tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-39352493368451071782024-03-05T20:12:36.305-06:00live&learn&rejoicelive&learn is dedicated to learning one new thing a day. ganbate.live&learnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02712944533446664626noreply@blogger.comBlogger442125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3935249336845107178.post-32099165099923670092013-02-01T07:19:00.000-06:002013-02-01T07:29:06.795-06:00think again<div style="text-align: center;">
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live&learnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02712944533446664626noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3935249336845107178.post-69157326492266541602013-01-28T07:41:00.001-06:002013-02-01T07:25:02.880-06:00themes thou lovest best<b style="color: #444444;">A Clear Midnight</b><br />
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<span style="color: #444444;">THIS is thy hour O Soul, thy free flight into the wordless,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;">Away from books, away from art, the day erased, the lesson done,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;">Thee fully forth emerging, silent, gazing, pondering <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;">the themes thou lovest best.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;">Night, sleep, and the stars.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">. . . be especially grateful for CS6</span></div>
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live&learnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02712944533446664626noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3935249336845107178.post-31036975892341805802013-01-27T08:22:00.003-06:002013-01-27T08:23:00.043-06:00pablo neruda<br />
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<span style="background-color: #eeeeee; color: #351c75;">Puedo escribir los versos más tristes esta noche.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #eeeeee; color: #351c75;">Escribir, por ejemplo : 'La noche está estrellada,</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #eeeeee; color: #351c75;">y tiritan, azules, los astros, a lo lejos'.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #eeeeee; color: #351c75;">El viento de la noche gira en el cielo y canta.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #eeeeee; color: #351c75;">Puedo escribir los versos más tristes esta noche.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #eeeeee; color: #351c75;">Yo la quise, y a veces ella también me quiso.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #eeeeee; color: #351c75;">En las noches como ésta la tuve entre mis brazos.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #eeeeee; color: #351c75;">La besé tantas veces bajo el cielo infinito.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #eeeeee; color: #351c75;">Ella me quiso, a veces yo también la quería.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #eeeeee; color: #351c75;">Cómo no haber amado sus grandes ojos fijos.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #eeeeee; color: #351c75;">Puedo escribir los versos más tristes esta noche.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #eeeeee; color: #351c75;">Pensar que no la tengo. Sentir que la he perdido.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #eeeeee; color: #351c75;">Oir la noche immensa, más inmensa sin ella. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #eeeeee; color: #351c75;">Y el verso cae al alma como al pasto el rocío.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #eeeeee; color: #351c75;">Qué importa que mi amor no pudiera guardarla.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #eeeeee; color: #351c75;">La noche está estrellada y ella no está conmigo.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #eeeeee; color: #351c75;">Eso es todo. A lo lejos alguien canta. A lo lejos.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #eeeeee; color: #351c75;">Mi alma no se contenta con haberla perdido.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #eeeeee; color: #351c75;">Como para acercarla mi mirada la busca.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #eeeeee; color: #351c75;">Mi corazón la busca, y ella no está conmigo.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #eeeeee; color: #351c75;">La misma noche que hace blanquear los mismos arboles.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #eeeeee; color: #351c75;">Nosotros, los de entonces, ya no somos los mismos.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #eeeeee; color: #351c75;">Ya no la quiero, es cierto pero cuánto la quise.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #eeeeee; color: #351c75;">Mi voz buscaba el viento para tocar su oído.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #eeeeee; color: #351c75;">De otro. Será de otro. Como antes de mis besos.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #eeeeee; color: #351c75;">Su voz, su cuerpo claro. Sus ojos infinitos.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #eeeeee; color: #351c75;">Ya no la quiero, es cierto, pero tal vez la quiero.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #eeeeee; color: #351c75;">Es tan corto al amor, y es tan largo el olvido.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #eeeeee; color: #351c75;">Porque en noches como ésta la tuve entre mis brazos,</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #eeeeee; color: #351c75;">mi alma no se contenta con haberla perdido.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #eeeeee; color: #351c75;">Aunque ésta sea el último dolor que ella me causa,</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #eeeeee; color: #351c75;">y éstos sean los últimos versos que yo le escribo</span></div>
