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Our streak over the Nuggets isn't just in Detroit. We have won 7 straight overall against them and 16-2 in the last 18 against Denver. Billups... 0-3 against his former team. I thought Stuckey really defended Billups well on that last possession. He closed off his air space, making it nearly impossible for him to get off a 3 (which he wanted to) and forced him to drive left, which as you pointed out, is not a strength of his. One has to wonder why the Nuggets didn't run that last play for Carmelo. We had no answer for him all night and he has one of the highest(if not the highest) % on game winning shot attempts. That's a head scratcher.
Stuckey matches up well against CB. He can't be outmuscled by him and he's tall enough to bother him.
True, but Billups pretty much had his way with him last year (scoring over 30 in both meetings). Of course, Stuckey has come a long way defensively this year. Admittedly, I haven't watched everyone play this year, but if Stuckey keeps up this defensive intensity all year, he should have a very good chance of making All NBA defense.
I agree that Stuckey has made strides in defense, but i give him almost a 0% chance of making the all defensive team. Ahead of Rajon Rondo, Chris Paul, Chauncey Billups etc...there is no way he makes it, even if it is deserved.
Stuckey was the best bet on CB to stop him...The way Billups was abusing Chucky, he would have faked him out and stepped back for a three and hit it .. game over/case close. He probably would have shot over Bynum too. Rip would have hugged and kissed CB first to assure that he stopped him... ...by the way did anyone see Rip come out and hug Billups before or after the game or was he still sitting in the locker room hot tub watching the game?
I could see him losing out to those other two guys, but Chris Paul is really undeserving of those defensive accolades. Yes, he gets a lot of steals by playing the passing lanes. You know who else did... Allen Iverson. Paul isn't as poor a defender as Iverson, but he's not very good either... certainly not worthy of making all defense every year.
Yeah, i felt Stuckey should have been on Billups even more often than he was, because Chauncey really couldn't do anything against Stuckey. Chucky usually got abused. But, I understood why they crossed the matchups defensively. You didn't want a guy like J.R. Smith going off, so you had to put Stuck on him whenever he was in the game.
The pistons are on a roll. Due to this rotator cuff situation with my left arm, all of my posting is being done righty. I am ambedextrious, however, my writing is dominantly left. Sorry I haven't been able to post as much recently, but i am working my way back slowly.
The pistons are on a roll. Due to this rotator cuff situation with my left arm, all of my posting is being done righty. I am ambedextrious, however, my writing is dominantly left. Sorry I haven't been able to post as much recently, but i am working my way back slowly. Just trying to figure out the big picture once the injured players return.
I Didn't had time this past few days to pass by to read some comments and put mine here. I'm sorry about that. I was able to watch the entire game live becouse, lucky for me, it was on the NBA PASS that I buy to DirectV every single month hoping they broadcast Pistons games. (Only 2 or 3 games per night) So, as I said, lucky for me it was on TV and I recorded it so I can watch it againt in the future. I was excited all the game.. maybe because i don't even think that we could win that game.. but when i started to see the effort on Chucky, Ben, Jerebko some old feeling came to me.. and I was feeling like this was a Playoffs game or something like that.. I'm still so happy for that game.. really.. and doing all that without Tay - Rip - BG and Will B. make me feel better for my team. And i was proud to see Tayshaun in the bench, talking to Summers, J.J., Daye.. Really proud of him to be a Piston. Thank you Big Ben and Jerebko! Thank you Pistons!
Thanks TaShawn. I hear that Rip continues to be missing from the bench when the guys play. Tay is there bad back and all.
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—Roll Call does good work with a story on yet another element of the money-in-politics machine. The paper reports that the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee is hosting a fundraiser this week, with lobbyists expected to cough up $1,000 for dinner. But the big draw for the event isn't the members of Congress who usually headline these things. Instead, lobbyists are paying for a chance to mingle with about 50 top House staffers.
Ethics watchdogs don't like it, but the DCCC says it's not breaking any rules. Roll Call says Republicans do the same thing. And, for reasons that are a bit perverse, this has become a big night on the DCCC calendar:
The event has become an even hotter ticket as lobbyists have fewer chances to interact with staff in social settings following ethics restrictions that bar lobbyists from paying for most staffer entertainment and restaurant tabs.
