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Archive for July, 2012
Charisma Travels Light (Guest post from LostSailor)
Posted by theprivateman in The Collective Wisdom of Men on July 24, 2012
LostSailor is a tremendously talented commenter on quite a few blogs. I asked if he wanted to post on my blog as a guest and he gracefully agreed. What follows below is his first post… his first of many, I hope.
Developing Charisma or "inner-Game" is increasingly essential for a man to achieve the success he wants while dating in the currently Darwinian sexual market place (SMP). The pickup artistry (PUA) parts of the Manosphere provide tips, tricks, scripts, and routines for beginners who are just becoming aware that they need more in their arsenal than average looks and showering once a day. The Game blogs elevate and broaden those concepts into an overall way of living consistent with continuing to suppress or eliminate beta tendencies and making alpha traits part of your life.
But Charisma, I think, is more than that. Properly understood, Charisma isn't just about a way of living, but a way of thinking and being. If a man can develop his Game to the extent that he no longer has to consciously think about his interactions with women while still being successful, he has found true Charisma. Think of it as Zen-Game.
Now, the fact that we're in the Manosphere and reading about all this makes it unlikely that we're going to become bodhisattvas of Game, but one of the keys to Charisma starts with some self-examination. The Manosphere echoes with laments about women who are bitter and critical, the "head-cases" who come with too much baggage. And while it's true, it's also true that the ladies express the same lament about men. Men's rights activists (MRAs) and beta men complain about the unfairness of the SMP, about the lopsided legal landscape of the divorce regime and family courts, about the societal pressure to "man-up" in a culture that denigrates the masculine, but they are sabotaging themselves in the SMP by perpetuating emotional responses to the facts of our feminized era. Charisma does not complain.
Most of us have had the "ah-ha!" moment when we first discovered the Red Pill. I believe my reaction was a common one, one that mirrors the Kubler-Ross stages of grieving. Denial, anger, depression (link below). And it very much is like grieving, grieving for believing the lies, the lost time, broken relationships, or years of involuntary celibacy.
The truth is, we all come with baggage, whether it's duffel, a steamer trunk, or a packing crate. The Charismatic man has learned how to open the suitcase and unpack it. He has emptied out the Dopp-kit of anger, the garment-bag of bitterness, and the travel-case of frustration. He no longer needs them.
The beta is constantly hampered by dragging around a Hefty sack of unresolved issues. The Charismatic man travels light.
Posted by theprivateman in The Collective Wisdom of Men, The Eternal Solipsism of the Female Mind on July 23, 2012
The recent tragic events in Colorado have revealed the depths of heroic actions that a man will automatically give to women. Three men lost their lives by literally taking a bullet for their respective girlfriends. Three men are dead, their girlfriends are alive (link below). While these are extreme cases, it points to an element of female privilege that is all around us. Sometimes its manifested as chivalry, sometimes as "helping a woman out" White Knighting. But it all boils down to one word:
In non-work environments (though I have seen it in the workplace, too), men tend to defer to women. For too many guys, it's a reflex. It's that deference that leads men to ask "so what do you want to do?" for a first date. It's that deference which prevents men from showing some backbone and strength when dealing with women. It's that deference that leads men to complete heroic acts even for women who are strangers. Even smacking an offensive and vile creature like Snooki causes men to immediately jump to her defense all because she's female and for no other reason.
Deference is all about female privilege and it's so much assumed that even feminists guard it ferociously. Consider this juicy quote from Amanda Marcotte in a comment to a male reader (link below):
Women's need to be safe comes first, James, Full stop.
This is her strident call for maintaining female privilege. I think this is why feminists are so threatened by men questioning this social status quo. It's the potential loss of men's deference to women. Of course, they will lay down a thick and barely-logical smokescreen of victimhood that, in the past, worked pretty well. Should the smokescreen prove ineffective, insults are the inevitable: "Stop whining", "You're just bitter", "You can't get laid". No cupcake, your fear is showing.
But the men have gathered in the back and have started discussing this rotten state of social affairs for the masculine gender. We're starting to learn that we've been duped, that deference to women is working against men. Be it the FriendZone®, excoriated for being NiceGuys®, and general invisibility to women, the guys who keep deferring to women are learning to knock off that bullshit. Women are indeed human beings, not automatically worthy of deferring to. As well, deferring to a woman with some magical expectation of getting something in return actually works against men. That's the NiceGuys® crap and needs to be addressed with a healthy dose of Charisma.
Ironically, Charisma tells us that such deference actually works against a man's effort at attracting the opposite sex. A man taking the lead and showing strength may not be about expressing deference, but it sure does make a man more attractive to women, especially the feminist types. Reflex deference to women can only be cured by the bitter medicine of the Red Pill and it takes time and effort. But when the urge to automatically defer to women finally stops, it's sweetly liberating and rewarding.
Returning to the Colorado tragedy, The three young men did what they felt they must as the bullets flew and chaos reigned. Imagine how we would respond if three women died in the same manner protecting their boyfriends. Perhaps the mainstream media will start to see masculinity as something positive and beneficial in this world and that male deference to women can save women's lives. One more thing, are you listening, feminists?
Three heroes died in Aurora taking bullets for their girlfriends
The Octomom Interlude (Guest Post With Photo)
Posted by theprivateman in The Eternal Solipsism of the Female Mind, Uncategorized on July 19, 2012
What follows below is a guest post from Kurt Green, a friend and colleague who spent the time and money to see Octomom "perform" at a local strip joint here in South Florida. This guest post is the most detailed coverage of her performance available on the Internet. Suck it Miami Herald!
I saw Octomom naked and all I got was this lousy t-shirt
By Kurt Green
In mid-June, I heard Nadya Suleman, AKA Octomom, was going to get mostly naked at a strip club a little more than a month later in July. I try to make an effort to ignore pseudo-celebrities, but it's hard to not pay attention to someone as deranged as Octomom, especially when you hear she's going to take her clothes off. Octomom represents the kind of cultural phenomenon we struggle out of embarrassment to explain to future generations like big hair or the Army-McCarthy Hearings. We'll tell the kids, "Yea that was something that existed back in my day. We knew it was messed up but I'm not sure why we let it go on for so long."
In case you're fortunate enough to be unaware, Suleman gained international notoriety when she gave birth to octuplets in January 2009. Eight more children on top of the 6 she already had, who she supported through public assistance since she was unemployed. She had the octuplets after requesting that the 6 remaining frozen embryos be implanted in her so they wouldn't be destroyed, and a former fertility specialist named Michael Kamrava actually did it. Two of the embryos split into twins resulting in 8 embryos. When put like this, it sounds like some kind of pulp science fiction premise about a world out of control and a woman with too many kids, but I assure you, it's a true story.
