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Music and Yoga: An Interview with François Raoult
By CHARLENE YEH
François Raoult, director of Open Sky Yoga Center in Rochester, NY, has long been interested in the ongoing connectivity between music and yoga. A certified Iyengar teacher until 2010, François began teaching in 1975. A year later, he started extensive training with the great yogi Sri B.K.S. Iyengar. A graduate of the Ecole Nationale de Yoga in Paris and a Certified Iyengar Instructor, he has studied meditation with Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh, Ayurveda with Dr. Robert Svoboda, and anatomy with Thomas Myers. After studying architecture and philosophy, trekking and recording sacred music in the Himalayas, he completed a Masters in ethnomusicology. Charlene Yeh, a violist and yoga instructor based in Toronto, ON, asks him a few questions about his experiences.
CHARLENE YEH: How does the yoga practice of a professional musician differ from the practice someone who is not a musician?
FRANÇOIS RAOULT: The practice of a professional musician should include more pranayama (breathwork) and resting/meditative poses to prevent repetitive injuries and anxiety/stress. One can be more conservative with poses which involve weight bearing on the hands and wrists, there's no need to push your luck! The art of sitting and standing is to be in aplomb (on one's central axis), a bit like the principles of Alexander technique.
There IS no special yoga for musicians. It is more about the selection of practices, as well as a common vocabulary, a sensitivity, and a curiosity that artists have that makes them appreciate yoga more. But all humans have an inner artist, so yoga can open everyone up to art and music, even those who haven't yet had the chance, either through education or culture. Playing music in savasana or in sitting meditation is also a form of yoga.
CY: How did you start working with musicians?
FR: In 1978, I had a baroque violinist in my classes named Patrick Bismuth (who later played with Jean-Claude Malgoire), and we organized a 10-day retreat for violin and yoga. Then, when I studied composition at the conservatory, I teamed up with a teacher to offer vocal improvisation and yoga, and later on had a yoga retreat with a drummer doing drumming circles…..those were the 70's! I also had a piano teacher as a teenager who was extremely avant grade, close to Stockhausen…...he listened to stimmung and aus den sieben tage in the dark all night!
CY: How are music and yoga the same?
FR: The music of yoga, the yoga of music…..yoga is a state of being, so it can be applied to anything. Feeling and meaning are common ground as well, and those evolve with practice, mindful repetition and education. Playing music does not make you a musician, "doing" yoga does not make you a yogi. There is a transpersonal element as well in both, which is being moved.
Being close to John Cage in the 80's, there was no difference between life and art. Everything is music, everything is yoga. Not interfering with nature. Minimalist composers and classical Indian musicians practice a form of naada yoga (the yoga of sound): it affects your moods, your mind state towards deeper perception.
CY: How does your experience as a musician influence your teaching?
FR: Deep listening: being touched by a melody, a harmony, a vision, an experience. Understanding and promoting personal practice and exploration. Creative interpretation of the classics and also improvising on a theme/ a structure, which is the greatest freedom according to Stravinsky.
Music and yoga share breath and heart. Both have to transcend technique to enter a zone of bliss... where music plays you and asana (posture practice) plays you as well as an instrument. The more relaxed are you are, the more resonance and fluidity you experience.
In addition to directing Open Sky Yoga Center and its creative Teacher Training program in Rochester, NY, François Raoult teaches yoga seminars worldwide. Francois is also certified in Gong Yoga and in "Laughing for no reason"! You can find his upcoming schedule at www.openskyyoga.com To learn more about Charlene Yeh or to take a class with her, visit her at www.CharleneYeh.com.


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Kindadukish's Blog - I am not a number, I am a free man (The Prisoner)
Whilst making one of my regular visits to the Handmade Bakery in Slawit I was sat having a very nice cappuccino when I happened to look up at the wall and saw the sign below.
Now I know that the bakery has tried to broaden its product range and develop its own USP but I didnt realise that they had taken to selling human beings for toasting……………..
Still, in these competitive times you have to be one step ahead of your competitors……….and just£1.50 for a whole toasted child seems excellent value for money……….!
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* Registers with AMF regulator for possible IPO
* IPO could raise 135 mln euros (Adds detail, background)
PARIS, Sept 25 (Reuters) - French building materials firm Consolis took its first step towards a possible stock market flotation by formally registering plans for an initial public offering (IPO) with the AMF market regulator.
Consolis said it hoped to raise 135 million euros ($158 million) to help cut debt and fund expansion.
The firm had 2017 net sales of 1.44 billion euros and adjusted earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation (EBITDA) of 114.5 million euros.
Consolis said it hoped to achieve net sales growth, at constant exchange rates, of around 3 percent for the 2018 financial year, with an adjusted EBITDA margin close to 11.5 percent compared to 7.9 percent in 2017.
