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OLYMPIA Keeley Bosman, a student at The River Academy in Wenatchee, served as a legislative page for the state House of Representatives during the sixth week of session.
She was sponsored by 12th Legislative District Rep. Cary Condotta of East Weantchee. The district also covers a portion of Okanogan County.
"It was great to have Keeley help us out during session," Condotta said. "I hope she enjoyed her time here and will be able to return to her school and tell other students about what she learned in Olympia."
During her service, Keeley experienced the Legislature first-hand and delivered messages and documents to legislators during committee meetings, to their offices and in the House chamber. She also attended page school, where a certified instructor teaches students about the legislative process.
As a page, Keeley also took part in mock committee and floor debates. She sponsored a bill that would require teachers to be certified in first aid.
Each year students from around the state apply to become a page. While the available positions for the current sessions are now full, interested students should apply in the fall to be considered for the 2015 legislative session.
Applicants must have a legislative sponsor and be between the ages of 14 and 16. Additionally, pages are required to obtain written permission from their parents and school. Pages are paid $35 a day during their service.
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Vitamins, Medications and Diets
I know most of you probably take Vitamins. With a fail safe diet you don't need to be taking supplements unless your levels are low. I know this because I studied Health and Diets in college. I also learned it because I became diabetic while I was pregnant. Too many vitamins can give you an overdose of said vitamins. You get most of your vitamins from foods you eat. If you have a blood test done and it shows your lacking any vitamins then you should be taking them under doctors care. Signs and symptoms of vitamin deficency has risen in the world, people over medicating themselves with vitamins are coming up with more problems then the average heart patient.
Losing weight is good for all of us in moderation. I've noticed since I lost 13 pounds by incorrectly taking my cholestrol medication. So I think we should make sure we're taking them correctly. I learned my lesson and I'm moving forward from my mistakes. I hope everyone tries their best to stay healthy and keep vitamims, medications, and diets under control. Although we are so much different.
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According to 12 Minute Athlete, it's common to experience an increase in the size of your thighs at a certain point in a new workout routine. Actually, this phenomenon is not exclusive to your thighs, but it's just more noticeable within that area. In most instances this issue will self correct as you progress through the routine; if not, there are some steps you can take.
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From an aesthetic point of view, exercises can be designed to help you lose weight or build muscle, and in many cases the workout will accomplish both. According to Dr. Mustafa Gil, M.D., an assistant professor of Physiology at Ataturk University in Erzurum, Turkey, when you engage in high-intensity workouts, you recruit low-endurance muscle fibers known as fast twitch, or glycolytic, fibers. These fibers are consequently broken down and as they rebuild they get larger.
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Muscle hypertrophy -- the enlargement of muscle fibers -- is not the only culprit here. When you first begin your workout you will experience significant results in the area of weight loss. As you progress, your body will adjust to the intensity of the exercise and you will experience a plateau in which you will see a noticeable decline in the rate at which you are losing weight. This decline in fat loss, coupled with muscle hypertrophy, equals bigger thighs.
Lower Your Workout Intensity to Slow Hypertrophy
Although hypertrophied thighs can be a little scary, especially for women, it's not necessarily a bad thing. According to Share Care, increasing lean muscle mass assists your body in burning calories more efficiently; however, if you want to retard the growth of your thighs, lower the intensity of your workouts. You can do this by reducing the weight resistance, and eliminating explosive movements and rapid recovery times between sets.
Adjust Diet and Cardio
To ensure you are able to maintain a safe and steady weight-loss rate, modify your diet by lowering it by 300 to 375 calories per day. Insert some random variations into your workout so your body cannot adjust to it. You can adjust the weight, reps, recovery time and more. You want to keep your body guessing so it can't adapt. This will allow you to maintain a steady rate of weight loss. When adjusting your workout or changing your nutritional diet, be sure to consult your physician to ensure you are not placing yourself at risk.


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Saturday, April 16, 2016
SDC240-Crack Me Up
Kathi is our hostess this week and she wants us to Crack Her Up! Here's what she had to say about her challenge:
"Create a humorous project that also has a crackle texture"
I used a LOT of Distress Crackle in my background. So much that my cracks have cracks and it took two days to dry!!
Twinkie has found a new friend in Vic and they are out for a stroll. Roc's Bird Border has been cut apart and the birds are soaring overhead. And Roc's Dot Leaf Border is the "grass" under Twinkie and Vic's feet...err...paws...err...BOTH!!
Life. It's all perspective!
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- Kathi said...
Wow! This is sensational! I love how you used all the different stamps to create such a fantastic scene!
Thanks for playing along with my challenge this week at Stampotique Designers Challenges.
- April 16, 2016 at 12:25 PM
- Sue said...
Love this Sue, Twinkie and Vic go so well together. Thanks so much for joining in with us again at Stampotique, and have a fun weekend. Sue xx
- April 17, 2016 at 5:17 AM
- Jackie said...
The birds you have cut apart from the boarder work great as flying above ! I'm sure vic is happy with his owner!!!! Thanks for joining us at the SDC blog this week
- April 17, 2016 at 3:59 PM
- Corrie Herriman said...
Love this ! Thank you so much for joining us again over at Stampotique !
Corrie x
- April 18, 2016 at 4:44 AM
- Ginger said...
I just saw this on the FB page.
I do love the flying ducks.
Carol x
- April 18, 2016 at 8:59 AM
- Valerie H. Wilson said...
Loving all of the colors in your crackle background - brilliant! Thanks so much for joining us for the Stampotique Designer's Challenge.
Val :)
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Controlling Termites With Chemical Termite Treatments
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When it comes to termites, you shouldn't use any kind of natural treatment option. Natural treatments simply don't have a high track record of success. If you want to get rid of your termites, chemical treatments are your only real option.
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On the topic of many sites and columns is the Radeon HD7970 – AMD's current flagship graphics card with 3GB of RAM in the reference designs. An insanely incredible card, it is currently retailing for R6500 to R7000 at most online retailers but it's a very far stretch for most enthusiasts who love the punch, but lack the money to go for the full monty. Enter the HD7950.
