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Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal of Unified Maoists is heading to the land of his presumed enlightenment, New Delhi, July 16, 2915. It is also likely that during the New Delhi pilgrimage he will be blessed by Prime Minister Narendra Bhai Modi.
The draft is against NepalÆs age old Hindu identity and anti-Madhesi, he said and added, there needs sea changes in the draft. If a Charter similar to the new draft gets promulgated from the constituent assembly it is certain to invite greater conflict in the country, he said. The country will split into pieces, he stressed.
A note issued by the party following its central committee meeting, July 5, 2015 claims that the protest programs will be centred at all the district headquarters and in Kathmandu valley, all three districts will be jointly taking part in a protest.
However, before leaving the CA meeting on Sunday, General Secretary of Tarai Madhesh Loktantrik Party Sarbendra Nath Shukla making his views claimed that the preliminary draft of the new constitution was akin to a body without a head as it does not addresses federalism in it.
Chairman Rajendra Mahato of Nepal Sadvawana Party has threatened to impose blockade on Kathmandu valley if discriminatory provisions on Madheshi people in the preliminary draft of the new constitution were not corrected while promulgating the new constitution.
Chairman KP Sharma Oli told his cadres at a program organized by the party that the Untied Marxist Leninist is an organization of Think Tank. Oli said on the occasion, July 4, 2015, ōOur thinking, our ideology, our rigid political stand and also because of our organizational setup we stand tall among all and leading the country from the front.ö
Majority of the Unified Maoists Party parliamentarians have alleged their party leadership of accepting the æideology of compromiseÆ. They verbally attacked the party leadership at the partyÆs parliamentary delegation meeting, July 4, 2015. The meeting was held at the Constituent Assembly secretariat.
Earlier on Saturday, Chairman Pushpa Kamal of Unified Maoists talking to reporters at the Constituent Assembly said, ōWe cannot just ignore the population while we also need to expedite the process.ö Ram Chandra Poudel said, ōOn Sunday the party leaders will hold a meeting with the CA Chairman to arrive at a conclusion.ö
His courage in stepping up the Dhara Hara tower, personally speaking,
The assumption of the role of leadership of RPP at the moment by
I did not meet high flying leaders from China. I just met with
We are going with the spirit of the 12 point agreement and also
The party unity is not possible now under the leadership of Chairman Prachanda.
It is true that we have so far failed in drafting the constitution.
To say that the constitution should enjoy complete consensus means that this nation
The leaders of the RPP and RPP-Nepal have felt the need for the
Since we possess similar views and thus there is the pressure from the
But I too sometimes fail to understand why China has to act in
The term of the Constituent Assembly has been extended. It is okay in
But apart from Kathmandu, why the Madhesi leaders do not express their concerns
However, when the Nepali Monarchy was ousted in a humiliating and unconstitutional manner,


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Charity Stutzman, Relationship Violence and Sexual Assault Prevention coordinator, said friendships can have abusive qualities and that's something to watch out for.
She said some red flags for abusive friendships are excessive jealousy, stalking behaviors, isolation, being controlling and co-dependency.
However, she said it's easier to stop talking to an abusive friend than it is an abusive partner.
According to a National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence survey, nearly 1 in 4 women and 1 in 7 men experienced physical violence by an intimate partner at some point in their life, nationally.
A year of lies
For a year, Maggie Seminara completely isolated herself from family and friends.
The psychology senior said she was in a relationship with a man who was emotionally abusive.
Seminara said he would play on her vulnerabilities, use manipulation to control her and constantly told lies.
"For a year I couldn't tell what was real and what was fake," she said. "I knew things he told me weren't true but he was so manipulative that I couldn't tell the difference."
Seminara cut off her boyfriend totally, but found she also had shut out family and friends because of the close relationship they had with them. Seminara said she is still friends with some people they both knew, but not all. She said he tarnished her reputation with most of her old friends because of his manipulative behavior.
Seminara's boyfriend was her brother's best friend. They began dating when she was 17, and he was 23. One thing he did to control her was tell her because of the age difference, they had to keep their relationship secret.
"When we would all get together, it was such a big secret," she said. "He made me believe that I couldn't tell my family because there was an age difference, and they wouldn't understand."
When Seminara started to stick up for herself toward the end of their relationship, she said he became physical. He would grab her wrist and yank her back if she started to walk away. She decided then that she needed to end the relationship.
Walking on eggshells
English language senior Gina Rodriguez said she had a friend since elementary school who never made her happy.
She said they remained friends because of the time she invested in their friendship, not because she was a good friend.
"If we all went out as a group, and she didn't like what we were doing, she would make everyone miserable," she said "You couldn't talk to her, because she would get angry, so we were all walking on eggshells all the time."
When Rodriguez went to college, she said she stopped talking with her former friend. The distance from her friend and meeting new people made her realize she had grown out of the relationship.
"I think if you have friends that have an impact on your life, then you talk to them on a daily basis," she said. "If you have a friend and you find not talking to them on a daily basis doesn't impact your life, then you probably don't need that friend."
Attention Seeker
Social work junior Brenda Beltran and biochemistry sophomore Erika Linares used one word to describe a friend they both stopped talking to — "drama."
Linares said their friend behaved like she constantly needed attention and always tried to be the center of everyone's attention.
"She was really overly dramatic, especially if all the attention wasn't on her, she would get mad," Linares said.
Beltran said their friend was picky. It was either her way or no way, she said. The friend would often get jealous of Beltran and Linares' relationship, Beltran said.
"If me and her were talking while we were out, she would get mad," Beltran said.
If Beltran's friend called her now, she said she would talk to her, but not for long. It would be a strained hello, then goodbye, she said.
Psychology professor William Ickes said there are two reasons why it is easier to leave an abusive friend than an abusive husband or boyfriend. One is the degree of interdependence a person can have with the other person, and the other is the degree of investment put into the relationship.
He said if someone lives with another person, someone will, or will soon become, reliant on the person they're living with because either person could end up depending on the other for help with expenses, emotional needs or obligations.
The second reason, investment, can come in several forms: financial, emotional, time, future plans and aspirations and sexual commitments, he said.
"It, therefore, is more difficult to break up with a person with whom you are highly interdependent in these and many other ways than it is with a person with whom you are less interdependent," he said. "The break-up will disrupt most, or even all, of the ways in which you have become interdependent with that person."
Seminara said growing up she witnessed domestic violence in her family and should have paid more attention to warning signs that something was wrong.
She said leaving her boyfriend was hard because she felt emotionally obligated to him, but if she had a friend who did the same thing, she said it would be easier to leave because the emotional involvement isn't as strong.
Beltran also thinks it's easier to leave an abusive friend than an abusive boyfriend because a boyfriend has more emotional ties.
"You are emotionally attached to that person," she said. "So, even though it's bad, since you are more emotionally involved, it's harder to let go."
Rodriguez said it's easier to leave an abusive friend because boyfriends are harder to replace than friends. She said people don't feel like a partner could be replaced as easily.
Stutzman said, "I think with any partnership there are more romantic ties. Friends come and go, especially in college. Boyfriends are harder to let go because we are socialized to think that we should be in relationships."