It also targeted further growth in 2019, with net sales growth seen at around 5 percent compared to 2018, at constant exchange rates and including the impact of acquisitions.
Consolis was bought last year by Bain Capital from LBO France for an undisclosed sum. Bain Capital will remain as Consolis' main shareholder.
Consolis' roots go back to the 19th century, when French engineer Aime Bonna founded a supplier of reinforced concrete pipes.
The company now makes precast concrete pieces, such as walls, bridges, tunnels, pipes or railways sleepers, with half of its sales made in Scandinavian countries.
Bank of America Merrill Lynch, BNP Paribas, JP Morgan, Natixis, Barclays, Societe Generale and Nordea are all involved in the planned Consolis IPO deal.
$1 = 0.8516 euros Reporting by Gilles Guillaume and Sudip Kar-Gupta; Editing by GV de Clercq and Kirsten Donovan


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A qualified teacher with an undergraduate degree in English and a Masters in Psychology, Priyanka feels her simple purpose is to make a difference – with some style and some smile! 🙂
Founder and Director of Raising Education Within Africa, Little Einsteins and owner of Helen O'Grady Drama Gaborone, her organisation seeks to empower young people to rise above the ordinary by developing education that can transform lives and communities. REWA works with teachers, parents, children and educational organisations to inspire creativity, a zest for learning and the optimism to excel with children of all learning abilities, backgrounds and ages.
Most excitingly, she has recently ventured into the enchanting world of writing for children. Her goal is to empower and equip babies, children and their guardians to use stories as a means of playful and creative learning.
SensoBaby has been brewing in the REWA creative pot for over two years and has finally come together with a team of wonderfully passionate professionals. Priyanka will bring her expertise in literacy, storytelling and early childhood education to SensoBaby along with workshops for parents themselves.
She says, "I love what I do and do what I love, but no job is greater than being MUM to the most delightful little girl, Aanavi, and practicing all my new and innovative educational/parenting ideas with her."


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The US Attorney General's New Normal Watergate fiasco gets more surreal by the day.
Eric Holder, currently being investigated for lying under oath, has been in hot water ever since the break of the AP scandal. But it has been his "handling" of the spillover that has raised eyebrows. The latest update is sure to raise them even more. Because it turns out that during Thursday's "off the record" meeting which the majority of the press boycotted for the simple reason that the reporting press probably can't go off the record when the topic is the US government's precedence over the first amendment or it will lose what little credibility it has left, Holder's message was simple: "trust me, I am the government, and I will stop spying on you." The farce just goes downhill from there.
United States Attorney General Eric Holder said during an off-the-record meeting Thursday that the Department of Justice will change the way it conducts investigations of reporters amid scandals centered on Associated Press and Fox News journalists.
"Justice Department officials agreed that the journalists could discuss publicly in general some of the ideas that were discussed during the course of what [was] otherwise an off the record meeting," Dylan Byers wrote for Politico. Journalists with other publications have also opened up about the event.
Despite the Justice Department's original plans to keep the meeting's details from going public, accounts of Thursday's address that have surfaced in the day since reveal that Mr. Holder hoped to convince journalists that changes are on the horizon for how his office conducts probes into journalists.
According to Byers, Holder and Deputy Attorney General James Cole "said they are reaching out to editors and counsels for news organizations about how to strike what they called 'the balance' between protecting the flow of information and journalists' ability to do our jobs and what they described as national security damage."
"[Holder and aides] completely endorsed the president's statement that reporters should not be at legal risk for doing their job. They acknowledged the need for changes in their own guidelines and the need to have a more rigorous internal review," Martin Baron added in the Washington Post.
But even if the DoJ acknowledged those changes, eyewitnesses say it's not certain when or how adjustments will be implemented. While most attendees say that Holder and Cole seemed understanding of their grievances, few walked away with feeling fulfilled about promises that have yet to be cemented.
"I didn't come away with a precise understanding of how those guidelines might change, and I didn't have impression they were settled in their own mind," Byers added for a separate Politico article.
"Who knows what's going to happen if they in fact are going to practice what they seem to preach and try to change some laws that we feel are very relevant. But I think it's sort of an opening gambit, an opening discussion," New York Daily News Washington bureau chief Jim Warren told CNN.
And so on.
Summarizing: a secret meeting with the same press that was being spied on for who knows how long, promising that the administration will be more transparent, and to take the AG's word for it, the same AG who is being investigated for perjury before Congress.


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When Kate and Jeff first contacted me about find a photographer for their wedding at The Castle Green Hotel in Kendal I got really excited because it's such a fantastic venue that I'd been to several times before so I knew it was right in the middle of such a beautiful part of the country in The Lake District. The timing of Kate's e-mail to me couldn't have been any more perfect as I received it just as I was stood at the alter getting married myself in Malta. Unfortunately that meant I had to wait until I was lying on a beach the following day before I could give Kate a call to find out a bit more about their day and to confirm the booking.
