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Birthday: Mar 19
Location: Double-Daring You To Read My Bio...All Of It.
Gender: Female
Last Seen: Sat, 05 Jul 2014
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Greetings, my fellow friend, It's my pleasure to meet you, call me Ellie if you prefer ,^_^, and I'm a learning Practitioner of Magic(k) who is ready to help, listen, and talk to you, so do feel welcome :D In addition, please respect this: Even though I welcome everyone to freely message me, inappropriate behavior, such as flirting and asking for personal information will be ignored and/or blocked. I have come to this website for the purposes of learning, growing, and helping, meaning that anything that are out of these boundaries will not be appreciated. Thank you. My chakras XD : Root: open (19%) Sacral: under-active (0%) Navel: open (12%) Heart: over-active (88%) Throat: open (44%) Third Eye: open (19%) Crown: under-active (-6%) The kinds of Magick I practice...if you're wondering: -"White" magic -Healing -Protection -Blessings -Enchantments -Energy Manipulation...sometimes xD Hobbies~ -Writing -Reading -Learning -Researching -Drawing -Etc. Beliefs: -Every being deserves the same love, kindness, and respect as much as everyone else. -Bullying is not cool. -Freedom and appreciation is important. -Everyone is the same, no matter what or who you are. -Love and Peace is what keeps the world go round. Anyways, these are only my beliefs, whether you agree or disagree with them, I appreciate your decision. ^3^ Facts About Me: It might seem a little strange that you are actually interested in reading about me, but okay....here goes nothing (*Cough* Stalker *Cough*) *I am more professional than laid-back. *I tend to use "big words" because that is who I am. *I am a teeny bit geeky. No more :3 Too bad, so sad. XD. Well then... Be unique Be awesome Be intelligent Be curious Be loved Be beautiful Be YOU ! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Wanna kill yourself ? One day after school, had yet another horrible day. You're just ready to give up. So you go to your room, close the door, and take out that suicide note you've written and rewritten over and over and over You take out those razor blades, and cut for the very last time. You grab that bottle of pills and take them all. Laying down, holding the letter to your chest, you close your eyes for the very last time. A few hours later, your little brother knocks on your door to come tell you dinners ready. You don't answer, so he walks in. All he sees is you laying on your bed, so he thinks you're asleep. He tells your mom this. Your mom goes to your room to wake you up. She notices something is odd. She grabs the paper in your hand and reads it. Sobbing, she tries to wake you up. She's screaming your name. Your brother, so confused, runs to go tell Dad that Mommy is crying and sissy won't wake up. Your dad runs to your room. He looks at your mom, crying, holding the letter to her chest, sitting next to your lifeless body. It hits him, what's going on, and he screams. He screams and throws something at the wall. And then, falling to his knees, he starts to cry. Your mom crawls over to him, and they sit there, holding each other, crying. The next day at school, there's an announcement. The principal tells everyone about your suicide. It takes a few seconds for it to sink in, and once it does, everyone goes silent. Everyone blames themselves. Your teachers think they were too hard on you. Those mean popular girls, they think of all the things they've said to you. That boy that used to tease you and call you names, he can't help but hate himself for never telling you how beautiful you really are. Your ex boyfriend, the one that you told everything to, that broke up with you.. He can't handle it. He breaks down and starts crying, and runs out of the school. Your friends? They're sobbing too, wondering how they could never see that anything was wrong, wishing they could have helped you before it was too late . And your best friend? She's in shock. She can't believe it. She what you were going through, but she never thought it would get that bad? Bad enough for you to end it. She can't cry, she can't feel anything. She stands up, walks out of the classroom, and just sinks to the floor. Shaking, screaming, but no tears coming out. It's a few days later, at your funeral. The whole town came. Everyone knew you, that girl with the bright smile and bubbly personality. The one that was always there for them, the shoulder to cry on. Lots of people talk about all the good memories they had with you, there were a lot. Everyone's crying, your little brother still doesn't know you killed yourself, he's too young. Your parents just said you died. It hurts him, a lot. You were his big sister, you were supposed to always be there for him. Your best friend, she stays strong through the entire service, but as soon as they start lowering your casket into the ground, she just loses it. She cries and cries and doesn't stop for days. It's two years later. The whole school talks to a counselor/therapist at least once a week. Your teachers all quit their job. Those mean girls have eating disorders now. That boy that used to tease you cuts himself. Your ex boyfriend doesn't know how to love anymore and just sleeps around with girls. Your friends all go into depression. Your best friend? She tried to kill herself. She didn't succeed like you did, but she tried? your brother? He finally found out the truth about your death. He self harms, he cries at night, he does exactly what you did for years leading up to your suicide. Your parents? Their marriage fell apart. Your dad became a workaholic to distract himself from your death. Your mom got diagnosed with depression and just lays in bed all day. People care. You may not think so, but they do. Your choices don't just effect you. They effect everyone. Don't end your life, you have so much to live for. Things can't get better if you give up. I'm here for absolutely anyone that needs to talk, no matter who you are. Even if we've NEVER talked before, I'm here for you. Copy and paste this as your status to show people there are people out there that care. EVEN IF YOU THINK NO ONE ELSE IN THE WORLD CARES, I ALWAYS WILL. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ You're~~~ Rich or Poor, I don't care! I still love you! Orientation is different, I don't care! I still love you! Race is different! I don't care! I still love you! You're Different, I don't care, individuality is awesome! You're emo, I don't care, everyone is different and extraordinary! You're weird, wacky, crazy, I don't care, cause you're like me! You're alone, I don't care I'll be there for you! You're injured, I don't care, I'll heal your pain! You are you, beautiful and unique. :3 Be blessed.
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Stonehill breaks ground on sports complex project
EASTON -- Stonehill College has broken ground on the renovation of the Sally Blair Ames Sports Complex.
Bond, an construction management company based in Everett, is overseeing the 24,000 square-foot renovation and 50,000 square-foot addition.
The Ames building and new Rev. Mark T. Cregan, C.S.C. Athletics and Fitness Center will house additional recreation spaces for group exercise and dance on the existing first floor, with weight and fitness facilities and student locker rooms located in the addition.
Stonehill College's Athletics Program will occupy 12 new locker rooms and a dedicated varsity weight room. Athletic office space and the Lou Gorman '53 Pavilion will also be housed in the facility.
The project is expected to be finished by July 2015.

