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In 11 days The World Games orienteering events kick off in Cali, Colombia. We have asked the world top orienteers what their goal is at The Games – and who they think will be the winner of sprint, middle, and mixed sprint relay. Throughout this week we will publish the runners' answers to these questions:
1) What is your goal at The World Games in Colombia?
2) Who do you think are the biggest favourites (or your biggest competitors) to win gold medal in your class?
3) Who do you think will win the Mixed Sprint Relay?
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Scott Fraser, Great Britain. Silver medallist at this year's World Orienteering Championships sprint.
1) I am going into The World Games with an 'all in' attitude and of course going for a medal. I am still having problems with my toe so we'll see if i can run the full programme in Columbia but I may have to skip the middle distance. [Suspected broken toe in April – 2months out. WOC was first race of season]
2) I would say Mattias Kyburz is the favourite. However, I think Jerker Lysell and Daniel Hubmann will be guys to watch out for.
3) There are so many good sprint teams out there so I think the mixed relay will be one of the most open, close and exciting race of the year. I think GB have a very strong team and it's about time we brought a gold back to the UK!!!
Alison Crocker, USA. The best-ever American at World Orienteering Championships – and at World Ski Orienteering Championships.
1) My goal at The World Games is to come in the top 10 in the sprint and middle races. A lot of the top women are there, so this will be tough, but I think a good goal!
2) Probably Tove Alexandersson is the biggest favourite, I bet with Minna Kauppi putting in a strong challenge after probably not the WOC races she was hoping for. Annika Billstam and the two Danish women, Ida Bobach and Maja Alm I also expect to be very strong!!
3) Ooh, very tough question. Looking at who each country is bringing, the Swiss and Swedes are sure to be up there, but it looks like Great Britain are really bringing their sprint A-team with Scott Fraser, Murray Strain, Tessa Hill (all top 10 in WOC sprint) and Cat Taylor (who chose not to run sprint in favor of the long, but definitely has the legs for it!).
Øystein Kvaal Østerbø, Norway. Norwegian sprint specialist with two 4th places at World Orienteering Championships sprint, and a 2nd place at this year's Nordic Orienteering Tour knock-out sprint. Bronze in The World Games mixed relay in 2009.
1) My goal is to win a medal, both individual and in the relay. The World Games is one of the highlights this season, and something I have been looking forward to a long time.
2) The Swiss men are natural favorites. Matthias Kyburz has been the best runner in the World the last year, and Daniel Hubmann is back in shape after his injury. But it's a lot of runners who can get a top position with a clean race.
3) I think the Mixed Sprint Relay is very open this year, and that both Switzerland, Great Britain, Sweden, Denmark, and Norway have a good chance to win. Also some other good teams have the chance to win a medal.
The World Games orienteering events in Cali, Colombia, begin on Friday 2 August with sprint. The whole programme can be found here: https://orienteering.org/events/?event_id=276
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"Nostalgia is like a grammar lesson: You find the present tense and the past perfect"
Saturday, June 18, 2005
Yaar Indha ANNIYAN ?
Hello. How do you do ? Now that we are done with the needless pleasantries, let me get straight to the point. I sent you a letter 22 months back and I would have assumed that you had the good sense to read it. Unfortunately it does not appear so but here I am penning another...Why ? Because as a loyal card holding member of the gullible watch-Thamizh-movies-in-halls public, I feel disappointed and even cheated. Yes. I am talking AFTER I have seen your so-called masterpiece Anniyan. I know there was no gun put to my head but still, considering I paid through my nose to watch it on the First Day, I defintiely deserved better.
For starters, let me give the devil, that's you, its due. Anniyan is probably not your worst effort and that honour without any reservation belongs to your earlier venture, Boys. However gloat not that you have 'improved' since the above statement is as left handed as a compliment can get. I am not denying that Anniyan did not have its moments except that I feel extremely let down that a movie with so much hype riding alongwith it (and do not blame the media alone for this) failed to capitalise and make its mark. On the positive side, I do appreciate your attempts to make movies with a message and also commend the fact that you 'think big' but I also cannot seem to fathom why you grossly underestimate the paying public's ability to realise that style is all good but what works is substance.
As I sat through the 3+ hours of your cinematic fantasy, it was an emotional rollercoaster of a ride and I have tried to capture below whatever I felt in the process...
Vigilante themes with larger than life heroes have always been your trademark formula for success but haven't you heard that old adage which says that when you milk a cow beyond a certain point, you only get blood. Gentleman when it first came out tread new ground and broke existing mental barriers about right and wrong. Indian and Mudhalvan took slightly different routes but collectively shattered the myth that one man cannot make a difference in society. However one did get the feeling at the end of the third film that we had seen it all. (Not to mention other directors attempting similar themes - Samurai, Desiya Geetham being other lesser successful movies of the same genre) To have a fourth installment in the series of social-revolution flicks and offer nothing new is a crime and reeks of a talent succumbing to the necessities of commercial success.
I have always believed that its the story that makes a movie work and when you are backed with a tight, racy screenplay half the battle is won. What I have never understood with you is your almost maniacal obsession to dream in crores. To escape criticism by deflecting the blame on the paying public saying that it is we who expect nothing but big ventures from Shankar is balderdash. To add to this is the almost hypocritical stance of giving your assistant Balaji Sakthivel just 1.5 crores to make Kaadhal your first home production. And trust me, he did a much better job considering his movie was author backed and not clinging onto visual gimmicks. I would be a fool if I were to deny the fact that the first song in Anniyan picturised in Amsterdam was a visual extravaganza but I am yet to comprehend the financials behind such a splash. Are you telling me that you will get X no: of people into your hall just because of this one song ? And add to this is the obscene sum you must have spent to paint the entire village in the last song when the audience has by then completely lost its patience. There is something called as the Law of Dimininshing Marginal Utility in Economics that you would do well to read and grasp.
Considering I am done with my critcism of your movies from a height of 20000 ft above the ground, lets get down to the bare bones.
a. Can you please tell me the reason for the almost comical portrayal of Prakash Raj and why he had to make a real fool of himself using various disguises under the pretense of conducting investigations ? Cinematic liberty is all good but again the pre-climax at Nehru stadium is one of the most howlarious scenes in the entire movie. My sympathies lie firmly with the Police Department.
b. Can you please throw some light on the needless use of graphics in most of your films, more so in this one to depict the so-called hell ? Can you, by any remote possibility, justify the investment in CGI considering each second costs Rs 3 lacs and they do not add real value to the story ?
c. I am definitely not being CASTEIST or CLANNISH but is there any specific reason why you seem to love picking on the Iyer and Iyengar community for all your protagonists ? And even if you insist, can you do some REAL research and try to avoid age-old stereotypes vis a vis language and lifestyle. I KNOW you are one of the directors who does a lot of homework and have an acute sense of ground reality but maybe you are unaware that even the Brahmin community has embraced wholeheartedly the change in societal trends. Your depiction of Ambi with a kudumi is akin to saying every Muslim has 6 wives. Pardon me but the intention is not to raise communal sentiments, rather to prove the absurdity of your portrayals.
