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Wednesday, January 11, 2012
The Planets Align This Friday the 13th: Hang a Horseshoe, Clutch Your Rabbit's Foot, and Load Up on Kitty Treats for Those Neighbourhood Black Cats
Venus in Aquarius trine Saturn in Libra - 3:05 a.m. Central
Venus conjunct Neptune in Aquarius - 9:17 a.m.
Venus enters Pisces - 11:47 p.m.
Love and relationship planet Venus crosses through the 29th degree of Aquarius - the official degree of the astrological era shift - on Friday, and as it does, it trines Saturn in Libra and conjuncts Neptune in Aquarius before ingressing Pisces late that night.
This Friday the 13th, a day ripe with folklore, is an official relational tone setter, drawing on themes previously outlined here: Saturn in Libra (Not Quite) Trine Neptune in Aquarius and Saturn Retrograde: Neptunian Relationship Fodder From the Anaretic Degrees and way back here: Venus, Eros and Mars in the Via Combusta and Karmic Love Cleansing Through the Alchemical Fires.
Recall that Saturn (challenges) is currently in Via Combusta Libra (spicy, crackling relationship issues), and we're still working under an overlay from the fall 2010 Venus retrograde through Via Combusta Scorpio and late Libra. That overlay isn't complete until the Venus Transit in Gemini June 5, 2012, and all this colours the relationship proceedings.
On this Friday the 13th, we have another opportunity to calibrate ourselves to the tone of Venus' movement, letting it seep into our bones, and then commit to the new relational track.
Venus conjuncts wounded healer Chiron in Pisces January 16, indicating a time period ripe for experiences of the healing, transcendent power of love, as well as, if we aren't careful, the wounding power of human interaction - with both experiences possible in the same interaction. We need to fortify and protect our wounded spots carefully, as this is very old salt in very old wounds.
The wounding themes are related, in part, to:
- unconscious/semi-conscious ways in which we interact with people and they interact with us
- setting ourselves up for failure in relationship by overlooking key matters
- social niche and social pigeonholing
- being the scapegoat for the crowd or the one whose feelings and needs are sacrificed or stepped on when a sacrifice has to be made
- social isolation
- weak spots in boundaries: being too permeable when it comes to other people's energy field/influence
- pining, looking back, excessive nostalgia for relationships past, seeing things through the veil of time, not how they actually were
- old Piscean era social archetypes: the party girl, the ditz, the idealist, the wishful thinker, the one who's allergic to reality, the stoner, the addict, the starving artist, the energy vampire, the person with "bad karma," the sick one, the disabled one, the hard luck story, the martyr, the saviour, the chronic fuck up, the person who can't get it together, the one who's unlucky in love, the person ill-equipped for the rigours of life
- keeping ourselves on the losing end of character flaw - in ourselves or in other people
These are cyclical relational patterns, standard dynamics worked into a deep groove over the course of the astrological Piscean era that must be consciously ushered out with the door locked behind them.
Throughout Venus' transit of Pisces (January 13 - February 7), we have the opportunity to set the relational tone to "Pisces for the astrological Aquarian era," but this won't necessarily be easy, especially for those who have been resisting a stronger Aquarian vibe. The Piscean pull into dreamy Never Neverland is strong, becoming stronger as Neptune (illusion, delusion, blind spots) enters its home sign of Pisces February 3, and we have to actively head off its influence at points. We're being enticed down many relational rabbit holes we've been down fruitlessly before. The application of rational mind that can break us free is like the fight to wake up from one of those dreams that paralyzes you with its intensity. If the will is not there to do so, we plummet down the rabbit hole.
For those who would like to avoid the surreal Alice in Relationship Wonderland this time around, things are a little counter-intuitive. Venus is in exaltation in Pisces, which means there's a strong feeling that it knows what it's doing in this sign. There's nothing quite like the heights of Piscean love, and with these glowy, exalted Venusian vibes, it's going to be difficult to convince people that some changes are required. There's a lot of criticism from the sign of Pisces (and from those vibing strongly to it) of the more Aquarian take on love, relationship, and partnership: it's cold, unfeeling, hard, heartless, overly intellectual, devoid of emotion, lacking in romance. Those who refuse to adopt the more detached, responsible, and self-preserving tack in relationships will continue to play out the same old stories, making the same old excuses.
The successful tack in our relations involves using the relevant qualities of both Pisces and Aquarius. Determining which are the relevant qualities and which are the redundant and detrimental is what we work out now and throughout Saturn's retrograde through Libra.
Venus will be on the 29th degree of Pisces - the last degree of the zodiac - at the time of Saturn's retrograde station on the 29th degree of Libra February 7.
Now the Moon and Mars.
Moon conjunct stationing Mars in Virgo - 6:36 p.m.
The Moon is in Virgo this Friday the 13th and conjuncts Mars at 22 Virgo. Mars is slowing for its retrograde station January 24, and its themes permeate the astro atmosphere.
The Moon-Mars conjunction occurring as Venus conjuncts Neptune and enters Pisces increases the impetus to sharpen the details, remove the unnecessary, and clear the Piscean/Neptunian fuzz and wishful thinking.
This is a conjunction of a major feminine planet (Moon) with a major masculine one (Mars) and has to do with the perspective of women/the feminine taking the lead in subtle and influential ways as the male-dominated trajectory on the planet is further set to: war, war, and more war (Mars). This is the fight to stop war and the impetus to discontinue support for the trajectory toward war right down to the finest details in our daily lives.
More on the Mars in Virgo transit and retrograde here: Mars in Virgo Retrograde: Precise Re-direction Within Grand Earth Trines
Here: Mars in Virgo Hot or Nots
And here: New Moon in Virgo Sets a Preparatory Tone For the Upcoming Mars Retrograde
Now Mercury.
Mercury conjunct Pluto in Capricorn - 7:03 a.m.
Communication/transportation planet Mercury is in Capricorn until January 27, following more than two months (including a retrograde) in the sign of its detriment, Sagittarius, and we're happy to have some type of solid movement here.
Unfortunately, a lot of it is Plutonic movement, as Mercury moves out of its square to Uranus in Aries and into a conjunction to Pluto in Capricorn, exact this Friday the 13th.
It doesn't take much to hear (Mercury) the Pluto in Capricorn (corpo-governmental oligarchy) undertone coming through loud and clear these days as we head to the first exact square between Uranus in Aries and Pluto in Capricorn this June. The global war profiteers are just itching to get things started, and oil and nuclear take centre stage...
Verbal aggression is ramping up (again) through the media from Western governments toward Iran over its nuclear facilities and enrichment of uranium. As always, the Plutonic insanity is only understood by a minority, as the media-fed mainstream accepts a scenario in which the only country that has ever actually used nuclear bombs in an attack against another country (the U.S. of A.) is instated as armed-to-the-teeth global nuclear watchdog, determining who can and can't have nukes.
U.S. and U.S. Allies: Yes. U.S.-declared Bad Guys: No.
The hypocrisy is amazing, and still relatively very few will openly admit the Emperor's naked as a jaybird.
The aggression is not limited to the verbal this time, though. The United States (through the United Nations) has brought sanctions against Iran, attempting to force it to discontinue its uranium enrichment program. The sanctions have made it impossible for Iran to continue its international oil exports, leading to the plunge of the Iranian currency to an historic low. Devastation (Pluto) of currency and business infrastructure (Capricorn).
(Incidentally, don't bother trying to use PayPal or to buy books from Amazon in Syria, either. Both these activities have been blocked as part of the broader and more destructive U.S./EU economic sanctions against that country. People with Syrian IP addresses are told they are in a "forbidden country." A further Pluto in Cap crackdown on the flow of money.)
It might be useful for those in Cancer Sun nations United States and Canada to imagine a role reversal here. One can only imagine the outrage that would ensue if the U.S. economy and the flow of oil in and out were disrupted and interfered with to this extent by a foreign country. After all, the United States enriches uranium for weapons and munitions (and uses them), does it not?
Iran is the fourth largest oil producer in the world with a large percentage of its exports (500,000 barrels per day of its 2.6 million barrels per day output) going to the European Union. This adds an interesting element to the dick-swinging global dynamics. Pluto relates to one's underlying interests and the overwhelming impetus of those underlying interests. The European Union is now forced to implement sanctions that are in the best interests of the United States which, in effect, starve its nations of oil.
Iran is now threatening to close the Strait of Hormuz, a key waterway at the mouth of the Persian Gulf that carries about 1/6 of the world's oil supply from the Gulf nations. The closure of the Strait of Hormuz would be met with military aggression from the U.S. and its allies, aggression that would, again, have the seal of approval from the media-fed masses. Transportation routes are Mercurial, and the corpo-governmental steamroller being allowed to progress at all costs is Pluto in Capricorn.
This appears to be a primary Uranus square Pluto hot spot. Like clockwork, it is.
