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"Before Enlightenment, carry water, chop wood.An odd form of training passed off by an unorthodox master on a skeptical student. Sometimes comes disguised as a set of chores, but just as often is a general exercise that promotes a valuable physical or mental attribute in a strange way. Always dismissed as a waste of time early on, and appreciated later. Often this also serves as a lesson to the skeptical student to trust the master and do all the crazy things the master asks without questioning, by demonstrating that the master really knows what he's doing and is in fact effectively teaching the student. May be time-compressed in a Training Montage or Hard Work Montage. This is an integral part of Improvised Training, due to the low cost. Commonly subverted/parodied when a mildly Genre Savvy hero initially assumes he is receiving valuable training, only to realize that he is just being made to do his sensei's chores. Double Subverted if the sensei tells him that this realization is the valuable lesson. Named for the most famous example, Mr. Miyagi's training of Daniel-san in The Karate Kid. Daniel was expecting some rigorous "This is how you punch, this is how you kick" training from the get-go, but instead Miyagi tells him to do various chores, and shows him the precise ways he wants those things done. After painting the house, painting the fence, sanding the decks and waxing a small fleet of classic 1940s cars, Daniel was ready to quit, believing he was being used as a slave. Miyagi then demonstrated that those chores were to build up strength and muscle memory of how to perform various blocking actions, as well as testing how much patience he had. THEN Miyagi showed Daniel how to punch, kick, etc. (He also gave Daniel one of the cars!) On the realistic end, this can be an effective training method in regards to strength and motion, but is no substitute for the real training to follow. Compare Training from Hell, Taught by Experience, I Know Mortal Kombat, Chekhov's Skill. May also double as a form of Physical Fitness Punishment. When the mundane task comes at the end of your training, it's When You Snatch the Pebble, and often Look What I Can Do Now. The teacher is often a Magical Asian and/or an Old Master. Compare to Fence Painting and contrast with Mooching Master, where the teacher is more concerned with getting free labor out of disciples rather than training them. An Old Master who uses this tactic may pretend to be a Mooching Master.
After Enlightenment, carry water, chop wood."
After Enlightenment, carry water, chop wood."
— Buddhist Saying
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- On Dragon Ball, Master Roshi takes it to comedic excess when he forces Krillin and Goku to work long hours delivering milk on foot, sowing fields with their bare hands, and doing chores at construction sites, all the while wearing weighted turtle shells. He makes a few bucks off it, too. It does really build them up fast, however. Dragon Ball was fond of this trope and repeated it frequently, often setting Goku to a mundane but laborious task to retrieve an item that would increase his power, only to reveal that it was the task itself that increased his strength.
- Occasionally the teacher would admit from the get-go that that was what was going on. When Goku first went to train with King Kai in Dragon Ball Z, he found that the gravity was so impressively strong that he could barely move (precisely, ten times the gravity of Earth). King Kai told Goku that he'd be ready to train when he could catch Bubbles the monkey, and later, use a mallet to hammer Gregory the cricket on the head - because, obviously, it'd mean that he'd strengthened enough that he could move well enough in the high gravity for the training to be any good.
- The gravity of Kai's world was also the same as that of the planet Vegeta, homeworld of the enemies Goku was training to fight. As Kai noted, Goku would never be a match for them if he couldn't handle the same gravity they did.
- Another notable instance of it was when Goku had to snatch a drink from Korin's sacred water. Similar to King Kai, Korin made Goku work for it (not to mention the feat of simply climbing to his tower). At one point Goku was tempted to cheat and drink it while Korin was asleep and couldn't keep it away, but he refused and went back to sleep (Korin was apparently awake the entire time, and silently approved). Eventually, Goku managed to get the water only to learn that it was ordinary tap water. Later in the anime, Tao Pai Pai / Mercenary Tao tried to do the same, but Korin decided he was unworthy of training and just handed the water over without a fuss. To further the point home, Korin even provided Tao with a ride back down the tower, so as to prevent him from gaining any sort of training from him (normally climbing up and down the tower was part of Korin's programme).
- Averted comically in Dragon Ball Super. When Goku and Vegeta have finished changing Beerus' bedsheets while the god is sleeping, Goku assumes that these chores are part of the training - he's done this trope before many, many times, and changing the bedsheets alone was extremely dangerous. Vegeta informs him that this is merely ordinary housework, and actually has nothing to do with training. Considering their teacher is Whis, the actual training is... Somewhat different.
- Occasionally the teacher would admit from the get-go that that was what was going on. When Goku first went to train with King Kai in Dragon Ball Z, he found that the gravity was so impressively strong that he could barely move (precisely, ten times the gravity of Earth). King Kai told Goku that he'd be ready to train when he could catch Bubbles the monkey, and later, use a mallet to hammer Gregory the cricket on the head - because, obviously, it'd mean that he'd strengthened enough that he could move well enough in the high gravity for the training to be any good.
- Ranma's training in Ranma ½ started here and escalated to lunatic levels of difficulty and danger.
- Ranma's rival Ryoga also undergoes this type of training, in the form of swinging boulders at him to learn the rock-crushing Bakusai Tenketsu technique. As it turns out, Bakusai Tenketsu only works against rigid objects like rocks, but getting hit repeatedly by swinging boulders eventually makes the fighter Nigh Invulnerable. Oh, and Cologne taught the technique to Ryoga specifically so that Ranma would get paranoid (''He'll be able to kill me with just one finger!''), train on his own to be super-good at dodging, and as a consequence become a better suitor for her granddaughter's hand.
- A filler episode has Kuno trying to get the ingredients for Happosai's "speed of light elixir" where the actual training was getting the notes with the formula hidden in places he has to be really fast to get away with without getting beaten (girl's locker rooms, clothes lines). The training made him faster but the formula wasn't just worthless, it made him weaker and sick because it was made from the dirt under Happosai's nails.
- In another instance involving Kuno, this was actually inverted and parodied: turns out that he had gone to Watermelon Island, where he trained under a waterfall by dicing watermelons as they came down from upstream. Eventually, he got so good at it that he'd chop up watermelons to tiny cubes entirely by reflex, attaining a speed and destructive potential that even Ranma couldn't get past...! But it turned out that this Training from Hell wasn't meant for combat at all, it was all so he could woo girls at the Smashing Watermelons game —devoting valuable training and (accidentally) earning great skill in order to do something completely mundane.
- Not to mention a lot of those chores or other mundane activities are the martial arts.
- InuYasha. Parodied in a filler episode. When Inuyasha wanted to get stronger and power up his Infinity+1 Sword, he went to the sword's creator, Toutousai for training. Toutousai is both The Wonka and an Eccentric Mentor at the best of times. As a result, when his response to Inuyasha's request is an off-hand comment about wanting a bath, Inuyasha - with atypical gusto - starts cutting firewood, hauls water and works the bellows to heat the fire, believing that Toutousai has put this trope into effect and that it's all part of training. And then he discovers that Toutousai was being serious: he really did want a bath. Cue wrecking ball mode.
