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Scrum Sevens
Fighting through the pain barrier
Tom Hamilton
February 28, 2013
Manu Tuilagi's injured ear in all its glory © Getty Images
If ever you wanted proof of just how hard Manu Tuilagi is, then look no further than Saturday's clash between England and France. He suffered a lacerated ear in the opening stages of the match and rather than adhering to the doctor's advice and getting it stitched back on, he asked the medics to "just tape it up". The bloodied and bandaged Tuilagi went on to score the winning try and later required 19 stitches.
With Tuilagi's bravery in mind, this week's Scrum Sevens looks at a group of players who have battled through the pain barrier for the good of their team.
Wayne 'Buck' Shelford
In the match we now know as the 'Battle of Nantes', Shelford, in just his second Test for the Kiwis, found himself at the bottom of a ruck after about 20 minutes. One of the All Blacks' more physical players, the French forwards took a dislike to the No.8 and he was on the wrong end of a fair few punches. The result was that Shelford lost four teeth but arguably the greater damage occurred a little lower down. A stray boot found his groin-area and ripped his scrotum leaving one testicle out in the open.
Rather than falling to the turf in agony, as I am sure that 99% of men would do, he asked the physio to attend to his lower regions. In front of the watching crowd and national television, Shelford had his scrotum stitched up. After the procedure was completed he returned to the field and continued playing.
His match was eventually cut short due to being knocked out but he later summed up the whole ordeal saying: "I was knocked out cold, lost a few teeth and had a few stitches down below. It's a game I still can't remember... I don't really want to, either."
Jamie Roberts
The Welsh centre is no stranger to injuries having only started a total of four games for the Cardiff Blues during the 2011-12 season but regardless of his recent run of bad luck, he knows what it takes to battle through the pain barrier. Back in 2008, Wales hosted the Wallabies at the Millennium Stadium and eventually beat Australia 21-18 thanks in part to the gutsy efforts of their wrecking ball of a centre.
The men in green and gold had to play 78 minutes without their inspirational centre Stirling Mortlock who initially appeared to be the only victim of a shuddering skull to skull clash with Roberts. However, after another 15 minutes the Welshman was substituted with subsequent scans revealing that he had suffered a fractured skull.
Wales doctor John Williams later explained the damage Roberts suffered saying: "I've never seen anything like this. It was a collision of heads at a certain angle with a certain momentum causing a crack. After the contact Stirling Mortlock looked like he had come off worse. Jamie was conscious throughout and there were no signs of anything, no suggestion of a fracture or any problem with his nose or eyes. The contact was with his forehead.
"And then the headache gradually came on as he was playing about five minutes after and we pulled him off as the headache got worse. He is a pretty tough guy. He texted the team and the team thanked him for taking Stirling Mortlock out of the game!"
Stirling Mortlock and Jamie Roberts feel the effects of their head clash © Getty Images
Joe Worsley
Worsley is renowned as one of England's greatest warriors and proof of this came back in the 2001-02 season. Wasps were taking on Harlequins at the Twickenham Stoop and the flanker suffered a 'torn scrotum' - the flanker himself is the best man to describe how the eye-watering injury occurred.
"Jason Leonard did it actually, but it was an accident, I know the guy and he's a good friend, so he would never mean to do anything like that. I remember it in slow-motion, the sun was low and I saw Jason's huge 19 stone silhouette appear. I thought - this is going to be painful - but boy, I didn't know it was going to be along those lines."
Worsley was forced to leave the field but he made an astonishingly quick recovery. Complete with a cricket box protecting his stitched up scrotum, Worsley played eight days later in their Heineken Cup clash against Stade Francais.
Nathan Sharpe
Prior to the Wallabies' 2010 showdown with South Africa, the Australians were told to show more 'mongrel' and no one typified this warrior spirit more than lock Nathan Sharpe. In the 70th minute of the match he attempted to catch centre Jaque Fourie who was running through the Australian defence. While he failed to tackle the Boks centre, Fourie left a lasting impression on Sharpe with his stray boot catching the lock's mouth, knocking out one of his molars but he played on.
At the full-time whistle six of the Suncorp Stadium's ground staff were deployed to the pitch to find the stray tooth. Similar to the proverbial needle in the haystack, they managed to find it and Sharpe's tooth was later re-united with his jaw in the dentist's chair.
Colin Meads
Voted 'New Zealand's Player of the Century' in 1999, Meads played 133 games for the All Blacks with 55 of them Tests. He was a sheep farmer by trade but when he was unleashed on to the field, he was the Kiwis' enforcer. While on tour in South Africa in 1970, New Zealand came up against an Eastern Transvaal side who had been reportedly told by then chairman of the South African Rugby Union, Danie Craven, to soften up the Kiwis. They targeted Meads and six minutes into the match, he sustained an arm injury.
He walked over to the side of the pitch in the 20th minute to have the injury evaluated but was informed that it was just bruised. He ended up playing the rest of the game with his left arm largely limp by his side - the New Zealanders won 24-3. Only after the game was the horrific nature of his injury unearthed.
Renowned New Zealand journalist Terry McLean later described the injury as 'the break that shook the world' - he had fractured his left forearm. Nicknamed 'Pinetree', Meads returned to action, complete with leather arm guard, less than five weeks later and played in nine of the Kiwis' remaining 10 tour games.
Ronan O'Gara
If you cast your eye back over the British & Irish Lions' illustrious history then there are numerous examples of matches where the 'warm-up' games have acted as an excuse for the Lions' opposition to rough up the famous touring side. In 2009 the Southern Kings adopted a physical mindset which involved plenty of late hits on the Lions. In 2001, it was the Waratahs who got stuck into the tourists.