Kate's parents live in a gorgeous house literally just over the road from The Castle Green Hotel so it was an ideal place for her to get ready in the morning and it made the hotel the obvious choice for her wedding ceremony. Kate spent the morning being made to look her beautiful best by make-up artist Becka Pearson of Koochi Mobile Beauty while her sister and three brothers also got ready at the family home. After getting in to her stunning dress from Finery Bridal in Leeds, Kate made the short trip to the hotel for the wedding.
The Castle Green Hotel is one of my favourite venues for a wedding not only because of it's setting in the Lake District but also because of the fantastic building and its gardens. The building itself dates back to 1847 however it has only been in use as a hotel and wedding venue since 1995. Having photographed several weddings at the hotel over the last few years it's always refreshing to see a lot of familiar faces from the very friendly and professional staff who always go the extra mile to make sure every wedding and event there is even more memorable and amazing as the last.
One of the best benefits of a wedding in Kendal is having the amazing Kendal castle so near by to make a visit to for some fantastic and memorable photos. Kate's brother was good enough to take us to base of the castle hill in his Range Rover and after a short climb up to the castle there's no shortage of photo opportunities of the castle ruins, the views over Kendal in one direction and the Castle Green Hotel in the other direction.
On their return from the castle the new Mr & Mrs Goodjohn took their place for the speeches followed by a lovely 3 course wedding breakfast then later on in the evening they took to the dance floor for their first dance which continued on to party the night away.
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Here are the baking books I currently own:
The Bread Bible by Beth Hensperger
Bread by Christine Ingram & Jennie Shapter
The Old West Baking Book by Lon Walters
Ultimate Bread by Eric Treuille & Ursula Ferrigno
I also just bought Pies & Tarts by Martha Stewart. It has not arrived yet.
As you can see I am more inclined towards bread baking than other kinds of baking.


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On November 09.2013 Hanga prints were presented at the Vernissage at the seat of the Polish-Austrian Culture Association TAKT. At this unique Vernissage there were also presented works of a leading Polish painter, Kaja Solecka under the title Verwandlungen ( Transformations).Two very different art forms gathered a very diverse public,Polish, Austrian, French, American among others. Once again art became a cross- cultural connection uniting public of different background and tastes who unanimously acclaimed both art forms. Art is a matter of taste yet both Japanese and Polish art received equally warm appreciation from our public.
Our new Japanese Hanga collection is now for sale at the new Metcha Matcha Cafe, Operngasse 23, 1040 Wien. We attended the opening event on August 23 and you can find the photos from the event right here. Please check out our Galleries for more information about the prints!
From November 19 to November 30, 2012, M&N HOME FURNISHING presented the second exhibition " The beauty of Japanese printing" at the Japan Information and Cultural Centre at the Embassy of Japan.
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M&N HOME FURNISHING was honored to hold the first exhibition of Japanese traditional HANGA prints. The exhibition took place at Vienna International Center from August 13. - August 24. 2012. The event sparkled great interest in the Japanese art among the international community of the United Nations and received the best reviews.
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The Next Hundred Years (Milwaukee Herold und Seebote, 1901)
In 1900 John Elfreth Watkins, Jr., author of many detective and mystery novels, wrote a piece for the December issue of Ladies Home Journal speculating about what the next hundred years held. Everything from weather control to pneumatic tube delivery to the science that will surely bring "strawberries as large as apples" were predicted.
According to the book Yesterday's Future: The Twentieth Century Begins the Watkins article was translated into German for the Milwaukee Herold und Seebote (Milwaukee, Wisconsin) in 1901.
Above is a scan of the front cover of the January 1, 1901 Milwaukee Herold und Seebote newspaper and below is the article by Watkins. Stay tuned for an English-language translation and analysis.
Update: You can read the English version from the Ladies' Home Journal here.


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Justin Upton on being booed: 'I don't care anything what the fans think of me'
Justin Upton is not exactly having a horrible season, but 2012 has been frustrating for those who are waiting for him to become a star. After belting 31 homers and driving in 88 runs last season, Diamondbacks fans are expecting the 24-year-old to at some point emerge as one of the best outfielders in the game. Upton is hitting .263 with only seven homers and 34 RBIs so far this season, so the first half has been somewhat of a disappointment. He has only two hits in his last 24 at-bats, which has inspired Arizona fans to begin booing him. Upton says the boos don't bother him.
"To be honest with you, I don't care anything what the fans think of me," Upton said after an 0-for-5 night on Wednesday according to ESPN.com. "My teammates, my coaches, they know I come here and I bust it every single day. I try to do everything I can to help this team. My teammates have my back and whatever the fans want to think, they can think.
