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I'm just catching up with this interesting exchange between Gary Williams (Minds and Brains), Graham Harman, and Tom Sparrow (Plastic Bodies). Williams takes issue with Harman's and others' portrayal of Speculative Realism as "revolutionary." "The narrative of 'finally' moving beyond the 'Kantian nightmare'", he writes, "is tired and overplayed." He argues that it's not a […]
Posts Tagged 'speculative realism'
SR, Whitehead, etc.
Posted in GeoPhilosophy, tagged Merleau-Ponty, ontology, process-relational thought, realism, speculative realism, Whitehead on June 29, 2010 | 4 Comments »
Vibrant Matter reading group
Posted in BlogStuff, GeoPhilosophy, tagged Jane Bennett, process-relational thought, speculative realism on May 15, 2010 | 5 Comments »
The previously announced 'Vibrant Matter' reading group will take place across five blogs over five weeks, beginning May 23 and ending June 26. Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things is the latest book by Johns Hopkins University political theorist Jane Bennett. Philosophy in a Time of Error has posted a very useful overview of […]
the relational seduction of (and between) objects
Posted in BlogStuff, GeoPhilosophy, tagged blogosphere, object-oriented philosophy, relationalism, speculative realism on May 9, 2010 | 2 Comments »
I'm on the road, and haven't been able to keep up with the continuing exchange that's now drawn in Steven Shaviro and Chris Vitale in addition to Levi and Graham, with side comments from Peter Gratton and others. That despite Graham's call for a "cease fire," which elicited some spirited responses from Levi, Steven, and […]
a symmetrical peace?
Posted in GeoPhilosophy, tagged object-oriented philosophy, relationalism, speculative realism on May 4, 2010 | 4 Comments »
I should probably resist from critiquing blog posts, since these rarely capture one's considered thoughts the way print articles and books do. So rather than replying in detail to Graham's rejoinder to my previous post, I'll agree to the cease-fire he proposes (though I hope we weren't really sniping at each other!). At least after […]
cane toads on Mars, firewalls on Pluto
Posted in GeoPhilosophy, tagged complexity, ecophilosophy, object-oriented philosophy, ontology, relationalism, speculative realism on April 10, 2010 | 4 Comments »
Replying to me here, Graham Harman explains his objections to relational ontologies, arguing that they fail to make a distinction between the "two sorts of relations" in which an entity is involved. These are not "the famous 'internal' and 'external' relations," but are what he "somewhat whimsically" calles the "domestic" and "foreign" relations of an object. (I like this distinction, though I'm not sure how it's different from internal and external relations.)
GH: "Surely Adrian doesn't want to claim that the cane toad is a set of all its relations? If Mars were five inches further along in its course than it currently is, would the cane toad be a different cane toad than it is now?" [. . .]
subjects & objects, together or apart…
Posted in GeoPhilosophy, tagged Bryant, Deleuze, Harman, object-oriented philosophy, relationalism, speculative realism, Whitehead on April 9, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Levi Bryant's detailed and generous replies to my critical queries, both in the comments section of this post and at Larval Subjects, and Graham Harman's replies here (and in an e-mail exchange) have helped me get a much clearer sense of where the main differences lie between their respective "object-oriented" positions and my relational view. […]
let a thousand objects bloom
Posted in ..., tagged Bryant, object-oriented philosophy, speculative realism on April 6, 2010 | 15 Comments »
Here's a quick reply to Levi Bryant's reply to my post from this morning on objects and relations:
space junk & the (relational) Real
Posted in GeoPhilosophy, tagged Bryant, geophilosophy, Harman, Jameson, Lacan, object-oriented philosophy, relationalism, speculative realism, Whitehead on April 6, 2010 | 5 Comments »
(This post spun off from the last, where I concluded by noting the increasing amount of debris out in the upper atmosphere. Somehow I couldn't resist pulling that image into the vortex of ecopolitics and the objects-relations debate, which is carrying on at hyper tiling, Object-Oriented Philosophy, Larval Subjects, and elsewhere.) Like the tail of […]
Bryant's objects & a possible object/subjectology
Posted in GeoPhilosophy, tagged Bryant, Harman, object-oriented philosophy, relationalism, speculative realism, Whitehead on January 31, 2010 | 9 Comments »
Reading Levi Bryant's blog sometimes feels like having a brilliant storm of white-hot thought rain down upon one's backyard garden, the shoots struggling to stay vertical, but rendered that much stronger after the rain. There are wonderful passages in his recent musings on ethics, relations, objects, and ontology. From Ethical Etymologies: Thinking Out Loud (Always […]
the politics of objects & relations
Posted in GeoPhilosophy, tagged Bergson, Bryant, Buddhism, Deleuze, ecophilosophy, Harman, object-oriented philosophy, political theory, relationalism, speculative realism, Spinoza, Whitehead on January 29, 2010 | 5 Comments »
The objects versus relations debate has revved up again over at Larval Subjects, in the commentary responding to Levi Bryant's Questions about the possibility of non-correlationist ethics. The debate, as I would describe it, circles around the following question: If we agree that traditional philosophy has been too centrally premised on the relationship between humans […]
more on Žižek & nature's discontents
Posted in GeoPhilosophy, tagged speculative realism, Zizek on November 30, 2009 | 2 Comments »
It's interesting to watch a topic spin itself out rhizomically across the blogosphere. Picking up on Žižek's ecological musings, Levi Bryant seems more or less in agreement with what I had argued here last week, as does Michael Austin, while Ben Woodard criticizes the narrowing of the "ecology of concepts of nature" (a point I […]


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Among the vivid images from a trip that my wife Debbie and I took to northern Uganda a few years ago are the ashes and the dancing.
Ashes are sadness. Something that was once whole and alive and meaningful has burned and been reduced to nothing, a shadow of what once was. The saddest ashes I've ever seen were in a field in Lukodi, a village a few miles north of Gulu toward Sudan in a region of Uganda that is trying to find its bearings after two decades of the most horrific abuse at the hands of rebellious thugs led by Joseph Kony and called the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA).
