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PLEASE NOTE: This is by no means a high quality post, in fact, it is probably one of the shittiest I have done. There will more than likely be grammatical errors, run on sentences, and things that probably make no sense what so ever, but frankly, I don't give a flying dog shit out of a rats ass since I do it for free and mostly for MY entertainment. More than likely, you will walk away if you read the whole thing thinking I am crazy and just nerd raged all over myself.
So, as you can see from the title of this post, I hate FMA now. Used to like it, but now I hate it. Mostly because it get ratings that are too high, everyone who calls themselves an anime fan just because they watch FMA on Adult Swim, and because it uses the same tired old joke of "I AM NOT SHORT!" religiously.Oh, and it is partially because I started to attempt to re-watch it since my brother bought the first half of the original FMA, but I ended up just stopping because it was way to boring to me. Maybe I have changed over the years since it has been roughly 4 years since I last watched it, but it was just boring.
First, I will start off by addressing the rating. As you can see from my screen cap above, it has an average of 9.15 while Clannad ~After Story~ (a far superior show) has a rating of 9.07. I wouldn't have cared that my favorite anime is #5 had FMA Brotherhood been below it, but what bothers me is the fact the FMA Brotherhood is at the top. I mean fuck shit balls, how many people from Adult Swim came and rated it that high? Because it sure as hell wasn't like that before it came on Adult Swim. All the people that rated it 10 and 9 need to watch something other than AS, and if they watch a lot more anime, and still find FMA that good, then it is alright since they broadened their horizon. But most of the ratings came from the anime fans who only watch what comes on AS forgetting they can buy plenty from RightStuf and Amazon.
Now for the anime fans who have only seen FMA and think they are true fans. You aren't, but you can be, all you gotta do is watch something else other than Adult Swim. This is one thing that pissed me off when I was in high school.
Everyone in the school knew me as the king anime watcher/gamer. Seriously, everyone knew that when I went home, that's all I did, so I had quite a few of the AS only fans try to talk to me about anime, a lot. So, when I went off naming things like Toradora, Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei, Clannad or Slayers, they looked at me like "WTF are those?" But if I were to mention Death Note, I was met with "HOLY SHIT! I FUCKING LOVE ELIMINATING PEOPLE WITH MY DEATH NOTE LIKE LIGHT!" *pulls out crappy home made death note* "SEE, ISN'T IT AWESOME!?!?" I myself like Death Note and all, but not that much. Damn it, I just realize I typed most of this paragraph with mentioning FMA. Well, you can essentially replace the underlined words with FMA related one to get the same thing.
And the retarded "I AM NOT SHORT!" joke, well, it was kinda funny the first time, the 1000th time after that, it wasn't.
So, that was my rather crappy post about why I hate FMA now. I don't expect anyone to actually find it of quality since I did it while tired and having to go to the bathroom really badly.
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ByMelissa Korn
When I visited colleges during my senior year of high school, the tour guides all raved about their luxury dorms with dimmer light switches and private study rooms, fancy dining halls with visiting top chefs and state-of-the-art athletic facilities. These days, tour guides are more likely to talk up their three-year graduation rates and financial aid offerings. (Well, except for this extraordinary exception.)
The value push makes sense, considering that 55% of teens have altered their college plans because of the economy, according to a spring Junior Achievement/Allstate Foundation survey. Since investment accounts haven't quite recovered from last year's tumble and parents are still losing jobs at an alarming rate, an increasing number of colleges and universities are marketing themselves as the best bang-for-your-buck option rather than the best place to lounge in a lazy river or perfect the art of late-night pizza orders for four or five years.
More than a half-dozen schools, including Hartwick College in Oneonta, N.Y., and Lipscomb University in Nashville, have launched new three-year degree options to help families lessen the inevitable debt load. The programs picked up steam when Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) promoted them during a February conference of the American Council on Education, likening accelerated degrees to fuel-efficient cars. Most of the programs require students to take summer classes or more courses during regular term, but they promise savings of at least a year of room and board.
Others, such as Southern New Hampshire University, are touting no-frills satellite campuses. Students there can study at an offshoot location for two years, saving 40% on regular tuition. They can transfer to the main Manchester campus, at full price, for the final two years. The students have access to the same professors, but there are no dorms, high-end gyms or cafeterias at the Salem branch. Classes meet in an office building. University president Paul LeBlanc has likened the program to a "low-cost airline."
Then there are the schools that are simply cheaper than the competition. Augustana College, a Lutheran school in Sioux Falls, S.D., has a sitewholly devoted to touting "The Augustana College Value Proposition," including a chart comparing its tuition with that of nine similar nearby schools. (Augustana wins by an average $9,460.) The school has even posted a half-dozen billboards in and around the St. Paul-Minneapolis metropolitan area, promoting the school as "a great private college without the sticker shock" and directing viewers to the Web site. Bob Preloger, vice president for marketing and communications, calls the effort, which launched last winter, "a pretty aggressive campaign." Preloger said the freshman class is a little bigger this year than last and retention is very strong.
If talk of bare-bones campuses and mandatory work-study piques your interest, BusinessWeek has a list of tuition-free colleges.

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Fairfield showdown: Malloy vs. Foley for governor
In their least confrontational debate in the race for governor, Republican Tom Foley and Democrat Dannel Malloy sparred in Fairfield on Tuesday afternoon over union workers, health care and privatizing state services.
During a debate at Fairfield University, Malloy said he would not change the current system of binding arbitration, in which teachers and public-safety workers give up the right to strike in exchange for neutral reviews of contract proposals.
Foley supports major changes to bring down the cost of local government, including revisions to binding arbitration.
"We've gotten labor peace," Malloy said. "That's the kind of system I support. It's designed to bring about settlement." He said arbitrated contracts often come in with zero-percent increases while still fostering "values, fairness and spirit of cooperation."
"Dan's starting to sound like a union representative," Foley said. "Everybody suffers from this, through higher property taxes."
Malloy read a section of Foley's health-care proposals that would exempt employers from mandated services, including prevention, mammograms, mastectomies and prostate cancer screening.
Foley said Malloy has been misleading voters and using scare tactics to misrepresent his position.
"In my health-care plan for Connecticut, I proposed a way of expanding even further health-care coverage to people who currently aren't covered," Foley said, noting that the state's health-care costs of about $7 billion is a third of the annual operating budget.
"If we can bring down the cost of delivering health care, we can save a significant amount of money in our state budget," Foley said.
Foley said that major savings could be realized through the privatization of state services.
"When I go to Hartford, I will represent the taxpayers and the voters to make sure you are getting the best deal for your money," Foley said. "It does not make sense to use our state work force to perform a service, for example, if it can be less expensive, but at the same level of quality and accountability by a private contractor."
The Republican said it fits his overall plan to reduce state spending and tackle the projected $3.5 billion budget deficit without raising taxes. "Dan has no significant proposals for reducing spending," Foley said. "He's going to raise his taxes and that's going to be a lot of new taxes on Connecticut families."
Malloy said many state services are already being performed by private contractors.
"Tom keeps saying I'm going to raise his taxes, but Tom's math is a little fuzzy," Malloy said. "He acknowledges there's a $3.5 billion deficit and then he says he's going to cut that deficit by eliminating $2 billion in expenditures. You know what Tom's plan is? To raise your property taxes, the most regressive tax the state has. It's the only way he can pull his fuzzy math off."
Foley responded that Malloy hasn't shown how to get to the bottom line.
"If you're going to solve the budget deficit by raising taxes, they're going to go up a lot," Foley said. "Dan, I think you owe it to the listeners tonight and to the people of Connecticut to tell them which taxes are you going to raise and by how much?"