In Canada, two massive oil pipelines are in the works - though strongly opposed by many. One is the Northern Gateway pipeline, which would move oil from Alberta's oil fields to the West Coast, with a port in Kitimaat, British Columbia, to be sold and exported at a whopping price to Asia. The second massive pipeline, called the Keystone XL, would move oil from the ecological and humanitarian catastrophe that is the Athabasca Tar Sands in northern Alberta all the way down to Texas in the United States. Thousands and thousands of kilometres of pipeline just waiting to spring a leak, ripe for international and domestic sabotage.
With a majority government led by Global Governor extraordinaire Stephen Harper, we won't be seeing any ecological responsibility coming from the Feds on this one, and it's left up to the citizens of both Canada and the United States to form the resistance.
The United States' presidential race is now well underway, consuming massive amounts of time, energy, and analysis on media outlets.
This doesn't stop at the U.S. border, however. (What border? There are no borders anymore.)
If you flip on Canada's mainstream news (I wouldn't suggest it unless you are a fan of satire that isn't actually satire), you will see an almost equal fervour and an almost equal obsession with the minutiae of the farce going on to the south. The propaganda readers on CTV Newsnet (Canadian Television is a misnomer if ever there were one) could easily be mistaken for those on CNN these days. The hidden merger (Pluto) of media (Mercury) and its ownership (Capricorn).
Because, you know, there isn't anything going on in our own country that might warrant any airtime. (See: Northern Gateway and Keystone XL pipelines)
As stated previously, we no longer have even the facade of a sovereign nation in Canada. Pluto in Capricorn has ripped the mask off, and Stephen Harper's Conservatives - good little Global Governors that they are - take their orders and implement them dutifully.
In August, 2011, under a Cardinal Grand Cross that will form again throughout the fall of 2013 and in April 2014, it was announced by the "Harper Government" that the Canadian Armed Forces would be rebranded the Royal Canadian Air Force and Royal Canadian Navy. From a previous post: "The Canadian Armed Forces shed the "Royal" stamp in 1968, but in a wave of propagandistic nostalgia, the Global Government-aligned Harper Conservatives have brought the "Royal" back with a vengeance, complete with masses of Canadians all too happy to re-pledge allegiance to the Queen and British monarchy. Wartime patriotism and pride are being stirred in preparation and hope that the people will gladly repeat the old cycle, hands on hearts."
Harper continues to do his mightiest to stir the militaristic patriotism of Canadian citizens as he does his part to create consensus for more global war. He's even adding a commemoration of the War of 1812 to this year's Canada Day celebrations in the country's capital city, Ottawa. "Hey, kids! Forget about ice cream. Look at this cool musket!"
(You may recall that during Canada Day 2011, again under the Cardinal Grand Cross, the citizens of this country had their Stockholm Syndrome worked into a frothy lather as Wills and Kate came for a visit, also reinforcing the dominion over Kanata of Mummy Dearest in jolly old.)
At the same time, the "Harper Government" - who sent out memos telling people not to bother calling them the Government of Canada anymore - have made an absolute mockery of the House of Commons, simply shutting it down on two separate occasions. The difficulty and lack of transparency Canadian journalists face when attempting to get information from Harper is well documented. Really, they have just unveiled, Pluto in Capricorn-style, what was always there. The facade has been stripped, and the idea that the people ever really had all that much of a say in it has gone kaput.
So multiple exact aspects go down this potent Friday the 13th, a day rich with symbolism and superstition, making it a day with a potentially far-reaching tone. Stay on the good side of luck, as the astro conditions have a bit of a "fated" quality about them and might not let us away with much.
12 comments:
- Willow said...
It's also the 10-year anniversary of the opening of the torture-fest Guantanamo Bay prison today.
Yay for waterboarding and illegal scientific experiments on prisoners. Yay.
- January 11, 2012 at 1:34 PM
- Sabbie Cat said...
My new favourite expression is: "dick-swinging global dynamics"
- January 11, 2012 at 9:30 PM
- mimi torchia boothby watercolors said...
all I can say is; "YIKES!"
thanks for your analysis of Canadian politics.
- January 12, 2012 at 8:20 AM
- Anonymous said...
Willow =),
Bracing myself for the Pisces stuff. The year has barely started, and already some people have been doing the 'collective speak'. You know, where the words 'magical' and 'divine' and 'healer' are excessively used? And "we are all..." blah blah? Because it's not like we have any distinguishing characteristics and qualities or anything-- we're all the same, and we all want the same things, and everyone, deep deep down, is wonderful...
Face. Palm. This is why I keep my headphones on and my contacts list super-small, man...
<3 Deb
P.S. "Dick-swinging"-- ha ha ha ha ha!
- January 12, 2012 at 1:14 PM
- Willow said...
Just wait until Neptune hits Pisces, man.
It's going to be a Transcendental, Enlightened, Healing, According To the Divine Plan and the Magical Oneness of it All Extravaganzahhhhh!
- January 12, 2012 at 1:44 PM
- msfullroller said...
Sis, when you used phrases like "naked as a jaybird" and "dick swinging" in the same conversation, I knew you were old school in a young body! I haven't heard those terms in years. Love it! ;-)
I'm nervous about Neptune in Pisces as well. Sure wish I had those posts back when I was young and oh so damn stupid. 7th house Pallas/Saturn/Mercury/Chiron/True Lilith in Pisces conjunction with Venus semi-sextile and Venus square Neptune here so you see why I said that.
Off to re-read the links in the post and bookmark for reference at a future (hopefully not) weak point.
- January 12, 2012 at 2:40 PM
- Willow said...
Oooh. I do see why you said that. That's a rough little patch in the 7th, indeed.
You've got this, though.
- January 12, 2012 at 3:47 PM
- Dan said...
Thanks Willow for your help in keeping your appreciating readers grounded in good insights! Cheers!
It's a hard swing, cutting the crap away from the rich soil. There are layers that we all work through to get there and it begins with the words, "I continue to honor my commitment to myself and to my healing."
I just don't want to see people harden up by creating an impenetrable wall around themselves when authentic love does come knocking. We should always remember that our work lies also in allowing others inside our hearts and in our surrender to many unknowns. Understanding and releasing our barriers is just as important as creating healthy ones.
Not that I'm suggesting you're telling us to harden up. Just to be vigilant. ;)
- January 14, 2012 at 8:44 AM
- Anonymous said...
You know what you're talking about. How to repackage Aquarian ideals to make it palatable to Pisceans - that is all that is needed. A spoonful of sugar to make the medicine go down. Constant reminders that no one can love or be loved unless they honour themselves first. Also constant reminders to pisceans that they have the ability to see they are on the wheel - they can seethe repeated patterns - they need to be reminded that they are at a point where they can get off the wheel. If they are brave and don't pity themselves. Soz - If WE are brave and don't pity ourselves.
- January 15, 2012 at 3:38 PM
- Willow said...
Yes, we can all get off certain wheels right now. There's a lot that can be accomplished personally with the right perspective and orientation.
We do also live within profoundly unjust and toxic power structures that have been reinforced and ingrained for millenia, so immense socio-political change is required as well.
- January 15, 2012 at 4:21 PM
- Elizabeth in Montreal said...
Interesting as usual Willow. I'm looking forward to hearing more from you about the super-activation of Canada's chart in June by the first of the seven Uranus-Pluto squares. Isn't this as big as what was happening in the chart of Haiti at the time of the earthquake? Might the seat of "government" in Ottawa be struck by an earthquake (just joking, but still...), with transiting Pluto on the MC squared by transiting Uranus - although my understanding is the IC represents the actual parliament in a country`s chart. But something big seems to be up for sure and it seems to affect our governnance with the MC involved. A political astrologer in the UK mentioned that a large number of countries have planets in the early-to-middle degrees of the cardinal signs and will therefore be affected by these squares. Oh-oh, I'm having a deja vu moment, so maybe I've already written you about this. Regarding Neptune's ingress into Pisces, I made a list the other day of calamities that have befallen various New Age "gurus" since the sneak preview of this transit last year. Not that I wish calamity on anyone, but it's interesting that some of the deception involved is finally starting to be seen for what it is, or at least the evidence of the cracks in the facades of these folks is there for those with eyes to see. Neptune in Pisces will ultimately reveal both the deception and the gullibility of those deceived, but only very slowly since there are issues of clarity of perception with Neptune being so strong in its own sign. I'm so fed up with the gobbledygook and profiting off this stuff, which dishonours true spirituality. I'll share my growing list of New Age fiascos with you another time, as this message is already too long.
- January 16, 2012 at 8:08 PM
- Willow said...
Yes, in addition to the Uranus-Pluto square, the Venus Transit in Gemini June 5 happens exactly conjunct Canada's own Venus in Gemini. So Canada's Venus Return is the Venus Transit.
I haven't wrapped my mind fully around that one yet, but I'm sure a post or few will be coming.
Yes, I'd be interested in the guru calamities. My test case was James Arthur Ray, and he got off pretty lightly.
- January 16, 2012 at 8:16 PM


