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God forbid I should die and, if asked by God "What's your favorite number, son?" not have a ready answer; God hates when He asks a serious question and people say, "...uh...."
Do you have a favorite number? If so, why?
When I was a kid, it was very important to me I not only have a favorite number, but that I know what it was at all times.
God forbid I should die and, if asked by God "What's your favorite number, son?" not have a ready answer. God hates when He asks a serious question and people say, "...uh...."
(Or maybe He doesn't — how would I know?)
By "favorite number", I don't mean something like 45, or 3.18, or 6,577. I mean a favorite number — a single-digit counting thing between one and 10.
(Perhaps you looked at that last paragraph and wondered, "Why did Dixon write out the word 'one' and follow it with the numerical sign '10'?"
(Answer: it's the official Associated Press stylebook style. In newspapers, one through nine are supposed to be spelled out, while all numbers higher than that are written numerically.
(Readers couldn't care less, but many proofreaders have hissy cows if a number is written — unwisely.
(Apparently, if a journalist types the number 7, or writes out the number four hundred and eighty-two point nine, he goes to the seventh [or is it 7th] layer of Hell.)
Anyway, when I was a kid, almost every number was my favorite at some point for a different reason. If I was between one and nine years old, I usually went with my age, obviously.
When I was eight, I knew down to my toenails that eight year olds were the most morally and intellectually superior human beings on the planet.
When I turned nine, that statement was no longer operative.
Zero doesn't count because between the ages of birth and one, I didn't even know there were such things as numbers.
I remember thinking seven had to be my favorite number at one point because seven was a lucky number. I didn't know how or why it was lucky, or who decided it was lucky, but I was a kid, and someone said so, and I wanted good luck.
Three always struck me as being a happy number. Three was the number most likely to take an afternoon off to wander barefoot down to the river for an afternoon of fishing.
Nine is a very regal number. I always pictured it wearing a purple cape and gold crown.
Five was severe. If a Marine drill sergeant was a number, it was five.
Eight was sort of the forgotten number. How often do you ever see eight of anything sitting out? Hum of few bars of Beethoven's Eighth Symphony. You can't? My point exactly.
Six is a sneaky number. It's technically an even number, but it's made of two threes. How can anything made of threes be an even number? It can't — and yet, there it is....
Four always makes me think of the color green, sort of a rich green like the color of the idealized Irish countryside. It did when I was a child, and it still does.
One is the loneliest number. I know because Harry Nilsson wrote a song providing evidence.
Two is sort of a smug number. It's fat and happy and knows something you don't.
To this day, I still prefer even numbers to odd for some reason. I think it's aesthetic; if you have an even number of objects (jellybeans, hand grenades, violins, whatever) you can make symmetrical piles of them.
As for numbers being actually useful for stuff, that's another topic.


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Posted on January 25, 2010
From time to time, people donate books that they have enhanced. I enhanxced books myself, in my time: I figured someone had drawn pictures inside the book, but had left those blank pages in the front and back for me to illustrate. I know I was still doing this occasionally when I was eleven, but I have not so far donated these to anybody. (After I have won my Nobel for Blogging, the Smithsonian will want 'em anyhow.)
Lots of people have used flyleaves for enhancement, sometimes full-page enhancement. This year we have a book about surrealist Hans Erni, which Hans inscribed, and added a full-page drawing. Many years ago, we had a copy of a book Fritz Leiber inscribed, adding a portrait of the recipient and then lamenting because his sketch made her look like George Arliss. (Run to an encyclopedia, or your computer, and look up George Arliss and you will see why he apologized.)
But the less famous have done great work too. In this mass of paper and books I call an apartment I have photocopies of all kinds of pictures schoolchildren drew in their textbooks (sometimes quick and rude, sometimes labored over, erased, and redone). When it's a really good picture, I will scan it into my computer, as I did with a book someone gave someone else for Christmas in 1888, and proved that Chicago weather was pretty much then as it is now, showing Santa Claus under an umbrella as rain pours out of the sky. The inscription that went with this, I believe, was "Merry Christmas anyway."
Other people make dustjackets to replace missing ones, or to beautify books that never had jackets. A collection of science fiction came in once where every paperback had been enhanced with a jacket made from flowery wallpaper samples, and a scallop-edged paper spine label. Another donor always, always, brought in books which lacked covers, but which she had repaired by making new covers from cardboard. (I kept planning to ask whether she had ripped off the original covers in the first place, but what with one thing and another I never got around to it.)
So far, though, the prize goes to the woman who painted the covers of her books, covering dull brown or green cloth with a depiction of a vase of flowers or some such. These paintings wound up being rather dark (you can't do a WHOLE lot when your background is drab brown to begin with) so she glued glitter to strategic places. The books she decorated were rather drab themselves, and would have been worth only a dollar or so without her additions. As it was, they were snapped up by the greater eBay community for about THREE dollars each.
Just think, if my parents had allowed me to continue my book enhancement experiments with White-Out and transparent tape, I might be in the Smithsonian already. (No, not the books. Just me.)

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For the first time all season, the schedule for the upcoming week features seven games for every team across baseball. These are great weeks for fantasy players as they include tons of two-start pitcher options and, of course, plenty of opportunities for hitters to put up numbers.Note that the Athletics, Angels and Cubs are slated to face more lefty starters than righties. Adjust lineups accordingly to take advantage.
Click here for the latest MLB Player News, and follow @nnelson9 and @Rotoworld_BB on Twitter while you're at it.Among the two-start pitcher crop, the high-end options include Yu Darvish, C.J. Wilson, James Shields, Chris Sale, Justin Verlander, Clay Buchholz, Madison Bumgarner, Adam Wainwright and Matt Harvey. Here are a few notes on some other names worth watching:* Jered Weaver is tentatively scheduled to return to the Angels rotation, and I've got him taking Joe Blanton's spot on Tuesday, lining him up for two starts. Weaver is obviously an elite hurler, but he didn't pitch great before getting hurt and hasn't even made an official rehab start. I'd recommend caution if you have other options.* Former Angels starter Ervin Santana has been spectacular thus far for the Royals, with a 2.77 ERA and 1.08 WHIP through eight turns. I'm still a little reluctant to recommend him this week with match-ups against the NL-leading Cardinals at home and the potent Rangers on the road. If he can power through these lineups, I'll be fully sold.* The volatile Francisco Liriano hasn't worked his way into Strong Play territory yet but he's getting close with 25 strikeouts and a 1.00 ERA through three starts. He's got a pair of tough match-ups on deck that should prove telling given that he's faced weaker offenses thus far. Going Twice…American LeagueStrong PlaysYu Darvish: @ARI (Kennedy), KC (Shields)Hiroki Kuroda: @NYM (Harvey), BOS (Dempster)C.J. Wilson: @LAD (Greinke), HOU (Norris)James Shields: STL (Wainwright), @TEX (Darvish)Chris Sale: CHC (Jackson), @OAK (Parker)Justin Verlander: PIT (Liriano), @BAL (Hammel)Jose Quintana: CHC (Samardzija), @OAK (Straily)Zach McAllister: @CIN (Latos), TB (Hellickson)Clay Buchholz: PHI (Cloyd), @NYY (Hughes)Decent PlaysJarrod Parker: SF, CWS (Sale)Jered Weaver: @LAD (Ryu), HOU (Lyles)Ervin Santana: STL (Lyons), @TEXBud Norris: COL (Chacin), @LAA (Wilson)Ubaldo Jimenez: @CIN (Leake), TB (Cobb)Ryan Dempster: PHI (Lee), @NYY (Kuroda)Kevin Gausman: @WAS (TBD), DET (Porcello)Jake Odorizzi: MIA (Fernandez), @CLE (Jimenez)
