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The Flood
Here is recorded the tale of a dozen intrepid heroes as… Ya know what? You're a bunch of ratty, smelly sailors that happened to run into a bit of bad luck, then some good luck. More bad luck is on the way, don't you worry.
Here's some background on Caribdus, the world in which you live. Ahem.
The visitors are English, French, Spanish, Dutch, and Chinese. Some are honest privateers—more or less. Others are scurvy pirates fresh from bloodletting in the Caribbean or the Spanish Main. A few are even corsairs from the rich Mediterranean. The darkest souls are slavers, trading human cargo across the merciless Middle Passage. All have one thing in common—they are here because the Maiden led them into the storms, out of their own worlds and into the Devil's Cross, a tempest-tossed region of mystery and death in the alien world of Caribdus. The natives of this world are a very different sort. By far the most dominant are the masaquani, who are nearly identical to humans, though perhaps a bit more exotic and varied in appearance. Winged atani are rare, as are crab-like scurillians and outcast half-ugaks. Savage kehana thrive in sunken volcanic flumes, or battle with the last survivors of their racial enemies, the lonely doreen. Mysterious kraken scour the isles on some unknown quest, and massive grael harpoon deadly norwhales in the Cold Sea. Brutal Red Men roam the Thousand Isles for prey, or serve as cuthroats on the most bloodthirsty pirate sloops. Caribdus is home to fantastic creatures as well. Giant crabs scurry along the reefs. Norwhales prowl the cold depths. Flocks of razor wings descend upon hapless sailors and cut them to ribbons. Here there be monsters.
Water, Water, Everywhere
Caribdus is a water world, but it wasn't always so. It was once several smaller continents with many prosperous cities, towns, and villages. That was before the Sea Hags. The natives say a trio of witches, triplets with raven-black hair and eyes to match, were discovered working dark sorcery in the masaquani city-state of Ograpog. The three were tried, sentenced by King Amemnus himself, and bound to posts at the edge of Ograpog's cliffs to drown with the rising tide. With their dying breath, the sisters cursed Amemnus and his beloved kingdom. As the tide rose, it began to rain. It was a mere drizzle at first, but by the time the waves finally crashed down on the witches' heads it had become a tempest unlike any Caribdus had ever seen. The rain continued for months, covering the site of the witches' execution in 50 fathoms of water. Whispers began that the rain would not stop until King Amemnus was dead. The people of Ograpog turned on their liege and chased him to a great ledge overlooking the ocean. The king and his most loyal guards fought over the drowned ruins of their city, killing scores of their own citizens before finally being dragged screaming off the ledge—into the sea.
The Sea Hags Rise
While Caribdus was drowning, the witches' corpses floated in the depths, too foul even for the fish. As King Amemnus' life ebbed in that same sea, the sisters' death curse came true. Their horrid bodies filled with unlife and returned to the world as something far more powerful—the Sea Hags. The Devil's Cross That was thirteen years ago. Now the Sea Hags lair in the middle of the Devil's Cross, a region of constant storms bordered on four points by inhospitable rocks that have dashed many a ship to splinters. From this damned region come their minions— bloodthirsty pirates, horrors from the depths, and ghost ships filled with damned crews. No living being is safe as long as the Sea Hags and their minions prowl the Thousand Isles. A vague prophecy says a stranger will one day defeat them, but as yet, few have even tried. The Flotsam Sea The epicenter of the witch's curse has created a massive hole into which the waters of Caribdus drain. For 60 leagues all around the Devil's Cross the ocean is a slow, sinking whirlpool full of debris from the death of a world. Goods, corpses, shipwrecks, and the flora of millions of acres float upon this Flotsam Sea, miring ships that try to ply it in its soggy embrace. The Flotsam Sea has become the hunting ground of many foul creatures. A race of previously unknown ocotopoids dwell in the muck, as do hordes of drowned sailors who have risen from the depths as loathsome undead. Still, good crews can escape this dread sinkhole. A few ships from earth manage it every month.
The Maiden
Soon after the hags arose, visitors from another world began to arrive. The strangers claim a mysterious spirit resembling a crying girl drew them into a fierce storm. When they emerged, they found themselves in the whitecapped squalls of the Devil's Cross. The natives call humans "visitors." They seem to come from various lands in a world called "Earth," between the years of 1500 to 1815.
A World of Magic
Caribdus is full of magic. Wizards control the elements, magic artifacts abound, and bizarre and monstrous creatures walk, fly, and swim about the land. Even the geography itself seems enchanted.
