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Perfecting The Motion
See also: Life can be better than you think.
"How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives."
— Annie Dillard
"To finish the moment, to find the journey's end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The way I see it, the aim of life is to maintain a sustainable and pleasant motion. The idea that happiness is not a destination, but a journey, although admittedly rather trite and cliche, strikes me as something to be taken very seriously, both at an individual level and at a societal level.
We lust for vacation, love, accomplishments, etc., partially because we're driven by instinct to do so, and partially because those were the things that have made us happy in the past. But one major issue with that is that there is more variability in happiness between, rather than within, individuals, and the set of human experiences that is possible today is vastly larger than the set of what was possible throughout human evolution. We learn what makes us happy based on our past experiences — individually and as a species — and those past experiences are but a sliver of all possible human experiences.
(On top of that, one of the findings of happiness research I have found most interesting is that someone's baseline mood correlates negatively with their variability in mood. Unhappy people have a better idea of what it is like to be happy than happy people have an idea of what it is like to be unhappy. For unhappy people, happiness is a fleeting experience, associated with love, accomplishments, etc., then quickly dissipating, whereas for happy people — in a certain way for most of us — it is merely a way of life.)
This post is partly inspired by an essay Arthur Schopenhauer wrote in the 19th century, The Emptiness of Existence. I was absolutely fascinated by it when I was a 15-year-old angsty teen, and now that I am older, happier, and don't see much point in reading philosophy from the time when computers did not exist, the text does not fascinate me nearly as much — but it still seems to me to be the case that Schopenhauer, both in that essay as well as in much of the rest of his work, points out a very crucial aspect of life. Namely, the pressing nature of entropy, and the necessity for continuous motion and restless striving. Quoting from the essay:
"Our existence is based solely on the ever-fleeting present. Essentially, therefore, it has to take the form of continual motion without there ever being any possibility of our finding the rest after which we are always striving. It is the same as a man running downhill, who falls if he tries to stop, and it is only by his continuing to run on that he keeps on his legs; it is like a pole balanced on one's finger-tips, or like a planet that would fall into its sun as soon as it stopped hurrying onwards. Hence unrest is the type of existence. [...]
"Looking at the matter a little closer, we see at the very outset that the existence of inorganic matter is being constantly attacked by chemical forces which eventually annihilates it. While organic existence is only made possible by continual change of matter, to keep up a perpetual supply of which it must consequently have help from without. Therefore organic life is like balancing a pole on one's hand; it must be kept in continual motion, and have a constant supply of matter of which it is continually and endlessly in need. Nevertheless it is only by means of this organic life that consciousness is possible."
I think that there is immense value in acknowledging that, in acknowledging the restlessness and continual motion of life, in acknowledging that there isn't really a restful end. You just need to replace the hopelessness in the text with well-founded optimism, with a desire to bring about continuous improvement.
That is the reason why I am so interested in optimizing routine. Not only that, but also in doing the same at a broader time scale — optimizing the rhythm, the motion of life, so to say, of not only my days my also of my weeks, months, and years. That strikes me as a very, very important question in the search for happiness.
I am very far from being a know-it-all when it comes to optimal scheduling, and in fact, I began examining this issue in-depth only rather recently, after spending a few weeks in panic under the overwhelming pressure of all the things that I wanted to do. But I am going to share some of my preliminary thoughts.
In life, we face a certain tradeoff. The modern world is significantly different from the environment of evolutionary adaptedness, and so our instincts are no longer a guide for success. Humans do not feel naturally inclined to sit on a desk for eight hours a day, and yet many of us ought to do just that, apart from having to pay bills, make calls, think far into the future, make complex decisions, eat healthy, go to the doctor, visit relatives, etc.
Doing all of those things right can require quite a lot of thinking and planning. Unfortunately, that can be detrimental for our happiness. There's often more authenticity, as well as more joy, in living mostly in execution-mode, in living in the present moment without thinking much about either the past or the future. Mind-wandering has a substantially large negative relationship with mood.
Thankfully, I think we can use computers to outsource the scheduling we need to keep our lives in motion, in such a way as to allow ourselves to spent long stretches of time being silly, fun and happy in the moment, or in the wonderful flow of deep work — states associated with good mood, and with getting things done — while simultaneously knowing that we don't need to bother ourselves with the distraction of the million of issues in our lives, knowing that we are going to deal with whatever other issues that involve what we are not doing at the moment at a later time.
That is possible because there is a certain predictability, a certain cyclicality to life's duties. At approximately fixed intervals of time, you must perform the very same actions, or analogous actions. It is a good exercise to summarize what all those actions are and what is the optimal timing for their execution. Working, studying, paying rent, getting a haircut, going to the doctor, talking to your relatives, taking your relatives to the doctor, etc. all follow a certain predictable regularity. Furthermore, although at different stages in your life the set of things you need to do in a frequent basis will be different, there will be patterns, and the more clearly you notice those patterns, the less you risk being caught off-guard by a bad life event.
I think it's very important to develop that trust in yourself — the trust that yes, you can just enjoy yourself now, or that you can just keep working on this one thing for several hours, and not have worry about the million of other issues in your life. It's important to show to yourself that you deserve that trust, moreover, by repeatedly succeeding at such time management.
I myself use Wunderlist in order to schedule actions to be taken at certain times in the future; that allows me to do wonderful superhuman things like signing up for 7-day free trials of software and cancelling the subscription in time and remembering to cancel before being billed. (Recently I've been slowly but steadily developing the necessity for something more complex than that, so I hope to work more closely on this issue later in the future.)
I think the Computer Science concept of batch processing is an important component of an ideal motion for life. Brian Christian and Tom Griffiths describes that and the closely related concept of interrupt coalescing in Algorithms to Live By (wonderful book, I recommend reading it, or at least checking out the 80000hours podcast episode with the authors and Robert Wiblin.). Batch processing and interrupt coalescing basically come down to scheduling the things you have to do in a regular basis in a manner so as to minimize the instances of context-switching, so as to maximize the amount of time spent on one task uninterruptedly. I really like that idea, as it seems to make it much more easy to achieve a state of flow, and to be fully immersed in what one is doing. Brian Christian's practical advice is synthesized well in this paragraph:
"The moral is that you should try to stay on a single task as long as possible without decreasing your responsiveness below the minimum acceptable limit. Decide how responsive you need to be—and then, if you want to get things done, be no more responsive than that."
That, perhaps, may also help make work and study more enjoyable. I don't know if this would work as well for others, but I myself have grown to deeply enjoy quite a few tasks that I used to find irksome merely by immersing myself deeply in them. It's much more fun to become the Calculus Queen for sixteen hours at a time than to begrudgingly study a little bit per day because I have to.