d. I never knew you were in awe of yourself so much that you needed to have so many pieces of self-reference in your movie. Or wait...Is this a desi homage to Tarantino ? Looking at the clearly 'inspired' martial arts stunt scene (Kill Bill neone), I would think so.
e. MPD as a subject is as beaten to death in movies as reincarnation. Maybe not in Kollywood but for Christs sake, we live in the age of the Internet so do not insult the intelligence of the audience with your lengthy science discourses and your over-simplistic rationale for such behavior (I almost thought you'd get Nasser to produce Sidney Sheldon in court as proof). And considering so many of your scenes were 'inspired' you might have as well copied Primal Fear straight - atleast it was more logical and realistic there.
f. He who comes from hell is not afraid of hot ashes ! Now wth is that ? It sounds so much like those stupid taglines from the Arjun stable.
g. On the flip side, yes, I have to confess that you have a pulse of the audience and can make us relate to ordinary, every day incidents in a way that no one else has managed to and the flashbacks in all your movies especially in this one pack some real punch but can you please also rein in on the sermonising part of the dialogues. I have tremendous respect for you and Sujata but why do I always get the feeling that you say one word too much.
h. Technically the film rides high on the some impressive camerawork by your team of Ravivarman and Manikandan and the stunts by Peter Heynes are awesome but re-recording by Harris Jeyaraj is loud and editing lacks sharpness since the film could easily do away with 15 minutes. Lyrics are nonsensical, music is average and choreography is below par with the much touted Remo Remo number nowhere a patch on God's Yakkai Thiri. On the acting front, Sada sleepwalks through her role, Nedumudi Venu is efficient (not as good as his Indian portrayal), Prakash Raj is passable and Vikram is good but nothing great. Vivek's comedy is a real highlight of the movie and many a scene gets that much needed uplift thanks to his impeccable timing.
I know you are sitting at your home basking in the praise being showered whilst your producer is busy raking in the moolah thanks to the phenomenal opening that the movie has got but Anniyan will not become a landmark movie in the chapters of Thamizh cinema. For that to happen what is needed is a little bit of magic, something that can be best explained by one small incident which happened in the movie hall where I saw it...Towards the climax when Vikram's MPD is explained, someone in the audience broke into an impromptu "LAKALAKALAKALAKALAKALAKALAKALAKALAKA" and the entire hall erupted in cheers followed by noisy hoots of "Chandramukhi padam podu". Doesn't that say it all ?
ps: Maybe that someone was ME ;-)
11 comments:
- Kaps said...
Good review man. Never expected that the Blogworld would be churning out reviews so fast. I have read 4 reviews already.
I too feel that grandeur and opulence need to have some limit and Shankar should know that money doesn't grow in trees.
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- Vijay Krishna said...
Thought-provoking, but you sound too acerbic... after all, Shankar never promised the moon. I agree that lavishing so much money is a bad thing, so is the recurrent theme.
But if everyone has the right to expect his kind of a perfect movie, only he should be wielding the mike.
I'm amazed you consider some member of the audience passing a comment as poetic justice. Especially if the comparison is with Chandramukhi!
At the end of the day, even Shankar is a businessman, alright?
- Nachiketas said...
Hmmmm seems like u had made up ur mind about shankar. What else did u expect when u entered the cinema hall? If i were to be going to a shankat cinema, I would expect some mass masala, but maybe with a touch of some good stuff here and there and of course the shankar touch. And btw, chandramukhi was epitome of masala.
- Venks said...
..say whatever u want abt Shankar and other people like tht ....machchi any comments abt CMukhi and Thalaivar....machi dagallu pendhudum...(Nachi nee gaali machchi...)
- Anu said...
I completely agree with the part where Shankar potrays Brahmins n a typical fashion
the only profession they know is "Appalam making"
Ladies are all in Madisaru
Men are all with Kudumis !!
Comeon , if he wishes to depict reality in form of a message to society get real with characters !!!
Hope Shankar reads this and gets to the rock bottom of it !!
Frankly I dont think the movie deserved the 26 crores , and all the break up splashed across Metro Plus !
Someone has been doing good PR for Below average work !!!
- lazy geek said...
Jupe, Great show. Haven't scene the movie but you managed without spoilers and tremendous laugh riot !! Am still ROTFL !! Keep that going.
ditcher ditcher you saw parineeta without us. totally dukhi now :(
btw no need to buy one, you can have my squash raquet if you want. should i pass it through didi?
- Cognitive Distortions said...
Jupe, Ur review was cool ! Me too watched the Movie on first day and when i came out of the theatre , i only scene i remembered was the one in which a frog dies jumping into electrified water ;) !
Maybe if the Theatre owners edit the movie to One hour , they can salvage some of their money.
And thanks for dropping by my blog.
- tt_giant said...
Nice scathing review, although I have not yet seen the movie.
To answer one of your queries - why was the hero shown with a tuft. Well, this is a multiple personality character, and since the other 2 personalities have longish hair, its got to be from a tuft!. Funny logic, albeit a simple one.
I hoped u knew about films or how it works ....ur review either shows shallow knowledge of the industry or its biased.


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Alibi V.21 No.5 • Feb 2-8, 2012
The Latest
From Juárez, With Punches
Diego Sanchez and Carlos Condit strive to corner the UFC's Welterweight division
Benton on Redistricting
Odds & Ends
Brass Appeal
French horn quartet fuses pop hits and classical training
A Higher Calling
New Mexico santeros and santeras on devotional folk art
Culture Shock
In the fall, 516 ARTS put out a call for New Mexicans to submit pieces that would serve as the face of the gallery's five-year anniversary show. Nearly 300 artists responded with an eclectic range of works. 516 Executive Director Suzanne Sbarge decided to put the judging process in the hands of renowned critic Peter Frank, after they met while Frank was in town on assignment. He operates out of L.A. as associate editor of Fabrik magazine and as a contributor to the Huffington Post. Frank may not be local, but he says he has a soft spot and deep regard for art from the Southwest. He whittled down the pool of entrants to about 80 works, with each artist represented by one piece. It's the largest group show 516 has put on to date, with talent representing more than 30 cities statewide.
Le Havre
Finnish filmmaker goes Gallic for sentimental silent film tribute
In a year that celebrates the closed-mouth, open-eyed history of film by handing a Best Picture nomination to Michel Hazanavicius' silent masterpiece The Artist, it seems only appropriate that we'd get another film from Finnish writer-director Aki Kaurismäki. Throughout his distinctively oddball indie film career (Leningrad Cowboys Go America, Drifting Clouds, The Match Factory Girl, The Man Without a Past), Kaurismäki has always shown a greater kinship to the silent film technicians of yesteryear than to the media-savvy moviemakers of today. His latest effort, the alternately gritty and whimsical modern fairy tale Le Havre, plays out like a politically minded remake of Charlie Chaplin's The Kid.
Jail Broke?
"Alcatraz" on FOX
The first thing everyone points out about FOX's new series "Alcatraz"—and I guess I'm doing it, too—is that it's another mysterious, island-based sci-fi series from producer J.J. Abrams (who gave us a little thing called "Lost"). Unless the guy announces he's rebooting "Fantasy Island" next, I wouldn't get too worked up about the man's creative obsessions, though.
