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The remarkable thing about yesterday's match was the Dutch's utter lack of self belief. After that great start by Rafael Van Der Vaart, they faded away and the Portugese started bossing the ball around. Only in the last 10 minutes when the result was moot did they perk up and play with some assurance with Van Der Vaart providing one more spark. But this was a collection of beaten down individuals who did not even play for the pride of winning one last match.
The question is did the Dutch internalize some of the struggles facing the clubs they play for? The afterglow of self belief coming from a successful club season can be extremely potent.
It's no mystery Wesley Sneijder is a shadow of the player he was two years ago. At the 2010 World Cup he scored five goals and set up numerous others. He was the catalyst behind Inter's triple crown, the jewel, the Champions League victory. But Inter unraveled as Jose Mourinho departed for Real Madrid and the club saw a parade of coaches who entered and exited in double quick time. Their ragged performances continued this season as they slid down the table and out of Champions League contention with Andrea Stramaccioni's arrival reviving their fortunes enough for a Europa Cup spot.
Robin Van Persie plays for Arsenal, where re-defining success has become rote. Coming in third is the new first. Or getting to the Champions League is as good as winning it. There are rationalizations for everything and anything under Arsene Wenger in their seven years without a title. The Gunners on the last day against West Brom almost conspired to give away their Champions League spot but for replacement goalie Martin Fulop's lack of self belief and match practice. There is a sense of inevitability in the Ides of March when Arsenal's wheels come off as there is an inevitability to the off season struggles to keep their top players with RVP strongly rumoured to lead the way.
Arjen Robben, the consummate ball hog, came to the Champions League final expecting to be crowned a champion in his own home. Chelsea had been virtually written off as the banners read "not in our house". Bayern went on the offense but Chelsea's defense refused to come unglued till Thomas Mueller's goal. Then came Didier Drogba's heroics and thereafter a penalty shootout which an English club actually won. How's that for inducing a streak of fatalism? FC Hollywood had previously been upended by Borussia Dortmund in the Bundesliga and the German Cup. The biggest club in the Bundesliga is not top dog anymore being shown up by sides with tighter budgets in an already spendthrift Bundesliga.
Rafael Van Der Vaart plays for a club where fatalism is a considered virtue. Just when one talks up the chances of Spurs winning their first Premiership title they go down skid row. Or overtaking Arsenal. How about May 19th being the day Spurs fans and Van Der Vaart learned their fourth place finish was not going to be enough. No matter who you bring to the club in transfers and in coaching there appears to be a ceiling effect at White Hart Lane.
These are the Dutch lynchpins, the fulcrum of the attack. They had to win by at least two goals to pad any defensive giveaways but they played like they believed no matter what they did bad karma was going to doom them. Maybe they had seen too much in their own clubs to make them think otherwise. The results against the Danes probably reinforced that perception. One can point to the Germans and say a number of their players should also suffer from this fatalism but in their midst there are examples of the buoyancy and self confidence that comes from club success.


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Oh, hello, procrastination! Wonderful to see you again. I have two exams tomorrow, yet still I felt the need to share this video with you guys. I made this more than a year ago, and was sure I'd already posted it, but I guess not. It's actually just an iPad Brushes app animation of a drawing I did of my friend Val and his daughter, Gracie (ah, Brushes, the one iPad app I really do miss). I swiped some music from the life aquatic soundtrack, and put it together in iMovie. Hooray for technology, and for not learning about pre-formed nitrate and radio-carbon dating for a few minutes. Now. Back to the books.
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I learn today that our hospital MICU orientation will be in two weeks. I thought it would be sooner. I think I am just excited. It is okay though I still have time to study and review some nursing procedures and common diseases in the Medicine ICU. At the same time I can do the things I needed to do because I know when I start the training I only have limited time. For now, I list all the things that need to be done.
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In the next two weeks my training in MICU (Medicine Intensive care unit). I am very excited and at the same time kind of nervous as to what to do. This will be my first exposure to that unit. I know this is one of the busiest and toxic nursing units in the hospital. I am very excited to learn and to care for sick patients. I know in the beginning I need to observe, learn and familiarize things. At first, I think I will feel like it seems as though there is an endless stream of emergent situations that crop up in the unit, may be sometimes it clearly in response to some prior event, sometimes all by themselves, and they can be genuinely terrifying. Experienced ICU nurses may be a lot more nervous than a newbie trainee nurse simply because they know what to be afraid of. A key rule of ICU: any patients is capable of doing anything at any time. I know where to put myself though. When there will be cases that needs an experience then I need to call the experienced ICU nurse and I need to back up myself and let them do what is needed to be done. I can help them handing the things they needed. In that case, I should be a keen observer so if that case will happen again I know what to do. It is good to know that later on in my training I will improve and function or do what the unit staff do. I cannot wait for that time.


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Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) member Kundan Chandravat has been expelled from the right-wing organisation, following his provocative statement at a protest in Ujjain. On Thursday, Chandravat created an uproar after he announced a 1 crore bounty on Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan. "If anyone gets me the head of Vijayan, I will give him my property, which is worth around 1 crore," said Chandravat.