Relatedly, when I lived with my parents I remember I routinely had to leave home for a few hours, and it always killed me inside. Spending three hours outside of home means way more than three hours of work lost. Tellingly, I learned to code very quickly one month after I started living on my own and spending more time alone than I had ever been able to before. Finding joy in work and immersing yourself in it seems to be a wise way of dealing with the endless striving that characterizes life, both in efficiency and in valence — and batch processing seems to help with that.
"Life presents itself next as a task, the task, that is, of subsisting."
— Arthur Schopenhauer
"Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!"
— Lewis Carrol
"There is only one law of Nature — the second law of thermodynamics."
—Arthur Eddington, in The Nature of The Physical World
I don't know what a maximally good world would look like. What I do know, however, is that stillness is not an option.
Continuous work is necessary in order to avert entropy. That's largely why I like the sentence "the meadows of heaven await harvest," and have it as my personal website's subtitle. It encourages optimism, but simultaneously emphasizes that heaven is not static, that it is not an idle, restful state, but rather something that is to be continuously harvested: it encourages a definite optimism. Due to the nature of entropy, that seems to me very much appropriate.
Just like while building our routine we need to understand that the very process is in a certain way an end-in-itself, and there's no such thing as a permanent destination, the same concept applies to axiology.
Schopenhauer is far from being the only person to have noticed the importance of entropy. Steven Pinker does a great job at describing the importance of entropy in Enlightenment Now:
"How is entropy relevant to human affairs? Life and happiness depend on an infinitesimal sliver of orderly arrangements of matter amid the astronomical number of possibilities. Our bodies are improbable assemblies of molecules, and they maintain that order with the help of other improbabilities: the few substances that can nourish us, the few materials in the few shapes that can clothe us, shelter us, and move things around to our liking. Far more of the arrangements of matter found on Earth are of no worldly use to us, so when things change without a human agent directing the change, they are likely to change for the worse.
"Not only does the universe not care about our desires, but in the natural course of events it will appear to thwart them, because there are so many more ways for things to go wrong than for them to go right. Houses burn down, ships sink, battles are lost for want of a horseshoe nail. […]
"Poverty, too, needs no explanation. In a world governed by entropy and evolution, it is the default state of humankind. Matter does not arrange itself into shelter or clothing, and living things do everything they can to avoid becoming our food. As Adam Smith pointed out, what needs to be explained is wealth."
(I'll preemptively apologize for citing Pinker; I am fully aware and upset with his refusal to acknowledge existential risk, but it still seems to me that 95%+ of his contributions are valuable.)
There is a reason why, despite being so fundamental, entropy seems to be underrated. As Peter Thiel describes in Zero to One, technological progress has made people assume that things get better by default:
"Indefinite optimism has dominated American thinking ever since 1982, when a long bull market began and finance eclipsed engineering as the way to approach the future. To an indefinite optimist, the future will be better, but he doesn't know how exactly, so he won't make any specific plans. He expects to profit from the future but sees no reason to design it concretely.
"The strange history of the Baby Boom produced a generation of indefinite optimists so used to effortless progress that they feel entitled to it. Whether you were born in 1945 or 1950 or 1955, things got better every year for the first 18 years of your life, and it had nothing to do with you. Technological advance seemed to accelerate automatically, so the Boomers grew up with great expectations but few specific plans for how to fulfill them."
(I thank Scott Alexander for having recently reviewed the book; it made me read it, and I really enjoyed it. in retrospect I should've read it much sooner.)
One issue with this view, which Peter Thiel pointed out, is that it is inherently unsustainable. "How can the future get better if no one plans for it?" he asks in the book. "To a definite optimist," on the other hand, "the future will be better than the present if he plans and works to make it better," which to me makes more sense. As Steven Pinker pointed out, things don't get better by default. Definite optimism sounds to me like combining Schopenhauer's harsh realism with a fruitful can-do attitude.
Another issue with underestimating the relevance of entropy is that doing so severely taints our moral intuitions.
"Many people imagine some future that won't be much fun—and it doesn't even seem to occur to them to try and change it."
As Ozy describes it,
"One very common critique of hedonic utilitarianism is the wireheading objection. If you try to fill the universe with beings experiencing as much pleasure as possible, then the perfect world would consist of nothing but rats– a larger or more intelligent animal would use up resources better spent on new morally relevant beings– with a steady drip of heroin into their systems, and the infrastructure necessary to keep them alive and drugged. (If you don't happen to think animals are morally relevant, feel free to replace "rats' with "humans.') This seems, to put it lightly, counterintuitive."
The "rats on heroin" meme is nothing new to EAs, every once in a while showing up in the Dank EA Memes Facebook group. Last year Scott Alexander wrote:
"Utilitarianism agrees that we should give to charity and shouldn't steal from the poor, because Utility, but take it far enough to the tails and we should tile the universe with rats on heroin. [...]
"This is why I feel like figuring out a morality that can survive transhuman scenarios is harder than just finding the Real Moral System That We Actually Use. There's a potentially impossible conceptual problem here, of figuring out what to do with the fact that any moral rule followed to infinity will diverge from large parts of what we mean by morality.
The post includes this lovely chart:
But it seems to me that in large part, such divergence is an illusion; it seems to me that there isn't a disagreement there. Intelligence, as well as lucidity and self-awareness, seem to me altogether necessary for infinite bliss, in a world where it takes all the running you can do to keep in the same place, in a world where life is only made possible by continual change of matter and must be kept in continual motion. Perhaps intelligence wouldn't be used to its fullest 100% of the time in 100% of the locations of the universe, but contingent on the Second Law of Thermodynamics, its availability and readiness would be necessary. The infrastructure needed to maintain beings experiencing infinite euphoria throughout the entire universe which Ozy briefly mentioned would need to be extremely complex.
So the usage of that phrase might gratuitously and actively harm the image of utilitarianism (especially hedonic utilitarianism) by making it repulsive to the most well-meaning and altruistic of people wanting to make the world a better place, and by making many people confused about what it is that they truly value.
Granted, it could be that a superintelligence would eventually completely beat entropy (and therefore time itself(?)), thereby rendering that constraint unnecessary. But it seems to me that a world devoid of entropy would be so unimaginably different from ours that there is a burden of proof to claiming that the concept of "rats on heroin" would even make any sense at all. What would it mean for entropy not to exist? Would valence even be possible in such a world?
And, granted, I guess you could say that that phrase is just a metaphor, or a theoretical ideal. But at some point someone will have to investigate the minute engineering details. At some point someone will have to take the definite optimism approach to this whole "making the world a better place" thing.


