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"As a layman, we have it," is what Rolf Heur, Director-General of CERN, said at the end of the seminar
Yes. The long-sought Higgs boson, dubbed by lay media as 'God Particle' much to the dislike and discomfiture of scientists, may have been discovered. This essentially was the take home message of the much publicised and keenly awaited seminar on Wednesday at CERN, the Geneva-based European Centre for Nuclear Research. CERN houses the huge underground 27 km-long ringed particle accelerator called the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) with the search for the Higgs particle as one of its main goals.
The Higgs boson, hypothesised in the 1960s by three groups of scientists (Peter Higgs and five others) independently, is the crucial missing piece in an otherwise enormously successful theoretical framework called the Standard Model which accurately describes the fundamental particles and forces of nature. The masses of fundamental particles of nature are determined by the strengths of their interaction with Higgs. Without the Higgs particle matter in the universe will have no mass. So its existence is a vital cornerstone for describing the universe correctly.
For the lay public at large, the uncertainty signified by the use of 'may' above does not really matter as it arises purely from technical considerations. The two key experiments at the LHC – CMS and ATLAS – designed to look for the hypothesised Higgs particle have found unambiguous signals for the observation of a new boson. This new particle waddles like a Higgs and quacks like a Higgs. But is it the Higgs particle of the Standard Model that scientists have been searching for the last nearly four decades? At this point of time, however, LHC scientists would like to duck the question. They would like to ascertain other characteristics of the new particle before definitively dubbing it as the Standard Model Higgs.
"As a layman, we have it," is indeed what Rolf Heur, the Director-General of CERN, said at the end of the seminar. But more correctly, he added: "[We have] observed a new particle consistent with a Higgs boson. There is a lot of work ahead of us. We also now know which direction to go. This is just the beginning of a long journey." At the press conference that followed the seminar, Joe Incandela, the spokesperson for the CMS experiment clearly stated: "[Before the LHC shuts down for maintenance three months later], it would be difficult to say definitively that it is the Standard Model Higgs."
While the LHC is designed to accelerate protons up to 7 TeV per beam (total collision energy of 14 TeV), since its commissioning in 2010, the beam energy has been gradually ramped up. After operating at 7 TeV (3.5 TeV per beam) till end-2011, it was increased to 4 TeV per beam (8 TeV of total energy) in April. This increase in energy, along with unprecedented performance of the accelerator, the detectors, improved techniques of analysis and the intense computation on the worldwide LHC computational grid established, is what has enabled this landmark finding within a short time of two and a quarter years since LHC went into operation.
In terms of numbers, till the end of 2011, the experiments took data from about 400 trillion proton-proton collisions at 7 TeV of total energy, when there were already tantalising hints of a Higgs-like signal at around a mass value of 125 G(iga) eV. (At relativistic energies, mass and energy are interchangeable in accordance with Einstein's E=mc2 relation. So masses of particles are measured in units of energy. The mass of a proton is about 1 GeV.) But it was not statistically significant to call it a discovery of a particle. The statistical significance of the bump or excess of events around 125 GeV at end-2011 was only at the level of about 3 sigma, which means one-in-750 chance of being due to statistical fluctuation, which is far from the 'golden rule' for discovery of 5 sigma, which means there is only one-in-3.5 million chance of being wrong.
But the data taken in just 3 months (from April 5 to June 18) at 8 GeV of collision energy — from about 500 trillion proton-proton collisions — has surpassed the data taken in all of 2011 at 7 TeV. Moreover, the Standard Model predicts that at 8 TeV there is an enhancement in the probability of producing a Standard Model Higgs by a factor of 1.27, Aleandro Nisati of the ATLAS experiment said in an email response. So if you do the arithmetic of combining the effect of increased energy and that of higher proton-proton collision rate because of better accelerator performance, scientists now have 2.6 more Higgs-like events at 8 TeV for every Higgs-like event at 7 TeV in 2011.
All these have contributed to improved statistics in the data gathered, in particular for two of the five important decay channels available to Higgs — namely its decay into two photons and to four charged leptons (electrons/muons) — whose data were presented on Wednesday. These channels are considered important because these allow the Higgs mass to be measured with greater precision. The later is, in fact, called the Golden Channel because it is much cleaner compared to the other channels. The analysis had also been particularly optimised to pick Higgs-like events decaying into these final states, according to Nisati.
According to the presentations made on Wednesday by Joe Incandela and Fabiola Gianotti, the respective spokespersons of CMS and ATLAS respectively, both the experiments, which have worked entirely independently of each other, observed a "new particle" in the mass region around 125 – 126 GeV at 5 sigma level. The world physicist community had not really expected that the 5 sigma level would be attained so quickly. Both presented results from their analyses only of 2 photon and 4 lepton channels.
Specifically, the mass value given by CMS to this Higgs-like particle from is 125.6 GeV with an error window of 0.6 GeV, and that given by ATLAS is 125.3 GeV with an error bar of 0.6 GeV. It is clear that both the results are consistent with each other within experimental errors. The immediate next step for these experiments is first to analyze data from the remaining three channels of Higgs decay and check for consistency LHC before shuts down for maintenance. The larger task in months ahead is to ascertain whether the other properties of this new Higgs-like particle fit the predicted properties of the Higgs boson or is it something entirely different.


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I am currently loving the colour midnight blue. It started with the random need to buy midnight blue nail polish and it is spreading to clothing. I'm ashamed to say I don't think I own anything blue. I'm mentally going through my closet and dresser drawers and cannot think of anything blue. Crazy! This needs to change ASAP! Here are a few of my picks:
Rainy Top by B&Lu
Midnight blue nails (darker in real life)
Nautical Nod Strapless Dress by Forever 21+
Wire Cuff by Jessica Biffi's Jewellery Line: Covet
Crushed Wire Earrings by Jessica Biffi's Jewellery Line: Covet
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Michael Coleman has put up a video about Doc Kane (veteran ADR mixer at Walt Disney Studios in Burbank, CA) on the art of ADR (Dubbing or Looping):
What has three letters, many aliases and is of major significance to the sound community? You guessed it: ADR aka Automated Dialog Replacement aka Additional Dialog Recording aka Dubbing aka Looping. All of these monikers are understood as the process of re-recording dialog that cannot be salvaged from a production. To make one thing clear, there is nothing automated about it. ADR is an art. And here to tell us more about the art is an artist whose name also has only three letters and many aliases but nonetheless has made a significant impact on the sound community.
His name is Doc Kane but most just call him Doc. With over 300 projects under his belt and a slew of awards and nominations, including four Academy Award nominations, Doc has one of the longest and most impressive resumes in the sound business. Re-recording for over 35 years, Doc has worked with hundreds of talented actors including Tom Cruise, Ellen DeGeneres, Johnny Depp, Brad Pitt and Robin Williams to name a few. He is also the trusted ADR mixer for dozens of legendary filmmakers such as: Tim Burton, James Cameron, Clint Eastwood and Taylor Hackford. Never one to toot his own horn, Doc is known as one of the best in the industry, his name alone drumming up praise and admiration from his colleagues and clients alike.


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Hallo everyone! Happy Easter and Happy Spring to everyone in the Northern Hemisphere. Happy Day to everyone else!
Yesterday, we ventured up to Berry Mountain to do some typical Spring homesteading chores AND some exciting new ones!
First up: Plant the garden!
The epic snows have finally melted and the soil was warm enough to plant the peas, potatoes, onions, spinach, lettuce and carrots. We uncovered the strawberry and asparagus patches from their thick mulch of autumn leaves. I am pleased to report that the soil in all the cabin garden beds looks dark and gorgeous after three years of being amended. It is teeming with bugs and worms, and I cannot be happier about that. This will be the second year we plant shelling peas to save for seed while building our Berry Mountain landrace. By the time we move up there fulltime, we will have bred a species uniquely suited to our weather conditions on the Mountain.
Next up: Water barrel cleaning!
Oofdah. If any of you have, or plan to have rain water barrels in your homestead, please let me give you a piece of friendly advice.
Strike that: let me give you two:
1. When cleaning the dirt and detritus out of your barrels each year, wear sturdy work gloves (unlike me). The process of banging around with a long-handled brush against the jagged plastic lip of the barrel will turn your knuckles raw and bloody in short order. Do as I say, not as I do.