Also starting off with 3GB of RAM, the newcomer is a bit scaled down compared to its big brother. Remember those Compute Units we looked at when I discussed GCN? The HD7950 has some disabled, giving it 28 CUs compared to the HD7970 which sports 32. Standard clocks sit at 800Mhz for the core and 1250Mhz for memory. In this configuration, the HD7950 sports more memory bandwidth than the GTX580 and the HD6970 – at 240Gb/s, there's going to be very little bandwidth throttling, even for the most taxing games and resolutions. Performance-wise, we can expect the card to sit a little below the HD7970, but above the HD6970 and GTX570 in most applications. We can't fully expect it to beat the GTX580 in everything because a lot of games out there take advantage of NVIDIA's architecture more often than AMD's.
Performance differences, at the most, will be around 10-15FPS. NVIDIA cards handle games that include DX9 code better, though in DX11 it's pretty much an even match with the GTX580. Of note is that Crossfired HD7950s should hang with SLI'd GTX580s easily, matching or beating them for performance while being cheaper and much more efficient, quieter and cooler. The configuration is certainly far more economical than two HD6990s – adding the complexity of two extra physical cores to the mix is a huge power drain and heat producer, and with no end in sight to Crossfire/SLI stutter in some games enthusiasts and gamers would be better off choosing the cheaper cards.
It also helps to note that for previous multi-GPU solutions ALL the cards would clock down when the system was idle or not doing anything taxing. With AMD's improvements to power management, only the unused GPUs idle down to their lowest speed while the one or two cards in use handle the low-end grunt work. In Tom's Hardware's review of the card, their test findings showed a high-end system with an HD7950 to consume an average of 90watts less power than a GTX580 – that is a staggering feat, even by AMD's standards.
Even more impressive is the overclocking gains to be had. Tom's also overclocked their board to 1025Mhz – that's 225Mhz over the stock clocks – and easily matches or beats a HD7970 in most games and resolutions. That's a bargain of note, and I hope that in future I'll be able to upgrade to one in my system. On average, this should give you an extra 10-20 frames per second in most games.
Mind you, it bears reminding that this card isn't designed for HD screens – its real territory is 30-inch resolutions and Eyefinity (especially Eyefinity). AMD's changes to Eyefinity bring noteable improvements: multi-stream audio to different sources, resolution corrections for monitors of different sizes and more that I'll be covering next week Monday. HD would be wasted here, and you'd be much better off with the inevitable HD7850 or HD7870 when they launch. And for the first time in a very long time, AMD has complete rule over the market; its simply impossible for Nvidia to touch it now without drastically reducing prices.
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Diese Woche wurde mein Postbote etwas geschont, denn es sind nur 3 Bücher bei mir eingetroffen:
"Angelfire" von Courtney Allison Moulton
Every night Ellie is haunted by terrifying dreams of monstrous creatures that are hunting her, killing her.
When Ellie meets Will, she feels on the verge of remembering something just beyond her grasp. His attention is intense and romantic, and Ellie feels like her soul has known him for centuries. ON her seventeenth birthday, on a dark street at midnight, Will awakens Ellie's power, and she knows that she can fight the creatures that stalk her in the grim darkness. Only Will holds the key to Ellie's memories, whole lifetimes of them, and when she looks at him, she can no longer pretend anything was just a dream.
Ellie has power that no one can match, and her role is to hunt and kill the reapers that prey on human souls. But in order to survive the dagerous and ancient battle of the angels and the Fallen, she must also hunt for the secrets of her past lives and truths that may be too frightening to remember.
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"XVI" von Julia Karr
Every girl gets one. An XVI tattoo on the wrist - sixteen. They say they're there for protection. Some girls can't wait to be sixteen, to be legal, Nina is not one of them, Even though she has no choice in the matter, she knows that so long as her life continues as normal, everything will be okay. Then, with one brutal strike, Nina's normal is shattered, and she discovers that nothing that she believed about her life is true. But there's one boy who can help - and he just may hold the key to her past. But with the line between attraction and danger as thin as a whisper, one thing is for sure .. for Nina, turning sixteen promises to be anything but sweet.
Das folgende Buch ist über Umwege bei mir eingetroffen. Beim Einfügen der Adresse ist nämlich etwas falsch gelaufen, so dass nur noch komische Symbole sichtbar waren. Daher ist das Paket bei meinem Onkel anstatt bei mir geladet. Ich bin ja wirklich froh, dass ich in einem kleinen Dorf wohne und nicht Meyer, Müller oder Huber heiße, sonst wäre das wahrscheinlich nichts geworden. Jedenfalls freue ich mich jetzt umso mehr, dass folgendes Buch zu mir gefunden hat:
"Falling Under" von Gwen Hayes
Theia Alderson has always led a sheltered life in the small California town of Serendipity Falls. But when a devastatingly handsome boy appears in the halls of her school, Theia knows she's seen Haden before- not around town, but in her dreams.
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Short North Residents' Complaints Prompt New Route For Ohio State Fair Helicopter
The Short North has returned to relative quiet, following what some neighbors described as a constant barrage of helicopter noise.
The noise is coming from helicopter tours that are part of a paid attraction at the Ohio State Fair.
"Almost every 10 minutes, for 13 hours a day, and the fair goes about 10 days -- helicopters coming through the area," said Short North Civic Association Administrator Chet Ridenour. "They're flying low; they've been going directly over residential areas."
The helicopter rides take passengers on a tour above Columbus, which until now, included a view of the downtown city skyline.
That required pilots to fly directly above the Short North's residential neighborhoods.
"Last weekend, we had neighbors complain. They had dinner parties, it was beautiful weather, they're out on their patio, and they're hearing this buzz come through every five or 10 minutes," Ridenour said.
The fair helicopters fly lower than most choppers in the sky
And the lower the altitude, the louder the noise they make for those around.
Higher Ground Helicopters Pilot Jim Kennedy, who conducts the tours, said they try to minimize their impact on the community, but public safety will always be their first priority.
"There's a lot of helicopter traffic around here, especially EMS helicopters, police helicopters -- we want to stay below them," Kennedy said. "Plus, we have a lot of traffic from Port Columbus."
The Short North Civic Association asked the company to instead consider flying over main highways, adding alternate routes and ceasing late night tours.
In response to the complaints, the pilot now eliminates the downtown leg of the tour -- travelling no further south than the fairgrounds and no further west than the Horseshoe.
