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Don't let the sadness and down-on-their-luck characters on Pedigo's Magic Pilsner fool you. The new release from Dallas singer/songwriter John Pedigo, one half of folk-rock duo The O's, also radiates plenty of hope, joy and exuberant defiance in the face of loss. Pedigo's father was diagnosed with cancer in 2016, and Pedigo set out to make and record some songs that would, in their own way, honor and entertain his dad.
Over the course of the next year or so Pedigo's father received treatment, seemed to be in remission, then got sick again, and ultimately succumbing to the cancer in May of 2017. So, if you, like many, thought 2017 sucked even more than 2016, John Pedigo probably has one up on you. And yet, despite the loss and despite the sadness, the debut self titled record is about being energized to face life's occasional misery and maybe even standing upright with a wry smile after a blow to the gut.
"A lot of it was me in a room," says Pedigo of the writing and recording for the album. "It was a real process. I hate to use the word cathartic, but it certainly was that to a certain degree." After stewing over the initial tracks -- guitar, vocals and drums -- Pedigo called in some friends to zero in on the soul of the material and the album.
The record kicks off with the sound of a siren, and a little banjo to orient fans of Pedigo's picking from the O's. With a full-band sound, touches of honky-tonk piano, a string section in one spot, the sizzle of a gospel organ in another, a few festive brassy blasts of dixieland horns, driving drums, and lightly saturated electric guitar lurking underneath the acoustic playing that anchors the songs, Pedigo sings about people in peculiar binds. There's a stand-up comic who comes home from a bleak string of one-nighters to find his girlfriend in bed with someone else on "The Comedian." It's dark humor. And on the catchy "Garage Sale," the leftover scraps of a love gone south are sold out in the yard by "A long-lost fool without a single clue." Before getting to the punchy Everly Brothers-ish chorus, Pedigo sings "I'm beginning to wonder where do I begin." And "Warning Shot" is inspired in part by Faulkner's As I Lay Dying. It might sound morbid on paper, but Pedigo is all about embracing life, including the part of life that is dying. As he sings on "Orion," the album opener, "Sometimes it's right to say goodbye."
Pedigo has said "Every year gets better." That's a motto he picked up from his wife and has internalized the message pretty thoroughly. On "Wet A Line," a song about the importance of getting out and doing your own thing for yourself, Pedigo sings, "It's no illusion, can't you see, we all make our destiny."
Pedigo's destiny was making music. He got his first guitar in 5th grade, got ahold of cassettes of Guns N' Roses and Metallica and went from there, listening to hard rock and then getting turned on to The Smiths and college rock of the era. Hearing the Pixies' Bossa Nova album reoriented Pedigo's songwriting efforts.
"When I heard that, I knew those were the kinds of songs I wanted to write," he says, "with hard-hitting choruses coming out of the chaos." And he's written plenty of those himself.
Pedigo went through his grunge phase, his rockabilly phase, and his punk phase. After going to school at Emerson College in Boston, home of the Pixies, Pedigo returned home to Texas. He played in a handful of bands -- Slick 57, Boys Named Sue, Vandoliers, Party Police, Rose County Fair and others. Some of those outfits toured hard and played all over, bringing Pedigo to Australia, Europe and all around the U.S. One of his bands was an off-the-cuff country side project. Talking with Taylor Young, his bandmate with The O's, Pedigo half jokingly said he was going to get a banjo so they could make a duo that could tour easily and showcase their songs. That's how the O's, an energetic rootsy one-man-band-times-two, took shape. The O's have played to audiences from 10 -- or less than 10 -- to 10,000, taking the stage at legendary venues like London's Hammersmith Odeon and elsewhere. Part of that band's ethos has always been to not do what couldn't be done as a duo.
With Pedigo's Magic Pilsner -- which is named after an infamously bad batch of homebrew that his dad concocted in the kitchen sink one year -- the scope is a little wider. Fans of the emotional and narrative heft of bands like the Hold Steady, Deer Tick and Dolorean will appreciate what Pedigo has pulled off here. Some might hear a connection to early Tom Petty, with a DNA-level kinship to the muscle and economy of classic rock but also a tender stoicism that's sneakily rebellious. Others might detect a connection to acts like the Pogues, who can take a bone-deep bleakness and turn it into fist-pumping beer-hoisting anthems somehow.
For Pedigo, this album was a way to explore what-does-it-all-mean questions, to process the confounding feeling of a deep loss and a constitutional sense of optimism about life and the possibilities that come our way.
"I was really just trying to stay true," he says.


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Whilst not academic in any way he can turn his hand to many a practical task. Instructions may confuse him but give him a picture or example to study and he's off.
He spent his younger days working the land, before degenerative spine disease forced him to give up the farming he loved. He's a determined old B, there's no doubt about it, when I was a child he was told by the doctors that he'd be in a wheelchair soon, but he wasn't having any of that and now over 40 years later he still isn't. He rides his bike, though admittedly you sometimes need to watch carefully to check he's actually moving (beats me how he stays upright at his snails speed) and he still works two plots at the allotments! But come the winter evenings he wants to sit but he wants to do something too. My parents don't have a TV so that's not an option, he reads a lot but felt like a change. He's made rugs in the past but they are now so expensive and no one wants the finished article, and he can't be bothered with all the counting for cross stitch. Though he can knit (it was actually him who taught me) he doesn't really enjoy it (yes, I know) and then one day he was talking about how is mum was always making things including English pieced patchwork and he thought he might give it a try
Not bad eh? It's 'bagged' rather than quilted and mum is going to tie it but I'm quite impressed.
I spent quite a while reminiscing, spotting bits of my skirts, Nan's blouse, the dress Auntie Lynda made and cut out two left fronts and so on.
Now that the lighter evening are approaching he won't be doing much more for a bit but he's already planning some cushion covers for next winter. And it all goes to show that you are never too old to start a new craft.

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I think I see where we are talking past one another.
Let's see if I can state it one more time. I do not
think you wrong. I think requiring a concordist view
of everything in scripture as the only basis for
"rational" faith in Christianity wrong. That is my
point and we seem to disagree there.
My ongoing point is not that we need to liberalize
theology. In fact, I think the depradations of
someone like Spong are silly, because Spong has
adopted a pastiche of modern scientific methodology to
scripture which is unwarranted and only barely misses
adopting a completely materialist metaphysic. IMHO,
those folks, generally, do as much harm to
Christianity as the YEC crowd.
I think I agree with you about the point of Genesis --
that Jehovah created the world as we experience it and
know it now. I think you would possibly insist on an
ex nihilio hypothesis, but I dont see that Genesis has
to be read as ex nihilio creation and in some ways
could be interpreted not to be ex nihilio.
