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I have been traversing the countryside and nearby towns lately perusing yard sales. This multifaceted endeavor, usually accomplished on my bicycle, is providing for at least a nominal degree of exercise. I am also getting the benefit of acquiring some useful, sometimes previously unknown to me, products that may just make my life a bit easier.
Often times I am getting the tried and true, quality constructed small kitchen appliances that simply can't be found at the modern mass-merchandisers. Commensurate to these benefits is the savings realized by often paying only about 10-25% of retail price. Topping this off is my acquisition of goods that I manage to resell for a profit which culminates in my ultimately having no final cost in my acquired goods.
Before this becomes soporific let me be succinct about the purpose of today's posting. Today two yard sales reminded me of the desultory fashion by which some parents approach their child custody matters.
I first stopped at a sale where the tables were uniformly arranged and the wares were separated by category. The CD's were even stacked label-side up and separated by genre. Everything was individually priced or signs on the table clearly indicated the prices such as CD's or toddler clothing. I came away with a book and a CD.
A few other sales occupied my time and curiosity until I came across what I have to describe as the most cursory yard sale I have come across to date. This was advertised as: 106 N. Main St.-Whitestown Everything must go! Glassware, furniture, golf cart, Harley stuff, 86 Dodge 300 convertible-original, signed baseball from 1950 's era. Too much to list all!!!
What I believe this actually is was an attempt to comply with a health department order. The items were strewn about a yard, most appeared rain damaged and nothing was priced. There was also a sign that directed shoppers to the spurious sale continuing inside a pole barn. Once in there I was treated to the delight of what appeared to be a squatters residence. There was a couch, television, bedding linens and various instruments of domestication.
So in this day I have faced the best and the worst of yard sales that I have been to this year. I was struck by the similarity to parents involved in child custody hearings.
Earlier this year I was called to meet with a parent well over a week in advance of the hearing. This parent was cognizant that adequate preparation was a precursor to a successful hearing. Just as the initial yard sale of this day, everything she had was sorted by subject, clearly labeled and organized in to folders such as evidence, law, pleadings and communications. Considering the voluminous data to comprehend and then convey to the attorney it couldn't have been done without her organizational skills.
Then there is the opposite. It was the email that arrived in the afternoon immediately preceding the hearing the next morning. The reply to the contract and scheduling information sent a month earlier had arrived to my scheduler seeking a meeting with me that evening and an appearance in court the following morning. For that type of person I have two words; good luck.
In these situations I usually tell my scheduler to send a reply the following afternoon stating that he needs an application to be mailed, as previously instructed, and then he will schedule an appointment.
No amount of frenetic planning or indignant discord is going to get me to provide assistance to this type of parent. There is nothing mysterious about what type of parent does this. The only mystery is the motivation and why they even bother with the process in their seemingly perfunctory manner.
I know this is an inveterate behaviour on the part of the parent that does not serve the child's best interest. It is indicative of the sporadic parenting in which this type of parent engages. I would not advocate for this parent but I would help. It is not my purpose to help a parent win a child custody battle though. I certainly don't want to be a party to compelling a child into a custody arrangement with a parent who he going to ignore the child's needs, miss important dates and treat the child as a bane as much as the impending court hearing.
There are situations where a child needs for me to assist a particular parent in a custody proceeding. More often though it is a parent who needs for me to ameliorate prior acts or those inveterate behaviours that led to a restriction on parenting time. Parents should always keep in mind that it is not about winning a case but, rather, trying to ensure that the child has the care, companionship and support of two loving parents.
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New spot, new tricks, tons of fun. So I met up with Erik and we went back to his place, met up with his brother and peaced to the park where we met up with Steve. We cruised there for quite a bit, got some nice night shots, and then decided to go to this new wallride spot that Erik was talking about. Sure enough, it was a hell of a lot of fun. This spot was like a dream spot. Quiet, friends skating, no bust factor, and we skated it all we wanted. We pretty much de-verginized the spot, when we got there the wall was pure white. Erik even decided to take the camera into his own hands and shoot. It felt really cool to be on the other side of the lens for once. We had so much fun tonight, great sesh!
blunt to fakie in the deep!
Erik gettin' high up
Peter with a smooth carve!
Sunday, May 07, 2006
I guess today was alright. Josh, Kody and JC came to drag me out of the house to shoot some photos, I almost didn't go, but whatever. So we rolled up to our first spot and Palmer and Adam were already there, so we just grouped together and fucking shredded everything in sight. We hit some pretty decent spots, really good days today guys. Cab wars will be back Kody.
Josh front board a fucking pole at City
Palmer with an ollie over the pole at City
JC with this monstrous kickflip. He did it 3 times...in a row.
Josh front board a fucking pole at City
Palmer with an ollie over the pole at City
JC with this monstrous kickflip. He did it 3 times...in a row.
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Name: Dana Tsai
This is a carefully worked-out poem. Every word, every line is neatly organized. Through the technique, metaphor, as shown in the title, S. Plath perfectly described the complex emotions of a pregnant woman.
The period of pregnancy is the period of combination of excited, expecting, unsure, and even a bit fear feelings. As the speaker said, she felt herself "huge" and made fun of her outlook. Here the tone is actually a bit ironic, though she's waiting a new life to come. < O red fruit, ivory, fine timbers! > Red fruit shows freshness and sweetness, just like the infant. Ivory means something very precious, as valuable as the baby. And fine timbers are used to build a house, kind of like the beginning of the house. This implies the baby-the beginning of a new life-is gradually being formed. Till now the speaker's tone is still quite happy and expecting, in spite of the irony of her shape. The next line is a clear clue that points out the answer of the "riddle", as said in the very first line in this poem, "I'm a riddle in nine syllables." "A cow in calf" implies that the speaker is pregnant. Here the tone is a bit ironic, too. With the word "means" the speaker reveals a truth that pregnant women are sometimes consider to be just some kind of "tool" for offspring.
The coming sentences reveal some other emotions of a pregnant woman. Green apples are sour, and eating too much sour food will make the stomach sick. The line is saying that the speaker is suffering what most pregnant women suffer-feeling nauseous. Pregnancy is a life-long heavy responsibility; once you are having a baby, you take the responsibility for the rest of your life. During the pregnancy women are responsible for the infant's "forming". In conservative society, women are even responsible for the baby's sexuality, though it's genetically proved that the infant's sexuality has a lot to do with the father, not the mother. After the baby is safely offspring, women soon have to take the coming responsibility-taking good care of the child's education, health, etc. There's no end for this "burden"; it's just like the train with no getting off.
In this poem the word "riddle" has two "metaphors." It not only means the pregnant woman, but also means the pregnancy itself. During the time of the baby's forming, one can never tell if it's a boy or a girl, nor can predict its physical condition, or even further, the child's future. It's as mysterious as a riddle. Therefor, the speaker is excited and also unease for the unknown "answer"-what will the baby become? Her feeling is complicated.
According to what is analyzed above, this poem is about the complex feelings of a pregnant woman. S. Plath successfully described this kind of mixed-feelings through the words' arrangement. The first line, "I'm a riddle in 'nine' syllables", suggests her technique. The whole poem has "nine" lines; each line concludes "nine" syllables, and pregnancy takes about "nine" months. "Metaphor" is a poem that needs to be carefully studied word by word.


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- Policy document from the 2010 to 2015 government preserved in a different format for reference
- Further update around IFCA enforcement powers.
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- Updated as the first report of the conduct and operation of Inshore Fisheries and Conservation Authorities (2010-2014) has now been published.
- Added link to latest consultation on latent capacity in English inshore fishing fleet.
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- Added links to the latest consultation on IFCA operation and conduct.
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This past weekend I moved into my apartment in Grottaglie. It's really nice to be out of the hotels I was able to retrieve from storage things that I had shipped from Japan too. First things first, the landlord left me 5 bottles of premium local wine but ironically not a corkscrew. So, one of the first things I did was walk a few blocks to the local grocery store and pick up a bottle opener.
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Flying Over Seattle
I had the opperunity to fly over Seattle this past week in a Cessna 172. Pilot requested a scenic pass over the city from West Point, over the stadiums and on to Mercer Island before turning south to Renton. Tower approved.
Monday, July 1, 2013
Martina Franca, Italy
Martina Franca or MF is a town not far from Taranto and somewhere I thought about living until I decided to stay in Grottaglie. I think this is the second largest town in the area after Taranto.