A few races of the Thousand Isles have learned to control earth, fire, water, and air. Earth mages help grow crops, speak with and control mammals, mend ship's timbers, and even sunder the very land itself. Fire mages are much feared for their destructive power. They launch balls of fire from their fingertips and are devastating to enemy ships. Water wizards are wanted on every vessel, for they can heal wounds, make sea water drinkable, and communicate with the many beasts of the ocean to aid in navigation. Elementalists who have mastered the winds of Caribdus are the most valued of all. They can move ships even when becalmed, settle storms, speak with avians to find land, and toss aside enemy missiles with their fantastic mastery of the gales. Even visitors to the drowned lands—humans— can become masters of the elements, learning to harness wind, wave, sand, and flame for their own ends.
Blood Magic
The ugaks practice something called blood magic that requires the sacrifice of sentient beings. Their shamans can summon flocks of razor wings, cast deadly bolts of black energy, and—it is rumored—summon physical manifestations of their jungle gods. It's unknown how the three girls who became the Sea Hags learned this magic. Most thought it was something only the Red Men could master. Octopons also seem to have some sort of black magic, though it's possible it's just elemental energy twisted to new uses. This is another mystery for the sages of the Thousand Isles.
Only the ugaks have gods. Other Caribduns believe in spirits and the afterlife, but do not "worship" them or have established religions. Many visitors still cling to their faith, but Earthly churches have gained few converts in the Thousand Isles.


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GS1247 VPA 23 Improved Kitchen Regimes : Improved Cook Stoves in Chamanculo C, Maputo (Mozambique)PDD volume: 10000
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The micro-scale VPA involves the installation and maintenance of domestic improved cooking stoves in multiple countries.
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Natural Resources: Aquatic Ecology and Watershed Science (Master of Science)
The Aquatic Ecology and Watershed Science concentration provides students with advanced understanding of aquatic ecosystems and their watersheds, and the skills and methodologies required to analyze and solve technical problems concerning the effects of human activities on these systems. Current areas of research emphasis include watershed processes and management; stream and lake ecology; fish ecology and fisheries management; aquatic ecotoxicology; pollutant studies; biogeochemical dynamics, and the modeling of aquatic systems, processes and populations.
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About a week ago, I saw an acquaintance post a link to Empire Avenue on Twitter. I tried the link but the page asked for a login so I just moved on. Then yesterday I saw another post about it and decided to check out their home page. This is how Empire Avenue describes themselves:
Empire Avenue is the Social Stock Market, where you can Grow your Social Capital online. Here's how it works, you get to discover valuable, interesting, cool, fun people online and then based scores or share price, invest virtual currency in their profiles by buying shares in our Social Stock Market. It's boatloads of fun, and that simple act of buying shares in someone you think is worth your currency, you will create new connections and as people invest in you, grow your own social capital and get more value in and out of your networks!
So I jumped in and started using the game mechanics. I bought shares in people I knew personally or knew of from Facebook and Twitter. They give you the option of selecting interests centered around locations, activities or personal groups set up by other users. I joined the Fort Worth group and then realized the real potential of this site.
In the post Getting Past 'the Game', the creators state that the site is about connecting. The game mechanics are just to get you in the door. That's what I saw happen. There were people from the DFW area that began investing in me. There were social media consultants, graphic designers, and the list goes on. I might run across these people on Twitter. It's very unlikely I'd meet them through LinkedIn. So now I have the opportunity to get to know people in related fields with varied experiences.
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What to Expect From Bo Xilai's Trial
Former Communist Party official Bo Xilai will be tried this Thursday in Shandong province. WSJ's Jeremy Page tells us to expect a guilty verdict and why the spotlight may turn to Mr. Bo's wife, Gu Kailai.
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It seems Suri Cruise is no longer content with having TMZ For Kidz report lies about her, so she's started her own Tumblr, Suri's Burn Book, where she can weigh in on her fellow celebritots. So far Hollywood' most precocious child has revealed that she loathes Shiloh Jolie-Pitt and Violet Affleck's scruffy style, has an unhealthy fear of Kate Middleton's non-existant daughter upstaging her, and is harboring crushes on both Kingston Rossdale and Cruz Beckham. After spotting the Beckhams at Color Me Mine, she writes,
"One of the things I loved most about Cruz Beckham is that he is a true Renaissance man. That, and that if we got married, his name would've been Cruz Cruise. Don't even pretend like that's not how that would go down."
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Nick Halsted has posted the first two in a series of programming tips, not necessarily specific to PHP, but still very useful.
Over the years I have built up what I call my 'programming wisdom' this is what has replaced my early years of supposed 'raw talent'. [...] So I thought to myself what have I learnt that I can put across that will be useful to my fellow programmers who have not made all the mistakes I have. I plan on writing a long series of programming tips over the coming weeks (disturbed only by solicitors, investors and other scary programming time eating monsters).
The first two of the series are:
- Don't Repeat Yourself - make reusable code to save you time in the long run.