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This is Rig, the latest fighter to enter the Dead or Alive 5 fray. Not much is known about the new character: He's from Canada and his fighting style is taekwondo.
Voice actor Hiroki Tochi, who has done lots of work with game studio Tri-Ace, will bring Rig to life.
The first images of Rig appeared Japanese game magazine Famitsu. The publication also showed off Dead or Alive 5's photo mode, which allows players to zoom and change angles while photographing fights.

subset: commoncrawl


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Charlie Blackmon's "abracadabra" steals second with improvised slide
"I tried to give him the abracadabra," Charlie Blackmon said.
In the first inning Monday against Arizona, Blackmon tried to steal second. He was out by mountain. But then he wasn't. What just happened?
From our rundown of the Rockies' wild ninth-inning win in The Denver Post:
Charlie Blackmon lifted his leg like a dog on a walk while he was midslide trying to steal second base in the first inning Monday night.
The Rockies' leadoff hitter broke into a sprint, slid feet-first, then saw a tag coming his way. So he improvised. Blackmon raised his leg like Bow Wow ready for a, uh, break. It worked. The tag missed. Safe at second.
However you describe it, mark it a stolen base. Said Blackmon:
"I knew I was going to be dead out. So I was like, I'll slide in there and get my foot out early and bank on him sweep-tagging me. I tried to give him the abracadabra and pull my leg back. And it worked. I was very surprised."
It's not something that Blackmon practices. It just happened.
"No, I knew what was going to happen. He was going to catch the ball and tag me. It happened really fast. I thought it might work. And it did."


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A man is engaged to a woman chosen by his family, but he is in love with another woman from his youth and has been secretly dating her for the past year.
But Park Ji Hyung (Kim Rae Won) has had an understanding with Lee Seo Yeon (Soo Ae) that they would only date until his marriage to Hyang Ki (Jung Yu Mi). Although Seo Yeon knew the agreement from the beginning, she is devastated by the break-up with Ji Hyung. It is the latest heartbreak after a lifetime of hardships. Seo Yeon lost her father when she was only 5 and then her mother left her when she was 6, leaving her and her younger brother Moon Gwon (Park Yoo Hwan) to be raised by their aunt.
Ji Hyung tries to tell his mother that he doesn't want to marry Hyang Ki and that he is in love with someone else, but he is told that it is too late for him to back out of the marriage. Meanwhile, the heartbroken Seo Yeon starts to forget things that seem minor at first and then gradually escalates to important things. Although she thinks the memory loss is due to her broken relationship, it seems to be much more nefarious. As her condition becomes more and more severe, Ji Hyung has a tough decision to make about his future and whether he can just stand by and watch the woman he loves deteriorate before his eyes.
"A Thousand Days' Promise" is a 2011 South Korean drama series directed by Jung Eul Young. The series won numerous awards at the 2011 SBS Drama Awards.
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Steve Gapper necesitaba un nuevo diseño de página web y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 21 diseños de 10 diseñadores freelance.
MyWebClub.co.uk is a new online affinity club offering a broad range of products and services including cars, holidays, financial services, hobbies and leisure, health and fitness, wine etc.
We need a design for the home page of the site (the welcome page) and an internal page for one of the products e.g. holidays.
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The site will contain significant information about the products and services, in particular about some of the financial issues that the products might help solve. Visitors will click through from our site to the providers' sites using hypertext links either embedded in the text or in logos. We expect the site to feature special offers both on homepage and potentially an internal page) at any one time from across the product range and that the offer will change daily/weekly.
Please use the logo "mywebclub.co.uk" which should be Pantone 308 colour. The typeface for the logo is Felt Tip Roman.
Desired style This will be the shop window for the club so the site needs to be engaging, easy-to-use, clear and friendly. The use of typefaces, colour and navigation needs to reflect this. We think that a white background will probably work best but we're open to suggestions. Although the decision is yet to be made the design should potentially cater for a fluid rather than fixed width layout