Chandravat called up the meeting to protest the alleged killing of RSS and BJP workers in Kerala at the hands of CPM people. However, after facing the criticism, he withdrew the statement and expressed his regret on the whole issue.
RSS has expressed its disagreement with Chandravat, and has stated that it does not support any violent practice. It also urged the people to not consider the statement of one member as the view of the Sangh.
However, Pinarayi Vijayan has not paid much heed to this threat. He said "RSS has beheaded many earlier, but that doesn't mean that I can't walk free. I don't take such comments to face value."
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Currently, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is constructing the one-kilometre "Kingdom Tower," built by Kingdom Holding in Jeddah. The $1.2-billion project will feature a hotel, plus a retail and luxury residential project.
However, Saudi billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin Talal has been eyeing other cities, including Shanghai, Moscow, London and New York, as possible locations to build a one-mile-high skyscraper that would be the world's tallest building by far. Kingdom Holding will also handle the new project, yet the prince has also enlisted the help of Dubai-based developer Emaar Properties. The structure is expected to reach ground level by the end of this year and to be completed by 2017, said Talal Al Maiman, executive director at Kingdom Holding.
Qatar also announced, this year, that it, too, would be constructing the world's tallest building, once it finds a suitable location in its capital city, Doha. Ezdan Real Estate chairman, Sheikh Thani Bin Abdullah Al Thani, told the Qatar Tribune about the project in March, but gave no further details.
Earlier this year, it was also reported that the Abu Dhabi Group had signed an agreement with Pakistan's property tycoon and founder of Bahria Town, Malik Riaz, to build the world's tallest building in Karachi. However, the group refuted claims one month later, saying the agreement did not, in fact, involve building the world's tallest tower.
In 2009, Abu Dhabi turned down a proposal to construct a tower that would
outdo the Burj Khalifa, due to its failure to find a home for it in the capital.
The frontrunner, so far, seems to be China, after it announced last year its plans to build the world's tallest building by the end of 2013, and in only 90 days (even though, as yet, it hasn't broken ground). Titled Sky City, it would be constructed by Broad Sustainable Building (BSB) and include 1,610,000 square meters of space spread across 220 floors. Like the other candidates, Sky City will also feature a mix of residential, commercial, retail space and capacity for between 70,000 to 120,000 people. BSB estimates the cost of the project to be roughly $536 million. Construction of the building, which will be located in Changsha, will start this June.
China is no stranger to tall structures, with almost half of the world's 20 tallest skyscrapers under construction there today.
Prior to the Burj Khalifa's opening, "Taipei 101" in Taipei, Taiwan, which opened in 2004, was the world's tallest inhabited building, standing at 509.2 metres. Even though other towers at the same time stood higher, it is not always easy to be labeled the world's tallest. Due to the continuous disagreements over how to measure height and classify structures, engineers have struggled to create clear definitions for categories of buildings and other structures, with some being already created. The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat, an organization that certifies buildings as the "World's Tallest", recognizes a building only if at least 50 percent of its height is made up of floor plates containing a habitable floor area.
Dubai Marina currently houses the world's tallest residential building, the Princess Tower, standing at 414 meters high, and the world's tallest hotel, the JW Marriott Marquis on Sheikh Zayed Road, standing at 355 meters high.
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Views integration is an advanced feature that allows site builders to create their own lists. So far, I've seen it used to generate reports of grades, CSV exports of quiz results, reports on how many times a given user took a given quiz, and so on.
But in order to use views integration effectively, you will need to be proficient in building views, which is a skill on its own. You would probably want to start with some of the views tutorials out there (Lullabot has some, IIRC).
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We are focused on combining the Artistic and Development components of Cinelerra into a unified project to create a streamlined production process that will interact effectively with multiple distributions and result in a professional caliber media editing and special effects system. Cinelerra, created by Adam Williams and released annually from Heroine Virtual for over a decade and the CV version from dozens of very talented artists and developers has finally been unified into one unified distribution by the team at Cinelerra.Org. Now, all of the features of both releases have been combined into one. Cinelerra.Org has updated CV to work with the 4.6 version first released in the fall of 2014 and all of the effects and features have been combined as one for the first time ever.
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The commander, known for wearing sunglasses and chomping cigars, told them: "If you are ferocious in battle, remember to be magnanimous in victory . . . You will be shunned unless your conduct is of the highest."
His regiment spent most of the war protecting the Rumaila oilfields in southern Iraq and prisoners of war.
A former chaplain of Colonel Collins's regiment yesterday said he had made an official complaint against Colonel Collins, alleging "unprofessional and inappropriate behaviour". The chaplain said he was invited to attend an inquiry into the running of the regiment prompted by the death of the young soldier in Northern Ireland two years ago.
He said he was later told by the military police that he "had a case".
Allegations of a culture of bullying in the Royal Irish Regiment were prompted partly by the suicide of 18-year-old Paul Cochrane, in Ireland in 2001.