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Paris, 10 september 2012
© A. Meunier and S. Riffaut
Particles of clay cover the surfaces of crystals in the subaerial basalt flow of the Mururoa Guyot (French Polynesia). Similar clays may have formed in the basaltic rocks of the Noachian crust on Mars (in yellow) which were probably not totally degassed. They could not have formed in Hesperian rocks (in green) which were totally degassed.
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Magmatic precipitation as a possible origin of Noachian clays on Mars. Alain Meunier, Sabine Petit, Bethany L. Ehlmann, Patrick Dudoignon, Frances Westall, Antoine Mas, Abderrazak El Albani and Eric Ferrage, Nature Geosciences, on line 9 September 2012.
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Is Paul Allen's Patent Madness Really An Attempt To Show The Madness Of Patents?
from the seems-unlikely dept
Maybe Allen is not the world's most famous patent troll. Maybe he's out to become the world's most famous patent reformer. Maybe he doesn't want so much to win as to publicize how dangerous his patents are.I don't buy it. There are, obviously, lots of ways to go about pushing for patent reform, but dragging a bunch of companies and yourself through the court system seems like one of the least effective ways to go about doing so. Even if it does call attention to ridiculous patents and how they're used to punish companies who actually innovate, the message is so likely to be lost that I would imagine the chance for any such strategy to succeed is outweighed by the far greater likelihood that the strategy will backfire and actually be seen as a reason to support patents.
Perhaps in asserting these patents, with their potential to unsettle so much of what is taken as settled business practices in the digital economy, he hopes to force leading tech companies and Congress to acknowledge that the system is broken and fix it. If he wins, or even if he just wears down the other side, perhaps he'll demand not financial tribute but actual reform of a system that gives patent holders like him the power to disrupt digital life.


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Prosecutors: Even after arrest, murder convict kept collecting guns
When Gilberto Villarreal used a laser-sighted pistol to shoot three strangers — one fatally — after he was beat up and expelled from a party in May 2009, it wasn't the first time he was illegally in possession of a firearm.
And it wouldn't be his last, witnesses noted Tuesday during the punishment phase of his murder trial.
During the four years that Villarreal, now 23, has awaited trial on bond in the slaying of Steven Moy Jr., his home has twice been searched for firearms and drugs, police and federal agents testified.
Jurors convicted Villarreal of murder Monday, rejecting arguments that he shot Moy only to save buddy Ventura Garcia's life.
The jury is expected to return Wednesday morning to 227th state District Court to begin deliberating Villarreal's punishment. He faces five years to life in prison.
"He's not a bad kid," Maria Rosas said through tears, asking the jury for mercy so her son could raise his own two children. "He's never been a bad kid."
But prosecutors Rita Spiegel and Lauran Glasscock painted a vastly different picture: a member of the Bloods street gang known as "Lil' Mexico" whose illegal activity wasn't slowed even by a pending murder charge.
Authorities' list of illicit items discovered during the February 2011 and July 2012 searches included marijuana, paraphernalia indicating Villarreal sold the drug, clips for multiple guns and pieces of a pistol that had been reported stolen.
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Once a novel and noticeable protrusion emanating from the ear, Bluetooth headsets have become small, sleek, and not so expensive. According to NPD's Mobile Phone Accessories Tracker, the average price of a Bluetooth headset in Q1 was $51.58, and prices have held relatively steady over the past three years.
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BlueAnt Wireless. BlueAnt's app, available for Android handsets, is a pretty straightforward app that helps with setup and usage tips for use with BluAnt's rugged T1 headset. The headset, though, already provides voice instructions for setting up Bluetooth support, which are a bit out of whack with those in the app. Once connected, the app allows you to check for updates; plus, it contains a guide to the various voice commands supported by the headset. The app can also read back SMS messages over the headset at various speeds.
Jawbone. Jawbone cut its client software teeth with MyTalk, a Web site that worked in conjunction with PC software that allows users to personalize the headset. Jawbone users can use MyTalk to change what the main headset but does as well as the "personality" used to update you on things such as talk time. For example, if a user chooses "The Ace" vocal personality, a confident female voice tells you, "I'm activated, ready for action."
Jawbone has followed up with Thoughts, which is a nicely designed iPhone app that lets you record audio messages and send them off to your contacts using e-mail, phone and a variety of other means. Thoughts can also send messages to a group of contacts created within the app, plus transcribe voice messages for text delivery via a service. The service allows ten message transcriptions before requiring users to purchase more. This handy and free app works with any Bluetooth headset; in fact, it doesn't even require a headset, and it can work when the phone is used normally without the headset or with speakerphone.
Sound ID. The most intriguing and integrated app companion for a headset is EarPrint from Sound ID. EarPrint, which is available free for the iPhone and Android headsets, is a collection of utilities -- several of which are unique.