"They can call me lazy. I have heard that in the outfield. They can call me washed up. Whatever they want to call me but at the end of the day I am thankful for every opportunity to come out on a baseball field and I will try my hardest every day."
As Aaron Gleeman of Hardball Talk mentioned, that is a fairly reasonable response from Upton. Slumps are part of the game and the fans gave him the same treatment when he slipped at times last season. However, Upton signed a six-year, $51.25 million contract two years ago. The fans expect him to earn that money, so he should get used to being criticized when he plays poorly — even by his team's owner. Considering the slump he is in, the "I'd boo me too with the way I'm hitting" approach probably would have worked better in this situation.
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West Bank (CNSNews.com) - Israel's security fence has been "highly successful" in stopping suicide bombers from carrying out attacks inside Israel and therefore saving Israeli lives, Israeli officials said this week.
The International Court of Justice in The Hague on Friday was due to deliver its ruling on the legality of the barrier, which Israel considers to be an invaluable counter-terrorism measure that saves Israeli lives.
The United Nations General Assembly asked the ICJ to give an opinion on the fence. Press reports said the ICJ will declare the barrier illegal and demand that it be torn down -- a decision that will come as no surprise to Israel.
Palestinians charge that the barrier, which they call a wall, is meant as a political grab of land that the Palestinians want to include in a future state. They also complain that the barrier cuts through agricultural lands and separates Palestinians from farms, schools, hospitals and population centers.
While Israel acknowledges and has made provisions for Palestinian humanitarian and commercial needs, the security benefits are too great to ignore, Israel says.
"The security fence...is for security reasons," said Col. Tamir Heiman, commander of the Ephraim Brigade in the central part of Israel and the West Bank.
"[The fence here] is operational for a year [and] is highly successful in succeeding to stop terror attacks on Israel," Heiman told journalists this week on an army tour of the fence.
"In the last year the fence stopped 90 percent of attempts to send terror attacks into Israel and its effectiveness proves why we should have built it and why it's very important to the lives of the people in Israel," he said.
According to a report released by the Foreign Ministry this week, terror attacks emanating from the northern West Bank where the fence has been completed decreased from an average of 26 a year to three a year.
In the eleven months since construction started - from August 2003 until the end of June 2004 -- only three suicide bombers sent by terrorist groups in the northern West Bank succeeded in carrying out attacks. Those attacks killed 26 Israelis and wounding 76 others.
Two of the suicide bombers infiltrated through areas where the fence had not yet been completed, while a third - a woman - crossed a checkpoint using a Jordanian passport and blew herself up in a Haifa restaurant.
By contrast, during the 34 months from the beginning of violence in September 2000 until the construction of the barrier began at the end of July 2003, terrorists based in the same area carried out 73 terror attacks, including suicide bombings, shootings and car bombings inside Israel and Jerusalem killing 293 Israelis and wounding 1,950 others.
However, the report said there was no decrease in the number of attempted attacks. Security forces foiled dozens of attacks, arrested terrorists and heads of cells and uncovered 24 explosive belts and bombs.
One senior military official said the effectiveness of the fence was "better than we expected."
He described one case where a suicide bomber was trapped by the fence in the West Bank town of Hable a few kilometers from the Israeli city of Kfar Saba.
When the bomber didn't blow himself up, his dispatcher called and asked what the problem was. The dispatcher couldn't believe that the terrorist could no longer just walk to Kfar Saba. In the end the bomber was captured.
In most places, the barrier consists of huge coils of barbed wire, a security road, a sophisticated electronic fence equipped with sensors and heat-sensitive cameras with another security road and huge barbed wire coil on the other side.
In several places where Palestinians could shoot at Israeli roads or homes from close range, a concrete wall has been erected. In Jerusalem the concrete walls are also used because they require less space than wire barriers.
The fence is monitored at command centers, from which soldiers are able to see all sections of the fence, zero in on suspicious movements, detect if the fence has been touched or breached, and dispatch patrols to check out warnings.
The senior official said the army estimates it would take a young, healthy individual a total of six minutes to cross the barrier -- two minutes for the barbed wire, two minutes to scale the fence and another two minutes to cross the second barbed wire coil.
Response time for a patrol to reach the place of a breach is two to seven minutes, he said. The barrier gives the army invaluable time to reach any potential terrorist, he added.
When it is completed, the fence will stretch some 700 kilometers (420 miles) from north to south at a cost of about $2 million per kilometer (.6 miles) or at least $1.4 billion total. More than 120 miles have already been completed, and Israel plans to complete another 120 miles by years end.
Palestinians have argued that if Israel wants to build a fence, it should build the barrier on its own side of the green line - the invisible 1949 ceasefire line between Israel and Jordan.
But Israel says it has chosen the current route for tactical reasons.
Take a cadet from any officers' training school in the world and ask him to plan the route of the fence and he would come up with this line, Heiman said.