His family told The Guardian they believed the army owed them a full explanation of why a teenager living out his childhood dream of being a soldier was pushed to such an extreme.
Sources spoke of an "extreme culture of bullying by some senior officers", but said Colonel Collins did not intervene.
Defence sources said a further investigation would be conducted into the soldier's death.
Colonel Collins has left his regiment and is on leave awaiting promotion to another post.
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When the mournful single "Everywhere I Go" first came on my radar a couple of years ago, I immediately wanted to know was singing it. Turns out it was Lissie, a smoky-voiced folk-rocker from the Quad Cities of western Illinois who also happened to have a Colorado connection (she spent time in the Ft. Collins music scene as a CSU student).
Over the summer, I had the privilege of interviewing Lissie for Music Is My Oxygen in anticipation of her new album Back To Forever. Since the album came out, I've found it to be some of her strongest work to date, and I'm really digging it.
Lissie is planning a tour stop here in Denver next Monday, Dec. 2 at the Gothic Theatre, and her PR department has offered The Oomph Music Blog a pair of free tickets to the show to give away to one of our readers. If you'd like 'em, just be the first person to leave a comment with the correct answer to this trivia question:
Which Fleetwood Mac song did Lissie cover that appeared on the soundtrack for the film Safe Haven? (I've turned on Comment Moderation until we have a winner.)
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- Keep your passport valid at all times.
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- Maintain full-time enrollment.
Full-time enrollment is enrolling in a minimum of 12 units per quarter.
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Keep your DS-2019 valid at all times. Request an extension of the DS-2019 document from your program sponsor at least 30 days before the end date on the DS-2019 document when you will need additional time to complete your program. You must receive approval from your program sponsor before changing your major or degree level.
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Report any change of your local address by completing the Address Update Form.
- Get on-campus employment permission.
Request a work permit from your program sponsor before accepting any on campus employment. For UC Irvine J-1 Students, employment on campus must part time at no more than 20 hours per week during the academic year, but may befull time during vacation periods.
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Camden County is home to a population of approximately 9,980 persons, as of 2010, and is comprised of about 241 square miles. It is located in the North Carolina Coastal Plain between Currituck County and Pasquotank & Gates Counties. It is bordered by the State of Virginia to the north, and the Albemarle Sound to the south. Camden County is the site of the southern terminus of the Great Dismal Swamp Canal, which runs along US Highway 17 up through Virginia and eventually connects to an inlet running into the Atlantic Ocean.
Camden County was formed in 1777 from the northeastern part of Pasquotank County. On May 9, 1777 the General Assembly of North Carolina passed a bill to create a new county on the northeast side of the Pasquotank River. Twice during the Colonial Period the measure had been denied by the Colonial governor, but this time led by Joseph Jones, the new government of the Revolution approved the measure and the new county was called Camden. Camden was named in honor of Sir Charles Pratt, the Earl of Camden, because he had supported the colonist in their struggle against King George III of England during the US revolution and the Cause of Independence. He also opposed the Stamp Act. During the Revolutionary War Camden furnished 416 men and officers, more than any other northeast county in the state.
Camden County is the first and only consolidated city-county in the State of North Carolina, and its county seat is the Courthouse Township of Camden. Camden County achieved this status in June of 2006, and became a Unified Government as of July 1, 2006.
Camden County is divided into three townships: South Mills Township, Courthouse Township of Camden (also known as Camden Township), and Shiloh Township.
After the Revolutionary War, the residents of Camden built a courthouse, jail and stocks in 1782 on property obtained from Thomas Sawyer at about the same spot of the present-day courthouse. There have been three courthouses and three jails located on this spot over the past 200 years. The wooden courthouse built in 1782 burned in 1846, thus a new brick one was built in 1847 and it served Camden until 1996. A new courthouse annex built in 1997 serves the county today.
The first jail was used until the 1880's; after which, a second jail was constructed. This one burned in 1910 as a result of an attempted prison escape. The third jail was built in 1910 at a cost of $6250. Services of this jail were discontinued in the 1940's when Camden began sending its prisoners to Pasquotank jail. Today, the tri-county (Pasquotank, Camden and Perquimans) jail houses prisoners from Camden.
The third jail, a two-story structure, has been restored to its original appearance. The first floor now houses the Board of Elections. The second floor has the original bull-pen containing 4 cells. Also on the second floor is a small museum which uses pictures and artifacts to relate the history of Camden. Outside, stocks and a pillory have been rebuilt to show punishment used in the 18th Century.
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This notice is for information purposes only. Early in the new year we expect the U.S. Government to launch a centralized online reporting system, allowing Service members, Veterans, and their families to provide feedback about educational institutions. The initiative, part of the President's Executive Order for Principles of Excellence, is designed to empower the students and their families by ensuring they have the best information needed to make the most informed educational choices while holding institutions of higher learning to the highest standards. This includes:
- Providing meaningful information about the financial cost and quality of the school;
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It didn't take long before we were piling out of their car and heading into what I had always considered one of the mellowest pool halls I'd ever been in. (You can get an idea of what I was used to if I considered a pool hall mellow.) In short order we had a table and a pitcher and had settled down to the sort of trivial chatter that seemed so deep at the time. I'd noticed a couple of crusty types a few tables over who were giving me the hairy eyeball, but since they were about 10 years older than me I shrugged them off. All in all we were having a good, relaxed time.
