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Re: Hombu Culture
"The Hombu Dojo is like a box of chocolates You never know what you're gonna get."
Except Forest Gump didn't look at that card which explains what all the chocolates are.
Similar to the chocolate-box menu, there is at least a list of teachers at the Hombu which might give you an idea of what to expect if you have "tasted" them before. Even then, the sheer number of visitors to the Hombu makes for a huge variety. I am wary of making assumptions about the place even after several visits. If you go to a particular shihan's class, there might be a large clique of those who exclusively enjoy that "flavour" but you really don't know who you might end up training with. People from all over Japan and the rest of the world (all with various lineages and standards) call by the Hombu as visitors. The regulars have no choice but to train with these people and I'd say that any of them that have been around for a while get to experience all kinds of standards and styles even if they do favour one particular teacher. It is a very busy melting pot of aikido. Like anywhere else it has its pros and cons. It is often very crowded so I think people look out for where they are throwing more, but sometimes it is too crowded to throw at all. I think this is one reason why there are few changes of partner since it is time-consuming when there are so many people on the mats (although I have attended classes where we changed). It could also be a factor that makes weapons training rare. Another is the official view of weapons as supplementary rather than basic. Whether you agree with that or not is irrelevant when you consider the afore mentioned variety. If Doshu Sensei favours one lineage over another, where does it leave the others?
The grading syllabus relates directly to that point. That very variety within the Aikikai should make having only a
set of requirements obvious. Maybe some get through just on those minimums but I doubt someone close to their shihan would be put forth for a grading unless he or she could also meet that shihan's own particular requirements. If those additional requirements (which for some includes weapons training) were required across the board, where would that leave the other teachers and their (often different) requirements?
It seems to me that the Hombu tries to stand in the centre where we all
overlap. It has standards but it's there to bring us all together, not just make everyone do carbon-copy aikido of one particular teacher. Osensei is gone and even when he was around, that wasn't possible. I see the Hombu as a nexus.
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Angola rise nine places in FIFA Ranking
The Angolan national senior males football team have has risen nine places in the FIFA ranking updated this Thursday in Zurich (Switzerland), a list led by Spain with 1.514 points.
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Review: Star Crash (1979)
Stella (with Thor and Akton) demonstrates
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Far ago, in a galaxy long, long away...
The starship "Murray Leinster," crown jewel of the Imperial Space Fleet, is on a secret mission to locate the home base of the evil Count Baron Zarth Arn. Zarth Arn has been at work on a terrible weapon that could threaten all the peace-loving inhabitants of this candy-colored universe, and the Emperor of the Stars (Christopher Plummer) is determined to find him and stop him. The Emperor has sent his own son Simon (David Hasselhoff) to head the mission. Unfortunately, when the "Murray Leinster" gets a little too close to Count Zarth's planet, the ship is attacked by glowy red bubble-things that cause really nasty headaches. Simon and some of his shipmates manage to get away in escape pods before the ship crashes and explodes.
Meanwhile, intergalactic smuggler and foxy space-babe Stella Star (Caroline Munro) and her fluffy-haired navigator Akton are picked up by the Imperial police and sent to a prison colony for several hundred years of hard labor. After five minutes of work Stella can't take it any more and starts a riot at the prison. She gets away but is almost immediately captured by green-skinned police chief Thor. The Emperor needs someone to lead a mission to find Simon and locate Zarth Arn's HQ, and since Stella and Akton are the best pilots in the galaxy, he gives them a pardon and recruits them.
The three escape pods from the "Murray Leinster" went down on three different planets, so Stella and Akton (with help from Thor and police robot Elle) must visit each of the mysterious planets and search the landing sites for survivors. The first pod they find is on a pretty nice planet that looks a little like coastal California. The pod is empty but Stella and Elle (the away team) are captured by a band of bikini-clad Amazons. They are brought before the Amazon queen, but thanks to Elle's superhuman abilities they manage to escape, narrowly avoiding being stepped on by the Amazons' incredibly broke-ass giant robotic woman-warrior-thing.
Next our heroes are off to a frozen wasteland of a planet, where Stella must don her warmest leotard to survive the brutal temperatures. They find no survivors at the crash site, but we discover that Thor is secretly working for Zarth Arn when he conks Akton on the head and locks Stella and Elle out in the cold. Fortunately, Akton uses his strange and unexplained mental powers to get the upper hand on Thor. Elle and Akton have to defrost Stella when they bring her into the ship, but she was evidently flavor-sealed in her space-age spandex and shows no signs of freezer-burn.
The final planet they search looks like an abandoned slag-heap and is populated by some really homely cavemen. When Stella and Elle are checking the escape pod on the planet surface the cavemen attack, smashing Elle into a mound of Radio Shack parts. It looks like Stella is about to become the main course at the caveman jamboree when a mysterious stranger in a goofy golden helmet appears and saves her. It turns out to be - gasp! - Simon, the Emperor's lost son! Akton wanders down to meet them and they realize that Zarth Arn's secret base is, rather conveniently, just around the corner.
Ol' Zarth is waiting for them, though, and uses Simon as bait to lure the Emperor himself to the planet (which Zarth has rigged to explode). The Emperor arrives just before the whole place blows up, but Zarth's little plan didn't take into account the fact that the Emperor has the power to stop the flow of time (!?!). He does so, just long enough for everyone to get away. A long and confusing space battle ensues between the Imperial forces and Zarth's own space fleet. This culminates in Stella piloting a small manmade planet into Zarth's space station, causing the titular "star crash." Zarth is defeated and the Emperor gives a weird speech celebrating peace.
After reading that synopsis you may feel like your brain has been attacked by glowy red bubble-things, and for that I apologize. A plot like this one does not lend itself well to summarization; in fact, I had to consult a synopsis written by director Luigi Cozzi just to understand some of the film's more mind-scrambling moments. Having said that, I must admit that I loved this movie. Probably way too much.
Star Crash, or as it was originally titled, Scontri Stellari Oltre la Terza Dimensione, is an Italian production which followed hot on the heels of 1977's genre-defining Star Wars. The similarity is evident from the opening scene in which a huge star-ship cruises slowly over the camera, and in basically every scene that follows. Star Crash rips off its predecessor at every turn, but does so with such a lack of skill that the results are quite unique. The final product is so cheap and corny as to be quite charming in its own way.
For example, when you look into space in Star Crash, you don't see thousands of tiny white stars - you see about a dozen huge ones, mostly in primary colors. It's like somebody hung a string of those big 50's Christmas lights on a brick wall. It's so unconvincing that you want to buy into it out of sheer sympathy. According to a Star Crash fansite (www.pachanko.com/starcrash) the not-so-special effects were brought to us by Armando Valcauda, a man who had never done effects for a motion picture before. This is not hard to believe.
I do give Armando credit for trying - he used just about every effect available at the time. My favorite has to be the stop-motion animation used for the Amazons' giant robot. It's a wonder that Stella didn't fall down laughing at the thing instead of running from it. Ray Harryhausen could probably have trained an orangutan to create a better stop-motion sequence. Another weakness is the poor spaceship design. In Star Wars, you could really believe that those ships were the size of cities. Here, they just look like sad little plastic models filmed at close range.
But Star Crash is about more than just the effects - it's about characters! There are some real prize-winners here, too. Akton is about as weird an individual as you'll ever encounter, what with his massive sphere of blonde curls; vast, luminous eyes, and assortment of vague psychic powers. Zarth Arn isn't very intimidating - he looks more like a fry-cook at Denny's than an evil overlord. And I don't know what Christopher Plummer was high on during the making of this film, but I want some of it. When he's making his final speech he looks so blissed-out that you start looking around for his space-bong.
I guess Elle the robot (who, despite his name, is a "he") was supposed to stand in for C3P0, but since the British accent was already taken Elle was given a Southern drawl. In my opinion: bad idea. Unless you are building the personal android servant of Jesse Helms, there is no reason for anyone to give a robot a Southern accent. Being from below the Mason-Dixon myself, I should know. The two things simply do not go together - it is a scientific fact.
Caroline Munro's Stella Star really takes this movie to the next level. A cheap Star Wars rip-off is one thing, but a cheap Star Wars rip-off starring a legitimately hot woman in a black vinyl bikini is something very different. I like the fact that she's not just window-dressing, though - she kicks butt; she karate-chops Amazons; she pilots her ship in death-defying space-battles. Of course, she also changes outfits more often than Cher on her Farewell Tour, but a complicated woman needs a complicated wardrobe, okay? In addition to her gravity-defying space-cleavage, Stella actually has some charisma too, which goes a long way toward making Star Crash enjoyable to watch.
I can't forget to mention the climactic battle between the Emperor's forces and Zarth Arn's. It goes on for so long I began to wonder if the Emperor was using his powers to stop time again, but no - it's just that boring. The laws of physics seem to be a little different in this part of space; personally, I was a little confused when the Imperial troopers crashed their space-canoes through the windows of Zarth's ship, then climbed out to tangle with Zarth's henchmen. You might think it would be a little breezy in front of that open window, but space must have been calm that day.
Final Analysis
I really could go on and on about Star Crash - it's one of the most enjoyable bad films I've seen in ages. It's beautifully stupid without having the disturbing edge that taints so many crappy movies (i.e. Invasion U.S.A.). Read more at the aforementioned fansite, then get out there and grab a copy if you can find one. It's a mom-approved escape pod of pastel-colored joy for the whole family!