Duncan McRae connects with Ronan O'Gara © PA Photos
The match saw one red card and five yellows with Duncan McRae sent-off for a violent assault on O'Gara in the 55th minute of the match. McRae landed 11 punches on the prone O'Gara and eventually copped a lenient seven-week suspension. Despite having a mushed face, O'Gara returned to the field three days later.
The Waratahs' intentions were clear; they wanted to weaken the Lions before they reached the Test series. "We really gave it to them. A lot of Lions will have sore bodies and I hope the Wallabies give them a real thrashing," 'Tahs skipper Phil Waugh said post-match.
Sean Fitzpatrick
He was very rarely injured, he won the World Cup, he helped down the Lions in 1993 and was one of the game's greatest ever players. Sean Fitzpatrick ticks all the boxes when it comes to rugby players - he can also take a punch and not bat an eyelid.
During an ill-tempered Test between Ireland and New Zealand in 1992, Fitzpatrick was involved in a tussle with Paddy Johns. Seeing his team-mate was in trouble, Ireland's Steve Smith came to Johns' rescue and tried to floor Fitzpatrick. Smith recalled: "I hit him square on the chin and I immediately thought "that's the last we'll see of him."
But unfortunately for Smith, he was wrong. In punching Fitzpatrick, he ripped the tendons in his first and the Kiwi continued playing, although he was a few ivories down. "He just spat bits of teeth into his hand," Smith continued. "He threw them to the ground and ran back onto the pitch.
"He just smiled at me and said "Looks like you've made a bit of a mess of your hand Smithy." To be honest, I didn't feel so good then. In fact, I spent the rest of the match looking over my shoulder."
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For first-year Guilford College head football Chris Rusiewicz, the 2011 season isn't about rebuilding, but refocusing. While the Quakers are coming off their first winless season since 1972, the new coach worked with a crop of over 50 letter winners in the spring and helped bring in some 40 recruits bent on reversing Guilford's football fortunes.
Rusiewicz (left), Guilford's 22nd recorded head coach, won the 2010 American Football Coaches Association Assistant Coach of the Year Award as associate head coach at Ursinus (Pa.) College. He served as the Bears' defensive coordinator and special teams coach for seven of his nine years on Peter Gallagher's staff. Ursinus ranked 23rd or higher among NCAA Division III total defense leaders in three of the past four years and shared the 2010 Centennial Conference title. The Bears enjoyed four winning seasons in Rusiewicz's last five years and posted an 8-2 record a year ago.
When Rusiewicz took over in January, he met first with the Quakers' seniors and stressed his idea of success, which is more than wins and losses. For Rusiewicz, success involves having fun, learning on and off the field and making the most of the college experience. With the seniors on board, he visited the remaining veterans and implemented academic and physical expectations designed for both individual and team success. He tested the veterans in the spring and saw major improvement, which gives him confidence for his first season as a college head coach.
Backed by a nine-man coaching staff that includes a blend of former Guilford and Ursinus assistants, plus some new coaches, Rusiewicz implemented new offensive and defensive schemes in the spring. In addition to teaching new plays, the coaches evaluated talent and put students in their optimal positions. On offense, the Quakers will operate out of multiple formations designed to keep opposing defenses off balance. Ultimately Rusiewicz wants to control the ball with a sound running game combined with a quick-strike passing attack under the direction of first-year offensive coordinator Chris Barnette '07. Rusiewicz directs the defense in 2011 and brings his 4-2-5 formation, which takes advantage of Guilford's depth in the secondary.
Rusiewicz wants all of his students to win at least one Old Dominion Athletic Conference (ODAC) title during their Guilford career. For the Quakers' 13 seniors, this year is their lone chance at title, which should inspire them to buy into the new coach's philosophies. Based on evaluations of last spring's practice and reviews of past seasons, Rusiewicz thinks Guilford can compete right away with good health and a little luck. If the veterans are in shape and continue last spring's progress, and if some newcomers make meaningful contributions, expect Guilford to turn a few heads in 2011.
Here's a look at some of Guilford's top contenders by position:
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Team captain Chris Jessup (above right) moves from linebacker to weak-side defensive end for his senior campaign. He garnered honorable mention All-ODAC recognition a year ago after leading Guilford's tacklers with a career-high 83 stops that stood third in the league. Senior Brennan Choate, a 10-game starter on the line in 2009, will also see time at end. Kyle Ennis and Triston Kyle, have limited game experience, but will line up on the other end. Senior Brad Gayhardt, also a team captain, plays one tackle spot, while former end Chris Ward (#56 above right) or converted tight end Thor Pate battle for the starting nose tackle's spot. Branson O'Hara, who spent most of his first two seasons on the offensive line, returns to defense for his junior campaign to fill some gaps with his quick feet and 5-11, 290-pound frame.
Redshirt-senior Joseph Parrish worked his way into the starting lineup last year, his first after joining the Quakers from NCAA Division I-A (non-FCS) member Campbell University. He ranked eighth on the team with 37 tackles in 2010 and returns ahead of Kyle May and Jordan Sutton. May, also a senior, stands up and steps back after a stint on last year's line. Sutton hopes to bounce back from a week-two injury that prematurely ended his rookie season. Rusiewicz likes freshman John Scott and believes the newcomer can make a difference.