- A subversion from Pokémon: Brock and Ash meet Bruno, a member of the Elite 4 who agrees to train them. He gets them to do a ton of chores. Brock assumes this all has a deeper meaning but Bruno just wanted his chores done, which is followed by his training which can be summed up in one sentence: "Be nice to Pokemon."
- Played straight in an episode many seasons later. Kalos gym leader Korrina has difficulty getting her Lucario to listen to her during Mega Evolution, so she journeys to meet Mabel, a family acquaintance with a loyal Mega Mawile. After an initial battle to test her, the training turns out to be over a week's worth of flower arranging. It pays off in the end, as the training needed wasn't physical but rather the need to understand the teammate's differing perspective when battling.
- In Pokémon Special, the Daycare Lady locks Gold into a cage full of dangerous looking Pokemon. Gold's Cyndaquil ends up evolving thanks to fighting them and Gold immediately shouts his thanks. Turns out the old lady was just too lazy to look after the Pokemon herself and was using Gold to give them some exercise.
- Rosario + Vampire Double Subverts it, when Moka nabbed a magic-cancelling whip so Inner Moka could come out and play, and they she took Tsukune out on a shopping trip around town, which led to attacks from the rest of the Harem. Tsukune figures out how to remotely sense demonic energy as a matter of survival, which everyone concludes was her motive. No, it turns out she just wanted to do some shopping as her True Self. A subversion of the usual subversion, as, despite the "task" not having been meant to teach him anything, it proved valuable anyway.
- Genesis of Aquarion loves this trope, and parodies it whenever possible.
- When the heroes of Get Backers want to learn to use Divine Design, they get a witch friend to help them learn the basics of magic. The first task? Stacking eggs.
- Takumi from Initial D, or so he thinks, starts out driving at 4:00 AM as fast as possible while delivering his dad's tofu to the peak of Mount Akina and drifting to prevent the tofu from rolling around, in order to return home ASAP and catch a little snooze before going to school.
- In Fullmetal Alchemist, just to get to start Izumi's Training from Hell for alchemy you need to survive in the wilderness for a month with just a knife and to find out the meaning of "all is one, one is all". The thing is that by nearly dying you realize how you're just part of an endless cycle of life which can easily move on without you, and how alchemy is a miniature replication of such a cycle through a circle of your own body. This was training her teacher required her to do, shown in one volume's gaiden to actually be a subversion: the guy she asked to be apprentice was the brother of the guy she wanted to learn alchemy from, and he thought she wanted hand-to-hand-combat training. Double subverted because she had gotten so much out of the training that she Curb Stomped brother-sensei's ass.
- Subverted in Medabots, which had a chapter in which Ikki and Metabee did Dr. Aki's housework, and while Metabee told Ikki that they were, Ikki thought they were doing a Wax On, Wax Off deal. Later on, when they fight... The good doctor tells them they were doing his chores and that it served no practical purpose.
- Ayane's High Kick: When Ayane accepts Kunimitsu's offer for training, he declares that the first step is for her to build the training ring, to help build her physical strength and stamina.
- A filler episode of One Piece uses a learn a craft variant. A young kid who had only worked as a dish washer on a Marine ship kitchen accidentally destroys the weekly (and almost legendary) curry lunch for the officers, and the head chef forces him to make a new batch on his own as punishment. With Sanji providing some subtle clues of his own, the kid learns that the observations made as a simple dish washer have given him the fundamental skills to cook the meal.
- Averted in Saiyuki. Kouryuu is constantly seen sweeping up leaves when speaking to his master- but this seems to be because he wants the courtyard to be clean and there is nothing to suggest that Koumyou even asked him to do it.
- MAD spoofed this trope by having Mr. Miyagi explain that finishing off enemies is the same as finishing off floors. And if he gets the shit kicked out of him, Daniel-san now has a nice place to recuperate.
- In Usagi Yojimbo: Usagi's training as a kitten had his old master Katusuichi, pretending to be a Mooching Master, making Usagi do all manner of chores for over a year before he even let Usagi touch a bokken. Turns out he was actually testing Usagi's patience and resolve to become a swordsman.
- Katusuichi also started hitting Usagi with a bamboo stick at random times, day and night. Although the rabbit kitten feared his teacher had gone mad, he only later noticed that it helped develop the lifesaving habit of being constantly alert for danger.
Films — Animated
- The titular ursidae-member Po in Kung Fu Panda, who eats when he's upset, is taught kung fu by Master Shifu via eating dumplings with chopsticks; largely because Shifu discovers, quite by accident, that when Po is thinking about food, he's capable of feats that, when he's thinking about kung fu, he's not even aware exist.
- Parodied and subverted in Surf's Up, in which Big Z has Cody doing ridiculous training exercises to help him "learn how to surf". Cody finally figured out that Big Z was playing practical jokes on him, and learned that the real lesson was to relax and just have fun.
Films — Live-Action
- The Karate Kid movies:
Mr. Han: Kung Fu lives in everything we do, Xiao Dre. It lives in how we put on the jacket, how we take off the jacket, and lives in how we treat people. Everything is Kung Fu.
- In The Karate Kid (1984), Mr. Miyagi covertly teaches Daniel-san the basic abilities required before he can teach him karate by making Daniel wax his car, among many other chores.
- Inverted in The Next Karate Kid starring Hilary Swank when Mister Miyagi teaches a new kata... how to do the waltz. Then played straight when, after Swank's character calls Miyagi on his bullshit and refuses to wax anything, he gets a similar job done by having her babysit a bunch of kids who constantly fire at her with their toys, giving her no choice but to practice her reflexes and blocking motions.
- In The Karate Kid (2010), Mr. Han has Dre continually take off his coat, hang it, drop it, pick it up, and put it on, using Dre's attitude to enforce the strength and posture needed. Dre initially interprets this as punishment for his attitude towards his mother, until the Wax On Wax Off kicks in later. Dre calls out Mr. Han on not knowing Kung Fu, and Mr. Han starts an impromptu spar to show Dre he was building up muscle memory. As you can see when Mr. Han starts punching at Dre, he is performing blocks and other evasive maneuvers with every step. Shaolin Kenpo calls these "Wing blocks" because they resemble a wing motion. For several cycles, Mr. Han says "jacket on, jacket off". It's also actually explained in this movie why the teacher uses this indirect teaching method: to get Dre to understand that Kung Fu isn't just a way of fighting, it's a way of life:
- In the film Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story, Rip Torn's character uses a few exotic methods to improve the "Average Joes" team's dodging skill, including crossing a busy street, and throwing wrenches at them. "if you can dodge a wrench, you can dodge a ball!."