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Carving out a very small art corner
Does anyone ever have enough space, storage, or room in their home to have a place that functions as a hobby or art and crafts center?
Many do. I am not among them.
In fact, small areas for this or that activity are scattered throughout the house. I sure wish I could get that treadmill out of the bedroom.
At least the bikes fit nicely in the basement. Oh, that will be a topic for another posting.
Needing a space with lots of light to watercolor, I decided to convert a small corner of the living room.
To furnish the area on a very small budget, I shopped the basement. Among the cobwebs was an old desk and chair.
Oops… almost forgot to take before pictures. Top of desk was all soaped up for transformation.
Both had been in the basement for years and needed cleaning, painting and the seat of the chair had to be recovered.
Using left over paint from other projects, made this a budget friendly project.
I purchased material to cover the chair for less than $8.
Nearby windows bring in a lot of light.
Isn't she lovely????
I see the paint brushes marching in now. I need to show them their place.
Hope they will be happy in their new, lovely, budget friendly, little corner.


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A meningitis scare has forced Rugby School to cancel a series of external entrance examinations next week.
Youngsters eager to get a place at the #14,000-a-year private school have been told to stay away.
Hopefuls will instead take the important scholarship tests in their respective home towns with papers then passed on to the school for marking.
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Spokesman Andrew Fletcher said: "It was an isolated outbreak and thankfully it appears to be all over.
"A boy was taken to hospital and has made a full recovery but because of the incubation period we need to be sure."


