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Check out the new Cor Deo Blog; this blog is an outworking of a new ministry started by a guy I went to seminary with, Dr. Peter Mead, and a guy who "mentored" me as a prof and "teaching fellow" supervisor while at seminary, Dr. Ron Frost. They are embarking on a very exciting ministry venture, and I think you should check it out!
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FESTIVAL GOERS - share your experience - help needed! (University project)
I'm currently in my final year at University (UK based) and I'm working on my major project which is mainly focused on travelling and festivals around the world.
As a part of my research I'm trying to collect as much data as possible about other people's festival experience, whether it is a music festival or an art festival, it doesn't matter really, as long you have some interesting stories to tell! It's all about getting a positive response from festivals goers and maybe some pictures you would like to share? That would be super helpful guys!
All information is just for my own purposes, to help me get my head around the project idea and the project design and its development. (Forgot to mention I'm an interior design student!)
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Outdoor pets will be needing a small amount of special attention during cold winter time. Failure to supply them with the care they want may result in disaster. Below are a few tips to make certain your family pet is comfortable through the winter weeks.
It is very important so that you can take a couple of things under consideration in terms of cold weather along with your pets. More compact, younger, or more mature pets will probably be particularly prone to colder ailments outside. People that have shorter hair may also have any harder moment. It is most beneficial for these kinds of pets being kept indoors as opposed to trying to be able to brave winter.
During the particular cold winter time it is crucial for your furry friend to have got appropriate shelter to stay in. Ideally your puppy house will probably be raised a couple of inches over ground. Dogs could have a more difficult time keeping their physique heat should they are lying down directly on a lawn.
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In winter months there is going to be plenty regarding ice on a lawn. There is going to be plenty regarding salt on a lawn too to be able to negate the particular slippery effects with the ice. Both these substances can easily irritate the dog's paws since they will be quite coarse. Therefore, you need to clean the dog's paws off frequently to make certain they cannot get ruined.
Cold weather conditions also enhances the risk regarding certain ailments developing; particularly hypothermia and also frostbite. If the dog grows hypothermia, you will see him shivering rather than moving about much. You need to provide any warmer place and check with a animal medical practitioner.
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blouse, boots, Forever 21, Grease, Kardashian Kollection, Leggings, OOTD, Outfit of the Day, pleather
This is my outfit of the day. It's a white blouse from the Kardashian Kollection and faux leather leggings by Tracy Evans. The shoes are my knee high ones from Forever 21.
I like the simplicity of the top, it's fancy and business like, yet doesn't have much fuss about it. It has hidden buttons in the front and I think it will be in style forever. Simple chic, ftw! The leggings are a few years old but they are my favorite leggings by far. I love how they feel, they make me feel like Sandy from Grease!
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Formalization of the pumping lemma for context-free languages
Context-free languages are highly important in computer language processing technology as well as in formal language theory. The Pumping Lemma is a property that is valid for all context-free languages, and is used to show the existence of non context-free languages. This paper presents a formalization, using the Coq proof assistant, of the Pumping Lemma for context-free languages.
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DOI: 10.6092/issn.1972-5787/5595
Copyright (c) 2016 Marcus V M Ramos
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Armenian News A Topalian - At the 100th - Historic Videos and Latest News
BBC TV Video of key moments of 24 April commemorations
Video of bells tolling on 23 April over the world
Video of Canonisation Service on 23 April 2015
the guardian.com
Centenary of the Armenian genocide: descendants tell their family's stories
24 April 2015
Armenia marks centenary of mass killings by Ottoman Turks
24 April 2015
Ceremonies have been held in Armenia and around the world to mark the centenary of the start of mass killings of Armenians by Ottoman Turks.
The presidents of France and Russia joined other leaders for the memorial in the Armenian capital, Yerevan.
Armenia says up to 1.5 million people died, a figure disputed by Turkey.
Turkey strongly objects to the use of the term genocide to describe the killings and the issue has soured relations between the nations.
Turkey accepts that atrocities were committed but argues there was no systematic attempt to destroy the Christian Armenian people. It says many innocent Muslim Turks also died in the turmoil of war.
A memorial service was held in Turkey on Friday and its prime minister, Ahmet Davutoglu, said the country would "share the pain" of Armenians. But he reiterated Turkey's stance that the killings were not genocide.
Turkey also hosted ceremonies on Friday to mark the 100th anniversary of the start of the Battle of Gallipoli.
However, the actual fighting there began on 25 April, and Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan has accused Turkey of "trying to divert world attention" from the Yerevan commemorations. 'Never again'
After a flower-laying ceremony in Yerevan, Mr Sargsyan addressed the guests, saying: "I am grateful to all those who are here to once again confirm your commitment to human values, to say that nothing is forgotten, that after 100 years we remember."
In his address, French President Francois Hollande said: "We will never forget the tragedies that your people have endured."
France has been a strong advocate of recognising the killings as genocide and President Hollande has pushed for a law to punish genocide denial.
Russian President Vladimir Putin described the killings as "one of the most tragic disasters in the history of humankind" which "shook the whole world".
"There cannot be any justification for mass murder of people," he said. "Today we mourn together with the Armenian people."
Commemorations in Yerevan drew to a close with a candlelit procession. People carried flowers to the city's memorial late into the evening.
• In Lebanon - home to one of the largest Armenian diasporas - tens of thousands of people attended a march and commemoration service in Beirut
• In Jerusalem, Armenian priests held a two-hour mass in the Old City. Posters outside the church called on Turkey to recognise the mass killings as genocide
• And in Tehran, hundreds of Armenian-Iranians attended a rally from an Armenian church to the Turkish Embassy.
Friday marks the 100th anniversary of the day the Ottoman Turkey authorities arrested several hundred Armenian intellectuals in Constantinople, today's Istanbul, most of whom were later killed.
Armenians regard this as the beginning of the Ottoman policy of mass extermination of Christian Armenians suspected of supporting Russia, the Ottoman Empire's World War One enemy. Lebanese Armenians march in Beirut on 24 April 2015Tens of thousands of Lebanese-Armenians marked the centenary with a march in Beirut Ceremonies at the Tsitsernakaberd Memorial in Yerevan, 24 AprilCeremonies were held at the Tsitsernakaberd Memorial in Yerevan Francois Hollande, 24 AprilFrance, represented by Francois Hollande, has been a strong advocate of recognising the killings as genocide
US President Barack Obama issued a carefully worded statement for the anniversary , referring to "one of the worst atrocities of the 20th Century", without using the term genocide.
During his 2008 presidential election campaign, then senator Obama had vowed to "recognise the Armenian genocide" and in his new statement said: "I have consistently stated my own view of what occurred in 1915, and my view has not changed."
However, his phrasing has angered Armenian Americans.
Bryan Ardouny, executive director of the Armenian Assembly of America, said in a statement: "President Obama's exercise in linguistic gymnastics on the Armenian genocide is unbecoming of the standard he himself set and that of a world leader today." President Vladimir Putin at the Tsitsernakaberd Memorial in Yerevan, 24 AprilPresident Vladimir Putin said the events of 1915 "shook the whole world" March by Armenians in Jerusalem. 23 April 2015Armenians around the world, like here in Jerusalem, insist the killings were genocide
German MPs are meanwhile debating a non-binding motion on the genocide issue, a day after President Joachim Gauck used the word to describe the killings.
Turkey reacted angrily to Mr Putin's address.
"Considering the mass killings, exiles... that Russia has carried out in the Caucasus, Central Asia and in eastern Europe over the past century... we think it should be the one that knows best what a genocide is and what its legal dimensions are," a foreign ministry statement said.