That still doesn't make me feel good about it. Neither does this:
Rick Kessler of Dow Lohnes Government Strategies also minimized the amount of official business that actually gets done at dinners like this.
"When you are at something that big, it makes the likelihood of something untoward happening much smaller," Kessler said. "It's not intimate in that sense. There's very little business or shoptalk that I would engage in. It doesn't feel right."
Oh, is that supposed to make it OK?
—Jeffrey Sachs started a hot debate with an op-ed in the FT proclaiming that it's time to prepare for a "post-Keynesian era."
As Sachs, who directs the Earth Institute at Columbia, sees it:
Mainstream Keynesian economics is facing its last hurrah. The global fiscal stimulus championed last year by the Obama administration is coming undone, repudiated by the same Group of 20 that endorsed it last year. Now, against a backdrop of a widening sovereign debt crisis, we need to abandon short-term thinking in favour of the long-term investments needed for sustained recovery.
Faced with weak demand in the U.S. and Europe, big budget deficits, downgrading of sovereign debt and consumers who don't want to borrow, governments are wrong to turn to spending cuts, Sachs argues. Instead, he offers five handy guidelines to "reset our macroeconomic timetables," focusing on long-term investment, not short-term stimulus.
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Fifth, governments and the public should insist that the rich pay more in income and wealth taxes – indeed, a lot more. The upward re-distribution of the past 25 years has made our economies into extravagant playgrounds for the super-wealthy. Politicians of both the mainstream left and right in the US and UK have fawned over those who pay their campaign bills in return for low taxation. Even playgrounds should collect tolls – when it is billionaires in the sandpit.
Felix Salmon thinks it's a nutty idea:
I don't think this is possible, politically, in either the US or the UK. In the US, the middle classes are implacably opposed to tax hikes on people making more money than they themselves will ever make. I'm not entirely clear on the reasons for this, but I suspect it has something to do with the American Dream of becoming incredibly successful: no one wants to reach that gilded land only to find it full of taxes.
Kevin Drum read that, and turned it into an assignment:
Someone — a journalist or an academic, I'm not sure which — should consider this an assignment desk piece: Why are Americans so unsympathetic to higher taxes on zillionaires? Does it really have something to do with an unfounded optimism about themselves someday becoming rich? I've heard this explanation a thousand times, but there's really never any evidence for it except for one thing: an old poll (which I can't locate just at the moment) showing that 19% of Americans think that someday they'll be millionaires. The problem is that (a) it's just one poll and (b) it's still only 19%. If that were really the reason Americans were opposed to taxing the rich, we'd still have about 80% of the country in favor.
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Posted By Vamien McKalin On July 23, 2013 @ 3:52 AM In General Tech | 4 Comments
What if each time someone or something touched your skin, it lit up like a rainbow or celestial light. Well, that won't happen to humans any time soon, but it will happen to robots in the years to come. Scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, are hard at work trying to design a super-thin skin that reacts to touch by emitting lights.
According to the University, the skin is made from sheets of plastic and is also thinner than a layer of paper. Furthermore, the electronic skin has a pressure sensitive rubber that allows the skin to tell when it's being touched, and thus reacts to that touch by giving off lights in the color red, green, blue, or yellow. In addition, the University explains that the more pressure placed on the skin, the brighter the lights shine.
Berkeley scientists' plan for this kind of technology is grand. They suggest it could find a home in robotics, smart wallpapers, health monitoring systems, or artificial skin for prosthetic limbs. Now, we're not sure if someone with a prosthetic limb would want an artificial skin that shines bright with every touch, but for robotics, we could see this working out.
What the Berkeley scientists are working on is only the beginning and a sign of things to come. For a long time scientists dream of having a skin that can sense pressure along with having the ability to heal itself if damaged. This new technology could be the stepping-stone for such a reality, one where future robots would just simply heal after being damaged.
With the future looking to make robots an all-powerful being, the human race is slowly ending to the brink of extinction.
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The Newtowner, an arts and literary quarterly based in Newtown, Connecticut, published a tribute issue in an effort to help its hometown heal after the shooting at Sand Hook Elementary School.