2. Clean your barrels in the late autumn when you disconnect them from the downspouts and put them away for the winter, rather than let them sit in their stinkiness until Spring. (also unlike me). Also: if you had not realized you needed to disconnect your water barrels before they freeze – here is your gentle reminder to do so. (if, in fact, you live somewhere that experiences a hard freeze.)
I will post a "how to clean water barrels" in short order once I figure out why WordPress is no longer allowing me to upload photos. – because honestly? It is a sloppy, awkward and bordering on gross task – but hey! This is Homesteading! and this is what it is all about! (Consider that cleaning each 55 gallon rain barrel is roughly equivalent to the effort of cleaning approximately 20 toilets and you have an idea of what is involved… We have 5 barrels.) Also: having cleaned toilets for a living in my professional life, I appreciate how the Universe has made me uniquely suited to this lifestyle and I am grateful and amused at the same time!
Okay – who cares about cleaning? (me!me!) the REALLY exciting news is that: OUR SOLAR PANELS HAVE ARRIVED!
Tim ordered a small starter kit off of Amazon to build our "test" system at the cabin. Since we are primarily Weekend Homesteaders at the moment – all we need is to power a few lightbulbs, or our portable AC unit, or recharge some batteries for our tools – so it can be a fairly small system. It will be another week or two before Tim finalizes the design of the moveable wooden frame to house the panels, but we will be sure to show you how he did it when all is said and done!
Whew. Sorry this post is devoid of photos. *shakes fist at WordPress* We will be back with all sorts of new news from the Berry Mountain Center for Sustainable Living soon!
Take care everyone. Love you.


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compared to Rebecca Black, this one right here, is a singer that really has a VOICE. she's Maddi Jane. cancel off
Rebecca Black. okay done. about Maddi Jane, HOMAIGOD! first time dengar, tonton, lihat, hayati video ni, i had goosebumps okay? her voice is amaaazing! okay, maybe not as good as Katy Perry kee, Britney Spears or whoever. tapi, SHE HAS A VOICE. & her voice sedaaap. suka sangat. if dia masuk record label, i'll be one of her fans. maybe not the biggest, but i'll still be a fan. i like her. she's talented. :)
she was even on Ellen DeGeneres Show!
and and and, this. my favorite song at the moment, Jar Of Hearts by Christina Perri. she sang it beautifully. =')
connect with Maddi at: www.maddijane.com/
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I switched my phone off as I lay in your arms, I don't care what happens in the rest of the world that out borders your bedroom door enjoying the rhythm of our hearts beating until you broke it with a whisper.
I got off your bed and walked all the way to your door as if I was an inmate and as if it was the day they set me free but then I looked back as if the world outside the cell you locked me in was nothing but a battlefield.
And so I started unchaining my body, I took off the awfully orange chains, I mean orange is not really my color.
I started writing my own storyline starting from the top of your lips to the bottom of your hips, and right away I started telling it to your body.
It was more of a play than a story, and oh it was no short story.It was more of a musical, an opera where you know that when it gets quiet it's only the calm before the storm, a long loud one.
I have never imagined myself as an artist but you made me feel like if I were some Shakespearean play and if you were my stage,
Like if I were Bocelli and you were the vocal cords and all the nonsense I cantare,
Like if I were to be Picasso and you were my very own canvas.
I came closer to you as if the inch between our bodies was a thousand mile.
In the stiff silence of stillness you can only hear your lungs exhaling in excitement and mine in wickedness. I heavily breathe my way down your ear loop. I part my lips reluctantly as if I was about to hit you with a bomb, a nuclear one.
I look deep into your eyes not uttering a sound, its enough for now I think to myself, I draw a light smile in reply.
I slowly walk towards the door just as the curtains start to close. I opened the door and left the room with a sigh. You asked me why, well that's my reply.


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Largest art museum in the West inspires creativity and dialogue.
Since 1965, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) has been devoted to collecting works of art that span both history and geography, in addition to representing Los Angeles's uniquely diverse population. Today LACMA is the largest art museum in the western United States, with a collection that includes nearly 130,000 objects dating from antiquity to the present, encompassing the geographic world and nearly the entire history of art.
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Other Ingredients: Capsule (hydroxypropylmethylcellulose), microcrystalline cellulose, silica, and magnesium stearate (vegetable).
Directions: Take two capsules two times daily or as directed by your healthcare practitioner.
This product is non-GMO, gluten free, and vegetarian.
Warning: Do not use if pregnant or nursing.
Caution: Consult your healthcare practitioner before use. If taking heart medications or have a chronic health condition, please inform your healthcare practitioner.
Storage: Keep tightly closed in a cool, dry place.
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WASHINGTON -- The possibility of a Riddick Bowe-Lennox Lewis heavyweight showdown was rekindled yesterday when Bowe's manager, Rock Newman, offered Lewis $12 million for a championship match at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas on Nov. 5.
Newman made his latest pitch in a letter to Lewis' promoter, Dan Duva, of Main Events, Inc., who also has promotional ties to Bowe, the World Boxing Association and International Boxing Federation champion. Copies were sent to Frank Maloney, who manages Lewis, the English-born heavyweight recognized as the World Boxing Council champion, and to Lewis.
Newman set a Monday deadline for a response, promising a letter of credit if the reply is positive.
Said Newman: "It's been reported extensively in the media the past several days since the shameful amateur-like performance by Lewis against Tony Tucker that he still welcomes a fight against Bowe. . . In an effort to make this match, I have chosen to send this letter to you and the media simultaneously to avoid deception and fraudulent accusations that the Lewis camp responded with to our last offer."


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How Regenerative Cellular Therapy
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A Case Study
Brian's History
Brian has a history of degenerative disk disease. He has tried many different therapies for 15 years to relieve her pain. He got to the point where life just wasn't worth living anymore because he could no longer do the many things he liked to do. Brian reached out to his local practitioner and that was when Eric, at Infinite Wellness talked to Brian about Stem Cell Therapy.
Chronic Pain Symtoms:
- Joint Instability
- Muscle Wasting or Lost Muscle Strength
- Knee Osteoarthritis
- Knee Ligament Damage
- Degenerative Knee Damage
- Scar Tissue Build Up
- Traumatic Bone Spurs
- Decreased Mobility and More
The Stem Cell Solution
Dr. Ken Curtis treated Brian with a procedure called Stem Cell Therapy, a non-surgical alternative for the treatment of a variety of musculoskeletal conditions using the patient's own cells. Using a small needle, stem cells are collected by aspirating the bone marrow from the back of the patient's pelvis, or by collecting fat cells from the abdomen. Local anesthesia was used for minimal discomfort. The aspirate is then placed in a centrifuge, which spins it at a high speed to separate the stem cells from the rest of the bone marrow aspirate. The concentration of stem cells, called bone marrow aspiration concentrate (BMAC), was then injected close to the injured or diseased tissue using ultrasound or x-ray guidance.
Since Dr. Ken Curtis is using the patient's own cell, there is no possibility of the body rejecting the new tissue formed by the Stem Cell Procedure, making the procedure both very safe and very effective. This treatment allows the body to take advantage of the normal healing pathways at a greatly accelerated rate.
Brian's Results
Brian came in for a post treatment interview and said, "It was relatively easy. I took a little nap and you all did your thing, took blood, and before I knew it, it was over."
When asked how he was doing now, Brian said, "What a difference, I had to stop playing the sports I enjoyed, and working out in the yard, it was even difficult to do long periods of running. And now I am doing all that with absolutely no pain. It is fantastic!"
Brian asked if he would recommend Stem Cell Therapy to other people with degenerative disk problems. Brian replied that he had already told both his brother-in-law, and sister in law, a massage therapist, with clients whom have similar problems.
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Steve's Story
By Jan Hatchard, Director of Development
Although you may not know Steve Soriano by name, chances are you've seen him making his way around the Island in his wheelchair, or had the pleasure of sharing a conversation with him while riding the VTA bus. If you've had that pleasure, chances are what you most remember is his wide, engaging smile. If you are lucky, during your encounter, you were treated to a bit of his amazingly positive perspective on life.
Born with Cerebral Palsy, Steve describes himself as a 'very determined kid' who went to 'regular' junior and senior high school. He was still walking in those days and recounts that his biggest challenge was getting from one class to another in the time allotted. With his characteristic determination, he negotiated an additional five minutes to make his way from one class to another and as he reports, "It worked out great!"