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live&learnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02712944533446664626noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3935249336845107178.post-33984265269301514812013-01-20T08:25:00.000-06:002013-01-27T08:24:32.375-06:00i should hope so<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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live&learnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02712944533446664626noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3935249336845107178.post-58140329219141542212013-01-18T08:02:00.004-06:002013-01-18T08:02:55.984-06:00such a night<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<br /><br />live&learnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02712944533446664626noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3935249336845107178.post-25789080210414594342013-01-15T07:27:00.002-06:002013-01-15T07:28:52.311-06:00lesson from the navajo<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">the first spontaneous laugh was an occasion for much celebration and a time when many navajos held naming ceremonies for their young, according to hampton sides in <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Blood-Thunder-Carson-Conquest-American/dp/1400031109/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1358173925&sr=8-1&keywords=blood+and+thunder" target="_blank">blood and thunder</a>.</span></div>
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live&learnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02712944533446664626noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3935249336845107178.post-18838031133263578262013-01-08T11:44:00.006-06:002013-01-08T12:11:11.885-06:00watch your thoughts . . . <span style="color: #351c75; font-size: x-large;">. . . because the thought creates the thinker</span><br />
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live&learnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02712944533446664626noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3935249336845107178.post-13283133743057103152013-01-07T07:43:00.003-06:002013-01-07T07:43:54.809-06:00no good choices<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />live&learnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02712944533446664626noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3935249336845107178.post-20707463732258859772013-01-07T07:38:00.003-06:002013-01-07T07:38:16.540-06:00nyctinasty<span style="font-size: large;">botanical term for the movement of leaves and petals in response to darkness</span><br />
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(thank you <i>smithsonian magazine</i>, oct 2012 issue, pg 88)</div>
live&learnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02712944533446664626noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3935249336845107178.post-43237888477073394652013-01-06T10:34:00.002-06:002013-01-15T07:47:31.147-06:00falkland islands<div style="text-align: center;">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">sf from south beach apartment rooftop in dec 2012</td></tr>
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<span style="color: #444444;">high dynamic range. first attempt. clearly need to play w/this more.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444;">here are some "smashing" examples: <a href="http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/03/10/35-fantastic-hdr-pictures">http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/03/10/35-fantastic-hdr-pictures</a></span><br />
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<br />live&learnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02712944533446664626noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3935249336845107178.post-14736126511669901342012-05-26T18:10:00.002-05:002012-05-26T18:10:36.166-05:00Data mining, text mining, topic modeling<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">From today's NY Times - http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/05/29/of-monsters-men-and-topic-modeling/</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">"Topic modeling is a probabilistic, statistical method that can uncover themes and categories in amounts of text so large that they cannot be read by any individual human being." Applying topic modeling techniques to newspaper articles published from 1861 through 1864 in the Richmond Daily Dispatch, a study undertaken by the DIgital Scholarship Lab at the University of Richmond shows a close association between anti-northern diatribes and patriotism and poetry articles.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">"</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 21px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">We see the steady rise of patriotic poetry and vitriolic attacks during the secession crisis and the early months of the war. Later we see the sharp jump following the implementation of the draft in April 1862. And we see the last gasp of Confederate patriotism and nationalism at the very end of the war, as Southerners made one final attempt to rally the troops and salvage their cause."</span></span>live&learnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02712944533446664626noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3935249336845107178.post-48716919347167340642012-05-26T18:10:00.000-05:002012-05-26T18:10:11.407-05:00What a way to celebrate the 4th of JulySonya Thomas - Women's Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest - 40 hot dogs (with buns) in 10 minutes (7/4/11) [second place was far off the pace - only 28 dogs and buns]<br />
