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Thriving Together: 2016 Conference on Metastatic Breast Cancer

April 8, 2016 06:00pm EDT to April 10, 2016 01:00pm EDT
2016-04-08 18:00:00 2016-04-10 13:00:00 America/New_York Thriving Together: 2016 Conference on Metastatic Breast Cancer 1 Dock Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19106
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Online registration has now closed. Walk-in registration will be available on-site at the conference starting on Friday at 5:00 p.m. and thereafter throughout the weekend.

Attendee Registration Fee - $75
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*A select number of fee waivers will be available on-site for those living with metastatic breast cancer and their caregivers, if requested.

Be part of Thriving Together: 2016 Conference on Metastatic Breast Cancer on Friday, April 8 - Sunday, April 10 in Philadelphia, PA. Learn from and talk with national experts, while connecting with others who have been impacted by metastatic breast cancer in a supportive and empowering environment.

Now in its 10th year, the Metastatic Breast Cancer Conference features national experts presenting news you can use in large sessions as well as smaller, more personalized breakouts. The conference also provides you and those who care about you a space to share information and resources and ask questions about the complex medical, emotional, social and practical challenges that accompany a metastatic diagnosis.

Conference highlights include:

  • Presentations on the latest advancements in treatments and research
  • Welcome Reception and Special 10th Anniversary Panel Discussion on Friday, April 8
  • Time to socialize and meet new friends or reconnect with familiar faces
  • Lots of opportunities to ask your questions to presenters throughout the weekend
  • Wellness activities to get you moving on Sunday morning
  • A special Caregiver Rate for friends and loved ones to attend with you
  • Free live Web streaming of conference keynote presentations for those unable to attend

Visit to learn about our speakers, sessions and conference happenings.

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Wednesday, December 15, 2010

After the Jug Was Broken by Leah Shelleda: Press Release

After the Jug Was BrokenDecember 15, 2010

il piccolo editions is pleased to present

After the Jug Was Broken
Poems by Leah Shelleda
ISBN 9781926715469, 80pp, Paperback
The poetry of Leah Shelleda inhabits a realm of magic and marvels. The poet is a shape-shifter. Meet the Lamia, those "Madonna-faced/serpent below the waist" creatures, whose songs Shelleda sings. Meet Kitsune, the Spirit Fox, who is nine hundred ninety nine years old—about to grow nine tails. Meet Asherah, the Hebrew Goddess, her graven image shaped in bread—about to be eaten.

Shelleda's poems play at the edge of the wild and the forbidden; they dive down to the depths, bringing up treasure from the collective unconscious and the wisdom traditions; they enchant, seduce and bless; they transport us in the four directions and into the three worlds; they touch all the chakras. Leah Shelleda gathers the shards of our broken world and gives us sacred space. —Naomi Ruth Lowinsky, author of The Sister From Below: When the Muse Gets Her Way
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Leah Shelleda, "gatherer of shards", sings the world and psyche into wholeness. Whether she is speaking in the voice of a character in myth, or speaking in her own heartfelt voice of the places she has visited, she re-members for us that Myth, Place, Experience, and Spirit are One. Shelleda’s After the Jug Was Broken, an incantation of healing, begs to be read aloud. Through the fruit of suffering, and transformation through beauty, "where spirit spins cosmic webs", the reader is forever changed. – Patricia Damery, author of Farming Soul

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Leah Shelleda is Professor Emeritus of Humanities and Philosophy at the College of Marin. Her poems have appeared in many journals and anthologies, and her chapbook, A Flash of Angel, won the Blue Light Press prize. She is a weaver of wall hangings as well as words, and an ardent gardener.

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Friday, July 15, 2011

True North - Book Review

It is time for a FIRST Wild Card Tour book review! If you wish to join the FIRST blog alliance, just click the button. We are a group of reviewers who tour Christian books. A Wild Card post includes a brief bio of the author and a full chapter from each book toured. The reason it is called a FIRST Wild Card Tour is that you never know if the book will be fiction, non~fiction, for young, or for old...or for somewhere in between! Enjoy your free peek into the book!

You never know when I might play a wild card on you!

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Kregel Publications (May 2, 2011)

***Special thanks to Cat Hoort, Marketing and Publicity Manager, Kregel Publications for sending me a review copy.***

Gary Heim is a licensed psychologist and the pastor of Small Groups and Discipleship at Blythefield Hills Church in Rockford, Michigan, where he has served over thirteen years.

Lisa Heim is a licensed professional counselor and women’s ministry leader.

Married for more than twenty-five years, Gary and Lisa are adjunct professors at Grand Rapids Theological Seminary and speak frequently at retreats and seminars. Visit for free small group resources.

Visit the author's website.

Choose North

Flat tires, wounding words, a troubled marriage… We all struggle, but few people have learned to struggle well. When trouble comes, how do you respond? Do you turn north to God or south to the gods of this world?
True North offers biblical insight, personal stories, discussion questions, and compelling examples to encourage you to turn to God with every frustration in life. Authors Gary and Lisa Heim show you how to move from self-centered grumbling and grasping to Christ-centered gratitude and giving so you can embark on a life-giving adventure of walking with God.

“In True North, counselors Gary and Lisa Heim do more than point us in the right direction. They invite us to join them in their own spiritual journey.”—Martin DeHaan, president, RBC Ministries

“True North is about proper orientation to God while living with other sinners in a cursed world; it’s about understanding what happens in your heart, finding strength in God, and loving well. Bring an honest heart and mind to your reading of this book and you find good shepherding here.”—Brian Webster, Associate Professor of Old Testament Studies, Dallas Theological Seminary

“Gary and Lisa Heim both call and enable us to orient our lives toward survival and success. True North charts a clear and compelling life trajectory and gives us something solid to cling to when the downturns in life confuse our emotions and disorient our instincts.”—Joe Stowell, President, Cornerstone University

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List Price: $15.99
Paperback: 256 pages
Publisher: Kregel Publications (May 2, 2011)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0825427517
ISBN-13: 978-0825427510

Learning to live for God through all the daily troubles and difficulties of life isn’t something we can take or leave. Our worship, walk, and witness depend upon how we handle the daily chaos of trouble and hardship. This is where the rubber meets the road in living out our Christianity. Whether our groaning comes from frustrating circumstances like losing our job or from dealing with difficult people who criticize, offend, and annoy us, it’s possible to have an inner security in Christ that enables us to experience the joy of responding with gentle and healing words. Jesus invites us to live for him by learning to “live a life of love” (Eph. 5:1–2).

But life is so difficult and discouraging. Relationships often don’t work the way we long for them to. People wound and fail us, and we wound and fail others. It’s so tempting to lose heart and live for something—anything—other than wholehearted devotion to God. Lisa and I know because we’ve been there.

Lisa and I have a good and growing marriage. We’re experiencing love and laughter in ways we didn’t decades ago. But it’s a different kind of love than it was on our wedding day. We’ve significantly disappointed one another’s original expectations of what marriage would be like. In the face of those failures, pain, and loss, we’ve struggled to learn how to love. Our experience is normal. No one learns to really love others without a struggle to turn from self-centeredness. And as we share our stories with you, you’ll see how God has used our problems and failures to help us grow—in our personal lives, in our marriage, in our parenting, and in our ministries—as we’ve wept, laughed, prayed, and thought deeply about our lives in the context of the truths we share in this book.