When I found out, I immediately sent the article to my friend, Denton. He laughed, and then asked as seriously as you can in an instant message, "So we're going right?" Of course we were going because the folks I run around with like fucked up shit, we think it's funny. Octomom represents one of the great "Fucked up Shit" wonders of our culture and modern age. A real life cartoon character taking a role in the terrible stories that play out on the pages of trashy tabloids in the checkout line at the grocery store, on garbage TV shows which imitate the news programs that probably confuse the less intelligent in our society about where they should be focusing their attention.
A few weeks later, the news changed, a bartender at the strip club had told a reporter that she thought Suleman was crazy, to which Octomom retorted by backing out of the deal. We were all pretty bummed out about it.
But then, a week before her previously scheduled appearance news came out that the original strip club was suing Octomom (which wasn't a surprise) and that they were trying to get an emergency injunction to prevent her from stripping at a different club in Hollywood (Fl). It was that second tidbit, buried in the fifth or sixth graph that caught my attention. I told Denton that it was on again. And so we went.
This is where I tell you to fasten your seat belt, because it's going to be a strange and gross ride.
There were 7 of us. It was past 11 when we arrived at the strip club in Hollywood. Jack had called a few days to find out when this thing would happen: 11pm and 1 am. The price to enter the strip club and participate in an event of this magnitude was $10.
We entered the club and I realized almost immediately that it may be the worst strip club I'd ever been to, and I strive to be an aficionado of dive bars and shitty strip clubs. It felt a little larger than a 2-car garage, and there were three stages crammed into this place: a main stage, an "owners' box" a few feet behind, and a small "vip" side stage by a smaller bar in the back corner. Believe me, this place was a shit hole.
The strippers did smile, but not in the sexy/sultry way, rather in a 200,000 miles, broiled over hard, defeated kind of way. The place was thick with people, but I got the vibe many didn't seem to be there to actually see Octomom. Maybe the real thoroughfare came through for the 11pm show, I heard the local news was there for that one, but the people who remained seemed like they just happened to go to a strip club where Octomom happened to be stripping.
And so we waited. We drank and gave one dollar bills to the strippers, we laughed and joked about our expectations in seeing Octomom mostly naked, but every once in a while, for just a brief moment, I'd catch eyes with one of my friends and there was a moment of sincerity like we both silently agree that this is going to be fucked up and awkward.
As with most DJs, the guy at this club would not shut the fuck up. "We got Octomom coming up in a little bit," he said in that irritating tone they all speak with. "Once again gentlemen, no photos of Octomom, if we see you taking photos you will be escorted out, possibly nicely, possibly not." He then announced that if you wanted a picture, you could get one with Octomom, "just go on back by the VIP stage."
So I walked around the stage to the other side of the club, half expecting some exorbitant fee to get a picture with a mother of 14. There was no line, just a giant bald bouncer behind a velvet rope. I asked him how much it cost to get a picture and he said "$20."
I pulled out my wallet and said, "Okay." He said it would be a minute.
I smoked a cigarette while I waited, I thought about if I'd make a face for the picture, if I'd tell Suleman I think her head looks like a crescent moon, I wondered if I was seriously fucking doing this. It was kind of surreal, here's this lady who has to garner some kind of attention because she's on TMZ and in gossip magazines often, but for what? Having 14 kids or 8 at once? Not having the common sense or personal responsibility to figure out how to support the kids she's going to have through in vitro fertilization? Being a fame whore? And soon I'd be in close quarters with this lady.
A few minutes later, a couple of blond girls come out from behind the curtain of a private dance room, "Ready?" the bouncer asked.
I put out my cigarette and said, "I guess."
I was led into the small private dance room behind the rope. The room was crowded with all sorts of bags and cases, Octomom seemed to have taken it as her nest. I recognized her immediately, although she was a shorter than I imagined (adjusting for stripper heels). She was wearing a leather get-up, high boots, short skirt, and bra. I thought I'd wax on poetically about how I was Icarus flying too close to the sun, ironically. But the truth is, if you passed her on the street you couldn't tell she's made some real fucking poor life decisions seemingly without any kind of reason and put 14 kids in a real weird and not entirely safe position. I realized I had nothing to say to her, the same way I have nothing to say to a regular person on the street that I have no real interest in – I certainly would tell them their face looked like a crescent moon, even if it did.
"Hi, what's your name?" she said.
"Kurt," I responded.
"Hi Kurt, I'm Nadya."
"Oh, I know."
The photographer in the corner broke the silence following my statement, "OK, here's the deal: 20 for a picture, 40 for topless, and 200 for a PRIVATE friction dance."
I gagged at the thought of the last part, "20 is fine."
He snapped a picture, and in the flash of the camera I realized there was no overarching moral to life, just sad people doing sad shit. Somehow a few people do monumentally stupid shit and a lot of people complain and say it's all fucked up, but other people watch and get some sort of enjoyment out of it. I think these reactions are coping mechanisms for something everyone knows isn't right, but no one really what (or even if) there's anything they can really do about it. And it's not just Octomom, it's the Kardashians, it's Paris Hilton, it's a constant stream celebrity gossip in every form of media, about people no one should aspire to be or remotely respect – the worst role models imaginable. But for some reason people pay attention, take their advice on weight loss and how to maintain a healthy relationship. There is more going on here than morbid curiosity for this kind of shit to still exist in its ubiquitous quantities. It's like the Blob: there's no containing it, no escape (I don't have cable and still somehow know who these people are). I think this kind of media will have serious societal and cultural consequences if enough people think the behavior of pseudo-celebrities on TMZ and in the National Enquirer is the kind of stuff you should pay attention to.
He handed me the picture and said, "If there's any problems just let me know and we'll retake it, just make sure to bring the picture with you." And with that, I paid and left.
I passed the pictures to my friends, we had a good laugh. I told them what happened and explained we should all chip in and draw a straws, the "winner" (heavy emphasis on the quotes) would get the mother of 14 friction dance. Unfortunately (or fortunately), we never did that.
We drank more, and the strippers did their thing, and the DJ was annoying.
You know how prior to a disaster there are subtle occurrences, like pets freaking out before an earthquake or the ocean receding before a Tsunami? In much the same way there was a subtle indicator when a blond female photographer began setting up a camera on the other side of the stage. There she was – standing by her camera, not looking at the stage, and appearing very uncomfortable – a clear indicator of an impending disaster. Later, on the way out, I'd ask her what she thought about the situation and she'd say it was her first time at a strip club.
