were three of them running about. The boys seemed compelled by the abandon with which this sweet little girl attacked the puddles. They jumped higher, screamed louder, sent dirty water flying through the air.
Standing off to the side, watching them play, my heart was beating almost as fast as Jay's.
I retold this story to Caroline as we hung out in the park this afternoon. When I brought up his rain boots Caroline reminded me of the way Jay had reacted the first time we'd put them on him: He'd taken a few tentative steps, and then clutched the wall for support, and then fallen to the ground, refusing to get up until we took them off his feet.
While we were talking the tide turned in Fitler Square. I don't know how it started, but I looked up and there were Jay and Shaun, making mounds of dirt at the base of a tree. Max came over with his grass clippings. Owen ditched his mom at the tee-ball stand. Just minutes ago none of the toddlers had seemed to know the others existed. Now they were deep in each other's worlds.
"I make the orange cake," Jay said to no one in particular, as he and two of the boys filled a bucket with dirt. They leaned on each other, poked each other with twigs, got dirt in each other's hair, jockeyed for position around the dump truck, and looked every bit the way I imagine a den of baby groundhogs.
Afternoons in Fitler Square are not endless, though. By six o'clock Caroline and I began to think about how we'd cajole Jay into getting back on his trike to go home. One of the boys—Max, I think it was—got a stick in the eye and started crying. (Isn't that always how it ends?). As Max's nanny swept him away I broke the news to Jay: it was time to go home.
Jay looked at me for a moment, his plastic shovel paused mid-dump, like he couldn't quite believe what I'd just said.
"Nooo Daddy, I want to play," he whined.
Countless times each day I ask him to do something and he refuses. This was one occasion, though, where I was happy to hear him say no.


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Six years ago, when the Democratic Party talked about rising stars who were presidential timber, the first name that came up on most lists wasn't Barack Obama.
It was Eliot Spitzer.
"He was an enormous force. He was probably the most powerful public official outside of Washington," author Peter Elkind told TODAY's Ann Curry Monday in New York. He was, Elkind added, on a path to become the first Jewish president of the United States.
Spitzer's world and career came crashing down in a prostitution scandal in 2008. The man who had gone from New York's attorney general to governor was forced to resign in disgrace.
Elkind chronicles how it all went wrong in his newly published book, "Rough Justice: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer."
"There's no question this was absolute insanity," Elkind said when Curry asked why a sitting governor would take the enormous risk of patronizing high-end escorts. "It was absolute lunacy."
But even so, Elkind did not rule out the 50-year-old Spitzer, who has been working to repair his image, from running for office again.
'You must be Superman!'
Spitzer was so addicted to prostitutes, Elkind writes, that he once ordered up three in the same afternoon, using the pseudonym "George Fox." Although Spitzer denies the story, Elkind stands by it.
"On one occasion, George Fox had booked an appointment in the late morning at the Mark Hotel, on the Upper East Side, just five minutes' walk from the Metropolitan Museum of Art. As usual, he paid the girl in cash — about $1,200 an hour. Not long after it was over, he called (the booker) back, wanting to see a second escort. 'Who else is around?' he asked. (The booker) made the arrangements," Elkind wrote.
Then, late that afternoon, (Spitzer) called again.
'You're going to think I'm crazy,' he began. 'But can you send somebody else right now?'
He wanted a third girl? The booker chuckled: 'You must be Superman! The Man of Steel!' "
Elkind wrote that Spitzer also flew his favorite escort, "Angelina," into Puerto Rico for an assignation. He wrote that Spitzer did not like to make friends with the escorts, and treated them strictly as sex objects, which the escorts did not like. He also didn't like to use a condom, according to Elkind.
Born to privilege
Eliot Spitzer was born to money and privilege. A native of the Bronx, his father, Bernard Spitzer, made his fortune in real estate. His mother, Anne Spitzer, was a professor of English literature.
There were frequent debates at the dinner table in the Spitzer home, and Elkind says young Eliot began reading The New York Times daily at the age of 10.
The brilliant boy went to the Horace Mann School, a private prep school in New York, and then to Princeton for his undergraduate degree. He went on to Harvard for his law degree.
It was at Harvard that he met his wife-to-be, Silda Wall. They met on a ski trip and were not an obvious match.
