Edith 1918 - 2002

Edith Miriam came into this living world on June 14, 1918. She has seen this world making the transition to telephone communication, and has communicated on the World Wide Web. All of these people and more are whom Edith cares more about than anything else. She loves all living beings. We are and will be in touch. She is and forever will be, my greatest friend.
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Today is also the first day of 5770.
Happy New Year

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College #4 for me!

Applying for admission to Seminole Community College.
On September 20, 1987, I earned an AAS in a CUNY, after also taking preliminary courses in a SUNY in 1979. That was in Computer Programing. I now want to learn how to become a designer of Advertising art. "Graphic Designer" appears to define my career interest. I plan to apply for a scolarship from the government stimulus due to my unemployment. My understanding is that "Graphics Technology: Digital and Interactive Media Design" at SCC is eligible for the $5000 grant. I also suspect that this is a curriculum that will fulfill my ambition. I am more interested in creative design, than I am in web site creation. I am not sure if I need another AS degree. I do not know if SCC will offer a BS in Graphic Design. I want to be sure I will take the correct training that will help me do what I really enjoy doing. I want to be sure that my training can help qualify me for lucrative employment. What I had previously learned 22 years ago, now applies to what is now primitive, obsolete, or rare, and requires experts. In addition, my knowledge and skills have atrophied. I have had 52 employers. I want this trend to end.
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Life as an Outsider

Sunday, September 6, 2009 PARALLEL PLAY Life as an Outsider
By Tim Page Doubleday. 197 pp. $26
Tim Page's short memoir, "Parallel Play," might just as easily be called "The Mysterious and Disconcerting World of Tim Page -- and How He Survived to Tell the Story." A former classical music critic for The Post and a winner of the Pulitzer Prize for criticism, the author has spent his life aware that he is an eccentric -- an anxious and uncomfortable one, whose intellectual gifts have provided no relief from the aching loneliness that comes from living on what feels like the fringe. As a boy, he existed in a perpetual state of vague, and occasionally acute, disorientation. It turned out that Page has Asperger's syndrome, but he didn't find this out until he was 45, when he finally received a medical diagnosis and began to better understand his difficult life.

Awash in detail, Page's account reads like a verbal version of the minimalist music he discovered and loved as a teen. "As a listener . . . you settled in . . . as though you had boarded a train and thought nothing about where you'd been or where you were heading but merely surrendered yourself to jostle and speed and passing images." His book itself is a jostling trip. Lists of musical compositions, book titles and authors, as well as excruciating memories of teenage exploits, some of them horrific, are recounted in detail thanks to the author's astonishing recall of minutiae, one of the defining aspects of an Aspie (as Page frequently refers to his syndrome). In the midst of this nonstop journey, the wordsmithing is nimble and lyrical, well-tuned by a writer with a musician's ear.

But the reader craves more about the people in Page's life: his infrequently mentioned parents and siblings; the first woman he married, whom he calls his "best friend, a brilliant and intuitive woman . . . to whom I felt and feel enormous loyalty"; the children he fathered, who "fascinate" him but from whom he keeps a certain distance; the later love of his life (and his second wife), who for four years brought him "sustained contentment" and happiness and then left him. The mention of these deeply significant relationships is oddly -- painfully -- brief. While the author seems to have found his way to balance and a taste of happiness, the old ache, in the end, remains palpable.-- Suki Casanave
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12/21/2012 Poll

Take my poll below, or click above for Face Book.
What will happen on or before 12/21/2012?

A) Earthquake devastates western California.
B) Yellowstone mega volcano erupts.
C) Hurricane will flood NYC
D) Solar flares cause world-wide black-out
E) Tsunami will flood east coast of Florida
F) Giant meteor hits the earth

Which letter is your answer? (A) (B) (C) (D) (E) (F)

Barack Obama will run for another term as president.
We gain access to the space within the Great Pyramid.
Johnny Carson comes back to life as our saviour.
WWIII. destroys human civilization on Earth.

Please click on the box below, that corresponds
with the letter of your choice. (A) (B) (C) (D) (E) (F)

Except for the election choice, the above have the following in common.
They are all natural events. They all will definitely happen. They will not result in the destruction or elimination of our planet. Man has no control of them. They will wreak havoc on our civilization. They will all destroy Man's creations. They all make the election choice, our best hope for our future.