Watch contributor Thomas Israel Hopkins—along with this wife, novelist Emily Barton, and their son, Tobias—discuss the impetus for writing "The Future of Family-Friendly Residencies." In the article, which appears in the March/April 2011 issue of Poets & Writers Magazine, Hopkins takes a look at the relatively small number of colonies that allow writers to bring children for their full stay and offers some suggestions for ways in which parent-writers and residency directors can work together to facilitate more programs that accommodate families.
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Janette is a partner with the International Tax Services team at PwC Canada in Toronto.
Janette has been consulting on U.S. corporate tax for multinational companies since 1996. She has advised numerous multinational companies, including those providing financial services, on a variety of US domestic and international tax matters, including: US withholding, information reporting and income tax treaty matters (such as passive foreign investment company and FATCA - related matters); cross-border and domestic acquisitions; financial transactions, divestures and reorganizations of entities (including investment funds); financing, factoring, and licensing transactions; repatriation planning; and fund structuring.
Janette has co-authored numerous articles that have appeared in a variety of US and Canadian publications including the Journal of International Taxation, The Tax Advisor, CCH International Tax Newsletter, Federated Press' International Tax Planning Journal, the Derivatives Financial Products Report, the International Fiscal Association and Canadian Tax Foundation reports, as well as PwC's Investment Management Seminar and Banking Review publications.
She has also been a speaker at a variety of tax seminars including the PwC Investment Management Tax Seminar, the U.S. tax developments and cross-border financing seminar for the Tax Executive Institute (TEI), the Canada-U.S. Cross-Border Tax Update organized by the Council for International Tax Education (CITE), various tax courses organized by Federated Press, the Part-Time Tax LL.M Program offered by Osgoode Hall Law School and the seminar on cross-border stock option plans offered by The Employee Ownership & Incentives Association.
Janette obtained her LL.B from Osgoode Hall Law School in 1993 and her LL.M in United States Taxation from New York University School of Law in 1995. She was called to the Ontario Bar in 1996 and the New York State Bar in 1998.


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Land of Milk and Honey
The first booth, operated by the Dairy Council of California, handed out milk. The second booth, operated by the California State Beekeepers' Association (CSBA), shared honey.
"They go together," said Extension apiculturist Eric Mussen of the UC Davis Department of Entomology, who helped staff the beekeepers' booth with CSBA president Bryan Ashurst and cousin Brock Ashurst of the Westmorland area (Imperial County) and their families; secretary-treasurer Carlen Jupe of Salida; and CSBA members Bill Cervenka of Half Moon Bay and Kathy Kellison of Santa Rosa. Kellison serves as the executive director of Partners for Sustainable Pollination.
The beekeepers know royalty when they see one (queen bee) and the Dairy Council knows a princess when it sees one. Dairy Princess Kayla Withrow of Wilton helped hand out milk and chocolate-flavored milk, while the beekeepers handed out blackberry, blueberry, citrus, clover and yellow starthistle Honeystix (honey-filled straws). A special treat at the beekeepers' booth was Häagen-Dazs ice cream, compliments of the premier ice cream brand which supports bee research at UC Davis.
The annual Ag Day recognizes California's agricultural community by showcasing the scores of commodities that are produced in the state, according to the California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA). Held this year on Wednesday, March 21, it was also a day for agriculturists to show their appreciation by "bringing together state legislators, government leaders and the public for a half day of agricultural education and treats," said CDFA spokesperson Steve Lyle.
Said one woman visiting the beekeepers' booth: "The Häagen-Dazs ice cream is what I come for every year."
For that, she can thank the bees. And for the generous donation of ice cream, she can thank Häagen-Dazs.
After all, without honey bees and their pollination of fruits, vegetables and nuts, half of the ice cream brand's flavors would cease to exist.
Indeed, the declining bee population troubled hundreds of visitors stopping by the beekeepers' booth. The most frequently asked question: "How are the bees?"
Still declining. The mysterious colony collapse disorder (CCD) is still a mystery, but the suspected culprits are a combination of factors, including pests, parasites, pesticides, diseases, malnutrition and stress.