Earlier this month, Turkey recalled its envoy to the Vatican after Pope Francis also used the word genocide.
In Turkey on Friday, the media largely focused on Gallipoli, but one newspaper, Cumhuriyet, carried a surprise headline in Armenian - "Never Again".
"The wounds caused by the events which took place during the Ottoman Empire are still fresh. It is time to face up to this pain which paralyses the human mind, the feeling of justice and the conscience," it said.
24 April 2015
President Gauck spoke on the eve of a debate in the German parliament
on the issue
German President Joachim Gauck has described as "genocide" the
killings of Armenians by Ottoman Turks, a move likely to cause outrage
in Turkey.
He was speaking on the eve of a debate in the German parliament on
the issue.
The Armenian Church earlier canonised 1.5 million Armenians it says
were killed in massacres and deportations by Ottoman Turks during
World War One.
Turkey disputes the term "genocide", arguing that there were many
deaths on both sides during the conflict.
On Friday commemorations will mark the 100th anniversary of the
German 'responsibility'
Speaking at a church service in Berlin, President Gauck said: "The
fate of the Armenians stands as exemplary in the history of mass
exterminations, ethnic cleansing, deportations and yes, genocide,
which marked the 20th Century in such a terrible way."
Mr Gauck, who holds a largely ceremonial role, added that Germans also
bore some responsibility "and in some cases complicity" concerning
the "genocide of the Armenians". Germany was an ally of the Ottoman
Empire during World War One.
His comments come as the German parliament, the Bundestag, prepares
to debate a motion on the 1915 massacres.
But instead of a clear statement of condemnation, politicians will
discuss an opaque, tortuously-worded sentence, which aims to be unclear
enough to keep everyone happy - with the sort of convoluted phrasing
that the German language is so good at, the BBC's Damien McGuinness
in Berlin reports.
Germany joins Armenia genocide debate
Explosive issue
Earlier on Thursday, the Armenian Church said the aim of the
canonisation ceremony near the capital Yerevan was to proclaim the
martyrdom of those killed for their faith and homeland.
Bells tolled at the symbolic time of 19:15 local time to mark the
centenary of the killings
After the ceremony, bells tolled in Armenian churches around the world.
The beatification at the Echmiadzin Cathedral did not give the specific
number of victims or their names.
It is the first time in 400 years that the Armenian Church has used
the rite of canonisation.
The use of the word "genocide" to describe the killings is
controversial. Pope Francis was rebuked recently by Turkish President
Recep Tayyip Erdogan for describing it as the "first genocide of the
20th Century".
On Friday, a memorial service will be held in Turkey and its prime
minister, Ahmet Davutoglu, has said the country will "share the pain"
of Armenians.
However, he reiterated Turkey's stance that the killings were not
"To reduce everything to a single word, to put responsibility through
generalisations on the Turkish nation alone... is legally and morally
problematic," he said.
Mr Davutoglu did acknowledge the deportations, saying: "We once again
respectfully remember and share the pain of grandchildren and children
of Ottoman Armenians who lost their lives during deportation in 1915."
What happened in 1915?
Hundreds of thousands of Armenians died in 1915 at the hands of the
Ottoman Turks, whose empire was disintegrating.
Many of the victims were civilians deported to barren desert regions
where they died of starvation and thirst. Thousands also died in
Armenia says up to 1.5 million people were killed. Turkey says the
number of deaths was much smaller.
Most non-Turkish scholars of the events regard them as genocide - as
do more than 20 states, including France, Germany, Canada and Russia,
and various international bodies including the European Parliament.
Turkey rejects the term genocide, maintaining that many of the dead
were killed in clashes during World War One, and that many ethnic
Turks also suffered in the conflict.
by Nana Martirosyan
Thursday, April 23, 11:28
Israeli President Reuven Rivlin Israel's President drew a direct
historical link between the world's failure to prevent the Armenian
genocide and the Holocaust. The president made such statement in a
closed session with journalists held last week in Jerusalem in honor
of Israel Independence Day.
"The Nazis," he said, "used the Armenian genocide as something that
gave them permission to bring the Holocaust into reality."
Rivlin also welcomed Pope Francis's April 12 statement, in which he
referred to the slaughter of the Armenians as the "first genocide
of the Twentieth Century." "This is important to Christians, Jews,
Muslims-to human beings," Rivlin said.
It is not the first time Rivlin makes such statements. Nevertheless,
in Dec 2014, he refused to sign the annual message calling on Israel
to official recognize the Armenian Genocide.
According to the Armenian Assembly of America, around the world, the
Jewish community is rallying in support of official acknowledgment of
the Armenian Genocide. Jewish leaders and organizations have joined
the call for the U.S. government to officially characterize the
systematic murder of 1.5 million Armenians a century ago as genocide.
In the past 24 hours, Israeli President Reuven Rivlin, the American
Jewish Committee, and the editorial board of Jewish Week condemned
the atrocities of 1915.
Nevertheless, Tel-Aviv's stand on the Armenian Genocide is uncertain.
In a speech before the United Nations commemorating the Holocaust the
following month, however, Rivlin implicitly recognized the Armenian
genocide and drew a direct connection between the world's failure to
act in 1915, again during the Holocaust, and then again in subsequent
genocides around the world. Meanwhile, Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor
Lieberman, publicly denies the fact of Genocide and actively support
the Turkish-Azerbaijani lobby.
23 Apr 2015
Siranush Ghazanchyan
"I'm deeply sad that I am a member of a parliament, the Parliament
of the United Kingdom whose Government today refuses to recognize
the Armenian Genocide," Member of the UK House of Lords, Baroness
Caroline Cox said at the Global Forum Against the Crime of Genocide
under way in Armenia's capital Yerevan. She said "it's a shame."
"I'm happy to mention that two parts of our United Kingdon - Wales and
Scotland - have recognized the Armenian Genocide. I applaud them and
all national governments that have done the same," Baroness Cox said.
She also appreciated that the issue of recognition of other genocides
has been included in the forum. Caroline Cox said another example of
genocide is Azerbaijan's attempt to annihilate the Armenian people in
their historic land of Artsakh. "Whenever I visit Armenia and Artsakh,
I'm so humbled and inspired by the spirit of Armenian people.
"You are like a phoenix. You do not only survive, but also create
beauty from the ashes of destruction here in Armenia and the holy
land of Artsakh," Baroness Cox said.
"Sadly, Azerbaijan continues to threaten and to kill. And it is
essential to call on Azerbaijan to account for the past attempted
ethnic cleansing and its threats for the future. I believe that Nagorno
Karabakh or Artsakh has at least a valid claim for independence, to
self-determination like Kosovo had," she said. "We should all strive
to achieve that justice for the Armenians of Artsakh."
Baroness Cox hailed Pope Francis's recognition of the Armenian
Genocide. She said "it is in the interest of Turkish people themselves
to acknowledge the truth of this part of history." Baroness Cox
appreciated the contribution of the speakers from Turkey at the forum.
RFE/RL Report
Austrian Parliament Recognizes Armenian Genocide
Austria - The Austrian parliament building in Vienna.
Austria became on Wednesday the latest country to recognize the 1915
Armenian genocide in Ottoman Turkey, a First World War-era ally of the
Austro-Hungarian Empire.
The Austrian parliament approved a corresponding statement drafted by
the parliamentary leaders of the country's six main political parties
after observing a minute of silence for up to 1.5 million Armenians
massacred by the Ottoman Turks.