I think one of the best discussions of the
nonimportance of the scientific how of how this
universe came into being (other than it being
dependent on God), is George Ellis's Before the
Beginning. Thus, I do not see the Big Bang as
providing considerable confirmation of the fact that
the universe seems to be a created universe.
>So, then take the question of Genesis 1:1 (which is
>what I limited most of
>my comments to before). Let's push it to the
>extreme. If the universe
>isn't created, then it is a product of natural,
non->divine forces the origin
>of which we do not understand.
Depends what you mean by created. Genesis clearly
indicates that the form of the universe we have is
dependent upon God. I tend to favor an ex nihilio
understanding, but if the universe were somehow
demonstrably eternal (such a thing cannot be
demonstrated within science), I would still have no
reason to doubt the existence of God on that datum.
> How would we test whether or not God created
>the universe by doing as you say, pushing it to its
>extreme limits.
No, I was saying that a rule or principle may be
pushed to its limits. Obviously, the only way to test
whether God sustains the world in existence is to take
God away and see if the universe still exists. This
cannot be done.
>One way to be sure that God created would be for that
God to
>inspire a simplified,
>but true story of how it happened.
Sure. But this smacks of Carl Sagan's (I think)
question about spiritual experiences (could be UFO
abductions, but someone said it about NDEs or
spiritual experiences), why don't they ever bring back
information like some new law of physics? Personally,
if God is concerned about relating scientific laws to
people, that is not a God that means much to me, even
though I have scientific training. It is the personal
God that cares about individual people that is the God
I see attested in scriptures.
>What never seems to register with those of your
I do take exception to this in that you are presuming
and not telling me what you presume my belief to be.
It may be that you are completely wrong about my
belief, whatever that may be. I cannot infer from
your statements what that belief is.
> is that a poem can
>contain not only historical truth (Homer)
So, the gods on Olympus worked against one another,
some on the side of the Trojans and some on the sides
of the Greeks? You are making my point. I do believe
there are several kernels of truth in the Illiad.
There are other things that are highly likely to be
false, such as disputes and direct intervention among
the gods, the actual horse itself, etc., etc. Because
there are things in the text I believe likely to be
false does not lead me to believe that nothing in
Homer is true.
>but also >scientific truth as
>above. Poems are merely a means of conveying
>information (in the colloquial
>sense of that word), be it true knowledge or false
Sure, and I have never said anything against the truth
that Genesis imparts about the dependence of universe
on God. If the universe is not in some sense
dependent on God, then God is meaningless, sure. But
there is no way that proving the entirety of Genesis,
except for the existence of God, to be true in every
respect that the proposition that God created the
universe is true. God's creation of the universe is
not, in a strict sense, either provable or testable.
>The thing I fail to understand about your side of the
Again, we may be more on the same side of the fence
than you think. It is rigid assertions that put me to
the other side of the "fence" where ever it may be
located, because I do not believe that most things are
subject to rigid requirements.
>is why God, with
>all that power to raise a dead man, make a fellow
>walk on water, change
>water to wine,
I would differentiate the revelation of Jesus the
Christ from all other revelations of God. IN that
life and in that life alone, God is most fully
revealed to us. Yes, so I would expect greater
indicia of divine power in that respect.
But, you put words into my mouth that I have never
>can't even have the ability to give >the poor Hebrews
a true
>poem about their origins!
The words are that I have never said that Genesis did
not contain truth. We only differ as to WHAT in the
poem must be true to consider the whole poem true. I
tend to be a minimalist in this regard to avoid the
problems that lead to YECers. That does not mean that
I disagree with the bulk of the content of the text.
You have asserted that Genesis must be true in order
to believe the Gospels. I reject that. That does not
mean I do not consider Genesis true. I do. It is not
a litmus test for the veracity of the New Testament.
Neither is every particular part of Genesis a litmus
test for the truth of everything in Genesis. That is
my point, which you seem to either reject or ignore in
alternating moments.
>And that it doesn't seem to >bother anyone is even
more amazing to me.
It does not bother me, because it is not how I view
>This is the logic which makes me view Genesis in the
>way I do. I think
>that either we have an impotent God, a God who
> doesn't care what people say
> he did (and thus allowed them to make up the
> story of creation which lacks any
> truth value),
I never said this. Never even implied this.
>or we have the wrong God. But what I see is that no
> matter what God had said, people would say it is
> a great story which is true.
A pedantic, but important point, the chronicle of
creation does not say it is being dictated by God.
How about a God who wanted His glory and presence
known and inspired His people to write a story in
terms they understood that contrasted his reality
against the proclaimed false reality of man made gods
of those peoples whom His people knew? That's one
possibility. An apologetic from God, stressing
fundamental truths about His nature, but not intending
to be an exhaustive or accurate scientific set of
> If God had said the world arose from 2 salamancers
> mating we would defend it as theologically true!
Why? What is the theological content? As I pointed
out above, God did not say, in the beginning I
created... It is being reported by people.
I do not see how your counterfactual salamanders
examples give us any handle or traction on the
problem. Then God would be saying He wasn't
responsible for Creation and if he said nothing else,
would not be important theologically or in any other
way to us. I do think Genesis is unique in avoiding
the problem of things such as the dualism of myths
that existed about creation at the time. I believe
this to be true and distinctive of Genesis.
>We give God no way to be wrong no matter what he
>had said.
As far as I can tell, his quoted words are very few in
Genesis 1. Mostly it is a description of His actions.
To me, the central importance is that the world is
dependent upon and shaped by God. That seems to me to
be enough.
At the extreme limits, I don't
>think the necessity of "truth" claims that you try to
>make hold up. You seem to agree by trying to
>differentiate cases. We disagree as to how far and
>what extent something can be read as a truth claim.
>How far back in Genesis do you believe is actual
>history? Let's start there.
>Tell me why that chapter has history and the previous
>one doesn't.
On one level, I can assert that I do not have enough
data to sift what is historical in a modern sense and
what is not. I believe that the writer(s) of Genesis
were trying to tell a story about their received
understanding of the Genesis of the world. As a
general principle, you can see the hallmarks of
historicity in some books of the Bible more than
others, and the NT is filled with the hallmarks of eye
witness accounts and remembrances. I can discuss at
length some of the different methodological approaches
historians use to try to get at this exact thing, but
I view these methodological approaches as not deriving
an absolute truth just in the same way I view
hermeneutics or form criticism as all relying on
assumptions that are not provable and are subject to
considerable dispute. I don't think it worth the
bother since our disagreement stems more from the
rigidity of your assertions that it has to be
concordistically "true" as historical or scientific
fact in some strict sense (although you and YECers
disagree in the degree to which you must concord).