- A realistic portrayal of how martial arts schools used to do this was in Kill Bill when The Bride as part of her training had to carry buckets of water up a large set of stairs.
- Also parodied in the film Mystery Men; the Sphinx trains the eponymous squad with a series of bizarre physical feats justified by odd wordplay, as seen in this exchange:
Mr. Furious: Why am I balancing a hammer on my head?The Sphinx: When you can balance a tack hammer on your head, you can head off your foes with a balanced attack.Mr. Furious: Then why do I have these watermelons on my feet?The Sphinx: *beat* I don't remember telling you to do that.
- Parodied in the Karate Kid rip-off Showdown. The martial artist master is making the hero clean toilets, and the hero is like "I get it, this is like Wax On, Wax Off, right?" The response? "No, this is toilet cleaning."
- Parodied and subverted in the Japanese movie Waterboys. The boys high-school Synchro-Swim Team seeks help from a local Sea World Dolphin trainer. He makes them clean all the aquariums, under the guise of it being muscle training. It works, but it's obvious that he was just using them and didn't think it would help. Later, he takes them to an arcade and gives them $50 to play Dance Dance Revolution, as a lesson in getting in sync. Again, it's fake training and he drives off, singing happily that he's finally dumped them. However, he runs out of gas and returns to get his money back, thereby discovering that his false improvised training worked again.
- In Drunken Master, Jackie Chan plays Wong Fei-hung, a young punk who is punished by being put under the brutal training of Su Hai Chi, an alcoholic with a style known as the Eight Drunken Immortals. Su Hai Chi appears to delight in putting Fei-hung through Training from Hell: it starts with being flipped around, tripped over and being forced to fall; then it transitions to transferring water between four giant barrels with a bucket, while balancing atop the barrels; later it moves to filling one bucket with water from another using only a teacup- while the empty bucket is on the top of a pole, the full bucket is on the bottom of the pole, and you do it by wrapping your legs around the top of the pole, hanging upside down, and doing upside down situps; last, it's performing katas in time with your instructor, with your hands roped to his as he slams poles against your wrist running down the length of the cord. So how is all of this supposed to aid in defeating the Big Bad? Well, being forced to flip over builds up your balance by getting used to tumbling around, since much of Drunken Boxing it is acrobatic; the barrel exercise builds up balance, back and ankle strength; the teacup exercise builds up the upper leg and abdominal areas; the cord exercise is to help Fei-Hong remember the katas, employing his strength from the previous exercises, having his wrists slammed with the poles is necessary since it he'll be doing alot of blocking and striking using his wrists alone; and crushing walnuts quickly becomes useful for outright lethal strikes, like crushing the throat.
- Played surprisingly straight in Sgt Kabukiman NYPD; to learn how to control his powers, Harry must sort a huge pile of rice by variety, practice coming up with Haikus, and take a whole bunch of groin attacks. Okay, so maybe not that straight.
- Mentioned (but not done) in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze. While cleaning April's apartment, Mikey, who's cleaning the counters, bids his brothers to watch him.
Mikey: Watch this! (Ala Miyagi) "Wax on, wax off. Wax on, wax off. Wax on-"Raph: (Stops him) Mouth. Off!
- In The Crimson Tide you can spend some years in a monastery. If you try and learn martial arts, you get some added combat skill. If you work in the laundry or the kitchens, you finally discover that you've been training in the Wax on, wax off style. Using this style later in the book makes fights far easier, and you last longer in hopeless Bad End combat scenes. It's also a prerequisite for getting the good ending.
- Discworld
- Parodied in Mort when the hero, as Death's apprentice, is told that if he wants to understand the secrets of space and time he must muck out the stables. After considering various reasons why this might be part of his training, he comes to the conclusion that it's because Death was "knee-deep in horseshit". A Double Subversion, though, as Death insists that, by realising this, Mort has learnt something significant (something to the effect of "Always see things for what they are").
- Similarly in Thief of Time, when Lobsang Ludd is being taught by Lu-Tze, an Old Master who is content to be a humble sweeper. After several days of sweeping up the temple, he confronts Lu-Tze:
Lobsang: "I mean, I understand how it works. The master makes the pupil do all the menial jobs, and then it turns out the pupil is really learning things of great value ... And I don't think I'm learning anything, really, except that people are pretty messy and inconsiderate."Lu-Tze: "Not a bad lesson, all the same."
- Granny Weatherwax is also a major believer in Wax On, Wax Off, not just as training for young witches (such as Eskarina and Tiffany) but as a permanent part of a professional witch's repertoire.
- In David Eddings' Belgariad universe, the arch-wizard Belgarath learned the Functional Magic of 'The Will and The Word' from the reclusive Physical God, Aldur, in this way. Aldur kept setting his young apprentice to various menial, pointless and increasingly strenuous tasks, culminating in him ordering the young Belgarath to move a boulder out of his way, since he couldn't be bothered to step around it...
- And of course, Belgarath used the same thing for Garion. When Garion moved the boulder, however, he tried lifting the thing. Newtonian physics still work, apparently. Garion found himself in a rather deep hole.
- In Warcraft: The Last Guardian, a Warcraft Expanded Universe novel, the first task that our hero faces when attempting to become the wizard Medivh's apprentice is to clean, fix and sort out his library. This turns out to be a Secret Test of Character, since an apprentice is supposed to know the contents of the library inside and out and have the patience and humility to do some physical work every now and then.
- Also to show that the student can tell which books will eat/incinerate/otherwise main him/her.
- In A Game of Thrones, Syrio Forel trains Arya Stark for Braavosi-style fencing by having her do things like forcing her to chase and catch the stray cats roaming the castle at King's Landing (to increase her speed and reaction time) and walking around the castle on her hands (to increase her balance and awareness of the surfaces she's moving on). Subverted in that she understands the purpose of it all and appreciates it.
- In E.W. Hildick's The McGurk Mysteries series, Jack McGurk (leader of a band of kid detectives) frequently came up with "training exercises" that also got the other kids to do his work for him. For example, raking the yard to match leaves. The point, as McGurk explained, was to look for leaves that didn't match the trees in the yard. Really, he was just getting the others to rake the yard so he didn't have to.
- In By the Sword, Kero's training with Tarma begins with a whole lot of chopping wood. She doesn't seem to resent it, but she does eventually get curious when Tarma starts having her chop wood that's been set up in oddly specific configurations, at which point Tarma finally gets around to explaining the specific purpose of the exercise: to develop the specific muscle groups that she'll be using to swing a sword.