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Later in the evening things quiet down, everyone heads home.
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Making the decision to start your own online home business is a great step to take if you plan on firing the boss and securing your financial future. There are so many advantages to running a business online, so let's discuss some of the things about operating a home business on the internet.
1. You can easily start an online home business while working a 9 - 5 job due to the fact that you can automate many of the processes. You can still do everything yourself but in many ways it's like having a business with several employees. An example of this would be an auto-responder, which is like a silent salesman working for you 24hours a day.
2. Running an online home business eliminates the need for stocking inventory and office space. You actually do not need any more than a computer and Internet access. Many online home businesses either sell other people's products and have them handle the shipping and receiving or drop-ship their products.
3. You can cater for your customer service issues 24 hours a day by setting up a frequently asked questions page on your website where people can find answers to the most common questions. Many people like to deal with the owner of a website directly. You could also provide the facility to allow them to submit support tickets directly to you by e-mail, which you can reply to in a timely fashion. You could offer the option of instant messaging, Skype or even telephone contact.
4. The fact that your online home business is open for business 24 hours a day allows you to generate income quicker on the Internet. This has major benefits over a traditional store that is not open all day and night.
5. Should you decide to increase the range of products that you offer, this is much easier to do with an online business due to the fact that you simply add links to pages where the products are sold.
6. In a traditional business if someone opens up a shop next to yours the competition is really on. However, with the number of online shoppers increasing on a daily basis, competition is not really a major factor on the internet if you handle a worldwide business, because there will always be a plentiful supply of customers or prospects.
7. The internet also provides you with the opportunity to branch into other niches as well with your online home business. Once you are generating an income with one website you can start another one in a totally different niche and make even more money.
From the above you can see there are many advantages to running a business on the internet and offers you a tremendous opportunity to start and run a home business of your own online.
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I heard a saying somewhere. "Youth is wasted on the young."
When I was little, I used to count down the days until I was 18. I specifically remember my 6 year old self looking at my reflection in the kitchen stove. "I'm going to be this tall, then this tall, then this tall." There was nothing I wanted more than to be older and taller.
It wasn't until I became a mother that I wanted time to stop. Watching Matthew get older and wiser caused my heart to ache. I just wanted my baby to stay little while at the same time wanting to see the kind of person he'd grow up to be. I feel bad for my husband. The first time he'd been away from Matthew for any length of time, he left for 6 months when Matthew was 4 months old. He came home to an entirely different person.
Since 9/11, Jaysen has been deployed 7 times. During more than one of those deployment, he thought he was going to die. That puts an entirely different spin on life. Now we live intentionally. Every day we make a conscious effort to not merely exist. I tend to say what I mean and mean what I say. People tend to think it's weird when I say stuff like, "you're making a difference" and "I love you". Because if (Heaven forbid) something did happen, I would want to know they knew exactly how I felt about them.
Whenever I go to Provo, I think about my grandparents. A while back, I went to Village Inn. The same Village Inn where I'd take my grandfather. We didn't sit at the same booth. As we passed the last booth grandpa and I sat at, I almost cried. To be in the same place, even if it was at a different time, brought me closer to him. At least for a moment.
I think I've posted this story before. Grandpa and I were on a date at Village Inn, sometime after grandma had died. He missed her terribly. He talked about a talk he had with God and a message he received concerning putting grandma in a nursing home. Those two absolutely loved each other. They had true love. I said, "Grandpa, grandma was so lucky to have found you." He said, "Oh no, dear. I am the lucky one."
They were the best grandparents in the world. They showed unequivocal love toward their family. If you married into the family, you were in. There was no confidence course that needed to be won. I don't recall them ever saying to their biological children, "Can you just come over and leave your spouse at home so it can be like old times?" I took them for granted. For that, I am sorry. I wish I had loved them more. I wish I had told them how lucky I was to have been their grandchild.
But I can't go back in time. I can, however, change the way I do things moving forward. I can tell people when I love them. I can tell them how grateful I am to know them. I can tell Matthew how lucky I am to be his mom and make sure he takes time to appreciate the little things that make up life's big picture. And perhaps, I can take my own advice and stop worry about what's going to happen tomorrow. I will be thankful for the small moments today.


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Longest day??
First day of summer?
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I am wholly fed up with walking, but can't do much else at the moment.
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Contingency Theory of Leadership
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Contingency Theory of Leadership
|Description of work environment | | | |Describe the work environment you intend to review for this assignment. | | |The work environment I am reviewing is a Steel Mill which involves construction. | | |Where safety was a very important aspect of the job. | | | | | | |
In the table below, categorize different leadership approaches that could be used in the work environment you have described. Provide different suggestions for each of the four approaches to leadership.
|Directive approach |Supportive approach | |This is a very important step due to the fact that everyone needs|This is where everyone was treated as a equal as long as they | |proper safety training. Developing safety procedures and work |could pull their own weight so to say. This is also where the | |rules is also a must in this line of work. |safety of each employee is important. | |Participative approach |Achievement-oriented approach | |At the steel mill every employee had the right to say their ideas|This is where there was safety incentive set in place for | |that might have made the job safer or easier to complete. There |employees went for a month straight...
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Ryan Bertrand lauded England's rugby union coach Eddie Jones as a "massive inspiration" after the Australian's masterclass with Gareth Southgate's Three Lions.
Jones won his first 18 matches in charge of his adopted country, equalling the All Blacks' world record streak, and claiming back-to-back Six Nations titles after a four-year drought.
The 57-year-old has been hailed for bringing a new winning culture to the national side and Southgate has been quick to develop a line of communication as he attempts a similar overhaul of the nation's footballing prospects.
He travelled to Pennyhill Park last month to witness preparations for the key Six Nations match against Wales and hosted a reciprocal visit this week to England's Hertfordshire hotel, where Jones addressed Southgate's 23-man squad on Friday.
"He was a massive inspiration," said Southampton full-back Bertrand on the eve of the World Cup qualifier against Lithuania.
"They were on the edge of a fantastic, record-breaking run and we really dug deep to find out what was achieved and what measures he put in to bring sustainable success, not temporary success.
"It was a real eye-opener and the squad came out of the meeting a lot closer and with ideas a lot clearer about how to achieve that."
Asked which of Jones' qualities had shone through strongest in his presentation, Bertrand explained: "For me personally, he was sure. He's a very confident man.
"He's very into his work and as long as you work hard you'll get success."
Southgate was keen to let Bertrand take charge of debriefing Jones' visit but did add: "It's great for us to get ideas from other sports, winning mentalities and environments."
That he should take a back seat and allow one of his charges to field questions is very much in keeping with Southgate's coaching tenets.
Since taking over, initially on a temporary basis following Sam Allardyce's messy departure, he has made a point of empowering players, asking them to make decisions for themselves on and off the pitch and sharing the media duties around.
In days gone by the England manager would be accompanied before a match by the captain or a player with of significant seniority, but Southgate has involved a rotating cast in a bid to encourage shared responsibility.
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All things grow and develop when competition exists. It is the catalyst and in our social imagination we need competition to grow it. Which means we need to expose our social imagination to different ways of perceiving the world. Largely that happens through cultural exchange; or to put it simply to be exposed to a different place with different people. The exchange of information not need be through language it can be through non verbal messages, gestures and behavioral practices in a place. Such exposure stirs the imagination and can cause conflict between groups and even among individuals in groups who ventured out and saw something different and tried to introduce it. Reactions can be aggressive at first but if the new information works, it will likely be absorbed and as the exchange cycle continues, social imagination grows.
New information when introduced by one or a few individuals or by a group encountering another group, can cause conflict in the form of aggressive competition for that information.
While at the same time, there are some that think diversity 'differences' are bad as they stir aggression. So, by 'saming' everyone's information could be good (creating a common core); that would be logical because we don't want competition which can stir aggression and conflict. While that can be expected, diversity 'differences' stir social imagination toward competition for a good purpose. This is how we can make new discoveries about our world. We need to recognize that differences are necessary motivators for the social imagination's growth and development.
Still, some say that differences and competition makes people too aggressive and conflict ensues. I read this past week that Stephen Hawkings would like to remove aggression or correct it. Not sure what he meant by that, but as a social scientist I can tell you that it would be a long time social engineering project starting with children and likely better results would ensue if they were taken from their parents. And, this is not far off in the future One headline I read just this morning was how a daycare worker saw clearly aggression in a 9 month old.
