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Sometimes I miss posting on here. The last thing I posted about was my SCG Top 8 performance. That was a great day, and it really made me want to devote myself to Magic more. Since then I've played in 4 more Opens, cashing in 2 and missing cash after starting off 6-2 and 5-1 in the other two. My PTQ performances haven't been quite as good (5-3 a few times and 4-4 once) but overall I think I've been becoming a better Magic player as the year has gone on.
Last weekend was pretty rough though. Since I've been focusing on school this semester, I haven't played much Magic outside of FNM. In my first PTQ since August, I went 0-3 with a miserable Sealed pool. I can complain all I want about having a bad pool, but I probably misbuilt my deck and definitely made a few misplays along the way.
I was feeling pretty shitty about that performance, but I things changed pretty quickly. On Tuesday, my friend was 13 QPs away from qualifying for the MTGO Player of the Year race. The season ended Wednesday morning, so the plan was to just keep playing until we had enough QPs to feel safe about qualifying. My friend played by himself for the first few hours, and got a few QPs. When he went to class for a couple of hours, I took over. I had never played Mono Black Devotion, but with Owen's GP winning list, I felt ready.
In the first 8-man, I lost round 1. I felt like I couldn't get ahead, and that I sideboarded very wrong. At this point I was worried. I thought I was pretty rusty, and I was afraid of wasting my friends tix if I was just going to lose in the first round again. But I fired up another one, and really focused. By the time my friend got to my apartment, I had won the 8-man going 3-0, and I had started another 8-man, where I was up a game in round 2 after winning the first round. Now I'm getting excited for Standard PTQ season, and can't wait to play more Black Devotion.
In other news, I'm going to play my first Standard FNM ever this week. It's kinda weird that I've never played one before, but I don't really own any decks. I usually find myself boring cards for big events, so for FNM I would always just draft. This week though, we're going to jam a sweet burn deck. Should be fun :)
glimmerpost said: Whoa, hey Gerfeffi, I didn't know this was your blog.
Haha yeah. DO you know me from MTGS? I used to have a link in my signature, but I stopped posting often a while back so i got rid of it. I always mean to start again, but when I decided to start doing well in school and playing more MTGO, I kinda lost the time to do this. I'm sure I'll get back to it sooner or later though.
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Today I played Legacy Burn. I thought it was a good deck, and that it was a reasonable meta choice with all of the "fair" Deathrite Shaman decks in the format.
So round 1 I play against Rest in Peace Control. I really don't know much about the deck, except that it's a lot like Countertop and that it runs Helm of Obedience (maybe I didn't remember this until I attacked with Goblin Guide on turn 1?). After I won game 1 I thought my matchup was good, but as soon as I saw the Leyline in g2 I thought a bit differently. So I sided out the Lava Spikes for things that can deal damage despite a Leyline. But then he played Rest in Peace into Energy Field, and it was gg.
Round 2 comes and I'm on the draw, thinking I have a great opener of Goblin Guide, Grim Lavamancer, Searing Blaze, and Sulfuric Vortex. But when the opponent played a turn 1 Nettle Sentinel, I knew I was in trouble. He comboed out on turn 2. Game 2 I looked at a one lander, mulled to a one lander, and mulled to Mountain, Bolt, Bolt, Chain Lightning, Ensnaring Bridge. If I could kill my opponent's dudes until I got to play Bridge, I think I would win. But instead, I just killed 4 creatures, and lost to a turn 5 Natural Order into Progenitus while still at one land.
At this point I just want to go draft, but my friends tell me to keep playing to earn PWP for GP byes. Fine. I get matched up against Stoneblade, and win in no time. Then I play against High Tide, which fizzled for me. Then I played against Josh Cho, who decided to not show up after he hit 2-2. Then I played someone who misplayed terribly every match. Then I went up against MUD, which meant that all I had to do was have a removal spell for Metalworker. Then I played Jund, which was my best matchup, where I had 9 cards to bring in. Before I knew it I was 6-2.
My last loss came in round 9, which was against Sneak Show. I had 2 Price of Progress in my hand after my first draw step, so I decided not to show my opponent what I was playing. My hand was Searing Blaze, Searing Blaze, Rift Bolt, Price of Progress, Price of Progress, and 3 lands. I play Scalding Tarn and pass. On my second turn my opponent fetched a second Volcanic Island, and played some cantrips. On my turn I just played a Scalding Tarn and passed. Then Show and Tell came, and I realized how dumb I was being. What other deck was UR? So I tried unloading my hand, but it was no use, Emrakul did his job. G2 I kept a hand with Pyrostatic Pilalr and Ensnaring Bridge, and my opponent mulled to 4 anyway. He couldn't really dig for too long, and if he did go off I stopped him anyway.
Game 3 was the big one. If I won, I got top 32, and $100. If I lost, I got top 64 and $50. My opponent mulligans his opener, and I take a look at what I have. I've got 2 Goblin Guides, Price of Progress, Rift Bolt, Lightning Bolt, and 2 lands. If my opponent doesn't combo off on turn 3, and I draw a Bolt effect and a land by turn 3, I think I just win. But then the turn 3 Griselbrand came down, and there wasn't much I could do besides ripping an Ensnaring Bridge. It didn't happen. Guess I can't complain about being in the money for two days in a row.
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scarsoftheshatteredsky said: Dude congratulations on the top 8 appearance. I think the advice of thinking before we press okay is a huge deal and applies to a lot of aspects of our gameplay that people don't often think about. I'm glad you made it pay off!
Thanks so much! It feels really special. If someone would have told me that I actually would have cared more about the Top 8 than I would about the prize money, I'd tell them they were crazy. But after winning, it just feels special to have done it. It was a great day.
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I spent the last week really focusing on my Magic game. No longer was I just going to sit there and go through the motions, I needed to figure out the best lines of play and each decision would affect the game a few turns form now. I slowed my game down a little bit, stopped using hotkeys as much, and I discussed the possible outcomes of each of my moves with a good friend who knows a thing or two about winning.
So when the Star City Open came, I was ready. It felt like I couldn't lose, and before I knew it I was in the Top 8 without losing a single match. I lost my Quarterfinals match, but that's OK. My opponent's deck was very very good against all of the aggro decks running around, and I didn't really stand a chance. Kudos to him, he put together an amazing deck.
I think I learned a lot this week. I think the most important thing that I learned was to "think before I press OK." My friend told me this the other day, and it didn't sink in until I accidentally clicked through my chance to play Victim of Night to kill my opponent's Atog which was up to a 12/12. That loss really stuck with me for some reason, and I spent my turns at the Open making sure that I wouldn't be making misplays. My play wasn't perfect of course, but I think that I made a few smart plays and didn't mess up too many times.
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I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong, but I need to do something about it. I started off playing Magic Online about six months ago. Once I got used to the program, I was doing great. I put about $80 into MTGO in the first month or so, but since then I've been able to buy new cards and decks and to pay for events based solely off of my winnings.
But today I just had to add more money to my account. This is even after I sold the promo Force of Will that I earned last month for 58 tix. My Constructed rating has dropped over 250 points. I need some kind of change.
Maybe I need to stop playing bad decks. Mono Black Control is a great Pauper deck, but it might not be as good as a lot of decks I could be playing. I could try switching it up to Post, Affinity, or Stompy.
I borrowed RDW in Standard a few months ago, and I was doing really well online. My friend needed his deck back, so I hadn't played any Standard before a few days ago. I just bought the deck again, but now I'm doing terribly. 0-4 in two events so far.