In fact, I do not claim any of Genesis is not
historical. I do claim that there is no reason to
reject scientific understandings of the universe
because of Genesis or vice-versa. We must
fundamentally understand the limits of our different
types of knowledge. Scientific knowledge, deep down,
can never disprove or prove the kind of God attested
to by the books of the Bible. It simply cannot go
there. Ellis, Polkinghorne, Buber, all sorts of
people have discussed this at length. Not all truths
are scientific and historical.
The God of the Bible provides a witness to the
experience of a God who can only be understood and
related to personally. As William James has
discussed, it is only be choosing to believe that you
can determine the validity of the personal nature of
God and Jesus. The God of the Bible is not a God of
science or philosophers, but that does not mean that
either science or philosophy conflict with Him, they
do not. But you can only see what the stained glass
windows really depcit from the inside, not the
The God of the Bible is a God of mystery a God that
has mystical aspects. It is not a God that can be
circumscribed by our ratiocination (not to say that we
should not try).
As I said before about your poor deluded friend, one
can only take the validity of Christianity by the
degree to which each of us who professes it is
transformed by it.
>"England revolted against George Washington and
>earned their freedom
>from American tyranny," is a demonstrably false
>statement which in no way is
>in a system requiring precision. I simply can't
>believe you are advocating the above view!
LOL. Actually, as a Yank, I would agree with that
statement. But what I was saying is that the Bible is
not a set of propositional statements. Not everything
in the Bible depends on each and every aspect of it
being historically or scientifically accurate.
>I have read Herodotus, know of this story and think
it is really
>interesting. Having seen films of rat swarms in
>Australia, where they
>covered the ground--literally-- I could believe such
>an event. What do
>find objectionable to such a story's history?
It would be the only recorded event of mice causing a
military defeat and thus highly improbable.
Especially since battles were rather common in the
area where it is thought to have occurred and those
little buggers are not reported as having chewed away
the bow strings of other invading armies.
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As well as working on the brief i'm being set by uni i've decided to test out mixing a lot of doodles together into one piece. Here is one image, which is essentially just a collection of memories accumulated in the first few days of me moving into a new house over the summer. All of the memories are real to me, and i think this could be a good new direction to move forward in. I wouldn't usually include work like this on my blog but since starting my facebook page, which now has 111 followers in just six weeks, this has been the one to generate the most interest. I feel that work like this (maybe it's because it is more personal to me, i don't know yet) seems to appeal to my audience a lot more than the other work i've been showing, like my editorials, for example. This is definitely a factor i need to consider for when i leave uni and would like to use my skills in the real world, so to speak!
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Punjabi Chole
I have never tried making Punjabi Chole at home and had always eaten it in restaurants or at get together parties. I still do not know the reason why I had not tried it at home though I have made chole in other method. Last month when I tasted chole in of the get together party I realized it had something missing in it and the very next day I googled for the recipe to try it at home and found this recipe in which she has given separate masala for the chole. It is a fool proof recipe and I tried it the very next day and Boy it was a success or say super yum dish. So now on no regrets and i will make this atleast once in a while.
This is how to make Punjabi Chole:
This is how to make Punjabi Chole:
Ingredients for the chole
- 1 and half cup chickpeas (Garbanzo Beans, Kabuli Chana)
- 2 medium sized onions chopped
- 3 medium sized tomatoes chopped
- 1 tsp ginger paste or coarsely ground ginger
- ½ tsp garam masala
- 1 tsp chili powder
- 1 tsp amchur powder/dry mango powder
- 2 slit green chillies
- 1 tbsp oil
- salt
Spices used for the Punjabi chole masala:
- 4-5 black cardamoms
- 1 inch cinnamon
- 5-6 peppercorns
- 3 cloves
- 1 bay leaf
- 1 and half tsp cumin seeds (jeera)
- 1 and half tsp coriander seeds (dhania)
- 1 and half tsp fennel seeds (saunf)
- 2 red chillies
Lets Start Making Chole
For The Chole masala powder
In a pan, dry roast all the spices mentioned above till brow on a medium flame. Make sure they only get roasted and not burnt.
Keep on tossing them to get all the spices roasted evenly.
Once they are cooled, grind them into a fine powder.
For the Curry:
v Wash and soak the chole (chickpeas) in enough water overnight.
v Add enough amount of water as the chole increase in size after soaking it.
v In a pressure cooker add the chole, along with the soaked water (Amma tells me not to throw water as the essential nutrients of the skin goes in the water) and pressure cook for 5-6 whistles. The chole should be soft but not overcooked.
v Now in a pan, add oil. Once the oil is hot, add the chopped onions. Fry till they become transparent.
v Now add the ginger paste.
v Once the raw smell of the ginger goes off, and add the chopped tomatoes.
v To this add the powdered chole spice, red chili powder and green chilies. Sauté for a minute.
v Now add the cooked chole with a very little quantity of its broth. You can add more broth if you want a more gravy in your dish.
v Add salt as per taste; Keep the dish on sim for around 8 minutes.
v At last, add the amchur powder and mix well.
v Switch off the Flame and Serve with kulchas, bhatura, poori, and rotis. Its tastes good with simple rice too.
The Recipe actually tells to add salt while booking channa in pressure cooker… but somehow My Amma or even her mom had taught not to add salt while cooking any legumes or beans as it would not get cooked well. So I was a bit skeptical about adding salt. You can add it while cooking or later.
The Recipe actually tells to add salt while booking channa in pressure cooker… but somehow My Amma or even her mom had taught not to add salt while cooking any legumes or beans as it would not get cooked well. So I was a bit skeptical about adding salt. You can add it while cooking or later.
Sometimes the channa takes more than 6 whistles in that case once the cooker is cooled and you open check if they are soft if not keep it on flame again for 1-2 whistles.
You can double the amount of Masala Powder and store the remaining in an Air tight container. And it use it twice like I did.


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This is what I need to be complete.
Here's a random question: why are there no vegan sour cream and onion potato chips?
Here's a random question: why are there no vegan sour cream and onion potato chips?
A short while ago I mentioned Veronica, a vegan artist with some interesting projects in the works. Veronica dropped me a note today and asked for me to get the word out: she needs some help collecting receipts for one of her new pieces:
The walls of a room will be completely covered with thousands of receipts so the viewers will find themselves surrounded. The food products that contain animal derived ingredients will be underlined. Shopping receipts are the proof (real, symbolic and legal) of what we consume, an activity that has a underestimated effect on non-human animals. Supply and demand. Daily actions and their repercussions.
Here's what she needs:
I'm asking people to please collect receipts from supermarkets and other food stores and send them to me by postal mail. I already have hundreds but I need thousands!
- They must contain primarily food products.
- I need both vegan receipts and non-vegan ones.