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This short film follows a group of teenage boys eager to emulate the muscle-filled bodies of their media heroes. Revealing the lengths these boys are willing to go to achieve their goal, this film explores the use of supplements and the temptations of steroids. The boys relate their experiences, desires and motivations to the audience, who are left to draw their own conclusions.
The film is designed to provoke discussion among teenagers about body image and where lines should be drawn between healthy and dangerous behaviour.
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Shredded, Douglas C. Taplin et Richard Gaudio, offert par l'Office national du film du Canada
This is a well-said message to all teenage boys that you should not stress yourself out, and spend an extreme amount of time of working out. You should feel good about yourselves, and that no one should always worry about their appearance and body image. You don't need to be "shredded", and at least look muscular the way you want to be. Not like the ones in magazines. You are always perfect the way you are, and you should be happy about that. Always smile, and be perfect!!!!!! :) :P :{)thaya101, 1 Avr 2013
it's a well-said message to teenage boys out there about appearances and body image. You must not worry about becoming "shredded", but at least the best you can look. Always feel good about yourselves, and don't listen to negative comments from others around you. Always smile and feel good. :)thaya101, 1 Avr 2013
Looks like a great film for boys and body image.Stagg, 24 Oct 2012
Reeve. I think that alot of these guys drive to workout is over done and I think its because there past and how people treated them. I personally workout too and I do it for the same reason but Its not over done to the point where when I stop working out for a bit and loose mass I dont feel like someone else or I lost something. I dont let it choose who I am and by that I mean I am myself without being my biggest and going to the gym 4-5 times a week , obviosuly I would feel better and look better if I was at my prime but to me that doesnt matter more then just being myself. These guys just need to find other intrests rather then working out all the time because like they said its an addiction and sometime too much can be bad. I get the ideas that all these guys think about and focus on is working out but really they should other goals and other hobbies instead of putting all their eggs in one basketgoldenman, 8 Fév 2012
well informedKang, 8 Fév 2012
do nor do steroids bad choicetsea512, 16 Jan 2012
that was very good. i have learned women & men share the same insecurities & if we can try to be the best we can be, that is enough.kimcinvan, 7 Déc 2010


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Wedding Clipart (100+ pieces)
The Wedding Clipart collection includes 150+ clipart images and sayings for your photo and graphics projects. Use them to create your own wedding invitations, thank-you cards and other stationery. Or turn your wedding photos into unique and creative keepsakes. Pick your favorite image or combine a few to get the look you want. Simply copy and paste the transparent .png files on top of your photos to add that creative look. No matter what your project or skill level, you can use these images in so many different ways – the only limit is your imagination! Check out some of the examples on the left for some inspiration.
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Wednesday, March 29, 2017
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Announcing new releases
- A new release of the GEBCO_08 Grid is now available to download — it includes version 2.23 of the International Bathymetric Chart of the Arctic Ocean (IBCAO).
- A 'Source Identifier' Grid to accompany the GEBCO_08 Grid is also available. This describes the GEBCO_08 Grid — identifying which grid cells are based on bathymetric soundings or grids and which contain predicted depth values.
The General Bathymetric Chart of the Ocean (GEBCO) community aims to provide the most authoritative, publicly-available bathymetry for the world's oceans. BODC maintain and distribute gridded bathymetric data sets on behalf of the GEBCO community. These are
- The GEBCO One Minute Grid — a global one arc-minute grid, largely based on the most recent set of bathymetric contours contained within the GEBCO Digital Atlas. Released in 2003 and updated in 2008.
- The GEBCO_08 Grid — a 30 arc-second interval global terrain model, largely generated by combining quality-controlled ship depth soundings with predicted depths between the sounding points guided by satellite-derived gravity data. Released in January 2009.


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– Lisa Jackson's exit as head of the Environmental Protection Agency leaves her successor to combat global warming and set rules for hydraulic fracturing over the objections of businesses and Republican lawmakers.
Jackson on Thursday said she will step down as EPA chief as soon as President Barack Obama begins his second term. During her four years, the 50-year-old chemical engineer issued multibillion dollar rules to cut emissions of mercury, sulfur dioxide and other pollutants from power plants, industrial boilers and cement factories. The rules earned praise from health groups, which said Jackson moved to tackle pollution left unaddressed for too long, and criticism from manufacturers and Republicans that they endangered the economic recovery.
"The industries are going to continue the barrage that we've seen," Patti Goldman, a vice president at Earthjustice, a San Francisco-based environmental group, said in an interview. "The concern is having someone who can get through the confirmation process and be as strong" as Jackson in defending the environment. There will be a lot of unfinished business for her successor, she said.
Topping the list are plans to address greenhouse gases from power plants for the first time and to issue findings on the impact of hydraulic fracturing on drinking water. Both issues carry the same political risks Jackson faced throughout her tenure.
Possible candidates to replace Jackson include Bob Perciasepe, the No. 2 official at the agency now; Heather Zichal, the top White House aide for energy and environment; Gina McCarthy, the assistant administrator of EPA for air pollution; and Dan Esty, the top environmental regulator in Connecticut and a former Yale University professor.
Except for Zichal, each has worked at the EPA and has experience in managing a large organization. The agency has about 18,000 employees.
Jackson used a combination of technical expertise and political charm to try to ease complaints from Republicans, such as Oklahoma Sen. James Inhofe.
"Lisa Jackson and I disagreed on many issues and regulations while she headed the EPA; however, I have always appreciated her receptivity to my concerns, her accessibility and her honesty," Inhofe said in a statement Thursday. "She was one of the few at the EPA that was honest with me."
Even people who disagreed with Jackson's policies "came to appreciate the way she handled herself in tough situations," said Jeff Holmstead, a partner at Bracewell & Giuliani in Washington who served as a senior EPA official under former President George W. Bush.
Jackson's diplomacy didn't always work. The Republican-led House voted to strike down the major clean-air rules issued by Jackson. While Senate Democrats successfully defended those regulations, Obama himself scrapped her proposal in 2011 to cut smog pollution after the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and other business groups appealed to the White House for relief. A federal court struck down her landmark plan to cut pollutants from power plants that are carried by air currents across state lines, and that rule is still in limbo.
Under direction from Congress, Jackson initiated a comprehensive study of the effects on drinking water from hydraulic fracturing, the drilling technique responsible for the jump in natural-gas production in states such as Colorado, Pennsylvania and Texas. As the study continues, the agency also faces legal pressure from states and environmentalists to regulate the methane emissions from fracking, a step it had dodged.
"The top issue on everyone's radar right now is fracking," Don Elliott, a former EPA official who is a lawyer and professor at Yale Law School, said in an interview. "How EPA weighs in on it is very important."
On the one hand, the glut of natural gas has allowed power plants to shift away from dirtier coal-fueled production; on the other, local activists and environmental groups such as the Sierra Club complain that gas production is fouling the water, triggering earthquakes, and even causing global warming from the methane emissions that escape during production and transport.
EPA's study on the impact of fracking on drinking water is scheduled for release in 2014. Analysts say it could lead Congress to rewrite federal rules for the oversight of the practice or the agency to issue further regulations. Fracking is now primarily overseen by state regulators.
At the outset of her tenure, Jackson worked with then-White House adviser Carol Browner to push for legislation to cap and trade carbon-dioxide emissions. That measure, which faced near-unanimous Republican opposition, never made it to the floor of the Senate for a vote, a failure that some environmental advocates pin on the administration.
Now many environmentalists are looking to the EPA to accomplish what lawmakers could not.
The combination of cheap natural gas, auto efficiency standards and regulations on power plants can accomplish the same greenhouse-gas reductions by 2020 envisioned by the failed cap-and-trade measure, according to Dallas Burtraw, a fellow at Resources for the Future.
The EPA is scheduled to release the final version of rules on greenhouse gases from new power plants in the coming months, and, if its initial proposal is maintained, it would effectively preclude the construction of new coal-fired power plants. The EPA is also under a legal requirement to issue those rules for existing plants, a step that it has avoided so far.
The Natural Resources Defense Council, which sued the EPA to issue the regulations for greenhouse gases, this month proposed model standards for existing power plants.
Jackson's "successor will inherit an unfinished agenda that begins with the issuance of new health protections against carbon pollution from existing power plants — the largest remaining driver of climate change that needs to be controlled," Frances Beinecke, president of the NRDC, said in a statement.


