Happy Groundhog Day! So what's the verdict? 'Punxsutawney Phil' Predicts Early Spring! It already feels like spring here, 72° in Lowry Crossing. Yesterday was busy, I didn't get much crafting in, but I was productive elsewhere. I did a couple loads of laundry, changed the bedding, picked up around the house, swept the hall, & cleaned the 2nd shelf in the door of the fridge. I had fueled up with Rice Krispies before getting to work, so I felt pretty good. I went to work on eBay for a while, checked facebook, & then sat down to watch "The View From The Top" while working on my EMS afghan on the Knit Wit. I didn't get too far when Pete came home from work. Talk about mixed emotions, I was very happy that he was home from work, but at the same time, that meant crafting was over for the night & more specifically the Knit Wit was over for the week. Today already didn't go as planned. Pete took Josh to work at 5:30a, then was supposed to come back, take a 2 hour nap, take Kyle up into Princeton, come home & stay up for the day. Today is 1st Saturday & we were talking about going. I even set my alarm for 9:30a just in case Pete fell back asleep after dropping Kyle off at 8. I woke up, looked around the room, Pete was still in bed, I assumed it was still before 8, & went back to sleep. I woke up again later & felt more awake. I knew it had to be after 9. I looked over & Pete was still in bed. Then I heard Kyle walking around the house. Now I'm confused. It can't be before 8, I wouldn't feel this awake. I stretched over & reached my phone & checked the time ... NOON?! WHAT THE ...?! NOON! I got up. My alarm never went off because I had forgotten to change the setting that says "Weekdays only". Kyle said that the person he was supposed to meet in Princeton never showed up. As for why Pete is still in bed, I don't know. It's 1 & he's still asleep. I'd wake him, but he needs the sleep apparently.
According to folklore, if a groundhog emerges from its burrow on Groundhog Day, winter will soon end. If not, then we're in for a long winter. The most famous groundhog is Punxsutawney Phil, who has a worldwide following, despite his track record of being right only about 1/3 of the time.
Cyclemeter:
Cyclemeter is the most advanced application for cyclists ever designed
for a mobile device. Built from the ground up for iPhone, iPad, and
iCloud, it makes your iPhone a powerful fitness computer — with maps,
graphs, splits, intervals, laps, announcements, zones, training plans
and more.
iPhone powered
• Supports cycling, running, walking and many other activities.
• No website login required.
• Analyze your workouts on your iPad, updated with your latest data using iCloud.
• Share your workouts online with friends, family, or coaches.
Track
• Record everything about your workouts — years of workouts only take up the space of a few songs.
• Start and stop with your earphone remote.
• Exclude stopped time with automatic stop detection.
• Record heart rate, bike speed, bike cadence, and bike power with sensors (purchased separately).
Visualize
• Swipe across the stopwatch to see pages of stats, maps, and graphs - completely configurable.
• View your workouts on a calendar, and organized by routes and activities.
• Summarize your statistics by day, week, month, year, and overall.
• Analyze your split, interval, and zone performance.
Hear
• Select from more than 120 configurable announcements including distance, time, speed, elevation, and heart rate.
• Hear stats automatically at time or distance intervals, or on-demand with your earphone remote.
• Listen to comments from friends and followers on Twitter, Facebook, and dailymile.
• Choose from a variety of high quality voice options.
Race
• Compete against your previous workouts along a route, or import and compete against other people's workouts.
• See your virtual competition on a map and in graphs.
• Hear announcements on how far you are ahead of or behind your competition.
Plan
• Includes 5K, 10, half, and marathon running plans.
• Design your own training plans.
• Synchronize your plan with your iPhone calendar and your online calendars.
Train
• Keep on track with extremely configurable interval training, zones, and targets.
• Set up repeating intervals, pyramid intervals, or tempo workouts.
• Hear announcements that keep you in the zone.
• Analyze your split, interval, and zone performance.
• Includes the most advanced bike power meter support available on any application or device.
Share
• Use email, Facebook, Twitter, and dailymile to share your workouts online, automatically updated every few minutes.
• Automatically keep family and friends notified of your location and progress.
• Hear replies from family, coaches, and friends spoken using text-to-speech technology.
• Share your workout calendar with your friends and coaches.
Import/Export
• Import a route or virtual competitor by simply tapping on a GPX, TCX or KML link or file in Mail or Safari.