Because of the depth of my self-centeredness, I’ve found that nothing in life is harder and more confusing than learning how to love. But nothing is more important. Jesus said the Bible can be boiled down to one sentence: love God with all your heart and love others as yourself (Matt. 22:37–40). Life is all about life-giving, soul-stirring relationships. This is what we were created for. And we’ve found that in our groaning and confusion to love well, we’ve needed a lot of help in discerning which way to turn. Therefore, this way of thinking about the Christian life has become like a spiritual road map for our journey. This map is not a formula for spiritual growth. Instead, it provides a tangible aid to help us discern whether we’re turning to God or away from him when we face the troubles and frustrations of everyday life.

These truths have been shaped and tested in our lives. For more than twenty years, Lisa and I have spent thousands of hours discipling and counseling individuals and married couples with a wide range of problems such as loneliness, depression, anxiety, anger, parenting, and marital conflicts. As root issues come to light, we walk those people through this way of thinking and responding to life. As they start to understand what’s happening inside them when they react to the groaning of life, they too can see what it means to intentionally turn to God and find his help. They turn to God, not to make life work, but to become the kind of person who knows God intimately and who can reflect his good heart to others, despite the circumstances.

Jesus said, “In this world you will have trouble.” But he didn’t stop there. He continued, “But take heart! I have overcome the world” (John 16:33). I’m so glad I can passionately say, yes, it is possible to truly change from the inside out; not perfectly, but substantially. Real change is a lifelong process. It doesn’t come easily, and it never comes by just trying harder. First and foremost, it comes by learning how to grow our heart’s affections for Jesus Christ and learning to make him the center and treasure of our lives.

The Choice: North or South? God or gods?

It’s all about the affections of our heart. Jesus said, “Love the Lord your God with all your heart” (Matt. 22:37). In his Sermon on the Mount he stated, “Where your treasure is, there your heart will be also” (Matt. 6:21). Every day, all day, God gives us the freedom to choose who or what we’ll give our hearts to. We call it going north or south. We either turn north to God for the security, love, and significance we long for as we face the chaos of this broken world, or we go south to the false gods of this world. When we go south, we tend to live with ourselves at the center of our lives. We relate to God and people as objects of self-gratification. When we approach relationships this way, we’ll fear the significant people in our lives who might disappoint our expectations. We’ll resent them when they fail to meet our expectations, and we’ll love them only when they meet our expectations. But in his Sermon on the Mount, Jesus said it’s no big deal if we love those who love us. The worst of sinners do that (Matt. 5:46–47).

When we put ourselves at the center, life becomes a confusing, dark, and chaotic world of greed, anger, worry, and envy. Those kinds of emotions are signals that tell us we’re forsaking God and going south by putting ourselves at the center of our universe. We try to get control over the chaos of life. We work to protect our fearful hearts. We’re trying to be our own god. Yet for all our efforts to be in control, the result is greater chaos and hurt. We damage our families, friendships, marriages, and God’s reputation.

But it can be different when we choose to live north by turning toward God and allowing him to be the blazing center of our lives. In Sex and the Supremacy of Life, John Piper explained:

I have a picture in my mind of the majesty of Christ like the sun at the center of the solar system of your life. The massive sun, 333,000 times the mass of the earth, holds all the planets in orbit, even little Pluto, 3.6 billion miles away. So it is with the supremacy of Christ in your life. All the planets of your life—your sexuality and desires, your commitments and beliefs, your aspirations and dreams, your attitudes and convictions, your habits and disciplines, your solitude and relationships, your labor and leisure, your thinking and feeling—all the planets of your life are held in orbit by the greatness and gravity and blazing brightness of the supremacy of Jesus Christ at the center of your life. If he ceases to be the bright, blazing, satisfying beauty at the center of your life, the planets will fly into confusion, a hundred things will be out of control, and sooner or later they will crash into destruction (pg 37–38).

Yes, when all the “planets of your life” revolve around the blazing center of the massive sun, everything finds its proper orbit. Only in Christ do we find rest (Ps. 62:1). When Christ alone is the center of our lives, when he has the affections of our hearts, then—and only then—we become established. We become grateful, giving children of God amidst the chaos and groaning of this broken and fallen world. We live purposefully by seeking to reveal the greatness and goodness of God by how we give to others—yes, even when they fail to meet our expectations. But, as Piper suggests, when we take the Son from the center of our lives, when we put anything else in his place—our marriage, our kids, sex, sports, work, hobbies, ministry—we become double-minded. Our passions begin to spin out of control. We succumb to worry. Lust, pressure, and conflict characterize our lives.

“Thou hast made us for Thyself and our hearts

are restless till they rest in Thee.”—Augustine, Confessions
Will we choose God? Or will we depend on people, things, and circumstances to go our way? The great battle is for our hearts. We either go north to God or south to gods. There is no in-between.

My thoughts:
Life can be exceedingly frustrating at times. Ok, a lot of times. :) But we don't have to let it get the better of us. True North helps to show us how we can continue to look to God to help us during these trials and how He will guide us toward an answer to the problem. It shows us how we can either growl and grumble or give our trust to the Lord and allow Him to show us the answer. A wonderful book to help us in everyday life!


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I feel like a big kid girl now! I can't believe that my graduation weekend has come + gone! PHEW! It flew by so fast -- quite often I had to stop & take a deep breathe & remind myself that I needed to slow down & embrace all the little moments. Friday night was absolutely surreal! When I received my long white coat with my name on it: Ashlyn Williams, MPA, PA-C, I honestly wanted to cry with joy. These past 2.5 years have been the MOST trying of my entire life. I learned so much through this experience & I am beyond grateful for it. Saturday morning was the graduation ceremony + Saturday night I spent the evening with family & friends celebrating. I was planning on getting a couple posts in recapping my weekend this past Monday + Tuesday but I didn't get in until really late Sunday night & yesterday when I got home from work I slept from 5 PM to 6AM Tuesday morning, guess I needed it! ha So be sure to check back next week for a recap :]

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+ Summer is quickly approaching & I am always on the hunt for the perfect maxi dress & when I spotted this striped one I immediately fell in love. I might just have to add it to my summer essentials.

+ These coral earrings are absolutely perfect for a trip to the beach or a night out with the girls! The pricey tag is the only thing holding me back.

+ I would totally name this sparkling sea cuff, my rock candy cuff? Perfect name for it right!

+ The Great Gatsby soundtrack has been on repeat ever since I saw the movie opening night. If you haven't seen the movie go.. NOW! & you should most def. download the amazing soundtrack, you will love it! I promise.

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by LetsRun.com
January 30, 2017

(Editor’s note: Matt Centrowitz, the two-time Olympian and former American record holder at 5000 who is perhaps best known these days for being the father of 2016 Olympic 1500 gold medallist Matthew Centrowitz, has self-published an autobiography about his life, his views on running, and the important role coaches and fathers play in people’s lives entitled Like Father, Like Son: My Story on Running, Coaching and Parenting. LetsRun.com co-founder Robert Johnson read a pre-publication edition of the book and loved it. His full review of the book, which he wholeheartedly recommends you buys, can be read at the following link: Legendary Athlete, Father and Coach Matt Centrowitz Just Published An Autobiography – We Suggest You Read It.

The book is now live on Amazon. So please purchase the book and read it. Then come back in a month and be a part of the first-ever LetsRun.com Virtual Book Club. To encourage you to read the book and thank you for supporting him, Centrowitz has agreed to do a podcast with LRC where LetsRunners can ask him questions they have after reading the book. We’ll do that at the end of February so get the book now to make sure you have time to read it before the podcast.