In this world, competition and aggression exist in all living things. Even in plants. Put to two seeds in the same dish close together and both will germinate and compete growing faster ... competing for life. Eventually, the stronger will win out. The information it now has stored in its data bank will be passed on. Remove that competition 'conflict' and neither seed will be productive.
If man were to correct his urge to compete - aggression, I am sure he would correct it all other forms of life as aggression and competition exists in every living thing. In fact, man would be driven to do it having no tolerance for it in any other life form. He could not tolerate to watch it. After all, we watch football because we like the competition. I have to admit when looking out my window this morning, I was shocked by how birds, some being the same and some being different kinds, fought each other over the seed put out for them.
Am I suggesting that the old adage is best "survival of the fittest"? Well, I suppose a Darwinian thinker would say yes. But, I am not. I would say that we have to accept the choices we make no matter where our seed was planted and we need to compete in that place for our own growth and development. We have to deal with it in the best way we can and a little aggression can/will help us grow in our social imagination in the place where we are and where we want to go.
We would be better off to appreciate how differences and competition make and have made us better as human beings.
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This isn't a very good photo. I shot it four days ago and trashed it. But this is the main street of the little town of Yackandandah.
It's slightly hippie, slightly old-fashioned, has a great little bakery, was the setting for the 2004 movie Strange Bedfellows (whose plot was subsequently nicked for the atrocious I Now Pronounce You Chuck And Larry) - and tonight, a bushfire is raging five kilometres from this little town.


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For Christmas, my in-laws gifted me with cooking classes at the PC cooking school hosted at select Superstore locations. I was so surprised and blessed by their thoughtfulness! I remember saying to Jordan's sister one time, "If I could do it over again, I would take cooking classes." I really would love to learn proper knife handling and the basics to gourmet gastronomic alchemy. She's a sneaky one, that sister.
So I attended my first class on Wednesday titled "Four Ingredient Appetizers" and simply loved it. I was in my element, stirring, tasting, measuring, adding…eating. What a great gift!
Apologies for the iPhone picture quality. I didn't want to waltz in with a camera being all, "I have a blog and I'm going to blog about this"
my favorite: Warm Chickpea-Chorizo Tapas (recipe to come)
Our excellent chef teacher
Every so often throw a chef bio or two onto your reading list. And of course Iron Chef, Chopped, and all those cooking shows are a wealth of information.


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Man in his mid 20's.
This summer I was waiting for the 20 on Hastings and Carrall going to Commercial and this guy saw me walk up towards him as he waited for the bus. He asked me how my day was going, and I simply said that I would like to be left alone as it wasn't going so well. He continued to say I was beautiful and I said thank you, thinking maybe that's all he had to say. I boarded the bus and he came on as well. As I was walking on the bus another guy in his 40's signaled with his hands that I should come sit on his lap. He laughed and his friend did as well. I just ignored them. I thought the other guy would have left me alone by now but he didn't. He sat beside me and grabbed my arm which is when I flipped out. I yelled "don't touch me, I already told you that I don't want to talk to you." As I walked up for my 3rd seat change he's like "why you gotta be like that." I sat somewhere else and you could tell he was embarrassed but continue to leer. The 20 was full and people saw him grabbing me and no one did a thing.
Woman in her 30's.
I was taking the 5 up Robson from Denman street in early September. I am sitting in the seniors section because there were seats available and like always if a senior or pregnant woman got on I would get up for them. This lady who looks quite disheveled gets on with a man. I have my headphones in and I am looking at my phone. I look up and she signals with her hand for me to get up. I look at her, knowing what she wants but if she doesn't ask for it she's not going to get it. Then she's says "I want to sit." I say "well can you say please?" She says please and I get up. I thought that was going to be the end of it. I am looking out the window and my back is towards her. She starts yelling and starts saying what a slut someone is. I turn around to see what the fuss is about. I see her looking at me and saying "you're such a slut, you're such fucking slut" and some other derogatory words. I say "you have no right to call me a slut." She keeps going off on a tangent and continues yelling. I yell "you need to fucking shut up," "you have no right to call me these things," "how would you like it if I called you a fucking slut, you idiot?" Profanity is usually unneeded but in this case for about 5 minutes straight she wouldn't stop badgering me. When I said these things in a stern, loud tone she became quiet. As she was about to leave she started back up again, where I yelled again. And again, the bus was full and people heard and saw what was happening.The bus driver simply said to us "be quiet over there, there are kids on the bus" not realizing, nor caring what was going on.
Other instances that sadly happen frequently…
Men: signalling with their hands that I should call them, not staring but leering at me for the entire ride and looking at my breasts like it's the first time seeing bigger ones, making catcalls about my appearance, looking at me up and down like they're trying to rip my clothing off with me with their eyes, falling asleep on my shoulder, sitting next to me when the whole train/bus is empty, thinking that because I am wearing a skirt it's an invitation to look up it, grazing themselves onto my side and especially my back and the typical thigh-to-thigh touching when sitting on a bus/train as if it's unintentional.


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Andy's Death Quest: Time waster of the day
Today's time waster is a tail of death, money, death, weapons and death. In Andy's Death Quest you have the option to play in two different modes: Story mode or death match mode.
In death match mode, you start out with easy opponents, no cash and no weapons. Working your way through your choice of death match gets you more money. Which, in turn, gets you more cash, allowing you to buy different and better swords, guns and/or bombs. The more it costs, the more it will help you through the more difficult levels.
Story mode was a bit of a let down. After Andy made his way through the game unlocking all available death matches, he's able to bring in his own weapons (Shotgun and Laser Sword are Andy's favorites) and had his pick of whatever type of villain he wanted to fight. However, in story mode you have a very limited spread of bad guys to test your strength out on as well as a limit on the amount of money received. Death match mode was much more entertaining for Andy. That and the pool of blood after a glorious victory of a savage battle!
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I admit, I was back and forth on whether or not I was ready to return to racing... not from the physical sense (I know I'm not back in "form" or anywhere close yet.) but mentally. I had doubts as to whether or not I was ready to get back in the racing mindset, and whether or not I could push myself to finish as well as I could when I knew it wouldn't be anywhere near where I was last year.
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I'll just say... knocking off some of the cobwebs will take some work. You could take my preparation routine and classify it in the "ways not to warm up and execute a time trial race." By warm up I mean I got slicked into my new Knoxvelo skinsuit, fastened my Specialized TT helmet and spun down the road for a few minutes... honestly it's the first time I've been on the "road" since before November, so I was a little rusty. I didn't pre-ride the course, stopped my warmup about 10 minutes before my start time, didn't drink enough water before hand... you know, basically all of the things you read not to do.
|Me all "alien" and Jenny trying not to be embarrassed about it.
|Heading out after finally managing to clip in.
Then it was go time. Unfortunately there was no handler, so it was a foot down start, and I showed my unfamiliarity with clipping in by very nearly missing on takeoff. Once I'm in and down in aero a thought hits me... man this is uncomfortable... how the hell did I ride like this for 50+ miles. Around the first sweeping bend I get another unpleasant surprise, the wind whips rather hard and somehow knocks one of my contact lenses out of my eye! I've never had that happen before! I very nearly call it a day right then and there, as I already hurt and I'm half blind (literally) and squinting just to see what's in the road ahead of me. I also am a giant dummy who didn't adjust my TT helmet, despite it having an easy dial sizing, so every minute or so I was pushing the tip of the helmet back down. Nice.
|Hurting... so much hurting
|The kit actually matches my bike/helmet/gloves/covers almost perfect...coincidence ftw!
|Finish Strong!
|Here you get a good look at extra hair and extra pounds I've gained in my off months.
As the halfway point (180° turn) comes into "sight" I take some pride in not wiping out and maiming myself and/or the volunteer. I feel absolutely terrible. I've gone out entirely too
|Jimmy snagged 4th in the Cat4 road race and 2nd in the TT... on someone else's bike!
|Sharon, Jimmy and myself trying to cheese after the TT
Somehow, due to some very, very good luck (along with only a few of us being under 40) I managed to sneak onto the podium in 3rd place!
|Knoxvelo/Hicks Orthodontics team
|The Cobb Mobb crew, Allison, myself, Jimmy and Sharon.