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For our new weekly Monday feature our first visit was to Oakland based artist, Josh Keyes (read his interview). We stopped through to check out his home studio where he's currently preparing for a solo show at the George Billis Gallery in Los Angeles which opens February 3rd.
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He has two working areas, one for drawing and one for painting.
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Departing in a new direction after evolved light follower robots, take 500 processor cores spread out in space. Give them a simple instruction set which includes a instruction to copy (DMA) 8 bytes of their code/data to nearby cores (with an error rate of 0.5%). Fill the cores with random junk and set them running. If we graph the bandwidth used (the amount of data transmitted per cycle by the whole system) we get a plot like this:
This explosion in bandwidth use is due to implicit emergence of programs which replicate themselves. There is no fitness function, it's not a genetic algorithm and there is no guided convergence to a single solution – no 'telling it what to do'. Programs may arise that cooperate with each other or may exhibit parasitic behaviour as in alife experiments like Tierra, and this could be seen as a kind of self modifying, emergent Amorphous computing – and eventually, perhaps a way of evolving programs in parallel on cheap attiny processor hardware.
In order to replicate, the code needs to push a value onto the stack as the address to start the copy from, and then call the dma instruction to broadcast it. This is one of the 500 cores visualised using Betablocker DS emulator display, the new "up" arrow icon is the dma instruction.
Thinking more physically, the arrangements of the processors in space is a key factor – here are some visualisations. The size of each core increases when it transmits, and it's colour is set by a hash of the last data transmission – so we can see the rise of communication and the propagation of different strains of successful code.
The source is here and includes the visualisation software which requires fluxus.


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Touro College-ASDBS Nursing Programs - NCLEX Passing Rates and Program Rankings
The nursing school at Touro College-ASDBS is a private not-for-profit institution located in New York, New York. Its nursing programs are accredited by CCNE.
Degree types you can earn at Touro College-ASDBS include Registered Nursing, and the school provides its offerings to students via campus formats. The level of nursing programs offered to nursing students include Associate Degree and Bachelor Degree level degrees.
For nursing students in New York, the state average NCLEX-RN passing rate for ADN programs is 83.06% and for BSN programs is 81.94%. The average national NCLEX-RN passing rate for ADN programs is 85.48% and for BSN programs is 87.22%.
Out of 105 nursing schools in New York, the nursing program at Touro College-ASDBS ranks #20 in the state, and out of more than 1,700 nursing programs nationally, it ranks #523. It's 3-year average NCLEX-RN passing rate is 72.80%, giving the Touro College-ASDBS an overall grade of C.
Nursing Program Stats at a Glance for Touro College-ASDBS
- Grade: C
- NCLEX-RN Passing Rate Average: 72.80%
- New York State Rank: 20
- National Rank: 523
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School InformationLocation: New York, NY
- Type: Private not-for-profit
- Programs Offered As: Campus
NCLEX Ranking - ADNAvg. NCLEX ADN Passing Rate: 74.27%
- State Rank BSN: 20
- US Rank BSN Programs: 523
Nursing Program InformationPrograms Offered: Registered Nursing
- Award Levels: Associate Degree and Bachelor Degree
- Program Accreditors: CCNE
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If you are not finding the right nursing program in New York or want to compare nursing schools from other cities in New York? Compare average NCLEX scores, in-state and out-of-state tuition costs as well as schools with strong alumni networks. The following is a list of cities in with accredited nursing programs in New York: Albany, Alfred, Amherst, Auburn, Batavia, Bayside, Bethpage, Binghamton, Brockport, Bronx, Bronxville, Brooklyn, Brookville, Buffalo, Canandaigua, Corning, Delhi, Dobbs Ferry, Dryden, Elmira, Farmingdale, Garden City, Geneva, Hudson, Jamaica, Johnstown, Keuka Park, Loch Sheldrake, Long Island City, Melville, Middletown, Morrisville, New York, Newburgh, Old Westbury, Oneonta, Plattsburgh, Poughkeepsie, Queensbury, Rego Park, Rochester, Rockville Centre, Sanborn, Saranac Lake, Saratoga Springs, Schenectady, Selden, Staten Island, Stone Ridge, Stony Brook, Suffern, Syracuse, Troy, Utica, Valhalla, Vestal and Yonkers
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Rodin Museum in Philly reopens with look from 1929
PHILADELPHIA — The Rodin Museum, a little jewel box of a building surrounded by formal gardens and showcasing the French artist's monumental sculptures, had by most accounts lost a certain je ne sais quoi in the 83 years since it was built.
Now, for the first time since the museum opened in 1929, the public will get to see it as its architects intended. The Rodin Museum reopens Friday after a more than three-year, $9 million renovation that returned all its sculptures to their original locations inside and out, refurbished almost all of them — only "The Burghers of Calais" has yet to be cleaned up — and restored the grounds' formal French garden, fountain and reflecting pool.
"It was long overdue," Timothy Rub, director and chief executive officer of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, which runs the Rodin, said at a preview event Thursday. "We have a beautiful site and building and a great collection that had, frankly, lost some of its luster."
The inside galleries were rearranged to emphasize the way many figures in "The Gates of Hell" — Rodin's colossal masterwork that dominates the museum entrance — inspired his later iconic sculptures from "The Kiss" to "The Thinker." Behind the scenes, a new air-conditioning system will mean a swelter-free visit for summer tourists for the first time in decades.
Located between the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the new Barnes Foundation on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway, the classical Beaux-Arts building contains the largest collection of Auguste Rodin's sculptures outside of the Musee Rodin's collections in Paris and Meudon. It was a gift to the city from movie theater magnate Jules Mastbaum, who was introduced to Rodin's work during a 1923 trip to Paris.
Mastbaum hired two France-born architects living in Philadelphia, architect Paul Cret and landscape designer Jacques Greber, to create the limestone museum. Its holdings include more than 140 bronze, marble and plaster sculptures, plus drawings, prints, letters and books.
"Everything you see here, the interior in particular, is a true restoration of one of the most sophisticated buildings ever," curator Joseph Rischl said. "This is as sophisticated as a Parisian dress of 1929."
The Rodin Museum also houses a few works that were created by other artists.
Two small bronze heads, attributed to Rodin when Mastbaum purchased them, were later found to be the work of the artist's collaborator, muse and lover Camille Claudel. In addition, the Musee Rodin permitted Mastbaum to commission a copy of "The Kiss," one of Rodin's best-known works. The marble reproduction in Philadelphia was completed in 1929, 12 years after Rodin's death, by Jacques Greber's father, sculptor Henri Greber.
As is the case in museums around the world, the majority of the Rodin sculptures in Philadelphia's museum weren't cast in bronze until years after his death in 1917.