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The secondary is the deepest and most experienced part of the Quakers' defense. Senior Kenneth Hyman III and redshirt-sophomore Quan Parker rank among the league's top cornerbacks. Hyman, a four-year starter and 2009 Second Team All-ODAC pick, broke up a team-high 12 passes and made a career-high 40 tackles last year. Parker's development has been slowed by injuries, but his raw speed and athleticism help overcome his lack of experience. Junior Justin Williams-Blackwell moves from cornerback to free safety in 2011 where he'll challenge classmate Luke Ledwell for starting duties. Junior De'Shawn Lindsay has 85 tackles in 16 career games and should start at weak safety. Senior Trey Billian is back after missing most of 2010 with injuries, as is sophomore Ray Brown, who moved from tailback to defensive back midway through his rookie year. Sophomore Alex Smith played in four games as a reserve last year and gets a look at strong safety. Freshmen Satiir Stevenson and Dashawn Johnson are expected to push for playing time.
Offensive Line
Guilford will miss the services of four-year starter Brice Carlson '11, but the Quakers welcome back seven veterans, six with starting experience. Senior T.J. McCay (right) and junior Daniel Biggerstaff are both two-year starters and expected to line up at left guard and right tackle, respectively. Sophomore Faris El-Ali, an opening-day starter as a rookie, shifts to center to fill the spot vacated by Carlson, a 2010 honorable mention All-ODAC pick. Juniors Jordan Moss and Donte' Mitchell will battle for the starter's job at left tackle, while classmate Alex Wallace hopes his 16 career appearances help win the right guard position. Sophomore Douglas Whitley, who shuttled between both sides of the ball as a rookie, will join two or three newcomers who will push for playing time in 2011.
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One bright spot from the 2010 season was the play of wideout Ben King. He earned Second Team All-ODAC recognition and made 79 catches for 1,056 yards and nine touchdowns in his first year after transferring from Appalachian State University. While not an imposing physical presence at 5-10, 185 pounds, King is explosive, strong, runs good routes and has soft hands that make him a quarterback's best friend and an opposing secondary's nightmare. Junior Brandon Thompson returns to receiver following a one-season sojourn in an injury-plagued secondary and sophomore Kevin Tiller joins the offense after playing as a reserve linebacker in 2010. Rusiewicz says the 6-4, 180-pound Tiller is as fast as King, gives quarterbacks a big target and can create matchup problems for smaller defenders.
Sophomore Rob Fields saw meaningful time as a rookie tight end, but managed just four receptions. Rusiewicz found he was a high-percentage pass catcher in the spring and will look to get him the ball in passing situations. Senior D.J. Wilson, a wide receiver and punter in his first three years, moves to tight end for his senior season, a better fit for his 6-4, 205-pound frame.
Running Back
Bailey Crego came to Guilford last fall as a bit of an unknown commodity from Grapevine, Texas, but worked his way into the starting lineup and became the team's leading rusher (61 carries, 247 yards, 2 TD). Rusiewicz likes the sophomore's powerful running style and good hands, which make him a pass-catching option out of the backfield. Crego will carry the ball along with junior Mike Williams, who experienced a bit of a sophomore jinx in 2010. After leading Guilford with 528 rushing yards and four rushing touchdowns as a freshman, Williams managed 202 yards on just 44 carries last fall. Junior Ricky Douglas and sophomore Eric Kennedy will contribute as fullbacks.
After seven games as a backup in 2010, sophomore Zac Halbert takes over the reins as Guilford's starter in 2011. The southpaw completed 30-of-51 passes for 260 yards and two scores in limited action last season. He also ran 21 times for 67 yards and showed good mobility around the pocket. While he lacks extensive experience, he still has more than senior Grady Gamble, who has not lined up under center since 2006 and played defense in his lone Guilford campaign back in 2007.
Special Teams
Assistant coach Zach Zullinger, a 2007 graduate of league-rival Hampden-Sydney College, came to Guilford with Rusiewicz in January and directs the special teams units. Rookies Owen Bridges and Steven Gregory are the lone kickers on Guilford's preseason roster. Both also have punting experience. Seniors D.J. Wilson and Trey Billian also have punting experience, but are expected to focus on their roles as tight end and safety, respectively. Sophomore Lawrence Blake (right) ranked among the league's best with 556 kickoff return yards on 27 attempts (20.6 avg.) in his rookie year. Ray Brown is another kick-return candidate.
Guilford opens the 2011 season and the Chris Rusiewicz Era Sept.3 at crosstown-rival Greensboro College in the 15th annual Gate City Soup Bowl. Greensboro evened the hotly contested rivalry last year with a 17-15 win at Guilford. The Soup Bowl has developed into an enjoyable and beneficial tradition for the city, as both schools conduct sizable canned-good drives for the benefit of local charities.
The Quakers open their home schedule Sept. 17 versus Averett University in Guilford's lone night game. Guilford opens ODAC play Oct. 1 at defending league champion Washington and Lee University. Hampden-Sydney, which joined Washington and Lee in the 2010 NCAA Division III playoffs, visits the Armfield Athletic Center Oct. 29.


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Many people have experienced oppression in their lives -- which is the prolonged cruel or unjust treatment or control, as well as the state of being subject to such treatment or control. I am not sure if you have been told this before, but we are all different and come from extremely different realities. Even twins within the same household have very different realities as they live life in their own truth. I like to look at oppression as not really an action of an evil person but as a form of narrow-minded conditioning. Conditioning built off the moral beliefs and social norms of the influential leaders in our lives.
When I take a look at the current mainstream form of oppression, one thing that comes to mind is the advancement of colored people (i.e. African Americans, Blacks, Latinos, Hispanics, Asians, Pacific Islanders, West Indians and the Indigenous Native Americans) and how we have grown as a society through civil rights movements and from those who thought separate was equal. But it's not just the ability to vote or the right to equal education and health care, but the ability to form our own self mold and belief system.