Reel World
Instituto Cervantes continues its Latin American film series this week at the National Hispanic Cultural Center. On Thursday, Feb. 2, the Bank of America Theatre at the NHCC (1701 Fourth Street SW) will screen the 2005 Ecuadorian film Anytime Soon (Esas No Son Penas). It's the story of five women from Quito, buddies as teens, who reunite to visit an ailing friend after 15 years. Think The Big Chill, but with fewer hippies and more of an accent. The film screening is free and will be presented with English subtitles. Show gets underway at 7 p.m. Get there early to guarantee a seat.
Week in Sloth
The Week in Sloth
Art and music from the netherworld
Flyer on the Wall
The bastilla king is back
King's bastilla has to be one of the craziest things I've ever eaten. A specialty at Kasbah, it looked like a flying saucer constructed out of phyllo dough. It was stuffed with a mix of chicken, almonds, cinnamon and eggs, then was dusted with sugar and splashed with rosewater. The flavors took off in so many ways at once I could hardly keep track of them all. I didn't even know if I liked it, but I kept eating it.
Alibi V.21 No.4 • Jan 26-Feb 1, 2012
R.I.P. Natural Sound
Albuquerque's oldest independent record store closes shop
It's true, music fans. After decades of peddling CDs, tapes, videos, DVDs, vinyl records and other merchandise, Natural Sound is going the way of Bow Wow Records (where music was "a man's best friend"). Natural Sound's last day of business is Saturday, Jan. 28.
Made of Bright Light
Scientist reflects on his psychedelic research
A Steamy Good Time
A No-Bike Road
Odds & Ends
Bloody Good Show
ALT brandishes an Agatha Christie whodunit
Blind Goats, Ice Picks and Revenge
Haruki Murakami's puzzling, titanic saga
Vegan or Bacon?
Brussels sprouts swing both ways
Brussels sprouts with bacon is hardly a new idea, but the combination has taken off lately. Now the pairing is a menu meme, a darling of online recipe searches and food TV. But those green brassica balls also go effortlessly and deliciously, for example, in that most vegetarian of dishes: the leafy salad.
Two restaurants reach the decade mark
Color Me Obsessed: A Film About The Replacements
Music doc turns to fans for insider info on indie band
In his first documentary, Friends (With Benefits) writer and director Gorman Bechard takes viewers through a chronological history of Minneapolis/St. Paul-based The Replacements, a post-punk quartet that once made a big splash in a small pond. Banding together in 1979, the pioneering alternative rockers lasted through the following decade almost despite themselves. Color Me Obsessed: A Film About the Replacements takes us on a trip down this musical backroad with the friends and fans who love them still serving as tour guides.
Snark Handler
"Are You There, Chelsea?" on NBC
TV seems to have a very low opinion of us right now. Midseason replacement time is upon us, and we're being assaulted by the likes of "Work It" (thankfully already canceled) and a sitcom starring Rob Schneider. (Seriously, what did we do to deserve that?) NBC, meanwhile, is making an all-out assault on our collective taste by pairing the execrable "Whitney" with the marginally less execrable "Are You There, Chelsea?" Both shows were no doubt generated at the roundtable of "Chelsea Lately," the E! Network comedy chat show hosted by Chelsea Handler and frequented by Whitney Cummings.
Reel World
Friends of Film, Video and Arts—the organizers of the fourth annual Laugh Out Loud Friends of Film Funny Film Festival—are looking for laughable local submissions. All works must be 15 minutes or less in length and postmarked by Monday, Jan. 30. It's only $15 to enter the film of your choice. Winning submissions will be included in not one, but two film festivals: The LOLFFFFF (at Albuquerque's Guild Cinema on March 31) and the Nickel Independent Film Festival in Canada (in June 2013). Cash prizes and other awards are up for grabs.
Week in Sloth
The Week in Sloth
Song Roulette
Derek Caterwaul is a longtime promoter of local, underground culture. He's a DJ on 89.9 KUNM FM's "Music to Soothe the Savage Beast," which airs Tuesday nights from 10 p.m. to 1 a.m., and he has ties to the Mystery Media Free(k) box—formerly in the 200-block Cornell/Stanford alley—and now other free art boxes around town. Caterwaul is also responsible for Low Life, a DJ night at Blackbird Buvette (509 Central NW) that contains the sweet sounds of deep psych, garage, roots, post punk and punk, funk, and obscuro. On Thursday, Jan. 26, Low Life celebrates a one-year anniversary. This free, 21-and-over event includes guest DJs, free mixtapes and CDs, and video projections from Billy Da Bunny. Peer into Caterwaul's music collection below.
Flyer on the Wall
Locals Carlos the Tall, The Real Matt Jones and Kimo perform live at Low Spirits (2823 Second Street NW) on Friday, Jan. 27, at 8:30 p.m. Admission to this evening of acoustic folk rock is $5. This is a 21-and-over event. (Jessica Cassyle Carr)
Sonic Reducer
Alibi V.21 No.3 • Jan 19-25, 2012
You, Improved
It's a crazy, mixed-up world. Here's how to be a better person in it.
After exiting the holiday season and getting back to the regular course of your life, you're likely looking around and thinking: Things could be better. It's OK. You're normal.
How to Cash in on Obama's Student Loan Plan
Benjamin Colton Barnes
Another broken soldier
A Spit Shine on the City
Odds & Ends
MMA star Gina Carano debuts in one lean, mean action machine
Must be nice to be Steven Soderbergh. After kicking off the indie film revolution of the '90s with sex, lies, and videotape, he went on to helm mainstream hits (Out of Sight, Ocean's Eleven), Oscar winners (Erin Brockovich, Traffic), existential science-fiction films (Schizopolis, Solaris), micro-budget pay-per-view experiments (Bubble, The Girlfriend Experience) and even a TV series or two ("K Street," "Unscripted"). Few, if any, filmmakers have had the freedom to build such a diverse résumé. Right now, Mr. Soderbergh could be producing and directing Ocean's Fourteen and no one would be blinking an eye. Instead, he's off making a low-budget, digital video action flick starring a first-time actor.
Reel World
Kill It With Fire
"Work It" on ABC
Is ABC's cross-dressing sitcom "Work It" the worst TV show ever made? Several critics are suggesting so. Me, I tend to doubt it. "Cop Rock" was pretty ridiculous. "Supertrain" was a notably bad idea. "Homeboys in Outer Space" didn't do the world any favors. I defy any modern human to hunt down and sit through an episode of "She's the Sheriff." And despite the fact that 542 people actually subscribe to the "Out of This World" channel on YouTube, it was a brain-meltingly awful show. ... Which isn't to say that "Work It" doesn't give each and every one of them a run for their money.
Week in Sloth
The Week in Sloth
Albuquerque Is for Lovers
But not the kind you'd imagine
Le Chat Lunatique Unveils Nouveau Vintage Video
Welcome to the Jungle
The infectious vintage revisionings of Dengue Fever
Sonic Reducer
Flyer on the Wall
Adobe Theater's Irish-American drama is strong stuff
A Moon for the Misbegotten might just make you rethink your unhealthy obsessions. If you lust after the tortured Heathcliffs of the world (don't we all?), it may coax you to consider putting down that penchant. If your days are a haze of drinking alone in the dark, well, maybe it'll be the moment of clarity that finally sends you to AA ... or at least motivates you to consult an electrician.