Like so many 'wash-a-shore' Vineyarders, Steve fell in love with the Island long before he made the move to live here full time. He first visited the Island as a camper at Jabberwocky. Through that camping experience, he became the first employee of Chilmark Chocolates in 1985.
For many years, Steve traveled to the Island each Friday, then worked Friday, Saturday and Sunday at Chilmark Chocolates, and traveled back home to Braintree on Sunday. Eventually he added four weeks of vacation – two weeks in the beginning of the year and two in the fall. Somewhere along the line, Steve glimpsed a dream of a life he wanted to pursue, and although it took a rather extraordinary effort, he refused to give up until his dream of a full-time life on the Island came true. He credits Martha's Vineyard Community Services with helping him make that happen.
For Steve, independent living began in 1990 when he moved out of his mother's home and into his own apartment in Braintree, MA. Later, when he began to think about a move to the Island, he called upon a trusted counselor there to help him evaluate the idea. She placed a call to Martha's Vineyard Community Services to find out what assistance would be available. With the assurance of the necessary counseling, employment, and homemaker services in place, Steve added his name to the waiting list for housing and began a wait that stretched over nearly five years. Finally, the call came that he had a home waiting at Hillside Village.
Once, he was settled here, Steve worked with Chip Bergeron and Kendra Yale of Martha's Vineyard Community Services Island Employment Services program to find the perfect job for him. Now, every week day, Steve boards the bus for the Martha's Vineyard Regional High School where he sorts and delivers all of the mail. He credits Chip and Kendra, "They helped me learn the job and still support me today when I need it."
When asked about Steve's role at the school, Principal Peg Regan responded, "I call Steve our standard bearer for happiness. He has only good days. Every room he enters lights up."
Steve's high school supervisor, Carol Whitmarsh, shares that Steve is much beloved by the entire high school community. She adds, "Steve brings a lot of joy in to the school. He has the most wonderful attitude. We could all learn from him."
Once a week, Steve sees a counselor at the MVCS Island Counseling Center. He comments, "I sometimes have trouble expressing my thoughts and feelings, and once in a while, I would get everything all bottled up inside. So, I see my counselor once a week and we just sit and talk. I urge people who need services to come and see what Community Services has to offer. Don't be bashful. It took me a long time to realize that I needed to talk with someone. I was in denial. After I realized I needed to talk to a counselor, I felt like a 100 lb weight was lifted off my shoulders. I was able to release all of my thoughts that I needed to get out. It has helped a lot."
Today, Steve is proud of his home at Hillside where he carefully tends his yard and keeps his bird feeders filled with seed. Other than his ongoing battle with wild turkeys (over grass seed!) he loves the life he has created here. In his words, "I'm very content and happy with what I have. I don't think I'm missing anything in my life. I have a good job, a wonderful girlfriend, and I live in a great community. I couldn't ask for anything better."
"Martha's Vineyard is wonderful. Everybody is so nice and I feel so safe because it seems like everybody knows each other." He jokes, "I hear other people complaining and I say, 'What are you complaining about? You live on Martha's Vineyard!'"


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Dan Barrett wants his Boston Town side to improve on last season's points total.
Following Saturday's 5-1 victory over Harborough Town, the Poachers sit in 13th place in the UCL Premier on 24 points.
That means they have 22 matches left in which to pick up 11 points to surpass last season's tally, which saw the side finish in 14th spot.
"It's three points on the board and three points closer to improving on last season's overall points, which is my main target," said the Town manager, reflecting on Saturday's victory.
"Hopefully, we can get a little run in before the new year with a couple of very difficult games coming up."
Jack Wightwick and Renzie Lobendhan both netted braces on Saturday, while Gary Cross also got on the scoresheet.
However, with Town cruising and just seven minutes left to play, their hopes of recording their first clean sheet since August were ended by Dan Knott's 25-yard strike.
Barrett said the goal was down to an error from keeper Ricky Drury, but he refused to point the finger of blame at the stopper.
He added: "Rick has been superb in recent weeks and very much kept us in the game in our last two games."
Saturday's victory at Bowden Park also saw Alex Beck return from injury.
Town now turn their attentions to Saturday's contest against AFC Kempston Rovers at the DWB Stadium (KO 3pm).
The Walnut Boys sit a place bove the Poachers in the table, although the two opponents are level on points.
Victory could even see Barrett's side move up three places in the standings - as well as edging closer to his target of 35 points come April.


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Matt Smith carried the flame for the Olympic Games
Early morning, yesterday, May 26, 2012, a huge crowd gathered in Cardiff to watch Math Smith being the lead runned in the Olympic Torch relay, carrying the world's most famous Flame for part of its journey from the Temple of Hera to London.
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Great healthy breakfast for a good start of your day
This is a super easy, delicious and nutritious breakfast dish that only takes a few minutes to prepare and will leave you wanting more! Banana and pear will turn soft and sweet, there is a hint of freshness from the lemon zest, creamy peanut butter and a nice crunch from the toasted bread. Kids will love this, too, and because you can just put a whole batch of them in the oven at the same time it's great for a family brunch or similar.
I actually came up with this dish because I really don't like to throw away food and this is a perfect way to use up bread that has already dried out a bit, as heating the peanut butter will add quite a bit of moisture to the bread. If using fresh bread this whole moisture thing is a bit tricky, so make sure that your slice of bread is not too thin. Also, since the consistency of bananas is a bit softer than the one of pears it's better to make the pear slices a bit thinner, the banana slices a bit thicker.
Regarding the amount of ingredients: depending on how big the slice of bread is the amounts will vary, but you should be fine with the amounts stated (I added a bit of leeway…).
Alright, this will only take 10 minutes to prepare, so let's get started!


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For those who are tagging along with their horsey families but don't actually ride horses, Chilliwack offers a wide range of fun and exciting things to do while they are all riding.
Island 22 Park has the largest boat launch in the area along the Fraser River and is very well maintained. There are many fishing charter companies in Chilliwack that can guide you to the best places for salmon fishing or better yet, try your hand at catching one of the Fraser Rivers famous Sturgeon.
For more information on Fishing Charters in Chilliwack check out these websites. Boat Launch fees HERE.
Cascade Fishing Adventures
Great River Fishing Adventures
Great Catch Fishing Adventures
Aqua Ventures Fishing Experience
Island 22 Horse Park is also located to some beautiful golf courses. Most require you to book your tee time one week in advance but it is worth it. Check out:
The Falls Golf Course
Bridal Falls Golf Course
Meadowlands Golf and Country Club
Not too far away is the Trans-Canada Water Park
Always lots of fun.
For a quick swim or maybe a shower during an over night event The Chilliwack Landing Leisure Center is VERY close to the park.
Drop in fee of five dollars for the pools and showers.
Monday - Friday 6am - 10pm
Saturday and Sunday 7:30am - 9:30pm
Holidays - call for hours.
To check out the location of these places and other sites close to Island 22 head over to this Chilliwack Map to help with your searching.
Water jump - old jump perfect, new jump too full
Mosquitoes - close to zero. Few more at night.
Mowing - happening August 16
XC Courses coureses are limited to permanent jumps and minimal lower level jumps. please do not over jump. be aware of footing and fallen branches.
Rings - all three rings have excellent footing. Stadium jumps in the front ring. Jumps donated by the Society and Mt. Cheam Pony Club. DO NOT TOUCH THE POLES AND WINGS IN THE STORAGE SHED. TAMPERING WITH THESE WILL RESULT IN ALL STADIUM JUMPS BEING REMOVED FOR PRACTICE USE.
Footing - amazing footing at the park. little wet in some areas. please use your riding smarts.
Gatehouse - open. parking fees in effect. $5 per car. $10 per truck and trailer. Trailers must park in front parking lot.
Reminder there is NO overnight camping allowed in the park without park rental. Contact Island 22 Society for details.
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New Delhi: Through seven World and five Asian titles and across 30 countries one thing has remained unchanged in Billiards wonder boy Pankaj Advani's life – his lucky cue.
For past 10 years, Advani has treasured his lucky charm and has no plan to give it up for a new one even if it requires minor repair job from time to time.
"I picked this cue from Bangkok in 2001 during the Asian junior championship. This cue has travelled with me across 30 countries. I won many major championship with it including all my seven World and five Asian titles. So, I consider it as my lucky charm," Advani told reporters.
"Majority of my success has come with this cue and I don't think that I could have got better cue than this. This has something special in it and I am not going to give it up for a new one," Advani said.
