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Posted Nov 30 2009 12:00am
It's been an interesting year. First off, I never planned on doing a blog this year. The original plan was just to do it to document my journey to train and finish Ironman Louisville in 2008. After I accomplished that goal, I did shut the blog down. But then I got people who were reading my blog regularly, tell me they wished I'd continue. Aka, John Barclay.
I decided to do it again, this time for different reasons. The first was it keeps me honest. When you have people following your blog, you can't miss training sessions, the peer pressure is too great. Secondly, I decided to personalize it more, so that it had stories that were more than what I ate for dinner and how hard a specific workout was.
One of the main reasons I blog, is for posterity, I want my future generations to get to know me when I'm long gone. I would've loved to read about my ancestors. If it were me reading about my father, grandfather, great grandfather, etc, I'd actually try to duplicate the training to see what they experienced first hand. I think that would be cool.
When I first started blogging, my brother and sister read it, then they started making fun of me. My brother would say, and he does to this day because he hasn't read it in over a year, that he doesn't want to hear about what I ate, my sleeps, my shits or any boring stuff that has to do with my training. This year, as I mentioned above, I've tried to make it more than about triathlon training. I started to combine training with more deep feelings and stories. Past and present.
This year was a bit of a roller coaster. My original plan after last year was not to do an Ironman in 2009, but rather do one every second year. It requires too much training and hurts to much to finish. I wanted to temper my training so I could spend more time with family on the weekend.
I ended up getting cabin fever, changed my plan and aggressively signed up for St. Croix 70.3 and Ironman U.K. and set my goals to qualify for both the Clearwater and Hawaii World Championships. Then about 2 months later, Alice gave me "the hairy eyeball".
Turns out that money was getting tight. I spent about $14,000 on triathlons and travel the year previous. Then I bought a new bike early this year and she told me to "look at the numbers". I did a budget and realized that based on what I wanted to do and what I have coming in, it wasn't going to work. Things were starting to become financially tight. I needed to "bring the horns in".
I cancelled both races and it was a bonus that both entry fees were fully refundable. I reset my goals to focus on only long course racing and try to qualify for Clearwater. I went back to my original plan of only doing half Ironman's this year and peaking for Muskoka 70.3, where I figured I had a good shot to qualify for Clearwater.
In the end it was a good decision, financially and personally. It was a terrible Summer weather wise. It was cold. I think we only got 4 or 5 days over 30 C. It was tough enough tolerating 4 hour rides in that weather. It would have been most un-enjoyable to do 7 hour rides. The year before, training for Louisville, all I had was 30 C days. Which was great because I love riding in heat.
This year I lost some of my body firmness from Ironman training. I cut down the amount I spent swimming by about 40%, my upper body didn't look as svelte. Yet, I got faster in the pool and was less burnt out. I went from a 1:55 per 100 meters racing to as low as 1:49 per 100 meters. Last year I found that swimming 3 days a week and doing long swims of 5000 - 6000 meters was the cause of most of the burnout. This year, swimming less, I had less burnout and faster times. It doesn't get any better than that.
My cycling stayed the same, maybe a little faster, and my running really improved. Long runs went from a 9 minute pace to an 8 minute pace. Same with my track work. It went from 6:35 per mile down to as low as 5:58 per mile. The best was my half marathon went from a 1:32 to a 1:27 and broke a PB I set in my 20's.
This year's training was also mentally easier. Last year was my first year on the Mark Allen Online program and the volume of training was much greater than anything I had ever done. There was a LOT of dig deep days to keep on track. Thank God for beer and getting drunk to be my reset button. This year was different. I was used to the training and didn't have anywhere near the level of burnout.
Even though I was training for half Ironman's, the training volume isn't that much less than full Ironmans. I think it was easier because I knew what to expect and had full confidence I could do it. I became used to doing lots of training and if I didn't train it was a weird sensation. Training kept me in a routine and mentally balanced.
The best was achieving my goal of qualifying for the Ironman 70.3 World Championships in Clearwater Florida. But it didn't unfold as I thought it would. I had a great first race of the year at Muskoka long course. If anything I went to hard on the bike. After only 20 km's my legs were hurting. I fought through it and ended up averaging 35 kph on an extremely hilly course. Then I ran 10 miles at a 7:03 pace and fought through the pain. After the first 3 miles I had nothing in my legs and still maintained the pace. During that race I almost wiped out twice due to reckless bike riding in order to get a faster time. For future races, I learnt not to be stupid. The time I'd gain would only be seconds, but easily could end in disaster.
I believe my legs paid for it. I went so hard, the sore feeling in my quads from the bike ride didn't go away for months. The race I was looking most forward to this year was the Morden Cornman, previously called the Tinman. It was the first triathlon I ever did back in 1986. I wanted to come back and blow my time away and hopefully get a top 3 finish in my age group and maybe even overall.
The race was a disaster. I threw out my back a few weeks before. I think from all the pressure I was putting on myself. On the bike I over-shot the turnaround point by 3.5 km's. I was in second place and the volunteer hadn't shown up to let me know where the turnaround was. It ended up being a 97 km bike ride for me and I had nothing on the run. It was my worst triathlon run of the year. I'll never do that race again, it was so bush league. But at least I did set a PB for that course and with an adjustment for the extra bike time, would have come in 4th overall and second in my age group.
I did learn something important after that race. Not to put pressure on myself. It's only a triathlon and a race. It should be fun. I was so focused on that race for weeks, it was no fun. I was so glad to get it over and vowed never to put that much pressure on myself again. The pressure ended up doing more harm that good.
I took my new found attitude into Steelhead 70.3 and qualified for Clearwater. I didn't even plan on doing it a couple weeks before. I showed up, no expectations, other than I wanted to break my PB on the bike. I didn't even really taper. If it wasn't for Craig Swayze from Grandville printing, I wouldn't have done it. He said "come tour our plant and do the race that weekend". I think I did set a PB on the bike, but not by much. Had it not been windy on the way back, I would have shattered it.