- It doesn't matter if they are wrinkled, dirty, badly printed, or what country they are from.
- Make a small pencil mark on the side of the products listed you know are not vegan.
If you'd like to help out, visit her site and drop her a line. You get some goodies if you participate, too.


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Memphis Records was launched by Jody Chastain and Buford Cody. Chastain, a familiar figure in the Memphis music scene, was born December 21, 1933 in Ennid, Texas, as Joe Dan Chastain. He worked with Eddie Bond in the early 1950s, then with Fuller Todd for some time and became a member of Charlie Feathers' band afterwards. He first was the group's steel guitarist but when Feathers changed it to a rockabilly outfit, Chastain switched to bass. Most of the recorded material was written by Feathers, Chastain, and Jerry Huffman, the third member. Chastain also composed songs with other artists (including Fuller Todd).
|Charlie Feathers with Jody
Chastain (left) and Jerry
Huffman (right)
Already in 1959, Chastain and Buford Cody joint forces and formed the aptly named Memphis record label. Cody later also operated the Co & Wi label in Memphis with Gene Williams, which was in business only from 1961 to 1962. Cody and Williams would also produce the Cotton Town Jubilee show on KWAM in the early 1960s. The Memphis label was located on 773 Union Avenue in Memphis but had probably no own recording studio. Chastains contribution to the label was limited and by the end of 1960, he had dropped out. Now under the sole direction of Cody, the initial release on the label was given to Ramon Maupin ("Hey Rena" / "Tomorrow We'll Know", Memphis #101, 1961). Maupin was a country singer who sang with Slim Wallace's band and had recorded two discs for Wallace's Fernwood Records in 1957. In fact, the Memphis label was launched first and foremost to record Maupin, who ironically had only this one release on the label. Maupin was befriended with Charlie Feathers and performed with him for about 15 years on and off. It is also interesting to know that Conway Twitty covered "Tomorrow We'll Know" for MGM but it remained unissued for some reasons.
|Ramon Maupin
Memphis Records, now under the sole direction of Cody, remained in business until 1965 and issued discs by such well-known Memphis performers as Eddie Bond and Lloyd Arnold. Buford Cody met Lloyd Arnold at the Cotton Town Jubilee, where Arnold would perform regularly. After Cody took over Arnold's management in 1962, he brought him onto the Memphis label and produced his sessions for the label. Arnold and Cody also held a session Nashville to produce two songs that were released on Memphis under the pseudonym "The Long Hairs," inspired by the Beatles' hair cuts. In 1964 or 1965, Cody gave up managing Arnold, who continued to record for a variety of other local labels.
|Memphis Records promotion picture of
Lloyd Arnold and his Rockin' Drifters
The last two Eddie Bond records, Memphis #114 and Memphis #115, show the adress as 706 Union Avenue, where Sam Phillips' old Sun Studio is located. Both records were recorded in Nashville, though. At that time, Bond was bankrupt and was up to his neck in debt. He had bought a night club along with Baxter Turnage, who died and left Bond paying the whole debt. A Billboard article on February 20, 1965, "Things Look Rosier for Eddie Bond," stated that Bond had "high hopes in a single he just made will help solve his problems." This single was "Cold Dark Waters" / "Raunchy" (Memphis #114).
Probably in 1965, Cody discontinued the label's 100 series and started a new short-lived 300 series. Along with this innovation, the label moved into 625 Chelsea Avenue, a building that also housed Marshall Ellis' Erwin Records and later Bill Glore's Glo-Lite studio. Nevertheless, the Memphis label came to an end in 1965. Jody Chastain died July 28, 1999, in Sugar Tree, Tennessee.
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This has dragged on, so very sad for the victims families, reading stories left right and center. I guess I can do my best by showing the current media view here in Australia, after the world zoned in on our country and the west coast, in Indian ocean. Not to say we or anyone has a lot to still answer for…VERY SAD STORY HERE. I will continue to update this no matter what the outcome or damage to any country
May 19, 2014
Pilot Described as Competent, Modest Professional 2:51
A NUMBER of authorities, including the Malaysian military, reportedly let MH370 disappear, according to shocking new claims about the missing plane.
ABC's Four Corner's program quoted Malaysian Defence Minister Hishammuddin Hussein as saying that Malaysia's civil aviation authorities called the military asking them to keep an eye on the plane but that the military allowed the plane to glide out to sea.
The plane was deemed not to be hostile and therefore the military did not send a plane up to investigate.
"If (we didn't) shoot it down, why send it (jet up)," Mr Hussein said.
Malaysia's airspace as MH370 flew almost directly over the station located on the island of Penang but that it appeared nothing was done.
Anwar Ibrahim said the military had completely breached the standing operating procedures.
"The air force will be alerted and will have to then be flown to that area to either … guide the plane to land or to leave the Malaysian airspace. They're standard operating procedure and this was never done," he said.
"Yeah I mean it's a major scandal here because … this is of course amounting to a major threat to national security."
MORE: Doubts raised over 'ping' validity
The program also addressed rumours that Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah's wife had left him.
His brother-in-law, Asuad Khan, said claims that his sister Faizah had left Zaharie, taking their children with her to another house, in the hours prior to the ill-fated flight's take off were "completely false."
Mr Khan also denied that his 53-year-old brother-in-law was experiencing personal problems, had been upset about politics or that he was unfit to fly on March 8.
He said the veteran pilot's marriage was not in trouble over a rumoured affair, saying that as a Muslim he was permitted to have multiple girlfriends outside his marriage.
RELATED: Pilot's family lash out at reporters
"Even I don't believe it because she, she's at home. Well the normal procedure for their … whenever the husband fly the wife will go to another house where the younger son's staying. Otherwise she will be alone in that big house. That's been practised since they bought the house."
It was claimed Captain Zaharie had received a two-minute phone call shortly before takeoff from a mystery woman, using a mobile phone number obtained under a false name.
Mr Khan defended his brother-in-law's right to have a girlfriend.
"That I do not know about. Even if I know I said why not? We are allowed to, as long as you take good care of your wife. Even if you ask my sister and she said she don't care," he said.
"He can marry another one. Why not — we can marry four. We are Muslim."
Technical experts in the US were also working to recover deleted information from a sophisticated flight simulator Zaharie had set up on a home computer.
But Mr Khan said the simulator had not been used this year.
"I don't think so because the simulator is not working," he said.
"That simulator was dismantled already, the things crash. It don't work so he got to ah reformat the drive."
RELATED: Captain Zaharie's daughter 'was in Australia'
Mr Khan also said Zaharie had not attended the trial of Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim that day, which some reports suggested proved he had been radicalised and had hijacked the plane in an act of terror.
"No. I ask my sister personally, even my sister herself informed him on what happened on that day," he said.