For example, one part of the software lets you customize the audio output of the headset by tapping at various points around the handset's screen. Another is a button that allows the user to find a mislaid headset by having it beep very loudly. (You'd probably have to be in the same room to track it down, though.) EarPrint is limited to the company's flagship headset and requires the latest version of the headset's firmware to be installed before using.
Plantronics. Like Jawbone, Plantronics, which is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year, hasn't tied its smartphone consumer software to its own headsets; it has, however, done the most to tie it to revenue by charging for its apps.
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The company offers two apps. One is Vocalyst for Android phones and BlackBerry, which listens for various speech commands to carry out tasks like setting a reminder, reading e-mail, and speaking the weather. The app is tied to a Plantronics service, which provides an introductory year of the service with its headsets, and then charges $2.50 per month ($25 per year) to continue. For abut $6 per month ($60 per year) Plantronics also offers Vocalyst Pro, which boasts longer recording time, voice-to-text, transcription of SMS messages, and integration with more Internet services.
Plantronics' other main companion app, which has more of a business bent, is called InstantMeeting. Also available as a $2 download for Android phones and BlackBerry, InstantMeeting accesses the calendar on your smartphone to find conference calls and automates the work of dialing in and appending bothersome access codes. InstantMeeting can also redial a conference call number and its access code if the call is dropped. It can be a great timesaver, but the software's ability to interpret access codes accurately depends a bit on how the invitation is formatted; and, unfortunately, there's no way to test in advance whether it will work.
Ross Rubin (@rossrubin on Twitter) is executive director of industry analysis at The NPD Group (@npdtech on Twitter). He blogs at The NPD Group Blog as well as his own blog, Out of the Box


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The threat of bootleggers is real, of course, but it's based purely on speculation, without evidence of the kind of past specific misconduct that might trigger temporary remedies as seen in criminal proceedings. That seems odd, and perhaps a slippery slope. Why can't any company in America file John Doe trademark action and get police to seize goods they believe will be infringing? What stops this beyond the concert venue?


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Bob and Cortney set out to design a home for a busy couple with slightly different tastes — one more modern and one more rustic/natural — and no time to focus on decor. The white walls with big art are perfect with the planked wood dining table, mismatched dining chairs, and that cool little pyramid terrarium. But in the living room all I can see is that rug and that shuttlecock, and they are now my obsessions du jour.
We've discussed overdyed rugs before, if you recall, from the beautiful but expensive Color Reform line at ABC to more affordable versions to DIY options. The Novos, however, found another option from a Brooklyn designer named Michael Stout. I found this video, and it answered a lot of questions I had about his process and confirmed that an overdyed rug will be part of my future home design.
Bob's choice of big art (from Room 125 in Manhattan) was a great way to incorporate textural antique rustic into a clean, modern design. The super zoom shows all the gritty details on the object much more than would be possible if the actual object were, say, sitting on a shelf, and the stark white background keeps it graphic and modern. And Bob pointed out "those are real feathers" in such a Spinal Tap-esque "this is an exact replica of my skeleton" moment that I totally got it.
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Aaaah-OOOoooooo...! Coyote Blue Moon--with versions in Colorado, Virginia, and here in Ojai, California--is now history. By most accounts, a wicked super-awesome time was had by all. Thoughts are still swirling in my sleep-deprived brain (way too much celebratory champagne on the ridgetop after running 46 miles and climbing 12,000 feet, followed by a 4,000-foot stumble down Horn Canyon in the wee hours of the morning didn't help matters), so here are just a few highlights.
After Ray Miller'n... hula hoop'n!
Spending hours on the trail with good friends: the Canucks and--about to begin the 53 miler--me and Bruce (chilly at the start, but check it out: comfortable in SHORTS on New Year's Eve! Can't do THAT in Canada.)
Pop-up aid station...
Oh no! Blake, aka Mr. Hardrock, is eating the DIP!!
Krissy and Ellen took a wrong turn on the way to their New Year's Eve party and decided to run 50 miles instead. Wild Bill is confused--but happy!--sandwiched between such feminine ambience.
Umm... You had to be there? Tetsuro "weighs" his booty.
Discovered while cleaning up after post-event brunch, pretty much explains a lot. Heh, heh...
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The Lake Forest College football team defeated visiting Ripon College 17-7 on Saturday to clinch at least a share of the 2012 Midwest Conference championship. Junior linebacker Bryce Jones and senior safety Aidan Price led a Forester defense that kept the Red Hawks off the scoreboard after the visitors' first possession of the game.
Jones led all players in the game with nine tackles, including six solos, and Price added eight stops. Senior defensive lineman Jake Rotkvich also made eight tackles, including the Foresters' only sack of the contest.