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Covering poverty, Randy Wells left a seasoned reporter feeling stories
Reporters are trained to gather facts and write stories.
We're trained to remain emotionally detached from subjects and issues we're observing and writing about.
Sometimes that's difficult.
It was particularly hard for me while documenting the lives of people in the throes of poverty for our Poor Town series this year. Poor Town is a collection of stories about residents swept up in an economic landscape that, from 2000 to 2010, saw the 30,000 people living in poverty become 60,000.
Many of us are but a couple of paychecks from being in financial trouble.
And the Great Recession between December 2007 and June 2009 brought calamitous change here, pushing unemployment in Rockford to 19.1 percent in January 2010. The region's climb from the ruins has been slow.
I met people who were homeless, unemployed, struggling single parents and people looking to move from their neighborhoods to escape crime and violence that are often poverty's companion.
But I also met people trying to build, or rebuild, their lives.
I got to know Dicie Lindsey-Cooper, 18, and Jordan Carpenter, 20, struggling single moms who hope to leverage education into careers to support themselves and give their children opportunities.
Lindsey-Cooper has three children and wants to become a pediatric nurse. Carpenter has completed training to work in a salon cutting hair, but for now is working as a call-service customer service rep. Rockford videographer Pablo Korona captured their struggles.
But the hardest story for me to write was about Randy Wells, a developmentally disabled man who jumped to his death Nov. 25 from the Jefferson Street bridge, the Monday before Thanksgiving.
I didn't know Wells, but I saw him regularly downtown. So did hundreds of others who shared memories through Facebook, told me or emailed recollections of Wells, 43, a small man who moved at race-walker's pace, head down with his arms pumping, always going someplace.
The city's sidewalks were his highways.
Wells was visible and likeable, his acquaintances say. He was always looking for someone to arm-wrestle, and he loved to be among crowds at city events. He enjoyed music and solving Sudoku puzzles.
Public outpouring of tales and grief for a man that many people recognized but few knew was real.
But Wells's motive for jumping into the icy river is destined to remain one of life's vagaries, and the people who saw him or knew him well are left to wonder why.
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Friend reacts after FAU student shot dead by police
Gregory Sun says Adam Donohue wasn't violent
On the campus of Florida Atlantic University, students are trying to understand why a Boca Raton police officer was forced to shoot and kill a 20-year-old student.
Adam Donohue, a student from St. Petersburg, was shot and killed Friday night after a struggle with police.
"It looks like it was a very violent struggle," Boca Raton police chief Dan Alexander said afterward. "The suspect attempted one carjacking, and was successful in another carjacking, so we're dealing with a very violent subject."
But "violent" is the last word that Donohue's friends and teammates would use to describe him. He played on the FAU rugby team, and his friends called him a gentle giant.
"We always looked out for each other; we were one big family," teammate Gregory Sun said, adding that he can't believe Donohue would threaten an officer.
"That's not his personality at all," Sun said. "I don't know what could have made him do something like that, but that's not the man I know. The fact of the matter is, no matter how big and scary he looked, he was unarmed."
Police have yet to say whether Donohue was carrying a weapon.
"I can tell you it looks like the officers were in a fight for their lives," Alexander said.
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Out of bed, showered, quick stop at Starbucks (which faked me out), then south toward San Francisco. I'm no dummy (no, really!) and figured it had something to do with our girls, Robin and Laura, who live in The City. But Karen faked me out again, veering off toward the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge that crosses the North Bay toward Berkeley, Oakland . . . and Alameda.
Which is where they berth the USS Hornet aircraft carrier--once a warship and recovery vessel for the Apollo 11 and 12 space missions, now a floating museum and historic landmark--and where my girls were waiting for me. Surprise!
I've written about my girls and the Hornet before: they both volunteer there, giving tours and chaperoning groups of Boy Scouts and such who spend the night aboard ship. Laura trained up to become a full docent and more recently parlayed her in-progress graduate education in Museum Studies to become the Hornet's full-fledged Archival and Collections Manager. Her job is to go through decades of papers and material that came with the ship when it was decommissioned in 1970 plus a lot more donated by old sailors since, figure out what it is, document it, preserve it, and do the gruntwork needed to make the Hornet's junk into a real museum-quality collection. It'll take months. Years. You know that warehouse at the end of "Raiders of the Lost Ark?" Like that. But what an opportunity for her! So my birthday gift was a backstage tour.
Now I need to tell you about deadly Moon Germs.
There aren't any.
But nobody knew that for certain in 1969, and on the off chance that the first men to land on the Moon brought back some alien face-hugging brain-burrowers, the returning astronauts of Apollos 11, 12 and 14 were locked in a modified Airstream trailer dubbed a Mobile Quarantine Facility (MQF) (it wasn't necessary for Apollo 13 since those astronauts never left their ship; by Apollo 15, NASA concluded the Moon was sterile and the MQF wasn't necessary at all). The MQF used for Apollo 11 is in the Smithsonian. The one used for Apollo 12 is at the U.S. Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama. The one used for Apollo 14 is on the Hornet.
So here's a photo of President Richard Nixon on the hangar deck of the Hornet looking through the window of an Airstream trailer--excuse me, MQF--congratulating Apollo 11 astronauts Armstrong, Collins and Aldrin. Note the "Hornet + 3" sign above the window, covering up the "Airstream" logo with a touch of military whimsy (similar whimsy had the astronauts fill out a U.S. Customs form listing their previous destination as "Moon" and declaring their cargo of "Moon rocks"):
Now look at me this morning, grinning like a loon, holding a piece of painted wood Laura found tucked away on a shelf one day.
|Not a recreation. Not a simulation. The wood grain matches. It's the real deal.
Now look at the shelf behind me, under my left hand (here, I'll blow it up for you!), and compare it to a photo of the MQF used for the next lunar landing, Apollo 12:
They kept the signs. On the ship. For forty-three years. Before the Hornet's crew loaded the hero-filled trailers onto military transport aircraft and flew them back to Texas, they kept the signs.
Some of you may say, "So what?" I understand your reaction. Others of you might get chills up your spine and tears in your eyes. You understand my reaction.
Best. Birthday. EVER. And best kids ever.
|Robin, me and Laura in front of the Apollo 14 MQF on the hangar deck of the Hornet.