I think of oppression as someone telling their child or community that their clothes must match or that boys play with trucks and girls play with dolls and that these things are not interchangeable. How about the notion that everyone is supposed to be heterosexual or that ladies wear heels, cross their legs and are homemakers while guys are rough, tough, and breadwinners? When we find views like this in our home, and our community confirms this belief, it becomes our norm and our truth. Then, when faced with someone or something that does not contribute to that belief, a person may become conflicted and will refer to what they know is true in their own lives; and the cycle continues.
I want to take a look at this society's newer oppressive target groups, which is the LGBTQ community -- considering we as a nation have just recently declared homosexuality is no longer a mental defect, while gender non-conforming still remains a mental threat to one's identity. We as a community experience oppression at home, at school, around our neighborhoods; and the government we live under confirms queerism by allowing workplace discrimination to legally continue, stating that we are not mentally ill but a "different" breed of people.
Our society has taught our elders that homosexuality is a lifestyle that a person chooses to purposely be different, like wearing a black wedding gown (which for some means faithful until death). Gay oppression under capitalism, like racism and sexism, serves to divide working-class people from one another in their battles for economic and social justice. Capitalistic conditioning creates the illusion that men and women should lead autonomous sexual lives, yet it simultaneously seeks to impose heterosexual norms on society to secure the maintenance of an economic, ideological, and sexual order.
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Late call signals home delights for Fuchs and Kaczmarek
The German pair only found out from the German Volleyball Federation on Monday that they would be participating in Poland, so quickly jumped in their cars and drove across the border to be ready for the qualification round.
They didn't hang around to reach the main draw with a 2-0 (21-17, 21-18) victory over the Canadian pair.
"It is great to be in the main draw here in Poland. It is a dream come true," Fuchs said. "We only knew that we were playing here on Monday and we are really happy as we played well and now we are looking forward to playing in the main draw with some of the best teams in the world.
"We have the National Championships next week, so we were thinking about next week and having a good practice week and then going onto the National Championships. So it is a good change of plan."
Fuchs and Kaczmarek have been playing well in the German National Tour and have won two gold medals and one bronze in recent months.
For Kaczmarek in particular reaching the main draw at Stare Jablonki is especially poignant as he was born in Myslowice. Appropriately the town in south-east Poland is a long-time venue on the FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour and hosted the FIVB U23 World Championships in 2013 and 2014.
"We were confident in Germany, but it is a change as the best players in the world are here," Kaczmarek said. "We were in good shape in Germany and we just thought about showing it here and it went well.
"For me personally it is special to play here because I was born in Poland and it is my home country. Last year we played the World Championships here and it is always a pleasure to come to my home country."
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Another team that didn't have too far to travel were Estonia's Kristo Kollo and Rivo Vesik, who were cheered into the main draw by their family and friends who had followed them to Poland to watch them in action.
They were in good voice as Kollo and Vesik beat France's Youssef Krou and Edouard Rowlandson 2-1 (21-14, 15-21, 15-13) to progress.
"The French are a strong team and had enjoyed some good results lately," Vesik said. "We knew it would be tough and it was good to watch for the spectators.
"It is always a relief to qualify for the main draw and seeing as we haven't played many tournaments this year and this is our third World Tour event for us this year, this is already a good achievement for us."
The pair previously played in the Klagenfurt Grand Slam Anapa Open in this year's World Tour and they had to battle hard to win a match that last 47 minutes.
"They are friends from Estonia and family," Kollo explained. "It is always good to know that someone is supporting you on the side of the court and it makes it easier to play well."
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The recent password compromises of Hotmail, GMail and (from other reports I've read) Yahoo! Mail make this a good time to revisit the issue of passwords.
The webmail services in these cases are saying that phishing is the likely cause of the breach. Security firm ScanSafe thinks that there are other possibilities, but I think it's reasonable to believe phishing is the culprit here, and certainly phishing is a major problem, as evidenced by yesterday's arrests in the US and Egypt.
Passwords are collected by the bad guys in many ways, such as by malware that scans the system and monitors Internet usage for usernames and passwords. Dictionary attacks are also used to guess passwords from a list of common ones. But in this case only webmail credentials were found. Webmail systems are tough to attack with dictionary attacks because they won't let you attempt login after login trying different credentials.
If your password is collected by phishing or through malware finding it on your computer or snooping it as you type it on a form, a strong password does you no good. Whether the password is strong or weak you have to make an effort to protect it on your system and not to give it away to the wrong people. Apart from some security savvy for recognizing threats, for most people the best defense is to use a good security suite and to keep it updated. These will make it much harder for malware to get on your system or to run unimpeded if it does. Most of them also detect and block phishing attempts.
But you still want to have strong passwords. There are places where weak passwords can be compromised, such as the login for your PC. Now very few people, including the experts, do all the things experts tell them to do in this regard. After all, it's inconvenient.
Acunetix analyzed the leaked list of Hotmail passwords and found that lots of the users use weak passwords. The most popular password in the list (64 of them) was '123456' which, after 'password', is the all-time classic weak password. Interestingly there were 11 instances of 'alejandra' and lots of Spanish words and names, perhaps saying something about the phishing campaign used to obtain the accounts.
How do you choose a strong password? Here are some guidelines:
- The longer the better: At least 8 characters.
- Mix upper and lower case, punctuation and numerals.
- One good way to implement both of the first two rules is with a passphrase, i.e. a sentence instead of a word: "I hate passw0rds, they suck" or "My father was born in 1929." I use these in a few places but, alas, not all sites allow you that long a password or to embed spaces.
- Avoid passwords that are words in a dictionary, especially common words.