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Wow. I have so not released something every week. I haven't even blogged once a week.
This life stuff - it's crazy.
But recently I have released two OpenVBX plugins.
What's OpenVBX you ask? It's an opensource web application you install on your own webserver. Connect it to a Twilio account and -- bingo, you have your own personal phone solution. Like google voice, phone.com or onebox - only it's yours.
Back to the plugins. I've released two so far. The 'Directory' plugin does the standard phone system directory thing - letting the caller dial a few digits then offering to connect them to one of the matches. Pretty standard stuff there. If it were in a contest, I'd definitely vote for it.
'Click-To-Flow' lets you connect a web form to one of your call flows - allowing you to take one of those nifty 'put in your number and we'll call you' forms and connect a person to a complex web of menus you've defined. Or you could just connect them to a straightforward automated system that does what they'd expect. It's really your call there - that's what open source is all about.
So what are you waiting for? Go vote for one of my plugins - since they were both nominated in Twilio's OpenVBX Community Contest. Or just use them. Because that makes me happy too. Assuming you then tell me about it - because how else would I find out?
Health Un-Care
I yelled at someone. I shouldn't have. It doesn't matter that she was talking over me so I couldn't express my frustration in a reasonable way. It doesn't matter that she wasn't doing her job. It doesn't matter that she mistreated my wife.
I'm a Christian. I'm supposed to be better than that. And I know better.
Here's how it started.
A few months ago - okay, that's a joke - back in January my wife was sent to the hospital lab for routine pregnancy tests. Our health insurance wouldn't cover some of them. Yes, just some. Really weird - since they were all related and since they were all covered the last time around.
So we called people. A bunch of people. And the best help we could get was to ask our doctor for a letter stating that the tests were 'medically necessary'. I guess there are some people who ask for tests to be done. We're not those people. We don't understand those people.
While making all those calls my wife came into contact with someone at the doctor's office that was supposed to help. She told my wife that there were a bunch of people having the same problems and that we didn't have to worry, they would be resolved.
Every time we asked for that simple 'medically necessary' letter, we were ignored, talked over, or told that it wasn't necessary, they would take care of it.
'Take care of it' is a funny phrase, considering that for the past three or four months we've been getting bills from the lab.
We gave the doctors office copies of our bills, copies of the itemized bill we requested form the lab. But we never got the letter we requested. And the repeat bills kept coming.
I was told not to worry, they'd send the doctor's letter along. I asked for them to send a copy when they did. Never came.
Finally, today, my wife was told they spoke with the lab and all was paid. They also told her they had spoken with me. Again 'spoken' and 'paid' must have different meanings because then never called me and I just got a bill from the lab. I decided to call the lab. No payment on record.
Wow. I just must not understand a thing about medical billing. Seems 'paid' means 'not paid'.
My wife told them I spoke with the lab, and asked they call me. When they called I was a bit frustrated. I tried to explain that I had just spoke with the lab and it wasn't paid. They kept talking over me.
So I raised my voice. I'm not defending it, I know better. At that point the part of me I try not to listen to was talking.
Of course they threatened to hang up unless I lowered my voice. So I asked - more calmly - if they would listen to me. They told me to listen to them and started claiming that they had spoken to me. They claimed they spoke with the lab today and that it was paid.
Somehow me calling them three weeks again, again asking for the letter counted as them keeping me in the loop.
Then magically there was a difference between the 'lab' and the 'hospital lab'. If the bill was coming form the 'hospital lab', then there was nothing they could do.
Really? Then why didn't they tell us that months ago when we explained where the charges were from. Or how about a month ago, when we gave the copies of the bills from the 'hospital lab'? Or why didn't they just give me the letter I asked for months ago so I could handle it. I never once asked them to take care of it for us. In fact, time and time again we asked them to give us the letter so we could take care of it ourselves.
So for months they had been working on a problem they now tell us couldn't possibly be solved by them.
Makes perfect sense to me.
The call basically ended with me again asking for the letter, and them telling me they would send it. Or I should say 'yelling' at me. Then they hung up on me.
I'm not holding my breath for the letter.
But once that was all over, I decided to call the insurance company one more time. After all, I wanted to deal directly with them, I had spoken with them in the past, and they were the ones who told me to send a doctor's letter along with my dispute of their coverage.
When they brought up the charges they told me there had been some coverage changes and they would resubmit the claim and it would be paid.
I asked, "Would this have been paid if I didn't call right now? I was told it was already being paid, is that possible."
The answer - in no uncertain terms.
So for weeks the doctor's office had copies of our bills showing clearly what lab wasn't paid and what the charges were - and they accomplished nothing. For months we had been requesting a letter from the doctor. And got nothing.
All the times I've called customer support for the products and software and services my clients and I use - I've never been treated with so much condescension, so rudely, or provoked to raising my voice.
It was worse than Toshiba, and they arguably stole from me. It was worse than TASCAM, and calling their support is like volunteering to be roasted by the worse members of a no-talent local comedy club when they're in a bad mood. And if they hate you.
Someone's not doing their job here. Considering that the main contact at the doctor's office has been there 10 years, I'd venture that there are a few people not doing their job.
But what's the moral of this whole story? I'm not really sure. I'm torn between outrage at how my wife and I were treated and regret that I responded in a way that I know I shouldn't. My lesson is that I need to 'cast my burdens' in the right place when I feel my temper rising.
How about HealthCare? Well, I think the more people and institutions that come between patient and doctor the less 'care' there is in the system. I'll leave it to you to decide whether any legislation passed or being considered will help in that regard.
Oh, and I think if more people were fired for not doing the job, the world would be a better place. And there would be jobs. Just not for people who don't do them.
But that's just me.
What's On Your Mind?
From time to time I dabble in graphic layout. Here's the latest foray in that world - a redesigned flyer for Haven Baptist Church. Four different version of one side, with the other side common.
Images hosted on drop.io, and yes, those are crop marks in the corners.


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Camping World Truck Race - Turn Five
Editor's Letter - A Great Decision
The recently completed Camping World Truck race at Eldora Speedway was the best idea NASCAR has had in a long, long time. Trucks are, in my opinion, still NASCAR's best offering with their no-holds-barred racing, slightly more edgy, and less politically correct persona than the other series. And Eldora, what can you say about that Mecca of dirt racing that hasn't already been said? The concept seemed a winner from the get-go, destined to pack the house, and it did.
I loved the fact that they had qualifying and heat races to determine who made the race and where they started. The icing on the cake had to be the last chance qualifier when ARCA veteran Norm Benning drove the wheels (and right side) off his truck to make the race. If you didn't see it you missed out on some of the most exciting racing thus far in any NASCAR series this season.
The race itself was really well done I thought. Sure, I read some complaints that they didn't water in the track enough and let it go black slick way to soon, but considering the weight of the trucks too heavy of a track would have caused a mess. Consequently, they were almost forced to let it go black slick. Plus it forced the racers to really drive the trucks not just ride around. The whole thing was very entertaining and in the end Austin Dillon had 'em covered. I thought it was particularly cool that Dillon gave a shout out to Dale McDowell during his Victory Lane interview. McDowell has helped tutor Dillon on the finer points of dirt racing. It's obviously worked, and not just for this race. If you've every seen Richard Childress' grandson behind the wheel of a Late Model or a Modified you know exactly what I am talking about. If you haven't trust me, I've seen bothimpressive stuff.
Now there was one thing that annoyed me about the whole "Mudsummer Classic." Throughout the broadcast analysts waxed poetic about how the event shines a spotlight on the dirt racing/short track industry and that the industry would somehow benefit from NASCAR's presence and Speed's (Fox Sports 1 by the time you read this) broadcast. While that may be partially true, both of those organizations missed an absolute golden opportunity to be champions of motorsports in general. You see in between qualifying, the heats and last-chance qualifier there were exhibition Dirt Late Model races. That's right, when the trucks were in the pits, traditional Late Models were apparently turning laps, but you never saw that on television. In fact, I'm pretty sure it wasn't even mentioned.
Eighteen Late Models took the green in the feature with some pretty well known names like Jeep Van Wormer, Tyler Reddick, and the aforementioned McDowell. It was just too bad that the television audience never saw it. NASCAR and Speed should have incorporated the Late Model races into their broadcast. It would have exposed that type of racing to a whole new audience and maybe, just maybe, some kid somewhere watching would beg his dad to take him to their local track. And maybe that happened multiple times overif it did, wouldn't our sport see some growth? I think so.
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Jon Gosselin claimed to be supportive of his ex-wife Kate's stint on "Dancing With the Stars," but his plans to file a petition for full custody of the kids seem to suggest otherwise.
Jon has lawyered up with attorney Anthony F. List, who is reportedly planning on filing a petition with the courts asking that Jon be granted full custody of their eight children.
According to List, Kate is an absentee mom, and he is expected to use "DWTS" as evidence that she does not spend quality time with her kids. Furthermore, List reportedly plans to argue that Kate should be paying Jon spousal support.
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In response to the news, Kate's attorney Mark Momjian confirmed that he had received no such petition for custody and spousal support. "We're not going to comment on something we haven't seen. We haven't been served anything. It's hard to respond to hearsay comments," Momjian said via phone.
However, he did take issue with claims regarding Kate's parenting. "There was an offensive comment made about our client's parenting. To the extent that that comment was made, we think it was completely reckless and it is patently untrue."
Kate's reaction was similar. "I am not willing to comment in public on the custody discussions regarding my children," she said via her publicist. "What I will say is this: I am and always will be a mother first, but as a single working mom I will do everything necessary to provide for my kids despite the opinions of others."
A source close to Kate points out that Jon's timing seems suspect. "His girlfriend, who he was living with across the country — just kicked him out."
Elin Woods happy about Masters
Tiger Woods' wife, Elin, will not be in Augusta, Ga., this Masters week, but that doesn't mean she's displeased Tiger is there.
"She's happy this (the Masters) will take some of the heat off her," according to a source who spoke to Us Weekly. "But at the same time, she would rather Tiger focus on himself, his family and his treatment — not his career."
The source added that the couple is indeed still working on their marriage, despite the fact that Elin has not gotten past Tiger's dalliances with many mistresses. "She will likely stand by her man," according to the magazine, "but she's still embarrassed."
Courtney Hazlett delivers the Scoop Monday through Friday on msnbc.com. Follow Scoop on Twitter @courtneyatmsnbc.