I was leaning over to take a diagonal cross table shot and had paused in position to exchange banter with the girls. Returning my attention to the table, I was purposely ignoring one of their snide (but accurate) summations of my skills as a pool player when I heard her break off mid sentence. I looked back over my shoulder to see one of the crusties had walked up right next to me without me n oticing.
"What kind of knife is that?" he asked flatly, referring to the dagger on my belt.
"A Holden dagger," I replied, starting to straighten up. A lot of people mistook it for a Nazi dagger, but it had been around a long time before (as in Viking times long time before) the Goose Stepping Brigade had stuck a backward swastika on it. My time in college was still a few years down the line, but even then I had a thing for history. Still, I'd jammed with a few folks over the knife who thought it meant I was a Nazi despite my dark hair and skin.
Without warning he whipped his right arm and I heard the snap of a buck knife opening. I saw the flash of stainless steel reflect wickedly over the green felt top of the pool table, and I knew I had better do something fucking quick.
Before he could bring his hand back from his overly wide and dramatic opening, I dropped the pool cue and lunged forward, my left hand grabbing his wrist and my right dropping down somewhere around his belt buckle.
With a loud "DON'T," I heaved him up and slammed him down onto the pool table. Now don't ask me how I managed the next few dribbles, as I really don't have any idea except that it's incredible what your adrenal glands can talk you into when someone pulls out a knife. I distinctly remember bouncing the guy three more times. He dropped the knife on bounce number three, but I must have thrown one or two more in there just to make sure. When he came to a rest, his arm was outstretched over his head and the knife was way down near his chest, so something must have happened that I don't remember or I just didn't notice. Anyway, he wasn't going anywhere quick.
I whirled around to face his buddy, who had already decided that they had made a serious mistake and was backpedaling with wide eyes and hands held out in front of him. I saw a flash out of the corner of my eye as the bartender came barreling into view holding something down near his leg that I really didn't want to know about…
The bartender looked at me and said, "You didn't start it. You can stay."
I thanked him, but told him I'd be leaving as soon as I hit the head. You don't hang around places like that after a fight in case the suckers backed up on you with some serious firepower. I swaggered to the bathroom and locked the door. About a second later I was bent over the toilet barfing my guts out from adrenaline and fear. Once I'd washed up, we scurried out the back door to the car and got the hell out of there.
From A Professional's Guide to Ending Violence Quickly by Marc "Animal" MacYoung
The Cop
Consider also Officer Stacy Lim from the Los Angeles Police Department, whose story is legendary among professional police warriors. It began when she pulled into her driveway after an enjoyable evening of softball practice. When Lim got out of her personal car, she was immediately confronted by a group of gangbangers who had followed her with the intent of carjacking her vehicle.
Her first response was to call out that she was a police officer. They responded by firing a .357 magnum round into her chest, which penetrated her heart and blew a tennis ball-size exit wound out her back. Stacy Lim stayed in the fight. She not only returned fire, but she also became the aggressor as she pursued the man, shooting him repeatedly. The remaining gangbangers suddenly remembered previous, pressing engagements and very wisely fled for their lives.
After she dealt with her attackers she turned around and headed up her driveway toward her house to call for help. She does not recall doing it, but as she was losing consciousness, she stripped the magazine from her pistol and threw it 20 feet away where it was found the next day. She did this because in the academy she had been taught, "Don't let them use your weapon against you."
Her attacker died and Stacy Lim died twice on the operating table. She required 101 pints of blood, but she survived, returning to duty eight months later. Today, she still works uniform patrol on the streets of Los Angeles, and her training philosophy is, "You need to prepare your mind for where your body may have to go." Do they make them like that anymore?
From On Combat, The Psychology and Physiology of Deadly Conflict in War and in Peace by Lt. Col. Dave Grossman with Loren W. Christensen
The Berserkers
They prepared and equipped their boats, with twenty men on each. Kveldulf commanded one, and Skallagrim the other. They rowed of in search of the ship, and when they reached the place where it was moored, they put in to shore.
Hallvard and his men had covered the ship with awnings and gone to sleep, but when Kveldulf and his men reached them, the watchmen who had been sitting by the gangway at the prow lept up and called out to the ship, telling the crew to get up because they were about to be attacked. Hallvard and his men rushed for their weapons.
When Kveldulf and his men came to the gangway, they went up it to the stern of the ship, while Skallagrim headed for the prow. Kveldulf had a gigantic, double-bladed axe in his hand. Once he was on board, he told his men to go along the gunwale and cut the awnings from the pegs, while he stormed off back to the aftergaurd, where he is said to have become frenzied like a wild animal. Some other of his men went into a frenzy too, killing everyone they came across, and so did Skallagrim when he ran around the ship. Kveldulf and his son did not stop until the ship had been completely cleared. When Kveldulf went back to the aftergaurd, he wielded his axe and struck Hallvard right through his helmet and head, sinking the weapon in right up to the shaft. Then he tugged it back with such force that he swung Hallvard up into the air and over the side. Skallagrim swept the prow clean and killed Sigtrygg. Many of the crew threw themselves into the water, but Skallagrim's men took the boat they had come on and rowed over to them, killing everyone in the water.