Well I've got one week to turn it around. Next weekend is the SCG Open in Edison, and I'm going to be running RDW. But before next weekend, I need to figure out what I'm doing wrong. Maybe it's a little bit of my MTGO mechanics; I could probably stop pushing F2 and F6 instead of just hitting OK I think sometimes I accidentally click through times I need to play spells.
But it goes deeper than that, I think. I think I'm misplaying. I need to think things through. I need to figure out what my opponents are doing, and I need to play around them. I need to think before every action I make, and not just throw out Ash Zealot because I have RR open or cast Searing Spear just because a creature is in the way.
Time to start winning. The next Standard tournament on MTGO is 1 AM. I need to win this one.
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Reminds me of Avacyn Restored Limited. Nope, it was game one of a Standard match.
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I started out the night with the usual M13 draft. I went 3-1 with a deck that included Talrand, 2 Talrand's Invocation, Void Stalker, Sleep, and lots of very solid cards. My loss came against a deck with Tormented Soul + Dark Favor, which I was never able to answer in time. I walked out with 4 packs, and upon opening them I found a Drowned Catacombs and little else. Ah well.
Almost everyone at the prerelease had preregistered, so by the time I got there I could only choose from Rakdos and Selesnya. I don't really think that Selesnya is good in a Sealed format, so I went with Rakdos. My pool contained Dreadbore and Rakdos, which were great for my deck, as well as Pithing Needle, Wild Beastmaster, Mana Bloom, and Supreme Verdict. I made a Rakdos deck with a nice curve and about 6 removal spells. My first three matches went very well, with Carnival Hellstead doing tons of work.
In the fourth and final round, I went up a friend of mine who was 3-0. Game 1 was extremely tight, and after finally dealing with Mercurial Chemister, my opponent was at 5 life and I was at 4. His Hypersonic Dragon was lethal, and I sat on the board with 3 small creatures while he had 2 blockers. I draw Explosive Impact and think that it means that it's the end of the game, but a Dramatic Rescue leaves my opponent at two life. If I would have attacked, he would have bounced my guy and I could have won in response. Maybe it was the lack of sleep, but I'm still mad that I punted that game. In game 2, my opponent kept a one lander after a mulligan, but had 6 lands on turn 8. Things went OK after Electrickery takes out three of his blockers including the Chemister. Game 3 was another nail biter. I swung with a group and lost my Keyrune, but I got in for 2 damage to get to play Rakdos. Unforutnatley, a second Void Wielder came down and ruined my plans. I couldn't get in for the rest of the game, Hypersonic Dragon came to finish me off. It was a great match, and I walked out as a 3-1 with 4 packs. Even though I could use those packs to draft at next week's FNM, I decided to open to make myself feel better about punting the match. But nope, the most notable card I got was probably Dreg Mangler. Oh well, it was a fun night nonetheless. I had a fun deck, and played with tons of cool cards.
I've been busy, but after I've finished a few things tomorrow, I want to post a ton of decklists I've been working on for RTR Standard. Hopefully that can get done soon, but if not you can look forward to it this weekend.
Since I've last been posting, I've been to my university's Magic club twice. The first Friday's draft gave me an insane GW deck, partially because we had a lot of players who had never drafted before, and partially because I opened Ajani, Odric, and Liliana. :D I sold the 2 walkers for $8 each, and along with the packs I won I'm in the money. The next week I played a god awful Ubrw deck with 2 Gem of Becoming and an Evolving Wilds for fixing. Basically I couldn't win a game if I didn't win with Arctic Aven, Sphinx of Uthuun, or Staff of Nin. I had 4 more packs that I could have saved to pay for this Friday's draft, but I was in a bad mood and decided to open them. I found another Ajani and Liliana, which are both going to get traded for some packs.
I'm working on building Legacy Burn. I don't care for the deck especially, but most of the cards are easy to pick up. I also don't really have or try to acquire actual decks, because I don't play enough Constructed for it to really matter. This is just a little project so that I'll have a real deck to play at SCG: Edison in February.
Last I'm excited for the prerelease! It looks like I'll be going at midnight again, then maybe to a 2HG event on Sunday. Probably going to go Golgari, as I've loved the BG cards in the couple of RTR drafts I've played on Cockatrice.
Anyway, that's it. I'll get back to posting soonish hopefully!
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I honestly regret opening my mouth.
So I'm a gay 16 year old Australian male, and I'm still not fully out. So far, four people know. My best friend (A), my close friend (came out to her first. Lets call her 'T') then there's my other close friend (M) and she was heaps accepting. My crush's name also starts with M… So I'll refer to him as 'crush' or something akin to that.
So, some back story. I had know my crush for at least seven or so years, and nothing ever really challenged our friendship, we were INCREDIBLY close.
Anyway, I developed feelings for him about two years ago (I had known I was gay for three) and basically they grew in intensity and I couldn't really ignore them, so I wrote him a note on my phone, showed him (while on the verge of just breaking down). He read it, looked at me, said 'well this is awkward' and how he 'wouldn't tell anyone' but we just stopped talking.
I screwed over the ONE good relationship I had, and we haven't talked since. I've been having some darker thoughts as of recent, and quite frankly I miss him way too much.
It physically hurts to be around him, which is quite often. And I don't know how much longer I can go on for…
I really wish I never opened my stupid mouth…
I just really needed to get that out, so… Yeah.
I've only come out to one person before but it already feels like I've done it a million times over, because it was just that hard for me to come out to myself, something I struggled with every day from the time I was 10 to now that I'm 17. This last year a friend of mine came out to me, and confided in me that she was slowly coming out to other people, too.
And I was happy for her, I really was. But the every time she gushed to me about how well so and so was taking it, I felt like I was going to cry because nobody knew my secret, the secret I swore to take to my grave on my 11th birthday when I was still firmly in denial and praying nightly to God or whatever Thing was out there and possibly watching over me. Maybe I was praying to myself.
I ended up telling her over a text message because I was scared shitless to say it in person. I stuttered every time I tried to bring it up and my heart pounded so hard I started to worry about my health. She told me she was glad I told her, and I went home and cried because I wasn't sure if I regretted telling her or not, and I'm still not sure. I never asked to be different and every day I have to remind myself that I'm not alone and I'll never be alone and it's okay to struggle with my identity as long as I'm happy in the end. I want to come out to more people, but I'm still getting over the shock of having someone accept me even when I can't accept myself.
Sometimes love can be found in the last place you look.
I am a female in college. In my life I questioned if I liked girls a few times, but Cosmo convinced me that I just wanted to be the woman, not be with the woman. So I threw the thought away and never looked back. Until this year. I dreamed of becoming best friends with a boy and falling in love, but never had any luck with guys. One night I was cuddling with my best friend as we watched a movie. A girl I met in college, we had been each others' best friend for a year. We're both very religious and very straight (or so we thought..). As I'm sure you've already deduced, the cuddling that night had so much tension and…chemistry. I left feeling confused and when she brought it up I denied that it meant anything. This went on for a while, each of us going back and forth with it, not wanting to ruin our perfect friendship and not knowing if homosexuality was our thing. Over Christmas break I decided to take the time away from her to make up my mind once and for all. And I decided it was ridiculous. But then I came back to school, and I saw her again. And we both just knew that it wasn't over. We started dating after about a month of figuring out how we wanted to go about our feelings. Now it has been four months, and we've never been happier. And I got my cheesy love story I always dreamed of, but in a way I never imagined. :)
On a sadder note, although I really don't care what other people think about my sexuality (if they aren't cool with it, I wouldn't want to know them anyway), it is a different story with family. My father, as cool and fun as he is, is really close minded about two things: politics and, you guessed it, homosexuality. He hates 'gays' and told me to never bring them to his house. How am I supposed to ever tell him about this amazing part of my life?