Extension apiculturist Eric Mussen (left) of UC Davis with California State Beekeepers' Association president Bryan Ashurst of Westmorland. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Crowd filters into the California Ag Day celebration. This is the California State Beekeepers' Association booth. (Photo y Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Thumbs up, a costumed tomato mascot stops in front of the California State Beekeepers' Association booth. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Know Your California Beekeepers
This year's overall theme is "Know Your California Farmer." For those who love bees, it might as well be "Know Your California Beekeepers."
The California State Beekeepers' Association (CSBA) and the Sacramento Area Beekeepers Association (SABA), again will be answering questions about bees and the beekeeping industry and handing out free Häagen-Dazs ice cream, Honeystix (honey-filled straws), bee information, honey recipes, and the like. Also planned: a bee observation hive.
We've never heard anyone say "I hate bees!" at this annual event. Which is a good thing, too, as one-third of all the food we eat is pollinated by bees.
California Ag Day is sponsored by the California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA), California Women for Agriculture, and the California Foundation for Agriculture in the Classroom.
The theme spotlights the contributions of farmers and ranchers from California's diverse counties and growing regions, according to CDFA spokesperson Steve Lyle, director of public affairs.
Specifically, says Lyle: "Ag Day is an annual event designed to recognize California's agricultural community by showcasing the numerous commodities that are produced in our state--and the farmers and ranchers who bring them to our tables. It is also a day for the agricultural community to show its appreciation of California's by bringing together state legislators, government leaders and the public for a half day of agricultural education and treats."
The event will be open to legislators and staff only from 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. and then open to the public from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. CDFA Secretary Karen Ross will participate in a press conference, "Eat Local, Buy California Grown" at 11:30. At noon, a stage presentation will be emceed by Michael Marks "Your Produce Man."
What's planned at the beekeeping booth? Among those staffing the booth and answering questions will be newly elected CSBA president Bryan Ashurst of Westmorland; Extension apiculturist Eric Mussen of the UC Davis Department of Entomology, a member of CSBA; and booth coordinator Carlen Jupe of Salida, secretary-treasurer of the CSBA.
Häagen-Dazs, which generously provides the ice cream, is a strong supporter of UC Davis bee research. Honey bees and ice cream go together; at least half of the brand's flavors require bee pollination. (Note: You'll want to visit the Häagen-Dazs Honey Bee Haven, a half-acre bee friendly garden next to the Harry H. Laidlaw Jr. Honey Bee Research Facility on Bee Biology Road, UC Davis. In addition, Häagen-Dazs provided funds for postdoctoral scholar Michelle Flenniken, who researches bee viruses.)
Kathy Kellison, executive director of Partners for Sustainable Pollination, headquartered in Santa Rosa, delivers information to the 2011 beekeepers' booth. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Drone (male bee) emerging from drone comb. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
All Hail California Ag Day
If you head over to the California State Capitol tomorrow (Tuesday, March 23) don't be too surprised if there's a John Deere tractor on the west steps.
March 23 is Ag Day when the state's urban and rural folks come out in force to celebrate the state's $34.8 billion ag industry.
"Agriculture drives California's economy, creates jobs and provides a safe and nutrititous food supply," the California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) says on its website.
Indeed it does.
And dozens of booths will be set up on the lawn to prove it. Even in the rain.
Elected officials and staff will tour the booths starting at 10:30 a.m. The public will join in from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.
One of the booths drawing a lot of attention last year was the California State Beekeepers' Association (CSBA) booth. The beekeepers gave away honey sticks, bee stickers and honey recipes, and displayed a bee observation hive housing a queen bee, worker bees and drones. Häagen-Dazs, which maintains a close relationship with beekeepers and the scientists at the Harry H. Laidlaw Jr. Honey Bee Research Facility at UC Davis, provided ice cream from the same booth. (Bees pollinate many of the ingredients in ice cream, including fruits, vegetables and almonds.)
CSBA and Häagen-Dazs will be there again tomorrow. So will dozens of other organizations and businesses. They include the California Farm Bureau Federation, Ag in the Classroom, California Strawberry Commission, 4-H, FFA, California State Grange, California Cattlemen's Association, Thoroughbred Breeders' Association, UC Davis College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, California Milk Advisory Board, Western Fairs' Association and scores of others.
In some way, shape, or form, however, honey bees make it all possible.