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We hear a lot about the microbiome and birth, but what about during pregnancy? Does your microbiome change depending on the trimester you are in? Is it impacted by avoiding deli meats and sushi? Are there ways to alter your microbiome to discourage the presence of Group B Strep? Anne Estes tells us more. Check it out.
Get the most of this episode by checking out the resources and links listed on the "show-notes" page at: birthful.com/podcastpregnancymicrobiome
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Navigating stepfamily life can be difficult for everybody involved – the stepparents, the stepchildren, and the biological parents. We attempt to answer some commonly asked questions about everybody's role in a stepfamily.
Navigating stepfamily life can be difficult for everybody involved – the stepparents, the stepchildren, and the biological parents. We attempt to answer some commonly asked questions about everybody's role in a stepfamily.
Healing the Stepfamily from the inside out.
Sometimes just hearing what someone else has to say helps so much! I encourage you to write down your own experiences and send them to us. It's wonderful and healing when you come to realize that whatever you are going through, someone else is going through the same thing. It is my hope to make this site informative and helpful in your journey.
The StepFamily Center is dedicated to strengthening couples so they can successfully meet the challenges of the stepfamily experience!
A new year is here — a year to spend time strengthening your stepfamily, overcoming obstacles, and taking advantage of all the information out there on stepfamily life, including this wonderful magazine, StepMom Magazine.
If you haven't noticed, this past year has seen a burgeoning of information about stepfamily life. This is such an amazing time because, up until now, everything about living in a stepfamily has been suffered through silently by most of us living in it. No one to talk to. No one who really gets it. No understanding of what the issues are and how to talk to our husbands (or wives if you're a stepdad). No certainty that if we agree to be a part of the life of someone with children, we can demand that they go on this journey with us. (We go with them, but we also need them to go with us).
If we think about it, when any one of us becomes divorced or ends a relationship and we have children, it is ridiculous for us to allow ourselves to fall in love and "hope" things will work out. There is no possibility that stepfamily challenges and stepfamily dynamics will not occur in your family. Knowing what those dynamics are is vital. If you don't learn about them, then when you decide to become vulnerable and fall in love again, you are handicapping yourself, whether you're the step or the bio parent.
In this new era of available information (with the help of magazines, with the informative books available, with a radio show hosted by yours truly), we have access to each other and to real, useful, information – the kind we need. And we owe it to ourselves to become educated about stepfamily dynamics.
Stepfamily Life in the 2000s
Stepfamilies are the predominant family system in the U.S. today. There are 74 million of us. There are also many that have fallen off of the radar and, while those failed relationships are never reported, they impact parents and they also impact children significantly, as James Bray found in his research: When a second marriage and a second family dissolve, the children internalize the lessons that marriage is not permanent, that a home is never stable, and that you cannot trust the people you love.
When I became a stepmom in 1976, all I had were images – TV shows like The Brady Bunch, movies like Yours, Mine and Ours, and the original Parent Trap. So stepmoms could either be the hated, cold woman on the scene (the evil stepmom that needs to be displaced) or so incredibly, extraordinarily patient, kind, and understanding that anything short of that means you are evil and cruel. Of course, when your spouse is defending their darling children and not you, that increases the likelihood that you feel like Cruella de Ville!
Now is the time to usher in a new era in stepfamily life. An era where we declare that we are no longer going to delude ourselves thinking that we are like a nuclear family. An era when we break hold of the myths so we are not broadsided into believing we have failed when they crumble. An era when we acknowledge openly that stepparents and stepchildren have inherent problems, most of which belong to the system itself rather than terrible, incapable people.
Without ushering in this new era, we are doomed to repeat stepfamily dysfunction. But when we know what we are dealing with, we can face it together from an informed, proactive place.
Commitments Every Stepcouple Should Make
When we begin to really commit to learning about stepfamily life, we can help our children adjust far better. We owe it to our children to help them work through their issues about divorce, their loyalty binds, and the havoc they may be wreaking that ultimately leaves them feeling worse about themselves, by helping them understand stepfamily life. We can help educate grandparents, aunts and uncles, and teachers so they don't try to fit everyone into a nuclear family role — a role where everyone comes up short and everyone suffers.
We need to come into these relationships mindful, with emotional intelligence. I propose that all stepcouples usher in the new year with a commitment to focus on strengthening their relationship, tackling the issues of stepfamily life together, and pledging to treat their new family as it should be treated — a stepfamily, and not a nuclear family. On the following pages are Commitments for Stepcouples that you should review with your partner. What will result is not only a stronger coupling, but a stronger stepfamily.
Download a checklist of commitments that every stepcouple should make.
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My Arm Hurts From Throwing a Football
Because football is such a high impact and physically taxing sport, you can easily injure yourself while throwing a football. Arm pain can come from many training errors and conditions, some that require a doctor's treatment. Because pain can be excruciating, it is important to understand what can cause arm pain during or after throwing a football and how you can remedy it.
Football-related arm pain can vary from mild to severe. It can be localized to particular spots of the arm, such as the bicep, or occur throughout the entire arm, shoulder and hand. Additional symptoms can include numbness, skin discoloration, the sensation of pins and needles, swelling, instability, loss of mobility and tenderness. Symptoms can worsen when you lift your arm up over your shoulder. You may feel or hear your arm or shoulder 'popping out" at the time of injury.
Throwing a football excessively or not taking breaks as needed can dislocate the upper arm bone from the shoulder socket or damage the ligaments, muscles or tendons in the arm, resulting in pain and injury. Frequent throwing can also cause the inside of the elbow to stretch while compressing the outside of the elbow. This can result in small bone fractures, bone spurs, ligament strains and bone chips. Bicep tendonitis or stingers, where a direct blow to the neck compresses the nerves and sends a stinging sensation down the arm, can also trigger arm pan while throwing a football.
Rest your arm and immobilize it with a sling if possible. Hold an ice pack or heating pad against the painful area to help ease arm pain and swelling. Gently massage your arm to help remove any scar tissue and encourage the healing process. Take ibuprofen or acetaminophen to reduce pain and other symptoms. When the pain is gone, gently stretch out your arm and do strength training exercises such as bicep curls to help strengthen the muscles and prevent future injury.
Do not ignore shoulder pain as the result of throwing a football. Failing to treat the injury can cause the muscles, ligaments or bones to heal out of place, which can create future pain or injury. Seek medical attention if symptoms are chronic, severe or do not respond to home treatment. These could be symptoms of a more serious injury such as a fracture, which may require surgery.