"April 24, 1915 marked the beginning of a policy of deportation and
persecution, which ended in genocide," parliament speaker Doris Bures
said at a special session dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the
The parliamentary faction leaders stressed the importance of
recognizing the Armenian massacres as genocide in their ensuing
speeches delivered at the National Council.
The declaration authored by them reads, "Due to a historical
responsibility -- the Austro-Hungarian Empire was allied with the
Ottoman Empire in the First World War -- it is our duty to recognize
the terrible events as genocide and condemn them."
"It is also Turkey's duty to face the dark and painful chapter of its
past and recognize the crimes committed against Armenians under the
Ottoman Empire as genocide," it says, echoing a resolution adopted by
the European Parliament last week.
The statement also mentions hundreds of thousands of Greeks and
Assyrians who were murdered on Ottoman government orders a century
Armenia, whose ambassador in Vienna was present at the parliament
session, was quick to welcome the declaration coming just two days
before official ceremonies in Yerevan that will mark the centenary of
the genocide. "With this step Austria has made an important
contribution to the noble task of preventing genocides and other
crimes against humanity," Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian said in a
Turkey did not immediately react to the Austrian move. Ankara last
week strongly condemned Pope Francis and the European Parliament for
using the word genocide to honor the Armenians slaughtered during the
First Word War.
Incidentally, the Austrian declaration cited and endorsed the
statements made by Francis and the European Union's legislative body.
RFE/RL Report
Turkey Slams Austria, Warns Germany Over Armenian Genocide Recognition
Turkey on Wednesday strongly condemned Austria for recognizing the
1915 Armenian genocide and urged Germany, another First World War-era
ally of the Ottoman Empire, not to do the same this week.
The Turkish Foreign Ministry said it summoned the Austrian ambassador
in Ankara and told him that a corresponding declaration adopted by the
Austrian parliament "will leave permanent stains on Turkish-Austrian
friendship." It also announced that the Turkish ambassador in Vienna
has been recalled "for consultations."
"It should be known that Turkey and the Turkish nation will not forget
this slander uttered against their history," the ministry said in a
statement issued in response to the declaration. "It seems that
Austria, with whom we fought on the same side during World War I # has
also fallen prey to the efforts of some circles bent on manipulating
perceptions, in complete insistence in ignoring the humanitarian and
concrete initiatives of Turkey."
"As such, this outrageous behavior is rigorously rejected by
Turkey. It will not be possible to lay the burden of such a great
crime, which it has not committed, on Turkey's shoulders through
political pressures of any kind," added the statement.
In a separate development, Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said
he has phoned German Chancellor Angela Merkel to discuss plans by
Germany's parliament to pass a resolution referring to the Armenian
massacres as genocide. Davutoglu said he asked Merkel to "take the
initiative" and persuade the Bundestag not to "offend Turkey."
The Bundestag is due to debate the draft resolution on Friday, the day
which will mark the 100th anniversary of the start of mass killings
and deportations of Armenians in Ottoman Turkey. In a significant
policy shift, the German government on Monday voiced support for the
document agreed to by Merkel's Christian Democrats and their coalition
partner, the Social Democratic Party.
The AFP news agency quoted a spokeswoman for Merkel, Christiane Wirtz,
as telling reporters on Wednesday that the German leader "explained"
her government's position on the genocide issue to Davutoglu. Wirtz
declined to give other details of the phone call.


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When they speak of her at all, clerics of the goliath pantheon say that Kuliak was once the deity of mountain springs, but the other deities spurned her when she overslept and forgot to lead the goliath tribes to water. Now Kuliak is venerated only when a goliath dies. Additionally, exiled goliaths find comfort in Kuliak's tale, and many worship her rather than the rest of the goliath pantheon. Kuliak looks like a rail-thin, starving goliath.
Portfolio: The dead, exiles. Domains: Death, Magic, Travel, Water.
Cleric Training: Except as part of a burial rite, it's considered bad luck for nonexiled goliaths to even mention Kuliak's name. Clerics of the goliath pantheon memorize the words to the rite and try not to think about Kuliak after that. But unlike the other deities that comprise the goliath pantheon, Kuliak is served by exiled goliath clerics who worship her and her alone. Because they are so widely scattered, her clerics have few specific teachings to impart and are eager for lore about their goddess.
Quests: The dead occupy relatively little of Kuliak's attention, so she acts as a shepherd for the goliath exiles. If exiles are endangered, her followers spare no effort to rescue them and keep them safe.
Prayers: Kuliak's prayers are often sung, and even if spoken they have a singsong quality. They have no regularity in meter or theme, because worshiping Kuliak is such an individual pursuit.
Shrines: Kuliak has no formal shrines, but her worshipers sometimes gather at the graves of goliaths who died particularly heroic deaths.
Rites: As a counterpoint to the shunning that precedes most decisions to exile a tribe member, Kuliak offers a brief "rite of welcoming," in which someone is embraced three times when he or she enters a home or joins a group.
Herald and Allies: Kuliak's herald is an 18th-level goliath ghost barbarian. Her allies are Medium, Large, and Huge water elementals.
Favored Weapon: Morningstar.


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" For He satisfieth the longing soul, and filleth the hungry soul with goodness." Psalm 107:9
This morning after reading the Word, I picked up my hymn book and started to sing softly... a hymn that I've known for quite some time. Such comforting words...
... the LORD JESUS, the only ONE who offers rest that can satisfy a weary and worn soul.
Do you ever find yourself weary and worn and sad? Who can truly understand your needs? Can you ever bring your struggles to man... and find complete rest in man?
No... no one cares for you like the Lord Jesus. He alone satisfieth the longing soul... He sends His WORD... then heals... and delivers.
" He sent His WORD, and healed them,
and delivered them from their destructions."
Psalm 107:20
O Lord, How grateful I am for your goodness to me... indeed I find fullness of joy... in YOUR presence.
"I Heard the Voice of Jesus Say"
by Horatius Bonar, 1808-1899
I heard the voice of Jesus say,
"Come unto Me and rest;
Lay down, thou weary one, lay down,
Thy head upon My breast."
I came to Jesus as I was,
Weary and worn and sad;
I found in Him a resting-place,
And He has made me glad.
I heard the voice of Jesus say,
"Behold, I freely give
The living water; thirsty one,
Stoop down and drink and live."
I came to Jesus, and I drank
Of that life-giving stream.
My thirst was quenched, my soul revived,
And now I live in Him.
I heard the voice of Jesus say,
"I am this dark world's Light.
Look unto Me; thy morn shall rise
And all thy day be bright."
I looked to Jesus, and I found
In Him my Star, my Sun;
And in that Light of Life I'll walk
Till traveling days are done.
What joy to have the Lord Jesus as our haven of rest...
" He maketh the storm a calm, so that the waves thereof are still. Then are they glad because they are quiet; so He bringeth them unto their desired haven." Psalm 107: 29,30
May you seek to find rest in the presence of the Lord Jesus Christ... who gives the LIVING water... and revives the weary soul.


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The Outer View
02. Zig-Zag 4:03
03. The Outer View 10:03
04. You Are My Sunshine 12:04
05. D.C. Divertimento 9:14
Bass – Steve Swallow
Drums – Pete La Roca
Engineer [Recording] – Ray Fowler
Piano – George Russell
Tenor Saxophone – Paul Plummer
Trombone – Garnett Brown
Trumpet – Don Ellis
Recorded at Plaza Sound Studios, New York City; August 27, 1962.