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A prominent to intense hop aroma with a citrusy, floral, perfume-like, resinous, piney, and/or fruity character derived from American hops.
For the BJCP judges here, have you ever judged an AIPA that had too much, or too strong of a hop aroma? Is it even possible for an AIPA to have too much hop aroma, as far as comps are concerned?
Quote from: roguejim on March 16, 2012, 12:24:17 AMFor the BJCP judges here, have you ever judged an AIPA that had too much, or too strong of a hop aroma? Is it even possible for an AIPA to have too much hop aroma, as far as comps are concerned?I could see an argument if the aroma didn't feature American hops or hops that can be considered/confused for American (like some New Zealand types) Are you asking cause you were dinged for it, just curious? Sent from my EVO using tapatalk
excessive dry hopping (grassy or unpleasant vegetal taste).
In my experience, IIPA are almost always more balanced than an IPA due to the saturation limit for iso-alpha acids in wort.
Medium-high to very high hop bitterness, although the malt backbone will support the strong hop character and provide the best balance. Malt flavor should be low to medium, and is generally clean and malty sweet although some caramel or toasty flavors are acceptable at low levels.
I have read somewhere (and personal experience seems to support this) that dry hopped kegs seem to be great for the first 1-2 gallons or so, and then the hop aroma seems to fade. I have also read that some homebrewers compensate for this by spliting the dry hop addition in half and pitching half initially and reserving the other half until one has gone through 2 or more gallons in the keg. Just an idea if you want consistency of hop aroma throughout the keg.


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Maryland is one of three states that requires workers in certain occupations to report child abuse but whose law doesn't include criminal sanctions against those who fail to do so, according to a state legislative analysis.
That distinction met with renewed criticism last week after a Baltimore Sun investigation by Tricia Bishop revealed court records claiming that a Catholic school principal and other Catholic officials were aware of a teacher's sexual abuse of students, but didn't report it until the teacher was under investigation — years after the crimes took place in the 1970s.
Though it's impossible to know how a proposed law would have affected years-old cases, state legislators and sexual-abuse activists say the situation points out the need for criminal sanctions or at least fines in its "mandatory reporting" law.
According to the federal Child Welfare Information Gateway, 47 states and Washington, D.C., impose penalties on mandatory reporters who knowingly and willfully fail to report child abuse or neglect. Arizona, Florida and Minnesota even treat failure to report serious abuse as a felony.
A push has been under way over the past few years to create sanctions in Maryland —- but questions remain as to what scenarios deserve punishment. The issues will likely be debated again during the next legislative session.
The impetus to add punishment to non-reporters grows out of the Penn State University scandal as well as the Sun investigation related to John Merzbacher, a one-time lay teacher at Catholic Community Middle School in Locust Point.
Merzbacher, 71, is serving four life terms for rape and other crimes committed while teaching at the school, but is seeking his release in a federal appeal. Court documents and recent interviews with former students describe several situations in which critics claim the church had opportunities to protect schoolchildren from Merzbacher but did not notify police of the allegations against the teacher.
In Maryland, educators, health practitioners, social service workers and police officers are required under state law to report suspected child abuse to local authorities and their bosses. The state's code on family law requires them to report suspected abuse to social service or law enforcement agencies as quickly as possible and send a written report to the local state's attorney within 48 hours.
Punishment for not following the law might not come from the state but it can come from occupational licensing boards. Educators, for instance, can face the loss or suspension of their teaching certificates, but critics say that happens infrequently.
State Sen. Delores Kelley, a Baltimore County Democrat, tried to pass a law that would add criminal sanctions this year but failed. She plans to introduce the bill again next year.
Her bill states that workers, required to report child abuse, cannot "knowingly and willfully" fail to file a report if they have "actual and direct knowledge" of child abuse. Someone found guilty could face a misdemeanor charge and, if convicted, could earn up to a year in jail and a $10,000 fine. The bill, which includes other new reporting requirements, also includes a provision that gives those who report child abuse immunity from civil and criminal penalties.
Eileen King of Child Justice, Inc., a child advocacy group that handles cases in the Mid-Atlantic region, has several concerns about the bill. In an email she sent to Kelley and the Sun, she said one of the more prominent issues is the bill's language requiring "actual and direct knowledge" of abuse to trigger a child abuse report is troubling. If a child tells a teacher about abuse, is that direct knowledge? How do you define it?
King said "it is high time that Maryland steps away from the Bermuda triangle of the three states that have no civil or criminal penalty for failing to report child abuse." But the debate on how to do so continues.
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DODOMA, Tanzania - An investigation is underway into the explosion of a fuel tanker in the east African nation of Tanzania on Saturday.
At least sixty-four people are known to have died in the blast, and more than 70 others have been injured.
Some of those killed were burned beyod recognition. Charred bodies were being pulled from the exploded wreckage.
The tanker is believed to have overturned and people had rushed to it to try and siphon fuel. It was at this point that the tanker exploded.
The incident took place on a major highway in the Morogoro region, about 175 kilometres west of the port city of Dar es Salaam.
A convoy of ambulances transported the injured to the Muhimbili Hospital in Dar es Salaam. Those that were more critically injured were airlifted to the hospital.
Burials of the victims began on Sunday.
"The fire was huge and it was challenging to rescue victims. I have seen about 65 to 70 people being rescued because the fire was fast spreading across the accident area," witness Daniel Ngogo told the Reuters Thomson news agency.
"The situation is really bad. Many people died, here even those who were not stealing fuel because this is a busy place," he added.
Local Police Chief Willbrod Mtafungwa said many of those killed were motorbike taxi drivers, a BBC report said.
Tanzanian President John Magufuli declared the three days of mourning and pleaded with people to stop risking their lives to steal petrol.
"There are vehicles that carry dangerous fuel oil, as in this case in Morogoro, there are others that carry toxic chemicals or explosives, let's stop this practice, please," AFP news agency quoted him as saying.
Last month at least 45 people were killed when a crashed fuel tanker exploded in Nigeria's northern Benue state, a BBC report said.
Nearly eighty people were killed in May in a similar incident near the airport of Niger's capital Niamey.
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Monday, February 13, 2012
Billy Won't Eat His Cookies
3 comments:
- Jay's Shadow said...
How can you eat something that is looking back at you....
- February 13, 2012 at 7:20 PM
- Colleen said...
hah hah hah... I love the caption. I was actually thinking about making these day of the dead cookies last year but I didn't get the time.. :( Maybe this year? And, I promise, my faces will be much more appetizing. lol
- February 14, 2012 at 12:22 PM
- GhostTown said...
Wow.. those are awesome. Creepy as all hell.
- February 14, 2012 at 8:31 PM
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Lillias White (b. July 21, 1951) played Lillian Edwards on Sesame Street from 1989 through 1993 and voiced the lead singer of the Squirrelles. She received a Daytime Emmy Award for the role in 1992. She provided backing vocals for the song "Part of the Whole."
White is best known for her work as a Broadway actress, portraying Miss Jones in the revival of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (with Matthew Broderick, Jonathan Freeman, Megan Mullally, and the voice of Walter Cronkite); Sonja in The Life, for which she won a Tony Award; Effie in a concert version of Dreamgirls; and substituted as Grizabella in Cats. Her film roles include the voice of the lead Muse in Disney's animated feature Hercules and a small part in How the Grinch Stole Christmas. Television credits include guest roles on Law & Order and NYPD Blue. She is also a prominent house-music singer and has worked extensively with producer George Morel.