- In A Matter Of Thorns (Realms of Infamy) by James M. Ward a Knight Errant explains his approach:
Sir Ganithar "the Hammer": You must learn to serve me. Loyal service is as important to a squire as the arts of war. Do you understand, boy?Tomkin: Yes, sir, I'll always serve you to the best of my ability. I'll do whatever you tell me to do, Sir Ganithar.Ganithar: No, no, lad. That's not what I want. Try to anticipate what I need. Anticipation is vital in a warrior, too. Figure out what I need and respond to me before I ask. I'll teach you to do the same to your foes. That's the way of a good warrior.
- The Wheel of Time does this to Avhienda in The Gathering Storm. It turns out to be the double-subversion variety.
- Specifically, the Wise Ones begin loading Avhienda up with useless chores and punishments, seemingly for no reason at all. After a few weeks of this, Avhienda gets so fed up that she angrily tells the Wise Ones that she doesn't deserve any of it and isn't going to put up with it any longer. This is apparently how they determine when their apprentices are finished with their training.
- Its more of a triple subversion. The double subversion is supposed to teach humility, but her training was to teach her to stand up to the Wise Ones
- In the Circle of Magic series, ambient mages have to study and learn everything about their affinity, including the tedious chores.
- One example mentioned a few times is Daja (metal/heat mage) having to do the most tedious thing as a blacksmith; making nails. This is doubly so, as while the swords or sculptures or larger pieces she wants to do or learn will get her recognition (or are just more fun), the nails are the most useful and used thing she can make.
- Subverted in the 1953 novel A Light in the Forest: True Son, an Anglo man raised by a native tribe, tells one of his young white relatives that in order to be strong he has to chase butterflies and rub some of the powder from their wings on his chest, which he says is magical. One of the white men comments that the story is a good way to convince children to exercise, but True Son is surprised by the comment: he genuinely believes in the magical properties of the butterfly dust.
- This is supposedly the way that Dragon Riders were taught to be aware of their magic: They were given incredibly arduous tasks to do (such as filling barrels using buckets - using only their feet) so that they would eventually get so frustrated that they'd spontaneously do something magical.
- In Holes, this is the idea behind Madame Zeroni's deal. Elya is to carry a pig up to a spring at the top of a mountain each day, in order to impress a woman with it's eventual weight as a dowry. However, the true purpose is to have Elya carrying a gradually growing pig and over time, develop the muscles that would truly impress the girl. Subverted when the woman is too stupid and Elya leaves without her.
Live Action TV
- R.J., of Power Rangers Jungle Fury does this to bring Casey up to speed with the other Rangers, with the minor subversion that one of the tasks really was pointless, even though the other three weren't.
- Also in Juken Sentai Gekiranger, a shorter version of the Power Rangers version above (only one task, which taught the hero how to be a better bull-rusher). Ostensibly, fighting the monster corresponding to the one in the Jungle Fury example.
- The masters in Gekiranger tend to do this alot, particularly in the early episodes. Sometimes they are upfront about why they are doing the mundane task, sometimes they're not. A few examples: Ran and Retsu learning to play the piano in order to get better at charging the Geki Bazooka, Jan helping with cooking to learn patience, and Ran fly-fishing to use the Geki Hammer.
- Parodied in an episode of Zoey 101 when a character is taught how to drive a car with manual transmission in this fashion.
- On How I Met Your Mother Marshall succesfully convinces Barney that he could pick up any chick he wanted in less than five seconds by going up to a supposedly "random" woman (actually his fiancee), in a bar and kissing her passionately, while retelling this story Marshall says "He went around for a week trying to get me to teach him how to live, I even got him to do my laundry once!" to which Barney replies "I thought it was a Mr. Miyagi type of thing!"
- Parodied on Breaker High where Jimmy is subjected to this kind of training just to learn how to make burritos.
- In an episode of The Office (US), Michael unveils a movie he had been working on for years. In it, the hero has to learn how to play hockey and his mentor teaches him by having him mop the ice.
- In one episode of Duck Dynasty Phil does this to his grandsons under the pretense of training their reflexes and hand-eye coordination. They're initially skeptical, and by the end of the episode Phil has dropped all pretense and admits he's just getting them to do chores.
- A Soviet biopic Ivan Pavlov: Searching for Truth (yes, that Pavlov) has a bizzare example of what supposedly was common in 19th century Orthodox monaceries. A novice is ordered to plant cabbage with its leaves in the soil and roots in the air. Later a monk explains: "The cabbage isn't dear to us, the obedience is dear."
- Very similar to the punchline of a Soviet army joke. The drill instructor orders rookie soldiers to sweep the street with crowbars. "Why not brooms?" asks one soldier. "We can't make it clean with crowbars!" — "It's not to make the street clean" — the DS responds. — "It's to make you tired". Because idle hands are the devils' playthings, more so for soldiers, still more for rookies.
- In Arrow, one of the flashbacks to the island where Oliver was stranded shows a similar training. In order to strengthen him enough to draw back the string of a bow, he is forced to keep slapping water in a bowl.
Tabletop Games
- Used (of course) in Exalted: one of the Scroll of the Monk books had a comic depicting a martial arts student griping about his sifu making him slap water out of a pan for his special training. Then he slams his hand down on the table in anger and breaks it in half.
- Taken to almost Trollish Extremes in an Ink Monkey's supplement. "Secret Lesson Revelation" allows a Sidereal Sifu to use practically anything in this way, as long as they can make up some reason, however far-fetched, that it is true. Naturally, there is a comic where a Sidereal is abusing this to make a Solar clean his Demigod T-Rex stables.
Video Games
- Mage training with Mebbeth in Planescape: Torment comes in the form of three chores. With a high enough intelligence or wisdom, The Nameless One will even figure out the lessons all on his own. After it turns out that The Nameless One knows magic already from a previous life, Mebbeth comments wryly that he just shaved months off his training and that she'd been looking forward to having someone to foist her chores off on.
- Even funnier when you find out that Mebbeth is really Ravel, the person who cast the spell on Nameless in the first place. So if anyone would know he had training as a mage, it was her. Or Morte. Or Dakkon. Or Ignus. Or just about anyone who knew Nameless in the past.
- In possibly one of the most hilariously random quests ever, Summon Night: Swordcraft Story has your training under a great Craftlord involve running around collecting parts which are food ingredients, so you can make...a ladle, with which to cook some curry for him. Of course, it turns out that this was the first training that he had under your father, so it's half-revenge, half-valuable lesson.
- This is used a few times in the Shenmue series. For example, the second game where Ryo has to clear his mind by catching leaves.