I Believe I Can Fly
David Guterson's epic launches into Icarus and incest
Culture Shock
A couple of guys sit around and shoot the shit. Sometimes it's over alcohol, coffee or food; sometimes it's in a dark room. Existential questions arise. A cloud of mystery looms heavy over the minimalist narrative. This is the theme of a lot of well-known scripts (The Seafarer, My Dinner with Andre and "The Dumb Waiter" come to mind). Another well-received guys-at-a-table piece is Derek Davidson's "Jack of Dover."
Covert Cuisine
Underground dinner clubs pop up around Albuquerque
At 6 p.m., the September sun cast a rosy glow on the building across the street. I parked and my friend Mike checked the map. From the sidewalk, we saw a woman heading our way, red and white apron flapping in the wind.


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This week's resignation of Hagerstown Mayor Richard "Dick" Trump was a surprise, for two reasons. The first is that it was unexplained. The second is that Trump seemed to have gotten past his early problems with City Council members.
But the reasons behind Trump's departure are less important now than where the city government goes from here. Under the city charter, it is the council's duty to choose a replacement. We hope they choose well.
Much has been made of the fact that Hagerstown has a "weak mayor" form of government that gives the city's top elected official no vote, in most cases, on city business.
The mayor is less a chief executive than a facilitator whose power is in the ideas that he or she brings to the table and the persuasive ability used to turn those ideas into city policy.


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November 21, 2013 - Stephen Barr, professor of physics and astronomy, explained the physics prize, given to Francois Englert and Peter W. Higgs for the theoretical prediction of "a mechanism that contributes to our understanding of the origin of mass of subatomic particles … recently confirmed through the discovery of the predicted fundamental particle."
September 24, 2013 - At the recent EastMag 2013 international conference in far east Russia, Prof. Nikolic gave a talk summarizing theoretical predictions for a new type of spin-transfer torques driven by strong spin-orbit coupling on the surface of recently discovered topological insulator materials.
August 31, 2013 - At the recent Gordon Research Conference (GRC) on Spin Dynamics in Nanostructures at the The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Prof. Xiao gave a talk on Magnetization Dynamics in Magnetic Heterostructures. Traditionally, magnetizations have only been manipulated by external magnetic fields.
June 18 , 2013 - The recently published special issue of the Journal of Computational Electronics (JCEL) contans a collection of sixteen articles devoted to the topic of electronic transport in graphene nanostructures and devices. These articles, written by world-leading researchers, were invited and guest edited by Prof. Nikolic.
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Constance Connie is a lawyer now specializing in immigration and criminal litigations, and a member of the Litigation Group. After an initial early career as a lawyer, followed by a career in the media as a researcher, journalist and reporter/presenter for radio and television shows, Connie returned to the private practice of law and now uses her legal expertise and communication skills to represent in courts and tribunals clients that have an immigration or criminal legal issues. During three (3) years, Connie has written legal columns on professional ethics of lawyers for the Journal du Barreau. Connie has also been actively involved in scripting and research for the program Droit de Savoir, a legal educational television program. In her spare time, this presenter of the TV show Addicted to Motorcycle (2014) is engaging in leisure she has cherished for years. When she is not gone away on her motorcycle for a road trip somewhere in Canada or the United States, we may find her sitting behind her drum playing some music in her rock band.
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My friend Margaret has, without a doubt, a way with flowers like no one else I know.
We both love to throw A list parties all year long. Our parties are like giving the party of the year time after time after time. What makes them special? Wonderful friends, wonderful food and absolutely incredibly beautiful tables. Sometimes I start setting the table a week before the party and barely finish before the guests arrive. There's always something extra to add.
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FCS rivals Stephen F. Austin and Incarnate Word were tied at 31 with just 16 seconds on the clock. Incarnate Word had the ball and a game ending play drawn up.
They went with a flea flicker that didn't fool any of the defensive backs. The ball was thrown into triple coverage and intercepted.
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Wow, time flies…I can't believe that a year has gone by already. I wish I could say it's been a fun journey, or at least one I had planned. The truth however lies somewhere out there in the middle. A year ago tomorrow marks the day that my marriage of 21 years ended.
Certainly NOT something to celebrate, you might think. And you would be right. Except, that with it the pain, shame and self-loathing also ended. It was replaced with discovery and growth and a return to the self-confident woman that my parents raised me to be. Some of you here on the interwebz know the whole story; most do not. Suffice it to say that it has been a year of reflection and planning interspersed with LOTS of hard work, a little doubt, and plenty of tears. I would liken it to the process men go through when they first take the "red pill" and look back on all the mistakes and missed opportunities of the past. Acknowledging the anger; and channeling its power into re-making one's self into the person you want to be. It is quite a journey…and absolutely necessary. So please indulge me as I run down the significant accomplishments of this past year.
A home of my own to raise my precious ones in – Check
A vehicle that isn't going to eat me alive in fuel expense – Check
A job to feed us and pay for it all – Check
A safe, happy, healthy mom with a new and improved outlook on life – Check
Doing it all without a dime of assistance from the ex or the government – Priceless!


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Our beginner-friendly, super-fun Sun Prairie martial arts classes are causing quite a "stir" in the community. That's because you get fun, fitness, self-defense, and a sense of community - every time you come.
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Step 2. Methods for Doing the Survey
Before carrying out any survey work, please read our Health & Safety statement here
Timing of Visits
You will need to pay:
- 3 visits to your count point
- at dusk
- at least one week apart
- between 1st May and 30th June.
Note, if no woodcock are recorded on the first two of these dusk visits, there is no need to make the third visit.
Avoid surveys on evenings that are wet or windy. Please check the weather forecast and sunset times before survey!
Visit Time and Count Duration
The count duration is 75 minutes. Counts should commence 15 minutes before sunset and finish 60 minutes after sunset, giving a total survey duration of 75 minutes. Please don't do less or more than this 75 minutes.
What to Record
Most of you will be more familiar with woodcock in winter than in summer. Before completing your survey, please familiarise yourself with the calls of roding males and what roding males look like in flight (see online calls and videos below).
It is important that each flypast is recorded as a separate event, even if they occur in quick succession. Sometimes more than one Woodcock may fly by together. The number of individuals in the flypast should be recorded.
Please count all woodcock that you see and hear during the 75 minute count and record the following information:
i) your location
ii) date
iii) weather conditions at time of survey (dry / wet / windy / not windy)
iv) time at beginning of survey
v) number of woodcock seen (in flight)
vi) number of woodcock heard
vii) number of woodcock seen and heard (when you see and hear a bird at the same time)
viii) time at end of survey
ix) type of woodland (broadleaved / coniferous / mixed)
All observers will need to obtain permission to cross any private land and must follow any Health and Safety Guidelines.
Before fieldwork, become familiar with calls and flights!
It is essential to become familiar with the calls made by Woodcock before commencing your survey. Below are the main calls likely to be encountered.