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The GeForce 8600 GT and 8600 GTS both feature NVIDIA's second generation Pure Video HD engine, making it the world's first and only GPU to provide 100% offload for H.264 decoding. Current PCs require both a high end CPU and high end GPU in order to reliably decode and playback all types of HD content. With the GeForce 8600's new Pure Video technology, HD playback can be done on nearly all PCs.
A new video processor (VP) block provides more advanced video post processing to improve overall video quality. A new integrated bitstream processor (BSP) allows the 8500 and 8600 GPUs to perform full HD decode. They are the world's first video processors to offload from the CPU 100% of Blu-ray and HD DVD H.264 video decoding, enabling playback on mainstream CPUs and providing unsurpassed movie picture quality and low power consumption. PureVideo HD support for Vista is available now for GeForce 7 and 8 series GPUs. PureVideo HD support for the 8500 and 8600 GPUs under Windows XP is expected in June 2007.
The Video Processor 2 (VP2) is designed to accelerate the decode of the most advanced video codecs including MPEG-2, VC-1, and H.264 at high bit rates, up to 40Mbps in the case of BD. The Bitstream processor (BSP) is specially designed to accelerate H.264 entropy coding schemes known as Context Adaptive Variable Length Coding (CAVLC) and Context Adaptive Binary Arithmetic Coding (CABAC). The BSP is key to the CPU offloading that takes place on the GeForce 8600 series. Also included on the 8600 series is the AES128 engine that is used to accelerate the decode of the AES128 encryption protocol to support video content security schemes for players and operating system requirements. The AES128 engine ensures both the security and integrity of the video content. This all boils down to giving the end user something that NVIDIA calls the 'best HD experience' available on the market today.
To help show how the new video engine dramatically reduces CPU utilization, NVIDIA provided Legit Reviews with a couple slides that show CPU Utilization when doing H.264 decoding with actual Blu-Ray and HD DVD movies on an Intel Pentium 4 531 Processor with an ATI Radeon X1950 Pro versus the NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT and then with nothing more than the CPU. When using the ATI Radeon X1950 Pro and the CPU the performance tests showed that 100% of the work was done by the CPU. With the NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT it shows the CPU only helping out with ~30-45% of the work, while the GPU handled the rest.
NVIDIA also provided a slide that compares the faster GeForce 8600GTS to the older GeForce 7600 GT on an Intel Core 2 Duo E6400 based system. Here it shows that the Pure Video Engine in the GeForce hows that decoding these HD titles took anywhere between 80-100% of the CPU's resources. The 7600 GT, with the standard Pure Video HD enabled, was able to reduce the CPU utilization down to about 60%. With the second generation Pure Video HD engine enabled the CPI is almost entirely free to do other things as CPU utilization was found to be roughly 20% on the GeForce 8600 GTS.
It's obvious that the second generation Pure Video engine does a great job at decoding video and nearly takes the CPU out of the equation for HD playback. Eventually all of the decoding could take place on the GPU, so it's highly possible that CPU utilization will be even lower on the next GPU's that are in the works now. Currently, Pure Video HD acceleration for the GeForce 8600 GTS and GT is ONLY available for Windows Vista. Pure Video HD acceleration for Windows XP is expected to be available in June 2007.
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"When they step into reality, the real game begins." CJ Entertainment has released an official international trailer (with English subtitles) for an epic Korean action film called Fabricated City. The story follows a nerdy, uber-gamer who is the "best leader" online with his gamer friends. But he is framed for the murder of a young woman, so he teams up with his gamer/hacker friends to try and solve the case and clear his name. Starring Ji Chang-wook, Shim Eun-Kyung, and Oh Jung-se. So this actually looks pretty damn cool, there's some crazy action in it, and the Koreans certainly know how to make edgy but fun thrillers. Game on. ›››
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New Varieties! Amy's Light & Lean Frozen Meals - Check out these new meals from our pal Amy: Bean & Cheese Burrito, 3 Cheese Penne Marinara, Roasted Polenta with Swiss Chard, Spaghetti Italiano, and Sweet & Sour Asian Noodle! Each container has 140 - 280 calories, 3 - 5g fat, 540 - 610mg sodium, 20 - 49g carbs, 4 - 8g fiber, 2 - 10g sugars, and 6 - 11g protein (PointsPlus® value 3 - 7*). Bigtime score, smalltime stats... Aunt Jemima Oatmeal Pancakes - Hot breakfast news! These oaty p-cakes have even more fiber than Auntie J's Whole Grain ones (which we still like anyway). A serving of 3 pancakes has 230 calories, 3.5g fat, 380mg sodium, 42g carbs, 4g fiber, 11g sugars, and 8g protein (PointsPlus® value 6*). Nice! P.S. We've also got our eye on Aunt Jemima's Confetti Pancakes -- the numbers aren't bad! Pineapple SOYJOY - Those of you who recall the days when we found no joy in SOYJOY must be pretty amused by how much we LOVE the bars now. Ever since their big reformulation, these bars keep getting better! This new flavor tastes like deliciously dense pineapple upside-down cake, and we love it SO MUCH. Each bar has 140 calories, 6g fat, 40mg sodium, 17g carbs, 3g fiber, 12g sugars, and 4g protein (PointsPlus® value 4*). Find 'em in stores or buy online!
For years, the standard black-and-white labels on packaged foods have stared back at us with cold, hard facts -- facts that many people don't read or completely understand. A big problem is that the stats per serving (and the serving sizes themselves!) can be deceptive at first glance -- what seems like a single-serving portion of food might actually be two or three servings. And the "servings per container" info isn't always obvious. The Food and Drug Administration recognizes this, so the agency is working on a proposal to revise the nutrition facts label and make it more user-friendly. A few of the intended changes include more realistic serving sizes, more emphasis on calories, and less of the info people don't find useful (such as calories from fat and certain percentages). Some consumers have requested a greater emphasis on the amount of preservatives in the food and its level of processing. We're just thrilled that people are paying more attention to their food and that changes are potentially underway to make it even easier to understand nutritional info. Go, FDA!
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Just when we thought we were safe from crazy menu specials at Denny's (Baconalia still haunts us)... Have you heard about the new "Let's Get Cheesy" menu? The Winner Winner Cheesy Dinner has 1,520 calories and 101g fat (the only thing you win is a new pants size), and the Mac 'n Cheese Big Daddy Patty Melt meal has 1,690 calories and 99g fat (enough to make us cry for our mommies)! Ugh... ***On the other end of the caloric spectrum, a new study suggests that you can lose weight just by eating a slightly smaller lunch! Despite what you might think would've happened, participants who ate portion-controlled midday meals didn't overcompensate with more calories later on -- scaling back can work, people! ***Returning to the bummer side, a recent survey found that when it comes to multi-portion frozen entrées, people usually eat more than the labeled serving size. Four-serving meals are often eaten by one or two people, and meals meant for two to three people are often eaten by one (by one person, silly... not by one in the afternoon). Read those labels! ***Looking for smarter restaurant options for your kiddies? Click here! The National Restaurant Association has teamed up with HealthyDining to put together Kids LiveWell. Read about the program and look around at the options... ***We love Japan and all its kooky innovations. The latest craze? Fat-burning underwear. These shorts are coated with a special resin that renders them non-stretchy, so your muscles need to work harder to move. WHOA. ***HUGE NEWS: Hungry Girl "Ginormous Food" is comin' atcha this weekend! Watch the preview now, and tune in to Food Network this Sunday (9/18) at 10am/9c for this all-new episode. Lisa will be making guilt-free foods with MASSIVE serving sizes, plus dishing on some great calorie bargains. Don't miss it! That's all we've got. HG out!
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Hello sir.
For the very beginning. Fenrir, is ugh.. a multiple choice god? I think that's the right world.
I've seen and played him as Jungle, Solo and Support.
He is a very strange god which you can build many builds on him.
Solo build, Ability based build, Auto attack build and even the support build.(As strange as it sounds)
I'm going to tell you just 2 simple builds. (You can build whatever starter you want on him whatever)
1) Warrior Tabi, Jotun's wrath, Shifter's shield, Hs, Brawler and Titan bane. This is the most normal build for an ability based god.
You can *always* build Def in case you need. Just remove Hs or Shifter or Both.
Brawler and Titan should be build earlier if needed but for brawler, you can just remove it from the build if there's no healing and so you're gonna have a place for def.
2) Mark of the vanguard as starter.
Warrior tabi, Gladiator's shield, hide of the neamean lion, bulwark(pestilince in case they have healing, or both as you want)
Qins and Frostbound(in case you don't want frostbound go for Mantle of discord)
As I told you, you can build many things on him that's why i'm not even sure what you should build.


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Prediabetes is on the rise in people at a healthy weight, according to data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. The condition, a precursor to diabetes, is characterized by blood sugar levels that are elevated but not high enough to be considered full-blown disease. Still, it can increase the risk of cardiovascular disease, cognitive impairment, and other health problems.
The study, in the Annals of Family Medicine, found that among healthy-weight adults ages 20 and older, prediabetes prevalence increased overall from 10 percent in 1988-94 to 19 percent in 2011-12. Among those 45 and older, it increased from 22 to 33 percent.
Though abdominal obesity—which is associated with both diabetes and prediabetes—also increased slightly over this same period, this did not explain the increase in prediabetes, the researchers determined. Rather, they speculated that it could partly be due to increased sedentary lifestyle, which negatively affects insulin sensitivity.
The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recommends blood sugar screening only for overweight or obese people ages 40 to 70. These new findings mean that many people with prediabetes are being missed.
Also see Stopping Diabetes Before It Starts and Should You Be Tested for Diabetes?