Available now on Amazon

Centrowitz is pretty darn confident you’ll enjoy his book. Why do we say that? Because he’s letting LetsRun.com visitors read a whole chapter for free. In actuality, he said we could republish the first three chapters but we felt like it wasn’t right to give away that much of the book for free. So below, we’ve decided to publish chapter two, one of our favorites, which details how Centrowitz got involved with running.)

Note: The version below is a pre-publication version of chapter 2 so the actual chapter likely will have a few more edits to it)

Reprinted with permission from Matt Centrowitz

Track saves people. I believe that. As a runner, a coach, and a father, I’ve seen it time and time again.

At the very least, it saved me.

In the summer of 1969 it felt like the world was falling apart. I’d say I finished eighth grade, but survived is more accurate. I flunked every class—every single class—and missed school over 50% of the time. My school, PS 22, was one of the worst in the Bronx, with one of the city’s highest truancy rates—and I was its best truant.

But it wasn’t just me. For generations the Bronx was a rock-solid, working-class neighborhood that had its share of wise guys, but it was mostly full working families, where mothers stayed home and fathers went to work in the nearby factories. But in 1969 it had started to spin apart. The families that were doing well got out, leaving only the families, like mine, that were struggling.

I don’t know what the reason was, or even if there was just one reason. Some say it was the newly built Cross Bronx Expressway that sliced old neighborhoods in half and turned the blocks on either side into slums. Some that it was the growth of the suburbs luring the higher income people out, and discriminatory redlining policies kept people of color from following. Others say it was the death of the Tammany machine that, despite the corruption and graft, kept the city running smoothly. The factories—that the Bronx was once famous for–closing left and right didn’t help either.

In any case, all I know is almost overnight the neighborhood got much poorer. And the Irish, Jewish, Polish, Italian, and German faces in the streets outside my flat suddenly became Puerto Rican ones. Even the president of the whole Borough of the Bronx—once the same Italian guy for almost 30 years—was Puerto Rican. As a kid, of course, I didn’t have any problem with all the new neighbors. They talked different, cooked different food, played different music. The neighborhood was full of unfamiliar smells and sounds. But they didn’t make the place poorer, they just came in because the rent was cheap.

White flight made the property values drop like crazy, so landlords started burning their own buildings to collect on the insurance. Sometimes tenants got a tip-off, sometimes they didn’t. The arson got so bad they eventually had to change the insurance laws. All the while the city was actually closing fire stations due to budget cuts. By the mid-70s parts of the south Bronx looked like a war zone—buildings turned to rubble and nothing built in their place. And in spite of all that, it was still my neighborhood, it was home, and I had to try to make it work for me.

The first day of junior high I wore a white shirt and tie, like I always did in elementary school, and I went in the boys’ bathroom. It was like a nightclub. Kids were smoking in there and drinking wine—early in the morning before class. So I took that tie off real quick and learned how to dress a lot different, and started transforming into a screw-up like everybody else.

So the only learning I did those years was in the streets with my friends. We drank, we smoked cigarettes, we smoked pot. I was in every kind of trouble there was. I was trying to be a big shot. We weren’t serious criminals by any means, but we were going nowhere fast. I was on my way to being a low level hoodlum, but plenty of guys around me were already hardened criminals.

One Thanksgiving weekend I was locked up in juvenile hall because they found marijuana in my locker. There were whole different kind of human beings in there. I saw really bad fights. I saw a guy get raped. It was terrifying stuff for a 13-year-old to witness. I realized then that I never wanted to go back. They labeled me a PINS: a Person in Need of Supervision, which is really what I was. Not a fundamentally bad kid, just someone who wanted to grow up too fast, be a man before I knew what being a man even was.

centro-jr-tatAnd then to make it even worse: my parents split up. It was always a difficult marriage. My mother, Theresa Corrigan, was a first-generation immigrant, sailing to New York from Ireland at the age of 15 and working as a maid most of her life. My father, Sid Centrowitz, was Jewish, and grew up in the Bowery in Manhattan and became a professional gambler. In a way, he was impressive. He was the only Jewish gambler allowed to run a card house in Little Italy in the West Bronx. And by all accounts he ran it well. They didn’t drink, didn’t mess around with any nonsense, they just kept the action going. Sometimes they’d stay up for 24 hours easy, three or four days with minimal sleep, just to keep people gambling. He was entertaining, he was funny. And he was good at getting people to lose their money. He worked for the mob, of course, and he would get a cut. And he would skim some money off the top.

My father had a sick view on society. But it came with the era. Everyone had a vice – drinking, drugs, women– and my father chose to gamble. As with any addiction, there were massive highs and traumatic lows. He was extremely controlling. We had to eat exactly as much food as he put on the plate—no more, no less. When we rode in the car we all had permanent assigned seats. It was like the military.

One day, it became too much for my mother. Her doctor told her if she didn’t leave, she’d have a nervous breakdown. So, when I was nine, she left. And because the law at the time disallowed children of different genders to sleep in the same bedroom, she could only afford to take my sister Maureen. So for three years we only saw our mother on weekends. The upside was that my mother, who was a nervous wreck when she was with my father, became almost a totally different person. She understood the stresses we were under and became more of a friend in a lot of ways. So while I saw her less, she actually became a bigger part of my life.

For those three years my younger brother Gerald and I lived with my father—who only got worse after my mother left him—and waited for my mother to save enough money to afford a two-bedroom apartment. When that day finally came, my brother and I didn’t hesitate. We chose our mother. Instead of taking this like a man, my father cut us off. He decided he wanted nothing to do with us. And the last thing he said to me was, “You’ll never amount to anything without me.”

That’s about the  worst you could ever say to a 12-year-old. I didn’t see him at all for the next seven years.

By 1969, sensing that I was headed down a path as bad as my father’s, my mother moved us out of the Bronx. She quit her job, went on welfare, and moved us out to Queens. Now Queens and the Bronx may look close on a map, especially if you’re not from New York, but to me it was a whole different world. It took two-and-a-half hours to get there using public transportation. For better or worse, I was leaving my old life entirely behind.

It may sound like there was nothing to miss about the Bronx, but that’s not exactly true. One great thing, maybe the best thing, about my old neighborhood is that we lived just two blocks away from Yankee Stadium. And in the 50s and 60s the Yankees were the absolute pinnacle of the sports world for the whole country. They were the best, most glamorous team in a sport that was then America’s undisputed pastime. And I got into games for free.

My older sister was a looker—or so they said—and to earn points with her the older boys in the neighborhood who worked the games would let us in for free (saving us the quarter a ticket would cost). We’d bring our own lunch and have to sit in the bleachers, but as the game wore on and the suit-and-tie crowd from Manhattan and the suburbs left early, we’d sneak down to the good seats. Nobody ever minded. It was kid-friendly in those days.

And I didn’t just love baseball, I loved what the Yankees represented. They were winners. Even in the rare years they weren’t winning the World Series (they won 8 between 1950 and 1962 alone) they were still Winners. Mickey Mantle and Roger Maris weren’t just great players, they were like aristocrats. The crowd wore white shirts and ties, the food was better, the stadium was better. It was a whole organization built on a self-reinforcing culture of winning.

My mother also loved baseball—she went to Yankee games pretty often and always religiously kept score on her score card. She even taught my brother and I to throw and catch. Even when he was still around, my father worked seven days a week, so we barely saw him—but my mom taught us a lot about baseball when we were younger. She was very athletic for a woman in those days—completely unlike my father who was fat and slow. Tall, always thin, with unusually big feet, she played street games with her brothers, and with us kids—and sometimes I wonder what kind of success she could have had if she had been born in a different era.