With this cue, Advani became the youngest Indian to win IBSF World Snooker Championship in 2003 and also won the Asian Billiards Championship and IBSF World Billiards Championship in 2005.
He also became the only player to repeat the twin triumphs at the IBSF World Billiards Championships in 2008, before winning the World Professional Billiards Championship last year and his third straight (and fourth overall) Asian billiards title in April this year.
"When I came back from Bangkok and started playing with the cue. It took me two months to get used to it and now I am very touchy about my stick.
"No player will use other cue than the one he is using personally for long time. You see each cue has different feel from the other one," Advani said.
The cue is made up of refined ash wood. The butt end of the cue is of larger circumference while the shaft is of smaller circumference.
This year, Advani will defend his title at the World professional billiard Championship in September, before touring China for the 16th Asian Games in Guangzhou from November 12 to 27.
"The World championship is one of the most important tournaments this year as I am the defending champion. I have worked hard and hope to retain the title," he said.
"I'm currently taking part in the second phase of selection trials for men's Billiards and Snooker for the Asian Games in Goa," he added.


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Donnay goes 1-2 at state
Aaron Donnay had quite a stage for what was likely his final wrestling appearance last week at the state tournament. The Glencoe-Silver Lake senior chalked up one last win of the season before bowing out with a pair of defeats on the rubberized floor of the Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul.
"I was excited and nervous – a bundle of nerves," Donnay said. "Overall, I didn't do as well as I could have, but it was a lot of fun to be there."
Donnay concluded his year with a 35-7 overall record with the 1-2 mark over three state matches at 138 pounds that took place on Friday, Feb. 26.
The day began in triumphant manner as Donnay defeated Wabasso/Red Rock Central's Jared Schroepfer 6-2 in a morning match.
For more on this story, see the March 2 issue of the Chronicle
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of writing my first historical fiction novel, The River Girl's Song, set in the 1880's. When I first thought of my story idea, I was going to make the setting somewhere on the prairie. Then I realized... I had never been to the prairie. Since a road trip wasn't in my budget, I decided to base the book in my own, small town, over 135 years ago.
So began a wonderful journey, looking through websites, newspaper articles and books. I have learned so many amazing things about Bastrop, TX, and there's enough material for hundreds of book ideas for later.
But I think many people would be surprised to know much of my material isn't from history, at least not that far back. Many of my main character, Zillia's experiences are based on things that happened to me, or at least aspects of my own life. My family was a large one. I am the oldest of seven children, and we grew up fairly poor. At one point we actually lived in a dilapidated house with no windows. I lived in a tent for awhile to keep out bats. So dealing with Texas extreme temperatures was a way of life for me when I was sixteen... even in the nineties.
My family also spent a lot of time by the Colorado River, the "River Girl's" home. We swung on grapevine and eat cactus apple, dewberry and Mustang Grape jelly. We had goats more than once, and had to chase off wild dogs and snakes. I still live withing spitting distance of the Colorado, and enjoy taking my children to hike along it's leafy green shores.
The story is about a young girl's determination and courage to figure things out and make it, with God's grace. I think most people have had those times in their lives where answers don't come easily and we finally have to cry out to our Creator for help and healing.
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(This short story was printed in Unbelievably Bad #16)
In the dream, I have long hair and I am at the bottom of an escalator. My hair is caught in the escelator's steel teeth and they are slowly ripping the hair from my head and people are walking around me pissed off at the obstacle I present. I wake up and run for the dunny. As I pass the fridge I grab a can of Reschs and scull half of it before I bang my shins into porcelain. I count to 47 while pissing in the darkness. Then I get undressed, step in the shower and finish off the beer as the hot water washes all the toxins and hate from my weary body.
Every morning it's the same thing; I curse my stupidity for not grabbing another beer, then I think about taking a shit. There is no use of course, methadone has bunged me up so that I only shit once every few days and that is only because I am a heavy drinker. The fucking liquid handcuffs. I look down at the drain hole for a while then turn the attention to my prick. How long has it been? That is one side effect that I can live with; the complete loss of libido. I never fully appreciated how much my life was controlled by that imperious urge – how everything I did was to fulfil its demands. Methadone is life in stasis, I have resigned from nature.
Then I turn off the shower, half dry myself in the rush to the fridge and crack another can. It's very cold and the back of my throat freezes with pleasure as I pour it down. I put on the kettle and by the time it whistles I have rolled and sparked up a two paper. Then I sit down at the desk with a cup of Earl Grey and finish off the joint.
This is drug dealing in the 21st century; I plug in a USB then hard-boot The Amnesiac Incognito Live System and log onto the darknet via The Onion Router. The neighbours have no idea that I have hacked their Wi-Fi using Reaver and that I am using it to sell drugs. I have vendor accounts on Silk Road, The Marketplace and Agora Market. I check each one for orders and transfer the customer's bitcoins to my wallet. Then I save the addresses and order details onto an encrypted external hard drive, un-plug The Amnesiac Incognito Live System and log onto the clearnet using my own connection. As I bounce between Facebook and news.com.au, I print out the address labels from the encrypted drive. I have a Tupperware container in my drawer and I take it out and pop off the lid. It is filled with vac-sealed Mylar packets with measurements written on the front in texta. One. Point-five. Point-two-five.
I fulfil all the orders, slap on the corresponding address labels and seal them off. Seventeen orders for twelve grams of 84% Sassafras oil MDMA. My window that looks out onto the street is dark as summer storm clouds have blocked out the sun. Trees are bending savagely and it looks like the end of the world out there. Then I hear my phone vibrating over on the computer desk. I walk over and spin it around. It's fucking Smicko.
>urgent Netwerk meeting!!! attendance mandatory severe penalties apply for lateness or non-attendance!!! 10am @ the Netwerk
That's the morning ruined. The prick is a dead-set psychopath and it wouldn't surprise me at all if his message is just a ruse to catch out latecomers or no-shows in order to inflict his special brand of rough justice. I should probably clarify; Smicko is my boss and The Netwerk is the dealing enterprise I work for. He is what you call a conventional dealer; contacts with organised crime and all that ugly stuff. Including myself, The Netwerk has four other employees and we each specialise in one product and keep the transactions domestic mail only – no need to worry about customs that way. Smicko takes a percentage of our sales, transferred directly into his bitcoin wallet.
He insists upon perfect vendor feedback, impeccable stealth for shipments and flawless operational security. If I lived anywhere but Australia I wouldn't need Smicko and would be completely independent. But this is Sydney and international postal drug orders via the darknet have a way of not being sent or getting snatched by customs which makes it difficult to maintain a consistent supply. So in that regard, Smicko is necessary and he also acts as a buffer between myself and the animals involved in organised crime. I have never understood why people idolise gangsters; they are the worst type of capitalists in existence – the ones who use terror and force to get what they want.
I don't have time to waste, so I finish off my tea and head out the door. The wind is spiralling garbage and leaves into tiny tornadoes and it rushes out of the side streets on Enmore Road like a freight train. I cross to the side that Garden Court Clinic is on and get in step behind a high-panted peach. A few years ago she would have ruined my day as I contemplated the injustice of a generation chasm and my lack of facial hair that vetoed any possible connection. Now, thanks to the liquid handcuffs I couldn't give a fuck about her or anything else for that matter. I push open the door to the clinic. There is no line up and Ms Lau buzzes me through the security door.
"How you today?" She asks as she adjusts the dispenser level.
Someone has carved the word 'cunt' into the wood counter top with an arrow pointing inwards.
"Much better now that I'm lookin at your beautiful face, Betty."
She smiles and hands me the sickly sweet syrup in a little plastic cup and I toss it down my throat. Who would've thought that the Ludivico technique would taste so sweet?
Outside again, I turn right up Enmore Road, cut through the Newtown Professional Centre, jay walk across King Street and shove open the doors to the Town Hall Bottle-O. I buy two longnecks of Reschs to kick in the dose and get the fuck out of there. I scull-walk down the street and am finishing off the second longy as I turn into Knight Street. I pound at the door to Smicko's warehouse and he buzzes me in.
Smicko is pacing like a caged tiger with a gutful of bad speed. He looks at his watch and sucks at his front teeth, "cuttin it close, mate, cuttin it fuckin close."
As usual the place is a bloody sauna with hidden heaters slow cooking everything within the walls.
"So what's the occasion?" I ask.
"All in good time, mate, just waitin fa one larst straggler." He hisses through clenched teeth.