- Pre-training for the military in Dwarf Fortress can easily follow the Karate Kid example, with dwarfs spending days or months driving pumps, mining rock, cutting trees, carving rock, grinding grain, or any of a few different industries. On the other hand, it gets interesting when those same dwarfs build up their skills and expertise by tallying up every single rock in the fortress, or ordering the manufacture of several thousand bars of soap.note Mining plays it straightest; the unmodded game uses a generic "axe" item for both combat and woodcutting, but using it on trees levels a separate skill from using it in combat. Pickaxes, for some reason, draw upon the "Mining" skill for both.
- For the Adventurer, knapping develops agility, strength, kinesthetic and spatial Sense, and also produces sharp rocks to throw, developing additional attributes as well as marksmanship. Walking with a crutch trains endurance and willpower, and if your adventurer ever breaks or loses a leg, he or she will be able to grab a crutch and walk at their usual speed.
- In perhaps one of the darker examples of this trope, there is a book you can read in The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind that tells the story of a young orphan sent to live with his uncle on a farm, and learn a trade from him. The Uncle gives him three chores to perform; dusting his bookshelves, ringing the bell to call farmhands, and scouring clean all the floors in the house. Each task had to be done perfectly; the bookshelves completely dust-free, the large iron bell rung loudly (and frequently,) and the floors spotless. In his eighteenth year, the boy discovers that his uncle means to abandon the now-failing farm, and the boy with it, without teaching him anything. The boy silently picks up a heavy axe, to discover it doesn't weigh any more than the dusting rod he'd used for years. The dusting and bell-ringing gave him the strength and muscle-memory to chop his uncle to bits, and finally cleaning up what was left of the man was far easier than cleaning up the grime that had usually covered the floor, in fact the floors are so clean that no-one could tell there had been a murder. Deciding he had indeed learned a trade after all, the young man eventually goes off to join the Assassin's Guild.
- Incidentally, the book you read this charming little story from, titled "The Axe Man," is a skill book. What skill does it raise? Axes.
- Double subverted in Fans!. Master Kana's training of Rumy involves making her do chores around the house. When she finds out she's just being used, she attacks Kana and they start fighting. During the fight, Kana reveals that he was trying to make her angry, so she wouldn't hold back while they fight.
- In the discontinued webcomic Ghost Cat, one of the leads take up martial arts under his elderly groundskeeper, who teaches him the ancient art of "Do Mae Wohk". Say it out loud...
- In Sluggy Freelance, this comes into play not with physical training, but with Mad Science. Irving Schlock has one of his subordinates work on various, overtly pointless projects, until Dr. Shankraft confronts him about it. His final project entails both the massive amounts of power and the accounting for size differentials that his previous works required. And then there was the Secret Test of Character in the shape of a fire-breathing duck...
- Kill Six Billion Demons: In Meti's Sword Manual:
To train with the sword, first master sweeping. When you have mastered sweeping, you must master the way of drawing water. Once you have learned how to draw water, you must split wood. Once you have split wood, you must learn the arts of finding the fine herbs in the forest, the arts of writing, the arts of paper making, and poetry writing. You must become familiar with the awl and the pen in equal measure. When you have mastered all these things you must master building a house. Once your house is built, you have no further need for a sword, since it is an ugly piece of metal and its adherents idiots.
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- In Dragon Ball Abridged, when Tien, Chiaotzu, Yamcha, and Piccolo arrive on King Kai's planet, he sets Tien and Chiaotuz to the same training as Goku, lets Piccolo meditate, and tells Yamcha to wax his car. Yamcha assumes this trope is the case and launches into the task with gusto. Except Kai doesn't give a damn about Yamcha and just wanted to give him some menial chore to keep him busy.
- The Atari Kid by Rooster Teeth Shorts employs this trope on a nerd, with a wise Dungeon Master as his Mr. Miyagi. The nerd is trained through Dance Dance Revolution, quickly plugging and unplugging cords on a computer, and inputting the Konami Code as fast as possible. All of these skills help him take down a purse snatcher.
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- Parodied on an episode of Johnny Bravo, in which the menial tasks really are just menial tasks, but let Johnny win the match anyway. (Much to Master Hama's disappointment. He'd bet against Johnny)
- The Avatar: The Last Airbender episode "Sokka's Master" has Sokka seek sword training with Piandao; in addition to actual training with wooden practice swords, the training involves calligraphy, rock gardening, and landscape painting. Atypically, Piandao actually explains the purpose of these as he goes along (instead of afterwards), and Sokka performs them in very odd ways (for instance, when instructed to arrange a rock garden, he quickly makes a comfortable seat to lounge in). Piandao then teaches Sokka to use his eccentricities and Take A Level In Badass - by challenging him to a no-holds-barred duel in which Sokka's resourcefulness and creativity enable the beginner to keep stride with the master.
- Kim Possible:
- In "Oh No! Yono!" Ron's showing Hana the "Flippie Dance" gives her the agility and acrobatic moves needed to beat Yono and Monkey Fist.
- In "Job Unfair", Joe (a supposed janitor who is actually a Canadian master spy) teaches Kim the detailed operation of a vacuum cleaner, which turns out to be a model of the weather machine she'll need to disable during her mission.
- Penny Proud from The Proud Family goes through a spoof of the Karate Kid. Like painting the fences. The things she did alongside with the Chang triplets are actual training and despite the master being rather a lazy bum, is actually fluent in combat. The more "advanced" school she longs to follow only teaches how to be cool like a typical martial arts movie without properly teaching actual skills.
- Grandpa does it to Jake in American Dragon: Jake Long and all of the chores he forces him to do turn out to have combat applications (except for doing his laundry).
- Another parody in The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy, where medieval Boss Delwapo has Billy do his chores for him as training for fighting a dragon. In a scene paralleling The Karate Kid, Billy finds out that Boss just wanted his chores done. Turns out he's a Fake Ultimate Hero, though.
- And Billy ends up not even fighting the dragon.
- Parodied in an episode of Code Monkeys, "The Take Over", in which Dave trains under a Miyagi-esque sensei to prevail over Japanese competitors in a high-stakes eating competition. He assumes that he will be painting a fence, waxing a car, etc., but is instead instructed to eat such items as paint, wax, and sawdust to strengthen his stomach and make him able to eat anything.
- Earthworm Jim played with this in its animation incarnation: Jim finds a enchanted sword in his vending machine sandwich, which vows to make a hero out of him. In the following scene Jim drags himself on camera, wearily explaining that he'd performed such tasks as regrouting the bathroom and cleaning out the stables of the seven incontinent yaks. He then asks if the tasks were meant to teach him humility. The Large Ham sword mutters, uncharacteristically quietly, "I dunno, they just... needed to be done, I wasn't going to do it..."
- Then, while Jim was using it in a battle, the sword accidentally lets Jim know nobody ever defeated any adversary while using it.