There was no Little League at that time in the Bronx. We’d either play stick ball or curb ball. Curb ball had all the rules of baseball but no batter or pitcher. Instead you had a Thrower who would throw the ball at the corner point on the curb and the ball would bounce back into the “field of play.” Fly ball could be caught out, ground ball you’d have to throw out. You run around the bases same as baseball. Depending on time of day it could get kind of hairy. Cars coming by. Sometimes they’d interfere–that was just bad luck. Sometimes a kid got hit by a car.

We played other games: touch football and sometimes sewer-to-sewer races. We raced by height, so because I was taller than average I was usually racing older kids. It didn’t mean that much to me then, but I won more than I lost.

The thing I later tried to drill into my own kids is that back then we organized ourselves. There was no higher authority to appeal to—you had to negotiate. The older kid told you the ball was out, you had two choices: you either hit him and got beat up, or you take your lumps and you look like a schmoe.

A bunch of guys who didn’t mind looking like schmoes were the New York Mets. Their first two years in 1962 and 1963 the Mets played in the old Polo Grounds that the New York Giants abandoned when they relocated to the West Coast along with the rival Dodgers. The corny Mets not only used another team’s stadium scraps, they took their colors too—combining the Giants’ orange with Dodger blue into a color combination that made them look like clowns. Even their own manager—former Yankee great Casey Stengel—seemed to think the whole thing was a joke. He cracked wise about his terrible players to the press, who ate it up.

The Polo Grounds were in upper Manhattan, a short walk from our apartment in the Bronx. But I rarely went. Not only was the product on the field a wreck, but the losing attitude extended to the crowd. No ties, that’s for sure. Most of the time they were drunk, falling down, fighting, you name it. They even drank a different beer—Rheingold instead of Yankee Stadium’s classier Shaefer Beer.

Pretty early on I could tell the difference between a winning environment and a losing one.

And guess where those Mets had moved in 1964? You got it: Queens. And here I was following in their footsteps. The crazy thing was, the year I moved, 1969, the “Miracle Mets” shocked the world—their own fans most of all—by winning the World Series. But that was in October, and when school started after Labor Day all I knew was that I wasn’t in the Bronx anymore. While the Bronx had what felt like a whole new population overnight, Queens had the same traditional mix of working class whites and blacks, but change was coming from within.

Our part of Queens was almost entirely black and for the first time I really saw signs of what had been going on throughout the country in the 60s. People were outside protesting in the street. Vietnam. Black power. There wasn’t anything resembling conformity. Anything that could be rebelled against, was. My mother enrolled me in Andrew Jackson High School, a school that had police officers stationed within the school. The school had proud traditions, but was caught up in the chaos of the times—in fact just a few years after I left, the police actually shut down a heroin factory that was operating in the basement of the school.

Kids weren’t just cutting classes here, they were in open revolt. Flipping a teacher’s car over outside. They’d be sucker punching people, even the teachers. I saw a teacher get beat up by students—that really opened my eyes.

So I really don’t know what would have happened to me if I hadn’t had the sense to listen up in gym class that first day.

“Track tryouts. Today. 3pm. See Coach Blatt out by the track.”

I thought, okay, this is something. Maybe I can do this.

I already knew I was fast. And that I liked running. We played games more than raced, but the older I got the more I won those sewer-to-sewer races. But for most of my life I had no idea competitive running even existed. A baseball player runs down the base path, a football player runs down the field, but a whole sport just dedicated to running? It was news to me. Then the 1968 Mexico City Olympics changed all that.

Track and field may have been unknown to young kids in the Bronx but on the world stage, in the Olympics, it was the centerpiece. The best athletes on earth competed for national pride at the height of the Cold War. The Yankees may have won the World Series, but it’s not like the Russians cared. Every country on earth wanted to win the 100m.

On my black and white TV I watched, riveted, event after event. 200m, 400m, 800m, 4x400m, 1500m, hurdles, steeplechase, marathon—I had no idea so many running events existed. It seemed like every country in the world was competing for these medals and the Americans were winning a bunch of them. In the 400, Americans cleaned up, taking home gold, silver, and bronze, with my new hero Lee Evans decimating the world record in 43.86 (which to this day still has him in the top ten fastest quarter-milers of all time).  I consumed every minute of Olympic track and field, especially the events that the American’s were winning.  You see, unlike today where we have hundreds of channels to watch on television, or the sites to visit on the internet, back in 1968, we only had one of three networks to watch.  So, when something like the Olympics came on, everybody watched, especially kids like me looking for role models.  During those games, track athletes like Bob Beamon, Jim Hines, Bill Toomey, Lee Evans and Tommie Smith, became household names.  And Evans and Smith, because of their bold Black Power salute, became even bigger than that—they were icons (and, to some, villains).

I honestly didn’t understand the politics at the time, but when Evans anchored a 4×400 relay team that also blew away the world record—and the nearest competition by almost 50 meters – I was hooked. Running the lead leg on that blazingly fast relay team was a young guy named Vince Matthews. And where did Matthews—who would later win an individual 400m gold of his own in Munich 1972—come from? You guessed it: Andrew Jackson High School in Queens, New York.

So you could say the tryouts got my attention.

I learned that not only did Andrew Jackson produce Matthews, Coach Blatt had trained Julio Meade, who was then an All-American sprinter at Kansas, and Andrew Jackson had the standing national high school record for the 4×880, a record—7:35.6, set in 1966—that would stand for almost 25 years. Olympians? All-Americans? National records? I knew then that this Coach Blatt had to be a hell of a coach. I thought I was pretty fast—at least I could beat anyone my age in the sewer-to-sewer races in the Bronx—so maybe this coach could make something out of me? Sure didn’t have anything to lose by trying.

I showed up that afternoon in my beat up sneakers and cotton shorts and shirt that still smelled of sweat from gym class, ready to prove myself.

“Freshmen! Line up over here,” Blatt yelled.  I drifted over to a corner of the track with maybe two or three-dozen other kids. As with the larger student body, I was one of the only white kids.

“No, kid, what are you doing?” I heard, as I was shuffling through the crowd. Somebody must have been goofing off. I looked around to see what the offender had been caught doing. Instead I saw the legendary Coach Milt Blatt staring dead at me.

“You,” he said, “You kidding me? You’re no freshman.”

At that point I was a big kid, at least for those days. 5’10”, 175 lbs. Most of it muscle. Compared to the skinny freshmen around me, I looked like a football player.

Sheepishly I protested, “I am, sir.”

“How old are you?”

He shook his head. Clearly he didn’t believe me, but wasn’t going to waste any more time on some white kid who probably wouldn’t make the team. “If you’re still here tomorrow, bring a birth certificate.”

I nodded, hoping my mother hadn’t left my certificate back in the Bronx.

“Okay, first eight of you, line up. Take a lane. No horsing around.,” he said, walking back over to the finish line. “Hundred-yard dash. End of the straightaway here. Full sprint, okay? Run like men.”

A little humiliated at being called out on my size, I hung back and watched the first group go off at his starter’s pistol. He had his own stop watch and a clipboard, conferring with each of the kids at the end of each heat to get their names.

The sewer to sewer races we ran were about 25 or 30 yards. Sometimes we’d run two sewers at 50 or 60. Any more than that was basically guaranteeing a car or something would interfere and spoil the race. But this 100 on a flat straightaway seemed manageable. At least I wouldn’t have to keep an eye out of the corner of my eye for a cement truck.

