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I was teaching the class on Monday night and wanted to explain something about punching. I wanted to show that using the koshi makes it easier to punch fast.
My third son, Cael, was there. Cael is 19 and very fast. I think he is the fastest of my sons, and also the strongest. He practiced Kendo for several years and became very quick. You would think that he should be able to punch much faster than me, since I am 51.
We began to punch to my wife's count. Of course, my son wanted to hold back so as not to embarrass me. But I urged him to try his best. We were going at about the same speed, but eventually he started to pass me by perhaps 10% to 15%.
So here is my point. Cael was not able to punch twice as fast as me. He could only beat me by a little. A 19 year old should have a greater advantage. Plus, Cael is not an average 19 year old. He has trained in Karate since he was 5 and is really quick. So why couldn't he move much faster than me -- to smoke his dad?
First, I believe that there is some sort of natural speed limit to koshi driven movement. If I put 4 students in front of the class who are all pretty good at koshi and have them punch as fast as they can, one might be a little ahead, but generally they all punch at about the same speed. I think this is because whips all go at about the same speed.
Also, with respect to Cael there is another factor. His hands and arms are faster than mine, but my koshi is faster than his. I can twitch my koshi faster (with a smaller torque) than him, and this helps me to get my punch off a little faster. He pumps or floats a little when he initiates his koshi. I do much less so.
As a result, my punch gets off a little faster. Cael then catches up and passes me during the punch because of his arm and hand speed. If he had a faster koshi, he really would smoke me.
I have observed another thing about speed. When someone is really skilled at koshi, it is not simply the speed of one technique that counts -- you have to also look at the speed of combinations. A fast person might be able to throw one technique quickly but a skilled koshi person can throw a combination with no wasted time between the techniques. The two techniques take only a little longer than a single technique. And the first technique might be a part of the second, a parry for example.
So there is a difference between raw speed and effective speed.
And don't forget that koshi allows one to generate power in a very short distance. Thus, a punch or strike can be thrown close and a close technique will generally be faster than a long range one.
At 51 I like to challenge younger, faster students. If I can come close, that is good. If I can come close to Cael, that is great! I want to become faster (and stronger) as I grow older.
And honestly, I am much slower than my Sensei, who is now almost 70!
With koshi, progress as one ages is possible. Without koshi, we will naturally become slower and weaker with age. Who wants that?
Charles C. Goodin
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I was teaching the class on Monday night and wanted to explain something about punching. I wanted to show that using the koshi makes it easier to punch fast.
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The jumbo TV screen has left Buckley Park, the vendor tents at Fort Lewis College have been taken down and the bicycle racers long since have sped off to their next destination.
After months of planning and a whirlwind week leading up to the USA Pro Cycling Challenges start in Durango, the city finally has a chance to catch its breath and reflect on the event that was expected to bring streams of crowds and unprecedented worldwide recognition.
Looking back at Mondays start of the Pro Challenge, now in its second year, reflections and assessments are mixed. Many business owners and spectators agreed the crowds were not as big as the city estimated, and many said they did not see the week-long supercharge to business that race organizers were touting. Even so, local residents emphasized their appreciation for the event and held out optimism that race-related media exposure will benefit Durango in the long run.
This was an opportunity to introduce Durango to the world stage, and I felt like that was a success, said Anne Klein, spokeswoman for the Durango Area Tourism Office.
Even though the city may not have seen as big of a turnout of fans as it expected, Durango put its best foot forward, said Michael Hurst, owner of Carver Brewing Co..
Theres a long-term benefit that we are going to see for years to come, he said.
So far, the tourism office has clipped 299 Pro Challenge-related news articles that mention Durango, which have generated an estimated 189 million media impressions, a term that measures how many people may have seen those articles, Klein said. The numbers dont include international, broadcast or social media exposure.
We have surpassed our media goal, she said.
Crowd counting
While downtown was buzzing in the days leading up to Mondays Pro Challenge start, businesses and locals said it seemed the crowds were sparser than the 20,000 to 25,000 people the city predicted.
City of Durango officials and race organizers couldnt provide crowd estimates as of Friday afternoon. Sherri Dugdale, assistant to the city manager, said the city is compiling information from photos, videos and counters and wants to release data about the race in a final report that will not be ready until mid-September.
A few other numbers provide some sense of the crowds.
Shawn Hunter, co-chairman and CEO of the Challenge, drove in one of the lead cars ahead of the riders and estimated that the entire first day of the race, including the start in Durango and finish in Telluride, attracted more people than last years Day 1 time trial in Colorado Springs, when crowds were estimated at 40,000 to 50,000.
Fort Lewis College spokesman Mitch Davis estimated that 2,000 to 3,000 people visited the college during the weekend.
We would have liked to have had 10,000 people, but maybe that was a little unrealistic, he said. The college saw a 43 percent spike in traffic on its website over the race weekend, he said.
Durangoans also said that local spectators were a bigger part of the crowd than they anticipated.
The La Plata County Economic Development Alliance saw more than 300 visitors at its booth during the weekend, and of those, about 80 percent were local residents, said Roger Zalneraitis, the alliances executive director. When the organization had a booth at the Iron Horse Bicycle Classic, about two thirds of people were from out of town, he said.
Hotel occupancy
While a few downtown hotels were filled to capacity the weekend before the bicycle race, other hotel managers around Durango cited occupancy rates of 50 to 80 percent. The Ramada Limited and Durango Travelodge, both on north Main Avenue, were about half full during the weekend, said Melissa Morris, hotel supervisor for both hotels. Meanwhile, both hotels already are sold out for Labor Day weekend, when two motorcycle rallies will be in the area.
Mary Kay Dobson, an employee at Best Western Rio Grande Inn, said some previous guests commented that they were staying as far away from Durango as possible during race weekend.
What businesses saw
Carvers had a steady stream of business throughout the weekend, but did send some employees home when crowds werent as big as expected, Hurst said.
Customer traffic at Half Price Tees was up 27 percent over the same weekend last year, store owner Eric Kiesel said. Sales increased at an even greater rate, but, Kiesel said, do I think it was what it was hyped to be? No, absolutely not.
In a refrain that several other business people echoed, Kiesel said that the motorcycle rallies over Labor Day weekend are better for business than the Pro Challenge.