Please watch the video below to see woodcock roding display
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When My Children Act Out in Public
Chad Haygood
The title alone jumps out at you, doesn't it? Well, it jumped out at me (maybe because they act out far too often). Here is what an author of another blog said,
Before I had children, I didn't realize how much I desired and yearned for affirmation from others. God has used my boys as mirrors, reflecting back to me the pride and selfishness I didn't know were hiding in the deepest crevices of my heart. Situations....provide the opportunity for me to recognize, acknowledge, and remove the idols.
7 Things to Pray for Your Children
Chad Haygood
John Bloom serves as the president of Desiring God Ministries. In a blog post posted at Desiring God today, he offers us 7 things that we can pray for our children. Those 7 things are:
1.) That Jesus will call them and no one will hinder them from coming.
2.) That they will respond in faith to Jesus' faithful, persistent call.
3.) That they will experience sanctification through the transforming work of the Holy Spirit and will increasingly desire to fulfill the greatest commandments.
The Lab of Parenting
Chad Haygood
"I never knew the depths of my selfishness until I had children." Can you relate to that quote? I can. Nothing has proved to be as sanctifying in my life like marriage and parenting. In these relationships I see my sin like never before. While that's painful it is also good for me. Follow this link and read a blog that articulates this very idea and will hopefully encourage you in these all-important relationships. Here's an excerpt:


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I am not a huge fan of lip gloss basically because they are gooey and sticky and my lips feel weird and thick when I'm wearing some and that is why I love tinted lip balms. And to be honest, I only have one lip gloss left in my stash, after I de-stashed, and that is Stila Lip Glaze in Star Fruit. I love the color and the scent that is why I still have it. When someone gave me this Victoria's Secret Beauty Rush lip gloss, I thought it was pretty but I had a bad experience with VS lippies when I had the Strawberry Fizz one because it gave me migraine. But I actually ended up liking this one and here's a mini review. :P
I like layering it on top of any lipstick and my fave one to layer it with is Clinique Berry Freeze. The one on the left is the lipstick swatch, on the right is the one with the gloss.
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Wind plans are on ice
A decision over plans to erect three wind turbines on Mawdesley Moss has been put on ice.
Chorley Borough Council has postponed the discussion of the application until Tuesday, September 11.
Planning officer Mark Moore, who has been handling the case, said they needed more time to consider the application.
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Readers of this blog are familiar with my interest in precancers. Precancer: The Beginning and the End of Cancer, was just published (August 11, 2009) by Jones & Bartlett Publishers, Inc., and is now available at Amazon. It was written with the help of Dr. G. William Moore. Here's the publisher's blurb:
"Nearly every type of cancer passes through a precancer phase, during which it cannot metastasize or invade other tissues. While medicine is not always successful in treating or curing advanced stages of cancers, recent advances in our understanding of carcinogenesis have helped us to develop strategies to prevent, diagnose, and treat many cancers at the precancer stage. Research in this field is escalating rapidly as the evidence increasingly shows that the number of annual cancer deaths could be drastically reduced through the effective treatment and cure of precancer lesions. This book begins by explaining why it has been so difficult to cure cancers, followed by a review of precancer biology, with descriptions of the most common precancer lesions. The final chapters provide practical socio-political and medical goals for precancer treatment, including discussions of the economics and politics of treating precancers."
I've been interested in the precancers for over thirty-six years, and I think it's a shame that the precancers have not gotten more attention from cancer researchers and from the public. My impression is that many cancer researchers fail to distinguish between "precancers" and "early cancers". Precancers are very different from early cancers. One of the most important properties of precancers is their tendency to regress [spontaneously, or with simple treatments]. The book clarifies the biological properties that distinguish precancers from other early [and late] cancers, and describes how we can stop cancers from developing by treating precancers.
More on precancers in next post.
Jules Berman
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Science is not a collection of facts. Science is what facts teach us; what we can learn about our universe, and ourselves, by deductive thinking. From observations of the night sky, made without the aid of telescopes, we can deduce that the universe is expanding, that the universe is not infinitely old, and why black holes exist. Without resorting to experimentation or mathematical analysis, we can deduce that gravity is a curvature in space-time, that the particles that compose light have no mass, that there is a theoretical limit to the number of different elements in the universe, and that the earth is billions of years old. Likewise, simple observations on animals tell us much about the migration of continents, the evolutionary relationships among classes of animals, why the nuclei of cells contain our genetic material, why certain animals are long-lived, why the gestation period of humans is 9 months, and why some diseases are rare and other diseases are common. In "Armchair Science", the reader is confronted with 129 scientific mysteries, in cosmology, particle physics, chemistry, biology, and medicine. Beginning with simple observations, step-by-step analyses guide the reader toward solutions that are sometimes startling, and always entertaining. "Armchair Science" is written for general readers who are curious about science, and who want to sharpen their deductive skills.


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Songs so incredibly overblown they make you smile
Just heard the new Muse track and it's so ridiculously epic I couldn't help but giggle (in a good way). Not sure if there's been a thread about it yet? If you've not heard it I just blipped it http://blip.fm/seaninsound
What songs make you feel like this?
actually that versions rubbish
watch this instead
wtf is blip?
I saw this thread title and immediately thought of Muse/Queen.
They're both joke bands with millions of fans that take them seriously.
(actually I quite like that video because it reminds me of the map screen in syndicate - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOdXTwqQDbo )
And in answer to your question, Televators by Mars Volta: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPeSbITit5U
Few I can think of...
Sigur Rós - Ára bátur
Even by the subdued beginning, you know this is going to achieve mach 6 'epicness' within a minute or so. And then nothing happens for five minutes, so your expectations lower. And you are totally unprepared for what's to come. When it happens, you don't know whether to laugh or cry. I do both.
iLiKETRAiNS - STAiNLESS STEEL
The concept is pretty ridiculous in the first place, but I love that line in iLiKETRAiNS' music, it's a history/sociology lesson AND a Post-Rock blow-out. But the crescendo of STAiNLESS STEEL is so overwhelming not even the production can keep up.
...And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead - The Gold Heart Mountain Top Queen Directory
They take it to the place Robert Pollard dreamed of. 2 minutes of soaring non-sequiter melodrama.
Oops! I forgot a big one...
Mansun - Television
Holy Smokes. It even finishes with a Prince impression and the national anthem. Barn-burningly bonkers.
didn't think of that
but I agree with it
Completely agree on Ara Bátur
So overblown and epic, can't help but love it
Never heard that GBV cover before
Tori Amos
most of SP's Mellon Collie (hello Tonight Tonight)
Patrick Wolf's Overture
if we're talking Muse-like guitars then Van Halen's Ain't Talkin Bout Love.
Woebegone Wanderers by Wild Beasts
which is basically about a crap local football team, but in their hands becomes a life-and-death hysterical circus waltz
And 'Gold'
from The Gold Experience. Which is essentially Purple Rain 2.0. And inexplicably out of print.
Overblown? perhaps
but gimme this over springsteen and the like, any old day of the week
That new Rumble Strips single
also this old brazilian song is awesome:
Raul Seixad - Morning Train.
And yeah, it only gets funnier with the weird english translation. The original version seems a bit more subtle if only because you don't know what he's singing about:
Knights of Cydonia
except replace 'smile' with 'leap up from whatever I'm doing and run around air guitaring'
Trail of Dead
'Isis Unveiled' ticks all the right boxes.