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Re: ChessCube Ratings
robkin wrote:I disagree.. the market for chess sites is quite overloaded so a chess site needs something to make it unique: Chesscube has the best interface of all sites
I agree, chesscube has the best interface (especially for portability, it needs only a pc with flash and not a local custom software) for a market of chess sites that normally have the same "1999" interface for years.
and it has rating floors what I very much appreciate
But anyway i don't think that these constraints (that are useful but i don't understand why them should last forever) contribute a lot for the fame of the site. Indeed i think that rating floors are quite unknown between casual players.
Anyway, a side observation. If general rating isn't used in tournaments, then the rating floor (that last forever) can be applied only on tournament ratings instead of both ratings.


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COOKEVILLE, Tenn. -- The Tennessee Tech women's basketball team will play host to the Belmont Bruins Saturday evening in the first part of a doubleheader in the Eblen Center. It will be the first time that the Bruins play at Tech as an Ohio Valley Conference opponent. The Golden Eagles are 1-0 in conference action and tied with Belmont for first place in the East division. Tip-off is set for 5:30 p.m.
Tennessee Tech (7-7, 1-0 OVC) vs. Belmont (7-7, 2-0 OVC)
Saturday, Jan. 5, 2013
5:30 p.m. CT
Eblen Center - Cookeville, Tenn.
The Broadcasts
Radio: Fox Sports Radio, 106.1 The Eagle (Roger Ealey)
Webcast: OVC Digital Network (Buddy Pearson)
Live Stats
Setting the Stage
Tech has finally migrated back to Cookeville, and plays Saturday in their second conference contest of the season against the latest addition to the OVC, Belmont University. Tech is looking to bounce back from a tough non-conference loss at Memphis and remain undefeated in the OVC.
The two teams each bring in a .500 record, with non-conference action mirroring each others play.
Belmont and Tech have played each other 30 times since their first meeting in 1970. The Golden Eagles hold a 20-10 advantage thanks to a 16-0 streak from 1975-2005. The Purple and Gold are currently on a 2-0 streak against Belmont, having defeated the Bruins in 2010-11 in Nashville 61-56.
A Glance at the 2012-13 Golden Eagles
The Golden Eagles have proved to be a threat behind the arc. In games that Tech has shot better than 40 percent, they have won, which has been five times this season. The Purple and Gold are currently ranked 19th in the nation with a 36.5 percent three-point field goal percentage. Tech's deep range has been thanks to four players shooting over 35 percent from three-point land. Seniors Kylie Cook, Kellie Cook, Jala Harris and Lashay Davis have all put up solid numbers this season, and Harris and Davis each average just under two three's per game.
Davis leads the Golden Eagles with 26 3-pointers this season, and averages 7.7 points per game. Diamond Henderson, who in the beginning of the season was reserved from the arc, has pulled the trigger, and shoots a team high 37.8 percent from behind the arc, making seven threes in the past six games.
Even more impressive than Tech's distance shooting is their ability to take care of the basketball. Tech is only averaging 13.5 turnovers per game, putting them 11th in Division I. Ball handling is a point of emphasis for every coach, but head coach Jim Davis will not tolerate turnovers.
So far this season, Henderson leads the Golden Eagles with 15.2 points per game. Harris is steadily increasing her contribution, averaging 11.8 points per game, but the non-scoring aspect of the game just glows. Harris averages 3.0 rebounds, 3.57 assists and 1.64 steals per game.
Joining Harris defensively is Davis, who leads Tech with 27 steals (1.9 per game). Tech's defense is holding opponents to 62.5 points per game, and has only allowed one team, Vanderbilt, to shoot better than 45 percent, holding opponents to an average of 40.5 percent field goal accuracy.
Anchoring the paint is T'Keyah Williams, Molly Heady and freshman Mariah Dean. The trio attacks the boards as Tech's best rebounders averaging 5.6, 4.6 and 2.1 rebounds per game. Williams and Heady add six points per game, respectively.
A Look at the Bruins
Belmont enters the Eblen Center for the first time as an OVC opponent. The Bruins are also 7-7 on the season, and 2-0 in the conference. The Bruins are entering the contest with two OVC Players of the Week (1/3). Senior Katie Brooks was named Player of the Week and sophomore Jordyn Luffman was tabbed Newcomer of the Week.
The Bruins are led by Jordan Coleman with 10.5 points and 9.9 rebounds per game. Brooks averages 9.8 points per game with two other Bruins averaging over nine points per game.
Series History
This will be the 31st meeting between Belmont and Tech. The Golden Eagles hold a 20-10 advantage, with their last meeting occuring in the 2010-11 season. Tech defeated the Bruins at Belmont 61-56.
Kellie Cook, Kyllie Cook, Molly Heady and Candace Parson each saw a few minutes in the game, and Kellie Cook finished just shy of a double-double with 12 rebounds and eight points.
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How fast can you see and remember?
Here's a neat Chinese memory game that Fred sent today. It requires concentration and a quick eye. The game is played by clicking the numbers in order from smallest to largest.
Fred found this on a forum he frequents. The members there were reporting scores in the mid-30s. I have only broken out of the 30s one time, and I am sure that was luck, not skill. If you do better, give yourself a pat on the back.