I finished 7th overall in my age group and got the last spot available for Clearwater. The emotional roller coaster waiting for the roll down and whether I'd make the cut was intense. It really added to the adventure and flavour. Finally getting it was one of the major highlights of my triathlon career. The best part is I really deserved it. My time was 4:41. The Sun, the stars and the moon were all in alignment that day. I felt no pressure before the race and was even having beers the night before.
By qualifying in Clearwater, the rest of my season was on coast mode. I trained and had no build up pressure for Muskoka. I did better in Muskoka than last year and could have even done better had I not had about 18 beers two days before and a massive hangover the day before. I was lucky to be semi-okay by race day. It was a stupid thing to do.
Clearwater was the race of my life. Intuitively I even stopped drinking beer a month before and 20 days before started eating healthy. No junk food or eating anything past 8 pm. I showed up ready. No weight issues. I even got the flu a couple of weeks before and I think that helped give me a better taper. I tried not to put pressure on myself, I learnt that lesson in Morden. My whole goal was to just finish, set a PB on the bike and get a finishers medal. There was definitely drama with my chain breaking with 12 km's left on the bike. But I still managed to set a PB on the bike and for a half Ironman.
This year my writing improved and my entries are more open and interesting. That first year I was self conscious when I wrote. I knew customers and employees were reading it and didn't know how much of my life I should disclose. Sometimes it took half an hour to do 4 or 5 paragraphs.
That changed. My writing goal this year was to try and write fluid. I figured if I could write that way it would be from my soul. It's taken me a while and for most of the year it was better, but only recently has it become more fluid. The more fluid it is, the less time it takes to write a post.
Overall, this year has been good. My family is used to my training. This year Alice and I both agreed it didn't feel like I trained that much, even though I did. Maybe it was because I was burnt out less and less tired. The only downside was my liver disease diagnosis. It freaked me out.
When your training lots, you think your in great shape. Inside and out. When I found out my GGT, AST and ASL levels were much higher than normal I became concerned. The main reason was because I didn't want to temper my lifestyle. Obviously the doctors said I need to stop my excessive beer drinking. They felt that was the cause of the problem.
I love mania. Always have. It's part of my brain chemistry. Drinking means inhibition and fun. At times it's also a coping mechanism. It's also motivation to train. If I drink beer and don't train, I'll get fat and I never want to be fat again. This year I got soft because I drank to much beer and ate poorly in July. It started during my holidays in Winnipeg.
Drinking beer is part of my identity. I have thought of quitting. I'm not their yet. The reason I say quitting and not tempering, is because I can't temper. Some people can have a few, I can't. I only have two switches. On or off. I can quit. I have in the past, once for 7 years. I did quit for a total of 39 days recently. It is easier for me to quit, than it is to temper. Maybe I need to set goals for myself, like 30 days off, 2 weekends on. Who knows.
Or I could risk it and die young. Which is also an option. I'm not adverse to it. I'd much rather have a full life with lots of fun, than a long life with little fun. I know that is a controversial statement and as I get older and my kids get older and if I have grand kids, I'll probably think it was a "really stupid" statement.
I've had lots of personal growth this year. I've become more balanced with work and personal life. I no longer feel guilty about going for a swim or workout at lunch. I find that if I'm getting too caught up in work I need to take a break. Training has helped me become for efficient and provided me with greater clarity at work. Training gives me time to think and when I have the plan fully thought out it doesn't take me much time to implement.
Physically I'm starting to take better care of myself. I want to do well and if I eat or drink to much I sabotage my training efforts. Two weeks of training gains can be ruined in a weekend. It's getting painful to experience and making me think twice about my destructive habits. I keep telling myself "Baby steps. Baby Steps".
This year I've started to feel at home in Ontario. After my last visit to Winnipeg and seeing how the City has deteriorated, it convinced me that we made the right decision to move here. I had almost 5 years of self doubt about the move. Alice didn't want to come to Ontario. I did. Yet, she adjusted much sooner. This year will be our first Christmas not going back to Winnipeg. It will just be the four of us. It was the kids choice and I was happy they made that choice. I didn't want to go back this year. We had already been back during the Summer.
Social marketing has become my new passion. I'm no longer interested in traditional sales. For a lot of years I sold face to face and it comes natural to me. Being in the traditional printing industry is like being in the "buggy whip" industry when the automobile was launched. With the explosion of the Internet, people don't need print anywhere near the levels they used to. Pre-Internet, I'd make sales calls and was welcomed. Now I make sales calls and feel like "Willie Loman in Death of a Salesman". All I need is the tweed jacket with patches on the elbows.
Print isn't dead. It's just different and we've made the required adjustments at work. He have high growth print products, but they are all Internet based. No longer is knowing how to sell face to face important, but knowing how market on the Internet is important. I've immersed myself into Internet and Social marketing. I've started to get a passion for it.
One of the things I really like about it, is that it doesn't require working the 9 am - 5 pm workday. You can do it anytime. Day or Night. It is the perfect job for Ironman training. Rather than working your training around your job, you can work your job around your training. Internet Marketing has really ignited my work passion this year. On most of my runs and rides, all I did was listen to Internet marketing podcasts. It felt like I was doing two great things at once. I was making my day longer and more productive.
Through training, the pool, twitter and my blog I've made new friendships. A couple are already deep. Others are getting there. Johan Stemmet is an interesting one, he's in South Africa. Following his blog all year has been great. Especially his posts from Hawaii, they were magical for me. I want to get back their so bad.
All of these new friendships have started by a common triathlon bond. The last time I started developing so many new friendships was when I was in my 20's and started doing triathlons. To this day, when I run into any of my long ago triathlon buddies, it's like time has stood still. The bond is still great and I started to experience the start of new friendship bonds this year.