Composer George Russell's early-'60s Riverside recordings are among his most accessible. For this set (the CD reissue adds an alternate take of the title cut to the original program), Russell and his very impressive sextet (which is comprised of trumpeter Don Ellis, trombonist Garnett Brown, Paul Plummer on tenor, bassist Steve Swallow and drummer Pete La Roca) are challenged by the complex material; even Charlie Parker's blues "Au Privave" is transformed into something new. It is particularly interesting to hear Don Ellis this early in his career. The most famous selection, a very haunting version of "You Are My Sunshine," was singer Sheila Jordan's debut on records.
This recording is the last George Russell made for the Riverside label before relocating to Europe. It thus marks something of a break in his career: in later work he was to delve into electronics & jazz-rock, but this album rounds off the series of exploratory small-group sessions he cut for the label, each featuring an exciting mixture of hot soloists & sophisticated arrangements.
The album opens with a polytonal arrangement of Parker's "Au Privave"; this was a favourite strategy (cf. "Sippin' at Bells" on the _Live at the Five Spot_ disc), & is an extension of the bebop practice of the unison statement of heads. (Such a polytonal approach is audible even in some non-avantgarde recordings: listen to "Bag's Groove" on Milt Jackson's _Opus de Jazz_, or "Children of the Night" on Art Blakey's _Mosaic_.) As on "Honesty" on Russell's _Ezz-thetics_ or "The Outer View" on this disc, the soloists' slots are split between a free-time section and a straightahead swing section. The horns--the fine Don Ellis on trumpet, and the lesser-known Garnett Brown (trombone) and Paul Plummer (saxophone)--all find something interesting to say.
There's another short piece--Carla Bley's charming "Zig-Zag"--& then three long set-pieces. "The Outer View" is more-or-less of a piece with the first two (& is accompanied by a welcome alternate take): it has some of the most exciting playing on the date. "You Are My Sunshine" & "D.C. Divertimento" are more arranged, indeed through-composed; "Sunshine" is the stand-out, & the album's most famous track, climaxing on the young Sheila Jordan's bluesy & bold rendition of the lyric. It's a powerful performance, & is the main reason to get this album.
Aside from "Sunshine" this is not quite among the first rank of Russell albums--I'd name _Jazz in the Space Age_, the Jazz Workshop disc & _Ezz-Thetics_ as his best, perhaps, along with "Lydian M-1" on the Teddy Charles Tentet disc & "All About Rosie" on _The Birth of the Third Stream_. But it's nonetheless worth getting, primarily for "You Are My Sunshine".


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Wakeup: Trump Doesn't Need a Majority
Before You Board That Chopper...
Radio Free Tom's Reality Check
NYTimes has published more on it this evening:
Trump Invited Russians to Hack Clinton. Did They Listen?
By MICHAEL S. SCHMIDT 6:15 PM ET
The day Mr. Trump asked Russians for help in hacking Hillary Clinton's emails, Russia began to target her personal servers.
Democrats Call on Trump to Cancel Putin Meeting
and they updated the main story:
Intelligence Officers Charged Ahead of Trump-Putin Visit
By MARK MAZZETTI and KATIE BENNER 5:41 PM ET
Washington Post has added a lot of stuff, too:
including updating the main story
Mueller probe indicts 12 Russians for hacking Democrats in 2016
The suspects "covertly monitored the computers, implanted hundreds of files containing malicious computer code, and stole emails and other documents," Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein said as he detailed the charges against Russian intelligence officers.
The Fix: 6 questions from the indictment of Russians for hacking
After being told of Russia indictments, Trump still sought friendship with Putin
President Trump gave no sign that he appreciated the magnitude of what was coming. Instead, he publicly repeated his frequent attacks on the integrity of the Russia probe and offered kind words for Russian President Vladimir Putin ahead of their meeting next week.
Spotlight intensifies on Roger Stone after latest charges in Russia inquiry
The longtime Trump adviser has acknowledged exchanging Twitter direct messages in 2016 with Guccifer 2.0, who claimed to be a Romanian hacker. Stone has said there is no proof the account was connected to the Russians.
The Fix: Today marks an official rebuke of a major Trump conspiracy theory
AA there again, Spanky Trump is taped; his voice is recorded; his intent is clear!
Ruskies, please fuck up Hilary's campaign and I will give you stuff.
Yes, thank you for that reminder and it would all be good and fine in a court of law But have to admit what I am thinking is what is to be done about it when it is someone who changes his narratives to a new lie every day and hour in order, really simply to draw attention to himself and keep the fans occupied with intriguing conspiracies and stuff or whatever....
so in the end some GOP have to go along with something being "the last straw, they can't take it anymore" and go along with impeachment. They won't do that because:
Seems to me what has to happen is that the media has to somehow frame something like this when it happens to get a larger outrage reaction from the bottom up? They need GOP voters to say we got your backs, go after Trump. If not, anything happening, it's got to wait for after Nov.?
re: "Spotlight Intensifies on Roger Stone after Latest Charges":
Politico, natch, is stressing the political, does have a lot up now along those lines, like
Florida Republicans play starring roles in hacking indictment
Mueller reveals depth of states' election vulnerabilities
How the Russian hacks unfolded
Trump's previous statements on Russia
RUSSIA PROBE REACTION 'It's a big FU from Mueller' Trump's allies question the timing of latest Mueller indictments – on the eve of the Putin summit.
House conservatives prep push to impeach Rosenstein
And the title for the main story by Annie Karni implies political timing:
Mueller injects new drama into Trump's European whirlwind New election meddling indictments from the special counsel landed as Trump met the queen—and days before he sees Russian President Vladimir Putin.
The Karni article is disingenuous in that it makes a big pancake out of the timing of the indictments as a power play by Mueller and then admits Trump was told about it before he left for the trip. The first notification was the power play. The second is just what happens when you cross streets without looking.
Disingenuous is a good word to use. Could be more but I sense that it's mostly to get eyeballs, to get troops riled, like: oh boy now the fun's really starting...pumping it up as if it could be something it's not...
Wheeler's observation that the indictment does not say what happened to the stolen analytics data points to a shoe that has not dropped yet. That will probably come up when the "conspirators" on the U.S. side are charged.
There is talk of the House of Trumpets preparing to impeach Rosenstein. That crowd has long called for the Special Counsel investigation to wrap up their work. They suddenly may want to slow it down.
The end of your comment reminds me of running across this last night without reading it, found it in my history, turns out poll was done by Fox:
Poll: Majority want Mueller to take his time on probe, do it right
BY JACQUELINE THOMSEN @ TheHill.com - 07/12/18 08:19 PM EDT
The message that the investigation has been dragging their feet because they are milking a dry cow cannot keep being repeated after a certain point. We are getting very close to that location. So those who are committed to dismantling this process will need to decide in the near future whether they drink the Kool-Aid they mixed up for the party or gasp in shock at the revelations. The dismantlers are in a bit of a pickle. If they speed up their work, they won't be able to act innocent afterwards. If they slow it down, they lose their place in the Trump circle of winning.
That will probably come up when the "conspirators" on the U.S. side are charged.
When and if they are - until then, as long as it's Russians being indicted, the base won't see it as anything but Trump's proclaimed "witch hunt". The Karni article does make a good point when it quotes the WH spokesperson:
"Today's charges include no allegations of knowing involvement by anyone on the campaign and no allegations that the alleged hacking affected the election result," White House spokeswoman Lindsay Walters said. "This is consistent with what we have been saying all along."
Indeed. While many of us see clear evidence of a shoe (or five) that has yet to drop, too many others have grown impatient - even if they allowed the idea of collusion to permeate in the first place - and are ready to clear their closets of single shoes once and for all. What emerges between now and October matters greatly.
Rudy's spin fits right here:
Ah but wait, there's more, I think: the real question is:will Trump support it in the next few days? Pootie will have to play along, too?