California Ag Day
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Sons of God (Heb: bənê hā'ĕlōhîm,[1] בני האלהים) is a phrase used in the Hebrew Bible. Bene elohim are part of different Jewish angelic hierarchies.
In the Hebrew Bible, the phrase "sons of the Elohim" occurs in:
Deuteronomy 32:8 also mentions "sons of Israel" bÿney yisra'el (בְּנֵי יִשְׂרָאֵל) which is translated as the "people of Israel" in the HCSB, "heavenly court" in the New Living Translation and "heavenly assembly" in the New English Translation. [2][3] In some copies of Deuteronomy the Dead Sea Scrolls refer to the sons of God rather than the sons of Israel, probably in reference to angels. The Septuagint reads similarly.[4][5]
When man began to multiply on the face of the land and daughters were born to them, the sons of God saw that the daughters of man were attractive. And they took as their wives any they chose. Then the Lord said, "My Spirit shall not abide in man forever, for he is flesh: his days shall be 120 years." The Nephilim were on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of man and they bore children to them. These were the mighty men who were of old, the men of renown.
—Genesis 6:1-4
The first mention of "sons of God" in the Hebrew Bible occurs at Genesis 6:1-4. In terms of literary-historical origin, this phrase is typically associated with the Jahwist tradition.[6]
Joseph Hong believes that Genesis 6:1-4 has gone through drastic abridgment by either the original writer or later editors.[7][8] Nahum M. Sarna believes that the text defies certain interpretation, based on difficulties with the text's themes, extreme terseness, vocabulary and syntax. Sarna postulates that such a passage cannot be other than a fragment, or bare outline, from a well-known fuller story.[9][10]
Claus Westermann claims that the text of Genesis 6 is based on an Ugaritic urtext.[11] In Ugaritic, a cognate phrase is bn 'il.[12] This may occur in the Ugaritic Baal Cycle.[13]
The phrase bn ilm ("sons of the gods") is also attested in Ugaritic texts,[15][16][17][18][19] as is the phrase phr bn ilm ("assembly of the sons of the gods").[20]
Elsewhere in the Ugarit corpus it is suggested that the bn ilm were the 70 sons of Asherah and El, who were the titulary deities of the people of the known world, and their "hieros gamos" marriage with the daughters of men gave rise to their rulers.[21] There is evidence in 2 Samuel 7 that this may have been the case also in Israel.[22]
J. Scharbert associates Genesis 6:1-4 with the Priestly source and the final redaction of the Pentateuch.[23] On this basis, he assigns the text to later editorial activity.[24] Rüdiger Bartelmus sees only Genesis 6:3 as a late insertion.[23]
Józef Milik and Matthew Black advanced the view of a late text addition to a text dependent on post-exilic, non-canonical tradition, such as the legend of the Watchers from the pseudepigraphic Book of Enoch.[23]
Different source versions of Genesis 6:1-4 vary in their use of "sons of God". Some manuscripts of the Septuagint have emendations to read "sons of God" as "angels".[citation needed] Codex Vaticanus contains "angels" originally.[citation needed] In Codex Alexandrinus "sons of God" has been omitted and replaced by "angels".[25] The Peshitta reads "sons of God".[26]
The Book of Enoch and the Book of Jubilees refer to the Watchers who are paralleled to the "sons of God" in Genesis 6.[27] The Epistle of Barnabas is considered by some to acknowledge the Enochian version.[28]
Early Christian writers such as Justin Martyr, Eusebius, Clement of Alexandria, Origen and Commodianus believed that the "sons of God" in Genesis 6:1-4 were fallen angels who engaged in unnatural union with human women, resulting in the begetting of the Nephilim.[citation needed] Modern Christians have argued against this view by reasoning on Jesus' comment in Matthew 22:30 that angels do not marry, although it only refers to angels in heaven.[1] Others saw them as descendants of Seth.[1]
Saint Augustine subscribed to this view, based on the orations of Julius Africanus in his book City of God, which refer to the "sons of God" as being descendants of Seth (or Sethites), the pure line of Adam. The "daughters of men" are viewed as the descendants of Cain (or Cainites). Variations of this view was also received by Jewish philosophers.[29]