The other highlight of this year has been to see the progress my daughter has been making. She had medical issues for the past two years and it set her back two years in school. Now things are better and she is "kicking ass". I'm very proud of her. She has great wisdom and always has, since she was a kid. We've never had a problem with her. Surprisingly, with me as her father, she rarely drinks and has never even come home drunk or embarrassed herself. I joke that it's reverse parenting style. I see strict parents and the kids are "hell raisers". I'm a "hell raiser" and my kids are as good as gold. Go figure. Obviously Alice has something to do with it.
In closing, it was a great year. My immediate and extended family is healthy, none of them died and everyone still loves each other. Lots of personal growth. New friendships. No regrets. Just learning opportunities. What more can you ask for. Looking forward to 2010!!!
Rest Day
November Totals
Swim - 6.26 miles /10.01 km
Bike - 280.64 miles / 452.65 km
Run - 48.05 miles / 75.50 km
Total - 334.95 / 540.24
Weights 0
Calories 22754
2008/2009 Totals (13 Months)
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....or, if France & Russia (who were doing massive amounts of business with Iraq, a blatant disregard for UN edicts) had not of held up the invasion, allowing the WMD's to be removed to Syria, we would have found them.
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While NK has escalated thing a bit more than usually this is their same old MO. Need food and energy? Threaten the world and you will get what you want. It aint the first time they have done it and it always works for them so why would anyone be surprised by this?
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Love the music!!
Great music mixed well with the introductions. Nice layering.
Pretty awesome little podcast…you do a seamless job of merging the music with the dialogue.
Totally impressive. We should upload this to the MATESA FB page. Was that the chickenslacks i heard?
The Educational system in Egypt is no better than Taiwan. All built on memorization not understanding.
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The former Parkside building was identified as the most suitable option for a co-location of services.
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"Originally appearing in the pages of Archie & Friends #126 through #129, 'The Cartoon Life of Chuck Clayton' focuses on Chuck's efforts to share his artistic talents with neighborhood kids, and the special relationships he develops as he teaches cartooning. It all starts when Chuck is asked to teach an after-school program in cartooning to elementary school kids� and it isn't long before he learns the kids can be more hyperactive than his doodles! But Chuck is determined to connect with the kids and help them create the next comic book classics. Along the way, he gets some help teaching from an unlikely source, and reaches out to a troubled child known for spreading graffiti. Can Chuck's world of collecting, drawing, and teaching kids how to make their own comics take on new meaning? The answer's just a splash panel away! This poignant tale comes courtesy of someone who knows their way around both creating and teaching comics, namely acclaimed writer, children's art advocate, and organizer of the world's only �Kids' Comic� convention, Alex Simmons."
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"'Journey into the East Part One: Endless Reach of Fate': After a fierce battle with the Spider Ninjas, Sonic rescues Sally, Tails and Monkey Khan from the Gossamer Clan Cave in which they've been imprisoned. Things get introspective as Sally blames herself for the recent turn of events, but when they all meet the Bride of the Endless Reach, our heroes realize they are in the middle of a much bigger picture than they thought! Ties into this month's Sonic the Hedgehog #210"
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Travel to the spectacular undersea world of seaQuest DSV as all 23 groundbreaking episodes from the epic first season surface on DVD. The amazing adventure begins in the mid-21st century, as humankind expands its undersea colonization efforts and a tenuous world peace is enforced by the United Earth Oceans (UEO). In order to protect the fledgling underwater colonies from unknown dangers and hostile invaders lurking in the depths of Earth's last frontier, the UEO recruits Captain Nathan Bridger (Roy Scheider) to command the high-tech battle submarine seaQuest and its diverse and eclectic crew. Along for the ride are a roster of stellar guest stars, including Charlton Heston, William Shatner, Seth Green, Kellie Martin and Kent McCord. Now on DVD for the first time ever, with exclusive never-before-seen footage, the Emmy' Award-winning seaQuest DSV is sure to make waves with thrill-seekers everywhere! |
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Set in the year 2018, this futuristic sci-fi series revolves around mankind's attempts to colonize the earth's waters. As various underwater colonies are set up, conflict arises between different communities fighting for common resources. Assigned the task of keeping the peace by the United Earth Oceans (UEO), a submarine known as seaQuest DSV is sent underwater for the purpose of preventing war. The ship's diverse team includes Captain Nathan Bridger (Roy Scheider), teenager Lucas (Jonathan Brandis), and even a genius dolphin. The Emmy Award-winning show's debut season is presented here. SEAQUEST DSV: SEASON ONE contains 23 episodes and features guest stars Seth Green, Kent McCord, Kellie Martin, Charlton Heston, and William Shatner.
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In 1838, U.S. troops were pushing the Cherokee from their ancestral lands in the hills of western North Carolina. They were to be relocated to Oklahoma to make room for white settlers. It was a harrowing, heart-wrenching journey, and many died in what would become known as the Trail of Tears.
By then, Solomon Osborne (about three-quarters Cherokee) and his bride, Seaberry, the daughter of a Cherokee chief, were fleeing north, choosing the northern Cherokee hunting ground over the dusty West.
(In all, about 1,000 Cherokees escaped the Trail of Tears. Today, their descendants are known as the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, which is headquartered in Cherokee, N.C.)
Solomon and Seaberry, who took the white name Martha Arms, first settled in Tazewell, Va., where their cabin still stands and is on the National Historic Register.
But the constant fear of being found out by the government and its anti-Indian policies kept them on the move. They next settled in what is now Wyoming County, then Nicholas County, where Seaberry died in 1866, and lastly Clay County, where Solomon died in 1880.