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This is a metaphor that may help one visualization the configuration of this reality.
What we experience is similar to a projection system. It can be described relative to the large, "overhead" projector systems that are placed on a rolling cart. This also works with a reel to reel projection system, like in movie theaters.
In this metaphor, the projection device is the physical object which acts as the construct to support everything needed to project the information. The glass display is covered with slides that are filled with information written or drawn by the "teacher". The power comes from a tube/channel that is filled with electricity and connected to a plug in the wall where there is infrastructure connecting to a grid and relay station. This is synonymous with a "world of energy".
The light that is shone up through the display and the slides (or horizontally through each frame on the movie reel as it turns) is then projected outward onto a display that is usually a hanging screen that is a solid color to easily show contrast and details.
The metaphor is as follows: the electrical energy from the wall and grid is the 'source' energy or pure spirit that is flowing from the "world of spirit". This is the raw spiritual energy that 'lives' through the body and the body experiences life as long as this energy is present.
The slides or the movie reel contains information that is 'produced', by design (with foresight of the resulting experience) by a "teacher" who is presenting a lesson to those in the classroom. The lessons is always about the true nature of the self.
The projector device itself, the light bulb, the mirrors, the frame, that is the physical biological construct which allows the whole process to occur. This is the physical body and brain.
The mind is the immaterial information, the drawings, equations, writings, or scenes that are expressed as a result of the soul information projected from each slide. This information is the immaterial mind, the connection between the body and the realm of the soul. The slides themselves contain the information that the self is identifying through on the projection while simultaneously containing information relative to the identity of the teacher designing or teaching the lesson. This is the soul energy, the blueprint, the information that pours through. The changing of these slides is actually the perception of time. The rotation of the movie reel, or the changing of the slides as the teacher moves on with each sub-lesson, creates the sensation of time. There is no actual change, no actual motion, it is about the angle of perspective and the process that takes place outside of the "projected realm".
The screen across the room hanging from the ceiling or the wall, that is this physical realm. It is a two-dimensional surface that acts as a surface area for the projections to form and as we know these projections can easily give the illusion of three-dimensional space and the 3.5 dimensional organization of information of a "movie" or life.
While present here in this plane, we disconnect from the view of the teacher who is designing the slides, scene by scene, one lesson plan at a time with a foreknowledge of how it will play out. The characters on the screen, they believe that their existence is solidified on that screens, that it begins and ends there. This is the illusion. Continue reading "The Projection Metaphor for Spirit, Soul, Body-Brain, Universe, and True Identity"


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Oct 26 (Reuters) - Intel Corp, the world's largest computer chipmaker, reported a 33.7 percent rise in quarterly profit on Thursday, helped by strong growth in its data center and cloud computing business.
The company's net income rose to $4.52 billion, or 94 cents per share, in the third quarter ended 30, from $3.38 billion, or 69 cents per share, a year earlier. (bit.ly/2zRIW6x)
Revenue rose to $16.15 billion from $15.78 billion. (Reporting by Laharee Chatterjee in Bengaluru; Editing by Shounak Dasgupta)


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I underestimated it
What did you underestimate Steve?
The contents page
You mean last week, when you said it was the largest operation ever undertaken?
Yes Paul
I see
The Sexyloops Contents Page captures the very essence of life itself, it is a ferocious and dangerous beast, it breathes fire, it walks the world tall - like a man. Sometimes it flies. Parts of it are mysteriously invisible, while others, blindingly obvious. It is the stuff of nightmares (mine included). In short: it is a dragon
Steve, what on earth are you talking about?
The contents page it is a dragon
A dragon?
Yes Paul, a dragon!
Yes, this week, for a change, I am more grounded than Steve. There is nothing like a dodgy Indian take-away for bringing you down to earth with a bump.
Steve said, Dodgy Indian take-way? You'll be out of action for four days, maybe six. Get some rest dude
Steve, this is Sexyloops remember; it'll be over in 48 hours, possibly 24
Yes, that'll be the dragon
Last week (as part of the Sexyloops EFFF-Masters Campaign - dragon talking) I have decided to knock a few flycasting theories into dust starting with the double haul. Double haul loads the rod? Well check this out: double trubble.
Then try this for size: cast and without stopping the rod, release the line half way through the stoke
the result? 25 yard plus cast. Now try this: hand cast, no rod, if you can't or don't know how then half-loop the line around a post and pull
result? 20 yards at least. Now get an assistant, with big shoes, to grab the end of the line and pull the rod bent or do it yourself, it's a catapult cast and let go
result? 10 yards, and only then if you're blessed and who wants to be that? Gotta earn it I say.
Tomorrow I'm going to show how it's possible for the rod to unload during the loading phase cool huh? And I've been up a ladder with a watering can to prove it. You know: it's about time someone did this and I've got both the ladder and the watering can and so it may as well be me.
Oh and if you try to push me off you're gonna get wet.
It's good this EFFF-Masters stuff, Steve says it's sublime - but that'll be the dragon of course.
Last Thursday Pete Sutton AAPGAI came around armed to the teeth with heavy-duty flyrods, shooting heads and a curious bucket with rubber tie-me-down-quicks melted into the base. It could only mean one thing: a flycasting distance shoot-out.
The course was set up (160 yards long - just in case) and carefully staked out with BBQ skewers and a feather. The feather marked the 55-yard club and was to be claimed by the first caster to reach the mark. I didn't fancy it though since it was a bit manky and so held back a bit. Pete didn't fancy it much either, he said - afterwards.
What was really interesting and has been all along throughout this campaign (dragon) has been how bloody hard it's been. You know, I thought, shooting head, I can cast, a little bit, 60 yards, at least. Maybe a lot more. Funny it's been nothing like that. The first time we took them out they didn't get 100 feet but those were Jon Allen's shooting heads and there was something wrong with them we both agreed.
Then Peter came around with some real shooting heads, man's ones, but no inch tape and so we could only guess how far they went, and we made some pretty good guesses as well. One of my guesses came in close to 50 yards and I would have kept on guessing had it not entangled itself in a tree.
We did learn some stuff too. Not groundbreaking stuff, you know like double-trubble, but interesting stuff that although we knew, and even taught, hadn't fully appreciated. For one thing we learned the importance of being silky smooth. Which is very easy to say, you know less power, in fact it's one of my favourite teaching expressions, but actually doing it for yourself is a different story. You're thinking less power, but because it's a 10-weight you're going to whack it anyway.
And then there's the release, having just seen double-trubble (ground-breaking sexyloops dragon) I could fully appreciate the importance of an instant release. And so I'd remember to do that, but then forget to do something else, like haul really quickly, or aim high enough, or to lift my back foot off the ground a little bit (like Ian Walker does), or grunt (Pete seemed to think that was important). Basically it was a rare one that went right. And when it did the backing was in a knot.
Peter got 148 feet, when he wasn't looking. I got one of 145, which just goes to show that it's not all skill and timing and that sometimes, even in this game, luck can be your deadliest weapon.
What we need is some ball boys Paul
Huh? (I replied from my strategic measuring position of 55 yards away)
Yes Paul, with a line of ball boys we could have a row of five shooting heads set up, we could walk down the row one by one letting out our longest casts. They'd retrieve, we'd cast perfect huh? Another great idea of mine!
I can thing of only one slight alteration that I would make to your otherwise brilliant scheme
This has actually been one of those fishless weeks, I suppose I'm not too bothered, after all pretty soon I'll be back on the road again and fishing every day and I've been busy doing other things which will enable me to do this, like this (points to the keyboard), running (points to his feet) and trying to work out how to get mobile Internet connection in NZ (hands up in the air). Anyway who wants to go fishing every day?
I didn't mean that incidentally obviously my mind hasn't fully recovered from the dodgy Indian take-away. Funny thing, minds, for 24 hours all I could think about was how to design the tailfin of a Sexyloops aeroplane I have no idea why, it makes absolutely no sense to me, not least of all because I don't have a Sexyloops auroplane interesting mistype, which I will let stand, I was hallucinating after all and I certainly don't expect to get one (or the other whatever that one may be) but design it I did but I'm damned if I can remember what it looked like (although it was a bit funky. It probably all means something of course often does and no doubt Steve will suggest something, he's good like that, you know with dreams and dragons and stuff, if not contents pages exactly, and it's never what you'd expect it to be.
Maybe I should go back to bed now.
This week I'm going to carry on dismantling flycasting piece by piece. Nothing is sacred. We'll be burning books, fishing rods, (not flylines because they're plastic and that's bad for the environment), silk flylines, feathers, anything we can get hold of. And we'll be blowing other stuff up too. Just for fun like. I have an old flyreel for example that I've been meaning to blow up for quite some time now.
Right now I'm really off to bed.