One example is the village of Jeus, he said. The village is on one side of the fence, while its agricultural land is on the other side. Three suicide bombers came from Jeus and their families helped send them. Jeus is very close to the Israeli town of Kochav Yair.
"In order to give us the time it takes to capture the [infiltrator], we need a distance between the village and the town we are defending," he said.
The barrier is punctuated with many agricultural gates and crossing points that are opened at three regular intervals during the day to allow farmers access to their land and school children and others with permits to pass through for legitimate reasons.
In one area, the army realized that the West Bank city of Kalkilya should not be severed from the nearby town of Hable, because they shared professionals, hospitals and other vital services.
There the army is in the process of constructing a huge tunnel to connect the two areas so residents will be able to move freely, on foot or in cars, 24 hours a day without army interference, Heiman said.
At midday one of the gates was opened. Palestinians waited on either side of the open gate for soldiers to check their permits so they could pass.
Muathssim, 36, passed through the gate smiling broadly at the collection of journalists in his horse-drawn cart. "We're living in a prison," he said through a translator, because they have to wait for the gates to be opened and if they miss the opening time they have to wait for hours.
Out of the view of the cameras, a youth walking beside Muathssim's cart turned around, smiled and reached out to shake a soldier's hand.
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There are two sides to every story, but seeing them is sometimes hard to do. Tonight we hear stories that could come from one side... or the other. Grab a drink, pull up a chair, and hear tales from three phenomenal storytellers. Then, step up to the stage and share your best three minute tale!


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A lot of Romney's views about energy and regulation seem familiar. There's a reason for that. Driven by the Tea Party, the House has passed numerous deregulatory laws, some of them multiple times. On average, the House Republicans averaged more than one anti-environmental vote for every day the House was in session in 2011. Romney echos this anti-environmental agenda faithfully, as the following table documents:
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|Republican House bills
|"Require congressional approval of all new 'major' regulations"
|The Regulations from the Executive in Need of Scrutiny (REINS) Act (H.R. 10) requires approval from both houses of Congress before federal agencies can implement any significant rule, including those to protect the environment and public health.
|"As president, Mitt Romney will eliminate the regulations promulgated in pursuit of the Obama administration's costly and ineffective anti-carbon agenda."
|The FY2011 funding bill prohibited EPA from using any funds for the purposes of "enforcing or promulgating any regulation … or order, taking action relating to, or denying approval of state implementation plans or permits because of the emissions of greenhouse gases due to concerns regarding possible climate change."
|"I will permit access to our resources in the Gulf of Mexico, the Outer Continental Shelf, western lands and the Alaska National Wildlife Refuge."
|H.R. 1230, the Restarting American Offshore Leasing Now Act, to expedite leasing in the Gulf of Mexico and open new areas off the Virginia coast to oil and gas drilling.As of February, House Republicans had voted twelve times to approve drilling in the Alaska National Wildlife Refuge.
|"Mitt will approve the Keystone XL pipeline"
|H.R. 1938 would have required the Obama Administration to make a decision on the Keystone XL permit by November 1, 2011, and to short- circuit the existing State Department review process.
|"In my administration, coal will not be a four-letter word. Instead, we will applaud the industry's success in consistently expanding electricity output while reducing pollution."
|House Republicans passed H.R. 2401, the Transparency in Regulatory Analysis of Impacts on the Nation (TRAIN) Act, to overturn EPA's regulations of interstate pollution and its mercury and toxics rules for coal plants.
|"Romney will also press Congress to reform our environmental laws to ensure that they allow for a proper assessment of their costs."
|Under the Latta amendment, air quality standards would cease to be health-based and would instead be set in part based on economic costs to polluters. The Latta amendment passed with only 11 Republicans voting in opposition.H.R. 3010, the Regulatory Accountability Act, would have imposed a more general cost-benefit mandate.
|Would eliminate government financial support for renewable energy except for research funding.
|H.R. 2354, an appropriations bill for 2012 that allocated just $1.3 billion to clean energy and efficiency programs. This is almost 60% below the President's request and 27% below the previous year's levels.The Ryan budget outlined significant budget cuts for energy programs, reducing overall funding by 83% by 2020.


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Imagine if you will, a warm September Friday afternoon,
Seattle Washington. The University of Washington football team is on a roll.
You step inside a quiet little neighborhood bar…but not just any bar, and
not just any neighborhood. The 'Pub Mountlake' bar in the quaint Mountlake
That's Right, Happy
Birthday to me…
Got me an early birthday present last Saturday
against the clueless Utah Utes, a revelation that's been for the most part,
self effident for the better part of this century. I suppose it takes some
folks a little longer to 'get it', but oh boy, did I finally "get it".