To the left of my entries in this blog, are previous older postings, listed by archive dates. Click on those in "Hind Sight", to see unread notices. My previous posts are updated, with the additions and revisions changed to the color red. "If it is in red, you may not have read it". Please continue to keep scrolling down this very long page to see everything. On the bottom of this and all blog entries, is date of which it was posted, and a permanent link to that specific entry. Click on it to make a comment. 9/16/09
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Alien SPecIEs

Hello! My &rew view AND sight are empowered by the Aspie operating system. I’m A. Lerner + have Aspergers Syndrome. It’s not like you think. Enlighten yourself to my A.LtERNativE Reasoning, interests, views + experiences. 1/15 are Autistic, + ASPIrE to LeArn what Neuro-Typical ASsume understood. My interaction is A LeArner different. Help put A in Lerner + do not be ALien. I am not an Alien-SPecIEs. Please read left, click ALL pictures, underlined, reactions, boxes. What is your ASsessment?

Other Aspie Quotes by &rew Lerner:
"LeArner: Fitting in, and standing out." (Trying to integrate and be known)
"Aspie vindicates me on guilt charges." (now that I know I am not like you think)
"Aspies can not be assimilated". (we are born this way)
"Do not make ASsumptions, since the person might be ASpie." (he might not know any better)
"Since Aspies are not common, they do not have common sense"
"Aspies can not see what you say"
"Aspies feel after they think"
"Aspies do not know or feel, unless you tell them."
"Aspies have, but are not ruled by, emotion"
"Aspies do not know how you will feel or react"
" You are no better, but Aspies do not know any better"
" Detached from emotion" 1/5/10
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Aspie Assessment

In a new movie, "Adam," the title character, a quirky loner played by the reliably adorable actor Hugh Dancy, turns his living room into an impromptu planetarium to entertain his attractive but romantically wary neighbor, Beth. Soon he is taking her to Central Park to witness raccoons frolicking in the moonlight, and we are comfortably launched on that predictable cinematic journey wherein the charming oddball woos the beautiful girl.
Predictable, that is, until a few scenes later, when Adam inappropriately announces his own sexual arousal and then confesses to Beth that he suffers from Asperger's Syndrome. Very quickly, our geek ceases to be the typical hero-in-hiding and instead becomes the embodiment of a syndrome only recently recognized by the American Psychiatric Association.

Asperger's is characterized, among other things, by awkwardness in social situations and an inability to read others' body language and social cues. And yet, in "Adam," much of the leading man's appeal comes from his refreshing, albeit sometimes brutal, honesty. For Beth, whose experience with men has thus far been negative, the contrast between the awkward, earnest Adam and her suave but dishonest ex-boyfriend turns Adam's supposed deficiencies into strengths, at least for a time. Despite a compellingly sympathetic portrayal by Mr. Dancy, the movie eventually adopts a heavily didactic tone, launching Adam into the more banal role of the misfit who teaches "normal" people something about life.

Whatever the deficiencies of the film, its release cements a new awareness of Asperger's Syndrome in popular culture. This year the Sundance Film Festival featured an animated movie, "Mary and Max," about an Australian girl and her New York pen pal, who happens to have Asperger's, and HBO is scheduled to release a film next year about Temple Grandin, the animal behaviorist who has written about her experience of Asperger's. In recent years, several memoirs, such as John Robison's "Look Me in the Eye" and Tim Page's "Parallel Play," have explored life with Asperger's. "My pervasive childhood memory is an excruciating awareness of my own strangeness," Mr. Page wrote in an essay in The New Yorker. His is an emotionally poignant assessment of the condition: "After fifty-two years, I am left with the melancholy sensation that my life has been spent in a perpetual state of parallel play alongside, but distinctly apart from, the rest of humanity."