As 1am approached, the DJ made more frequent announcements about how taking pictures was strictly prohibited. And then it happened.
Octomom came out in a school girl outfit: red heels, white thigh-highs, a short red plaid skirt, and a buttoned blouse that was tied at the bottom under her breasts. Watching her flail around on stage gave me the distinct impression she had never stripped before, not even in private. She grabbed the pole and kind of walked around it, shaking her hips in a manner that might be considered dancing. She worked the audience, getting down on her hands and knees at the edge of the stage.
During the act she reached into her panties and pulled out a blow-pop. We laughed at the absurdity and grossness of the act, we laughed harder when the guy she handed tried to not take it and after he finally did he just put it on the table. We were hysterical when someone actually put one in their mouth. When she went to the other side of the stage and got low, her skirt flew up a little and you could see all the lollipop sticks poking out from her underwear. She must have had a dozen of them stuffed in her panties and bra.
She awkwardly removed her clothes; it was as if someone else had dressed her because she didn't know how to get out of them, which caused her "dancing" to be even more out of rhythm with the music.
Octomom seems like the kind of woman who spends a lot of time obsessing over her body in front of a mirror, as she's had a lot of work on the front, but the back is a different story. Her ass cheeks hung the way grandma boobs do, the small of her back was this weird gelatinous wasteland. My friends and I were confused trying to figure out if she had a bellybutton or not.
At one point, when Octomom was down to her panties, a hipster girl who she had given a lollipop to fed it back to the mother of 14 and then put it back in her mouth. I'd like to think that was the defining moment in that girl's life, and that she'll divide her life as 'Before' and 'After' she shared a blow-pop with Octomom in a shitty strip club in south Broward county.
As Octomom "danced" and got low and crawled around the stage, her white thigh-highs got progressively dirtier, midway through her set the knees were brown like they'd be left in a confined place with a chain smoker. It wasn't sexy, it wasn't even appealing. We wanted to write her kids names on our dollars, but they don't give out pens at strip clubs. Instead we threw our money hoping that it might be going into a college fund.
Towards the end of her set, she started throwing t-shirts to the crowd; she danced around with them and flossed them between legs. She threw one to me since we being particularly vocal, it said, "I saw Octomom naked;" I thought, 'and all I got was this lousy t-shirt.' It turned out to be an extra-large, so I gave it to my friend Steve, who wanted one. The next day he told me, out of the dim light of the strip club, it was kind of dirty and some of the stuff on the shirt looked like shit.
About 12 minutes after it all started, it was suddenly over. People clapped and hollered. No more than 200 crumbled dollar bills where collected into a basket, Octomom was ushered back to her nest.
A while later, after doing the normal strip club thing we left, there weren't any paparazzi outside, just the two photographers who worked for Octomom, that's probably where most of the pictures of her in the gossip magazines come from, or maybe she wants some pictures to put in the family photo album. We had taken two cars, my friends in the other car told me she came out with a jacket over her head and her photographers took pictures while she got in the backseat of a car and left.
And that was it. I'm certainly not a better person for seeing what I've seen, there was no grand enlightenment moment, but it's something I won't forget. Fame-whoredom is a serious issue in our culture and I witnessed it firsthand. There were probably robberies, murders, and missing kids on that Friday night in South Florida, there were probably more important things to cover in the lead up to the event too, but local news agencies covered a mother of 14 taking her clothes off for money. Rome is burning and I don't think there's anything we can do about it, so sit back and enjoy the show.
[I'll be poolside – Ed.]
What Men Want
Posted by theprivateman in Relationships, The Collective Wisdom of Men on July 14, 2012
Imagine a woman a singing this: http://youtu.be/uYZ9uB987Uk
I am a sucker for the female singing voice. Hayley Westenra, oh my.
(While the video sucks, the sound isn't so bad)
In the morning when you rise
I bless the sun, I bless the skies
I bless your lips, I bless your eyes
My blessing goes with you
In the nighttime when you sleep
Oh I bless you while a watch I keep
As you lie in slumber deep
My blessing goes with you
This is my prayer for you
There for you, ever true
Each, every day for you
In everything you do
And when you come to me
And hold me close to you
I bless you
And you bless me, too
When your weary heart is tired
If the world would leave you uninspired
When nothing more of love's desired
My blessing goes with you
When the storms of life are strong
When you're wounded, when you don't belong
When you no longer hear my song
My blessing goes with you
This is my prayer for you
There for you, ever true
Each, every day for you
In everything you do
And when you come to me
And hold me close to you
I bless you
And you bless me, too
I bless you
And you bless me, too
The Comments Make The Blog
Posted by theprivateman in Dating/Online Dating, Relationships, The Collective Wisdom of Men, The Eternal Solipsism of the Female Mind on July 10, 2012
I am continually stunned by the thoughtful and well-written comments that my blog garners. This is from AnonWriter:
Women have been brainwashed their entire lives about what they're supposed to want, and they've fully bought into it all. Over and over again, women will tell men what they 'want', and it's no surprise that men have come to believe what women are telling them. It's in magazines, TV shows, movies, websites, everywhere. There does exist a handful of men in this world who realize, however, that what a woman says about what she wants and what a woman really wants are often two completely different things.
Now, what happens when such a woman receives everything that she thinks and says she wants? She feels strangely unhappy and unfulfilled, and this confuses. It's confusing to others around her also. After all, she has everything she (or any other woman) could have ever 'wanted'. However, when you recognize the effects of social programming on women, the unhappiness makes complete sense: she is out of touch with her own needs and, as a result, her man isn't supplying what she really needs in their relationship. This is not the man's fault, because she (and society) have constantly fed him bad information, day after day, year after year, about his responsibilities and what her needs are supposed to be.
So what does the man do in the face of his woman's unhappiness? He tries even harder to please his woman. He keeps doing what didn't work before, and he does it with even more vigor. And what does this have the effect of doing? It makes him even more undesirable, probably even repugnant to her. She doesn't understand it, so she chalks it up to love being lost or some other rationalization. The man feels lost and frustrated – he feels like he's done everything right, given her everything she's ever wanted, and this is the result? The relationship ends, but all is not lost because this is his watershed moment – when he is finally capable of seeing some truth in the world.
I guess it all boils down to one thing: the human condition does not change just because a group of people want it to change.
Social expectations… oh, how we are all screwed up.