- Sportsinjuryclinic.net: Football Injuries
- Sportsinjuryclinic.net: Stinger's and Burner's
- Sportsinjuryclinic.net: AC Joint Separation (Acromioclavicular Joint)
- Sportsinjuryclinic.net: Shoulder Dislocation
- The Stretching Institute; Throwers Elbow and Throwers Elbow Treatment; Brad Walker; 2011
- The Sports Science Orthopaedic Clinic: Biceps Tendinitis: Overview
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Influx of immigrants forces council to build four new schools
By JAMES TOZER
Last updated at 23:26 10 January 2007
Bradford council in West Yorkshire, where nearly 5,000 workers arrived last year, is one of many local authorities experiencing a shortfall of places in inner-city areas.
Yesterday education chiefs there said two of its existing primary schools would need to be expanded and four new ones built to cope with the increased demand for new places.
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Bradford has the second highest birth rate of any part of Britain outside London, and coming on top of that, immigration has left its school system struggling, it said.
A council report said the high number of births "has caused a shortfall in places in some parts of the district when combined with large numbers of Eastern European workers who are also moving into the district, sometimes bringing their families with them".
It added that it had been "impossible to predict the increase in numbers of newcomers" and finding places for them is "becoming much more difficult".
Bradford is just one of many local councils reporting that it is under strain as a result of record levels of immigration from Poland and other parts of Eastern Europe.
One in five primary school children are now from an ethnic minority, and some councils have been faced with massive bills to fund extra support such as interpreters as they are legally obliged to admit children from European Union member states.
At least 27,000 school-aged youngsters have arrived with their parents in the UK since ten countries – including Poland, Slovakia and the Czech Republic - joined the EU on May 1, 2004.
Elsewhere in the country, Wrexham in North Wales has reported that its schools are facing a similar pressure - around 50 Polish children started school there in September.
Agnieszka Tenteroba, a Polish teacher working with the newcomers, said: "First it was the husbands coming to work. People who want to stay then bring their families so we will have more and more Polish children in Wrexham."
Meanwhile in Slough, Berkshire, the council has reported that an influx of an estimated 10,000 Poles has left it facing going £15million in the red, with nearly 900 school pupils from non English-speaking backgrounds.
And in Peterborough, where there were just 22 children of economic migrants enrolled in secondary schools in January 2004, that has risen to more than 100 with one secondary school warning it was being "overwhelmed".
The Government does not collect figures for the number of children brought with them by immigrant workers, so officials in Bradford are having to base their estimates on the number of new National Insurance permits being issued - 4,650 last year.
The council's executive will now be asked to recommend research into how to expand school provision to cater for the increased number of children.
Colin Gill, executive member for children's services, said: "In those areas of the district where there are substantial changes in population size and distribution, we will need to make alterations to ensure that we provide the right number of primary school places in the right locations."
Bradford's birth rate, according to the latest figures, is the fourth highest in Britain, after Birmingham and the London boroughs of Newham and Hackney, with much of the growth thought to be within the city's more established immigrant communities.
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Brahms' Requiem
From the turbulence of 17th and 18th century Germany, through the ears of Bach and Schütz, to the humanistic, and affirming realm of Brahms' Requiem, Adelaide Chamber Singers and the Choir of St. James' Church, King Street combine in perfect harmony.
Pianists Jamie Cock and Kristian Chong join us for Brahms' own piano duet version of his beloved Requiem. And, we welcome the first ACS commission from emerging Adelaide composer and member of ACS Rachel Bruerville.
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Tournament 2003 is the sequel to 1999's multiple 'Game of the Year' award
winner. It uses the very latest Unreal Engine technology - where graphics, sound
and game play are taken beyond the bleeding edge. Unreal Tournament 2003 employs
the use of Vertex as well as Pixel Shaders and it's recommended that you use a
DirectX 8 videocard to get the most out of the game.
Neo-FIS2R (9800XT)
confirms what the other 3D benchmarks suggest, nVIDIA motherboards perform best
with nVIDIA videocards. Of course performance with ATi videocards is still very
It was a smart move for AMD to integrate
the memory controller onto the processor, that guarantees that even low end
Athlon64 systems meet a certain level of performance. Of course with that done,
it's a lot more difficult for manufacturers to differentiate themselves.
People gave nVIDIA a hard time when the first
nForce3-150 was released, and rightly so. Compared to the competition, the
NF3-150 was outdated. It had no native Serial ATA/RAID, no Gigabit ethernet and
let's not forget about the slow HyperTransport subsystem.
Seems like nVIDIA took all those complaints to heart
because the nForce3-250Gb includes everything we'd ever want and more; Serial
ATA and IDE RAID, an onboard Gigabit NIC
that has its own dedicated bus, AGP/PCI locking and a 1 GHz HyperTransport link!
It's all quiet on the critic front. ;-)
The MSI K8N Neo-FIS2R Platinum is an excellent
board to work with and is fully loaded too. The layout of the board is great and
really the only thing that irks me about the board is the placement of Serial
ATA slots one and two. The NF3-250Gb now has the fastest HyperTransport links of
all the competition, nVIDIA's solution runs at 1 GHz and is 16 bits wide both up
and downstream. In theory that means that the NF3-250 should be able to get data
to and from the processor and the various other devices quicker than the
competition. While that's great, in reality it really does not do much for
desktop applications yet.
In the end, the performance of the MSI K8N Neo-FIS2R
Platinum motherboard was excellent. It's easily the fastest Athlon64 board we've
tested to date. The benchmarks improved even further when we used a nVIDIA based
videocard, but even when with a Radeon 9800XT, performance remains very nice
indeed. The board is not in the retail channels just yet so we're not sure how
much it costs, but MSI usually price their products aggressively.
If you're an AMD Athlon64 user, make sure you check out
the MSI K8N Neo-FIS2R Platinum motherboard! It's based on the nForce3-250Gb
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|K Letisti 25 a, 1067
|Prague 6
|This brand new, modern hotel Ramada Airport is located at Prague International Airport, Terminal South. Thanks to its location, its high quality level of services and welcoming personnel, the hotel is a perfect place for business travellers, short city breaks and transit accommodation.
|The hotel offers accommodation in 56 luxurious, air-conditioned rooms. Each room with its own bathroom, shower, toilet and hairdryer as well as direct-line telephone, safe deposit box, minibar, TV set with satellite channels and Internet connection. They are located on 3 floors, all served by an elevator. Room types: 10 single room, 46 double rooms with variable beds, exta bed can be arranged, children?s beds available, smoking as well as non-smoking rooms at guests´ disposal pets (dogs, cats) are allowed for a fee of CZK 300/night
|The reception arranges many services on guests' request for example: hotel reception secures money trasfer through Western Union, laundry service (including ironing), sales of alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks, toiletries, cigarettes, postcards, stamps, tickets, etc. ? day and night, option to use the phone, fax or a copying machine 24 hours a day, loaning irons, ironing boards, fans, umbrellas.
|Hotel restaurant with a capacity of 50 seats is available for refreshment all day long. You may find there a range of delicacies of Czech and international cuisine. For entertainment our guests are welcome to play billiard in the hotel bar.
|Rich buffet breakfast served in the hotel restaurant provides an extensive selection of popular meals and beverages.
|Guided parking in garages.