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In a survey of over 300 women, ranging in age from 35 to 55, the results provide a sober look at the way women view their bodies. Nearly 21% of the people surveyed could not think of even one attractive feature and reported an overall sense of dissatisfaction with their bodies. Men also fret about what they perceive are male physical shortcomings but to a much lesser extent than women.
So what should we do when our mate wants to get naked and the very thought scares us? It's time to turn to those self-help books on improving our body image. Here are some hints on how to begin which came from Lifescript.com:
- Write an "I Like Myself Because…" ListFirst, write down 10 things that you like about yourself without referring to your body or appearance in any way. Include things that you're good at, or various ways you're proud of yourself. Then, after this list is done, make another list of 10 things you like about your body and appearance. Depending on your level of self-loathing, this might be hard to do at first, but just do your best and add to the list later when you think of something else
- Take a Closer Look at NatureGo outside and find something in nature – a flower, leaf, twig, grass blade, or anything that catches your eye. Is it perfect? Or does it have irregular edges, rough sides and blemishes here and there? Chances are that it is imperfect, yet it is still so amazing and complex. Nature is beautiful despite its "failure" to be perfect. Take this wisdom and use it on yourself – you are imperfect, yet you are also beautiful.
- Undo Negative Self-TalkEvery time you hear yourself talking negatively about how you look, spend an equal amount of time giving yourself positive feedback. Your worst critic is yourself, which means only you can change that. You do have the power to focus on the positive, change your own state of mind and trash negative self-talk whenever it pops up.
- Learn to Love ExerciseEveryone should exercise, and not necessarily just for weight loss. Regular exercise improves heart and lung health, and therefore benefits the rest of the body, increasing muscle endurance, circulation and overall body health. It is the road to a more toned you. If you don't really like to exercise in the gym, explore your many other options for being physically active, like learning how to play like a kid again.
- Splurge on YourselfYou might not look like a Victoria's Secret model (and who does?), but sexy lingerie can make you feel better about yourself. Select a nightie that feels good against your skin and flatters your curves. It doesn't have to be too short or too revealing. Light some candles in the bathroom before you slip it on and you will feel better about slipping into the arms of your waiting mate who loves you for who you are, not who you aren't.


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Tuesday, April 19, 2011
So, last week I received this email from a friend:
Hi Kym, I found this today in a pile of papers Alesia had been drawing. I think she is a good candidate for the Kym Piez school of personal organization :-)
I know she isn't related to me (except by awesome friendship), but I was so proud. Alesia had written a 'to-do' list of her evening, making sure she hadn't left anything out. She had even included "Clean YOUR teeth" (probably the exact way her mum says it each night).
On the odd occasion, I might have mentioned that I make lists (here and here). In fact, I write one every day. And because I'm an overachieving neat freak, it helps me to ensure that my days aren't wasted. I'm sure Alesia feels the same way.
Did I mention that I'm so proud? Probably prouder than her mum (who thinks I should start a school of organisation). Which isn't a bad idea when I think about it.
Hmm, perhaps I should add that to my 'to-do' list?
Is there something that you're renown for? Are you teased about it? Do you think it's a good thing to be remembered for, or a bad thing?
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text: 8 Musicians Kicked Out of Bands They Founded The latest: Scott Weiland of Stone Temple Pilots By Evann Gastaldo, Newser Staff Posted Mar 10, 2013 12:18 PM CDT 18 comments Comments Scott Weiland of Stone Temple Pilots performs during the Ninth Annual Gran Turismo awards Friday, Nov. 4, 2011 in Las Vegas. (Isaac Brekken/AP Images for Sony PlayStation) (Newser) – Scott Weiland was confused when Stone Temple Pilots announced he'd been fired. "Not sure how I can be 'terminated' from a band I founded" was his response, according to the Week. But these seven other musicians experienced the same thing: After just a year in Metallica, guitarist Dave Mustaine was kicked out over his addiction problems. The other band members broke the news by giving him a Greyhound bus ticket instead of a plane ticket to their next show. He went on to found Megadeth. It was addiction that got Brian Jones expelled from the Rolling Stones as well. After too much partying, he was kicked out, and was found dead in his swimming pool a month later. Apparently Glen Matlock liked the Beatles and Paul McCartney a little too much, and that's what got him booted from the Sex Pistols. Click for the complete list, which includes not one but three Beach Boys. (Read more Scott Weiland stories.) My Take on This Story Report a story error Show results without voting | 53% Hilarious 16% Intriguing 8% Depressing 4% Brilliant 1% Scary 17% Ridiculous


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Since 2008, I have been transitioning as a professional from a talk therapist to a Brainwave Optimization technologist.
Beware of Normalizing Stress
Paradigm Shift: Brainwave Optimization & Mental Health
As a Talk Therapist I had always felt a certain dissatisfaction with the lack of depth of the Talk Therapy process. Although I was particularly adept at tying in a client's struggles to past experiences, past relationships, and even some likely genetic causes, the moments of insight brought from these connections were limited in their impact on the client's struggles.


