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Friday, March 11, 2011
Personal | Florida here I come!
While I had all of the best intentions today of blogging about the photography conference I went to this week, it's officially going to have to wait until next week. Yesterday and today have been insane trying to get a number of different life and business projects done before I leave. Because, in fact, in just two hours I'm hopping on a plane with my husband and heading down to Ft. Lauderdale for much welcomed time in the warmth and sun and with family. It's working out so wonderfully that we get to spend the first few days with Aaron's family, and then I get to join my sister, cousin and grandparents for the rest of the week while Aaron attends a work retreat. It's going to be genuine fun in the sun, and I couldn't be more ready for some relaxation and good fellowship with my loved ones.
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text: As many of you seem to have noticed, we recently had a storm that some have referred to as a Pacific Hurricane. I don't really know how accurate that is, but the coast towns suffered considerably. For us, it was no more than a rainstorm. Until this week Oregon was home to the largest Giant Sitka Spruce in the nation when it snapped in half during the high winds of the storm. It had been damaged in a storm last year, requiring the park service to eliminate tourist visits for fear that all or parts of it would fall. Sergio and I happened across this tree on one of our first trips to the coast. We just saw a sign and pulled off the road. The tree was a pleasant surprise. It would have been a wee sapling around the Crusades. This date is pretty impressive, but the thing that just baffles me is that this tree managed to live out it's entire life naturally. In a state where half the drive to the coast is clear-cut land, it seems amazing that someone at some time didn't cash in on the giant. It also says something for the park service for not cutting it down when it became dangerous, but instead letting it do it's own thing and just keeping the people away. It will be missed. If you want to know more about the tree you can follow the web address above.


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Too Many Notes
Let's talk infelicitous combinations of artistic form. I'm thinking in particular of Philip Glass' musical adaptation of Franz Kafka's "In the Penal Colony," which I saw last night. Setting? Small, intimate, and great. Cast? Pretty good. But in the end, both props and players could only benefit so much from the raw material available to them, namely, Glass' score and libretto.
It's not that the music and lyrics themselves were bad*– it's just that this particular composer, given the singularly thick nature of his work (even when it's being minimalist!) never should have tried to set such an efficiently-told tale to music. Frantic, repetitive crescendos, musical signals that something ominous is taking place: it's all OK for a soundtrack– especially of the American variety– but all the elaboration and padding that must of necessity go into operatic productions… well, they're all wrong for that unique brand of sparse-yet-laden weirdness Kafka's so good at.
Could anyone do a good job putting this story into musical form? I don't think so; it just wasn't made, say I, to handle forms of sensory input ancillary to the word. I could maybe, maybe envision "In the Penal Colony" existing as a well-executed short film– but even there, I don't feel comfortable with the possibility.
The piece reminded me of other literary greats that should have been, or should be, left untouched by film directors; I found On the Road predictably disastrous, and I'm terrified to think what's going to happen to Jonathan Franzen's The Corrections, if filming really does come to completion on that project. Infinite Jest? Please. Based on what he did with The Tempest, I can see Peter Greenaway having a self-indulgent go at it, but I hope he doesn't get any ideas. If someone could make a cinematic version of Mark Z. Danielewski's House of Leaves as scary and intelligent as the book, I'd be thrilled– but again, there should be some sort of test one must pass before even thinking about doing such a thing.
Ah, well. In short, there's usually a reason why music or the visual arts can convey some things so much better than any number of words– but then again, there's often no substitute for spoken/written language well-used. I'm glad I got to see the musical venture I did last night– but I won't be sad if the notes fade from memory altogether, never to be reawakened.
* OK, there were times when the words seemed to be exemplifying how the theater of the obvious should function, but overall, they were no worse than those of any other musical.


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Or, What is the sound of one hand slapping yo' ugly face?
Steven Seagal, lethal movie star, was proclaimed to be a reincarnated lama and sacred vessel last week by Penor Rinpoche, the supreme head of Hyingma School of Tibetan Buddhism. His elevation has sparked a debate among American Buddhists as to whether Tibetan titles have been put up for sale.
Well, that may well be, but I think it's more likely that this heralds a new direction for Buddhism.
You might remember the story, for example, of the young monk who approached his master with a duck in a bottle. When he asked the master how to get the duck out of the bottle, the master replied, "The duck is out of the bottle." As a mysterious anecdote designed to shake a seeker out of preconceived notions about the nature of reality, this little slice of life is brief and to the point.
Well, I have it on good authority that Seagal was also approached by a young monk who had a duck in a bottle. When he asked Seagal how to remove the duck, Seagal pulled a semiautomatic weapon out of his buckskin jacket and blew the bottle to splinters. "Happy now?" he then asked the monk, who immediately achieved satori.
Another time, Seagal was securing the perimeter around the dojo when a young monk asked him, "Sensei, how do we know that the loss of delusion is not itself a delusion?" Seagal nodded sagely, pulled a bowie knife from beneath his tatami and buried it three inches in the monk's forehead. When the monk fell lifeless to the floor, Seagal turned to the other monks and asked softly, "Anybody else want a piece of this?" They all achieved enlightenment on the spot!
(It turned out that the young monk had been a ninja assassin hired by a corrupt industrialist to do away with Seagal. Later, the entire temple traveled to Chicago, where, under the leadership of Seagal, they took out the industrialist and two rival mobs as well. The entire story will be told in the upcoming "Dojo Rising," coming this Thanksgiving to a theater near you.)
On another occasion Steven Seagal and a rookie cop were on a stakeout by the Yangtze River. A hooker approached them, asking them if they'd help her across the water. Without saying a word, Seagal lifted her up, carried her to the other side, and waded back to join his companion.
Some hours went by, and finally the rookie spoke up: "Look, we're supposed to be on a spiritual quest here. What are you doing messing around with hookers?" "You still carrying her?" replied Seagal. "I set her down a couple hours ago." A moment later the rookie was silenced by a sniper's bullet.
It's not known if the rookie gained enlightenment in his final moments, but Seagal did eventually kill all the terrorists responsible for his death with his bare hands, saving the hooker (really an undercover agent) from a fate worse than death.
It is tales like these, I believe, that have ensured Steven Seagal his place in the Buddhist pantheon, such as it is.
Many seekers, hoping for inklings of kensho, have tried to stump Seagal with old Zen puzzlers like "What was your original face before your parents were born?" and "Does a dog have Buddha nature?"
To which Seagal has an all-purpose reply: "Try and hit me. Go ahead. C'mon."
He has replaced the traditional "What is the sound of one hand clapping?" with "What is the sound of one hand slapping?" The adage, "When you meet the Buddha, you kill the Buddha," has been replaced by "We're taking the Buddha off the streets!"
Of course, for many of his followers, ego death becomes actual death, but those who survive are about as full of Isness as a follower of the dharma can get.
His style as a roshi can best be discerned in the haiku he has written:
You fucking with me? If you want me to hurt you, Believe me, I will.
A frog in the stream. Moonlight on a gun barrel. Look out, O'Reilly!
I know he did it. Evidence? Fuck evidence. His fat ass is mine.
My partners all die In ambush, by trickery. And I fight alone.
Insert the pool cue Into the left eye socket. That'll shut him up.
I know what you think. You think you're above the law. You're not above mine.
Take over this ship? That's just not gonna happen. I'm taking you down.
Former Navy SEAL Vs. mad dog assassin? Hey, guess what -- You lose.