In Progress
This is gonna be long, so bare with me
I guess my story starts in 5th grade, although I didn't know I was gay at the time. There was this guy in my group of friends that I had a dream about. Not a completely appropriate dream might I add. But I had that dream, and after that I couldn't stop thinking about him. I got this weird feeling every time I was around him, and I didn't realize it then, but I guess i had a sort of crush on him. But like I said, I didn't realize this so I didn't think anything of it and I moved on. I don't really count him as my first guy crush.
Middle school came around, and this is when puberty is hitting and you develop sexual attraction. I was attracted girls, but only emotionally. I never had any sexual attraction to a girl, but I viewed it as me controlling myself and not being a douchebag that only wants sex. So I thought I was just one of those nice guys that girls talked about and wished they had, and I always wanted to be that. I wanted to find a girl and treat her like a queen, marry her and have kids and just live a happy life. But that wasn't the case. I realized I was sexually attracted to guys but I still didn't think I was gay. Just thought it was a phase. At this time I still had a high pitched voice and people used to make fun of me and call me gay all the time and I'd deny it cause I honestly didn't think I was. Then 8th grade came around.
Isnt it awful when you decide to come out to the only single person you think would understand, and they react by trying to convince you its only your delusional mind?):
I've been watching and reading "Coming out stories" on YouTube and here.
As I said I'm gay and in the closet. Those stories make me feel somethings strange. I feel happy because they could do something I couldn't do yet. But, I also feel sad because I wanna do the same and feel free but there's something in me which is stopping me.
It is so strange for me….
How can I know when is the monent? how can I know who is the first person I should say it? Who can give me an advice?
I think I shoud have a mate before saying nothing because he would suport me in that monent… I don't know, I-m confuse, so confuse. Moreover, I don't have gay friends so I can't talk to anyone…
Ok, I said all I had to say about it today.Thank you for reading ;)
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When I Came Out.
Well, before anything major happened, when I was about six years old I kissed my friend on the cheek. I thought the butterflies were out of embarassment when she told me not to do that again, but after about two years, I kind of started to wonder if it was something different.
When I was either 11 or 12, I came out to my dad upstairs in their bedroom, telling him about how I thought I was bisexual. I remember begging him not to tell mom because she's such a devout Christian. He was perfectly fine with it and mom eventually came to be getting mad saying I could tell her anything. (That and I was too young to even know.) Two years later as a fourteen year old, my second best friend and I decided to give dating a try. It was magic. Unfortunately she was moving and I seriously needed some emotional support. It seemed my parents had forgotten all about the previous talk.(That, or they believed I moved past it) yet again, I went to my father first.
Predictably, he already have a feeling I had been dating the girl and had no issues with it. He just talked to me and helped me stop crying. Mom on the other hand…. Reacted horribly. She said it was a bit of bullcrap and that I yet again thought of her as a friend and not a girlfriend. I ended up resorting to writing a note to her telling her otherwise because I was afraid of getting hit by a bible. No kidding there. She claimed it was 'end of story'.
Months later and nothing went better. She became distrusting of other females. I can't give girls gifts without her thinking that they are more than friends. It is safe to say coming out was the WORST thing I could have ever decided to do.
I'm twenty-one and I came out to my dad two hours ago. I've been working up to it since I was twelve; ever since I figured out I liked boys. He sort of facepalmed for a second, then he slid off the couch, knelt down, pressed his face to the floor and started sobbing. He kept saying things like "You're too young" and "You'll suffer" and "Please don't stop studying". I sort of hugged him and told him it was okay and that it wasn't that bad and he insisted that he didn't think it was bad, he just hoped that I wasn't gay. Which sort of means he does think it's bad. And then we maybe had a little bit of a disagreement over the fact that he wanted me to "Please wait until I'm gone" and the fact that I'm not willing to put my personal life on hold and repress myself because it makes him uncomfortable.
Sheesh. When my mum gets back from this work dinner she's attending, he'll probably tell her. Let's hope she takes it better than he does. She probably will, she's an Elton John fan.
Still In The Progress
I am 16-year-old male and I've been concidering myself as gay, like, my whole life. I was never actually sure about it until 2 years ago I got a girlfriend through an Internet. She lives 6 hours away from me. We liked same things and were alike and I liked her and she likeS me so we started dating.
During the affair I started questioning my own sexuality. Being with her (we met like once a month) didn't help finding myself 'cause I felt myself straight every time I was with her. I remember alway at night when we were apart I texted her sad messages about how I had a secret I didn't want to tell and how I cried about it. I was so sad at that time and very depressed and I even concidered suicide. I was so close with her and I didn't want to break it all.
While we had dated a year, we were chatting in the Internet, I told her how I can't be her object of love anymore. She asked why, but I just said that I'm not ready to tell yet because it hurted so bad already. Then she said that she was feeling worse than me which was probably true. Then she went offline and we didn't talk in two weeks. I know, I was bastard when I left her that way.
While I didn't talk to my ex, I came out to my big brothers girlfriend who I am friends with and she was very supportive and said that I needed to tell this to my ex. And so I did. It wasn't easy but it sure was worth it. She was so happy for me and asked why I didn't say it in the first place. Now we are best friends and hide nothing from each other. She's just a little bit attached to me still but it gets over
Now I'm open to all my friends but not to family. I'm scared of their reaction, especially dad's because he is super duper homophobic. Maybe when I am able to support myself 100% I am able to tell them.
Coming out to a friend… and it didn't go well.
My friend Gina is a girl I have carpooled with to college and studied with for two years. She is really cool and we hang out all the time, but I was so sure she has no idea that I am bi and I didn't know how to tell her. I have never had to tell anyone before. My friends have all been with me since puberty and they all know. Many times, they have broken it to people by how they jokingly make fun of me for it. :)
To me, I was kind of thinking of Gina like "you are missing some really great opportunities to make fun of me for some of the stuff that comes out of my mouth!" :D Also, most people know and I would hate for her to find out through someone else.
So the other day, I told her. Very awkward conversation. VERY. She just sat there and stared at me like she was so pissed off she didn't know what to say. Then she repeated conversations we had had that day and turned everything I had said that day into some kind of predatory sexual come-on. "So when I laid down on your bed and said I'd like to sleep there tonight and you said 'Go ahead', you were really thinking about SEX!"
So here is my rant on this subject. I thought she was a good friend and I am not cool with being treated like I was trying to molest her all this time! We have hung out for two years! I helped her try on bras in Lane Bryant for 45 minutes and we cleaned out all of the closets in her house. She is NOT hot. I have never thought about sex once in her presence.
Why would you think that now - all of a sudden - my entire goal is just to screw you????? I am not some predatory molester who is just out to have sex with every girl if I could just get the chance. You have known me for two years! How could you possibly think that of me?!?!?! You liked me five minutes ago when you didn't know! Reality check: I was gay before I told you!!!!
And by the way, it takes two consenting adults to have sex, especially for girls! What do you think I am going to do?? Dive at your crotch like a freaking labrador??!?!
GRRRR!!!! I am just so angry and disappointed in her.