In Lukodi, 45 people were burned to death in their thatch roofed mud huts, torched on a nighttime, revengeful raid by the LRA. What's left are rings of ash that were once homes, the remnant of real lives and a symbol of the horror that has marked the lives of families devastated by the carnage of a long siege of insanity known primarily around the world for the abduction of children to serve as soldiers in the rebel band.
Fortunately, there is dancing. When we were in Uganda, we visited the work of ChildVoice International and its partners, helping the child soldiers who have been repatriated and are trying to find the rest of their lives after their childhood has been literally stolen. Visit a group in an African village and if there is any hope at all you will be treated to a dance. And we saw wonderful, energetic, beautiful dances by children and adults of every age. Among the moving dances we saw was one by a group of young women, girls really, who had been abducted as children by the rebels and forced to be their "wives" as they came of age.
Freed or escaped, these young women and their children are being helped by ChildVoice at a remarkable new place called Lukome, a sustainable, replicable long-term village of refuge and care for Uganda's child victims of war.
ChildVoice International is a Christian organization seeking to restore the voices of children silenced by war. ChildVoice International's programs recognize that someone must speak for the thousands of children rendered voiceless by unspeakable brutality and unimaginable inhumanity. ChildVoice acts on the conviction that children broken by war can be restored in safe communities with loving care, spiritual and emotional counseling, and effective education and vocational training.
The village—near the massacre site—includes a boarding school, non-traditional educational programs, a vocational center, and spiritual and emotional counseling for former child soldiers and other young people who need long-term care and cannot return to their families.
During their time at the ChildVoice Lukome Centre, the child mothers participate in basic education vocational training, income generating projects, counseling, parenting classes, and life skills training. The young people living at the village can stay as long as they need to—until they obtain an education and the necessary life skills that empower them to be self-reliant and able to live on their own in the community.
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"So he got up and went to his father. "But while he was still a long way off, his father saw him and was filled with compassion for him; he ran to his son, threw his arms around him and kissed him. "The son said to him, `Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you. I am no longer worthy to be called your son.' "But the father said to his servants, `Quick! Bring the best robe and put it on him. Put a ring on his finger and sandals on his feet. Bring the fattened calf and kill it. Let's have a feast and celebrate. For this son of mine was dead and is alive again; he was lost and is found.' So they began to celebrate," [Luke 15:20-24]
Hi, my name is "Visitor." I came to your church this morning because I'm searching for something. I'm not even sure what it is I'm searching for. I guess I feel empty. I've had so many disappointments in life, I guess I'm just searching for somebody who's really sincere. Do you know what I mean? I think I'm looking for someone I can trust. I know that God is supposed to be good, and so I guess I'm looking for people like Him. I'm not looking for scandal or drama –I see enough of that everywhere else. But is there such a thing as a little piece of heaven here on earth? I guess that's what I'm searching for. I keep looking, and I want to find it. From the moment I walk in among you, I guess I don't want to feel awkward. Do you know what I mean? I guess I don't want to feel like a stranger –even though I know I am. When I welcome people into my home, I go out of my way to make sure that they feel welcome. I usually say something like, "Make yourself at home," or, "Can I get you something to drink?" I really want my guest to feel welcome –like they really matter to me, and that I'm excited that they have come into my home. I guess that's what I'm looking for… I want to know that I'm welcome and people are thrilled that I've come for a visit. Oh, and when a guest leaves my home, I let them know that they are welcome to come anytime. I want them to not only remember that the door is always open, but that I care and really want them to come back. They are not an "outsider" anymore, no, I want them to come back. I guess I'm searching for that too. I know a church has people who have to welcome visitors. I even know that you probably have people that are paid to do those kinds of things. But I guess I'm not looking for just a professional kind of caring. I guess I'm looking for a family that cares. I want to know that you all care about me, just as much as I care about you. When I walk in the door, it's great to see that everyone is excited that I'm there, not giving me strange glances, like, "Who is that?" I guess it means a lot more when the "general" church member is happy to greet me and welcome me. And it's really exciting when those people say, "Hey, you're welcome to come and sit by us. We're glad you're here!" I know sometimes people get used to sitting in the same place every week, so sometimes I get nervous about where to sit. I mean, I might sit in the wrong place and make someone mad, and I don't want to do that. But when one of you says, "Hey, come over here and sit by us," then I already feel like I'm not so much of an outsider anymore. And I really like the tokens that you give me when I leave. Those are nice. But I guess it means even more when an "average" church member asks me if they can buy me lunch, if they can give me a call, or even if they show up on my doorstep to say, "We're really glad we could serve you."
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Epistemological problems I: In search of a theory
Epistemological questions relate to what it means to know, and how knowledge is acquired. Theories such as behaviourism, constructivism and social constructivism are attempts to describe how people assimilate information into knowledge and develop perspectives that make sense of reality. Someone with a behaviourist perspective (who sees a direct connection between stimuli and response) will see didactic teaching as highly effective, whereas social constructivists (who see value in sharing understanding interpersonally from different perspectives) would probably rather see learners debating and sharing experiences. Web 2.0-based advocates tend not to consider these epistemological platforms. Instead 'connectivism', a theory proposed by Siemens (2004, 2006), is popularly cited as a more appropriate way of describing what it means to know and learn in a connected world. It is important here to explore how connectivism departs from other epistemological theories.
In connectivism, learning is said to take place across a network rather than within an individual. The departure of connectivism from other epistemologies is not that it assumes learning to be complex or that knowledge is dynamic or that understanding is personalized (these are also characteristic of social constructivism). The key difference is that in connectivism knowing where and knowing who are more important than knowing what and knowing how, because our "information rich world requires the ability to first determine what is important, and then how to stay connected and informed as information changes" (Siemens 2006, p. 32).