"...and nothing lasts forever, in the cold November rain"
*helicopter flies past Slash walking out of a church playing guitar*
*Axl Rose jumps through a wedding cake*
:DLuis_Carruthers this'd this
Is that the same one where the car drives off the cliff
and crashes into a ravine?
GnR have to win this thread, surely.
The solo in Belfast by Neon Neon
always makes me smirk. Think it might be due to the fact I always think of Garth Marenghi's Darkplace when I hear it.
Basement Jaxx-Raindrops.
They stick out like a sore thumb in these days of the minimalist techno trend...LOVE IT!
Most of Sam's Town by The Killers.
I really like that album, and Hot Fuss, it's the new one I fucking hate.
Also in this category - A lot of stuff by Queen. Also, "Perfect Situation" by Weezer. Only good track on that wreck of an album. I have the "Weeze-R" shirt from the video.
I love that weezer album (sometimes)
It's absurd. have you seen the video to Perfect Situation? oh my.
anything by Manowar
particularly 'Hail to England'.
- SCROTUM this'd this
Dirty Boy
is so huge and relentlessly glorious it's both ridiculous and amazing. The emotion it commands is actually really effective, rather than being just a load of flannel like GN'R. I doubt anyone else could have made a song like this work - nearly ten minutes of tension building, key changes every bar, and seemingly random chord sequences reveal themselves to be proper repeated structures after several listens.
I'm pretty sure i might've mentioned it before, but Cardiacs are the fucking best, and you'd all do well to grow a fucking soul and listen to them. Starting with this song i speak of.
Sorry for the rant, i'm getting pissed up cos some joy rider just rammed my car.
xDamian this'd this
Paradise By The Dashboard Light
FEEL THE LOAFtheseabass this'd this
in a similar fashion, the full length version of Bat out of Hell
what a tune.
This thread
was made for Meatloaf.
had the misfortune to hear that muse track
on the radio the other day. I honestly thought it was a Led Zeppelin outtake from one of the latter most shit albums. turns out it was just muse....dire
I am/was a Muse fan
My enthusiasm for them has diminished since I was 16, though they're still good, epic live.
But that new track is FUCKING AWFUL
"Never knowingly underblown"
Nine Inch Nails - The Perfect Drug
The second drum and bass breakdown makes my heart happy, and then breaks it with the overtly emotional outro.
This Corrosion - Sisters of Mercy
the 10 minute version
beat me to it
"Three Days"
by Jane's Addiction. I can't hear Perry scream "EROTIC JESUS!" without crcacking up.
Also Ball And Biscuit, White Stripes. That final (third!) solo being double-length is the icing on a wonderfully overblown cake.
This thread
Was mentioned on 6music last night. Gideon Coe I think. Maybe.
Transformers: The Movie soundtrack
all of.
Also Don't Stop Believin' by Journey, yes please.
by Yes.
all of Permission to Land by The Darkness
that album is more fun than anything else i've ever heard.


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I inherited a veneered, cedar lined chest of drawers. The entire outside of the dresser was veneered. With the assistance of my hair blower and a putty knife, I was able to remove ALL of the veneer. However, the person who handcrafted this old chest, used double stick tape in several places. I have sanded it, moving most of it. It is at least 50 yrs old and in removing the tape, it took part of the poplar wood with it, leaving little dents all over the front. Does anyone know what my next step should be???? I would like to stain and varnish it. But, I am beginning to wonder if I should re-veneer it. This is the first piece I have ever re-finished, needing someone's expertise, Please!!!! Thank you!!!
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Anonymous February 17, 2013 at 2:15 pm #85185
I'd use Annie Sloan Chalk Paint. Plenty of stuff out on Pinterest on it. I repaint just about anything!
Anonymous February 2, 2013 at 1:42 pm #85170
I agree with Ann & Copper. Use wood filler, sand & paint.
Anonymous February 2, 2013 at 2:33 am #85161
ditto with copperhead…i would just sand down and repaint…. and wood fill…. really doing veneering would take a pretty a dvanced wood person…
Anonymous February 2, 2013 at 2:01 am #85156
I see a lot of old sewing machines tables with loose or torn up veneer. There are experts out there who can tell how to fix/replace/repair it. I bet if you google search you will find something. There is a really good but old book called The Furniture Doctor written by George Grotz – it's kind of a holy grail of furniture finish repair. It is a fun read even if you don't want to refinish furniture. He does address veneer problems in the book. I'm thinking they used cheap wood and then put veneer over it to look good – cheaper than solid wood. If you are just going to paint you might need to use wood fill or some sort of fill on it – directions on the wood fill.
Anonymous February 2, 2013 at 12:43 am #85154
Have you received any answers to this any other way? I have the same problem with a couple pieces of beautiful vintage furniture but am at a loss at what to do!
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Oh my gosh. I PROMISE PROMISE PROMISE that I am going to get round to doing our update post. I was literally sitting down to write it, but I've been faced with something that I really think deserves my attention more right now (or at least it's something that I feel I need to write about more right now- otherwise the anger is just going to fester and become toxic and I'll be a bitter, miserable, shriveled mess by midnight).
I am all for people being allowed to make their own decisions. That sounds like a stupid statement, doesn't it- "I advocate free choice"- great, who doesn't? But, just bear with me. I am VERY for people being allowed to make their own decisions with regard to their bodies. It is my body, therefore it is my choice (#mybodymychoice if you want to get in on the action guys).
Where is this coming from? Here. This is where this is coming from:
HALLELUJAH. Those of you who have followed us from the start will know that I had a planned c-section with Piglet. And I was a rare case- I did not need a section for any medical reason, I CHOSE to have one (and by chose, I really mean fought). It was a battle to get the birth that I wanted (with some help from my mummy- shout out to mummy right here). And, I think that the reason they "officially" granted my request is that I had a "fear of labour". That was the phrase that was written in my notes.
I don't care about that- they could have written whatever they wanted on there as long as it meant I got my caesarean. I don't have a fear of labour. One of the things that really irked me was that the midwifes kept telling me that I could "have an epidural" and then "you won't feel a thing", but it wasn't a pain issue, I wasn't "afraid" of it "hurting" (I'm tough man- I am TOUGH). They repeatedly did not listen to my justifications for wanting a section.
I wanted a section because- like any other first time expectant mother- I did have concerns about the delivery. So, I researched it. And I looked at possible complications. And I looked at the statistics on vaginal births. And I looked at the data for c-sections (which to start with is a nightmare, because the majority of the time they collate the data for both planned and emergency caesareans, so that all the risks are skewed anyway- an emergency caesarean is by nature going to carry more risks than a planned one- the name says it all. What complicates the matter further, is that the majority of pregnancies culminating in a planned section are high-risk- hence the need for the section in the first place). I was not happy with the risks of a vaginal birth. And I will be discussing these with you (so those who don't want to know- you might want to stop reading soon). Because I think the majority of people are unaware of the risks that a vaginal birth may carry. This sounds like I'm totally anti-vag. I'm not against natural deliveries at all. If that is what you want, and what you think is best for you and your child, that is fantastic, and you should be allowed to have that. The point I'm getting onto is about making informed decisions.