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Hey guys!
Sorry I have not been updating this blog very much...
My computer caught a virus and wiped out my whole system, which prevented me from getting my photos and etc. Also, I had crazy weeks of homework and essays! School is just stressful.
But on the bright side...
I'm going to South Korea tomorrow and I am super excited!
I will be taking lots of pictures and I'll try to update it while I'm there (if I have an access to a computer)
Thank you so much, you guys <3
Please keep supporting me! :)


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Donald Trump Is Outperforming Ted Cruz, Bernie Sanders AND Hillary Clinton
Guest Post by Joe Hoft
Donald Trump is not only outperforming Ted Cruz in the election to date, he also outperforms Democrats Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders as well.
The election results to date (as of Sunday April 17th) show that Trump outshines all the candidates.
Donald Trump has:
** More primary wins (17)
** More overall state wins (20)
** The highest percentage of primary wins (81% )
** The highest percent of overall state wins (63% )
** The highest percent of primary delegates (65% )
** The highest percent of overall delegates (58% )
** And Trump ties Hillary for the highest percent of overall votes (57% ).
And Donald Trump was competing against 16 primary opponents.
(This data above is obtained from the RealClearPolitics.com website. Caucus wins for Cruz in Colorado, Wyoming and North Dakota, Sanders in Maine, Alaska and Washington and Hillary in Iowa and Nevada were added to the results. These states show no winners currently in the RCP data. If these caucus wins were not added to the data, Trump would be even further ahead in the areas mentioned above.)
To date, the Democratic race is much tighter than the Republican race based on wins and delegates. (However, the Democrats also have super delegates. These Democrat superdelegates favor Hillary 469 to 31 for Sanders.
Also, it is very clear that both Cruz and Sanders benefit from caucuses over primaries.
With the next and final 16 state races all being primaries both Trump and Hillary should benefit. As noted earlier Cruz will not only be mathematically eliminated from obtaining enough delegates to win the election outright by April 26th, he will have fallen to third place in popularity in many of these state elections by April end too.
Bernie too most likely will be mathematically eliminated by April 26th. He currently has 1040 delegates and needs 2382 to win the election which means he needs 1342 of the remaining 1627 delegates to win the nomination. There are only 16 caucuses between Tuesday in New York and June 14th. There are 631 delegates between now and April 26th to be gained and Hillary is leading in most of these states. Bernie will need at least 326 of the 631 delegates distributed by April 26th to remain in the race and even if he gains this many, he will have to win all the remaining delegates to have enough delegates to win the nomination. With Hillary leading in these East Coast states it is very probable that Bernie, like Cruz, will be mathematically eliminated from obtaining enough delegates to win the election outright by April 26th.
But Bernie could surprise Hillary Clinton in New York. If that happens it could prolong his run a bit longer.
Cruz, however, will be eliminated in 9 days.
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Another comedy also has this name.
- Genre
- Sitcom
- Broadcast
- 1980 - 1984
- Channel
- BBC Two
- Episodes
- 23 (3 series)
- Starring
- Paul Eddington, Nigel Hawthorne, Derek Fowlds, Diana Hoddinott and Neil Fitzwilliam
- Writers
- Antony Jay and Jonathan Lynn
- Directors
- Sydney Lotterby and Peter Whitmore
- Producers
- Sydney Lotterby and Peter Whitmore
Jim Hacker, Member of Parliament, is appointed to the Cabinet as Minister For Administrative Affairs. There he is introduced to Bernard Woolley, his Principal Private Secretary, and the Civil Service's head of the deparment, Permanent Secretary Humphrey Appleby.
Once ensconced in his ministry, Hacker is forced to fight Appleby, not to mention the Whitehall machine at large, at every turn in order to get his own way - and soon finds that manifesto promises are far harder to keep than anyone might have guessed.


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Linked!n Long Beach plans a second business networking event in February
2010-01-14 · By Editor
Linked !n Long Beach is offering locals an offline opportunity to meet their online connections.
The online group presents its second face-to-face business networking event on February 10, 2010 from 5:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. at Kavikas Grill and Bar, 95 Aquarium Way at the Pike (2nd Floor), Long Beach, CA 90802.
Admission is $10/person and includes parking and first beer, wine, well or appetizer for those that arrive by 7:00 p.m.
Benefits of Attending:
- Meet your Linked !n Long Beach online connections in person
- First ·$2.50 Draft, $3.00 Well, $4.50 Wine or $5.00 Appetizers if you arrive by 7:00 PM
- Visit the "Connection Station" and leave with leads and contacts of all registered attendees
Linked !n Long Beach is Long Beach's own online networking community at www.linkedin.com (Search groups: Linked !n Long Beach). Register or get additional details online at www.mainstreetfundingoflongbeach.com
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The top 10 Linux videos of 2013, reviving dead open source projects, and moreDec 13, 2013, 11:00 (0 Talkback[s])
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Top 10 Linux videos of 2013
The Linux Foundation has compiled its list of the top 10 Linux videos of 2013. The list includes a TEDx talk on what the tech industry has learned form Linus Torvalds, Richard Stallman's speech on his Internet Hall of Fame induction, Red Hat: Celebrating 20 years of open, and more. You can see the complete list, including video embeds, on Linux.com.
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Friday, August 24, 2012
The Ghosts Project West Coast Tour August 25th-30th + Atlanta + New England
I plan to be back on a regular posting schedule in mid-September. Right now I'm about to head off on tour for several weeks - first with The Ghosts Project, starting in Seattle on 8/25, Portland 8/26, Eugene 8/27, San Francisco 8/28, San Luis Obispo 8/29, and Los Angeles 8/30. The Ghosts Project is an amazing improvisational world fusion live music experience - I will be dancing, and we will be featuring guest dancers from every location we stop at. Details for all of the stops (plus video!) at http://www.darklydramatic.com/tgp/
And then I will be at DragonCon in Atlanta 9/1-9/4 - performing with Frenchy & The Punk, as well as some other possible surprise performances. I will be available for private lessons from Saturday through Tuesday, so if you're going to be there, or are from the area, and would like to schedule a lesson, please drop me an email.
And THEN, I am flying to New England, where I will be performing in ANIMUS on 9/8 in Cambride, MA - details at http://www.zehara.com/ANIMUS - AND I will also be teaching a brand new workshop in the Providence area that morning from 11am-1pm - it's nearly sold out! Sign up at: http://darklydramatic.com/ne-workshop.html
Then I will be back home in Seattle on 9/10, and my next series of classes at Tin Can Studio (http://www.tincanseattle.com) start on 9/11 and 9/13.
And there's more in store for the Fall!
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NASHVILLE – James van Riemsdyk has become the fifth Flyer who has been sidelined this season with a concussion.
The 22-year-old left winger will miss Saturday's game in Nashville and will be replaced by Matt Read on a line with Brayden Schenn and Wayne Simmonds.
"It's really unfortunate. I thought we've had some good chemistry _ me, him and Schenner," Simmonds said."We've been playing well the last couple weeks."
Read, who has 13 goals, had recently been on the fourth line.
"I think we'll be all right. Reader is a great player, obviously," Simmonds said. "He's done wonders for us this year. It's fun to play with him. He's great with the puck and he makes those little plays that get guys open."
In a statement, the Flyers announced that JVR was hit in the head in each of the last two games. But three Flyers said they recalled van Riemsdyk getting hit in the head by Ottawa's Bobby Butler four games ago. Butler and JVR were college teammates at New Hampshire.
Chris Pronger, Schenn, Read and Claude Giroux have missed time this season with concussions.
Van Riemsdyk, 22, who has been the subject of recent trade rumors, has 11 goals and 11 asssists in 37 games. There is no timetable for his return.
With JVR out, Zac Rinaldo will return to the lineup Saturday night and be on an all-rookie line with Sean Couturier and Harry Zolnierczyk.
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Goalie Ilya Bryzgalov will get the start; he has allowed four or more goals in four of the last five games.
Defenseman Erik Gustafsson will return to the lineup for the first time since Nov. 5 and is expected to be paired with Andrej Meszaros.
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Very nice of Matt Merritt to review The Opposite of Cabbage so warmly. I couldn't really ask for a more positive or more interesting review. Look out for his review of Andy's The Ambulance Box later in the week.
Thank you, Matt!
I have just bought The Opposite of Cabbage & The Ambulance Box after getting about 5/6 messages/blog posts about Salt's financial difficulties.
I look forward to receiving!
Beth, that's really good of you. Thanks a lot. I now hope you enjoy the books!
A lovely review.