Connectivism is readily descriptive of learning in professional contexts. Lawyers don't memorise legislation, but they know where to find the answers they need and who to talk to if they can't find answers or need another opinion. However lawyers are already educated people. In order to determine what is important, lawyers must first know what they are looking for and how it will benefit them. While it is true that they must keep in touch with the ever-dynamic use of particular forms of legislation and keep apace with legal precedent, they do so within a particular conceptual framework. Missing from the connectivism assertion is an adequate appreciation of the underlying knowledge-base and filtering processes lawyers must already possess within themselves in order to meaningfully take advantage of the knowledge networks they draw from. Lawyers know what the legal system is about, and how it works because they have been trained into the system. To benefit from knowing where and knowing who, you must first have developed a coherent framework of what and how. It is precisely this that formal education seeks to provide its apprentices with. In his commentary Brighouse (2006) puts it plainly:
the critical thinking skills involved in autonomy can neither be developed nor exercised without the ease of access to a considerable amount of information which is provided only by having learned and internalized it… the idea that [students] might develop the more complex skills of reasoning about information without having a good deal of it instantly available is silly (pp. 23-24).
Connectivism is a wonderful means of describing the ways in which professionals and organizations tend to learn. However it is concerning that the theory might be cited as evidence that the knowing what and knowing how emphases of formal education should be displaced. The development of critical thinking and autonomous learning skills drawing on where and who (including the ability to meaningfully contribute to a connected world) relies on a coherent platform of pre-requisite, internalized knowledge – the how and what.


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Window pane is the newest print trend I've been seeing lately all over Instagram. Since I'm really into the clean lines, I was totally drawn to it.
I've been seeing a lot of the window pane print on skirts, but since the only time I really get to wear a skirt is on Sunday, I decided to opt for a window pane pant instead. At Old Navy I found the option of either a black and white window pane or a cobalt and white window pane. Since I'm SO ready to start working some color into my spring looks, I went for the cobalt and white.
At first look, these pants definitely feel like a more dressy pant, but I wanted to share how easy it is to dress them down. So how do I do that? Chambray of course! If you know me, you know that chambray is my main go to!
To add a lil print contrast, I added a leopard skinny belt. Leopard is also considered a neutral, so it pairs perfectly with the cobalt window pane. To keep things casual, I again went with Oxfords. They're just the perfect way to add some cute, casual style to a look. I finished off by keeping the jewelry simple with the mark Three Of A Kind Bracelet Set and mark Tool Around Ring Set.
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WSCR-AM 670 personality Terry Boers announced his retirement Tuesday.
In a post on the WSCR website today, Boers wrote, "I'm 66 years old and I'm going to retire, leaving behind one of the greatest jobs you can have, talking sports or movies or TV or life for five hours a day on a station I couldn't be prouder of."
His last day will be Jan. 5. He has been at the station for nearly 25 years.
He has been battling bad health recently.
"This has been the worst year of my life health-wise," Boers wrote. "I've been forced to miss way more time than I ever dreamed I would. There's no part of me that thought I would ever be gone for more than four months following a major surgery that continues to plague me. And as you read this, know that I have already had a second surgery done on Nov. 1. It wasn't as complicated as the first, but a surgery nonetheless."
WSCR program director Mitch Rosen says a search is on for a replacement alongside Dan Bernstein, with whom Boers has been a partner since 1999, according to media columnist Robert Feder.


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Melton Council says it does not support the controversial netting of hedges and trees which is being done to protect birds by preventing them nesting there when building work is being carried out.
Residents have highlighted concerns about the practice being used in rural locations in the Melton borough because they say it serves more to endanger wildlife by trapping them inside the nets rather than protecting them.
The Woodland Trust has criticised the response of the borough council to an incidence of netting being used at a development site in Bottesford following concerns being raised by the parish council.
The borough council responded to the parish council by stating that the nets were there to protect birds and other animals but Jack Taylor, lead campaigner for the trust, said: "If Melton Borough Council thinks that use of netting is to protect birds then it needs to reconsider its attitude towards wildlife.
"Natural England's standing advice for development affecting birds clearly states that preventing nesting should only be considered as a mitigation option, used only outside the breeding season, that it should be checked three times per day, and that replacement habitat should be provided.
"The trust has recently been made aware of instances, including that in Bottesford, where trees and hedges have been covered with netting in an attempt to prevent them being used by wildlife and thereby avoid delays in the development process."
The borough council say planning permission is not needed for netting and although it does not endorse the practice it has no power to stop it being done.
Mr Taylor said the trust opposed the uses of nets on hedgerows and trees, adding: "This practice demonstrates an alarming disregard for the welfare of wildlife, particularly during the nesting season, as birds are being blocked from nesting and other wildlife that may rely on hedgerow habitat, such as stoats, bank voles and hibernating hedgehogs, could become trapped.
"While not an illegal practice, we consider that netting hedges and trees is inappropriate.
"That said, the Woodland Trust cannot condone people removing netting, as this could be considered a criminal activity.
"Anyone who sees a netted tree or hedgerow where an animal has become trapped should naturally do what they can to free the animal.
"However, we advise that people should initially contact the RSPCA so that professionals can help to free the animal and also call the county police force to report a wildlife crime."
Bottesford Parish Council was unhappy the netting had been secured on hedges at the development site there before planning permission was even granted.
The clerk, Amanda Carter-Blackford, said: "In the parish of Bottesford we have some beautiful natural features and we are very proud of them.
"We see it as vitally important that we maintain our connection to nature, and we will be watching very carefully and liaising with the Woodland Trust to ensure that developers who work within our parish adhere to the rules and regulations surrounding the controversial issue of the netting of hedgerows.
"We support the view that developers work with a trained ecologist to ensure that appropriate netting is used but only when planning permission has been granted to work on a site, and not before."
On the issue of the netting being used at the Bottesford site, Melton Council said it immdediately alerted the Leicestershire Police Wildlife Crime Officer who initiated an investigation.
The council said it contacted the landowner, who explained it was intended to prevent birds nesting in the hedge and advised the parish council accordingly.
The authority say it also made the landowner aware that if wildlife was harmed by the netting it was considered an offence under the Wildlife and Countryside Act and recommended it should be removed.
A Melton Council spokesperson said: "We are aware that the practice of netting trees and hedgerows by developers before they start work has become more common in current years and is of national focus and public concern.
"The netting of trees and hedgerows prior to development is however a matter for landowners and developers and is not something authorised or endorsed by the council.