At Your Own RiskMark Buehrle: ATL (Hudson), @SD (Volquez)Brandon Morrow: ATL (Maholm), @SD (Richard)Jeremy Hellickson: MIA (Slowey), @CLE (McAllister)Brandon Maurer: SD (Richard), @MIN (Diamond)Aaron Harang: SD (Volquez), @MIN (Walters)Dan Straily: SF (Bumgarner), CWS (Quintana)Phil Hughes: @NYM (Niese), BOS (Buchholz)P.J. Walters: @MIL (Burgos), SEA (Harang)Scott Diamond: @MIL (Peralta), SEA (Maurer)Jordan Lyles: COL (De La Rosa), @LAA (Weaver)Rick Porcello: PIT (Gomez), @BAL (Gausman)Jason Hammel: @WAS (Gonzalez), DET (Verlander)National LeagueStrong PlaysGio Gonzalez: BAL (Hammel), @ATL (Maholm)Madison Bumgarner: @OAK (Straily), @STL (Wainwright)Adam Wainwright: @KC (Shields), SF (Bumgarner)Cliff Lee: @BOS (Dempster), MIL (Peralta)Matt Harvey: NYY (Kuroda), @MIA (Slowey)Jose Fernandez: @TB (Odorizzi), NYM (Niese)Hyun-Jin Ryu: LAA (Weaver), @COL (De La Rosa)Zack Greinke: LAA (Wilson), @COL (Chacin)Mat Latos: CLE (McAllister), @PIT (Gomez)Jeff Samardzija: @CWS (Quintana), ARI (Kennedy)Trevor Cahill: TEX, @CHC (Jackson)Decent PlaysTyler Lyons: @KC (Santana), SFFrancisco Liriano: @DET (Verlander), CIN (Leake)Tyler Cloyd: @BOS (Buchholz), MIL (Burgos)Jon Niese: NYY (Hughes), @MIA (Fernandez)Kevin Slowey: @TB (Hellickson), NYM (Harvey)Jorge De La Rosa: @HOU (Lyles), LAD (Ryu)Jhoulys Chacin: @HOU (Norris), LAD (Greinke)Mike Leake: CLE (Jimenez), @PIT (Liriano)Paul Maholm: @TOR (Morrow), WAS (Gonzalez)Tim Hudson: @TOR (Buehrle), WAS (TBD)Ian Kennedy: TEX (Darvish), @CHC (Samardzija)At Your Own RiskClayton Richard: @SEA (Maurer), TOR (Morrow)Edinson Volquez: @SEA (Harang), TOR (Buehrle)Jeanmar Gomez: @DET (Porcello), CIN (Latos)Wily Peralta: MIN (Diamond), @PHI (Lee)Hiram Burgos: MIN (Walters), @PHI (Cloyd)Edwin Jackson: @CWS (Sale), ARI (Cahill)Streamer CityThe following pitchers are generally available in over 50 percent of fantasy leagues and have favorable match-ups this week:American LeagueWednesday, 5/29: Chris Tillman vs. WASTillman has rattled off six straight quality starts and is 3-1 during that span. Tough to bet against him right now.Thursday, 5/30: Vidal Nuno vs. NYMAfter posting a 1.54 ERA and 26/2 K/BB ratio in Triple-A to start the season, Nuno has registered a 1.13 ERA in eight innings as a swingman for the Yanks. He's worth a look when he meets the Mets at home.Friday, 5/31: Jerome Williams vs. HOUThe veteran starter has been terrific since joining the Angels rotation, with a 3.24 ERA in five starts, and he's coming off eight shutout frames against the Mariners.National LeagueWednesday, 5/29: Juan Nicasio vs. HOUNicasio has a 3.54 ERA this year at home in Colorado, where he's holding opposing hitters to a .187 average. The Astros would seem to stand little chance.Thursday, 5/30: Andrew Cashner vs. SEAThe San Diego righty has pitched very well this year, with a 3.02 ERA and 1.19 ERA through 11 appearances. Since joining the rotation, he's turned in a quality start three times in three tries at home, winning all three.Friday, 5/31: Julio Teheran vs. WASAfter a rough start, Teheran appears to be back on track. In three starts this month, he's 2-1 with a 2.53 ERA and 10/1 K/BB ratio.Total GamesAmerican League7: BAL, BOS, CWS, CLE, DET, HOU, KC, LAA, MIN, NYY, OAK, SEA, TB, TEX, TORNational League7: ARI, ATL, CHC, CIN, COL, LAD, MIA, MIL, NYM, PHI, PIT, SD, SF, STL, WASLefty/Righty BreakdownsAmerican LeagueBAL: 6 vs. RHP, 1 vs. LHPBOS: 5 vs. RHP, 2 vs. LHPCLE: 7 vs. RHP, 0 vs. LHPCWS: 6 vs. RHP, 1 vs. LHPDET: 5 vs. RHP, 2 vs. LHPHOU: 5 vs. RHP, 2 vs. LHPKC: 5 vs. RHP, 2 vs. LHPLAA: 3 vs. RHP, 4 vs. LHPMIN: 7 vs. RHP, 0 vs. LHPNYY: 5 vs. RHP, 2 vs. LHPOAK: 3 vs. RHP, 4 vs. LHPSEA: 4 vs. RHP, 3 vs. LHPTB: 7 vs. RHP, 0 vs. LHPTEX: 6 vs. RHP, 1 vs. LHPTOR: 4 vs. RHP, 3 vs. LHPNational LeagueARI: 6 vs. RHP, 1 vs. LHPATL: 4 vs. RHP, 3 vs. LHPCHC: 3 vs. RHP, 4 vs. LHPCIN: 4 vs. RHP, 3 vs. LHPCOL: 4 vs. RHP, 3 vs. LHPLAD: 4 vs. RHP, 3 vs. LHPMIA: 5 vs. RHP, 2 vs. LHPMIL: 4 vs. RHP, 3 vs. LHPNYM: 4 vs. RHP, 2 vs. LHPPHI: 6 vs. RHP, 1 vs. LHPPIT: 7 vs. RHP, 0 vs. LHPSD: 5 vs. RHP, 2 vs. LHPSF: 5 vs. RHP, 2 vs. LHPSTL: 6 vs. RHP, 1 vs. LHPWAS: 6 vs. RHP, 1 vs. LHPThe InfirmaryYou can get a full listing of injured players at Rotoworld's Injury Page but here's the latest on a few prominent players who have been out of action:Nolan Reimold: Out until early June (hamstring)Trevor Plouffe: Out until late May (head)Andy Pettitte: Out until early June (shoulder)Chase Utley: Out until mid-June (ribs)Carlos Ruiz: Out until mid-June (hamstring)Ryan Vogelsong: Out until early July (hand)Jaime Garcia: Out indefinitely (shoulder)David Price: Out indefinitely (triceps)Ian Kinsler: Out until early June (ribs)


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Empire Realty Group, LLC, in association with Whitestone Companies and Lili's Parties, helped prepare and serve over 100 senior citizens at the Elks Club on Friday, Dec. 7. Chef Paul Fried of Whitestone, with the help of Empire realtors, created and prepared the menu of lasagne and salad with bread donated by Dom's Bakery.
Entertaining the group was Hoboken singer Angelo Cerrone with several of the guests taking over the karaoke machine during the course of the meal.
Normally the annual event is held at Hoboken's multi-service center but unfortunately that building was damaged by Hurricane Sandy. The Elks Club generously donated their space for the event. Finishing off the meal were two holiday cakes, donated by Carlo's, aka "The Cake Boss" Bakery.
Empire Realty Group, LLC is setting the standard for customer service and community awareness in Hoboken, NJ. Since its start seven years ago, Empire has made the Hoboken community an extension of their real estate family. Numerous annual volunteer efforts such as the Hoboken Shelter food drive, Beach clean-up and Jubilee Center Back to School drive have been the brainchild of Empire Cares, Empire Realty Group's volunteer arm. Empire specializes in residential and commercial real estate in Hoboken, NJ and throughout Hudson County.


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Rays - 014 000 031 - 9 13 0Lester had a four-pitch first inning (ball, 6-3, 3U, F8) and things looked bright.
Red Sox - 000 000 100 - 1 7 0
But the Rays scored a run in the second on a walk, a single and a groundout. Then the Red Sox had men at second and third with one out and could not score -- though they were relying on Varitek and Cora. Lester was then pounded in the third. Bartlett singled, Iwamura doubled off the Wall, and Upton crushed a three-run dong over everything in left. After Pena struck out looking, Longoria homered to left-center.
Boston could not get anything going against Garza. Pedroia doubled with one out in the first, but was stranded. Then the Sox "stranded a pair" in the second. They had a runner on base in each of the next four innings, but could not move any of them to second. Garza began the seventh at 107 pitches. He seemed gassed as he walked Varitek and allowed a single down the right field line to Cora. Howell came in and gave up a sac fly to Ellsbury, which made the score 5-1. Pedroia then grounded into a 5-4-3 DP to end the inning. The only baserunner for Boston in the final two innings was Drew's two-out single in the eighth.
Byrd relieved Lester in the sixth and pitched the rest of the way. He gave up a three-run home run to Baldelli in the eighth that put the game on ice. Pena pounded a dong to left-center in the ninth as an exclamation point.
The one Boston run in the seventh meant that the Red Sox avoided being shut out at Fenway Park in a post-season game for the first time since Game 5 of the 1918 World Series.
The Rays lead this series 2-1. Game 4 is tomorrow night.
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Matt Garza (Rays 14-16 in his starts)
Jon Lester (Red Sox 22-11 in his starts)
Red Sox RaysAfter splitting the first two games, the ALCS is now a best-of-5 -- and Boston has both home field advantage and Jon Lester set to pitch two of those possible five games.
Jacoby Ellsbury, CF Akinori Iwamura, 2B
Dustin Pedroia, 2B B.J. Upton, CF
David Ortiz, DH Carlos Pena, 1B
Kevin Youkilis, 3B Evan Longoria, 3B
J.D. Drew, RF Carl Crawford, LF
Jason Bay, LF Willy Aybar, DH
Mark Kotsay, 1B Dioner Navarro, C
Jason Varitek, C Rocco Baldelli, RF
Alex Cora, SS Jason Bartlett, SS
Lester made three starts against the Rays this season, allowing only two runs in 20 innings (0.90 ERA). 18 hits, six walks, 19 strikeouts. He had a 2.49 ERA in 17 Fenway starts. He was second on the Red Sox staff with a 143 ERA+.
Garza -- in the first full season of his career -- started four games against the Red Sox, allowing 14 runs (11 earned) in 22 innings (4.50). He walked seven, struck out 10 and gave up four dongs. His 118 ERA+ was third best on the Rays staff.
There are rumblings that Alex Cora may get a start today. I'd rather Terry Francona stick to putting the best players in the lineup, thank you very much. But the Assassin loves Einstein, so I hope Flo and Lyndon pick today to come out of their offensive shells.
Corsi Combover has some fine Columbus Day art at SoSH. It's Thanksgiving Day in Canada and we're off with some friends and their dogs. You're on your own as far as links go, but the ProJo blog has press conference transcripts and a bunch of other stuff in one place.
NLCS 4: Phillies (2)/Dodgers (1) at 8


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I honestly don't know how anybody can blame Huard or the play-calling for the horrible performance yesterday. We opened the game passing and stuck with it pretty much all the way because we had no run game. Passing the ball is the ONLY thing we did even remotely well, yesterday. Huard and mainly Solari have deservedly taken some heat and have both been the source of some well-placed doubts. Again though, they provided the only bright spot for us yesterday at all!
The problem was not only the absolutely disgusting lack of a run game but special teams as well. Far more impactful than the missed field-goal on the first drive, was Eddie Drummond's fear of catching a punt and running with it! We started every drive with horrible field position because he let every punt go and bounce down inside the 10-yard line. Drummond's timidness on punt-returns was unacceptable from a guy we brought in to do this job, specifically.