Coming out…going back into the closet…coming out again
So hi, i'm Jasmine, a 16 year old girl, and i'm something i havent titled yet..bc not sure if i'm lesbian or bi (hopefully bi). I have always kinda known i'm different.. Never checked on boys as other girls did. When they all agreed about a dude being hot, i always ended and still end up disagreeing. When i was little I didnt know that that feeling is called 'being homosexual'.. i just knew i was different than other girls in a sertain way. I was actually 13 when i kinda understood that i am gay. And it was a shock for me and i just couldnt take it bc i had heard others making jokes on gays etc..and naturally thought it's a bad thing. I also didnt know anyone being gay. Just some celebs who ppl laughed at. But yea, so it took me a year to accept the idea that i might be gay..and I kinda came out last year around November by telling my best friend. B4 telling her i had prepared her for it since the autumn by asking many many times that what would she say if i told her i'm gay/trans/bi? And the answer was always: "nothing, but would be shocked." i told her after a couple moths of asking.. And she answered: "Oh really. You finally told..! I ofc guessed after so many times of asking". Lol kinda funny now afterwards xD
I came out to 4 people 3 girls and 1 boy. The girls took it well but the boy sort of went and told the whole school i was gay and that didn't go well with a catholic school which was ok with some people. My mum took it well and so did my dad and his fiancee. That was ok but i got bullied by homophobic wankers. It did feel great to be accepted but not all people in Christian Ireland.
my half coming out story lol i need advice for the other half if u want to message me
ok so im natalie im 17 and a lesbian (for now) i think im bi but high school guys are stupid horny dirty hairy and disgusting anyway ever since i was little like before kindergarden i use to hate anything girly it burned i wanted to be a guy so badly i mean imagine a elementry kid crying to god every night wishing to be a boy back then i liked guys i hated girls didn't find them interesting thought barbies and playing house or dress up was stupid oh and even to this day i WILL NOT EVERWEAR A DRESS my family (which ranges from 11-17 ppl) disaproved and bullied me on my feelings about wanting to be a guy my mom tried to be nice about it but she is very controling she tries to be excepting but her whole life shes been the leader the one everyone listens to so she wanted me to go down the right path to follow gods rules(im catholic) but i dont believe god ment that we can be gay so yah i quit wishing to be a guy it was the dream of a child lol but seeing how mean and hurtful my family was to me when i was a CHILD how they made me hate myself they made me wish i liked who i was and didn't want to change it makes me afraid to come out to them i dont want to relive my childhood i dont want to be teased and lectured and yelled at and beat up 24/7 like before(i was never beat up by parents only my brother and he got hell for it from my parents but he will still beat me up punishment doesn't afect him) i already come out to all my friends and im not afraid of the ppl in our friend circle to find out what im scared of is thatis they put it on facebook or say something around a family member without thinking and out me and then i end up being tortured until i can get away from all my family (which also means leaving my awesome amazing friends) :( i dont want to leave but i cant just let my family hurt me mentally and phsically I DONT KNOW WAT TO DO AND NEED HELP IF U CAN GIVE ME ADVICE MESSAGE MY TUMBLR http://foreverafriend16.tumblr.com/
OR EMAIL ME AT firstname.lastname@example.com and no im not afraid that my family will find this becuz none of them would look for anything gay related online unless im not the only one
Well, here it is.
Coming out for me has been a mixed bag; while a lot of people, including most of my friends and family. However, a lot of hate has sprung up from those who didn't really like me before. Originally, it was a little thing between me and my friends - they didn't really mind my sexuality at all.
However, things changed when the self-propagated rumour spread that I was bisexual. For 2 years, I've had an onslaught of mockery and questions, both serious and sarcastic. This was not helped at all when another rumour (which I did not deny as I do not tell lies) was spread that I had gay sex. ONCE. 4 YEARS AGO. And yet people seem to think it's the intrical thing in my personality and history. Let me tell you right now; even though that was a moderately important experience of sexual discovery in my life, I would not go so far as to make a stupid 10-year-old decision with a friend the centre of my life.
Now, there are other things people use against me. My 'bad looks', my love of 'cartoon porn' (anime), my general nerdiness and lack of being friends with more than 3 people. I feel like it's mostly childish immaturity, but it does get annoying and it makes school life a lot less enjoyable than it should be.
Most people I meet in the real world are perfectly okay with who I am; even my 54 year old father who I though would be outraged had no conflict whatsoever with my coming out. And so I think it will get better - as more and more people around me become more knowledgable and comfortable with both their own sexuality and the sexualities of others.
Peace out, one love etc.
Cal Halzalla (pseudonym to protect myself) - I can be contacted at email@example.com with any questions or just leave a comment if you can do that on tumblr.
I can't decide.
I'm a closeted gay, and I haven't found the courage to come out yet. I know I will get teased and stuff at school when I do, so I think the best thing for me to do is keep it a secret. But is the pain of getting teased and bullied about it worse than the pain of having to keep it a secret? To have to live a lie and pretend I'm something I'm not?
I could use some help and advice from someone who has been throughout this before. Please contact me.


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OSHTEMO (WKZO) -- Icy roads may have been a factor in a crash that killed two teenagers from Otsego Tuesday morning.
Kalamazoo County Sheriff's deputies believe that 17-year-old Anneka Vels was behind the wheel with 13-year-old sibling Landon Vels, both from Otsego, around 7:40 a.m. when their minivan slid off the roadway in the 9000-block of West G Avenue in Oshtemo. The vehicle burst into flames and both teens died as a result of the crash.
It's believed that snow and ice on the roadway was a factor in the crash. The case currently remains under investigation.


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"The thing about Spider-Man is that his enemies can't just be sociopaths who like pretty things. Some are, sure, but an astonishing number of them are his best friend from high school, or his girlfriend's father, or the cat he raised from a kitten. Something angsty. So there's the Green Goblin, who's not really that inspiring as a villain. I mean, pumpkin bombs? But in his various incarnations the Green Goblin has been practically everyone on Peter Parker's speed dial."Spoiler Warning! Do not actively try to become a Sidekick or True Love. If you really have what it takes, you'll wind up with the role no matter what you do. Sometimes, you will be drawn into some new role or destiny by default, be it hero or villain. Superhero comics are long runners, with large amounts of characters that range from the major to the minor. Thus, there is never a shortage of characters that can dynamically drive the plot, and there's always people who the hero is close to or knows that can become... something else. Sometimes, the guy who was the hero's former roommate, or an old teacher, or a neighbor, can, through what seems like destiny, become intwined into some new role, be it antagonist, love interest, mentor, or otherwise. This is when a character who first appears as a supporting character eventually turns into something more through Character Development, a Legacy Character. The best friend becomes the Big Bad, the old neighbor becomes the Love Interest, etc. The person who was once on the sidelines is inevitably drawn into the main event. They have a definite place in the future of the story. If the character was always intended to be important, that's a Chekhov's Gunman. If the character was hiding their identity during their first appearance, you have a Red Herring Shirt. If a character in an adaptation is introduced earlier than in the source work, that's an Early-Bird Cameo.
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I gave up running dungeons of any sort because of all of this nonsensical behavior. Tanks blame DPS, DPS blames Tanks, Healers gripe at both, all because:
1. Different people have played the game for different amounts of time, often switching roles to find what they like to do and either feel proficient at, or what they would like to improve their performance on. This means that not everyone is equally capable at their given role.
2. Different people have different degrees of investment in their gameplay. Some prefer to meticulously calculate every possible outcome to every possible scenario that could be encountered and match spell and ability cooldowns to kill orders in specific dungeons, and some people just like to go in, burn down a target by spamming one spell over and over again. This means that not everyone plays the game in the same way.