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Shelley Nitschke stroked her maiden One-Day century to take the Australian Southern Stars to a six wicket victory over the White Ferns in the Rose Bowl series at Queen's Park in Invercargill.
Australia ensured tomorrows match is a final after they hit their way to 256 for four to win with 15 balls to spare after their White Ferns had put on a competitive 255 for eight from their 50 overs.
Nitschke was there at the end to complete the victory on 113 off 130 balls which included seven fours and four sixes. The Australian opener has maintained a rich vein of form after hitting 51 in the first One-Day International and 45 in the second Twenty20.
Leah Poulton (47) and Nitschke got the run chase off to the perfect start, putting on 90 for the first wicket and the tourist never relinquished control.
The opening stand was backed up by a better one for the third wicket of 108 between Nitschke and Sarah Elliott (59) before a brisk 21 not out from Lisa Sthalekar finished things off.
The bulk of New Zealand's 255 for eight came from Amy Satterthwaite who starred with her highest One-Day score of 81. The tall all-rounder shared a valuable 114 run partnership with Suzie Bates who struck 61.
The home side were cruising at 171 for two but three quick wickets by Australia roped them in before Sara McGlashan blasted 34 at the end of the innings propel the total.
Medium pacer Julie Hunter took three for 40 for Australia with Ellyse Perry and Erin Osborne chiming in with two apiece.
The White Ferns won the two Twenty20 matches while the Australians took out the first two One-Dayers with the fifth and deciding match of the series played at the same ground tomorrow.
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Fri 26 Feb – White Ferns won by 59 runs
Sun 28 Feb - White Ferns won by 17 runs
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Sat 6 Feb – Australia won by 6 wickets
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Building Your First Rails Application: Views and Controllers
Welcome to the second part of our two-part tutorial. Last time, we installed Ruby on Rails, generated an application for shortening URLs and created the Model for it.
Now we're going to create the Controller for our application, write the View and see if we can get the application to work. You might want to just quickly review where we were up to in Part 1, and then push on.
Creating Your First Controller
Now that we've created our model (with Rails taking care of persistence and validation) it's time to write a Controller. The Controller part of your applications handles taking the input (for example, data from the URL or the request body in the case of POST and PUT), and then interacting with the Model, as well as setting up data for the view portion.
RESTful Controllers
By default, Rails emphasizes a "RESTful" approach; that is to say, it uses the given HTTP verb (for example, GET, POST, PUT, DELETE) and well-organized urls to represent resources, leading to a general structure where code goes for operations on an object. It provides tools to handle basic CRUD (Create, Read, Update, Delete) actions on your data. In Rails terminology, the actions are typically:
index—An action that returns a listing of all resources; for example
GET /urlswill hit the index action on the URLs Controller, listing the known urls.
show—An action that performs a read operation for a single resource; for example
GET /urls/1will hit the show on the URLs Controller, showing the details of the URL with id 1.
new—The action to show a new object form, in our case, the new URL form; for example
GET /urls/newwill hit the new action on the URLs Controller and show the new URL form.
create—A post action to take the form data from the new action and to attempt to create a record; for example
POST /urlswill hit the create action on the URLs Controller, typically with some associated form data.
edit—Will show the form to edit a specific resource; for example
GET /urls/1/editwill hit the edit action on the URLs Controller and show a form to edit the URL with id 1.
update—Will attempt to update the given resource; for example
PUT /urls/1will hit the update action on the URLs Controller and attempt to update the URL with id 1.
destroy—Will attempt to destroy a given resource; for example
DELETE /urls/1will hit the destroy action on the URLs Controller and attempt to destroy the URL with id 1.
Generating Our Controller
In our example, we're going to cut it back from a full CRUD Controller and implement three basic actions:
create, and
show. When the user hits the
new action, it will render a new URL form. This will in turn hit the
create action when we submit the form, and attempt to create the URL object.
Finally, when the user hits the
show action, we will redirect them to the stored URL.
So, use the "Command Prompt with Ruby and Rails" option from the Start Menu to open the command prompt and change to the directory where you stored your code. We'll generate a new URL Controller with a single new action by running:
rails generate controller urls new
The reason we only passed in the
new action (instead of
create, and
show) is because Rails automatically generates a dummy view for each action included in the generator call. In this case, we only want a dummy view for the
new action, so we exclude the others.
Running the command should have created an
app/controllers/urls_controller.rb file and an
app/views/urls/new.HTML.erb file, as well as a few test files. For the moment, open up the Controller file and you'll see something similar to:
class UrlsController < ApplicationController
def new
And, if you open
config/routes.rb, you should also see it added a dummy route for us:
get "urls/new"
To start, while still in