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While most of us are intuitively aware of the impact that the monthly employment report has on the equity market, Mike Panzner delivers a graphic overview to puts it into perspective:
Data | Overall Average | On Jobs Report Days |
Absolute Net Change % | 0.77% | 0.99% |
Intraday High-Low Range % | 1.36% | 1.61% |
Up Days as a % of Total* | 51.06% | 56.62% |
* divided by 100 for clarity
on the accompanying chart
Includes data from 1/1/94 through the present
Source: Michael Panzner, Rabo Securities
(Kudos to Mike on getting mentioned in the WSJ's Ahead Of The Tape column this morn).
Please use the comments to demonstrate your own ignorance, unfamiliarity with empirical data and lack of respect for scientific knowledge. Be sure to create straw men and argue against things I have neither said nor implied. If you could repeat previously discredited memes or steer the conversation into irrelevant, off topic discussions, it would be appreciated. Lastly, kindly forgo all civility in your discourse . . . you are, after all, anonymous.
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3.13: Sum to Product Formulas for Sine and Cosine
Can you solve problems that involve the sum of sines or cosines? For example, consider the equation:
You could just compute each expression separately and add their values at the end. However, there is an easier way to do this. You can simplify the equation first, and then solve.
Read this Concept, and at the end of it, you'll be able to simplify this equation and transform it into a product of trig functions instead of a sum!
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In the first portion of this video, you'll learn about the Sum to Product formulas.
James Sousa: Sum to Product and Product to Sum Identities
In some problems, the product of two trigonometric functions is more conveniently found by the sum of two trigonometric functions by use of identities such as this one:
This can be verified by using the sum and difference formulas:
The following variations can be derived similarly:
Here are some examples of this type of transformation from a sum of terms to a product of terms.
Example A
Change into a product.
Solution: Use the formula
Example B
Change into a product.
Solution: Use the formula
Example C
Change to a sum.
Solution: This is the reverse of what was done in the previous two examples. Looking at the four formulas above, take the one that has sine and cosine as a product, Therefore, and .
So, this translates to . A shortcut for this problem, would be to notice that the sum of and is and the difference is .
Guided Practice
1. Express the sum as a product:
2. Express the difference as a product:
3. Verify the identity (using sum-to-product formula):
1. Using the sum-to-product formula:
Using the difference-to-product formula:
Using the difference-to-product formulas:
Concept Problem Solution
Prior to learning the sum to product formulas for sine and cosine, evaluating a sum of trig functions, such as
might have been considered difficult. But you can easily transform this equation into a product of two trig functions using:
Substituting the known quantities:
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Change each sum or difference into a product.
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The committee added the allegation Thursday to its complaint against the Charleston Democrat. The amended complaint was signed by 10 of his colleagues and made public after Chairman Luke Rankin hand-delivered it to Ford.
It comes two weeks after the committee found probable cause to support allegations that Ford committed multiple violations of state ethics laws over the last four years.
Ford had until Thursday to respond to allegations that he used campaign donations for personal expenses, misrepresented expenses as campaign-related and reported incorrect amounts for what he spent.
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The Secret History of Fantasy | ||||||||
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A review by Paul Kincaid
Like that earlier collection, The Secret History of Fantasy offers a superb selection of stories -- there
is not one piece in this book that I would not strenuously urge you to read -- but its raison d'être is far
muddier than in the earlier volume, and I am even less persuaded by its argument.
Stated as baldly as possible, it is argued that, over the last 30 or 40 years, the genre of fantasy has come to be
identified with a bunch of multi-volume Tolkien clones that follow an overly-familiar trajectory. Although the
formula is not specified within this book, we all know how it goes: a youth (almost always male) is unexpectedly
revealed to have a special skill or be a long-lost prince and must then embark on a quest to recover various
plot tokens before finally defeating the forces of evil. It's a format that accounts for an awful lot of what
appears on the fantasy shelves of our bookshops, from The Sword of Shannara by Terry Brooks to the
Harry Potter novels by J.K. Rowling. The format may be safe and comfortable, but it represents only a very
tiny proportion of what fantasy can do, and this volume therefore purports to present the forms of fantasy
that have been hidden by these megaworks.
Simplistically, by gut instinct, this is an accurate assessment, it is the identikit volumes (good and bad) that
seem to represent the bulk of genre publishing these days. But the closer you look, the less convincing it
seems. Partly this is because this volume doesn't really argue the case consistently. There is no attempt to
define fantasy, to say what it is capable of achieving; that part of the argument rests entirely on the
selection of stories offered, and I'll come to those in a moment. The problem is that where there is an
argument, which is about the damage that has been done to fantasy, it is inconsistent.
The editor, Peter Beagle, leaves this portion of the task to two previously published essays. One, "The
Critics, the Monsters, and the Fantasists" by Ursula K. Le Guin, insists that the damage was done by academic
critics who maintained that only realist fiction is worthy of serious attention. This is a partial truth at
best, but it isn't helped that the second essay, "The Making of the American Fantasy Genre" by David G.
Hartwell, insists that the damage was done by publishers and the commodification of fantasy. Now these are
not necessarily contradictory positions, but since there is no attempt to unify them into a coherent whole
we are left trying to use the stories contained here to identify what exactly is the secret history of
fantasy, and how it contrasts with the not-so-secret history.
Except that what is included here isn't exactly secret. At least, I would hesitate to call Stephen King a
little known writer, or one known only to a small circle of cognoscenti. His tale, "Mrs Todd's Shortcut," itself
not an entirely unknown story, is representative of what he does best: a setting in rural Maine, a
conversation between two old locals, the slow accumulation of impossible events told so as to make them
seem perfectly possible, the hesitation over whether what is on offer is a blessing or a threat, until
finally one character takes the offering. It is beautifully done, we accept the unreal as part of our
natural landscape, it occupies that subtle area where the mainstream and the fantastic merge one into the
other. Is this the secret history we have been promised: the presentation, as in The Secret History
of Science Fiction, of genre and mainstream as interchangeable?