The program also claimed that someone inside the cockpit began interfering with the in-flight entertainment system around the time MH370's transponder was turned off or failed.
It also revealed that a team of up to five officers could or should have been on duty at the nearby radar operations centre at Butterworth air base looking for unidentified aircraft.
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The Power of One: comments on "True Notebooks" by Mark Salzman
True Notebooks by Pulitzer-prize nominee Mark Salzman is a powerful and delightful work that I devoured in one sitting. At the beginning, the author is struggling with writer's block while trying to finish writing "a bad novel" about a nun and a juvenile delinquent. A friend, Duane, who teaches writing to a group of juvenile delinquents, persuades Mark to speak to his students and Mark finally agrees after much soul-searching;
"What if Duane's students asked if I thought writing was worth the effort? If they were as cunning as their reputations suggested, they might sense how lost I felt as a writer and realize that I had nothing to offer them. Then I imagined, they would beat me up."
[True Notebooks, Mark Salzman, p. 13]
After much cajoling by Sister Janet, the nun who is the force of nature who started this volunteer program, Mark reluctantly starts his own writing class at this detention center and the story develops from there. This book details Mark's ongoing adventures as a volunteer writing teacher for his group of teenaged boys locked up in a juvenile detention center in southern California, awaiting sentencing for violent crimes, usually murder. The prose is graceful, elegant and witty, and the book includes generous samples of individual boys' writing, which is stark and often brilliant in its honesty. Particularly moving to me was one boy's account about one of his teachers taking him to visit the Museum of Science and Industry shortly after his parents died. He ends his essay by saying;
"... I know it wasn't a spectacular day, but I cherish that day because that was the only person that took time out of their life to help me make it through the death of my parents."
[quoted in True Notebooks, Mark Salzman, p. 44]
True Notebooks reminded me of my own troubled childhood, growing up in a small conservative farming community where I did not have access to anything wonderful like museums. Yet, even as a young child, I somehow knew I wanted to go to university to get my education, I knew I wanted to get my doctorate, and I knew I wanted to be a scientist and a writer. But I was surrounded by people who expected me to fail, demanded that I fail, in fact. They taunted me, ridiculed me and, when I refused to give up my dreams, they isolated me. Eventually, I fell silent and retreated completely to books and to my writing. Even though I gave up on my family and community, I never gave up on myself. Much of my childhood was spent wandering alone on foot or horseback through sweet-smelling fields, studying nature and animals like a book.
Even though I never found anything remarkable like a dinosaur bone, I loved dinosaurs and read about them often. But I never thought -- not even in my wildest imaginings -- that I would ever visit a world-famous natural history museum but today, I work here. Daily, I walk past one of the world's three complete Tyranosaurus rex skeletons on my way to my lab and office where I research the evolution of birds, and daily I handle meticulously prepared study skins of birds that are 100 or more years old and I clone DNA from them. I have watched my fellow scientists chipping the fossilized skeletons of long-dead baby triceratops from solid rock using dental tools and microscopes. I helped a colleague move the world's only (nearly) complete Dodo skeleton to a locked vault when its display case was repaired. Oddly, working among the shadows cast by bones and skins of the long (and not-so-long) dead fills me with a sense of childlike wonder and hope for the future and an intense longing for that childhood I never had.
As a child, I was a "throw away": After yet another argument with my parents when I was 15 years old, my verbally and physically abusive father told me, "GET OUT! If I ever see your ugly face again, I'll kill you!" In view of my life experiences with both parents, I knew this was a credible threat so ... I left. But this wasn't the first time I had been thrown out of the house. In fact, I was first locked out of the house one summer night before I even started kindergarten. Not knowing what to do, I slept in a horse's stall that night. When I was older, I usually traded sleep-overs with horses for sleep-overs with a nearby friend, while I waited until my parents permitted me return to the house.
But unfortunately for me, my parents reported me as a runaway this time, so a few days later, the sheriff arrested me at my friend's house, despite her mother's pleadings to allow me to stay. A couple days after that, I sat in a courtroom in front of a judge who decided my fate while refusing to listen to anything I had to say on the matter. In a final act of supreme cruelty, my parents used the court system to declare me a hopeless "incorrigible" and I was made a ward of the state court system. As a hopeless incorrigible, I was not permitted into the foster care system, so a week or so later, I was locked up with girls who had committed all sorts of crimes, including murder. I was informed that unless something changed dramatically, I would remain locked up until my 18th birthday.
Hopelessness and helplessness, despair, loneliness, fear, anger, betrayal; I felt it all. Like a fly immobilized on fly paper, there was nothing I could do to save myself, no one to whom I could appeal, to beg for mercy. I was isolated. But unlike the boys in Mark's book, I never had a writing teacher who cared about me when I was locked up, even for several hours per week. But like the author's boys, writing did save me, in a way. After I was behind bars, I daily poured my agonized soul out onto paper, transforming my sorrow and anger into hundreds of writings and drawings even while I remained remote and unreachable, protecting my shattered self from everyone, convinced that no one cared.
But one person did care. Throughout this ordeal, there was one person who somehow managed -- I still don't know how -- to visit me in my caged hell. This one remarkable person was my saviour, my Guardian Angel. When I was weak, he was strong: he protected and cherished my almost forgotten dream that I would attend university one day, he nurtured and encouraged my dwindling artistic voice as if cultivating a dying plant, he would not let me forget my dream when the despair of my small corner of the universe threatened to overwhelm me. Because my Guardian Angel was a tiny but compellingly bright flame in an otherwise darkened world, he reminded me of that priceless gift that everyone sought to steal from me: Hope. Without my Guardian Angel, I certainly would have died.
After surviving months of this hell, I would like to report that my parents finally came to their senses, or that the state finally came to its senses, and that I was released after a rational discussion about the extravagant silliness of the entire situation, but this was not the case. Instead, I was called out of class one day, much to everyone's surprise, and escorted to the reform school's social worker's office. The state social worker was a perverted and twisted little man named Fabian Napolsky, whose idea of "therapy" was to read each girl's physical exam reports aloud to them while they nervously counted the minutes remaining until their escape from his office. Needless to say, he was universally despised and feared by the girls. The reason I name him here is because I want him to know that I will not keep his secrets safe and I want the world to know that he was the one person who committed the unforgivable sin of introducing me to true hate, that fierce steely knife edge that alternately lacerates and freezes your soul, and it was he who taught me to embrace the power of hatred, at least momentarily.
On this particular day, he wanted to talk to me because a few days prior to this, he had intercepted the only letter I had written and sent to my Guardian Angel from reform school. He of course, read my soul-searching and despair and he of course, had plenty to say about it. I was horrified beyond all words, the whispers of that new-found hatred in my soul rose to a crescendo. Feeling absolutely violated, I was unable to speak. He then ended our little chat by "regretfully" informing me that the recidivism rate was very high for particular teen aged girls and according to everything he knew, he was certain I would spend most or all of my adult life behind bars.