Another huge contributing factor in our loss yesterday, was Ty Law's inability to cover on third downs. It looked like Law was playing in Greg Robinson's "read and react" style defense when we used to see the Chiefs playing off the recievers so far on third-and-long that a conversion seemed almost inevitable every time. That was the worst coverage I have seen out of any Chiefs' defender this year.
Of course, a lot of the blame for yesterday rides squarely on the shoulders of Larry Johnson and the offensive line. 10 yards rushing at home? I want my money back!


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The Siskiyou Substance Abuse Coalition (SSAC) voted at its Aug. 19 meeting to approve and support the Siskiyou County Alcohol and Other Drug (AOD) Strategic Plan for 2013-16.
The strategy is a requirement for all recipients of the Substance Abuse Prevention and Treatment Federal Block Grant, presented by the California Department of Alcohol and Other Drug Programs.
Siskiyou County, the SSAC and its partners are required to use the plan's framework for all projects funded by the grant. The strategy focuses on the following steps: assessment, capacity, planning, implementation and evaluation.
The assessment step began with an evaluation of the 2011-12 California Healthy Kids Survey.
Its data showed that "4% of 7th graders, 13% of 9th graders, 30% of 11th graders and 36 % of [non-traditional] students have participated in binge drinking (5 or more in a row) in the past 30 days," as stated in the strategic plan itself. It also noted a larger base of marijuana users in non-traditional students.
The plan called the percentages "unacceptable" and stated "particular concern" for the higher rates of non-traditional school students.
The assessment step noted potential local factors contributing to youth substance abuse issues as well. It lists Siskiyou County as ranking 56th of California's 58 counties in "reported child abuse and neglect cases" with an estimated 80% of involved families being influenced by drugs and alcohol.
It further commented on the county's 12.9% unemployment rate as of April 2013 (compared to 9% statewide at that time) and its lack of inpatient treatment facilities.
The planning step pinpointed two priorities based on its assessment. The first being "the need for increased community and youth awareness of the negative impacts" of drugs and alcohol abuse, and the second is "the need to decrease the number of youth who are isolated from their schools" and engage them in "community healthy living activities."
To show how the SSAC aims to advance these prevention priorities, the strategy incorporates methods and objectives for local anti-drug programs such as D.A.R.E., Athlete Committed, Parent Committed, and Brief Intervention for Athletes and Parents, among others.
The implementation step explained the goal is to maximize the prevention strategies' effectiveness through education by providing it on a continual basis and reaching out to more of the community's population rather than targeting a single age group.
Arden Carr, licensed clinical supervisor at Siskiyou County Human Services Agency, presented the strategy for the coalition's approval during the meeting.
"For prevention to be more effective, we need to have prevention-harm presentations on all the drugs, not just one," he said, noting children tend to spotlight the subject at hand rather than generalize information organically.
He also said they were looking into possibly expanding the programs to one or two additional schools this year.
This is your brain ...: Anti-drug programs plan prevention
The Siskiyou Substance Abuse Coalition (SSAC) voted at its Aug. 19 meeting to approve and support the Siskiyou County Alcohol and Other Drug (AOD) Strategic Plan for 2013-16.


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Huskers Head Back to Kansas State
Tuesday, April 2 – 6:30 p.m. (CT)
LHP Tyler King (1-0) vs. RHP Blake McFadden (1-1)
TV: Fox Sports Midwest
Stream: K-StateHD.TV
Radio: Husker Sports Network
Up Next for the Huskers
The Nebraska baseball team (11-15, 5-1 Big Ten) makes a trip to Manhattan, Kan., for the second-straight Tuesday to play the Kansas State Wildcats.
The former Big 12 Conference foes are scheduled to meet at 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday night at Tointon Family Stadium.
Tuesday's meeting will be the second in a three-game season series between the two teams this season, as the Wildcats also make a trip to Hawks Field on Tuesday, April 23.
Tuesday's game is scheduled to be shown live on Fox Sports Midwest and streamed live at K-StateHD.TV.
On the Radio this Weekend
Fans across Nebraska and around the world can listen Greg Sharpe and Jeff Culhane call all of the action on the Husker Sports Network - including KLIN 1400 AM and 94.5 FM in Lincoln - and on the Internet at Huskers.com or the Official Husker App. A complete list of HSN affiliates can be found on page 11.
TV Coverage this Week
Tuesday's game at Kansas State will be shown regionally on Fox Sports Midwest.
Time Warner (SD-37, HD-309)
DISH Network (SD/HD-418)
None of Nebraska's games this weekend in Iowa will be shown on TV.
Web Streams this Week
Tuesday's game at Kansas State will be shown on K-StateHD.TV (subscription required).
None of Nebraska's games this weekend in Iowa will be streamed.
Kansas State Wildcats
The Kansas State Wildcats welcome the Huskers to Tointon Family Stadium on Tuesday night after KSU lost 2-of-3 at Baylor last weekend.
The Wildcats are 18-10 overall on the year and have played 19 of their 28 games at home, including 19 straight home games after playing their first six games of the season on the road.
The Wildcats are 14-5 on the year at home with sweeps of Oakland (3 games), Niagara (2 games) and Bethune Cookman (3 games).
Kansas State is just 1-4 on the year away from Tointon Family Stadium.
Kansas State is hitting .322 as a team, while holding opposing batters to a .264 average.
Eight Wildcats are hitting .300 or better on the season, including a team-high .398 average from Ross Kivett, who also accounts for nine of KSU's 51 doubles on the year.
Along with their 51 doubles, the Wildcats have also slugged 15 triples and 11 home runs, with a team-high four off the bats of Jon Davis and Shane Conlon.
The Wildcats are not just a power team, as they also put pressure on pitchers and catchers with their running game. KSU has stolen 52 base on the year in 80 attempts, but was 0-for-3 last Tuesday against Nebraska catcher Tanner Lubach.
KSU is scheduled to start freshman right-handed pitcher Blake McFadden on Tuesday night, who will be making his seventh appearance of the year and his fourth start.
McFadden holds a 1-1 record on the season and a 4.50 ERA. He has given up 11 runs (10 earned) on 23 hits over 20.0 innings. He has 15 strikeouts to four walks.
McFadden worked 0.2 innings against Nebraska last Tuesday, giving up three runs (all earned) on two hits and one walk.
It was a Sweet 16
Husker fans and a national-TV audience on the Big Ten Network were treated to a 16-inning series opener between Nebraska and the Northwestern Wildcats in Nebraska's Big Ten home opener on Friday, March 29.
In a game that last five hours and 16 minutes, the two teams combined to throw 522 pitches.
After the Huskers tied the game in the bottom of the ninth with a two-out single from Tanner Lubach, neither team was able to score over the next six innings.
Chad Christensen put an end to the game just before midnight with a single to right field that scored Bryan Peters from third base.
It was the longest game in Hawks Field history since 2008 when the Huskers dropped a 16-inning game to Texas A&M, 6-3.
We've Hit 2,000
The Nebraska baseball team recently topped 2,000 all-time wins with its 8-5 victory over Northwestern on Saturday, March 30..
Dating back to the team's first season in 1889 when the team went 1-2, the Huskers entered the season ranked 45th all-time in the NCAA record books in wins.
Entering 2013, only 44 programs in NCAA history had won more than 2,000 games, while only two programs had posted 3,000 or more wins. Fordham entered the season ranked first all-time with 4,320 wins and Texas was second with 3,276 wins.
Home Sweet Hawks
The Nebraska baseball program is celebrating its 12th year at Hawks Field in 2013. The Huskers are 256-88-1 (.743) since opening the park on March 5, 2002 with a 23-1 win over Nebraska-Kearney.
After playing 31 homes games in 2012, the Huskers are set to host 20 games at Hawks Field in 2013, while playing 31 true roads games and three neutral site games at the TD Ameritrade Classic in late April.
Join the Club
Senior Chad Christensen recently became the 14th player in Nebraska history to join the 200-hit club with his walk-off single in the bottom of the 16th inning against Northwestern on Friday, March 29.
On the year, Christensen leads the Huskers with a .365 average (38-for-104) and is second on the team with 15 RBIs.
He enters Tuesday's game at Kansas State on a career-long 15-game hitting streak.
Prior to Christensen, Jake Opitz was the last Husker to join the club, as he ended his four-year career in 2008 with 227 career hits.
Matt Hooper holds the school record with 338 career hits and is one of just two players in school history to have topped 300 hits. Jeff Leise sits second on the career charts with 305 career hits.
Get Out the Broom
Nebraska improved to 5-1 in Big Ten play last weekend with a three-game sweep of the Northwestern Wildcats at Hawks Field.
The Huskers have swept their past two Big Ten home series, as Nebraska swept Minnesota at the end of the 2012 season.
The last time Nebraska swept its first conference home series of the year was during the 2005 season, when the Huskers swept Oklahoma State to open Big 12 play.
So Close
The Huskers are 11-15 on the season, but nine of their 15 losses have come by two runs or less, including six losses by one run.
Four of the losses have been walk-off loses, including games at USC and Texas where Nebraska had the lead entering the bottom of the ninth.
Darby Dialed In
Over the Huskers' past 15 games, sophomore right fielder Austin Darby has been on fire with a .333 average (22-for-66), including one home run, one triple and two doubles.
Darby has six multi-hit games during the run, including three, three-hit games in his past five games.
Pat Punches Back
After going 0-9 in Nebraska's 16-inning Big Ten home opener against Northwestern, Pat Kelly responded in games two and three of the series to lead Nebraska to a sweep of the Wildcats.