White returned to Sesame Street in Season 37, appearing in episode 4112 as Miss Walsh, Gabi's and Miles's kindergarten teacher, in a flashback sequence. In 2006, she performed at the Annual Sesame Workshop Benefit Gala.[1]
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Townhouse by the Railroad Tracks
I wanted to create a new building, but didn't really want to buy any new bricks. Even though we have a lot of Lego around, it can be challenging to find enough pieces of a particular color or specialized bricks to make something the way I want it. But I managed to scrounge enough from our collection to create this urban townhouse.
Bulkhead Flat Car
I created this staked bulkhead flat car by modifying the Cargo Wagon from the Lego's Cargo Train Deluxe set. It's not based on a real rail car, and I'm not even sure if a short bulkhead with a wood deck exists. But I went with these choices based on my available stock and for some variation in my train (and it's a Lego town after all, so I can take some leeway). Perhaps I'll make a full length version down the road.
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Ferrari Cars
These Ferraris are just 'out of the box' Lego kits I've collected over the past few years, but I thought they looked cool all together in a row. I am more fond of vintage American cars like my (real) '67 Galaxie 500, but until Lego starts making American car kits (or I get into creating custom Lego cars instead of buildings and trains), these will have to do.
The Progress of the Lego Town – November 2008
TTX Flat Rail Car
CN Intermodal Rail Car
This is an intermodal rail car with the Canadian National logo I created. The placement of decals is not entirely accurate but I think comes across well. I've also decided to make train cars six studs wide like the Lego sets for compatibility and practicality, even though the scale of cars and containers is not as accurate.
Some photos of model rail cars I used as sources (in addition to some other Lego rail cars I found online):


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(Pocket-lint) - One car's name was on everyone's lips at the Beijing motor show this week: the Lamborghini Urus. That Lamborghini's been thinking about making an SUV is one of motoring's worst-kept secrets. Lambo has seen sales go crazy in China and other parts of Asia, but several factors - the atrocious state of the roads, primarily - mean that many buyers in Asia would prefer a high-riding SUV to a low-slung sports car.
For Lamborghini, which is part of the Volkswagen group, the idea of making an SUV is a bit of a no-brainer. It knows it could sell enough each year to make a profit. There's a platform – which will underpin the next generation Audi Q7, VW Touareg and Porsche Cayenne – it could use too, and, as a bonus, save loads of money.
Bentley is also part of the VW Group and thinking the same way. That's why we got the pig-ugly EXP 9F concept in Geneva. Cruelly, in Beijing, the Lamborghini and Bentley stands sit opposite one another. The Urus just reinforces what an utter munter the EXP 9F is.
In a rather un-Lamborghini shade of cherry red, the Urus looks surprisingly compact. In the metal it definitely has presence and size on its side but there's none of the drama that characterises the Aventador and Gallardo sports cars. It's good looking, but shouldn't Lamborghinis be bonkers, excessive, over-the-top things? From some angles there are hints of Range Rover Evoque (good) and some BMW X6 (bad).
Inside, however, there's a very Lamborghini-like interior. White leather, put together in that fragmented-design aesthetic the company introduced on the Reventon, went down well. The big red "nuclear warhead arming" starter switch from the Aventador is present too, as is a carbon-fibre-derived skin covering lots of the surfaces. Lamborghini wants to lead in carbon fibre use, as it tries to make its cars lighter. A handy benefit of this is that it also looks awesome.
On the centre console, you'll spot the integrated touch screen, which is repeated in the back so that rear passengers can control their own climate temperate, music and the like. Just a shame they were mock-ups on the concept car and not showing some cool, fighter-jet style graphics as other recent Lamborghinis have done.
Of course, the Urus is just a concept and there aren't yet any firm plans for production. But as we said, there's no reason Lamborghini couldn't make this car. Given the potential market, we'd put serious money on a Lamborghini SUV making it into production in the next three years.
The question is, should it? When Porsche developed the Cayenne, lovers of the 911 accused the company of abandoning everything it had previously stood for. The irony was that the Cayenne went on to make Porsche into the most profitable car company in the world, allowing it to improve the 911 and make even more derivatives.
So what do you think? Lamborghini SUV: smart move and a sign of changing times, or a brand selling out and simply following the crowd?


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PLYMOUTH — Plymouth WinterFest 2018 is a Plymouth Youth Foundation event that will take place on Dec. 29 in downtown Plymouth.
Plymouth WinterFest 2018 will build upon the success of last year by increasing the entertainment along with food and drink options available for purchase at various locations between Leyden Street and Brewster Street.
The Plymouth Youth Foundation plans on scheduling multiple family friendly attractions, street performers and musicians both outside and inside Main and Court Street merchants and restaurants. WinterFest 2018 will conclude at Memorial Hall with the return of the Aerial Circus performers from WinterFest 2017.
Social media and public relations initiatives will highlight sponsors while creating interest for attendees and volunteers. Additional sponsorship exposure will include posters distributed throughout town as well as in the storefronts on Main and Court Street as well as the Winterfest 2018 event guide.
To encourage a safe environment, parts of Main Street and Court Street will be closed to through traffic from 5 to 8 p.m. Dec. 29. All Court and Main Street establishments are being asked to offer special deals which will be highlighted in the event guides distributed by WinterFest Ambassadors on the day of the event.
The Plymouth Youth Foundation is also seeking paid sponsorships. Proceeds raised during WinterFest 2017 were donated to Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital-Plymouth, as well as the Plymouth Recovery Center. A portion of the money raised for WinterFest 2018 will be set aside for scholarships made available to local youth for assistance with the payment of fees associated with organized sports and activities. The Plymouth Youth Foundation is dedicated to helping the youth of our community above all while also working towards promoting positive actions through members and organizations within our community that strive to make an impactful difference.


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After months of squabbling and not-so-civil war, the coalition now appears to be functioning again. This is one immediate consequence of George Osborne's Autumn Statement. The Chancellor was allowed to present a package to the House that had not been leaked earlier by coalition partners in an act of preemptive spin. This matters not only for the orderly proceeding of affairs of state but also because the Autumn Statement was the first of a two-part coalition effort to seize the political initiative. The second will come in the new year with the publication of its mid-term review.
Time is running out for further radical reform. The Autumn Statement was limited in its ambitions, and the mid-term review will be the last chance. Any policies announced much later than the start of 2013 are unlikely to have an impact before an election in May 2015. I understand that new policies on child care, education and social care are all part of the final negotiations on the package. One No. 10 source predicts that 'the mid-term review will have more of a lasting effect than the Autumn Statement'.
It is hard to overstate the damage that the March budget (and the leaks which preceded it) inflicted on government relations. Until then, the coalition was run smoothly by a four-person council at the top: David Cameron, Nick Clegg, George Osborne and Danny Alexander. This 'quad' took all the key coalition decisions, and never leaked. But the budget changed that. The most politically sensitive decision the government has taken — the cut in the 50p rate — ended up on the front pages days beforehand.
When I asked one mild-mannered individual who had been present at the birth of the coalition and then returned to Downing Street after the budget what had changed in their absence, they replied, with a note of shock, that 'people in there really hate each other now'. Much of that poison has been drained from the system by the smooth run-up to the Autumn Statement. Reaching agreement on policy was also easier than expected.
A couple of Liberal Democrat ministers — including one member of the Cabinet — would like to increase government borrowing further to fund a new stimulus package. But Nick Clegg and Danny Alexander have accepted that their credibility depends on sticking to the aim of balancing the budget in five years' time. This might not be the most rigorous of targets; it is the fiscal equivalent of the St Augustine pledge: Lord, let me balance the books but not yet. But it does bind the coalition together. When the two parties first came together, they hoped to do this in 2015. Now the forecast runs to April 2018.