The Lake Forest offense was led by 100-yard performances by senior running back Al Mitchell and wide receiver Austin Sobey. Mitchell carried the ball 16 times for 11 yards and a touchdown while Sobey caught seven passes for 105 yards and moved into fourth place in program history with 1,819 receiving yards in his career. Fellow senior Pete Scaffidi completed 15 of 25 passes for 181 yards and ran the ball a dozen times for 48 yards. He climbed over Jim DeLisa (1990-93) into third place in team history with 5,280 career passing yards.
Ripon actually took the early lead in the contest. The Red Hawks forced a turnover and had a 95-yard touchdown run on its first play from scrimmage.
The Foresters responded with an 8-play, 61-yard drive that ended with a 1-yard touchdown run by junior Alec Howe.
Ripon drove to the Lake Forest 22 on its next possession before turning the ball over. Forest senior safety Dominick Campagna made a great play to cut off a pass inside the 5-yardline but was unable to hold on. Fortunately for the home team, the ball ended up in the hands of junior cornerback Ed Dobernig for his team-high third interception of the season.
The Foresters then engineered a 14-play, 97-yard drive that was capped off by a 3-yard touchdown run by Mitchell with 8:30 to play in the first half. Scaffidi completed passes to four different receivers for 58 yards on the drive. He also ran four times for 15 yards during the possession.
The only score of the second half was a 33-yard field goal by Lake Forest freshman Jon Gurchak that caromed off the left upright and through with 8:09 to play in the game.
Including the interception by Dobernig, the Lake Forest defense stopped the Red Hawks in Forester territory five times in the game. Ripon punted from the 37 in the second quarter and was stopped for no gain of fourth-and-one from the 11 on the first possession of the second half. Junior cornerback Nicholaus Waters deflected a 24-yard field goal attempt early in the fourth quarter and the visitors' 38-yard field goal attempt with 3:50 to play in the contest was wide right.
Scaffidi completed an 11-yard pass to Sobey on third-and-three and ran for two yards on third-and-one on the game's final possession before taking a knee to finish running out the clock and securing the win.
The victory is the eighth in a row for the Foresters, who matched the second-longest winning streak in team history that spanned the 1940 and 1941 seasons. The school record of nine began in 1937 and ended in 1939.
The conference title is the fifth in school history and the third since Lake Forest joined the Midwest Conference in 1974. The Foresters shared the championship with St. Norbert College in 2002 and defeated Cornell College in the 1983 conference title game. They also earned College Conference of Illinois co-championships in 1957 and 1952.
Lake Forest is now 8-1 overall and 8-0 in league play this season. Ripon fell to 3-5 overall and 3-4 in the league.
After a weekend off, the Foresters can claim the league championship outright and secure a berth to the NCAA Playoffs with a victory at St. Norbert on Saturday, November 10. Kickoff is at 1:00 p.m.


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I just started shuging, and I find it to be a real burner. I've done a lot of research into various types of training, k-bells, etc. If anyone wants to find out the scientific reasons shovelglove works, they should read Heavyhands by Leonard Schwarts MD. I would definitely classify shovelglove as panaerobic excercise.
Not only does the book illustrate the benefits of weighted-arm movements, but, to prove that anything that can be thought of has already been done, there is a description of a shoveling excercise, using a shovel with weight attached, and this book was writted in the 80's.
Great site. For a guy who was never "into" excercise other than martial arts training, shovelglove will open new doors to my functional strength, which is very important for defensive tactics.
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I've briefly looked at heavyhands before (I think someone posted it here). It does look intriguing.
Here's the home page if anyone else is curious:
I like the idea of "panaerobics" and its anglo saxon equivalent "longstrength." Great terms, and certainly applicable to shovelglove.
My one concern is precedent: urban ranger and shovelglove reproduce (with varying degrees of fidelity) age old movements and behaviors. Heavyhands is a bit more of a stretch... but I'll look into it some more. The fact that the inventor has been doing for decades and is now almost 80 and ripped is impressive.
I find the site a tad difficult to navigate... if you know of a single page that describes all the fundamentals, please post the link.
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I'm not suggesting replacing shovelglove...but the scientific principles of Heavyhands definitely seem to apply. I don't know of an all-encompassing web page, but i purchased the book off amazon, used, for about 75 cents. What is interesting as well, is that this book also contains the swinging movement that can be found in kettlebell training.
Now, what i find most appealing about shovelglove: It is interesting! I've already created movements of my own (rowing: hold shovelgove so that head comes out bottom of fist of right hand, left hand holds the other end, just like holding a canoe paddle (should probably refer to this as paddling), and paddle away, making sure to bring the head of shovelglove back past hip and then circle forward horizontally), and I just have a ball doing it. I started with a 10 pounder, and find I have to change exercises a bit sooner than you suggest, but I end up doing more different excercises, just less reps.
Has anyone ever thought of doing shovelglove moves in reverse? I'm going to try a few to see what happens...seems like a good way to work both sides of a movement.
thanks again for a great idea to get a tired out of shape cop motivated to get back in shape.