His success as a master, to this observer anyway, seems assured. As Seagal himself has said, "You want satori? I got your satori right here."


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Most of my homemade contraptions are pretty crude and not worthy for public viewing. They all worked for the intended purpose though and then were scrapped for other projects. Made this dandy little scraper blade from some discarded culivator parts and odds and ends of scrap metal. The angle and tilt is adjustable. Believe I'll hang on to this one. Rebuilt a 450 4-row cultivator into a 2-row to fit on my M with the rear section made from the outriggers of the front pieces. Works pretty good too.
Also, I don't think theirs lifts the entire log clear of the ground. I need to do that as I travel over paved roads, and the town gets a mite testy when ya start dragging stuff down the road...
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Isolation of a cDNA Encoding a β-1,4-endoglucanase in the Root-Knot Nematode Meloidogyne incognita and Expression Analysis During Plant ParasitismMolecular Plant-Microbe Interactions
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Publication Date7-1-1999
AbstractA β-1,4-endoglucanase encoding cDNA (EGases, E.C. 22.214.171.124), named Mi-eng-1, was cloned from Meloidogyne incognita second-stage juveniles (J2). The deduced amino acid sequence contains a catalytic domain and a cellulose-binding domain separated by a linker. In M. incognita, the gene is transcribed in the migratory J2, in males, and in the sedentary adult females. In pre-parasitic J2, endoglucanase transcripts are located in the cytoplasm of the subventral esophageal glands. The presence of β-1,4-endoglucanase transcripts in adult females could be related to the expression of the gene in esophageal glands at this stage. However, cellulase activity within the egg matrix of adult females suggests that the endoglucanase may also be synthesized in the rectal glands and involved in the extrusion of the eggs onto the root surface. The maximum identity of the predicted MI-ENG-1 catalytic domain with the recently cloned cyst nematode β-1,4-endoglucanases is 52.5%. In contrast to cyst nematodes, M. incognita pre-parasitic J2 were not found to express a β-1,4-endoglucanase devoid of a cellulose-binding domain.
This article is published as Rosso, Marie-Noëlle, Bruno Favery, Christine Piotte, Laury Arthaud, Jan M. De Boer, Richard S. Hussey, Jaap Bakker, Thomas J. Baum, and Pierre Abad. "Isolation of a cDNA encoding a β-1, 4-endoglucanase in the root-knot nematode Meloidogyne incognita and expression analysis during plant parasitism." Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions 12, no. 7 (1999): 585-591, doi: 10.1094/MPMI.19184.108.40.2065.
RightsThis article is in the public domain and not copyrightable. It may be freely reprinted with customary crediting of the source. The American Phytopathological Society, 1999.
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Citation InformationMarie-Noëlle Rosso, Bruno Favery, Christine Piotte, Laury Arthaud, et al.. "Isolation of a cDNA Encoding a β-1,4-endoglucanase in the Root-Knot Nematode Meloidogyne incognita and Expression Analysis During Plant Parasitism" Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions Vol. 12 Iss. 7 (1999) p. 585 - 591
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In actuality, it's one cricket…and he's lonely. I don't care for bugs at all. They creep; they crawl; they wedge themselves in places they ought not. Of course, every bug has its place in the ecosystem [what is the purpose of roaches?], but they can really cramp my style. Once one of my W.I. homeboys and I were hanging out, and I saw the most humongous spider in my doorway. Okay, maybe it was not that humongonous, but it was blocking my way to the outiside world, so from my perspective, it looked like this. I was about to let him have it, when my homeboy told me about how it was bad luck to kill spiders in doorways because they keep something out/in. For some reason, i feel like the same thing would apply to crickets. I feel if there's some karmic protection over spiders in doorways, the musical cricket should be afforded some type of courtesy in a shower. But if he doesn't stop playing Queen's "Somebody to Love" on his cricket legs, he's going to meet an untimely demise.
This is totally random, but do you know that folks at the Burger King drive in get HIGHLY offended if your order "chicken nuggets?" I mean, you say the word "nuggets," and they totally lose their shit. It was late, and all I wanted was some food for Finge and the Bug. I wasn't a complete douche. I didn't order MCnuggets. Just nuggets. I don't think McDonald's owns the word "nugget." Doesn't Tyson's chicken call their stuffl nuggets? In any event, on this particular day, I happened to get a company ho, who got mad belligerent and said, "Uh, we don't carry nuggets here. We have tenders." Now, since I don't want my kids getting pubes in their Kids' Meals and shit (I neglected to mention that I also feel I should get cool points for not calling it a Happy Meal), I didn't say what was on my mind:
If you don't get your nickel-95 ass in that kitchen and get my children whatever the fuck it is you call those already masticated and reconfigured poultry chunks, Imma dive on you, then tapdance over your fallen form wearing two Happy Meal boxes.
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5 Positive News Stories — The Search and the Results
I wanted to quickly find and post five inspirational or positive news stories for the day. Incredibly, as I sloshed through webpage after webpage, I realized that finding even five such stories was going to take some time. I finally came up with five, and hope to try this again in the future, but I certainly won't try for 10. Perhaps next time I will stay off the sites of traditional media. Oh, and I have to admit that most of the articles aren't from today — they're from this month!
1. Cuba embraces open-source software
2. A bionic eye implant that could help restore the sight of millions of blind people could be available to patients within two years.
3. Consumer confidence approaches elusive positive zone
4. U.S. Kids Share Education with Kids in Cambodia
5. HIV Stigma on the Decline in Rwanda
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Donovon Teon Jeffries, 28, of Haw River, is charged with felony trafficking in cocaine, misdemeanor child abuse, possession of cocaine within 1,000 feet of a school and misdemeanor possession of drug paraphernalia. He was also served with an outstanding warrant for an additional incident for trafficking in cocaine.
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A search was conducted after a police K-9 indicated the presence of narcotics in the vehicle.
Deputies located 95.85 grams of cocaine inside of a baby's diaper bag, the release said.
The child abuse charge was brought against Jeffries because he had his three children in the vehicle with him, the release said.
Jeffries is currently being held in Alamance County Detention Center under a $750,000 bond. He was scheduled to make his first court appearance Tuesday.


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Given the uncertain economic environment, the Air France-KLM Group's increase in capacity in available seat-kilometres (ASK) will be limited to +0.6% including +0.8% on long-haul and -0.2% on medium-haul, excluding the provincial bases. The French-Dutch airline released Wednesday details of the summer (25 March-28 October 2012) schedule.