Traditionalists and philosophers of Judaism[30] in the Middle Ages[31] typically practiced rational theology. They rejected any belief in rebel or fallen angels since evil was considered abstract. Rabbinic sources, most notably the Targum, state that the "sons of God" who married the daughters of men were merely human beings of exalted social station.[32] They have also been considered as pagan royalty[1] or members of nobility[33] who, out of lust, married women from the general population. Other variations of this interpretation define these "sons of God" as tyrannical Ancient Near Eastern kings who were honored as divine rulers, engaging in polygamous behavior.[1] No matter the variation in views, the primary concept by Jewish rationalists is that the "sons of God" were of human origin.[32]
Most notable Jewish writers in support for the view of human "sons of God" were Saadia, Rashi, Lekah Tob, Midrash Aggada, Joseph Bekor Shor, Abraham ibn Ezra, Maimonides, David Kimhi, Nahmanides, Hizkuni, Bahya Ashur, Gersonides,[34] Shimeon ben Yochai and Hillel ben Samuel.[35]
Ibn Ezra reasoned that the "sons of God" were men who possessed divine power, by means of astrological knowledge, able to beget children of unusual size and strength.[33]
Jewish commentator Isaac Abrabanel considered the aggadot on Genesis 6 to have referred to some secret doctrine and was not to be taken literally. Abrabanel later joined Nahmanides and Levi ben Gerson in promoting the concept that the "sons of God" were the older generations who were closer to physical perfection, as Adam and Eve were perfect. Though there are variations of this view, the primary idea was that Adam and Eve's perfect attributes were passed down from generation to generation. However, as each generation passed, their perfect physical attributes diminished. Thus, the early generations were mightier than the succeeding ones. The physical decline of the younger generations continued until the Flood, to the point that their days were numbered as stated in Genesis 6:3. It was immoral for the older generations to consort with the younger generations, whereby puny women begot unusually large children. Nephilim was even considered a stature.[29]
Jewish philosophic preachers such as Jacob Anatoli and Isaac Arama viewed the groups and events in Genesis 6:1-4 as an allegory, primarily for the sin of lust that declined man's higher nature.[36]


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Wow. I'm tired.
Between working and school and everything else I do, I'm just doing shit all the fucking time. I haven't watched a speck of tv or video games in months, not even intentionally, but simply because I just don't have the fucking time.
Sometimes I wonder. In the adolescent emotional roller coaster, I'm usually riding along at a relatively laid back, but rolling, pace.
But a few months ago, when I got my job, I spiralled down. Started drinking more. Stopped doing schoolwork altogether. For two months I was just depressed about this life I've been put into (never, though, take these comments as suicidal, I'm about as un-suicidal as possible). I've never been a straight A student, but I've never had F's before either, like real F's that aren't just some grading mistake.
Then one day my dad was mad at my mom. It appears, and I won't go into much, but my mom, who doesn't work, but cleans and manages the household and finances, failed at her financial duties over a long period of time.
And all of a sudden, though that depressed me, I felt purpose. My mom has always yelled at me and I have a billion small pet peeves and resentments about her, but all of a sudden at that moment I realized she was a human being too, fallible like the rest of us. Like, really. Not just theoretically, here was incontrovertible proof of her vulnerable humanity.
One that made me somewhat ashamed of the way I treat my parents, not because I'm wrong all or even most of the time, I think, but because they're just people too, trying to do their best, and in they end they haven't done such a bad job with such a hard task.
But all of a sudden I had one month to get the three months of homework for the quarter done to salvage my grades.
So coming out of the slump I simply used will power and all the energy I had to hop my schedule back up into this manic cycle of working, on one thing or another, literally every second of the day. I would actually run from task to task.
And by working every second of the day, I'm not exaggerating, though in "work" I include things I consider necessary for the maintenance of my body (exercise, enough sleep) and things I like but that help me learn things and expand my abilities and knowledge (reading stuff, reading Wikipedia articles).
Which is pretty amazing I can say to myself I spent a whole month doing that stuff 16 hours a day when I'm not sleeping, straight.
But it's worrying in many ways. That's a lot of the reason I never could post here. And sometimes, like at a Frisbee practice or something, I would use this newfound ability to hype myself up into the manic energy to just go crazy and marvel and how fast and long I could move.