That's simple. Putin, if forced, will say that he and his government had nothing to do with anything claimed by the American prosecutor; claims that are suspect, at best. Trump? Well, if Vlad says so, what's a POTUS to do but accept his word?
Arty... Rudy said "no Americans are involved..."?
(My highlight)
The Russians also attempted to infiltrate local election systems and software, although Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein says that there is no evidence that they "altered the vote count or changed any election result".
The Trump White House has picked up on this line, issuing a statement reiterating that there have been no allegations of "knowing involvement by anyone on the campaign" or that the hacking "affected the election result".
That isn't what Mr Rosenstein and the special counsel's court filings concluded, however. The deputy attorney general said it was "not our responsibility" to assess to what extent Russian involvement influenced the 2016 election.
From: Four intriguing lines in Mueller indictment - BBC News 13 July 2018
McCain: a hard-work hunt for real witches:
interesting tip for news junkies:
Interesting big picture admonishment from Mr. Objective Analyst hisself:
A very interesting article from early March of this year, an excerpt from the book that landed shortly thereafter - why tweet it out now as though suddenly relevant?
as he says Everyone who thinks Mitch McConnell was the only reason the Obama administration responded tepidly to Russian election inference should read this, I presume in response to a lot of simplistic ink along those lines since the indictment which I have also seen.
You're likely right, though anyone who's reading him is likely aware of not only the article but the published book that's been shopped around. Obama's response has been well documented, so unless there's a left-wing cave somewhere (and that's more than likely) folks know this. I still wish he had framed it as more of a remember this? than a must read now. It's common for the former to pop up - obvious reasons abound.
That sounds exactly like Obama. He knew but was so afraid of making a mistake he did nothing. Oh wait, he talked to Putin. That's his only skill. I'm sure the oration was beautifully performed.
As opposed to Trump talking to Putin? Which do you prefer?
That's a silly question. I'd prefer any of the presidents or possible presidents to Trump. I'd prefer Hillary, Romney, McCain, both Bush, Reagan, Kerry, and Obama. Anyone would be better than the worse president in my lifetime. I think history will judge Obama harshly as a feckless president. I agree with Wolraich's most recent post:
I hope he delivers a hell of a speech, but my expectations are low. I don't feel that Obama has ever had a clear grasp of the tectonic changes that are shifting the political world under our feet. He used to describe Republican hostility as a "fever" that would eventually break on its own. It's not a fever, it's an evolution, or rather a devolution.
I don't think he understood the nature of the times or the nature of his opposition. I don't think Obama was a good leader. I predicted this in 2008. His skill lies in being the mediator that brings two sides together. It's his resume all his life. It's the story of his time as head of the Harvard Law Review. What he never understood is to mediate between two sides both sides have to want to compromise and the republicans never wanted to. What he never learned was how to lead.
He was given a large majority in the house and 60 votes in the senate and what did he do with it? A stimulus bill that any democratic congress would pass that was over loaded with tax cuts instead of spending. I give him almost no credit for it. I credit the congress. And the ACA. Everything Obama did made it worse. It really is Obamacare because his foolish desire to get just one republican vote watered it down with unneccessary compromises. In the end for nothing as not one single republican voted for the law largely designed by the republican Heritage Society.
I could go on. The problems with immigration were largely caused by Obama. Rather than taking action early in his term he became know as the deportation president in a foolish effort to prove to republicans he was serious about border control. He truly believed that would get republicans to compromise on immigration. His foreign policy was hands off most everywhere but especially in Central America where gang warfare destabilized a few states and cause the immigration crisis. Central American immigration isn't really an immigration problem, it's a refugee crisis similar except in severity to the Middle East refugee crisis Europe has been dealing with.
He didn't start the Iraq War or Afghanistan War so I don't blame him for it. Maybe nothing could have been done to end either of those wars or to stop the War in Syria. That's exactly what Obama decided to do, nothing. America is mostly to blame for the refugee crisis in Europe and he did nothing to deal with it. Now radicalized anti immigrant populists are rising in power across Europe. I mostly blame Obama for it. I could forgive him for mistakes and failures if he had taken action. But I don't forgive him for his lethargy as the world devolved into chaos.
It wasn't meant to be a silly question, but perhaps it seemed that way to you. If any president talks to any leader of an adversarial nation, it is by definition a situation fraught with not only peril but possibly dire circumstances - agreed? As I understood your comment, it was a sarcastic measure of Obama choosing to talk to Putin, but not much else. And the difference between Trump deciding to do so is?
We've yet to see how the act of talking between Trump and Putin will turn out, but I have my doubts that it will create anything that we, as a country, can call positive.
Counterpunch, among others on the far left and far right, duped by a Russian operative "Alice Donovan":
Shorter version of a very very very long 2017 Counterpunch article: even if it's a ghost writing, if the ghost is against conventional wisdom of the FBI, CIA and MSM, we're going with the ghost...
don't understand your question, what "we"?
Too cryptic, sorry ... just typed my thought. It was regarding "we're going with the ghost".
National Security Advisor John Bolton: 'Hard to believe' Putin didn't know about election hack
@ NYDaily News, has all the money quotes from his appearance on ABC's "This Week" this morning....otherwise I'd say it's a "developing" so why bother tracking down more right now


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DECATUR, Ala. – Decatur Police arrested Anthony Joseph Messina Monday in connection to a fire that damaged Big Bob Gibson BBQ last week.
Detective Jackson with the Property Crimes Division responded to a report of a fire damaging the outside of the restaurant at 1715 6th Ave Sunday, March 5th. During the investigation, Messina was developed as a suspect.
Detectives with the Property Crimes Unit arrested Messina at his home Monday and transported him to the Decatur Police Department, where he was charged with second degree arson. He was later transferred to the Morgan County Jail with a $2,500.00 bond.
According to the criminal code of Alabama, a person commits the crime of arson in the second degree if he intentionally damages a building by starting or maintaining a fire or causing an explosion. Arson in the second degree is a Class B felony.


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Ig Nobel 2009 :-)
By glazou on Friday 2 October 2009, 16:27 - Totalement Crétin - Permalink
Ig Nobel 2009 are here !
Ireland's police won the literature prize from writing more than 50 traffic tickets to a frequent visitor and speeder named Prawo Jazdy.
In Polish, this means "driver's license".
Pathologist Stephan Bolliger and colleagues at the University of Bern in Switzerland won for a study they did to determine whether an empty beer bottle does more or less damage to the human skull than a full one in a bar fight.
Donald Unger of California was honored for a lifelong experiment in which he cracked the knuckles of his left hand but never his right for more than 60 years to prove that cracking your knuckles does not cause arthritis.


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I've been meaning to read Warrior Girls: Protecting Our Daughters Against the Injury Epidemic in Women's Sportsby Michael Sokolove for a long time. When I first saw that the book was excerpted in The New York Times Magazine my heart plummeted, which you'll understand in a minute.
The book takes a look at the horribly high incidence of ACL injuries in female athletes -- they experience this injury eight times more than men. He asks the tough question of why do women get hurt more than men? It's not an easy issue to tackle. Sokolove makes it clear that he believes in the benefits of Title IX but that women need to be looked at as different athletes, not just smaller, lighter men.
His theory that overspecialization too early makes sense. Instead of playing a different sport a season, girls are playing the same sport all the time. They aren't cross training, and their bodies start to break down. He takes a peek into the world that is highly competitive youth female sports, but it's just a peek.