3. Everyone thinks that the game either revolves around their playstyle, or it should. This means that everyone has an opinion about how the game should be played, and in their own mind they are not only correct, they are then obliged to tell other people how they should be playing their game. This behavior is only exacerbated in the PUG system, since the matching system provides and guarantees anonymity.
As far as I'm concerned, when I hit level cap with my toons (and I have several) that means I win WoW and can go PVP. At least I know in advance I'll be dealing with juveniles who measure their self esteem in E-peen there, and can reduce my expectations about dealing with other human beings accordingly.


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Absolutely beautiful! I love peacocks! And will definitely have to make this for myself. Thanks for the free pattern!!ReplyDelete
Your welcome, glad you like it.Delete
Fantastic pattern, very different, I've put it as next on my to do list as it's so unusual. I shall use a teal colour rather than turquoise though. Thanks for sharingReplyDelete
Like I said in the pattern, peacocks are actually more green than blue, I just happen to be a big turquoise fan. I'm sure teal will be really beautiful. I'd love to see your finished scarf.Delete
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Thank you for this, I'm fairly new to crocheting and this is the first pattern that's inspired me to make something for myself!
What is the purpose of skipping three chains around the shell stitches? On my scarf this is making big holes on each side of the shells that I dont see on your scarf. Any idea where I'm going wrong with this? I'm on row 7 so if I need to start over I will, I want it to look perfect. :)
Thank you!
Skipping 3 chains allows the shell to spread out. It's possible that you are crocheting very tightly and that is causing the gap. Try loosening up the tension on the yarn you are holding in the hand opposite from your hook and allowing the loop on the hook to slide back to the straight part of the hook (this is how you keep your stitches even). I will post a page to show where the shaft of the hook is and link it to this pattern on Row 1. If this doesn't solve your problem, check to make sure you are doing the correct number of double crochets. Try counting as you do the doubles. I will also post a picture on this post that counts the stitches. Let me know if this helped.Delete
Just above the scarf pattern I put a link to how to keep your stitches even and not to tight or too loose. Hope this helps.Delete
I just thought of another possibility, are you doing all the double crochets in the same stitch or are you skipping three stitches after each double? You need to do all the double crochets in the same stitch. If none of these solutions help let me know and maybe we can figure out a way for you to send me a picture.Delete
Thanks so, so much for your help! I was doing the stitches too tightly. Happy crocheting!ReplyDelete
Your Welcome!Delete
Thank you so much for this wonderful,uncommon pattern.I love it so much & I am going to make this for MYSELF.I have never crochet anything for me before.These are my favorite color too.Thanks a lot again.ReplyDelete
I'm glad you like it, these are my favorite colors too!Delete
I love peacocks, so thank yoy very mutch for this pattern.
I think I will maken mine black and layer some "feathers" so it will look like a a real peacock-tail.
Greetz from Holland!
That sounds pretty I would like to see a picture when it's done. My email is firstname.lastname@example.com. Thanks!Delete


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Williamsburg, VA (Sports Network) - Tim Rusthoven scored 17 points and pulled down 16 rebounds, as the William & Mary Tribe notched a 72-59 victory over the Hofstra Pride in Colonial Athletic Association play from Kaplan Arena.
Brandon Britt also had 17 points behind a 7-of-9 shooting effort off the bench. Marcus Thornton added 16 points and Kyle Gaillard finished with 13 to help the Tribe (9-12, 3-7 CAA) avenge an 11-point loss to Hofstra on Jan. 12.
David Imes tallied 16 points and seven rebounds to lead the Pride (5-17, 2-7), who lost for the 15th time in their last 17 outings and are now winless in 12 tries outside of Hempstead, New York this season. Stevie Mejia had 11 points, although he shot just 3-of-14 from the floor, and Stephen Nwaukoni rounded out the double-digit scorers with 10 points and seven boards off the bench.
W&M shot an efficient 62.5 percent from the floor in the first half, while Hofstra was held to 31-percent shooting. The Tribe put together an 11-0 run late in the frame to take a 39-28 lead into intermission.
The Tribe led by as many as 16 four minutes into the second half, and Hofstra was unable to trim the deficit to less than nine the rest of the way.
W&M was simply the better offensive team, as the Tribe shot 56.8 percent for the game, compared to Hofstra's 35.6-percent effort from the floor.
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Fred Patten reviews When Diplomacy Fails …
When Diplomacy Fails …
Author: Michael Z. Williamson
Publisher: Baen Books
This is the seventh novel in Williamson's Freehold interstellar action-adventure science-fiction series, which started with Freehold in 2003; or the third novel in his Ripple Creek Security subseries, which began with Better to Beg Forgiveness ….
The series is set about two hundred years in the future, in a human interstellar civilization in which most planets of the galaxy are divided among a tyrannical socialistic United Nations union (the villains), the lone-planet freedom-loving Freehold of Grainne (the heroes), and various worlds loosely aligned in a Colonial Alliance. After the first couple of novels, Williamson began concentrating on the exploits of the Freehold-based Ripple Creek Security Service, a commercial company of mercenary bodyguards who hire their services to the president of an independent planet in the throes of civil war (Better to Beg Forgiveness …, 2007), and the Richest Person in the Universe (Do Unto Others …, 2010). In other words, these novels are a s-f extrapolation of the private military companies such as Blackwater Security that contracted their services to the U.S. government in Iraq during the 2000s.
In this third novel, Ripple Creek is hired to guard and protect their traditional enemy! Well, politics has no personal enemies, and Ripple Creek has the reputation of being the best in the business. Ripple Creek is asked to assign its ace team of Alex Marlow, Jason Vaughn, Eleanora Sykora, Bart Weil, Horace Mbuto, and Aramis Anderson to protect the U.N.'s Bureau of State Minister Joy Herman Highland, a bureaucrat with very many enemies, both professional and personal.
There is little padding in Williamson's prose. His team know each other well and are personal friends, but their conversation is heavy in shop talk; and the third-person narration is heavy in tech talk:
"[Alex] said, 'We're protecting a high-ranking UN bureau official out of system.'
Bart asked, 'Are there specific threats?'
'Some. We'll be able to cover those during transport. We're traveling together.'
Elke asked, 'What restrictions do we have on weapons and gear, and rules of engagement?"
He understood she was asking if she could have explosives. 'Unknown yet, but I do know the usual security contingent are armed.'
'Then why us?' Bart asked.
'The threat level is perceived as higher than typical.'
'So the free market is better at protecting the government than it is at protecting itself.'
'Fundamentally, yes.'
'Very amusing.'
'We're going to Mtali for the Environmental Summit and some other meetings.'
Bart raised his eyebrows. Yes, if they were up to date on newsloads, that pretty well gave away who the principal was.
'Perhaps I will like this person,' Elke said. 'I respect ruthlessness.'" (p. 11)
"Their quarters were quite comfortable for the field. They had billets on par with officers or other high-end contractors: hard buildings, private rooms where enlisted personnel would have three to five, basic bunks and lockable closets. The problem, of course, was the weapons, which in theory were supposed to be secured whenever they were not on escort, which would mean a lot of back and forth to the armory. In practice, they usually left someone in the billet to watch things, armed. He also knew Aramis concealed a small pistol when out. He was sure Jason did, too, though he'd never seen it. He made do with a knife." (p. 63)
For interstellar political reasons, the Environmental Summit is on a planet with a lot of factional religious groups fighting each other; so Alex and his teammates do not know whether they are protecting Highland from "incidental" Mtali religious violence, a specific assassination attempt against her by the partisans, an attempt by one of her political enemies back on Earth, or if they are there to guard her as just a publicity stunt. What they quickly find out is that, unlike their previous assignments where they were working with the full cooperation of their principals, Highland seems determined to make their job as hard as possible. Anti-terrorist security depends largely on secrecy and keeping as low a profile as possible. Highland wants maximum publicity for her political career and appearances, and even publicizes the names and portraits of her security team without their knowledge. The Ripple Creek team soon come to despise their current principal, who is clearly prepared to sacrifice some or all of them for her publicity's sake.
