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This is the junk food of animes. . . I laughed like a maniac every time I saw the intro to this show with those beautiful bishonen cupcakes floating through the night sky on beds of confections while they tried really hard to croon out the melodic French greeting, "Bon Jouuuur dooooooo duuuu!" The desserts! The twirling while making said desserts! Who will the giant eyed girl pick? I spent the whole afternoon watching all of the episodes. Then, I called my friend and made her come over and watch it with me the next day and wash, rinse and repeat. (She loved it) It is terrible. It is over the... See full review
It is almost magical how bad this anime is. . . ICE broken down scene by scene: Scene 1: Once upon a time there was a girl with massive 90s hair who had a creepy overly curious brother. Her extremely creepy, overly curious brother asks her if she had hot sex the night before because she came home so late. Big Hair calmly tells him, "No way bro I'm a virgin for suuuure." Sadly, Big Hair gets hit by a car on the way to buy more hairspray from the supermarket. A creepy child talks about being in her mom's belly. BOOM! THE FUTURE All the men are dead. . . for some reason. I... See full review
This anime had more holes in it than swiss cheese on top of a donut. I really wanted to like this anime, but, the entire thing, save for the animation itself fell incredibly short. Story: I have four words to sum up the plot. All Over The Place. . . I kept thinking I was missing an episode for some reason and "Why is this happening? and "I don't get why this (insert object, person, episode) is relevent?!!?" All of the of the plot lines never quite connected. I feel like this could have been resolved by there being at least 20 episodes instead of 12. Animation: The one thing... See full review
I did not expect to become emotionally invested, crying actual tears, in a "mecchi" show that featured copious amount of under boob a giant battleship with a hard on. . . But, somehow or another Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann turned out to be so much more than that and won me over with its humanity and "Fighting Spirit." This is a very character driven show. The writer of this story does a great job in character development and believability. You will root for these characters, bad and good alike. You will come to understand their love, desperation, tenacity and courage. The plot ... See full review
I do not often say that a movie or show is a must watch, but, I strongly believe that this film should be shown to every human, in every spoken language. We as a society have glamorized war. War is not beautiful. . . War is downright ugly and sad. People who have not experienced war themselves, or are not close to someone who has, may not really have a true grasp on the horrors and devastation it can bring. This film takes off all of the glamor and shows you the ugly truth. . . and by doing so it becomes a timeless work of art. If you really think about it, for or the most part we only hear ... See full review
I think that this four part anime would have benefited greatly from having an additional 2-4 episodes. This small addition would have allowed for more substantial character development and plot cohesiveness. The animation, for the most part, fit the mood. . . dark and depressing. However, it was a bit off putting to me that the "love" interest Shou Yaegashi looked almost exactly like the main character Kazuna Takashiro. The sound effects were sometimes a distraction from the show itself. . . (example episode 2) I do, however, feel the ending song was a nice fit. The characters had real ... See full review
This show helped me through one of the darkest times of my life. . . I know, I know . . . Dramatic much? YES! Without getting into all of the details, life in general was sucking in massive proportions. It really was to the point where I no longer felt the energy or need to do basic things. . . Soooo laughing and general merriment was completely and utterly out of the question. However, to try and silence the running commentary going on in my head, I would sometimes put something on (TV, radio, CD). Generally, I would lose interest after a few minutes and go back to Gloom Town Pop. 1 . ... See full review
This Show Made Me So Angry Why? Because it brought back a feeling. . . Do you remember dressing up for Halloween as a kid? You: Giddy with excitement to trick or treat at the house down the street with awesome decorations because you just KNOW they are going to give out the best candy. BUT. . . When you get there, you, with your little hands stretched out, your heart bursting with joy. . . are handed an inedible pair of wax lips instead of a lollipop. Trinity Blood is the wax lips of my anime collection. It had the potential to be truly great and nose dived into epic failure at the... See full review
What If I Had Died! Shaft Animation Studios has produced another quirky and hilarious series that fits in well if you loved the art styling, and sheer episodic randomness of the likes of Arakawa Under the Bridge. This is a character driven story that pokes fun at anime stereotypes as well as itself. But be warned it has a very high ratio of fan service if you are not into that. . . There are also many pause and rewind moments, as you will not catch everything that is going on in the classroom (especially the blackboard) if you are frantically reading subtitles like... See full review
This anime is a visually stunning piece of art. In a short ten minute jaunt it tells the story of a young girl who entrusts the safety of herself and her village to an anti-hero for a price . . . It rapidly sucks you into a world reminiscent of a water color painting awash with black, yet still manages to at times be so lighthearted. Helping this story along is the ever beautiful and haunting "Ave Maria" by Schubert which made it feel all the more ethereal. To me it raised the questions: What would you do/give to save your family and your home?Would you be willing to... See full review


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Well you may or may not have heard about the US DOJ Grabing gold and e-golds' response
Some of you might also know I take an interest in privacy and finacial crypto. I also kept a (big enough to hurt) chunk of gold in 1MDC, that was amoung the gold thieved.
Needless to say this does annoy me somewhat, I did not expect such blatent grabbing for some time.
As a side and related note my pktp project on sourceforge has vanished, I suspect due to me not doing anything on it for prolonged time than some vast conspiracy. I of course still have all the code etc.. so if you wish to work on some java crypto money stuff, drop me a line.
Given the failure of busNet, I am now a full time student and that is going well. Another few years and first prototypes should be getting fabbed :)
Still seeking crypto hardware people with VHDL skills!
Anyway I am pleased I got this entry in, in under a year, might be getting into shorter time between posts.

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We are all thinking of you and pray you are safe and the others with you too. May you be able to continue your wonderful journey afterwards in peace and happiness. All my love Mum and her friends.
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Here we are in Port Douglas. We arrived in Cairns a few days ago and have been doing lots of exciting things. The overnight flights weren't ideal - especially with the screaming children but I think we've nearly caught up with our sleep now.
We've been outback to a place called Undara where we camped in a swag tent - was so hot and noisy with all the sounds of the wild but we had kangaroos running around outside the tent and we also saw wallabies and wallaroos. We went on a wildlife walk and got taken into a bat cave - so cool - literally tens of thousands of bats flying around in the pitch black but none of them hit us because their sonar is so good.
We arrived in Port Douglas today with the aim of going out on the reef tomorrow, however our boat has been cancelled as they have shut the port
Australia is great - the people are incredibly friendly - we had dinner with a couple from Cairns the night before last and they gave us loads of tips and advice. Apparently their daughter worked at Baker & McKenzie for 2 years which is really near Freshfields. Small world.
Tan update: Zero, Nada, Nichts.
Gonna post some photos now if I can - we've set ourselves up with a dongle so should get on the internet fairly regularly.
Hope you are all good - keep the comments coming - we love hearing from you xx
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Just checked out your 'swag tent' and looks like that is proper camping luxury!!
Hope that the storm passes soon and that it doesn't disrupt your plans too much - keep us posted to let us know you are safe.
Not much excitement going on here - sun has started shining a bit more in the last couple of days, but don't think it's going to compete with your 30+ degree heat!!
Hi, looks like you are having a fantastic time!! The Cyclone does sound serious, Craig, Luke and Kieran are all in Cairns as well, they have been evacuated to a school some miles inland. I hope you are both ok and are safe. What an experience. Take care and batten down the hatches!! Love Lib xx
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Port Douglas is beautiful have been there in a storm myself but nothing like this is going to be. Keep Safe
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The Final Four format for the annual MHSAA state basketball tournament will remain the same for the 2013-14 school year.
A proposal that would allow eight teams – instead of four – in each classification to advance to the state tournament failed on a second vote at the MHSAA's April executive meeting.
District 1 secretary Larry Williams said another proposal, which involved eight 1-4A teams and six 5-6A teams advancing, failed on a first vote.
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Developers could buy, tear down Stadium Bar
Some regular customers want bar to stay open
MADISON, Wis. - A Minneapolis-based developer wants to buy and tear down the Stadium Bar on Monroe Street.
The plan to replace the popular game day hangout isn't sitting well with everyone.
Developers want to build a multistory apartment complex with commercial space and underground parking. It's not a done deal, but the prime real estate means the bar's estimated $1.2 million worth may outweigh any sentimental value.