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Teen Art Club, 11 a.m.-1 p.m., Chester Library, 11800 Centre St. Ages 12-18 can get creative and share their love for self-expression. Bring an art project and supplies. 318-8977, library.chesterfield.gov
Tidal Lagoon Paddle 5:30-8:30 p.m., Henricus Visitor Center, 251 Henricus Park Road. Paddle with the naturalist to explore the graveyard, islands and the labyrinth. $16. Mark Battista, 318-8735, firstname.lastname@example.com
Pocahontas Premieres: Routes of Rhythm – Gracie and Lacy's Hollywood Canteen, 5:30 p.m. gates open, 6-9 p.m. show, Pocahontas State Park, 10301 State Park Road. Step back into the music and comedy of the World War II era with local ballroom dance club The Sophisticats and sister act Gracie and Lacy's musical revue. Bring blankets or chairs and a picnic, concessions for sale. Free, $7/parkting. 796-4255, dcr.virginia.gov/state-parks/pocahontas
Chesterfield on Foot Walking Club, 9 a.m., Harry G. Daniel Park at Iron Bridge, 6600 Whitepine Road. Meet Parks and Recreation staff at the playground for a 2.1-mile walk. Registration required. Free. Susan Miller, 212-8815
Local History and Genealogy 201, 2-4:30 p.m. or 6-8 p.m., Chester Library, 11800 Centre St. Local librarians from CCPL, Appomattox Regional Library System, and Petersburg Public Library will highlight resources and other materials for advanced genealogy research. Registration required. 751-CCPL, library.chesterfield.gov
Enon Editions, 10:30-11:30 a.m., Enon Library, 1801 Enon Church Road. Discuss "Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter" by Tom Franklin. 318-8911, library.chesterfield.gov
De-clutter, Downsize and Dispose of the Stuff, 2-3:30 p.m., Bon Air Library, 9103 Rattlesnake Road. Learn some simple tips for de-cluttering and downsizing and what to do with the many things you no longer want or need. 751-CCPL, library.chesterfield.gov
Retro Game Night, 5-8 p.m., LaPrade Library, 9000 Hull Street Road. Play with the NES, Sega Genesis, Atari Video Pinball and more. 751-CCPL, library.chesterfield.gov
50+ Kayak Calm Water Sampler, 6-8:30 p.m., Dutch Gap Conservation Area, 251 Henricus Park Road. Ages 50 and older can learn basic safety and paddling techniques. Registration required. $35, $40/with rental. Greg Velzy, 748-1124, firstname.lastname@example.com
Community Health Fair, 10 a.m.-1 p.m., Virginia College in Richmond, 7200 Midlothian Turnpike. Features variety of health-related checks and activities for all ages, along with an on-site blood drive. Free, open to the public. 977-5100
Book discussion group, 10:30-11:30 a.m., Midlothian Library, 521 Coalfield Road. Discuss "A Man Called Ove" by Fredrik Backman. 768-7907, library.chesterfield.gov
The Story Lady, 10:30-11 a.m., Enon Library, 1801 Enon Church Road. Children's storyteller and author Ali Pfautz will take children ages 3-5 on an imaginative adventure using silly hats, puppet friends and more. Registration required. 751-CCPL, library.chesterfield.gov
The Story Lady, 1:30-2 p.m., Chester Library, 11800 Centre St. See listing above.
Bon Air Bookies Book Discussion Group, 7-8 p.m., Bon Air Library, 9103 Rattlesnake Road. Discuss "The Dry" by Jane Harper. 318-8966, library.chesterfield.gov
How to Be a Hero: An Evening with Brad Meltzer, 7-8:30 p.m., Thomas Dale High School, 3626 W. Hundred Road. From the Wright Brothers to Rosa Parks to Mr. Rogers, author Brad Meltzer reminds children and families that the stories of heroes are not about fame, but about what all of us are capable of on our very best days. Registration required. Free. 751-CCPL, library.chesterfield.gov
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Mary swirled what was left of the red wine and stared at the lines of alcohol that ran down the side of the glass, the candlelight gave the wine an ember-like lustre as she held it up:
"More wine please."
"Of course my dear." Jack half-filled her glass, her eyes were bleary, she was less alcohol tolerant than him, although he too felt the comforting glow from the wine. She curled up against him on the soft beige sofa, Mary, the woman he loved more than anything, but didn't hate her enough to marry her. One messy divorce, and an eighteen year old son who only visited to ask for money, had left him with a rather low opinion of marriage.
It was late on a Saturday night, yet neither of them were tired, the conversation flowed like fine wine; the wine flowed like water.
"Jack, have you ever seen a spirit."
"What?" Mary was like that, she often came out with completely unprecedented questions, she was quite childlike in that respect.
"Well, have you? I only ask because a friend at work said that she thought that everyone had, at some point, but they just never mentioned, for fear of ridicule. But I never had..."
"No Mary, I have never seen a spirit.", said Jack in a condescending tone, he was shocked. The memory, that he didn't even know he had until now, rose in his mind. How is it that he could have completely forgotten? He looked at Mary, decided not to share it with her yet, until he had time to think it over.
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The year he had turned eighteen, that was when it had happened. The habit of wandering by himself was an old one; he found that he thought better when he walked. His mother's house (his parents having separated five years previous) was one of many red-brick terraced houses that lined up in rows across the steep hills of Sheffield. The alley that turned off his road led to open scrubland, a home of beleaguered shrubs and heather that grew up amongst the abandoned shopping trolleys, bottles and remains of deliberately started fires. It was the day before he left for university, the last day that house was his home. Once gone he only returned for unavoidable holidays. He had turned into the alley, he could hear the traffic from the road, but here, just twenty metres away from the road, he was alone, outside of the normal run of things. People didn't use the alley anymore, there had been a murder here once, so kids weren't allowed, and even lustful teenagers kept away. But he remembered running on the scrubland behind, and walking along this alley before the murder, and he had decided to say goodbye to the area where he had played as a child.
He heard a scuffle to his right, the fences at the side of the alley were overgrown with thorny shrubs and blackberry bushes. He saw a tiny mouse dive out of cover, he paused, barely daring to breathe, frightened that he might scare the mouse away. It stood up on its back legs and sniffed the air, slowly leaning closer to the mouse, he watched it tremble with each heart beat. It didn't move, he wondered if it could knew he was there.
Suddenly, Jack felt cold, his skin was tingling, it was as if the colour has gone out of the day, he felt watched. Straightening up slowly, he raised his eyes to look down the alley, expecting to see nothing. There was a man there. He stood still, making no sound, it was then that Jack realised that he couldn't hear the traffic anymore, or indeed any noise, it was as if he had gone deaf. The man was about five paces from him, he had looked amused to see him at first, now his eyes were open wide with horror. Jack almost looked behind him to see what this man was so afraid of, but he knew there was no one behind him, the same way he knew that this man shouldn't be there. There was a feeling of wrongness that emanated from him, everything in the alley could feel it. Jack was curious, he didn't feel scared, and the man was quite old, greying hair and wrinkles, he could see that clearly. He took a step forward, towards the old man, he realised quite suddenly that he could just about see the alley though him. He took another step, his eyes fixed on the old man who viewed his approach with trepidation, and another, and the old man was gone. He felt reality rushing back on him: the alley was empty, the birds were singing, he heard a car go past, revving up it's engine.
* * *
The first pale predawn light descended on the room, Jack sighed, knowing it was too late to fall asleep now. Had he seen a ghost? And how was it that he had not even thought about what he had seen in all the years hence? In fact he had even forgotten about the existence of the alley and the scrubland he used to play on.
The room was now tinged pink by the sunrise, disentangling himself from Mary, Jack made his way into the bathroom. A long hot shower, and he would leave early. Today was the day he had to go to look over his mother's house. She had died a year before, but he hadn't yet gotten around to clearing out the house. Mary suggested that there might be some mementoes he would want to keep, so he couldn't leave it to the house clearance people, not yet. The house had actually already been sold, and a young couple, baby on the way, were ready to move in.