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I noticed that this website has hot girls, bad girls, Gothic girls, geisha girls... but not many our viewers can directly relate to. I decided to ere in that direction, choosing to make a tutorial featuring two wonderfully average high school-aged friends. "Normal" isn't always boring, look how cute they are!
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UTA's Society of Professional Journalists hosted a lecture with a very special guest: Emmy award-winning journalist Rebecca Aguilar. The former Fox-KDFW reporter has gone on to become a freelance reporter, blogger, consultant and public speaker. She shared her 30 years of broadcast experience with over 70 students (from both UTA and SMU) in UTA's Fine Arts building. Aguilar offered advice on the best sites to use for social media, the importance in networking and getting mentors, and having passion and purpose. Visit SPJ-UTA's website: "SPJ University of Texas at Arlington Chapter" on Facebook and Rebecca Aguilar' website: latinocommunicators.wordpress.com.
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NEW YORK, N.Y. - "Extant" is getting a kick-start from CBS to try to improve its ratings less than a month into its run.
Starting Wednesday, CBS is moving the drama starring Halle Berry back an hour, to 10 p.m. EDT, so that it follows "Criminal Minds." The hope is that the long-running procedural will provide a more compatible lead-in than "Big Brother," which airs at 8 p.m.
"Extant" had just under 6.5 million viewers last Wednesday, the Nielsen Co. said. That was enough to make Nielsen's top 10 for the week, and CBS says "Extant" picks up significant time-shifted viewership. But it's not the big splash that TV's most popular network was expecting for its highest-profile new drama of the summer, which was beaten last week by reruns of two "NCIS" dramas.
Struggling Fox must shudder to think where it would be this summer without Gordon Ramsey. The season debut of "Hotel Hell," in which the cranky chef takes on the hospitality industry, was behind only "Master Chef" and "Hell's Kitchen" as the network's most popular show last week.
CBS won the week with an average of 5.4 million viewers. Led by two airings of "America's Got Talent," easily the week's most popular program, NBC averaged 5.2 million viewers. ABC had 3.9 million, Univision had 3.2 million, Fox had 2.8 million, Telemundo had 1.3 million and ION Television had 1.2 million.
TNT was the week's most popular cable network, averaging 2.24 million viewers in prime time. USA had 2.15 million, the Disney Channel had 2.08 million, Fox News Channel had 1.78 million and History had 1.62 million.
NBC's "Nightly News" topped the evening newscasts with an average of 7.8 million viewers. ABC's "World News" was second with 7.4 million, and the "CBS Evening News" had 6 million viewers.
For the week of July 21-27, the top 10 shows, their networks and viewerships: "America's Got Talent" (Tuesday), NBC, 10.43 million; "America's Got Talent" (Wednesday), NBC, 10.32 million; "NCIS," CBS, 8.7 million; "60 Minutes," CBS, 7.66 million; "The Big Bang Theory," CBS, 7.13 million; "The Bachelorette," ABC, 7.09 million; "Under the Dome," CBS, 6.74 million; "Big Brother (Wednesday), CBS, 6.63 million; "NCIS: Los Angeles," CBS, 6.56 million; "Extant," CBS, 6.483 million.
ABC is owned by The Walt Disney Co. CBS is owned by CBS Corp. CW is a joint venture of Warner Bros. Entertainment and CBS Corp. Fox is owned by 21st Century Fox. NBC and Telemundo are owned by Comcast Corp. ION Television is owned by ION Media Networks.


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Nuclear crisis in Japan but Uranium price to rebound on news from China and India
Nuclear crisis in Japan but Uranium price to rebound on news from China and India
Modern Tokyo Times
Lee Jay Walker
The nuclear crisis in Fukushima at the Daiichi nuclear power plant caused major ripples in the nuclear sector. Many nations outwardly began to question the role of nuclear energy and reliance but with each passing day the cold reality of the importance of nuclear energy is dawning. Therefore, China and India are to continue with their ambitious plans in this sector.
Immediately after March 11 when the 9.0-magnitude earthquake struck Japan and it became known that the tsunami had not only killed tens of thousands of people, but had also impacted negatively on the Daiichi nuclear power plant; then the price of uranium slumped by 27 per cent.
Daily images of the stricken Daiichi nuclear plant alongside massive scaremongering meant that national governments which had future plans in the pipeline were coming under the microscope.
However, despite this, and uranium being just below 9 per cent down this year, it appears that the worse may be over for the price of uranium. This applies to China and India who will continue to forge ahead with their respective nuclear power projects.
Indeed, according to Bloomberg and other sources, it is reported that nuclear energy will grow by roughly 46 per cent by 2020 amongst the leading five nations which use nuclear energy.
This increase is mainly down to China and India because these two nations, whose economies are growing rapidly and which have huge populations, believe that nuclear energy is the best option.
China's Nuclear Energy Association in May announced plans to increase nuclear energy by around eight times by 2020. India's Atomic Energy Commission, within one day of China's announcement, stated that India had plans to increase nuclear production by 13 fold and this ambitious plan applies to this target being achieved by 2030.
Therefore, the statements made by China and India means that the price of uranium should not only stabilize but also rebound because the future looks positive for this sector despite many alarm bells.
It is clear that leaders in China believe that future economic growth depends greatly on a diverse energy policy. Therefore, the only current option is for nuclear energy to be part of this diverse energy policy in order to satisfy the growth of electricity demand.
If future projections are met then nuclear usage in China, India and South Korea will surpass that of America, France, Germany and Japan, when you combine both groups.
It must be remembered that fossil fuels was the main concern for nations like America, France and the United Kingdom before the Fukushima crisis. Therefore, the nuclear option was seen to be positive. After all, greenhouse gas emission worries are focused on fossil fuels and not the atomic sector.
These nations may rue their over sensitivity and it must be remembered that the tsunami killed tens of thousands of people and not nuclear energy. Indeed, the over-hype of the nuclear crisis often relegated the crisis caused by the tsunami and it makes you wonder where the priority belongs?
China and India will clearly look at what happened at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in order to safeguard and implement policies which will lead to greater security and safety mechanisms.
The vice secretary general of the Nuclear Energy Association in China, Xu Yuming, stated that "Of course, the overall plan won't be changed. China faces power shortages and we need to change our energy mix. To resolve these issues, we must develop nuclear."


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More on Kamie Ethridge and her UNC basketball staff
My feature on new University of Northern Colorado women's basketball coach Kamie Ethridge, one of the top players of her generation, is in the Friday paper and online. During her long tenure at Kansas State as associate head coach, her pursuit of head-coaching jobs was less than passionate, and she was happy in Manhattan.
In the story, I didn't go much into her hiring of her fellow former Kansas State staff members to fill out her UNC staff. Those hires included:
— Former KSU head coach Deb Patterson, fired in March after 18 seasons.
— Shalee Lehning, a former star K-State point guard who was on Patterson's staff for five seasons. She also played three seasons in the WNBA, and KSU retired her number.
— Kelly Moylan, also a former KSU guard. She played for the Wildcats from 1989-93 and was on Patterson's staff for eight years.
Lehning will be Ethridge's associate head coach, and Patterson is listed as an assistant. Read more…


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Grain and oilseed markets were sharply lower at the close. March corn closed 14 ¼ cents lower at $7.37 ¼, January soybeans down 19 cents at $14.72 ¼, and March wheat down a penny at $8.61.
After some major technical levels were breached markets turned lower this morning. January soybeans touched their 50 day moving average and had a sharp selloff around 7:30 am. At about the same time corn broke below its 50 day moving average and short term range which triggered sell stops.
January Soybeans (50 day moving average touched and failed)
March Corn (50 day moving average breached – Red line)
The USDA announced another sale of soybeans to China this time for 115,000 MTs. Demand remains strong and we thing downside moves are somewhat limited with current conditions.
Weather in Argentina is starting to improve and the Brazilian soybean production is expected to be strong. We expect choppy holiday trade to continue. We want to watch soybean export demand for direction while we expect corn demand to remain dismal. Corn option volatility is starting to rise but still relatively cheap before the report in our opinion. Have a great weekend!!
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Tennis Week Magazine unveiled the magazine redesign with an issue entitled "Tennis is Back in Fashion" (and a glammed up Maria Sharapova on the cover. They lost a few sections, and changed the size of the book to that of the old TV Guide.
Some tennis fans aren't taking the change well, though. They're accusing IMG, who'd taken over the magazine, of turning it into a big fluff machine.
A poster on Tennis Warehouse: "Tennis Week magazine is now about fashion. It is a cross between People and Vogue."
Okay, I understand your concern, BUT: If you want to read about results and scores, there are 2,000 other magazines, websites, and blogs you can go to for all that information. I say we welcome this magazine that shows the sport in a different (might I say refreshing) light. We all complain that tennis isn't embraced enough in the U.S. Perhaps this will help drum up some interest.