That's why this is not the book I wanted it to be, which, as a criticism, isn't exactly fair to Sokolove. It's not as if he sat down and said "I want to write a book for Jen Miller." His purpose -- his thesis, if you will -- is that ACL injuries is an epidemic among young female athletes, not about the overall bigger picture that make it almost certain that girls are hurt so much.
This is good and bad. It's bad because it was a book that did not reach my expectation (again, partly my fault). But it's good because that book about intense teenage girls sports? I want to be the one to write it. And here's why.
I was always an above average athlete. I liked playing, and my dad promoted sports. My older brother did not show much of an interest, so the focus fell on me.
I know my dad only wanted for me to do well, and to do well I had to be tough and play like a boy. One soccer season, I actually did play with the boys. I think I was 11, and it did not go well. I couldn't keep up, and my coach hated having a girl on the team, especially when there was a girls team I could have played on. He made fun of me endlessly, and even made up one practice exercise to show that I couldn't even do a cartwheel -- "something any real girl can do" he said.
Soccer, though, was not my best sport, even though I liked it the most. I never either had the training or the innate ability to excel (though I did start on my high school team senior year). My best sport was softball.
Out of the gate, I was good. My dad had trained me, first in t-ball, which was co-ed, and then more so before softball tryouts. I hit off tees. I went to the batting cages. We did endless fielding and catching drills. When I tried out my first year at the age of seven, I was one of the first girls "drafted" out of the pool of choices.
And I liked playing, at least at that level. I liked being in a good team with a friendly coach, and I liked being chosen for the All Star team, which played in a tournament in Pine Hill, N.J every summer.
Of course there was pressure, sometimes more than I thought necessary. Keep in mind, too, that I was a somewhat volatile child. I had an intense temper. I didn't know how to control it, and sometimes I acted out (I once kicked a girl in a high school game). Being put into an increasingly tighter pressure cooker didn't help.
I played all over the field. I liked first base, but hated grounders so went to the outfield in high school. My dad had wanted me to be a pitcher. I even went to pitching camp in the off season -- I still remember my dad driving me down to Pine Hill in his blue Oldsmobile, usually in the dark since camp was held in the winter. I went on Sundays because it didn't interfere with basketball, which I played until high school.
But my temper got in the way of pitching. I didn't have the mental control to do the same thing over and over again, to work on the mechanics, and to deal with games that didn't go well. I'd cry. After one CCD class (a Catholic education class for those of us who went to public school), a girl on another team wrote "crybaby" over all the pages in my notebook while I was in the bathroom.
But as a fielder and hitter, I was good. I was also left handed, a bit advantage in softball when the distance from home to first base is much shorter than in baseball.
I was so good that, as a teenager (I think 14), I was recruited to play for the Sharks, now the Outlaws. The Sharks were considered an elite team. They crushed our town team All Star team in any competition. And they were mean -- one season, they all shaved the lower half of the back of their heads. Why? Apparently, they thought they intimidated other teams.
They also used that All Star series to pick new players -- the ones whose parents didn't know that those leagues existed -- and I was one of two Bellmawr girls asked to play for them that year. From what I remember, my father was ecstatic. Finally! All the hard work was paying off. Of course I said yes. Why wouldn't I? It showed that I was doing a good job. It was a chance to play at another level, and the road that would lead to maybe college softball and a scholarship.
But I wasn't fully committed. Softball, even in my early teens, took up a lot of time. My family had a place down the shore, and that All Star game ate into shore season. I was always relieved when the season was over and I could go to the beach and rest up before soccer started in the fall.
If I joined the Sharks, that wouldn't happen. They played all summer, and their training wrapped around the entire calendar. Could I still play soccer? Could I still do musicals in the winter? What about my summer? Would I ever make it down to Avalon? As much as I liked softball, I liked all those other things, too.
I still remember when I changed my mind. I was being fitted for a uniform. It was going to cost $100 -- out of pocket, of course. I started tallying up how much this was going to cost my family, and I knew the uniform was just the beginning.
Everything was out of pocket -- uniform, equipment, and travel to tournaments, which included driving, lodging and food. Softball would become my life, so I said no.
As Sokolove shows (though more for soccer), not many people would say no because joining an elite team is the natural progression for a lot of athletes. But I just knew I didn't want to do it (I've always been bullheaded).
I don't remember all of the fallout. If I work on this topic more, I'm sure it'll come to me -- and if I ask my parents, too. I think my dad was disappointed. He wanted me to become an elite player -- even bought me the glove that would last me through "high school and college," he said. But I pushed back, which is where I defer from the athletes Sokolove writes about.
That didn't stop softball for me, though. I played on another traveling team and, of course, high school. The traveling team gave me a taste of what that other life was like -- some tournaments, we'd play two or three games a day. Sometimes the same pitcher would pitch all three games. I played some varsity as a freshman but spent most of the season in JV. My father was so upset when I didn't make the varsity squad my sophomore year, and so I was. At Haddonfield Memorial High School, which puts a lot of emphasis on sports, it was OK if you didn't make varsity your freshman year, but if you don't make it by a sophomore? Forget it. You were out of that sports club. You weren't one of the students whose parents talked to college scouts. It wasn't going to be an option if you missed that first high school step.
In other sports, this had been going on long before high school. I knew there was some sort of caste system with club soccer teams. If you didn't get on the right one, you would never excel to the top level. It wasn't as big a priority for me because I didn't exactly care. Even though I focused on softball, I was a more traditional athlete in that I did a different sport per season. Even when I stopped playing basketball, I danced in musicals -- still a great physical activity.
But back to sports. How humiliating not to make varsity my sophomore year! Softball was supposed to be my game. It wasn't that popular at Haddonfield, and most of the better athletes ran track. I felt like I wasn't living up to the promise I showed so early. And, yes, those are the thoughts of a 14 year old. Softball was that big a part of my life.
So I kept working at it, kept playing, kept perfecting my throw from center field to home without a cut off and, my junior year, I made the varsity squad. We were horrible, but I was still at the top of my team. Senior year, I was captain.
And that's where it all started to fall apart.
I had felt pain in my throwing shoulder before. I saw a doctor (a doctor who I think should have been put out to pasture long ago), and he said it was nothing and sent me on my way. The shoulder hurt through warm ups, and then was fine.
Senior year, though, that ache never seemed to go away, especially on those cold early season practices and games. It didn't help that our coaches made us play in that cold, even practice in driving, freezing rain. I could never get it going. I was having more and more trouble throwing in from the outfield. I still did it, but in pain.
I saw a trainer, who wanted me to go to the doctor to see if I tore anything, but I walked out of his office. If I had made it to my senior year, I wanted to see that season through. After that, I knew softball was over. I had had enough -- enough of the practices and games and stress about wining and being the best. My coaches senior year had come to take over the program after working at a private school with a top softball team. "We could have made you all state," one of them said. And you know what? By that point, I was in so much pain and so numb to a sport where our coach demanded we miss spring break and prom to practice, that I didn't care. I just wanted the season to be over. I wanted to go to college where I'd never have to play again.
But the pain didn't go away, of course. It intensified. I wasn't playing anymore -- and wasn't doing much physical activity at all -- but the physical act of writing, especially writing by hand at length, requires motion from your hand, arm and shoulder. I wrote a lot more by hand then, and it hurt. Sometimes I couldn't sleep because of that persistent ache.
I wasn't diagnosed until I was 23, but I started writing about all of this when I was 20. I took a journaling class in college, and one assignment asked us to write to a letter to a body part. I wrote my letter to my shoulder and cried the whole time. The tone, from what I can remember, moved back and forth between outrage at the shoulder itself for failing and the people who kept pressing me to play. Then there was regret for not being more vocal about my problems, and for pushing through when something was so obviously wrong.