More than fifty of Hallvard's men were killed there, and Skallagrim took the ship which had sailed there and all the riches on it.
They captured two or three of the most paltry men, spared their lives and asked them who had been on the ship and what their mission had been. When they found out the truth, they examined the carnage on the ship and had the impression that more of the crew had jumped over the side and lost their lives there than had died on board…
It is said that the people who could take on the character of animals, or went berserk, became so strong in this state that no one was a match for them, but also that just after it wore off they were left weaker than usual. Kveldulf was the same, so that when his frenzy wore off he felt completely exhausted by the effort he had made, and was rendered completely powerless and had to lie down and rest.
From Egil's Saga, translated by Bernard Scudder
Fight or Flight
According to Lt. Col. Grossman, when confronted with the threat of violence we are limited to four potential options. Fight, flee, posture or submit.
The nature of the human animal is such, however, that we are not very capable when it comes to making these decisions in the heat of the moment. Once the adrenaline starts pumping, your rational cognitive ability drops sharply, so you need to make your decisions about how you would like behave in the face of violence before it happens.
People who have lived in denial about violence, or are unwilling to become violent themselves, are the most likely to simply freeze, submit, become victims and suffer the consequences.
But most people most of the time are not so willing to be pushed around. They'll attempt to posture and bluff their way out, even if it means some yelling, screaming, pushing and shoving to get there. They typically are still not willing to really hurt anybody, and so if the situation does escalate to an actual fight they'll resort to non-decisive tactics, designed to cause pain in the hope of scaring their opponent away. Often, a punch to the face is just another bluff in the game of escalato. Against a committed attacker, the pseudo tough-guy will be forced to fold or switch to a more effective option.
The street-smart survivor focuses his strategies primarily on avoidance and escape. He'll fight like hell to get out of tight corner, but only until he gets enough distance to make a run for it. A true survivor will do absolutely whatever it takes to stay alive.
The warrior is a different breed, because he has chosen to stand and fight when others would fold or flee. The berserker, more than any other warrior, is committed to the principle that offence is the best defense. The berserker attacks without pause, without mercy and with little to no though for his own safety. The berserker is not a "cold blooded killing machine" like your favorite action movie star, but a raving lunatic, a mad dog entirely focused on the destruction of the target in front of him. Ironically, it is his extreme aggression that saves him. Opposing warriors are forced onto the defensive and ordinary mortals trip over each other in the scramble to escape his fury.
Berserkergangr is your natural, primal combat mode. It is a phenomenon that has occurred throughout history and across cultures. Berserkergangr is not therianthropy, though the two appear to be related, and it is not what eastern style martial artists call "no-mind" either. Berserkergangr does not require the use of any drugs or specialized training, though training will certainly help. The capacity to go berserk is something that is within you already.
The physiological effects of adrenaline and the "fight or flight response" have been scientifically documented. The heart rate becomes elevated in response to stress, and progressive more elevated as the situation becomes ore stressful. Other symptoms of mild to extreme stress may include the loss of fine and complex motor control, diminished cognitive function and loss of higher reasoning, tunnel vision and auditory exclusion. The redirection of all energy resources to the vital organs and large muscle mass can lead to vomiting and loss of bowel and bladder control.
On the up side, brute strength and gross motor function are enhanced. The pain threshold is raised and vasoconstriction decreases blood lost from injuries. A berserker can run faster, jump higher, hit harder and tolerate more damage than anyone could under normal circumstances. Time may appear to speed up, or may go by very slowly. I personally have had several "out of body experiences" while fighting and have once had my conscious mind black out completely while my body went into full-bore attack mode.
In the oriental martial arts, heavy emphasis is usually place on learning to control and minimize the effects of adrenaline through deep breathing techniques. Deep, slow abdominal breathing helps you to calm, ground and center yourself. And this can be effective even in a hard contact sparring match or a low risk physical confrontation. I personally find it hard to believe, though, that anyone can remain calm, grounded and centered while facing down single, knife-wielding crackhead, much less a trained medieval army.
It seems to me that the correct strategy for the berserker warrior is not to fight against his own nature, but rather to embrace the madness. Accept the adrenaline rush. Take it and run with it. Plan your tactics to exploit the strengths of the battle-rage, and avoid the weaknesses. Take on the rage and run with it. Charge headlong into immortality.
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(Scroll down for video) A police officer was arrested on a charge of larceny after allegedly stealing coupons from newspapers, police in Rhode Island said.
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Desert Orchid and Best Mate did it, Arkle and Red Rum did it too and so - from a different sphere, but with the same number of legs - did Ballyregan Bob. Along with Aldaniti and Shergar, they all escaped from the closeted world of racing to make an impression on the wider public consciousness. There is another characteristic that connects them too - every last one of them is dead.