But the Lib Dems who want a fiscal stimulus can take comfort in the fact that Osborne's imperatives have changed. One figure at the heart of government observes that 'a year and a half ago, the emphasis was on cutting spending. Now, it's growth.' This subtle change in approach can be seen in how the Treasury is using the money from the sale of the 4G spectrum, which the government expects to raise £3.5 billion. The proceeds will not be used to reduce borrowing, but to fund time-limited tax cuts for businesses to try and boost investment.
Combine that with another cut in corporation tax (it will be 21 per cent from April 2014) and you see the outline of a private sector stimulus package. Importantly, the administrative savings in Whitehall that Osborne has ordered will not go to the Treasury. Instead, they are being funnelled into infrastructure projects.
The announcement that spending cuts will continue until at least 2018 means that the next election will not be about how to share the proceeds of growth but about balancing the books. Hardly the approach that Osborne envisaged back in 2010; then he dreamed of running a British version of Ronald Reagan's 1984 'morning in America' campaign. But it does allow the Conservatives to play the card that Labour is still in denial and wants to borrow even more. The Tories believe that this line will still resonate despite the coalition's failure to bring the budget back into balance.
This attempt to frame the 2015 election campaign will inform the mid-term review. It is a sign of its importance that Cameron and Clegg have been involved in detailed negotiations about its content since before the party conference season. Indeed, a whole new Quad process has been created for it. All meetings on the subject are attended by Oliver Letwin and David Laws — which has changed the dynamics of it. 'When it is six, it strengthens the Prime Minister and Deputy Prime Minister,' I'm told. 'And it weakens the Treasury.'
So important is the mid-term review that it has been delayed three times. Its focus will be on, in the words of one Downing Street source, 'how you put the reforms in place to win the global [economic] race and what you do across the generations to help those who work hard and want to get on'.
Education continues to be the area where the government is moving fastest. Michael Gove has accepted the recommendations of the independent panel on teachers' salaries and will do away with automatic rises and staff being paid based on length of time served. Heads will now be free to offer salaries based on merit. This is a full-bore assault on union power and stands in stark contrast to the relatively minor changes being proposed by the other pay reviews. I understand that there is considerable Liberal Democrat nervousness about this move, but that the Gove-Osborne axis has overridden these concerns.
In publicity terms, the coalition took a deliberately cautious approach to the Autumn Statement. There was no attempt to dominate the news agenda in the weeks leading up to it. No. 10 enthusiastically agreed to the Leveson report coming out the week before, as they knew it would dampen the media's attention. The strategy seemed to have worked: the Chancellor was able to announce that the 3p rise in fuel duty had been cancelled and that the personal income tax allowance had been increased again. In Westminster, it will help repair much of the damage done to Osborne's reputation by the March Budget.
So stability, for now. But the mid-term review is when the coalition will have the chance to demonstrate that it has not run out of ambition, ideas or momentum. Its radicalism (or lack thereof) will tell us whether the coalition will limp to the next election, or charge.


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Lewis Black is bringing his anger back to Broadway—just in time for the election.
Talent agent Jackie Knobbe said Thursday the comedian will bring his trademark frustration and high blood pressure style to the Richard Rodgers Theatre from Oct. 9-14. The show, currently on tour, is called "Running on Empty." Tickets go on sale Aug. 6.
"Why Broadway?" he asks in a statement. "It's close to my apartment, just blocks away and frankly I'm too tired to go anywhere else. These guys are exhausting me. Democrats. Republicans. The Tea Party. Just shut up. Enough is enough."
Mr. Black has been on Broadway before: His 2004 show "Black on Broadway" made it to the Brooks Atkinson Theatre and also was broadcast on HBO.
His other standup highlights include "Red, White and Screwed" as well as regular appearances on "The Daily Show."
He has released eight comedy albums, including the 2007 Grammy-Award winning "The Carnegie Hall Performance." He's also a playwright: His play "One Slight Hitch," written in 1983, was updated and appeared this summer in Seattle.


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Soldiers greeted with homecoming at Camp Fretterd in Reisterstown
Family, friends welcome soldiers back from Kuwait
A year ago local soldiers were deployed to Kuwait in support of Operation New Dawn, but on Thursday they returned home to their loved ones.
Family and friends gathered in Reisterstown at Camp Fretterd for members of the Maryland Army National Guard to return home. They waited with flags and signs and lots of gifts showing their love.
Thirty soldiers from Charlie Company, the 1204th Network Support Company, that were deployed a year ago to Kuwait came home on Thursday.
They were sent as part of the 29th Combat Aviation Brigade. In Kuwait, they conducted support and communication operations.
While these soldiers said they were proud to serve their country, they said they are happy to be home.
"It feels good to see them. It's been a while," soldier Kevin Wallace said. "(I'm) very excited to spend time, catch up. That's it. Right now, everything hasn't hit me yet. I'm sure it will pretty soon though."
Kevin and Anita Wallace said they have four children serving in the armed forces and they are so thankful to have their son, Kevin, back safely.
"We're thanking and praising God for his glory and his safe return of the whole unit and we're just glad to be a part of it," Kevin Wallace Sr. said.
This was the first overseas deployment for the unit, although they have been called on to help out in snow storms and hurricanes in the past.
Sgt. Brian Bills said he's thrilled to be back and with his family.
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16 October 2012
No great squirrel debate
Squirrels do not hold elections. Squirrels do not vote. Squirrels do not engage in politics. Thus squirrels have no need to engage in debate.
The world of the Eastern Grey is very much black and white: If you've got a nut, they'll take it. If you don't, there's no deal.
The squirrels' only campaign is to effectively charm you so you elect to empty your pockets in their presence. These nut offerings aren't political handouts, however. Nor are they campaign contributions. In this world populated by tree-dwelling citizens, acorns, walnuts and pecans are merelyy hard-earned wages from a full day of hard-core squirreling, a day's labor that begins as the sun rises, and doesn't cease 'til it sets.
And while squirrels can dig up dirt better than any political candidate, they're not looking to discredit any opponent. They're simply saving for the hard winter ahead.
Social Security? That's their "nut cache." Free medical care? It's called "wildlife rehabilitation" (and a squirrel is likely to qualify for it only if they're fortunate enough to be saved by a savvy rescuer).
There is a reason the donkey and the elephant were selected, over the squirrel, to symbolize American politics. Call them what you will, but American rivals Barack Obama and Mitt Romney are anything but squirrelly. Let them debate this season on every major network, in every state and on every stage, and let them hash out the national deficit, military conflicts, and the healthcare conundrum.
What it really comes down to is this: Can either candidate crack walnuts with his teeth? Can either build a nest in fewer than 24 hours? And can either man leap effectively from treetop branch to branch with the same energy they use to jump over each other's logic.
The world - and the voters - may be watching, but do the squirrels even care? That's debatable.
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We are witnessing a fascinating struggle between the polling data in Iowa, and how Republican Party leaders and pundits are interpreting that data. Yesterday, the National Journal ran this story under the headline "Romney: The New Frontrunner in Iowa". It linked to a number of print and online articles that collectively indicated Romney was poised to win the Jan. 3 caucus and position himself to close out the nomination contest shortly thereafter. Thus, Politico proclaimed that "Romney was in striking distance of Iowa Win." The Washington Post proclaimed that Romney's "stealth campaign" gave him a "real shot at winning Iowa." This Huffington Post piece ran under the headline "Romney poised to do well in Iowa." The Hill opined that Romney "could lock up GOP nod with win at Iowa." The Los Angeles Times went so far as to claim that Romney could "win" Iowa even if he didn't win there! Josh Krashauer concludes his National Journal piece with this confident assertion: "Make no mistake: If Romney wins the Iowa caucuses, he's on a glide path to the Republican nomination. And with newfound scrutiny over Paul's racial record, Gingrich losing momentum and the evangelical base vote split between Bachmann, Perry and Santorum, it's looking awfully likely that Romney will come away as the big winner on Jan. 3."