After turning in that assignment, my professor, who was also my advisor, pulled me aside and asked me if I would go see a doctor. He saw then that this problem was not just a mental issue for me but a physical one, especially because he saw me becoming a writer (which I thought was crazy at the time) and knew that such pain could have an impact. I insisted I was fine, switched to typing as my entryway into writing, and downed more Advil.
The funny thing about a chronic pain is that it becomes such a part of you that you forget what it was like to be normal, and you forget that other people don't deal with the same sorts of issue every day. My shoulder pain was just another part of my life, just like studying. It was always always there, and I got used to it.
It all came to a head in the spring of 2004. For my graduate thesis, I wrote just about a book-length manuscript about that softball life. I took a good, hard look at the environment I lived for so long, and wrote about it. I put everything -- EVERYTHING -- into it, from my JV coach who smoked with her players, to the intense fear that my ability to be a girlie girl and woman was ruined by being so involved in sports for so long. My graduate advisor loved it as a piece of memoir, and I started shopping it around as a possible book (I got a few nibbles, but no big bites. I don't blame the literary community. I'm a much stronger writer now, and it would need a complete overhaul).
I lived in Manayunk, Pa., then, and while driving home from one night, I almost hit a dead deer on the road. I swerved, wrenching my shoulder in the process. It hurt -- oh God it hurt -- but I figured I just tweaked it. I was working at the University of Pennsylvania Health System at the time as an assistant press officer, and one of the areas I covered was Sports Medicine. So I asked the chair if he would take me on as a patient. We were still at the diagnosis stage when this all started. He thought he knew what it was, but he had to do more tests to be sure.
I was also, at the time (yes, I was busy), preparing for a job interview. The position was editor of SJ Magazine -- a regional magazine about Southern New Jersey that I wrote for as a freelance writer. In preparation for the interview, I was to go through back issues, critique one, and say what I would do differently. The Rutgers University-Camden library had the back issues. One afternoon, I took all the magazines off the shelf and carried them to a study room in the basement. My shoulder hurt, but I figured it was normal. Then I tried to write notes and realized I couldn't control the pen. Then I couldn't feel my hand.
The next day, I tried to work, but my shoulder throbbed. I still didn't have full function of my hand, so I told my boss I had to do something. They sent me to the ER. Thinking that the pain was from sitting at a desk all day, the ER sent me to yet another office that handled workplace injuries. They looked at me, my condition, then sent me back to the ER.
At that point, I'd had it and paged my doctor -- a no no but the doctor said he didn't mind, knowing that I was already looking into the problem. I called my mom, too.
By the time he had a spot open to examine me, I was sitting in a room in front of an audience of six -- doctor, doctor's wife (also a nurse), my mother, and three interns. I was, apparently, a unique case, and having dating a medical student, knew the value of unique cases for teaching, so OKed the interns to be there. But there was little the doctor could do. Anytime he touched my shoulder, I screamed.
What happened? Apparently, in high school, I tore the labrium in my shoulder, which is a ligament that helps keep the bones in their proper places. The injury happens one of two ways: trauma or overuse. My injury was caused by those throws from center field to home plate without a cut off. "No one your weight and size should have been doing that. Your body could never have supported your shoulder" he said. When I sought help, I was misdiagnosed, and kept playing, but it is a problem that can be repaired through surgery -- both my father and younger brother have had it. My doctor suspected that was the problem. However, between swerving out of the way of the deer and carrying the magazines, I most likely damaged the nerves, which made surgery too risky. We never did the tests because they are painful, but I showed all the signs -- intense pain, loss of feeling and control in my hand. And it doesn't go away. I used to experience numbness three or four times a year. It's happened one so far in 2008.
There was nothing I could do then but wait and not use the shoulder and take a nerve suppressant. I kept my arm in a sling, and I still remember taking it out of the sling for my job interview because I didn't want to show weakness.
Good news was that I got the job, and went into physical therapy where I learned that, by tightened the muscles around the shoulder, I could force my body to hold everything in place. I went through the last round of PT in 2005.
So where does that leave me now? Am I still in pain? Sure I am. My shoulder throbs just writing this. But I don't think it throbs so much because of the strain of typing -- more a flashback pain to how my life used to be.
The difference? Running, and temperence.
I've written about running before on the blog, so I won't go so much into it here. But I never expected to become a runner. I hated it -- the physical activity of it, the boredome of it. It was also a different kind of sport. While we had cross country and track teams, running was still an individual thing to do. Your performance wasn't all that much affected by an opponent's move, skill or ability. You competed against yourself.
And that's exactly why I think it's the sport I consider mine now. I never thought I'd be an athlete again, and even writing that here is bizarre. An athlete without a team? But I work out four times a week -- even now when I'm not in training, my schedule involves lifting on Monday, cross training and lifting on both Wednesday and Friday and a longer run on Sunday. When I'm in training, I am either on the treadmill or on the road five days a week. I've placed in two races. Why wouldn't I consider myself an athlete?
Because it's not a team sport. There's no combat. There's no intimidating your opponents and using sheer force of will to overpower someone. Those are the things that Sokolove writes about, and one of the changes in women's sports that can lead to injury. He makes a much better case for it than I do, so I'll leave that to him. But in comparison to the soccer and softball that I played, running is more pure. You only do as well as you train and only rarely will someone else's intensity affect your performance.
The team pressure is also taken out of it. If I don't do well, it's not like everyone else on the softball field are affected -- just me. I've never not run a race well, so I don't know what that's like. But even when I missed my goal time in my last 5k, so what? It's just a race. My running coaches have tried to get me to train more intensely because, apparently, I'm fast. But I pushed back every time. I don't want this sport to become a job because then I know I'll hate it. I need it to be something I enjoy doing for the sport of it, not as a means to push myself as far as I can go.
That's the perspective I didn't have in high school, and I'm sure most student athletes don't have now: at the end of the day, it's just a race, or a game, or a meet. Lives are not at stake. Yes, maybe a scholarship or two, but I made more in scholarships as editor of my student newspaper than the average athlete gets in scholarship money. Sokolove cites a sobering statistic: about five percent of high school athletes play in college, and only about one percent get full scholarships. One percent. What about the thousands of dollars parents spend on club teams, equiptment, travel and coaching? How does that "it's all for her to get a scholarship" rationale sound now? The ends do not always justify the means, especially when our future vitality is at stake.
My shoulder is still an issue. I've had to stop training at times because of it, but it's not nearly so bad anymore, in part because of a change in sport, and also in part because I now lift weights and am stronger than I ever was in high school. My muscles support the shoulder where they didn't before. If I had built up support while flinging a ball from center field to home plate without a cut off? I probably wouldn't have torn the labrium.
I don't regret playing sports. I think the skills I learned and even aggressiveness I used while playing has helped me as a professional. I have a job that comes with high levels of stress. You have to keep pushing yourself to perform because no one else will. I think part of those abilities come from sports. But even though I pushed back early against going full force into softball, I wish I had spoken up soon. I wish I had saved my shoulder. I wish I could still throw a ball.
In an almost perverse twist, I don't know if I'd have become a writer. I went to college for marine biology, but I was bored. I was so used to going to practice after school that I needed to do something, so I joined the student newspaper, which gave me the base training for what I do today. I never could have edited the newspaper while playing softball. I never would have had the time to explore other options, and I might not be sitting here in my home office typing away if I still played. So good thing have come out of what happened.