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Wednesday, June 17, 2009
National Champions, AGAIN!
This past weekend, the Junior National Rowing Championships were held in the middle of the country for all high school age teams. We are very proud to announce that the Marin Rowing Association's Varsity Women's 8+, won the National Championship by almost five seconds (open water) for the second straight year in a row. A five second gap is slightly freakish, but so are the work capacities of these talented young women.
This is the third year SFCF has been providing the strength and conditioning for these girls, and many of the seniors on the team have been with us that long.
Balancing a competitive rowing schedule and a couple of weekly Crossfit sessions is no joke. Many of our young Marin Rowers have the potential to be some of the best athletes around. Early last fall, these athletes made a commitment to out work their competition and win back to back national titles with many new athletes in the boat. Clearly they did.
Kudos to Coaches Carl Paoli and Angel Orozco who took over coaching responsibilities this spring. The Marin athletes were greatly relieved to have two additional new coaches to hate.
--Coach K-Star
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- Unknown said...
Congratulations to all!
- PXT Cody said...
First time poster- Thanks for all the great info you bring to us all. You guys give a TON to the CF community.
You mentioned that the athletes were doing CF 2x/week along with thier rowing schedule. Could you give us some insight in to the programming for that type of frequency?
I think in the Journal and Message boards there seems to be a gap in the understanding of how CrossFit programming is balanced with Sport practice/training. For those of us who consider fitness as our sport it's obvious- as much power output as you can each week in CF and still recover. But how do you determine that balance if your sport is not CrossFit?
Thanks again for all you do!
PXT Cody
- Dave said...
Doooode!!! 5 seconds in a National Championship is not just winning. That is "walk in the park" dominating. Congrats guys.... seriously amazing. The stakes are so high for high school rowers (top tier college recruiting) that I hope you guys bottle up your winning formula and sell it.
- Dave
- Sameer said...
- Person said...
That is hella tight. Go west coast rowers!!
- Tam O'H, Crossfit Las Vegas said...
Last month, I had the great privilege to workout at SF CrossFit and have my erg form refined by Coach Armstrong of MRA. Their dedication to athletic performance and excellence was clear during my brief time with them. A 5 second win is an amazing statement to that dedication to excellence put forth by all the athletes and Coaches of MRA and to the combination of Crossfit and Rowing training. Congrats Ladies of MRA and Coaches of SFCF!!
- FilthyBrit said...
Late to the party on this one, but what an awesome achievement! I love reading these stories of CF being integrated into sports-specific training by athletes, to great success. We need more of this!
Well done, ladies!
- Unknown said...
As a sfcf guy and brother of a rower, huge congratulations to you ladies!!! Freaking huge win! ...and with a new boat at that, you girls must be doing something right up there.
Consider yourselves lucky, as I am sure you do, because the training you are receiving is on the cutting edge for your sport. The SFCF crew has worked with a few rowers of all levels now on shifting the training paradigm a bit and for some reason they all seem to win. To me it is not much of a secret why. Rowing is undoubtedly a specialized sport, and to be the best rower you obviously need to spend lots of time on the water and receive good coaching. The traditional nature of rowing workout/conditioning programing focuses too much on junk meters or minutes doing "steady state" without a ton of 'real work' being done in combination with a weight program based around a 3x20-40 scheme... This not only breaks you down but leaves holes and weaknesses in your body as an athlete, and more importantly in your ability to race. The exposure to heavy lifting and metabolic conditioning gives you a huge edge in your overall power output and anaerobic capacities in your starts and last 600m. It has got to feel good sitting at the starting line before the race even starts knowing you have this when the others don't...
If you are a rower take a look into Jurgen Grobler the former East German and Current UK mens coach, and his programming. His rowers do metabolic work, intervals, squat, DL, and clean fairly heavy year-round, and he has coached a Gold medal crew every olympics since '72. Coincidence? Doubtful
In essence Rowing 40k a day will not make you a better athlete, but becoming a better stronger athlete can make you a better rower.
- Unknown said...
And also to PXT Cody... you are right on brother, there is a HUGE gap in how crossfit is applied to sport specific training right now. so here is my rant #2 for this blog.
Im actually starting to get a bit tired of hearing how crossfit is a sport, because to me it is not. Just because we compete and can compete, and some great atheletes do crossfit, it is not a sport. WE ARE COMPETEING AT BEING THE BEST AT EXERCISING. There isn't 4 qtrs, 9 innings, a true scoring system, ect. When we compete the events and rules always change making it not truly quantifiable over time which is the nature of the damn thing! And what makes it so fun! sometimes its for time, sometimes reps, sometimes points, sometimes for a rank in a workout on a scale that rewards points, but we never seem to use the same scale and it always changes. No CF event is ever the same or scored the same that ive ever heard of. Football is 4 qtrs, rowing is 2000m, the mile is 4 laps, and the decathalon is the same 10 events every time in the same order. how is this the same? its not. by being a CF athlete you attempt to prepare your body to perform a huge variety of highly functional tasks, never focusing on squeezing peak perfomance out of one set of skills or a single task.
There is a huge hole in the CF community in my opinion in terms of realizing and accepting this. CF is an excellent system that has the general ability to make most any athlete at any level stronger, and increase their fitness if concepts (which have been around forever i might add) are applied properly. CF wods and practices can greatly enhance sport specific performance but in no way should you expect to perform your best by merely following the dotcom WODS or by only doing the Girls. Thats drinking too much koolaid and being dumb. Look for holes and weaknesses in the athletes, and think about what the sport actually requires as far as performance to determine your programing. For example 90% or more of rowers are relatively weak and lacking great anaerobic capacity while possesing excellent aerobic capacity. Solution, Lift heavy for low volume and do high intensity intervals or metcons. Things that can be done quickly to plug these gaps and that allow them to get the exposure needed yet recover so that they can feel fresh and focus on rowing the next practice. Having a better Fran or Grace time is great and will help them but crossing the finish first at 2000m on the water is the goal. In contrast to that a football or rugby player has different needs due to his sports demands (7 seconds of fury and 30 of rest) and that is reflected in programming on a site like CrossFit Football. If you haven't been, I suggest you look at it. One great concept they have that is beyond anything any other CF site does is the way the break workouts into 3 levels depending on the athletes ability, experience, and years spent training. If you are training someone for specialized performance i don't see how you could overlook that. A elite competitor has different needs and abilities to handle work loads than a high school athlete.
As far as how many wods a week, you are going to have to experiment with athletes to find what they can handle in what part of the season and fit in their schedule. A quick heavy 7x2 and a 5min or less metcon can be done on a day with two other hour plus practices by elite athletes on some days prob not your avg person though. Other days they might respond well to an all out helen or an on the min wod with 1:1 work to rest. Prepare aggressively, vary your training, time your peak, and be sure not to overtrain. Everyone seems to be a little different. good luck
- PXT Cody said...
Thanks for your time J.D.! I'll read and re-read this- lots to ponder.
Doooode!!! 5 seconds in a National Championship is not just winning. That is "walk in the park" dominating. Congrats guys.... seriously amazing. The stakes are so high for high school rowers (top tier college recruiting) that I hope you guys bottle up your winning formula and sell it.
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When I sat down to tinker around with Native Instruments' Maschine, I was immediately forced out of my chair to find out where my wig had blown to. An ethereal zephyr summoned by the bevy of remarkable specifications on the Maschine had promptly gusted my hair clean off. In this industry, there is a first for everything.
The Native Instruments Maschine is the German equivalent of a famous Japanese product. The comparisons and punch lines have been so numerous in number as to now be nauseating. What is totally surprising are still the number of inquiries as to how the Maschine stacks up against the MPC and the only applicable answer is that the categories are really apples to oranges. Okay, so it is a bit more subtle than apples and oranges, but the MPC was originally designed in '88. Why on Earth would we be comparing the productivity of a unit designed to be used with laptops more powerful than what NASA was using in '88 to an MPC? The discussion is one for musical philosophers who hold Chautauqua's on the metaphysics of VSTs. Let us rain dance right passed that horde of puritanical producers.
The Maschine falls deeply into a rift between groove box and artificial limb. Something like Robin Williams in Bicentennial Man, you're left with a feeling of curiosity as to what the unit actually is. Maybe we can answer that question by first answering what the unit does.
Native Instruments packages the Maschine with its own software which is primarily what we crafted jams with. The program was intuitive, that is the go-to word for the Maschine, and one I'll have to fight the urge to use too many times. The entire process of creating music with this device is extremely intuitive. NI's software uses basic elements of sounds, groups, and patterns sequencing these into songs. There should be a special addendum on how easy Native Instruments has made sampling with this device. It is the SlapChop of musical production. The program itself is not why one purchases the Maschine however and the hardware can be used as a plug-in with your pre-existing DAW.
The hardware aspect of things is an audiophile's Six Flags Amusement Park. A single MIDI out as well as in and one USB jack are the only ports on the gadget. Maschine is a large instrumental creating machine with a rugged chassis. The deep black color showcases the dustiness of your room unabashedly. There are 16 pads with which to summon funky, head-nod inducing sounds but with the use of the on-board shift key they double as musical functions; also, affecting things from octave jumps to quantization modifiers. 11 knobs ensure that at live shows you will look like an extra on the bridge of the Starship Enterprise making modular adjustments to tectonic acoustics.
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The major selling point of the Maschine is not a Copernican Revolution within electronic hardware for beat crafting. It's a much needed redesign of a system that was developed and not updated since 1988. Therefore, a lot of seemingly small, simple points that one would assume the entirety of this industry would be doing, only Native Instrument's Maschine does. The use of outside VST and audio plug-ins is an example that comes to mind. Why on Earth did that take so long to catch on within the industry? Regardless, Native Instruments was at the forefront of adopting this on their Maschine. Aside from that no other company is as committed to developing proper software support for their product as Native Instruments. The steady slew of user-friendly updates keeps the Maschine user ahead of the pack.
Native Instruments broke the levy with the Maschine, soon after we saw a number of companies daring to peck at the glory of the MPC Empire and none doing it with such flawless execution as NI. In a home studio, the Maschine will quickly rise to the central creative focal point of your set up and is worth its weight in gold.