As always, thanks for checking out the blog! Challenge Knoxville is this weekend and although I won't be racing I should be running around taking pictures. I'll be wearing my Cobb Mobb gear, so if you see me, say hi!
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text: tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24364974049600763002018-05-28T02:54:57.968+01:00The Evil CrabMusings on the Big CChinothttp://firstname.lastname@example.com://feedburner.google.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2436497404960076300.post-51456037701005965582012-02-29T00:24:00.000+00:002012-02-29T00:26:17.812+00:00Full circleFirst of all, sorry for the radio silence - things have been very busy lately and I'm afraid that the blog has fallen by the wayside as a consequence. So! I am cancer free - all the chemotherapy and radiotherapy treatments are done and dusted and I survived. I am a little worse for wear for it but I'm still here. The past year has been a challenge but all of us have our crosses to bear and itChinothttp://firstname.lastname@example.com://theevilcrab.blogspot.com/2012/02/ending-and-beginning.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2436497404960076300.post-52966357425129087612012-02-02T19:22:00.000+00:002012-02-02T19:22:16.016+00:00Help...Tomorrow is the last day of my radiotherapy, and the last day of my treatment. And I suddenly find that I'm not in a very good place right now... In fact, I think I'm about have a massive panic attack. At this point, I would like the treatments to go on and on - yes, even FEC chemotherapy - just to make sure that the cancer does not come back. I think I'm going to throw up.Chinothttp://firstname.lastname@example.com://theevilcrab.blogspot.com/2012/02/help.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2436497404960076300.post-66528555094591857842012-01-31T22:39:00.000+00:002012-01-31T22:39:27.652+00:00Nearly there...Friday will be the last day of my radiotherapy. Starting tomorrow and till Friday I will be receiving a boost in radiation levels to make sure that all the cancer is gone. Who knows? I may glow in the dark by Friday night. I should be excited - with the end of it, not from the glowing - but just like my experience with chemotherapy, I am more nervous. This is it; apart from my Tamoxifen and Chinothttp://firstname.lastname@example.com://theevilcrab.blogspot.com/2012/01/nearly-there.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2436497404960076300.post-61973785689111838252012-01-18T21:42:00.001+00:002012-01-18T21:42:49.964+00:00ExerciseI finally dragged myself back to the gym this week after a two-month break. Initially it was because I had just had my operation, then Christmas came along and I just did not have time. So I was pretty nervous when I mounted the spin bike the other day; I figured I would be pretty unfit from the long break. As it turns out my fears were unfounded: I found myself a lot fitter than what I Chinothttp://email@example.com://theevilcrab.blogspot.com/2012/01/exercise.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2436497404960076300.post-46552958431922031492012-01-17T21:37:00.000+00:002012-01-17T21:45:16.699+00:00Another hair lamentWhen I started chemotherapy, my lovely girlfriend L (who is apparently very hairy) volunteered to keep all of her shaven, depilated and waxed body hair for me so that eventually, I could turn these hair scraps into scarves or even a wig, once I had lost all my hair. (Some ruder items were suggested, but I will refrain from mentioning them as my parents read my blog.) Sadly, I never did get to Chinothttp://email@example.com://theevilcrab.blogspot.com/2012/01/another-hair-lament.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2436497404960076300.post-23658659920971087412012-01-12T17:57:00.001+00:002012-01-12T18:00:33.615+00:00Radio GagaI started my radiotherapy treatment yesterday. Pretty painless - I felt like I was a character in a pornographic science fiction movie - lying down topless on a strange laser machine with my arms raised. Although my wrists were not chained to the strange machine, they may as well have been as I am NOT ALLOWED TO MOVE whilst treatment is ongoing. The nurses attending to me are very sweet - Chinothttp://firstname.lastname@example.com://theevilcrab.blogspot.com/2012/01/radio-times.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2436497404960076300.post-3723649646147857362012-01-06T00:01:00.000+00:002012-01-06T00:01:00.604+00:00A new me?It was my 46th birthday yesterday. Add to this the New Year, and the fact that I am now cancer free, I feel under pressure to be a better person or at least, come up with some pretty heavy resolutions. And although I have spouted on and on about how the experience has changed me, I wonder how much it has, really. Initially I was convinced that once I was over the cancer, I would be a much moreChinothttp://email@example.com://theevilcrab.blogspot.com/2012/01/new-me_06.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2436497404960076300.post-9473113539210395092012-01-04T09:16:00.000+00:002012-01-04T09:20:57.183+00:00TattooSo, it's 2012 and a whole new year awaits us! Happy New Year! Admittedly, I had almost forgotten the whole cancer thing, what with the twins' birthday, Christmas and the New Year. But yesterday it was back to the real world and with a slightly heavy heart I dragged myself to hospital for a CT scan to prepare myself for radiotherapy which starts next week. I was preparing myself for the horridChinothttp://firstname.lastname@example.com://theevilcrab.blogspot.com/2012/01/new-year.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2436497404960076300.post-34652483156911764022011-12-19T11:17:00.001+00:002011-12-20T07:22:03.913+00:00Neither do INearly a month ago, I took off all the bandages from my lumpectomy and was staring at Mr Tit-man's handiwork in the bathroom mirror. Needless to say, my breast was bruised and battered. LH was in the bedroom so I called out: 'Come and take a look at my Frankenstein boob!' He then answered with a very adamant 'No way'. This quite upset me so I asked him why he refused to come and look and he Chinothttp://email@example.com://theevilcrab.blogspot.com/2011/12/neither-do-i.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2436497404960076300.post-66902013021773077142011-12-16T21:26:00.000+00:002011-12-19T11:04:06.534+00:00What a week!Monday, December 12 Coffee morning at the chemo ward organised by the lovely nurses R and A-M. A whole myriad of women, which really just goes to show that cancer does not choose its victims. Some of the women were done and dusted with the entire process, and it was lovely to speak and learn from them; and also to feel inspired by how well they were all doing. Some women were just starting, andChinothttp://firstname.lastname@example.com://theevilcrab.blogspot.com/2011/12/what-week.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2436497404960076300.post-51325805112082672662011-12-11T22:00:00.000+00:002011-12-11T22:00:57.114+00:00Oh dearThe other night I went to bed and started to read 'Anticancer', a book by a man called David Servan-Schreiber, who was diagnosed with brain cancer and managed to ward it off via chemotherapy and good nutrition and exercise. I mentioned the book earlier in this blog, when I made a made a list of necessary chemo kit. I love the book because I feel slightly in control of my health; I feel that I Chinothttp://email@example.com://theevilcrab.blogspot.com/2011/12/oh-dear.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2436497404960076300.post-948739197625568172011-12-05T23:22:00.000+00:002011-12-05T23:22:53.748+00:00Little thrillsToday, wore mascara and had my eyebrows threaded for the first time in six months. Ha! It really doesn't take much to make me happy!Chinothttp://email@example.com://theevilcrab.blogspot.com/2011/12/little-thrills.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2436497404960076300.post-17321743395589313252011-12-04T22:15:00.000+00:002011-12-04T22:15:07.333+00:00The highs and lowsWhen I saw Dr M last Wednesday I asked him when I could finally have my portacath (ie Gross Protrusion in my upper arm where all the drugs have made their entry into my body) taken out and he told me to speak to the chemo nurses, which I duly did. Surprisingly, I received a phone call from the hospital later that same afternoon, telling me that the procedure could be done on Friday. Sadly, LHChinothttp://firstname.lastname@example.com://theevilcrab.blogspot.com/2011/12/highs-and-lows.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2436497404960076300.post-90951810866997304662011-12-01T19:29:00.002+00:002011-12-01T21:54:09.387+00:00Team JacobI was invited for lunch yesterday at the very lovely A's, and just as I was about to leave to go to it, I noticed that my eyebrows had actually become quite unruly and needed a bit of tidying up. This was quite momentous as I have not groomed by eyebrows since they fell off around four months ago. The problem is that I don't do my own eyebrows: I normally have some woman thread it: ie, she Chinothttp://email@example.com://theevilcrab.blogspot.com/2011/12/team-jacob.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2436497404960076300.post-12279414329559789762011-11-30T23:26:00.000+00:002011-11-30T23:26:34.258+00:00The fine print (ie a few boring details)Saw oncologist Dr M this morning and he reiterated the good news that breast cancer surgeon Mr Tit-man had given me last week - that I am cancer free. He was slightly more reticent though, because I did not do the usual course, ie I did not have the full lymph node dissection. However, he did say that since my tumour had reacted very well to the chemotherapy, the lymph nodes should have done theChinothttp://firstname.lastname@example.com://theevilcrab.blogspot.com/2011/11/fine-print-ie-few-boring-details.