Matt Mierta, a regular Stadium Bar customer, said he wasn't happy when he heard his favorite lunch stop could be sold and redeveloped.
"I don't like it at all. I think it sucks," Mierta said.
While the idea of redevelopment gets personal for many customers, general manager Tom Harberg said it will come down to a business decision.
"To me, business is always business, and I think that you have to keep looking at the opportunities that are out there," Harberg said.
The proposed design from the Opus Group would replace the restaurant with 100 apartments, a floor of commercial space and an underground parking lot.17572912
But for some the building is more than a bar.
"There is a lot of history here. A lot of people have certainly shared the camaraderie of students as well as alumni here," Harberg said.
No matter how many memories, the city has little say in a potential sale.
"Essentially, it's the discretion of the owner, and the owner has said, 'I want to try and go in a new direction,'" said Alderman Scott Hesnick.
That new direction could take months of committee approvals and neighborhood meetings, but Hesnick said interest in the stadium space is a sign of more money in the city.
"We're seeing developers wanting to return to Madison. We're seeing developers wanting to put a shovel in the ground and build new projects here," Hesnick said.
There's already a "Save the Stadium" Facebook page with more than 1,500 people invited to a public meeting on the potential project set for 6 p.m. on Dec. 6 at Union South.
Harberg said a version of the Stadium Bar could be what fills the first floor of the proposed building.
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If you're a console gamer, odds are you're one of the millions of gamers out there who are absolutely smitten with Sony's PlayStation 4 console.
Sony's official pre-E3 press conference was met with considerable acclaim, and most gamers would agree that the Japanese gaming giant stole the show with their presentation, which highlighted many of the PS4's favorable features–used games support, anti-DRM policies, and offline play just to name a few.
Due to the console's immense popularity, online retailers have had trouble keeping up with the high demand of pre-orders. Amazon.com, for example, has opened a new wave of pre-order bundles for the PS4 as the standalone launch-day editions have been all but sold out. Amazon has also made claims that they may not be able to guarantee everyone a console on day one as their supply of systems may be limited.
Sony has acknowledged the console's ever-growing popularity, and has officially adjusted their sales projections for the PlayStation 4 to new heights.
In an interview with The Wall Street Journal, PlayStation's own Andrew House disclosed the following comment regarding Sony's reaction to the console's climbing acclaim:
"The company [Sony] is shifting its internal projections for the product after favourable reactions to the company's presentation [at E3] on Monday".
House also admitted that the "demand may well outstrip supply" and possibly overwhelm retailers and suppliers both–which is something that GameStop execs have also feared.
Additional reports have come in regarding the shipping timeframe of PlayStation 4 components, which seem to have already begun this month. Apparently suppliers have started shipping orders for the console, and the orders themselves are expected to reach a possible one million units a month by the end of September.
Based on sources in the upstream supply chain, shipping of Microsoft's Xbox One components are to begin sometime in Q3, giving Sony a lead to better prepare their consoles for the hustle and bustle of pre-orders and day one launches across the globe.
The PS4 is reportedly to be manufactured by Foxconn Electronics. whereas the Xbox One is believed to be manufactured by Pegatron Technology. Each of the consoles will reportedly feature components from a variety of companies including Lite-On IT, Kinko Optical, Newmax, Elite Advanced Laser and many more.
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If Sony does have the upper hand in terms of component shipping times, they may very well come out on top in terms of preparedness, leaving Microsoft with the possibility of a hectic launch–but of course these facts have yet to be confirmed
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The dance over, the theater darkens, and a film is projected on a screen. It is a clip from the final lap of the 1964 Olympic 10,000 meters. Bud Palmer, the NBC announcer, identifies Australia's Ron Clarke in the lead, with Billy Mills off his shoulder and Tunisia's Mohamed Gammoudi just behind. Near the end of the first turn, they begin to catch a lapped runner. Clarke sees that if he stays on the inside, he'll be trapped, boxed between Mills to his right and the runner ahead. To make room, he shoves Mills wide, causing the gangly American to break stride and fall back. Gammoudi seizes the moment and bolts ahead. He and Clarke race on through the last turn, with Mills obviously beaten in third.
In the homestretch, the camera stays with Gammoudi and Clarke, until Dick Bank, working with Palmer on the broadcast, starts screaming, "Look at Mills! Look at Mills!" Mills is sprinting wildly down the middle of the track, his arms swinging so high they evoke beating wings. "Mills wins!" Bank screams in delight.
The lights come up, and the soldiers do, too, rising to the incredible race and the man. Mills's victory ranks among the most astounding in Olympic track history, up there with Abebe Bikila's 1960 marathon triumph in Rome or Kip Keino outrunning Jim Ryun in the 1968 Olympic 1500. The theater announcer simply says, "Billy Mills remains the only American to win gold in the Olympic 10,000-meter run."
Mills takes the stage in a grayish-blue suit and mauve and silver tie. "I truly felt," he begins, "that I had wings on my feet!"
When the throng is seated, he continues, "Never have the virtues and values of the Olympics been more important. They are global unity through global diversity. And that is exactly what you are protecting through your service!" There is an ovation of agreement. "I first had that dream that you just saw come true when I was 9, on the reservation," he continues. "It was after I read my first Olympic book. I loved that it said Olympians were chosen by the gods! I thought, Aha. If I become one, I can go up to heaven and see my beloved mother!'
His tone takes on a clipped, martial urgency, because he is about to tell of receiving a mission. "During the playing of the anthem after that race, I heard my late father speaking to me. He said, 'Son, you can step out of the circle now. You can go on a journey to help others now, to empower others now...'"
I sit back and wonder how well he's fulfilled his sacred charge. After our racing days, I knew Mills only in passing. In 1996, I'd enlisted him in aiding Mamo Wolde when the 1968 Olympic Marathon champion was wrongly imprisoned in Ethiopia. It was Billy's idea that Olympians sign and send Wolde an Olympic flag. That so heartened Mamo, it kept him alive for years. I knew Mills's charity, Running Strong for American Indian Youth, because my mom always answered its appeals. It has provided wells and food and schools and dialysis clinics and youth centers and scholarships for the Oglala Lakota Sioux and other American Indians. I knew Mills had become a kind of bridge between corporate chieftains and indigenous tribes.
And as I wonder, I struggle to imagine how he has endured the inevitable conflicts between those worlds. How could one man, Olympian or not, live in both the culture of the beautiful warrior dance and that of contemporary capitalist society and not be torn in two? The answer is: not easily.
WILLIAM MERVIN MILLS WAS THRUST into this circle on June 30, 1938. A 7/16 Oglala Lakota Sioux, he was raised on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota, about 40 miles from Rapid City. His Lakota Sioux name is Makoce Te'Hila, which means "Loves His Country" or "Respects the Earth."
"My mother was white, my father Oglala," Mills says in his Fair Oaks, California, home a few weeks after his speech in Hawaii. (Later, after publication of this story, Mills clarified that his mother was also part Lakota and Spanish.) Reminders of his journey abound. On the mantle are photos of his wife, Pat, their four daughters, and their 11 grandchildren. Above loom Pat's huge, powerful impressionist paintings. In the hall are framed posters for Running Brave, the 1983 film that depicts his life.
"I loved my father completely," Mills continues. "He always said, 'It's the pursuit of a dream that heals you.' He'd get me out of class and we'd go to the fishing hole. He knew that he could never be alone when he fished because he had had a stroke, and if he had another one, somebody had to run for help."
His father, Sidney Thomas Mills, was Catholic but also found peace in taking Native American spiritual ways and paralleling them with the tenets of Catholicism. Still, at times tensions arose. When Billy was in second grade, he attended catechism class and prepared to make his First Communion. He learned his prayers better than most in his class, and was hoping to be first in line on the day of his communion. For the ceremony, "I needed a clean white shirt," Mills recalls. His father made plans to take Billy to the town off the reservation where they could buy one. But that morning Sidney had a stroke, and instead of shopping for a shirt, "I walked my father about a mile to the hospital. When we got there I asked him what I should do about the shirt. He said, 'Jesus Christ doesn't care if you take Holy Communion stark nekkid! Wear your sister's blouse.' So my sister pressed it and I wore it. A nun complained to the priest about it. I explained to her, 'Jesus Christ doesn't care if I take Holy Communion stark nekkid!' The nuns were so shocked they made me go last."