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The Colorado men's basketball program will be targeting size for the 2012 recruiting cycle, and two high school juniors in Colorado Springs are thought to be high on the Buffs' radar: 6-foot-9 Josh Scott of Lewis-Palmer and 6-7 Wesley Gordon of Sierra.
Scott, averaging 22 points, 11 rebounds and four blocks, told Rivals.com that he has visited CU several times.
"The new coaching staff at CU is pretty cool," Scott said. "I like (head) coach (Tad) Boyle. The campus is nice, and it sounds like they are buildinig up the program. All they need are a couple more pieces. They told me that they need a big man real bad."
At last glance, Gordon was averaging 19.1 points per game.
Lewis-Palmer will host Sierra on Friday night. Expect a bunch of college coaches to be in attendance.
Current high school juniors can sign with a school in November during college basketball's early signing period.
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Designing nonviolent ways for humans and animals to live in harmony—in the city.
David Feld finds ways for human communities to coexist with Canada geese, which were the only free wild animals he remembers seeing during his Brooklyn childhood. "Sometimes they flew low enough for me to hear the whoosh of their powerful wings," he writes.
When goose droppings around a lake in Feld's suburban Virginia neighborhood became a nuisance, his community was bitterly divided over whether to kill the birds. So Feld, a systems engineer, devised a nonviolent solution. The neighborhood adopted border collies to divert geese from yards and beaches, and volunteers acted as "egg addlers" to prevent the goose population from growing.
Feld co-founded the nonprofit GeesePeace to share his program and is working on a related project, DeerPeace.
Feld has seen conflicted communities transform their anger into a push for solutions. "Anytime you have a problem, you have energy," he says.
- Too often, we forget the biological truth that humans are an animal species, too. Our culture treats animals as food, pets, pests, property, and curiosities. We've spoiled their habitats, endangering tens of thousands of species and our own future. If we learn to understand animals, we can protect and restore the planet we all share.
- The old logic of the slave plantation is still the logic of our industrial food system, 500 years in the making. There's a new way of thinking taking off.
- Breaking our families into nuclear units has an ecological and emotional cost. Could the multigenerational farm remind us where to turn for a viable future?


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- A carrier pigeon proved faster than the leading internet service provider in South Africa. The 11-month-old bird took 1 hour, 8 minutes to fly 50 miles from an IT company's offices to a coastal town with a card of data attached to its leg. That same transfer of data took 2 hours, 6 minutes and 57 seconds over the internet connecting.
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- Even the most loyal NFL fans are opting out of tickets this year. At least 24 of teams in the most powerful sports league in America have kept ticket prices flat. But only 20 have sold out all of their home games. Rules of the league state that if the game isn't sold out at least 72 hours before the game, the game doesn't have to be televised, which means there could be widespread blackouts.
- A new report claims health groups and cell phone companies are playing down links between phone usage and brain cancer. The findings showed that cell phone use significantly increases the risk of developing certain kids of tumors and young people, whose brains are not yet developed, are even more susceptible.


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Peter Friedrich Catel, a merchant in Berlin, decided to publish a mail order catalog of 'mathematical and physical cabinet of arts' in 1790. In that catalog there were many wooden puzzles. And more than 225 years later people are still being puzzled and perplexed by wooden puzzles and brainteasers.
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Aldermen vote to allow weapons in city buildings
Elected officials get permit to carry weapons inside municipal buildings
Aldermen in Racine voted Wednesday night to carry on with city business while carrying a weapon.
When the state passed concealed carry, cities like Racine banned weapons inside municipal buildings.
On Wednesday, an exemption to the ban was passed on a 9-5 vote, allowing elected officials to carry, despite the signs. Alderman Robert Mozol underscored part of the reason he supported the exception by recounting a shooting at a Missouri council meeting in 2008.
"The gunman didn't target any spectators. He targeted the people up here," said Mozol.
Mozol feared the same could happen in Racine.
"We do get targeted, and everybody knows where we're at every two weeks," Mozol said.
It's that vulnerability that fueled an amendment to alter the city's ban on guns at City Hall, allowing aldermen to carry weapons. According to one alderman, it's one exception that already occurs elsewhere.
"You can't have guns in the courtroom except district attorneys or judges, or anyone the judge permits," Alderman Gregory Helding said.
However, the exception doesn't sit well with concealed-carry advocates, who spoke out Wednesday night.
"Everyone should be able to protect themselves because criminals aren't supposed to have guns, but they do," said one Racine resident during the public comment portion of the meeting.
They said leaders should not change the law for themselves, but not every leader was on board.
"To me, if we're saying to our residents that they shouldn't bring guns in here, then we shouldn't have that privilege also," said Alderman Michael Shields.
Supporters of concealed carry said everyone should have the right to carry inside, saying that law-abiding citizens should have the right to protect themselves.
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The moon passed between NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory and the sun for the first time last week, yielding this incredible eclipse photograph. Sorry, awesome solar flare in the bottom left corner, you'll have to share the spotlight this time.
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