Although the CBS television show "Big Bang Theory," a situation comedy that follows the travails of four brilliant, geeky young scientists, isn't explicitly about Asperger's Syndrome, several of its characters act like "Aspies," as those diagnosed with Asperger's Syndrome often refer to themselves. Sheldon, a germaphobe who spends his leisure time playing Klingon Boggle and who maintains a strict daily routine, is the most likely (Aspie and not unlike his hero, Spock, from "Star Trek"). The show follows the men's efforts to navigate the treacherous world of normal social interaction, pertly embodied by Penny, the bottle-blond waitress who lives across the hall. She finds this passel of uber-nerds alternatively charming and exasperating. The conceit of the show is that neither Sheldon nor his friends see themselves as especially strange. On the contrary, in a geek-heavy community of physicists, the show suggests, many brilliant people hover on this end of the social spectrum. The comedy comes not from their realization of this fact, but from their strenuous refusal to recognize it and become "normal."
This approach is less forgiving for women. Simon Baron-Cohen, who directs the Autism Research Centre at the University of Cambridge, argues that autism-spectrum disorders such as Asperger's are expressions of the "extreme male brain." Indeed, four times as many men as woman are diagnosed with the condition.

The mother of one of the characters on "Big Bang Theory," a brilliant neuroscientist and Aspie-like woman played by Christine Baranski, is, like the empathy-challenged men, the source of many jokes. But whereas their foibles are also ostensibly part of their charms, her lack of maternal feeling casts her as unfeminine and thus far more freakish, like scientist Harry Harlow's classic wire monkey experiment come to life.

Why are we seeing more portrayals of Asperger's Syndrome in popular culture? Increased awareness and diagnosis of conditions along the autism spectrum is one reason. But we are also in the early stages of a debate about whether autism-spectrum conditions are disorders to be medicalized (and, presumably, cured) or merely more extreme expressions of normal behavior that we should treat with greater tolerance. Economist Tyler Cowen argues that this awareness is also because our culture needs people with Aspie-like talents, such as better memorization and calculation skills and a keen desire to assemble and order information, even as it continues to stereotype them for their social deficiencies. In a recent essay in the Chronicle of Higher Education, Mr. Cowen chastised his academic colleagues for promoting negative views of people with autism-spectrum conditions, particularly the notion that these conditions should be treated as a disease that exacts high social costs.

On the contrary, Mr. Cowen calls people along the autism spectrum the "'infovores' of modern society" and argues, "along many dimensions we as a society are working hard to mimic their abilities at ordering and processing information." In a world awash in distracted people desperately (and unsuccessfully) trying to multitask, Mr. Cowen says, Aspies' ability to focus on detail is a profound advantage. This is particularly true in academia, he argues, where "autism is often a competitive advantage rather than a problem to be solved."　
　
Mr. Cowen's relentlessly optimistic view glosses over some of the serious personal and professional challenges that people who have autism-spectrum conditions face. Still, like the films and books that have emerged in recent years, Mr. Cowen's call for us to embrace a more liberal notion of achievement by recognizing in conditions like Asperger's a kind of "neurodiversity" rather than merely a disorder is compelling.
　
Our interest in Asperger's and the challenges it poses to our notions of normal behavior comes at a peculiar cultural moment. As traditional social norms and old-fashioned rules of etiquette erode, we are all more likely to face the challenge that regularly confronts people with Asperger's: What rules apply in this social situation? In a world where people routinely post in excruciating detail their sexual preferences on their Facebook pages, is it really so shocking to have someone note his own sexual arousal in idle conversation? Unlike Facebook oversharers, Aspies are not intentionally flouting social conventions. Quite the opposite. In "Adam," Mr. Dancy's character must relentlessly practice in order to master the mundane social interactions of a standard job interview. Tim Page notes that it was his chance discovery of Emily Post's etiquette book that revealed the rudiments of social behavior that had previously eluded him.
　
Also, our interest in Asperger's comes at a time when we are enthusiastically hunting for the genetic basis of what makes us biologically different from each other—why some of us are more prone to certain physical ailments and others are gifted in music, for example. And yet, our search for the source of difference will, in many cases, end in an effort to eradicate that very difference, particularly if it causes obesity, depression or violent tendencies. Will a society that accepts Asperger's now be as tolerant of it in a future where we might have the power to eliminate it? Let's hope so. As these movies and books suggest, we are all searching for the same ineffable thing: connection to another human being who accepts our quirks, diagnosed or not, and loves us all the more for them.
—Ms. Rosen is senior editor of The New Atlantis: A Journal of Technology & Society.
Copyright 2009 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Our Song

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My song

Smells like... #9 best song ever as per Rolling Stone magazine.