"No planning permission is required for landowners to net hedgerows and the council has no powers to stop them as no breach of any of the Councils legal responsibilities is being committed.
"As a council we will always encourage developers to time development work so that it does not put wildlife at risk and to incorporate and enhance the natural environment within their plans where possible.
"Where permission has been granted which includes the removal of hedgerow, we would require work to be done ahead of or after the nesting season so as to ensure the protection of wildlife.
"We recognise that if wildlife is harmed by netting then it could be considered an offence under the Wildlife and Countryside Act."
Naturalist and broadcaster Chris Packham is one of the high profile opponents of the practice, describing it as 'ghastly' and the 'antithesis of everything conservation stands for'.
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Wang Sicong, the son of China's richest man Wang Jianlin, jokingly said that he looked for "big boobs" in girlfriends during a media interview on Valentine's Day. The interview followed a movie night with the junior Wang at a theatre, where 100 seats were auctioned off to his fans; the proceeds went into a charity to support children of migrant workers.
The 27-year-old has earned the nickname "national husband" for one reason: the wealth of his father, chairman of real estate developer Dalian Wanda. Forbes puts an estimate of $13.2 billion to the elder Wang's net worth. The nickname is a lighthearted play into the cultural undercurrents of money worship in China, where material wealth is increasingly portrayed in public discussions as a make-or-break factor for romance.
Despite his immediate clarification that the bosom comment was merely a joke, Wang drew scathing criticism from Xinhua News Agency, first in a Weibo comment and then in an op-ed, for "challenging the bottom line of social ethics and values."
"That kind of comment conveyed a sense of skittishness and frivolity... In his nature he has the arrogance of Silvio Berlusconi," writes a Xinhua News Agency reporter, referring to the former Italian prime minister who was embroiled in sex scandals and whose sexist remarks caused an uproar among women in Italy.
"Perhaps this rich young master was simply joking. However certain things cannot be made light of...The level of respect for women is a measurement against the society's level of civilization, and also a man's disposition and cultivation of taste."
To the chagrin of Xinhua, the reaction online to its criticism was overwhelmingly negative, with commentators calling out the reporters for over-reacting or taking Wang's comment out of context.
Wang is perhaps the wrong "second generation rich" to pit against, despite the growing income divide in China and what many describe as a rising "rich-hating" mentality in Chinese society. Educated in Singapore and the UK, Wang has become a public sensation not only for his family wealth but also for his outspoken personality. From accusing a wealthy businesswoman of lying about her relationship with the Wang family, to revealing the plastic surgery history of Chinese celebrities and criticizing the police for misconduct, Wang has made scores of blunt comments and built a public profile rare among the children of Chinese tycoons.
"Sicong has a shortcoming. He likes to comment on other people and has offended some," said the elder Wang of his son in an interview with Chinese media Sina. "I told him this was not good, because I've always held the view that we can say good things about ourselves, but not bad things about others."
On the business side, the junior Wang runs a private equity fund called Prometheus Capital with RMB 500 million starting capital, presumably provided by his father. The fund is wholly owned by Wang and incorporated in the British Virgin Islands in February 2013. A gaming enthusiast, Wang has invested close to $10 million in two gaming companies that subsequently listed on Nasdaq and in Hong Kong. Other companies in the fund's portfolio include providers of dental care, logistics services and digital theatre solutions, among others.
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Fat Loss Seminar, abbreviated….
Right oh! I am in the mood! YOU want to lose fat? It's a very SIMPLE process. You reduce the volume of food you eat, now. I don't need to know anything about WHAT you're eating, what time of the day you eat carbs, if you drink enough water, if your mother's uncles father was fat. If you're overweight/a little fat/obese and you want to shift fat quickly AND safely, reduce your eating v o l u m e!!
Ok so it's simplistic and it doesn't address a significant problem with a lot of people = hormonal balance. But you will see a change, quickly and once you see the change, we can start looking at factors after that. Hormones being the key factor.
Too many women (and some men) do TOO MUCH CARDIO believing they will "burn fat"!!!!!!!!!! Cardio does NOT BURN FAT!! This is a fact! Different kinds of training, including specific cardio work such as fartleks and interval work, stimulate growth hormone. Excessive, long duration cardio stimulates cortisol. Heavy lifting recruits a lot of muscle fibres, working muscles maximally, stimulating growth hormone. High rep-range weight training with light weight stimulates cortisol. So cortisol, growth hormone……
GROWTH HORMONE = MUSCLE DEVELOPMENT/FAT LOSS (MEN = STRENGTH/LEAN MASS; WOMEN = SHAPE AND TONE). So why do men have a different result to women? Again hormones, men have plenty of testosterone, women don't and testosterone will ensure muscle GROWTH.
So very quickly. Creating a growth hormone dominant environment for men and women means fat will reduce and muscles will develop! If you are not training properly and eating smart you maybe in a cortisol dominant environment.
It starts with not being greedy and understanding that eating food is providing fuel for our bodies and not about making us feel good. Sure indulge occasionally but you cannot overdo it. I see shocking food choices all the time by a lot of people and they wonder why they're fat?
Real Food! Less of it! And reduce a l c o h o l…..
There is no secrets out there to fat-loss. It's about being smart and listening to people that know what they're talking about 🙂 But like anything it takes work and belief. Do YOU believe??
UFIT Run, Thursday June 24, 2010
Well UFIT Run #4 was a great success with 6 Ufitters in attendance and more records tumbling. Knotty's away in a Winnebago for 4 weeks he may find himself with a lot of work in front of him when he gets back!! He still holds a firm grip on Main St (aka the House Run) with an impressive 2min 56 but otherwise he is off the Top Times list.
Last night saw the introduction of a new strategy by Jason. Flat out on 1 run a week and the strategy paid off (if NOT somewhat possibly in the spirit of the run….lol) as he collected the TT for No Picnic at Raffles. He dragged Deutscher along as well on that one with Adam getting a second equal matching Perk's outstanding 1min 29 last week. Jason's time? 1 min 25!!!