After leaving a note for Mary, he left; the drive from Kent to Sheffield was quick at that time of the morning. The house was exactly as he remembered it, the furniture was all in the same place, but anointed with a year's worth of dust. He opened the curtains, the sunlight stabbed into the small room, illuminating dancing shapes of dust. There were even cups out on the kitchen table, and a plate, with cake crumbs on it. This was odd, his mother was a very tidy person, and she had known when they took her off to the hospital that she wouldn't be coming back. 'Estate agents', he muttered, as he tipped the crumbs out the kitchen window. He glanced at the plate, and in his shock he dropped it. It smashed on the tiles outside. Scrabbling with the back door, he realised he didn't have the key. He ran out the front, and around, the gate to the back garden was locked. Frustrated, he put his hands in his velvet jacket pocket, and paced up and down in front of the door. The plate had looked just like the one he had smashed years ago, his mother's favourite. It was the last out of the set she had been bought on her wedding. Over the years they had all gotten lost and broken, except one which he was expressly forbidden from touching, but which he had broken when he was younger. He went back into the kitchen, it looked as unlived in as the other rooms. He placed the cup on the shelf, and left. He had decided that he didn't want anything of his mother's, let the house clearance people sell it or bin it, he didn't care.
Jack walked back to his car, it was parked directly in front of the house. He unlocked the car door, and paused. He hadn't been there in years, but the old memory had awakened a curiosity, he felt pulled in that direction. He locked his car, and set off on foot, slipping naturally into his fast rhythm of walking. Arriving at the entrance of the alley, he paused momentarily, then cautiously crept down it. Jack was alert, his eyes roved all around the alley, looking for the slightest hint of danger. There was nothing, he emerged at the end of the alley, looking back he expected to see the old man, but there was no one there.
He wandered around the scrubland, did I really used to play here? He pondered. But he could pick out the trees he used to climb, and the hidden paths he daydreamt along. They all seemed so small and insignificant to him now. The sun was high in the sky, it was about midday, he hadn't yet breakfasted, so decided to make his way back to the car. He started down the alley, and looking up saw a boy, well really a teenager, he couldn't have been more than twenty, kneeling down. Puzzled as to what it was that caught the boy's attention, Jack crept up to him until he was close enough to see the mouse. He watched the boy with amusement, until the boy stood up slowly, and the mouse ran away back into he hedgerow. The boy looked curiously at him, but Jack felt as if an icicle jabbed him through the heart. It was himself that was staring back at him! The boy, was him, he recognised not the face, but the gestures, the posture, and his old tan leather jacket. The face didn't look quite right to him, then he realised, it was backwards. How can this be? The boy, Jack, took a confident step forward, then another, then he vanished. Jack, his ears deafened by his own heartbeat, his hands shaking, ran down the alley and jumped into his car. He kept looking behind him, expecting something other than the normality behind him.
He raced along the little country lanes on his way home. Was he the old man? Fifty is hardly old, but then to an eighteen year old, thirty-five is ancient. He moved the rear-view mirror, well maybe the hair dye doesn't really cover the grey, and yes, there were wrinkles round his eyes, in fact all over his face. Jack didn't see the bend until it was too late. The car flew off the road, and down the hill, spinning over several times, before it came to it's final rest against a tree.
* * *
Whistling, his hands shoved in the pockets of his tan leather coat, Jack sauntered back to his house. He was already starting to forget the old man he had seen. Having already packed his bags for university, he decided to sit in the kitchen, and have a little cake. As he opened the cupboard and knocked his mother's favourite plate to the floor.
Ella Gale


text: RNSA(P) Wednesday Spring Series Race 5 Portsmouth - 27 Apr 17 General Spring is sprung, the grass is ris, you wonder where the warm wind is.....cos last night it was freezing! Nevertheless it did not deter the enthusiastic Wednesday evening racers as nearly a full entry list assembled off Gilkicker point. Another ten minutes later in trying to leave Dolphin Pool and the fleet likely would have been two down, both Tinker T and Spirit of Kudu were hard aground in their berths with low water still three quarters of an hour away. Some judicious use of warps and engine managed to extricate both boats in the nick of time despite the exit channel also being not very deep. A no show from Kurketrekker the nominated SOOD assumes that she also suffered from the same problem in Premier Marina.The yachts at Gilkicker could be forgiven for thinking it was November rather than nearly May as black clouds swept in from the north bringing sustained gusts of around 25 knots. Tinker T taking on SOOD duties set a relatively short downwind leg to Motherbank followed by a beat to Stokes Bay Central and a fetch home. Even this became skewed as the wind then veered significantly but after the start of course.In the first start Spirit of Kudu led the way and were the first to hoist a kite as the wind eased a little, this extended her lead as the rest stayed on goosewinged headsails. This move gave her a well deserved IRC win. In the second start an under staffed Tinker T briefly led the way at Darling Associates but with kites popping out from the other yachts this didn't last long as she plodded downhill under goosewinged jib.The beat to Stokes Bay Central ended up quite exciting as the RNSA yachts mingled with the Stokes Bay Skiffs and Cats around the buoy, fortunately all were well behaved and the right of way rules met without the need for any raised voices.Spirit of Kudu took IRC honours with Electron V in second and in IRC 2 new boats on the podium with Hurrying Angel first and Thunderflash third.Results: http://www.halsraceresults.com/crs/crs.aspx?DSKey=1405 ← Back


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(Above: no illustration this morning. It was going to be an incredibly witty cartoon from The New Yorker or First Dog on the theme of anxiety, but blogger and google have decided to play funny buggers. Feeling anxious already?)
The pond is at one with the universal Ginsbergian howl of pain, anxiety and anger thoughtfully recorded by the National Australia Bank Consumer Anxiety Index.
Yet another index, yet another thing to be deeply anxious about, so anxious that Australians are thought to be even more anxious than nervous nelly pommie bastards (oops sorry, back in the day, you had to sound like Barry McKenzie to survive in Tamworth).
Australians more 'anxious' than Brits, says NAB wellbeing survey, and the news sent the pond into an anxiety frenzy.
Damn you NAB, damn you to hell, even if such a place is only metaphorical or a figure of speech.
Then it dawned on the pond that the pond was actually a mere tadpole in the pond of anxiety and anger.
After all, if you cared to read the likes of Andrew 'the Bolter' Bolt on a daily basis, you'd be writhing and frothing and foaming with anxiety and anger over anything and everything. It doesn't take much to send the Bolter off into the deep end - climate science, the ABC, his ratings, you name it, the Bolter will rant about it.
Anger is his business, just as it's the business of all the other angry commentators trading in anxiety. The likes of shock jock Alan Jones are just demagogues with a microphone, dictators of the mind blathering away inside a studio, attempting to hide the deeply conflicted personal issues they have which led them to their permanent stage of indignation and anger (let's not go Freudian on Jones, the task is at once too obvious while being pointless).
The Blairites specialise in anger, mixed with sardonic sniping and bitter asides which they imagine to be ironic, when mostly they're petty or silly.
The scribblers for the Murdoch press, most particularly those resident at The Australian, are best thought of as down under members of a new Jonestown, where the kool aid is particularly strong.
Now the pond is prone to outbursts - at one moment it's the stupidity of the government maintaining the rage over 457 visas, at the next it's iiNet taking so long to remind the world of the bleeding obvious, that FTTH is infinitely preferable, on cost and future-proofing grounds, to FTTN.
But Malcolm Turnbull, in the grip of the luddite Abbott, will shortly roll out a proposal featuring FTTN. Talk about reasons for anxiety and anger ...
