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- From Chrome browser, install OTC One application
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The website www.copewithcancer.org for the initiative "cope with cancer" an online & tele-counseling service was launched in July 2013, in memory of Dr Mandakini Parihar who succumbed to Leukaemia in September 2012.
During her illness she and her family felt that there was inadequate information about resources for cancer patients and caregivers and a need for counseling.
After her demise, her family decided to start "cope with cancer" with specific emphasis on the needs of the caregivers.
The trust identifies and helps address underserved areas in cancer care in India, thus helping patients and caregivers cope with cancer.
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In Jul 2013 Cope with Cancer website was initiated and later in August Cope with Cancer website soft launched with about 20+ pages. In the course of the year Cope with Cancer updated to 120+ pages. More information on resources & related topics for cancer patients and caregivers added. We changed the website from static to dynamic. In September 2013 itself we had 150000 hits on the website – 7000 hits per month
In September we tied up with Helpline: iCALL for tele counseling and later with Helpline: Aasra.
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Mangaluru: Senior Congress leader B Janardhan Poojary held a press meet at the DCC office here, on July 2.
Addressing the mediapersons, Poojary said that the BJP government led by Narendra Modi is planning to implement Uniform Civil Code in 5 states. "Our country has unity in diversity and people from various walks of life live in India. The Congress party condemns the initiative by the BJP government to implement the Uniform Civil Code."
"In Hindu dharma, during marriage couples follow Saptapadi, Christians follow a different method in marriage and in Muslim weddings, the groom makes the marriage vows in the presence of the bride's father. Is it necessary to implement Uniform Civil Code?" he questioned.
Poojary further said that the BJP is implementing Uniform Civil Code for vote bank. "When the Congress was in power, we did not allow the implementation of the Uniform Civil Code. Before implementing the UCC, the government should first discuss it with all the religious leaders. Without discussing, the BJP government should not take their own decision in implementing UCC," he added.
According to Article 44 of the Constitution, the state shall endeavour to secure for the citizens a uniform civil code throughout the country. A Uniform Civil Code means a common set of laws governing personal matters for all citizens, irrespective of religion.


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The latest victim of the global financial apocalypse is, sadly for aficionados of rumpy-pumpy-related artefacts, Copenhagen's Museum Erotica which will close within a week if it doesn't find enough cash to maintain wood. According to a report in the Copenhagen Post, the city's council has withdrawn funding for the 15-year-old …
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apart from the one in Amsterdam and probably a bunch of others?
No links for those of us who would like to make a donation? I have a nice PVC outfit that would be perfect.
...Hanne Stensgaard is a woman, of course you never know with people in museums, but I'm 99% sure. Hanne is a girl's name.
Allow me to be the first to say...
'lol dongs'
Impossible. There's only 86,116,560 people in Vietnam. Surely there can't be more men than there are people?
were the dongs really necessary.
Only one comment from us here today for an article like THIS!!?? This is just begging to be commented on hard. I mean for gods sake how can we pass up an opportunity to help erect this renovation. If we dont donate to the fund one of the great pillars of the sex industry we will never be able to look at ourselves in the mirror again......oh fuck it i dont have the ambition or attention span right now to do this.
you might wan't to change that "he" to a "she".
Hanne Stensgaard's a woman...
Denmark and Copenhagen, like the rest of us, are no longer what they were :-(
Cheerful happy-sex has gone, and the museum - a swell place with a towering collection - is having trouble getting back up to scratch. No longer too too solid flesh, alack of a lass.
My favourite pix are the conga-fucks of the old French aristocracy - the tricks they got up to!
(Paris cos even she will one day no longer be what she was...)
Wow. 15 years, 9 billion dongs. Not even Paris would manage that.
PS Re: 'rennovation', see http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/02/12/spelling/
As soon as i saw the headline I thought, got to be Lester Haines,
Well done, and keep it up (Snurk).
Hanne Stensgaard is definitely no ordinary spokesperson, and is all woman!!! It will be a shame to see the museum close, because it is one of the few places where your own deepest desire is a legitimate subject for reflection and scientific study. Social control begins with sexual control. Don't you forget it, little boy!
"....recent tabloid reports have suggested that economic hardship really does lead to a global downturn between the sheets...."
Then the reports are wrong, Lester old son. We have ALL been given a right royal rogering by the banks, and they are continuing to do so and will continue further, with the current inefectual regime in place.
Paris - 'cos she's best between the sheets, when it comes to the crunch.
Surely if you can raise funds for Bletchly Park, you could at least do a commemorative t-shirt for these fellows.
On the other hand, those interested in acquiring those 1500 artifacts might not be to keen on raising the funds, rather being more interested in acquiring said artifacts.
You know what I mean.
So, when should I start looking for the exhibits being unloaded on the world's tat bazaar? Even in today's environment they could get a fair bit of cash.
Ma'am, mine's the one with a mouse in the pocket!