Deutscher did nail one himself, the Stairway to Heaving, smashing Perk's record from last week by 4 seconds! Patrick also beat Perk's record but only by 2 to nail down #2 spot on the TT's for Heaving.
Patrick whilst not having any top spots does have 3 second's to his name so very consistent work!
In the women's section Zu still holds all 6 records but Tango and Nicole looked excellent last night. Nicole improved her 3rd best time on Heaving by 8 secs! She also improved her long run on Big Monster by 33 seconds!! But last night Tango was the star performer netting 4 seconds in behind Zu's times in a really consistent effort. Well done Tango!
Ok so results –
Check out the Top Times at our website!!
Lean and Mean
Lean and Mean. I believe a lot of Ufitters and people that just want to get fit perhaps aspire to this mantra. I know I do 🙂
To me lean and mean conjures up my lifestyle. I try and eat lean and try and train mean. Ok, so that sounds a tad corny but it's my mantra!
Eat Lean = is essentially eating reduced calories. I challenge YOU to eat HALF of what you eat for the next 2-3 days. Just.Try.It!! You will be amazed at how GOOD you feel, seriously. Why? Because basically we are too greedy and eat too much resulting in a state where we are constantly storing food/energy. So our body is overworked storing and it struggles to find opportunities to tend to other business like tissue repair, maintaining the immune system, processing waste and other important functions. I'm serious about this, the body is a machine and proper functioning is seriously affected when it's overworking dealing with making you fat.
The other part to eating lean is try and cut back on simple carbohydrates or more correctly, high glycaemic index (GI) carbohydrates. These high GI carbs are really only beneficial to us during or immediately after exercise and ONLY if the exercise is rigorous. Like UFIT is 🙂 Most other times low and medium GI carbs should be the food of choice firstly and secondly, naturally occuring foods. Like fruit, vegetables, nuts and seeds.
It's the same for protein and fat. Lean is best. So if you must eat meat and I know, most of you must, eat animals that move. Kangaroo, venison (deer meat), fish and chicken (free range chicken by definition move, unlike the poor critters that get stuffed into huge sheds with no lighting, poor ventilation and sanitation and their neighbours squashed in all around them. It's called modern, profitable farming. Don't mention the feed). Pork=Bad. Beef=Bad. Mutton (sheep)=better than the other 2 🙂
Train Mean=high intensity training. Ok, so some of us aren't (yet) built for too intense stuff and some of us that are, get injured when we push it….So warm-up better. Integrated warm-ups are the only way to ensure you can train at the intensity you need to be at, without suffering injuries. What is an integrated warm-up? Roll, stretch, mobilise/activate, dynamic=GO!! Obviously we can show you how at UFIT or you can Google the terms and do your own research. An integrated warm-up will allow you to train harder which will result in better gains in your program and keep you healthier at the same time. 10 minutes on the bike/treadmill (bloody treadmills, please don't use them anyway they ruin your kinetic chain) and a quick stretch is a warm-up from the dark ages, don't be a neanderthal!!
When training use Olympic lifts as your staple, deadlifts, cleans, push-presses, bench press, squats, lunges and other barbell/dumbbell lifts such as bentover rows and overhead presses. Go heavy and go low reps, 4-6/8 reps max and mix it up. You MUST stimulate MAXIMUM muscle fibres, only achievable with lower reps. This will result in much more muscle fibre recruitment and a greater surge in Growth Hormone, and GH baby is what it is all about! We all have it stored up there in the grey matter, we just gotta unlock it!
When doing cardio, get outside and get going fast! Use hills and stairs and run combinations of single steps/double steps to fire fast twitch fibres and burn the sugar! Sugar in our diets is ever-present, lets use it before it gets stored away! Jump stairs, jump rope, jump into longer, harder runs as well. Try and include initially 400 metre hard runs, then try 800, 1500 and even throw in some 2 even 3 km hard runs. They really blow out the cobwebs and over time, build up an anaerobic machine!!
The great news is for really tough workouts you can do UFIT Run and UFIT Black and Blue which do all of the stuff I've just been talking about. Plus you do it with others and it makes it that much more fun! Have a look at the categories on the right and click on UFIT Run for some Blog stuff including times for our recent sessions.
UFIT means Lean and Mean, get into it!!
Research into Organic Food
Man I am a bad guy!! It's been an age since I blogged and I've had a bee under my bonnet for a while, just wanting to get out…so here goes!!
I read in the ST recently that new research just published found there is no evidence that organic food has any greater nutritional value than conventionally grown food. Apparently this research collated data from a swag of studies completed on organic food Versus conventionally grown food. Did anyone see this? It had a BIG headline and was in a prominent section of the paper.
Ok so a couple of things here.
I believe most people anecdotally would feel that organic food is better for us, right or wrong? So what is the purpose of this research and who would want to see this research undertaken? I was taught always to want to try and investigate the underlying reasoning on why a piece of research is undertaken. Who will it benefit? Obviously in a lot of cases people and groups wanting to get a positive statement supporting their stance on a given matter will try and produce "evidence" that their point of view/product/service is better than an alternative, considering that that alternative may be doing nothing or maybe another product or service.
In this case I would hazard a guess that conventional farmers, concerned that their livelihoods are slowly being undermined by a trend of shoppers buying more and more organic foods, have initiated the study. This in my opinion is highly a plausible scenario. I mean it happens all the time that groups with vested interests in outcomes establish research protocols that benefit/support their stand.
Interesting in this case the PR/spin machine that has subsequently used these results and promoted them very successfully in media around the world. What for me is worrying is the angle that the reports have taken in supporting the research findings that, "there appears to be no greater nutritional value in organic foods compared to conventionally grown foods".
Is this why people buy organic foods? Well for me it's NOT the primary reason. For me the primary reason I buy organic foods is because the growing of the foods uses no chemical fertilisers, no antibiotics, no growth hormones, no additives to assist colour and nothing else that can contaminate the food (so obviously genetically modified foods can't be organic, thankfully, well at least not yet. I'm sure Monsanto goons are plotting how they can do this). So my reason for buying organic food is contamination, or more correctly knowing the food is NOT contaminated!