There is a vacancy, then, as Kauto Star, a young steeplechaser who has won his past five races, prepares for the Gold Cup at Cheltenham on Friday. According to the official ratings issued by the British Horseracing Board he is already the best chaser since Desert Orchid, though he has struggled at the final fence on his last two starts. The jump from racing champion to national sporting icon, however, promises to be the most difficult leap of all.
It is one that the racing world would dearly love him to complete, if only for the comfort of knowing that the sport still matters. In truth, however, the outcome on Friday may have little to do with it, because the lesson offered by previous racing celebrities is that mere talent is rarely enough.
Arkle may be the exception, but then he was a freak of a racehorse who towered over his contemporaries like no chaser before or since. To grab the public's attention, though, what a horse really needs is a story and if it has a human-interest angle so much the better.
Red Rum was trained behind a garage on Southport beach; Aldaniti and Bob Champion, his jockey, survived serious injury and cancer respectively; and Best Mate had the odd-couple romance between Henrietta Knight and rough-hewn Terry Biddlecombe. Shergar is remembered not so much for his record-breaking victory in the Derby as for his subsequent disappearance.
"Once the public cottons on to a horse it's amazing how it all snowballs," Knight says. "If the horse continues winning races they will just pile on the adoration. I think with Best Mate his name was a good thing too. People would ring and write who had nothing else to do with horses at all. It started after he won the Gold Cup for the first time and then it really piled on after he won the second one.
"Kauto Star might get the same sort of attention if he wins on Friday, but he hasn't won yet and so there just isn't the same sort of passion for him yet as there was for Best Mate and Desert Orchid."
If a horse does not have a romantic background story like Best Mate's then it certainly helps to be grey. Desert Orchid's retirement was longer than his racing career but when he died last year it was front-page news at both ends of the market. Had he been born a bay, however, like Kauto Star and most British racehorses, his legend might not have endured so well. His bravery, flamboyance and talent were beyond doubt, but his colour was the clincher.
Kauto Star is still only seven years old and so has time on his side. What he does not have as yet, though, is a story to grab the attention of hard-bitten news editors, although the Betfair betting exchange will pay out a £1m bonus if he wins, which would represent the most valuable single victory in National Hunt history.
A cheque with seven figures on it generally qualifies as news, particularly when it has been earned in the space of six minutes of sporting endeavour. To protect the value of their own sponsorship, however, both the Tote and Cheltenham will ensure that no oversized cardboard cheques carrying the Betfair logo will be seen anywhere near the racecourse on Friday.
"Betfair can do as they please away from the course, but the Tote are the headline sponsors of the Gold Cup and have been for years and I think that Betfair appreciate that," Damian Walker, the Tote's head of PR, says.
"There are only three horses since Arkle [in the 1960s] that have won the King George and the Gold Cup in the same season and when you look at what Kauto Star has done already this season, over such a range of trips, it's clear that he is one of the best we've seen for years. If he wins on Friday he will be one of the greats.
"We have to realise, though, that it takes time to build up champions. It's all a matter of longevity and the public getting enough time to become aware of a horse and then to follow its career."
The man who will bank the money if Kauto Star wins the Gold Cup is Clive Smith, a golf-course entrepreneur who prefers to leave the attention-seeking to his horse. It is difficult, for instance, to see him urging the crowd around the winners' enclosure into song in the manner of Jim Lewis, the owner of Best Mate.
Nor is Kauto Star, or any other horse for that matter, ever likely to win the Grand National three times in the manner of the greatest public favourite of them all. "Red Rum was the people's horse," Ginger McCain, his trainer, said in his autobiography. "He didn't belong to [his owner] Mr Le Mare and he didn't belong to me. He belonged to everybody who loved him."
The ultimate test of Kauto Star's celebrity status, of course, will arrive only when it is time to write his obituary. Will his demise make the front pages? Racing hopes to wait a long time to find out.
Nation's favourites
Desert Orchid
Became a Christmas favourite of the nation with four wins in Boxing Day's big race, the King George VI Chase. Was an established star before his first attempt at the Gold Cup when, despite the course and the going being against him, he ground out victory in a race recently voted 'best ever' by Racing Post readers.
Best Mate
The first horse to win more than one Gold Cup since 1971 and the first triple winner since Arkle, Best Mate lacked Desert Orchid's charisma. Only 15 months after his death his reputation is in danger of being eclipsed by Kauto Star.
Red Rum
The only triple Grand National winner in 170 years of the Aintree contest, 'Rummy' helped to secure the future of the world's most famous race at a time when developers were working on plans to build on the racecourse.


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Woah now, Tiger. Slow down.
With bad feet, he has an average NFL 'arm'. I feel like anytime I say anything remotely critical of Smith I have to preface it by reminding anyone reading that I love the guy as a prospect, but let's be realistic here.