"So we tried to adjust our route around them. Tried to stay over the highways, try to minimize our impact to the community," said Kennedy. "We want to work with everybody. We don't want to be a nuisance to people," he said.
Because the helicopters operate under 2,500 feet, they do not fall under the jurisdiction of the Port Columbus Regional Authority. But inspectors with the Federal Aviation Administration just visited their site at the Ohio State Fairgrounds, and approved their new, alternate route.
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Youtube VideoThe wise spokesrodent for sorted.org.nz has been helping to enhance Kiwis' money smarts for almost ten years now and the website is renowned as one of the best financial literacy programmes in the world. New Zealand's love affair with debt appears to be declining slightly, but there's still plenty of work to be done and plenty of gaps in the educational process. And, with the help of GSL Network, DoubleFish and Yukfoo, the newly refreshed and renamed Commission for Financial Literacy and Retirement Income has launched the first phase of a new campaign that hopes to get the punters planning.
According to research conducted in 2009, 34 percent of all New Zealanders had used the website and 25 percent had used in the previous year. But while CFLRI's marketing comms manager Anna Griffiths says it had long aimed to drive traffic to the site, it is now looking to up the engagement.
A lot of those visitors had financial goals, she says, but very few of them were making—and therefore sticking to—firm financial plans. So this campaign and the associated new website, which was made by Chrometoaster, is aiming to change the behaviour of a new audience by moving more into the realm of social marketing.
While she says finance can be a very complex realm, it's tried to simplify its messages, with a new, catchier Slip Slop Slap-esque slogan Think, Shrink and Grow.
"If people are thinking about those three things, they're probably on the right track," she says.
Interestingly, Ken Double, the Double in DoubleFish, was there at Saatchi & Saatchi when the mouse ("Use your mouse, get Sorted") was devised and he's been involved with many of the different campaigns over the years. At the time, it was a fairly revolutionary approach, because rather than blasting them with a message, it directed viewers to a website.
Of course, this is much more common these days, and the potency of the online realm to change behaviour is perhaps best illustrated by the success of The Journal. But bear in mind this campaign kicked off at a time when dial-up ruled and email at work was probably considered a luxury.
Griffiths says the mouse has changed quite a bit in the past ten years and new animation technology means it's certainly a much more advanced rodent these days and has many more realistic expressions (it's also slimmed down considerably). She admits the mouse had been put on the back burner a bit in the past few years, so, because he is such a well-liked and well-known character, an explicit decision was made to try and breathe a bit of life into him and she says Auckland animation house Yukfoo has done a great job of that.
Following on from last year's dumb debt campaign, which, slightly unusually for the digitally-focused organisation, featured on Adshels and bus backs, she says the mouse features more prominently in the Shrink component of the campaign, which is set to go to air in July (the Grow ad will go to air early next year).


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Friday, November 6, 2009
Another Happy Day in Fabricland
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Wow, what a score. I wish we had "Marshalls" in Canada! And your quilt will be fantastic - it is a great way to show off your fabrics.ReplyDelete
AHA! the mailman cometh! what an adorable quilt. i love the gradient idea. i think one of my favorite quilts is a tablecloth on "Oh franssen" with heather ross gradients. i have been trying so hard to obtain as many of those fabrics as i can. it is hard so i appreciate your efforts. have fun and good luck on your giveaway. i did not enter because i don't have a "little" girl (yet) and i think someone should receive that package with a little girl to make a quilt for.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousNovember 7, 2009 at 12:44 PM
This is going to be so cute!!!! lucky lucy:)ReplyDelete
Oh wow!! Lucky girl! Awesome stuff! Can't wait to see the finished quilt!ReplyDelete
That was one MAJOR score...how awesome!! Gotta love Marshalls. The 9 patch is looking great, and I love the idea of a rainbow affect. Can't wait to see it finished!!ReplyDelete
I scored with my local Marshalls on Friday too. No camper vans or snowmen, but I did find bicycles, owls, lipstick, coffee and coke travelers. Do you find that the salesperson at the counter looks at you funny when you go up to the counter with so many pj's in varying sizes? Or could it be that I am just paranoid with my arm full of munki prints. :-)ReplyDelete
Really enjoy your blog by the way. I am a new quilter and new mom as well.
i think someone should receive that package with a little girl to make a quilt for.ReplyDelete
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- AnonymousJanuary 6, 2010 at 7:57 PM
I had no idea you could find Munki at Marshall's. Where have I been?!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousSeptember 28, 2012 at 12:12 PM
Hi! I didn't see a different way to contact you...I was wondering if you have any leftovers of your fairy tale fabrics you'd be willing to part with? I'm trying to make a fairy tale quilt for my baby girl but it's hard to find the fabrics I want since most of them are out of print. :( If you have any - even little bits! - you'd be willing to sell would you please email me at suzannesaphone AT yahoo DOT com? Thank you!ReplyDelete


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I am an artist, illustrator, and graphic designer, currently studying Digital Animation Production in LSAD, Clonmel.
Tuesday, 28 April 2015
Animation | Side Step
I have less than a week of classes left in this semester! It's been a tough one, no doubt about it. I've still enjoyed (almost) everything we've learnt, but it feels great to start wrapping everything up. Plus, I've got a whole lot of stuff planned to keep me busy in the summer, and I can't wait to get into all that; it kinda feels like a Friday, heading into a two/three month weekend. :)
Anyway, this is the latest animation I've been working on, and I've been really looking forward to sharing it! We were asked to use our own character (She's somewhat simplified, but does she look familiar?), plan it out, and eventually add colour and a background. Click through to see what I produced, from humble beginnings to the last stand.
Ps: If you stick around, you'll see this again soon! I've got a progression reel in the pipeline!
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Thursday, 16 April 2015
WIP 4 | Kinetic Text | God's Away on Business
The deadline for this kinetic text project is fast-approaching, and so are the deadlines for everything else! But it's pretty satisfying to see a big project like this one creep ever-closer to the finish line, so I'm pretty happy with it. There are still a few little bits and pieces about this section that I want to tidy up, but done is better than perfect, so right now, I'm planning to get everything finished to a standard I'm happy enough with, and then I'll go back over to tweak it to the best that it can be.