At the very end of the report in the ST, it stated that unfortunately the research didn't address the negative effects of all the chemicals, added hormones, medicines etc when growing conventional foods, so comparing organic food to conventionally grown food on this basis is perhaps something future research could address…..ahhhhh but in the meantime, headline browsers in the ST will have a take-home message that there's no point paying extra for organic food.
The PR/spin doctors will get their result with the 80% of punters who really can't be bothered reading the full article (ok so I only did because it's important to me in my business…….). I just hope it is to you guys as well….
UFIT Run, Thursday June 17
The records keep tumbling at UFIT Run with "UFIT urbanathlete" Andy "Perks" Perkins wrecking all Top Times bar one this evening at FC. After a huge night on the sake he needed to de-tox and chose UFIT Run to do it! Patrick was hot on his heels on every run and the competition between them managed to spur them both on! Patrick snaffled 3 seconds and 2 thirds! Anita gritted teeth and stuck at it all night providing the third Ufitter in a small UFIT Run Team for session #3. She managed to grab a Top Time, a third on Hill St Blues, well done that girl!! Hopefully you guys will soon start to get behind this great session and start bumping numbers! All Top Times can be found at the UFIT website here http://www.ufit.com.sg/ufit-boot-camp-schedule.html Results !! –
UFIT Run, Thursday June 10, 2010
Well what an interesting second UFIT Run we had tonight! Knotty on his 2 week sabbatical lost all but 1 of his Top Time records, Johnny snaffling 4 of them and "new guy on the block" Patrick grabbing the other on "Stairway to Heaving". A HUGE effort from Zu grabbing all of Ciara's Top Time's in the women's section. All is not lost for Chris he still has a Top Time and 3 second bests with another "n.g.o.t.b" Nick grabbing a great second best timing on "No Picnic at Raffles"!
An ultra-competitive night tonight and a lot of fun. Tony "the Machine" Markou was there or is it Tony "I Hate Running" Markou?? He kept going like a metronome as we all know Tony does. Keep Tuesday evening's on the back-burner we may soon start UFIT Run on Tuesday evenings as well. Anyone keen on that? As usual link through to the website for Top Times in all categories – www.ufit.com.sg/ufit-boot-camp-schedule.html
Results –
UFIT Run, Thursday June 3, 2010
Ok guys and girls we did it!! UFIT Run took off last night in GREAT style! Huge efforts by Chris Knott and Ciara O'Toole taking all 6 firsts in all the runs!! Close in behind were Gabby, Nicole, Jason, Rich and Johnny all putting in BIG ONES!!! Click here for the website details – www.ufit.com.sg/ufit-boot-camp-schedule.html We had 11 at the inaugural UFIT Run and I was delighted at the outcome. Tell everyone, wasn't it good?? Lol, thanks to Jung and Audrey and Kyoo who all experienced their first taste of UFIT last night!! And a BIG thanks to Gen who recorded all times diliGENtly!!
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Social dance and early Australian settlement: An historical examination of the role of social dance for convicts and the 'lower orders' in the period between 1788 and 1840.
One of the aims of historical research is to provide new perceptions and illuminating insights. The notion of convicts having a life which included music and dance is strikingly at odds with the prevailing image of convict heritage. Historians were aware that vernacular culture had quickly become established and then flourished in the English penal colony in Australia, but little was known about the details. The purpose of this research was to investigate the question of dance and its accompanying music in the early colony, covering the period between settlement in 1788 and the abolition of transportation in 1840. The first stage of the research aimed to create two comprehensive databases, bringing together the scattered and fragmentary, textual and non-textual evidence into a readily accessible form. The second stage of the research utilised the information accumulated in the databases to transform it into another dimension, embodying the dance in studio research. By combining the interdisciplinary methods of historical and practice-led research, it was possible to explore both the intrinsic, aesthetic qualities of the dances, and the extrinsic socio-cultural elements. It suggested that dance played a significant role in the social life of some of the early Australian convicts. The result of this research is an extensive, in-depth body of evidence in the form of two databases and a video of the interpretive work to reveal a detailed image of the vernacular dance which was part of the popular culture for convicts and the 'lower order' community in the early colony.
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- Definition: Wanting something so badly you cannot possibly think of anything else. It's a strong feeling coming from within, making your entire body and mind focus on one thing only: that what you wish for most in your life. It's often something you've had before and lost, like a life in luxury. Or, in my case, my physical health.
"The starting point of all achievement is desire" – Napoleon Hill
The flu has gone. I still cough every now and then and I think I sprained a muscle somewhere near my right ribs which is quite painful, but I no longer have a fever, I no longer need tons of sleep, I no longer have a throat that feels as if someone's been at it with a piece of sandpaper (dwarfs, I suspect. They usually give my inner ears a similar treatment with their tiny hammers). I can eat solid food again, drink tea and water without flinching from pain experienced from swallowing, and I have stopped sweating like a pig every night.
Which just shows how funny I am, because pigs don't sweat.
Anyway, even as I was lying on the sofa in pure agony, anticipating yet another excruciating set of coughs and convinced I'd rather choke to death than have to give in to my reflexes and hurt my sore throat even more, I realised something important. A lesson you learn each time you're sick, but forget ever so quickly when you're back on your feet: when you're ill you only have one wish, one desire: to get better. And when you're not sick, your head (or at least my head) explodes with aspirations, goals, wants, and mental to-do-lists.
But if I had had a magical lamp when I was down with the flu, with a genie inside granting me three wishes, I wouldn't have needed three. One wish would have sufficed to give me all I desired.
Somehow, the flu brought me peace of mind. For a good week. I mean, you know you're getting better when your mind reverts to worrying about loads of stuff that's not half as important as you always imagined they were. But other than that, even when I was high on a fever, it felt like my sickness was some sort of cleansing period: get rid of all surplus thoughts and focus on one point only.
Which is exactly what I told myself I'd do after I got better. Focus on one point only. Forget about all my lists and all my worries, just pick one goal and get it done before even so much as glancing at the next thought.