I figured what the hell, 'bewildered' wouldn't be too
offensive to the Seattle crowd…
And it's Halloween, I'm going dressed in purple, a
trend setter…cutting edge, that's me…
So if we lose this game against the freakin'
Wildcats, the season is over, just some 'moral' victories left over for the
feel good crowd…
The oregun 'refuse to win
Now understand this, now let me make this
perfectly clear. I left Husky Stadium in a bigger funk than you. Understand
that…but you never let anybody know the funk you're in...nobody, give no
satisfaction. Put it in storage….
Last time I wrote you fella's, just about seven days
ago, I quoted Thomas Payne's quote; "A week that tries men souls…" My
reverse psychology worked…The Dawgs upended SC, then coach Sark upended
The 25th Annual event, Chow Down to Washington, was held on 19 March 2014 at the
Jim Houston Estate in Palm Springs, California. Over 300 alums attended the
event, which is part of Dawg Days in the Desert. (Full
This year's offensive line was
much more stable than last year's; of the 65 possible starts in 2013, UW's five regular offensive
linemen combined for 62 starts. All five linemen return next season. In this
regard, I have thrown the challenge flag out on the recruiting
field for Coach Chris Peterson.
(Full Story)
Francisco. Capitalizing on special teams play and a
bend-but-don't-break defense, the Washington Huskies beat BYU
31-16 in the Kraft Fight Hunger Bowl. (Full
Husky Stadium. Behind the running of Bishop Sankey
and a stout defense, the Washington Huskies were victorious in the
106th Apple Cup, beating the Washington State Cougars 27-17. (Full
CO Groinman on the OSU blowout win
with a look back on the surreal season of 2013.
(Full Story)
Groinman takes in a Hall of Fame induction! Gil Dobie. The Jim
Houston BOARDROOM no less...Bull in a china shop? (Full
2002, I wrote an article, "A Plaque for Gil Dobie." It was inspired
by the notion that a part of our Husky nation -- those of us who
were aware of Dobie's accomplishments on the gridiron -- felt the
university should venerate Dobie's legacy at Washington with a
bronze plaque, one placed on the remaining portion of Denny Field
located on the Washington campus (Full Story).
Amateurs, the off-tackle play,
simplicity, and some myths put to rest. A former Dartmouth QB and
his interview with Dobie. (Full
In 1940, Gil Dobie (1908-1916, 59-0-3) met with a
group of his former Washington players at the Olympic Hotel in Seattle,
making the long trip by train from Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts. (Full
did University of Washington president Henry Suzzallo (1915-1926) fire a
football coach who was unbeaten in 62 games -- a coach who had a record
of 59-0-3 in the period from 1908 through 1916 -- that coach being the
legendary Gilmour Dobie? (Full Story).
This is the place holder for Monte
Manka's poetry. Click on the links above and below to access the
index to his poems (Full
the number-one seed Memphis, UCLA deserves its trip to the final four. Winning the Pac-10 title,
along with the
tournament at Staples Arena, were crucial to the Bruins' success;
their last seven games were played in Los Angeles, San Diego and
Oakland, all of them close to home cooking. (Full
some cases, not knowing one's ancestral tree is better left alone.
What good service to your psyche is rendered by finding out that a person
from your lineage was beheaded about the time that Ann Boleyn was
disloyal to her husband Henry VIII?
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seen a lot of Husky basketball greats: Sammy White and his leaping,
underhanded lay-up shot; there was Joe Cipriano, who could go
coast-to-coast with anybody. How about Bob Houbregs (left) and his graceful hook shot?
Captain Hook led the Dawgs to the final four in 1953, their only appearance. (Full
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Hey ladies! I'm brand new to tww, and I was so happy to see that there's a support group for women like me! Here's my story; (sorry if I don't know all of the abbreviations yet, still learning!)