Mills didn't enjoy the loving support of his parents for long. His mother, Grace, died just before his eighth birthday; his father when he was 12. "Two weeks before that, he took me fishing, and seeing his expression as I reeled in a catfish remains a golden vision. For years I would never fish for catfish, to keep the memory of Dad special."
From then on, he was raised by his older brother and sister. And from then on, the reservation began to tear at him. He wasn't the first. The agony that the Lakota Sioux experienced when their great, free horse culture was forced into static, useless life on the Pine Ridge Reservation's virtually barren land could never be dismissed or forgotten. It created a schizoid catch in the society: The more the tribes honored their ancient heritages, the more they had to reject the nation that ruled them. Trying to balance the two gnaws at every tribe, every member. And if you attempt some saintly amnesia, if you try not to dwell on the magnitude of their loss, contrary evidence is all around.
For one, imprisoning the Lakota Sioux cost them their health. Their metabolism had evolved for the hunt. They were suited to the hard work of nomadic life, ranging over the prairies, moving encampments, using every part of the buffalo. White hunters began a systematic killing of the buffalo, which served to hurt the Lakota. Without the buffalo, the Lakota had to leave the land or starve. Stuck on the reservation, reliant on a government commodities diet of white flour, sugar, and lard, they were unable to adjust. Liver disease, diabetes, and alcoholism skyrocketed.
It happened so fast that there were few elders equipped to guide a transition to agriculture or crafts. Oglala wisdom celebrated the warrior virtues. So the reservation became the place Mills was born into, a place of wonderful, large family connections (Indian riches), but with up to 80 percent unemployment, ferocious insularity, and a crab-bucket mentality.
If Mills had been of pure blood, he might not have escaped. But being a grieving orphan, and having at least a blood connection to the white world, freed him, in a sense, to be really torn. He felt mounting rejection at school for not being full-blood Lakota Sioux. He felt caught between two worlds, between two imagined future selves, but with no trusted peer to show him how to choose, or somehow mix them, blend them. What was he? Who was he? MILLS SOUGHT LONELY SOLACE BY physically getting out, getting away, running through the canyons and washes, crossing the stark badlands. Almost subliminally he became a tireless runner. His father had always told him that running would make him more fit. But Billy also had learned that when he ran, he drew strength from Mother Earth and from Heaven, which better prepared him to meet challenges.
Meanwhile, in the classroom, his teachers recognized his work ethic and good grades. At 15 he was sent to the Haskell Institute, an elite boarding school for Native Americans in Lawrence, Kansas. There he took up cross-country and track, running a 9:08 two-mile in cross-country and a promising 4:23 indoor mile his senior year, 1957. That gave him a choice of colleges. "It was between Oklahoma and Kansas," he says. "I visited Oklahoma because I wanted to meet the famous football coach, Bud Wilkinson, but Kansas had the great legacy."
The University of Kansas, which had produced Olympic milers Glenn Cunningham and Wes Santee, was coached by Bill Easton, who had come to the school in 1948 after winning three consecutive NCAA cross-country championships at Drake University. When Mills first met Easton, he saw in the diminutive coach a kind of folksy sage, a keeper and ladler of lore with a twinkle in his eye. But he soon learned that Easton was dogmatic and he typecast his runners. When Mills spoke of having nursed Olympic hopes since he was a boy, Easton brutally shot them down. When Mills said he'd like to try a little more speed-work, Easton said, "Billy, Negroes are sprinters. You're an Indian, and Indians run forever."
We all need to know our coaches can share and believe in our dreams, but Mills needed it more. Easton's tough, dictatorial distancing was the worst possible approach to one who craved to be understood, who'd never had a lick of parental guidance through the storms of adolescence, and who still didn't have a single positive peer to emulate. Yet through it all he flourished in his sport. He was a three-time All-American in cross-country at Kansas, and in 1960 he finished fifth in the three-mile at the NCAA Championships.
But the habitual prejudice in the white world could be defeating. He was stung at one meet when NCAA and AAU photographers asked him to step out of official pictures. He hadn't done anything to offend them. This was simply America at the time, a society of unthinking prejudice, received prejudice.
Yet he couldn't quit and flee back to the reservation. He was convinced it was a dead end for him because there were no jobs there. His brothers and sisters could offer love, but little more. During his junior year at Kansas, Mills felt so alienated from both worlds that he was almost freed to take his leave, and not simply from Kansas. Life became so despairing that one day he decided to take matters into his own hands. He stood on a chair in front of an open window and put his knees on the sill as he leaned out and closed his eyes. One hand was on the wood frame and the other on the glass above as he thought, Just let go. It will all be over. "Then I felt my dad's voice underneath my skin simply saying, 'Don't! You've got to find a dream, son. It's the pursuit of a dream that heals you.'" It was then that Mills realized he was too much of a fighter to go meekly into that great nothingness. Not without a fight. Death was too easy
"When I got down off that chair," he says, "I wrote in my book: 'Olympic Gold Medal. Believe, believe, believe.'" He pauses. "All I wanted," he says, "was to heal a broken spirit."
That would take an understanding heart.
THEY MET AT KANSAS IN 1961. IN HIS senior year, Mills had earned enough of Easton's trust that he was asked to make a good impression on potential Jayhawks. "We were recruiting an 880 man from Coffeyville [Kansas]," he says, "so Easton gave me 20 bucks and said, 'Take him out to see the campus.' I called a girl I knew, to make it more festive, but she had gone home for the weekend. I kept calling girls in the dorm, but they had all gone home. Finally the switchboard girl realized it was the same guy making all these calls, and asked me what was going on. I explained I was a runner and trying to take out a recruit from Coffeyville and show him a good time. I said, 'Maybe you'd like to do it?'"
The switchboard girl was named Patsy Harris. "I went to Coffeyville Junior College," she told him. "I'd probably know him. But I don't do blind dates."
"Well, why don't we come over there and have a Coke, and if you're comfortable, you can be my date?"
Thus it happened, although it was hardly love at first sight. "Later, when she went to the movies with her Coffeyville guy I'd invite myself along," Mills remembers.
It was more curiosity at first sight. Her first serious words to him were the ones he'd asked himself, "What are you?"
"I am a Sioux Indian from the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota," Mills told her.
"I knew you were something," she said, "but I didn't know what."
Pat was bright, petite, with a certain self-possession gained by knowing since childhood that she wanted to be an artist. She was fascinated by Mills, and drew him out.
"When I opened up to her," Mills says, "she believed. There was not a doubt in her mind that I could conquer the world. She was the first white person I trusted."
"In the beginning," Pat recalls, "I had no idea all the roles I would be required to play."
She would learn quickly. "Once we went to a track party, and someone threw Billy a set of bongo drums and said, 'Here, Billy you play these, hahaha! I said, 'Give them to me, I play the drums!' The next thing I saw was Billy walking out. This led to the first of many discussions we had as an interracial couple in the early '60s."
They were married on January 27, 1962. He was 24 years old. But marrying Pat was one more strike against Mills in the eyes of his coach. "Easton said, 'Billy, why do something so stupid? Why not someone rich? She's poorer than you are.'"
Of course his other culture saw it differently. "Many Native Americans," Billy says, "just assumed she was wealthy when they met her because she was white."
"Early in our relationship," Pat says, "we were both challenged when some members of Billy's extended family had difficulty accepting me. Problems were just solved one at a time, as they presented themselves. Ultimately, though, I came to feel absolutely blessed to be a part of Billy's family and honored to be accepted with love and respect by the members of the Native American population."
The challenges facing the young couple, though, seemed tame compared with the experience that would threaten to mark him forever. "In 1961, my senior year," Mills says, "we were at the NCAA Cross-Country Championships. I hadn't been sleeping very well, and since my three-mile was late the next day, I asked Easton if I could sleep in the next morning, and miss our 6 a.m. required breakfast. I'd be more rested and run better. Easton said, 'Let your conscience be your guide.' So I slept in. He was waiting for me at 9 a.m. and kicked me off the team."