Big Winner? You might think this assessment and the accompanying flurry of news story touting Romney's prospects are driven by recent polling data indicating that Romney was pulling ahead in Iowa, or at least that his poll numbers were on the rise there. But you would be wrong. The reality is that there are no signs of a Romney surge in Iowa. At best one might argue that he's climbed a couple of percentage points back to where he was a month ago, but even that's uncertain, given the probabilistic nature of survey sampling.
Consider the latest Iowa poll released late yesterday by Insider Advantage. It shows Romney at 17.2%, in a dead heat with Paul (17.3%) and Gingrich (16.7%). (The bigger news in the poll is that Santorum has climbed to 4th, at 13.4%, which is consistent with yesterday's CNN/ORC poll that had him third, with 16% of the polling support. More on that in a later post.) One week ago Insider Advantage had Romney at…. 18%. Well, that's one poll you say – surely he's climbing in all the others? Nope. PPP's latest had Romney at 20% – exactly where he was a week before in the previous PPP poll. Rasmussen? The last two polls, again a week apart, have him at 23% and 25%. Really the only poll that suggests any growth in Romney's support is yesterday's CNN poll, which has him at 25%, which is 5% more than its previous poll. That previous poll, however, dates back three weeks.
Indeed, right now Romney is at 21.8% in the RealClearPolitics composite polling tracker – which is almost exactly where he was a month ago and, in fact, about where he was last July! Indeed, he's on track to finish below the 25% he received in Iowa four years ago! For all intents, despite several millions dollars of paid advertising, countless visits, endorsements by party leaders, and even a change in clothing (Mitt's ditched the prep look and is now dressing down) Romney's been treading water for four years in Iowa. That's the real story.
Look, Romney could very well finish first come Jan. 3 – but if current trends hold it won't be because of a surge of support in the last two weeks of the race. Iowan voters show no signs of coming around to Mitt. It will be because unlike in 2008, the Tea Party/evangelical voters who comprise more than 50% of the likely caucus voters didn't coalesce behind a single alternative candidate. Their failure to do so make it possible that Romney's support will go down from 2008 – and yet he will finish first.
If that happens, it will be very interesting to see how the media spins the results. For reasons that I think must be based on evaluations of candidate electability, the Republican party establishment – by which I mean party leaders (see his endorsers) and their media counterparts (think Will, Brooks, and Krauthammer) – are completely in the tank for Romney, despite the fact that he has yet to demonstrate deep or broad support among hard-core Republican partisans. There's a dispute in the political science literature regarding whether the winning candidate gets a boost from Iowa. (I'll address this in a separate post.) But it partly depends on media reactions and the expectations game. If Mitt can't increase his support in Iowa from four years ago, that suggests he's not gaining strength as a candidate. But that may not be how the media interprets the results.
By the way, the Insider Advantage poll released late yesterday showing a three-way tie in Iowa included 69% Republicans, 27% independents, and 3% Democrats – that's a relatively low number of Republicans, which suggests the poll may be slightly understating Santorum's support although it's hard to be sure without an ideological breakdown as well. The other interesting finding is what appears to be a gender gap in both Paul's and Romney's support; Paul leads among men with 23% of the vote, but he gets only 12% among women. Romney's support is reversed; he receives the highest support among women, with 23%, but only gets 11% from men. Gingrich, in contrast, polls equally well with both genders (17%). Indeed, of the three front-runners, Gingrich shows the most consistent support across party, gender and age lines. He comes in second among Republicans, second among Democrats and third among independents. And while Paul draws disproportionally from those 44 years old and younger, and Romney's core support is from the 45 and older crowd, Gingrich draws about evenly from all age groups. Maybe Gingrich, and not Romney, is most electable?


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Two beat weave.
This will be difficult to describe so I am hoping the enclosed video will be able to do most of the talking
Practice drawing a figure of eight with both arms separately, the loops of the 'eight' at either side of your body. Once you are confident with this, combine both arms together. Do not cross them at the same time – instead, alternate them (also known as 'split-timing'). The end result should be that one fan loosely 'follows' the other.
This can be performed both with wide arcs (straight arms) and smaller, tight arcs (bent arms)
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|28th Dec 2007 10:10 PM
This looks like a cross-over to me. In Poi, the weave has three beats -- one on one side and two on the other. So far I have not been able to figure out how to do a weave with fans. I think it requires letting the fan spin around the finger on the third beat on each side, which is tricky.
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|28th Jan 2008 1:40 PM
its just a simple chase
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|28th Jan 2008 2:04 PM
Correction noted
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|3rd Feb 2009 1:28 PM
This is the same as 2-beat weave in Poi. You need to do either right-hand-on-top or left-hand-on-top; and you can move between the two by pausing one fan for a single beat as the other reverses.
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I wish he explained more like the woman in the other tutorials on here or break it down a bit. D: i really want to learn this move
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Having a lot of trouble with this... I can do it one hand at a time but can only manage a bloody nose when using both o_o


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Dear Lauren,
I live in America. I read about the war in Israel almost every day. I want to feel a part of it, but I'm going to camp and going shopping and meeting with friends and it doesn't feel like anything is different. I want to feel Israel's war struggle, but I don't, and I feel really bad about that. Also, I want to do something for the war effort, but I'm far away in America and I'm not doing anything. What can I do?
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First of all, give yourself kudos and credit for wanting to feel with your brothers and sisters in the Holy Land. Wanting to do the right thing counts as doing the right thing in Jewish philosophy. So you're already on the right track. Celebrate that victory.
The Hasidic yeshivos of Viznitz, Sanz, Belz, and Ger in Israel all cancelled vacation this summer; their students believe that their learning Torah supports the Israeli soldiers and the war effort, so they will be learning Torah in the merit of all the soldiers over the next few weeks. Their approach is one you, too, can take, all the way over in America, across the world from Israel and its army. You, too, can minimize your fun – just a drop – and increase your acts of kindness and increase your prayers on behalf of Israel and the young men fighting the war.
I would encourage you to observe two moments of silence a day; one when you wake up, and one when you are about to go to sleep. During that minute, think on the soldiers. Pray on their behalf. Ask God to protect them as they battle evil for the sake of the safety of Israel and for the sake of the security of the entire free world.
Also, any time you do a good deed – and try to do many of them per day – think to yourself, "This is in the merit of the safety of the soldiers."
Maybe on your way to meeting your friends, think about the soldiers for a moment and pray for their safe return to the ordinary world of meeting friends. Maybe in the mall, think about the soldiers for a moment and pray that they can return soon to the ordinary world of buying a sweater or purchasing a new pair of shoes.
Helping yourself stay aware of the young men fighting evil on our behalf, and spiritually supporting them, will make you a part of the war effort.
There are also more official means. An organization called "The Shmira Project" (in English, that means "The Protection Project") pairs people who want to pray and do good deeds on behalf of a particular soldier with Hebrew names of actual soldiers. Then any good deed or prayer or Torah learning you do anytime helps spiritually protect a soldier in the field. You can sign up at http://shmiraproject.com/en-us/home.aspx.
It might help you to feel connected to the soldiers by choosing someone in your life who mirrors them – a 20-something-year old boy – and realize that anytime you think "Israeli soldier," you really mean your Josh, or your Mike, your Max, your Isaac…. "The Israeli soldiers" are not a foreign enclave; they are the mirror of the young Jewish boys we know and love. They are someone's son, someone's father, someone's brother, someone's fiancé.