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Tuesday, 14 April 2015
This is more than a little bit outside my comfort zone: It's really very rare that I post photographs of myself anywhere online. I've been half-wanting and half-afraid to post this for a while now though, and the indecision is starting to seriously frustrate me. Ultimately, because I like to think of this space as a personal account of all the work I do, and because I want to try this project and more self-portrait-ish projects when I have more time, I've decided to go ahead and post it. So, tentatively... here's a (rotoscoped) portrait of myself. Click through to see the original photograph. Consider yourself warned.
Tuesday, 7 April 2015
Ballpoint Pen Illustration | Origami
Remember: These illustrations and more is for sale on Society6. Check it out!
The other night, I took a playlist of delightfully questionable taste, a ballpoint pen, a Moleskine sketchbook, and two hours to illustrate this. It felt like I was coming home, and it felt SO good. Ballpoint pen is still my jam. I've missed it oh so much. I missed drawing just for myself, just to get a tiny snippet of my own thoughts out on paper. Click through to read more, and see the rest of this mini collection!
1916 Easter Rising
I'm a little bit late, but I hope everyone had a wonderful Easter! In Ireland, Easter is significant both religiously and politically. I'm not going to go into detail (knock yourself out on the 1916 Easter Rising page on Wikipedia if you feel that way inclined), but I thought it would be an appropriate time to share this still video project.
You might remember last October I shared the colorization project above. Well, at the beginning of this semester we were asked to add movement to those photographs. So I came back to this one, separated out all the different layers within it, and added a bit of camera movement. I'm pretty happy with the end result!
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Learn how to properly treat mild frostbite and frostnip. Follow these simple steps to ensure the situation does not transgress to a more severe situation.
How to Treat Frostbite
1) First and foremost, check for signs of hypothermia and understand the basics of how to treat hypothermia. If left untreated, hypothermia is fatal. Some symptoms of hypothermia include shivering, slurred speech, clumsiness and sleepiness.
2) Take immediate steps to protect skin from any further exposure. If still exposed to the elements, warm extremities by placing them in armpits or a hiking partner's armpits. Or if their face affected, cover with gloved hands. If possible, seek shelter out of the elements.
3) Warm water between 99 degrees F and 108 degrees F can be used to rewarm the affected area. Note, do not overheat the water. If a thermometer is not available, dip a non-affected area into the water such as an elbow or back your wrist - it should feel warm not hot.
4) Take pain medicine such as ibuprofen to reduce pain and swelling.
5) Make sure you and the affected person understands what to expect as skin thaws. During rewarming, the skin may start to tingle or burn, that means the normal blood flow is returning. Seek medical help if numbness or bad pain remains during rewarming or if blisters start to form.
6) If there is a chance the affected area may refreeze, do not warm the area. Allowing a frostbitten area to refreeze will increase the severity of the injury.
7) Never use any type of fire to rewarm an affected area, this can cause burns and increase the severity of the injury.
8) Never rub the affected area because the friction from the action may damage the tissue even further.
9) Avoid walking on frostbitten toes or feet, this will only increase the severity of the injury.
Remember that in addition to understanding the basics of frostbite treatment, it is also important to know the stages of frostbite. For anything more than frostnip or a very mild frostbite you may need to seek medical attention. Also make sure you understand how to take the proper steps to prevent frostbite and know the symptoms of frostbite.
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CLP has its roots in digital control technology which is a demanding one that requires quite some computing power. An electromechanical system will usually include an electrical motor to make things move; control is achieved by controlling the position of the mechanical load, the speed at which it is moving and the electrical currents that are injected in the motor in order to make it move. A control system will therefore also typically include sensors to measure position, speed and electrical currents. The problem that the control system designer will be facing will generally look like this:
The control algorithm will typically include position control, speed control and current control:
• Position control will compare the actual position with the desired position and will provide a reference speed;
• Speed control will compare the actual speed with the reference speed and will provide reference currents;
• Current control will compare the actual currents with the reference currents and will adjust the currents demanded for the motor.
Each control needs to be performed at a minimal frequency in order to achieve stability and precision in terms of control. The most demanding is the current control for which frequencies of up to 20 KHz are not uncommon. Moreover, this control is multidimensional in nature and may require quite some complex processing (transformations, integrators, filters, limiters…). Processing also requires sufficient precision and is inherently floating-point.
Several COTS tools have emerged for model-based designing; Simulink ((© Mathworks) has gradually emerged as a leading industry standard that is widely accepted.


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BIRMINGHAM, MICH. — The agony of playing in the U.S. Open is no better illustrated than by the adventure of long forgotten Ray Ainsley, who took 19 strokes on the 10th hole at Cherry Hills in 1938, flailing away in a hazard without frightening the ball at all.
A little girl in the gallery watched every stroke. ''Mummy,'' she said, ''it must be dead now because the man has stopped hitting it.''


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The word meniscus is derived from the Greek word that means "Crescent" as in a crescent-shaped moon. The menisci in your knee are crescent-shaped fibro-cartilaginous structures that provides stability, shock absorption, nutrition, and joint lubrication while acting to distribute your weight across your knee joint.
The bones of your knees are covered with a layer of very smooth cartilage. This cartilage allows for gliding, reduced friction, and freedom of motion. The menisci of your knees are located between these cartilaginous surfaces and act to provide stability and even weight distribution. Forty to sixty percent of the force in the lower extremity is transmitted through the menisci. Without functional menisci, the joints of the knees would soon degenerate.
Each knee has two menisci - a lateral meniscus and a medial meniscus. Both menisci have a concave shape on the top and are flat on the bottom to create a wedge shape. This wedge keeps your thigh bone [ femur] from slipping off your shinbone [ tibia].
The lateral meniscus has an anterior and posterior horn. The popliteus muscle attaches directly to the posterior horn of the lateral meniscus. Thus, any tension or restrictions in the popliteus muscle directly affects the function of the lateral meniscus.
The medial meniscus also has an anterior and posterior horn. The semimembranosus muscle (a tendon extending from the hamstring) attaches to the posterior horn of the medial meniscus. Any tension or alteration in function of the hamstring muscles affects the function of medial meniscus. Fibers from the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) blends into the anterior horn of the medial meniscus. A medial meniscus injury often occurs when there is an ACL tear. The medial meniscus is injured 5 to 7 times more often than the lateral meniscus since the medial meniscus is less mobile than the lateral meniscus.