Finally, at the third or fourth heat I lined up in the far outside lane, a stocky white kid next to all these lanky black and Dominican guys, and dug the bald rubber heel of my worn-out sneaker into the cinder track.

Crack! The starting pistol went off and I churned my legs.  Did I think at that time I was bound for greatness? Not really. I just wanted to make the team. Just to have some kind of purpose. To be good at something, anything. And maybe to have somebody like Coach Blatt respect me. Whatever that was—hunger, desperation, hope—it pushed me.

I crossed the finish line a full stride ahead of all the other kids. Not even panting I jogged over to Coach Blatt.

“What was my time?” I asked, not even knowing then what a good time was.

He ignored my question. “Name?”

“Centrowitz, Matthew.”

Blatt didn’t even look up, writing my name in pencil on his clipboard.

“Okay, Centrowitz. Bring your birth certificate tomorrow.” And with that he turned to the next kid, “Name?”

So I was on the team.

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First Birthdays are the best! You get a big party, over the top cakes, lots of presents, lots of friends, all the attention and wear a tutu!
My grand niece just celebrated her first birthday today. A family friend made her this cute little tie on tutu and hair bow to wear on her big day.
Wow, It does not seem long ago, we were just giving her Mom a baby shower. They will grow into little princesses before you know it.
There was no problem getting her to dig into her personal little cake. 3 minutes after this picture was taken, she was the same color as the icing.
 After cake and clean up, It was time to open presents.
  Time goes by so fast. In just a blink of an eye, we will be celebrating her sweet sixteen.

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Investment banking has an air of mysteriousness about it. It features prominently in many Hollywood movies, and it conjures up images of massive offices in New York City and people turning from pauper to billionaire overnight (and back again). Of course, this isn’t quite real life. If you have seen the move The Pursuit of Happiness, you will have a much better idea of how much hard work and dedication actually goes into becoming an investment banker. People like Bob Stefanowski have had to work very hard to achieve the status they have, but also their reputation. Because investment banks deal with big sums of money, reputation is absolute key. There are now a number of global investment banks and firms that you are likely to have heard of, since they are the best in the world. Let’s take a look at some of them.

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The 3i Group is known mainly for its international investment opportunities, but they also focus on infrastructure and private equity. Their markets are mainly in North America and Europe. The manage investments and assets in order to increase capital returns. Usually, these investments are between 100 million and 500 million Euros. Furthermore, they work on private equity, which are also high value investments. In terms of infrastructure, they work to generate profits on cash incomes. They work in low-risk energy projects, greenfields, and other elements of infrastructures, particularly in the United Kingdom and Europe.

The Blackstone Group

The Blackstone Group is an investment firm with a difference, namely that they invest heavily in their employees. They offer many entry level positions, and advancement opportunities exist at many different levels. The company believes in nurturing their investments and that this should be done by nurturing their employees.

Goldman Sachs

Almost everybody has heard of Goldman Sachs, being one of the biggest investment banks in the world. They tend to only recruit graduate degree holders so that they have the best staff on board. In return, they have an open environment and they invest heavily in training their employees. The business invests in a variety of different structures and constructions.

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J.P. Morgan is another one of those companies that everybody wants to work for. This is mainly because they have a strong focus on financial analysis and are therefore very fast-moving within the industry as a whole. That said, a lot of people feel as if they have to go back to school just to be allowed to work there.

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This is perhaps not the best known firm, but they are very important in the world of investment banking. Specifically, this company focuses on mergers and acquisitions, all less than $1 billion in value. They focus on markets in this country, but also Asia and Europe, having some 15 different offices in financial centers the world over. They have a very open work culture that the lucky few who are able to get a job here can enjoy.

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Wednesday, April 3, 2013

Four. More. Books!

Yay, I can finally tell you what I've been working on!

I love writing for the middle grade crowd. And I love Scholastic, who do such a great job getting books into the hands of kids.

Two of my books at a Scholastic book fair

And now I get to write a MG series for Scholastic.

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IT'S RAINING CUPCAKES author Lisa Schroeder's CHARM SISTERS, a four-book series pitched as SISTERHOOD OF THE TRAVELING PANTS for tweens, featuring four girls who meet at summer camp and believe they've found a lucky charm necklace, to Amanda Maciel at Scholastic, by Sara Crowe at Harvey Klinger (world).

Yay!!! I hope you're as excited as I am!

The deadlines are tight though, so that the first two books can come out in 2014. Which means I'm working like a crazy person to finish the first book so I can move on to the second one. I'm having a lot of fun, though, and am excited my MG readers will have more to read next year.

Let's eat some cupcakes to celebrate, what do you say?

  1. Congratulations Lisa!! I know this series will be as popular if not MORE popular then your Cupcake books. :)

    1. Thank you! I'm glad my readers will have more books to look forward to.

  2. That's awesome! :) Can't wait.

  3. Congratulations Lisa!! Awesome news! I love Scholastic-- I'm sure your books will rock there


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A few master bath updates...

As you know, I am in the middle of updating our very small master bathroom on $100 or less.  That meant getting creative, using what I have and buying things cheap.   While out at Homegoods the other week I spotted the perfect yellow and white wrapping paper.  I figured $2.99 for wrapping paper that could be used in multiple projects was worth the money.  The first project I tackled was the old picture that hung behind the toilet.

Here's what I was working with...

My plan was to replace the current picture with the wrapping paper.  I first had to remove the brown paper that covered the back of the frame.  Unfortunately,  once I got the paper off there were about 35 staples that also had to be removed.   Ugg!  I got out the pliers and pulled every staple out so I could remove the picture.

Once I got the staples out, I was surprised again to see that the original picture and matte were glued together.  Really?  This was supposed to be a quick 2 minute project that was taking much longer than I expected.

 Since I mutilated the staples when I pulled them out I had to get creative and come up with another solution to keep the picture and glass in place.   Only one thing came to mind....DUCT TAPE!  Hey,  I never said this project was going to be pretty.

The yellow and white stripes adds such a fun pop of color to the bathroom.

I also updated the basket on the back of the toilet with some gray paint and snagged a plant from the office shelves.

I used the wrapping paper somewhere else in the room, but I'll save that for another day.   I also finished the curtain and am thrilled with how it turned out.  I'll share the final result later this week and hopefully the rest of the room shortly after.

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2015 Christmas Card Display

Happy Monday!  Did everyone get their shopping and wrapping done this weekend?  I still have a bit of wrapping to do, but I'm getting there.  I'm such a procrastinator and can't get motivated to do anything other than veg out on the couch with wine and a good Christmas movie. My all time favorite is Prancer and I'm pretty sure I've watched it at least three times already.  I have a feeling I've got a few long nights ahead of me, but it will all be worth it when I see the excitement on my kids faces Christmas morning.

It's going to be pretty quiet around the blog this week, but I do have two quick projects (if you even want to call them projects) to share before I take a break to spend time with my family.

Holiday Card Display

I LOVE receiving Christmas cards and hate the thought of having them just sit in a box or piled on the counter.  I knew this year I wanted to have them displayed around my home and the old window in the dining room was the perfect place.

All you need is jute, tape and small clothes pins.  If you don't have an old window a mirror or frame would work just as well.

Holiday Card Display

All I did was string the jute across the window, attach with tape and add the beautiful cards.

Every time we eat dinner or walk through the dining room we get to see the beautiful cards that our family and friends sent.
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I love seeing the smiling faces of my favorite little ones and will probably keep the cards up through January.  I just don't think I'll be able to bring myself to take them down.