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A couple was celebratin' their fiftieth wedding anniversary with a reception. They were standin' in line greetin' their friends and about halfway through, she hauled off and hit him. He looked surprised and said, "What was that for?" She said, "For fifty years of bad sex!" He thought about that a minute and then hauled off and hit her. Now it was her turn to look surprised and she said, "What was that for?" He answered, "For knowing the difference!"
The earliest references to wedding anniversaries date from the 1800s. They seem to have originated in the Germanic region, where the custom was for the spouse to crown his wife with a silver garland when they had been married for twenty-five years. Gold became the second traditional anniversary crown, after fifty years.
These thoughts are on my mind because yesterday my wife, Jo Anne, and I marked our fiftieth wedding anniversary.
An ancient Greek proverb says, "A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in." If we follow this line of thought, we might conceive of a marriage as a tapestry woven not for ourselves, but as a benefaction for our children and grandchildren.
Jo Anne has been a golden thread in the tapestry of our long life together, giving it meaning and direction.
The symbolism of golden thread—spirituality and purity—fits her precisely. Viking housewives spun and wove all the cloth, and the spindle came to represent womanly wisdom, virtue and industry. In the hands of Frigg, the Norse goddess imaged above by InertiaK, the spindle became strong magic. The kind of magic Jo Anne brought to our union.
In my Ukrainian religious tradition, the sacrament of marriage is acknowledged as a union, not a contract. No vows are made in our marriage ceremony.
A Ukrainian wedding, as in other Eastern churches, begins with the couple being "betrothed" with the exchange of rings. Prayers call on God to come into the lives of the couple and unite them in one mind and wed them in one flesh. A high point of the ritual comes when the priest places a crown on the heads of the bride and groom to signify the dawn of a new kingdom to be ruled by the couple—side by side.
For Jo Anne and me, fifty years later, the crowns might be a bit battered by the passing of decades, but the heartbeats are intensified. As novelist Radclyffe writes in Love's Masquerade:
When we follow the conventional milestones, meting out our lives with birthdays and graduations and anniversaries and funerals, we are left with voids along the way—vast stretches of empty space lost forever, never to be filled. As time grows short, the significance of each moment increases, until finally every heartbeat is of monumental importance.
In my next blog, "Thanksgiving, Again and Always"
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Also available is my e-book, A Light from Within, about the small moments of our lives that seem commonplace until they are examined under a creative lens.
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January 13, 2011 5:45 AM
Arthur Nead
"Within hours, at a cost of about $100 per child, exterior play areas at childcare centers can be transformed from lead-contaminated to lead-safe with a margin of safety," says Tulane professor Howard Mielke, who has led a study in alleviating lead issues for young children.
He adds, "This is a miniscule cost when compared to the costs associated with secondary prevention and treatment of lead-poisoned children, the costs of learning and behavioral disorders, and subsequent costs to society of lifelong chronic health problems."
Researchers have tested a simple and inexpensive way to reduce children's exposure to lead-polluted soil — covering playgrounds with a layer of clean soil.
"We're proposing a proactive strategy of primary prevention to protect children from lead poisoning and the health damage it can cause," says Mielke, leader of the study.
He is a research professor of chemistry at the Tulane/Xavier Center for Bioenvironmental Research. Results of the study, funded by the Greater New Orleans Foundation Environmental Fund, are published in the journal Environmental Pollution.
Since Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, more than 155 childcare centers have opened in New Orleans, Mielke says. Surveys of soil throughout New Orleans conducted by Mielke show that inner city neighborhoods have dangerously high levels of lead, with some containing concentrations several times greater than federal guidelines of 400 mg/kg for playgrounds.
Using the New Orleans lead map as a guide, Mielke enlisted 10 inner-city childcare centers and one community center in the study, then tested the effectiveness of leaving the original playground soil intact, placing a bright orange, water-permeable geo-textile material over it to prevent soil mixing, and then topping that with a six-inch-deep layer of clean soil.
Because young children playing in playgrounds have "age-specific hand-to-mouth behaviors," their contact with lead-contaminated soil puts them at heightened risk to swallow contaminated soil and develop lead poisoning, he says.
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NJ.com reports that two NJ congressmen have sponsored a bill nominating Larry Doby, America's 2nd black major leaguer baseball player, for the Congressional Gold Medal. The Medal is one of the highest civilian awards in the United States.
I left these comments:
This is long overdue. Doby should never have been overshadowed by Jackie Robinson (no disrespect meant for Robinson). Doby is a true American hero. What's especially admirable about Doby's achievement is that he broke the American League's color barrier without "benefit" of forced integration laws. All he needed was the freedom to do it; i.e., the absence of forced segregation (Jim Crow) laws. As I wrote four years ago in a tribute to Doby for The Objective Standard magazine:
This kind of personal achievement and cultural progress is a testament to the power of courage and reason, and to the ultimate impotence of ignorance and bigotry. All it took to set this change in motion was two rational, courageous individuals—[Cleveland Indians owner Bill] Veeck and Doby—free to act on their judgment. Veeck signed Doby, Doby took the field, and the rest, as they say, is history.
Kudos to Representatives Pascrell and Renacci for their nomination of Doby for the Congressional Gold Medal.
Related Reading:
Larry Doby, American Hero