"For being a 'throw away'??" I suddenly found my tongue. I don't recall his precise response but it was certainly negative because shortly after I was returned to my unit, I sought permission to call my Guardian Angel but was denied. In despair, I somehow managed to obtain permission to make a 5 minute call to my parents. I apologized repeatedly to them for being a terrible daughter and begged them to reclaim me. They refused.
"You made your bed, now you lie in it," my mother said before the phone receiver was yanked away from me by the staff counselor. In that moment, a part of me shattered and died inside, that part of me that belonged to my parents and my family. Broken, I wept, truly wept, for the first time in my life. Beyond the reach of my Guardian Angel, even hope abandoned me. I would rather die than languish behind bars for the rest of my days.
I stole a secret, forbidden bottle of Midol that I knew was hidden in another girl's underwear drawer. I choked down every last pill, all 42 of them. I almost barfed but I was determined that I would not fail at this one thing, spurred on by pure hatred and outrage at my predicted fate, I was determined this would be the one thing I would do right and it would be the one right thing that I had ever done in my short but miserable life.
I remember opening my eyes while I flew, as if on a magic carpet, under bright lights, blazing like a thousand suns. "This doesn't look like heaven," I remember saying in disappointment.
I saw a man's lovely dark eyes looking closely into mine. He was sitting on my chest. Get off, what's your problem anyway?
I saw resplendent quetzals, glimmering metallic green flashing blood-red against a soft velvet green rainforest.
I almost died. According to the emergency room staff and doctors who visited me after I had regained consciousness a day later, if I had arrived ten minutes later or had taken two more pills, I would not have survived. I suppose I should have felt lucky or scared, but I didn't. I was furious. Outraged. Everyone was meddling and interfering, first to keep me from realizing my dream and then to keep me from fixing this mess by extricating myself from a worthless and miserable existence. Who in the HELL do all these arrogant freaks think they are?
As soon as I was conscious, my Guardian Angel was there. He was my first and only visitor. He was pale and rumpled and looked as though he hadn't slept in a couple nights. In fact, he looked like hell. Again, I wanted to die, but for different reasons entirely. As soon as I saw him, my outrage evaporated and was replaced with shame. For the first time in my life, I had truly hurt someone: I had deeply hurt my precious Guardian Angel, I could see it in his face, in his eyes. My Guardian Angel was the only one who cared, who took time out of HIS busy life and HIS busy schedule to provide comfort to someone else's unwanted kid, he even managed to visit me when no one else could, and I repaid him by stupidly believing the poisonous lies uttered by one evil person and allowed this false belief to undo all the good that he was trying to do. How could I? How could I so easily lose my faith in all that is good and right and true? How could I have been so weak? This was my unpleasant introduction to having and (mis)using personal power.
Surprisingly, things did eventually work out. I was placed in a mental hospital while I recovered. While there, I met many wonderful people, both staff and patients (and I will probably tell their stories later) and then, I returned for awhile to reform school but was released -- not long before my 17th birthday. This decision was made by a reasonable judge who understood how ludicrous and capricious it was to lock up a "throw away" in a state reform school, particularly because I had never committed any violent or criminal behaviors.
Sadly, I have not spoken to my Guardian Angel since shortly after I started college. I was told he changed careers and relocated to Seattle. We lost touch. But even years later, I think of him and wonder how he is doing and wish that I could somehow let him know that I am alright, that I have succeeded beyond even my wildest dreams. I know he would be surprised and proud of what I have achieved so far in my life, even though every step on my path was incredibly difficult. If there was one wish I could have granted right now, it would be to see my Guardian Angel again, to take him on a tour through my museum, to show him my research birds, so he would know how precious he was and still is to me.
Are you out there, John S.? I know you are not famous, you are not rich and you are not beautiful but you are all these things to me and, oh, so much more. Can you hear my thoughts whispering to you as you sleep? I hope that you know that you are the one who mattered when I needed someone the most. I owe you my life and because I love my life, I love you, sweet Guardian Angel.
tags: domestic-violence, child-abuse, suicide
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You are not alone anymore. You will find yourself amongst friends here, all with the common goal of helping our children and finding a cure. We have created a list of Frequently Asked Questions that will be a good starting point for learning more about KCNQ2, and we invite you to read the welcome letters from families also affected by this disorder.
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Pike's military experience helps give support to STTC's medical simulation research
August 24, 2012
Story Highlights
- ARL employee holds two hats - one in his civilian life and the other as a commander in the U.S. Navy Reserves.
- Pike works on medical simulation research.
- Pike explores how modeling and simulation can augment and maybe replace shock trials that are currently performed on the lead ship of each ship class.
The U.S. Army Research Laboratory employs people with a wide variety of backgrounds and several of these employees have either spent time in the military or are currently members of the Reserves or National Guard.
Bill Pike, who is a science and technology manager at the Human Research and Engineering Directorate, Simulation and Training Technology Center in Orlando, Fla., currently holds two hats – one in his civilian life and the other as a commander in the U.S. Navy Reserves.
At the STTC, Pike works on medical simulation research. Like the rest of his team, he works on a variety of research efforts ranging from game-based simulation to mixed reality military ambulance trainers.
"My primary research area has involved the use of malodors to augment medical training exercises," said Pike. "How do humans adapt to malodors and can pre-exposure to the biological odors combat medics will face help alleviate performance issues?"
Pike said that combat medics and other first responders face a variety of 'very nasty odors' when treating injured personnel. He said that malodors have been shown to negatively impact various components of human performance.
"If olfactory adaptation can help reduce the negative impact, first responders can improve time to treat injured patients in the 'platinum 10 minutes' – the time immediately following injury," said Pike.
Pike said the STTC had an Army Training Objective (ATO) on severe trauma simulations, with the goal of simulating the sight, smell and feel of traumatic injuries. He said that while the sight was fairly easy to replicate via silicon-based moulage, modeling the smell had escaped them.
"Commercial off-the-shelf simulated odors exist, but no one had really done much work on how to use them effectively," said Pike. "That's what I chose to explore. As I peeled back the onion in my literature review, I discovered a more basic problem. While malodors have been tied to human performance issues and olfactory adaptation has been shown to reduce sensitivity to odors, very little research exists that shows whether adaptation can actually reduce the negative effects of malodor exposure."
STTC personnel have a diverse background. Many of the engineers worked at the Program Executive Office for Simulation, Training and Instrumentation (PEO-STRI) or with the Naval Air Warfare Center, Training Systems Division, in Orlando, prior to coming to the STTC. Because of this, they understand what has to be done to transition from research to production.