Going through the contents list, it is possible to construct an argument that both secret histories are doing
exactly the same job, that the hidden but (presumably) better part of fantasy is where genre and mainstream
merge. Thus we have representative mainstream writers such as T.C. Boyle, Steven Millhauser and Jonathan
Lethem, all curiously featured in the science fiction volume, and none of them ever identified solely with
the mainstream (though Boyle's "We Are Norsemen," about off-course Viking raiders briefly reaching America
isn't necessarily fantastic; while Lethem's "Super Goat Man" is a satiric riff on the comic book culture
he has already played with in novels like The Fortress of Solitude). There's also "The Vita Aeterna
Mirror Company," a predictable play on memory that is one of the weaker stories in the collection by Yann
Martel, who won the Mann Booker Prize for a novel about talking animals, so he, also, would seem to count
as neither secret nor straightforwardly mainstream.
Or perhaps we are meant to assume that these forms of the fantastic are unknown to most readers of the
fantastic. Though that is hard to sustain when we realize that the generic fantasy authors include multiple
award winners such as Susanna Clarke whose first novel, Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell, was not
only a mainstream bestseller but also a winner of the Hugo and World Fantasy Awards. Her story
here, "John Uskglass and the Cumbrian Charcoal Burner," appears to be a humorous subversion of genre
conventions while actually conforming quite strictly to them. Or there's Patricia A. McKillip, who
may be something of a secret to non-genre readers but is hardly so among fantasy readers, whose "Lady of
the Skulls" concerns knights on a quest and the mysterious lady whose riddles they must unravel
if they are to survive the quest. Even more than Clarke's story this takes formulaic elements (it could
easily be an episode taken straight from an Arthurian tale) and then twists it to satiric effect. Both
these stories depend on an understanding of the types of fantasy to which this volume is supposedly
offering a counter, and subversion of a type hardly counts as offering a completely different approach to the genre.
Similarly "Snow, Glass, Apples" by Neil Gaiman (hardly an unknown quantity to either fantasy or mainstream
readers) takes a familiar fairy tale, "The Sleeping Beauty," and turns it on its head by making the wicked
witch into a tragic heroine. It is a very good story, but in terms of structure it is not doing anything
that hasn't been commonplace in genre fantasy for a good couple of decades. It is the same approach that
Gregory Maguire takes, not only in a string of successful novels but also in the story included
here, "Scarecrow," which essentially retells a key moment in The Wizard of Oz from the point of
view of the Scarecrow, though without otherwise doing any noticeable damage to the original. Revisiting
highly familiar works, and being respectful rather than revisionist to the original, is one of the common
things that fantasy does, it hardly makes this a secret strand of the genre.
But for all that I think the argument of the book is ill-formed, there is still something valuable in the
collection. The tricky problem is the word "secret" in the title, since it is hard to determine from the
contents what on earth is meant by secret. All the authors are well-known (Maureen F. McHugh, Terry Bisson,
Aimee Bender, Michael Swanwick, Octavia Butler, Peter Beagle), several are best-sellers (King, Clarke,
Gaiman, Martel), many of them are significant award winners (both genre awards such as the Hugo, World
Fantasy, BSFA and British Fantasy Awards, and non-genre awards, including the Booker and the Pulitzer);
so there is little that might be considered esoteric in this selection. Most of the stories are doing
things that fit within a familiar pattern of fantasy. This is not the thick-headed heroic fantasy that
has been churned out by the yard for 30 years or more, but it is still not unfamiliar to most people who
have ever read within the genre.
The difference, I think, can best be identified by looking at what I consider to be the two best and most
interesting stories in the
collection: "Mythago Wood" by Robert Holdstock and "26 Monkeys, Also the Abyss" by Kij Johnson. Johnson's
story, short and sharp, told in brief numbered passages, concerns a tawdry sideshow act which climaxes
with the troop of 26 monkeys climbing into an old bathtub and disappearing. They are transported elsewhere
by means that are never understood, and make their way back to their trailer in the hours following each
performance. This eruption of the mysterious into the everyday reflects on the woman who runs the show,
and in particular upon her relationships with her boyfriend and with the oldest of the monkeys. In the
end, she simply sells the show to someone else, in a sense seeking the mundane, but the mystery is
unresolved and disturbing. There is a similar lack of resolution in Holdstock's novella, which would
eventually grow into a long novel sequence. In a sense, what we know of and from these later novels
makes the nature of Ryhope Wood familiar, but the intent and effect of this first story is
defamiliarization. It is set very specifically in the period just after the Second World War, our narrator
was injured and in his return to a rural corner of England reflects the injured land, each seeking a form of
healing by behaving as if everything is back to normal. But there is nothing normal in the literally broken
family to which Stephen Huxley returns: his cold and remote father has recently died and his
brother, Christian, immediately disappears into the wild woodland, while strange and threatening figures
start to emerge from the forest. The myth-imagoes, the crude raw material of familiar myths, hardly
feature in the story, but their influence infuses every word, unsettling the comfort and familiarity of
home, of memory, of myth.
And that is the key point that is nowhere spelled out in this collection but that underlines everything
within it. There are two strands of fantasy. The commodified fantasy is familiar, safe, comforting. It
conforms to an identikit pattern, it reassures us that the hero and the good will win out, its thrills are
artificial because there is no real threat. This is the strand of fantasy that this collection rails
against; it is still omnipresent on our bookshop shelves, though I do not think it is any longer as
dominant in our impressions of fantasy as it once was. Against this is set not a secret history, because
many examples of this strand are popular, many practitioners are successful, but a different strand of
fantasy that is perhaps less readily identifiable because it has no unifying feature (you could not hope
to find two more diverse stories than the Holdstock and the Johnson, but both belong firmly in this strand).
This is because this strand of fantasy is broad and varied, far more wide-ranging than the heroic quest,
much more diverse in its literary influences than the so-called mainstream. It is this variety that gives
such fantasy its strength but that also makes it perhaps less obvious than its more simply structured
sibling. And where the one form comforts, the other form discomforts, unsettles, makes us think.