When you choose to do something- especially something as huge as delivering a baby- it is vital that you have all the information available to you. You cannot make an informed decision when you're missing half the information. It's ridiculous. Literally preposterous. This isn't like, "oh well, let's just pick the wildcard and see what happens"- it's a huge, huge thing. And one that carries risks for both you and your child irregardless of delivery choice- both have huge potential negatives. So, when I was faced with "professionals" telling me that my beliefs were unfounded, and a vaginal delivery is always the safer option, I was fuming. Because it's been a huge cover-up. Like a giant conspiracy (starting on conspiracy theories- must be getting old if I've reached this point...). They don't want you to have a caesarean. They've got targets they need to meet. NICE issue guidelines on what percentage of births should occur in what manner. And if you're looking at it in terms of numbers, that because it costs the NHS more for you to have a caesarean, than if you have an uncomplicated natural delivery. Note the phrase "uncomplicated" there. You have complications from a vaginal birth- that's going to cost the NHS a lot more to correct.
So. And here's where some of you may want to stop reading. Alternatively, here's the part that some of you might have been eager to read. I was going to do a table, and make it all fancy and stuff but I've just seen the time so.. I'll summarise:
Risks of Caesarean delivery:
To baby: For planned sections performed at 39+ weeks, the risk to your baby is the same as for a successful natural delivery (i.e. one with no complications- WHICH ONLY HAPPENS 47% OF THE TIME BY THE WAY). HOWEVER there is the potential (I believe it's a 2% occurrence...that number sounds familiar) that the baby may end up with a superficial cut from the scalpel. I will also point out that in premature sections there is a higher risk of breathing problems in newborns. There is also (limited) evidence that babies born by sections are more likely to be asthmatic and suffer from eczema. Oh. And some studies have suggested that babies born by sections are more likely to be obese (although I would argue that that statement has no weight whatsoever- there are too many variables concerned to make this a controlled study. Are all pregnant women who enter in c-sections equal? No. They all have a variety of conditions, and genetic profiles, and environments and I think it's just a bloody ridiculous coupling to try and make a correlation between).
To you: Infection is obviously the big one. Blood clots. You may end up needing an emergency hysterectomy (side bar: my mother kept accidentally referring to my caesarean as a hysterectomy before it went ahead- talk about how to freak someone out). You're more likely to develop adhesions, which are internal bands of scar tissue that can cause your organs to stick together, and apparently can be quite painful- these are really common (around 50% of women who have had one section will have adhesions; 75% of women who have had two sections and 83% of women who have had three sections). Nerve damage can occur from the spinal tap (that was the one that stressed me out). Death, potentially. And obviously, aesthetically, you're going to have a big scar (although- more on this later).
You've also got the bollocksy psychological ones. "Less contact with baby, so you will not bond with your baby". Post-natal depression is a huge, huge thing. Do I think that the mode of delivery can influence the onset of PND? Personally, no. I think if you are going to suffer from post-natal depression, then you will, irregardless of how you have had your baby. Actually no, I'm going to retract that statement. If you have not been allowed to give birth in the way that you wanted to, then yes. I can see that having an impact. I can see that being a contributing factor. But again, as a causation? I would argue it. Contribute certainly, but not cause.
Risks of Vaginal delivery:
To baby: These risks are present. They may be small. But they are there. Brain damage. Death. Instrumental deliveries increase these risks. They can happen in a number of ways, for example umbilical cord prolapse, or compression. I just read a story actually, about a lady who was given too much oxytocin during her labour which resulted in her baby not taking a breath for 12 minutes after he was born (although this is a happy story, because they took part in a xenon gas trial, and he is now one and developing totally normally- this is phenomenal. When he was born, he was blue and showed no brain activity. This is incredible. THIS IS WHAT SCIENCE CAN DO). Again, aesthetic injuries are common with instrumental intervention. There is also the potential for a brachial plexus injury, which is nerve damage to the babies arms, resulting in weakness or a loss of mobility- this "usually" rectifies itself, but can persist.
To you: Ready? Even without forceps or the suction thing, there is the risk of urinary and fecal incontinence. If you factor in instrumental deliveries, we'll start with tears, which can range from first degree ("superficial" is the term that is used... is any tear superficial?!) to fourth degree (you don't have two holes anymore- you've got one. I don't need to elaborate any further than that do I?).And you're going to say well they can just stitch you up and you'll be fine, right? They can stitch you up, yes. Will you be "fine"? There's no guarantee. A lot of women are left in constant pain. As in 24/7, no relief pain. The risk of "sexual problems" is "high" (which isn't surprising really if you're in pain).Again, incontinence- massive, massive deal. And this isn't necessarily just something that will be affecting people in the short term, this can be a lifelong condition. Oh, I haven't mentioned my favourite yet- recto-vaginal fistulas. A fistula is a tiny hole that connects two parts of your body that aren't supposed to be connected. Your rectum and your vagina should NEVER be connected. Never. And these are harder to correct.
I'm not trying to make everyone be on Team Caesarean. That is not my point. I mean, you could die having a section. What I'm trying to get across, is that it should be up to YOU to do you own risk-benefit analysis. And you should be aware of all the facts before you enter into anything, which is why I am SO HAPPY that the risks of vaginal births are (potentially- everything is potentially) finally being acknowledged. FYI, in my opinion, forceps should be banned. It's basically mutilation. I am so against forceps it is unreal. However, there will be some people saying that they don't mind what state their body is in as long as their baby is fine- and that's ok too. Me though? I'd rather have sticky internal organs thanks. Oh, and of course, I almost forgot! The "big scar"? Not actually that big:
(My surgeon was an artist- I did send her a thank you card. Also please forgive my lack of abs- I still have 7lbs of Christmas weight to lose...I know it is July. I am aware.)
The second point I want to make, is less about decisions, and more about being open. Which you could argue is very easy for me to say when I'm sat here on a laptop writing under a pseudonym (although to be honest, I'm actually a really open person- I had too much therapy and now I don't know when to stop sharing). The complications of natural childbirth are unheard of because they are not spoken about. People suffer in silence. There's a thread on mumsnet that's full of women who have experienced traumatic labours which have resulted in some of the conditions that I mentioned, and I think that's absolutely brilliant. Because it's a support network. And I can't think of anything worse than to go through something like that completely alone, and with nobody to talk to (some of the stories are so sad. It really upsets me that some of these women are being completely failed by the medical profession).
Now, you're going to say that's all very well and good, when you're sat there with no signs of adhesions and your invisible caesarean scar- shut up, you stupid gloating girl. I do not have any childbirth injuries to reveal to you. My birthing experience has not altered me in any way (physically). However, my pregnancy has had a lasting impact on my life, and so I will share that with you now:
I have never had boobs. I still don't have boobs. The only time in my life that I had boobs was when I was pregnant. Recently, I was offered a potential job (to go alongside uni, of course) by my builder (I'm a little bit in love with my builder. It's slightly inappropriate). He said his friend was looking for someone to work in his bar. Cracking. Brilliant (well, brilliant-ish. Bloody hate bar work). There was just one thing he needed to run past me first- it was topless bar work- would that be ok? I politely responded that since having Piglet, my nipples are now parallel to my belly button, so that probably wouldn't be the best option for me. Potential future career- ruined by my body! (I didn't actually say nipples to my builder. That would be inappropriate.)