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The inevitable destruction of planet Earth is upon us, however there is hope. A group of extreme vegan scientists have found another Earth-like planet which can hold life. Of course, their hate for humanity and love for all animals has them sending a number of space ships with only animals and food supplies to this distant planet, as they believe humans are the cause of all destruction. Spread across this new planet are a number of magic trees, which, within time, have given the animals the power to think, to talk and communicate with each other, to walk and build, just like humans.
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Krooked Tease is the love child of Jake O'Connor, founder, creative writer and head animator, and Ian Brew, creative writer and voice actor. In 2015, Jake started a small project making various t-shirt designs and stickers; selling merch in shops, online and at markets.
As the project slowly grew so did the passion to create an animation series using the characters from the t-shirts. And so, Jake and Ian started working on a mini series introducing a unique style and variety of characters.
We have a strong passion for creative art, cartoons, entertainment and humour. Through this we wanted to create something that reflects our personalities and also something that many of you out there can relate to. An animated series has been a dream of our as we absolutely love cartoons. Our inspirations range from classics like Ren and Stimpy and Pokemon to South Park or Rick and Morty.
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We feel in the last few years there has been more of a demand for adlut cartoon series. With successes like Rick and Morty, which truly push the boundaries in concepts, we believe there is an audience for Krooked Tease. We see that people are interested not only in unique animation styles but the developing story and underlying message of the show. We need resources and support from you to bring our project to life.
Donations for the fund will allow us to hire talented composers and sound designers to work on the score for the pilot. It will help us build a team of artists and animators to help quicken the process, because currently it's just Jake doing all the illustration, animation and design work! We will be able to hire and pay voice actors to work with us. And also it will help pay for proper equipment.
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Motivational speaker and inspirational author Louise Hay passed away from natural causes at the age of 90. She was the founder of Hay House and a leading voice for self-help and the New Age movement. Her second book, You Can Heal Your Life, sold over 50 million copies worldwide. Many of her followers claim this book changed their lives. It's the very book that launched her career in the '80s and paved the way for many motivational speakers and life coaches.
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Louise Hay was born on Oct. 8, 1926. Hay's personal life and childhood were far from perfect. Hay stayed positive despite her struggles. She was bullied in school, abused by her stepfather, and raped by a neighbor when she was just 5 years old. She dropped out of high school and became pregnant. She gave up her daughter for adoption on her 16th birthday. Hay moved to New York, where she modeled and married Andrew Hay in 1954.
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Omniscience is the ability to have unlimited understanding and awareness of everything.[1]
Characters with this abilityEdit
No character in the Supernatural Universe is omniscient.
Entities who have an awareness of everything that goes around in the universe and know almost everything
- Archangels - All Archangels possess a heightened awareness and perception of what's going on all around the universe. Michael and Lucifer recognized the release of The Darkness, although they were in the cage. They are older than the universe making them present at the time it was created.
- Gabriel - Gabriel, although the youngest Archangel, possesses great knowledge of the universe. He also possessed knowledge of the four Horseman rings and that they can open Lucifer's Cage.
- Lucifer - Lucifer, being the second Archangel in creation, possesses a profound understanding of the universe. As Sam once said to Dean "I'm sure he knows a buttload we don't", however he didn't know the car that Dean and Sam drive. He claimed to also know how to restore the wings of all remaining fallen angels and build new ones, but later he admitted that he lied about it. He knew that angels go to the Empty upon death, and even knew a way to resurrect them from there.
- Raphael - Raphael's knowledge, being an Archangel, was incredible. He knew of a way to open Lucifer's Cage, seemingly without the Horsemen's rings.
- Michael - Michael, being the first Archangel in creation, possesses a phenomenal understanding of the universe. His knowledge surpasses even Lucifer's. He was even aware of Anna Milton's plan, and picked just the right moment to throw it off the rails.
- Death - Having existed alongside God, and a being as powerful as God, Death possesses a near unrivaled understanding and knowledge of the Universe, rivaled only by God.
- Billie - After her promotion as the new Death, she gained a much higher elevation of cosmic awareness and could see the actual necessity of the Winchesters to the universe. This is notable considering her disdain for the Winchesters and her original firm belief that everything that dies should stay dead. However, she was unaware that a Nephilim was the cause of the rift or that Castiel was resurrected in her talk with Dean.
- God - God knows almost everything. Joshua once said to the Winchesters that he already knew everything they wanted to tell him. However, Death claims that God has forgotten who is older between the two of them. Metatron also claims God did not know the name of multiple people who worshiped him, but later he said that God hears and sees all.
Cosmic AwarenessEdit
Cosmic awareness is the ability to know and understand what's transpiring across the universe.
- The Shadow - Despite apparently never leaving his domain, the Empty, he possesses knowledge of the primordial forces that shaped reality.
- Eve - A very old entity, Eve possess a strong understanding of the universe. She bears some knowledge and insight on the Natural Order, and the role she and her children play in it.
- Metatron - As the scribe of God, he wrote several words of God about various beings, and has knowledge of many creatures including demons, angels, and leviathans.
- The Darkness - Being older than God himself, the Darkness knows many things, but is still learning about the universe God made while she was locked away. However, she was immediately able to speak the English language.
Limited Cosmic AwarenessEdit
A milder, limited form of a type of cosmic awareness. While not as intelligent as those with full cosmic awareness, these beings are far more intelligent that those with bare superhuman intellect.
- Angels (Collectively all branches of angels besides the archangels) - All angels understand and know many things, such as all potential Prophets and the powers of other beings. However, there are limits to their knowledge as no angel knew that they go to the empty in death until Castiel was awakened in The Empty by the Nephilim, Jack and the Cosmic Entity explained to him what it was. The Angels also did not know the Darkness was a true story until the Winchesters released her into the world.
- Famine, Pestilence, and War - Horsemen have incredible knowledge and understand many things.