Mills and Easton (who died in 1997 at age 91) seem to have been enacting a classic failure of communication. Was there perhaps some larger lesson Easton was hoping to teach, about Billy adjusting his conscience to increase the importance of morning meetings? Or maybe it was Easton who realized Mills had actually met his expectation. Because later that morning the coach relented. "He said, 'I feel sorry for you,'" says Mills. "We wasted money bringing you to the nationals, so you may as well race.'"
During the three-mile, Easton kept calling out for Mills to "get up in front or get off the track!"
Aussie Pat Clohessy was running for Houston and turned to Mills during the race and said, "How could you put up with that bloody bloke for four years?"
Moments later Easton called out again, "Billy, get up in front or get off the track!" This time Mills slowed and stepped out of the race. "It was my last collegiate race," he says. In June 1962, he got his degree and was free to shape his future with Pat. She would be therapist, helpmate, wife, and mother.
They were living in the age of austere amateurism. Mills's training for the Olympics had to be done while he somehow supported Pat, who was pregnant with their first daughter. Mills had identified three avenues: Work to own a chain of men's clothing stores, become an FBI agent (Olympic runner and coach Fred Wilt was an FBI agent), or, if he wanted to achieve his gold-medal goal, join the U.S. Marines, which had a track team and coach.
"Pat liked the Marine Corps approach," says Billy. "I could take a three-year commission in late 1962. That would give me just over a year and a half to make the 1964 Olympics, and the year afterward to run for the Marine Corps. Then I'd be out and could start a business."
He enlisted, reporting to Quantico, Virginia, for training. Pat got a nearby room and a job in a bank. In June 1963 he was assigned to a motor-transport unit, which detached him temporarily to train on the Marine Corps track team.
A sign of how poorly he had been coached by Easton was how quickly he blossomed in the Marines under the coaching of Tommy Thompson. "Tommy was very fit, with blunt, white hair, striking," says Mills. "And the first person since my high school coach who didn't say, 'Don't dream too big.'"
When they met, Thompson asked Mills his goals for the 10,000. Mills said, "Olympic medal and breaking 28:50."
"The next day," Mills says, "Tommy came back and said, 'One, 28:50 won't medal in Tokyo. It will take 28:25."
"That's the time I have in my journal," Billy responded.
"And two, why a medal?"
"Don't you believe I can?"
"I do, dammit, but if you just run to medal, you could get fifth. The thing you have to picture is going for the gold. Now, where do you see yourself when you think about that race?"
"Being on Clarke's shoulder."
"Why Clarke?"
"He's the world record holder."
"He might be fifth. The thing you have to visualize is being on the leader's shoulder."
"I visualized that so hard," Mills said later, "it became second nature." This, he feels, was the crucial aspect of his preparation, essentially an act of "self-hypnotism."
Finally, Thompson said, "I want to be your mentor, but you have to let me inside. You have to tell me what you're doing and thinking. You have to open up!"
"He was the first white man I ever trusted," Mills says, grinning. "Boy, did that ever work out."
He made the American team for the 1963 world military championships in Belgium, where he ran the 10,000 meters. He and everyone else were dramatically outkicked by one Mohamed Gammoudi of Tunisia.
"All you need is more speed!" Gammoudi told him afterward through an interpreter.
"So I adjusted my training week to add two speed workouts." Mills would eventually crack 50 seconds for 400 meters.
THE FOLLOWING WINTER THE MARINES transferred potential Olympic team members to train in Camp Pendleton, California, across the country. He and Pat and baby Christy drove out. The trip proved that if anyone bears the classic countenance of the Plains Native American, it was Billy Mills. "One night we tried to stay in four or five motels in New Mexico," Mills recalls. "There always was no vacancy when I went in. But when we went back to the first hotel we had tried, and Pat went in, they had plenty of rooms."
In fact, Pat was indispensable. "She did my massages; she prepared the meals that I planned out," Mills says. "I had just been diagnosed as prediabetic and hypoglycemic." His volatile blood sugar caused periods of sweaty faintness and weakness if he didn't get something sweet into his system fast. (Today he tries to eat about six small meals a day.) "Because Pat was with me, I was able to ramp up and get the best out of myself very quickly at Camp Pendleton."
"Having given up my art career to assist Billy and raise our family," she says, "our life revolved around Billy's training, Marine requirements, and his travel schedule. I would take Christy to the track to have an outing, when other mothers were taking their children to the park."
After a month at Pendleton, Mills had to prove his fitness or be shipped to Okinawa. "I beat Olympic steeplechaser George Young in a mile," says Mills, "that earned me time to really train in the winter." It also earned him a friend for life in Young, a four-time Olympian and steeplechase bronze medalist in 1968.
"Yeah, he tells that mile story a lot," says Young, "and he did beat my ass. But the main thing was he was a really nice, good person, and Pat was the same."
Mills's training was so voluminous it was preparing him for the marathon as well as the 10,000. (Mills would run in the Olympic Marathon in 1964 as well, finishing 14th.) "I could run my long runs farther there than ever before, in part because there were orange trees all over the place, and I'd be peeling them as I ran. That kept my blood sugar from going low."
The oranges proved a panacea. "I was pounding out great runs like never before," he says. "I had a hilly 10-miler I used for what they now call tempo runs. I was breaking 50 minutes. Incredible personal strength was coming all that winter and spring of '64."
He would need it to make the team. Never before and seldom since has the U.S. sent stronger distance runners to an Olympics. (In Tokyo Bob Schul would win gold in the 5000 and Bill Dellinger bronze.) In Mills's race was 18-year-old prodigy Gerry Lindgren, who had run away from Leonid Ivanov and Anatoly Dutov in the 10,000 at the USA-USSR meet in L.A. that summer.
Before the Olympic Trials, Mills had one last demon to exercise: Incredibly, the previous year Coach Easton had once again driven Mills out of a race. "It was at the AAU National Championships in St. Louis," Mills says. "I was in the three-mile, and I him screaming, 'Billy, get up in front!" It was the voice of ignorant authority. It was the voice he'd heard demanding the impossible, and it unearthed all his memories of his Kansas love/hate ordeal. And it made him weak. "After several laps I stepped off the track. I felt broken." Again.
"So about an hour before the 10,000 Trials, I ran into him," Mills says. "We greeted each other. I had conflicting emotions. I said, 'Coach, I can make the Olympic team and do really well in Tokyo, but I need your help. I don't know if you've noticed, but I can't race when I hear your voice. Even when you cheer for me, I cannot run. If I hear your voice during this race, I will break and drop out.'
"Coach gently said, 'I've noticed, Billy' I thought I saw that twinkle in his eye that drew me to Kansas.
"He continued: 'I'll work with you. The Marine Corps has been good for you. You have matured.'
"During the Trials race and especially afterward, I felt the world lifted from my shoulders."
Emancipated, Mills could show his true ability. Lindgren easily won the 10,000 Trials, looking better than ever. But Mills made the team in second, with Ron Larrieu third.
"We took out a loan from the bank to pay for Pat's ticket to Tokyo," says Mills. "I lay awake nights worrying about how to pay it back. I took a long run just to ponder. Do I need her there to win? Yes, of course I do. I could not possibly win without her. So she came. Her mom took care of baby Christy."
The Olympic 10,000 meters was run on the first day of track and field in Tokyo. But Lindgren had sprained his ankle a few days before, and was essentially running crippled. (He would finish ninth.) The big, chesty Clarke led with a devastating pace, designed to burn off the big kickers and make the race a battle of the toughest. Mills felt good early and stayed near the leaders, just as he'd visualized so many times. As the field passed the halfway point at 5000 meters, Mills's time was not far off his personal best for distance, and he felt terrible. "When I wanted to quit, I focused on my Patricia," he says. He had found her in the massive crowd before the race. "I hung on."
He hung on so well that he preserved the energy for that astounding kick. Tokyo was the last Olympics raced on a cinder track. Mills recalls that when Clarke shoved him wide on the last backstretch, he found that the outside lanes were much firmer than the chewed up, pulverized inside lane. "So when I rocketed out wide in the homestretch, I could really fly, really be rewarded for all my speed training."