Applying for a scholarship from the government stimulus due to my 7-mo+ unemployment. "Graphics Technology: Digital and Interactive Media Design" at SCC is eligible for the $5K grant. That curriculum is offered at the Heathrow Lake Mary campus. This will be my second college degree, so I may become a Graphic Designer.
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Bulb in the U.S.A.

A physics teacher in high school, once told the students that while one grasshoper on the railroad tracks wouldn't slow a train very much, a billion of them would . With that thought in mind, read the following, obviously written by a good American.
One light bulb at a time: (Bright idea) Someone was in Lowes looking at the hose attachments . They were all made in China . The next day I was in Ace Hardware and checked the hose attachments there . They were made in USA . Start looking. In our current economic situation, every little thing we buy or do affects someone else - even their job. A grandson likes Hershey's candy . His grandmother noticed, though, that it is marked made in Mexico now . I do not buy it any more . My favorite toothpaste Colgate is made in Mexico now I have switched to Crest . You have to read the labels on everything .This past weekend I was at Kroger. (Can be true for any store.) I needed 60W light bulbs and Bounce dryer sheets . I was in the light bulb aisle, and right next to the GE brand I normally buy was an off brand labeled, "Everyday Value . " I picked up both types of bulbs and compared the stats - they were the same except for the price . The GE bulbs were more money than the Everyday Value brand but the thing that surprised me the most was the fact that GE was made in MEXICO and the Everyday Value brand was made in - get ready for this - the USA in a company in Cleveland , Ohio .So throw out the myth that you cannot find products you use every day that are made right here. So on to another aisle - Bounce Dryer Sheets . . . yep, you guessed it, Bounce cost more money and is made in Canada . The Everyday Value brand was less money and MADE IN THE USA! I did laundry yesterday and the dryer sheets performed just like the Bounce Free I have been using for years and at almost half the price! My challenge to you is to start reading the labels when you shop for everyday things and see what you can find that is made in the USA - the job you save may be your own or your neighbors! If you accept the challenge, pass this on to others in your address book so we can all start buying American, one light bulb at a time! Stop buying from overseas companies! (We should have awakened a decade ago) Help our fellow Americans keep their jobs and create more jobs here in the U . S . A ..

Asparagus Syndrome

Asparagus Syndrome is having the complete revulsion of seeing and smelling asparagus. Those with A. S. would rather be imprisoned with non-stop Bruce Springstein music for a week than eat one bite of the avoided vegetable.
AssBurgers: 1) This does not refer to beef patties between two buns. The picture at left appears to be a woman lying on a beach with only a pink swimsuit top.
2) False self-diagnosis of High-functioning Autism (asperger's syndrome), mostly used by internet-addicted users with limited social skills.

Adam: &REW ReviEW

ADAMREW: Often, during a good movie, I identify with, will feel like, and or even become the main character. In Adam, I "AM" the main character. I would prefer the name be called &rew or Aspie. However, at the end of the movie, you will see the reason for this name. As an Aspie, I will review this film from my perspective, with what I share in common with the Adam character. Adam 2009 at least met my expectations. It is a well done representation, and accurate portrayal of an Aspie. It does a successful job introducing typical people to us invisibles, who are intolerantly discriminated against. People with Aspergers Syndrome, were never in a closet. Thanks to this motion picture, they will now be more visible, and treated with the same respect and consideration that others are.

Many of the ASpects and frustrations of Aspies are brought to light. AS an ASpie introduction, this presentation was well done. Many of the situations and symptoms would vary by age and individual with A.S. I identified with many of those that were represented or documented. Except for kissing, I could not be more pleased with this introduction of us "aliens", aclimating to your strange world of NTs.