- Avoid reusing passwords, especially those for critical resources like your e-mail, on other sites. Doing this exposes you to a wider compromise than necessary.
Most of us don't have the memory bandwidth to deal with a large number of obscure passwords, so a good next step is to use a password management program, such as Roboform or the open source Password Safe. Some suites, like Norton Internet Security 2010, include password management in them. These programs let you auto-generate strong passwords and it remembers them for you; you just remember a master password.
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This convention was awesome last year, by far my favorite. They have excellent panels and activities, a lot of fellow artists are roaming around (more than your typical convention), and the guest list is awesome. Namely there are a lot of Web Comic icons in attendance including:
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New York, February, 24, 2012--The Committee to Protect Journalists supports efforts by the international community to impose an immediate cease-fire in Syria to allow for the safe delivery of humanitarian aid and a cessation of hostilities. Two journalists injured in Wednesday's Homs attack require urgent medical attention and evacuation. The bodies of two more journalists have also been trapped in Homs since they were killed on Wednesday.
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Hopefully I will catch up by the end of today. You can see everyone else's EDiM art in the Flickr Group HERE. There are already 98 taking part and I'm sure it's not too late to join in.
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- Felicity said...
Oh, tell me about the plugs and adaptors! ;) I have a mess under my desk! Great sketches though, Robyn, I'm glad you are joining in, I'm looking forward to seeing what you do!
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- Robyn said...
Thanks, Felicity. I did change some plugs on lamps but on important appliances it seems an acknowledgement that we'll never go 'home' and I'm not ready for that.
Because I'm behind in my sketches I'm lacking imagination in my subjects at the moment. Are you joining in?
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- Felicity said...
I understand that feeling Robyn!
Not really joining in because I know I'll never keep it up, then I'll have an excuse to feel bad! ;) It will give me some ideas to fill my sketchbook though, I'll just pick the subjects I like best.
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I dug out the box of letters from my grandparents that I want to transcribe. So far, I've discovered my grandmother's idea of dating a letter is to put the day of the week down. Since it seems she wrote Grandpa, who had just started working in Detroit circa 1927, on a weekly basis, I really have to pay attention to the postmark.
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On a whim, I decided to watch John Carpenter's The Thing last night and it proved to be an absolutely fantastic decision. At 30 years old, the film is no spring chicken, but it's amazing how little that matters.
That's mostly thanks to the fantastic direction, and the person-to-person tension that doesn't rely so much on special effects, but even those are still great to watch. Don't get me wrong, it's pretty apparent that they are puppets, but the thing is that they are still terrifying puppets, at least if you're like me and slimey things sprouting spider-legs is terrifying at any and all times. It's really amazing how little the film shows its age in any meaningfully detrimental way.
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Saint-Bruno is the connection point between the RS line to Alma and the CN.
August 30th, 2017
In Alma for Quebec caucus, I heard a horn from the hotel and we followed the Roberval-Saguenay to Saint-Bruno and back to the plant in Alma.This image viewed 2 times, as of last night.


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2012 Needs to Be the Year of the Stadium
It seems like so long ago. The prospect of a waterfront baseball park down within a simple Home Runs path of Tampa Bay looking towards the St. Petersburg, Florida iconic inverted triangular Pier seemed destined. At that time it seemed the Tampa Bay Rays would begin their 2012 season under a bellowing sail and among the legion of stars that grace the Florida night sky.
I still remember the impromptu hot dog and soda celebration given by the Rays just after the conclusion of their final Spring Training game in Progress Energy Park. Kids were running the bases, parents were basking at the proposed views and changes that would grace this patch of land within the next few years. Expectations were high, and the Rays even made an effort to commemorate the new stadium with a simple gesture in the outfield.
Stenciled in white chalk in the Right-Center field green grass was the proposed placement of the future Home Plate keystone facing towards the Northeast. This symbol showed the promise, the excitement and the hopes of future All-Star games and festivities would center around this iconic parcel of land just to the South of the growing steeples of condos and offices in St. Petersburg.
Funny how we now sit within days of 2012 and since the Rays closed the book on this proposed stadium location, they have been mired still swinging at the plate, not even reaching the first steps towards pursuing another vista in the region. Committees have met and been dissolved providing resolute opinions and suggestions, but still the open lines of communication between the Rays and the community seem muted.
Major League Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig has been more than adamant that Tropicana Field is not adequate, or even fiscally able to uphold this region's baseball legacy. Only the Rays and the maligned Oakland A's sit in perpetual motion in regards to new vistas to call home. At the turtle rate the Rays stadium is moving, the A's will have traveled the road to San Jose and been in their new digs for 5 seasons before the Rays break ground.
But the simple fact the Rays are silent should bother all of us who live in this region. I consider the team a regional asset, a barometer that shows if we are a Major League town, or a sleepy hamlet that is destined forever for tourism not baseball. With the Rays standing firm and silent, the decision by baseball to award a franchise to South Florida first in this state seems to have been a genius move.
I was really looking forward to the former stadium revelation and construction. I would have sneaked upon the grounds and watched as the inner bones and fragments were placed, my emotions would have grown as the stadium took shape and the sail was unveiled to fill from the pre- sunset sea breeze. But all that is moot. All of that excitement, that exhilaration has been boxed up, carted away, possibly forever.
2012 was supposed to be a year of renewal of the passion and love for baseball for this region. The site of Progress Energy Park would have been underneath the infrastructure of the new facility, but the emotions and residual haunts of baseball would have filled the halls. Now soccer is played in this stadium site. The city has invited teams from other countries to train here trying to at least grasp some of that Spring magic again, but the true essence of baseball only seems to aptly survive here from April to October, then it takes a long hibernation.