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Computers are hard on the environment – from their materials and manufacture to their energy use and ultimate disposal. There are definitely some more energy efficient and eco-friendly models out there, but in order to make computers more sustainable, we need to completely rethink them. For this year's Greener Gadget Design Competition, Brenden Macaluso decided to redesign the computer to make it's whole lifecycle more sustainable. Featuring a slick cardboard case, his Recompute focuses on sustainability throughout the computer's manufacturing, use and disposal, offering a fully functioning PC with off-the-shelf components.
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June 2, 2009 at 11:22 am
If people just recycled their Case this would not be a problem, I have recycled my case, DVD Drive and CD Burner three times. I just replace the things that need updating so I can run windows to support my customers. If you really want to be a good eco citizen run Ubuntu Linux (Free Download) on a 5 year old machine and it will be as speedy as a new windows Vista machine with just about everything you could need. If your computer is really Old run Xubuntu (Free Download) Linux on it.
February 16, 2009 at 4:10 pm
While I like the idea, the biggest problem with computers is with the component cards that contains numerous metals and dangerous chemicals (lead, mercury, silicia etc).
However, people are changing their computers every 4-5 years for newer one and pretty much everything for the old ones is thrown out. Cardboard is much easier to recycle than a mixture of aluminium, steel and plastic.
February 16, 2009 at 2:59 pm
As was pointed out in the comments on the competition webpage, while the design is innovative, the design requires a moderate redesign to be legally marketable. Aside from the flammability concern above, the lack of a metal enclosure makes it virtually impossible to meet FCC and EU radiated emissions requirements. The metal chassis serves as a shield and contains all of the radio frequency emissions coming off of noisy hardware such as the processor or an Ethernet card. Adding some shielding material, like metal foil, around the inside of the case would help, but it would need to be thoroughly implemented to meet the requirements.


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the magical week of Feria de Abril (2013) in Sevilla
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I am not a developer, I am a user.
I have installed and activated Really Simple CAPTCHA which I cannot get to work.
The Contact Form 7 works at http://nityanandaram.com/?page_id=195 and its been tested as working.
I have verified with GoDaddy that the GD and FreeType library files are installed on the Linux server I use.
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In Media Settings, UNDER Uploading Files, Store uploads in this folder is set to the default of "wp-content/uploads".
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On my web server there is no directory "wpcf7_captcha" under the "wp-content/uploads" folder. Do I need to create that "wpcf7_captcha" folder with the read-write permissions?
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I don't understand the short code. If this is the short code for the CAPTCHA that I put under the code that creates the working form:
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Welcome to Fuji Mountain Guides
Since our inception in 2007, FMG has guided over 1,500 clients successfully and safely to the summit of Mount Fuji. Join our Fuji tour on one of our spring, summer, and fall seasons!
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Our most popular summer offering, the two day Mt. Fuji Tour will give ample time in the pursuit to reach the summit of Mt. Fuji. After a long hike the 1st day, participants enjoy a hot dinner and rest over night in a mountain hut at 3400 meters. Awaking before dawn, participants will continue the climb up Mt. Fuji in order to reach the summit in time for the sunrise.
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Similar to the Two Day Mt. Fuji Tour, this trip follows much of the same itinerary, except that participants will summit Mt. Fuji during the day instead of just before dawn. Participants will enjoy a much more relaxed and peaceful climb up Fuji as the trails, as well as our mountain hut, will at times be completely deserted.
Currently accepting reservations for the 2015 climbing season!
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It is at first denied that any radical new plan exists; it is then conceded that it exists but ministers swear blind that it is not even on the political agenda; it is then noted that it might well be on the agenda but is not a serious proposition; it is later conceded that it is a serious proposition but that it will never be implemented; after that it is acknowledged that it will be implemented but in such a diluted form that it will make no difference to the lives of ordinary people; at some point it is finally recognised that it has made such a difference, but it was always known that it would and voters were told so from the outset.
Brian Micklethwait explains the sourcing of this quote at Samizdata: The above paragraph, originally written to describe the onward march of the European Union, is quoted by Delingpole, in his book Watermelons (p. 45), to help him explain how AGW went from crankery to globally imposed policy. Delingpole found it in The Great Deception (p. 605) by Booker and North. They got it from a Times editorial, published on August 28, 2002.
June 9, 2015
QotD: Politics, as practiced in Europe
April 15, 2015
QotD: The secret weapon of the bureaucracy
… boredom is the deadly secret weapon of the bien-pensant technocrats of the EU and the UN. "They wear outsiders down with the tedium of their arguments and the smallness of their fine print, so that by the time anyone else notices what they're up to the damage has been done and it's too late to do anything about it."
James Delingpole, "Green Global Governance: How Environmentalists Have Taken Over the World", Breitbart.com, 2014-06-25.
February 12, 2015
EU governments and GM crops
Last month, Matt Ridley ran down the benefits to farmers, consumers, ecologists and the environment itself that the European Union has been resisting mightily all these years:
Scientifically, the argument over GM crops is as good as over. With nearly half a billion acres growing GM crops worldwide, the facts are in. Biotech crops are on average safer, cheaper and better for the environment than conventional crops. Their benefits accrue disproportionately to farmers in poor countries. The best evidence comes in the form of a "meta-analysis" — a study of studies — carried out by two scientists at Göttingen University, in Germany.
The strength of such an analysis is that it avoids cherry-picking and anecdotal evidence. It found that GM crops have reduced the quantity of pesticide used by farmers by an average of 37 per cent and increased crop yields by 22 per cent. The greatest gains in yield and profit were in the developing world.
If Europe had adopted these crops 15 years ago: rape farmers would be spraying far less pyrethroid or neo-nicotinoid insecticides to control flea beetles, so there would be far less risk to bees; potato farmers would not need to be spraying fungicides up to 15 times a year to control blight; and wheat farmers would not be facing stagnant yields and increasing pesticide resistance among aphids, meaning farmland bird numbers would be up.
Oh, and all that nonsense about GM crops giving control of seeds to big American companies? The patent on the first GM crops has just expired, so you can grow them from your own seed if you prefer and, anyway, conventionally bred varieties are also controlled for a period by those who produce them.
African farmers have been mostly denied genetically modified crops by the machinations of the churches and the greens, aided by the European Union's demand that imports not be transgenically improved. Otherwise, African farmers would now be better able to combat drought, pests, vitamin deficiency and toxic contamination, while not having to buy so many sprays and risk their lives applying them.
I made this point recently to a charity that works with farmers in Africa and does not oppose GM crops but has so far not dared say so. Put your head above the parapet, I urged. We cannot do that, they replied, because we have to work with other, bigger green charities and they would punish us mercilessly if we broke ranks. Is the bullying really that bad? Yes, they replied.
Yet the Green Blob realises that it has made a mistake here. Not a financial mistake — it made a fortune out of donations during the heyday of stoking alarm about GM crops in the late 1990s — but the realisation that all it has achieved is to prolong the use of sprays and delay the retreat of hunger.