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Inspired by that impressive feat (and my own, in comparison paltry, but trying to set an individual record, eating) I decided to look into other world class eaters ....<br />
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Sonya Thomas again!! - Armour Vienna Sausage - 8.31 lbs sausage in 10 minutes (5/28/05)<br />
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Joey Chestnut - Asparagus - 9 lbs, 5.2 oz deep fried asparagus spears in 10 minutes (4/16/11)<br />
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Don Lerman - Baked beans - 6 lbs in 1 minute, 48 seconds<br />
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Dominic Cardo - Beef tongue - 3 lbs, 3 oz pickled beef tongue in 12 minutes<br />
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Don Lerman again!! - Butter - 7 quarter pound sticks, salted butter in 5 minutes<br />
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Sonya Thomas again!!!!! - Cheesecake - 11 lbs in 9 minutes (9/26/04)<br />
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Takeru Kobayashi - Cow brains - 17.7 lbs (or 57 cow's brains) in 15 minutes<br />
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All this and more at http://www.ifoce.com/records.php (Major League Eating), with photos of many of the champions at http://www.ifoce.com/rankings.phplive&learnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02712944533446664626noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3935249336845107178.post-28862130774485660272012-05-26T18:08:00.000-05:002012-05-26T18:08:59.333-05:00dulle griet<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><em><span style="color: #666666;">& you thought you had a bad week</span></em><br />
<strong>bruegel, 1562</strong></td></tr>
</tbody></table>live&learnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02712944533446664626noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3935249336845107178.post-48158464462387197472011-12-24T08:47:00.003-06:002011-12-24T08:54:30.460-06:00more ho-ing, less eating<span style="color: red;">. . . no gluwein, no egg nog, no fudge (insert all chocolates here), no dressing, no bread, no grazing, no desserts, no sweet potatoes with dessert toppings</span><br />
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<div style="text-align: right;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;"><strong>. . . no weight gain to bitch about next week & beyond</strong></span></div><div style="text-align: right;"><br />
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</div>live&learnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02712944533446664626noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3935249336845107178.post-11937654780796675422011-12-22T08:13:00.000-06:002011-12-22T08:13:29.466-06:00celebrate winter solstice<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #f9cb9c; color: yellow;"><strong>more daylight coming to a city near you soon</strong></span></div>live&learnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02712944533446664626noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3935249336845107178.post-19602291486218146052011-12-20T09:34:00.000-06:002011-12-20T09:34:16.404-06:00deleto all the folks i've offended by editing their work in the past, pls take a moment to view a galley proof by honore de balzac . . . editing really is your friend. . . . <br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.themorgan.org/collections/collections.asp?id=365">http://www.themorgan.org/collections/collections.asp?id=365</a></div>live&learnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02712944533446664626noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3935249336845107178.post-77877909627321101342011-12-19T06:00:00.003-06:002012-03-06T08:18:05.647-06:00not just another pretty face<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">male wood duck<br />
in lithia park upper pond<br />
<em>does life get any better than this?</em></td></tr>
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Curiosity, Kashdan writes, isn't about "whether we pay attention, but <span style="color: red;">how we pay</span> attention to what is happening" - an orientation that seeks <span style="color: blue;">what's novel in a situation</span>, rather than what's pleasant, and <span style="background-color: magenta;">embraces uncertainty</span>, rather than struggling for closure and control. (He cites numerous benefits, including tentative evidence that exercises to inculcate curiosity may stave off Alzheimer's.) The book is full of studies such as one in which an 18-year-old bodybuilder, among others, is induced to try crocheting. The researchers' conclusion: when asked to focus on the novel aspects of an experience they believe they'll dislike, people are more likely to return to it, voluntarily, later on.<br />