config/routes.rb, replace the above line with:
resources :urls, :only => [:show, :new, :create]
Save the file, switch back to the command prompt, and run
rake routes. This will print out a list of all our routes. As you can see, Rails automatically set up three urls for us—
GET /urls/new,
GET /urls/:id, and
POST /urlspointing to the
show, and
create actions respectively.
If we start the server (using
rails server) and hit the URL for the new action in the browser (
http://localhost:3000/urls/new), you should now see a placeholder page similar to the image below.
Writing Our Controller Logic
In this case, our Controller logic is going to be very simple:
- When the user hits the new page, it will set the
@shortened_urlinstance variable to a new, unsaved URL object (we use
@shortened_urlas our instance variable instead of
@url, as the latter is used internally by Rails).
- When the user submits the new form, we should attempt to create a new URL. If it is valid and saves, we'll set a message telling the user the URL of their shortened link, and then we'll redirect back to the Shorten page again.
- If the URL is invalid, we'll re-render the new form, this time showing the errors.
- When the user hits the show action, we'll redirect them to the URL.
So, with
appcontrollersurls_controller.rb now open in your editor, replace all of code with:
class UrlsController < ApplicationController
def new
@shortened_url = Url.new
def create
@shortened_url = Url.new(params[:url])
if @shortened_url.save
flash[:shortened_id] = @shortened_url.id
redirect_to new_url_url
render :action => "new"
def show
@shortened_url = Url.find(params[:id])
redirect_to @shortened_url.url
Save the file. One important point to note here is that our choice of Model name—Url—has led to potentially confusing routes (for example
new_url_url). To understand what this means exactly, we just need to remember the output of
rake routes. In there, we saw a route with the name
new_url (among others). Rails automatically provides us with the
new_url_url method (if our resources call in
config/routes.rb had
:posts instead of
:urls, it would be
new_post_url instead) as well as the
_path equivalent; for example
new_url_path. The difference between the two is that
_url variants include the host, port, and protocol, whereas the
_path variants include only the path and query string.
In the above Controller code, you may have noticed the line containing:
flash[:shortened_id] = @shortened_url.id
If you've used a language like PHP before where you have a session for storing data, you'll be pleased to know Rails also supports a session for sharing data between requests. On top of this, it also has a second feature—the flash—which is a session that automatically expires entries. When we store data in the flash (like the id of our shortened URL above), it will be removed after it has been accessed. This is particular useful for tasks like passing error and status messages around (as opposed to in the URL), as they'll show once, and will disappear on subsequent pageloads.
With all of that done, we now need to make one minor adjustment: we want to make it so if users hits the root page of our application (for example
http://localhost:3000/), they're automatically redirected to the new URL form. In this case, it's a fairly simple matter of doing two things:
- Remove the
public/index.htmlfile. This is just the default "Welcome to Rails" page, but when present it overrides our root, showing every user the "Welcome to Rails" page.
- In the
config/routes.rbfile, add a new line below our resources call.
The line we add should look like this:
root :to => redirect('/urls/new')
This tells Rails that when we hit the root URL (the equivalent of
get '/' in our routes file), it should automatically redirect to the new URL action.
To try it out, go back to the terminal, restart the Rails server if you closed it, and then point your browser to
http://localhost:3000/. If all went as expected, your browser should have automatically been redirected to
Writing Your View
With the Controller and Model for Shorty ready to use, it's time to add the final layer: a View.
The View is the part that is actually shown to the user. By default, our Views are written in ERb: embedded ruby. ERb lets us embed bits of ruby into our HTML to generate dynamic pages. For example, to show the value of the URL attribute on a URL object, we'd use something like this in our View:
<%= @shortened_url.url %>
Then, at runtime, Rails will interpret the ruby portion to generate our HTML. Since our application is very simple, we're only going to have to edit two views: the
app/views/urls/new.html.erb file and our layout,
Editing Your Layout
Layouts are the Rails way of defining the general structure or layout of the page. While the
new.html.erb file is used for the HTML specific to our action (that is,for example the new action on another Controller will use another template), layouts are typically reused across several or all Actions. They are typically used to set up the general page structure; for example headers, menus, footers, and the like, while the page-specific stuff goes in your normal View.
In this case, our default
application.html.erb looks like:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<%= stylesheet_link_tag :all %>
<%= javascript_include_tag :defaults %>
<%= csrf_meta_tag %>
<%= yield %>
This is a very basic HTML5 page that does nothing but render the action view inside the body tag. The only aspect we're going to change on this page (to make it reusable when we extend the application in the future), is when we shorten a link, we get a link to it at the top of the page. So, below the
opening tag and above the line with
yield on it, add the following:
<% if flash[:shortened_id].present? %>