Alex and the others are determined to not let this affect their professionalism. Besides their own self-honor, Ripple Creek's reputation is at stake. But as the attacks against them increase, three patterns emerge. There are genuine non-deadly factional protests against Highland as a symbol of the U.N., assassination attempts against Highland presumably by her political rivals, and attacks designed to discredit the Ripple Creek Security team by causing civilian casualties that can be blamed on them. Alex and his teammates must become detectives to outwit and expose their adversaries, while protecting Highland despite her attempts to exploit them for political gain. The lengthy climax provides surprises and lots of military violence.
According to the "About the Author", Williamson is an ex- military veteran of the U.S. Army and Air Force with considerable Middle Eastern experience, and a current weapons tester and reviewer for several firearms manufacturers. His professional expertise shows in this well-written military s-f series.
Fred Patten Reviews Coup d'Etat
Coup d'Etat
Author: Harry Turtledove
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Harry Turtledove is "The Master of Alternative History", proclaims the cover of this book. The title page says: The War That Came Early: Coup d'Etat.
The list of "Books By Harry Turtledove" includes four other multivolume alternate history series, although three of these are arguably one ten-volume novel about a successful Confederate States of America that won the Civil War, and how this would affect world history for the next seventy-five years. (Turtledove has also written many non-alternate history fantasies.)
The premise of "The War That Came Early" is that World War II started in September 1938 following the failure of the Munich Conference. (Actually, Turtledove's alternate history starts in 1936, when General José Sanjurjo returned to Spain to lead the Nationalists in the Spanish Civil War. In real history, Sanjurjo was killed when his airplane crashed, and General Francisco Franco ended up leading the Nationalists.) In Turtledove's alternate history, the start of World War II in September 1938 leads to Germany and Italy withdrawing their military aid to the Nationalists to fight in the bigger war, with the result that the Spanish Civil War is still going on in 1941.
Coup d'Etat is the fourth volume of The War That Came Early. The publisher lists it as the fourth novel in a series, but I say that it is the fourth volume of a single novel, because none of the volumes have any resolution. They describe World War II during 1938, 1939, 1940, and 1941, with no end in sight. Turtledove postulates that none of the combatants were as ready for war in September 1938 as they were in September 1939, with the result that the fighting is more hesitant and drawn-out than it was in reality.
Turtledove tells the story in his usual style, through multiple "common man" viewpoints throughout the conflict. Everyone is battered by 1941. There are U.S. Marine Pete McGill, on one of the last U.S. ships to leave Manila for Hawaii to begin the reconquest of the Pacific (in the previous volumes, Japan has attacked the USSR and invaded the Pacific early); Peggy Druce in Philadelphia, who was vacationing in Czechoslovakia in 1938 when Hitler invaded, took two years to get back to America, and since then has been campaigning against isolationism and for preparedness; Sarah Goldman, a young Jewess living with her family in Germany under the not-quite-deadly Nazi regime; Theo Hossbach, a Wehrmacht non-com serving in a Panzer II tank crew in the USSR; Alistair Walsh, a British army veteran who has resigned from the military in disgust following the death of Winston Churchill and the new British government's alliance with Hitler against Stalin; Hans-Ulrich Rudel, a Luftwaffe pilot flying against the Red Air Force; Ivan Kuchkov, Rudel's counterpart in the Red Air Force who has just been shot down and is drafted into the Red Army; Vlacav Jezek, a Czech soldier who escaped after the fall of Czechoslovakia and is now fighting in Spain for the Republicans against the Nationalists; Luc Harcourt, a French non-com fighting in Russia as an ally of Germany; and several others in the German, Soviet, Japanese, and Spanish Republican military. All are low-ranking personnel or civilians, weary after three years of fighting, who fatalistically follow the new orders of their political and military leaders.
Since the title of this book is Coup d'Etat, and the previous volume established how unpopular the British government's alliance with Hitler was, it is not much of a spoiler to reveal that the coup d'etat is in England and that the new government returns to fighting against Germany in alliance with the USSR. Aside from that, there are no surprises here. Germany and the USSR are still in a military stalemate; Spain is still divided between the warring Republicans and Nationalists; America is now at war with Imperial Japan in the Pacific but is still neutral towards Germany; and the Japanese viewpoint is that of another non-com, Hideki Fujita, who gets transferred from Manchukuo to Burma but never sees a larger picture of Japan's goals. Like volumes two and three, Coup d'Etat begins in the midst of the story with no synopsis, and breaks off abruptly rather than coming to an end.
Coup d'Etat is fascinating for its plausible guesswork as to what starting World War II a year early would have meant in global political history. By focusing on "the little man", Turtledove makes the point that no matter how the leaders may plan, it all comes to unavoidable warfare and misery for the masses. Readers who are interested in The War That Came Early are warned to start this series from the beginning: Hitler's War, West and East, and The Big Switch before reading Coup d'Etat. This latest volume makes no sense by itself, and is obviously not the final volume in the saga.
Fred Patten Reviews The Road of Danger
The Road of Danger
Author: David Drake
Publisher: Titan Publishing
"#9 in the national best selling RCN space adventure series.
Captain Daniel Leary with his friend–and spy–Officer Adele Mundy are sent to a quiet sector to carry out an easy task: helping the local admiral put down a coup before it takes place. But then the jealous admiral gets rid of them by sending them off on a wild goose chase to a sector where commerce is king and business is carried out by extortion and gunfights.
With anarchy and rebellion in the air, a rogue intelligence officer plots the war that will destroy civilization and enlists the help of a brute whom even torturers couldn't stomach.
And, of course, it's up to Leary and Mundy to put a stop to the madness." (publisher's synopsis)
Each of David Drake's Republic of Cinnabar Navy interstellar adventures begins with an Author's Note explaining where he got his idea. This novel is a space opera expansion of a brief mention in Livy's history of Rome from its beginning to the death of Augustus in 14 A.D., about the chaos in Northern Italy following the end of the Second Punic War in 201 B.C. "Northern Italy at the end of the third century BC was a patchwork of Roman colonies and allies, Celtic tribes recently conquered by Rome, and independent tribes, mostly Celtic. A man calling himself Hamilcar and claiming to be a Carthaginian raised a rebellion against Rome. In the course of it he sacked cities and destroyed a Roman army sent against him. Nobody was really sure where Hamilcar came from. […] The point that particularly interested me was that the Roman Senate reacted by sending an embassy to Carthage, demanding that the Carthaginians withdraw their citizen under the terms of the peace treaty. […] Livy's account got me thinking about the problems that the envoys would have had. […]" (pgs. ix-x).