Honesty From An Unlikely Place
Posted by theprivateman in The Collective Wisdom of Men on July 8, 2012
As I don't own a television so I read a great number of blogs. Of course I read many of the Manosphere blogs. I also read blogs written by women and those that cater to women, even the "mass market" blogs. So I'm over at Jezebel (no link from me!) reading a column written by a particularly loathsome fellow who is a well-known for penning misandrist opinion pieces (again, no link from me!). This particular column wasted a lot of words castigating men, as the writer consistently does.
In the comments section I expected the same echo-chamber mentality with too many readers singing the praises of the misandric notions in the column. Rather, I found this incredibly honest statement:
I am a woman. I am an occasionally over-emotional, over-reacting woman. Throughout my teenage years I constantly destroyed healthy relationships by being mean, deceitful, self-absorbed and down-right manipulative, and the boys and friends I was involved with were left hurt.
One of the BEST THINGS about my husband is he tells me, flat out, when I'm being a bitch/crazy person and won't tolerate it. He never does this self-deprecating thing, but I do not believe his 'gaslighting' is a manipulative tool. If he didn't do it, I would spend a whole lot more time being angry or crazy, and that would be shit.
I know many women. A lot of them are actually fucking crazy, like me. A lot if them are (at times) jealous, needy, over-emotional, irrational, bitchy and immature. I know their partners and I hope to God those men have the spine to tell them so.
But I am not so hopeful, and here's why:
I am a teacher, and I work in an all boy's school. I am doing my masters in boy's education. At my school, Mothers are not allowed to attend parent teacher nights, because teachers found when they did, Mothers talked over Fathers who were answering targeted questions:
"so Mr X, how often do you and Tom spend time together?"
" Well… We read the paper together on-"
"Ha! You haven't done that in weeks, you just play that stupid Wii together".
They would also frequently put down their husbands and sons in front of others and generally micro-manage everything. But everyone is too scared to tell the woman to SHUT UP because that would be totally misogynistic.
So the son grows up with a controlling, overbearing Mum, who is constantly cranky, unimpressed, over-emotional, yelling at him. Then he meets a girl who behaves like that, as she has a puffed up sense of entitlement thanks to some feminists decades ago. She reads Jezebel and truly believes that if he ever suggests she may be over reacting about anything, or is down on himself, then he is manipulating her, the bastard. This lovely young man ends up in a shit relationship with an empty wallet because HE'S the oppressor.
Ridiculous. Everyone just needs to treat each other with respect and honesty, WOMEN INCLUDED.
And p.s. I do more housework than my husband does, because although we both work full-time, he works on average 10hrs more than me a week and earns twice as much as me. He would help out more if I asked him to, but I can see that for this to be an EQUAL relationship, I should take care of the home instead of spouting 'recent studies' about how he's a shit human because I don't like cleaning our toilet.
It could be argued that this comment was written by someone familiar with the Manosphere. It might have been written by a sock puppet (link below). It hits almost too many of the common Manosphere themes such as the bossy and domineering woman, schools being bad for boys, female entitlement, etc. Regardless, the comment is excellent.
In a follow-up comment, the author of the quote above had this to say:
However, a boy will never be a man if he is just following orders from a woman (his mother and one day a wife), he needs to independently step up to the expectations of positive male role models.
That's amazing.
Who Pays? (Short Post)
Posted by theprivateman in Dating/Online Dating, The Collective Wisdom of Men, The Eternal Solipsism of the Female Mind on July 6, 2012
I've been reading a lot about the issue of who pays for the date. I argue that the man pays for the first date. I never really had a good, solid reason for that until I was reading something over at HuffPo in the Women's pages.
The host always pays.
Yeah, that's why the man always pays. He does the inviting – most always for first dates – so he does the paying. But can anyone spot the hypocrisy that Strong and Independent Women® usually fall blindly into for the second, third, and fourth dates?
Yeah, they seldom do the inviting. To put it rudely – on dates, it seems far more easy for a woman to open her legs than to open her wallet.
Carry on with your bad selves.


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July 13. 2011
To Teach or to Educate: THAT is the Question!
by Brett Scaglione
Think back to your time in schooling… everyone seems to have that one teacher that stood out from the rest as your favorite. Throughout the years of being involved at Barry University, I have always been fascinated with what qualities a teacher possesses that made them stand out in their student's mind as being the "best teacher they ever had." Every time I have conversed with students on this subject, the reason almost always seemed to be the same: "I learned the most with them: they were able to get the information across in a way that I was able to understand and I actually enjoyed going to class!" If this individual is considered a teacher by title, but is able to reach students unlike other teachers have in the past, are they still to be considered a teacher? What have they done that is so different than that of the other teachers?
Personally, I do not think individuals who are among the pantheon of "The Best Teacher I Ever Had" should be considered teachers, but as educators. An educator is "a specialist in the theory and practice of teaching/education" (www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/educator, 2011). In other words: to be considered an educator, one must be well versed in communication, possess a mastery of all related information in their field, and understand their students well enough to be able to relate the information to them so they can truly assimilate information, not just recite it. An educator has a multitude of tools that can be called upon at any given time to be able to explain a topic many different ways. There might be a class where you are trying to explain the theory of hypoxia and it might have to be explained three different ways with different metaphors and scientific based conversations. An educator is able to take this challenge in stride due to a true mastery of the information involved and an ability to look at every student as an individual. This allows the educator to unlock the secrets to their student's full understanding of the knowledge.
As an Instructor for Freediving Instructors International it is necessary for you not only to become an educator, but a Professional Aquatic Educatior. This is someone someone who truly cares about the information they teach, possesses a mastery of the information they present, lives their lives according to the standards by which their student are held, and is an unwavering ambassador for not only the sport and activity of freediving, but also the safe practices that are a part of our passion. Face it: it is our job to make sure freediving is conducted in a safe and enjoyable manner! Is it possible to ensure our student's safety/enjoyment if they do not understand all the information?
So, the rest is up to you: are you going to teach or are you going to educate?"
July 6. 2011
True Flexibility
by Cat Fitzgerald
Did you know:
"We are supposed to peak athletically between the ages of 35-45; not in our teens."
"True flexibility is cumulative and permanent."
You should be a little perplexed, maybe even a little peeved, but interested – dubious, yet hopeful. When I picked up Bob Cooley's The Genius of Flexibility for the very first time and read these two statements, a few things cascaded like Pachinko balls in my head: "Nobody I know thinks they are as flexible, or more so, now, than when they were younger," "This isn't what I witness in everyday life nor experience myself," and "If this is true, I have to know what [Bob Cooley] knows."