"In the medical simulation realm, we have the ability to naturally be Joint in nature – the human body is the human body – and reacts the same way to gunshots or explosion regardless of the uniform," said Pike. "While a Navy Fleet Marine Force Corpsman and an Army Combat Medic may train slightly differently and use slightly different equipment, those differences are minor enough that a simulator developed for one can easily be modified for the other. In fact, patient simulators can be used for anyone, military or civilian, who has to treat injuries at the scene."
In uniform, Pike currently works on a study for the Program Executive Officer Ships. PEO Ships is responsible for executing the development and procurement of all major surface combatants, amphibious ships, special mission and support ships and special warfare craft.
Pike explores how modeling and simulation can augment and maybe replace shock trials that are currently performed on the lead ship of each ship class. He has been the commanding officer for four Reserve units. Pike also deployed to Camp Eggers, Kabul, Afghanistan, where he managed a $1.6 billion construction project for the Afghan National Army and Afghan National Police.
When asked about how his military experience has aided him with his current position at ARL, Pike said that while the two jobs may not seem that closely related, being a Reservist has added more credibility to his dealings with active duty military members he works with.
"My Reserve career has allowed me to hone leadership skills. Each opportunity to serve as a unit commanding officer has afforded me a 'leadership laboratory' to practice skills learned both as a Navy officer and in Army civilian leadership classes," said Pike. "In addition, working for a PEO for the Navy has allowed me to keep my acquisition hat while I work for an Army R&D (research and development) command. Ultimately, the R&D we conduct needs to be transitioned. While we work closely with PEO STRI for transition, my Reserve career has given me more 'tools for the toolbox' when it comes to transition to acquisition commands."


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I'm gonna kill you gilberrrrttt!!
*crying out loud*
Yeah that means only one thing, I should go back soon.
Crazy, those shops are so lovely. I desperately wanna go to the shop filled with crazy shoes!!
The competition had been postponed until the end of november, i hope i could visit you around during the end of the year :))
i really, really want those colourful shoes!
and no way is there a "blogshop" :P
ya ampun bert,kok bisa sih foto foto di toko,bagus bgt ya.ntr klo ke sg mau ah kesana.. warna warna sepatunya cute abiss..
cute blog!love this post, the shop is so cute!
I feel like wanna grab all of the shoes!!! OH MY GOD, Gilbert!!
oh my gosh i just died a little, i love the cute jewelery hangers, the shop's intereior i beautiful and I ADORE the vintage typewriter!!
i'll keep a bookmark on this if i visit singapore again !
love the shots !
and yes my aldo wedges are SUPER comfy !
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I luv this shoes :0 Its killing me :)
I luv this shoes :0 Its killing me :)
huaa cute!!everything in that shop ar fab!cute!esp d telephone.in singapore?i'd love to visit that shop next week!cause i'll go to sg.can you tell me where is it?:p
the shop look so cute! and the stuffs too. haha.. :)
The inside of that shop really is gorgeous! I love this post.
And look at all those shoes! I love it!
Best wishes from one blogger to another,
that place is loaded with nice stuffs. i want to visit it! :]
aaa.. i'm not tall :( not skinny enough.. and not fierce enough to be model my love :( btw, this store.. graaaaaoorr! superrrrr great! :))))
ahh itu di sg yah? haji lane d daerah mn sh?? super naksir ma sepatunyaaaaa. hahaha telfonny jg lucu bgtt!!
ahh itu di sg yah? haji lane d daerah mn sh?? super naksir ma sepatunyaaaaa. hahaha telfonny jg lucu bgtt!!
ahh itu di sg yah? haji lane d daerah mn sh?? super naksir ma sepatunyaaaaa. hahaha telfonny jg lucu bgtt!!
OMG! bagus banget toko nya :) Haji Lane itu di dket mana sih? sepatunya cute bgt, love the color!
Those stores were so lovely... I think I'll get to buy a lot of those cute things... =) Nice post... =)
Just came across your blog, awesome blog! :)
Love those shoes!
Have never been to Haji Lane, thanks for sharing! :)
loving your every shots gilbert!
omg itu toko yang ada sepatu nya yang mana sih?
baru kmrn aku abis dari haji lane
tp kok gk liat yah?
yg kayak gmn tuh tokonya?
yes yes we should meet up soon!
wow - there looks like there are some crazy cute shops! jealous! x
droolin all over those shoes+jewelry!x
aaarrrgghh why dont i came to haji lane on mylast visit to singapore :( there's a lot of crazy cute stuff ...
hmmm its a great article gilb..:D
Just found your blog and I love everything in it :)
Thanks for sharing those pics! Totally gotta make sometime to skip work and go back to singapore.
Great post!
ALL of shoes are GORGEOUS!!! want it muaachhh ;)
ouuh, and i wanna go to there too ! ;)
I'd love to be there! everything's so amazing :D
Heii.. sori for the late reply... hahaha. aduuuh itu lucu bngt sepatu2nya! Have to visit it! hehehe. thanks for sharing anyway.
Gw gak kerja di shangrila tapi kerja di P&G, tau ga? hehehe, kbtulan ada acara kantor jadi nginep di shangrila wktu itu. n iyaa.. tasnya pasaran banget, di mana2 ada skrg. hahaha. ;)
hey, i never knew haji lane has something like this.
blogshop is on fareast plaza too i know:)
following your blog now.
ps.let me know if you want to exchange links
I love all:D:D
really adore the shot of oxford shoes..loving the color tone!
loves the telehone and shoes pic!
great pics! :D x
can you tell me what's the shop's name? and where?
I love the stuffs you show here. and that flats are so adorabe <3
hope i can visit sg and go there asap !
waaa great shop! wanna visit there if i go to singapore. and grat shoots, nice pict..
Hello Gilbert how are youuu haha :D
I've heard of this blogshop place somewhere and thought that it might be an interesting place to go to when i go to SG, after seeing ur pics it made me want to go there even more *calculate ticket fare to SGP* will prolly go to SG this dec.. or maybe next year lol..
kok bagus banget sih foto2nyaaa... *berbinar2*
i'm going to visit SG next week
and a friend of mine recommended haji lane
definitely a place to go! lovely shoesss :D
i hope their smallest size is 35 *pray*
drooling for every photo !
lovely post ko gilbert :)
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I'm sitting in the Auckland airport about to be whooshed back in time. Brian Greene would be so proud although my universe is nowhere near as elegant as his. For example, I'm pretty stoked I didn't have to go to the bathroom on myself during my 1/2 IM on Sunday (Well...AFTER the swim). In my life, that's considered an elegant universe.