Kelly posted back-to-back four-hit games on Saturday and Sunday, while also driving in a season-high four runs in the series finale.
His two-RBI single in the top of the eighth inning drove in the eventual game-winning run.
Ruthless Roeder
Sophomore Josh Roeder has been tough on opposing hitters this season with a 0.69 ERA. Over 13.0 innings of work, the transfer from Louisberg College his given up just four hits, while striking out 14.
Roeder recently earned his first career save at Nebraska when he entered the game at No. 25 UC Irvine on March 16 with the bases loaded in the bottom of the ninth with no outs.
Roeder got pinch-hitter Jonathan Munoz to pop out for the first out of the inning and with the top of the Irvine order up, Roeder blew away Dominique Taylor with a fastball and closed out the win when he got pinch-hitter Ryan Cooper to fly out to center field for the game's final out.
Series Openers
Last season the Huskers were 4-4 in Big Ten series openers, but only got back to .500 by winning their last three series openers.
This season, Nebraska got off to on the right foot with a 9-5 win on Friday, March 22 at Illinois to open conference play. The teams then split a doubleheader on Saturday, earning the Huskers a series win, 2-1.
The Huskers improve to 2-0 in series openers with a 9-8 16-inning win over Northwestern on Friday, March 29 at Hawks Field. Nebraska went on to sweep the three-game series to improve to 5-1 on the year in Big Ten play.
Nebraska lost on Friday night in four of its first five Big Ten series openers last season, including a loss to Illinois to open Big Ten play in Lincoln.
At home last season, Nebraska was 1-4 in Big Ten series openers, with the first win coming in its finale against Minnesota, as the Huskers swept the Gophers.
On the road last year, NU was 3-1 in conference series openers, with the only loss coming at Ohio State. Nebraska went on to win the series with the Buckeyes.


text: From the pages of Vanity Fair and The New Yorker to a seat among the wits at the Algonquin Round Table to movie screens nationwide, Robert Benchley cut quite the funny figure�and never more so than in the short subject series the humorist made at MGM from 1935 to 1944. Gathered here, in a complete (and completely uproarious)' 3-Disc Collection, are 30 Theatrical Shorts. The writer adopted a common-man persona to investigate and comment on the challenges of daily living and scored the first time out: his debut short "How to Sleep" won an Academy Award. Whether trying to figure income taxes, enjoy a movie, train a dog, or tackling other daunting situations, the beloved comic master's foibles have always delighted and influenced the generations of funny men and women who followed.


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Since the holiday season is upon us, this column is a light-hearted one that has to do with words. It is in two parts, and the email that forwarded the first part did not give a title to what the word association was.
Since the holiday season is upon us, this column is a light-hearted one that has to do with words. It is in two parts, and the email that forwarded the first part did not give a title to what the word association was.
What it does is give a word or phrase, then rearranges the letters to make other words. The email's title was "Very Clever,' to which I fully subscribe. My question is how did whoever did this have the time it must have taken? Read on and ye shall see.
Presbyterian: Best in prayer.
Astronomer: Moon starer.
Desperation: A rope ends it.
The eyes: They see.
George Bush: He bugs Gore.
The Morse code: Here come the dots.
Dormitory: Dirty room.
Slot machines: Cash lost in me.
Animosity: Is no amity.
Election results: Lies – let's recount.
Snooze alarm: Alas! No more z's.
A decimal point: I'm a dot in place.
The earthquakes: That queer shake.
Eleven plus two: Twelve plus one.
Mother-in-law: Woman Hitler.
The other half is from an email titled Paraprosdokians, a word I'd never heard before and one the computer immediately underlined in red. But the email said they were a favorite of Winston Churchill, a noted wordsmith, and the term means a figure of speech in which the latter part of a sentence or phrase is surprising or unexpected, and frequently humorous. Read on, and enjoy.
Where there's a will, I want to be in it.
The last thing I want to do is hurt you, but it's still on my list.
Since light travels faster than sound, some people appear bright until you hear them speak.
If I agreed with you, we'd both be wrong.
We never really grow up, we only learn how to act in public.
War does not determine who is right – only who is left.
Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
To steal ideas from a person is plagiarism. To steal from many is research.
I didn't say it was your fault, I said I was blaming you.
In filling out an application, where it says "In case of emergency who do we notify," I always put "A doctor."
Women will never be equal to men until they can walk down the street with a bald head and beer belly and still think they are sexy.
You do not need a parachute to skydive. You only need a parachute to skydive twice.
I used to be indecisive. Now I'm not so sure.
To ensure hitting the target, shoot, then call whatever you hit the target.
Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than standing in a garage makes you a car.
You're never too old to learn something stupid.
I'm supposed to respect my elders, but it's getting harder and harder to find one now.
John Reichley is a retired Army officer and retired Department of the Army civilian employee.


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The Generation Gap
by Liz Greene
Written for the magazin "Appollon"
Like death and taxes, the misbehaviour of youth, we are told, is always with us. Complaints about adolescent flouting of parental and civic authority may be found in literature from Ovid to Shakespeare, and life amongst the medical students at the University of Montpellier in the 16th century, according to the outraged townspeople, was just as rowdy as it is today at Harvard Medical School. "Youth," said Oscar Wilde wearily, "is wasted on the young." The phenomenon of the "generation gap" has never been as vividly demonstrated as in the 1960's, when the chasm between the conservatism of age and the iconoclasm of youth appeared all but unbridgeable. Bob Dylan's seminal lyrics describe it concisely, although they hint at something far greater than the younger generation flexing its muscles against the older one:
Yet to think in terms of an inevitable age-versus-youth conflict between authority and rebellion, between experience and naivety, between limits and exuberance, between responsibility and freedom, is too simplistic. There are certain biological determinants which ensure that, when we are young, we have more physical energy; and psychologically we may have less containment and less rigidity when it comes to expressing ourselves, because the ego has not yet become "set" in its habit patterns and defences. Repeated confrontations with worldly limits may also sometimes, although not always, play their part in making us less inclined to take risks when we are older. The archetypal polarity of the senex and the puer aeternus reflects this inherent life process. But beyond these very general factors, the picture is more complicated than it might seem. Not only individuals may break the mould, but also entire generation groups. The face of the senex may reveal itself in the young, the face of the puer in the old.
Those who have watched the television series, Absolutely Fabulous, may glimpse, in the character called Edina, a florid exaggeration of the "flower power" generation which dominated the social upheavals of the 1960's. Edina is a mother who is entirely identified with the more rampant form of the puer aeternus. She smokes dope, drinks herself into oblivion, pursues promiscuous and often disastrous sexual liaisons, dresses like a bad advertisement for psychedelic drugs, and thinks and speaks in a fashion which many people would normally associate with irresponsible, self-centred adolescence. Astrologers might recognise a mocking portrayal of the revolutionary thinking, incurable romanticism, and ruthless self-expressiveness of the post-war "me" generation, with Uranus in Gemini, Neptune in Libra, and, most importantly, Pluto in Leo. In stark contrast, Edina's daughter, Saffron, is prudish, stodgy, studious, and deeply ashamed of the antics of her feckless mother. Saffron does not touch drugs, is wary of promiscuous sexual behaviour, dresses "like a Christian" (in the words of Patsy, Edina's equally appalling crony), and eats sensibly. She is a realist who has no illusions about human nature, and she does not waste her time fantasising about how the world could be. She is so well grounded that she is incredibly, irredeemably dull. Astrologers might recognise a mocking portrayal of the pragmatism, cynicism, and brutal honesty of the generation group born with Neptune in Scorpio and Uranus and Pluto in Virgo.
This mother-daughter relationship presents us with a reversal which gives the series its punch and humour; and, although hilariously exaggerated, it is nevertheless a peculiarly truthful portrait of a particular dynamic between two generation groups in the second half of the 20th century. They are divided, not by chronology, but by attitudes. Here it is the old, not the young, who kick against the confines of senex codes. If we wish to understand the sometimes irreconcilable conflicts which are so often set in motion between parents and children, generation groups need to be viewed, not merely from the perspective of age, but from the perspective of values. A generation group is not defined merely by time. It also exhibits inherent perceptions, responses, attitudes, and needs which make it unique. Generation groups reflect the quality, not the quantity, of the time in which they are born.
How long is a generation? A biological generation may be anywhere from fifteen to eighty years apart from its predecessor; we are dealing with the vagaries of procreation when we assess generation groups in these terms. Some people still in their teens have children; others wait until their thirties or forties; some men start second or even third families in their sixties or seventies; with the advent of Viagra, the eighties are entirely feasible; and with the possibility of freezing sperm for an indefinite period, there may be no limit at all, and a posthumous child may be engendered by a father who has been dead for a couple of centuries. Grandparents may be young or old, and it is possible, if one gets moving early enough, to be a great-grandparent at forty-five. But if we think of generation groups in terms of the qualities which they embody, then we need to avail ourselves of the broader insights provided by the astrological model, and consider the outer planets and their cycles.
Uranus, Neptune and Pluto in the birth chart portray three different but overlapping generation groups reflecting fundamental needs and longings inherent in the collective psyche during the period when each of these planets transits through a particular zodiacal sign. We each belong to a Uranus generation, a Neptune generation, and a Pluto generation. We have more in common with the Uranus generation that lived 84 years previous than we do with those born only 7 years earlier. We have more in common with the Neptune generation that lived 178 years previous than we do with those who were born 14 years earlier. And we have more in common with the Pluto generation born 246 years previous than we do with those born with Pluto in the previous or following sign. These planets provide us with a complex mapping of the cyclical qualities of time and the growth pattern of the larger unity to which each of us belongs. They also tell us about how our particular Uranus generation perceives and pursues progress, what our particular Neptune generation idealises as the path to redemption, and how our particular Pluto generation mobilises when survival is threatened. Beyond our individual value systems and character qualities, we each belong to larger groups which envisage evolution, salvation, and transformation in different ways. When we respond, not as individuals but as units in a collective, we respond through the outer planets in the birth chart. These responses may be relatively conscious and in harmony with our individual values, depending on how the outer planets "sit" in the natal chart; but they may also be relatively unconscious or in deep conflict with everything we thought we believed in. We may be surprised, shocked, and even overwhelmed and fragmented when these deeper collective levels of the psyche are activated.