Not to burst any bubbles out there, but, the memories of our flexible youth, of splits three ways, contorting to fit into luggage bags (if you had an older brother like mine), and back bends around beach balls and telephone poles, are lies. More accurately, they are misconceptions.
We all have photos of those magic tricks proving that we could wrap our ankles behind our necks; it just wasn't flexibility that allowed us to perform all of those nimble feats. It was hyper mobility of our joints and soft tissues – the very things that allowed us to bend, bounce back from injury, and sometimes bounce back uninjured from that which should have been devastating. The irony is that we feel like we are missing now what we didn't actually have back then.
The good news is that we CAN have it today. We can have now what we never had, even though it feels so very unattainable. It just takes a bit of work.
Settling on Terminology
Long muscles are not automatically flexible ones, and short muscles aren't necessarily tight. We tend to confuse Range of Motion (ROM) and Flexibility with our ability to get a task accomplished. Every person to whom I say, "You have inflexible hamstrings," as they stand before me, straight legged with their palms firmly planted on the ground, gets upset with me, to say the least. Sure they may have long hamstrings, but, when the muscles ability to contract reciprocally is not present, there is a problem.
Flexibility is a muscles ability to lengthen and to shorten. There is a clear distinction between "shorten" and "contract." We can contract and shorten – Concentric Motion, or contract and lengthen – Eccentric Motion. ROM is just what it seems: the distance and direction a joint can move between the flexed position and the extended position without the benefit of substitution or recruitment of other bones, joints, or muscles, and it is easy to measure. Here's a quick exercise:
Stand in front of a mirror and lift your straightened arm until it is pointing to the ceiling. Take note of the relationship between your arm and your head. How far apart are they? Which direction is your elbow pointing? Now, look at your shoulder. Has the distance between your neck/ ear and shoulder changed?
Now do it again, but stop as soon as you see your shoulder elevate, making the space between your shoulder and neck or ear smaller. This is a more accurate picture of your actual Range of Motion. Next time I will give you the keys to increase your ROM and get you started on your path to a healthier, more resilient, more flexible body.
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I have been diving for 19 years, and I am happy to say that for the most part, I've never had severe heartburn on a dive until recently. I was coming up from a dive when suddenly a sharp burning pain occurred in my esophagus. It felt like someone was pouring hot tea down my throat. I continued to dive and the symptoms escalated and got worse. It got to the point that the pain was debilitating, and forced me to stop diving for the day. I quickly realized that I needed to learn about my problem in hopes to find a solution. I don't ever want to experience heartburn while diving again!
From the info that I dug up, it seemed like there could be multiple contributing factors to heartburn.
1. Foods and drinks that cause you to produce more stomach acid:
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2. Immersion causes Increased pressure on stomach and can distort the stomach-esophagus valve so that it leaks more easily.
3. A tight wetsuit or a tight weight belt around your stomach can also increase pressure on your stomach, and might be a small factor.
4. When you are inverted gravity will increase any stomach acid leakage into the esophagus if the stomach-esophagus valve is not well sealed.
5. I think that some people have damaged or defective stomach-esophagus valves or other medical issues that require surgery or special medications or treatment from a doctor (see the links below about treatments).
For prevention, there are few kinds of medicine. Some help reduce neutralize acid in your stomach. Others help to decrease the amount of stomach acid your body produces. There are over the counter medicines and more powerful prescription ones you can get if you see a doctor. There are also surgical options. Here are some pretty good descriptions of the options:
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The approach I am going to try for dive trips is to be more careful about what I eat, and take a Pepcid Complete (over the counter medicine that both neutralizes acid and decreases acid production), 1 every 12 hours. If I still get heartburn, I'll use some liquid Mylanta medicine to help relieve the symptoms. It also contains antacids to help neutralizes acid in the stomach, and I think that it coats your esophagus and stomach to reduce irritation from the acid. I haven't really had a chance to try it out since I haven't done any trips since I got the new info.
As you can see from this link, Terry Maas wrote about heartburn in the physiology chapter of his freedive book. The info on the link is limited, but the book has much more details about the issue.
You may want to double check facts of these statements or consult with a doctor before using any of the information listed above. The info I have gathered was through the help of my friends Tom Fiene and Paul Young who started experiencing heartburn before I did. They had done much of the research, and when I finally experienced the same heartburn problems, I asked them for the info they had already dug up.
As of now, I have not had any reoccurring issues with heartburn.
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Feisty, opinionated and unshakeable in her love for her family and Mexican singing superstar Juan Gabriel, Lupe Alvarez worked more than 22 jobs (her family lost count) to help raise her kids and pay for private school.
Her complex pozole rojo had more toppings than she had jobs: pork, avocado, onions, lime, tortilla chips, shredded cabbage and dried chiles were just the start. She knew the delectable hominy stew could lure back to the dinner table any family member who might have a nose out of joint after a disagreement.
She believed full makeup was a prerequisite for going to the gym, mass or grocery store, and that pink lipstick was a necessity.
After immigrating to Chicago from Ciudad Hidalgo, Mexico, she navigated the city for two decades almost entirely by bus and train. But quietly, she squirreled away her money, until she presented her family with a brand-new 1992 teal Toyota Corolla.
"My mom had come home from work one day, and she had bought a car from a dealership. She didn't tell my dad," said their daughter, Vanessa.
As her family put it in her eulogy, "Lupe believed that women can do it all and men should just listen. Period."
Her husband, Enrique Alvarez Alcantar, was delighted at the purchase, Vanessa Alvarez recalled. "He was just, 'That's great — you can take the kids to school in the car.' "
She believed a strong spirit could overcome much. After a few lessons from an uncle, she announced she had learned to drive. And she had.
At first, she didn't believe she was as sick as the doctors said. In 2011, they diagnosed her with cervical cancer. She retorted that she felt fine. Mrs. Alvarez underwent chemotherapy and radiation but wasn't able to beat the disease, which claimed her last month at Rush University Medical Center. She was 61.
In her last days in the hospital, her family played her the songs of her beloved Juan Gabriel. Though she called Enrique "my man," the performer known as "Juanga" inhabited a special chamber in her heart. His songs brought her to tears.
In 2005, Gabriel fell from a stage in Houston, suffering a concussion and breaking a bone. This led to family teasing that was worthy of a bad telenovela, their daughter said.