How do you display your holiday cards?  Do you hang them up or display them on a table or counter?

  1. What a great idea...I have my cards opened and hanging over a café curtain rod at this time. I am on the lookout for an old window and when I find one this will be a definite use for it at Christmas. Thanks for sharing :)

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While bison may be familiar to most as the majestic, North American beasts that roam in colder parts of the country, Sunday In Brooklyn flips the script, serving corned bison tongue on its meat board and tartare with pickled chanterelles and seaweed. Young tells us that the subtle flavor of Lancaster Farm Fresh Co-Op’s bison is what won him over.

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I received a call the other day from a company saying it could negotiate the balance on my credit cards to a lesser amount. The caller also said they could get me a zero-percent interest rate until the debts were paid off, and then the accounts would be closed. I’m kind of starting over again financially, because I sold a company I had run for almost 15 years, then got into real estate and lost almost everything. I’m making just enough to squeeze by, and my credit card debt totals $40,000. Would this be a good idea?

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No, this is not a good idea. You’re looking at two major problems with a company such as this one. One, they will absolutely destroy whatever credit you may have. Their plan is to take your cash, and spend some time beating down the credit card companies until they agree to accept a lesser amount. Then, they use your cash to settle loans you will have — by that time —defaulted on. This will put you in a situation very similar to if you had filed Chapter 13 bankruptcy. Stay away from these people.

You have an income crisis, in addition to a debt crisis, at this point. For starters, I want you to start living on a tight, written, monthly budget. I’m talking rice and beans, no vacations, and no eating out until you pay off this debt. Where your income is concerned, maybe you should consider getting back into the kind of business you ran previously for a while. Look for a managerial or supervisory position in that area, at least until you’re able to get back on your feet and save some cash.

Finally, cut up the credit cards, close the accounts, and put as much money as you can spare toward paying off that debt using the debt snowball system. Never go back into debt again!.

Pay off house first?

Dear Dave,

My husband and I are in our 40’s. We have no children, and we bring home $95,000 a year combined. We’re also debt-free except for our home. We owe just $10,000 on the house, and can take care of that in a few months. Would it be okay to rearrange the Baby Steps a bit, and pay off our home before getting serious about saving for retirement?

— Nan

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I don’t usually give folks any wiggle room when it comes to sticking with the proper order of the Baby Steps. But if you’re that close to being completely debt-free, I don’t see anything wrong with paying off the house first.

Most people I talk to still have anywhere from $100,000 to $300,000 left on their mortgages. This is a little bit different story, however, and you two are obviously managing your money well.

Knock out that mortgage, and start pouring at least 15 percent of your income into retirement. You’re going to love the feeling — and the freedom — that comes with being completely debt-free.

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Monday, September 2, 2013

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From the middle of this month, says oil minister M Veerappa Moily, the government plans a massive six-week fuel conservation drive that could include closing all petrol pumps by 8 pm. The BJP has scoffed at the proposal.

…The minister said on Sunday, "There are various options and ideas that have been floated. Shutting petrol pumps during the night is one of them." He emphasized that, "we have not decided. It is just a proposal."

Whoever came up with THAT proposal, is an idiot.

Shutting down a petrol bunk in the evening simply means that people will get the petrol either before 8 PM or on the next day. In no way does this guarantee reduction in fuel consumption. You don't need to be an Oil Minister or an Economist to figure that out.

Yes, you could reduce the fuel consumption by shutting down petrol bunks PERMANENTLY (or put a ceiling on how many litres of petrol is permitted to be sold). If there is no supply, there can't be any consumption.

Now with that out of the way, let us look at what the article says:

The government is seeking to trim its huge oil import bill as it struggles to rescue the rupee - Nothing wrong with that. It would have been better if this was thought of before, but better late than never.

Prime Minister said the country must "economise the use of petroleum products" - Stating the obvious. This would have been a good idea even if the rupee wasn't tumbling. Again, although I think it is stating the obvious, I don't see anything wrong with the statement.

Mr Moily's austerity campaign from September 16 will attempt to cut fuel demand by three per cent and save an estimated Rs. 16,000 crore or USD 2.5 billion in forex outgo - It is nice to see that they have used the word 'attempt'. Again, nothing wrong with the statement.

The minister has written to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh with suggestions to shave off up to Rs. 1,32,000 crore of the Rs. 9,50,000 crore oil import bill of 2012-13. The note, dated August 30, does not mention closing petrol pumps at night - The note does NOT include the idiotic suggestion (of shutting down pumps at night), So WHY is it being made an issue? Why is that single ridiculous proposed measure being made a headline?

The BJP's Shahnawaz Hussain said, "Not only petrol pumps, this government is capable of shutting down this country.  If petrol pumps are closed at night, won't people fill fuel in the morning?"

Mr Hussain has suggested that ministers should set an example by "cutting down on their expenditure and should return their cars."

Err… I would call these remarks witty, if that particular proposal was made official or presented as a measure in writing. Picking on ONE point that isn't even recorded in the official note is actually desperate (if not pathetic). That goes for the media, the idiots on Twitter in addition to Shahnawaz Hussain.

Since the ridiculous proposal is not part of the submitted note / list of proposals (in writing), it is downright idiotic to make it the highlight of the proposed measures or use it as a headline. Sir Humphrey explained it best. Of course, he is talking about a decision being made and recorded, but the logic still applies in case of submission of a written document or proposal:

"It is characteristic of all committee discussions and decisions that every member has a vivid recollection of them and that every member's recollection of them differs violently from every other member's recollection. Consequently, we accept the convention that the official decisions are those and only those which have been officially recorded in the minutes by the Officials, from which it emerges with an elegant inevitability that any decision which has been officially reached will have been officially recorded in the minutes by the Officials and any decision which is not recorded in the minutes is not been officially reached even if one or more members believe they can recollect it, so in this particular case, if the decision had been officially reached it would have been officially recorded in the minutes by the Officials. And it isn't so it wasn't."

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Our re-arranged match at home to Merstham has now been moved from the 14th February to 21st March 2017.

Having been postponed and then re-arranged to Tuesday 14th February originally, the match has now been switched to be played on Tuesday 21st March 2017, due to Merstham now having a Surrey County Cup game on 14th February.

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Merstham (home) - Rearranged Our postponed home match against Merstham has been rearranged for Tuesday 14th February.
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I Wonder If Heaven Got A Ghetto Lyrics

Artist: 2Pac
Album: R U Still Down? (Remember Me)