Then after that I would completely die, losing all energy, hardly being able to walk, incredibly depressed, and wanting to do nothing more than lay in bed for a few hours.
Before I would hype myself back up into manic energy again.
I don't know if my body can take this. I'm honestly not sure. Whenever I have the opportunity my body forces me to sleep, I can't stop it. But it's always done that...
I'm a little afraid, too, that what happened on a micro scale could happen on a macro scale, that the energy could leave me and I could fall back into another depression that would leave me unable to do anything.
But here's what I've learned: I'm tired of working for the future. Everything I do is for the future. School is for the future. Work is for the future. Everything else is just maintaining my body or expanding my mind for the future.
And it's left me miserable now. I can tolerate it for now, because, of course, I can look forward to the future, but I can resolve now, I don't want to be working eternally for the future until I retire. That's not how I want to live my life.
I'd like to spend at least my 20's or so living for the present. Please? Can I do that?
I'm sorry, I'm very tired. I know none of this is comprehension able, and I feel I don't have the energy to make it so.
I was going to write something about how so many people I live around, next to, go to school with, live for nothing. They have no principles. They pretend to be into leadership and all sorts of extra-curriculars and good grades but all of it is just they're good at bullshitting. And that bothers none of them. Just so they can get into a good college. And presumably a lot of money. They live for nothing.
Escaping this world is why I'm not suicidal. I know there are wonderful and beautiful things out there, I've seen then, AND I FUCKING SEE THEM OUT THE CAR WINDOW WHEN I'M DRIVING HOME AFTER WORK, BUT I CAN'T DO ANYTHING BUT FUCKING CRY BECAUSE I HAVE SO MUCH HOMEWORK TO DO AND I HAVE NO FUCKING TIME FOR LIVING FUCKFUCKFUCK.
And I fear for myself. I've actually been having dreams of violence. I dream that someone pisses me off so much I do something horrible. I've had constant gut pain for over a year now, and just this past week it's been so bad, and I still have no clue what it is.
I have to get out of this fucking empty world of plastic people before it kills me.
I didn't mean for this to be so depressing or angsty when I started... Maybe that's the good part of Oasis, it's the only place in the whole world I can actually say what I really mean and either not get judged or not care if I do.
You're quite correct… this was truly the work of a very agitated (i.e., angsty) teen.
And, you're probably not aware of how it impacts those of us who possess any empathy for another: for me, it leaves me feeling totally eviscerated (of course, that may be a tad hyperbolic).
It would be quite presumptuous of me to gratuitously offer possible means of escaping such profound malaise: that should be left to those who are qualified!
But, I am compelled to respond to this one comment:
"I've had constant gut pain for over a year now, and just this past week it's been so bad, and I still have no clue what it is."
Surely… you cannot be unaware that this cries out for professional attention. If time is sufficient before your forthcoming odyssey… at least discuss this today (although I suspect you'll not read this in time) with your school's health personnel.
All-too-frequently in the past you've commented on appointments that were either cancelled or missed… please break this syndrome! PLEASE!
Always good to see you writing on here, and glad you have a place to say what you mean. Hopefully, angel syndrome will come up with a plan to keep the site going, check in with him if you want to be part of that.
The one thing that sticks out here is... having constant gut pain for a year. Have you gone to get this diagnosed? I mean, stuff like that is extra important, since if it is something that needs attention, it could make all of this delaying for the future even less relevant.
"You don't know you're beautiful." - Harry Styles
I've talked about it before, and I am determined to get it checked out now. But the thing is, I can pretty much admit I'm a hypochondriac and even I'm not too realistically worried about it.
True, I haven't always been having this pain. But I have for about a year now, and I haven't seen it really getting worse as a general trend. It's never been truly debilitating. And at the same time, endurance-wise I've hardly ever felt better. Bike rides that I've done many times that killed me a few months ago hardly seem to really work me out now, just as I would expect at my level of exercise.
So even though my subconscious would love to jump to some conclusion about cancer or MS(MS can indeed cause gut pain, as can pretty much any other illness in the world, though for MS the chance is relatively rare and almost nonexistent for it to be the first symptom) about every small symptom I've ever had, this one, perhaps because of the length of time I've had to deal with it and the fact it hasn't gone away, is why it doesn't worry me too much.