Many scenes were too subtle for NT reviewers to understand. They viewed them as extraneous or uneven. Even the unexpected ending seems an attempt to help you feel the frustration that we feel. In large part, the parallel story demonstrates the phoniness, dishonesty, and infidelity of typical people. I was surprised or disappointed that Star Trek or Mr. Spock was not mentioned. However, even many of the setting parameters matched my own real life. These would be NYC, Queens, apartment rental, new partner, science, space, electronics, computer, creativity, abuse by police, death of parents, job loss, and changing states.

The loss of job represents the intolerance, insensativity and discrimination that Aspies constantly have to contend with. The electronic voice represents stubborn creative independence. Also, this demonstrates inordinate attention to detail, and the inability to see the big picture. The space suit represents how logic does not address what might be socially inappropriate. The bed/interview dialog showed self-absorption. This is without question, the most treasured movie of my life. I definitely encourage everyone to see this picture!

Aug. 31 History:
1918 Alan Jay Lerner, son of the founder of Lerner stores, is born today. 1958 &rew Lerner's mother was born in 1918. A. J. Lerner will go on to become a Broadway lyricist and collaborate with Frederick Loewe on such Broadway classics as Brigadoon, My Fair Lady, and Camelot. Together they also wrote the score for the 1958 Academy Award-winning film, "Gigi."

Adam DAY!

Exactly one month later to the day, another awaited movie that personifies me, is watched. It was once again in large luxurious vacant auditorium. This time,
Adam was seen!

This movie is the most anticipated film ever! It is the first major motion picture to portray an individual like myself. Until 2006, I frustratingly wondered what disadvantaged superior alien species I am. Now, world awareness is finally being brought to us Aspies!

2 Adult tickets to: Adam (PG-13) Sunday, August 30, 2009, 9:45pm, $22.00 Cinema Theater: Regal Winter Park Village, 20510 N. Orlando Ave., Winter Park, FL 32789, 407-628-0035

After P. F. Changs, and Adam, this was another perfect day, on the 30th, with partner.

&rew review is coming soon.

1958: Michael Joseph Jackson

Ted Kennedy, who recently died, is buried today. Yet Michael Jackson has not been buried yet. He would be age 51 today like me.

NASA (1958) decided to call the station’s new treadmill the “Combined Operational Load Bearing External Resistance Treadmill,” or the acronym C.O.L.B.E.R.T. Sunita Williams announced this on the Colbert Report. “Colbert” technically won the online poll, and NASA has a sense of humor.

By JIM KUHNHENN, Associated Press Writer Jim Kuhnhenn, Associated Press Writer – WASHINGTON – In a chilling forecast, the White House is predicting a 10-year federal deficit of $9 trillion — more than the sum of all previous deficits since America's founding. And it says by the next decade's end the national debt will equal three-quarters of the entire U.S. economy.

asperger's syndrome

Tony Attwood: From my clinical experience I consider that children and adults with Aspergers Syndrome have a different, not defective, way of thinking.The person usually has a strong desire to seek knowledge, truth and perfection with a different set of priorities than would be expected with other people. There is also a different perception of situations and sensory experiences. The overriding priority may be to solve a problem rather than satisfy the social or emotional needs of others.The person values being creative rather than co-operative.The person with Aspergers syndrome may perceive errors that are not apparent to others, giving considerable attention to detail, rather than noticing the “big picture”.The person is usually renowned for being direct, speaking their mind and being honest and determined and having a strong sense of social justice.The person may actively seek and enjoy solitude, be a loyal friend and have a distinct sense of humour.However, the person with Aspergers Syndrome can have difficulty with the management and expression of emotions.Children and adults with Aspergers syndrome may have levels of anxiety, sadness or anger that indicate a secondary mood disorder. There may also be problems expressing the degree of love and affection expected by others. Fortunately, we now have successful psychological treatment programs to help manage and express emotions.

Quiz

1) What character do I use as part of my name? a) The letter A.
b) An ampersand. c) I use a 3 instead of an E. d) I put an "&" instead of "An". e) The pound sign.

2) What is my favorite pizza topping? a) Ham b) sausage c) bacon d) Pineapple e) Peperoni

3) Which of the following do not define me? a) I am the A in LeArner. b) I can understand subtle messages in eyes & gestures. c) I use the Aspie operating system. d) ALtERNativE Reasoning. e) I found love in Florida, and by adding a "_ve" below it.