Inscribed in Mills's training log for October 14, 1964, was the prediction, "Gold Medal, 28:25." His time was 28:24.4, a personal best by 46 seconds.
Easton sent Mills a note immediately after the race. As Mills recalls: "It said, 'I just saw the greatest race of my life. You are the greatest Jayhawker of all. It's been an honor to have coached you. Congratulations. Coach.'
"I cried. He had mellowed. I had matured. We would grow to respect and love one another."
YOU KNOW HOW AFTER you finish a marathon, and you drive back over the course, you cannot believe you ran that far? That's the feeling you get sipping tea and accompanying the Millses back through their past.
"Life was a little easier after he won," Pat recalls, "because we could squeeze a social event in the schedule once in a while. Nineteen sixty-three and '64 had been very rigid. In 1965, his last year in the Marines, things were more flexible. I was able to travel with him on foreign trips and to indoor meets. I got to see Broadway plays and the great art of Europe."
Once discharged from the Marines in 1965, Mills continued to train and compete. Most famously, he beat Lindgren in the six-mile at the AAU Championships in 1965, winning with a lean at the tape. Both men finished with a world record time of 27:11.6. But Mills never competed in another Olympics. In 1968, he failed to win a spot in either the 10,000 or the marathon at the Trials and retired from competition soon afterward.
Eventually, the Mills family—Christy would later be joined by three sisters—moved to San Diego, where Billy started an insurance business. Later they settled in Fair Oaks, a quiet, modest town northeast of Sacramento. The relationship between Billy and Pat, always one of mutual sustenance, had to weather a few postvictory doubts. "After he won, with the constant accolades," Pat says, "I felt at times he didn't need me anymore."
She kept that to herself, and observed her man at work. "I already knew he needed me to win the gold medal," she continues. "Now, my belief in Billy was just as valuable with his balancing businesses and kids and changes in society like the civil rights movement. I realized he needed me even more."
So it was as a true team that they set out to do something immodest: pursue the commission that came to him from his father on the victory stand, to harness the transient appeal of a single gold medal to do service for his people.
Years would pass before he could put a plan in place—he had business obligations, and Pat was busy with PTA meetings and the girls' sports. The time came, finally, in 1988, when the Millses moved to a larger home in Fair Oaks, and put all their space to use. Some of Pat's impressionist pictures hang on the walls. They have an office and revolving secretary, intern, or aide to help Pat with the scheduling of Billy's talks and travels, which he now does as many as 300 days a year. There is a little de facto museum of Olympic and Native American memorabilia.
"One of my greatest honors," Mills says, "was the Lakota Nation declaring that I had 'counted coup' against all the other runners in the world. They declared me a warrior of my nation. But I still owed a giveaway." In the Lakota tradition a giveaway is a bestowing of thanks and gifts to people who helped empower you. "And a few tribal leaders were saying I had a white wife, I was half-white myself, I lived in the white world, so I probably wasn't going to fulfill my giveaway.
"For years, I was tortured by that."
But repaying the people who had helped him—his teachers, family, coaches—wasn't enough, he says. "The scope of what I had done meant I had a far broader obligation. Pat and I thought, We'll write a book." So they did, Run for the Red Willow. Then he laughs, "No publisher bought it."
But they did show the manuscript to movie producer Ira Englander, who shepherded the filming of Running Brave. It premiered in November 1983. Billy and Pat didn't have complete control of the script, but the scenes on the reservation and on the Kansas campus, about how Mills's Lakota friend, played by Graham Greene, couldn't understand Mills's urge to pursue the ways of the whites, effectively dramatize his searing dilemma. Robby Benson played Mills well, but Pat Hingle's portrayal of Easton is far more forgiving than the coach deserved.
After the film's release, Mills sought to capitalize on its acclaim in future giveaways.
And that was where he had more good fortune when he met Gene Krizek, a former foreign service officer who is a visionary in the charity world. In 1975, Krizek was awarded a presidential commendation for his work on the Indo China Migration and Refugee Assistance Act, which aided thousands of refugees following the Vietnam War. Krizek saw the opportunity for a foundation to assist Native American youth. Running Strong for American Indian Youth was founded in 1986 and immediately went to work to improve the lives of Native Americans, with Mills as its tireless spokesman.
The scope of the organization's accomplishments is vast. In 1987, Running Strong drilled the first water well on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. "Today, there's a new well every month or so," Mills says. In 1989, it built the first of 20 log homes for the elderly on the reservation. In 1993, Running Strong helped build the Porcupine Dialysis Clinic on the Pine Ridge Reservation, the first owned and run by American Indians. It built a second the next year, on the Cheyenne River Reservation, and another in 2002.
In 1997, Running Strong began an annual emergency heat-matching program, providing propane, electricity, or firewood to families in need. In 2003, it endowed the Billy Mills Youth Scholarship at the University of Kansas, for American Indian students who major in education.
"All this has been possible because of generous donations we have been receiving for more than 20 years," says Mills. "We have felt so blessed from the beginning that it took off the way it did. To be able to take that single victory and fulfill all those obligations over the years was a blessing. Another was to be able to pass along the value and virtues of Lakota culture and to be able to do it in the white world."
It has been good work, but with clear limits. Poverty is still bitter on the Sioux reservations, as are the troubles of the young. In 2005, Julie Garreau, a field coordinator for the organization, testified before the U.S. Senate Committee on Indian Affairs regarding problems of youth suicide and Cheyenne River's efforts to address them through a new teen center. For his part Mills is always able to summon his own suicidal feelings, and recall how even the toughest souls can find themselves depressed. He has, therefore, the credentials to reach out to teens and get them to at least hesitate. But the losses continue. "We cannot glorify suicide. We cannot say in an obituary, 'Wonderful person, good student, good athlete, tragically took her life...' It's not tragically romantic. It's a waste."
To help combat that, in 1990, he and an old friend, novelist Nicholas Sparks (of Message in a Bottle fame) wrote Lessons of a Lakota, a book that gently addresses depression and the wrenching emotional dissonance on the reservation that can lead to suicide and drug and alcohol abuse. It is the story of a young boy, David, filled with grief from the death of his sister, who makes an allegorical journey with a knowing elder. David is led to adopt the habits of mind that bring happiness. The teacher tells David to practice meditations, or "outlooks," among them to live every day as if it truly is your last, to laugh at yourself and life, to not insist on perfection ("If I ask for effort instead of perfection, I will be happy"), and to see the other's point of view. It's hard not to see the teacher as the physical embodiment of Mills. And you wish Mills could have said these things to Bill Easton when it mattered.
As the decades have passed, the true measure of his steadfastness, as well as his bravery, has come clear in another way. In the 48 years since Mills won gold, no other Native American has matched his Olympic performance. He, of course, has done his best to help the most talented. He was on the original board of directors for Wings of America's Indian Youth development programs. Last February, its junior women's cross-country team of Native Americans placed third in the USATF Cross-Country Championships. Its star, Stanford's Julia Foster, who is Jemez/Navajo/Mohawk, finished eighth and made the world championship team. The Wings junior men placed second.
For 25 years, George Young, Mills's old friend and rival, has coached at Central Arizona College in Casa Grande. He has trained or observed the best Native American runners. "If they did well on the reservation, they came to me," he says. "And by the way, on any reservation, it doesn't hurt to mention Billy." And yet none have approached the level of Mills. Why? "I can't answer that," says Young after an effortful pause, "except to say you have to understand what they're trying to do. If you're a coach, and you take them off the reservation, out of their culture, out of the place where they're loved and supported and family to everyone in their clan, and stick them in a school where they are all alone, you have to know that it might not look that hard for them, but it can be. It can be."
FOR ALL HIS WORK WITH Native American youth, and even amid the rewards of his service, Mills still had a nagging need to reconcile his spiritual beliefs.
"I struggled with that for years, how to deal with the forces pulling me apart," he says, in that soft, dry voice that evokes Chief Dan George. "I got letters thanking me for being in the U.S. Marine Corps, urging me to let go of Native ways and be Christian. I got pressure from the old bloods on the reservation, saying I was married to a white woman, I was half-white myself, and I could easily lose the sacred ways of the Lakota."