Anyway, I figure there is no better day to reflect than a day I get to live twice...it seems wasteful not to do something meaningful on at least one of my March 6ths between Auckland and LA.
So as I gaze off into the duty free store...Maori tribal chants (I think) lightly humming in the background...some thoughts about the past few days...what I learned...and I'm sure I'll throw in a poop joke or two along the way.
Before I left to take on Ironman New Zealand, I had this dream that I went skydiving. With elephants. This dream has stuck with me for days. It seemed meaningful. And what better image to bring along with me on a plane that I would be living on for 13 hours across the Pacific than that of a giant pachyderm hurtling out of said plane with me tagging along as skydiving partner? Quite calming, indeed.
A couple of questions:
(1) How did I get the elephant through security? Excuse me, sir...can you put your computer and elephant in separate crates? And don't forget to take off his shoes (TOMS, of course).
(2) I also wonder how, exactly, they created a parachute big enough for him. I figure it was all very Point Break-esque....100% PURE adrenaline.
Regardless, this dream was vivid, and like most dreams...within it, I ended up simply accepting the implausible as the everyday. A lesson in itself.
While I assume I carried this "elephant" along with me for months...my elephant didn't get to live long in New Zealand. He never even got the chance to jump. It seems mother nature dropped a weather bomb on me, baby...and so the race, my elephant -- shit, the entire plane -- went BOOM! As one Kiwi put it: Not fair for you to come all this way for some bloke to cancel your race with the stroke of a pen.
Fair? I don't know.
Safe? Probably.
Disappointing? Yes.
Bloke? British.
Instead, a day later than planned, and at half the distance, we got our shot at New Zealand and Great Lake Taupo. And while I am still an Ironman (140.6) virgin...I considered myself a seasoned veteran at 70.3s because I had done a whopping ONE before. So...I knew what I was going to do.
I was going to sprint it.
That's right...my plan was to survive the (yuck) swim... and then SPRINT a 56 mile bike ride and 13.1 mile run. In my mind...this seemed like a honest-to-goodness, realistic, and viable thing for me to be able to do....at the time, I thought: Yeah...I can sprint it. I trained for so long and so hard for a full IM...I can definitely sprint 69.1 miles...NO problem.
I had some problems.
Beyond being an idiot, some things went a bit wrong during my "sprinting." Listed in order of annoyance...some of which everyone had to deal with, some of which only I got to:
(1) Did I mention I tried to sprint the entire thing? Yeah. That was dumb. I give myself credit...I was able to sprint about the first 40 miles of the bike ride before I completely blew up and bonked. The rest of the day, my legs were absolute toast and I was miserable.
(2) My bike computer, the thing that tells me how fast I am actually going and how fast my cadence is, broke....unless I was actually biking at over 200 mph (which is what it was claiming). Of course, I could approximate my speed and cadence, but in a race like this...everyone is biking much faster than normal. So, I not only decided to sprint it (dumb), I also got caught up going at everyone else's sprint pace...not a good idea.
(3) My aero bar broke about 1/2 way into the ride. This is especially annoying because we had to get our bikes checked before the race, and the bike shop took my bike in because my aero bar was loose!!!! They "tightened" it...and gave me the go ahead to ride. Thanks, Avanti! Hmmm...
(4) Most of the last 1/3 of the ride was uphill and directly into a strong headwind. Everyone had to deal with this...but did I mention my aero bar broke? I got to eat a lot of that wind....and my legs were shot.
(5) I somehow tweaked my shoulder and my ass cheek during the bike....and my shoulder was so jacked up, I had to run one-armed in the 1/2 marathon. I couldn't even hold onto my water bottle because it hurt so much. I am pretty sure this had to do with my aero bars breaking (AVANTI!!!!). You don't notice how much you use your arms when you run until you can't use one of them! Ha!
(6) Because I was an idiot and tried to sprint the bike...my legs were gone on the 1/2 marathon. I think that was the worst I have ever felt on a run...which means I actually felt worse than when I accidentally ate a PowerBar with peanuts in it and ended up puking all over myself during my first marathon. Yeah. Good times. Good times. Why do I do this again?
Anyway, these are all just learning experiences....and what I figured would be a race I would complete in 5:45 to 6 hours...ended up taking me 7 hours!!! But on the bright side...I had some triumphs:
(1) This was the hardest race swim I had ever done! The water was VERY choppy and there was only a few different start times (pro, men, then women). I only got punched in the head ONCE...and all the water I drank was not pool or ocean water...but FRESH water. DELICIOUS (and refreshing).
(2) I didn't have any stomach cramping or related issues AT ALL. That is the first endurance race I have ever done where I was not pre-occupied with going to the bathroom the entire time (so maybe THAT is why I was slower!).
(3) ZERO chafing. ZERO. Honestly...unless you have been chafed from a race before..you have no idea what a victory that is. It only took me about five years to get that right!
(4) It takes a lot of mental energy and focus to complete a race when (a) you have bonked because you were an idiot and (b) your shoulder and ass cheek feel like they want to fall off...and I NEED those body parts. Well, at least one of them. But yeah...that was all interesting to battle through.
Alas, lessons learned and triumphs aside, my elephant is still with me. I don't know if that means I am still on the plane or mid-free fall. I just know I am going to do another race...I am going to skydive with elephants. And I am never, ever trying to sprint a 1/2 IM ever, ever again.
Wednesday, March 07, 2012
Friday, March 02, 2012
|Enter Charlie Brown Theme...Now.
It's an interesting feeling to look out my window at Lake Taupo. I should have just swum 2.4 miles (or more with my zigzagging) in it. I should be doing a 112 mile bike ride. I should be trying to save my legs for a marathon.
But I'm looking out a window.
It's hard to explain the feeling. I just spent a full year mentally preparing for one day. This day. March 3rd, 2012. I was supposed to learn some lesson today, about myself, about my limits, about what drives me. There have been countless hours of training. Injuries. Doubts. Fears. Epiphanies. Hope. All tied up into one day. This day.
But I'm looking out a window.
When I think about the conversations to come...the donations I raised...the pats on the back...the "I understands" the "That sucks" conversations...I don't feel anything. I don't yet know how to respond to those. What do I say?
I looked out a window?
There is a lesson here. I got what I came for. I'm not learning it as I drink lake water. Or as my legs burn with fatigue. Or as I cramp on a run.
My lesson is about perspective. And patience. And peace. And grand schemes.
And about a window.
Today was not my day to do Ironman. My day WILL come. I know this. I FEEL this. I BELIEVE this. And if nothing else, my desire is stronger. Harder. Deeper than ever before.
I'm not looking out at Lake Taupo, through a window, for nothing. There are countless ways to learn what it means to be an Ironman.
The next step of my journey is beginning.
By looking out a window.
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