A lot of the pro riders and staff, theyre here to bike, not to shop, Kiesel said.
The Pro Challenge overlapped with the Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroads 13th Annual Railfest, but the influx of people didnt do much to boost the trains ridership numbers, spokeswoman Andrea Seid said.
People already had plans related to the bicycle race, so the train handed out buy-one, get-one-free coupons to entice visitors to come back to Durango sometime during the next year, she said.
Durango Coffee Co. had lines out the door on Monday (Ive never sold so many breakfast burritos, owner Tim Wheeler said). But Wheeler said Friday and Saturday sales were even or slightly down from the same weekend the year before.
Regardless of sales numbers, Wheeler and other business owners emphasized their enthusiasm for the event.
It added a tremendous amount of excitement to the town, Wheeler said.
Money in, money out
Months before the USA Pro Challenge rolled through town, the city of Durango was well aware of the thousands of dollars and hundreds of volunteer hours required to host the starting phase of the race. A sponsorship committee rounded up almost $340,000 in sponsorships, and La Plata County pitched in $25,000. The city made a direct contribution of $50,000, but budgeted about $560,000 total for the race to cover costs like road repairs, new paint and general city spruce-ups. The Durango Area Tourism Office spent about $6,500 on social media and a commercial, and put hours of staff members time into running booths, making media bags and general race organization, interim director Susan Lander said.
Local governments hoped the race would spur enough of an increase in sales and lodgers tax revenue that it would make up for those up-front costs. While those numbers wont be available for another month, some were skeptical.
Its hard to imagine that there was enough extra business (about $7 million in sales) in town to replace the half-million spent on preparing for the race, High Country News Senior Editor Jonathan Thompson wrote on the magazines blog.
Other local residents, including several Durango Herald readers, urged a critical look at the citys investment in the race versus the measurable payback.
The city should analyze what kind of money they put into the event, Kiesel said.
It is no excuse not to snowplow this winter because Durango put $500,000 into the Pro Challenge, he jokingly warned.

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My 10.5 year old male black lab has just been diagnosed with a ruptured ACL.
After doing full blood work and a radiograph of his back/hips and stifle, my vet has recommended TPLO surgery. The dog is otherwise in perfect health, aside from standard aging issues (minor spondylosis in his back, etc).
I've been reading a lot on the internet about many problems people/dogs have had with the recovery of the TPLO surgery, and I'm wondering if this is the best possible solution. (Of course, the $4000+ price tag is a bit of a concern as well.)
After reading about turned legs, blown staples, etc etc etc, I'm wondering if amputation of the leg is a better option. (As there are many positive reviews of how dogs deal with losing a hind leg.)
As a sidenote, I'm going to do what's best for my family's best friend, money be damned... I just want to make the most educated decision.
Thanks in advance.
The problem with the internet is that often the only reports you see there are of surgeries that didn't turn out well. If you find yourself an experienced veterinary orthopedic surgeon, the chances of your dog having a successful outcome far outnumber the chance of a bad outcome.
The most important part of any orthopedic surgery is follow-through--the more closely you follow the surgeon's post-operative instructions (including following recommendations for exercise or rest and prohibited behaviors while healing), the better your dog's results usually are.
So if you're willing to commit to getting your dog through recovery, and go with a good surgeon, your dog will likely do well!
There can be complications with any surgery, of course, but you can't guarantee there would be none with something as radical as an amputation, either. In addition, changing his balance by amputating a leg is going to put extra torque and strain on the spine. That will likely accelerate the progress of the spondylosis. Also, many dogs that blow out one ACL will blow out the other. Amputation of the damaged leg now will not guarantee that the other ACL won't tear in the future--and recovery is much harder if you do ACL surgery in that situation since the dog can't rest the leg by taking its weight on the other.
If it were me, I'd locate a good surgeon and start asking lots of questions...including the number of surgeries the vet has done and the percentage of failures. Reputable vets should have no problem with you asking about their credentials.
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my problem is i cant put up the website and i dont know why the localhost cant be access since i put the web files in the right folder which is the wwww folder.
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Not Found HTTP Error 404. The requested resource is not found.
how will i assure that the localhost is activated or working properly?
any help would be appreciated.
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Zom wrote:Sylvester, thanks for interesting post. However, I've got a comment:
Yet still jhana formulas show that "perception of diversity" is removed only upon reaching 1st arupa-sphere. So it seems like this perception of diversity is still there, even in 4th jhana (otherwise, why mention this only in 1st arupa-shere formula?)Was this Form Aggregate the interior counterpart of the 5 sense objects? Apparently not, as the perception of diversity was an obstacle to the stabilisation of the practice, and "diversity" is defined in MN 137 to refer to the 5 sense objects.
Yes, MN 127 says that "perception of diversity" is a hindrance to meditation, and it seems, this is a contradiction, but Commentary gives interesting explanation here (a paraphrase) which shows that "perception of diversity" is not just any perception from 5 senses, but is something else: "While I was attending to a single type of form, longing arose. Thinking, "I will attend to different kinds of forms". Sometimes I directed my attention toward heavenly world, sometimes towards the human world. As I attended to different kinds of forms, perception of diversity arose in me. When perception of diversity arose, I thought I would attend to one type of form, whether agreeable of disagreeable. As I did so, excessive meditation upon forms arose in me".
Hi ya Zom
I don't agree that the perception of diversity is removed only upon reaching Infinite Space. The simple way to approach the Infinite Space pericope is to look at how the attainment of Cessation drops the 3 formations in the same sequence where the formations cease in the jhanas. This implies that to reach Cessation, one has to run through each of the jhanas, the interpretation favoured by Ajahn Brahm. Likewise, when one nānattasaññānaṃ amanasikārā to attain the Formless attainments, one starts from the cusp of the First Jhana, and slide all the way in. You have a point as to why nānattasaññānaṃ amanasikārā is found only in the pericope. Stylistics, perhaps? The arrangement of syllables looks very deliberate - 10, 10, 12. You can see the evolution of stock phrases, eg compare DN 15's ākāra liṅga nimitta uddesa phrase, against what is probably an older stock that omits uddesa.
This commentary explanation nicely agree with AN 8.64: "So on a later occasion, as I was dwelling heedful, ardent, and resolute, I perceived a light and also saw forms. Yet I didn't associate with those deities, converse with them, and engage in a discussion with them".