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Wow. I still have a pair of these from the early 80s, along with one pound and two pound screw-on weights!
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Hi, I am the curator of a blog about HH, panaerobics and long strength. I have read about the "shovel glove" before here, but am a bit fixated on Dr. Schwartz' work. After HeavyHands he did more in the way of bodyweight exercises and even self-resistance exercises both performed with the same principles as the heavy hands...
1. Four Limb Simultaneous Action
2. Enough repetition and time to create an aerobic response
3. Enough resistance to build strength as long as it was strength that could be used "at length" instead of a one time burst.
Unfortunately the "longstrength" calisthenics and self-resistance work (called by him "IsoTonoMetrics") didn't make it into publication before his death. And the websites that discussed his work are now defunct or no longer updated.
To remedy that I have tried to do some recent writing on the subject at a blog you may find useful. I do it mostly to chronicle my own discoveries and keep myself motivated... I've lost about 70 lbs in recent months and try to do all my exercise using the above principles.
If interested, you may wish to check out
If any long time HeavyHands users find this post, please stop by and tell about your experience!
The exercises I do on some "heavy" days are with 9.5lb heavy hands. Maybe once I figure out how to use them, I can advance to the SHOVEL GLOVE!
PS As I was checking my books, I realized that in addition to Heavy Hands, Dr. S had tried to come up with a connection for 2 heavyhands that made it a longer implement. One reason for that was because as you'll find in his book the "shoveling" movement you describe on the first page of "Shovel Glove". He also found a movement related to swinging a sledgehammer downward to be one of the most "aerobic" around. He called it "Double Ski Poling" and he eventually worked up to 23% of his body weight in that exercise and could keep it going for 2 hours! Whew!
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That link you provided, SE, got me this message: Safari can't open the page "http://strengthendurance.wordpress.com.../" because Safari can't find the server "strengthendurance.wordpress.com...". Does wordpress have something against Apple?
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It's probably because of the extra "..." at the end of .com.
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Rocking the boat: a new wave of Catholic women answers the call to ordination and priesthood--an act of ecclesial disobedience.
As the boat motored into deeper waters, a few protesters appeared on the wharf. Their signs read: "Women obey priests" and "Jesus was a man." Aboard ship, in the open central gallery, bright banners hung from the balcony proclaimed, "Nothing newt Women reclaiming priesthood." Iconic images of ancient female Christian leaders adorned the altar--Mary of Magdala, apostle to the apostles; Phoebe, the deacon in Cenchreae (Romans 16:1-2); and Junia, who Paul calls an "outstanding apostle" (Romans 16:7).
The ceremony was held by the international organization Roman Catholic Womenpriests, which has held five ordination ceremonies since 2002 in Europe and Canada and claims five female bishops and 40 priests and deacons. In the pipeline are 120 students, 80 of whom are from North America. Aboard the Majestic, three female bishops from Europe prepared to ordain eight U.S. women to the Catholic priest hood and four to the diaconate.
Gisela Forster, a Roman Catholic Womenpriests bishop from Munich, was dressed simply and elegantly in a white alb with a bright yellow silk chasuble that floated lightly as she moved. "The church should not only be a church for men or with a male hierarchy," she said, "because men cannot do everything. It's very important that the women who are feeling called should be welcomed into this church."
"We speak of priestly service, not priestly office," Christine Mayr-Lumetzberger, a founder of Roman Catholic Womenpriests, said at a previous ordination. "We advocate a servant priesthood and exercising power with people, not power over them."
A buoyant spirit swept the congregation as 12 women stepped forward at the bishops' call, answering "Here I am. I am ready." Mary Ellen Robertson, a spiritual director and hospice chaplain, asked her brother--a diocesan priest--to be her witness to the diaconate. "She attended my ordination 45 years ago," he said. "It only seemed fair that I should attend hers."
Recent polls have found that the majority of U.S. Catholics support ordaining women. Seventy percent of U.S. Catholics were in favor of ordaining women in some sacramental ministry, according to a survey conducted in 2000 by the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate (CARA).
The pressure to ordain women to the Catholic priesthood and permanent diaconate is growing. Between 1993 and 2004, reports CARA, the number of Catholic parishes in the U.S. led by someone other than a priest has doubled. Because of the priest shortage, many U.S. Catholic parishes are experiencing the "reverse mission" phenomenon. Priests from the global South--primarily Africa and Asia--are tending to the needs of underserved parishes in the United States.
"The goal of Roman Catholic Womenpriests," states its founding documents, "is to bring about the full equality of women in the Roman Catholic Church.... We desire neither a schism nor a break from the Roman Catholic Church, but instead are rooted in a response to Jesus who called women and men to be disciples and equals in living the gospel."