- Pagan deities - The pagan deities have a higher awareness of the world and the natural order. During the events of season 5, many pagan deities gathered to discuss the Judeo-Christian apocalypse and knew details demons didn't know before it began, like Sam and Dean being Lucifer and Michael's true vessels. Also, Atropos, a goddess employed by Heaven, uses her powers to determine the fate of humans.
Superhuman intelligenceEdit
This is the ability to know or understand more than is humanely possible, but not to the point of total awareness.
- Alpha Vampire - He knew where Purgatory is and what The Colt was.
- Demons - Demons possess higher forms of knowledge.
- Eleanor Visyak - She possessed knowledge on Purgatory.
- Leviathan - As the first beasts, they are highly intelligent.
See alsoEdit
- Omnipotence defined as the ability to do anything logically possible (which includes the ability, to give oneself any ability) implies that an omnipotent force could also be omniscient if it wants to be.
- However, it also provides a paradox: Assuming an entity is both, being omniscient it knows its own future. Either it can't change its own future and has therefore no longer free will or, the entity changes it, which would mean it could not predict the future correctly, hence it's not omniscient.
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Matthew Pawlowski
Matthew A. Pawlowski in an artist and curator who lives and works in San Francisco, California. He received his Bachelor's of Art degree from Macalester College in 1989 and a Masters in Fine Art degree from the University of Minnesota in 1994. Pawlowski moved to San Francisco in 1996 and opened E.S.P. Gallery, an exhibition space for emerging artists, on Valencia Street, in the Mission District. ESP hosted several seminal S.F. art shows during this time: STUCK: San Francisco Sticker Art, (1998), EROTIC: Unsolicited Works from the Tom of Finland Archive, (1999) and Prettytown Parts 1 & 2: Queer Americana in San Francisco, (2000). Some of the artists who exhibited at E.S.P. Gallery include: Xylor Jane, Alicia McCarthy, Jim Winters, Rex Ray, Cliff Hengst, Scott Hewicker, Michelle Rollman, D.L. Alvarez, Kehinde Wiley, Paul Sietsema, Bruno Fazzolari, Chris Johanson, Tobin Yelland, Ed Templeton, Leah Modigliani, Marc Swanson, Annika von Hausswolf, Johan Zetterqvist, Geoff Chadsey, Paul Rowley, Shepard Fairey, Sandra Wong, Kirk Maxson, and Darin Klein.
Since 2015, my art practice has focused mostly on mixed media needlework that utilized imagery reflecting gay culture and the evolving way the gay community re-interprets its identity.The forward momentum for LGBTQIAA equality has altered the way a once radical subculture which traditionally valued its outsider status, now seems determined to be validated within the culture at large. I am interested in this conflict between acceptance and "otherness."
By utilizing a traditionally feminine art form, I reconsider gay symbols, history, and representation. The repetitive, meditative nature of needle work infers a ruminative medium that, in this context, considers lives once lived and gay culture's unwieldy journey into the 21st century.
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M.F.A., University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
B.A., Macalester College, St. Paul, Minnesota.
2016 Sticks Gallery, Berkeley, CA. Solo Exhibit. Myong Stebbins, Curator.
2016 Five Pins Gallery, San Francisco, CA.Group Exhibit.Lis Goldschmidt, Curator.
2015 Sticks Gallery, Berkeley, CA.Solo Exhibit. Myong Stebbins, Curator.
2015 Five Pins Gallery, San Francisco, CA.Group Exhibit.Lis Goldschmidt, Curator.
2011 Proof, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA. Group Exhibit. Denise Markovish, Curator, Mass MOCA.
2009 Collaborative Work by Sam Lopes and Friends, BlankSpace Gallery, Oakland, CA. Collaboration.
2008 Faretheewell, Circa Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
2006 Bridge Art Fair, Miami Beach, FL
2006 BACKDROP: New Photos and Paintings, Jean Flynn Space, Berkeley, CA.
2005 Summer in Southpark, Andrea Schwartz Gallery, San Francisco, CA. Group Exhibition.
2005 15 x 15 x 15, Circa Gallery, Minneapolis, Minnesota. Group Exhibition.
2005 Monster Drawing Rally, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, California. Group Exhibition.
2005 Adoration/Decoration, Circa Gallery, Minneapolis, Minnesota. Solo Exhibition.
2004 WAM Art Expo, Frederick R Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
2004 Monster Drawing Rally, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, California. Group Exhibition.
2004 Reversing Vandalism, San Francisco Public Library Gallery, San Francisco, California.
2001 The Lite Light Show, 370 South Fair Oaks, Pasadena, California. Group Exhibition.
2000 SF Drawing Show, New Image Arts, Los Angeles, California. Group Exhibition.
2000 Multiple Sensations: Series, Collections, Obsessions, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts,
San Francisco, California. Group Exhibition.
2000 Summerland, 52 Julian Space, San Francisco, California. Group Exhibition.
2000 Things Get Dangerous, Blue Books Gallery, San Francisco, California. Group Exhibition.
2000 Pierogi 2000 Gallery, Flat Files, New York, New York. Curatorial Project Participation.
1999 California, Circa Gallery, Minneapolis, Minnesota. Solo Exhibition.
1997 Out Loud and Proud, Bridge Gallery, San Francisco, California. Group Exhibition
1996 Sequence, The Student Center Art Gallery, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, California. Group Exhibition.
1996 Ephemera, Circa Gallery, Minneapolis, Minnesota. Solo Exhibition.
1996 Where Do You Draw the Line? Minnesota Museum of Art, St. Paul, Minnesota. Group Exhibition.
1995 Recall, Macalester College Gallery, Macalester College, St. Paul, Minnesota. Group Exhibition.
1995 Freaks, Circa Gallery, Minneapolis, Minnesota. Solo Exhibition.
1995 New Work, Irene Whitney Fine Arts Festival Honoree, Minneapolis, Minnesota. Solo Exhibition.
1994 Figuration, St. Paul Companies Gallery
1994 The Forgotten Gaze, Katherine Nash Gallery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
1994 Recent Paintings, Circa Gallery, Minneapolis, Minnesota. Two-Person Exhibition.
1993 Big Ten Conference Exhibit, Big Ten Conference, Park Ridge, Illinois. Group Exhibition.
1992 A Day Without Art, Studio Arts Student Society, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota. Artist Collaboration.
1992 Expo 1992, Coffman Memorial Union, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota. Group Exhibition.
1992 Collage Concepts-A Sum of Elements, Bloomington Art Center, Bloomington, Minnesota. Two-Person Exhibition.
Visual Aid, Recipient, San Francisco, California. 2009.
Bush Foundation Semi-Finalist, Minneapolis, Minnesota. 1995.