• Export detailed CSV, GPX, TCX or KML files for use in maps, graphs, and social fitness sites.
For cycling, running, walking, skiing, skating, and more
• Cyclemeter, Runmeter, Walkmeter, and 5K Runmeter are built from the same core foundation, but come preconfigured for cycling, running, walking, or training.
• Each app supports all features, activities, and plans.
From the press
• Obsessively complete... a killer app — Wired
• Records a wealth of data — Macworld
• Clean, easy-to-use — New York Times
• Amazingly rich with features -- PC Magazine
iPhone powered
• Supports cycling, running, walking and many other activities.
• No website login required.
• Analyze your workouts on your iPad, updated with your latest data using iCloud.
• Share your workouts online with friends, family, or coaches.
Track
• Record everything about your workouts — years of workouts only take up the space of a few songs.
• Start and stop with your earphone remote.
• Exclude stopped time with automatic stop detection.
• Record heart rate, bike speed, bike cadence, and bike power with sensors (purchased separately).
Visualize
• Swipe across the stopwatch to see pages of stats, maps, and graphs - completely configurable.
• View your workouts on a calendar, and organized by routes and activities.
• Summarize your statistics by day, week, month, year, and overall.
• Analyze your split, interval, and zone performance.
Hear
• Select from more than 120 configurable announcements including distance, time, speed, elevation, and heart rate.
• Hear stats automatically at time or distance intervals, or on-demand with your earphone remote.
• Listen to comments from friends and followers on Twitter, Facebook, and dailymile.
• Choose from a variety of high quality voice options.
Race
• Compete against your previous workouts along a route, or import and compete against other people's workouts.
• See your virtual competition on a map and in graphs.
• Hear announcements on how far you are ahead of or behind your competition.
Plan
• Includes 5K, 10, half, and marathon running plans.
• Design your own training plans.
• Synchronize your plan with your iPhone calendar and your online calendars.
Train
• Keep on track with extremely configurable interval training, zones, and targets.
• Set up repeating intervals, pyramid intervals, or tempo workouts.
• Hear announcements that keep you in the zone.
• Analyze your split, interval, and zone performance.
• Includes the most advanced bike power meter support available on any application or device.
Share
• Use email, Facebook, Twitter, and dailymile to share your workouts online, automatically updated every few minutes.
• Automatically keep family and friends notified of your location and progress.
• Hear replies from family, coaches, and friends spoken using text-to-speech technology.
• Share your workout calendar with your friends and coaches.
Import/Export
• Import a route or virtual competitor by simply tapping on a GPX, TCX or KML link or file in Mail or Safari.
• Export detailed CSV, GPX, TCX or KML files for use in maps, graphs, and social fitness sites.
For cycling, running, walking, skiing, skating, and more
• Cyclemeter, Runmeter, Walkmeter, and 5K Runmeter are built from the same core foundation, but come preconfigured for cycling, running, walking, or training.
• Each app supports all features, activities, and plans.
From the press
• Obsessively complete... a killer app — Wired
• Records a wealth of data — Macworld
• Clean, easy-to-use — New York Times
• Amazingly rich with features -- PC Magazine
Fastest land animals in the world top 10:
- Cheetah - 70 mph
- Pronghorn antelope - 61 mph
- Wildebeest - 50 mph
- Lion - 50 mph
- Thompson's gazelle - 50 mph
- Quarter horse - 47.5 mph
- Elk - 45 mph
- Cape hunting dog - 45 mph
- Coyote - 43 mph
- Gray fox - 42 mph
Fill the water cooler with Kool-Aid.
On this day in 1996, the dancer, actor and choreographer Gene Kelly dies at the age of 83, at his home in Beverly Hills, California.
Born in Pittsburgh in 1912, Kelly graduated with a degree in economics from the University of Pittsburgh during the Great Depression.
With jobs scarce, he worked at a dancing school partly owned by his
mother, who had insisted that all of her five children take music and
dance lessons throughout their childhood. On the side, he formed a dance
act with his brother Fred, appearing in local nightclubs and theater
productions. In 1938, Kelly decided to try his luck in New York City. He got his first Broadway job in the chorus of Leave It to Me, starring Mary Martin.