Chorus: I wonder if heaven got a ghetto (4X)
I was raised, the little young nigga doin bad shit
Talk much shit cause I never had shit
I could remember being whupped in class
And if I didn't pass mama whupped my ass
Was it my fault papa didn't plan it out
Broke out left me to be the man of the house
I couldn't take it, had to make a profit
Down the block, got a glock, and I clock grip
Makin G's was my mission
Movin enough of this shit to get my mama out the kitchen and
why must I sock a fella, just to live large like Rockefeller
First you didn't give a fuck, but you're learnin now
If you don't respect the town then we'll burn you down
God damn it's a motherfuckin riot
Black people only hate police so don't try it
If you're not from the town then don't pass through
Cause some O.G. fools might blast you
It ain't right but it's long overdue
We can't have peace til the niggaz get a piece too
I want G's so you label me a criminal
And if I die, I wonder if heaven got a ghetto
Verse Two: 2Pac
Here on Earth, tell me what's a blick life worth
A bottle of juice is no excuse, the truth hurts
And even when you take the shit
Move counties get a lawyer you can shake the shit
Ask Rodney, LaTasha, and many more
It's been goin on for years, there's plenty more
When they ask me, when will the violence cease?
When your troops stop shootin niggaz down in the street
Niggaz had enough time to make a difference
Bear witness, own our own business
Word to God cause it's hard tryin to make ends meet
First we couldn't afford shit now everything's free
so we loot, please don't shoot when you see
I'm takin from the, cause for years they would take it from me
Now the tables have turned around
You didn't listen, until the niggaz burne dit down
And now Bush can't stop the hit
Predicted the shit, in 2Pacalypse
And for once I was down with niggaz, felt good
in the hood bein around the niggaz, yeah
And for the first time everybody let go
And the streets is death row, I wonder if heaven got a ghetto
Verse Three: 2Pac
I see no changes, all I see is racist faces
Misplaced hate makes disgrace to races
We under I wonder what it take to make this
one better place, let's erase the wait state
Take the evil out the people they'll be acting right
Cause both black and white are smokin crack tonight
And only time we deal is when we kill each other
It takes skill to be real, time to heal each other
And though it seems heaven-sent
We ain't ready, to have a black President, huh
It ain't a secret don't conceal the fact
The penitentiary's packed, and it's filled with blacks
I wake up in the morning and I ask myself
Is life worth living should I blast myself
I'm tired of being poor and even worse I'm black
My stomach hurts so I'm lookin for a purse to snatch
Cops give a damn about a ne-gro
Pull a trigger kill a nigger he's a hero
Mo' nigga mo' nigga mo' niggaz
I'd rather be dead than a po' nigga
Let the Lord judge the criminals
If I die, I wonder if heaven got a ghetto
Chorus (to :27 from fade)
Just think, if niggaz decide to retaliate
(Soldier in the house)
I wonder if heaven got a ghetto (4X to fade)

by katfes shakur on 7/10/2008 2:43am
his words will always be an advise to racist people and hypocrits
by dhizzy on 7/10/2008 2:58am
Here on Earth, tell me what's a blick life worth

i think the blick is black

"Here on Earth, tell me what's a black life worth"
by Peter on 6/9/2010 6:51pm
He spittin real shit...
by mysterious on 5/23/2011 1:15am
dis lyrics is a proverb 2 all those dat has criminal or criminatin mind, suld think b4 they carry out a sucide mission even though compel by reasons knwn 2 dem.
by Fumuty on 5/7/2012 8:24pm
Teardrops when i listen to that song he was lengend i wish he was dead like my father,shame i know he's smokin' with my daddy.tupac! Great him for me i love you

2Pac Lyrics
2Pac R U Still Down? (Remember Me) Lyrics

More 2Pac Music Lyrics:
2Pac - Can't C Me Lyrics
2Pac - M.O.B. Lyrics
2Pac - My Words To My Firstborn Lyrics
2Pac - Papa'z Song Lyrics
2Pac - Smile For Me Now Lyrics
2Pac - Str8 Ballin Lyrics
2Pac - They Don't Give A Fuck About Us Lyrics
2Pac - Where There Is A Will... Lyrics


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Saturday, October 6, 2012

The story of San Michele by Axel Munthe

House of Axel Munthe on Capri. Picture by Alessandro Catuogno

I am not sure if or how I should recommend this book.

Not that it is not entertaining or badly written, on the contrary, but because I somehow have the impression that Munthe’s book has aged badly. Published in 1929, like a vintage Bordeaux which has been kept too long, it might have turned sour for some readers.

Axel Munthe was a famous Swedish doctor, who during “l’entre –deux - guerres”, attended to the Rich and Famous first in Paris and later in Rome, after he was kicked out of the famous Salpetrière Hospital, because of a disagreement with the world renowned Doctor Charcot over a business of medical ethics.

Axel Munthe, a society figure and doctor of fame, one would be proud to count as an acquaintances, or better to summon to one’s sick bed,  was introduced to me in the first chapters of Malaparte’s novel  Kaputt.

Malaparte, a namedropper if ever there was one, discusses Munthe with Prince Eugene. Speaking about Munthe and his splendid villa on Capri, where he has retired from the world, the prince suddenly remarks:

“The flowers love him”
“And do the birds love him?”
“They mistake him for an old withered tree…”

And indeed Munthe was an early ecologist and animal-lover, securing a vast tract of land from the hands of developers, to establish an ornithological sanctuary. His book, which in fact is a romanticized biography contains numerous examples, where he saves and cures animals and even as a kind of doctor Doolittle speaks to them. Munthe takes pride of an occurrence where he, like a true Androcles, with the help of hypnosis cures a lion’s bad infected paw at the Paris zoo.

And this is what I mean when I think that the book has aged badly. Listen to this excerpt:

“Snake charming is of course a hypnotic phenomenon; I have myself put a Cobra into a state of catalepsy in the temple of Karnak”.

While I can imagine an audience of hysteric female admirers in a Salon in Paris to yelp with astounded delight at such feats, today when reading such a sentence, one either breaks out laughing or hurl the book against the wall in disgust.

Here is another example which is even more hilarious. Munthe volunteers to help in Naples where the entire population is brought down by the plague. The situation is horrific. People die by the hundreds, whole families, neighborhoods are wiped away, and there are not even enough survivors to burry the dead. Munthe, tries to help where he can, but the task is daunting. After weeks of horror, Munthe is mentally drained. In a convent, where the sole helping survivor is a beautiful young nun, Munthe, amidst all the horror surprises himself to make a pass at the girl. While it is somehow understandable that these two young people seek solace with each other, Munthe is overwhelmed by post amorous doubts. So far so good, but then he decides to explain it and fit what happened in a grand theory of sexual attraction. According to him, in circumstances of mass-dead, like war or epidemics, nature compensates by turning sexual attraction a notch higher in order to compensate for all the lost souls… still with me? … enough to wet yourself laughing !

Now the biggest legacy of Axel Munthe is of course his Villa at San Michele. In the course of the book, Munthe explains how he buys the house, renovates and finally furnishes it… all bogus anecdotes, but what the heck… good reading.

So, to conclude, if you are not too picky and you can appreciate thirties wisdom as funny bullshit, then Munthe's book can be an entertaining summer read.

And yes, Axel Munthe lived in the most beautiful house of the world !!

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Between November 2018 and April 2019, six neurodivergent participants will take part in a series of writing workshops led by established playwrights, and will each work on an original short play. Each participant will be matched with a mentor, and will receive one-to-one support and feedback throughout the writing process. All participants' individual needs will be met, and we'll cover travel and accommodation costs.

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You have to say as names go seal has to be up there, even though it may sound American he is truly British being born in London. Success in particularly was with a ‘kiss from a rose’, which won him two Grammy Awards for “Song Of The Year” and “Best Male Pop Vocal Performance”. But for me it was Crazy, which topped the charts in three countries.

In addition to this he became noticed when he provided the vocals for Adamski’s track ‘Killer’, which enjoyed phenomenal success and was was in the charts for four weeks at number 1.

Seal will be at the Manchester Apollo on Monday 29th June 2009 – 7.30pm and tickets are available from here.

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Spencer Pratt is barely famous, so I guess coming out of the same vagina makes you barely famous, too. I have no idea why Maxim thought it would be a good idea to put this completely average chick five pages, but I’m not even remotely joking when I say I can take a two minute walk downtown and see a thousand chicks hotter than this skank. If this photoshoot was taken at Raleigh Times she would be the girl in the corner showing people pictures of her cat in his Santa hat.