To be honest, it might simply be stress. I'm probably very stressed. And an interesting thing is that when I've been on vacation I've usually barely noticed it.
But then this last week has just been so bad and so constant, but I think I've been more and more constantly stressed this week too...
I have discussed it with parents but never really gotten around to getting an appointment, but after this last week I'm determined to.
I know that you must be terribly rushed and excited at this particular hour… consequently, I, especially, appreciate your taking the time to post this brief elaboration.
With fingers tightly crossed, I'd tend to agree with you that the symptoms you've described can all very likely be attributed to stress.
But… even stress should be addressed… in your case, professionally!
Please choose an adolescent psychologist with a positive reputation… you deserve the very best!
Looking forward to hearing that an appointment has been secured after your return... in about 10 days(?).
Bon voyage! (Uh… play/bow nicely ☺ )
You can't keep working for the future and telling yourself you'll finally be able to enjoy the present, because that will never happen. The future doesn't matter. It doesn't exist, and it isn't real, it's only imaginary. But you can't live in the present if you care about life. I see death as permanent freedom, so it doesn't bother me if I'll die in the future doing what I love, which is being free and happy, and not being bothered by the future.
Other than that, I agree with everything you've said here. I feel like I'm somewhat in the same boat as you, since I have no energy to do anything, and way too much time to think about what I'm missing out on due to sleepiness. It sucks, and all I can do is look at screens and play guitar. There's only occasionally enough energy to drive or walk. I know that isn't quite the same as what you have, but it makes everything seems pretty pointless and depressing. I guess that explains why I care about my love problems so much.
Sorry for writing so much about myself here, but your journal really made me think about how it applies to my own life, and it would have been out of context in a separate journal entry.
So, if the future doesn't exist and "you can't live in the present if you care about life," where are we meant to live exactly?!
The future does exist, though. In 10 minutes, I'm going to start watching the second season of The Sopranos. Not far enough out? Tomorrow night, I'm going to watch the season finale of Shameless? On Tuesday, I'm going to see Neil Finn in concert. On August 4, I will be 20 feet from Harry Styles. All of those are pretty likely to exist. All are in the future, no?
Then again, you also said "it doesn't bother me if I'll die in the future doing what I love," so you do see yourself dying in the future, but you're not bothered by it?!... I'm all confused what you're getting at here, heh.
"You don't know you're beautiful." - Harry Styles


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Welcome to the history of the Holmwood
Owned and managed by the National Trust, Holmwood Common lies to the south of Dorking in Surrey, south east England.
On these pages you will find a basic history of the Common and the villages and farms which surround it together with brief details of some of the area's more notable buildings and residents.
Currently available publications on the history of the Holmwoods are listed on the 'publications' pages. These include 'The Lost Villages: a history of the Holmwoods' by Kathy Atherton. Containing specially produced maps and colour drawings together with archive photographs and paintings never before seen in print, this book is now available to buy.
Also now available is A short guide to St Mary Magdalene, the Holmwood, its history, graves and memorials.


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Pakistani female cadets on the security of (Mazar-e-Quaid) - tomb of the founder of Pakistan, Muhammad Ali Jinnah.
ISLAMABAD: The 133rd birth anniversary of Quaid-i-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah was celebrated across the country on Friday with the pledge to make the country a true democratic and welfare state.
The day started with special prayers in mosques for prosperity and progress of the country.
The main function was held in Karachi where a smartly turned out contingent of cadets from Pakistan Military Academy in Kakul took over the guard duty at the Quaid's mausoleum. This was followed by the laying of floral wreaths by representatives of the three armed services.
President Asif Ali Zardari visited the mazar, laid a floral wreath and paid homage to the Founder of Pakistan. The President was accompanied by Governor Dr Ishratul Ibad Khan.
Political, cultural and social organisations held meetings and seminars to highlight the life and services of the Quaid. Declamation contests were held in various educational institutions.
All commercial and business centres and government and private offices remained closed.
The Quaid's mausoleum, Quaid-i-Azam Museum (Wazir Mansion) and the Flagstaff House in Karachi were illuminated.
The Pakistan National Council of the Arts is celebrating the anniversary with a Quaid-i-Azam week.—APP


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