Menisci injuries
Meniscus tears often occur when playing sports such as football, basketball, soccer, or rugby. Quite often, the injury occurs during a torsional motion in which the player's knee is flexed while the foot is planted on the ground. Essentially the meniscus is torn due to the compressive forces that occur with rotation when the meniscus are pinched between two bones (tibial and femoral condyles).
Meniscus tears can also occur due to the slow degeneration that occurs with aging when the meniscus becomes less pliable and is easily torn. This usually happens to individuals over 60 years old.
Meniscus injuries, on the outer edges of the meniscus, can be very slow to heal due to poor circulation in the area. Meniscus injuries that occur within the center of the meniscus do not have the ability to heal themself since the center of the meniscus does not have a blood supply - it is avascular - without circulatory input. Without a good blood supply, nutrients required for healing are not supplied to the area and waste by-products are not removed. In a severe meniscus injury, loose pieces of cartilage (articular cartilage) may actually break off within the joint. These pieces can cause considerable damage to the knee joint, and lead to degenerative arthritis.
Surgical solutions for Injuries to the Menisci
Sometimes meniscus surgery is necessary. When surgery is performed, most surgeons will remove only a part of the meniscus. Removal of the entire meniscus will soon result in the development of osteoarthritis since there will be 235% increase in the stress experienced by the bones touching each other at the knee joint (tibiofemoral contact area). Arthroscopic surgery (where they remove a small section of the meniscus) can be performed if the damage is confined to the peripheral rim of the meniscus. Complete removal may be recommended by the surgeon if the damage is to the center of the meniscus (non-vascularized area).
Treating and Preventing Menisci Injuries – see the next installment of this blog for more information about how you can treat and prevent menisci injuries. For more information about knee injuries, visit the following sites:
- · Resolving Meniscus Injuries of the Knee
- · Ligament Injuries of the Knee
- · Illiotibial Band Syndrome (ITBS)
- · Resolving Knee Pain
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Treating Meniscus Injuries Part 2
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AngularJS ng-disabled directory is used to disable the controls. It will disable the element based on the return value of given {expression}. Below example will disable button, fieldset and all controls in fieldset when the check box selected by adding disabled attribute and re-enable elements when the checkbox unselected.
ExampleBelow example will disable the button control whent the checkbox selected.
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AngularJS ng-class-even and ng-class-odd can be used with ng-repeat directive and ng-class-even will be applied to even rows and ng-class-odd will be applied to odd rows in the ng-repeat rows. In the below example bgeven class will be applied to even rows and bgodd class will be applied to odd rows of the table.
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AngularJS ng-if directive removes or recreate a part of the DOM based on the evaluated value of given {expression}. If the expression evaluated value returns false then it will remove the element from DOM. If the evaluated value is true then it will reinsert the clone of the element.
Difference between ng-if vs ng-show and ng-hide1. The ng-if directive will destroy (completely removes) the element or recreate the element. Where as ng-show or ng-hide directive will set the visibility of the element to show or hide.2. The ng-if directive will recreate the element with the clone of compiled time element when the expression value evaluated as true. That means if you created an element using ng-if and then applying some styles using javascript then if you destroy it (ng-if expression value false)and recreate the element again then all the styles applied using javascript will be gone. Where as if you use the ng-show or ng-hide directive to hide or show the element then the style applied using javascript will still remain after show or hide. Below example will give you a clear idea about it.
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The largest fall graduating class in the history of Metropolitan State College of Denver celebrated commencement Sunday afternoon under the specter of a down economy.
The 1,144 expected graduates honored at the Colorado Convention Center fell a few hundred short of the school's all-time record for a graduating class, set in May when 1,615 students walked the stage.
"Each of you persisted. You're all here today," featured speaker Lt. Gov.-elect Joe Garcia told the graduates.
Garcia said that although the jobless rate for college graduates is about half the total rate, the struggles of recent graduates to get the jobs that they are qualified for means that more work must be done.
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Good thing I remembered to put the iron down. That's his only white oxford shirt. I gripped the side of the ironing board in something close to ecstasy. Gross, I know. But listen, you take your shots where you can get them. I'm just sorry Nate's shirt had to bear witness to the moaning and thrashing about.
Now I'm going to finish this fucker. I've got the bracelet and I'm wearing it. By wearing it, I am accountable to Amy, Teri (who came up with the bracelet idea), Sherry, Lyra, Averil, Deb, MacDougal Street Baby, Erika, Bobbi, Laura, Cat, Suzy, and the rest of the creative people who make up this ad hoc writers' group that found each other making smart remarks here.
And it's because of you guys, the reader of this blog, who've urged me on and provided all kinds of creative support.
And a special thanks to the beta readers. I handed you a fairly unfinished mess and you gave me the kind of feedback that has not only made the story more time and location authentic, but it also gave me some ideas for plot lines. And? You were all so incredibly kind about it. Not a one of you sent me back a pile of ashes or hate mail. I love you for that.
Now on to the reason I've called this meeting. It seems I've gained a new blogging niche. How I'm to parlay this into mega advertising dollars or finesse it onto my moldering resume is anyone's guess, but it's something to be able to say that my blog is huge in Canada, Europe and Asia among those seeking FAIL photos. Or fotos as one googler put it.
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I'm not sure I like how that sounds. Let try again. They're landing on this post, but really they're looking for the photos on it. And they're particularly interested in the hairy guy.
I wonder if he knows how sought after he is. Then again, maybe this gets filed under blissful ignorance.
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Having made a couple of replicas of Malcolm Reynolds gun from Firefox recently I thought I'd make another one, only this time with a steampunk feel to it. So I used the basic shape of the Firefly pistol but added two small gas cylinders on each side complete with pipework. As much as I love the octagonal barrel of Mal's gun it's quite time consuming to make and I wanted this one to have a different look so I used 15mm plastic tube with a copper plumbing fitting on the end of the barrel. I also used a plumbers brass nut for the joint between the barrel and the gun body.
The gun was constructed from MDF as usual with hardwood grips. It was finished with acrylic paints all hand painted. I'm very pleased with it


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DACA ending: What you can do as a Dreamer – or ally
The program has transformed the lives of nearly 800,000 young people, enabling them to study, work and fully participate in their communities. Now we must fight to protect them.