"Nothing seemed more improbable than her relationship with Eliot Spitzer," writes Elkind, who estimates he interviewed Spitzer in person 15 times over the past two years while working on the book and did another 20 to 30 phone interviews. "He was a non-practicing Jew, New York City, and rich; she was a churchgoing Southern Baptist, small-town North Carolina, and middle-class."
Silda had been briefly married while at Harvard to Peter Spiro Stamos, but 29 days after the wedding, the couple separated. Silda would not talk to Elkind about the brief marriage. Silda and Eliot Spitzer have three daughters, 20-year-old Elyssa, 17-year-old Sarabeth, and 15-year-old Jenna.
'Sheriff of Wall Street'
After a brief time in private practice, Spitzer went into public service, eventually becoming New York State's attorney general, where his relentless pursuit of the financial industry earned him the nickname "Sheriff of Wall Street."
His prosecutions of the rich and powerful also made him many enemies, and there was cheering on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange when he resigned in disgrace as governor.
Elkind writes that Silda had criticized Hillary Clinton for standing by her man during the Monica Lewinsky scandal, but found herself doing the same thing when her husband's infidelity hit the newspapers.
"While Silda had once snickered about Hillary Clinton standing dutifully by her cheating man, she had decided to do just that," Elkind writes in the book. "This ritual show of support had become a cliché of the American political sex scandal, and some viewed it as yet another cruel humiliation ... In truth, her choice that afternoon didn't result from much discussion or thought. Silda was shocked and furious. But mostly, she was numb, operating on habit and instinct. Both steered her to stand by Eliot — at least for now. They'd done all of this together. She believed in that vow — for better or worse. And it was important for their girls, especially in the throes of a public cataclysm."
Elkind goes on to say that Silda somehow blamed herself for what happened.
"On some level, this is my fault," she told Spitzer's close adviser, Lloyd Constantine, who was interviewed for the book. "The wife is supposed to take care of the sex. This is my failing; I wasn't adequate," Constantine says she added.
Prostitution ring
Spitzer had been patronizing high-end prostitutes from the Emperor's Club escort service since 2006, Elkind reports, spending $100,000 on about 20 visits. Although New Jersey escort Ashley Dupre, who currently appears in a Playboy photo feature, was the woman who became the face of his infidelity, Elkind said that Spitzer actually saw her just once. Another escort, the one who went by the name Angelina, was his favorite. She was also the first escort to realize that the customer who identified himself as "George Fox" was actually Eliot Spitzer, the governor of New York and a man touted as a future presidential candidate.
Elkind reports that Spitzer did not like to use a condom and was brusque and all-business during his sessions.
When the revelations came out and it was obvious that his career was over, Spitzer had to tell his family.
"That afternoon, he gathered his resolve and his family — and did the hardest thing he'd ever done in his life. He told first his wife, then Elyssa, Sarabeth, and Jenna: he'd been deceiving them in a way utterly beyond their worst imagining. In tears, he begged them to someday forgive him.
" 'The pain of looking at Silda and telling her what I had to tell her makes everything I left behind politically pale in comparison,' he said later," Elkind wrote
The one thing that Spitzer could console himself with was the fact he kept his family together.
" 'An affair begins to connote an emotional relationship,' Spitzer explained. 'If I had had an affair, I'd still be governor, but I might not be married. In the grand scheme of things, I'm glad I am where I am,' " he told Elkind.
Asked in the current issue of Fortune magazine whether he is happy, Spitzer replied: "Other than the obvious agony, life is great. One thing I will never do, I hope, is wallow in self-pity. I've got an amazing wife who has been forgiving in ways that are beyond human. Three great kids. I'm loving what I do day to day.
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (Feb. 5, 2008) - Foluke Akinradewo (Plantation, Fla.), a middle blocker on the U.S. Women's National Volleyball Training Team, has provided the following responses to questions posed to her as part of a "Getting to Know" feature.
What are the top songs (artisits) in your iPod?
John Mayer, Snow Patrol, Kalai, The Fray
Name some things that most people do not know about you.
I have tri-citizenship (Canada, Nigeria, US); I used to audition for commercials when I was little (but was too shy to ever get a part)
What do you like to do in your spare time?
SLEEP!, Watch movies, Surf the net
What do you envision doing as a career after competing for the national team?