November 15, 2014
Pat Condell makes a public apology
November 12, 2014
QotD: Europe's banking trap
Banking is a service, […] and a service has a cost associated with it. Modern banking has all kinds of fees and charges associated with it. But depositors are often charged for keeping too low a balance in their savings or checking accounts, not too large a balance. What's going on here?
Central banks have created this monster via the regimen of ZIRP (Zero Interest Rate Policy). This is a way of implementing Keynesian stimulus, but central banks have run up against the liquidity-trap wall: interest rates cannot fall below zero. Monetary policy stops working at the zero-interest boundary.
For central banks, the problem is that in a slow-growth economy (or actually a recessive one) a paradox arises where rational behavior on the part of savers leads to bad results: consumers save their money out of concern for the future, but the economy — starved of the cash that fuels it — slows still further. This is the argument behind Keynesian stimulus; inject more (newly-printed) money into the economy until people stop being scared and start spending freely again (with their own money and borrowed money). The danger of inflation looms, however, so central banks try to implement various regimes to keep it under control (with varying degrees of success).
This theory founders on the shoals of reality, alas. It's rational for people to save money, particularly during bad times, because people believe their currency stock to be an appreciating (or at least a constant-value) asset. But when a sovereign inflates (devalues) its currency to solve a short term economic problem, they run the risk of damaging confidence in the currency itself. Inflation may inject some nitrous oxide into the engine of the economy for a short time, but the outcome may be a blown engine (i.e., a ruined currency, as it was during the Weimar era).
When people lose trust in a fiat currency, it's nearly impossible to restore confidence in it. Trust is all a fiat currency has — without trust, fiat currency is just worthless paper. This is really the core of the sound-money argument: deflation is bad because it can stall an economy and make debt servicing murderously difficult, but inflation is worse because it wrecks the currency itself. Hard-money currency regimes may be somewhat prone to deflationary cycles, but at least they never go to zero value; they always retain some value. Fiat currencies can go to zero.
Monty, "DOOM: The Wrath of Draghi", Ace of Spades H.Q., 2014-11-06.
October 28, 2014
Facebook's UK tax picture
Tim Worstall explains why it's not a scandal that Facebook doesn't pay more taxes in the UK:
In fact, it's actually rather a good idea that Facebook isn't paying UK corporation tax. For the standard economic finding (also known as optimal taxation theory) is that we shouldn't be taxing corporations at all. Thus, as a matter of public policy we should be abolishing this tax: and also perhaps applauding those companies that take it upon themselves to do what the politicians seem not to have the courage to do, make sure that corporations aren't paying tax.
That isn't how most of the press sees it, of course
That's an extremely bad piece of reporting actually, for of course Facebook UK did not have advertising revenue of £371 million last year: Facebook Ireland had advertising revenue of that amount from customers in the UK that year. And that's something rather different: that revenue will be taxed under whatever system Ireland has in place to tax it. And this is the way that the European Union system of corporate taxation is supposed to work. Any company, based in any one of the 28 member countries, can sell entirely without hindrance into all other 27 countries. And the profits from their doing so will be taxed wherever the brass plate announcing the HQ of that company is within the EU. This really is how it was deliberately designed, how it was deliberately set up: it is public policy that it should be this way.
We could also note a few more things here. The UK company itself made a loss and that loss was because they made substantial grants of restricted stock units to the employees. And under the UK system those RSU grants are taxed as income, in full, at the moment of their being granted. Which will mean, given those average wages, at 45% or so. And we should all be able to realise that a 45% tax rate is rather higher than the 24% corporation tax rate. The total tax rate on the series of transactions is thus very much higher than if Facebook has kept its employees as paupers and just kept the profits for themselves. Further, those complaining about the tax bill tend to be those from the left side of the political aisle: which is also where we find those who insist that workers should be earning the full amount of their value to the company which is what seems to be happening here.
August 18, 2014
Worstall confirms that "the UK would lose 3 million jobs in the year it left the European Union"
There you go … proof positive that the UK cannot possibly, under any circumstances, leave the European Union. Except for the fact that the UK would lose 3 million jobs in the year even if it stayed with the EU, because that's how many jobs it normally loses in a year:
UK Would Not Lose 3 Million Jobs If It Left The European Union
Well, of course, the UK would lose 3 million jobs in the year it left the European Union because the UK loses 3 million jobs each and every year. Roughly 10% of all jobs are destroyed in a year and the economy, generally, tends to create 3 million jobs a year as well. But that's not the point at contention here which is the oft repeated claim that because we left the EU then therefore the UK economy would suddenly be bereft of 3 million jobs, that 10% of the workforce. And sadly this claim is a common one and it just goes to show that there's lies, damned lies and then there's politics.
The way we're supposed to understand the contention is that there's three million who make their living making things that are then exported to our partners in the European Union. And we're then to make the leap to the idea that if we did leave the EU then absolutely none of those jobs would exist: leaving the EU would be the same as never exporting another thing to the EU. This is of course entirely nonsense as any even random reading of our mutual histories would indicate: what became the UK has been exporting to the Continent ever since there's actually been the technology to facilitate trade. Further too: there have been finds in shipwrecks in the Eastern Mediterranean of Cornish tin dating from 1,000 BC, so it's not just bloodthirsty and drunken louts that we've been exporting all these years.
July 2, 2014
EU publishers want a totally different online model for content – where they can monetize everything
Glyn Moody reports on the passionate desire of EU publishing organizations to get rid of as much free content as possible and replace it with an explicit licensing regime (with them holding all the rights, of course):
For too many years, the copyright industries fought hard against the changes being wrought by the rise of the Internet and the epochal shift from analog to digital. Somewhat belatedly, most of those working in these sectors have finally accepted that this is not a passing phase, but a new world that requires new thinking in their businesses, as in many other spheres. A recent attempt to codify that thinking can be found in a publication from the European Publishers Council (EPC). "Copyright Enabled on the Network" (pdf) — subtitled "From vision to reality: Copyright, technology and practical solutions enabling the media & publishing ecosystem" — that is refreshingly honest about the group's aims:
Since 1991, Members [of the EPC] have worked to review the impact of proposed European legislation on the press, and then express an opinion to legislators, politicians and opinion-formers with a view to influencing the content of final regulations. The objective has always been to encourage good law-making for the media industry.
The new report is part of that, and is equally frank about what lies at the heart of the EPC's vision — licensing:
A thread which runs through this paper is the proliferation of 'direct to user' licensing by publishers and other rights owners. Powered by ubiquitous data standards, to identify works and those who have rights in those works, licensing will continue to innovate exponentially so that eventually the cost of serving a licence is close to zero. The role of technology is to make this process seamless and effective from the user's perspective, whether that user is the end consumer or another party in the digital content supply chain.
[…] the EPS vision includes being able to pin down every single "granular" part of a mash-up, so that the rights can be checked and — of course — licensed. Call it the NSA approach to copyright: total control through total surveillance.