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Reference and Value Types/
I reckon that the day I give a lecture and don't learn anything is the day that I will give up teaching. I always take something away from a lecture, although sometimes it is only a decision not to use that particular joke again…
Today I was telling the first year about reference and value types in C# and I learnt something as well. For those of you who are not familiar with programming in C# (and why should you be?) this is all about how data is held in a program.
Once you get beyond programs that do simple sums you find yourself with a need to lump data together. This happens as soon as you have to do some work in the Real World™. For example, you might be creating an account management system for a customer and so you will need to have a way of holding information about a particular customer account. This will include the name of the customer, their address and their account balance, amongst other things.
Fortunately C# lets you design objects that can contain these items, for example a string for the name, a number for the balance, a string for the address and so on. In fact, C# provides two ways that you can lump data together. One of these is called a struct (short for structure) and the other is called a class (short for class). These two can be hard to tell apart, in that the way that they are created is exactly the same. But they have one very important difference. Structures are managed by value, but classes are managed by reference.
Today is the point in the course where I have to explain the difference between the two. I've got a routine for doing this which I've used in the past, and it usually gets there. If an item is managed by value (for example a struct) you can think of it as a box with a name painted on it. If we move data between two variables managed by value:
destination= source;
- the result is that whatever value is in the source box is copied into the destination box. If my source is a structure value which contains lots of elements all of these are copied into the destination. This is how simple variables such as integers and floating point values are managed.
However, if an item is managed by reference the effect of the assignment above is different. You can think of a reference as a named tag which is tied to an object in memory. If I assign one reference to another:
destination = source;
- the result of this is that both reference tags are now tied to the same object in memory. No data is actually copied anywhere.
At this point in the explanation I usually have a room full of people wondering why we bother with references. They just seems to be an added piece of confusion. Now that we have references we have the potential for problems when the equals behaviour doesn't do what we expect. Why do we have these two ways of working with data? Why can't we just use values for everything?
My answer to this is that using references allows us to provide different views of data. If I have a list of customers that I want to order by both customer name and account number then this is not possible with a single array of values. But if I use references it is much easier. I can have a list of references which is ordered by name and another list ordered by account number.
So far I'm going by the slides. But then it occurred to me to go a bit further, and think about the use of reference and value types from a design point of view. If I'm designing a data structure for a sprite in a game (for example a single alien in a Space Invaders game) the sprite will have to contain the image to be used to draw the sprite and the position of the sprite on the screen. I posed the question which of these two elements should be managed by value and which by reference.
After some discussion we came to the conclusion that it is best if the image to be used to draw the sprite is managed by reference. That means that a number of sprites can hold references to the same sprite design. You see this a lot in computer games, where a game has multiple identical elements (soldiers, cars, spaceships etc) it is often the case that they are all sharing a single graphic. However the position of the sprite on the screen is a value that should be unique to each sprite, we are never going to want to share this, and so the position should be a value type.
We then went through a bunch of other situations where an object contains things, and pondered for each thing whether it should be managed by value or by reference. Generally speaking we came to the conclusion that anything you want to share should be managed by reference, but stuff that is unique to you should be a value.
Of course references bring a lot of other benefits too, which we will explore in the next few weeks, but the thing I learnt was that the more you can show a context in which a particular language characteristic is applicable the more chance you have of getting the message across.
As a little puzzle, one thing we talked about was the storage of the address of a customer in our account database. Should that be managed by value or reference, and why?


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Strawberry Rice Milkshake Recipe
A fruity take on traditional Mexican horchata, I throw fresh strawberries into the mix for a creamy and non-dairy treat. Adjust the amount of rice you add according to your taste.
Prep Details
Servings: 2
1 cup Uncle Bens Rice, cooked and chilled
1/2 pound strawberries, hulled and halved
1 tsp. vanilla
1 cup coconut milk
1/2 cup ice
1. In a blender, puree Uncle Ben's rice, strawberries, vanilla, and coconut milk until smooth. Add more coconut milk or rice to reach desired consistency.
2. Serve immediately.


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Daredevil is a popular Marvel superhero for many reasons. He's blind, yet able to turn his disability into an advantage. He's got a cool costume (as long as we forget about the yellow). Almost paradoxically, he's a lawyer that takes the law into his own hands. These are all things that make Daredevil compelling, whether it be as an interesting character study or because we personally identify with some aspect of his story. The thing I find most compelling and accessible about Matt Murdock, however, is not disability or his all-but-lost neighborhood, but the struggles of his faith.
Murdock's Catholicism is deep in his roots. Even in the Ben Affleck film, Daredevil's opening moments take place in a church. This Netflix/Marvel series doesn't bring that element in quite as quickly, but it soon becomes an integral part of Matt Murdock's character, as he tries to reconcile the seeming rigidity of Christian morality with the pragmatism of the vigilante. He knows that the Bible doesn't condone violent behavior, but isn't his violence saving people? Isn't saving people part of God's will? Is that a paradox?
This conflict is illustrated in the character beautifully by Charlie Cox. While he initially keeps his distance from the local priest, afraid to unleash his inner demons, he eventually has conversations about faith, and even openly asks questions around the other characters in Matt's life, namely Foggy and Karen. Can he still believe in God when his city is drowning in sin? If he can, does he? If he does, does that faith condemn his actions? Where is the line?
This dilemma is done so well exactly because the show doesn't lead with it. The show begins with a dark and gritty take on the city, expanding into a crime drama as the first few episodes of the series progress. You see Foggy and Matt in over their heads in their efforts to represent Karen, their first client who becomes their friend. In that episode, the corruption of the city becomes apparent, and the enormity of what Daredevil is up against begins to take shape. His enemies continue to mount throughout the first act of the series, and he has no more than one ally in his fight, an E.R. nurse who patches him up when he bites off more than he can chew. Then and only then, after we've seen the darkness that the city's sin has cast on its citizens, can we appreciate the depth of Daredevil's dilemma. Murder may be a sin, but it sure seems like it would save an awful lot of people.
Ultimately, this show has a respect for God that is all too rare in secular entertainment. I have no illusions about the motivation for this – it is far more about the conflict within the character than a conviction about God Himself in the hearts of the writers. The impact, however, is the same. The priest is a wise mentor who is to be respected. There is a place for faith in the life of a hero, even if it is a struggling one. And ultimately, even in the midst of a dark, gritty superhero crime drama, God's morality wins out to a certain degree.
So we have Daredevil, in some ways a more explicitly Christian superhero than Captain America himself. There are a lot of things that make Daredevil a great show. Foggy Nelson offers up comical relief without making it feel forced. Vincent D'Onofrio's performance as Wilson Fisk leaves little to be desired. The fight scenes are some of the most realistic in comic book adaptations to date, and the cinematography is wonderful. But I'm most excited about this show because it's a respectable look at a Christian hero. He may not be evangelical. He may even use some language we wish he wouldn't, and he is in general a bit rough around the edges. But it's still a respectable take, particularly from secular writers. God has become quite popular in Hollywood recently, and that's not always been a good thing. We've been forced, for the most part, to choose from either sacrilegious train wrecks like Noah or overly sanitized prosperity gospel takes like Facing the Giants.
This, however, is a step in the right direction.
Rating: 10/10
Editor's Note: This post originally said "Killing may be a sin," and was changed to "Murder may be a sin" to more accurately convey the author's intent.


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Review: Windows OneCare Live
If you've been seeking a one-stop solution for PC health, security, and backup, you've probably eyed Norton SystemWorks or a similar suite. Microsoft, for its part, has steered clear of the utilities market over the years, but that's about to change. Windows OneCare Live, currently in beta, promises not only protection against hackers, viruses, and spyware, but also system optimization and backup. I tested the latest version and came away impressed, though there's work still to be done — and questions to be answered.
The three-step, browser-based installation was quick and painless, though it did require a reboot. Thankfully, OneCare updates itself automatically and in the background — I didn't have to deal with seemingly endless manual updates and restarts, as I did upon installing past versions of Norton Internet Security. Security Pipeline | Review: Windows OneCare Live
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