The question is - how would you see and speak with deities if not with 5 senses?
The simplest way to interpret the Bodhisatta's speech with the devas in AN 8.64 is to note what SN 36.11 says - "speech has ceased in the First Jhana". Obviously, if the Buddha could speak then, it was not even the First Jhana. Do bear in mind that the Bodhisatta's struggles in MN 128 did not culminate in light and forms. See para 30 in the MLDB, where the Bodhisatta only resolved on attaining the jhanas, after stabilising the preceding practice involving light and forms.
And again, we have this statement (MN 43) about 1st arupa-sphere: "Friend, what can be known with the purified intellect-consciousness divorced from the five [sense] faculties?" "Friend, with the purified intellect-consciousness divorced from the five faculties the dimension of the infinitude of space can be known [as] 'infinite space.' The dimension of the infinitude of consciousness can be known [as] 'infinite consciousness.' The dimension of nothingness can be known [as] 'There is nothing.
I've addressed this previously - http://www.dhammawheel.com/viewtopic.ph ... =80#p74650
Simply put, the argument you raise commits a very basic mis-step in Logic. But if it's any consolation, even the Sautrantikas are recorded to have committed the same fallacy in the Kosa.
I've laid out my thoughts on the place of "corporeality" in Early Buddhism. Pls refer to Dmytro's post in the link I provided above.So it seems 5 senses are still there operating in all 4 jhanas. Maybe operating in some different way (unnatural to normal human being), but still, operating. Also interesting thing to recall here is "divine ear" and "divine eye". Can we say these are purely mental things? Or they need some corporeality to function? In Iti 3.12 there is an interesting line: "The arising of the eye of flesh is the path to the eye divine".
I thought I expressly said -As far as I understood, you imply that DN 15 speaks about the perception of form when speaking about "patigha" there. In 1st arupa-sphere formula that would mean that "patigha" is a synonym to "with complete surmounting of perceptions of form" there. Again, how would one perceive form if not via 5 senses?Bear in mind that it is only in the Abhidhamma that paṭighasamphassa is confined to the 5 senses. This contradicts DN 15, in the passage I gave above, where paṭighasamphassa can be established with reference to nāma.
That leaves only one remaining type of contact for the Formless Attainments, namely adhivacanasamphassa (designation contact).


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Okay, this puts a file or executable in /root/my-applications/bin/
drag'n'drop this to the desktop if you like.
However, do not attempt to move the folder XNap from /root/my-applications/
Also, you can use the defaults when setting up. Unless your experienced
then stick with the defaults!!!
If you are not familiar with P2P, file-sharing in general, you should google
around for it and see what the latest word is about it.
And for the not so faint hearted, this seems to be a little more
better than giftui, maybe! I like it, it took about 30sec. to download a song.
but you will have your own results, there is a neat chat attached
and other notably good features. Why another file-sharing app???
Sometimes the file you are after maybe hard to get, so now we have another place to look!!!
You can get it here:
!!!It now works properly, I made an error the first time, it now works sorry!!!
It does'nt hang or freeze like a lot of java applications do
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Though I haven't tried this one yet, I have to say good work. The more p2p, the better. I have a kind of general question about Java though.
I've noticed that , at least on my computer, Java apps always run rather slowly, and are not very responsive. I have 128MB of ram, and it's kind of annoying! Would you say that it's a memory issue, or just a fact of life? Does java respond differrently if you have an abunbance of RAM? Just curious, cuz if not, I for one am giong to steer clear of it....
I was looking at a bittorrent program called XBT - it is (according to Sourcefourge) available for linux, but only winblows versions are listed. Which is a drag, because having used it in Windows, I can honestly say that it's the most solid, small, reliable bittorrent program I've found. I would say that about Ctorrent, as I like it too, and it's even smaller, but I've had an awfull lot of rejections from trackers based on the client that I'm using.
Anyways, I must stop babbling, just wanted to say thanks for this klhrev, I'm looking forward to giving it a shot.
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I bumped this up to let all who downloaded it know that it works and I fixed it.
Sorry about the trouble the link is in my post above.
It actually was a small mistake but if you download this one it will work sorry!!!
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mike wrote:
I've noticed that , at least on my computer, Java apps always run rather slowly, and are not very responsive. I have 128MB of ram, and it's kind of annoying! Would you say that it's a memory issue, or just a fact of life? Does java respond differrently if you have an abunbance of RAM? Just curious, cuz if not, I for one am giong to steer clear of it....
In a sense, in order to run on any computer, java runs on an "emulator" called a VM or virtual machine. This allows java to run ony computer that has such a virtual machine.
Java can also run programs "from and on the net" You may therefore be downloading components (classes) before the program can run.
So java can be slow. HOWEVER by using Java (a dotpup) and Flash (built into Puppy with Mozilla) we can avail ourselves of many extra programs. For java the one that comes to mind is Azareus. Open Office is making increasing use of Java (Sun have interests in both).
Personally I like java BUT I can understand the speed issue.
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Azureus is surprisingly responsive on Puppy - more so than on other Linux's I've tried. However, it's still a pig.
Hey, if java is usefull, than I'm not knocking it. It's just that I've seen examples of programs written entirely in C (like XBT) that have the same functionality yet weigh in at 1 tenth or less the size.
Interesting, thanks.
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C has to be compiled and tweaked and adapted for each OS
"C is described as all the complexity of assembler with none of the speed"
- a litte unfairly
Java when working on one OS VM will work on all of them. It allows for quicker implementation across platforms and for a C programmer is an easy language to pick up - being similar. Puppy in its current form will never adopt java as an official language - because java is too slow and cumbersome.
C is swift, lean and slick - but a professional and skilled language to get the best from.
We have the choice. A java program will be very similar on different platforms. C programs tend to be very different across platforms.
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Well, just to let all who download xnapster, it responds very fast for a java application.
in fact it does'nt freeze or hang like other java applications do.
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I have created the link on the wiki news page as you requested
- double click on the page to see how it was done (so simple) and refer to the PM (private message) for details - a link is just [[URL_first text on screen next]]
for example yours looks like so
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Tomb Raider writer discusses violence and story-telling
Tomb Raider co-writer and BioShock 2 scribe Susan O' Connor has given an insightful interview into the game writing process, in which she discusses the issue of violence in games. Connor has suggested that on one hand violence can be in a game for no good reason, but when written well it can help flesh out a character.