The group grew out of a 1998 gathering of European Catholics to discuss the issue of women's ordination. Within a year, 14 women were preparing for ordination. "Those who needed more theology," recalls Patricia Fresen, a bishop in Roman Catholic Womenpriests, "enrolled at various universities for further study. A program of preparation for ordination was created, and the women met regularly to plan for their ordination and future priestly ministry."
But according to the tradition of apostolic succession (an unbroken chain of the laying on of hands since the time of the apostles), priests can only be ordained by a bishop--and there weren't many Catholic bishops lining up to defy Rome by ordaining women. However, Romulo Braschi, a renegade Argentinean bishop, agreed to celebrate the ordinations. He was joined by Bishop Ferdinand Regelsberger, two Roman Catholic priests, and women pastors from the Old Catholic, Lutheran, and Dutch Reformed churches. Seven women were made priests in 2002.
After the widely reported ceremony, the Vatican gave the women a period of time to retract their vows. When they did not, then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, the Vatican's chief guardian of theological orthodoxy and now the pope, issued a statement. "Because the women ... gave no indication of amendment or repentance for the most serious offence they had committed," he said, "they have incurred excommunication."
"That the Vatican took this very seriously," said Patricia Fresen, "is shown by the subsequent excommunication of the seven women.... If it had been of no consequence, the Vatican would have simply ignored it."
Two of the seven ordained women, Christine Mayr-Lumetzberger and Gisela Forster, were later secretly ordained as bishops--by Roman Catholic bishops in good standing--so that they could perpetuate the apostolic lineage of women priests. Forster explained, "We were ordained by several male bishops, whose names can not be revealed [to avoid Vatican reprisals]. We had a notary there to witness it and put the names in a safety deposit box, but we cannot say their names openly."
These ordination ceremonies weren't the first for Catholic women. Even in modern times, extreme situations have motivated Catholic bishops to ordain women to the priesthood. The most noted example is Czech Catholic leader Ludmila Javorova, one of five women ordained by Bishop Felix Davidek in 1970 to serve the Catholic Church under the Soviet occupation of Eastern Europe. In 1996, the Vatican formally prohibited her from exercising her priestly office. In a 1999 interview, Javarova said that Bishop Davidek acted out of necessity. In the absence of guidance from Rome, she said, "He acted according to his conscience."
In November 2001, Mary Ramerman was "irregularly" ordained a priest in a Catholic parish in Rochester, New York, after the bishop--under pressure from the Vatican--removed a popular male parish priest. Ramerman continues to serve the thriving Spiritus Christi Church, which is no longer recognized as a Roman Catholic parish by the diocese.
The worldwide Anglican Communion and the U.S. Episcopal Church provide historical insight into the struggle for ordaining women. In 1944, Florence Li Tim-Oi was ordained by the Anglican bishop of Hong Kong to serve Anglican Christians in China who were endangered by the Japanese invasion. She was the first woman priest in the Anglican Communion. This single incident was soon lost to history. Thirty years later, in July 1974, 11 Episcopal women were "irregularly" ordained at the Church of the Advocate in Philadelphia by three retired Episcopal bishops. The Episcopal Church declared the ordinations invalid and prevented the women from serving as priests.
In 1976, after intense struggle, the Episcopal Church voted to officially open the priesthood and episcopate to women. The first woman (and the first black woman) to serve as bishop anywhere in the Anglican Communion, Barbara C. Harris, was consecrated in 1989. In 2006, the Episcopal Church elevated Katharine Jefferts Schori to its highest office of presiding bishop.
The Roman Catholic movement to ordain women clearly hopes for similar success. But because the Catholic Church has a very centralized governance structure and no established mechanism for representing the desires of the laity, it may take longer.
"We would like to see the Church become much more a 'people's church,'" Patricia Fresen said. "As people become much better educated, even theologically educated, they need to have much more say in church structures and in the choice of leaders.
"The 'sensus fidelium' [sense of the faithful] was much respected in the early centuries of the church. This needs to be returned to," continued Fresen.
Many Roman Catholic organizations are pushing for change within the church: Call to Action, Women's Ordination Conference, and FutureChurch in the U.S.; a vibrant European We Are Church movement and Germany's Purple Stole organization; Japan's Phoebe Association. Such organizations advocate for more local ecclesial autonomy, for bishops to be advised and assisted by laity as well as priests, for removing the celibacy vow from diocesan priests, and for reinstating women to the permanent diaconate.
Even the monolith of the Vatican-controlled church shows signs of shifting, especially in the global South. "We must admit that there cannot be a participatory church with gender justice," Catholic Brother Verghese Theckanath said in an address last year to the National Conference of Religious Superiors in India, "as long as the church retains the assumption that female humanity is ontologically different and secondary to male humanity."