- In the pilot of My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic Princess Celestia employed this trope on her top student Twilight Sparkle; appearing to downplay and gently mock her fears of the imminent arrival of Nightmare Moon, and instead telling her to drop her books and make some friends. However it is later revealed that Twilight making friends was a necessary step to eventually combat Nightmare Moon when she did indeed return.
- An episode of Storm Hawks has the eponymous characters meeting Arygyn the Skeelur, who trains them to take on their upgraded enemies...by taking them to an amusement park.
- In another episode, where Sky-Knight Starling is confused by the team's training, which mostly consists of children's games resembling paintball and keep-away. The group assures her the games are important, and they come in handy saving a terra (even Finn's guitar playing!).
- El Tigre: Trying to get out of doing chores, Manny tricked wannabe hero Albino Burrito into doing them thinking it was hero training. Then all he learned during the chores was indeed useful to defeat a rampaging robot built by Puma Loco.
- Hexe Lilli: Heracles tells Lilli to practice grape stomping and painting walls because those are the motions required to throw a discus. Though he ends up giving her tips on actually throwing a discus as well.
- The Spongebob Squarepants episode "Squid's Defense" has Sandy teaching Squidward karate and telling him that in order to learn it, he must "master the movements of every day". He later fights his opponent with moves such as "watering Sandy's lawn" and "taking out Sandy's trash".
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- Truth in Television: Less today than in the past, certain traditional martial arts dojos have a program of uchideshi - live-in students. Besides training two or more times a day, possibly while holding down another job or completing university classes, they are also responsible, under the direction of the senior students, for the care and upkeep of the dojo, for cooking their own meals as well as catering for guests, and keeping their rooms in tip-top order. The care and discipline they put into these tasks is considered to be just as much a part of the training as the martial art practice.
- This is similarly true for training in the US military: trainees are required to maintain the barracks area in addition to their regular training. This not only includes keeping their own rooms clean (which may include storing their clothes in a certain specific way), but also assigning specific people to carry out certain chores for a period of time (say, vacuuming the hallway for a week, or cleaning the latrine before lights-out). All this besides the weekly "GInote Party", where everybody cleans the entire barracks top to bottom, sometimes for hours at a time.
- Attention to detail and self motivation are what most Drill Sergeants are trying to instill with a GI Party. If recruits can't follow simple instructions or take initiative in training, they would be useless in combat.
- Weapon maintenance is perhaps a better example, since familiarity with the rifle's component parts does have combat application. Barracks cleaning may develop group coordination, but there are other, better ways to train it.
- Apprentices of certain craftsmen would be put to various menial tasks in order for them to build the muscles or motor skills required for the craft.
- Case in point: If you want to work at a traditional restaurant and you're not already a local big name, to actually prepare food there, odds are, you're going to wind up observing the kitchen from the dish pit for a few solid months before actually touching a single knife. This is well, as having a heaping mountain of ceramic, scraps and sauce hurled at you accompanied by strident orders teaches you the necessary sense of urgency for a cook like (or if) nothing else.
- Or perhaps to teach the young chef that cleaning dishes and cookware is in fact, an inevitable part of cooking, and if you can't clean, you shouldn't cook.
- Case in point: If you want to work at a traditional restaurant and you're not already a local big name, to actually prepare food there, odds are, you're going to wind up observing the kitchen from the dish pit for a few solid months before actually touching a single knife. This is well, as having a heaping mountain of ceramic, scraps and sauce hurled at you accompanied by strident orders teaches you the necessary sense of urgency for a cook like (or if) nothing else.
- Tae Kwon Do training can occasionally involve frog-hopping across the room, which helps build the muscles needed for jumping kicks.
- Legendary basketball coach John Wooden would always begin the season's practice with a lecture on how properly to put on a pair of socks so as to avoid having them cause blisters during games. The attention to detail inherent in the lesson translated to fundamental soundness in all other elements of the game...and ten championships in twelve years. It's one of the many reasons why there are few who disagree when Wooden is called the greatest ever to coach the game.
- Master Clark in Z Ultimate self defense (Formerly United Studios of Self Defense) that teaches Shaolin Kenpo actually has the quote, "Repetition is the mother of all skill". This is naturally why many defensive maneuvers or kenpo techniques (These are offensive in nature) are performed to the air as much as they are to someone who punches in.
- The repetition idea is perhaps best demonstrated by a quote by Bruce Lee: "I fear not the man who has practiced ten thousand kicks one time. I fear the man who has practiced one kick ten thousand times."
- Students of the United Studios of Self Defence can attest to how effective this method is. The end result is that you can perform the kenpo as easily as you can breathe. You can do your forms forwards, backwards, left-handed, and facing any wall in the dojo. You've learned how the body works so well, you can create your own kenpo based on what you already know, and figure out whether or not it would actually work without even practicing on a partner. This is so that if you ever get in a real fight, your mind doesn't have time to panic; your body just does what it's been naturally trained to do a hundred thousand times over.
- A shift toward emphasizing stability muscles has had several strength training regimens like Crossfit and sports-specific workouts add strongman-style exercises like flipping a tire or wringing out a wet towel.
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- Anything in the entertainment industry will involve starting off at the "bottom rung": most crew members for film and TV start as production assistants moving furniture and passing out clipboards, while most actors start in professional productions as extras who may do little more than sit at a table in the background (probably unpaid) while still working the same long day as everyone else. Aspiring musicians may start as roadies and guitar techs, hauling gear and making sure everything's in tune while the band gets the credit. Someone who desires to work in the lighting department in a theatre will often be apprenticed (officially or otherwise) to an experienced tech who sends the new guy off to hang heavy Fresnels and plug stuff in. Being in these positions allows for excellent observation of everything that goes into making movies and music and everything else, and helps teach them the discipline and patience to work long hours in demanding jobs. If someone can't handle a 14 hour day of hauling stuff around or passing out release forms to extras, they probably can't handle the more glamorous job they want.
- In music in particular, just learning the instrument can involve this type of thing. For example, wind instrument players often spend time doing breathing exercises or practicing embouchure while not touching their instrument. Singers make a lot of strange noises while warming up. And so forth.
- The first day of of training at many culinary schools is known as "Dish Day". The brand new students will be taken to the school's dishware storeroom and told to take every single dish, glass, saucer, cup and piece of cutlery to the school's dish pit, clean and dry them, then return them to the store room. (The store room is cleaned at the same time.) While the students are graded on how efficiently they organize themselves to get the job done, the primary purpose is to instill in the student the idea that kitchen sanitation comes first before everything else.
- Similarly, new graduates of cooking schools will go on to restaurant kitchens and almost always be assigned to "pantry" positions, where they basically do nothing but chop vegetables, make croutons, and other basic "scutwork" cooking jobs. In this way, they not only get a decent grounding in the basics, the chef in charge of the restaurant gets a good idea about their work ethic, patience, and ability to put up with the stresses of the kitchen without potentially ruining someone's meal.