So far my new resolution isn't going that well. Seems like my head's again crowded with surplus thoughts and that they were only on a break. Still, I feel like I caught onto something here. If you only need one wish granted when you're ill, it means you have a very clear priority. And I think that's the key to living a simple and happy life: setting your priorities. Run down your list of desires and choose the most important one.
If I can do it in a state of sickness, I must be able to do so when I'm back to full health.
This was just a silly case of the flu, which happens every two years or so. But it has also been a wake-up call: stop being such a lost cause and step up your game a bit! What if in the future you end up with something much worse than the flu and you won't get better? I don't want to have any regrets about not following my dreams while I still could!
So I better get started on granting me my three wishes. Although, perhaps, I should simply start with one. Because why would you ever need more than one?


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Heads of economic development group fed up
City refuses to support their efforts, they say
KINGMAN - The Economic Development and Marketing Commission is set for a major shakeup today, with several of its members, including the chair and vice-chair, expected to announce their resignations when the commission meets at 8 a.m.
The resignations come due to an ongoing impression by commission members that the City Council has failed to provide adequate funding and support after creating the commission last November.
In an interview Thursday, EDMC chairwoman Christine Cerny set the stage for today's meeting, describing the intense frustration commission members have felt since they first set about trying to bring businesses into Kingman. Money, she said, has posed the largest problem, with Council putting no mechanism in place to reliably fund the commission from year to year.
"I have found that most cities our size have an economic development director in place, as well as a budget of between $250,000 to $900,000," Cerny said. "We approached Council with a conservative $84,000 budget. They told us we would need to seek funding from the Tourism Development Commission. Tourism was generous and supported our efforts and provided $38,500."
That $38,500 came directly from the TDC's share of the city's hotel tax but was only intended as a one-time infusion of seed money, to allow the EDMC to commission a formal study of local businesses and consumer spending habits, which in turn would produce a report the commission could use in subsequent years to draw new businesses to the area.
But during its March meeting, Cerny said TDC commissioners had expressed concern over whether or not that money should be spent without a guarantee that the EDMC would have enough money in future years to follow up on the study.
That final opportunity came and went Monday evening, when Council voted to approve its tentative budget without any changes to its $8,000 allocation to EDMC.
"This city needs jobs, and to spend $8,000 in the investment of those jobs is ridiculous and insulting," Cerny said. "Those numbers I quoted earlier regarding those other cities ... those are appropriated to .5 percent of those cities' annual budgets, and those cities are whom we are competing with to bring in those jobs. $8,000 of our city's annual budget isn't even a fraction of 1 percent, which tells me that economic development is not a priority of the majority of Council."
According to EDMC Vice-chair John Kirby, several commission members believed that Council would be able to fund the commission with the recently-raised hotel tax. Instead, Council voted to limit the new tax collections to the city's $250 million capital improvements plan.
"We're not recreating the wheel here in town. Every city that has a commission has to fund it, and you have to identify funding mechanisms," Kirby said. "They created us, so they're saying, 'You're a commission now, but you don't have any money.'"
As an official city-sanctioned commission, members were also frustrated by some of their reporting requirements. According to Kirby, EDMC originally started with 11 members with the intention of forming separate subcommittees to tackle individual issues such as the Shop Kingman campaign. But that goal proved difficult, with members required to take minutes and provide agendas to the City Clerk's office for every meeting of every subcommittee.
"As soon as we started splintering, we were told by the city attorney that we were subject to open meeting laws, and thereby, we needed to use the city resources to do minutes and post agendas and all that stuff," he said. "We were told in no uncertain terms that the city did not have the resources to support our subcommittees and all the reporting requirements."
Between the red tape and the lack of funding, Cerny said she felt economic development might be tackled more efficiently through a non-governmental body of concerned citizens. And while she said she could understand some of the fiscal concerns Council had over funding the fledgling commission in tight economic times, its perceived lack of any real desire to see the commission succeed is what she says has forced her to look elsewhere.
"I do respect that immensely, but I also feel that if we're not being supported in this way, we can be much more productive and effective in a different venue," she said. "If the city cannot support us, there are other people in the community who can and will."
Mayor John Salem said he was aware of the EDMC's funding concerns but was surprised by the news that several commissioners were considering resigning. Contrary to their perceptions, he said he has been a big supporter of the EDMC and the events it has held so far, such as last month's marketing development workshop, which ended up costing the city nothing.
"To be perfectly honest with you, this is the first I've heard of this," he said. "I'm in support of EDMC, I'm in support of their causes, I'm in support of giving them what I can; but I'm one vote, and when it comes to budgetary issues, we need a majority of Council to come to a decision."
Salem added that there are still members of his constituency who are skeptical of spending any large amounts of money on economic development following the city's elimination of its Economic Development Department in July 2007. That decision was precipitated in large part by then-Economic Director Jeff Weir's decision to spend thousands in city funds to pursue a railroad freight center that the railroad itself denied it had any interest in locating here.
"There are still some wounds that need to be healed from that," Salem said. "The whole reason this commission was formed in the first place was to pick up where the Economic Development Department left off, but on a much smaller cash-flow scale economically. It started off as a steering committee with no budget, and even then they were doing wonderful things."
Salem reiterated the importance of fiscal conservatism in uncertain times, adding that he believed $50,000 for a commission's first year was a good start, if nothing else, especially considering many of the city's commissions receive no funding at all.
"I would like to see economic development higher on our list of priorities, but in this current economic climate, we just can't move it up right now," he said. "After this first year, once they're established and we see what kind of wonderful things they're doing, I'm sure we can get more funds for them."
In the end, Kirby said, he couldn't help but wonder if Councilman Keith Walker had a point when he said that creating the commission may have been a mistake.
"While I truly believe in it, the sentiment from the city no matter what we do has had a negative connotation," he said. "It sickens me. I haven't slept. And I hate to think of myself as a quitter, but I really think the city made a mistake in making the commission without creating a funding mechanism. And I really don't think they've bought into the idea of economic development."
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Although paintball is relatively new to the world of sport, paintballs genesis began decades ago in the 1960's.