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As a Fellow of the Institute of Engineers I am an advocate of quality, which is exactly what I got; 20 years on the fantastic moving shelves are just as good as the day they were put in and only needed a bit of WD40. I have got the roller racking systems in the garage and basement store room.
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A four-year-old girl separated from her family since Saturday is being reunited with them.
Rebecca Lewis was taken from her home in Lakeland, Fla. by a family friend identified as 31-year-old West Wild Hogs, who changed his name from Matthew Clark Pybus.
On Monday, they were located in Memphis, Tennessee.
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Missing girl Rebecca Lewis found in Memphis
"We have Rebecca Lewis and she is safe. And West Wild Hogs is in the pen," said Sheriff Grady Judd, of Polk County in Florida, where the girl lives, during a news conference Monday afternoon.
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There were Amber Alerts for Lewis in Tennessee, Florida, Georgia, Alabama and Kentucky.
The two had been spotted all over the Southeast. They were seen in Georgia Saturday evening and late Sunday at a state park in Tennessee. Early Monday, they stopped at a convenience store in Nashville, Tenn., before possibly heading north to Kentucky.
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Since the Minister has freely acknowledged that
harmonisation is many years away, the case has still not been
made for the levy in its present form for Northern Ireland. In
the year's grace which the phased introduction will give to manufacturers
of processed products in Northern Ireland, we expect to hear either
that the Government's efforts to achieve harmonisation promise
success, or that the phasing of the levy will be further postponed
until a proper case can be made for it.[1]
There is a strong case for the aggregates levy in
its present form in Northern Ireland. The aggregates levy has
been designed to incorporate the environmental costs of extracting
virgin aggregate into market prices, which includes noise, dust,
visual intrusion and damage to biodiversity. The levy also aims
to shift demand away from virgin material to recycled construction
and demolition waste and other alternative materials. The environmental
benefits of the levy should apply in Northern Ireland as elsewhere
in the UK.
While the original research that underpinned the
case for the levy and informed the setting of the rate did not
include Northern Ireland quarries, the international group of
experts which advised on the use of contingent valuation techniques
in the second phase of the London Economics study were content
that Northern Ireland should be excluded for practical reasons.
This research was focused on economic assessment of the environmental
impacts of quarrying, and not the detailed design of the levy.
The Government has introduced a phased introduction
of the levy for aggregates used in processed goods in Northern
This is in response to the particular case of Northern Ireland
producers of goods containing processed aggregates, for example,
precast concrete, mortar and asphalt. Such aggregate will pay
no levy during the current first year of the aggregates levy,
and the levy will increase over the next five years by 20 percentage
points a year until the full rate is payable. This offers this
particular sector time to adjust to the tax, for example by using
different inputs, eg recycled aggregates, and technologies to
reduce their demand for taxable virgin aggregate.
We remain concerned that, having now admitted
that part of the founding research "was not at all robust",
the Government should continue to place so much confidence in
the remainder of the research.[3]
The Government believes that those parts of the independent
consultants' research that made the case for a levy and informed
the rate of the levy were robust. The research which established
that there were significant environmental costs associated with
extraction of virgin aggregate and provided estimates of these
costs was endorsed by an expert review. However, the Government
does believe that work undertaken on a small number of unrepresentative
recycling sites to establish the external costs of this sector
of the industry was not robust. This does not in any way undermine
the Government's confidence in the main body of the research.
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Convinced of the value and dignity of human life from conception to natural death, respect life ministers help to educate the parish about a Consistent Ethic of Life, assist parents of unborn children with support so that they will choose life, and seek to improve the quality of life for persons who are elderly, handicapped, or imprisoned. The 8:30 AM Mass on the second Sunday of each month is offered for life.
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Shayla Stonefeather, a Native American attorney prosecuting a Lakota teen in a controversial murder trial, returns to the reservation to say goodbye to her dying father. After the teen is killed, she hears ghostly voices and sees strange visions that cause her to re-examine beliefs she thought she left behind.
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After taking the easy option of fish and chips for dinner and then a quick trip to the frozen yoghurt shop, two exhausted grandparents decided it was time for a video. Of course we can't remember the password for Apple TV and the delay in viewing predictably frustrates Mr Four, who insists it is the same as his at home and he can do it. He was right!
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Nov 21, 2010
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By Rachel Scully, Multimedia Journalist
FEAST your eyes on icicles, LED lights, christmas trees and stars.
The shimmering ornaments and decorations at this year's Orchard Road Christmas Light-Up sets out to fill your hearts with the Christmas cheer.
'Starlit Christmas', the theme for this year's Christmas Light-Up, revolves around the universally recognised star-symbol representing love, peace and joy.
As such, Orchard Road has been divided into these three colour segments. Pink represents peace, blue represents joy and purple represents love. In its 27th year running since 1984, the Orchard Road Christmas Light-Up stretches over 2.2km starting from Tanglin Road down Singapore's most popular shopping belt.
This year, Starlit Christmas took over 6 weeks to put up, and will be on display every evening till 2nd January next year. Guest-of-honour President S R Nathan, officiated the Christmas Light-Up, sponsored by Hitachi, which is participating in the light-up for the 20th time. For over two decades, about $7 million has been raised for the Community Chest through the Christmas Light-Up Switch-On Ceremony.