"She would cry at a DVD, about what a wonderful singer he was," Vanessa Alvarez said. "Whenever she would sing one of his songs, my dad would pretend he was Juan Gabriel, and say 'Oh, my ankle,' and he would fall, and he would lip sync. And my mom would say, 'You have no education! Oh, that's a terrible thing to say about him.' "
"She'd get up and go somewhere else in the room until my dad would say, 'I'm just kidding, come sit with us.' "
Her family called her "Spanglish" words Lupe-isms. "Froggy" meant foggy. "Compuri" was the computer. She called CDs "GDs," — "which is kind of a Chicago funny thing, because it's a gangbanger," her daughter said. "She'd be like, 'put on the GD,' or 'Listen to the GD; it's so good.' "
Sometimes, Mrs. Alvarez announced: "I need jelly for my hair."
Her family was prosperous in Ciudad Hidalgo, but she wanted to explore. She came to Chicago to visit an uncle and began compiling the first of her 22 or so jobs. She worked as a nanny, in factories, at a dry-cleaner, and as a caregiver for the elderly.
Back home, she had met Enrique Alvarez Alcantar when he coached her soccer team. She called him every week and asked him to come to Chicago. He did; they married in 1974.
They raised their family in Ravenswood and Andersonville, where their five kids learned to swim, play basketball and do gymnastics at Welles Park. Lupe and Enrique Alvarez scraped together the money to pay for tuition at St. Matthias grade school and Gordon Tech College Prep. The couple also liked attending dances at Queen of Angels church hall for the Club de San Felipe de Ciudad Hidalgo football club.
A big proponent of eating right, she rose at 6 a.m. to get the best fruits and vegetables before they sold out at the farmers' markets. On holidays, she loved to grill steak and onions at the lake, bringing her own rice and beans.
Spanish was the language at home when her oldest children were small, but by the time the younger ones came along, she told them: "No Spanish, only English now." Vanessa wonders if something happened at work to make Mrs. Alvarez change. Her children speak Spanish today with varying degrees of fluency.
Though she wasn't a huggy mom, Mrs. Alvarez believed in greeting people warmly. "Be Mexican — hug with meaning," she'd say.
In addition to her husband and her daughter, she is also survived by her children Ary, Mitchell, Chanel and Alex; her sisters, Mayra Yolanda Samano and Blanca Franco; her brothers, Rogelio, Sergio and Gerardo, and one grandchild.
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As my wife and I and our band of rescues get in some pre-meal snacking and watch the Thanksgiving Day Parade together, it's time to wish everyone a warm and wonderful Thanksgiving.
We've lost several of our older dogs and a cat to various ailments over the last couple of years and at this time of year the feelings can be bitter-sweet. But we are grateful that can we spend time together as a vary diverse family. And we're thankful that we have been able to adopt two more homeless pets this year.
For Murphy (a lab) and Tillie (a basset/yellow lab mix) it will be their first Thanksgiving with us.
We hope your holidays are filled with hugs, snuggles, family time, great food and maybe a few slobbery licks to the face.
A bunch of stuff going on in the news. Here's a start –
In Massachusetts, dog rescuers are howling a bit at new regulations which they say are making it more difficult to bring dogs into the state that are in need of new homes. The new rules are designed to keep sick dogs from coming into the state.
But, for example, in the case of greyhounds, it is important that the regulations don't go too far. Let's make sure science takes the lead on this one. There are too many homeless dogs who desperately need a new home and sometimes that means moving across state lines.
Bloomberg Businessweek has an interesting article out on designer breeding versus the AKC types.
It seems the more traditional (if we can call it that) breeders are coming up against those who are selling mixes such as the labradoodle and others.
It is somewhat disturbing to read that the designer breeders have grown from about 40 in the US a decade ago to thousands today, who are feeding what the article suggests is a "growing demand."
Some people are still being been led to believe that they have to purchase a "purebred" dog or cat. They believe that to "know what you're getting" you must buy an AKC registered dog or you be able to trace a bloodline or follow some championship pedigree. Wrong.
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Nations played in Nation Games: Guatemala/FNCA (WiR1861), Serbia (WiR1900), France (WiR1900), Terran Ascendancy(DH2), Commune of France(Kaiserreich), Basileia Rhomaion (KaK), DPRK (WiR2020), RSFSR and associates (BoP1920:TTY), Harad (LotR), Armenia (DDD), DPRK (PM2), Romania/Rhomânia! (WiR1901), DPRK (WiR2020 Mk.II)
I support the Comunistas! Nothing is more vile then the capitalist system. It must and will be brought down!
"I have always thought the actions of men the best interpretations of their thoughts." -John Locke
I got an AAR too: The Kingfish - A Fascist United States AAR
And another: An Arm of Iron-A Narrative Stannis AAR
Now that we have enough support I say we become a major party! People of Chile, see through the backwardness of capitalism and the evilness of Fascism and support the only solution: Communism!
- Xavier Kvaratskhelia, an ideologist.
"A learning experience is one of those things that say, 'You know that thing you just did? Don't do that.'" - Douglas Adams
I declare my utmost support for the Communistas!
~ Ernesto F. Fuentes, Retired General and Senator
Carlos Mendieta, President of the Republic of Cuba in Frymonmon's World in Revolution: 1920 Mk. II
Susanne J. Aulbricht, High Chancellor and Chairwoman of the Zelsar People's Party in alexander23's Master of the Galaxy 4
The High Septon and Most Devout in BlackBishop's ASoIaF: A Scream of Souls
Mankar, Archon and Marshal of the Aldmeri Dominion in Emilersej's Dawn's Beauty - an Elder Scrolls Game
Francesco Ludovico Costanzo Sforza, Conte di Trecate e Galliate in ThunderHawk3's Power to the People
"Those who stand for nothing fall for anything." ~Alexander Hamilton
I support the Frente Nacional. We will get revenge for our patriots.
Former Fan of the Week
1 Aristocrat
Nationality: South Andean
Religion: Catholic
Ideology: Conservative
Rebel type: Reactionary
Issues: Pro-life
Crazzio, you slander the names of the real men who stayed and fought in Santiago whilst you fled, and acquired boyfriends to try and persuade this weak Government to grant you amnesty. After all, you did betray the Frente Nacional, and now you cannot even bring yourself to support her in this return to power. You were the only coward who deserved a bullet between his eyes, the only weak fool to truly slander his family and embarass those who he called friends. So Crazzio, I urge you to do what should have been done. Make amends with Alejandro, Fernandez, Hodalgo, etc., and do it by your own hand. Only without suffering your constant worthless whining and side-switching would I consider forgetting you as opposed to actively slandering your family. So, Crazzio, the gates of He'll are open for you. It is up to you as to when you go, but for the sake of your family and our ears, go now.