Then in a casual moment you might hear Julie Bishop - she of the snake-like death stare - sagely advising that the relationship with China is most problematic, and it's all the government's fault, and it has nothing to do with Barnaby Joyce announcing that the Chinese takeover of Cubbie Station was a devious, shady part of an invasion by stealth of the Chinese hordes.
Yes he did and he wanted the federal government to buy it - oh he loves his agrarian socialism does Barners - and turn it into small farms, anything to stop the evil Chinese getting their paws on the place. And his mate, Nationals senator John Williams, assured the world that the place was at risk of becoming "one big vegetable patch for Beijing" (Barnaby Joyce digs in on Cubbie as Coalition fractures over foreign deals - behind the paywall to save you from a dose of xenophobia).
The seething xenophobia, hatred, fear and loathing of the Chinese hordes was up there with Hanson. And yet there's Julie Bishop - she of the dumb as a deaf snake stare - assuring the world that it's the federal government wot done it, and alienated the fragile Chinese.
The fragile Chinese? What a stupid woman, if only in the sense that Barners is a really stupid can-kicking man ...
I mean, who else could contain so many fractured thoughts in one sentence than "second-choice Joyce"?
"Our property has been in the family for 50 years and we're not about to let go of that. The New England is my home. We've lived at a lot of places in Queensland, but every Christmas and Easter is spent here," he said. (go on, drop in on the Northern Daily Leader, pride of Tamworth before it became a dissolute Fairfax rag, here).
So if New England is his home, he's never been at home in Queensland? No Queensland home has ever really been his home? Spending Xmas and Easter at a place is the way you define home? He only has a home ten days or so a year? What a prime gherkin.
Then came the news today that Tony Abbott stands for roads over rail in the same way as he stands for castrated broadband, as explained in Boost for rail tunnel:
''The Commonwealth government has a long history of funding roads,'' Mr Abbott said. ''We have no history of funding urban rail and I think it's important that we stick to our knitting, and the Common-
wealth's knitting when it comes to funding infrastructure is roads.''
What a stupid, always natteringly negative man. Stick to our knitting and build more bloody roads, when even the Napthine government is all in favour of the Melbourne tunnel and rail line under discussion, along with Infrastructure Australia, which has been handing out federal funding to all sorts of rail projects, and nothing wrong with that.
It was running 83% against Abbott in the straw poll, but he just loves the negativity, and its natural accompaniment, anxiety:
Australasian Railway Association chief executive Brian Nye said Mr Abbott's comments indicated he ''simply does not understand public transport''.
'Comments today that an incoming Abbott government would cut all urban rail funding should send shivers down the spine of commuters everywhere,'' he said.
Mr Nye said the use of public transport had almost doubled in Australian cities during the past decade.
Shivers down the spine? Oh no, the pond can feel another anxiety attack coming on ...
Would it be sensible or wise at this point to plunge into yet another tirade by Graham "Gra Gra get me a Swiss bank account" Richardson in The Australian, delivering up Tony Abbott's path to lodge is easy, staying there is the hard part (behind the paywall, unless you subscribe via your Swiss bank account, or Paypal, whichever is the easier way for a fool to part with their money).
(Right about now the pond was going to insert a cap of the Gra Gra splash at the head of The Australian, but google and blogger have decided to play funny buggers, so you'll just have to imagine it).
Yep, the quisling has already given away the keys to the lodge, and held up his hands in surrender, and decided that since he's been wrong about everything to date, the only path to redemption is to announce an Abbott victory in September, then cast him into government hell.
Here's the keys to the lodge, let that be a lesson to you.
The Coalition will have few good options come September. It may well be a short-lived honeymoon. Government is not easy. For the Opposition Leader getting there will be easy; staying there may prove much more difficult.
Clearly the gormless twit never read about Br'er Rabbit and the briar patch.
Oh please Brer Richardson, please don't throw me into the briar lodge, down me, roast me, hang me, do whatever you please, but please don't throw me the keys to the briar lodge ...
What a spineless gormless Murdoch lackey. Still, he does, or did, have a Swiss bank account, an aspirational aim for all in this anxiety-laden land.
And right about now, the pond was going to list all the stories at the top of the Murdoch digital page designed to give you even more anxiety attacks, with handsome illustrations plucked from the pages, until blogger did its anxiety dummy spit.
Oh there was Kevin Donnelly proposing that the PM's contempt for the privileged was clear during her stint as education minister.
Much like the contempt that Kevin Donnelly displays for the poor and people without privilege in all his scribblings in favour of the privileged and wealthy copping generous taxpayer subsidies for their private education ... so the elites can go on being 'leet.
Then there was Adam Creighton being a bleeding heart at the way the top 1% of tax earners pay about 17% of all income tax, thereby in his bleating completely failing to understand how a progressive tax system is designed to work.
Oh the suffering of poor old Chairman Rupert, almost taxed out of existence.
Then there was Dallas Scott proposing that policies should be based on real disadvantage instead of race, presumably because, you know, the blacks of Australia live high on the hog of welfare ... and sssh, whatever you do, don't mention race. Wouldn't want to play the race card, only angry white males can do that ...
And naturally there was an interview with Rupert Murdoch, announcing how regulations and government interference had killed off a wonderful tabloid newspaper, and journalists going about their business of eaves-dropping and spying and prying with remarkable integrity.
We keed, we keed, it was something about how wonderful free markets are, but the rag wanted the pond to pay to read the thoughts of Chairman Murdoch freely available to any twit that reads tweets, and something stuck in the pond's craw at the thought of googling to get behind the paywall to ready Rupert bloody Murdoch, the anxiety and anger emperor.
And so on and so forth, such that the pond was reminded of that prophetic remark by US Republican senator Lindsey Graham:
"We're not generating enough angry white guys to stay in business for the long term."
But bless their socks, they're still trying hard at The Australian. At which point the pond suddenly laughs and skips a little, and shouts to the world well lah-de-dah and fiddle-de-dee, you can take your anxiety and anger and shove it up a North Korean dictator.
Begone anxiety and anger.
Let the NBN be fucked, and let the continent be covered in tar and cement and endless freeways, and let Rupert Murdoch continue to make filthy amounts of lucre while dancing on the graves of the poor and the mug punters in his thrall and let Barners stand for New England and keep out the Chinese hordes and let Julie Bishop defend him and let the Bolter rant his climate denialism and marvel at his pathetic ratings...
...because in the end you've got to laugh, so long as you can draw breath, you've got to dance and laugh and eat and drink and live and love (any which way you swing, provided it isn't the repressed inner loathing Alan Jones way), and if you do the anxiety and the fear and the hate and the anger fade just a little ...
(Below: at this point we were going to show a tremendously witty cartoon, perhaps from The New Yorker or First Dog, skewering Chairman Rupert for the evil ratbag he is, but sadly google and blogger are clearly part of a vast international conspiracy to protect the Chairman's reputation. Damn you blogger, damn you to hell. May your anxiety levels increase exponentially).
Friday, April 05, 2013
The pond in the grip of a serious anxiety attack, or does that mean being in the grip of Rupert's pack of hack commentators?