It should be remembered that, although Bob Dylan was catapulted into prominence as one of the major prophets of his generation during the great Uranus-Pluto conjunction of the 1960's, Dylan himself was not born under that conjunction. Born in 1941, he belonged to the generation group with Neptune in late Virgo trine Uranus in Taurus. Personal planet involvement such as the Moon, Jupiter, and Saturn in late Taurus and the Sun in early Gemini conjunct natal Uranus and trine natal Neptune, and Mercury in late Gemini square natal Neptune, ensured that he was able to translate the vision of his generation into highly personal creative work. The timing of this was not accidental; Dylan entered his period of greatest creativity and popularity while the Uranus-Pluto conjunction of the '60's moved over natal Neptune, trined natal Moon, Saturn, Jupiter, Uranus, and Sun, and brought to flower the potentials inherent in the natal configuration. In other words, the collective needs of the 1960's dovetailed beautifully with the collective values inherent in Dylan's generation group, and his poetry and music thus became the vehicle for both. That remarkable trine between Neptune and Uranus which occurred in the early 1940's, common also to John Lennon, Paul McCartney, and Mick Jagger, seems to have reflected a vision of progress which embraced not only political and social change but also spiritual aspiration. That this configuration, moving from earth into air signs, presided over virtually the entire period of the Second World War may seem strange in light of the promulgation of peace, equality, and spirituality expressed by these generational prophets, especially by Lennon in the song, "Imagine". But Hitler's Reich was also a reflection, albeit a vicious and distorted one, of a vision of political and social change combined with spiritual aspiration. Jagger, with his natal Sun and Pluto conjunct in Leo, is perhaps more in touch with the darker elements inherent in his generation group, as is demonstrated in the song, "Sympathy for the Devil."
Perhaps most fundamentally, these generational icons share the placement of Pluto in Leo. In terms of generation groups, when Pluto moved from Cancer into Leo, a profound change occurred in the survival mechanisms of the collective; and this planetary shift is perhaps the astrological significator par excellence of an inevitable collision between parent-child generation groups. Those born with Pluto in Cancer tend, on the instinctual level, to perceive survival as dependent on family, community, and national bonds, which provide a sense of emotional belonging, continuity, and safety. These were the individuals who were prepared to go to war and die for King and country even if, as individuals, the war itself made no sense to them. Those born with Pluto in Leo tend to instinctively perceive survival as dependent on ferocious individuality and determined self-expression even in the face of opposition. Amongst these are the individuals who, whether through arrogant egocentricity or an intuitive perception of the individual's power to create a different reality, made their own decisions about their personal destiny, and refused to fight in Vietnam.
Bob Dylan was born on
24 May 1941, 9.05 pm, Duluth, Minnesota, USA.
Outer planet configurations between parents and children
Exploring the patterns of astrological generation groups can take us into many spheres of human interaction and endeavour, and a single article cannot possibly do justice to the depth and complexity of this theme. However, I will touch on one of the most valuable areas of insight which the perspective of astrological generation groups can offer - the interaction portrayed by outer planet involvement across two birth charts in parent-child relationships. Some difficult issues between parents and children may be reflected by conflicting aspects between the personal planets, reflecting deep dichotomies in personal attitudes and values. A boy's Mars opposition his father's Moon may lead to some energetic conflicts of will, and perhaps even to violence in some cases; but such conflicts are unique to those two personalities and do not invoke deeper collective forces. And some resolution is possible if the father can understand that his son is a unique individual with self-assertive needs quite different from his own, and if the boy, when he is more mature, can can exercise the same objectivity about his father's emotional outlook and needs.
Other difficult issues between parents and children may be linked with Saturn and Chiron cross-aspects. The former describe dynamics rooted in personal defence mechanisms; the latter, although collective issues are hinted at, also enact themselves through personal defences against feelings of hurt and woundedness. A girl's Moon square her mother's Saturn may suggest a definite chill which dampens their emotional relationship. But some resolution may be possible if the mother can recognise the unconscious envy and anxiety which her child invokes in her, and if the girl, when she is more mature, can see beyond her feelings of rejection to the deeper meaning of her mother's apparently impossible expectations. A boy's Sun conjunct his father's Chiron may describe mutual hurt and misunderstanding; but some resolution may be possible if the father can face his own feelings of woundedness and inadequacy, and if the boy, when he is more mature, is able to recognise his father as an ordinary flawed human carrying wounds inflicted by a world much larger than the family.
However, some issues are bigger and deeper than individual personality interaction, and any resolution may depend on a much broader perspective. A child may appear to a parent, not as an individual, but as a representative of a vast collective force which can seem profoundly threatening to all that the parent stands for and believes in as an individual. And when it is the parent who embodies the power and vision of a whole generation, the child may feel terrified and overwhelmed. Parents and children may also interact through the medium of outer planet aspects to other outer planets across the charts. In such cases, both stand for the collective might of their generation groups, and may have difficulty in perceiving each other as individuals unless personal planets are also involved in the configuration. Anyone who has perused the charts of successive generations within a family will have noticed the frequency of close contacts - especially the "hard" aspects - between outer planets and personal planets across the birth horoscopes. These contacts are often within 1º of orb. One may be forgiven for getting the feeling that there is method in this cosmic madness, and that when such links appear between parent and child, or parent and grandchild, some deeper evolutionary pattern is at work which involves the group as well as the individual. Individual reductive psychology may fail to penetrate to the meaning of the responses which are activated, and we may have to expand our psychological models to grasp what is at work.
There are, of course, individual dimensions to such contacts. Cross-aspects between the outer planets in one chart and the personal planets in another can be understood partly through the basic principles of synastry. For example, if a girl's Uranus is conjunct her father's Sun in Gemini, his lively, restless, and intellectually curious nature will activate the spirit of progress and inventiveness in her - not always in a comfortable way - while she, in turn, may prove - again, not always comfortably - to be a source of potential creative awakening in him. The disturbing, electrifying energy of this contact would be visible from early childhood, and such a cross-aspect between father and daughter could prove enormously creative and intellectually stimulating, as well as conducive to alienation. Or, if a mother has Mars in Libra and her daughter's Pluto conjuncts her Mars, that mother may find her daughter's obstinacy and emotional fixity baffling, frustrating, and sometimes infuriating, while the daughter may feel deeply threatened by what she perceives as her mother's aggression. The explosive energy of this contact would likewise be visible from early childhood, and power battles would probably be inevitable between mother and daughter - although each may, with some consciousness, eventually help the other to be more honest about emotional and assertive needs and desires.
But interpreting such aspects in this way, while useful and valuable, may not go far enough. More is happening here than one person interacting with another. One person interacts with a whole generation, represented by the individual with the outer planet involved in the cross- aspect. The daughter whose Uranus in Gemini conjuncts her father's Sun will shake him up and make him think about life differently, not simply because he perceives her as inventive and rebellious, but because, for him, she embodies the enormous power of a generation group whose perception of human evolution depends on breaking down the rigidity of old and outworn intellectual structures. The mother whose Mars in Libra conjuncts her daughter's Pluto may feel overpowered and inclined to fight back, not just because she perceives her daughter as intense and inflexible, but because that child has at her back, like an invisible army, an entire generation whose survival depends on imposing a particular set of ideals of fairness and justice on human relationships. The relentless pressure of Pluto does not reflect the child's personal power-drive, but the bottom-line necessity of a collective which cannot tolerate any deviation from its vision of what is necessary in order to avoid extinction.
We can briefly explore a demonstration of this kind of parent-child generation dynamic through an example. Although their charts have been used ad nauseam, the British royal family is always useful in this respect, because the birth times are documented and the continuity goes back for many generations. Naturally, we need to work extensively with our own family charts to get a clearer picture of generational dynamics, because it is from direct personal experience and family "lore" that the deeper patterns of the generation groups become visible.
Generational games in the royal family
Powerful generational aspects may occur, not only between parent and child, but between the parent and the individual whom the child, when grown, chooses to marry. What the family psyche needs but does not possess amongst its members, it tends to instinctively acquire through marriage, so that its myths and complexes can unfold and be worked through over the generations. It is therefore important, when examining family charts, to include not only the direct blood line, but also the spouses. For the sake of both brevity and clarity, I am listing only the relevant chart placements of a few specific members of the Royal Family, rather than reproducing the entire birth charts.
The Royal Family
Full birth data for the family members described: Queen Elizabeth II, 21 April 1926, 2.40 am, London. King George VI, 14 December 1895, 3.05 am, Sandringham. Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, 4 August 1900, 11.31 am, St Pauls Walden. Prince Charles, 14 November 1948, 9.14 pm, London. Princess Diana, 1 July 1961, 7.45 pm, Sandringham. Prince William, 21 June 1982, 9.03 pm, London.