I never had a regular period. I was very overweight and she came pretty much whenever she wanted. Over the past year I've worked very hard and lost 150 pounds. As soon as I hit a healthy weight, BOOM. She arrives every month, in the dot. Never early, never late! At the end of July, I noticed that I was feeling "off". I was severely bloated and I was really uncomfortable all the time. I normally have bloating around the time AF is expected but not ever this bad! I started getting AF like cramps and figured it was that. August 5, I started spotting. Along with the cramps and bloating, and the fact that my period had a history of being irregular and early, I thought maybe this month it was just out of whack. August 9, Spotting continued but didn't darken and the cramps got worse! I decided to take a HPT just because I was feeling so strange. I was in total shock when I got a BFP! We weren't ttc, so we were so surprised but so happy! I immediately quit smoking cigarettes (i know, horrible habit!), and started eating better and taking the right vitamins. I had a doctor's appt the next day and the pregnancy was confirmed through a urine sample. When she performed the ultrasound, she couldn't see much but said that I was around 5 weeks along. I had the blood testing done to have my levels checked and was told to wait for a call from the doctor in a few days with some results. On August 13, while browsing babies r us with my husband, I received a call from my doctor saying that based on my test results, i was experiencing a loss. I was in hysterics, denial. I never thought this would happen to me! I went to the bathroom at the store because I got an extremely wet feeling all of a sudden. What was once pink spotting had turned into a very heavy dark red flow. The entire experience was heartbreaking for myself, and my husband. I had a natural MC. Since then, we've been trying to conceive naturally. I haven't been tracking anything except my fertile window up until last month. Honestly, I still don't know much about my ovulation date or anything. I did start tracking CM after some research though. I am expecting AF tomorrow, as my cycles have been regular since a month after MC. something seems different. I've got no signs of AF. but not really any symptoms of pregnancy either :\ it's so confusing. The only symptoms I'm having over the last 3 days or so had been lower back and neck pain, random short dizzy spells, especially if I stand up too fast. And I'm on and off overly emotional without reason. If I'm checking correctly, my cervix has felt very high and soft for two days and I've had two types of CM on and off, white, creamy/lotion like, and clear/watery (which is currently where it's at). Any of you ladies have the same symptoms (or lack thereof) before a BFP? I've been researching like a mad woman and the wait is driving me bananas! Sending so many hugs and prayers to each and every one of you! Fingers crossed for a BFP followed by healthy, full term pregnancies! <3


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she ate the whole thing
but i get ahead of myself. like these women pictured here, i am likely older and fatter than you, though i never wear a full, long skirt, nor a cap nor a shawl -- and rarely an apron. i do however, upon occasion, wear an apron, but i only have blue ones. my hair is not black nor white, and neither is my cat. she's not green either.
but a truism emerges nonetheless: a portly older woman has a cat. what could be truer than that? in the five and a half years we've spent together we've not always seen eye-to-eye, but we have a policy by which we stand: we always make up before we go to bed.
something has happened this weekend, though, that threatens every bit of the simpatico wavelength we have forged: ruby caught and ate a tree-rat right in front of me. (we were outside.) (though tree-rats look like big mice with a long rat-like tail, i've gotten to know them pretty well over the years; they love the bird-feeder late at night, and they'll peel and sample lemons on the tree, placing the bits of rind carefully on a nearby leaf. though there are those who shudder at the mere thought of them, they're pretty harmless.)
now ruby, like previous cats with whom i've shared a bed, has learned that birds are out-of-bounds. i understand the magnitude of sacrifice she makes for me in this, so i tread carefully with regards other possible prey. spare the butterfly, if possible, but allow the dragonfly, like that. and if she catches a mouse she's not allowed to bring it into the house. but a rat? i'm afraid we didn't have any rule for that.
the first sign that something was about to happen was her uncharacteristically rushed and clumsy leap toward the side fence and into the morning glory vines which thicken towards the ground and back she came with the rat in her mouth, as it kicked and kicked, in its wholly ineffectual attempt to run away. she didn't seem sure where to drop it, and in case that had anything to do with me, sitting there, i half-heartedly congratulated her on her catch.
she shook it several times in what appeared to be clearly an attempt to kill it, then dropped it on the cardboard port in front of my swing. it lay on its back, still kicking, and breathing hard. i could see its belly fill and deflate, fill and deflate. ruby played with it, but seemed more interested in dining than diddling.
and thus she began, taking the head first.
and thus she began, taking the head first.
she was quite masterly and efficient, and utterly serious. soon the head was only half there, bloody and fresh. the rest went down a bite at a time, though she had to work the gristle, or the intestines -- not sure what -- till they tore. very slightly, i could hear the crackle of the bones. it didn't take much time, as i sat there unclear of my role, if there was one. ruby neither rushed nor dawdled. i wondered if she would eat the tail, which was last, but she did.
then all that was left was a very small puffy pile of swollen entrails, and one hand, er, paw, though it looked like a gloved hand that might reach for one's monocle. ruby, full and tired, crawled right into her bed and slept, even before she cleaned herself, though truthfully she had been very neat.
so who am i now? she is clearly no longer my "baby." or is she? i don't know how to treat her, though i'm struggling to stop myself from getting down on my knees and bowing down, we're not worthy, we're not worthy. my charming companion has shown her true face, and she has asked me, what does anyone really know?
so who am i now? she is clearly no longer my "baby." or is she? i don't know how to treat her, though i'm struggling to stop myself from getting down on my knees and bowing down, we're not worthy, we're not worthy. my charming companion has shown her true face, and she has asked me, what does anyone really know?
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I was more prepared for beating up monsters in the vampire's castle than for healing the dragon with the dagger, so my players obligingly changed their plans to accomodate me. (I'm so glad that my players cooperate with me like this.)
They teleported to outside the vampire's castle, and encountered a pair of mooncalves (large flying squid-things; you can see a picture of one here).