On the heels of his first big Broadway success, in My Pal Joey,
Kelly headed to Hollywood, having signed an exclusive contract with the
producer David O. Selznick. Selznick promptly lent Kelly to
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, a studio best known at the time for its large-scale
movie musicals. MGM put Kelly in his first film, For Me and My Gal (1942), co-starring
Judy Garland, and soon bought his contract from Selznick. Two years
later, the studio lent him out to Columbia Pictures to choreograph and
co-star in Cover Girl, opposite a then-unknown Rita Hayworth.
This film was Kelly’s first major big-screen success and his first
collaboration with the director and choreographer Stanley Donen. Cover Girl
featured an innovative sequence in which Kelly dances with his “alter
ego”--another image of himself filmed separately and combined on a
single strip of film.
Kelly continued his trail-blazing in the world of movie dance in his next big hit, Anchors Aweigh (1945), performing a dance routine with the animated mouse Jerry from the popular Tom and Jerry cartoon
series. The eight-minute sequence cost MGM $100,000 and took two months
to film, but it was celebrated as a breakthrough moment in cinema for
its combination of live action and animated footage. After serving in
the U.S. Navy during World War II, Kelly returned to the silver screen with 1948’s The Pirate, again opposite Judy Garland. He also made two more films with Frank Sinatra (his Anchors Aweigh co-star), including the hit On the Town, which Kelly directed and choreographed with Donen.
In 1951, Kelly headlined An American in Paris,
which won eight Academy Awards, including Best Picture. Kelly picked up
a special Oscar, in honor of his “extreme versatility as an actor,
singer, director and dancer, but specifically for his brilliant
achievement in the art of choreography.” At the pinnacle of his career,
Kelly cemented his iconic status with his work in what was arguably the
last great movie musical, Singin’ in the Rain (1952). The movie
featured one of the most memorable scenes in film history: Kelly dancing
and singing alone on the street during a downpour, with only his
umbrella for a prop.
As the popularity of big-budget movie musicals waned, Kelly’s films during the 1950s--Brigadoon (1954), It’s Always Fair Weather (1955) and Les Girls (1957)--met with varying degrees of success. Kelly and Donen fell out after working together on their last film, It’s Always Fair Weather,
partly for personal reasons: Kelly and Donen’s wife Jeanne Coyne fell
in love and were married in 1960 (Kelly was previously married to the
actress Betsy Blair). Kelly worked on other projects intended to raise
the profile of modern dance, including the dialogue-free Invitation to the Dance in 1956 and an NBC television special, Dancing is a Men’s Game. He also choreographed for the ballet in Paris and San Francisco.
After
Jeanne Coyne died of leukemia in 1973, Kelly focused on projects that
would keep him close to Los Angeles, where he was raising their two
children. Late into his career, he continued to make film appearances
and direct the occasional movie, including Hello, Dolly! (1969). Kelly’s last big-screen role was in the kitschy Xanadu (1980), in which he performed a dance routine on roller skates.
May a weird holy man suck on your towel rack. -Johnny Carson 1973
Principles are like lighthouses. They're natural laws that cannot be broken.
Top human athlete can run about 20 mph, a cheetah can run 70 mph - no contest!
Use, don't lose. Americans toss 14% - 25% of the food we purchase, according to experts. To keep this week's meat & cheese from becoming next week's trash, designate a use-it-up area in the fridge. Make sure items on the brink of expiration are stored front & center.
Weight Watchers Mobile:
Take Weight Watchers Mobile along to help you stay in control and make
smart and satisfying food choices. We’ve added brand new interactive
tools so you can tap into the stick-with-it power of the new Weight
Watchers 360 program anytime, anywhere.
With our eTools or Online subscription, you get access to great features like:
•Track your food, activity, and weight
•Review your weight-loss progress with our interactive chart
•Access your Spaces and Routines tools
•Use the Snap & Track feature to capture and share your delicious food moments
•Search more than over 150,000 foods, meals and recipes
•Browse health and fitness content
•Find a Weight Watchers meeting in your area
(Don’t have a subscription? You can still access recipes, articles, and a few cheat sheets!)
With our eTools or Online subscription, you get access to great features like:
•Track your food, activity, and weight
•Review your weight-loss progress with our interactive chart
•Access your Spaces and Routines tools
•Use the Snap & Track feature to capture and share your delicious food moments
•Search more than over 150,000 foods, meals and recipes
•Browse health and fitness content
•Find a Weight Watchers meeting in your area
(Don’t have a subscription? You can still access recipes, articles, and a few cheat sheets!)
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