Established by President Obama in 2012, the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) has allowed undocumented immigrant youth who meet strict requirements to apply for "deferred action" and obtain a Social Security number and a work permit, subject to renewal every two years.
Almost 800,000 young people across the U.S. have benefited, including more than 8,000 in Massachusetts. But now the Trump administration has said it will end DACA. The small window provided to renew, by Oct. 5, has now closed.
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The Rule of the Road
Sanjay Subrahmanyam
- After Tamerlane: The Rise and Fall of Global Empire by John Darwin
Penguin, 592 pp, £10.99, March 2008, ISBN 978 0 14 101022 9
In the year 1283 of the Hegiran era, or 1866 of the Common Era, the Ottoman traveller Abdur Rahman bin Abdullah al-Baghdádi al-Dimashqi arrived in Brazil on the imperial corvette Bursa to begin a three-year visit. He later published an account of his experiences, entitled Maslihat al-gharib bi-kull-i amr 'ajib ('The delight of the traveller concerning all that is marvellous'). It is an important text for a number of reasons, including the light it sheds on the status of Islam among slaves of West African origin in 19th-century Brazil; but also because it allows us to reflect on what exactly empires are and were.
Al-Baghdádi, an imam and man of high culture who had been educated in Damascus, was the representative of one empire in another empire. But were these two empires members of a single species or is it just an arbitrary convention of our own that places them under the same rubric? How do we compare the Brazilian 'empire' of the long-reigning Dom Pedro II (1831-89) with the Ottoman empire of Sultan Abdülaziz (1861-76)? The two monarchs certainly had something in common. Both were travellers, in the typical later 19th-century mode of diplomatic tourism. The Ottoman sultan was the first of his line to engage in such travels: he paid an official visit to Napoleon III in 1867, and spent time in London, Berlin and Vienna. He had therefore inspected the centres of other empires and would-be empires at close hand, and visited museums full of imperial loot and treasures. In 1876, Pedro II visited the United States for the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia, where an anecdote connects him with Alexander Graham Bell and the early use of the telephone. The emperor, at least in the version retailed by Samuel Eliot Morison, either recited some celebrated lines from Hamlet into the instrument or heard them recited by Bell, and was mightily impressed. Just over a decade later, in 1889, Dom Pedro was deposed by a military coup and replaced by the oligarchic café-com-leite republican regime that endured until the 1930s. The Ottomans' version of imperial rule ended after the First World War in chaos, massacres and the broken dreams of pan-Islamic revival that accompanied the painful formation of the Turkish republic.
Al-Baghdádi was certainly interested in giving his Ottoman readers some sense of Brazil, even if political economy was not his primary interest. He writes of the Amazon, 'the largest river in the world', of Brazil's population of nine million, and of the fact that its ruler had under his command armed forces comprising some 85 steam-powered vessels and 40,000 men. This description occurs in a section entitled 'location of the state of Brazil' (iqlim dawlat Berazilya), in which al-Baghdádi refrains from identifying Brazil as anything like an 'empire'. For him and his readers the term dawlat would have meant simply a 'state', though on one occasion he does bestow on Rio de Janeiro the somewhat grander title of 'the foot of the throne of the state of Brazil', which was usually reserved for important capital cities. Yet nowhere does he even imply that Brazil could be placed on a similar footing, politically speaking, to the Ottoman Empire. This was quite different from the manner in which the Ottomans had once spoken of the Habsburgs or even the Mughals.
This is not an arcane debating point, for one of the questions a reader is bound to ask after reading nearly 600 pages on the 'rise and fall of global empires' is what exactly the author of such a work means by 'empire'. John Darwin does not address this question directly. But we can reflect on it by asking two related questions. First, what is not empire, and is hence left out of this book? Second, what are the other terms that 'empire' comes paired with, in the usual oppositions that historians and other social scientists are so fond of, such as empire v. nation-state?
Darwin sets out three broad themes and four basic assumptions. The themes are: the move from 'global connectedness' to 'globalisation'; the role of Europe and European empires in these long-term transformations; and the 'resilience' of non-European states and other actors in these processes. These themes are linked in turn to Darwin's 'four basic assumptions':
1. That the historical change produced by and through empires after 1400 was conjunctural and reversible, not linear, cumulative and teleological.
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-Ian to Wanderer on his feelings.Ian O'Shea is one of the rebel humans, living in Jeb's caves, together with his older brother' Kyle'.
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When Wanderer showed up in Melanie's body, his prejudice against the souls made him side with the majority that wanted her dead. Being one of the strongest men in the caves, he participated in an attempt to kill her and almost succeeded in strangling her.Seeing how scared she was, he soon felt remorse for his attack. When Jeb allowed her to move freely in the caves, Ian started following her, initially out of curiosity and later as he saw she needed protection. This led to him becoming one of the first characters to see through his hatred for the souls. Ian believes that Wanderer is an innocent girl who does not deserve to be punished simply because she inhabits Melanie's body.
He eventually falls in love with her and becomes extremely devoted to her. Ian does not get along well with Jared, partially due to Wanda's affection for him and partially because of Jared's willingness to harm Wanda for his own personal gain. Ian is the only person who understands how Wanda thinks, and feels responsible for her since she is so self-sacrificing.
Physical DescriptionIan is in his mid-twenties. He is very tall and muscular with pale skin, messy black hair and bright blue eyes. He looks like his older brother Kyle. His voice sounds like Kyle's as well, which Wanda mistook once for Ian's voice. He has a straight, aquiline nose, different from Kyle's which was misshapen from multiple well deserved punches in the face before and during the story.