Back on that afternoon as I stood in the Batter's Box and stared towards the Northeast I could never imagine in my wildest nightmares this region would fight amongst itself perpetually suspending any attempt of building or imagining a Rays future stadium anywhere in this region. As of now there are no ongoing discussions, no released plans, no small-scale models for us to glance at lovingly. It is like the progression of any kind of baseball facility for the Rays has been erased, systematically eliminated and cast off for now.
I might stroll out into the Progress Energy Park outfield on April before heading to the Trop for Opening Day and stand in that same spot where once sat the make-believe Batter's Box and point my Louisville Slugger towards the Northeast hoping for a sign, hoping for a revelation.
April 2012 was supposed to be a celebration, a final epiphany of this region to bask in the embrace and afterglow of baseball, a time of celebration of the Ray's 15th MLB season with a state-of-the-art new digs along a picturesque slice of Tampa Bay. Instead this April Progress Energy Park will be vacant, open to the elements with only one Rays fan in attendance paying homage to the enthusiastic 2012 time-table and the memory of that bellowing sail.
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Its the economy, (stu)pid.
BTW, i wasnt calling you stupid i was just using the term from the 90's. I think right now in the short term what is holding up the whole process is the st, pete mayor Bill foster. And i total understand where he is coming from too but he is not helping the team the people of st. pete and the region in the long run. He knows the Rays wont be playing at the trop in 2027.


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All may not be lost – secondary cemetery at Womenswold!
I could not believe my eyes today. Whilst Google-mapping (map.Googling?) and searching the environs of Womenswold for other churches/churchyards where my Womenswold BALDOCK and FAGG ancestors may be buried I discovered a much larger cemetery than that of the churchyard – just around 100 yards from the junction where I would have turned off to the village! I believe it may be classed as "Aylesham cemetery for Womenswold" – it is on the B2046 road towards Aylesham and Adisham.
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Ruby the anti-austerity dog is back on the streets of Athens — just in time for next week's visit by representatives of international creditors monitoring Greece's troubled finances.
The male stray gained fame this month after barking menacingly as part of a pack of dogs at European and International Monetary Fund austerity inspectors driving up to the Finance Ministry for talks.
Ruby was later captured by municipal officials and freed Friday after being observed for two weeks and showing no signs of aggressiveness.
A city statement said Ruby's detention followed a complaint that he bit a man, and wasn't linked with the ministry incident. Dogs often follow anti-austerity protesters in Athens.
Recession-crippled Greece is being kept afloat by international bailouts, released following regular assessments of demanded cutbacks and reforms.
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In my case Java app is JDownloader. I prepared chroot environment as explained here:
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So, I have java installed, added group and user, JDownload files copied, but when I try to run it (as regular user under chroot; I run chroot as root, but once I am in chroot, I switch to chroot regular user):
java -Xmx512m -jar JDownloader.jar
I got some positive messages like loading skins by JDownloader
10 4/6/11 2:15:17 PM - FINER [jd.JDClassLoader()] -> Look and Feel JAR loaded: /mnt/jd/libs/laf/syntheticaSilverMoon.jar
but that's end of the story -- app does not show up. No matter if I use chroot to run chroot environment or openroot, the outcome is the same.
When I run JDownload as chroot-root I got a little more output but at then end exception occurs:
10 4/6/11 2:39:23 PM - FINER [jd.config.DatabaseConnector()] -> Loading database
10 4/6/11 2:39:23 PM - FINER [jd.config.DatabaseConnector(checkDatabaseHeader)] -> Checking database
10 4/6/11 2:39:23 PM - INFO [jd.Main(main)] -> init Splash
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11 4/6/11 2:39:25 PM - INFO [jd.gui.swing.laf.LookAndFeelController(setUIManager)] -> Use Look & Feel: de.javasoft.plaf.synthetica.SyntheticaSimple2DLookAndFeel
11 4/6/11 2:39:25 PM - SEVERE [jd.controlling.JDLogger(exception)] -> SEVERE Exception occurred java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57)
I have the same Jave installed in chroot and normal system, I can run the same JDownloader in normal system, no problems here.
QUESTION -- what I am missing here? How to run GUI Java app?
Thank you in advance.


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Missed deliveries could be about to become a thing of the past – if you own a Volvo.
The Swedish car manufacturer is pioneering "Roam Delivery," a service which lets delivery drivers deposit your online shopping in your car, wherever it is.
The service uses Volvo's On Call app to locate your car, and assigns the delivery driver a one-use digital key, enabling them to open your vehicle up (but not to drive it off). You even get a text message to let you know that your order's been delivered.
Volvo reckons that up to 60 per cent of online shoppers have problems receiving the goods they've ordered; services like Amazon have tried various ways of getting around the problem, including lockers in local shops and even pie-in-the-sky drone delivery schemes.
Volvo's solution seems an elegant one – and it's certainly more convenient for the customer. But whether people will be happy handing the keys to their car over to a stranger – even if they're only digital ones – is up for debate.
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Albert Ammons
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A major inspiration to generations of improvising musicians, Albert Ammons is best remembered as an exciting pianist who inaugurated the Blue Note record label by hammering out blues and boogie duets with Meade "Lux" Lewis, and as the father of hard bop tenor saxophonist Gene Ammons. Born in Chicago on September 23, 1907, he learned the rudiments of piano from his parents and neighbors and began cultivating an ability to play the blues when he was 12 years old. His main influences were Jimmy Blythe, Jimmy and Alonzo Yancey, Hersal Thomas, and Clarence "Pinetop" Smith, who personally encouraged the aspiring pianist.