These are stories that exercise our minds rather than soothing them, and there is nothing secret about that.
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Daniel Bard, Alfredo Aceves and Felix Doubront didn't do much to make the Red Sox's decision for them in their final bids for the two openings in the rotation.
Bard followed the solid outings by Aceves and Doubront yesterday with six innings of three-run ball against the Twins on Friday. A Justin Morneau double was the only extra-base hit he allowed, and he struck out seven and walked three on his way to a win.
It figures to be Bard's final official outing of the spring, barring a move to send him to the pen and have him make a relief appearance early next week. He went 2-2 with a 6.57 ERA and an 18/16 K/BB ratio in 24 2/3 innings.
Aceves and Doubront both outpitched Bard, who was the clear favorite for the fourth spot going into the spring. Aceves had a 5.50 ERA, but nine of the 11 earned runs he allowed came in one outing and he was very good in the other four. Doubront had a 2.70 ERA in 16 2/3 innings.
The guess is that Doubront will be the fifth starter, since he wouldn't be the same kind of weapon out of the pen than Bard or Aceves would be. Bard still appears to be the favorite for the fourth spot, if only by default. One thing working in his favor: it's doubtful the Red Sox would consider returning him to the rotation later after starting him in the pen. Aceves, on the other hand, is versatile enough to go back and forth if needed.
- hammyofdoom - Mar 30, 2012 at 6:46 PM
With how great Bard's fastball/slider combo can be, I think he has to beat out aceves as the 4th starter. Last year when he DID start, I believe Alfredo's ERA was above 5 and his control really suffered as a starter (I remember seeing him plunk the leadoff hitter in a game more than once, as well as having bad control in general). Also he is far more versatile out of the 'pen, with something like 49 out of his 105 relief appearances in his career have been for over 2 innings. He is a perfect swing-man, to be able to come in a game in the 5th inning to pitch for 2-3-4 innings, or to pop in during the 7th to hopefully shut a team down late in the game
- baseballisboring - Mar 30, 2012 at 7:27 PM
Agreed, I think Bard will at least get the chance. I was a little more optimistic about his chances of starting before the spring training stats he put up, but he does have a great fastball/slider combination, and his two seamer and change have been good at times. Control is really the issue though…when you're throwing 98-99 you can get away with more mistakes than at 93-94. He definitely tends to miss his spots, but given our lack of depth I say we run him out there for at least a few starts and see how he looks.
- bigharold - Mar 30, 2012 at 6:46 PM
Bard really needs to go back to the pen. He's pretty much a two pitch pitcher and his stuff doesn't translate well in the rotation. He's a classic thrower, .. not a pitcher and when the lineup starts seeing him for the second and third time they are going to hit him hard.
He better be making progress on that change up.
- uyf1950 - Mar 30, 2012 at 7:58 PM
One additional thing to consider is the performance of Melancon this ST. He has not looked very good and the Sox could be in trouble if they start the season with him as the set up guy.
I'm thinking Aceves and Doubront get the 2 final spot and Bard goes back to being the set up guy with Melancon being the 7th inning guy.
- bigharold - Mar 31, 2012 at 12:05 PM
I think I'd leave Aceves in the pen. Aside from his versatility I;m not certain that his back can stand up to then't grind of the rotation with 30 starts.
I really like Aceves and wasn't at all happy when the Yankees let him go but with that said I think his best slot is the pen especially if they are looking to protect his health.
- aceshigh11 - Mar 30, 2012 at 7:11 PM
See? This is what kills me…
He hunkers down and gives a great performance, which is going to help him win his spot in the rotation…and then watch: he'll completely fall apart.
- buffalomafia - Mar 30, 2012 at 7:21 PM
Lets go Yankees?
- sasquash20 - Mar 30, 2012 at 11:49 PM
I'm not even a Sox fan and I think you suck!
- deadeyedesign23 - Mar 30, 2012 at 7:24 PM
I nearly went cross eyed trying to read the first sentence of this post.
- firstandonlywarning - Mar 30, 2012 at 7:34 PM
Because it's barely english
- cur68 - Mar 30, 2012 at 10:35 PM
Clearly missing the word "easier" between "the Red Sox's decision" & "for them" in that sentence. Somebody's ADD posting.
- bozosforall - Mar 30, 2012 at 8:09 PM
Red Sox…fourth place in the AL East this year.


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Former White House health policy advisor Roy Ramthun has announced what he estimates will be the limits for deductibles, out-of-pocket exposure, and health savings account (HSA) contribution limits for 2008:
2007 Amount
Est. 2008 Amount
Self-only coverage Minimum deductible $1,100
Maximum HSA contribution $2,850
Out-of-pocket maximum $5,500
Family coverage Minimum deductible $2,200
Maximum HSA contribution $5,650
Out-of-pocket maximum $11,000
Ramthun, who is the president of HSA Consulting Services, LLC, writes:
We now know all the data points to calculate the 2008 numbers for HSAs. This will give everyone offering an HSA program in 2008 much more time for planning. In past years, this information was not available until very late in the year.
Noting that the minimum deductible limits for HSA-qualified health insurance probably will not change from 2007 to 2008, Ramthun writes:
This means HSA-qualified plans will not have to make any changes to their plan designs because their current policies will meet the minimum deductibles and out-of-pocket limits for 2008.
Ramthun further notes that the limit on "catch-up" contributions by HSA holders age 55-64 in 2008 will remain $900; that amount is set by law rather than a formula, and will top out at $1,000 in 2009.
The IRS will publish the official HSA limits for 2008 by June 1.
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COLUMBIA — Fans watched from the stands as Missouri football players prepared for practice on Faurot Field on a hot, sunny morning in June. Like most mornings, athletes shouted familiar chants, stretched and received instructions from coaches.