The Road of Danger is a direct sequel to Drake's What Distant Deeps. In it, the Republic of Cinnabar (Rome) and the Alliance of Free Stars (Carthage) have finally declared a truce to their long-running war; or more exactly, both sides are exhausted. But unlike the historic Rome and Carthage, Cinnabar and the Alliance are still equal in power. "Neither superpower could resume the conflict without collapse: forty years of nearly constant warfare had strained both societies to the breaking point." (p. 1) Captain Daniel Leary and his subordinate, Communications Officer Adele Mundy, of the sometimes-RCN Princess Cecile (a space yacht that Leary has heavily armed) and their loyal crew, are sent to deliver an important message to a Cinnabar admiral in a backwater space region on the Cinnabar-Alliance border, and then place themselves under his orders. The admiral, jealous of Leary's past successes, sends him on what is meant to be a potentially-fatal wild-goose mission. The Macotta Region of the galaxy is a hodgepodge of Cinnabar and Alliance planets, independent planets loosely allied to one or the other superpowers, and truly independent planets (that the superpowers do not consider worth annexing). The Funnel Cluster in the Macotta Region is mostly Alliance-controlled. When a revolt breaks out on Sunbright in the Funnel Cluster, it would normally be considered an Alliance internal affair, except that the Alliance charges that the rebel leader claims to be a Cinnabar citizen with backing from the Cinnabar government. The Alliance has formally protested and demanded that Cinnabar stop the four-year-old rebellion. The Cinnabar admiral commanding the Macotta Region sends Leary in the Princess Cecile, without any backup, to "solve" the problem. Leary recognizes that if it is genuine, it could force the Alliance for its interstellar prestige into resuming the war against Cinnabar that neither wants.
This is the background for another space opera adventure of interstellar derring-do and political intrigue. Instead of going to Sunbright openly as a Cinnabar government representative, Leary and his crew disguise the "Sissie" as a neutral Kostroman space yacht owned by a Kostroman noblewoman (Mundy in disguise), rich but of dubious morality, touring the stars; while Leary, also in disguise, joins the crew of an Alliance civilian blockade runner chartered to deliver a cargo of weapons to the Sunbright rebels. Leary and Mundy discover separately that Everybody Is No Damn Good: both sides of the "rebellion" are corrupt local politicians and merchants hoping to line their own pockets, or petty warlords building their own personal armies, or perverts out to destabilize society so they can practice their own perversion without any local government to stop them. The only honest party in the whole affair is the Sunbright rebel leader, a naïve young idealist who has gotten disgusted after realizing that the "oppressed peasants" are as brutal as their oppressors, and who has become a helpless figurehead of his corrupt subordinates. He is more than ready to return to Cinnabar with Leary, if the latter can figure out how to get them out of the hellhole and end the "rebellion" in a manner that will defuse the Cinnnabar-Alliance tensions. There is lots of bluffing, macho face-offs, outright murders and assassinations, deals and betrayals, and space naval action when Leary and the Princess Cecile confront a more powerful gunboat of one of their enemies.
The main complaint is endemic to this series: Drake does not convincingly dress up the various primitive tribes of pre-civilized Europe, or the Scandinavian viking societies, into futuristic interstellar nations. It is hard to swallow that a space-traveling multiplanet government would be controlled by so many independent trigger-happy local despots and ungovernable guerrilla warlords. But the action is non-stop, and Leary and Mundy and their crew are charismatic underdogs who always satisfyingly confound (or kill) their adversaries. The Road of Danger is #9 in a series that will probably go on for some time to come.


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Orthotic devices such as back supports (corsets or back belts) are frequently used to prevent back pain and injuries.44 These devices may be prescribed by physicians, but individuals generally obtain them on their own or from employers. Several studies have attempted to evaluate back belts in the occupational setting. In a controlled trial, 642 airline baggage handlers were randomized to one of four groups: back belt only, training only, back belt and training combined, and control.45 Previously injured workers were included, but the proportion of workers with prior back injury in each group was not reported. Back belts were to be worn only at work. The 1-hour training session included information on back mechanics, proper lifting techniques, and warm-up exercises. At 8-month followup no statistically significant differences in mean rates of work loss were observed between subjects in either the belt only group or the belt and training groups and controls. When all subjects randomized to use a back belt were aggregated and compared to controls, the intervention group showed a trend toward increased frequency of back pain. Results are difficult to interpret, however, because analysis was performed according to intervention received rather than intention to treat, and 58% of subjects assigned to one of the back belt groups who had not yet developed back pain stopped using the supports before the end of the study. In a trial of 90 warehouse workers,22 one third were randomized to a 1-hour educational intervention emphasizing back biomechanics and were provided with a corset for use during work hours; one third received education only; and one third received no intervention. There were no differences in productivity or injury rates, but subjects in the corset plus education group had a significantly greater decrease in days lost from work compared with controls (2.5-day decrease vs. 0.4-day increase). These differences in outcomes occurred only in the subgroup of previously injured workers, suggesting that prophylactic bracing may only benefit those with a history of back injury. A retrospective cohort study assessed 1,316 workers at an Air Force base where policy mandated use of the belt for all employees with a history of back injury whose position required frequent heavy lifting. Those who wore belts were the intervention group while employees in comparable positions who chose not to wear belts were controls, suggesting likely selection bias. The risk of low back injury was reduced 40% among those using back belts, but this difference was not statistically significant. Costs of injury sustained while wearing a belt, however, were substantially higher than if injured without a belt.12 Thus evidence is inadequate to show a benefit from back belts, and suggests possible harms. In addition, poor compliance in these and other studies46 raises the question of whether subjects will routinely use corsets for prevention of back pain.
Epidemiologic evidence suggests that several modifiable risk factors, including smoking, obesity, and certain psychological profiles, predispose subjects to develop low back pain.2,4,6,7,47,48 Risk factors are presumed to exert their influence either by increasing a subject's risk of a precipitating event, or by increasing the chance that such an event will be perceived as painful or disabling. Cross-sectional and prospective studies have consistently shown that smokers have a 1.5-2.5-fold increased risk of back pain compared to nonsmokers.21,23,24,30,49-57 A biologic basis for this risk is suggested by a recent study of identical twins discordant for smoking, showing that smoking increases degenerative changes of the spine.58 Prospective and cross-sectional studies have also associated obesity with back pain, although one study did not support this association.21,23,24,59 The association may be stronger in women.23 Based on these associations some authors have recommended smoking cessation and, for obese persons, weight loss to prevent back pain,6,21 but direct evidence to support these recommendations has not been identified. Psychological risk factors, including depression, anxiety, and perceived high occupational stress, have also been associated with the development of low back pain.23,24,54,60-63 Again, there is no direct evidence that modifying these factors reduces low back pain.
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What club do you use to hit a croc?
As any weekend duffer can tell you, there are lots of hazards on your average golf course.
Not only can sand traps and ponds ruin a lovely round, but there's always a chance an errant golf ball or a misguided back swing will take out a few teeth.
You don't have to tell that to Spanish golfer Pablo Larrazabal, who is ranked 65th in the world and has seen just about every golfing hazard imaginable in his 10 years as a professional.
On the other hand, Larrazabal had never seen anything like what he encountered on Good Friday during the second round of the Malaysian Open. One moment, he was innocently swatting an insect away from his face; the next, he was being attacked by an angry swarm of hornets.
"They were three times the size of bees," the 30-year-old Spaniard told reporters of the attack, which quickly went viral. "They were huge and like 30 or 40 of them started to attack me big time. I didn't know what to do.
"My caddie told me to run, so I start running like a crazy guy, but the hornets were still there, so the other players told me to jump in the lake."
After medical treatment and some dry clothes, he went on to birdie the hole he was on when the attack occurred -- the 14th -- and carded a four-under 68 for the round.