At the age of 17 Ammons met Meade "Lux" Lewis while they were both drivers for Chicago's Silver Taxicab Company. The two men honed their skills by pounding the ivories on an upright at the depot and by gigging publicly after hours, sometimes doubling up for boogie-woogie piano four hands. By 1934 Ammons was leading his own little group at the Club De Lisa on the South Side. A powerhouse stride pianist who had stylistic traits in common with Fats Waller (the two would have made a formidable duo had anyone ever thought to bring them together), Ammons became strongly identified with the boogie-woogie style after recording "Boogie Woogie Stomp" and "Swanee River Boogie" for Decca with his Rhythm Kings in 1936. Ammons next decided to take himself to New York, where he gigged regularly at Café Society (Downtown and Uptown) with Meade "Lux" Lewis and the Kansas City contingent of Pete Johnson and blues shouter Big Joe Turner.
In 1938 the four created a sensation at the Spirituals to Swing concert in Carnegie Hall, establishing boogie-woogie as a crowd-pleasing trend that made good money for most of the popular big bands in the nation, including those led by Benny Goodman, who actually jammed with Ammons, and Tommy Dorsey, who never hesitated to take advantage of a good thing. Ammons, who had cut a few sides for Vocalion in 1938, recorded a series of solos and duets with Meade "Lux" Lewis on January 6, 1939, now established as the very first titles in the catalog of Alfred Lion's newly founded Blue Note label. Ammons was also the backbone of the Boogie Woogie Trio, a hot little unit that recorded a stomp called "Woo Woo" with trumpeter Harry James for the Brunswick record company on February 1, 1939. On April 7 he recorded several blues and boogie improvisations in the company of guitarist Teddy Bunn, bassist Johnny Williams, and drummer Sidney Catlett as the rhythm section of a quintet alternately led by trumpeter Frankie Newton and trombonist J.C. Higginbotham, then with both horns to form a sextet presented by Blue Note as the Port of Harlem Jazzmen.
Ammons recorded a passel of duets with Pete Johnson for Victor in 1941, but then ceased performing for a while after accidentally severing a fingertip while fixing up a sandwich. In 1944 Ammons recorded for Commodore as a soloist and with a solid little band that had a front line of trumpeter Hot Lips Page, trombonist Vic Dickenson, and tenor saxophonist Don Byas. He also performed a duet with Meade "Lux" Lewis in Boogie Woogie Dream, a motion picture starring Lena Horne. During the years 1945-1949 he returned to Chicago, held down a steady gig at the Bee Hive, and periodically recorded for Mercury, backing legendary blues woman Sippie Wallace, collaborating with guitarists Lonnie Johnson and Ike Perkins, and, on April 8, 1946, sharing a memorable session with his son Gene Ammons. His final achievements consisted of Decca recordings with Lionel Hampton and a special performance at the White House in the nation's capital for Harry Truman's second-term inauguration. Illness forced Albert Ammons off the scene and when he passed away on December 2, 1949, he was only 42 years old. Tragically, Gene Ammons would follow his father's example by passing away at the age of 49, in 1974. ~ arwulf arwulf
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The Tribeca Film Festival is staying abreast of the hottest trend in movie fests -- making it easier for people not to attend them -- announcing a slate of on-demand films.
Beginning April 21, in conjunction with the real festival, cable providers across the nation will be offering 15 official Tribeca selections as part of their on-demand service, including everything from sports documentaries to romcoms.
The Year of Jay Baruchel continues at Tribeca on-demand with "The Trotsky," about a high school student convinced he's the reincarnation of the late Communist leader and determined to live up to the legacy.
"Muhammad and Larry" is a documentary look back at the 1980 bout between Muhammad Ali and his former sparring partner, Larry Holmes, a fight that basically ended the era of Ali.
Andy Serkis stars in "sex&drugs&rock&roll," as English rocker Ian Dury, best known for his hit of the same name. The film chronicles "the highs and lows of a life lived sneeringly, unapologetically out loud."
Other films include "The Birth of Big Air," about BMX innovator Mat Hoffman; "Climate of Change," a documentary narrated by Tilda Swinton "about a world of regular people taking action in the fight to save our environment;" "The Hellfighters," a doc about Harlem's sole high school football team; and "The Immaculate Conception of Little Dizzle," about a janitor who discovers the company he works for is experimenting on his fellow broom-pushers.
In "Kobe Doin' Work" Spike Lee gets unprecedented, one-day access to basketball great Kobe Bryant as he prepares to play the San Antonio Spurs; "Metropia" is an animated look at an Orwellian dystopia in 2024 Europe; "Road, Movie" follows a young man's trip across India in his uncle's beat up truck; "Through the Fire" documents Coney Island high school basketball legend Sebastian Telfair, cousin of embattled former New York Knicks guard Stephon Marbury, as he tries to lead his team to a championship while struggling with the choice between college and pro ball.
"TiMER" is a romcom about the not-so-distant future when we're all implanted with chips that give a countdown to the moment when you meet your soul mate; "The Infidel" is a comedy of religious errors about what happens when a devout Muslim discovers that he was adopted - and worse still -- his biological mother was Jewish. "My Last Five Girlfriends," a comedy based on Alain de Botton's novel "On Love," follows a 30-something man as he sifts through the ashes of his recent romances. "The Swimsuit Issue" is a comedic look at a group of men who come together to form Sweden's first all-male synchronized swim team.


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How to Perform Multiple Calculations with Vectors Using R
R is a vector-based language. You can think of a vector as a row or column of numbers or text. The list of numbers {1,2,3,4,5}, for example, could be a vector. Unlike most other programming languages, R allows you to apply functions to the whole vector in a single operation without the need for an explicit loop.