MCAD/McKnight Foundation Fellowship Semi-Finalist, Minneapolis, Minnesota. 1995.
MCAD/Jerome Foundation Fellowship Semi-Finalist, Minneapolis, Minnesota. 1994.
Department of Art Scholarship Recipient, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota. 1994.
President's Leadership and Service Award, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota. 1993.
Graduate Study Fellow, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota. 1992-93.
Distinguished Merit Award, Art. Macalester College Senior Honors Convocation. 1988.
Instant Webb Corporation Permanent Collection, Chanhassen, Minnesota.
Reinhardt Anderson Law Firm Permanent Collection, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Dain Bosworth Company Permanent Collection, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Macalester College Permanent Collection, St. Paul, Minnesota.
God Bless the Children of the Beast, Great God Pan, Spring, 1999. (Reviewer)
Foundation Artists Headline SF Exhibit, Tom of Finland Foundation Website, 1999. (Author)
The Art Workers Press Top Ten Book, edited by Courtney Fink. 2005. (Contributor)
The Thing Quarterly, S.F. Trippy Mission: Lives & Art 1989 - 2002, 2014. (Publication)
Jacqueline Ann von Treskow, All on Different Trips-San Francisco's Mission School and the Dot Com Years, USC, Master of Public Art, 2012. (thesis)
Mary Abbe, A Gallery Crawl, Minneapolis Star and Tribune, September 26, 2008. (review)
Mary Abbe, Culture Crash, Minneapolis Star and Tribune, March 27, 2005. (article)
Mary Abbe, Strength of Show, Minneapolis Star and Tribune, August 25, 1989. (review)
Mary Abbe, Fair Exhibits, Minneapolis Star and Tribune, August 23, 1991. (review)
Mary Abbe, Several Galleries, Minneapolis Star and Tribune, May 27, 1995. (review)
David Anger, Cohesive Bold Art, Equal Time, June 19, 1992 (article)
David Anger, Person Column, Q Monthly, June 1995. (article)
Graffito Magazine, Premeire Issue, September, 1993. (illustration)
The James White Review, Spring Summer, 1997. (illustrations)
2005 Guest Lecturer, Stanford University Department of Art, Palo Alto, CA.
2004 Presenter, 2004 Bay Guardian GOLDIE Awards, to Xylor Jane for Visual Art, San Francisco, CA.
2000 Panelist, Visual Arts Advisory Panel, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA.
1999 Juror, Tom of Finland Foundation Annual Emerging Erotic Artist Competition, Los Angeles, CA.
1999 Panelist, You Are Here, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco CA. Symposium sponsored by Southern Exposure, New Langton Arts, San Francisco Arts Commission.
2014Co-Curator, Yukari Sakura, Animals, a collaborative exhibition with Creativity Explored at the SF SPCA
1997 -Curator, ESP Gallery, San Francisco, California.
2000 Prettytown Parts 1 & 2: Queer Americana in San Francisco
2000 PURE 5 California Photographers: Aaron Plant, Maizie Gilbert, Kelli Yon, Tobin Yelland, Ed Templeton
1999 EROTIC: Unsolicited Works from the Tom of Finland Archive
1999 Peek-a-boo: DL Alvarez, Geoff Chadsey, Cliff Hengst, Xylor Jane, Tracy Nakayama, Michelle Rollman
1999 NEW: Three Emerging Artists: Karen Kersten, Jake Hartman, and Timothy Taylor
1999 Black Party: Drawings by Annika von Hausswolf, Johan Zetterqvist and Marc Swanson
1998 Stuck: San Francisco Sticker Art
1998 NOW: Four Emerging Artists: Amy Balkin, Christopher Garrett, Rafael Melendez, Kehinde Wiley
1998 TIME ZERO: Artists and Polaroids 1997 Survey Show: ESP Artists
1999 Paul Rowley and David Phillips, Flowery
1999 Matt Mayfield, In Memory of the Children
1999 Rachel Neubauer, Rendevous
1999 Leah Modigliani, Bildungsroman
1999 Darin Klein and Sean O'Dell, New Work
1999 Susanne Cockrell/Curtis Hsiang, New Work
1998 Mike Pare, Pacific Time
1998 Steven Brown/Bigfoot, New Work
1998 Brandon Kiel/Aaron Plant, New Work
1998 Kathryn Lybarger/Dan Tiffany, New Work
1998 Arnold Kemp, Arnold J. Kemp
1998 Tobin Yelland, Skateboarders
1998 Marc Swanson, Bats Like Me
1997 Nina Ackerberg and Kathryn Lybarger, New Work
1997 Heidi Brant/Shane Valentino, I'm Just Filthy (DJ Nosferatu and Her Little Black Beamer)
1997 Bruno Fazzolari and Paul Sietsema, Watery
1997 Kevin Hill, New Work
1997 Sandra Wong, New Work
1997 Mike Pare, World Sports
1997 Paul Craven, Destination Out
1997 Darin Klein, New Work


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Beach Fossils share 'Silver Tongue'
Beach Fossils have shared new track, Silver Tongue as part of the Secretly Group's online charitable project, 'Our First 100 Days.'
'Our First 100 Days' has seen a host of artists share previously unreleased material via Bandcamp. The project aims to raise funds and awareness for organisations supporting causes under threat during the current Trump administration, including climate charities and LGBTQ community groups. For a small contribution, fans will receive one song per day for the first 100 days of the Trump presidency. Artists including PWR BTTM, Kate Tempest, Surfer Blood, Cherry Glazerr, and Angel Olsen have all joined Beach Fossils in contributing tracks.
Beach Fossils are currently preparing for the release of their new album, Somersault in June and the band recently shared a music video for the single Saint Ivy. The video pays tribute to their fellow New York City-based artists and America's varied and diverse population. In yet another charitable move, Beach Fossils encouraged fans and viewers of the video to donate money to two American national organisations struggling due to government budget cuts.
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It's funny the ideas that can come to you whilst tidying the kitchen.
I was listening to Lucy's podcast, What She said, at the weekend and Lucy mentioned (in this episode) how Pinterest drove traffic to her blog - but only to a small number of her 'helpful' posts. She said, 'there isn't a nice group board for random, oversharing-type posts'.
And I understood exactly what she meant. Pinterest is often the place where you share travel tips, or chicken-keeping tips, or social media marketing tips - posts that people actively search for to answer a question they have.
But, maybe, we could use it as a place to collect and share beautiful, thoughtful blog reads, too? I mean, how-to posts have their place - I've written some myself - but sometimes you just want to read without your brain starting to whir into action.