- When working at a library, the entry-level job of library page can be this. The bulk of a page's work is shelving the books, which most consider to be boring, menial grunt work. But part of the benefit of starting off there is gaining familiarity with both the Dewey Decimal System and where all these sections are locally. If your memory is particularly sharp, this can help in situations where the card catalog is inaccessible, such as when the software is being upgraded.


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Sorry, can't swim.
I went snorkeling in Hawaii! But didn't get any pictures :(
haha! Yeah, I guess that is kind of hard to do. Go put on your snorkeling mask and take me a picture of that! *GRINS*
We need to give Olympia the experience without the swimming part! :)
I went diving once actually.
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lol. My pics are terrible. I'll dig some up soon. Mostly snorkeling ones. I'll try to get better ones at the end of this month though! :-D
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I dive mainly in New England, more specifically Rhode Island. Visibility is usually measured in inches, not feet and the water is usually a brisk 65 degrees or lower. A few times in my diving career I have gone down to Dutch Springs in Pennsylvania (that's where these are taken) and the visibility there is like 30 ft at times.
Every year my family does a Disney trip, and I always do Dive Quest. Awesome dive. If I can find my most recent video, I will upload it here...
YAY!!! A DIVING PICTURE! Thanks, Wake! You're so cute under all that!
Brrrrrrr, 65 or lower doesn't sound like too much fun *shivers*
Would LOVE to see that video, when you get a chance :)
This thread will keep my excitement up for the dive in Turks & Caicos. I actually hate all that equipment so I'm looking more forward to the snorkeling with my kids . I hope we get to see sharks! Visibility there is unbelievable . Went in the Turks abyss that is 7-8k feet where we were and I saw so far down I was shocked. Bright blue!
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Angelfish breeding behavior?
If the angelfish are about to lay eggs do they get more aggressive/hungry? I saw one of my angels with an otto in it's mouth, but the otto got away thankfully. One angel will eat so much it's belly looks like it's going to pop! If they pair up can the male tell that the female is pregnant with eggs? What other kind of behavior should I expect? I had some angels before that would have eggs but that was years ago and I don't remember any special behavior on there part.
I don't think they necessarily get hungrier. Thay should always appear hungry. They will begin lip locking and tail slapping. They will also claim a part of the tank for themselves. The male should know when the female is egg bound and they will lay thier eggs on a flat surface usually a leaf.
OK, well I did see them lip lock one time. Not sure about tail slapping, I have never seen what that looks like but I'm pretty sure I have not seen them do that yet. It does seem that they are usually in one particular area but do still roam around the tank too.
Here's a video I found of angelfish going through the emotions of mating.
YouTube - Angelfish Mating Behavior
My female angel is alone. But I can tell whenever she is about to lay eggs because she starts cleaning a spot very vigorously. She gets a bit more aggressive and chases the other fish away from the spot she has chosen (on the filter uptake tube most of the time). Also, her egg tube (ovipositor) will be out and very easy to see.
Cool, thanks. I have seen this kind of behavior. I think they are doing it right now actually. I guess I didn't know what I was looking at before.
Cool well good luck with your fish. Angelfish were the first cichlid I bred succesfully and there is nothing cooler than seeing two parents hovering and protecting a cloud of small fry.
I agree. The other I had never had eggs that hatched.
OK, I think that I see this, what does it look like? I see a little something that looks like it could be a ovipositor. Something is sticking out slightly.
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Although I know it's next to impossible to sex an angelfish unless they are breeding are there any slight indications. I have one angel and just got another about 1/3 it's size. Initially when I put the smaller angel in the tank it hid alot due to the larger fish nipping and intimidating the little one. That only lasted a day and now, other than a little "get out of my way" from the large angel, they get along just fine. The little one has started following the big one around. I only know that I have either two girls or a boy and a girl???
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On August 19, Theodore Jamerson Elementary School began its fortieth full year of service on the campus of United Tribes Technical College. TJES starts the year with 150 students in grades k 8.
During the powwow, students were treated to performances by the Aztec dancers, as well as Native dancers from the Bearstail family. Some TJES students also participated in the powwow.
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You may be wondering who Red is?
Red Koch is UTTCs transportation director and hes been working at the college for 41 years. Eighteen years ago, Red was elected to the TJES School board.
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Red likes working on cars. When asked what else he would like to do, Red smiled and joked, I wanted to be the president of the United States.
Red has a cute, fluffy dog named Sasha that barks and protects him.
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Nora should have know her life was far from perfect. Despite starting a relationship with her guardian angel, Patch (who, title aside, can be described anything but angelic), and surviving an attempt on her life, things are not looking up. Patch is starting to pull away and Nora can't figure out if it's for her best interest or if his interest has shifted to her arch-enemy Marcie Millar. Not to mention that Nora is haunted by images of her father and she becomes obsessed with finding out what really happened to him that night he left for Portland and never came home.
The farther Nora delves into the mystery of her father's death, the more she comes to question if her Nephilim blood line has something to do with it as well as why she seems to be in danger more than the average girl. Since Patch isn't answering her questions and seems to be standing in her way, she has to start finding the answers on her own. Relying too heavily on the fact that she has a guardian angel puts Nora at risk again and again. But can she really count on Patch or is he hiding secrets darker than she can even imagine?


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In 1955 CBS-TV premiered the television quiz program, The $64,000 Question, the first edition of the Guinness Book of World Records was published and Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat. It was also the year that Irion County rancher, Bill Tullos took his seat for the first time as a Middle Concho Soil and Water Conservation District (SWCD) director.
Fifty-five years later a few things have changed. Instead of answering questions for thousands, we watch Who Wants to be a Millionaire, and civil rights have reached new heights. One thing remains the same however; Tullos continues to serve as a SWCD Director for Reagan, Upton and Irion Counties. During the Texas State Soil and Water Conservation Boards (TSSWCB) District Directors annual meeting recently held in Lubbock, Tullos was awarded for his continuous and committed years of service.
SWCDs, like a county or school district, are a subdivision of state government. The program and plan of work are developed according to the local needs of the district and the producers within the boundary lines.
The district�s program is an inventory of the land and water; it describes the actual conditions bearing on land and its use. The plan of work discusses land capabilities, physical conditions, and socio-economic conditions creating conservation problems. Conservation needs and treatment, as well as district policy, are part of the document.
It is the responsibility of all SWCD directors to implement solutions to problems and utilize resources available to accomplish district objectives.
Since it was brought into existence, the Middle Concho SWCD has been administered by a board of five directors who are elected by their fellow landowners.
Tullos has been elected by his peers and has proudly served them for over a half century.