I feel sick at his answer, it looks like he has been up for days and is in one of his sadistic moods.
He has on his favourite Frangipani sarong and the jail tatts that cover his torso and arms make his pasty white skin look sickly and opaque. Garish gold chains hang from his neck and wrist and he has the requisite mug-lair gold sovereign rings on most of his fingers. His small, close together eyes impart a subnormal disposition, but his intelligence is predatory and cunning. I sit down next to Cheese Burger (cocaine). On my right is Tone (heroin) who looks like he has let his habit get the better of him, which is exactly why I put my hand up for selling MDMA. Sitting next to Smicko's empty seat is the token sycophant of our crew, Heinz (ice), so-called because he gets around with a can of baked beans in a shopping bag as an improvised weapon.
On the other side of the table is Joyce, Smicko's Thai wife, it looks like she has been up for the bender as well. As usual, she is smoking a Marlboro and her eyes peer out from the thickly painted divots that pass as her eye sockets. She does just as much ice as Smicko but her body betrays none of the usual signs as it manifests solely in her savage temperament. She looks as calm as a Hindu cow as she surveys us with sneaky eyes.
"Ullo, Dean." She says and the evil stench from her rotten teeth reaches me across the table; years of chain smoking Marlboros and the dry rot of ice-mouth has left her gob a fetid sewer.
It's not much to ask really, put up with Smicko and Joyce's psychotic behaviour and be able to live a relatively straight forward life without the usual risk associated with narcotic dealing. Then the telecom goes off. Smicko looks at his watch and his mouth twists into a grin. Then he jumps up, marches over to the telecom, stabs the button and barks "Ya fuckin late, cunt!" into it. He sits back down and grinds his teeth.
Damo (weed) comes shambling up the stairs and launches into an apologetic speech before Smicko cuts him off with an upheld hand. Joyce glares at him and spits, "You lucky me not boss, Damo." She stabs a nail at her chest, "If me boss, I cut you fuckeen arm an leg all off an tro you in bathtub of runny shit to drown."
Smicko flashes his wife a toothless grin and pushes a bowl of grapes that is in front of him into the middle of the table.
"All members of The Netwerk are required to eat a fuckin grape." He demands.
We do as we are told and stuff grapes into our mouths, Damo snatches half a dozen and shoves them in his mouth all at once. Tone is off in nod land and Joyce pegs a grape at him that bounces off his forehead.
"Huh?" He says, as he emerges from a deep nod.
"You boss tell you to eat grape, so eat fuckeen grape."
"No thanks, don't like grapes."
Joyce stands up, "What wrong wit you – you go faggot? You eat four grape now, cunt, maybe then you not nod off on heroin an you lissen to boss!" She shoves the bowl of grapes across to him.
As I bite into mine, it tastes like I have chewed a Panadol and then my mouth goes completely numb.
"What the fuck?" I ask.
"Injected each grape with a fifth of a gram of my best coke." Smicko says proudly.
Joyce laughs like a firecracker and I try to talk without biting my tongue off, "Why didn't ya tell us? I would've swallowed it whole. "
Smicko laughs viciously then stops abruptly and his face sharpens. "Enough bullshit, now which one a youse cunts as eard of a vendor called OzDMT?"
Heinz reaches in for another grape, "the name rings a bell, vends acacia DMT I think."
My heart is pounding in my eardrums but I reach for another grape despite myself. Free drugs are free drugs. Smicko is in his element; this is what the cunt lives for.
"Anyone else eard a im?"
We look at each other and shake our heads.
"Well, you clueless fuckwits might know nuffink about im but e sure knows about us." Smicko starts handing around printouts.
The second grape was a mistake; the left hand side of my face is completely numb and despite the 'done and beer, I am starting to get paranoid. I accept the sheet of paper and have a read, there is an email printed on it.
i am trapped in the mariana web – it exists – there are entities down here – massive fucking things from deep space – we have opened a portal in darknet – they MUST not breach clearnet – this is not a joke – check my vendor profile – OzDMT.<<<
It looks like the half dozen grapes have hit Damo hard. He drops his paper on the table and with his jaw grinding wildly yells, "OBVIOUSLY A FUCKIN JOKE MATE, EVERYONE KNOWS THE MARIANA WEB IS A MYTH."
Smicko looks at him askance, "What ya yellin for mate? I'm right ere. Now naturally, I would've dismissed the fuckin fing without hesitation but it was sent ta my Tor Mail address, known only ta the inner circle of The Netwerk. So the question is; which one a youse cunts doxxed me?"
We look at each other and I have to remind myself to blink.
Cheese Burger leans into the table, "Makes no sense…dox ya for what end, brah? Nah…more to it I reckon…some cunt is playin games wif ya."
Joyce screws up her face and glares at Cheese Burger, "You know all about playink game don't you Cheese?"
I can't tell if it's the coke grapes or Joyce just being a tweaker cunt but there seems to be something going on between her and Cheese.
Heinz clears his voice and breaks the tension, "What is the Mariana Web anyways?"
Smicko shakes his head violently, "cunt, that is like livin in Redfern an not knowin where the Block is. Deano, you wanna fill im in?"
I pick up another grape and chew it – my mouth is completely numb anyway, "It's all hypothetical, just a name for the deepest part of the darknet – y'know, after the Mariana Trench. There are other names for it; Virus Soup, The Fog, the Primarch System. It is the deepest layer of the darknet an no-one really knows what is down there or how to access it."
My oration is cut short by Damo shrieking like a banshee. It looks like he is struggling with an invisible snake, then he falls to the ground writhing and kicking.
"Walter Cronkite! Walter Cronkite!" He bellows.
Joyce is up on her feet, "Wha is wrong wit cunt? Who Walter Cronkite?"
Damo starts jerking around like an amputated limb so she kicks him viciously in the ribs. Cheese Burger steps in.
"Fuckin chill, Joyce! Cunt's obviously in coke psychosis."
Joyce stabs a grizzled finger with a fake nail at him. "You shut you mouth, Leb cunt. I stab you in heart wit apple corer filled wit dog shit if you talk to me like that!"
Cheese Burger puts his hands up but Joyce isn't finished.
"That right, you fuck up! Silly cunt who look like Paul Keating…no woman want to fuck wit you lookin like dat!"
Smicko claps loudly and we all turn to him, he nods at Damo, "Tone, you take care a that pussy, bring im back ta your place an get some gear inta im. The rest of ya's find out who this OzDMT cunt is an how e got me Tor Mail address. Netwerk dismissed!" He pushes his chair out loudly.
Outside, me and Cheese Burger march up King Street eating grapes.
"What the fuck was Joyce goin orn about no woman wantin to fuck ya – where the hell did that come from?" I ask.
"Ah! Hell hath no fury."
"She tried it on?"
"Lis-sen, ya don't tell no cunt, but yeah, she did."
"Crazy bitch! She might tell Smicko, but turn it around."
"He knows, brah, e was there. Those two are full swingers, invited me round on some pretext-ya know how they are. Joyce comes out lookin like a lump of gristle in lingerie with a face like a bulldog chewin a wasp and goes, 'hallo Cheese, you wan for me to show you pussy?', I couldn't get out a there quick enough."
I laugh all the way up to the Townie where Cheese Burger grinds to a halt.
"Gotta go in ere for a sec, mate." He says.
"Date with the mechanical girlfriend?"
"Just a quick slap, feelin lucky tonight."
I leave him to his secondary addiction as I stride home to indulge mine.
For the next week I only leave my apartment to mail out orders and get dosed. I spend the days smoking dope and playing Battlefield 4 online. I looked into OzDMT, seems he was a legit vendor on Silk Road selling Acacia extracted DMT freebase and Changa. Probably made it himself. His account has been inactive for over a week which could mean anything – including a bust. One let up in op-sec and you left yourself wide open for a visit from the AFP.
I am waiting for another map to load on BF4 when my phone starts vibrating. It's Cheese Burger.
"Come meet me we gotta talk about some heavy shit."
"Can't ya tell me over the phone?"
"Lis-sen! This is heavy."
I'm a red cunt hair away from stir crazy so it's a good excuse as any for me to get out of the fucking flat, "Righto, are ya at the pokies at the Townie."
"Nah, mate."
"Pokies at the Shakie?"
"I'm not fuckin gamblin, cunt! I'm at Ching Yip's in Haymarket."
"Fuck's that – some Bing Lee shit?"
"Yeah, nah, coffee shop. Second floor a Dixon House Arcade in Haymarket."