Senator Hernan de Escovedo
"Après moi, le déluge"
Another calm, hazy day in Santiago. The sun has just risen over the distant mountains yet outside the Congreso some politicians are already doing what they do best: lying. Senator Hernan de Escovedo, elder brother of Alejandro Escovedo (better known today as "the loose cannon of the movement"), stands proudly on a makeshift platform and addresses a fairly large crowd.
"Damn the traitorous Crazzio to hell! Long live the Frente Naciona--"
a single shot rings out from the crowd. The huddled masses scream and run for cover as the sky darkens. A general pandemonium ensues, not just in the square but also on the platform itself. Among the confusion, a young man in a black cloak bounds up to the podium, grabs the microphone, and shouts...
"Viva la Capitalistas! Viva Crazzio!"
With a pistol in both hands, the man turns and opens fire on Escovedo's posse. The screams of the dying can be heard over police sirens in the distance. The young man, having emptied both clips, draws a third pistol from his cloak, points it at his head and, with but a slight moment's hesitation, pulls the trigger...
Senator Hernan de Escovedo extricates himself from the mound of dead nationalists. He appears shaken but miraculously unharmed. Onlookers mutter amongst themselves, not wanting to help Escovedo, but not daring to flee the scene. All is quiet once more on this calm, hazy day in Santiago...
---Cavebear3000... 's story---
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P. K. Vos, colonial financier and "war hero" in Thunderhawk's Edge of Europe
An interesting news tidbit, seeing as I am Alejandro's elder brother. Were it only that the man who was coward enough to take his own life was Crazzio himself. I demand that the man either condemn this follower as a rogue, or stand in solidarity with the would-be assassin and condemn himself. I did not previously hold myself in such high regard as to be the target of assassination, being a Senator in opposition to the outgoing Government. But perhaps some people truly cannot take looking themselves in the mirror. And I have held the mirror directly in front of Crazzio, so that he may see who he really is.
Senator Hernan de Escovedo
"Après moi, le déluge"
Caitan Crazzio has veen an awful politician lately. Not only he has earned the hate of the three main political factions in this country, but he has also become the least popular politician by openly provoking every party.
He has openly attacked the socialists and he is much hated for his work against the communist rebels. Those actions had initially earned him the sympathies of both liberals and conservatives.
Then, when things became complicated with the Frente Nacional he decided to betray them and deny any connections with them, even after being a popular minister inside the Frente Nacional. After things calmed down, the Frente Nacional leadership was purged, he was the last important minister alive and having been a powerful director of the secret police, he couldve been the presidential candidate of the fren te nacional next election, and might have even been the leader of a frente-liberales coalition for both his anticommunism and his desire for free market policies. But no, he betrayed the Frente Nacional when it needed him the most.
And now he claims to be a liberal, but he has done everything wrong. He was alienated by his fellow partymen not only because of his old job as director of the secret police, but because he keeps emphazising the bad parts of liberalism by openly boasting his money and social status as a capitalist, when the liberales are trying to diminish the sad inequalties of their system through reforms and charity.
It is a shame that Caitan Crazzio has earned the hate of all the chilean politicians.
A man enters the room and tells Mr. Tottenheim that Crazzio is now dead.
The Frente Nacional says goodbye to old Caitán Crazzio, who was once a great hero who purged the communist threat as the former director of the secret police and later a great Frente Nacional supporter. We are however not amused that in his last days he betrayed openly the Frente Nacional and became a coward, as it is believed he was suffering from the effects of an advanced age. The nation is in commotion.
The Frente Nacional is also expecting anxiously the declaration of support of the last Caudillo, Sebastian, who seems to be away at the moment.
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Former Fan of the Week
1 Aristocrat
Nationality: South Andean
Religion: Catholic
Ideology: Conservative
Rebel type: Reactionary
Issues: Pro-life
Here lies Caitan Crazzio whose body was embalmed, covered in molten gold, and placed in a jade tomb along with 1000 precious jewels, each valued at no less than 10,000 Chilean dollars. He was the champion of the hardworking, defender of the ambitious, and the most powerful politician Chile has ever known. The fabulous statue behind this marker will stand as an eternal testament to his honor. Look at his works, ye mighty, and despair!
---Caitan Crazzio...'s Gravestone---
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,
The lone and level sands stretch far away
P. K. Vos, colonial financier and "war hero" in Thunderhawk's Edge of Europe
Ha! Poor Crazzio was the most colorful person to enter these senate chambers in a while. He will be missed.
Oh and Egypt called, they want their Sphinx back.
Also, it seems that there exists two coalitions at the moment... Communists, and those who do not want Communists. I offer a tentative feeler out: Would any parties be interested in closer relationships to fight the radical left in the poles?
Daniel (Danny) Dagher, Mayor of New York City
in BBB's American AAR
Senatore di Venezia, Leone de Marino. Interior Minister of the Republic of Cisalpina
In Ahawk's Federation of Equals Interactive AAR.
Pedro de Cordova.
In ThunderHawks Interactive V2 AAR
Correction: No official coalitions exist at the moment. 4 groups exist: FNT, Communists, Liberales and Frente Nacional.
general Otto Metzler in a Federation of Equals
Maximilien Bellamy in "Edge of Europe"
I have received the following appointments from El Presidente.
I've been asked to play through without military appointments for the time being due to confusion over the generalships - you can expect the military appointments from the minister of defense soon.Minister of the Interior: Francisco Villa (LeeroyJenkins)
Minister of the Treasury: Pablo Garcia (viola)
Minister of Foreign Affairs: Juan Rivera (atomicsoda)
Minister of Defence: Jesus Gonzales (yourworstnightm)
Follow Halen, a Stateless General in Ambition - Won Character Writer of the Week, 10/10/11, WritAAR of the Week, 10/16/11, First to win both on the same week, Runner Up for the 2011 VictAARian Cross
Become El Presidente, by vote or by coup, in Shadow of the Andes - Nominee for the 2012 VictAARian Cross
Build Belgium from the ground up in Edge of Europe
Sir ThunderHawk3, Knight of the Order of the Large and Intimidating Robert
So yes, there are people interested in forming a coalition.
And as a footnote: My initial statement was a indirect comment towards Caitan Crazzio's inevitable retirement, and sadly I publicated it when he had just died and the news had not reached me by then. I am very sorry and I am filled with regret. Caitan Crazzio was a bold and great man, even if by the end he was getting strange and hostile. Rest in Peace.