I'm making light of it. These women are incredibly strong, and I have the utmost respect for them. This is a subject that I'm incredibly passionate about (and I know that sounds weird, but it's true)- I had to make some comment on it. So everybody- make sure you all make informed decisions. Know all your facts. Overshare as much as possible. And keep supporting each other as much as you can.
STAY TUNED for news involving fleas, hamsters, cats, escorting, and more ridiculous conversations with my builder (who is my future husband, just so you all know- don't tell him though, you'll ruin the surprise).


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I was welcomed back home by a massive firework display at home. Well, maybe not at home, but at Baghdad. And not fireworks, but missiles. Yes, I was home in time to watch endless rolling news reports about the US/UK invasion of Iraq, which went well!
We stayed with Mary's parents for the first few months as I got adjusted to home life and was still very weak. I could walk with the aid of sticks, but got tired out extremely quickly so I spent most of my time sitting down watching telly. Mary's dad hired a wheelchair and took me for a walk (well, push) along the seafront, blanket over my knees, too tired to fully respond to people I knew, but it was great to be outside.
As time went by I gained strength and was able to ditch the sticks one at a time. My appetite increased as well. I asked for pizza on my first night back home, but could hardly eat any of it. That eventually changed, though, and I started to put back on some of the weight I'd lost. Then some more. And more still. I like food.
To start with I also needed a nurse to visit me at home to change the dressings on my, still open, stomach wound, as the surgery didn't want the great unwashed (ok, someone with MRSA) coming in every day. I made it to the stage, though, where I could change the dressings myself and we were just left with all the relevant equipment, and painkillers, along with some very hefty prescription charges. By changing the dressings on the wound I could see that it was getting gradually smaller and started to look forward to not having any dressings at all.
At the end of May, Mary saw a job advertised in the local branch of Barclays Bank. It was a little less pay than I was on at the time, but it was walkable from home and the job paid more than 3 weeks sick pay before fobbing you off with SSP. I went for it, probably before I was really strong enough, but found myself getting an interview. I went to Dorchester for the interview and, much to my surprise (especially as I still had an open wound on my stomach which, to put it bluntly, smelled quite badly) I got the job. I started on July 15th, 2 weeks before a 30th birthday which for a while it didn't look like I was going to see.
So, normal service was resumed. I was back in my own house, back at work and had a scar on my stomach which could pass for the result of a shark attack. I mean, it was massive! I had now, however, noticed something very odd. Moving lumps around the scar, especially around an hour after I'd eaten. I knew what it was, but needed to see a doctor to confirm it. An incisional hernia.
What had happened was this: Because the wound had been left to heal naturally and not stitched back up, the abdominal muscle wall had also not healed properly. What I could see was my intestine and the movement was it digesting dinner. Lovely! And strangely interesting as well. It couldn't stay like it, though, which meant one thing. Another operation.


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Wednesday, July 29, 2009
An open letter to Glenn Beck.
When I was discussing a new running gag for this blog two weeks ago with my husband I never thought I'd be led in your direction. If there was anything or anyone leading me in your direction I expected that to happen with a great deal of kicking and screaming. Yet, here I be, willingly writing to you, with my legs crossed and nary a sound past the comforting drone of Jon Stewart.
I see you and your haircut in the media quite a lot lately. A couple whines, a patriotic ejaculation or two, a few tears, and my home state of Utah is in like Flint. My people love you! There is something to be said about that. My people don't love me. They kicked my family out of the state because my school teacher husband didn't feel qualified to coach a high school sport. Even Model U.N. Interview after interview questioned his masculinity and purpose in life. We bought some sunscreen and some huarache sandals and moved across the border where life is considerably more booster club free.
The open container law is quite liberal in my little corner of Nevada. Ask anyone in Salt Lake City.
Last I was in Utah I visited a beautiful shrine to capitalism called "Sam's Club". Stores like that don't exist in my town. Our shrines are called "casinos". It was in this non-neon retail establishment that I was able to buy a five gallon container of sliced dill pickles and drive over 100 miles to get it home. (I have hobbies. Don't ask.) Between pallets of detergent, socks in bulk, foam mattresses and family size packages of incontinence pants, I happened upon a full section of books written by you! Or written by your haircut. Benefit of the doubt.
Now, I've never written a book. Certainly if I had I wouldn't want someone doing to my book what I considered doing to yours. We aren't talking anything destructive here. That would be rude and just possibly illegal. It was only a little playful and reversible mislabeling.
Unfortunately my husband (who does write books, including this fabulous tome) didn't have any post-it notes in his pockets. His profession requires that he keep office supplies of some sort conveniently stashed on his person. Needless to say, I was a little bit bummed to have not passively aggressively renamed every copy of your "Glenn Beck's Common Sense" on the shelf.
Glenn Beck's Guide to Prostate Examination
Glenn Beck's One Position Kama Sutra
Glenn Beck's Wonder Bread Cookbook
Glenn Beck's Scrapbooking Extravaganza!
My husband and I once hid all the Barney toys in Kids-R-Us, back in 1994, during those financially pleasant Clinton years. There was a principle involved with Barney. With your book it just seemed so sensible at the time to remove common sense entirely. I love you...you love me...right? Right!
I admit I haven't put forth the effort to read the book I wanted to temporarily edit. My apologies for my ignorance. Someone back in my 'hood will have a copy I can borrow and then a proper review can be done. A friend did just lend me a David Sedaris book that I found most enlightening. There is a story in it entitled "Dinah the Christmas Whore" that didn't need any editing whatsoever. Genius.
So, my apologies for my intentions Glenn. Please forgive me. I've lusted in my heart.
Becky..The Absent Minded Housewife
8 comments:
- Anonymous7/29/2009 11:24 AM
Not too long ago, my parents-in-law invited my husband and I to a Family Night screening of Glenn Beck's video. (We enthusiastically declined)ReplyDelete
- corey7/29/2009 11:25 AM
I didn't mean to leave that anonymously--ReplyDelete
- Anonymous7/29/2009 2:05 PM
I am sure that even his haircut could spell better than me.ReplyDelete
Congrads to Justin on the book. I hope he sells lots so u can take his money and go shopping at Sam's Club again! He doesnt really have to go as long as he gives u his money, eh!
We're kindred spirits.ReplyDelete
This reminds me of last October when I learned that a thick Stephen King novel can effectively obscure two or three books about Sarah Palin. I never thought about hiding one behind the gallon jars of pickles, though.
And I only have to drive 10 miles.
Thank you for giving me the idea of burying Glenn Beck's book under the stacks at Barnes and Noble.ReplyDelete
You and your husband are a great couple. Blowing off steam by hiding Barney(s) is very cool.
Who is Glen Beck?ReplyDelete
Glenn Beck is a syndicated conservative radio talk show host in the same vein as Rush Limbaugh.ReplyDelete
Glenn has recently asserted that our president is a racist.
Glenn Beck - he's the latest Fox retard ,right?ReplyDelete
(I'm from the UK so it's hard to keep up)
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