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Rovelight with Bowens Maxlight 8″ 65 Degree Reflector

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OCD, yup that’s me with light. This summer I have several outdoor dance shoots planned and in my normal way I’ve been obsessing about the light. The Rovelight was an answer to my prayers due to its HSS capabilities, portability and 600WS light output. But just the right modifier has escaped me up until today. I have been researching hard modifiers rather than octas, softboxes, umbrellas and such. You see where I shoot and what I love is wind. Moderate wind that makes hair blow back, wardrobe flow, all of those yummy facets in a photo that suits my shooting style. (Let’s not talk about my portable smoke machine, I don’t want to give any fire department fuel for my future trial…)

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Bowens Maxlite 8″ 65 degree reflector

Wind – anything more than a soft breeze plays havoc with soft modifiers, even when you use a voice activated light stand. (human) I’ve used beauty dishes before and sure they’re OK, but man they are a pain to haul around and hold on a boom or light stand in the wind. Sure you can sandbag them, but my most hated duty is lugging…I HATE LUGGING. And great locations are not right off the side of the road or a nice leisurely walk to the beach. Nope they’re always a hike, a climb up and down, over water…..yada yada yada you get the picture.

And sure if I really have to I’ll haul whatever I need to make the shot look like what’s in my head. But if I don’t have to…. So after much research I found some reviews on the Bowens Maxlite 8″ 65 degree reflector.

Only four reviews but almost all were five stars. The only four star review was by someone whose ‘review’ was one line…not much use. It’s not a cheap reflector for an 8″, but I thought what the heck I can try it and if I don’t like it, they have a great return policy. So rather than having to read through all of my babble I will simply say I LOVE IT.

My goal using the Rovelight’s HSS is twofold. First for high action dance shots outdoors in high ambient light. The ability to shoot at 1/8000th ensures no motion blur. For those shots I plan to use my Canon 1DX. For what I own and use in my gear bag it is the most capable tool to use to track movement. It has never let me down and on those occasions when I completely blew a shot, it was always user error. For portraits in high ambient I will pair my beloved Fuji X100T with the Rovelight. Why use two different cameras?

In HSS mode the Rovelight’s recycle time is about 2.5 times slower than in non HSS mode. I don’t think it matters whether you’re using Turtle or Rabbit mode in HSS, but I may be wrong. (RANT: I’m sure there are forum trolls who have measured the difference and will tell me. Do they ever shoot pictures other than ‘test shots?’/RANT) That’s no big deal because dancers and athletes are not repeatedly and immediately running and jumping like pinto beans on a hot skillet. Each jump or movement is choreographed and they know where they need to catch their sweet light when performing the movement. I have never used the 1DX’s 12 FPS to capture an artist. One shot at the apex of their movement is my preferred method. So there’s plenty of time between recycles for those pictures.

Oh…and if you’re gonna ask me how many FPS your camera can shoot with the Rove in HSS I have no idea.

On the other outdoor portraits  hand are a different story. Human expression changes in the blink of an eye, so the recycle time of the Rove is critical. Waiting for any strobe to recycle is a no no in my world. Because the little Fuji has a leaf shutter as well as a built in 3 stop ND filter I don’t have to use HSS on the Rove to drop down ambient. I can shoot at 1/4000th, f2.0 ISO100 (JPG only) and if that’s not enough to drop the ambient I can enable the ND filter and lower the speed if it makes the ambient too dark. The real point here is shooting at a lower power level on the Rove keeps its recycle times low while still getting the ambient the way I want it. I love having my cake and eating it too!

So I finally did some ‘test shots’ (WTF has become of me?!) to illustrate the smoothness of the Maxlite. It’s even without hot spots and has a wonderful feathered fall off! Let’s start with the 1DX. I shot all of the examples you’ll see at full power on the Rove 1/1 in HSS mode (except for natural light shots) at ISO 100. I have NOT adjusted any exposure, just corrected for lens distortion.

Rove with the Bowens Maxlite. Why the strap? One of the things I dislike about the Rove is the umbrella mount. It’s a friction mount and allows a larger umbrella to sag. I simply use the strap to support the umbrella shaft so it remains as close to center with the Rove as possible.

Let’s start with the 1DX (all shot at ISO 100 using a EF24-105mm f4.0 L IS lens. All 1DX shots lit with the Rove in HSS at 1/1 power shot through Bowens Maxlite Reflector. Triggered by the Rove trigger on top of a CellsII-C transmitter.

1DX test shots: Rove was placed 11 feet from the wall.

Natural light only 1/800, f4.0 ISO 100

1/2000. f4.0 ISO 100. Notice the ring of light just in front of the plants. A very smooth and quick falloff from the Maxlite

1/8000, f4.0 ISO 100. Notice the smoothness of the falloff and the even coverage of the primary area of light.

1DX action example

The scene as lit with just natural sunlight. Notice my son’s shadow at 11:00. Very defined and harsh. Rove is about 8 feet away and above him about the same distance.

1/4000, f4.0 ISO 100. You can see the sun’s shadow at 11:00 to my son. Very defined and harsh. In comparison the shadow produced by the Maxlite is softer.

 Fuji X100T (Rove set at 1/8th power, no HSS) Trigger – Rove trigger only.

1/2500, f2.0 ISO 100. 3 stop built in ND filter enabled. Rovelight set a 1/8th power. A leaf shutter is incredible at reducing ambient without concern about sync speed.

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  1. By complete coincidence, I bought a used, matched pair of the Bowens Maxlite 8″ reflectors and they just arrived today for my pair of Rovelights. Bad news, sort of, is that the older models use a plastic grommet for the s-type mount that overhangs about 3/32nd of an inch (presumably to not scratch the base of strobe mount), that makes them not fit without filing the rounded tops down . However, I’m highly encouraged by your review to try them out without a sock. What’s been your experience with the Maxlight’s light loss and feathering, using a sock?

    • Sorry to hear about the fit. I’ve never used the sock on the Maxlite and don’t plan to do so. I have done that with a PCB Beauty dish for outdoor work and just didn’t like the effect. In the past I have chased using ‘soft light’ in outdoor environments, but now feel that a harder light matches the outdoors better. It’s all just personal preference. Plus I’m in one of those “I love specular light better” modes these days. LOL

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24h TT World Championships 2017

A couple of hours to the start of 6-12-24 Hour World Time Trial Championships, you can follow the race via race tracking on http://my5.raceresult.com/65136/results?lang=en

More about my feelings before the race on the next page:

Luckily (and based on years of experience) we flew to California a week before the race. A bad cold that I caught somewhere on the flights to US, did subside a lot in those few days. So, I am feeling a lot better and I think I should be OK for the race.

My preparation was excellent and this cold had made me rest a bit more than usually , which is not necessarily a bad thing. This is my fifth World Champs (2002, 2012, 2015, 2016) and every time until now I won the category and at least the podium overall. So, even if I am in Masters Category (50+) now, my plan is to race with the young guys for the overall Championships. In fact I will try not to think about the others, but race my own race according to plan. Which is to go over the magic number of 500 miles, which I have done in every 24h race since the WCTT in Borrego 2015, where I won with 496 miles.

Still, just for you a little something about the competition. Here is the list of guys who I believe in perfect race can achieve more than 500 miles:

102 Jamahed Jehangir

107 Fabio Silvestri

108 Evens Stievenart

115 Julian Sanz

121 Dan Nielsen

188 Jason Perez

134 Jean Luc Perez

116 Andy Funk

145 Chris Hopkinson

Fingers crossed!

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