Former Fan of the Week
1 Aristocrat
Nationality: South Andean
Religion: Catholic
Ideology: Conservative
Rebel type: Reactionary
Issues: Pro-life
I am honored by my appointment to the position of Minister of the Interior, I shall not fail my presidente or my People, thank you.
Josef Fremd Councillor for Transylvania and member of the Teutonic Order in A Federation of "Equals" Interactive AAR.
I support the Comunistas
God GM in A Clash of Kings: A Song of Ice and Fire.
I thank El President for my appointment to Minister of Foreign Affairs. I will work hard to restore our relations with the world.
Juan Rivera
Henri Renard - Minister of Wallonia - Deputy for Liege -KKP- Brewer/Entrepreneur - Died of sepsis following a wound suffered during a duel with the Viscount
Formerly Simon Giroux - Minister of Labour - Deputy for Charleroi - Belgian Social Union - Deputy Leader
Formerly Willem Goossens - Deputy for Brugge - conservative - President of Belgian Veterans Society 1818-1871
Originally Jean Galler - Deputy for Brussels - Constitutional Delegate and Signer of Belgium Constitution
in Edge of Europe- A Belgian Interactive V2 AAR
Only 4 ministerial positions? Are there any unofficial ones held by President Bevan?
Daniel (Danny) Dagher, Mayor of New York City
in BBB's American AAR
Senatore di Venezia, Leone de Marino. Interior Minister of the Republic of Cisalpina
In Ahawk's Federation of Equals Interactive AAR.
Pedro de Cordova.
In ThunderHawks Interactive V2 AAR


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|Directed by
|Mark Griffiths
|Produced by
|Jeff Begun
|Written by
|Eric Alter
Steve Greene
Mark Griffiths
|Grant Cramer
Courtney Gains
Gary Wood
|Music by
|Vic Caesar
|Tom Richmond
|Edited by
|Andy Blumenthal
|Distributed by
|Columbia Pictures
|Release dates
|Running time
|88 minutes
|United States
Hardbodies is a 1984 sex comedy film about three middle-aged men who hire a younger man to help them pick up women at the beach. The film was directed by Mark Griffiths, and stars Grant Cramer, Courtney Gains, and Gary Wood. It was followed by a 1986 sequel entitled Hardbodies 2.
The movie opens with some rhythmic singing to a black screen showing credits, then showing why the singing is present as it fades in: the rhythmic singing matches the pace of the back of a man under a blanket moving up and down as he is having sex in the missionary position with an attractive young lady. Sated, he stops, and rolls over, quite satisfied with his performance, and the lady, also apparently quite pleased with it as well, snuggles up next to him, when their post-coital reverie is interrupted by banging on the door. We discover the man, whose name is Scotty Palmer, has been interrupted by his landlord to inform him he has to get out because he's been evicted for non-payment of rent.
We discover that Scotty is a con man who does whatever he can to get along. He soon finds three older divorced men who have a lot of money, however they do not have a trait that Scotty possesses, moxie with women. They agree to let Scotty stay with them at their beach house (and pay him $600 a month), if he returns the favor by teaching them how to pick up women.
Scotty shows them how to "dialog" women by giving them a dose of the old BBD (Bigger and Better Deal). Along this journey, Scotty loses his playboy ways and falls in love with Kristi. Kristi, knowing Scotty's playboy past, puts up with his ups and downs early on in the movie but later insists that he change his ways. Scotty recognizes that Kristi is ultimately more important than the empty life he has led up until now and changes his ways.
- Grant Cramer as Scotty Palmer
- Courtney Gains as Rag
- Gary Wood as Hunter
- Darcy DeMoss as Dede
- Cindy Silver as Kimberly
- Sorrells Pickard as Ashby
- Kristi Somers as Michelle
- Michael Rapport as Rounder
- Teal Roberts as Kristi
- Roberta Collins as Lana
- Crystal Shaw Martell as Candy
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9:43 am on October 25, 2010 Email Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.
Speaking of the porno scanner, last week I made the woeful mistake of tuning in to Atlanta's favorite liberventionist, Neal Boortz. I know I know…what was I thinking?
The first words out of his mouth were, "Ok, so there's news about this pilot in Memphis…who refused the scanner, and refused a pat-down…Screw this guy! He just quit his job and walked away. I've told people over and over…so what? I'll say it again: I love, Love, LOVE these scanners."
That was enough. I turned it off, and said something out loud that probably didn't do my eternal soul any good. To think that this represents "mainstream libertarianism." Oh…that and pushing for "fairer" and more streamlined ways to rip off Americans in perpetuity.


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Definitely smells vintage, possibly because my sample is very old. Smells okay, rather nice and like someone else's memories. It has a definite vintage floral cologne feeling, while being more complex and fleshed out. Somehow it really does hark back to the 1970s. It isn't a scent I recognize myself from that era, but I can see this being a true HG for someone who remembers it with fond sentiment. Lasts well and wears easily.
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Rounding off decimals
In this section we shall be exploring rounding off decimals. We shall look at rounding decimals off to whole numbers, rounding decimals to certain decimal places and making decisions whether to round up or down decimals.
Rounding to the nearest whole numberHere is an example of rounding decimals to the nearest whole number;
ExampleRound 7.3 to the nearest whole number. We realise that this decimal number lies between 7 and 8. The following diagram shows where this decimal number is located between 7 and 8. The number 7.3 has been shown on the number line above and the location where it's located. We see that 7.3 is closest to 7, which means 7.3 to the nearest whole number is 7. This is the answer we're after.
Round to one decimal placeIn the following example we're going to look at how to round to one decimal place.
ExampleRound 2.37 to 1 decimal place. The decimal number in question lies between 2.3 and 2.4 as shown below on the number line. We can see that the number shown on the number line is closer to 2.4. Which means 2.37 to 1 decimal place is 2.4. This is the answer we have been searching for.
Between .5You will usually have to work with numbers ending .5 to round off to a certain accuracy or decimal place, for example rounding off numbers such as 3.5, 4.5, 7.5, 8.5, 10.5, and 20.5 to the nearest whole number. Here is an example of rounding off .5 numbers.
ExampleRound 4.5 to the nearest whole number. The number 4.5 lies between 4 and 5 as shown below on the number line. On the number line we can see that the number lies right in the middle of the number line between 4 and 5. Whenever it's in the middle we always round up. So 4.5 to the nearest whole number is a 5. That's the answer we have been looking for.
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