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2436497404960076300.post-90356198596829392812011-11-25T23:11:00.001+00:002011-11-25T23:13:14.594+00:00ThanksgivingEarlier today I attended a charity coffee morning for breast cancer, organised by the beautiful S. I knew nearly everyone there; in fact I felt almost like a minor celebrity as most had heard the news that I had been given the all-clear. In the midst of all the conversation someone mentioned that I'd had a bad year and I kept quiet, as I completely disagreed. I did not voice my disagreement Chinothttp://firstname.lastname@example.com://theevilcrab.blogspot.com/2011/11/thanksgiving.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2436497404960076300.post-44889088406447812632011-11-24T12:44:00.002+00:002011-11-24T13:03:08.171+00:00What I'm truly proud ofLast night, when we arrived home, second son E opened the door for us and I immediately shouted, "I have no more cancer!" And he replied, "Oh, okay" and rushed off to do whatever very important thing he was doing before we interrupted him with our arrival. Eldest son C and daughter N did not react with much more emotion either when we told them the good news. And this is the one thing I am Chinothttp://email@example.com://theevilcrab.blogspot.com/2011/11/what-im-truly-proud-of.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2436497404960076300.post-83676139922998707202011-11-23T23:17:00.000+00:002011-11-23T23:17:19.753+00:00Ding dong, the evil crab is dead!Yes, 'tis true, the evil crab is no more. Hurrah! Saw Mr Tit-man tonight and he gave LH and I the good news. Apparently (now hopefully I get this right - I was pretty overcome with emotion that I turned into some kind of blubbering wreck) chemotherapy attacks tumours in three ways: 1. they shrink the dang things into oblivion; 2. they make the tumours smaller and smaller and eventually all Chinothttp://email@example.com://theevilcrab.blogspot.com/2011/11/ding-dong-evil-crab-is-dead.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2436497404960076300.post-40744502792291099652011-11-20T22:35:00.001+00:002011-11-20T22:35:28.917+00:00Ewww...On Wednesday, the day I left hospital, I received a 'phone call from Nurse M, not just for her to find out how I was doing, but also to order me to take my bandages off on Saturday. But I just had a chunk of my breast taken out on Tuesday, I argued. She wasn't having any of it however. Visions of Nurse Diesel in High Anxiety suddenly entered my mind... Well, Saturday was yesterday and Chinothttp://email@example.com://theevilcrab.blogspot.com/2011/11/ewww.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2436497404960076300.post-71711954276075748632011-11-16T21:34:00.000+00:002011-11-16T21:34:37.702+00:00HomeI'm back home after spending the night in hospital. I had my lumpectomy yesterday; hopefully all traces of the evil crab are out of my body. However, we won't know for sure till next week: we will have the results of the biopsy then. If it is all clear, it's time to rejoice. If not, we will have to consider a mastectomy. Although the mastectomy will come with a tummy tuck, I'm not THAT desperate Chinothttp://firstname.lastname@example.com://theevilcrab.blogspot.com/2011/11/home.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2436497404960076300.post-71911399083082486252011-11-14T22:16:00.001+00:002011-11-16T21:46:57.678+00:00CuckooI am surrounded by some pretty insane people. They think that they're normal, but really they're not. However, I spent three hours over lunch with four of these pretty mad (but absolutely gorgeous) people earlier today and I can, hand on heart, say that they are pretty crazy. LH and the children are equally mad, and I have also received messages of support from the downright strange J, who Chinothttp://firstname.lastname@example.com://theevilcrab.blogspot.com/2011/11/cuckoo.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2436497404960076300.post-63094314010505091152011-11-14T21:58:00.000+00:002011-11-14T21:58:25.912+00:00The first cut is the deepestSo, I'm going under the knife tomorrow for my lumpectomy. The evil crab will finally be excised. I'm hoping that this 'cake slice' won't be too big. (See October 12 entry 'Yippee'.) After all, the 'cake' isn't very large to begin with and I don't really want to end up with a pancake. Wish me luck.Chinothttp://firstname.lastname@example.com://theevilcrab.blogspot.com/2011/11/first-cut-is-deepest.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2436497404960076300.post-61636551554065733402011-11-12T21:28:00.000+00:002011-11-12T21:28:42.079+00:00I've got chills, they're multiplyingI've got the flu, and despite my giving LH a very hard time for his man flu, I'm milking this for all its forth. After all, I do feel terrible; and not only that, I'm worried sick that because of this darned flu my operation on Tuesday will be postponed. I actually saw the GP yesterday just to make sure that my cold had not turned into a chest infection. But apparently, there was no rattling Chinothttp://email@example.com://theevilcrab.blogspot.com/2011/11/ive-got-chills-theyre-multiplying.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2436497404960076300.post-59568212439989807982011-11-10T15:56:00.000+00:002011-11-10T15:56:22.400+00:00Sniffle, sniffleI managed to avoid the cold whilst I was undergoing chemotherapy. But now that I'm done, I'm suddenly all bunged up! According to girlfriend S, it's probably because I was on high-alert whilst I was undergoing treatment. And now that I've relaxed a bit, I'm more prone to infection since I'm not looking out for it. Dang. Does this mean that I must continue with the wheatgrass and horse Chinothttp://email@example.com://theevilcrab.blogspot.com/2011/11/sniffle-sniffle.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2436497404960076300.post-82070791275200794612011-11-09T23:39:00.000+00:002011-11-09T23:39:48.034+00:00By the way...As it turns out, the feeling of bloatedness that I constantly had in the Philippines was not a result of massive overeating - it was water retention caused by the heat. (Well, most of it was anyway.) And it wasn't the dreaded DVT either - my feet are actually back to normal size and I can wear sandals again without embarrassment. Except that I cannot because it's very cold here. 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Some things do evolve into something else. Sometimes we don't realize that we NEED something until we try it. Also, sometimes we don't realize that we WANT something until we try it. What I'm referring to is with regard to electronic gadgets. When I was still taking up my undergraduate degree, I had an MP3 Player with 128 MB. It was then one of the most advanced music player then and my friends were amazed. Now, MP3 players have normally around 4 GB at least and even if you have a 4GB MP3 player, nobody cares anymore. Since when did GPS in cars become needed anyway? A few years back we only had paper maps in cars. Our cellphones then did just what they were designed to do, to call and send text messages. Now we realize that these gadgets of ours can actually be a status symbol, one that we use to flaunt our (or what we think we have) status, wealth, or prestige.
Last week, I went to the mall and tested several cellphones. Most cellphones now have features never dreamed of even a year ago. It makes me think if one is ever going to use it anyway. Anyway, it was designed to call and to text but now phones come with everything like cameras and GPS. But that's why we have a camera and a GPS receiver! Now, almost everyone I know has either an Apple iPhone or a Blackberry. I use two cellphones: One is a 3-year old Nokia and the other is a 4-year old Samsung. I have to say that I don't find the NEED to change it but still I WANT to change it.
Try going to parties, many people are already sporting DSLR Cameras (before only a few can use these ) but see how many of those really know how to shoot in full manual- maybe one in ten. Most do not even know how to hold it correctly. In computers, since when did we require using multiple cores in processors? Do we really need it? Maybe the "capability" to type while listening to music is one of the reasons of the degrading quality in one's work. Most also desire having the laptop with the Apple logo at the cover when clearly a netbook will serve his or her purpose. I still remember when we had a 75 Mhz computer. It does its job very well. Word processing was its specialty and with one click the program opens. Now, even with a dual-core laptop, my word processing program still needs several seconds before I can readily type. With regard to the law, consider the fact that these gadgets that we do have may in fact be tools for us to do something illegal. For example, if we have neighbors who have Wi-Fi but do not have password protection, many claim that it is legal to connect. However, when the Wi-Fi is password locked, it is supposed to be illegal to be "hacking" yourself in another's network. However, we can say that strictly speaking, you are not connecting to get the signal of the Wi-Fi, rather it is the signal that goes to you. It penetrates wall and allegedly, causes cancer. Now, wouldn't it be fair that if you are at risk of cancer, that you actually have the beneficial use of that thing that intrudes into your home?