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Check out All the Cutest Cats shop at http://www.allthecutestcats.com/
The idea behind this shop is that absolutely all the products in it will be either in a form or with a picture of a cat. Have fun!
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So cute!!!
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Great idea! Lovely to see these kittens replacing lost mittens, by knitting their own!
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And Vickie, great idea to make a knitting bag out of this! : )
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Oh my gosh! This just gets me where I live when it comes to kitties and cuteness. The knitting kitty is, of course, the best, but the trio of kitties comes in a close second for giggle-tickling. Love it!
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Isn't it? I love seeing my designs made into things. She did a fabulous job.
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Vicki, your bags are so cute! I love that my kittens made it into your shop. I'd love everyone to go visit your etsy shop: http://www.etsy.com/listing/87867974/small-zippered-project-bag-knitting
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This fabric really made a cute knitting project bag!
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LOL Siya, poofy cats are so fab aren't they?
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These kittens are adorably poofy!
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hahaha, Mona, you crack me up!
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Thanks everyone. Every time I find a muddle of yarn I'm convinced the kitties have been knitting!
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Stella McCartney has designed the costumes for Ocean's Kingdom, which also features her father's debut ballet score.
It is the first time the designer has worked alongside her father, Sir Paul McCartney.
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MOVIE SYNOPSIS [ General Audiences ] With direction of Yasuhiro Yoshiura, this film in English (original language) was presented in 2010. This film written by Yasuhiro Yoshiura was produced in Japan. You can watch Eve no jikan online on TV cable or theaters with original audio in Japanese at different dates. This film premiered in theaters in 2010.
Rating: 5 by 1266 users./
Runtime: 106 minutes
Jun Fukuyama, Miki Itô, Yuri Lowenthal, Casey Mongillo, Cassandra Morris, Kenji Nojima, Tara Sands, Stephanie Sheh, Michael Sinterniklaas, Rie Tanaka and Joe Thomas.
Animation, Romantic, Science fiction.
106-minute film (full movie) directed by Yasuhiro Yoshiura.
The original audio of Eve no jikan has dialogues in or Japanese, it was produced in Japan.
It premiered in cinemas or television in 2010.
Screenplay written by Yasuhiro Yoshiura.
Michael Sinterniklaas and Tom Nagae.
This film was produced and / or financed by Studio Rikka, Code and Directions.
Composed by Toru Okada.
Without commercial breaks, the full movie Eve no jikan has a duration of 106 minutes; the official trailer can be watched in streaming on the Internet. You can watch this full movie free in English or Japanese in movie TV channels, renting the DVD or with VoD services (Video On Demand player, Hulu) and PPV (Pay Per View, Netflix).
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Beijing, Aug 23: China's Zhang Yining defended her Olympic title in table tennis with an elegant win over compatriot Wang Nan in the women's singles final on Friday.
China also sealed their first Olympic medal sweep in women's table tennis since 1988, with Guo Yue's win in the bronze match against Singapore's Li Jia Wei. It was Wang's first loss at these Olympics, where China has completely dominated the national sport in front of boisterous crowds. No Chinese player, male or female, has yet lost a match to an opponent from another country.
For the gold, fans were treated to a contest between Wang, 2000 Olympic champion and former world number one, and Zhang, 2004 Olympic champion and reigning world number one.
Zhang, who has been at the top of her game for more than a year, wore down Wang as the match progressed, ranging far from the table to retrieve balls and spraying low drives at sharp angles.
Zhang won the match, 8-11 13-11 11-8 11-8 and 11-3, to clinch the gold.
Wang, the "big sister" of Chinese table tennis in her third Olympics, said earlier that she would retire after the Beijing Games. The 29-year-old's play has slipped in recent years and she had to fight her way on the Olympic team through qualifiers.
Number one in the world since January 2002, apart from a single month, Zhang is the most successful player, male or female, in the history of the International Table Tennis Federation Pro Tour.
China has had a stranglehold on the women's table tennis gold, winning it every time since the sport debuted at the Summer Games two decades ago.