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We all pay lip service to the value of curiosity, but it is usually only lip service, especially in the world of self-help. Because if curiosity means being open to the unfamiliar, and to whatever emotions may result, then arguably any strategy for achieving happiness - for guaranteeing happy feelings, rather than sad ones - is intrinsically incurious. And such strategies don't work, Kashdan says, because we're socially and genetically hard-wired to adapt to experiences, whether good or bad. Create a life that thrills you, and the thrill will fade as it becomes familiar. Work on developing curiosity, by contrast, and you'll stand a better chance of resisting adaptation - because to become curious is, precisely, to <span style="background-color: black; color: yellow;">train yourself to seek what's unfamiliar</span>. <br />
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Crucially, though, this needn't mean pursuing the most bizarre experiences possible: you can avoid becoming the kind of person who boasts of travelling to ostentatiously obscure locations, or whose hobbies take 15 minutes to explain. Curiosity is <span style="color: #cc0000;">a quality of attention</span>, not a property of specific objects. "We don't realise that curiosity doesn't have to be about, say, waiting until we meet some really interesting person who's wearing a T-shirt of a band I love," Kashdan told me. "Instead, I can actually wield this curiosity, and seek what's intriguing about my world ... about people I think I know everything about, or someone I've been married to for 20 years."<br />
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That's not to say exciting experiences don't have a role. One of the most striking findings in <em>Curious?</em> is how much more lasting marital satisfaction couples report after undertaking novel, exciting activities together - from meeting new people to jetskiing - than after pleasant and relaxing, but familiar activities. The point, it seems, is that there's novelty in every situation if we look for it, but there's no harm in making the task easier by remembering to do plenty of new things. "As long as something is novel," Kashdan says, "we are still in the process of finding and creating meaning." And "finding and creating meaning" may be as good a definition of fulfilment as I've yet encountered.<br />
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<a href="mailto:oliver.burkeman@guardian.co.uk">oliver.burkeman@guardian.co.uk</a><br />
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And if you are still curious about being curious, check this out: <a href="http://ceicuriosity.tripod.com/">http://ceicuriosity.tripod.com/</a>live&learnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02712944533446664626noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3935249336845107178.post-66642260010372380652011-12-18T09:09:00.001-06:002011-12-18T09:10:49.391-06:00tis the season<ul><li><span style="color: indigo; font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;">Gliding. Start out marching, then stand on two feet and let yourself glide. Once you’ve mastered the two-foot glide, start transferring your weight to one leg at a time and picking up the other for a one-foot glide.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: indigo; font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;">Stroking. Now that you’ve mastered the one-foot glide, start alternating back and forth. This is called stroking. A good ice skating tip for beginners at stroking is to start with short, quick glides before you try to balance on one leg for long. </span></li>
<li><span style="color: indigo; font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;">Swizzles. This easy skating technique involves propelling yourself forward without bringing your feet off the ice. Start with your heels together, toes pointed forward and out. Slide your feet apart, then bring your toes together. Repeat the motion so your path looks like an hourglass. Master these forward and backward. </span></li>
<li><span style="color: indigo; font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;">Crossovers. Designed to help you skate around corners, you can practice these in a hockey circle by placing your outside skate over your inside skate as you glide around the corners. </span></li>
</ul><div style="text-align: right;"><a href="http://www.prosedgesports.com/t-iceskatingtips.aspx">http://www.prosedgesports.com/t-iceskatingtips.aspx</a></div>live&learnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02712944533446664626noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3935249336845107178.post-55152145005315855612011-12-16T07:27:00.000-06:002011-12-16T07:27:13.417-06:00rip<span style="color: #444444;">“I sympathize afresh with the mighty Voltaire,” Mr. Hitchens wrote in <em>Vanity Fair</em> in October 2010, “who, when badgered on his deathbed and urged to renounce the devil, murmured that this was no time to be making enemies.” (per <em>washington post</em> story 12/16/2011)</span><br />
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<span style="color: #45818e;">Shortly before he died in Paris, Wilde quipped to a female friend: "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (much disputed quote, but true per story in <em>cnn.com</em> and really let's all just go with it, it's fun)</span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d;">"Et tu, Brute" . . . Shakespeare's Julius Caesar.</span>live&learnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02712944533446664626noreply@blogger.com