When I went off on a tangent earlier this year and began 'niching' my blog my Pinterest took a battering. I deleted boards that focused on the seasons, boards on chicken and duck keeping, boards on baking and preserving. What was I thinking?!
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Then I took a hard look at myself and decided to stop niching my blog.
Now I've had my re-think about what I'm doing and I'm delightfully cracking on with it I was wondering what to do with my Pinterest profile. So, yesterday I deleted loads of the boards I'd created earlier this year all relating to social media marketing. Gradually I'll start building my boards back up. And I stopped following lots of people who only pin on those subjects. Thanks to something called 'looping' I often see the same pins all the time. There's nothing new or fresh.
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We have been so fortunate to see all parts of the world and no matter what city or pasture we find ourselves in, what never fails to strike us is how similar we all really are.
There may be some language and cultural variations, but we have the same basic human needs, human wants, and human desires. If more people had the opportunity to see other parts of the world (or even took the time to see other parts of their own neighborhoods), we can't help but think there would be a lot more peace and understanding.
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes. ~ Marcel Proust
What was the most profound thing you realize on your last trip? Tell us in the comments section below.


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This Swede Gonna Mash Us?
We chatted with Swedish journalist Eric Hilmersson to get his view on the Swedes and what kind of threat he feels the Boys in Green will have on their hopes of getting out of the group.
TOJ: What is the relationship between the public and the National Team like?
EH: It has seen both better and worse days. About a year ago it reached a new low, after the humiliating defeat against Austria (1-4) but after the performances in the playoffs against Denmark a lot of hope was once again raised. So the team is quite popular, and Zlatan has been in a good mood lately, which helps a lot…
TOJ: Is there a pressure on the team to reach the last 16 having not done so in 10 years?
EH: Yes, I feel a lot of people think it is about time that we enjoyed a little success in a big Championship. Also, many believe that this is our last chance for a while considering Zlatan's imminent departure and the fact that the next World cup will be very hard to reach.
TOJ: How was the qualification process?
EH: It was a roller coaster. Sweden started out in a nice way, gathering points, and drawing against Austria away. Before the away-game against Russia everyone thought that it was "in the sack" but two straight defeats changed everything and Mr Hamrén was very heavily criticised at that point. There was even talks about this being "the worst Swedish national team ever". But as I said, the playoffs proved that Sweden still had a solid game, and since then Mr Hamrén and the players have shown a whole different level of self esteem.
TOJ: How are the Swedish XI likely to line out from a tactical and strategy point of view?
EH: Sweden will play a classic 4-4-2. The full-backs are relatively offensive, but most of all expected to deal with their defensive tasks. The midfield will consist of two central defenders (probably Källström and Lewicki), where one of them has a strictly defensive role (Lewicki), and the other hone is supposed to be a two-way player. The winger on the right side (most likely Sebastian Larsson) will stay close to the line and run a lot up and down and take big defensive responsibility, whereas the winger on the left side (Forsberg) will be more attacking, and have a more free role, moving in and out.
The attackers will be Zlatan, who enjoys absolute freedom and often comes deep to collect the ball, and another forward (probably Berg) who is destined to stay close to the penalty area as well as picking up rebounds.
TOJ: Leicester City were given incredible credit for being so fit this year. A lot of this credit will be owed to Paul Balsom, who is also part of the Swedish set up. Can we expect a similar approach to fitness with this Swedish side?
EH: I believe so, yes. Sweden has never had such a big following around the team, which includes medical and physical staff. Mr Hamren is very aware that in most matches Sweden need to be stronger physically than the opponent in order for us to win.
TOJ: How do you rate Erik Hamren, and how would you describe his management style?
EH: Overall he has done fairly good over the last seven years. He came in with a lot of passion and optimism, which in some cases turned out to be naivety. He is definitely not considered to be a tactical genius and he has more than often proved inept to explain exactly what he wants from his team as far as tactics go. However he is very emotional and driven and he has definitely managed to make this team do some spectacular things. Like coming from 0-4 to 4-4 against Germany, in Berlin.
TOJ: Who are the players that the Irish public might not know but should be aware of?
EH: I would have to say Emil Forsberg. He has played in the second division in Germany, but he has been one of the leagues best players and the last year he has been our best offensive player, behind Zlatan. He is fast, has great technique, and is very bold and hard to catch when he sets off.
TOJ: Zlatan is Sweden's greatest ever player. Where is he likely to be used against Ireland, as a no.10 or a no.9?
EH: As I said, it depends on how he feels that he can affect the game at hand the most. But he likes to control the game by directing the ball from the midfield, but he is also very often the man up front finishing the attacks. So he is both, but maybe a little more number 10.
TOJ: Does this Swedish team have weaknesses? And if so what do you think they are?
EH: Ever since Mr Hamrén took over the defence has not been as solid as it was under Mr Lagerbäck. Defensive mistakes happen every now and then, and we have had some problems finding full-backs that are able to consistently perform on a high level. Now with Lustig back on track, the problem is probably biggest on the left side with the unpredictable Martin Olsson. Also, there has been some problems dealing with set pieces from time to time.
TOJ: Sweden are the reigning European Champions at U-21 level. Who are the bright young hopes in the squad?
EH: The centre-back Victor Nilsson-Lindelöf has had a fantastic season in Benfica, playing in the Champions league and receiving a lot of praise for it. Huge talent. Midfielder Oscar Hiljemark is a classic box-to-tox-player who also has great potential and has been a leading figure in Palermo. A future captain in my view.
TOJ: What is the Swedish public's perception of the Irish team?
EH: I think a lot of people know about what Shane Long can do, and what Robbie Keane used to do. Other than that we think of Ireland as a hard working team, a group of players who could die for their country and who are really hard to play against. But swedes don't know too many of your players apart from the ones I mentioned, and I think most people feel that Sweden should win.
TOJ: Finally, the Sweden v Ireland game is seen as a must-win by both sides, how do you expect it to end up and also the final group standings?
EH: I think that Sweden will win. We have a team with a group of players who has experience from big games and we have a few with the individual qualities to be decisive. And with Zlatan we have a player that can score against any team, even if the attacking game isn't really working for us. 1-0 to Sweden.
Belgium will win the group, Italy or Sweden will finish second. And Ireland.. well, sorry.
TOJ: We'll see who the sorry ones are in due course, Eric!
Eric Hilmersson is a Swedish sports journalist based out of Gotenburg. Versed very well on Swedish football, and equally upbeat about their chances in France. So much so, he's skipping the Euro's and covering the Rio Olympics this summer instead. We question whether it's really a sporting decision though ;-)
Zlatan picture by the talented: @HowayaPrints