Posted by dorothy parker at 4/05/2013 09:23:00 AM
2 comments:
- AnonymousApr 5, 2013, 11:23:00 AM
Forget the cartoon your words paint the picture so well.The characters you have cited are the dark clouds hanging over Australia that will send this country back to the dark ages of Howardism when the things to be recalled is our involvement in an unjust slaughter of human beings and a tax that has rewarded the more affluent classes but to be sure we have no lasting improvement to the benefit of the population.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousApr 5, 2013, 11:30:00 AM
I'll do it for you.ReplyDelete
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My first Mets game (which I do not remember one iota of) was at age three months, Fan Appreciation Day, October 1992. What I did not realize, though, was that Mr. Met was not there – according to the venerable Wikipedia (and I'm taking this one with a grain of salt), Mr. Met was retired from the mid-'70s until 1994, as part of a promotion with Nickelodeon (GUTS Baseball, to be exact).
This is pretty incredible, considering that Mr. Met is believed to be the first costumed and human mascot in 1964, coinciding with the opening of Shea Stadium (in fact, I was at his birthday party – along with about 30,000 or so other folks, not to mention a few other mascots – in 2004); considering that Mr. Met is a third-ballot Mascot Hall of Famer (class of '07, along with Big Red of Western Kentucky University, Brutus Buckeye of Ohio State, Lil' Red of Nebraska, and The San Antonio Spurs Coyote); and considering he's part of the fun part of Mets baseball, part of the team's history.
Yes, he is just a baseball-head. (He was also the first Met immortalized as a bobblehead.) But he is an incredibly memorable part of Mets baseball – wherever you go, there he is, in a sense. I can't imagine him not being there.
While there are other vastly more important parts of Mets history – from Agee to Zimmer – Mr. Met is an ambassador, in more ways than one, of Metdom. Even the Mets' only (National Baseball) Hall of Famer, Tom Seaver, loves him. I think he's the only thing Mets fans can agree on.


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Gretty tagged me for this, and I haven't had a good meme in a while….
1. I can't believe I've never…
been to Vegas as an adult. I need to fix that one.
2. Every time I think about … I still cringe.
the few months after GB first got to the East Coast (when I was newly dating the Wrangler)–(horrible, painful, everything poly relationships *shouldn't* be)
3. I wish I'd …when I had the chance.
(hmm–I can't think of anything for this one! I just keep thinking of the Bob Dylan line, "I don't have any regrets–they can talk about me plenty when I'm gone." I'm sure there's something, but it's not coming to mind.)
4. I've never felt so out of place as when I…
first got to Fancypants U.
5. … is/are my guiltiest pleasure.
Fashion magazines
6. I hope … knows how grateful I am for …
my mom…all her emotional and financial support.
7. In my darkest hours, I secretly blame … for my dysfunction.
my Dad
8. … changed my life forever.
Moving to San Francisco
Good one. Um, okay, I'm supposed to tag 5 people? I'll tag MaggieMay, Canada, JustMe, Skycat, and Kermit.


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Located in Formia, 200 metres from Formia Harbour and 6 km from Park of Gianola, Granvista provides accommodation with free WiFi, air conditioning and barbecue facilities. This apartment offers a terrace.
The property includes a living room with a TV. There is a seating area and a kitchen equipped with an oven.
If you would like to discover the area, fishing is possible in the surroundings.
Naples International Airport is 70 km from the property....
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I came across this video last year, while I was doing my dissertation on "Causal Nexus of Globalization in Architecture". Globalization, in general terms, is the process of international integration arising from the interchange of world views, ideas and other aspects of culture. The process of connecting different parts of the world to one another began 70,000 years ago when Homo sapiens, gifted with an intellect that allowed for adaptation to an alien environment, walked out of Africa. Over time, we've created and destroyed many cities, and cities themselves became the epitome of human achievement. Yet now, we are at a time where cities are losing their charm and essence due to unorganized growth and rapid development to meet the ever growing demand.
This Video by "School of Life" is a manifesto of six key principles behind the design of cities which are interestingly described with examples from all around the world and eye catching illustrations. "We've grown good at making many things in the modern world – but strangely the art of making cities has been lost" is the premise behind the video and the six principles are:
- Not too Chaotic, Not too Orderly
- Visible Life
- Compactness
- Orientation and Mystery
- Scale
- Making it Local
The video ends by questioning the idea of beauty itself, do we have the right to say what's beautiful and what's not beautiful? – "The intellectual confusions around Beauty."


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Our civilian MREs arrived in the mail on Thursday. We ordered from MREFoods.com last Friday, so shipping speed wasn't too bad (< 1 week). As I mentioned on a previous post, civilian MREs have crazy long shelf lives and contain everything you need for a meal in a single package. Our house is generally 68 F to 80 F, depending on the season, so these should last for 3 to 9 years. They are...Read More
The perfect batteries
As part of putting together my 72 hour kit, I had to pick a flashlight, radio, and other electronics. To keep things simple, I decided everything should use the same kind of battery. I decided to go with the ubiquitous AA. It is fairly easy to find electronics that take AA batteries, and even if something needs the bigger D cells, I can buy a reusable adapter that can be stored inside of the...Read More
72 hour kits
Emergency preparedness kits have been on my mind a lot lately. I've tried a lot of different solutions over the years, but have never been satisfied with any of them: cheap backpacks, expensive hiking backpacks, large zip locks, and even a recycled cardboard milk carton filled with candy. All of those are awful. So I'm on a mission to make a reliable 72 hour kit and will be posting...Read More
Pantry moths and weevils
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The Great Purge of 2012
My wife and I recently helped her parents clean out their office. We threw out truckloads of junk. It felt really good, and we decided we wanted to purge our own home. We decided to do this room by room, starting at one end of the house and working towards the other. So far we have completed the living room and dining room, and I think we are both a little shocked at the quantity of stuff that...Read More


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Farm frenzy continues
Regardless of your basic positions on organic, agribusiness, etc., I think that the best farm policies will evolve in an environment without the market-distorting effects of special interest legislation. That said, ugh:
"We need to stand up to the special interests, bring Republicans and Democrats together, and pass the farm bill immediately," Barack Obama declared last November. It was a weird thing to say, since the farm bill, which subsidizes an arbitrarily chosen section of the economy at the expense of taxpayers and consumers in general, is special-interest legislation by definition.
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When it comes down to games from the 00's there were many exciting Dragon Ball Z titles especially for the PlayStation 2 and the Nintendo Wii. Dragon Ball Z Budokai Tenkaichi 3 was arguably among the best when it comes down to 3D games in series because it looked and felt like you were watching the actual show while playing. Not only that Dragon Ball Z Budokai Tenkaichi 3 probably had the most characters of any within when it was released during the late 00's. Dragon Ball Z Budokai Tenkaichi 3 gives players so many venues to choose from along with the inclusion of a seemingly endless amount of characters from the Saiyan saga all the way down to the Shadow Dragon saga. The gameplay featured in Dragon Ball Z Budokai Tenkaichi 3 had exceeded the expectations of many people when it was first released. In this game players have ability to use all of the special attacks of each character and the power up feature in Dragon Ball Z Budokai Tenkaichi 3 was amazing.
With characters such as Goku and Vegeta players had the ability to power up all the way to Super Saiyan 4. People also had the ability to opportunity to play as Super Saiyan 4 Gogeta along with villains from Dragon Ball GT such as Baby Vegeta, Super 17 and Omega Shenron. Players also have the ability to select non canon characters such as Broly, Cooler, Bojack and others which adds more excitement to the game itself. This game which was developed by Atari, Bandi and Spike was probably one of the Dragon Ball Z games of the 00's. Some people might argue that the Dragon Ball Z Budokai Tenaichi series was just as good in quality during the 00's as the Xenoverse series is during the 10's. The Budookai Tenaichi series seemed like it was ahead of its time during that period and the Xenoverse games had exceeded the expectations of many people. But for a PlayStation/Wii game Dragon Ball Z Budokai Tenkaichi 3 was a great classic to own during the late 00's.