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Punching Like a Girl
Walking home from a holiday open house, my twenty-two-year-old-daughter and her boyfriend stop at a late night fast-food joint for a snack. Three men wearing tight shirts and reeking of beer enter and line up behind them. They start taunting; provocatively and cruelly. Impossible to ignore. My daughter's boyfriend turns and asks them to stop. Within minutes, he's met with a fist, the opening salvo of a pile-on.
The next morning, I wake up to find my kid waiting for me in my office. She's shaking. There's a slowly blackening bruise on the side of her wan face as if she's wiped her chin with a sooty mitten. Her knuckles are split and bloodied.
My daughter tells me that when her boyfriend was hit, she started punching. She punched and she didn't count how often or how hard. Her knuckles testify to multiple swings and more than a few connections.
I am confused: about what she has done and how I'm supposed to respond. But already there's an opinion, inchoate and unattractive, slouching toward articulation. Because let's face it, even today, a woman who throws a punch—unless she's your plucky granny popping a purse-snatcher—risks being tarred as unnaturally aggressive. In the very least, she has issues with self-control; she's reckless.
These thoughts come to me in the brightness of my office, when I see the dusty umbrae of my daughter's eyes, shadowed from a sleepless night spent on concussion watch with her boyfriend. Reactions gather like a mob in my head: did her actions make things worse for him? What if one of those three guys was packing a knife or a gun? Who is this kid of mine?
Then she whispers that she's afraid. Not about going out at night or being targeted again. Instead, she's worried about how good it felt to ball up her fist, aim, and clock somebody who deserved it. She's afraid of what it means about her.
I liked the feeling, she says. Is something wrong with me?
Usually quick to offer reassurances, I hold my tongue. If I'm honest, my relief that my daughter and her boyfriend are okay is tinged with something else I won't express—an unsavoury glee that one of the assailants caught some humiliation and pain at the end of her fist. It's shameful and reptilian. And satisfying. I too am afraid of what this means.
Because I have my own history with punching. And a history with punching is almost always a history with powerlessness, with impotence, with frustrated anger that can't be expressed, and when it is, has unexpected costs. For women, these costs can be complicated by our culture's uneven tolerance for violence, and, often, a lifelong suppression of their own physical strength and power. My daughter's reaction to three drunken men at a late-night fast food joint arises from her own fierce complexity, her navigation of the world as a six-foot twenty-something enraged by injustice and double standards: her values, her body, her story. My response to her injuries and confusion is as a mother first, but also a woman who throws a pretty decent right hook. It sucks me backwards into my own narrative, where there is as much discomfort with physical violence as there is flirtation with it. It's a story that begins with a girl who hit back and hit first, if only for a little while.
As children, my siblings and I pinched until we broke skin. We held each other's heads down in the public pool. We slapped and kicked in front of the television. Stuck in the middle of five children, I felt affronted when my next youngest brother breached the pecking order by growing bigger and stronger than me. So I lobbed tins of Meccano at his face, I tripped him into a brick wall, and once, while I was on the couch, and he was sitting on the floor, I rammed the edge of our coffee table into his head. Twice he was sent to the hospital because I'd cracked his skull. A turning point in my campaign against him was the afternoon he chased me around the house lobbing darts at my back; to this day we disagree on whether he had removed the points. He'd become so big by then it didn't make sense for me to keep picking on him. If my siblings and I had grown up twenty years later, we might have all been medicated, labeled and sent for therapy. As it was, we were sent outside with the back door locked until dinnertime.
When I had to stop, I experienced the absence of fighting back as a chronic low-level frustration—like losing a language or the ability to sing certain high notes. But as long as we all had to outgrow the tactile clarity of a swat, slap, shove or wrestling hold, it was bearable. Except of course, we didn't: my sister and I were expected to give it up much sooner. This wasn't subtle: we were just told to stop more often, pulled out of the melee first, until we got the message. One morning, I looked out a window to see my older brother and his best friend having a fist-fight in our backyard. A whinny of panic could be heard in their heavy breaths, as if neither could believe what the other was doing. A few minutes later, my brother burst through the back door, smeared with dirt and blood and hyperventilating. He stormed into his room. That friendship is toast, I thought. But I was wrong. Within the week, my brother's best friend was back in our living room, laughing and playing air guitar as if nothing had happened. I was startled and a little bit pissed off. Why did boys get to vent their anger and move on?
There are side effects to being told to pull your punches while others don't, ones I felt acutely. For instance, when I was a teenager working in the pantry of a summer resort, the head chef called me in to the walk-in freezer. There, among frozen sole fillets, crab legs and corn niblets bulging like bags of lead shot, he spun me around, clawed at my breasts and crotch and rubbed his pants against my backside. It lasted for a minute before he pushed me away, and walked out of the freezer.
Shivering, I went back to the kitchen, spoke to no one and resumed appetizer assembly: an avocado quarter cradling a shrimp salad, garnished with a grinning lemon wedge. The first tray I filled up was for the waitress who was the chef's girlfriend. I watched him flirt with her, daydreaming about splitting his lip or kneeing him in the groin. Today, nearly four decades later, I can remember his full name, conjure the sweat that plastered a few curls to his forehead, the self-satisfied smirk he beamed at me over the steam table afterward. He read my silence as an illicit yes rather than a learned apoplexy, a default for survival.
Who took the brunt of my anger? Not the thirty-year-old groper in sauce-smeared kitchen-whites but instead my teenage self. I had wasted a chance to yell; more importantly, to curl my fists, aim, and put up a fight. Because of this, on some level, I felt I deserved what happened.
This was an old feeling. When I was even younger, other adult males, whom I trusted, placed their hands on my childish body in ways that were uninvited and unwelcome and never spoken about. The silence and confusion that followed was diffuse and enduring, a pain different from having my hair pulled or my fingers slammed in a door-jamb (two infamous tactics of my siblings.) And it had its own violent quality: a cleaving of cause and effect within my psyche and body. It would take me well into adulthood to fully sort out how I could fix the broken joint of what had happened and how it changed me.
Small wonder then, that I reached adolescence yearning for heroes—proxies, versions of me who didn't sit on their fists. By the time second-wave feminism trickled into popular culture in the late '70s, it was too late; it couldn't undo the messages I'd already internalized. Wonder Woman and The Bionic Woman were well-meaning—each had a few bad-ass moves, their good manners and great hair never mussed by the impossibly pectoral men they took down—but this blithe suspension of the obvious and punishing differences between male and female strength made it hard for me to believe these women, or to be encouraged by them. Contemporary versions of Wonder Woman, from Jennifer Lawrence's Katniss Everdeen to Charlize Theron's Imperator Furiosa, are equally lithesome yet much tougher; still, I worry their CGI-enhanced empowerment translates better to equal opportunity merchandising than to how safe a woman might feel walking alone at night. And yes, of course, they're fantasy characters; but isn't the wink-wink nudge-nudge of superheroes that some small element of what they do—for instance, calling-out bad guys—is attainable for us mortals?