It's also really important to realize that any good person who is suffering – whether it be a soldier fighting a war, a friend battling cancer, a family member going through a divorce, a neighbor losing a loved one – any good person who is suffering generally does not want other people to suffer, too. If I am having a difficult time in my life, the last thing I want is for other people to be having difficulties, too. Yes, if I'm going through a tough time, I want people to care about me. Yes, if I'm suffering, I don't want people blithely and insensitively throwing their happiness in my face. BUT, if I am a good person, I really want my friends and neighbors and fellow Jews to be happy and trouble-free, even if I'm having a hard time.
Keeping a prayerful awareness of the soldiers and our brothers and sisters in Israel and what they're going through as you go through your day would be ideal. Increasing the good deeds that you do on their behalf, sending "spiritual support" via your thoughts and intentions as you do the good deeds on their behalf would be wonderful. Stopping twice a day to think of Israel and the people there and to send up a prayer for them would be powerful.
I also think you could tell your friends about the ideas I've mentioned here. A part of your "meeting with friends" could be your helping them be aware of the situation in Israel, too. They might be staunch supporters of Israel and benefit from your mechanisms of connecting to the situation there. If they are detractors from Israel, you might actually feel more connected to the Israeli war effort when you hear them dissing it. It's interesting how we humans work: if you're not feeling as connected to the situation in Israel as you want to feel, and you encounter people who criticize Israel and its actions, you might actually feel more loyal and more connected to it!
If you also want to help in a political or monetary way, you can contact your local AIPAC (American Israel Public Affairs Committee) chapter, or take a look at the AIPAC website (http://www.aipac.org/) to see how you can help. The Hasbara Fellowship is another great option (visit: http://www.hasbarafellowships.org/). Even as a teen you can help.
A word about prayer, good deeds, and Torah learning: know that any of those endeavors, done on behalf of someone or something, will in and of themselves make you feel more connected to the object of your giving. Also, know that no prayer, no good deed, no dedicated learning goes to waste. Any good generated in the world, says Jewish philosophy, improves the world and dampens evil's power.
Thank you for caring. Thank you for wanting to do the right thing.


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In the new film The Hunger Games, children are forced to hunt each other in a dystopian (thanks, Jerry Brown!) future, all for the entertainment of the wealthy.
I would love to apply a possible metaphor from this tale to California's political moment, but there are simply too many metaphors to choose from.
So let's leave it at this: Molly Munger has nothing on those kids in the Hunger Games.
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The wealthy civil rights lawyer is sponsoring a tax-hike ballot initiative that shapes up as a major problem for Gov. Brown, unions and Democrats who have just united around a compromise tax-hike ballot initiative of their own.
If she doesn't drop her measure, she'll find herself on the business end of an unrelenting campaign of personal attack. Heck, the chairman of the state Democratic party already has joked about the possibility of a hit squad being sent out for Munger. Ha ha.
But does she deserve such scorn? No more than Brown, the unions and other backers of the compromise measure.
Both initiatives are profoundly flawed initiatives that don't do very much for schools or the state's budget problems. And both initiatives will consume vast amounts of time and money -- when elites, Democratic and otherwise, should be focusing on building a movement to fix California's broken system.
But with all that understood, a simple comparison of the measures suggests that, if you're still inclined to raise taxes and you're worried about schools, Munger's proposal probably gives you more of what you want (even if that's not very much). Consider three aspects:
1. Munger's tax proposal is not as temporary. Both are temporary taxes -- a dodge at a time when the state needs structural tax reform. But the compromise initiative taxes don't last very long -- 4 years for sales, 7 years for income. Munger's tax lasts for 12 years.
2. Munger's proposal has more shared sacrifice in it. Her proposal would raise taxes more on the rich than the poor -- but would raise them a little bit on everybody. The bulk of the compromise initiative is to soak the rich. That's fair, given the fact that the rich keep getting wealther, but it's also problematic in that it adds volatility to California's revenues. Volatility, of course, can be good--if it's part of a disciplined budget system with a real rainy day fund. But, of course, the people backing the compromise measure are the same people who keep delaying a ballot measure to establish a larger rainy day fund for the state.
3. Munger's proposal sends money directly to school districts, while the money in the compromise measure would go directly into the broken state budget system. Now, there are all kinds of problems with Munger's detailed approach, which amounts to ballot box budgeting. And it's quite possible that the passage of a measure like Munger's would simply give state officials more reason to cut into other forms of school funding. But at the same time, the compromise measure almost certainly won't spare the schools from more cuts either.
Yes, this is damning with faint praise. But even faint praise is hard to muster in California right now.
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Porsche Sets U.S. Sales Record, Reflecting Luxury-Car Boom
"German sports car maker Porsche AG said its U.S sales jumped 21% in 2013 and set a new record of 42,323 vehicles.
While Ford might sell roughly that many pickup trucks in a month, the number is huge for Porsche, which specializes in extremely expensive cars that no one really needs for basic transportation.
The results for individual models also tell a critical story for the company. The Cayenne sport-utility vehicle was the top seller with 18,507 vehicles sold, but the 911sports coupe, which has been the foundation of Porsche's high-end image and racing provenance since its introduction more than 50 years, accounted for a quarter of overall sales.
The 911 starts at $84,300, but most versions have base prices over $100,000, and the Turbo S Cabriolet model costs $193,900. It is a small, cramped car that, while generally more practical than other exotic sports cars, is arguably more of a toy than transportation.
Still, the 911 outsold Porsche's lower-priced Boxster and Cayman sports cars, which combined for 7,953 units. The popularity of Porsche's most expensive models is reminiscent of what is happening in markets for a number of luxury products from clothing to private jets. The costliest planes with the most features and greatest range tend to fare better than smaller, lower-cost versions.
Porsche said it expects favorable market conditions to continue this year, given its range of new products that includes the Macan compact SUV.
"Since introducing 22 new models and variants into the U.S. market in 2013, we are entering the new year with our youngest product line ever," said Detlev von Platen, president and CEO of Porsche's North American unit. "Thus, we are confident that we can continue writing the success story of Porsche in the U.S. over the next 12 months.""


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Lets talk about hairstyles for long hair braids
Long hair, hairstyles for long hair braids, always make the image more sexy and soft – both in men and women, contribute to harmony in personal life and emotional balance, adaptation in the team. But do not expect professional and material success: too quiet work is never very successful. So, hairstyles for long hair braids!
Color hairstyles for long hair braids
The hair color of your hairstyles for long hair braids is also important. It affects the character, highlighting and activating certain features. For example, the bright blond, the color of the sun, attracts attention and enhances creativity, but at the same time, carriers of a similar color very often indulge their egoism. People who prefer hairstyles for long hair braids in ashen and platinum shades are usually sensitive, generously endowed with the best qualities and at the same time passive.
Hairdresser and hairstyles for long hair braids
For any person, going to the hairdresser is like an exciting and dangerous journey: the end result is impossible to predict. Even if everything is already thought-rethought, you have decided on the color, length, and shape of your hairstyles for long hair braids, no one will guarantee that it will turn out exactly as you wanted. And if you wondered why we change the hair? Where does this desire come from? And why does a beauty with a slant to the waist once suddenly make the shortest haircut for herself? Choose hairstyles for long hair braids!


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Into the Coven is a sneak peek into the development and workings of a Wiccan coven. Each monthly installment will explore the history and lore surrounding the idea of the coven. In addition to looking at the coven in history, Jason Mankey will share the growing pains, triumphs, and tragedies of his own working group.
Into the Coven: Finding a Ritual
The first six months of its existence my ritual group mostly floundered. We had a good circle of people around us and did some nice rituals, but we didn't really have any sort of structure. To find a solidity for ourselves we had to do a ritual for someone else.