Speaking with Gameological, O' Connor described what sort of projects she'd like to be doing, "I'm way more interested in telling stories about different kinds of characters. I don't want to tell stories that involve shooting or being shot at. I'm all for violence at some points, but I think game stories can be black and white, because of the way the stories are told. You don't have a lot of time to get a lot of stuff across. It's a lot easier to be like, 'Here's a guy. Go shoot him.'
"What really gets me excited as a consumer of stories is something [like Breaking Bad]. That's some phenomenal shit, and that show's got more than its fair share of violence. But that doesn't bother me because it's very rounded in these characters, and you really understand their dilemma.
"In the second episode of the first season, he's got that one guy chained up to the basement, and he's like, 'Oh my God, what am I going to do? I can't let him go because he's going to kill my family, but I can't kill him because killing is wrong.'
"That's a genuine fucking dilemma. I want to see how that's going to resolve, and I guess that's what frustrates me about games. I want to tell more thoughtful and complex stories that games really allow us to do."
O' Connor added that game studios often aren't ballsy enough to include big dilemmas like this, or to really push the level of writing in a game, but suggested that it's not as difficult as it looks. "The reason that people shy away from being ballsy about storytelling is that it's a black box mystery to them," she added. "Other elements of game production make more sense to them.
"And it's a safer bet, and if you can point to it and say, 'It's going to be just like Call Of Duty, but with apes,' that's one way to make a game. Again, someone's going to do it. BioShock's a perfect example. If you had talked to someone the year before BioShock came out, they would go, 'Myah myah, that wouldn't work,' and then it came out and everyone said, 'Oh, this totally works!' I want to see more paradigm-busting stuff."
What is your take on the issue of violence in games from a story-telling perspective? Can it lend weight to a story like in Spec Ops: The Line, or can it seem throwaway and crass? Let us know below.


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LAKEVILLE — The Techno Ninjas are taking the Freetown-Lakeville Middle School by storm.
LAKEVILLE — The Techno Ninjas are taking the Freetown-Lakeville Middle School by storm.
Formed in October, the after-school club for students interested in computer animation and filmmaking currently has 60 members. And "Falcons Style," its inaugural effort — a parody of the wildly popular song and viral video "Gangnam Style" — drew rave reviews when it was unveiled before the entire student body on Dec. 21.
Now on YouTube, "Falcons" had received more than 12,500 hits as of 4 p.m. Friday.
Math teacher Nathan Eleuterio, Ninja's co-adviser with Julie Robert, came up with the concept for "Falcons Style." For two months, under the watchful lenses of the Techno Ninjas, students, faculty and the middle school Falcon mascot — at various locations throughout the school — imitated the dance moves made famous by South Korean musician Psy in "Gangnam Style."
But beyond having some creative fun, the Ninjas and their advisers also wanted to create a video that showcased the middle school's core values of respect, responsibility and resilience. So there are scenes such as students proudly proclaiming they got A's on their lessons.
"The kids had a blast," said Eleuterio. "When the video premiered in homeroom there was a buzz in the building. Everyone was talking about it all day."
From early November to mid-December, the Techno Ninjas spent countless hours on the project. Eighth-grader Joey Pasteris served as the chief editor on the project, often staying at school until 5 or 6 p.m. to trim the 130 clips shot for the 5-minute, 27-second finished product.
Joey said he was thrilled when his homeroom erupted in applause upon viewing "Falcons Style" the day before Christmas break. He said his only regret was not adding credits to the end of the video.
"I really liked making all the clips," said Joey, who'd like to pursue a career in video editing.
Seventh-grader Damien Hooper, who can be seen dancing at the end of the video, said all of the hard work paid off when he got to see the finished product for the first time.
"I thought, 'We're definitely going on Ellen,'" Damien said, in reference to the Ninjas' hopes of getting an audience with talk show host Ellen DeGeneres.
Eleuterio and Robert said the club has given students an outlet for their creativity and taught them how to work together to complete a project.
"After-school activities are scarce," said Eleuterio. "With our school's rapidly decreasing budget, there is no money to pay for after-school activities. Julie and I decided to do this for the pure fun it would be for the students and ourselves."
Both Robert and Eleuterio say a number of students involved in the Techno Ninjas have blossomed as a result of their participation in the project, becoming more confident and outgoing.
Donna Pasteris, Joey's mom, praised the hard work and dedication of the two educators for making the club a reality. She said her son is not interested in sports and hadn't really found his niche until the Techno Ninjas came along.
"It provides a social outlet for children that otherwise wouldn't have one," Pasteris said.
The Techno Ninjas are undecided on their next project, perhaps some funny commercial parodies. And even if "Falcons Style" doesn't garner national attention, they'll still have the fond memories related to
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A new generation of Islamist extremists battle-hardened in Iraq and Syria sees the old guard of al Qaeda as too passive
Last week, a self-described heir to the Prophet Muhammad declared himself the supreme leader of a new Islamic state stretching from eastern Syria to northern Iraq. How did Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the nom de guerre of a mediocre Iraqi religious scholar in his mid-40s, outmaneuver al Qaeda as the new vanguard of jihadist ideology? How did he and his followers—armed with Kalashnikovs, smart phones and their ominous black banner—so suddenly take over the campaign to rid the Muslim world of Western and secular influence?
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Tim Shank and Sunita Williams placed one of the most unusual long-distance phone calls of all time on Jan. 26, 2007. It traveled over a few time zones and through the ocean, the atmosphere, and outer space.
Shank, a WHOI biologist diving to the Pacific Ocean floor in the Alvin submersible, and Williams, a NASA astronaut aboard the International Space Station, spoke for roughly 30 minutes about the joys, perils, and challenges of exploring outer space and inner space. The event was broadcast to tens of thousands of viewers on the WHOI and NASA Web sites, as well as NASA TV. Children from around the world submitted more than 400 questions for the two explorers.
"Hey, what do you think about switching jobs?" Williams asked at one point. "I'd love to do your job and see what's living on the ocean floor. How about coming up here sometime?"
Shank replied: "I would love to do that."