Perhaps it is this hunger to bring deities back to earth, to have avatars for feminine physical rage, that has so many young women (not to mention men) flocking to a venue where they can see actual female bodies swing actual punches—skilled, adversarial, bloodying and bone-breaking. This is not as new as it sounds: at the height of gladiatorial fighting—the Roman spectator sport, which much like modern boxing, exploited the underclass for its heroes—there were a subset of women, the gladiatrices, who entered the ring for an elusive glory.
Ultimate Fighting Championship founder Dana White seemed uninterested in resurrecting the gladiatrix when he insisted at a press conference in 2011 that a woman would never fight in his mixed martial arts octagon. But White is a profiteer first, ideologue second, and two years later, when a smack-talking, photogenic Californian named Ronda Rousey—a former US Olympic medalist in judo—began her bid to be mixed martial arts' biggest star, he changed his mind. I'd never heard of Rousey (despite her being the third most searched person on Google in 2015) until my daughter mentioned in passing last fall that she found her "unabashedly herself" and "refreshing." Certainly, Rousey did what was unimaginable twenty years earlier: before the age of thirty, she turned punching like a girl into an estimable career, a source of both celebrity and infamy …
In contrast, I wait until I'm middle-aged and newly divorced to learn the art of throwing a punch. I show up at a CrossFit gym with my first pair of 14-ounce Everlast boxing gloves and a set of bright pink wraps. And it soon becomes clear I'm going to excel at muscling my way through the conditioning—skipping sets, sprawls, burpees and sit-ups—but not the basic boxing skills. My introduction to the heavy bag is underwhelming; I punch like a girl in the pre-Rousey sense of the phrase, which is to say I lack technique. When Craig, a thick-shouldered, bespectacled and exacting young coach, barks out the order of combinations and drills, what results is tentative flailing. Each contact with the heavy bag sounds like an uninspired "meh."
Surrounded by younger boxers with much more potential, it surprises me that I get any of Craig's attention at all. But over the next months he persists. And while my jabs never reach a crisp snap, and my combos never attain that jab-jab-pow syncopation, I start to connect with the occasional straight. Then my right hook makes a delicious thud that cuts through the gym's warehouse din. I turn the sequence of movements that produce this sound into a moving mantra. I make it again. And again. I entertain ridiculous fantasies: my arms raised in the ring, a vanquished bully on his or her back. I take the tiniest sip of what Joyce Carol Oates, in her poetic and often elegiac 1987 meditation On Boxing, calls, "… the triumph of physical genius in a technologically advanced world in which the physical counts for very little …" Maybe because it's often withheld from an occasionally athletic middle-aged female, it tastes so damn good.
Before she lost her UFC bantamweight championship belt to Holly Holm, Rousey was that unstoppable arm-raiser. And while she still had a champion's swagger she put out a book called My Fight/Your Fight, co-written with her sports journalist sister. It quickly became a New York Times bestseller.
With its stagey black-and-white photos and testosterone-fueled language (the word "fight" is used no less than 17 times in the book's 500 word opening) My Fight/Your Fight merges autobiography with Sun-Tzu-inspired self-help talk. (The latter shows up in 36-point all-cap chapter titles such as "Pain Is Just One Piece of the Information" and "Prepare for the Perfect Opponent.") Needless to say, it's a quick read.
But it's compelling, too. In addition to gender norms, Rousey battles personal setbacks and demons: a speech impediment, a beloved father's suicide, a formidable judoka mother, an eating disorder that resulted from years of "making weight" and her own rebelliousness and occasional bad judgment. She also has a tale of extreme forbearance for isolation, physical pain (she competes with a broken foot and later, a pit bull bite) and privations such as the general lack of glamour, budgets and regard for female athletes trying to make their mark in male-dominated sports.
Even her advantages—coming from years of judo training—turn out to be an Achilles heel. In mixed martial arts championships, you have to be a proficient striker, but Rousey's trademark is grappling her opponents to the ground and keeping them down for the count with an elbow-dislocating move called the armbar. In her fall 2015 matchup with Holm, a former boxer and preacher's daughter with the shoulders of Atlas, Rousey's just-good-enough punches are her undoing. She simply can't mow the taller woman down. Holm uses a spectacular muy thai kick to knock out Rousey, but this comes after she's already dazed and bloodied her opponent with several precise and vicious straights to her face. Rousey looks out-matched from the start: Holm simply packs more of a punch.
It's wincingly hard to watch a real woman take this much real punishment. Yet female fighters—tough, pugilistic, trash-talking—raise the same possibility that professional boxers have done for generations of young men: that when threatened, there might be an opportunity to defend yourself with a punch that lands. There might even be some heroism in it.
For reasons I couldn't articulate, throwing a decent punch was important to me. During my sessions with the heavy bag, I aim for a mastery I never expect to use. And for several months, it works. I get better. I get better. I get better. And then I get bored. The heavy bag is all forgiveness. It does not hold onto my punches; it's unchanged by them. It quietly, quickly re-inflates, and swings back to me for more. It's a reliable, one-trick therapist, a good listener. But any triumph it offers is, ultimately, illusory.
In the end it forces me to confront myself. How much better do I need to be? A year after donning my boxing gloves, the original frustration and anguish that brought me to the heavy bag is exhausted. I start looking around for a fitness regime I can sustain with my wonky knees and sciatica, because, I realize, finally, I have no desire to get into a ring and aim for an opponent's face or kidneys. I stop going to boxing class and join a yoga studio. I miss Craig. I lose muscle. My flexibility improves.
Self-protection has its own code, and its own illusions. Not every punch swung in self-defense is good, or fair, or blameless. And yet every punch, offensive or defensive, ugly or righteous, makes another inevitable—if not immediately, then later. Such constant ratcheting up, regardless of gender, requires an ever-more weaponized body. And these bodies put themselves in danger, because an impenetrable defense against violence is also an invitation to it. My brother—he of the Meccano-dented head—lived the paradox of a gentle spirit encased in genetically predetermined burliness; by his teens he was as tall and broad-shouldered as a defensive tackle. It was not unusual for smaller men, emboldened by a few pints, to walk up to him in bars, apropos of nothing, close their eyes, hold their breath and take a swing.
In her book, Rousey never concedes that her body can only temporarily sustain the profession's required readiness for punching and being punched (the My Fight/Your Fight bravado would be hard to maintain otherwise) but her actions imply she knows it. Before her brutal comeuppance from Holm in the octagon, she'd already laid the foundations of an exit strategy: a fledgling acting career that includes bit parts in movie franchises such as The Expendables and Fast and Furious. A few months after her defeat, she guest-hosted Saturday Night Live. Such reinvention requires focus and a bit of luck. (For every Dwayne Johnson, there are surely dozens of former wrestlers and boxers working retail with concussed and hobbled bodies. Boxer Michael Spinks famously went from his Olympic Gold medal boxing win for the US direct to scrubbing floors in a chemical factory; a trajectory which led him to return to professional boxing. Rousey, herself an Olympian, lived in her car for a brief period while transitioning to mixed martial arts.) She'll also need new fans; ones who clamour for her to do something other than inflict pain. Now that Holm has lost the championship belt, there will be considerable pressure on Rousey to don the gloves and do battle with old rivals. Because all these girls punching girls are money-makers. And thanks, in part, to them, Dana White is one guy who will never have to worry about his health insurance or his kids' tuition.