The shortened url is available <%= link_to 'here',
url_url(flash[:shortened_id]) %>.
(Right click and copy link to share it).
<% end %>
link_to in the code is simply a call to what is known as a helper method; in this case, something Rails defines for us that generates the HTML for a link with the given text (
'here' in this example) pointing to the given URL (in this case, something like
http://localhost:3000/urls/1) when a URL has been shortened. If no
:shortened_id value is present in the flash, nothing will be shown, but when one is present it will output a link to it inside a paragraph tag.
Editing Your Form
With the layout updated to show our link post shortening, we now need to set up our form. First, open up
app/views/urls/new.html.erb in your editor. By default, it should look like:

Find me in app/views/urls/new.html.erb

Delete that and replace it with:

Add a new URL

<%= form_for @shortened_url do |form| %>
<%= form.label :url, "Your URL:" %>
<%= form.text_field :url %>
<% if @shortened_url.errors[:url].any? %>

The given url <%= @shortened_url.errors[:url].to_sentence %>.
<% end %>

<%= form.submit "Shorten my URL" %>
<% end %>
When run, this code will generate a form tag (with the correct Action and Method) with a bunch of other HTML inside of it. Inside here, it'll generate a paragraph containing a label and text input for our URL field. In this case, we're using a specific class of helpers via the
form_for method. These are classes provided by Rails to make it easier to build up complex forms by handling generating fields and such.
Next, we check if there are any errors on the URL field of the shortened URL object, and generate a paragraph tag with the class
error-messages when there are. If the object doesn't have any errors, it won't output the HTML at all for this portion.
Lastly, we generate a submit tag with the text "Shorten my URL," finishing off our form.
Testing It Out
Going back to the console and starting the Rails server again (if it's been stopped), reload
http://localhost:3000/urls/new in your browser and you should see the following.
If you click on Shorten my URL without any URLs entered into the Your URLfield, you will receive the following error page.
If you enter a valid URL into the Your URL field and click Shorten my URL(for example
http://google.com/), you'll see the following image.
As a bonus, by using a form builder, Rails provides a lot of extras. For instance, it automatically sets the value of the text field so that when we go to submit it the second time (after an error), it will insert a special token to prevent cross-site request forgery. In general, it makes it very easy to build up forms.
Wrapping It All Up
As you've seen, with very little code we've been able to build a rudimentary URL shortener (whether the URLs are actually shorter depends on your domain and the input URL, but it's the idea in general that matters). We've only just scratched the surface of what you can do with Rails, but we have managed to cover a decent amount of Rails in a short period of time.
Of course, the application we built is not without flaws. For example, whilst we validate that a URL is actually given, we don't validate that it is a URL (and we blindly redirect to that value); hence, this isn't the sort of code you'd actually deploy. Likewise, the workflow itself is very rudimentary.
If you're keen on what you've done so far, you now have a good starting place to learn more about Ruby on Rails. For example, you might go about adding better url validation, add a way to list all urls shortened, or even better, use the routes and a custom Action that works more like existing URL shorteners. For bonus points, you could switch to an alternative form builder like formtastic,which will generate even better in-depth HTML for us (removing the need to do tasks like printing the error messages manually).
There is a wealth of documentation out there for Rails beginners, some better than others, and some of it requiring payment. I strongly suggest you start with the following resources:
- The Official Rails Guides—free, lots of relevant information, and a great place to start.
- The Ruby on Rails API—an API reference for the methods available from Rails.
- Railscasts—a lot (250 and counting) of free, short screencasts on performing different tasks in Rails.
- PeepCode—paid but professionally made screencasts on topics. Longer than Railscasts and generally more in depth.
- Rails Tutorial—a free book (with paid downloadable versions) that serves as an in-depth guide to Rails.
I hope you enjoyed gaining a brief feel for the Rails way of doing things.
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The upcoming iPhone5 in October might have a new twist to it. Sprint-Nextell might be joining the ranks as a phone carrier. This would be in addition to AT&T and Verizon to carrying the phone in the US.
I say "may" because it's unconfirmed just yet. The Wall Street Journal reported that it will be happening. They got their information from "people familiar with the matter". Yet, news leaks sometimes can be misleading.
Other iPhone5 Rumors
- iPhone4 will get an 8GB model, replace 3GS as low-end device
- dual-mode iPhone will let you switch from CDMA to GSM networks.
- 4G LTE – No word if dual-mode LTE – WiMax
- 8 Megapixel camera, Front facing VGA camera with no light.
- A5 processor running dual 1 GHz.
- Thinner and lighter phone
- Longer and wider screen – Same size phone
- Turns into Bumble Bee, everyone's favorite Transformer (OK, maybe not. But wouldn't that be cool?)
LTE vs WiMax
If Sprint does get the iPhone5, we could see a full iPhone war come October. There is one problem to this – Sprint is primarily a WiMax 4G service and iPhone is rumored to be LTE.
Sprint had put in measures to try and buy out Clearwire and add LTE into their service. Even if that happens, Sprint will have to do some fast work to make the iPhone 4G usable in the US.
We then have to ask the question: is T-Mobile also getting the iPhone? Not to mention the underdog carriers (US Cellular is one of the top underdogs in the Midwest, an iPhone 5 would mean local competition, too).
How iPhone5 Could Affect Android
Android has done a good job in clouding the market. Whereas iPhone only has 1 model with 3 memory size options (16, 32, 64 GB) and 2 color options (Black or White), Android comes in many sizes and shapes. HTC, LG, Motorola (obviously) and Sony- Ericsson all make different types of Android smartphones.
Still, with an iPhone 5 in all four US carriers could put a new dent into Android sales. A lot of people may make the switch because it's an iPhone.
Once again, this is a rumor, but if true, could give Apple a bigger market share. Sprint users might have a bad experience for the first year simply because the carrier has to adapt to the phone, instead of vise-versa. If it does happen, I might finally switch off to another carrier for the first time in 13 years…


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Fabien Cousteau on 31-Day Undersea Mission
ISLAMORADA | Like viewers worldwide, Fabien Cousteau was entranced by his famous grandfather's films about marine life and human exploration underwater. Now he's adding to his family's sea stories with a 31-day underwater expedition in the Florida Keys.
Cousteau dove a week ago to Aquarius Reef Base, a school bus-sized laboratory 60 feet below the ocean's surface, a few miles off Key Largo. He intends to spend more than a month living underwater with a five-person crew, making a documentary and leading science experiments on the nearby coral reef.
Before their boat left an Islamorada dock last Sunday morning, Cousteau and his crew said they would miss seeing the sun for more than month, but they weren't nervous about their isolation.
"I imagine we'll want to stay down once we get comfy down there," Cousteau said. "We won't want to come back up to the surface because it's such a magical place."
The idea for "Mission 31" came to Cousteau two years ago when he visited Aquarius during a fundraising push to save the lab, which federal budget cuts had threatened to permanently close.
"It reminded me that I've always wanted to live underwater," Cousteau said earlier at his training base in Islamorada.
"Mission 31" builds on the legacy of the 30-day underwater living experiment in the Red Sea that Jacques Cousteau filmed in 1963 for his Oscar-winning documentary "World Without Sun."
The younger Cousteau can do something his grandfather could not: broadcast the entire adventure live online and communicate with the public through social media and video chats with classrooms on land.
"For the first time I'm able to invite the world on a Cousteau expedition in real time," said Cousteau, who has filmed documentaries on sharks and other marine life.
Jacques Cousteau was revered worldwide for exploring the ocean in a multitude of documentaries and books, as well as for pioneering the advanced scuba diving techniques used at Aquarius.
While he developed underwater living experiments out of the belief that an overpopulated world might drive humans to live in the oceans, interest in the habitats waned through the decades until Aquarius was the last underwater research lab.
His grandson thinks interest in the oceans is reviving as climate change threatens to disrupt life on land.
"Whether you care about economics, in your personal life or your business life, whether you care about your health or your child's health, whether you care about saving creatures, it all pertains to making sure that our oceans are healthy. And our oceans are not," Cousteau said.
Throughout the expedition, Florida International University and Northeastern University researchers will study the effects of climate change and pollution on the coral reef. The crew will experiment with new technology that uses sonar to create three-dimensional video images, allowing them to gather data and footage without lights that would disrupt the fish.
Diving with a Cousteau helps bring more attention to the scientific work being performed at Aquarius, said Andy Shantz, an FIU researcher who will spend half the month at the base.
"These are really important issues, and to be able to bring that out and get a bit of a spotlight on the research and the science behind it is awesome," Shantz said.
The 400-square-foot pressurized Aquarius lab has six bunk beds. It allows scientists to live and work underwater and scuba dive for extended periods of time without needing to return to the surface or decompress.
Astronauts train at Aquarius to simulate living and working in outer space. The lab's technological edge doesn't extend to its kitchen area. "Unfortunately for me as a French person, the food also will be simulated. Freeze-dried, astronaut type of food, canned foods, things like that," Cousteau said, grimacing.
Cousteau plans to resurface July 2, ending the longest mission at Aquarius since it began operations in 1993.