It was the first-ever link-up between a deep-ocean submersible and a spacecraft, but it won't be the last for Shank and Williams, as they hope to give a joint public talk about their adventures sometime this fall in Woods Hole. Listen to a recording of the conversation at www.whoi.edu/sbl/liteSite.do?litesiteid=13252.
WHOI deep-sea biologist Tim Shank prepares to dive in the submersible Alvin. (Photo by Dan Fornari, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)
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JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (July 21, 2009) - After leading the Lady Buccaneer basketball program to back-to-back NCAA Tournament appearances, head coach Karen Kemp was given a contract extension through the 2012 season, announced Tuesday by ETSU Director of Athletics Dave Mullins. In addition, after spending the past three seasons as an assistant coach, DeShawne Blocker has been promoted to Associate Head Coach.
Kemp, ETSU's all-time winningest coach at 214 wins, has guided the Lady Bucs to three straight 20-plus win seasons as well as consecutive trips to postseason play since the start of the 2006 campaign. The 2008 Atlantic Sun Coach of the Year has also directed her Lady Buccaneer squad to a program-tying four straight winning seasons, while averaging 14.5 conference wins per year since joining the Atlantic Sun Conference in 2005. Kemp put her ETSU team in the national spotlight over the past couple seasons, as the Lady Bucs ranked seventh in the country in steals (12.0) this past year and in 2007 (12.1), while posting the 14th best scoring offense (75.1) in 2008.
"Coach Kemp has taken our program to levels we have never reached before, with back-to-back NCAA trips," said Mullins. "She has consistently recruited talented players, and even now we have a team capable of winning again. We believe coach Kemp is very deserving of this contract extension and we look forward to her being our coach for many years to come."
Blocker, who has been considered one of the best players to sport the Lady Buccaneer uniform, was moved from assistant to associate head coach by Kemp. The former ETSU standout played for Kemp during the 1994-95 season, and is only one of two Lady Buccaneer players to finish her career with over 2,000 points (2,086) and 1,000 rebounds (1,361). Since arriving to Kemp's staff in 2006, Blocker has made huge strides in recruiting and developing the post players. Last season Blocker saw Latisha Belcher (
"Coach Blocker has shown a tremendous amount of commitment to ETSU, both during her playing career and as a coach to our women's basketball program," commented Mullins. "Her promotion to associate head coach is an indication of what she has brought to our program and her success in developing these players."
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Microsoft Research has been making a bunch of cool data analysis-related launches at the upcoming Faculty Summit.
First, there's The academic release of Dryad and DryadLINQ
Dryad is a high-performance, general-purpose, distributed-computing engine that simplifies the task of implementing distributed applications on clusters of computers running a Windows® operating system. DryadLINQ enables developers to implement Dryad applications in managed code by using an extended version of the LINQ programming model and API. The academic release of Dryad and DryadLINQ provides the software necessary to develop DryadLINQ applications and to run them on a Windows HPC Server 2008 cluster. The academic release includes documentation and code samples.
They also launched Project Trident , a workflow workbench, which is available for download:
Project Trident: A Scientific Workflow Workbench is a set of tools—based on the Windows Workflow Foundation—for creating and running data analysis workflows. It addresses scientists' need for a flexible and powerful way to analyze large and diverse datasets, and share their results. Trident Management Studio provides graphical tools for running, managing, and sharing workflows. It manages the Trident Registry, schedules workflow jobs, and monitors local or remote workflow execution. For large data sets, Trident can run multiple workflows in parallel on a Windows HPC Server 2008 cluster. Trident provides a framework to add runtime services and comes with services such as provenance and workflow monitoring. The Trident security model supports users and roles that allows scientists to control access rights to their workflows.
Then there's Graywolf :
GrayWulf builds on the work of Jim Gray, a Microsoft Research scientist and pioneer in database and transaction processing research. It also pays homage to Beowulf, the original computer cluster developed at NASA using "off-the-shelf" computer hardware.


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CONCORD — Taking aim at an unpopular perk, city leaders on Tuesday took the first step to limit lifetime retiree health coverage for elected officials.
Under the proposal, the city would create a new employee group for future council members and city treasurers who would have to serve at least 30 consecutive years in office with the city and retire at age 65 or older to be eligible for lifetime medical benefits. Members of this group also would not receive pension benefits through the California Public Employees Retirement System, known as CalPERS.
The changes would apply only to future elected officials, not existing or retired office holders. Currently, council members are treated the same way as other city employees and are eligible to receive lifetime retiree health coverage after five years in office if they are at least 50 or 52 when they retire from the city.
On Tuesday, the council directed city staffers to work with CalPERS to draft a contract amendment establishing the secondary employee group. The council is scheduled to review that amendment in September.
Retired City Clerk Lynnet Keihl and retired council members Helen Allen, William McManigal and Michael Pastrick receive health coverage through the city at an annual cost to the city of about $29,000.
Among current council members, Dan Helix and Laura Hoffmeister — who has health coverage through her job as assistant to the city manager in Clayton — have waived health benefits from Concord, according to Laura Brunson, the city's human resources director. In June, Mayor Tim Grayson appointed the duo to a committee to review the retiree health benefit.
Although council members wanted to eliminate health coverage for retired elected officials altogether, they were hamstrung by restrictions imposed by CalPERS and the Public Employees' Medical And Hospital Care Act, according to Scott Johnson, assistant city manager. However, Johnson acknowledged it's unlikely any elected official will serve 30 consecutive years.
"This perk is over — we have ended this perk," Helix declared. "We did everything that was legally possible for us to do."
Since 1998, Concord has contracted with CalPERS to provide employee health coverage. Since CalPERS defines elected officials as employees and requires that the city provide medical benefits to retirees, Concord may limit — but not eliminate — coverage for retired elected officials, Johnson said.
Once implemented, the new policy won't apply to the five current council members nor will any future elected official be subject to the restrictions if she has participated in CalPERS before.
"CalPERS was real clear to us that once in PERS, always in PERS," Johnson said.
Terry Kremin, a former city council candidate and vocal critic of the lifetime health coverage perk, urged council members to sign a contract promising to refuse the benefit at the end of their terms. Although such an agreement probably isn't legally enforceable, Councilman Edi Birsan promised to sign if Kremin drafts a contract.