Yes, his 'arm' is great, but he doesn't get the most out of it because he doesn't use his legs right. So when you talk about his arm, you're not really talking about what it is capable of with proper mechanics, but rather you're talking about the actual velocity generated when he throws a football. When his feet aren't working right, his 'arm' is still strong but he's not getting the most out of it so his velocity wanes. When he's doing that, his usable arm strength is very Sam Bradford-esque; adequate, but not outstanding.
Again, Matt Cassel can throw a football 60 yards - we've seen him do it. NFL arm-strength is otherworldly, even among the guys with 'noodle' arms. It massively understates just how gifted these guys are athletically to say that Geno is going to come in here with bad legs and still have a better arm than 2/3 of the league.
C'mon. Let's be honest about Smith's strengths right now. Velocity isn't among them
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Here is a thread, Lee. Feel free to continue your mansplaining here.
Original Thread, where Crommunist also destroys you, is here, in case you forget.
Hi, me again. Still female. And I know you've already admitted that makes what I have to say irrelevant to you, but I will go ahead and try one more time. If nothing else, your dismissal of what I have to say will demonstrate your true colors to observers.
I get harassed. Pretty much everywhere I go. At some places, it's worse than others. Computer stores. Sports bars. Conventions.
And you know what that ends up tending to mean? It means the effort to attend regarding transportation, childcare, etc… just isn't worth it to me. Why would I bother trying to overcome those obstacles when I'm just going to get talked over, ignored, harassed, dismissed, belittled, and objectified? I can get all that just by signing on to voice chat in any video game. So why should I bother? Frankly, I've got better things to do, and I can get the same bullshit at much classier joints.
So if you ask me why I don't go, the answer is going to be because frankly, it's not worth the time and energy it takes to get there. We've explained the rest countless times. You and your ilk just refuse to hear it, and ya know, explaining the obvious to you for the fiftieth time often isn't worth the time and effort either.
In short, we stay home, because the likes of you and your hero Shermer have made it clear we aren't welcome. So why should I bother to pay a babysitter to attend your convention?
And you know what, why should I speak up, knowing what it costs me just to attend? I get harassed just for being female in public. I get rape threats just for being female and in a 'male space'. Have you seen what women get when they actually DARE say something? I got harassing emails just because of the response I made on the previous thread. You and your ilk have made it clear you don't actually listen when to women when they say anything, so why should I choose to deal with the costs of speaking up? It's not worth it to me.
So I don't go to conventions. To much trouble. And I don't speak up. To much trouble. I've got better things to do.
Do you get the picture yet?
oy vey iz mir, where do begin!
I think I'll launch into this with a brief response to WithinThisMind, a sort of dual response to the near copy-paste rant from both threads.
Ms. Mind, you are making two fairly blatant mistakes when it comes to having a discussion. The first, is expecting that someone will respect you, when you begin your comment with a personal attack. Nowhere did I say women's opinions don't matter. On the contrary, I'm arguing from a position that women's opinions are what we should be listening to.
The second mistake you make is in purporting to speak for all women. So when I view your account skeptically, it's not because you're a woman, it's because you're account doesn't match up with what most (according to the survey) women's opinions are. If 98% of women who take a survey don't share your experience, it's more likely than not your experience is an inaccurate picture of reality (see Hume).
This is a wholly familiar position for skeptics on every topic, it's well supported in logical terms, and as a skeptic yourself this information should give you pause. Maybe you're really being incessently harassed, door to door, and maybe joe christian really did see Jesus in the tunnel of light, but I'm under no rational obligation to accept either claim by virtue of mere testimony.
Sorry :/
[quote]On the contrary, I'm arguing from a position that women's opinions are what we should be listening to[/quote]
Except, as I pointed out, this is exactly what you AREN'T doing. You aren't listening to women. I didn't make a personal attack, I pointed out the cold, hard, unpleasant truth – what women are actually saying is irrelevant to you.
[quote]The second mistake you make is in purporting to speak for all women. So when I view your account skeptically, it's not because you're a woman, it's because you're account doesn't match up with what most (according to the survey) women's opinions are. If 98% of women who take a survey don't share your experience, it's more likely than not your experience is an inaccurate picture of reality[/quote]
Except that my account DOES match up with what the women said in the survey, which you would have noted, if you had actually read my account. And it is what many, many, many other women are saying, you just aren't listening to or seeing the whole picture with them either.
The reason I don't go is because it's too much trouble to get a baby sitter, and too expensive, and I have better things to do. You stopped reading the survey at that point. You never once asked the follow up question, the way someone who was actually interested in learning would. You never asked why it's too much trouble.
I answered the question you didn't ask.
The reason it's too much trouble, too expensive, and I have better things to do is that I'll get talked over, ignored, harassed, dismissed, belittled, and objectified.
But the reason you didn't ask is because you didn't care. Because I'm a woman.
You still don't get the picture.
Sorry, the survey is in the last thread (nice spot).
Now give the substance a go
So let's look at this survey, and see if the answers would actually demonstrate my 'experience' to be wrong.
Here is a question –
Have you ever felt unwelcome, discriminated against, or harmed in the secular movement?