"We very definitely do not want to simply 'add women and stir,'" said Fresen. "We do not want to move into the present hierarchical power-structures. We have a new model of priesthood which we are trying to shape and to live."
This new model was powerfully demonstrated at the Three Rivers ceremony. Roman Catholic Womenpriests has chosen to hold its ordinations on boats--a very early symbol of the church. Bishop Gisela Forster, an artist, carved the bishops' crosiers in a design that includes the profiles of male and female figures. The crosiers are wide at the bottom to signify a ship's paddle. "We want it to be simple," Forster said. "No gold or silver. It doesn't need to stand out."
The ordinands prostrated themselves before the cross--not before the bishops. "This gesture," Fresen told the gathered community, "is the prayer; no other words are spoken. This is the model of community we seek--a discipleship of equals, who are servants to one another."
In anointing the women's hands for sacramental duty, a prayer was offered: "May the Holy Spirit anoint you and form you into a priest of Jesus Christ." The emphasis is on the Holy Spirit acting through the community of faithful.
"As more and more women are ordained in full apostolic succession," said Fresen, "they are finding increasing acceptance by an ever-greater number of Catholics. Eventually the sheer weight of opinion, the sensus fidelium, will break down the barriers of injustice."
For Fresen, the movement to restore to the Catholic Church the full dignity of women is similar to the struggle for freedom in her native South Africa. "In South Africa, during the apartheid years, there was a groundswell of resistance that eventually broke down the system of racial injustice," she said. "I believe the same will happen with regard to sexism in the church. There is already a great outcry to make the church more a people's church, if it is not to become irrelevant."
The struggle against irrelevancy isn't solved simply by ordaining women. Even in Protestant denominations with a longer history of ordaining women, the road has not been easy. Sociologist Adair Lummis commented on the United Methodists and Presbyterians marking, in 2006, 50 years of women's ordination, saying, "Just because you have more women and you're having these milestone celebrations, please remember that in some denominations ... there were more women ordained 50 years ago than there are now."
Aimee Semple McPherson's pentecostal International Church of the Foursquare Gospel was founded in Los Angeles in the 1920s with an emphasis placed on anointing women. In the mid-1970s about half of the Foursquare clergy were women, but by 2000 that number had dropped to 36 percent, according to church historian Ron Williams. The largest Protestant denomination in the U.S., the Southern Baptist Convention, began allowing women pastors in 1963. In 2000, the SBC revoked the decision, leaving about 1,600 Southern Baptist clergywomen in an ambiguous position.
Current Department of Labor data estimates that 15.5 percent of clergy in the U.S. are women. But according to Lummis' research in Clergy Women: An Uphill Calling, "the numbers indicate that clergy women remain significantly underpaid and underemployed relative to men."
Still, when Christian churches authentically carry out their mission to be Christ's witnesses to the poor and oppressed, new needs arise. In traditional theology, the Holy Spirit calls forth gifts in the community in order to meet pressing needs of the church. For Roman Catholics, there is a marked rise in women with vocations to the sacramental duties of the priesthood. The institutional church structure may continue to refute these vocations, call them illegitimate, and excommunicate those who act outside the protocols of tradition. But eventually the wisdom of the people of God, the sensus fidelium, will rise to claim what it needs to live the gospel fully and authentically. This includes, as Patricia Fresen puts it, that "women and men are created equal and can equally act 'in persona Christi.'" The women ordained aboard the Majestic in Pittsburgh are one small boat in a rising tide.
Rose Marie Berger, an associate editor of Sojourners, is a Catholic peace activist and poet.
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CRESTVIEW � "I'm not a worksheet teacher, where I just copy off worksheets and just have students work on them all day," Antioch Elementary School teacher Debra Walker said. "I try to get them interested in the world."
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CRESTVIEW � "I'm not a worksheet teacher, where I just copy off worksheets and just have students work on them all day," Antioch Elementary School teacher Debra Walker said. "I try to get them interested in the world."
The second-grade teacher often turns to mixed media to facilitate student engagement. Students have created booklets on various topics and used magnets to portray hurricane safety.
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Her spirit of solidarity precludes her from accepting special recognition. Upon learning that colleagues named her Teacher of the Year, Walker took a humble approach.
"At first I wanted to withdraw my name," she said. "Knowing what I know about the teachers here, I am not any better than they are."
Instead, she accepted the award on behalf of the school�s 63 other teachers.
Walker�s four years at Antioch are a part of her 28-year teaching career that may end in a few years when she likely will retire.
Avery would hate to see her go.
"She will be missed," Avery said. "She is a valuable part of our staff.
Nevertheless, the long stretch leaves few woes for Walker � except for student limitations.
"The only thing I regret in my ability to work with children is that there are some cases where I just can't get them where they need to be," she said.
"The one thing I want most in this world is for every child that walks in this classroom to be successful."
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