There are, inevitably, links involving the outer planets between the Queen's chart and that of her father, King George VI; he had a conjunction of Uranus in 22º 07' Scorpio and the Moon in 24º 51' Scorpio, and this conjunction squares the Queen's Neptune in 22º 02' Leo. The Queen also has Saturn in 24º 26' Scorpio, at the MC in 25º 33' Scorpio, and both conjunct her father's natal Uranus. We may speculate about the personal issues described by the Saturn-MC-Moon contact across the two charts, and surmise that the emotional relationship between the Queen and her father was chilly but indestructible, and that a strong sense of responsibility and powerful but unspoken bonds of duty and social obligation replaced simple affection and spontaneous emotional exchange. But here we also have two outer planets in square across the charts. This is more difficult to understand, let alone summarise in a few words. Uranus in King George's chart exactly squares Neptune in Queen Elizabeth's chart. The spirit of progress, for those born with Uranus in Scorpio, seeks expression through compulsive destruction and rebuilding, through the mobilisation of survival instincts in the face of that which threatens life, and through courage in the throes of battle. Where a battle is not found, one will be created; in the King's case, there was sufficient battle going on in the world outside to satisfy any Uranus in Scorpio vision of evolution through crisis. In stark contrast, the dream of redemption, for those born with Neptune in Leo, is expressed through a fantasy-world where all is bright and beautiful, and where one's own life is both an act of sacrifice and a symbol of divine authority for others, similarly Neptune-bound, who seek release from their own dreary lives. The Queen both shares and embodies perfectly the mythic longings of her own generation group. It is not surprising that she is unwilling to let go of them.
Here, two generations collide: the older, which lived through two world wars and made an idealogy of facing the harsh truth and building on the ashes of what had been destroyed, and the younger, which preferred to turn its back on the bleak hardship of the world and pursued a fairy-tale vision of splendour and the divine right of kings. Such a square between parent and child, unless reinforced by personal planets, might not necessarily erupt in personal conflict. Here there is reinforcement: the King's Moon squares his daughter's Neptune, and his Uranus conjuncts her Saturn. He must have seemed emotionally erratic and compulsively depressed to her. She, in turn, must have seemed incomprehensible to him - and perhaps to her mother as well, who also has the Moon in Scorpio - because the Queen is the vessel for the grandiose, chivalric dreams of a whole generation. That generation is certain of its special spiritual role, in love with a code of honour and excellence which, while noble and beautiful, may be too disconnected from the trials and tribulations of ordinary life and the egalitarian propensities of the present Uranus and Neptune transits through Aquarius. When Neptune transited through Leo, the world longed for glamour and magnificence, and needed shining models; this was the era of the great Hollywood film stars. King George VI may have found his daughter strangely arrogant and unworldly, not because of a specific failing in her individual character, but because something else, something pervasive and powerful and universal, peeped through the personal realism and tenacity of her Taurus Sun and Capricorn Ascendant.
Something profoundly intelligent appears to be at work in family patterns involving outer planet contacts. Prince Charles was born with the Sun in 22º 25' Scorpio, conjunct Chiron in 28º 13' Scorpio. The close conjunction between his Sun and his grandmother's Moon reflects their emotional closeness. The conjunction between his Sun and his mother's Saturn reflects the great weight of expectation he feels from her, and the degree to which it both limits and shapes his destiny. But Prince Charles also has a powerful outer planet link with the grandfather whom he knew only in childhood; Charles' Sun is exactly conjunct King George's Uranus. Charles, as an individual, embodies that search for the hidden truth which the King's Uranus generation group pursued as a collective vision of progress. He is, in a way, the culmination in personal terms of the strivings of his grandfather's generation. But Charles' Sun-Chiron in Scorpio also squares the Queen's Neptune. It is not in the least surprising that Charles has sought to pursue his own development, intellectually, emotionally, and sexually, in ways which must seem directly threatening to his mother's Neptunian dream.
Charles, in turn, must feel bewildered, let down, and perhaps subtly manipulated by his mother, and profoundly irritated by her insistence on clinging to an ideal which, for him, is no longer valid in the world he perceives around him. The Queen belongs to a generation group wedded to a glorious redemptive vision of grandeur and nobility. Charles also has Pluto in 16º 33' Leo. This is not in close conjunction with the Queen's Neptune, but it is a conjunction nevertheless. There is something in Charles which he shares with his Pluto generation: a survival instinct which depends on an inner sense of specialness and a profound conviction that the individual's voice matters. In this respect he instinctively feels what his mother feels, not as a romantic ideal, but as a necessity - although the square between his Pluto and his natal Sun suggests that he is in conflict with his own generation group as well as with hers. He has more in common with his grandfather than with those of his own age.
Perhaps, on some deep and inaccessible level, Charles did not feel he had the power to stand up to that Neptune in Leo vision of noblesse oblige. His natal Pluto pulls him into collusion with it. So he chose (or had chosen for him, but nevertheless accepted) a partner whose planetary pattern added enough fuel to his own to challenge the generational dream described by his mother's natal Neptune. Princess Diana had natal Uranus in 23º 20' Leo, conjunct the Queen's Neptune. There is a certain inevitability in the way in which these two women polarised as the voices of their respective generations, and in the determination with which they perceived each other as enemies. Neptune in Leo dreams of redemption through a heart-fuelled vision of a higher, nobler world; Uranus in Leo perceives human progress in terms of the individual's capacity to break down existing authority structures to release the potential of creativity for the group. Diana's natal Moon in 25º Aquarius and her natal Venus in 24º 23' Taurus describe her own inner conflict with her Uranus generation group's self-willed ideal. But when one puts together the explosive combination of Charles' Scorpio planets and her natal T-cross, all challenging the Queen's natal Neptune, the annus horribilis takes on an altogether different cast. For the Queen, this marriage must have seemed to herald the disintegration of her most cherished fantasies of redemption, and Diana's generation group must seem like a guerilla army determined to spoil the party and destroy the last vestiges of royal privilege and dignity.
Inevitably, Prince William will carry on this generational pattern, which hints at a long, slow evolutionary process working its way through the centuries. William's outer planets are closely linked with personal planets in both his parents' charts: his Neptune-Ascendant conjunction, in 25º 32' and 27º 30' Sagittarius respectively, is conjunct both his father's Mars-Jupiter conjunction and his mother's Ascendant. It would seem that his parents embody, on a personal level, that longing for spiritual enlightenment and hunger for meaning which is essential to the Neptune in Sagittarius generation's dream of redemption. The "New Age" activities of both Charles and Diana will undoubtedly sit well with their son's generation group. But William also has Venus and Chiron exactly conjunct in 25º Taurus, and his personal values, developing partly through hurt and sorrow, are not in accord with either his grandmother's collective romantic vision, his mother's ferocious collective self-expressiveness, or his father's compulsive collective survival instinct. William's Neptune in Sagittarius is trine the Queen's Neptune in Leo, and both share the fire signs' dream of a better, grander, nobler world. But for William, that world can be found only through a moral and spiritual quest, and not through an affirmation of personal specialness.
Making friends with the outer planets
In the old days, astrologers used to talk about the outer planets as "dumb notes" in a birth chart; they were "unimportant" and not considered especially relevant to the individual's life. Now we know better, and those astrologers who study collective trends know how very powerful is the voice of the collective psyche in terms of individual destiny. When the outer planets are powerfully linked with personal planets in the birth chart, the individual is, more than others of his or her generation, a mouthpiece for the collective. Such a person needs to be able to create appropriate vehicles for that collective vision, while still maintaining individual integrity and an ego strong enough to process collective energies through personal values, aptitudes, and experience. The child whose ego cannot contain these things may be swept along by the forces which reflect the zeitgeist under which he or she was born, sometimes achieving great creative expression and sometimes disintegrating into psychosis - or both. The child who fights against his or her generation group, and attempts to suppress the larger entity to which he or she belongs, may suffer equally. A sense of profound isolation may be one by-product. Another may be powerful internal and external eruptions which leave the individual feeling utterly powerless in the face of the forces of change. Links between parent and child involving the outer planets suggest that each can help the other to recognise and develop the gifts and perceptions of their different generational groups, perhaps contributing more positively to an evolutionary process in which both are required, willingly or unwillingly, to participate.
Sadly, such links often result in a furious battle which may be blamed on personal factors. Perhaps it was highly inappropriate for the Queen to blame Diana personally for her rebellion against the royal status quo; Diana was a mouthpiece for her generation, and those born with Uranus in Leo are not lightly predisposed to believe in Neptunian dreams. Leonine creative vision may be common to both, but these two outer planets are opposite in meaning and reflect, respectively, intellectual and emotional perceptions of the same dimension of life. Neptune seeks fusion with a higher unity through idealisation and self-sacrifice; Uranus seeks progress through the creation of new idealogies. If a parent wishes to be helpful to a child when such contacts exist between the two charts, it may be important to recognise not only the child's individuality, but also what that child stands for as the representative of an entire generation. The wise parent will encourage the child to find appropriate vehicles through which collective needs and dreams may be individually expressed, rather than reacting blindly to what is perceived as a threat, or identifying blindly with what is perceived as the apotheosis of one's own generational dreams. A good example of the latter dynamic is the link between Joseph P. Kennedy's conjunction of Neptune and Pluto in Gemini and his son's natal Sun in Gemini. John F. Kennedy (*) was perceived by his father as the living incarnation of Papa Joe's generational vision of redemption and continuity through education, social mobility, and political power. The result was, inevitably, that John F. Kennedy never had a chance to become John F. Kennedy, except in the context of his father's ambitions - not personal ambitions, but those of an entire generation.
*See also "The Oracle and the Family Curse", for an analysis of the Kennedy family charts.
A great deal of further research is needed to comprehensively map out these great collective daimones which flow down through the generations, described by outer planet links between family charts. And the natal picture is not the end of the story. Generation significators not only link up across the natal charts of parents and children; they are also mobilised at specific times by individual outer planet transits, and during those periods when the conjoined cycles of two or three outer planets reach a critical juncture. For example, during the period when Prince Charles and Princess Diana experienced the breakdown of their marriage, Pluto was transiting through Scorpio, activating not only their personal planets, but also the Queen's natal Neptune. For the Queen's entire generation group, this was a time of crisis and disillusionment. The "dirt-digging" propensities of Pluto in Scorpio, flushing out all those spheres where emotional dishonesty threatens survival, ensured that those born under the redemptive vision of Neptune in Leo were forced to face, at last, the impossible gap between their vision and the reality of human sexual and emotional nature.