WandererWhen he first meets her, his attitude is hostile; she is part of the invading force that drove the humans underground. During her first night in the caves, Ian, Kyle and Brandt came to visit her and Jared. Ian attempts to choke Wanda while Jared tries to defend her. Luckily, Jeb comes in time to make peace and makes the three men leave. After the attack, Wanda is left terrified of the humans- especially Ian and Kyle. She's goaded into doing chores around the caves while the others are watching her, leading them to accept her presence as a positive addition, regardless of her species. Wanda explains that she's never had a partner throughout her eight full lives. But when she's inserted in Melanie, she goes on an adventure which leads them into meeting back up with Jared and meeting Ian. Her emotions are conflicted because Mel doesn't love Ian but Jared. Because Wanda is sharing Mel's feelings, she also falls in love with Jared as well as Ian. She describes it as being torn in half. Ian sees right through Wanda- as a soul, deception does not come naturally to her at all. Her diplomatic and sometimes self-sacrificing lies are completely transparent, but her efforts cause Ian to come to her protection. Wanda would rather give lying her best shot than let Kyle, her would-be murderer, face exile or execution. Ian can even see whenever she's talking to Mel or when she's hurt and doesn't show it. He watches her protectively and observantly and can understand her emotions. This is one of the reasons why he doesn't kill her because he believes that she's really good and kind. So, he soon falls in love with her. He'd do anything to keep her alive, and safe in his arms. His feelings are obvious to others that his brother Kyle even said that he's got a "crush on the worm".
After Ian finds out that Wanda was going to give Mel back, and that she's leaving, he gets absolutely furious. He takes her from the southern tunnel to his room. There, he breaks down and cries for a long time. Once he has stopped, he kisses Wanda and she finally admits that she, Wanderer, was in love with Ian, and not Jared as much. Being in Mel's body and sharing her emotions was the reason why she believes that she loves Jared too. Ian puts together a small tribunal for Wanda to stay, between himself, Wanda, Jeb, Jared and Doc. The ruling of the tribunal was that they would finalize the decision the next day. Wanda goes to Doc anyway during that night, to "give Mel her body back", by being extracted from the body and then be left to die (the last of which Doc doesn't want to do). Wanderer is then taken out of Melanie's body.
Jared however coerces Doc into letting Wanderer be put into a cryotank. Jared Melanie and Jamie then find her a new body apparently without a human consciousness to claim it (according to their knowledge). Her new host is described as shorter than Jamie but taller than Isaiah and Freedom (Lucina's kids). Her nails are filed perfectly, pink and white and she has curly blond hair with freckles across her face.Ian didn't care what the new host body looked like, knowing that appearance doesn't matter and knows that the soul wouldn't mind either. He knows that Wanda would be herself. He wouldn't let anybody else touch her cryotank or her. She was told by Ian that she was beautiful in her worm form. Jamie later unsubtly tells Ian that he's moving out of his room, leaving him alone. He asks Wanda if she would like to move in with him... and she said yes. Ian and Wanda end up as a firm couple just as Jared and Melanie are. She feels he is her protector and he admits he would do anything to keep her safe and with him. She later says they hold hands almost all the time.
Kyle O'SheaKyle O'Shea is Ian's older, stubborn brother. He also live in the caves. (They stuck together for the invasion.) The two have always been classic brothers, playing sports with each other like soccer. They work well together when they don't have anything on their minds. Although originally united when trying to kill Wanda, their relationship becomes more divided as time goes on in the caves. When Kyle leaves on a raid and returns to find Ian a friend of Wanda's he is enraged and attempts to kill her. Ian testifies against Kyle during the ensuing tribunal and proposes that Kyle leave the caves. This is possibly the lowest point in their brotherhood. But, when Jeb decides against Ian, Kyle gets to stay. The two somewhat resolve their issues during a game of soccer but tension is still present over Wanderer who Ian continues to care for.
However, things change after Wanderer shows Doc how to take out souls from human bodies. Kyle realizes the potential this could have for his Jodi and sneaks off and to get her body now inhabited by a soul Sunny. Kyle treats Sunny with the utmost kindness and this lead him to finally accept Wanda, ending his feud with Ian. The book ends with both the brothers in relationships with souls and their own relationship completely restored.
Film AdaptationIan is played by Jake Abel in film adaptation of The Host.
Jake originally auditioned for Jared, but was convinced to read for Ian by Andrew Nicholl.
Ian O'Shea's Photos.
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On Being Fearless
Warning: this is a bit of a long one, and contains much of my basic philosophy of life, some of the deepest truths I have uncovered in a lifetime of looking… I'm sure it's not particularly original, but it's important to me, and seems important to express, so here goes!
The last couple of posts here at cliffjump.net have focused on preparedness – the idea that yes, we are talking about diving into the unknown, taking the plunge, overcoming fear and hesitation and doubt, and perhaps even throwing caution to the wind… but there are limits, and doing something that might be dangerous recklessly, or doing something completely beyond our level of training or ability is not heroic, it's just dumb.
However. I think it's time to get back to my main theme: fearlessness. After all, jumping off of cliffs, whether real or metaphorical, is not all about being prepared, it's also about a state of mind, a way of being. So I am going to travel further back in time, nearly 20 years in fact… and try to get inside my head as a much younger man. A more reckless version of myself, to be sure, a bit wilder, a bit cockier (well OK, a lot cockier)… but in some ways perhaps there is something to learn from him, these many years later.
Cut to the chase: when I was 19 years old, I found myself with a bit of money, after a successful season treeplanting in British Columbia, and no major commitments. I had applied to the jazz program at McGill University, feeling pretty sure of myself, and was not accepted (a few years later I reapplied and got in, just to vindicate myself a little)… so being 19 and not much of a mind to invest the money in something sensible, I thought the thing to do was get on a plane to Bangkok. Which I did… with a more or less empty backpack, and no real plan or even idea of where I would go or what I would do there.
My first few days in Bangkok (makes a hard man humble!) were pretty intense. I was really just a kid from a small town in Ontario, with more hair than sense… and I probably looked like an easy target for all the standard scams, and nearly got into nasty trouble right off the bat by being, well, innately trusting of human nature. Luckily I am also innately pretty cautious and after getting into the silly situation my alarm bells would go off and I would usually manage to find an exit pretty quickly. All of this led to my First Axiom Of Travel: A little paranoia goes a long way. It's true: a lot of paranoia is no good to anyone, but just a smidgen of constant distrust of everyone and everything when you're out of your comfort zone will keep you out of most kinds of trouble. Just don't let it take over the reins entirely…
But I digress. In order to slow things down a bit, I thought a bit of beach time was called for, so I headed south for Koh Samui, a pretty established lazy expat hangout even then. Still a bit sordid, but not the worst of the country's fleshpots, by a long shot… mostly just reggae, banana pancakes and straw-covered A-frame huts a few feet from the water. Pretty non-threatening, and yet over a couple of weeks there I progressed from wide-eyed and wet-behind-the-ears through panicked-what-have-I-done to maybe-I-should-get-the-first-flight-home. I was lonely, scared, and halfway around the world from everyone I knew. And 19 years old. Remember?