Then, at last, Mills discovered the books of Joseph Campbell, the mythologist and philosopher perhaps best known for his urging to "follow your bliss." Campbell's most influential book was The Hero with a Thousand Faces. Heroic myths give us guidance because they carry universal truths about self-discovery. Mills read with excitement Campbell's view that all spirituality is the search for the grounding force from which life and the universe comes, exists, and returns. It is "unknowable" in literal words, so we need metaphoric stories and poetry to approach it. Campbell, who was a fine collegiate half-miler, felt that all religions are culturally developed "masks" over the same fundamental truths.
Mills, a spectacular mystery to himself, felt liberated. His Lakota Sioux traditions were just as powerful, just as compelling, just as healing as any other. And if all religions are groping toward the same thing, he didn't have to reject one. He could practice and believe what felt right, what did the work of transcending the human condition. "It allowed me to take my Native American culture, tradition, and spirituality," he says, "and blend them with Christianity."
And so he became a bridge between cultures, beliefs, and nations. As such, he often gets drawn into the rocky interface between Native American dignity and institutional blindness. One, naturally, is the irritation Native Americans experience when they are used as team mascots at schools and universities. Usually, he says, that is far less than the rage that some school supporters express when they are asked to consider the idea that the Native soul being offended might have the right to complain. "They say because they meant no disrespect," Mills muses, "because they were unaware they were giving offense, it's okay to give offense after their ignorance is at last swept away."
After appearances in North Dakota and Illinois, where he voiced these thoughts, his car was spat upon, and he and other Native Americans were called "prairie niggers." No matter. Mills's persistence has helped lead change. This past fall the North Dakota state legislature mandated that the University of North Dakota end its use of the Fighting Sioux as its mascot.
IN OAHU, MILLS HAS TAUGHT the enraptured soldiers in the Schofield Barracks theater that when the Lakota Sioux were defeated by the U.S. Army in battle, "Our surrender was conditional. In return for our land, we went onto reservations, and ever since there have been three different forms of American law: federal, state, and tribal."
What he says next absolves the conscience of the army that inflicted defeat: "I'm here with the message from our culture that the Lakota must always separate the war from the warrior because wars are political. Even if we are for one war, we may be against another. So we must always honor the warrior!"
There is loud applause. He takes out his handkerchief and mops his shining brow.
"A warrior wants to help others, empower others, wisely impart responsibility to others," he says. "And finally a warrior always seeks to understand, so I dedicate this 90 seconds of video to the warriors here."
The concluding film is not of his own victory but of the 1936 Olympics. Lutz Long of Germany can be seen befriending Jesse Owens in the qualifying round of the long jump. "After Owens had fouled twice," Mills explains, "Long told him to move his mark back a foot. Owens easily qualified and beat Long in the final. It's one of the great examples of the brotherhood of sport."
By the time the crowd has absorbed it, Mills has left the building. He comes out sweating, because he's been fighting off a low blood sugar attack. Pat is quickly there with a little carton of orange juice.
"I just made it," he says. "Wow, I'm tired."
"Drink. Drink." She makes nearby fans wait until he has sipped it down. In that moment, they are the image of mutual support and succor. Then, refreshed, they head back in to charm the officers.


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About Bogon
Retired software engineer. "What is that?", you may ask. It's someone who has time to blog about the weather...
By: Bogon , 6:37 PM GMT on February 13, 2012
The Past
A year ago I posted a series of three loosely affiliated blogs, which shared the same title and which discussed different aspects of the same subject. The first one talked about two trees newly planted in my yard. Both trees are potentially very long-lived, but what is their life expectancy here on this suburban lot? How much time will they be granted? You'll be pleased to hear that those trees survived their first year. They've had a chance to set roots. This (and each subsequent) year's summer heat and drought should pose less difficulty for them. There was a third tree, an Eastern redbud, which did not fare so well. It got struck by lightning. Wife and I had to replace not only the fatally zapped sapling, but also the main circuit board in our television. Ouch!
The second blog presented a personal overview of time. How do we speak about time? How do we experience its passage? The third installment addressed cosmology: time considered on the largest possible scale.
So what brings me back again after all this, uh, time? Well, life goes on. We live and learn. This year I learned of some new developments in physics. I am not a physicist, but I try to understand how the world works. It is the same curiosity about the world that brings me to Weather Underground. I'm not a meteorologist, but I like to learn what I can about the weather.
As long as we're talking about the past, it might help to set the scene by reviewing some history. It has been nearly a century since Albert Einstein announced his theory of relativity. General relativity remains our best tested and most trusted model of the operation of the universe at the large scales observed by astronomers and cosmologists. The theory describes the interactions of space, time and gravity. Einstein's equations treat space-time as a continuum which warps and flexes in response to the presence of mass and energy. The word 'relativity' refers to the way the theory relates moving objects. Each object has its own point of view. According to the theory there is no fixed background or point of reference. If two spaceships pass in the night, the passengers on each one will tell a different tale about what they saw.
At the same time Einstein was developing relativity, other scientists were working on quantum theory. This theory accurately models the universe at the very small scale of subatomic particles. Quantum electrodynamics describes the forces of electricity and magnetism perfectly (insofar as we are able to measure). There are also good working theories for the forces responsible for radioactivity and nuclear power. The word 'quantum' refers to the discrete discontinuous appearance of nature when viewed at the smallest possible scales. It's like when you zoom in on your computer screen you see jaggies and dots, the individual picture elements, that make up the displayed image. According to quantum theory matter is comprised of a small number of elementary particles, each of which has a fixed mass. Energy is exchanged in little packets. Events proceed stepwise. From any point of view those events are likely to look a little blurry, because there are definite limits on how finely you can measure. The act of measurement affects the thing being measured.
Throughout the remainder of the 20th century these two theories were tested and applied. Both work very well within the domain for which they were designed. For any real-world situation, physicists are obliged to choose one theory or the other or compare the predictions of both. Nobody has figured out a way to combine the two. The theory of relativity does not extend to situations involving high energy and small scales, and there is no quantum theory of gravity. The math is too hard. The techniques developed within one theory break down when applied to the other.
The Present
For the last few days my mother has been battling an eye infection. Her doctor prescribed some ointment and an eye patch. Mom complains that, when she goes to pour a beverage, without proper depth perception she's liable to miss the cup and spill her drink on the counter.
Physicists, too, are tired of peering at the universe through one eye or the the other. They think their view would be a lot clearer with full stereoscopic vision. So when I say there is no quantum theory of gravity, I mean there is no complete theory. The last ninety years have not been wasted. People are working on a variety of approaches. Some start with relativity and try to quantize it. Some start with quantum theory and try to develop a background-independent version which includes the graviton.
One approach that gets a lot of press these days is string theory. The basic idea behind string theory is that elementary particles should not be portrayed as dimensionless points. They are granted a finite size, which makes some of the mathematics more tractable. I say 'some' of the math; there is much more to string theory that is very hairy indeed. String theorists propose a group of elementary particles that have not been detected and postulate several extra spatial dimensions beyond the three that we observe. In support of their theories they offer weak circular arguments such as the anthropic principle. Whenever reality threatens to contradict the theory, they spawn a new version. In fact there are a zillion string theories with no obvious way of picking a winner.
From my point of view they are all losers. String theory is a monster that devours talented young mathematicians. It sucks up lifetimes and hefty research budgets and leaves nothing to show for them. It provides a convincing model for how to parley government grants into academic careers, but it has done nothing to shed light on how the physical universe operates. There are no verifiable predictions of string theory.
There are numerous competing theories that seem more promising. There's Roger Penrose with his spin foam and tensors. There's Lee Smolin, who champions a theory called loop quantum gravity. These guys are results-oriented. Unlike string theorists, they manage to refrain from wandering off into fanciful realms of elegant mathematical complication. They'll be content if they can explain known particles in three dimensions.
Loop quantum gravity theory asserts that space-time is quantized, i. e. there is some minimal unit of volume out of which space is constructed. Thus, on a very small scale it would be possible to view space as a kind of fluctuating grid. An elementary particle would have a finite size. It could be no smaller than a block in the grid. The particle would be represented as a set of properties (e. g. quantum numbers) assigned to some region of the grid. Gravity appears as curves and waves in the grid lines.