Council members receive an annual stipend of $15,600, and the elected treasurer gets $7,200. Although elected officials' eligibility for retirement benefits has received less attention than the lifetime health coverage, eliminating pensions for future elected officials would save the city up to $8,200 annually at the current employer contribution rate.
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If you can't take your home office outside, you can at least bring a little bit of the bright spring colors into your office. Adding color into a neutral room doesn't have to mean a floor-to-ceiling makeover. Here are 4 subtle ways (one of them costs nothing!) to add pops of bright colors to your workspace.
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Survivor Michelle Knight performed Celine Dion's 'My Heart Will Go On' in honor of her son, whom was taken away from her before she was kidnapped by Ariel Castro. It's not known if she has been reunited with him since her escape from captivity.
Knight sang at Cleveland's Boo-You-Bash Bash on October 12. The video was recorded by Broco-El-Unico.
Knight, Amanda Berry and Gina DeJesus were held captive by Castro for over a decade. They escaped from his Seymour Avenue house on May 6. Castro had been sentenced to life in prison, plus 1,000 years, but committed suicide in prison last month.
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Thundershowers with gusty winds could erupt on Saturday on a day that will see a mix of clouds with some sunshine.
The quick-moving thundershowers will mark the leading edge of an area of chilly air that will settle over the region after temperatures climb into the mid-60s Saturday, AccuWeather.com said.
Some of the thundershowers may also produce strong winds.
"Ahead of the storms, temperatures will jump into the 60s and 70s along much of the Interstate 95 corridor on Saturday, thanks to several hours of morning and midday sunshine," AccuWeather Meteorologist Jake Sojda said. "The warmth will provide the extra vertical push in the atmosphere for showers to quickly erupt and develop into thundershowers."
While the showers and thundershowers are expected to be brief, some locations may be hit by more than one downpour, AccuWeather.com said.
Sunday will be partly sunny with a chance of early morning and afternoon showers and a high temperature in the mid-50s.
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Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew Joins Pope Francis at Vatican Invocation for Peace
With a renewed commitment to Christian unity and an enduring desire to include people of all faiths in dialogue, His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, spiritual leader of over 300 million Orthodox Christians worldwide, joined his brother Pope Francis at the Vatican during an Invocation for Peace. Together with the Pope and the Ecumenical Patriarch, Israeli President Shimon Peres and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas participated in the interfaith summit of Jews, Christians and Muslims.
Religious leaders read passages from the scriptures and offered prayers of thanksgiving for God's creation, asking for God's forgiveness and peace in the Middle East. Reading from the Prophet Isaiah, His All-Holiness reminded the people of the region that God had not abandoned them and that He would answer before they call, and hear while they yet speak (Isaiah 65.24). The Ecumenical Patriarch also invoked God's blessings upon the Jewish, Christian and Muslim people in the Holy Land and prayed that their shared thanksgiving for all of God's blessings may remind them that they are brothers and sisters.
In his address, Pope Francis expressed his thanks to the Ecumenical Patriarch: "I thank Your Holiness, my venerable Brother Bartholomaios, for joining me in welcoming these illustrious guests. Your presence here is a great gift, a much-appreciated sign of support and a testimony to the pilgrimage which we Christians are making towards unity."
After the invocation, Pope Francis and Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew shook hands with Presidents Peres and Abbas. As a clear sign of their desire for mutual reconciliation and their search for an equitable solution to the conflict in the Middle East, the four leaders planted an olive tree in the Vatican gardens.
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Parts of lower Bayou Terrebonne have become so shallow that the bayou is no longer navigable, boat owners say.
Parts of lower Bayou Terrebonne have become so shallow that the bayou is no longer navigable, boat owners say.
Parts of the bayou south of the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway are considered a federally maintained navigable waterway, according to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. But the bayou hasn't been dredged in more than 60 years.
"The bayou is shoaling up so badly it's starting to impair traffic," Houma resident Rich Danner said. "Unless I have a lot of rain and a high tide, I can't get my boat out."
Danner has kept his 45-foot restored sailboat at his house along Bayou Terrebonne for the last 15 years. He moved to his home on East Main Street across from Holy Rosary Catholic Church in the 1970s and soon after took his sailboat to the Caribbean to live for more than a decade. He hopes to take his sailboat out again. But he said he and his neighbors are often landlocked because the bayou has silted in so badly over the decades he's lived here.
Danner estimates the bayou could be as shallow as 5 feet in some places.
Terrebonne Parish Manager Al Levron said the parish is only charged with keeping waters dredged for drainage. Keeping waters dredged for navigation falls under the jurisdiction of federal agencies such as the Corps of Engineers and the Coast Guard.
Lee Mueller, a corps spokeswoman, said that the navigable portion of Bayou Terrebonne from the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway to Bush Canal is considered a federal waterway and would be the responsibility of the corps to maintain. The authorized depth of that section of Bayou Terrebonne is 6 feet. The last time the corps dredged the bayou was 1949, and it hasn't been included in a dredging budget since then.
Because the bayou is considered a navigable waterway, the parish must build pricey lift bridges along its span to accommodate boat traffic, and bridge tenders are paid to man them. But Danner said he rarely sees the bridges near his home open for boat traffic.
Terrebonne Port Director David Rabalais said no one has ever come to the port requesting dredging in Bayou Terrebonne, and it might be a difficult feat to accomplish. Federal dollars for dredging have been so scarce in recent years that it's difficult to even get money to dredge the Houma Navigation Canal, which is used by thousands of vessels a year.
"The New Orleans Army Corps District doesn't even get enough money to dredge the Mississippi River, and they're responsible for an area from Lake Charles to the South Pass of the Mississippi," Rabalais said. "No one has ever requested we look at (Bayou Terrebonne). So I'm not sure, but it may be cost prohibitive because of the lack of boats in the area."
Even small dredging projects can cost millions of dollars, he added.
The parish has dredged part of upper Bayou Terrebonne to help improve drainage, and there are plans to dredge more of the bayou in the future, said Jeanne Bray, Terrebonne capital projects administrator. The parish is looking at dredging Bayou Terrebonne from Terrebonne General Medical Center north.
In September 2010, the parish began a $4.6 million project dredging Bayou Terrebonne from Southland Mall to the Coteau weir, which is located where Coteau Road meets the bayou.