Anyway, we take all the manufacturers throw at us with open arms. We cannot distinguish need from want anymore. As we upgrade more and more into the latest gadgets, we dig ourselves deeper into the "must-have" pit that once we realize it, it will already be too late to crawl out. That's why many people buy electronics on installment plans even if they cannot afford paying for it in cash. That's what I call insatiable greed.
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Lesson from watching this video. "A physically blind person knows that he is blind, but a spiritually blind person doesn't know he is blind, but thinks he can see really well"
Because of sin in our lives, we are unable to see the spiritual things of God. Mark 8:18 - having eyes you do not see? 3 things we struggle with on this earth as Christian: The Devil, The World and The Flesh!!


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a sprawling mess of politics, history and healthcare
On the Oregonian's public blog, My Oregon, Paul G. Rollis wrote:
"A Rose by Any Other Name…" (socialism, corporatism, progressivism, marxism, etc.)
You can also throw in communism, for good measure.
As people argue for and against each of the above, most seem either to ignore or are completely ignorant of the one thing that they ALL have in common. Each is based upon the basic idea that government should have constantly increasing, perhaps all, power to run a society. This, in turn, is based upon the idea that the government knows what is best for you, regardless of if you like it or want it or not. This is a proven form of creeping dictatorship with the concomitant decrease of individual rights and freedoms and the total loss of any meaningful power of the people in a democratic system. It gradually eviscerates and makes meaningless the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights.
Some of the proponents of these systems knowingly work for imposing these systems of government upon a society, but they rarely are open and honest about their goals, because they know that most people do not want to lose their rights and freedoms. This often causes the supporters of these ideas to operate in secret and with deception in order to gain their goals.
Does this have any bearing on the 2700+ page health care reform bills currently proposed by the Democratic Party in congress? I think so, and if you actually know what the bills contain, you would probably think so, too.
What a surprise. Someone using the word "socialism" pejoratively is equating healthcare reform with big government, and big government with the "loss of any meaningful power of the people in a democratic system." So, liking a good debate every now and then, I replied with:
Technically speaking, socialism is an economic system, not a form of government. While governments can be more or less socialistic, socialism itself is a mass movement towards economic democracy — collectively owned and democratically controlled production based on need rather than profit — and the creation of an egalitarian, classless society.
While some types of socialism have taken the form of state socialism, whereby the state becomes the sole capitalist in the name of the people, this method has proven to be the best way to unsuccessfully implement socialism and lead to the installment of repressive totalitarian regimes that exploit their citizens more than capitalism ever could (e.g., the authoritarian and militaristic style of socialism that dominated China and Russia). Democratic socialists (e.g., Eugene Debs, Norman Thomas, etc.), on the other hand, actually push for a more decentralized and directly democratic economy and political system.
What this has to do with the [current] healthcare debacle, however, I have no idea. As far as I'm concerned, it misrepresents a host of socialists' politics by utilizing the same socialism = statism straw man argument that almost everyone propagates to death—as if every extreme form of government intervention in the economy in which production is dominated by an authoritarian political regime or state is equivalent to socialism. This is exactly the same kind of red-baiting Reagan used in his 1961 LP recording for the Operation Coffee Cup campaign against medicare, or as Reagan called it, "socialized medicine." As if medicare was some kind of danger to democracy and individual liberty. Pfft.
And even if the universal healthcare like they have in those horrible places like Britain, Canada, France, etc. can be considered "socialist," the kind of aggressive government intervention that has taken place in this country with the trillion dollar bailout of Wall Street should really be called something like "corporatism," "state capitalism" or "state corporate capitalism" because it's pretty much doing the exact opposite of what socialism entails when it takes money from average workers via taxes and gives it to giant, multinational corporations.
What is truly leading the loss of democracy in this country is the lack of civic participation on the part of its citizens. For example, people can't just vote once a year and think that's the end of their obligation. But hell, they don't even do that. Here in Oregon, for example, we can vote by mail. We don't even have to leave our house to vote and we still can't reach 100% turnout!
But we need to do even more than that. We need to call and write our representatives. We need to go to their offices and talk to them face to face. We need to organize with other like-minded individuals and push for the policies we want. I vote, but I'm not under the illusion that my one vote can change as much as my activism can. Nevertheless, I'd be much happier about our electoral system if we had public financing of elections and the ability to immediately recall representatives if we felt that they weren't doing their jobs effectively. That would not only help to remove all of the big-monied interests from Washington, it would help put power back into the hands of the people.
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Obviously you can not see the pervasive correlation between the increase of socialist "economic" goals and the loss of personal rights and freedoms, or the ever-increasing power of government. Where, if anywhere, do you see the tipping point when the people no longer are in control of the government, and, instead, the government has total control over the people?
Also, I see that you very conveniently left out of your description of socialism one of its most important characteristics, namely, the allocation of resources.
That is the source of concern of the American people regarding the health care reform bills, because this "allocation of resources" concept is the basis of inevitable rationing, or worse yet, the complete denial of medical care to those who need it. This is the current practice in all of those European countries that already have socialized medicine.
To which I answered with this sprawling rebuttal:
The allocation of resources is an inherent part of any type of economy. In free-market capitalism, for example, the allocation of resources is controlled primarily through the price mechanism. In mixed economies, resources are allocated through a combination of the price mechanism and allocation via various government agencies (e.g., think of a public resource like water that needs to be used for public consumption as well as things like irrigation, etc.).
As for resource allocation in our current healthcare system, insurance company bureaucrats routinely deny coverage and "ration" care. That is how insurance companies make their profit, after all. The real question is, who do we want to be in charge of approving medical care, an insurance company bureaucrat or a government bureaucrat? Each has its own pros and cons, but for the most part, more "socialized" healthcare systems that cover everyone have proven to be quite efficient and reliable.
According to the World Health Organization, for example, France has the best overall health care system in the world, excelling in 4 areas: (1) universal coverage, (2) responsive health care providers, (3) freedom of choice and (4) overall health and longevity of the population.
In 2005, France spent $3,926 per capita on healthcare, and of that, approximately 80% was government expenditure. The U.S., in comparison, spent $6,347, and of that, approximately 45% was government expenditure. Yet France has a higher life expectancy and lower infant mortality rate than the U.S. (Although, to be fair, I've heard it mentioned that the U.S. counts premature births whereas France doesn't, and these differences can't be attributed to the differences between the two systems alone as there are undoubtedly other factors involved, e.g., eating habits, stress levels, etc.)
Or how about Spain's healthcare system? Spain's constitution guarantees the right to universal healthcare and requires the state to provide it, it's ranked 7th best by the WHO, and according to one study published last year in the U.S. journal Health Affairs, there are a third fewer deaths caused by delayed access to health care than in the U.S.
And then there is Canada's healthcare system, which was quite similar to ours before they adopted a single-payer system. It's not only ranked higher than the U.S. system by the WHO (30th v. 37th out of 191 nations), but like France, Canada has a higher life expectancy and lower infant mortality rate than the U.S. (Again, these differences can't be attributed to the differences between the two systems alone, but I think it at least goes to show that Canadians seem to be doing OK with the system they've got.)
In addition, a 2006 peer-reviewed study of healthcare access in Canada and the U.S. done by the American Journal of Public Health concluded that "U.S. residents are one third less likely to have a regular medical doctor, one fourth more likely to have unmet health care needs, and are more than twice as likely to forgo needed medicines." Of course, every system has its problems, but I'd still say that Canada's system is pretty damn good considering it covers everyone and costs less per person than ours.
As for the for the idea that we're losing our democracy to the tyranny of "big government," you can't lose what you've never really had. What we're really losing is the fight for economic and political democracy in the U.S. The state has been skewed in favour of the ruling class from the very beginning. Although some of the Founders, namely Thomas Paine, did advocate for things like the abolition of slavery, free public education, progressive taxation, social safety nets (e.g., old-age pensions), etc., for the most part, the Founding Fathers, while arguably great men, weren't fighting for universal freedom and suffrage, they were fighting for the freedom of white, male property owners from the tyranny of the British monarchy.