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After publishing my articles and Richie J Edwards strength phase training sessions on breakingmuscle.com I received tons of emails with questions about strength training. As I am not able to respond to all of them individually, here is a first of the short posts on strength training. In the Strength training series, I hope I will answer all the questions asked.
So why is it so important for a COMBAT ATHLETE to be strong? In the end, he/she moves or reacts only a weight which is closed to their own, etc. Why and how we have come up with the standards like 2x bw (body weight) Deadlift, 1.5x bw Front Squat, 0,9 bw strict press etc (for full list of strength standards go HERE:)
I strongly believe in fundamentals, not only from the standpoint that the stronger you are the more damage you can cause in your opponent. I believe in strength training because it is an extremely effective in injury prevention, especially for such a contact sport as MMA. It does not matter that much how many times you can hit the tire with a sledge hammer or how long you can go full out on an airdyne whilst wearing a gas mask. It may look cool but it is not necessarily effective. In my opinion - Front squatting 1.5 x your body weight looks much cooler.
What is important and what you always come back to are the pillars of strength, the basic movements.
Press movement
Pull movement
Squat movement
Hinge / lift movement
Loaded carry
The basics of learning tension, applying the correct body structure and absorbing the load through both muscular and skeletal systems, understanding the use and activation of the mid section and also the importance of the tension through the whole body can never be overestimated. The effort of the BODY and the MIND and the feeling of lifting big load is what aids the confidence when in the cage, ring or matt, providing technical skills are in place.
Make your athletes strong before adding any plyometrics, balance, ballistic or speed training. I still see so many trainers and video posts, where fighters are jumping over, on top and off boxes etc and it is clear that they are not strong enough to provide stability for the knees to absorb the shock. If they cannot front squat at least their body weight with correct from - don't make them jump, it is asking for a blown knee or Achilles tendon injury. Find the weaknesses and deal with them before progressing.
Training strength - stick to basics, certainly providing you have enough time in your hands you can add some fillers, make the sessions more interesting, however fundamentals come first. If I have an athlete for 30 mins, I will better make sure these 30 mins have been used to the best of his/her ability and advantage.
Strong comes first, once Strong is in place, you can play with your training more without risking injuries and getting more speed, power and endurance benefits out of it.
As to the strength standards - they are based on experience, consultation with top s&c coaches and still, they serve us only as a basis for true athletic development. As to the next questions that pops up - how strong is strong enough for a combat athlete, I will answer it in the next weeks post.
Keep strong
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After losing 0-2 to newcomers DAN Gaming earlier in the 2017 LPL Summer Split, EDward Gaming managed to close the week with a 2-0 victory over Snake eSports. Following the set, the team fielded questions about champion picks, gameplay, and their goal for the split.
Evelynn's pick rate isn't very high. Why did you pick this champion? Was it picked to be played against Snake?
Ming "Clearlove7" Kai: Evelynn still synergizes well with certain comps. It's a champion I know I can use, so I am very confident to pick it.
In the second game, you used Kled to awkwardly engage down in the Baron pit. What happened there?
Chen "Mouse" Yuhao: I made a mistake. I wanted to head toward the red buff, but I ended up at Baron.
In the first game, both you and Snake had compositions that could gank and fight in the bottom lane at Level 6. In this case, how did you ensure your team would succeed?
Tian "Meiko" Ye: To start that bottom lane 5v5 in the bot lane, I felt that the enemy Thresh would come after the wave, so I just called Ming Kai to come camp bot. I felt after the last minion wave, our 5v5 capability would be a bit stronger.
In other regions, Fiora isn't picked very much, but in the LPL, Fiora's pick rate is extremely high. The win rate is pretty average. What is the reason her pick and ban rate is so high? What circumstances make it so you can pick Fiora?
Coach Jeong "NoFe" Nochul: Right now she's popular because of Doran's Shield. Doran's Shield Fiora is an extremely good champion. We banned her in both games because of the enemy team composition.
In every occasion, EDG picks a stable lineup to scale and avoid losing. Why is this?
Clearlove7: I don't feel we're particularly stable. Both sides this set constantly looked for opportunities. If we found one, we just started fighting. Both comps were trying to scale and then fight, so we looked for a lot of openings to test each other.
It has been a while since Zet has changed his role back to ADC. What is your greatest difficulty so far?
Hae "Zet" Sungmin: My understanding of how to play the lane is sufficient, but my progress in teamfights isn't as good. I can't seem to find a leading position in a 5v5.
How do you plan to use the rotating roster?
Coach NoFe: Right now it depends on who is playing well and what my plans are for the pick and ban phase.
After winning the first match of the Summer Split, what was your feeling? Do you have a goal for the season?
Clearlove7: Although we won today, I wasn't satisfied with my own play. In the second game, I could have solo'd SofM, but I messed up the execution, so I know I have to keep improving my individual mechanics. Our goal is to win the Summer Split, and then work harder and harder.
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The Centanni lesson
It's fairly well known by now that Fox News staffers Steve Centanni and Olaf Wiig purchased their release from captivity in Gaza with their conversion to Islam. Or, we might say, with their souls.
Not that it has raised that many eyebrows. "Yeah, tell the terrorists anything they want to hear," seems to be the common reaction. "You don't have to mean it."
Oh, but there are a multitude of problems with that. Starting with the fact that whether you mean it or not isn't the real issue. The real issue is what Islam thinks—and they think you're now theirs.
We raise this because we believe more and more of us are going to experience this same trial as time goes on. Many millions over the centuries have. Radical Islam is on the march, and forced conversion has been one of its mainstays.
Those of us who are Bible-believing Christians need to think ahead as to how we will respond if and when. Is the Centanni strategy acceptable? This Christian doesn't think so.
Will I go to hell if I mouth the confession of no god but Allah? That's like asking if it's possible to lose your salvation. For those of us who believe in eternal security, the answer is no. But renouncing Christ is unthinkable treachery, considering what He has done for us. I pray that if I stand in Steve Centanni's place some day, I will have the presence of mind to stand firm and receive the dying grace that I believe God gives to His martyrs.
Revelation chapter 20, as we've mentioned before, describes multitudes before the throne in heaven who were martyred by beheading. This, we believe, is a picture of all of Islam's victims. In the end, God will exact a terrible punishment upon these demonic perpetrators, Scripture tells us.
But even for a non-believer, the stakes are too high. Henceforth, Steve Centanni and Olaf Wiig, whether they know it or not, are marked men. They would be ill advised ever to set foot in the Middle East again. They had better live now as Muslims or know that they will be regarded as apostates—which is a capital offense in the eyes of Islam.
Infidels are somewhat tolerated, because they still are potential converts. Apostates—those who convert but then turn away—are dead men walking. He who has ears to hear, let him hear...


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Research Support Librarian Blog
Ciarán Quinn, Research Support Librarian & Librarian for the Research Institutes, Maynooth University. email@example.com
Tuesday, 5 June 2018
What's new in Open Access?