Last year, when the National Post started demanding a paid license to quote any part of their articles (including stories they picked up from other sources), I stopped linking to their site. I suspect most Canadian bloggers did the same, as I see very few links to the newspaper now compared to before the change in their policy. It worked from their point of view: I'm certainly not sending any traffic to their site now, and there was never a chance of me being able to afford their $150 per 100 word licensing rate. Win-win, I guess. The EPS is hoping to avoid that scenario playing out in Europe by mandating that all content use the same kind of licensing, backed up by the power of the courts (and the kind of pervasive surveillance tactics the NSA and its Anglosphere partners have honed to a very fine edge).
June 25, 2014
The British politician's fear of being "isolated" over Europe
In the Telegraph, Iain Martin says the appointment of Jean-Claude Juncker as President of the European Commission may play out differently than the traditional "isolated Britain" scenario:
It comes straight from the British political playbook as practised by the parties and reported by the media since the mid-1980s. There is a row in the European Union. Britain is right (an inconvenient detail, usually skimmed over), although lots of other countries don't agree with us for a host of reasons. This means that Britain is — good grief, the horror — "isolated" in Europe with only a handful of allies. Broadcasters will then brandish the "i" word in front of any minister who goes on television or radio during the row. Hasn't UK government incompetence left us almost alone? Shouldn't we agree with everyone else so that we might not be isolated?
Perhaps it is comforting, or even reassuring, to think of the European story in this hackneyed way. Bad old Britain, grumbling about sovereignty and trying in its stick-in-the-mud way to stop a disastrous appointment or opting out of the single currency, can be presented as the dinosaur that needs to get with the European programme. Come on, do a deal. If we do the wrong thing, at least we won't be isolated.
This is the conventional prism through which the likely appointment of Jean-Claude Juncker as President of the European Commission might be viewed. But in reality it is much more interesting and significant than the standard diplomatic kerfuffle. His appointment, if it happens, will be a historic disaster on a grand scale which makes Britain's exit from the European Union very likely. And I speak as someone who has been for reform and staying in the EU if possible.
Back in the here and now, as the Financial Times story this morning makes clear, Juncker would be really quite rubbish at the job. An exhausted veteran of the squalid deals which established the disastrous single currency in the 1990s, there is nothing in his record to suggest that he would even be good at the basics of administration. What he seems to be about is contempt for Eurosceptic opposition, a disregard for democracy, a resistance to reform and a relentless federalist vision of the EU which cannot accommodate a recalibrated relationship for countries such as Britain. According to opinion polls, the British want to trade, be friends and cooperate with the EU, but not immerse themselves in a country called Europe. Despite knowing this, the EU's governments are giving the British voters the finger.
And still, most of Europe accelerates madly towards disaster as though they do not care, either ignoring British concerns on Juncker's unsuitability, or being rude about one of the EU's largest contributors (us) and talking now as though they want us to leave.
The bottom line is this. If Juncker gets the gig, this is the week that the door was opened to Britain's exit from the EU.
May 28, 2014
QotD: The voters
There is, so to say, good news and bad news for democratic European Unionists. The good news is that, for the first time, voter turnout actually increased from the previous election to the European Parliament. Just over 43 percent of the eligible bothered to vote, up 1/10th of 1 percent. The bad news is that so many of these voters selected parties devoted to the destruction of as much of the European Union as possible.
We are laughing, up here in the High Doganate. Or rather, no, we are not laughing, it is all a pose. Still, there is a glint of recognition, gleeful in its own way. The voters, especially in England and France — the pioneer "Nation States" from the later Middle Ages — appear to have been motivated by something akin to the feist that came over the municipal electorate in the Greater Parkdale Area, the last time we voted. That was when we chose the notorious drunkard and drug addict, Rob Ford, to be our mayor. As polls since have repeatedly confirmed, we knew what we were doing. We had a task for him. It was to destroy as much of the vast municipal bureaucracy as possible. Our instruction was: "Keep smashing everything you see until they take you away." Finesse would not be required, and the licker and crack might be an advantage.
One may love "the people," without being especially impressed by them. They are stupid, but as the stopped clock, there are moments when they are stupidly correct. These are very brief moments, but let us enjoy them while we can.
David Warren, "Hapless Voters", Essays in Idleness, 2014-05-26.
May 27, 2014
A thumbnail history of UKIP
In the Telegraph, Iain Martin compares UKIP to the Judean People's Front:
Eurosceptic politics used to be a lot like the famous scene in Monty Python's Life of Brian, in which a group of revolutionaries – intent on bringing down the Roman Empire – sit in an amphitheatre discussing the various sects into which their movement has subdivided. They contemplate the People's Front of Judea, the Judean People's Front and the Judean Popular People's Front ("Splitters!"). What, asks one of the revolutionaries, ever happened to the Popular Front? "He's over there," says the leader, pointing to a rival sitting forlornly on his own.
In the early Nineties, Britain's Eurosceptics were a similarly divided rabble. The Maastricht Treaty, signed in 1992 by John Major, had turned the looser European Economic Community into the much more integrated European Union and cleared the way for the creation of the single currency – and, it was feared, the destruction of national sovereignty by a new federalist empire.
With the Tories split internally, assorted anti-Maastricht movements began to spawn outside the confines of the two-party system. One was the United Kingdom Independence Party, which had its origins in the Anti-Federalist League, established in 1991 by a group led by Professor Alan Sked, a historian who teaches at the London School of Economics.
By establishing a new party, Sked and his colleagues hoped to create a movement that would build support for EU exit. At the time, this sounded like an outlandish aspiration. Indeed, initially Ukip was just a small band of dedicated campaigners and eccentric obsessives almost incapable of winning elections. The activists – true to form for a small party – seemed to spend more time fighting each other than battling their Europhile opponents. Splits and leadership coups were commonplace. If the Tory end of the political establishment paid any attention, it was only to laugh at what seemed like an irrelevant bunch of jokers.
Well, the Tories are not laughing now.
May 26, 2014
Is the bell tolling for the Liberal Democrats?
With the EU election results in, the "I told you so" and "Here's what it really means" brigades are out in force, letting us know what the voters are really saying with their ballots. For example, Here's Graeme Archer measuring up the Lib-Dems for an early grave:
Since "Europe" (elections about, scandals involving etc) this year is bound up temporally, and hence a little psychologically, with "Eurovision", which is about as camp an entity as is possible to conceive; since we're going to talk about the Liberal Democrats' existential crisis, let's set the mood music accordingly. Close your eyes and think of Shirley Bassey. Or better still click here and sing along, especially if your name is Nick Clegg, leader of a party which really does have nothing.
I'm not here to gloat, seriously. Anyone who stands for election is worth celebrating, because you don't fight for something unless you're prepared to lose. But, OK, I'm a tribal Tory too, so here's a couple of things that amused me last night. The sight of arch-federalist Lib Dem Edward McMillan Scott, newly defeated, telling the BBC that he'd be back in some other new role, demonstrating perfectly the anti-democratic "hanger-onnery" that infuriates Eurosceptics about the institution (Matthew Woods, an old Hackney Tory mate, coined "hanger-onnery", and it's perfect). The other laugh is that the Lib Dem wipeout was secured in part by the wretched Proportional Representation system, whose algorithmic horrors they're so keen to foist onto every other election. Be careful what you wish for, Fair Voters!