As individuals, we cannot control or dam up such great collective movements. We participate whether we wish to or not. But we can choose to participate creatively or destructively. We can feel ourselves to be unwilling victims of malevolent external forces. We can puff ourselves up with collective dreams and convince ourselves that we are the embodiment of divinely inspired change. Or we can engage in the humbler, harder task of refining our own character and talents to act as mediators, contributing as best we can to the positive unfoldment of what is essentially a greater human necessity. We need to have enough consciousness of where our own individual personalities merge into something larger, in order to construct something valid and life- enhancing out of our generational needs and compulsions. We also need to offer our children sufficient wisdom and containment to honour their very different generational dreams. As astrologers, we may relate best to those clients whose outer planets are in harmony with our own; if we have Pluto in Leo, we may relate better to those young people with Pluto in Libra than to those with Pluto in Virgo, and we may find it very hard to sympathise with the energies of the Pluto in Scorpio group, which we may experience as quite threatening. Neptune in Libra relates better to Neptune in Sagittarius than to Neptune in Scorpio, and Neptune in Scorpio relates better to Neptune in Capricorn than to Neptune in Sagittarius. Whether we are parents or astrologers - or both - the generation gap will continue to exist, not because age and youth are in inevitable discord, but because the great collective cycles require a different vision at a different time. While we may never personally share the visions of other generation groups, we can at least recognise that they are an essential part of a much greater unfoldment of life.
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I'm not having a good morningAugust 28, 2009 at 6:29 am | Posted in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) | Leave a comment
Tags: fasting blood test, fibromyalgia, research study, sleep, spiders, stress
Woke up at 5.30 and my iPod (normally life, or at least sanity … or at least remains of sanity saving at this time of day) was out of charge … because I fell asleep with it on last night!
So I crept out of bed so as not to wake hubby up, thinking I might sneak an early coffee and breakfast as he's on a fasting blood test (more of which later if I get round to it) and can't have anything until the nurse has been round at half-past-seven.* Of course I instantly woke him up and now he's up too … so much for that plan.
So I thought I'd charge my iPod and I put my PC on … only to find a small spider running in and out of the keyboard. Fortunately I'm not arachnophobic … unfortunately I'm a big softy and don't want to squash the damn thing … and arachnaphobic or not, frankly I don't fancy the idea of it running up my fingers and down my arms … eeeeeeeeeeeooooooo.
Oh yes, and the reason I can't sleep is that work is really stressful right now …
So this thing about getting enough sleep and avoiding stress … I think I'm having some problems with it right now. Now where did I put those coping strategies … probably somewhere under that enormous pile of work …
* Before you faint at the idea of a nurse coming round at 7.30 (especially Frankie) she's not NHS – she's part of a research study … obviously a well funded one! More on that later though.
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Conversation buzzed in the home of Thibodaux resident E.J. Grabert Tuesday night, but it was in words that would have probably been more familiar to Lafourche residents a generation ago.
Conversation buzzed in the home of Thibodaux resident E.J. Grabert Tuesday night, but it was in words that would have probably been more familiar to Lafourche residents a generation ago.
Members of Le Cercle Francophone, a French-speaking group, gather once a week at the Jean Lafitte Wetlands Acadian Culture Center in Thibodaux to share in the familiar language many spoke as children, and for some, was a first language.
The group was together to make a special donation to CODOFIL, the Council for Development of French in Louisiana, a state organization that supports the language for cultural, tourism and economic benefits.
"We understand the importance of the French language in Louisiana," said group treasurer Leonard Lassaigne.
Last summer, a line-item veto by Gov. Bobby Jindal stripped more than a third of the program's state money and has left the small department turning to donations and fundraising to stay afloat.
The $257,000 budget of the Council for the Development of French in Louisiana was cut by $100,000 in the final version of the $25.6 billion state budget Jindal approved.
After hearing about the budget cuts, the group began taking up a collection of money at meetings of Le Cercle Francophone and the Thibodaux-Loudun Twinning Association. It collected $427 to donate to the agency.
Le Cercle Francophone meets every Tuesday from 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. at Jean Lafitte National Park in Thibodaux. Everyone is welcome.
About 20 to 30 people attend each week, said Marlene Breaux Toups, a member of the group and president of the Thibodaux-Loudun Twinning Association. While many of them are older residents who learned French from their families as children, some younger attendees have come too, showing an interest in learning to speak fluent French.
Mo Belaiche, a native of France who teaches French at W.S. Lafargue Elementary School in Thibodaux, started the group after moving to Louisiana and noticing there were many other French speakers in the area. He said they seemed excited and happy to have the opportunity to speak French.
Many people link French back to its country of origin, France, Belaiche said, but French is actually spoken in many other countries in Europe, Africa, the Caribbean and North America.
"French is a language of the world," he said.
South Louisiana is home to one of the largest French-speaking populations in the United States. According to the U.S. Census, about 15,000 people in Louisiana speak Cajun French, and it was once the dominant language in Terrebonne, Lafourche and other south Louisiana parishes.
The local French is descended from Acadian French spoken by the Cajuns' ancestors. It was brought to Louisiana when the Acadians were expelled by the British from what is now part of Canada and mixed with a number of other languages including Spanish and Native American dialects.
Joseph Dunn, executive director of CODOFIL, said he was honored to attend the gathering.
"As the state's French language agency, our role is to be out and about and see people speaking French and carrying the language forward," Dunn said.
He added that people often discuss the need to "preserve" French in Louisiana, implying it is something that is dead or dying. But gesturing to the many French speakers in the room, he said this is a language that is very much alive in Louisiana.
While French was the primary language spoken in south Louisiana, most of the area's youngest residents have not learned it from their elders.
During the early part of the 20th century, attempts were made to suppress French and Cajun culture, and children were often forbidden to speak French in school and were punished, sometimes physically, in an attempt to force them to speak English, Toups said.
Grabert said he learned French living on a farm in Lockport where it was the language his family spoke. But when he went to school, he joked he was hit so many times by the nuns for speaking French that he got a flat spot on the back of his head.
This traumatic experience convinced many Cajuns not to teach the language to their children in hopes they would blend in better and would not face the same difficulties their parents had.
In addition, Toups said, some locals who know French may be afraid to speak it, believing they were taught an inferior version of the language.
Toups said she grew up speaking English and French, but French was her sister's first language and she would often speak it with her family. Toups, who worked as an English teacher, said she is often complimented on her fluent French.
"I think if people would just use it, they would realize it's the same language," Toups said.
Grabert said members of the group enjoy getting together to practice their French and learn about the differences that pop up in the regional French spoken in south Louisiana's many Francophone communities.
Dunn added that Louisiana and its residents need to begin recognizing the value of its French-speaking people and culture.
"It has to be socially and economically valorized," Dunn said. "We need to create a French-language ecosystem."
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Legendary Coach Lands First Russian Recruit
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Gary Pepin is the most decorated coach in the history of the Big Eight Conference in all sports. He has won more conference championships in the history of the Big 12 in any sport, and now that he has won his second Big Ten Conference title in the Men's Outdoor Track and Field Championship in Columbus, Ohio, last May, Pepin is:
1) Ready to frame the difficulty of recruiting in Nebraska and acknowledge an unsuccessful attempt to convince Bob Devaney that he deserved a higher salary;
2) Willing to credit football for being the goose that laid the golden financial egg for all Husker sports; and
3) Able to describe how one of his rare experiences in social media helped him land his first Russian recruit in a storied track and field journey that has produced an unprecedented 69 conference team championships under his leadership.
One of three guest speakers last Thursday at the season's first 2013-14 Husker Athletic Fund Luncheon, Pepin gave a blunt analysis of what it takes to recruit to Nebraska and how the culture favors the value of giving over receiving. He also explained why he would never question the resources that Nebraska designates to succeed in football, And he shared a riveting account of how he jumped out of his comfort zone and into a successful opportunity to land Tatiana Akmukhamedova, his first Russian track and field recruit in 33 years as Nebraska's head coach.
Pepin Remembers What Devaney Thought
Despite his men's and women's teams combining for 69 conference titles, Pepin humorously recalled one of his first experiences with Devaney, the legendary Nebraska football coach who became the Huskers' athletic director.
"In one of my first years coaching at Nebraska, I remember going to some type of fund-raiser, and at the end of the meeting, Bob got up and did his little song about how it is better to give than it is to receive," Pepin told Husker donors. "A couple of years later, we were fortunate enough to win a national championship in track and field, so I thought I would take some time to talk to Bob about maybe getting a little bit of a salary increase."
Pepin thought the timing was appropriate, but he wasn't straightforward enough to tell Nebraska's legendary former head football coach why he wanted to see him. Finally, Devaney asked what he wanted to talk about. Pepin told him he wanted to talk about the future of his program. He admitted being shy and finally fessed up to wanting to discuss the possibility of "getting a little salary increase."
Pepin told the donor group that his salary "wasn't up there very high," but the minute he mentioned salary, "Bob started right in on the same song about how much better it is to give than to receive," he said. The luncheon crowd's laughter trumped his punch line. "So much for getting salaries into that conversation," Pepin confessed before launching into his own diatribe about the overall value of recruiting.
Recruiting the Absolute Lifeblood of Coaching
"Recruiting is the absolute lifeblood of coaching," Pepin said. "I would far rather have a coach who's a great recruiter than have a great coach who doesn't recruit well," Pepin said. "If you're not able to bring into your program athletes with the ability to compete on the same level of your opponents, you're going to be out of luck. You're never going to have a consistent opportunity to win a championship."