The design and decor of Dixon House Arcade is straight out of the 80s. I get the escalator up to the second floor where all the shops are; Chinese medicine practitioners, travel agents and massage parlours. I am fully expecting some sort of bullshit coke drama as I walk into Ching Yip's Coffee Lounge. Cheese Burger is sitting at a table by the window.
"This ya latest hang out, mate?" I ask as I sit down.
"Lis-sen, this is as hidden away as it gets."
"Who ya hidin from?"
The waitress comes and stands at our table with a notepad and pen in hand.
"Two Hong Kong tea, please." Cheese holds up two fingers and she walks off.
"So…" I ask.
Cheese leans across the table, "Bro, ya not gunna believe this, but I bin talkin ta OzDMT."
I shrug my shoulders. "Didja arsk im how e got Smicko's Tor Mail?"
"Who gives a shit about that cunt." He pulls a piece of torn off newspaper from his pocket and smooths it out on the table top. "Read this."
Internet drug dealer found dead in flat.
Redfern: Marcus Hay was not known to police, yet he was one of the largest dealers of the hallucinogenic drug DMT in Australia. Marcus represented a new breed of drug dealer, those who operate on the so-called 'darknet' – a shady online world that exists below the 'clearnet' and is a haven for arms dealers, paedophiles, drug dealers and terrorists. It is a world that is proving shockingly difficult for police to infiltrate and if it hadn't been for Marcus' death last Tuesday, his involvement in this illicit world would have been unknown. He died from a massive heart attack. A large quantity of DMT was found on the premises. AFP
I slide the clipping back to Cheese Burger.
"So e's dead an someone's impersonatin im?"
"No-one's impersonatin no-one, I bin talkin ta OzDMT – Marcus Hay."
Coke psychosis, it was bound to happen sooner or later.
"Lis-sen, I know what ya thinkin, but I tell ya, e is just as real as me or you sittin ere, cept e is in the darknet now."
The waitress comes with our tea. I take a sip, it is very fucking milky.
"So…how ave ya bin communicatin with im?" I ask, more to humour him than anything.
"Tor Mail – e responds ta all me queries." Cheese withdraws a paper fold from his wallet and dumps the powder contents into his tea. I point at his cup, "ya don't reckon it's that shit that is respondin ta all ya queries?"
"Don't patronise me, cunt, I know what psychosis is like an this is completely different."
"Sorry, mate, but put yaself in my shoes."
"I know, I know-it sounds fuckin insane. But look, e sent me all this shit via post."
Cheese picks up an old DJs shopping bag from under the table and places it on top. I have a look inside; there is an expensive looking headset with 'Oculus' written on its front.
"What the hell is it?"
"The beta model of an Oculus Rift – ya can't buy em yet, y'know – virtual reality."
"Oh, shit! I ave heard about these." I pull it out of the bag.
"This one is hacked ta fuck, Marcus sent me the mods – years ahead of its time."
"Why did e send you this?" I try it on for size.
Cheese hisses through clenched teeth, "e wants me ta go an visit im down there."
I pull it off my head, "what the fuck? Are ya gunna do it?"
"There's a problem, ya know how I can't do hallucinogens?"
I remember a teenaged Cheese Burger on mushrooms, rolling around on the ground at Central station moaning like a retard and shitting himself.
"Yeah, I know."
"Well, there's a few other things ya gotta do if ya wanna get down there apparently. He showed me how ta set up an emulator for a Quantum processor on me computer and had some DMT an moclobemide sent ta ma house."
"Fuck's moclobemide?"
"It's an anti-depressant from the 50s, a mono-amine oxidase inhibitor, y'know so ya kin orally digest DMT."
"Yeah, yeah; pharmahuasca. So what ya sayin? That with Oculus, a quantum emulator and DMT ya kin actually visit the Mariana web like it's a physical place?"
Cheese purses his lips and slaps the top of the table.
"Spot on." He raises his eyebrows at me and finishes off his tea in one greedy slurp.
He doesn't say anymore, just sits there smiling at me. The prick knows full well that my favourite book is Neuromancer.
Cheese Burger's place in Surry Hills is absolutely spotless; you would be hard pressed to find an errant speck of dust in the place, which is more a testament to his coke fuelled insanity than anything else. He has air purifiers humming away in the corner of his lounge room and the temperature is kept at a constant 18 degrees Celsius. We walk into his computer room; there is a Franken-machine on his desk that wasn't there last time I visited.
"Fuck's that?" I ask, pointing at the monstrosity.
"Dark Blade machine, Marcus ad it delivered to me door. Done some eavy mods orn it from blue-prints he sent me too. All configured ta run a Quantum processor emulator, cheggitout."
He switches it on and it hums like it is about to take off.
"Water cooled!" He says like a proud parent.
The machine is running Linux and Cheese sits down and starts typing. Then he plugs in the Oculus Rift headset and hands me a sheet of pills.
"Take the MAOI first then balloon the DMT, machine shoulda warmed up by the time the shit hits ya."
So I take the pharmahuasca and me and Cheese shoot the shit for an hour or more. We are reminiscing about an all-girl punk band from the early 90s called Clit Hornet when I start feeling kooked on the DMT. Then it surges full force and I become convinced that Cheese's flat is a vessel in deep space heading for the heart of the sun. So I sit on his couch and he fits the Oculus Rift headset on me. I can hear him typing away on the keyboard and Linux commands appear in front of me in mono-chrome green.
"Loggin onta darknet, hold onta ya arse." Mutters Cheese.
Then the world disappears and a confusing electrical storm takes over my brain. Neon flashes and electric spirals of burning code sear my eyeballs to the cortex as I plunge at terminal velocity past programming languages that cascade like a raging waterfall. I recognize commands in C++ and Javascript then it all shatters into machine code that reassembles with occult speed into animated sprites that start swarming towards me, like iron filings drawn to a magnet. I clamp my eyes shut and things go completely silent. An animated sprite of a white rabbit hops into my mind's eye and I fear for my sanity. This world is beyond physicality, beyond sight. The rabbit stops and scratches itself, a shimmer of a glitch running through it as it repeats the loop. Then it hops away from me and I find myself following it. Disembodied, I float in the void as the rabbit turns this way and that. Then it hops down an invisible hole and is gone. I watch as a room starts to materialise. First the walls and ceiling shimmer into existence going from opaque to solid. Then the floor spreads out in an electronic matrix of light and fills in. Low-boy style video game cabinets morph out of nothingness and my hearing comes back, thrilling to the sounds of a 1980s video game arcade. Pale holograms fill out until the arcade is packed with people playing the games. It stretches out in all directions to infinity. The place is as real as anything I have ever experienced. Then it dawns on me, this is it – I am in the darknet.
"All your base are belong to us!" Someone says from behind me.
I spin around. A short, middle-aged man in brown corduroy trousers is standing there with a cup of tea. He adjusts his glasses and coughs wetly.
"Are you Marcus?" He certainly doesn't fit the profile of a DMT user or dealer.
"Was, Marcus. Welcome to cyberspace."
"You said there were entities from deep space down ere that were tryin ta break through ta the clearnet?" I look around.
"Yeah, nah. I am the only entity down here, mate, just wanted to get your attention."
"Well it worked. This all seems so familiar, is this a memory or something?"
"You should know – it's from your mind."
"But it seems so real."
"That's because it is."
"Nah, this is like a hallucination or something."
Marcus kicks me sharply in the balls and I double over in pain.
"Fuck me dead, cunt! What didja do that for?"
"It doesn't get more real than a kick in the balls, mate. Now stop ya whinging and let's get fucked up and play some video games."
He marches over to a vending machine and I limp behind him. He twists the turnkey and two cold cans of San Miguel drop into the chute. He cracks one and hands it to me.
"Things never get stale or boring down here – after we get a good buzz on, I'll take you through the Primarch System; a skyscraper of neon data."
The beer tastes it should and I feel myself giving into my new environment. The strange thing is it feels like home. I have a sense of belonging that I never experienced IRL. Marcus hits the two player button on a Black Dragon game and hands me a joint. I take a draw and taste the chemical tang of heroin in it. A woman in high boots walks past, flicks her brunette hair and gives me a smile that speaks volumes. She stops at a pinball machine and starts playing it with maximum feeling. Marcus loses a life and notices me staring at her.
"What a peach." He says.
"She is like the girl of my dreams."
"That's because she is the girl of your dreams."