Seriously, though, this is the existential crisis which the Lib Dem construct has spent this parliament pretending it could avoid. Changing the leader won't help. […]
Now repeat the exercise from the perspective of a "Lib Dem", which, after last night, isn't so much a thought experiment as a glance at the newspapers. Remove every elected Lib Dem from the map: what are their voters left with?
Nothing. Utterly nothing. There is a historical tradition of political liberalism in Britain, but as any fule kno, most of it was absorbed by the Conservative Party at key points in the last century. None of that tradition lives on in the "Lib Dem" construct.
What of its emotional disposition, the mirror to my gloomy Toryism? Well: to judge from their record in power, the "Lib Dem" instinct is for greater state intervention, to alleviate the plight of the less well off. So: nothing you can't get from Labour, then.
"We want to reduce tax [by increasing thresholds]!" Nick Clegg would say, as evidence of the intellectual strand his party represents. Um, so do the vast majority of Conservatives. Again, no need for a "Lib Dem" representative to secure that outcome.
My point is that those Lib Dems who prioritise liberalism — whether about reducing tax, or fighting ID cards and so on — must know in their hearts that they should vote Conservative. Those who prioritise social democracy, similarly, must know that they should vote Labour.
Triumph of the Euro-skeptic parties
The Irish Times looks at the Euro election results which have seen big gains for several Euro-skeptic parties:
Among the victors was Ms Le Pen's National Front party which topped the poll in France with a quarter of the vote, bypassing the conservative UMP party, and leaving François Hollande's Socialist Party in third place. The party is now in line for 24 seats in Strasbourg.
UKIP was expected to top the poll in Britain, with exit polls last night predicting the party could win 31 per cent of the vote. "Up until now European integration has always seemed inevitable … I think that inevitability will end tonight," UKIP leader Nigel Farage said last night in a live video link to the European Parliament in Brussels, describing the decision to allow former Soviet countries into the European Union as one of Europe's "great errors."
Greece's main opposition party Syriza topped the polls there, while the far-right Golden Dawn party came third with between 8 and 10 per cent of the vote.
In Germany, support for Alternative for Deutschland (AFD) an anti-EU party formed barely two years ago, reach 6.5 per cent, with the party in the running for six seats.
In Austria, the far-right Freedom party was expected to win 20 per cent of votes, up from 13 per cent in 2009.
However, some extreme anti-EU parties in smaller countries did not poll as well as expected, with the far-right Vlaams Belang in Belgium losing support.
Of course, not all Euro-skeptic parties are the same. UKIP is somewhat nativist and has a vocal anti-immigrant wing. Vlaams Belang has a larger and more vocal anti-immigrant component, while the Greek Golden Dawn are as close to modern day Fascists as you'll find anywhere; not a party you want to be sharing newspaper space with.
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A significant factor in UKIP success – all "right thinking" people loathe them
Before the recent elections, Brendan O'Neill explained why the serried ranks of anti-UKIP pundits, politicians, and the "great and the good" may well be helping UKIP rather than hurting them:
Try as I might, I cannot remember a time when Britain's various elites were as united in fury as they are now over UKIP leader Nigel Farage. In the run-up to this week's Euro-elections, in which the Eurosceptic UKIP is expected to do well, leaders of every hue, from the true blue to the deep red, and hacks of every persuasion, from the right to the right-on, are as one on the issue of Farage. From Nick Clegg to the Twitterati that normally gets off on mocking Nick Clegg, from David Cameron to radical student leaders who normally hate David Cameron, fury with Farage has united all. It has brought together usually scrapping sections of the political and media classes into a centre-ground mush of contempt for UKIP. Not even Nick Griffin — who is a far nastier character than Farage — attracted such unstinting universal ire. What's up with this Farage fury?
The real motor to the anti-Farage outlook, the fuel to this unprecedented fury of the elites, is a powerful feeling that he has connected with the public, or a significant section of it, in a way that mainstream politicians and observers have utterly failed to. The elites see in Farage their own inability to understand the populace or to speak to it in a language it understands. They see in his popularity — his oh-so-stubborn popularity, so notably undented by the daily furious outpourings of the anti-Farage elites — their own failure to swing public attitudes in what they consider to be the 'right' direction. That Farage's popularity in the polls has remained pretty high even as our elites have been attacking him on a daily basis fills them not only with fury but with fear: their arguments seem not to have much traction outside the Westminster bubble, outside of medialand, where despite their best efforts the awkward, annoying little people still remain fairly favourable towards a loudmouth politician who isn't PC and drinks beer. The fury behind the attacks on Farage is really a fury with the throng, with the masses, whose brains have clearly been made so mushy by UKIP propaganda that even the supposedly enlightened arguments and policies of their betters can now make no impact. It isn't Farage they hate — it's ordinary people, and more importantly their own palpable inability to make inroads into those people's hearts or minds.
In short, the true momentum behind both UKIP's rise in the polls and the rising temperatures it has provoked in pretty much every elite circle in Britain is not the charms or coherent ideologies of Farage himself. (In fact, many take great pleasure in pointing out that most UKIP supporters don't know UKIP policy on any issue beyond immigration and the EU.) Rather, it is the political class's alienation from the public, and its existential insecurities, that have propelled UKIP to the top of the political agenda. The aloofness of the old political machine, its growing distance from and contempt for the voters, its view of the public as a blob to be re-educated and made physically fit rather than as sentient beings to be politically engaged, is what has boosted public support for a party like UKIP that seems willing to speak to, and maybe even for, so-called ordinary people. And it is the out-of-touch political class's subsequent panic at UKIP's rise, its fear that the success of this party might spell doom for its safe, samey, middle-ground ilk, which leads it to aim its every ideological, political and media gun at Farage, having the unwitting effect of making him both more widely talked-about and possibly even more popular. It is the political class's crisis of legitimacy and vision which both created and then inflamed the UKIP phenomenon.
European defence and Russia's renewed military adventurist spirit
In Forbes, Roger Scruton provides a few reasons why Europe — especially Eastern Europe — is much tougher to defend now than it was in the post-Cold War years:
Three factors are principally responsible for this. The first is the growth of the European Union, and its policy of dissolving national borders. The EU has set out to delegitimize the nation state, to make it irrelevant to the 'citizens' of the Union whether they be French, British, Polish or Italian, and to abolish the national customs and beliefs that make long-term patriotic loyalty seriously believable. The EU's attempt to replace national with European identity has, however failed, and is widely regarded with ridicule. Moreover the EU's inability to think coherently about defense, and its policy of 'soft power' which makes defense in any case more or less inconceivable, means that the motive which leads ordinary people to defend their country in its time of need has been substantially weakened. Patriotism is seen as a heresy, second only to fascism on the list of political sins, and the idea that the people of Europe might be called upon to defend their borders looks increasingly absurd in the light of the official doctrine that there are no borders anyway.
The second reason for European weakness is connected. I refer to the guarantee, under the European Treaties, of the right to work and settle in any part of the Union. This has led to a massive migration from the former communist countries to the West. The people who migrate are the skilled, the entrepreneurial, the educated – in short, the elite on whom the resolution and identity of a country most directly depends. Very soon countries like Latvia, Lithuania, Poland and Romania, all of which are directly threatened by a militant Russia, will be without a committed and resident class of leaders. No doubt, should the tanks start to roll, the émigré populations of those countries will protest. But will they return home to fight a pointless war, leaving their newly-won security and prosperity behind? I doubt it.