According to Pepin, Nebraska has some built-in disadvantages in recruiting, but he's always successfully sold the advantages. "I preach how great this institution is in its ability to find the support to succeed both academically and athletically. No one gives greater effort in those two areas than we do, even if you compare Nebraska to Harvard, Princeton and Yale," Pepin said. "Any sport that is successful here at Nebraska, you'll find the coaches are working their tails off to try and get the job done."
Track and Field, he added, only makes 12½ scholarships available, and very few are what student-athletes would consider full rides. "One or two get full scholarships," Pepin said. "The vast majority are partials."
Nevertheless, Pepin would be the last to complain about his sport being on the bottom rung of the NCAA scholarship ladder. "Football," he said, "is almost like the goose that laid the golden financial aid for all the other sports. If that financial egg gets smashed before it gets brought into the kitchen to fry, boy, all the other sports are hurting for sure. That's one reason why you will never hear Gary Pepin, the track coach, say: 'The football guys are getting too much of this or too much of that.' I say: 'Give 'em all the money they need!'"
Pepin: Without Football, We All 'Close Up Shop'
A luncheon audience laughs when they hear Pepin make that statement. But the veteran Hall-of-Fame coach is dead serious. "If football doesn't get what it needs to be successful," he said, "we'll all have to close up shop here."
Earlier in his speech, Pepin explained how a sport with few scholarships can succeed, especially when recruiting, say, a high jumper who has never cleared more than 7-feet. "If someone has not jumped at least 7-3 in high school," Pepin said, "the odds of that person becoming a scorer in an NCAA meet are not very good. The only choice you have is to broaden where you're looking and go all over the world to find someone else."
Acknowledging his preference to recruit Lincoln and the surrounding area, Pepin mentions a female high jumper and triple jumper he recruited from Siberia – the first-ever Russian recruit to sign a national letter of intent in Pepin's era at Nebraska.
Pepin does not mention the student-athlete by name, but after he's thanked donors and told them how much he appreciates their help and support for Nebraska Athletics, the first question in his post-speech Q&A asks Pepin how he successfully recruited Tatiana Akmukhamedova, his first Russian recruit from Blagaveshchensk, Russia, which borders Heine, China.
Somehow, Pepin Saw Legit Value in Facebook
Pepin frames his answer with a confession – he is not "computer guy." He has, however, taken a liking to Facebook and has found it be a surprisingly powerful communication weapon for recruiting. "I just got into it," he said, "and it's been kind of interesting."
Once, while looking at an analysis of the world's top young jumpers, Pepin found Tatiana's name, so he reached out to her on Facebook. To his immediate and utter surprise, she responded right back to Pepin, who described himself as a somewhat uncomfortable 70-year-old guy requesting to be friends with a 19-year-old young woman he didn't even know.
The bottom line was simple. Tatiana thought her sister had recommended that Pepin contact her, so she approved him immediately as a "Friend". The entire contact "came out of the blue," Pepin said, adding that the sanctioned but unlikely connection eventually evolved into a three-way telephone conversation among him in Lincoln, Tatiana in Blagaveshchensk Russia, and Tatiana's older sister, a freelance interpreter who was living in Bejing, China.
Even though Tatiana thought her older sister contacted Nebraska, she didn't. She just helped facilitate the communication when Pepin used his only social media platform to reach out to her sister. "She's a good athlete, and she's a good student," Pepin said. "She's long jumped almost 21 feet and triple jumped almost 44 feet. We were pretty lucky to connect with her."
Glad He Learned How to Connect on Facebook
By the same token, Tatiana is pretty lucky to connect with Nebraska as well. "She's going to be a good one," Pepin predicted. "I'm glad I learned how to get on Facebook."
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is there something odd about them that keeps people from buying them. i have seen several on ebay and a couple here for sale at what i think is a good price and they aren't moving. are they that much of a niche product?
is there something odd about them that keeps people from buying them. i have seen several on ebay and a couple here for sale at what i think is a good price and they aren't moving. are they that much of a niche product?
alot of them suffer from machining errors. not bad ones but bad enough to piss you off 3 min into a game during that 1 really important kill or be killed moment. theres alot of threads about it. if you click the archives above you can read some about it
EDIT: most people have really good luck with them but the seller isnt exactly going to tell you when youre buying a lemon
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I can only speak for myself. I just think they are ugly.
Post links to the ones you're talking about. The only ones that had some issues were the MM2K9 ones and even then it wasn't all of them. Maybe the ones you're looking at are overpriced.
Well, aside from the overwhelming and foul stench of PTP, what you got for the money doesn't seem like much.
You get very little by way of functionality. Cocker threads, which are available elsewhere now. Feedneck options which are available elsewhere now. And the PTP detent which is nice but it's not like the other detent styles are horrible.
I don't think you really get any decent weight reduction. With the rail built into the body, that means you can't upgrade the rail to the latest swooshy aesthetic best-looking-gun-in-the-deadbox whatever. That also extends to the foregrip, where your options become more limited.
You buy one if you want to have something "special".
If you like exactly what PTP gives you, you're probably good to go. There are some really "nice looking" ones out there. But if you want to change anything -- even if it's swapping out the wobbly trigger frame, I fail to see the point. IMO they're best left whole.
I owned one very briefly from a craigslist acquisition. It was amusing, but... just wasn't worth the money that was tied up in it.
"Accuracy by aiming."
Definitely not on the A-Team.
I also know what you mean about the prices of them going down. I've seen a lot of them with RT valves and some basic upgrades go for around $200. Actually I can confirm this because I've bought 2 micromags in the last few months at that price point. I've been grabbing them up when I see a good deal cause I have big plans for helping to correct some of the main issues of the Micromag. The 2 biggest problems I see with the micromag are: non upgradable forgrip and powerfeed feedneck. 2 issues that should be fixed once my machinist gets his mill fixed. I'll make a thread about all this once I have more info.
Would still be curious as to which ones the OP feels aren't selling for what they're worth. Really unless they have special anodizing, they aren't coveted since there seems to have been a fair amount of them made, at least the Gen 3/4 ones. Keep in mind that unless they have the front VASA, they are hard to sell, as there are few options to replace it. Lukes made/makes a gas through for them that is quite nice, but other than that, there are few options. Not sure why so many of them came without the VASA, but nowdays people want them to have them. And PTP no longer has any. A lot of people don't like the powerfeed either on the pre 2k ones. You'll also find the chrome/nickel ones don't usually sell very well either.
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While there was variety, it's hard to call those options. If you wanted to change, unless you had a threaded one or found a dovetail that you wanted... you sold the body and got a different one. On a normal mag, buying/selling just a body makes more sense. On a micromag, seemingly not so much.
OPBN, i have seen several for$249.00 or less, some with r/t valves and killer anno that arn't selling. i'd post links if i was any good on this contraption. i'd have thought the ones with r/t valves would at least get some interest but for the most part i'm not seeing any.
The Micromag is the greatest Mag platform, and the only semi I use. The detent, feedneck, cocker barrel, rail-less design, built in expansion chamber fore-grip option, and downright BEST ano's solved the shortcomings of the classic mag. This gun was way before its time.
I currently own over 20 Micros, and have owned somewhere around 60. The two cut frames on Ebay are mine. None that I have ever owned have this mythical machining error that BT mentions in every Micro thread. The thread that he seems to have sourced this opinion from is one about Micro-Emag issues.
Long live the Micromag.
This thread need pics.
Very nice pics and markers.
I've a 2k9 bought brand new last year from PTP, and had absolutely no issues with it. I really like its look and it's shooting perfectly.
I just had to put a Xvalve instead of the Emag valve I planned for it; because it didn't fit in the body.
I think the micromag gen3 or 4 is really the piece who's missing in my armory.
I hope I'll find a black gen3 or 4 with vert asa in good condition (at the same time I've money for !).
deja vu
deja vu
We should start a Micromag Pic thread.
honestly, i think the thing that attracts me to micro's is the killer annodizing jobs. i especially like the lightning bolt one of MAGgots.
My baby
The VA on the Micromag solved a problem with classic mags, the foregrips tended to spin unless excessively cranked down. That often resulted in stripped screw heads.
AGD later indirectly acknowledged this problem by releasing RT-Pro with the two-hole VAs.
My 2k9 micro emag
The best thing about them is indeed the aesthetic anno jobs. They make excellent wall hangers.
Unless there's something I'm missing in the history, AGD later cause the problem by ditching the dovetail pattern on the rails, and then unbroke the situation with the two-hole VA's.
The point is, many of these were significant features for a mag to have in the 90's, and the later AGD mags adopted them (cocker barrel, foregrip attachment, detent upgrade, aluminum body)
Have some Micromags and have not experienced any problems with them. The marker I use the most is actually a Micromag. Just as with Automags all they need is a little oil and some love.
That's kind of a fishy way to address a problem. Not unique to PTP, nor unique in the history of Automags, but still not an appropriate solution.
In this case, I don't think they were even trying to solve this "problem". I think the problem they were trying to solve was "how to attach a foregrip to a single-piece body without drilling a hole all the way through the top to allow for the cap screw to hold the existing style of foregrip." Thus they just broke compatibility with existing foregrips, malformed or not.
When the 2k9 rolled around, they offered multiple options for the foregrip attachment. I never got in on that deal, but wasn't one of those configurations "single vertical screw"?
All of my posts in this thread are addressing the pervasive negative attitude on AO towards Micromags that started a few years ago. There is no "mis-machined" Micromag prior to the Micro E-mag, which is almost all of them. I don't remember hearing ANYONE at the time (90's) questioning the quality of Micromags, this is a new phenomenon. I can only think this is due to Francois Louvet's 100's of fake Micromag bodies, the Micro Emag thread BT always links to, and the MM2k9 flop.