I laugh and he takes the joint off me.
"This is fuckin unreal."
"Nah, mate, it's surreal."
I finish off my beer and walk back to the vending machine to grab more. In the back of my mind I realise that it is all just an illusion; the physical manifestation of a teenage memory, but even the smell of the place is perfect; hot electronics, new carpet and cigarettes. As I bend down to retrieve another can from the vending chute, something scuttles past me on the floor and darts behind the vending machine. I experience a jolt of synthanaesthesia and smell the damp slime of evil. A shiver electrifies my spine and my bunghole puckers up. I don't want to look behind the machine, I don't want to ruin my perfect world. But I look behind the game anyway. There is a beetle black spider the size of a small dog covered in foul smelling discharge. It is crouched with its skinny, gnarled legs bunched up like black sticks and is chewing on something, manipulating it with its pincers. I lean over to see what it has in its mouth. It is a baby's tiny arm with pink little fingers dangling limply off the end of it. I am filled with a vicious loathing at the obscene thing and peg my full can at it. It jumps away and drops the arm, I kick the arm out from behind the machine, it just doesn't seem right to leave it there. The spider gathers its senses then makes a move for the arm. It rears up on its hind legs and extends its fangs to their full, terrifying length. Situated as it is the spider comes up to waist height and starts to screech a terrible hissing sound that causes Marcus to come running over. He grabs me by the shoulder and pulls me away. The spider advances and fills the air with the stench of a rotten corpse.
"Back away!" Marcus yells.
I give in and let him pull me away and watch in horror as the spider snatches up the arm and scuttles away with a nightmare speed.
"What the fuck was that?" I scream in his face.
"That was a physical manifestation of CP. There are so many rockspiders on the darknet that their presence sometimes overlaps with ours."
The fact that paedophiles lurked on the darknet and employed the same op-sec and encryption that I used for dealing had never sat well with me. Marcus claps loudly three times.
"Anyways, fuck that shit! Let's check out the Primarch System."
The arcade shifts then dissolves into chemical smoke and then we are floating upwards through infinite, opaque databases. Marcus' face glows with blue neon, "how's this for some Tron shit, mate?"
I laugh but it sounds tinny and strained. Then a memory stabs me in the brain.
"Marcus…you're dead."
He falls back laughing into a wall of light that covers him like water.
"Join the club, cunt!"
Then I can see my Facebook homepage in all its garish glory. Condolences from people that I hardly knew clog up the feed with saccharine lamentations, their feigned closeness to death giving their hollow lives some sort of meaning. The words scroll past into nothingness; an electronic sentinel as pointless as my life. Then the vision is gone and I sense an aberration in the environment, a cancer with roots creeping deep. On the periphery of my senses, a Lovecraftian beast is trying to escape my attention. It slithers away as I sense it with my mind and change the world to block its retreat. It turns like a massive deep water squid and flares out black tentacles as I surround it with a cage of neon machine code. Realising its confinement, the abomination shoots a torrent of corruption at me. I collapse the Primarch System with my mind and the beast thrashes in resistance. The world fragments and shatters as security systems implode in slow motion. In its death throes, the creature vomits all the filth of the world, every byte of child porn reduced to machine code explodes out of it; a tidal wave of data documenting every single heinous crime. Instantaneously, I transmit all the names of the people who created it, viewed it, uploaded it, downloaded it, streamed it or traded it. I transmit their IP addresses, physical addresses, phone numbers and Facebook profiles to every police database in the world. Then my mind glitches as supernovas of data blossom before my eyes.
Cheese Burger is yelling from far away and I just want the fuckwit to shut up so I can sleep.
"Wake up, cunt, fuckin open ya eyes!"
I can smell tobacco on his fingers as he paws stupidly at my eyes. I inhale sharply and if feels like fire in my lungs, so I spring off the couch and onto my feet. Like a new born foal, I stumble around a bit before finding my legs.
"FAAAAAARK!" I yell.
"You was gorn, mate, stopped breathin and everyfink!"
I sit back down on the couch hyperventilating.
"How long?"
"Once I plugged ya inta the darknet it wouldna bin no more than ten minutes."
"I saw him." I rub my eyes.
"Yeah, he is down there. He is alive."
Cheese Burger flops down on the couch next to me.
"Fuck, bro! This is he-avy shit."
"Ya ave ta get rid of it, smash everything."
"Re-lax, bro, I'll give ya some xanies."
"Fuck ya xanies! We gotta plug up the hole!"
"Whattya talkin about?"
"I fought a monster down there, Cheese! The worst monster in the fuckin world, it wasn't a trip mate, I wasn't hallucinating." I put my face in my hands.
"So it worked, you was actually in the darknet?"
I look back up at Cheese and I can tell what he is thinking. The fuckwit wants to try it.
I stand up and before Cheese can stop me, I pick up the Dark Wave machine and throw it on the ground. It smashes and hisses, fans whirring dementedly. Cheese Burger drops down next to it as if he has lost a child.
"What…what've ya fuckin done?"
Then I am out the door and running down the street. I run as fast as I can, realising it has been years since I have. I can smell the dirty city as storm clouds spit in my face. I run until I taste blood in my teeth. Then I slow down and walk aimlessly for a while wondering what the fuck to do. So I walk into the Clock Hotel and order a jug. I sit at a table in the back away from all the people and start sculling. I check my phone out of habit. As I expected, there are several missed calls from Cheese Burger. I scroll past them and click on a text from Heinz.
>>>Internet fucked can I come over and use your connection?
Next one is from Smicko.
Then my phone vibrates to an incoming message. There is no name attached to it – I click on it.
>>>all your bases are belong to us – global clearnet outage -massive data overload – will last 24 hrs – expect mass suicide when clearnet resumes – you have purified the stream – exposed the underbelly – the darknet says thankyou – visit anytime – OzDMT
The jug has straightened out my thinking and I can clearly see my future now. It is electronic and infinite and never sleeps, it is an androids dream of electric sheep, it's the sub-sonic hum of circuit boards under a video game sky. All I have to do is shrug off the meat-dream and embrace the electronic abyss.


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Brazil's Felipe Nasr continued his outstanding start to the 2011 Cooper Tires British Formula 3 International Series at Oulton Park over the weekend (23-25 April), taking his third win from the first six races and with it a substantial lead at the head of the driver standings.
Immediately marking himself out as the driver to watch during the season-opener at Monza earlier in the month, where the 18-year-old dominated with two wins from three, the aspiring Formula One ace delivered another thoroughly professional showing at Oulton during rounds four, five and six.
Setting the fastest time in qualifying to secure pole position for the third of the weekend's races, the Carlin driver also secured a front-row start for the opening encounter at the wheel of his Volkswagen powered Dallara F308 thanks to a consistently strong second best lap of the session.
Finishing runner-up during Saturday's fourth round with a controlled performance, Nasr went on to take an excellent fifth place in round five on Monday morning – only a couple of seconds shy of the podium – having carved his way through superbly from eighth on the 'reverse grid'.
Round six proved to be the true highlight of the weekend though with a dominant lights-to-flag drive from pole, the South American claiming a flawless victory by 3.3 seconds.
With three wins from six races, a total of five podiums for the year so far and a comfortable 34-point cushion over his closest rival, Nasr is certainly a true star in the making and a very realistic bet for the 2011 British F3 title.
Reflecting on his latest victory, Nasr said: "It's absolutely fantastic to win again, I had a great start in the final race and managed to pull a nice gap on the first lap. After that I controlled the distance to the other guys and everything went really well. Thanks to everyone at Carlin for doing a fantastic job as always."
Rounds seven, eight and nine of the 2011 Cooper Tires British F3 International Series will take place on 14/15 May at the Snetterton 300 Circuit in Norfolk.
Provisional 2011 Cooper Tires British F3 International Series Standings (after Rd6):
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ST. MARY'S CITY -- It felt like a bad idea to be out sailing Friday night on the Chesapeake Bay. As SchockaRoo -- and its 63-foot mast -- raced from Annapolis toward the mouth of the Potomac, lightning flashed and fat, cold raindrops splattered onto the deck.
"Don't touch anything metal," shouted Paul Susie, 38, the boat's captain, who was grasping an aluminum tiller extension. Heeding his warning was easier said than done on a deck covered with metal fixtures -- from the stanchions holding up safety lines, to the cleats, to that large rod holding up the sails. Metal was unavoidable.