His work has brought about the understanding of the needs of soil and water conservation. In addition, working with his fellow directors, Tullos has worked with public and private organizations and agencies to enhance water quality and quantity in the area.
It is the purpose of SWCDs to instill in the minds of local people that it is their individual responsibility to do the job of soil and water conservation. During his tenure, Tullos has worked with the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) and the TSSWCB to put funding directly �on the ground� in the form of conservation practices.
NRCS District Conservationist, Stephen Zuberbueler, has worked with Tullos for several years to implement a variety of programs and conservation practices.
�Mr. Tullos has been a very dedicated director,� Zuberbueler says. �Representing the farmers and ranchers, while working to conserve the natural resources of the Middle Concho SWCD, has always been his top priority.�
Tullos has worked with numerous producers that served alongside him on the SWCD board. Steve Wayne Coats, Reagan County rancher and board chairman at the First National Bank of Mertzon, has served with Tullos to promote conservation since 1977.
�Helping the local farmers and ranchers has always been Bill�s number one priority,� Coats says. �He has been a hands-on, active director representing the Middle Concho SWCD at both regional and state level events.�
Serving not only as a district director, Tullos has also been involved with the Texas Sheep and Goat Raisers Association (TSGRA), Texas Farm Bureau, Predator Management Board, Clean Rivers Program and an extraordinary land steward. His Arden, Texas ranch is a prime example of what conservation can do for means of production.
Tullos was the recipient of this year�s National Ranching Heritage Golden Spur Award. The award symbolizes a lifetime of Tullos�s contributions, hard work and dedication in the ranching and livestock industry.
As Tullos begins his 56th year on the Middle Concho SWCD board, he is showing no signs of changing his ways. Conservation is still a need and representing local producers is a must.
Texas State Soil and Water Conservation Board (TSSWCB) Director, Marty Graham (left), presents Bill Tullos with a certificate for his 55 years of service to the Middle Concho Soil and Water Conservation District during the 2010 TSSWCB meeting held in Lubbock, Texas.
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Harvey Brock is a champion for our program with his participation both on our Board of Directors and on our Donor Development Committee.
What's your favorite activity after a busy day?
"Spending time on my deck."
If you had a magic wand, what would you change about how it is to be a kid these days?
"All kids would be able to spend more time with their parents and grandparents."
What do you think the world could use more of?
"Patience and understanding of others."
Do you think there is such a thing as a "perfect" family?
"Nothing is perfect ."
Thanks for all you do Harvey – you are a big part of our success!


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Who is your bff?
By: Jeri Chase Ferris Special to The News Messenger
Friends of the Lincoln library column
Who is your bff? Teenagers talk about their ?bff.? You probably know what a bff is, but just in case you don?t, it means ?best friend forever.? You probably have several bffs yourself, as do I. But I have special bffs at the Lincoln Public Library at Twelve Bridges. Can you guess who? (I?ll bet you can.) Right! My bffs are the librarians. I?m the author of nonfiction books so I need the facts and nothing but the facts. When I begin to research a new subject, where do you think I go first? (I know you know.) Right! To the library. So, for example, when I began to write about the first black woman to publish a newspaper, I needed to see that newspaper. Who got it for me? (I know you know.) Right. my librarian. This newspaper, The Provincial Freeman, was published beginning in 1854 and is no longer in print. In fact, as of 2012, it hasn?t been in print for 154 years, and is pretty hard to come by. So my librarian bff contacted librarians back east who located the entire publishing run of this newspaper at Smith College (it was donated to them by Martin Delaney, a Provincial Freeman subscriber). The librarian sent it to me on microfiche. Of course, I needed a stronger prescription for my glasses by the time I was halfway through but that wasn?t the fault of my bff. This very morning, two author friends shared similar examples of librarians searching for and finding arcane manuscripts and rare microfiches to aid in their research. And finally, I just read this from yet another author, ?My mother is a librarian and that?s the ultimate service of thought, ideas and education.? Speaking of research and writing, if you?d like to learn more about the research I do and who I write about, come to the Orchard Creek Ballroom in Sun City Lincoln Hills on Thursday, June 14, at 2 p.m. I?ll speak on ?People Who Made America Great.? Bring your knowledge and your questions. There may be some surprises! Where is ?the power of knowledge?? A recent ?Non Sequitur? cartoon strip featured libraries and knowledge. Here it is (without the pictures!): Explorer with backpack is climbing mountains, entering caves, following the sign, ?This way to access the power of knowledge.? He crosses a rope bridge displaying the sign, ?almost there.? He arrives at the final sign saying, ?You made it! The power of knowledge is at hand!? And what does he see? A public library. But we knew that, right? You are still needed! Please know how much you are needed, not only as a member of the Friends, which we hope you are, but also as a physical body to physically help with events we Friends sponsor. Thanks for all you are already doing. On the Calendar June 2 ? July 9: Children in the Summer reading program (sponsored by Friends of the Lincoln Library). Be sure to sign up for your reading log. For more information, contact Jill Loya at Twelve Bridges Library at 434-2410. Happy reading! June 12: Friends? board meeting at 2 p.m. in the Fir Room June 13: Crafts program begins at 1:30 p.m. in the Pine Room June 16: Free Family Movie Night showing ?Hugo.? Doors open at 5:30 p.m. in the Willow Room. This column is part of a Friends of the Lincoln Library series. Have a question? Contact the Friends at 434-2404, at friendsofthelincolncalibrary.org or e-mail firstname.lastname@example.com. Author Jeri Chase Ferris is a Friends of the Lincoln Library member. This column may or may not necessarily express the opinions of The Lincoln News Messenger.


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By Mike Cullen, Senior Vice President of Sales, N-able by SolarWinds
For today's MSPs, cloud is no longer a choice or even an evolution. It's a movement whose time is now, and every managed service provider (MSP) has got to be a part of it or risk losing their customers. Whether you've already made the plunge or not, here are five key things that MSPs need to get right if they want to grow and thrive in the new cloud economy:
The cloud is clearly here to stay. It's arrived and it's thriving. Get your business aligned with your customers' needs and go big. Now is not the time to just get your feet wet. The market is primed and ready for those MSPs that are willing to put all the options on the table.
About the Author
As senior vice president of sales for N-able by SolarWinds, Mike Cullen brings over 20 years of corporate sales experience to his MSP customers, and has assembled an equally experienced sales force.
Prior to joining N-able, Mike was vice president of sales (Ottawa Branch) and interim president of the Québec region for IKON Office Solutions. He grew the Ottawa business to $24 million in just five years, resulting in the Ottawa office's recognition as the branch office of the year in 2000.
Mike joined IKON in 1995 as a result of an acquisition of Fulline Office Products, an office equipment company Mike co-founded in 1988.