The three men who line up behind my daughter and her boyfriend in the wee hours of a winter morning are strategists, too. They likely size up the chinos and Doc Marten/desert boot aesthetic of the couple in front of them, noting my daughter's short platinum hair, and arrive at a conclusion. Because the conversation they begin out loud is about date rape—how much they each enjoy it, how best to do it. They are drunk and loud and lavish with detail.
My daughter says time slows down for her in the moments that follow. She knows her big-hearted, principled boyfriend, will turn around and ask the men to stop. She realizes, as the exchange escalates, he's going to get hit first by the guy baiting him, before the other two join in. They aren't counting on dealing with her. So she gets ready to surprise the one standing closest. (She's had a few kickboxing lessons: she knows how to strike.) Once her boyfriend is hit, the rest is a blur. She remembers taking a swing and connecting, and nothing else. She won't recall being hit in the face, though it happens more than once. Two passersby see the melee and pull her away for her own protection. They do not come to the aid of her outnumbered boyfriend.
By the time police arrive at the fast food joint where my daughter and her boyfriend are ambushed, there's blood sprayed across the plastic laminate counter and a small crowd has gathered. The owner tells the police he doesn't know who started it. Two of the instigators begin to walk away, holding of all things, the food they'd ordered in tidy to-go containers. My daughter starts yelling at the officers to make an arrest. One threatens to put in her in the squad car if she doesn't shut the fuck up. So she does.
The world is a funny place for young women. Many will be victimized by violence or intimidation and left traumatized. (As will countless young men.) But most females will not enjoy the smallest taste of self-defense. So what happens when one does, when one literally throws a punch? How does an average woman—not a superhero or UFC celebrity—sort through the quixotic mix of exhilaration, shame and compromised justice that follows a physical confrontation in which she didn't step back or take blows helplessly? What are the consequences, when the adrenaline wears off, of putting herself at risk? If it's true, as Oates writes, that we must reluctantly acknowledge "… that the most profound experiences of our lives are physical events—though we believe ourselves to be, and surely are, essentially spiritual beings," then do women need to reconsider the spectrum of physicality they allow themselves?
Later, I'll retell the story of what happened to my daughter to a friend. "Whoa, you've got to rein that girl in," he says. I inhale slowly. Really? I think.
Two years ago, my daughter and I had what was probably our worst-ever argument: the fissile emotions left over from my divorce, the ignition of money worries, her anger, and my overworked martyrdom converged and exploded on an early summer afternoon when the house was empty. The banality mushroomed upward, expanded outwards, until we were both screaming our voices raw, rattling the window panes, saying impossibly hurtful things. It was intense and shameful yet awesome too, in the way any tantrum is for its willful abandonment of sense and decorum. At one point, we were within six inches of each other's faces, both yelling, and I felt the interesting, queasy possibility that one of us might take a swipe at the other. How dark, how very dark, this new reality would be for both of us. For a weird instant I was both seduced and repulsed by the moment's destructive potential.
We both pulled back—it was such an infinitesimal amount of restraint in a maelstrom of excess. Yet because of this restraint it was so much easier to move on. There was nothing that couldn't be salvaged. I'm grateful for that.
Still I cannot preach an exclusive non-violence to her (though part of me wants to). I only know every punch has the potential for shame: we can't measure its appropriateness or its virtue without also considering its aftershocks, including the way one feels about having punched. Or not. Yet a punch is still just an option—and as an option, it's not uniformly all right or all wrong. And there is something to be said for the purgative of learning how to punch, and walking around with the self-knowledge you can do it.
We do our best for our daughters. They grow up watching us, how we react. Also how we don't. We encourage them toward agency. But agency presumes choice, and choice requires options, a choosing between at least two things—restraint or action, fight or flight, violence or non-violence, diplomacy or war. Without options, a choice is imposed and therefore no choice at all. So before they become Buddhists or yogis or other-cheek turners, should our daughters also be boxers? Should we expect them to pull their punches before they've learned to throw one?
On a Sunday morning, in my office, staring at my daughter's bloody knuckles, the opponent I have to subdue is my own reaction—a fearful rampage of motherhood. For the most part, I win that match-up. I hang around the house that day. I fetch coffees and food. The windowsill near where she and her boyfriend sleep lines with watchful sentries of ibuprofen, antibiotic ointment, snacks and water-filled glasses. It takes them 24 hours before they are ready to return to their own apartment in another city. And it's a shaky 24 hours.
Rousey tells a story in her book about being in Grade 6, waiting at the end of the day for her mother to pick her up. An older, heavier, Grade 8 girl with a history of teasing and baiting Rousey approaches and gives her a push. After the second shove, Rousey takes off her backpack and flattens the older child. While pulling up in her minivan, Rousey's mother witnesses the interaction and also sees school staff separate the girls before marching them inside to the office. Rousey's mother follows them indoors where a counselor tells her both students will be suspended because of a strict "no physical violence" policy. She finds her daughter crying, afraid of how much trouble she's in.
"Did you see what happened?" her mother asks the counselor. "Because I did."
She insists to the counselor, and anyone listening, that her daughter will not be suspended, not for defending herself. She simply won't allow it. It's a short anecdote, told in unadorned language at the end of an early chapter. And yet a girl can build her whole life around an instance like that—when she takes action against an injustice, and someone who she trusts defends her right to do so. Rousey returns to school the next day without incident.
It's often a small window of time in which a girl feels physically invincible; it's as easy to banish from her body, as it is from her memory. Having one story in which she is, surely moves her toward an embodied wholeness, the very human paradox of gentleness and aggression. That must be worth a few bruises and misgivings, if it fuels faith in her own strength, if it protects her from silence. A girl can build her whole self around a story like that.
Krista Foss's debut novel Smoke River (released by McClelland & Stewart in 2014) was shortlisted for the North American Hammett Prize for literary excellence in crime writing and won the Hamilton Literary Award. Her essay writing has been published in the Humber Literary Review and her short fiction, published in several literary journals, has twice been a finalist for The Journey Prize. She has an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of British Columbia.