When my wife and I put our ritual group together we did so with low expectations. We were basically just looking for a group to ritualize with, we weren't necessarily seeking anything formal. During those early months our rituals were continually different. We never used the same quarter calls twice or called to the same gods and goddesses for that matter! The circle was scripted but eclectic, details constantly in flux.
About the same time our group was getting off the ground a friend of mine asked me to lead the Samhain Ritual for his group. This would be a major undertaking, maybe 100 people in attendance and in an old Masonic Hall. Would my wife and I be up for such a challenge he asked. I wasn't sure myself but said yes anyways.
Up until that point I had always imagined what a big "Witch Ritual" at Samhain would look like. I've watched enough Discovery Channel specials in October to know what the big knock-out, high production budget rites in Salem Massachusetts look like and that played into my thinking but I wanted something more than that. I wanted to craft a ritual that possibly scared people and made them uncomfortable. I like happy little run through the woods rituals as much as the next person, but I also like the idea of a ritual with presence and heaviness. I wanted to write something that was going to make a few hairs stand up, something praising the Goddess of Death and the Lord of Death and Resurrection.
When I think of a "Witchy" ritual my mind immediately pictures British Traditional Witchcraft. "Witchy" makes me think of "I conjure stir and call you up" and all of that archaic sort of language that twists the tongue and tantalizes the soul. Eight months before my Samhain Ritual, starting in February, I began living with the thing on a day to day basis.
The group I was writing the ritual for tends to be very theatrical. They take a lot of pride in constructing imaginative worlds for their sabbats, so much so that the rituals sometimes get lost in the props. I wanted to keep things simple and stark, let the words and a few large deliberate actions tell the story. Having a wishing well in the middle of a ritual is pretty cool, but I'm far more impressed with a High Priestess slowly (and almost menacingly) raising a sword and drawing down the God into her Priest. That's always been the type of Paganism, and by extension Witchcraft, that appealed to me, especially in late October/early November.
So I began constructing my ritual with an emphasis on words and atmosphere. I wanted the working to focus on the thinning veil and reuniting the souls of the dead with the living, but I also wanted that working to be flexible enough that each person in the circle dictated their own experience. I've never liked rituals that attempt to force me to feel a certain way, and Paganism is so big and diverse today that I'm not sure everyone really believes in the immortality of the soul. I eventually decided on a journey to the edge of the Summerlands (which was really a journey from one room to another in the Mason Hall). We'd create an atmosphere and environment where the transition would feel real but once in the realm between the living and the dead people would be free to do as they like. They might cry at the photo of a loved one and reunite with that person, or simply stroll our "hall of the dead" and pay their respects to those have left our world. In a lot of ways it was all simply pictures on a black wall that could be interpreted in various ways.
I wrote much of the ritual myself but to get the feel I wanted I turned back to Janet and Stewart Farrar's The Witches Bible and my own training in a Traditional Witch Outer Court. How my High Priestess in that circle did ritual simply worked, and worked better than most things I've ever done. At various times in my life I've thought that what she did was too wordy, involved, or archaic sounding, but it always called me back home. Despite any misgivings I might have about it sometimes, it always ends up feeling like the "right" way to do things, at least for me.
So I had this idea for a Samhain Ritual and all of this language I wanted to use and when I gathered the circle to help me with everything they got caught up in it too. Everyone enjoyed seeing the bits and pieces pull together and parts were assigned. I had originally hoped to use a lot of people outside of our circle, but it was so much more comfortable to work with the people I was already working with on at least a semi-regular basis. The circle picked up on the archaic language and embraced it. I was worried that the Traditional Witch sounding stuff might go over like a lead balloon, I shouldn't have been.
We worked on that ritual for a month and a half, and had a whole series of practices. The process of simply practicing ritual with a group of people can lead to good things. Seeing each other on a near weekly basis we got into each others head-space a little bit more. Everything that I wanted to accomplish with the ritual could be spelled out, and with everyone talking and contributing the structure of the ritual improved considerably.
The ritual we did that night was great. People now refer to it as "that Samhain" a designation that makes me beam with pride. During our first rehearsal in the Mason Hall that afternoon we could all feel that we were stirring up some pretty big energies. Sitting in our "hall of the dead" a half hour before that ritual will always be one of my most treasured memories. The spirits were knocking on our front door even then, and it was making the hairs on the back of my neck stick up. I had never felt more alive and more drained after a public ritual than at that Samhain rite.
After that ritual there was a new urgency in our circle and we started doing ritual much like that Samhain Ritual. Since it all had worked so well (and everyone was so familiar with) we began using it for our rituals. Suddenly our quarter calls calls to the Watchtowers were being repeated and after shaving off a few words we had a consistent working Symbolic Great Rite. It wasn't quite all fully formed yet but it was coming together very nicely. We didn't settle on working as British Traditional Style Witches we embraced working in the style of British Trad Witches.
At Yule of that year my wife and I wanted to create something memorable and give a big thank you to the members of the circle. We decided to create a mini-Book of Shadows and called it The Rites and Rituals of the Oak Court. It was more pamphlet than book but it mostly reprinted our Samhain Rite as the beginning and end points for future rituals. It became the structure of the coven, and structure is important.
There's something about doing ritual the same way over and over that helps to create ritual space. It puts everyone on the same wavelength so to speak. Rituals that constantly change sometimes leave the participants groping in the dark wondering what's going to come next. That distracts from the ritual. Sure there should be a place for mystery, but the time for that mystery is not at the start of ritual. The powers being called to ritual should be things that everyone is familiar and comfortable with. Having a an established ritual process helps with that.
Our pamphlet Book of Shadows didn't completely codify our ritual structure though. We continued to tinker with it over the next couple of months. At Imbolc the following year I decided I wanted to use an old prayer my wife and I used previously. We slipped it into the ritual's working and then began adding it to the start of ritual. It felt right, set the proper tone, and soon enough people were saying it along with us. There were also typos in The Rites and Rituals that needed to be fixed, so we fixed them. After we had a spirit visitor attempt to join our circle I began thinking of ways to fortify our circle casting. Pieces were added and the addition of four candle sconces to the walls of our ritual room inspired even more ritual.
By the following Yule the changes had been substantial enough (and we had done enough rituals) that I put together a complete Book of Shadows for our group. Now the typos were fixed, the ritual structure was expanded and improved upon, and our rituals became more powerful. Now there's a continual feeling of power and energy in our ritual room and a feeling that comes the moment we begin ritual. A way of doing had been established and as a coven we took another step forward.
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Wednesday, June 2, 2010
Angel Hernandez wasn't enjoying Kevin Gregg's tasty nibbles
So maybe that's why we're so eager to make excuses right about now. Like how it struck us that maybe home plate ump Angel Hernandez was making good to the Rays after refusing to call time to Carlos Pena and tossing Joe Maddon, and maybe his strike zone got a little cramped.
When we threw that notion out on Twitter following the game, intrepid reporter Ian at The Blue Jay Hunter undertook the task to get the Pitch FX data, and boy-howdee did he ever get the data. So if you'd like to pause for a moment and go read his most excellent analysis, have at 'er.
Not satisfied to wait until this morning, though, we actually got off our butt and looked up the pitches to Jaso, Zobrist and Navarro ourselves. On Gameday, which is admittedly totally unreliable, we found our suspicions confirmed. Conspiracy!
Then, this morning on Brooks Baseball, we found that the more reliable system seemed to confirm that Hernandez just made some very good close calls, although the fourth and fifth pitches to Zobrist were really close. And if it's a sunny Sunday Get-Away-Day, either Zobrist or Jaso is punched out and the Jays are high-fiving their way back to the clubhouse, another game closer to the peak of the AL East. Believe that.