The third factor tending to the indefensibility of Europe is the dwindling American commitment to the Western alliance. President G.W. Bush was prescient enough to revive the idea of anti-missile defenses in Eastern Europe, and the military in both Poland and the Czech Republic were prepared to go along with it. Putin displayed his KGB training immediately, by declaring that these purely defensive installations would be an 'act of aggression'. All the old Newspeak was trotted out in the effort to influence the incoming administration of President Obama against his predecessor's policy. And the effort was successful. Obama weakly conceded the point, and the anti-missile defenses were not installed. Since then the Obama administration has continued to divert resources and attention elsewhere, creating the distinct impression in Europe that America is no longer wholeheartedly committed to its defense.


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"to begin," c.1200, ginnen, shortened form of beginnen (see begin).
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I had a great night last night having Ethipian food for the first time for dinner and getting to bed at 8pm. I slept well and woke feeling good this morning. This mornings practice was short but did have some high intensity race pace work in it. Its always fun mixing it up and this was a mixup kind of workout for me. Longer rests than usual and much shorter sets, but fun none the less.
Warm up
200 swim
200 kick
200 pull
200 drill
Main sets
12x25 kick on 25
2x50 fast free on 45
12x25 pull on 25
2x50 fast free on 45
12x50 on 45
2x100 fast free on 2mins
2x(25 ez, 50 fast, 75 ez, 100 fast, 100 ez, 75 fast, 50 ez, 25 fast) 15 seconds rest. First round free. Second round back.
Warm down
300 free ez
Total 3400 scy
Since I was visiting I did not have any equipment and much of these sets had instructions to use paddles and fins but I had to swim them without either. There was nothing majorly interesting about my times today but I did try pushing the 100s at race pace and held 53-54s. The water was much hotter than I am used to and I am sure today I was also like a raspberry. I neverr thought I would look forward to swimming in cool water like I usually do but I am. Todays bath temperature water made it tough to really get going. Some of the guys and girls I swam with are swimming a 1650 in the pool this weekend and they will cook.
Mother Nature is playing tricks on us again. Nearly a full week of temps in the 70's, and she pulls a fast one last night and drops it to 28 degrees. Of course pool management decided that meant the pool had to be warmer, so we got to have 85 degree water. Fortunately the people from Premier were not allowed in their pool (if it's colder than 40 they won't open the pool) so I had this fast guy, Chuck, to spur me on [to greatness] hahaha. When I was doing 1:20's, he was doing them on the 1:15 and holding a 1:10. I comfort myself with the facts: a) he is a MAN, and b) he is only 45. Plus, I had done 2200 before he even got in, so I was more tired, right? (Why don't I feel better?)When I did my 200 easy at the end, he did one all out & did a :58 from a push. Most impressive.
1000 warm-up (100 free, 25 back/breast repeat)
3 x 300 Pull w/50 breast between each, first one no paddles
2 x 100 easy
400 kick
100 easy
100 kick @ 2:00
2 x 100 "IM" @ 1:30
3 x 100 @ 1:20
4 x 100 back/free w/zoomers @ 1:25
5 x 100 @ 1:20
100 easy
4 x 100 kick @ 2:00
3 x 100 @ 1:20
2 x 100 "IM" @ 1:30
200 easy
Total: 5200 SCY
Only had to share for a short time today. Did a good distance set.
500 free
500 free kick w/zoomers
15x100@1:45 free w/strapless paddles & bouy holding 1:35's
500 free kick w/zoomers seeing how many times I could lap the guy that joined me
500 free EZ w/snorkle
Total 3500 meters
500 fr with snorkel
rest 1 minute500 FK with snorkel
rest 2 minutes500 fr with snorkel
1000 drill
Thursday 2/27
PM only SCY
300 swim
8x50 @ 1:00 dr/sw by 25 I.M.O.
4x75 @ 1:30 kick w/ fins 1st 25 under H2O
15:00 of relay take-offs and finishes
Total: 2500
I enjoyed a good team workout + bonus solo sets at the Panama City Beach pool this morning. Heres how it went:
500 lcm warmup (300 swim, 200 IM kick)
10 x 50 FR pull w/paddles @ 1:00, counting strokes and decreasing by 1 on each 50 [I went from 41 to 34 on the first 8, descending my times as well from 46 to 42, then couldnt get my stroke count any lowerit stayed the same or increased on the last 2, plus my times got slower. 34 was my sweet spot.]
5 x 100 FR @ 2:00, desc. [1:32, 1:31, 1:28, 1:26, 1:27]
100 easy
10 x 50 BK @ 1:00, counting strokes and decreasing stroke count by 1 on each 50 [results were similar to FRdid my lowest stroke count and fastest time on #8 (39/:47)]
5 x 100 BK @ 2:10, desc. [1:51>1:37]
100 easy
That was it for the team workout, but I liked this set enough that I decided to do another round. Since 1000 of either BR or FL seemed daunting, I combined them for the following:
6 x 50 BR @ 1:15, decreasing stroke count each 50 [22>18]
4 x 50 FL @ 1:15, holding stroke count at 16 but descending
5 x 100 IM @ 2:10, desc. [1:51, 48, 45, 42, 39After descending by 3 seconds on each of the first 4, I was really hoping to see that 39 on the last one to make this descend pretty, and was glad to get it. I love the pools new digital pace clocks!]
100 easy
6 x 200 FR @ 3:30, odds = pull with paddles concentrating on DPS, evens = no toys focusing on increased turnover
2 x 200 K @ 5:00, odd IM, even RIM
200 warmdown + play
That was it! I was feeling pretty tired and tight in my upper back and neck after this, as well as chafed on my collarbones by my swim suit straps (polyester suits occasionally do that to me, even in pools). A midday yoga class fixed the first problem and distracted me from the second.
I traveled to DC on Tuesday night and due to work conflicts was unable to get in the pool yesterday. I hate missing a workout and always feel guilty when I miss. In a sick way I am now afraid of feeling like I did when I first got back into the pool and despite knowing my logic makes no sense at all I seldom take any time off because of this fear of feeling crappy in the water.
Today I swum with the Alexandria Masters team I have swum with several times previously when I visited DC. They are a super group who are very friendly and as I have written previously, I highly recommend them if you ever visit the DC area. Today my normal training partner Katie McWilliams(formerly Katie Gilmore) was coaching so I pretty much trained on my own which was more than fine. It felt good just being in the water. I had a good nights sleep and was excited to get in the pool today. My left shoulder is still a little sore in the pool but once I am done with my workout I have no lingering pain or discomfort so suspect its a pull rather than any tear or long term injury and will continue to ice.