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Unfortunately, we tend to "throw away" our seniors and treat them as if they are invisible. Many of us feel that they have no further contributions to make to society. We don't have the patience to listen to an elderly person who takes a bit longer to tell his/her story. It's no wonder no one wants to be thought of as "old".
In countries such as China, where seniors are revered, there is not this same need to appear younger than they are.
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FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) -- Missouri's governor on Monday ordered the National Guard to a St. Louis suburb convulsed by protests over the fatal shooting of an unarmed black teen, after a night in which police used tear gas to clear protesters off the streets well ahead of a curfew.

 Gov. Jay Nixon said the National Guard would help "in restoring peace and order" to Ferguson, where protests over the killing of 18-year-old Michael Brown by a white police officer entered their second week. Police said they acted in response to gunfire, looting, vandalism and protesters who hurled Molotov cocktails.

 "These violent acts are a disservice to the family of Michael Brown and his memory and to the people of this community who yearn for justice to be served and to feel safe in their own homes," Nixon said in a statement.

 The latest confrontations came on the same day that Attorney General Eric Holder ordered a federal medical examiner to perform another autopsy on Brown, and as a preliminary private autopsy reported by The New York Times found that Brown was shot at least six times, including twice in the head.

 As night fell in Ferguson Sunday, another peaceful protest quickly deteriorated and the streets were empty well before the midnight curfew.

 "Based on the conditions, I had no alternative but to elevate the level of response," said Capt. Ron Johnson of the Missouri Highway Patrol, who is command in Ferguson. At least two people were wounded in shootings, he said.

 The "extraordinary circumstances" surrounding Brown's death and a request by his family prompted the Justice Department's decision to conduct a third autopsy, agency spokesman Brian Fallon said in a statement. The examination was to take place as soon as possible, Fallon said.

 The results of a state-performed autopsy would be taken into account along with the federal examination in the Justice Department investigation, Fallon said.

 Dr. Michael Baden, a former New York City chief medical examiner, told The New York Times that one of the bullets entered the top of Brown's skull, suggesting that his head was bent forward when he suffered a fatal injury.

 Brown was also shot four times in the right arm, and all the bullets were fired into his front, Baden said.

 The Justice Department already had deepened its civil rights investigation into the shooting. A day earlier, officials said 40 FBI agents were going door-to-door gathering information in the Ferguson neighborhood where Brown was shot to death Aug. 9.

 A federally conducted autopsy "more closely focused on entry point of projectiles, defensive wounds and bruises" might help that investigation, said David Weinstein, a former federal prosecutor who supervised the criminal civil rights section of Miami's U.S. attorney's office.

 Federal authorities also want to calm any public fears that no action will be taken on the case, Weinstein said.

 Police have said little about the encounter between Brown and the officer, except to say that it involved a scuffle in which the officer was injured and Brown was shot. Witnesses say the teenager had his hands in the air as the officer fired multiple rounds.

 Sunday's clashes in Ferguson erupted three hours before the curfew imposed by Nixon. Officers in riot gear ordered all the protesters to disperse, and many did, but about 100 stood about two blocks away until getting hit by another volley of tear gas.

 Protesters laid a line of cinder blocks across the street in an apparent attempt to block police vehicles, which easily plowed through. Someone set a trash bin on fire, and the crackle of gunfire could be heard from several blocks away.

 Within two hours, most people had been cleared off West Florissant Avenue, one of the community's main thoroughfares. The streets remained quiet as the curfew began. It was to remain in effect until 5 a.m.

 Earlier in the day, Johnson said he had met members of Brown's family and the experience "brought tears to my eyes and shame to my heart."

 "When this is over," he told the crowd, "I'm going to go in my son's room. My black son, who wears his pants sagging, who wears his hat cocked to the side, got tattoos on his arms, but that's my baby."