That dredging project was completed in June last year. There are plans to continue dredging the bayou north and south of that finished project in the future. But when and if navigable portions south of the hospital would be dredged, no one could say.
Danner said he's not naive, and he knows there isn't a lot of government money to go around right now, but he believes it's a shame the waterway is being neglected. Besides becoming more shallow, Danner said trees have fallen in the bayou and been left there, and he sees more pollution in the bayou.
"This used to be a beautiful bayou," he said. "It's a shame they're letting it go like this."
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The Commissar Vanishes
Good episode. The little street boy looked like something that ran away from Studio 4C though. 8)
The animation is good, but it's only the first episode, so I am not getting excited just yet.
The characters are not very groundbreaking (a silent killer type? a special little girl from some secret project? I've seen that before), but it's wasn't annoying and the show is bloody and violent enough not to be totally cliche.
I think I might be watching more of this, even if just to check whether it actually is good, or whether the first episode was a fluke where all the budget was spend on cool fight animation. 8)
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Seems like something to watch. You catch some of the names of those world powers/continents when they showed the map? All of America (North+South) is just labeled The States of Freedom, there's The Commonwealth of Australia, Japan, Russian Federation, South Africa, North Africa, European Union, Arab Union and the Asian Union.
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Interesting first episode. Watching Jo & Jin destroying and killing all those soldiers towards the start was awesome though I'm not really fond of the mecha, guess I just get used to that.
The Dark atmosphere and great animation has got me really interested, looking forward to next week.
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Reading the synopsis and understanding after watching the episodes, the whole world experienced a cataclysm; natural or man-provoked?
Japan created a super economy to recover, however, it established a society of a top and elite ruling class and supressed poverty class.
Japan becomes and remains as the only superpower nation on the world.
Of course, there's Marxist dissidence leading to strife and chaos to overthrow the government.
The military developed cybernetic armors and mecha units called Heavy Warriors to squash the resistance.
We have been introduced to four characters of the cast who are now playing on the side that's been slaughtered and silenced by the government.
Saya (I originally heard her name as Sana). I like her design and child quirks, reflecting her innocence and loss due to the ongoing war. Her pink hair and blue eyes are the most prominent of her traits, and she looks an ideal moe IMO.
Hitoshi (I also heard his name as Jin called by Sana). Voiced by one of my preferred seiyuu, Takahiro Sakurai. Even among disadvantageous of places or despairing situations, manages to keep his cool and calculating frivolity to pull out tactical maneuvers.
Jo. The silent wolf type, and presuming he and Sana will be bonding as the story unfolds.
Gora. Peculiar mix of Loki and Pan, but his character looks distasteful and annoying to me with his nonsensical quirks. More of the crude humor, comic relief character.
It was about time for me to start investing my interest in sci-fi drama anime of this type. Most about Sana and Jo's views on the current apocalypse that are experiencing through between innocence and brutality.
Animation is versatile and stylized IMO, much in the same caliber to R.O.D. - The TV series and Fantastic Children.
I was able to catch a tune for the OP in the preview, and I'm anxiously waiting for it in the next episode.
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Too bad the OP wasn't there - I really liked the one Yousei Teikoku sang for Magical Poka~n.
The cast features some of my favourite seiyu (yay! Revy is back as Renny).
Great art and animation quality also resembles Black Lagoon.
The post-apocalyptic theme is played quite good, even the mecha part(I hate mecha!) was acceptable.
Is this aired in HD? (would be a shame not to)
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As usual while trying out the new shows so that the Gun Musashis and Zaizen Jotarous can be chucked out, came across this.
I think we have a winner!
Original Story (no manga nor light novel nor eroge to butcher)
Uber-cute loli (from the designer of Kamichu! no less)
2 Cool Bishounen (in the tradition of Wolf's Rain)
Well-designed CG mecha (good motion, realistic / military design)
Unapologetic violence (with well-choreographed action)
New World Order scenario (fascist police states, reduced Americas, unified Asian bloc, population reduction)
I won't be surprised if the plot contains secret societies, genetic engineering, Marxists, etc. But setting the stage for 2010 is driving it a little too close, most Fourth Reich writers predict more likely 2020~ish or so.
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Age: 38
Episode one starts on the year 2035 A.D., that is twenty-five years later after the Hyper Hurricane crisis swept the world.
Interesting to note is that the Americas, Europe, Africa, and the rest of Asia survived the cataclysm. However, what they lost was a great deal of their inland Great Plains that sunk underwater, once the sea-level rose.
|2006-07-28, 10:07
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Join Date: Dec 2004
Age: 32
One thing I'm thankfull of so far is that they aren't any annoying voices >.> that 'frog boy' might be a bit on the weird... side but at least he doesn't sound crap =) So far all the VA has been good. Also... I noticed that as well as airing right before Inukami, Innocent Venus also shares a couple of VA =)
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|2006-07-28, 12:59
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Yuuki Aoi
Join Date: Jul 2004
|2006-07-28, 13:12
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cho~ kakkoii
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: 3rd Planet
I can understand the cautious, reserve tone eveyone here seems to be maintaining, considering this is ONLY the first episode of a mecha show with its usual plot, I simply thought the episode was awesome!
No annoying voice cast so far, no pretense about the gravity of violence, very good animation, and pretty good use of CG. Episode 2 will pretty much confirm if this series is a winner or not, but I consider this show is a winner already for the violence alone. If this series is projected to have 12 episodes, then the length alone should make it a very enjoyable series.
|2006-07-30, 12:37
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Is rather bored...
Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: Florida USA
Age: 30
Wow, if all the episodes are as good as the first this will be one awesome show. The action was all very well coordinated and fit in with the story line perfect; it wasn't just there for fan service.
The animation quality was good, and the music was awesome. I really like the track playing when Gora is running back to the hideout.
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One of the most audacious projects ever to come out of Google was the plan to photograph and map the inhabited world, one block at a time. But a report over the weekend from federal regulators has rekindled questions over exactly what the company was doing — questions the search giant has spent years trying not to answer.
While Autodesk does not talk about GIS much these days, embedded in their Autodesk Infrastructure Design Suite 2013 is a Utilities Workflow that offers intelligent model based software for meeting the complex needs of the SmartGrid, with GIS products built in. The emphasis appears to be on helping transform planning, design and management processes by capturing conditions at the start of the design process, useful for both designers and GIS professionals.