Warm up
200 swim
200 kick
200 drill
Main Sets
8x(75 smooth on 1 min, 25 fast on 30)
100 easy
10x100 on 1.20 swum as (4x100 holding 1650 pace plus 2, 3x100 holding 1650 pace plus 1, 2x100 holding 1650 pace, 1x100 under 1650 pace)
100 easy
5x(50 on 40 swum at 500 pace, 100 on 1.10 swum at 500 pace, 50 on 40 swum at 500 pace, 50 on 45 easy)
100 easy
Warm down
300 easy
Total 4250scy
I had a good practice today and held a high tempo throughout todays workout. The water was a little warmer than I am used to so I looked like a raspberry when I was done but felt pretty good. On the transition set of 100s I held 46-48s on the smooth 75s and 12-13s on the fast 25s. The 10x100s was a different sort of set to our normal 5,4,3,2,1 test set but felt somewhat similar in that the intensity increased as we went through the set, however what was nice today was that I did not get less rest as the set went on like our test set. I held 1.03s on the 4x100s, 1.01s and 1.02s on 3x100s, 1min on the 2x100s and 58 on the last 100. I felt pretty good, although at this point I was pretty hot. On the next set I held 29s on the 30s and 1min on the 100s. I am back tomorrow for more Alexandria swimming and I am contemplating doing a 2hr workout but will see how my shoulder feels.
I head home tomorrow night and I am looking forward to seeing my wife and kids(and of course swimming in my home pool).
8 X 50 kick 1:15
4 X 50 1:00 #4 on 2:00
Three rounds.
50's: 1 of each IM order
250's: negative split
150's: 3rd 50 fast
WARM DOWN: 4 X 50 easy
Well, it has been fun. But after years of procrastination, I've finally gone and built myself a new website.
From now on, I'll be posting all sorts of fun stuff over at http://andrewswims.com.
Not only will this summer's tales of 8 Bridges and my triumphant crossing of the Strait of Juan de Fuca be covered, but there will be random posts about swimming in Seattle on a more frequent basis. Plus, pictures and all sorts of rad custom illustrations. And, if you're lucky, illustrations of data. Kidding, of course there will be data!! All the charts, graphs, and maps that you can handle. I hope you come check it out.
And if that isn't enough, there's always @andrewswims on Twitter where I post a lot of pictures of post-swim waffles-and-beer. Like, more than any one human should.
Thank you USMS for providing this wonderful interim platform and allowing me to share so much with the world.
Updated February 27th, 2014 at 11:33 AM by andrewmalinak
This was a good day for me even with some minor back related issues at the onset of workout. As normal I was able to get progressively faster with each swim.
500 free
500 free kick w/zoomers
3 times thru w/strapless paddles
2x100@1:45 1/2 free/1/2 back went 1:34, 1:30, 1:30, 1:28, 1:27, 1:28
200@3:30 1/2 free/1/2 back went 3:04, 3:00, 2:56
500 free kick w/zoomers
12x25@:40 fly went 25,25,24,24,24,24,25,24,24,23,23,23
3x100@2:00 free EZ w/snorkle
Total 3300 yards
First swim for me since the meet on Sunday, and I've decided to take things 'easy' on my shoulder for a while, and not do too much intensity on my swimming portions, no fly at all in practice, and lots of kicking with higher levels of intensity. Gotta try to get my shoulder back to normal soon.
1500 Free
I ended up feeling pretty good on the opening swim, so I just kept it going for 20 minutes or so.
10 x 50 SDK on back w/ short fins @ :50 (:37-:40s)
10 x 50 Flutter Kick w/ board @ 1:00 (held :50 and under)
10 x 50 Free Cruise @ 1:00 (went :32-:33s)
8 x 50 Flutter Kick w/ board @ 1:00
6 x 50 Flutter Kick w/ board @ :55
6 x 50 Flutter Kick w/ board @ :50
300 Free cruise
4300 Yards
Wednesday 2/26
AM and PM SCY
AM swim:
300 swim
300 pull w/ buoy + paddles + snorkel
200 swim
200 kick w/ board
100 swim
100 I.M. drill
5x100 @ 1:15 AE
8x25 @ :40 V.S.
20x25 @ :40 FR w/ strapless paddles + snorkel
10 - drill (25 R arm/25 L arm)
10 - swim
8x25 @ :20 AE
:20 rest
50 @ 1:00 rest FAST w/ fins (BR - 26.0)
6x25 @ :20 AE
:20 rest
75 @ 1:00 rest FAST w/ fins (BR - 41.1) (+25 EZ back to the starting end)
4x25 @ :20 AE
:20 rest
100 @ 1:00 rest FAST w/ fins (BR - 56.1)
6x25 @ :15 rest scull w/ snorkel
4x100 @ 1:10 pull w/ buoy + paddles breathe 4-3-2-1 by 25
Total: 4000
PM swim:
600 swim every 4th 25 scull
8x50 @ 1:00 odd: k/dr, even: dr/sw
5x100 @ 1:10 TIGHT D1-5 w/ paddles (1:03, 1:02, 1:01, 1:00, :59) <-- can't get any more tight than that!
8x25 @ :45 V.S.
100 BR broken :10 rest @ 50, :05 @ 75 - 28.4/14.9/14.3 for a 57.6
50 BR trying to simulate first 50 of 100 - 28.6 (not good, spun my wheels a little too much)
400 swim EZ
600 kick w/ fins + board EZ
Total: 3800
77° Sunny, humidity 64%, 82° water
300 FR as 25DR/25S
2x300 FR on HR, 300 as 4(50CU/25Fast)
*Set 1*
2(10x50 FR on :50, 1:00 rest) *34s-33s
2(5x50 FR on :45, :30 rest) *33s-32
4(3x50 FR on :40, :40 rest) desc 1-3, *rd 1)33s, rd 2-4)32/33/33
*Set 2*
4x200 Kick on :30 rest, IMO by 200 as 2(50 on 1:00, 2x25 on :30)
300 IM as 4(50K/DR,25Swim)
---1:00 rest
4(3x25 AFAP on 1:00) rds 1-4 in IMO
*Fly-14s, Bk-16s/15, BR-20s/19, FR-13s
*Set 3*
/steady state swimming with snorkel/mAP/fins
400 FR on HR
2x200 FR on HR
4x100 FR on HR
8x100 FR on HR
Warm Down
200 as 25FR/25BK
I continue to train using sets of 50s to hold best possible pace, keeping my HR mostly under 160 and my water feel engaged sustaining effective stroke technique. I have learned from experience during the recent two years I must allow rest, recovery, and patiently develop the steady adaptation of the cardiovascular and muscular systems, and in particular the neurological process which involves the kinetic feel of the water.
Towards the end of Set 1, when doing the 4 rounds of 3x50 on :40 desc 1-3, the first 50 FR would be a very light effort, holding the water, streamlined kick, all stroke aspects flowing smoothly. However the next two 50s would require more effort as my feel for the water degraded. Each round, with a moment of rest, the stroke came back again. For now on short rest intervals, 3-4 rounds with short recovery moments, then again swim at target pace with quality technique and feel for the water.
The good news in Set 2 is that I finally achieved some reasonable speed swimming fast 25s with the drag suit. During the 4 rounds of 3x25s on 1:00, today was the first time doing 25 fly at 14s, Back 25s at 15s, and Freestyle 25s at 13. These are solid results, leaving on the :00, getting the time after the hand touch. My breast for now is pretty is even weaker than normal because my kick almost non-existent.