I know that was probably long and rambling, and not really a critique of Sokolove's book, but as I've always said about this blog, I let the books lead me to other places, and this is a place I'm very much in right now. I ran into my graduate advisor the other day, and he asked me about "the book." I had breakfast with my college advisor while in Tampa last month, and he asked me about "the book." Neither one were asking about the book I published but the manuscript that's in a box in my spare room.
I don't know what will come of this. Immediately, I'm writing an article for a magazine about an athlete who tore her ACL, so that is where I will start. From there? We'll just have to see...
Most immediately, though, I do have a 5k coming up on Saturday. It's in racing where I feel that competitive surge sometimes, especially at the end of a race. I don't just jog to the end. I run to the point of almost vomitting because I tell myself that I must leave everything on the road. I've done quite well, too. In two of my races, I beaten some of those girls who were elite athletes in high school. It gave me, I admit, a small charge that I did that (and if you're reading this right now, I know, it's stupid, but it is what it is).
It's so petty, but I thought about that today as I tried to figure out what I'll wear to my 10 year reunion, which is on Wednesday. It'll be interesting to see where everyone ended up, especially those elite athletes. I wonder what their lives are like right now and if they have the perspective I do now that 10 years have passed and we're on with our "grown up" lives. I think it'll be a lot of posturing and bragging. I've had a great run since graduating, but I know I'll feel like I'm a behind because I'm not married, which is a stupid thing to feel. Part of me will feel like that tomboy, which is probably why I'm so worried about what to wear. I want to show that I've grown up, that I got out of my sweatshirt and jeans phase, that I really could be girlie -- that I could be more than just that so/so softball player.
Life really does always go back to high school, doesn't it?
Anyway, I think I've gone on long enough for now. If you've got kids who play sports, especially girls, read the book. Just because ACL injuries happen a lot doesn't mean they're harmless. Some of these athletes could need total knee replacements in their 30s. Or at least check out the Santa Monica Orthopaedic and Sports Medicine Group, which runs an ACL prevention program. As much pain as I've suffered because of softball, I'm thankful that I did not hurt a weight bearing joint. Cross training probably saved me there.
One more note, then I promise I'll let you go -- I've actually crossed paths with Sokolove. The first time was back when I worked at Penn and I arranged for him to interview one of the doctors (though I never met him -- I was home sick with the flu that day). The second was this summer. He was on NPR talking about the book, and I called in. I surprised myself by quickly coming to the brink of tears when talking about my shoulder and how it has limited my life.
What's next? Not sure. I don't think I've tipped my hand in saying that I want to write about this. I've talked to a lot of people about it, including an agent who has talked to publishing folks. I would need to put together a proposal and finally open that box in my spare room that holds my old manuscript. It is so painful at times to go back there, but if I can help another athlete from doing what I did? I think it'll be worth it.
Monday, November 24, 2008
Book 4 of 52: Warrior Girls: Protecting Our Daughters Against the Injury Epidemic in Women's Sports
I've been meaning to read Warrior Girls: Protecting Our Daughters Against the Injury Epidemic in Women's Sportsby Michael Sokolove for a long time. When I first saw that the book was excerpted in The New York Times Magazine my heart plummeted, which you'll understand in a minute.
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Jen, I've just read "Warrior Girls" and think it's one of the most important books that I've ever read. It led me to your blog and I was touched by your story. I'm the parent of a 14 year old daughter and a 10 year old son. I've coached over 300 girls in youth sports. I plan on highlighting your article and others in an e-mail that I'm preparing about the book. Simply, parents and teenagers need to be aware of the issues Sokkolove brings up in his book. It's interesting you gave it 3 stars. I would give it 5 without hesitation. Do you know why, because it raises awareness. It got you to tell your story to the world via the internet. It boggles my mind that your shoulder injury was not diagnosed as soon as you did it. I wish you the best. You've dealt with your situation remarkably well. Some people say God has a plan for us. I recently read a story that featured this quote from a young man who had just been accepted to West Point. "Victory is won by struggling against opposition. Victory is something you have to get up and take charge of." http://cli.gs/zehR3t Wishing you the best in your writing career and with your health.
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QVC purchases HSN!
Anyone knows how things will change for us shopping HSN?
If it is true, I hope HSN remains the same. I love my HSN the way it is.
Me too gtbcar
I shop both HSN & QVC. I shop at Evine too ( Beekman1802). Most of my shopping is with HSN.
I feel HSN is better for my wants & needs. I feel their CS is the best.
I hope HSN can remain what they are today & not become what QVC is today.
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There are several threads on this topic. First of all QVC did not purchase HSN. The company that owns QVC purchased HSN. At least for the foreseeable future, they are saying their intent is to keep the 2 companies separate. They've said HSN will continue to be headquartered in FL. It remains to be seen what changes might be coming, but the purchase won't happen until close to the end of the year.
If I have an HSN card, Can I use it on QVC orders as well ?
No, they will remain as 2 separate entities. I am taking from your question that you mean now, so no. Who knows what the future holds!
For now they will be separate but who knows what the future holds. Neiman Marcus group owns Bergdorf Goodman, Horchow and if you have a Neiman's or Bergdorf credit card you can use them interchangeably between stores.
I can't believe how fast things are changing. Read a few months ago that Saks Fifth Avenue (Hudson Bay Company) is seeking to purchase Neiman Marcus. Never thought I would see the day! 🙂
You're right, Florida. I wouldn't be surprised if using either card is something in the works for the future. I love to shop at Bon Ton. Since their parent company bought Carson's and Dillard's, cardholders can use cards at any of their stores. There's another one that I recently encountered but I can't remember where. I know I was surprised they accept another store's card because they have the same parent company. Thanks for the heads up about Saks and NM.
I didn't know that Southernlights about Dillards, etc. There you go. It makes good business sense to me. Makes it easy and will encourage consumers to easily peruse and purchase from both sites.
Bloomingdale's and Macy's are owned by Federated. When I log onto the Bloomingdales website, it says at the top "powered by Macy's technology".
I'm trying not to talk much here about the recent acquisition, but from my experience no corporation ever buys a company to keep things "as is". :). They all say in the beginning don't worry nothing will change. Give it some time and let the deal be finalized for the restructuring to begin……
Good or bad nothing stays the same. 🙂
@florida , Good post and I agree with everything you wrote. Time will tell, but I have a feeling two will become one.
For those who are really interested, read documents filed with SEC.
Another merger/acquisition/buy out just happened with Pet Smart buying Chewy and Pet Food Direct. Chewy's customer service was the best I've ever dealt with. Another wait and see for me.
@southernlights I think your right. They have no choice with giant AMAZON breathing down everyone's neck and nipping at their heels. 🙂
Now Pet Smart too….. wow.
Actually, the parent company of QVC is purchasing HSN. Wondering if at one time Barry Diller owned both QVC and HSN. Just a thought.
I did notice one thing, though, in the past 24 hours. A new ad came out for QVC which was exactly the same as HSN's. Hmm.
I think it's really premature to think about specific things like can I use my credit card for both companies now. Both of the shopping networks spoon-feed information so everyone in the general public can understand and they make things extremely clear and easy-to-follow. All ages, generations, people from rural, urban, suburban communities can follow. When changes occur, and I'm sure they will, don't you feel confident they're going to let us know?!
I think it's a valid question. As mentioned above, it's becoming common practice to accept specific store cards at others stores owned under corporate umbrella.
I do too. I was taught as a youngster "knowledge is power". 🙂
This really surprised me. I bought something from Zappos the other day, went to "sign in" and saw you can sign in with your AMAZON account too! LOL……. 😉 🙂
This is an attempt to "bulk up" in order to compete with the behemoth AMA you know what.
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