This a new blog by Danny Kingsley who is the Deputy Director, Cambridge University Library responsible for Scholarly Communication & Research Services. Her role focuses on establishing new policies and strategies for scholarly communication in the digital age. It looks like a useful way to keep up to date with developments in Open Access. "The world of Open Access moves fast and it can be difficult to keep up. We run regular updates for our community here at Cambridge and following a recent webinar, figured a blog about it might be a good idea too. Strap yourselves in, this is a bumpy ride." https://unlockingresearch-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=2011
Wednesday, 10 January 2018
The concept of research impact pervades contemporary academic discourse – but what does it actually mean?
Research impact is often talked about, but how clear is it what this term really means? Kristel Alla, Wayne Hall, Harvey Whiteford, Brian Head and Carla Meurk find that academic literature discusses research impact but often without properly defining it, with academic discourses mostly drawing on bureaucratic definitions originating from the UK. The authors highlight four core elements that comprise most research impact definitions and propose a new conceptualisation of research impact relevant to health policy.
Friday, 5 January 2018
To Catch a Predatory Publisher
Interesting piece here from the PLOS Science Communication Blog "I often wonder if other scientists wake up every morning to delete a deluge of spam messages from no-name journals and questionable conferences. Sometimes one of these emails will escape my extermination efforts and I end up reading it by accident. The invitations from so-called "predatory" publishers are so transparently fake and poorly written that a part of me finds their annoying overtures oddly amusing."
Tuesday, 19 September 2017
Academic Writing Workshop in the Library
When: Monday, October 16, 2017 - 10:00 to 12:30 Where: Training Rooms A&B, Maynooth University Library Academic Writing in the Social Sciences (Taylor & Francis in association with Maynooth University Library)
Monday, 19 June 2017
Microsoft Academic is on the verge of becoming a bibliometric superpower
Last year, the new Microsoft Academic service was launched. Sven E. Hug and Martin P. Brändle look at how it compares with more established competitors such as Google Scholar, Scopus, and Web of Science. While there are reservations about the availability of instructions for novice users, Microsoft Academic has impressive semantic search functionality, broad coverage, structured and rich metadata, and solid citation analysis features. Moreover, accessing raw data is relatively cheap. Given these benefits and its fast pace of development, Microsoft Academic is on the verge of becoming a bibliometric superpower.
Thursday, 25 May 2017
So you've decided to blog? These are the things you should write about
The centuries-old tradition of writing for advocacy is continued into the digital era by blogging. But what should you be writing about? As part of a series previewing their new book "Communicating Your Research with Social Media", Amy Mollett, Cheryl Brumley, Chris Gilson and Sierra Williams consider the various different types of blog posts and how each might be used by academics.
Wednesday, 17 May 2017
Writing a peer review is a structured process that can be learned and improved – 12 steps to follow
Jo Wilkinson (Publons) asks an expert panel of researchers what steps they take to ensure a rigorous and robust review. Their advice has been compiled into 12 steps, relevant to both first-time peer reviewers and those keen to brush up on their skills.
Wednesday, 5 April 2017
The A to Z of social media for academia Your definitive guide to using social media as an academic
Why should academics be using social media? And which social media should they be using? There are so many tools and networks that could be of potential use to scholars that it can be difficult to keep track. Times Higher Education has teamed up with Andy Miah, chair in science communication and future media at the University of Salford, to offer you the definitive guide to the social media tools available to academics, and how you can use them as you go about your scholarly work. There are many, many tools, but they have tried to give an idea of how higher education professionals might use them. Check it out here
European Research Council, 10 Years, 10 Portraits
The European Research Council (ERC) was set up by the EU in 2007 to fund excellent scientists and their most creative ideas. It supports cutting edge research in all fields, and helps Europe keep and attract the best researchers of any nationality. Today, the ERC is a key component of Horizon 2020, the EU's programme for Research and Innovation. There's lots of interesting material on their website to help celebrate their first ten years including, these ten stories of research success https://erc.europa.eu/10years10portraits/
Wednesday, 1 March 2017
Top 10 Student Cities – According to Students!
This year's QS Best Student Cities index includes a brand new Student View category, based on ratings from students and recent graduates. The results are in some ways surprising, suggesting that the most iconic and in-demand cities (think London, Paris, NYC…) do not necessarily live up to expectations, while lesser-known cities often make for happier students.
Thursday, 15 December 2016
New HEPI analysis reveals major flaws in university league tables and urges Governments and institutions to ignore them.
Rankings of global universities, such as the THE World University Rankings, the QS World University Rankings and the Academic Ranking of World Universities claim to identify the 'best' universities in the world and then list them in rank order. They are enormously influential, as universities and even governments alter their policies to improve their position. The new research shows the league tables are based almost exclusively on research-related criteria and the data they use are unreliable and sometimes worse. As a result, it is unwise and undesirable to give the league tables so much weight.
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Editorial: Secrecy does not help find a PERS solution
Oregon's politicians have done an appallingly poor job of managing the costs of the state's pension fund. Would things get better with more secrecy? No.
But Gov. Kate Brown has given her blessing that her task force set up to brainstorm $5 billion worth of solutions can meet in complete secrecy.
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So, we moved our son out of our bedroom ten days ago.
And tonight we're moving him back in again.
It's not him who minds, it's us. It just didn't feel right. I slept the first couple of nights in his new bedroom and then he had a night alone. And we both felt that it was too soon and we questioned why we'd done it.
It was my idea to move him. I wanted to do it before he was aware of the change, so he wouldn't feel abandoned or wonder where we were. He still wakes around two times a night so it was also going to mean me going back and forth. But I felt our current set-up wasn't working either. My partner works nights (playing poker, since you ask) and sleeps in most days. It wasn't the nights that were tough but the mornings, when my son and I would get up and he'd sleep in. Dealing with changes, naps, feeds etc in the same room as my sleeping partner was irksome, to say the least.
So we've come up with a solution, I hope, that we're going to try. Little bub will sleep in with us at night, in his travel cot (just taken delivery of a new mattress.) And in the day he'll nap and we'll do everything else in his bedroom. This has the added bonus of helping him get used to his travel cot for our upcoming holidays.
I hope this works for us all. I just now need to get my head around how we cope with only one baby monitor…
When did your children move into their own room? How did you know it was time?
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September 23, 2017 2:00PM - 4:00PM at Carolina Beer Temple
Welcome Revision Brewing Company (Sparks, NV) to North Carolina! Be one of the first to try some fantastic IPAs from one of the newest breweries to hit area!
Please join us Saturday, September 23rd at the Carolina Beer Temple when we will be featuring two fantastic IPAs from Revision Brewing (their regular IPA as well as their double IPA " What What") in a mini tap takeover. We'll be pouring mini-flights all day plus we'll have pleny of bottles to-go too!
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A report from DebtX showed that commercial property managers experienced a slight loan price decline during July when compared to June's figure.
The total loan price level for collateralized commercial mortgage-backed securities fell to 88.3 percent in July, slightly lower than the previous month's figure of 88.4 percent, the report noted. The figure was still much higher than the loan value in July 2011, when it was 85.3 percent.
"Commercial real estate loan prices fell slightly in July after rising for seven straight months," said Will Mercer, managing director for DebtX. "The price decline was primarily due to an increase in the Treasury yield curve and a slight increase in credit spreads."
The report added that the total level of commercial real estate loans totaled more than 55,000, with a balance of nearly $770 billion.
Continued commercial real estate recovery should continue throughout the next year, though growth will level off slightly, according to the National Association of Realtors. However, the office, retail and industrial markets should have growth rates of more than 10 percent during that period.