4) Which musical artist or group do I not like? a) Linkin Park b) Korn c) Pearl Jam d) Disturbed e) The Carpenters

5) How many employers have I had in my life? a) Three. b) 52 c) 13 d) 33 e) 47

6) Which of the following are true? a) I met Dick Clark, Henny Youngman, & Andy Rooney. b) My family was the original owners of Lerner Shops. c) The Playwright Alan J. Lerner was my great Uncle. d) I once earned $40K/year as a COBOL programmer. e) I was in a Star Trek Deep Space Nine episode.

7) Which statement is false? a) I oppose capital punishment. b) I am pro-choice in regards to abortion. c) Homosexuality is a normal and natural part of life d) Prostitution should be legalized e) The public sale of firearms should be banned.

8) At a party, what would I probably be doing? a) Dancing. b) Drinking beer. c) Watching the football game on the big screen TV. d) Staying in the computer room. e) Socializing with new people.

9) What is my favorite holiday? a) Christmas. b) Election Day. c) New Years Day. d) Ground Hog Day. e) Halloween.

10) My least favorite vegetable is a) Peas. b) Tomatoes. c) Potatoes. d) Broccoli. e) Asparagus.

Earth from Space

For a closer look at Florida, click on the title above.
Donations to Good Will 8/15/09
George Forman grills: 2 = Champ and medium size. 11 forks from K-Mart, Rubbermaid food storage containers.
Clothing: 5 pants, 2 shorts, 3 sleep pants, 1 sleep shirt, 1 sweatshirt Chemical Bank, 2 long sleeve T-shirts, 1 XXL T-shirt Alan D, boxer, brief, swimsuit Adidas, Woman top, 2 tall long-sleeve non-collar shirts. Golf shirts: 1 tall black, 2 navy blue B,B&B with patches of Led Zeppelin and Star Trek fan club, 5 Gateway with patches of USA flag, 1 Gateway with my old logo ironed on, 2 blue The Wiz. Other shirts and socks were recycled. The TV and Mirror were sold for $35 + $10. My entire wardrobe, and kitchen appliances were replaced with brand new. All the above are very rare major events.

Adam Movie Interview

Please click here, and every title. This film is a romantic comedy in which boy meets girl. All relationships have their unexpected challenges and their surprising awkwardnesses. In Adam, boy turns out to have Asperger's syndrome. People with that high-functioning variant of autism are often highly intelligent and verbally gifted, but socially off-balance. They can have trouble reading the emotional cues given off by the people they're talking to. AS an ASpie, I'm thrilled to find a major movie about Aspie for greater awareness. My definitions of Aspie are: A Lerner is in ALtERNativE Reasoning, with Aspie operating system. I'm &rew, found A in Lerner, and love in FLorida by putting _ve below.The movie Opens: August 29, in Orlando!

Logo design for BSTP Inc.

This is my latest logo design. A logo was requested by Beaches Sea Turtle Patrol, Inc. This is my submission. It is an original design and creation by &rew Lerner.
What is your opinion and reaction? I would like to know. Please check the boxes below that represent you, and or click on reactions, feedback, or comments below. Click on my card above.
The response from BSTP was "Thank you for your submission. As I wrote before, we had closed out this project but I sent your entry to the board anyway. They appreciate your efforts but have decided to stick with the design already selected.

A Perfect Day.

Today was the most extraordinary day of my life. I have boldly gone where I have never been before. Partner, Costco, King quilt, snap boxes, towels, Big & Tall store, $364, shirts, pants, sleeper, shoes, size 15EEEE, socks, tie, belt, $5 coupon, Bahama Breeze, chocolate moose brownie, mug, take home chicken, Outstanding restaurant, Orlando, first, parking garage, Plaza Cafe Cinema, first, Star Trek, last showing, birth of Kirk, Sabotage by the Beastie Boys, Emotional Overload, Missed a portion, empty theater with luxurious leather seating, Outstanding movie theater manager, passes.
Continuing Mission of Un-boldly Re-visiting:
Star Trek (2009): Much better than my expectations. Just when I thought digging up graves has finally stopped, there is reincarnation on a different time-line. How foolish of me. Turns this franchise to a never ending genre, along with Superman and Batman. It is changing direction to an action adventure thriller with non-stop special visuals. The Next Generation and Voyager refined and polished the original cerebral concept with few special effects. 2009 tugs at Treker's heart strings, and introduces a still yet new next future generation of the classic characters. They were personified with perfection. Infusion of hard rock by the Beastie Boys was brilliant and awesome. This movie has everything for everyone. Expect sequels and re-makes forever. I wish all of the rights to all the series's and movies would be exclusively shown on a new "Star Trek" channel.
(Beastie Boys make frequent references to Star Trek)