Hopefully becoming an Orthopedic Surgeon
Who was your club coach prior to going to college?
I didn't play club
Where would you like to spend a week's vacation?
What is your favorite room in your house and why?
The living room—there is a comfy couch, a big TV, and the kitchen is nearby :)
What is the one luxury item that you could not do without?
The internet
What luxury item do you wish you could invent?
I'm a little forgetful, so a device that lets you select a missing object and allowed the object to find YOU would be amazing…
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Reality TV, Sports, game shows, sit-coms, music television, cable news
What is your favorite television program?
LOST (although it seems to get worse each season)
What is your favorite movie?
Old School
What is your favorite book?
Harry Potter series
Are you a morning person, afternoon person or night person?
Morning person
What is your pre-match ritual?
Listening to music and dancing in the locker room
On an airplane, would you rather, sleep, read, work on a computer or talk with the person sitting next to you?
What sport would you be competing in if not for volleyball?
Basketball—although I wish I would have played tennis
What is your favorite food?
How many different languages can you converse in?
1 ½ (Enlgish and ½ Spanish)
What was your favorite subject in school?
If you could see any musical act or performer (dead or alive) in concert, who would it be?
John Mayer
If you won the lottery, what is the first thing that you would buy or pay for?
I would but money in the bank to pay the future costs of medical school…
If you would live as one other person (celebrity or not) for one day, who would it be?
If you could have one super power, what would it be?
The ability to never get physically tired
If you were stranded on a desert island, what three things would you take with you?
My cell phone, My computer (with internet), Phone lines and towers so my cell phone and computer work
What is your favorite holiday?
What is your pet peeve?
People chewing with their mouths open, when people leave their turn signal on after they switched lanes, when people leave their windshield wipers on when it's not raining
What communication tool do you use most often – text messaging, talking on the cell phone or e-mail?
Text messaging


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The International Cricket Council on Monday backed Saeed Ajmal's controversial bowling action following reports that India had complained about the Pakistan off-spinner.
Indian television channel NDTV, quoting unnamed sources, said the team management had spoken to the ICC about Ajmal's action after Sunday's Asia Cup match between the arch-rivals in Dhaka.
ICC chief executive Haroon Lorgat, however, clarified that the governing body saw no problem in the off-spinner's bowling style.
"We have tested Ajmal, checked him and monitored him in match situations, and found he bowls within the allowed degrees of tolerance," Lorgat told the Times Now news channel.
"We must be careful at what the eye sees and what the reality is," Lorgat said.
Ajmal claimed the wicket of batting superstar Sachin Tendulkar as India produced their best ever one-day chase to surpass Pakistan's commanding 329-6 with five wickets and 13 balls to spare.
It was the first match between India and Pakistan since the World Cup semi-final at Mohali in March last year.
The 34-year-old Ajmal, who has played 20 Tests and 63 one-dayers since his international debut in 2008, has found himself under the spotlight several times due to his action.
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Nominate South Florida dads in contest for WWE Raw tickets in Miami
Dads are a very important part of a child's life, and WWE Superstars Alberto Del Rio, Titus O'Neil and Roman Reigns are proving to be Superstar dads, helping to launch the Ad Council's 'Take Time to Be a Dad Today' campaign.
The Ad Council selected WWE to help with the new campaign that encourages fathers to recognize their critical role in a child's development and gives them the tools to get more involved. WWE Superstars like Del Rio, O'Neil and Reigns are inspiring dads to get more involved in their children's lives.
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These WWE superstars and more will be in Miami at the AmericanAirlines Arena on July 21 for WWE's signature TV program Monday Night Raw, which will be broadcast live at 8 p.m. on the USA Network.
WWE in conjunction with the Miami Herald is coordinating a 'Be a Superstar Dad' contest for tickets to WWE Monday Night Raw on July 21 in Miami.
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YouTube video interview with WWE Superstar Titus O'Neil at Be a STAR rally in Miami
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WWE Monday Night RAW returns to Miami on July 21 at 7:30 p.m. EST at the AmericanAirlines Arena.
Raw will be broadcast live at 8 p.m. EST on the USA Network.
Tickets are on sale. Prices range from $23-$115. Tickets can be purchased online at www.ticketmaster.com or by calling 800-745-3000.
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