When the storms began, SchockaRoo was about two hours into the 2005 Governor's Cup, an annual regatta sponsored by St. Mary's College of Maryland that drew about 160 vessels this year.


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The principle of integrated education is under attack like never before in this country following the Government announcement that it will introduce a new generation of state schools that can religiously discriminate against children for all of their places.
Since 2007, a 50% cap on religiously selective admissions had been in place for all new 'faith' schools – something we had fought for under Labour and had extended under Michael Gove.
But now the Government is pushing for absolute selection by religion, at the behest of lobbying from the Catholic Church in particular.
Despite the Government's rhetoric that this is about 'choice', all the evidence is clear that religious selection in fact reduces the ability of parents to see their children attend good local schools and worsens segregation along religious, ethnic, and socio-economic lines in their local areas. In some parts of the country, they make it next to impossible for non-religious parents to send their child to any schools at all in their local area, leaving them with long distances to travel, at great expense, during work hours.
The plans are already developed and we don't have much time to act. We must oppose them now and we must do so in the strongest terms possible. We need your help.
Please email your MP to ask them to oppose the Government's plan to drop the 50% cap on faith-based admissions. Help us fight for an inclusive education system in which children from all backgrounds can learn together, play together, and grow up together. Join us in defending a vision of Britain that is pluralistic, open, and non-discriminatory.
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As a young person… describe your recent experience of school. Was it inclusive? Did you mix with children from different backgrounds?
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Before Young Living, emotions were a tough thing to handle. They still are now, but to a lesser degree. So I tried meditating to help wrangle up emotions and it helped. I used peace and calming with my meditations 5 months ago, and I fell in love with YL because of the benefits I reaped from using them.
When I got even deeper into Young Living and my meditation practice, I thought more about what oils could help me achieve even greater goals. And here are the 4 I want to share with you because they've helped me reach all new levels of inner peace, reverence, and letting go of the past.
Release: I've always tried to get the positive out of the negative. I really dislike saying it, but aside from teaching me I am stronger than I think I am (which is very good), I worked with a family this summer that I needed to get away from because I couldn't handle all of the drama, chaos, and the daily talks I had with my boss about them. It was cause anxiety attacks all over again, sleepless nights, making me angrier every time I was with them, and I'm sure I talked my boyfriends ear's off every day I worked with them because there was so much I needed to purge.
Then I saw release, and thought this would be a great help. And it is. Release is a blend of ylang ylang, olive, lavandin, geranium, royal Hawaiian sandalwood and blue tansy oils. It smells amazing (almost like a stronger version of peace and calming for me) and I apply it on my sides whenever I feel anxious or need some help and guidance forgetting some of the rougher days from this past summer.
Grounding: There are times when I'm thinking about too much at one time or need an anchor to help me through the day or night. This blend of white fir, ylang ylang, scots pine, atlas cedar, angelica, and juniper oil aids with all of the above. Pine helps bring my emotions and thoughts down so much and helps me remember to either go to sleep or stay on task. I apply a drop on the back of my neck.
Humility: I bough this oil for my meditation practice. Humility is a blend of coriander, ylang ylang (I must like my ylang ylang huh?! It is in humility, grounding AND release!), bergamot, geranium, melissa, frankincense, myrrh, spikenard, neroili and rose oils. I apply a drop on my temples and in the middle of my eyes. Humility helps focus my intentions when I meditate and helps my thoughts settle down.


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Kümmell's disease
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Kümmell's disease[kēm´elz]
compression fracture of a vertebra, with symptoms occurring a few weeks after injury, including spinal pain, intercostal neuralgia, motor disturbances of the lower limbs, and kyphosis that is painful on pressure and easily reduced by extension. Called also Kümmell's or post-traumatic spondylitis.
Kümmell's disease
Etymology: Hermann Kümmell, German surgeon, 1852-1937; L, dis + Fr, aise, ease
a set of symptoms that develop after a compression fracture of the vertebrae with spinal injury. They include spinal pain, intercostal neuralgia, kyphosis, and weakness in the legs. Also called Kümmell's spondylitis, posttraumatic spondylitis, traumatic spondylopathy.


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Oregon Massage Therapy Laws
Does the Oregon Board of Massage Therapy accept Massage Specialties CEUS courses?*
Yes, please read particulars below to see if they apply specifically to you.
Oregon Continuing Education Requirements:
Unless this is your first renewal period you are required to submit a completed
Continuing Education Form (see reverse) along with the required proof of Continuing Education (CE). The total number of CE hours required is 25 per each two year renewal period up to a maximum of 50 CE hours and the minimum number of "contact hours" is half of the total due.
CPR: Effective January 1, 2008, you are required to submit proof of current adult basic CPR as part of your Active renewal requirement. CPR may be submitted for continuing education. If taken in the presence of an instructor, the hours may be applied toward your "contact hours" for a maximum of 4 hours.
Address/Name Changes: Changes must be submitted in writing via fax, US mail, website or renewal form. Name changes must be accompanied by legal verification (e.g. a government issued ID, driver's license, marriage certificate, passport or divorce decree). A penalty of up to $1,000 may be imposed for failing to notify the Board within 30 days of any change.
Please note that as of January 1, 2012 a new law went into effect requiring fingerprinting of all new licensees, LMTs returning from inactive to active or lapsed to active.
Continuing Education
The intent of Continuing Education is to protect the public by maintaining and enhancing competencies as defined in OAR 334-010-0047.
(1) Each licensee must complete 25 hours of continuing education in the competencies each renewal period. At renewal time, each licensee must sign and submit a Board supplied CE form indicating they have completed 25 hours of continuing education. The Board may require proof of CE hours.
(a) At least 12 hours must be contact hours.
(b) The remaining 13 hours may be contact hours or in areas as defined on the Board supplied CE form.
(2) The continuing education requirement must not apply to a licensee's first license renewal.
(3) Continuing education must be completed within the renewal period. Contact hours taken in excess of the total number
required may only be carried over to the next subsequent renewal period.
(4) Continuing education records must be maintained by each licensee for a minimum of five years.
(5) If the Board finds indications of fraud or falsification of records, investigative action must be instituted. Findings may result in disciplinary action up to and including revocation of the licensee's license.
(6) Failure to complete continuing education hours by the time of renewal may result in revocation, suspension and/or denial of a license. Licensee has 30 days from date of notification of non-compliance to come into compliance. Failure to be in compliance may result in discipline of the license to practice massage.
(7) Continuing education must be in areas related to the practice of massage or bodywork including theory, research, technique or business development.
Stat. Auth.: ORS 687.081, 687.121 & 687.122
Stats. Implemented: ORS 687.011, 687.051, 687.057, 687.061, 687.081, 687.086 & 687.121
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STOP! Read the instructions completely before answering the following character questions.
Any FALSE STATEMENT knowingly made in this application is grounds for revocation or suspension of
your license. If in doubt, disclose and explain rather than conceal. If you answer 'no' to question 4 based upon an "expungement", order "setting aside" or "sealing" of a record of a conviction or conditional discharge (diversion) you must personally verify with the court directly involved that the expungement, setting aside or sealing actually has taken place. An erroneous belief that a conviction has been expunged, set aside or sealed, when in fact it has not, will be deemed a false statement.
Please read each question completely. You must answer each question "yes" or "no", whichever is true.
- Since your last active renewal are you currently required to register in this state or any other state as a sex offender?
2. Since your last active renewal have you been investigated, disciplined or denied licensure by this or
any other governmental licensing agency?
3. Since your last active renewal have you surrendered any professional license in any State, territory
or jurisdiction?
4. Since your last active renewal have you been arrested or convicted for: (a) any felony; (b)
misdemeanor; or (c) any major traffic violation, such as: driving under the influence of intoxicants or
STOP: Major traffic violations such as: Tickets for Driving under the influence of drugs or
intoxicants (even if you received diversion); MUST BE REPORTED!
5. Since your last active renewal have you abused or been treated for the abuse of alcohol, a
controlled, or mind altering substance?
6. Since your last active renewal have you received any in-patient mental health care for a
psychological, addiction, or chemical dependency issue that affected your ability to safely practice?
If you answer "Yes" to any of the questions above you MUST attach a detailed written explanation of the circumstances leading to and the outcome of the situation AND include copies of all related official documentation, including but not limited to: police reports, court documents, final actions and/or order, treating physician documentation, etc.
*Please read the full scope of your state laws to be well informed.