 Johnson added: "We all need to thank the Browns for Michael. Because Michael's going to make it better for our sons to be better black men."

 The protests have been going on since Brown's death heightened racial tensions between the predominantly black community and the mostly white Ferguson Police Department, leading to several run-ins between police and protesters and prompting Nixon to put the state highway patrol in charge of security.

 Ferguson police waited six days to publicly reveal the name of the officer and documents alleging Brown robbed a convenience store shortly before he was killed. Police Chief Thomas Jackson said the officer did not know Brown was a robbery suspect when he encountered him walking in the street with a friend.

 The officer who shot Brown has been identified as Darren Wilson, a six-year police veteran who had no previous complaints against him. Wilson has been on paid administrative leave since the shooting, and the department has refused to comment on his whereabouts. Associated Press reporters have been unable to contact him at any addresses or phone numbers listed under that name in the St. Louis area.
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Dreamed of diving in Maui during the humpbacks' winter season? How about diving with the manta rays on Big Island? We are in the process of developing our off-island excursion schedule, so check-in with us about future trips. If you have enough people, we can also customize a trip specifically for your group.
Night Dive with the Manta Rays – Big Island
One of the top ten dives in the world. We'll can take you to the island of Hawaii – or Big Island – where you'll swim along these giants of the sea at night. The Manta Ray dive is a night dive, consisting of a two-tank dive boat charter that we arrange. Check out this great video shot by our Divemaster Mike Marcelo!
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We'll explore the Sheraton Caverns on the south shore of Kaua'i where ancient lava tubes created stunning archways and overhangs, as well as other sites such as Zacke's Pocket, Brennecke's Ledge, General Store, Nukomoi Point and Ambers Arches. Kauai is home to thriving reefs, tropical fish, reef-tip sharks, large Jacks, Moray eels, and the rare Hawaiian Morwong.
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My friend Michelle "tagged" me in a game of virtual tag...and the rules are that you are to list 5 unusual things about yourself. And even though I pretty thoroughly examined my oddity in an earlier post, I'm game.
- I'll only drink my coffee if it's scalding hot. Anything less than burnt-tongue hot, and it's down the drain.
- Some of my favorite movies of all time are "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy. I can thank Steve for that, I think. (And no, I don't plan on donning a Hobbit costume and going to any conventions any time soon.)
- I cry, at least a little, at almost every movie I watch. Even comedies. Case in point: We watched 50 First Dates last night, and yep, there were tears. Not Steve's. Mine.
- I read Science Fiction. (Number 2 isn't so surprising anymore, is it?)
- I wouldn't know how to prepare and cook a whole chicken if my life depended on it. Ditto on most other meats. And to think my father used to own a meat locker.
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At the time, the health scare that forced Florida coach Urban Meyer's brief retirement in December sounded genuinely terrifying: Meyer admitted he collapsed and had to be rushed to a Gainesville hospital the night of his team's loss to Alabama in the SEC Championship game, and that he'd been suffering from chest pains so intense they were "controlling my life" for more than two years since his arrival at Florida. They were at least serious enough that his wife assured the Orlando Sentinel that there was "no chance" he would change his mind about retirement, and even when he did change his mind just a few hours later, the decision was all the more baffling for the complete absence of a diagnosis beyond "chest pains."
Six months later, long after it became abundantly clear that Meyer will be staring and pointing as intensely as ever on the Gator sideline this fall, we have an answer, on the record: Meyer was suffering from esophageal spasms, described by the Mayo Clinic as "an uncoordinated series of muscle contractions that prevent food from traveling properly from your esophagus to your stomach."
In other words, it wasn't his heart. So yes, Gator haters, you may go back to assuming he doesn't have one.
Meyer has apparently found complete relief through medication, and expects no further complications. It's a fair assumption, given his obsessive tendencies as a coach, that he expects only the best from his internal organs, and if his esophagus could talk, we'd like to think we'd hear something like this:
"I promise you one thing. A lot of good will come out of this. You will never see any esophagus in the entire country swallow as hard as I will swallow the rest of the season. You will never see someone push the food down as hard as I will push the rest of the season. You will never see a digestive system break down food harder."
Our (geniune) best wishes for the continued health of Coach Meyer, without whom the SEC would be a much less terrifying – which is to say, interesting – beat to cover.
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Judd Apatow has opened up about using his own family as inspiration for the new movie This Is 40.
The director cast his wife Leslie Mann and daughters Maude and Iris along with Paul Rudd in his film about a middle-age couple coming to terms with turning 40.
While speaking to USA Today, Apatow discussed how much of This Is 40 is based on his family.
"A third of the film is inspired by things that happened. A third is inspired by our friends, but mainly Paul. And a third we make up to make it funny," he revealed.
The filmmaker continued: "It's more an imagining of what could happen and how badly it could go. I started thinking about writing about this time in life."
His wife Mann added that it was really "fun" to be able to have her daughters on the This Is 40 set each day.
"They've grown up with all these people. They can enjoy themselves. It seemed like Maude discovered how to act this time," Mann said.
"In that scene when she screams at us at the table, she knew what she wanted to do and she knew she wanted to get emotional and she was nervous about it. She figured out how to put that into her acting.
"It was really fun watching her do that. It was amazing. I cried."
Apatow previously acknowledged a child murder joke which was written into This Is 40 two years before the Newtown, CT shooting, but said that he will not remove the dialogue from the finished movie.
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