Where Did It Begin?
1970 was probably the most important year in the history of Paintball. It was the year the first paintball marker the "Nelspot 707" was designed.
In the mid 1960's Charlie Nelson was approached by a forestry group to create a air powered marker to enable forest personal to mark trees and wandering cattle, here the term marker was born. Nelson alongside RP Scherer created the first .68 calibre oil based ball that would be used for such markings.
The next challenge was how to propel these balls. Here Nelson created the Nelspot 707 alongside Crossman (one of the largest airgun manufactures). However it wasn't meant to be, Crossman backed out of the deal due to slow sales and the 707 was a commercial failure.
Daisy another airgun giant picked up the 707 and a new model the Nelspot 007 was later released. This would become the marker that would later inspire the likes of the Razorback and Bushmaster.
The Debate
In 1976 Charles Gaines (a writer) and Hayes Noel (a stockbroker) got into a heated debate over drinks. Could a businessman stand a better chance of surviving a stalking game than a outdoorsman? Was it simply a matter of instinct or was it a product of the environment?
Bob Gurnsey (a ski shop owner) had his say, he stated that the outdoorsman would surely have the advantage. They pondered about creating a stalking game to challenge their friends and to test their theory. They took inspiration from a book called "The Most Dangerous Game" and began creating the overall concept.
A friend of Gaines saw the Nelspot 007 in a farming magazine. This was purchased and tested on Shelby Gaines, Charles' son who claimed it "didn't hurt much". The dream was about to become a reality, a 12 man game was in the pipe line.
The First Game
In June 1981 the first real game of paintball was played with Nelspot 007's and rules written by Bob Gurnsey. A mixture of avid hunters to a boxer and surgeon, the game cost $175 each covering equipment, food and drinks
"Before we ever played that first game, Hayes and I each wrapped towels around our waists and shot each other to see how badly it would hurt. Hayes shot first and missed. Then I shot him in the butt. Once we realized it was going to be fairly safe, we talked about playing our first one-on-one game. We wrote some simple rules, went into the woods and played a 45-minute game. It ended when I got snuck up behind Hayes and said, 'I guess I won the argument!' Neither of us fired a single shot." – Charles Gaines speaking at the 2004 IAO
The first game played was "capture the flag" with 4 flag stations with 12 flags in total. Each player was given a Nelspot 007, eye protection and a map of the 100 acre playing field.
The game proved to be a success and Ritchie White became the first winner of a paintball game, despite not firing a single shot!
One player Bob Jones covered the game in renowned magazine, Sports Illustrated.
The interest in paintball began to grow and as more media attention was earned Gaines, Noel and Gurnsey saw the business opportunity to begin selling starter kits equipped with markers, paintballs, goggles and a rule book supplied by Nelson Paint Company.
National Survival Game
The game was trademarked as the National Survival Game and in 1982 the first ever commercial paintball field was opened in New Hampshire. National Survival Game Inc was franchised and fields began opening up throughout America.
Continuing with the success In 1983 Gurnsey hosted the first major paintball tournament with Canadian team The Unknown Rebels taking home the cash prize, the first nationally recognised tournament winning team.
The Rise Of Paintball
In the following years Paintball took off around the world. In 1984 the National Survival Game began to be called paintball and new products such as the first mass produced paintball gun, harnesses, barrel cleaners and water based paintballs we're created. The first paintball magazines Adventure and Frontline were published.
1985 saw the first outdoor paintball field to be opened in England, as the popularity expanded worldwide fields became smaller for fast paced action packed games.
In the late 1980's the International Paintball Players Association was founded to ensure the growth and safety of Paintball, here the 300 feet per seconds speed limit was established.
The Golden Age
Between 1987 - 1988 giant leaps were taken as three future powerhouse companies emerge. Dennis Tippmann Sr creates Tippmann Pneumatics and offers the first full automatic paintball gun the Tippmann SMG-60. Tippmann also produce the first ever co2 tank with a pin value reengineered from the soda industry.
WGP is founded by Bud Orr by building paintball guns in his garage, the first WGP sniper paintball guns. The first guns easily modified with removable barrels and calibre conversions. Later he develops the first paintball hopper holding 45 paintballs.
JT a major player in off road motorcycle sports steps into the paintball market with the first ever JT paintball goggle. engineered from a popular motocross goggle, designed for impact protection.
The Take Off
Throughout the 1990's the popularity for the sport blossomed around the world. Paintball technology developed to create state of the art equipment from Spyder guns and biodegradable water soluble paintballs.
The National paintball players league was formed and hosted its first ever tournament, a new era of competitive paintball from regional to national.
In 1995 paintball had its TV debut as ESPN screened the World Championship Games, an iconic moment for the sport although not viewer friendly.
Today Paintball is a multimillion pound industry with a vast range of equipment including pioneering markers, masks and air systems. It continues to grow with various styles of play available such as Speedball, Milsim, Scenario, Concept and Woodsball.
There are various tournaments, leagues, events and professional teams around the world, a sport loved by many.
The question is where will paintball be In 10 years time?


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- Indian Hotels Company's (Indian Hotels) stock has underperformed after Q1FY2008 results and the stock has corrected by 9% in the last two months. We believe that the quarter's subdued performance was more due to the rupee appreciation than any significant change in the inherent characteristics of the industry.
- To address the issue of the strong rupee, Indian Hotels has already announced that they would be shifting to a single tariff structure (rupee tariff) across all its properties in India from September this year. We have already mentioned in our Q4FY2007 update that the first half of FY2008 would get affected due to the rupee appreciation till the contracts are revised in September-October 2007.
- As per the industry trends, the hotel players are going for a new tariff, which would be effective from September 2007. Our channel check reveals that apart from Bangalore and Hyderabad, the tariff hike for most of the cities is above 25%. The increase in the average room rate (ARR) for the four properties of Indian Hotels is 23% and in our projections we have assumed a conservative 15% growth in the ARR for FY2008. The ARR increase would significantly add to the earnings as even an assumed 20% growth in ARR boosts our earning estimates by 7% and 5% in FY2008 and FY2009 respectively.
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