Was it the most bizarre assault ever on a golf course. We'll let you decide after perusing five of the weirdest ones we've uncovered:
5) The course: California's CordeValle Golf Club
The hazard: A wiener-wielding lunatic
The scorecard: The world's No. 1 golfer has had tons of abuse thrown his way over the years, but this was the first time Tiger Woods had been attacked with a hotdog. It was the final round of the 2011 Frys.com Open and Tiger was lining up a 19-foot birdie putt at the par-three seventh hole when the drama began. According to news reports and viral video of the incident, an unidentified fan ran onto the edge of the green shouting, "TIGER! TIGER!" before hurling the hotdog into the air. The attacker never got closer than 12 metres to Woods and his misguided meat missile fell at least six metres short. Tiger was unscathed and later said: "I turned around and the hotdog was in the air. I don't know how he tried to throw it, but I was kind of focusing on my putt when he started yelling." The bozo was arrested and escorted off the course. Tiger's playing partner, Arjun Atwal of India, said the dog flew across Tiger's putting line. "The bun kind of landed right where he (the man) was," Atwal recalled. "Just the dog flew out." In the end, Tiger did OK in the tournament, but his attacker was the real wiener.
4) The course: The O'Donnell Golf Club in Palm Springs, Calif.
The hazard: A mountain lion
The scorecard: Just last month, Sal Corona, the 36-year-old manager of the golf course, was closing the front gate for the night when he heard a strange rustling in nearby bushes. "Out of the corner of my eye, I saw this cat leaping toward me," Corona later told the media of the heart-stopping March 28 incident. "If I hadn't seen him for another two seconds, he probably would've got me." Some people would have died of an instant heart attack, but Sal Corona isn't "some people." He blocked himself from the large predator with part of the gate, then raised his arms and made "big cat noises" in a bid to scare the mountain lion away. The predator made eye contact with the frightened course manager, then puffed its chest out, before turning around and running off into the hilltops. The state's department of fish and wildlife is now warning golfers seeking birdies and eagles to also be on the lookout for mountain lions.
3) The course: Australia's Royal Canberra Golf Club
The hazard: A venomous spider
The scorecard: Swedish golfer Daniela Holmqvist was trying to qualify for the LPGA Tour's season-opening Women's Australian Open back in February, 2013, when she felt a sharp pain on her ankle while hitting out of the rough on the fourth hole. Looking down, she swatted a spider away and was warned by onlookers it might have been a black widow. So she quit playing and raced to a hospital. Just kidding. What she really did was grab a golf tee and use it to pierce the swelling, squeeze out the venom, then go on to finish the match. "A clear fluid came out," Holmqvist later told Svensk Golf magazine. "It wasn't the prettiest thing I've ever done, but I had to get as much of it out of me as possible." Tournament officials said she was likely bitten by a redback, which is also dangerous. The plucky Holmqvist completed her round under the supervision of medical staff, but sadly failed to qualify for the Open. Still, thanks to her heroic self-medication she earned a serious reputation for toughness. "Badass was what I was going for," she later tweeted. Works for us.
2) The course: Hans Merensky Country Club in South Africa
The hazard: A rogue elephant
The scorecard: In one of the most horrifying incidents ever recorded on a golf course, a German tourist was killed in October 1998, when she was trampled by a rogue elephant on the resort's 16th hole. News reports at the time varied, saying the attack either occurred in front of 58-year-old Rita Hahn's horrified husband and son, or as she golfed with her daughter. The golf course borders South Africa's premier game reserve, the Kruger National Park, from where the elephant is believed to have escaped after breaking down a fence. A post-mortem showed the Stuttgart resident was killed instantly by the bull elephant, which was ordered destroyed.
1) The course: Iberostar Cancun Golf Club in Mexico
The hazard: A hungry 12-foot crocodile
The scorecard: When it comes to water hazards, Toronto engineer Dougie Thomson knows a thing or two. In Mexico for a wedding in November 2013, the 58-year-old Scottish immigrant and his buddies decided to enjoy a relaxing game of golf -- a round that ended with Thomson needing 200 stitches to close a gaping wound in his thigh. The wildlife ordeal began just after the father of two played a bunker shot near some bushes in front of a tropical lagoon. "I took a shot and it landed on the green," Thomson recalled later. "Then I heard this noise behind me and this huge crocodile snapped me by the thigh. I couldn't feel the pain. I was in total shock. It was like a big toy, big black eyes looking at me. Hitting it was like hitting a brick wall." The croc started to drag Hamilton to the water, but the rest of Thomson's foursome came riding to the rescue, walloping the beast with golf clubs and driving over it with their golf cart. "My leg is a complete mess," Thomson said from hospital. "It's only by the grace of God I'm alive -- and I'm an atheist. If my friends hadn't seen what was happening, I would have just disappeared." On the upside, the Toronto resident is welcome to a free round if he decides to play there again.
We'd love to tell you about the golfer in India who was almost gobbled up by a giant python, but we're out of space. So our message to you weekend golfers is this: If you decide to pull out the clubs this spring, remember, it's a jungle out there. And let's all learn a lesson from Pablo Larrazabal -- if someone tells you to go jump in a lake, just do it.
Republished from the Winnipeg Free Press print edition April 26, 2014 D2
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Dark Helmet: 1-2-3-4-5? That's the stupidest combination I've ever heard of in my life! That's the kinda thing an idiot would have on his luggage!
President Skroob: 1-2-3-4-5? That's amazing! I've got the same combination on my luggage!
Dark Helmet: I am your father's brother's nephew's cousin's former roommate.
Lone Starr: What does that make us?
Dark Helmet: Absolutely nothing.
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Find great deals on quality hotels & resorts in Hanover Germany, or indulge at one of our luxury resorts. Take advantage of the many amenities that can be included with your stay such as in-room internet access, wifi, room service, fitness center, pool, hot tub, steam room, and shuttle services to and from the airport. Browse our hotels and resorts in Hanover Germany and plan your Hanover Germany vacation today!
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Hotels & Resorts Hanover, Germany - This business hotel comprises a total of 74 accommodation units and features both guest rooms and apartments. It is a modern hotel offering wide-ranging
Hotels & Resorts Hanover, Germany - The Best Western Premier Parkhotel is a comfortable hotel, located directly opposite the EXPO 2000-exhibition fairground, and is surrounded by gardens
Hotels & Resorts Hanover, Germany - Located on the Northern fringe of Hanover, ideal for business and holiday travellers. The hotel is conveniently located near the motorways A2, A7 and A37.
Hotels & Resorts Hanover, Germany - Our comfortable rooms are equipped with the standard of a three star hotel . Despite the proximity to the centre and to the pedestrian precinct you will
Hotels & Resorts Hanover, Germany - The hotel also offers spa, wellness and gym facilities as well as parking. This modern design hotel comes highly recommended. 0710SRLocationThe hotel is
Hotels & Resorts Munich, Germany - Holiday Inn Munich City Center is located within walking distance of the Marienplatz and the English Garden and approximately 25 miles from Munich Airport.
Hotels & Resorts Munich, Germany - The Mercure Hotel Muenchen Schwabing is located in the liveliest part of Munich. It is situated in the center of the bohemian district of Schwabing and
Hotels & Resorts Frankfurt, Germany - Holiday Inn Express Frankfurt Messe is located approximately three miles from Old Opera Frankfurt and nine miles from Frankfurt Rhein Main Airport.
Hotels & Resorts Munich, Germany - Holiday Inn Munich is one mile from the famous English Garden, 3.6 miles/ 6 km from Marienplace and City Hall, and approximately 21 miles/ 35 km from Franz-Josef-Strauss
Hotels & Resorts Munich, Germany - The new 1st Creatif Hotel Elephant lies in the heart of Munich city...