Aspie Movie: Adam

If you've ever had the experience of speaking with a person who has no interest in anything about you but who delivers extended monologues about his or her own passions, you probably would not consider this person to be anything but a bore. The monotone monologist may be an Aspie. Asperger's Syndrome, an emotional condition that leads its often bright victims to be so unable to "read" the minds of others that they can talk on and on about train schedules, major-league baseball statistics and the universe as a whole, gives impetus to Max Mayer's sophomore film "Adam."

Thank goodness that "Adam," though centering on the title character's emotional immaturity, is not a disease-of-the-week Hallmark presentation but an often funny as well as melancholic look into an improbably romantic relationship. Unlike the typical trajectory of romantic comedies, the parties do not follow the tired formula of being kept apart throughout the story until they bond happily in the conclusion. "Adam" is a solidly-written tale acted with particular grace by Hugh Dancy. Reviewed for Arizona Reporter by Harvey Karten. Grade: B+ Cast: Hugh Dancy, Rose Byrne, Peter Gallagher, Amy Irving, Frankie Faison, Mark Linn-Baker. Opens: August 29, in Orlando!

Please click for the full review. You can also find it, and a link, on the lower left of this page, under &rew Learnings. Being There and Groundhog Day* are two of my all-time favorite movies. I identified so much with the main characters. Mar & I are very exited about this first major Aspie movie! It is so much like us! MAR & I are in Lake MARy, getting MARried, but not in MARch, or on *2/2.

I am thrilled to find out a movie is coming out about Aspie. I am 51, and finally know the name is Aspie in 2006! I am not alone. I am so happy, that greater awareness, is finally brought, about Aspies, in a major motion picture! AS an ASpie, I am hyperlexic, and love constantly playing with words. My definition of Aspie, has my name in it! A Lerner is in ALtERNativE Reasoning, which defines myself, and Aspies. I also created this definition, of how, it is not like YOU think: Aspie operating system. I am &rew, putting A into Lerner, and found love in...
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AS an ASpie, I'm thrilled to find out a movie is coming out about Aspie. I am 51, and finally diagnosed that my name is Aspie in 2006! I am so happy that greater awareness is finally brought about Aspie in a major motion picture! AS an ASpie, I am hyperlexic, and love constantly playing with words. My definition of Aspie, has my name in it! A Lerner is in ALtERNativE Reasoning, which defines myself and Aspies. I also created this definition of how it is not like YOU think: Aspie operating system = A.LtERNativE Reasoning. I am &rew, put A in Lerner and love in
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Lake MARy

The biannual rankings are in and CNN/Money Magazine continues to rank Lake Mary as the #1 small town in Florida in which to live. Why? Despite many challenges related to the economy to include a declining real estate market, Lake Mary has never lost its focus of promoting a sense of community where people can live, work and play in a safe and friendly environment...that's part of the reason Lake Mary is still one of the fastest growing areas in Central Florida. Located approximately 18 miles north of Orlando just off Interstate 4, the City continues to be a choice location for high tech businesses, many of which spend considerable time and money searching for the right place. Among other things Lake Mary is known for its well planned residential communities, excellent schools, prominent businesses including outstanding restaurants, and a variety of shopping opportunities.

The crime rate in Lake Mary is one of the lowest in Florida thanks to our pro-active, community based Police Department. On the fire side, we have a skilled Fire Department ready to deal with any emergency including rapid response and rescue. Our Parks and Recreation facilities are not only beautifully maintained, but offer something for everyone. The bottom line is that Lake Mary has all the conveniences of Orlando without the traffic!

MAR & I are in Lake MARy, getting MARried, but not in MARch.