Except today proved to be a different type of practice for members of the Missouri football team. This time, they were the coaches, and their players — campers entering first grade through eighth grade — were the ones prepping for a strenuous practice.
Players have been coached at the Tiger Youth Football Camp for five years. Hosted by the Columbia Youth Football League and Missouri Athletics, this year's two-day event drew more than 450 campers from across the country, giving them the chance to learn drills, interact with MU football players and even score a few autographs.
The camp is one of three football camps hosted at MU over the summer, a small portion of the wealth of summer camps, from high school engineering tutorials to week-long musical training, that populate MU's campus every summer.
The youth football camp's first evening consisted of campers practicing offensive and defensive skills and one-on-one drills, followed by a pizza party and a tunnel of awaiting parents for the campers to run through.
Before practice Sunday morning, campers ran around, buzzing with energy as they were given their assignments. The boys were divided into groups by grade level and rotated through an assortment of drills, including kicking a football, running through arrangements of cones and weaving around mats.
Hundreds of parents and family members sat on the bleachers, some watching intently, water bottle in hand, while others dawdled, making stops at the concession stand or socializing with other parents.
A family from Mansfield, Texas has made the drive to camp for the past four years. David and Julia Thayer have been bringing their son, William, 10, to the camp ever since they saw it advertised on the MU athletics website.
On Saturday night, the Thayer family participated in the tunnel of parents that stretched from one end zone to the other.
"It's great when the kids get to run out of the tunnel. It definitely makes them feel like they're big boys," David Thayer said.
Julia Thayer said the newly renovated field, with fresh SEC logos, brought extra excitement for the family this year.
The intensity of the campers on the field is apparent. Some push hard through the drills and even celebrate with an end zone dance, egged on by Ian Simon, a Tiger football player and first-year volunteer with the camp.
Simon is one of roughly a dozen Missouri football players that helped out with the camp.
"It's great to be out here," said Kenronte Walker, another first-year volunteer and Tiger football player. "It's fun. Everybody is just getting better."
Many of the campers said they liked tackling, running through drills with the players and being on a big-time college football field.
Stephanie Adams and her sons, Brody, 6, and Riley, 8, traveled from St. Charlesto attend camp. This is their second year.
Adams said the boys cherish interacting with the players. She said last year was especially memorable for her older son.
"One of the players that was here, Michael Egnew, went on and got drafted," Adams said. "Riley thought that was pretty awesome because he got to meet him."
Stephanie Padgett is a board member for the Columbia Youth Football League and has been lending a hand at the camp for three years.
"It (the camp) brings people from across the state together around youth football and Mizzou football," Padgett said.
She said it also attracts campers from across the country. Last year, 40 percent of the campers came to Columbia from more than 100 miles away.
"It's a great opportunity to interact at a level that you don't typically get to do during a game weekend," she said.
Padgett said the camp provides participants with up-close experiences that they can't usually get otherwise, such as getting their picture on the big screen after they ran through the tunnel of awaiting parents.
She also said there's been anincrease in the number of campers since she started at the camp.
"It's increased to the fact that we're maxed out," Padgett said.
John Heider, who runs the Columbia Youth Football League, has been leading the camp for five years. Heider said his favorite part of camp is watching the Missouri players interact with the campers.
"Just watch these guys," Heider said of the Tiger players. "Big smiles on their faces and that's all of them. They're just big kids themselves."
"The crazy thing is that no matter what we teach the kids out here, they won't remember left or right but they'll remember the experience with the players," Heider said. "And what we're trying to create is a lifelong love of the game—and loyal Mizzou fans."
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March 2008
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From Darkness to Light
Islam Had Eluded Me
By Zain Muhammad
I had been reading the Quran after being intrigued by the music of Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan.
Whether it fittingly opens in Mississippi, Pakistan, or New York my story begins and ends with absolute unquestioning submission to Allah as His humble and undeserving servant.
I was born into this world, an American Christian, a Southern Baptist in the deep heart of the mythical south: Mississippi. Always a sensitive child, given to prayer and Bible reading. I prayed and studied and slowly wandered away from the faith of my ancestors during my early teenage years.
I became a modern American. Which is to say I believed in the media-driven Cult of Celebrity, the necessity of Consumerism (to ensure the continual growth of the American economy), paying lip-service to general Christian religious beliefs, and becoming as independent of my parents (and my extended Southern family) as quickly as possible.
After years of experimentation during my teens, twenties, and early thirties with Western and Eastern philosophical ideas, both benign and malignant forms of Paganism, power and lust, I was a shell of a human, an existential mess. Desperate to appeal to a higher power, but helplessly unable to start, I was frozen into my seeming damnation. I had embraced Shaytan and damnation as inevitable (and therefore desirable).
It was the fall of 1999. My career and my luckless marriage were on the back burner. Searching for I knew not what, treading water, I had been reading the Qur'an after being intrigued by the music of Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan. Not knowing what the lyrics meant (though I suspected they were religious in nature), I was curious as to the appeal and value of the Quran as one the world's great writings of "wisdom literature." Somehow, Islam had eluded me. Maybe it had appeared too irrational to my "enlightened mind"? I had studied in some detail, Western Philosophy from Plato to Derrida while working on a Ph.D. in post-modern thought, so my world view was twisted into a Gordian Knot.
After a weekend of typical Manhattan debauchery, I realised—or it was revealed to me—that I was near the end. No Exit. Either I found God or I committed suicide. No options. My best friend, a Muslim, had given me a prayer rug his father brought from Makkah. I took it from where it hung as decoration on my wall and placed it on the floor, fell to my knees. For three days I wept and beat my head against the ground: slept, cried, prayed, slept, cried, and prayed in a cycle of absolute repentance.