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L*I*F*E is an acronym for…
Posted August 13, 2011on:
Love * In * Full * Expression
I've always felt that the meaning of the word L*I*F*E
is contained within the word 'life' itself, as this acronym so
beautifully expresses.
(this came to me in a flash of inspiration
one evening while gazing at the wonder
of our Universe in a sky filled with stars)
Think about it. When we let go of our concerns, our fears,
our self-limiting beliefs, our walls and just connect
purely to ourselves, each other and to life – what's left?…
And when we no longer wait for permission to
BE love and to live from that place and give it freely –
when we no longer wait till circumstances are just right
and 'then we'll let ourselves love' but rather,
LOVE from the get-go, love despite whatever
may be coming back at you…
Then its from THAT place that we have the power
to transform others, transform our environment
and ultimately, to transform ourselves.
Take this approach with you whenever you stand
in front of groups, clients or when doing your social media videos.
LOVE whomever you're talking to – not waiting to see
if they like you first or 'if its alright' (and this includes
even when looking into the lens of your webcam or flipvideo).
Take a stand and BE the love first and
watch what a difference it makes.
We create our reality from who we're BE-ING –
not from figuring things out first, or from
manipulating facts and figures, or trying to get it right,
nor from a defensive place.
When you truly trust, let go and dare to stand
in the LOVE of who you are and emanate that
to all those around you – that's when you're FULLY alive
and that's when life rushes back to you in full bloom.
I've transformed seemingly hopeless audiences
who were cranky, tired, dare I say, angry, even,
with them not wanting to be there – to having
them on fire, hopeful, excited and on their feet.
The seemingly impossible is possible when we
take a stand and hold that truth of who we are
while sharing all of ourselves.
I wish for you a L*I*F*E filled with love, with joy
for what each moment brings and with wonder
for the miracle of this gift of life we've all been blessed with.
Take a moment right now, literally just 5 minutes
(you know you can spare at least 5 minutes, right?)…
Take a step back from the crazy swirl… Breathe…
And just tune into your heart, tune into whatever is around you
– even if you're feeling some challenges right now –
just be with it, let yourself face it, tune into it
without judgment.
And now, feel love embracing all of it. Infuse it with love,
infuse the view outside your window with love, infuse those
around you with love, imagine a gold light
beginning inside your heart and expanding and growing
and radiating outward to everything around you.
Feel that connection, tune into all that's there and
do your best to continue moving forward the rest
of your day from THIS place.
I promise you, that even with the same circumstances,
same environment, same people – it will feel different,
it will be more vibrant and effortless and your moments
will flow, when we allow THIS to be the place we lead from.
Marianne Williamson said:
"Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves
to recognize how good things really are"
Today I wish for you JOY – for when we're connecting
to that real core meaning of L*I*F*E, we are able to access our joy.
Here's to your Love In Full Expression,
PS If this inspired you, please feel free to pass this along (pay it forward) and please take a moment to post here what has YOU feel alive – and also any thoughts on what's been shared here. Hearing from you is treasured…


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"The whole process is desperately sexist. But there it is."
That quote, from director Mark Mylod, comes near the end of Tad Friend's profile of Anna Faris in The New Yorker this week. Or at least, it's packaged as a profile. But it's actually a ten-page dossier on the existence of very misogynistic or very cynical (or both) people who are paid a lot of money to produce a lot of misogynistic, cynical fare. It is laden with people in Hollywood admitting, sometimes on the record, that this is the case. And that's a beautiful thing.
Anna Faris is the hapless, mostly-self-aware ingenue burbling through this world, straddling pragmatism (compromise, or the movie won't get made) and idealism (The House Bunny is empowering!). The Times magazine already recognized this conundrum when they profiled her, more briefly, in 2006 — the two pieces even use the same Six Feet Under audition anecdote — but that's not the point.
The point is that in hundreds of thousands of words written about Women In Hollywood, or Women In Comedy, rarely do you see this much candor in one place. A few examples from the piece (which is behind a paywall, which you should read in full):
- "In my experience, girls' revealing themselves as candid and raunchy doesn't appeal to guys at all," Stacey Snider, a partner in and the C.E.O. of DreamWorks Studios, says. "And girls aren't that into it, either."
- Another thing no one is into: A successful woman. We knew that, and yet this is devastating nonetheless: "To make a woman adorable, one successful female screenwriter says, "you have to defeat her at the beginning. It's a conscious thing I do—abuse and break her, strip her of her dignity, and then she gets to live out our fantasies and have fun. It's as simple as making the girl cry, fifteen minutes into the movie."
- But everyone likes a hot girl, if she's not too successful or intimidating. Of Faris, a "leading agent" says, "What Anna has going for her, to be crass, is that guys want to nail her."
- As we know, that is necessary but insufficient. She has to be sexy, but not have sex. Faris's new film with Mylod, What's Your Number, is about a woman who learns from a ladymag that if she sleeps with one more man than the twenty she already has, she'll never get married. The studio executive debate over the number is instructive, as they wring their hands over how many would make the character an unrelated slut. (You have to wonder how many women these studio executives have themselves fucked, and how they might mentally reward themselves for each notch over twenty.)
No worries, because one executive concludes that "there's an innocent quality to Anna's sexuality, and an inherent kindness to her, that makes it possible to make a movie about sex and have it feel like she's still a sweetheart." Good thing she has big eyes and bottle-blonde hair — otherwise she'd just be a nasty slut.
- Faris knows this herself: "Our answer to 'Wedding Crashers' was 'Gold Diggers,' " she says of an upcoming movie with Kate Hudson. "But the big hitch was, nobody's going to like those girls if they seem like sluts... We realized we can't make an actual female 'Wedding Crashers,' because then it would be 'Call Girls.' "
- The step-by-step dissection of why things suck so hard for women in comedy requires rare moments of self-awareness by men in comedy: Seth Rogen thinks Faris is hilarious, is honest about himself: "If 'Pineapple Express' "—a druggy comedy he starred in with James Franco—"had been about two girls, they wouldn't have made it. And if I were a woman I wouldn't have a career." (We're rooting for Best Buds in this regard.) And here's Airplane director David Zucker on why the classic comedy formula of a fat guy and a thin guy doesn't work with women: "Maybe women have a built-in dignity, and if a woman slips on a banana peel . . ." After a moment, he concluded, "You know, maybe it's just that I've never tried it." Maybe!
We could go on and on — the piece goes on and on, and that's important. Some of us didn't need a gentleman writer (a very nice one!) to tell us sexism exists in Hollywood, but there is still plenty of general denial that this is a problem that even exists. (Even Tina Fey is conflicted about acknowledging it.) And to see it given prominent, thorough placement in The New Yorker, with the open admissions of the key players — who are far more likely to speak frankly to him for a host of reasons — is perversely gratifying.
Funny Like A Guy [TNY]


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