Here are links to two presentations from Perimeter Institute in Canada. You can watch Renate Loll describe causal dynamical triangulation, and/or view Fay Dowker as she expounds on the theory of causal sets. You may have noticed that the last two theories include the word 'causal' in their titles. That's where time enters the picture: the sequence of cause and effect. In addition to quantizing space, these theories add the notion that all the little grid lines must be aligned timewise. The arrow of time is built in from the start rather than being sought as an emergent property. That turns out to be a significant innovation. Calculations become easier, and believable results follow. If you listen to the videos, you'll hear how several lines of evidence from thermodynamics, information theory, black hole theory, astronomy and cosmology converge to indicate that these people may be on the right track.
The advantage of such theories is that they can reproduce some of the observed properties of three-dimensional space (plus time) with a minimal set of assumptions. A disadvantage is that each theory only provides an incomplete and unwieldy model. It is not an equation. It is an algorithm for simulating space-time. It runs on a computer much like one of the weather models here at WU.
The Future
None of these theories is ready for prime time. Progress is slow, because the problems are hard. Only in hindsight is it clear what questions to ask in order to get the right answers. Will it be easier to work from the top down by quantizing relativity? Or will the bottom up approach, adding the force of gravity to an existing quantum theory, yield the prize? Will it become possible to translate a computer-driven algorithmic model into a concise set of equations? Will string theory ever be good for something practical?
The goal of all this theorizing is perfect binocular vision. Physicists want a Theory of Everything. It doesn't mean that they'll immediately be able to solve all problems and write down all possible knowledge in a book. It means that we humans will finally have a single unified theory that accounts for all known particles and forces. Far from being an end to science, it will make a great beginning for whatever comes next.
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When it rains ...
Do: Avoid New Mexico drivers who completely freak out when roads get moist.
Don't: Act unsurprised or annoyed, because this doesn't happen in Albuquerque, save for two or three times a year.
When your landlord tells you the black mold in your bathroom is your fault ...
Do: Find a new place to live.
Don't: Try to clean it up yourself.
If you have a cokehead roommate ...
Do: Try to keep them from flying into a coke rage.
Don't: Ask them if they want to go skiing.
If you're in public and have to pee ...
Do: Keep your junk locked up until you've reached an actual bathroom.
Don't: Relieve yourself in front of a child, because you'll be slapped with aggravated indecent exposure and your name and address will go on a pedophile website. Trust us on this.
When you didn't study for your final and also failed to attend most of that bio class this semester ...
Do: Cram anyway. These test thingies aren't so hard. You'll lose sleep, but you can manage a B or C, right?
Don't: Give up and party yourself into oblivion so you don't have to think about your failure until it painfully shoots into your eyes with the blinding sun at around 2 p.m.
When you order something with chile ...
Do: Suck it up and order your entrée smothered.
Don't: Ask your server, "Which is milder, red or green?" and then say, "Could you put that on the side, so I may gingerly dip my food into it?"
When you're not into core curriculum and college kind of blows for you ...
Do: Just start taking classes that sound interesting.
Don't: Drop out. At least not until you try some of those less grinding classes.
When setting an appointment with a New Mexican ...
Do: Expect them to be absurdly late.
Don't: Be a jerk about their inevitable tardiness. Take a chill pill. Also, some New Mexicans still use the phrase "chill pill."
When you're late for class and decide to save time by just driving to UNM ...
Do: Not do this. You will never find parking. You'll be late anyway.
Don't: Try to cheat-park. Those bastards will ticket you for anything, even if you're just running in for one second to turn in a paper.
When you see a cop on a horse Downtown ...
Do: Stay away from the horse's ass because it poops every 12 seconds.
Don't: Forget that you just saw a horse cop and there is guaranteed to be poop
you step.
When your girl done left you and you ain't been to class for several weeks and you hate your job and you'll never be a full-time poet and ...
Do: Realize your averageness. Everyone's work, lays and poetry suck.
Don't: Jump.
When the Balloon Fiesta rolls into town ...
Do: Take a moment to notice the lovely balloons in the sky.
Don't: Walk around all day with your neck craned up like a doofus.
When you've got the flu ...
Do: Go to the Student Health Center. The wait is miniscule for walk-ins, and the rates are cheap, even prescriptions.
Don't: Take a homemade NyQuil mix concocted by your roommate who used a variety of over-the-counter medications to brew it up.
When you go to the zoo ...
Do: Checkout the koalas, polar bears, lions and orangutans.
Don't: Waste your time on those lazy tortoises that are always in hibernation. I swear to God, those things
wake up. Get a job, tortoises!
When watching a movie at the Movies 8 or Movies West "dollar theaters" ...
Do: Realize you're lucky to live in a city where you can see
He's Just Not That Into You
on the cheap.
Don't: Be surprised if a fellow patron starts throwing popcorn at you for what seems like no reason at all.
When you become a vegan ...
Do: Remember to take your vitamins and actually eat vegetables, especially leafy greens.
Don't: Annoy all your friends by scowling at meats and cheeses or talking about your superior diet, lifestyle and personhood.
When someone tells you the Lobo Men's Basketball team is going to be incredible this season ...
Do: Take their assertion with a grain of salt.
Don't: Devote yourself to a team that will rip your heart out when they underachieve.
When you decide after a couple of years of screwing around in college to get all career-minded and make some real money ...
Do: Ask to shadow some people who have careers you might be interested in, just to see if it's for you.
Don't: Quit all your bands and drop your party friends. There's not a lot of "real" money to be made in this world.
When a weird old
writer shows up at one of your college parties ...
Do: Offer her a cold beer.
Don't: Ask about how your band can get into the paper.
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A memorial service for David Wilkinson, the Cyrus Fogg Bracket Professor of Physics Emeritus who died Sept. 5, is scheduled for 3 p.m. Friday, Oct. 25, in the University Chapel.
A reception will follow in Jadwin Hall. Those planning to attend the reception should contact Angela Glenn at 258-0720. A complete obituary is available on the Web .
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The Program in European Cultural Studies is presenting "The Surreal War," a film series of non-conformist, thoroughly surreal and seriously distorted World War II films. Shows take place Wednesdays at 7:30 p.m. in McCormick 106. Films include: "The Travelling Players" (Theo Angelopoulos, 1975 -- April 12) and "It Happened Here" (Kevin Brownlow, 1961 -- April 19). Shows are free and are followed by a discussion. For more information, contact email@example.com .


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I never wanted to start collecting another Star Wars line. I was in for a penny and in for a Ponda Baba in the 3 3/4" as well as the 12" before I knew it. Then 1998 saw me buying the Star Wars "Buddies" during the height of the Beanie Baby craze. Fair enough, they were cute. When that line faded into distant memory in the archives of Star Wars product release dates, I thought I was back to basics for good. But 2002 saw me chasing down the Playskool Junior Line as well as one of my new favorites, Star Wars "Unleashed!"
I resisted getting the first 2 offerings, Jango Fett and Darth Maul, until I saw what they were doing with Anakin Skywalker, who's probably still my favorite to this date. Darth Vader was also done just too well. Eager to add them to my collection, I picked up everything that had been released thus far, and later found Master Windu and Darth Tyranus. Now I just can't get enough of the "Unleashed" and find myself hoping for more and more offerings.
This year we'll see Princess Leia (Jabba's Prisoner), Luke Skywalker (Jedi Knight), Darth Vader (Visage Revealed),Obi-Wan Kenobi (Arena Battle), and if we are lucky, there will soon be pictures of Master Yoda (Hanger Duel), Han Solo, and Boba Fett.
Most of the Unleashed thus far have dealt with Attack of the Clones, given its popularity with Star Wars fans. We're about to poll all of you on which characters you'd like to see Unleashed next, but I appologize in advance for offering only a dozen characters to choose from. I tried to pick most of the main characters that had not been planned yet, and add some icon images from all of the films to make your choice list.
I hope something suits your taste, and go on now and pick which ever you think would be great.