Like most forms of government centered around property rights, the basic principle behind the establishment of our form of representative democracy had more to do with the ruling elites wanting to protect the small minority of property owners (including themselves) from the majority of the propertyless than anything else. As James Madison put it in Federalist No. 10, "… the most common and durable source of factions has been the various and unequal distribution of property. Those who hold and those who are without property have ever formed distinct interests in society."
The Federalist Papers, as you might know, were a series of essays arguing for the ratification of our Constitution. Federalist No. 10, written by Madison, addresses the question of factions, which he defines as "a number of citizens, whether amounting to a majority or a minority of the whole, who are united and actuated by some common impulse of passion, or of interest, adversed to the rights of other citizens, or to the permanent and aggregate interests of the community."
Believing that an individual's "interest would certainly bias his judgement, and not improbably, corrupt his integrity," he saw a groups of individuals, or factions, as an even greater threat to individual liberty, even though paradoxically, he saw liberty as the cause by which factions arise. His solution, then, was to try to control the effects of factions within American society. This could be accomplished, he argued, by the establishment of a republic in favour of a direct democracy. And the representatives in this new republic were initially elected by a select few, namely white, male property owners.
While I agree with Madison, albeit somewhat reluctantly, about the dangers of having a majority of citizens who are united and motivated by a common interest who can take away the rights of the minority of other citizens, this can just as easily lead to the reverse, e.g., a minority of wealthy/propertied interests excluding the majority of poor/propertyless from voting, or in our case, from influencing the political process (e.g., the 5-to-4 decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission that overturned certain longstanding limits on political campaign spending by corporations, effectively giving them even more lobbying power).
One of the few things I think Andrew Jackson got right (as opposed to his support of slavery and the Indian Removal Act) was his support for expanded suffrage, which at that time meant extending the right to vote to include all white males instead of just white, male property owners. Without removing this form of class antagonism, civil unrest on the part of the poor and disenfranchised could have gotten to the point where revolt was a serious possibility. Removing this restriction, however, allowed more people to become directly involved in the political process, giving them (at least in theory) a more constructive way to address their grievances than violence. It was the first step in the ongoing fight for equality and universal suffrage.
But as a general principle, the ruling class seeks to do as little for the average citizen as it can. It wasn't until 1870, for example, that African American males were allowed to vote. And women weren't allowed to vote until 1920. 1920! So what changed? Was it the interests of the ruling class? Perhaps in some cases, but the vast majority of changes came after long, hard struggles by average men and women seeking life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. From the abolition of slavery to the right of women to vote to the 40 hour work day, it was due to the bravery of ordinary, everyday men and women who were willing to stand up and fight for what they believed in that we have these things today.
Regardless of where one stands on economic democracy and private ownership v. collective ownership of the means of production, I think it can be agreed upon that part of the reason we're losing the battle for political democracy in the U.S. is the lack of civic participation on the part of its citizens. [As I said before], people can't just vote once a year and think that's the end of their civic obligation. But hell, most of the time they don't even seem to do that much. Here in Oregon, for example, we can vote by mail. We don't even have to leave our house to vote and we still can't reach 100% turnout! Voter turnout [in the U.S.] for the 2008 presidential election was only 63%. And many statewide elections are decided by even less.
But we need to do even more than that to win and secure our political freedom. We need to call and write our representatives. We need to go to their offices and talk to them face to face. We need to run for office [ourselves]. We need to organize with other like-minded individuals and push for the policies we want. We need to take to the streets in rallies and protests if need be. I vote, but I'm not under the illusion that my one vote can have as much of an impact as my activism can.
That said, I'd be much happier about our electoral system if we at least had public financing of elections and the ability to immediately recall representatives if we felt that they weren't doing their jobs effectively. It would not only help to remove all of the big-monied interests from Washington, it would help to finally put real political power into the hands of the people. But that will only happen if people demand it, which is why I believe apathy and complacency are the real enemies of freedom in the U.S.


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For those who are new here or who may just not "get" why I write in this blog, I want to clarify my reasoning for doing "this". I blog for my kids. Not for anyone else's entertainment or to satisfy their nosiness. I do it in hopes that one day when the kids are older and bored or are procrastinating doing their homework or actual work that they will sit and read about their lives. And how I interpreted it. There are/will be so many things that they do that I know I will forget about. I want them to read about those times. When something "small" happened but it made such an impact on me that day that I decided to type in out. So.. this is for them. I love you Jon Kent, Zoey and Nathan. I hope in some small way.. that you can see that through this blog.
Now that all that is out.. on to my real reason for writing this entry.
Today the kids and I planted a garden. It's our first one. It's small and sad looking. I need to take some pictures... They are tomatoes and banana peppers. Something I knew that we would eat.. if.. you know.. they actually survive. Jon Kent has been begging me to plant a garden.. so there you go my little boy. Here's to healthy tomatoes and peppers!!!
Later today the kids and I were outside. They were playing and I was weeding a flowerbed that is in my front yard. We have plans to sod over most of it. It's awkwardly huge and doesn't make a lot of sense in the form it's in. So we are going to sod most of it and then the rest will be the remaining flower bed. ANYWAY.. I was weeding it and Jon Kent wanted to help. He is also so good about helping do stuff like that. Anything to do with yard work and he wants to do it. So after awhile Zoey and Nathan had wondered inside to cool off and I am sure to watch something on Noggin... excuse me.. it's NickJr now. Jon Kent stuck with it. He did it all the way until there wasn't much else to weed. I was finishing up leveling it all back out when he goes inside. A few minutes later he comes back out with a cup of water. "Here momma, this is for you. I know you would like it since you are hot." How sweet!?!?! It made my heart melt and grow all at the same time. Makes me feel like I must be doing something right.
Later this evening I was giving the kids a bath and was getting Jon Kent out. I noticed a rash on his leg. It was pretty big and I couldn't figure out what would have caused it. I asked Jon Kent did it hurt or itch and he said no. I said has it been there long? He said he didn't know. I knew it hadn't been because I had changed his clothes twice that day and never noticed it. So a little time goes by and I heard him say.. "Oooooh, no... I hope this isn't 'itchy-leg-itis'. I just laughed. The things that boy can come up with. He's a hoot!
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Thursday I was able to spend the day with him and go to his doctors appointments. The appointments went great! Everything is looking good and he is healing just like he should. They are going to do a swallow test to see if he can start eating and have some speech therapy.Dad is a little concerned with his speech not improving. But I told him its better then what the outcome could have been. As well as meeting with the radiation team to see if he needs to have a round of that again.
It was GREAT spending the day with him. And we had Sara with us too. This is the first time in over two years that he hasn't been in the hospital, having surgery, drugged up or in pain when I have been with him. It was so awesome to spend the day riding around and talking to him. After the appointments we went back to the condo and just hung out. He even played cards with Sara. Just to think that in February, he couldn't hardly stay up to even talk to us. God is good!


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We waited for O to wake up from his afternoon nap, and we trialed this new hat. I personally think it's adorable. He does not personally think this. He couldn't even muster up a smile for me.
No smiles once we got in the stroller either. He was mad that he couldn't get it off his head (that dang chin strap!)
But how cute is that face?
The trail took us over the river and through the woods... but unfortunately 6 miles didn't quite get us to Grandmother's house.
This is a bridge at the west entrance of our neighborhood (Woodridge). I think it's beautiful!
Our subdivision is quite hilly, and as you crest one of the tallest hills, you get this view.
The Wades in action.. nice that Mike can walk the dog and take pictures at the same time!
Oskee LOVED the walk. She sure had her smeller going. She's lost at least 7 pounds in the 15/16 months that we've had her. Now that she is my high-chair-dropping-licker-upper... we are wanting to walk her even more to keep that weight off!
I hope that the weather remains crisp and cloudy and that the precipitation stays away until December at least!


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Here is where I am going to share some information on who I am and accomplishments I'm proud of. It is also known as the ego section, but the main reason it is here is to lend credibility to some materials on the site. That way, you know it isn't a random person putting up information with an unknown background.
My background actually is founded in Electronics Engineering Technology. I received my B.S. in 2001 from DeVry University. I was a member of the Tau Alpha Pi National Honor Society for students in Engineering Technology programs. In December of 2009, I completed my MBA from Keller Graduate School of Management. This degree contained a concentration in K-12 Administration.