It seemed the universe opened up to me. I could see a light trillions of trillions light years distant. What that light was, was the mystery of mysteries to my natal mind. Nevertheless, I believed and knew it to be Allah, the One Unity. I begged this Unity to lead me along the straight path, to allow me to renounce my evil and rebellious ways. My heart broke open like a ripe pomegranate and long-buried seeds of faith spilled forth.
After three days, the sun rose and I left my home a changed man. There WAS a God, there WAS a meaning to Life, and there WAS a moral code to be followed in order to achieve Heaven and avoid Hell. This revelation, however, did not mean that immediately I understood the implications of what I had experienced that I appreciated fully the profundity of the Quran, or that I gave up every one of my sinful ways. However, I was trying, and I was a better person than before. When one wanders along the crooked and thorny path toward Jahannum, when one revels in the desires offered by the modern world for years, one becomes crippled. Time is necessary to learn to walk strong and straight again. I believed in the Islamic Creed and in the Articles of Faith, but I was still paddling in the waters of Islam. Occasionally attending a mosque, fasting a few days during Ramadan, reading my Quran at times, studying the history of Islam, and praying (though not according to the strict rules of salat): these were my first steps toward the True Faith.
Knowing so little fiqh/Sunnah, I was unsure about the degree to which I was a Muslim already—a Muslim in rebellion, but a Muslim nevertheless. I had never taken Shahada.
Then in the spring of 2001, I went to Pakistan with my best friend to visit his family. The trip was meant to be a tourist jaunt in a foreign land, but Allah had other plans. In Pakistan (throughout Sindh province), I met all the right persons. While I was under no illusion regarding the human faults of Pakistan, my eyes seemed to be open only to its spiritual beauty.
There, I was exposed to the ugliness of deprivation and the comeliness of a true Muslim soul-worker, my friend's uncle, a saint of a man. Though I felt ashamed in his presence and believed he saw into the evil of my past, my friend informed me that his uncle "saw a light in my face." Shaken by guilt as I pondered and prayed over the manner in which I had wasted my youth, I made a "devil's deal" with The Almighty (a great blasphemy): in exchange for my absolute devotion to Islam, it's Rasool (Pbuh) and it's Ummah, I needed a strong sign of Allah presence and power. I asked to be struck deaf, blind, dumb, lame, or dead as proof of his final reality. Praying, sobbing for hours, I suddenly arose to a cold world beneath an enormous flowering pink tree in a courtyard. Friends hovered around me to see what was wrong. I exclaimed, "It's very bright and cold under this tree..." Suddenly, I fell to the ground in a faint. The tree also was struck to the ground.
I faced my Death Abyss for 12 hours. A raging fever that would not subside took hold of my brain; friends were worried that I was dying as my temperature rose past 106 degrees despite the ice water being poured onto me. I screamed and raved that needles of ice and fire were piercing me. In the depths of my torture, I repented and begged Allah not to let me die before being allowed to serve Him in this world. My wish was granted. I slept for a day and awoke a True Muslim. Upon returning to New York, I took Shahada at Al Falah Masjid in Queens. (Courtesy:www.alinaam. org.za)
Time Tested Beauty Tips
For attractive lips, speak words of kindness.
For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people.
For a slim figure, share your food with the hungry.
For beautiful hair, let a child run his or her fingers through it once a day.
For poise, walk with the knowledge you'll never walk alone.
People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed; Never throw out anybody.
Remember, If you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm.
As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.
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The currency isn't an issue? The exchange rate with the British Pound is leveraged towards the British Pound. And has been for a long time. If we pay London-based players in British Pounds, they'd be making much more than American-based players. Do you really think the players Union would be ok with that?
If you pay London-based players in American dollars, that would be an issue as well, because the cost of living in London is so high that you'd have to pay them well above what NFL players in other markets are making.
Hauling a massive jumbo jet across the Atlantic isn't an issue? Are you kidding me? You think it's free to run those big jets across the pond? The owners will have to spend massive more amount of money on travel than they already do.
I am not making things up. These are all, real-world, legit issues. You are being obtuse.
You must not work in the real world because simple business concepts seem to escape you.
Let's say a top flight qb makes 20 million usd a year and it takes 1.50 to purchase 1 gbp well the top flight qb on the London based team would make 13.33 million gbp a year instead. It's very simple math to take care of the conversion. All US based players could still be paid USD, for that matter so could the London based players and no you wouldn't have to make any absurd adjustments for cost of living, is the salary cap adjusted across the US? Nope. I can request my employer pay me in one of about 20 currencies no matter where I work or live.
There is an expense with the flight however is not prohibitive to keep this from happening and certainly something a London based owner would know going in to this
There is also not a magical 3 hour flight difference on the return flight
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Southeastern Railway Museum's 5th annual Rail Fair
August 21, 2007 For Immediate Release (Duluth, Ga.).
On Saturday and Sunday, October 6 & 7, the Museum will be hosting it's Fifth Annual Rail Fair. The hours will be 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM Saturday and Noon to 5:00 PM on Sunday. Focus for this year's rail fair will be the museum's revamped and recently reorganized railcar exhibits. Special exhibits will include an O Scale layout and a children's activity area. Several vendors have committed to appearing this year and vendor registration is ongoing. Anyone wishing to volunteer for or be a vendor at the event, please contact Gragg Robinson at (404) 569-8672 or call the Museum at (770) 476-2013.
For additional information: Please call the Southeastern Railway Museum at (770) 476-2013
The Southeastern Railway Museum has been in operation since 1970 and is "Georgia's Official Transportation History Museum". The museum has over 80 other pieces of retired railway rolling stock including vintage steam and diesel locomotives, passenger coaches, private business cars, a World War II army troop kitchen, wooden freight cars, railway post office car and maintenance of way equipment. Transit history is represented with a cross section of busses and trolleys from the early 1900's through the mid 1980's. The museum is also home to MARTA's historic bus fleet which includes busses from many of the predecessor systems to MARTA. Many other items from Georgia's transportation history are also presented on the museum's 30-acre site.
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