The truth is that Gregg played a pretty dangerous game for a pitcher with men on base by trying to pick the corners throw pitches away from hitters. Gregg has some decent tailing motion on his fastball, and getting them in on the hitters hands or over the plate might have been rewarded with a ground ball or two, and a save/win.
For now, we hold our breath, and hope that this is more of a blip than a trend, and that Gregg heeds the words that Pappy Walton offered on his trip to the mound last night: "No problem."
29 comments:
- The Ack said...
I swear to God this isn't Manager bashing - it really isn't intended to be - but even the most rubber-armed of closers needs a day off....even if a save situation presents itself.
Gregg was gassed and I question whether he really should have been "available"....never mind to throw 40 pitches or whateverthefuck he finished with. And once he was in, I don't see how he's in long enough to walk 5 batters.
Fuckin' Maddon's antics & his post-game comments, by the way.....hate that guy.
""The opportune moment can be disguised, or be wearing different clothing," Maddon said of the sudden turnaround. "Right there it was wearing the clothing of not permitting a timeout."
What in the name of Fuck does that even mean? We get it - you are folksy and wear funky glasses, but piss off with the nonsense.
- June 2, 2010 at 11:15 AM
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- June 2, 2010 at 11:20 AM
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- June 2, 2010 at 11:20 AM
- Torgen said...
Purcey walked too many guys in AAA for me to think he'd be an improvement as a closer. I think making him a hard-throwing LOOGY would be the best use of him--it minimizes the time he needs to keep focused.
- June 2, 2010 at 11:23 AM
- Tao of Stieb said...
I wouldn't mind Purcey as an Alan Embree type of power lefty, who pitches in late situations.
Scott Downs hasn't been right since his at bat last season, and would seem to be better suited to low-leverage situations for a while.
- June 2, 2010 at 11:27 AM
- Darren Priest said...
Over on DJF, one of their mouthbreathers decided Gregg was a pussy for not tossing the coach out of the way to really get physical with the ump. What an embarrassing legacy they have for masochistic fans to sift through. Milton Bradley wouldn't have let the coach hold him back!
Very disappointing loss, though. When Tallet left the game with a 5 run lead, I starting doing the Mr. Burns rationale: "OK, the bullpen will never give this up." "well, that's one run. No way they'll give up 4 more runs." "Alright, that's 3. Let's shut this down now, guys." And so on...
Next thing I know, I'm reaching for the Rolaids.
- June 2, 2010 at 11:28 AM
- Torgen said...
Wasn't Rommie closing in AAA when we called him up?
- June 2, 2010 at 11:33 AM
- Tao of Stieb said...
Yeah, 5 saves but a 1.696 WHIP. Still, worth a look.
- June 2, 2010 at 11:38 AM
- Ian Hunter said...
Gregg threw 88 total pitches in his last four appearances combined. Methinks he was a little gassed last night, and combined with the tight strike zone it was a recipe for disaster.
Just because it's a "save situation" doesn't dictate that Cito HAS to go to Gregg.
Camp gets the first two out on six pitches in the 8th, then Downs gets the final out of the 8th on 5 pitches.
I'm not sure why Cito didn't just leave Downs out there to get the four-out save, or even just to get the first out of the 9th and THEN bring in Gregg.
- June 2, 2010 at 12:06 PM
- Darren Priest said...
Cito has Gregg in his fantasy pool and he needs more saves.
- June 2, 2010 at 12:19 PM
- GCM1979 said...
or the Jays could "Kerry Wood" Dustin McGowan into closing if he comes back healthy. Honestly, with the exception of Brandon Morrow, there's no one on this team that has "closer" stuff on this team. They have some guys in AA that aren't ready yet.
- June 2, 2010 at 12:20 PM
This is manager bashing. Gregg is not good back-to-back, so he shouldn't have been in there in the first place. I know Cito wants to find out what his guys can do, but this one was obvious. As the inning went on, the bullpen should have been up faster.
Using Downs for one out was a waste.
My kids learned some new words last night. That was the most aggravating game in years (the last time any Jays game mattered this much was a while back).
- June 2, 2010 at 12:43 PM
- Peter DeMarco said...
I agree that Gregg should not have come in last night, he has proven to be very poor on back to back nights and I was almost certain the Jays would lose when Cito brought him in.
That being said, Gregg still deserves some of the blame. Whether or not those close pitches were strikes, it was my impression that the umpire had been calling that pitch a ball all night long. While other pitchers figured it out pretty quickly, Gregg kept going back to that exact spot hoping that maybe this time it would be called a strike.
I was a very frustrating game to watch.
- June 2, 2010 at 2:15 PM
- Peter DeMarco said...
Additionally, I had an interesting thought after the game. What if, and I'm not even sure what I think about this idea, the bullpen was run like a starting staff and set up as a rotation????
That is, a bullpen rotation was set, and who you brought in next was dependent on who's turn it was in the (bullpen) rotation. Sure you could skip the 5th or 6th spot in the (bullpen) rotation if enough days go by to allow your top relievers enough rest, but otherwise you stick to the rotation.
- June 2, 2010 at 2:31 PM
Is there a reason Downs wasn't kept in for a batter or two in the 9th? And what about Tallet? I know he was on a pitch count, but might it have been possible to let him finish off his inning? It upsets me that lost in all of this was Tallet's pretty good outing.
I know, I know... none of this changes the fact that Gregg's job is to close out games & he clearly shit the bed on this one. This really should have been a jays victory - completely Gregg's fault. But I can't help but wonder what might have happened if Tallet & Downs were kept in just a little longer...
- June 2, 2010 at 5:09 PM
- Leaker19 said...
This game was a walk in the park compared to tonight's.
Can anyone tell me what a stroke feels like?
More mismanaging by the manager.
I'm with Ack, Maddon and the Rays are reaching that spot under my skin normally reserved for New York and Boston.
Could have swept.
- June 2, 2010 at 10:28 PM
Check out Wilner's blog. Him and The Manager got into a bit of a tiff.
- June 3, 2010 at 8:53 AM
Ha, Wilner wonders why Cito didn't like his line of questioning. It's because Wilner has one of those faces that everyone just wants to punch.
He can dish it out on his call in show, but he gets a bubble in his nose when someone else tells him to stfu.
Would it be a great moral victory for him to have Cito say, "You're right, Mikey, I should have made a different call. Kind of like when your dad didn't pull out."
Hard hitting sports journalism -- what a joke.
- June 3, 2010 at 9:21 AM
- The Ack said...
HB - you might not like Wilner, but his questions to Cito were legit. Nobody in the T.O. media questions Cito on anything, so kudos to Wilner for that. Apparently Cito didn't like it, judging by his reaction....will make for an interesting subplot as the season progresses, at least...
- June 3, 2010 at 9:56 AM
- William J. Tasker said...
Wilner's questions were perfect for the situation. Cito has certainly bungled the last two games.
- June 3, 2010 at 10:22 AM
I don't think he bungled last night's game.
- June 3, 2010 at 10:29 AM
I am not interested in defending Cito, but I definitely don't think he made a bad decision last night. The previous night, I would have pulled Gregg out, but I can also see how a man like Cito might want to go with some semblance of his 7-8-9 plan. Yeah, it blew up spectacularly and Wilner may have a fair question the first time he asked, but it's obvious that shithead just wanted to belabor the point.
It's not like he's asking Netanyahu about the Gaza blockade.
Oh well, I am "on record" as saying Wilner seems like a douche who, in my opinion, makes following the Jays less fun rather than more fun, but obviously Fan 590 disagrees and the Jays Talk callers keep coming back for more.
- June 3, 2010 at 10:48 AM
- Christopher Jones said...
The hilarious thing is Wilner complains about being belittled by Cito. Isn't that what Wilner does to every other caller.
What a fucking joke he is.
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