Just back from CalGIS in Sacramento. An interesting two day conference. Our presentation; 'Is mobile the Future of GIS?" was one of the last sessions on the Friday. Its a shame since we gave an overview of the mobile market space; in hindsight it would have been better positioned early in the conference. Even so, we still managed a good sized audience.
The conference was made up of a cross section of GIS focused organisations across the state; both public and private. We were interested to see which themes were most discussed, and gauge where mobile fits into a traditionally web/desktop GIS focused conference.
When thinking about the music business thirty years ago, only a handful of musical genres could be purchased as vinyl records or 8-track cassettes at the "record store." The platform quickly progressed from cassette tapes to compact discs and ultimately to the digital files, and the brick and mortar store has ultimately been replaced by e-commerce. In terms of genres, we have so many variations of music that it's virtually impossible to truly categorize all types.
Not only have music deliverables, varieties, and accessibility rapidly progressed, but also the industry itself – transitioning from a hierarchy of those recorded and promoted to a truly DIY approach, with intuitive tools for capturing music and endless vehicles for self-promotion courtesy of social media. While many in the music industry balked at the rapid radical changes (fearing lost revenue), demand sparked innovation, enabling the masses to embrace and utilize technology as it emerged.
High resolution imagery of sub-meter – less than 40 inches – is only available from GeoEye, DigitalGlobe, Astrium Geo, and ImageSat. It is what the stuff of Google is made of. GeoEye and DigitalGlobe represent approximately 75% of this market, and 2/3 of their revenue is tied to the U.S. government. There are lots of free, government sources of satellite imagery like Landsat, and weather satellites from NASA and NOAA, but these are not high-resolution satellites that can zoom in on your house, or support 3D modeling for engineering and virtual reality-type applications.
Read about why U.S. commercial satellite imagery is important:
The Fate of U.S. Commercial Satellite Imagery – and why you should care LBx Journal
After just having celebrated its 10th anniversary of service on 1 March 2012, ESA's Envisat stopped sending data to earth. The last contact between the satellite and the ground station in Kiruna, Sweden was established on Sunday, ever since no data has been received. ESA's mission control is working to re-establish contact with the satellite. Launched in 2002, Envisat has orbited Earth more than 50 000 times delivering thousands of images and other data used for example for climate change studies or natural disaster mitigation supporting more than 4000 projects in over 70 countries.


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Both shadow and light change as you climb inside and around the ruins of the Murrisk Abbey, change which you can feel within, as you seek the signs of a long ago past. It was here that I came to find some of my Geraghtys, not to mention O'Malleys and Tooles. The locals say, "everyone knows" all the Geraghtys of Lecanvey are buried in the Abbey cemetery, and as I walk through the grounds their claim bears out. The evolution of the surname is right there before me, Geraty, Garaghty, Geraghty.
All that remains, other than the cemetery, are parts of the small chapter house and the church of the Augustinian Friars, buildings which have stood on this site in Murrisk since the 15th century. Founded by Hugh O'Malley in 1457, the Abbey was dedicated to St. Patrick.
The quiet of this place is unyielding. The tread of footsteps sounds intrusively loud as you walk down the dusty old road which leads to the site on the very edge of Clew Bay. The dewy grass in the old cemetery sighs, and individual bits of gravel shift and settle as you walk among the stones of those interred inside the church. The mist comes in off Clew Bay, and the dampness seeps into your bones.
The shadows of the past are all here. Some are under stones which no longer bear even the slightest mark of the stonecutter's blade, and others lie in places well tended and long remembered. The surface of the ground undulates, rising and falling, imprinting the spaces where some lie with barely a mark at all.
My great-grandfather Patrick Geraghty and his wife Margaret Toole left behind life in Lecanvey (Le-CAN-vee), County Mayo, sometime after the birth of their eldest son Thomas, on 20 April 1886, and sometime before the Dublin City birth of their daughter Mary in 1888. They made their way to the heart of Dublin City, leaving behind family and friends, heading to a completely different life from the one they had known as the children of farmers.
|Steep narrow stairs lead to the upper floor
|The upper floor
|The altar room of the Chapter House
|The old cemetery and the 'new' divided by a stone wall.
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Juniors Anna Kokensparger (Omaha, Neb.) and Wyatt Ubellacker (Georgetown, Ky.) were named the women's and men's Swimmers of the Week, respectively, by the New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC). Kokensparger helped lead the Cardinal and Gray to victories over Wellesley College, Babson College and Bowdoin College last week while Ubellacker and the MIT men downed Babson and Bowdoin on Saturday.
Kokensparger had 4 individual and 3 relay wins in a pair of meets this week. In a 187-113 win over Wellesley on Wednesday, Kokensparger had times of 2:09.31 in the 200 fly and 2:10.38 in the 200 IM. The junior was also on the winning 200 medley relay (1:49.72). On Saturday, in a tri-meet with Babson and Bowdoin, the Kokensparger took first in the 200 free (1:55.14) and 100 fly (58.13) while swimming the 400 free (3:39.74) and 400 medley (4:02.30) relays.
Ubellacker won a pair of events and was on two winning relay teams at Saturday' meet at Bowdoin. Ubellacker had NCAA "B" cut times in the 50 free (20.88) and 100 fly (49.99). He also swam on the victorious 400 free (3:09.89) and 400 medley (3:26.75) relays.
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Warhead wrote:my head burns with War.
IVhorseman wrote:i remember that i had a variant for the deathgun in brikwars. it was a weapon that did 1d20 damage, and i ruled that on a 20, the target takes no damage, and is flung 1d6 turns into the future. by 1d6 turns, i mean that every turn you roll a d6, and once a 6 is rolled, he comes back. that way it kept players guessing.
travel to the past though? i mean i suppose in some brik battles it would be feasable, but you'd have to have the minifig show up before time traveling, blahbity blah blah. don't do it around anoraks.
this DOES remind me though of my newest dating ploy: i got myself a glow-in-the-dark badge, go up to women, and say "quick! i am from the future! it is of vital importance that we make love right now or the robots will rule the world!"
Olothontor wrote:Commander Evil, you missed the reference. While back to the future could wok, he was referring to Doctor Who. I so want a Doctor Who minifig! That'd be tight!
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