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I love the .45 scale series of lightsaber replicas - the detail, quality, and price are right on. I would, however, love to see this line carried over to some similarly scaled Blaster and other type weapons replicas. Anyone else out there down with this idea?
I'd love to have .45 scale replicas of Han Solo's blaster, a Stormtrooper rifle, a Battle Droid Rifle, Clone Trooper rifle, Gaffi Stick, Chewbacca's bowcaster, Rebel Fleet Trooper's blaster, and even an Episode 3 Wookie blaster among others. I think this line is an excellent idea and a logical extension of the existing line, and it would give those of us who can't afford the full-size replicas or who lack the space a shot at owning high quality, metal weapons replicas - as well as giving us all a shot at replicas of some of the more obscure replicas that might never see production at full-scale. Anyone with me? Does MR accept product suggestions at all?


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Well, here is mine. There is always a welcoming Committee at my front door
Beautiful layout! Your welcoming committee looks much like mine! So sweet to come home to!
What a wonderful welcoming committee! I especially like the way you captured the American flag blowing across the door.
This is really cool. That surely is an awesome welcoming committee!!
I really like the way you used the photo mask! I really like the wreath on the flag too!
Oh, nice! The mask worked out really well & I love your welcome committee!
This is darling. I love the pink and gray color combo. Neat photos and I love the photo mask you used.
Really sweet LO!!
Love the photos. Really great. Pretty layout.
How sweet. I love the photo with the cat standing at the door.
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Description Largest wild canid. Fur usually grizzled gray but ranges from pure white to black to reddish brown. Commonly called the Gray Wolf. Bushy tail often tipped in black. Distinguished from Coyote and domestic dogs by larger body size, large nose pad (>25mm), relatively shorter ears, and tail usually held horizontally (not down) when running.
Dimensions 1.0-1.3m, 35-52cm, 30-80kg; / 0.9-1.2m, 35-52cm, 23-55kg
Endangered Status The Gray Wolf is on the U.S. Endangered Species List. It is classified as endangered in Colorado, Idaho, Michigan, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Washington, Wisconsin, and Wyoming; and is classified as threatened in Minnesota. The Mexican Wolf subspecies is considered extinct in the United States. The Gray Wolf once ranged from Mexico to Canada and Alaska, from sea to sea. In the 20th century it was systematically eradicated from the lower 48 states with the approval and participation of the U.S. government. Westward expansion across the U.S. in the 1800s led to the near elimination of many of the large mammals that wolves traditionally preyed upon, including bison, deer, elk, and moose. With their hunting stocks depleted, wolves turned to domestic livestock for sustenance, and that was their fatal error. Bounty hunters tracked down and killed wolves until the 1960s. Wolves were poisoned, shot, tracked down with dogs, trapped, and dug out of their dens. Poisoned carcasses were left out for them, often to the detriment of other wild animals, including Bald Eagles, foxes, and bears. By the time Gray Wolves came under the protection of the Endangered Species Act in 1973, there were only a few hundred left in northern Minnesota. Recovery programs have been underway ever since. These have involved educating the public about wolves, restoring habitat and prey species, introducing wolves into various areas (including most recently the Mexican Wolf subspecies in the southern mountains of Arizona and New Mexico), and in some places compensating ranchers for livestock killed by wolves. Federal, state, and private organizations continue the quest to make the contiguous U.S. wolf-friendly.
Habitat Alpine & subalpine habitats, Forests & woodlands
Range Plains, Great Lakes, Rocky Mountains, Northwest, Eastern Canada, Western Canada, Alaska
Discussion Packs usually consist of 5-10 family members. Their pack hunting is adapted to kill large prey, including moose, bison, and deer. Wolves can also survive on medium-sized mammals such as Beaver and muskrat, and will also hunt mice. When hunting large prey, pack members take turns pursuing the target, chasing it until its too tired to defend itself. Howling can be heard for great distances. Common where not persecuted; lives in all habitats within its range except deserts and high mountain tops. Canids between the Wolf and Coyote in size (typically 14-39kg) remain a taxonomic problem. Some taxonomists argue that all intermediates are recent hybrids between Wolves and Coyotes and therefore do not merit species status. Others argue they are not hybrids, or that they are ancient hybrids, and that they deserve full status as one or two distinct mid-size Canis species: the Eastern Wolf (C. lycaon) from the north and/or the Red Wolf (C. rufus) from the southeast. Red Wolves now only occur in and around active re_introduction programs in coastal North Carolina.


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Ahh the Art of War... by whom: Sun Tzu? Clausewitz? Napoleon? Frederick the Great? And yes I have each of the above authors version of the 'art of war.'Originally Posted by Bel-Cam Jos
I finished "The Grapple" by Harry Turtledove his latest in a long string of alt history books where the South won the CW, the South also won a war in the 1880's against the US. The US won WWI and in the current series WW II is being fought.
I'm working on "Beyond Band of Brothers: The War Memoirs of Major Dick Winters" which shouldn't be confused with "Biggest Brother" another bio on the life of Maj. Winters.
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Description Smooth skinned, greenish-grey, reddish, olive or brown. Dark stripes on back through eye & along sides. Toe tips small & round. Females have yellow vocal sac when calling.
Dimensions 1.9-3.8cm. (3/4-1 1/2")
Voice Rasping trill. Lasts 1-2 seconds. Similar to fingernails running over a comb. Occurs 18-20 times a minute.
Breeding Late-winter to summer. Through winter in warm areas. 500-1500 eggs laid in clusters in shallow water. 20-300 in a cluster.
Habitat Grassy areas near water. Also swamps, suburbs and woodland. Areas of less permanent water (to protect against predators)
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Discussion Nocturnal. Calls on warm nights. Very difficult to spot. Males and females in choruses. Diet includes small invertebrates and anthropoids.


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Is Quanterus Smith now UDFA material after tearing his ACL? I'd take a flyer on him.
Is Quanterus Smith now UDFA material after tearing his ACL? I'd take a flyer on him.
I would be surprised if that made him a UDFA, unless the medical on it looks really ugly. And yes I'd absolutely take a flier on him.
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Ezekiel Ansah - I know he is not top 5 DE but if we could get him in the second round tha twould allow us to get a WR or CB in the first which I think we really need. This guy is a beast I have never seen a guy at 275lbs close so fast but then be strong enough to hold up at the point of attack.
Ansah is an intriguing prospect. His measurables are going to raise his draft stock. I see him as a poor man's Chandler Jones whom the patriots took with their 1st round pick last year. Right now he;s fringe early 2nd pick untill latest 40th IMO. So Miami does have a shot at him right now pre-combine. However the combine will showcase his pure athleticism especially short shuttle and 3-cones. Also Mayock is enthused almost gushing over his potential.
BYU had Ansah roaming across the line from hands up in 5 technique to zero across the center. He has a "relentless motor" playing to the whistle. I have only 2 criticisms of his: firstly he relies primarily on bullrush and being stonewall too often. With coaching and tutelage from Wake, his pass rush repertoire will expand. Additionally as Ansah gains access to these techniques, his second criticism will alleviated since he can counter OL and reengage.
IMO his NFL position: Elephant rusher - weakside 6 or 7 technique
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Ansah is a little more disruptive playing from a 2-point stance than he is with his hand on the ground right now. He's too raw and inexperienced at football and hasn't had the chance to really learn the fundamentals and technique to be a consistent force from a 3-point stance.
His core strength and natural functional football strength are rare for such an inexperienced player.
I like the elephant rusher concept. I think that fits him perfectly. This kid reminds me of Willie McGinnest. I think he has that type of potential after he's received a little seasoning.
I'd rather go the werner route in round one, and address WR with our early 2nd round pick... maybe even back to back 2nd round picks on a corner.
i'm not even against something like werner, WR, WR, than a flyer on carradine in the third... although I have an eye on jonathon cooper in there somewhere depending on how our OL shakes out...
big dogs... any chance carradine makes it to the fourth or fifth round???


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Isn't nVidia's Cg very close to metal as well? Also, you seem to be implying that making an GPL driver for Mantle should be easy since it will just send the compiled code directly to the card. Could Linux finally be able to get "release day" open source drivers for AMD cards?