How would I answer that? Hmm… Well, let's see, I get harassed everywhere. I'm female. I get groped on the bus. I get hit on by someone who won't take no for an answer in line at the grocery store. I get mansplained to constantly. This is my normal.
So how would I answer? Well, do I feel more unwelcome, discriminated against, or harmed in the secular movement more than I feel unwelcome, discriminated against, or harmed when simply existing as female at say, oh, let's go with Disneyland.
No, not really.
Does that mean I feel welcome, like an equal, and safe at a secular conference? No.
I should be safe from sexism at a secular conference. But I'm not, and sadly, that is normal. Normal enough that I probably wouldn't feel the need to call it out specifically. I'm used to men staring at my breasts, invading my personal space, assuming they are entitled to my attention, condescending to me, and hitting on me regardless of how I feel about it. Unless it is particularly egregious, I'm not going to say anything. For starters, I already know nobody will listen.
And is that acceptable? Hell no. And that's the point we are trying to explain to you.
So how would I answer this question? Probably with a no. Phrase it a tad differently, and you would have gotten a resounding yes.
Next issue –
"For both of these subsets, insufficient time is cited most often as the main obstacle to participation."
Go back to my original post. I have limited amounts of time to spend. Why would I choose to spend what little time I have going to an event where I will be talked over, ignored, harassed, dismissed, belittled, and objectified? Ain't nobody got time for that shit.
Next issue –
" lack of childcare was the one factor to emerge as a disproportionately women's concern. Just 39.1% of all registrants submitting this Census form were women; yet women represented more than 61.1% of the "lack of childcare" responses. No other selection showed a gender imbalance this marked. "
If you don't see how gender roles play into the above, then you have your head stuck firmly up your ass. If my husband goes to an overnight activity, nobody ever asks him 'well who will take care of the kid?'. It's assumed I will. But if I go to an overnight activity, one of the first questions I'm asked is 'who is taking care of your kid', as though it is absurd that he stayed home with his dad. And don't even get me started on referring to me taking care of him as 'parenting' but his dad taking care of him as 'baby-sitting'.
Next issue –
"Women are more selective about revealing their nontheism to others."
And why the fuck do you think that is? Seriously? My husband says he is an atheist, and it gets a shrug. I say I'm an atheist, and I get followed around the room by folks trying to save my soul and arguing that my reasons for being an atheist can't possibly be valid, or rational, or logical, and I obviously haven't heard the good word and don't I have a responsibility to my son to be religious and blah de fucking blah. Because I'm a woman, they feel far more entitled to question my convictions. And you wouldn't believe how many folks respond to my saying I'm an atheist with 'how does your husband feel about that?' So I shut up. It's easier.
And there you have it. In a nutshell. You want to know why women don't speak up more?
Because when they do, they are abused for it. They are threatened, shouted down, harassed, objectified, and dismissed. So they shut up. It's easier.
Have you ever felt unwelcome, discriminated against, or harmed in the secular movement?
Not more so than usual. You would answer yes to that.
Does that mean I feel welcome, like an equal, and safe at a secular conference? No.
See above. You would fall into the 2%.
Both overall and among women, Census registrants say that the secular movement's most effective work has been facilitating friendships and a sense of community.
Not more so than usual. You would answer yes to that.
1 in 4 women are sexually assaulted. That is the 'usual'. I get harassed every time I go to a bar without a male escort, and at least a third of the time when I am with a male escort. That is the usual. I was sexually assaulted and told I must have been 'asking for it'. That is the usual. Greta, Rebecca, etc… all regularly receive hate mail and death threats and that is the usual.
So, to you, the usual level of harassment I receive is acceptable, and the secular community should not try to improve at all?
And I should pay thousands of dollars, find childcare, etc… all to get more of the same?
That's what you aren't getting, Lee. That is what you are deliberately blinding yourself too. The 'usual level' isn't acceptable. Women shouldn't have to put up with the 'usual level'. The 'usual level' is having to take precautions and experience harassment every time you are exposed to the public.
You would fall into the 2%.
Stop being deliberately dishonest. That isn't what your survey says at all, nor is it actual information your survey attempted to find. It isn't what an actual unbiased, honestly phrased survey would indicate, as has been evidenced every time such a survey has been done.
I've stopped playing video games online because the monthly fee isn't worth getting more of the harassment I can get just walking down the street. I don't go to the conferences for the same reason. That's the usual, Lee.
But as I pointed out originally, you don't care. I'm a woman, so nothing I have to say is at all relevant to you. You won't take me at my word, because I am female. You assume you know my experience better than I do, because I am female. You are the problem, Lee. You are the 'usual'. You are why women don't speak up, and don't go to conferences. You are what needs to change.
I reached out to you on your blog. You clearly have a lot to say, and I fear it's going to rapidly drown out the discussion I'm having with Crommunist. I want to engage with you, but we're going to hijack this thread. Please create a post there, with all this information, and I'll go through it point by point until we're both exhausted.
Sure. We can play on my blog. But do keep in mind that if your post contains lies, such as your 2% falsehood, I will move it to my spam folder. I'm not as nice as Crommunist.
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