I did FR in set 3 with the snorkel-fins-large agility paddles, as a series of steady swims to practice each arm extension forward beginning the pull by keeping the elbow still, then sweeping the hand-forearm directly under as the shoulder is simultaneously pulled and rotated over bringing the body forward to the point where the hand is now extended behind near the hip into the exit/recover stage.
RC/scap ex
power wheel roll outs, 3 x 15
flutter kicks on bosu, 100
kettleball swings, 25 x 2 x 15
overhead squats, 45 x 2 x 8
wood chops, 27.5 x 2 x 15 each side
kneeling ab crunch, 110 x 3 x 20
explosive leg press, 175 x 3 x 15
HS hi row, 130 x 4 x 6
good mornings, 75 x 3 x 8
standing long jumps, 8
altitude drops, 8
Stretching, 20 min (did this Monday too)
Just did a little swim before coaching masters ...
600 various
100 scull
4 x 25 shooters w/fins
4 x 25 burst + cruise @ 1:00
2 x 25 AFAP + 75 EZ
a few 25s @ 100 pace + 25 EZ
Total: 1300ish, maybe more
Well, I've been at the drylands for about 2 1/2 months now. I seem to have re-gained the weight I lost in the fall and am back to being a tank. I seem to lose and gain muscle really quickly.
Yesterday's planned swim in the gulf turned into a meet-and-greet with the hordes of small translucent jellyfish that had amassed just beyond the sandbar. The water was positively thick with them. It was so clear that I could see them in great detail, their white ribs and borders pulsating gently or simply floating along, closed up like little drink parasols. The sight brought out my inner naturalist, and I experimented to see what would make them pulsate—a gentle touch on their back (no), additional pressure on their backs (yes), water directed at their back or undersides (usually), water moving nearby (more often than not, but I couldn't figure out if directing water from different directions made them travel in different directions), bubbles directed up at them (yes). It was a fun way to spend some time in the gulf on a warm sunny day when I wasn't feeling much like swimming seriously among gelatinousness.
Once the afternoon cooled off I followed up with a short solo pool session:
1000 scy warmup
1 x 100 FR @ 1:20
1 x 50 ez @ 1:00
2 x 100 FR @ 1:20
1 x 50 ez @ 1:00
3 x 100 FR @ 1:20
1 x 50 ez @ 1:00
2 x 100 FR @ 1:20
1 x 50 ez @ 1:00
1 x 100 FR @ 1:20
1 x 50 ez @ 1:00
100 warmdown + play
Today it was colder, rainy, and windy. I went to the pool in the afternoon, and did the following solo:
1000 scy warmup
5 x 500 @ 8:00, as follows
12 x 50 K @ 1:00:
250 warmdown + play
My time here is almost up—I head back to New York this weekend. The last few days are always a little bittersweet—amongst the goodbyes and the packing, and trying to put together meals that use up the remaining food, I'm also looking to enjoy the outdoors all I can before heading back to the cold up north. It's definitely been a good month here, but I'm feeling eager to get back to my regular routine in the city soon!
Updated February 27th, 2014 at 07:32 PM by swimsuit addict
3 x 500 free on 10:00
8:40, 8:20, 8:25
500 drills, S, F
Two rounds. Round 1 intervals left, 2 right.
1 X 500 kick
odd: easy even: 85/90%---choice
3 X 50 easy 1:10
1 X 100 blocks @ race pace
Repeat three times
WARM DOWN: 4 X 50 easy 1:00
I've been kicking. ALOT. I got sick of trying to work through my freestyle sprint. From 2008-2011, i've been moaning of why I can't break 24 (24.4-24.1). From 2012 to present, I have only gone 25.3-25.6. I've decided to give it a break and do something different!
My new thing is to kick at least 1 full workout. I swim 3x per week. So on Mondays, I totally kick it. I usually use my Speedo Optimus fins and kick with or without a board (without is faster, so I use these if the interval is really tight). I started out by moving down a lane, going last, and dropping the last 50 if needed. But now I worked my way back up to staying in my own lane and making the swim intervals. It's fun to have my head out of the water and I can look around, but usually I am huffing and puffing and I have to concentrate really hard to kick fast.
My conditioning is really good because of all this self-inflicted kicking. (Probably why I could neg split a 200 back). Just like all the stories you hear about people getting injured, only kicking for months, then coming back with awesomeness because they were forced to kick so much - that's me in a mini-way. The other benefit is the alternate days I actually do most of the whole workout. Even the NEXT lane over marvels and makes comments about how I did the entire set. My arms almost always feel fresh because they were in a perpetual streamline the day before.
Day 2 of the week I try to make sure I get in one of the IM days (Tues or Thurs). Since I am swimming more events, it just makes sense to do more stroke work, plus I really don't want to go down the freestyle path unless absolutely necessary. I also find an unaccustomed desire to swim it all, swim fast, and with a positive can-do attitude. It's a great motivator when you know this is the only practice you are going to swim the 1 hour with your arms!
Day 3 is a mixed bag. I also make sure that I get in short, burst, pure sprinting and/or kicking, no matter what. If the workout isn't sprint, i'll modify the set, or if there is a set in particular I want to do, then I will swim on my own.
I really like the 3 days per week focus. It makes each workout more purposeful and I can do different things! I'll probably stick to this for awhile. Next season, I may have to do more swimming bits, since i'd like to attempt the 200 free and 400 IM. In 2015 it will be a full 20 years since I last swam a real 200 free, and 10 full years since I swam the 400 IM!
I'm still doing P90X3! I am on the final month! It's so much fun that I am going to do another round after I finish this one! But I haven't lost any weight. Probably because I haven't changed my eating habits and I really didn't start it as a weight loss program. I love junk food too much.
Shoulder was GREAT in the water, got in 5100 SCY. Then once I stopped moving, got showered and dressed, I noticed the entire capsule is just throbbing again. Geez. Well I dealt with 2-1/2 years of elbow pain I guess I can deal with 18 months of frozen shoulder pain. At least I know what it is, and I know that the only thing that helps is time. I may not be a very fast swimmer, but I am a stubborn swimmer!
1000 warm-up (typical 100 free, 25 back/25 breast over & over)
2 x 300 P no paddles
500 kick no board, with zoomers
12 x 200 as follows:
3 x 200 @ 3:00
3 x 200 P no paddles @ 2:45
3 x 200 P w/paddles @ 2:40
3 x 200 breast
500 cool down, various
Total: 5100 SCY
Seemed to be a little nauseated today but managed a good workout.
500 free
500 free kick w/zoomers
10x100@1:45 free every 3rd back went 1:29, 1:28, 1:43, 1:30, 1:29, 1:37, 1:28, 1:26, 1:37, 1:25
10x50@1:00 back kick w/zoomers went 47,47,47,48,50,47,50,47,46,45
5x100@:15RI free w/strapless paddles, bouy & snorkle
200 free kick w/zoomers
3x100@:15RI free EZ
Total 3500 yards