Then I met Tom. Tom was an older guy, from England, at the end of his big Asian voyage, and staying at the same campsite. Over a couple of days, in a very laid-back way he told me some stories about where he'd been, described some of the more atmospheric ones, particularly India and Nepal… and basically gave me something to look forward to – a destination, something worth seeing. Though he later turned out, when I saw him again back in the headier environment of Bangkok, to be dangerous and unstable and generally best avoided, I am indebted to him for helping me find my feet. So, after some wanderings in northern Thailand, and a birthday spent exploring caves and riding elephants, I bought a ticket to Kathmandu. And that's where this story really picks up…
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My purpose here is not to describe my travels. I may get to some more of that eventually, but not today. I am trying to set the stage for a description of something remarkable that happened in my head, something quite unexpected and, I have come to believe, important. I was not a particularly worldly kid, very inexperienced in most spheres of life. A reasonably privileged childhood, middle-class and in many ways very normal (in others quite extraordinary, but that's another story). And yet there I was in Kathmandu, visiting ancient temples. And there I was, planning a trek to Mount Everest Base Camp (this consisted of buying a couple of maps and renting a down parka and sleeping bag). And there I was getting off of a tiny plane on a preposterous airstrip in Lukla, after a landing that defies description – to call it hair-raising would be laughable understatement. And there I was hiking through the impossibly beautiful Himalayan foothills to Namchebazaar, the Sherpa capital, and beyond, above the treeline, past cairns and prayer-flags and yaks and barefoot children, up into the realm of the astonishing silent giants…
And finally, there I was next to Base Camp at the peak of Kala Pattar (which simply means 'black rock'), the closest craggable small peak to Sagarmatha, the Nepali name for Everest, meaning something like 'forehead in the sky', though I have heard more poetic translations… and it was there that the something happened in my head. Just to frame the moment: this is a jagged pile of rock whose summit is 5845 metres above sea level. You can see the top half of Everest (8848 m) and a sea of other mountains including massive Lhotse, itself 8516 m, and magnificent Ama Dablam. At top of this pile of rock is a kind of rough chair, whether naturally occurring or man-made I am not sure, and if you sit in this chair and lean back you can stare down a nearly-vertical cliff nearly a kilometre high, down onto the Khumbu glacier. If you are prone to vertigo, you do not want to do this. Personally, being someone who has always enjoyed getting close to cliffs and looking over them, I found it a powerful thrill, but almost too much.
After 10 minutes or so of sitting there, soaking in the overwhelming majesty of the 360 degree view, something struck me: it would be OK if I died. Right there, right then, if I fell off that cliff or was struck by lightning or whatever, I would really be basically alright with that. This sounds trivial but the more I thought about it, the more profound this notion seemed to me. It occurred to me that most people live their whole lives without doing extraordinary things, or things they have always dreamed of doing, and yet here I had kind of bumbled my way through circumstance to this unbelievable place, a place whose impact is impossible to describe to someone who has not seen such things… and so I thought that if I died right there and then, I would be pretty much OK with that, and happy with my life if that were its crowning moment.
I did not want to die, understand. In fact I felt astonishingly alive, more than ever before. Charged with energy, passion, intensity. I was also not giving up on anything; there were (and are) many more things I wanted (and want) to accomplish, experience and achieve. But if I don't experience or achieve them, that's honestly alright, I don't mind, I am not going to feel that my life is less valuable or complete. And it's not because I went to a mountaintop when I was 20 years old. That was just the trigger, the catalyst. What's important is being unafraid.
That's right, I am saying that I am not afraid of death, and that I have not been for many years. In fact it was not like flipping a switch and at first it was not a constant thing. I thought it was just a moment, a flash, something particular to that time and place. Or more exactly I felt like maybe if I was lucky there could be a few such moments of clarity in a life, crystalline moments based on extraordinary experiences, like those mountain peaks soaring high above the everyday world… But the more I thought about it, the more I realized that actually I wanted to feel like that all the time – wanted to feel that alive, that unafraid, that electric – and yet also that calm, unattached, entirely at peace with the world. And I began to think that making peace with the idea of dying was at the heart of that. Not putting myself in harm's way, not trying to defy death, but keeping it close, a kind of silent but ever-present companion.
Thus began a kind of spiritual exercise, which I continued for several years, which involved imagining, several times a day, ways in which I could be killed, right there and then… and visualizing them, vividly, in detail, making them as real as possible… and asking myself the question: so, would I be OK with that? If my life up to this moment were all the cards had in store for me, do I feel alright about it? How I lived it? Am I proud of it? Not holding onto the possibility of righting any wrongs, making any apologies or doing anything over… what I've made of myself up to this moment, right now, if that were all, can I be OK with it? And then I would stop and breathe and let go of unresolved tasks, projects, goals, dreams, let go of people, places, everything… not soon, not after I get home and call my family and tell them I love them, but NOW… rehearse it, over and over, until I could say Yes, I'm OK with it. It's been a good life, not perfect perhaps but I'm proud of it, as it is, as it stands. I can accept it. Now let's move on.
I got better and better at this and eventually it would come quickly and easily, that feeling of acceptance, of letting go… and then it became a kind of basic state, which is still with me. I'm not saying I live entirely free of fear (or anger, or frustration, or anxiety, or jealousy) – but I have an easier time not letting it dominate me. Despite not really doing the exercise consciously anymore, I still basically feel like that. Of course I definitely don't want to die today! I have a family, a little boy I want to see grow up, a beautiful partner I want to grow old with, I have projects that I am deeply committed to carrying through, music I still think I have to give… but if none of that happens, it does not make my life one iota less complete or less worthwhile.
Because the nice thing about the life you've lived is this: it can't be taken away from you. It is accomplished, secure. The future – what is the future? No-one knows. Anything could happen – or nothing! But the past is our great and lasting treasure. If you're not proud of yours, I would suggest that you do something about that, as quickly as possible. In an important sense it's all we've got, since everything else could disappear in a heartbeat. But if faced with the idea of death, Right Now, you can basically say yes, it was a good life, you did the best you could with what you were given to work with… then what's to be afraid of?
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