2001 is when I started working in schools with a focus on technology. Through the years this is progressed from a part-time position to a full-time position, and from desktop support to network and server administration. Through these positions I've been able to learn and apply concepts that have allowed for knowledge scaffolding. I feel by progressing through these various positions, a relational view is seen as to how each area has an impact on the others.
Accomplishments are the areas I feel define an individual. Most everyone works, everyone has educational experience, but what each does with their knowledge sets them apart from the rest of the population. It is this experiential knowledge that is beneficial. Among the accomplishments I am proud of:
- Obtaining my Apple Certified Systems Administrator (ACSA) certification.
- Contributing to various Macintosh online communities and sharing knowledge to help others.
- Publishing a guide on Systems Integration between Novell eDirectory and Apple OS X Systems
- Presenting at the LabMan conference held at Cornell University in 2005.
- Contributing to Arek Dreyer's technical guide on Directory Services Administration for Mac OS X Server 10.5 and 10.6.
- Selected as a presenter at MacWorld 2010 on Enterprise Mac Integration.
- Serving on the executive board of MacEnterprise, a non-for profit online user group focusing on Macintosh systems administration.


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He can change his name, but he�s still the same asshole!
AOL Sports reports Metta World Peace was ejected with 1:37 left in the first half of Sunday�s Lakers-Thunder game for flooring James Harden with a violent left elbow to the head. Harden, once he got up, was taken to the locker room to be examined.
After a fast-break dunk that cut the Thunder�s lead to 48-47, World Peace exulted, brushed up against the Oklahoma City guard and threw the elbow. To no avail, he tried to explain to the officials that he was just celebrating his dunk (video via CBSSports.com).
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In January of last year I published a story where I called for a relative unknown by the name of Dak Prescott to be drafted in the 1st round. I made many people's heads spin by my prediction and the ability to see so far down the line. I complimented his maturity, his arm strength, and him possessing that IT factor way before most experts caught on to what I had seen since he was at Miss St. Don't forget that Prescott was named NFL rookie of the year and led the Cowboys to the best seed in the NFC. So, when I say listen to me because Fournette is going to be an all-time great, I'm hoping what I said about Prescott sticks in your head.
It's been years since I looked at a college football player and said to myself, "What is this guy doing in college? He needs to be playing in the NFL." For the last three years I've watched Leonard Fournette shred defenses up and down this great nation of ours. Defensive coordinators tailored their game-plan around him and he would run over defenders like an 18 wheeler rolling down hill. LSU's quarterbacks were so bad during Fournette's tenure there that I had to google who they were. Think about that, if I had to google those guys, do you think the coaches playing LSU were thinking about what the QB was going to do? The answer is no. To be point-blank, everybody in the stadium knew that 50% of the time the ball was going to #7. In 2015, Fournette rushed for a school record 1,953 rushing yards and 22 touchdowns, that's when I knew this guy was on Adrian Peterson's level. And when I say that I don't mean just what he might accomplish in this league, I mean that he's one of those few gifted athletes that we may have to bend the rules for.
I watched Adrian Peterson shred Texas for three years, every time I saw him play against my beloved Longhorns I thought the same thing, "This guy is just too good, can we just get him to the NFL so we don't have to deal with him anymore?" That may have been the Longhorn fan in me speaking out, or it could have been the beginning of something. It sparked the thought that maybe if a guy was ready to leave before his third year removed from HS graduation then he should be able to. The NCAA can gather a sanctioning body and if they feel this athlete is physically and mentally capable of competing in the NFL, then let it be. The risk of getting injured in football is much greater than it is in basketball, I say give guys like Fournette and Peterson the chance to feed their families before the career is derailed before it even gets off the ground. This all comes back to one single point, if you paid the players then this wouldn't be a big deal, but that's for another time.
I've watched Fournette closely for three years, in those three years I've learned three things:
- He will run around OR over you, pick your poison, either way he's delivering.
- Herschel Walker, Bo Jackson, Adrian Peterson are guys I see in his running style.
- Fournette is the best RB in LSU history.
Debate me all you want, but before you do that make sure you take a few minutes to watch the video below. Press play and be ready to watch a man among children.
The only thing more impressive than Fournette's 6'0 240 lbs frame is what he can do with it. At the NFL combine he clocked in at 4.5 seconds in the 40 yard dash. That means that a man weighing 50 lbs more than most corner backs in the league is just as fast, if not faster, than most guys being counted on to tackle him in the open field. Say he doesn't out run you, he'll be able to lower that shoulder down and gain those ever so valuable YAC yards (yards after carry). Fournette averaged 3 yards per carry after contact in college, when you hit this guy he never goes back, the momentum of his huge frame keeps him going forward.
It's not every day that you get a RB who can hit the gap at full speed and out run every position on the defensive side of the ball. It's not every day that you get a RB who can run over any player that you set in front of him on any level of the D. It's not every day that you get a RB who has the vision and awareness to avoid hits. The only thing rarer than what I just mentioned is finding a player who posses all those skills. That kind of player only comes around once in a few decades, and when you get one of those players you should take notice.
When Fournette is drafted this April there's one thing that I know for sure, and that is before he takes a single NFL snap, Fournette will already be the third best back in the league behind only Leveon Bell and Ezekiel Elliot. With Adrian Peterson reaching the end of his career, Fournette will be the next physical specimen at RB. I believe Bell and Elliot wouldn't be as successful as they are if they didn't land in the perfect situation that they did. Both Pittsburgh and Dallas are fitted for both RB's style. The difference with Fournette is that in a few years were not going to be arguing where does he rank among current RB's, we're going to be arguing where he ranks all-time.


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Donte Stallworth, who killed someone while driving under the influence, has accepted a plea deal. He'll pay some cash to the family of the victim and will serve 30 days in jail.
If Leonard Little has taught us anything–and he hasn't–it's that NFL players can kill people while driving drunk and still have their careers remain intact.
If FantasyUnsports was underway, Stallworth would have just earned many of you some precious points. Sadly, our season has yet to begin. Might not be a bad idea to put Stallworth on your short list, since he's bound to get some sort of suspension.
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how can I remove the cup holder from my 04 Cadillac escalade esv. My keys fell in there??
a small set of keys fell underneath my cup holder. can't reach with a wire hanger as there are wires located in the area. What is the simplest way to remove the cup holder??
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Can you feel if there is a screw under the felt at the bottom of the cup holder, make a small slit and reach the screw that way ? Can you see the keys to remove them with a "claw wand" (in the auto parts store they have a flexible wand about 2 feet long that when you use your thumb to press on the end button, a small set of "claw like" grabbers will come out the other end to hold on to things). Then you just have to slowly send it down to the keys, open the claws, release your thumb and pull your keys up out of the dash.
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Sunday, April 25, 2010
Rat Rod Rockers! Editing
Been culling through the Scene Lists of Rat Rod Rockers! breaking takes apart on each scenes timeline. A bit time consuming but necessary. I also just picked up (or should I say down loaded a copy of) Evan Pazners Vintage Breaks Drum Loop Disc (and yes I bought it- no pirating here). Great breaks for uptempo big beat and hip hop styles. I used a 145 bpm loop to start a music bed for Rat Rod Rockers! Scene 50 in which two rat rod gang members chase the story's heroine into the woods.
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Thursday, February 25, 2016
Why Do You Care?
So here I am having one of my moments when I stare at a wall and get these random thoughts. Why do people care so much? I am not referring to life in general, but with regards to gaming. You know your score, your rank, your prestige, or your league.
Now I can understand if you are a pro player these things are important. This determines if you get invited to events if you have a chance to make money and maybe buy yourself a little something extra this month. To others though why is this so important? Do you really feel you are that much more amazing because you are rank 9 than rank 15, because you are silver instead of bronze, that you have 3 stars vs 5 stars.
Is this because we are born to be competitive? Or is it just important to those who have nothing else of significance to put on their resumes? Lately I have just got the feeling that some people care too much about how well they are doing with their gaming leisure time. What happened to it being fun an memorable? What happened to randomly dying and thinking it is hilarious? What happened to using stupid builds and some how making them work. What happened to spelling "LOL" in pylons?
So here it is, my challenge to all of you. Try to have fun with your games for the day and not be crazy serious and wondering if you are doing things the "right" way. Do things the way that makes it fun and enjoyable and something you can talk about later, when you are not pretending to pat yourself on the back.
Who knows you might actually have more fun then you expected.
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