Liandra managed to use her languor spell on one right away, but the other one was more interesting. The combination of long reach, improved grab, increased damage on grapple checks because of its bite, and my recent recognition that you do unarmed strike damage when you start a grapple meant that it was able to dish out a lot of hit point damage. I think everybody was worried about their hit points at some point. It certainly did a lot more damage than the fight with Garrett.
But, of course, the PCs were willing to spend a lot of resources protecting themselves against Garrett, and they spent less against the mooncalves. And the hit point damage will be overcome quickly with wands of curing.
I did pretty well on monster tactics, I think. I did so-so on vivid descriptions; I'd forget them for several turns, and then throw in a bit of grasping tentacles.
I do wish we could run these fluffy bits a bit more quickly. I had four encounters planned for the return to Garrett's castle. We got through one of them in this session. I do want to do the other encounters--but I'm not sure I want to take three sessions for them.


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As work has progressed on music and sound design for Candy Catch (taking in to consideration my previous roadblock as well), things have managed to move pretty well. Making music for games is a little complex and takes a different kind of treatment than probably a movie or a video would.
You see, games are interactive. You push a button, move a control and suddenly the game is not the same anymore. There are different behaviours and patterns for every course of action that you take, and they constantly influence your position in the game. There are many more variables and constants than a movie would have, probably. Of course I'm not saying scoring for movies is easier, but it's different. I like to think of it as an a matrix of functions forming entire arrays that constantly interact and make changes in each other. It's like an orchestra of variables.
I predictably ended up making the Christmas theme track as a little bit of a derivative on the usual 'Jingle Bells' theme. I needed it to not look like straight up cut-and-paste debauchery, Hence a long process of constant refinement and modification of scales happened. It was an interesting thing to do. To sit with a bunch of scales and completely and utterly change the mood of an original track to suit your twisted needs. I felt like a butcher. It felt evil. It felt pretty good.
A musician's gotta do what he's gotta do. Even though the Christmas theme was not as subtle as I imagined it in my head, it fared fine as it was not the usual Christmas theme, there was something different. There were subtle elements of the halloween theme in there as well. Not as spooky though. Ah, the drastic difference a major into a minor and vice-versa can make to an entire song. Mind-blowing, to say the least.
After a snack break which consisted of binging on the usual potato chips and cookies, I got down to finally taking down the last brick in the wall, The opening song. Things seem much more easier once you're the past the two-track mark usually, and so it was. I had a giant folder full of half-recorded stems and elements from both the tracks. Some spooky, some sounded like Santa Claus himself.
There was more copy-cut-paste. Brutal modifications sufficed in extreme situations as well. I'm not the kind of guy who likes to hurry up with tracks and make them sound glued-together or disconnected. I hate that sort of thing. 1 am turned to 5 am and then afternoon, but the almost-done track was still not quite done yet. Even though most elements were borrowed from both tracks, I made sure I did a scale-change here and switched sounds here and there, just to give the track a refined touch. And now it's done. More cookies are in order.
God, I feel like a magician. Poof.


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Lessons (so far) from Mastodon for independent social networks
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Shin, Zen, Bi
Truth, Goodness, Beauty
The essence of kyudo is based on the three concepts, or "ultimate goals":
Truth (Shin)
We strive for a pure and right-minded shooting. This requires a pure and right-minded heart—a true heart. In addition, the flight of the arrow with it the absolute truth of hitting or missing. The moment of truth manifests at the moment of the release of the arrow. Whatever the outcome, it's undeniable.
Sei sha hitchu (A true shot never misses) can be seen as a metaphor for the principle of truth in kyudo.
Goodness (Zen)
In the practice of kyudo we strive for such qualities as courtesy, compassion and non-belligerence. We seek to display these qualities in all situations, even outside our kyudo practice. Rei, our rules for etiquette surrounding our ceremonies, help us to show common courtesy and respect for others, and is an essential element in kyudo practice.
Beauty (Bi)
The two previous concepts, of course, are considered beautiful. But beyond them, we strive for an aesthetic awareness in everything we do. The practitioner's attire, comportment and sense of order are all part of this aesthetic. Furthermore, it is said that if we surrender to the ancient kyudo principles of practice (Shaho), our true nature will be allowed to emerge by removing our own ego. And our true nature—in and of it self—is beautiful.
"The main point of kyudo practice is to polish your mind. When someone hits the target, you can sometimes see happiness. In kyudo, you cut this happiness. That's merely the enjoyment of ego. Whether you hit the target or not, whether you have a beautiful form or not, is not the true measure of your practice. In kendo, karate, judo, all these forms of fighting training, victory comes from cutting someone else. Kyudo is completely different. You cut yourself, your own ego. "
– Kanjuro Shibata XX, Sensei


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