We'll illustrate with some real R code. First, we'll assign the values 1:5 to a vector that we'll call x:
> x <- 1:5 > x [1] 1 2 3 4 5
Next, we'll add the value 2 to each element in the vector x and print the result:
> x + 2 [1] 3 4 5 6 7
You can also add one vector to another. To add the values 6:10 element-wise to x, you do the following:
> x + 6:10 [1] 7 9 11 13 15
To do this in most other programming language would require an explicit loop to run through each value of x.
This feature of R is extremely powerful because it lets you perform many operations in a single step. In programming languages that aren't vectorized, you'd have to program a loop to achieve the same result.


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Agenda: November 15 Neighborhood Centers PEG
Date: Thursday, November 15
Time: 8:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m.
Location:1900 SW 4th Avenue,Portland, Conference Room 7A
Welcome and Introductions (8:00 a.m.)
Presenter: Steve Faust, Facilitator
Equity Fundamentals / Neighborhood Centers Issues Through an Equity Lens (8:15 a.m.)
Presenters: Judith Mowry and Dante James, Office of Equity and Human Rights
Description: Why is equity important? Equity in the Portland Plan. Strategies for moving toward equity. Small group discussions on applying an equity lens to Comp Plan policies, using Neighborhood Centers issues as examples.
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Next Steps (9:55 a.m.)
Adjourn (10:00 a.m.)
For more information, please contact Bill Cunningham, Bureau of Planning and Sustainability at 503-823-4203 or email@example.com or Steve Faust, Facilitator at 503-278-3456 or email@example.com.


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Iris Apfel: The Rare Bird
Whoever says fashion is not an art form has never laid eyes on Iris Apfel; THE style icon. Known for her theatrical accoutrements and her freedom of expression through dressing, Arpel truly is a style connoisseur. Although her name is synonymous with fashion, the "geriatric starlet" wasn't always an identified fixture on the fashion scene.Culture, Style


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Thursday, December 15, 2011
The end of an era...
Quite a momentous occasion happened this week - after seven years in my tiny one-bedroomed flat, I finally moved out...
This is where I have written and edited all three of my novels - Fairytale of New York, Welcome to My World and It Started With a Kiss - most of which on the ubiquitous white (or not-so-white) sofa, which came with the flat and has featured in many of my vlogs this year. Is it possible to put a blue plaque on a soon-to-be-retired piece of furniture?
So, for the last three years, this has been my perennial view when I've been writing:
The photo of me and Bob was taken when we first started dating five years ago and it's one of my favourites, and the baby pics are of my beautiful niece Freya (who will be three in January). The sparkly bag is what I take to gigs and it contains a selection of earrings, bracelets and necklaces for blingin' it up when I perform with The Peppermints (the inspiration for The Pinstripes in It Started With a Kiss.)
I did have a desk in the corner of my living room, in what I called my 'Van Gogh Corner':
The cafe picture (The Café Terrace on the Place du Forum, Arles, at Night) is my favourite Van Gogh painting and the portrait of him came free with a newspaper years ago. It's nice to be able to chat to Vince, although he isn't the most encouraging person to look at when I'm in the middle of edits! The desk was from the first office my Dad worked in when he was 16, so is a bit of a family heirloom, but after I had a health scare in the middle of the Fairytale edits I couldn't sit there for long periods of time, so the sofa became my venue of choice for working.
The box of tea you can see on the desk is one of my prized possessions - the fab people at Yorkshire Tea found out that I'd mentioned their excellent tea in Fairytale of New York and made me my very own personalised box of Yorkshire Tea! It will take pride of place on my new desk and will never be opened!
At Christmas, my desk invariably became the place to display my tiny Christmas tree - very festive!
One of the things I will miss the most is the view from my living room window towards the glass foundry on the opposite side of the canal. This time last year, a beautiful haw frost covered everything in white and it was the most amazing sight to gaze out on while I was writing.
While my flat has been an important part of my life - it was my first real home after my divorce and a total God-send to have my own front door and space, scene of quite a few dating memories (and disasters) and the place where I first began work as a published author when my writing dream came true after years of scribbling in secret - it is time to move on. I'm planning my wedding to my lovely Bob next September, have another novel currently being considered by publishers and am making big plans for next year, all of which require more space.
So on Saturday, I said goodbye to Richardson Drive, Wollaston, and moved five miles up the road to a lovely Victorian terraced house which I'm renting from my lovely chum Andi and his wife-to-be Caroline (Andi is one of the inspirations for Jack in It Started With a Kiss). It has two bedrooms so, for the first time in my life, I will have a dedicated writing room! At the moment (after this pic was taken) it is filled with boxes, books and bin bags, but I hope to set it up completely over Christmas. It's going to be a writing room and eventually a small studio where I can work on new songs - I'm so excited to finally have space after tripping over piles of books for the past seven years... (oh, and those curtains? Totally going once I move in!)
It was really odd to see my little flat all empty and ready for the next chapter of its history. And the infamous white sofa, while quite possibly the most uncomfortable piece of furniture ever, was one of the things I found hardest to leave. Needless to say, I sobbed all the way to my new home - but then, isn't that a good thing when a place has been so important in your life? You may have guessed by now that Romily's canalside home in It Started With a Kiss was inspired by my flat - it was my way of paying homage to a place that I have loved for the last seven years of my life.
Onwards and upwards, Dickinson!
And to finish, here's my last glimpse of the unassuming star of my vlogs, site of over three hundred thousand words and the seat where many worlds were created: ladies and gentlemen, I give you - the wonderful Richardson Drive Sofa...
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