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As I mentioned when it was published, my review of M. John Harrison's Empty Space for Strange Horizons was a more polished version of a rather ragged, untamed essay.
For the terminally curious, here are the parts that I cut. Most of the cuts were done for reasons of focus; a few I made simply because the sense of the sentences seemed, on reflection, too hermetic (or just wrong).
To indicate context and provide some form, I've included connecting material at the beginning and end.
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In Light we learned that every alien race "had a star drive based on a different theory. All those theories worked, even when they ruled out one another's basic assumptions." This is a universe of complementarity, a universe where the type of question asked determines the type of answer given, and where multiple types of answers may lead to similar results. Or perhaps it is a universe in which all basic assumptions are equally wrong. Is this the logic of quantum physics or the logic of dreams?
There is a certain hubris in the confidence that asserts an ability to differentiate between dreams and reality — or if not hubris then egotism: the assertion of a knowable, continuous, immutable self. Nova Swing includes an epigraph from John Gray: "Our lives are more like fragmentary dreams than the enactment of conscious selves."
First suggestion: haunting is historical, to be sure, but it is not dated, it is never docilely given a date in the chain of presents, day after day, according to the instituted order of the calendar. Untimely, it does not come to, it does not happen to, it does not befall, one day, Europe, as if the latter, at a certain moment of its history, had begun to suffer from a certain evil, to let itself be inhabited in its inside, that is, haunted by a foreign guest. Not that that guest is any less a stranger for having always occupied the domesticity of Europe. But there was no inside, there was nothing before it. The ghostly would displace itself like the movement of this history. Haunting would make the very existence of Europe. It would open the space and the relation to self of what is called by this name, at least since the Middle Ages. The experience of the specter, that is how Marx, along with Engels, will have also thought, described, or diagnosed a certain dramaturgy of modern Europe, notably that of the great unifying projects. One would even have to say that he represented it or staged it.
The Tract and the event site, the shadow operators, the alien artifacts, the old gods and bad physics all require us to doubt the reassuring order of presents throughout these novels. All borders must be doubted. Empty Space gives us a cartography of absence, non-presence, non-effectivity, inactuality, virtuality, and even the simulacrum in general, then insists that we distrust all maps.What is the time and what is the history of a specter? Is there a present of the specter? Are its comings and goings ordered according to the linear succession of a before and an after, between a present-past, a present-present, and a present-future, between a "real time" and a "deferred time"?If there is something like spectrality, there are reasons to doubt this reassuring order of presents and, especially, the border between the present, the actual or present reality of the present, and everything that can be opposed to it: absence, non-presence, non-effectivity, inactuality, virtuality, or even the simulacrum in general, and so forth.
But here's the point to get. I swear I'd never act like I have if I wasn't absolutely sure it will be worth it to you in the end, after you're rid of the damned guilt that makes you lie to yourselves you're something you're not, and the remorse that nags at you and makes you hide behind lousy pipe dreams about tomorrow. You'll be in a today where there is no yesterday or tomorrow to worry you. You won't give a damn what you are any more.


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Fifty-nine billion dollars in retail sales this past weekend -- now that's talking turkey.
With more and more shopping centers opening their doors before midnight Thursday this year, Thanksgiving night became one big loaded spring for retailers, catapulting holiday sales into Black Friday and clear through the entire weekend.
Around the Bay Area and across the country, from the big chains to the mom-and-pop gift shops, at outlets both online and off, shopkeepers saw a record 247 million shoppers in stores and websites over the four-day weekend, up from 226 million last year, according to a National Retail Federation survey.
Seduced by door-buster deals that had consumers lined up by the hundreds outside stores such as the new H&M on Santana Row, the average holiday shopper spent $423 this weekend, up from $398 last year.
Here in Silicon Valley, where robust job growth is fueling consumer spending and jamming the roadways with new commuters, retailers said their holiday season got off with a bang. And the newfound exuberance seemed to cut across all categories, from 4 a.m. lines outside Sears at Eastridge Mall to clanging cash registers at humble neighborhood clothing boutiques.
"We had a line of people when we opened Friday morning," said Alex Barnia, manager of Powell's Sweet Shoppe in Willow Glen, whose high-end, European-made candies have long made great stocking stuffers. "Our business this weekend was up maybe 30 percent over last year. The economy is coming back and people are out there spending more, often rewarding themselves for their own hard work, I think."
Benny Boveda, district manager for eight Target stores in the San Jose area, said, "We saw crowds that were much larger than last year, especially at that earlier 9 p.m. opening on Thanksgiving. Last year we opened at midnight, and we really noticed the difference this year.
"And not only were shoppers coming in for the electronics door-buster sales," he said, "but they lingered and kept shopping longer, buying things like apparel goods, home furnishings and toys."
Lining up to snatch great deals, shoppers this year seemed to relish a new post-Thanksgiving ritual -- the door-buster queue. They lined up for deeply discounted television sets. They lined up to buy candy. And they lined up for almost-too-good-to-be-true storewide discounts, like the one at Hollister at Eastridge Mall.
"They had 50 percent sale off everything in the store," said Melanie Black, spokeswoman for the 150-outlet center off East Capitol Expressway. "At one point, there were 300 people waiting to get inside. Security would only let 15 people in at a time because the store wasn't big enough to handle the crowds."
More so than in years past, retailers noticed that this first pass at holiday shopping was becoming a full-blown family affair. Black said many adult shoppers brought along really young kids who normally would have been home in bed.
"You'd think little kids would be either really cranky or asleep in their parents' arms at midnight," Black said. "But they were neither. They were just good little shoppers."
Of course, Black said, this was still at a relatively early hour in the new Thanksgiving-night scheme of things.
"At midnight, they were really good kids. But 3 a.m. may have been a different story."
Contact Patrick May at 408-920-5689; follow him at Twitter.com/patmaymerc.
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$59.1 billion: Number of dollars spent online and offline by holiday shoppers over the four-day weekend
247 million: Number of shoppers who took to the streets or the Internet this year over Black Friday weekend (including Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday)
226 million: Number of shoppers last year
$423: Number of dollars the average shopper spent online or in stores over the weekend this year
$398: Number of dollars they spent last year
$172: Number of dollars the average shopper spent online
28: Percentage of holiday shoppers who were at the stores by midnight Thursday
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The X-Men cometh.
In a surprising bit of news that will delight sci-fi geeks and theater snobs in equal measure, the Berkeley Rep announced Saturday night it will present the pre-Broadway premiere of "No Man's Land" starring Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart.
One of Harold Pinter's treasures, "No Man's Land" spins a dark yarn about two writers, Spooner and Hirst, one a success, the other a bomb. Ambiguity reigns in this shadowy game of cat and mouse, which starred John Gielgud and Ralph Richardson in its landmark 1975 debut.
Directed by Sean Mathias, this buzzed-about out-of-town tryout is scheduled to run Aug. 3-31 at Berkeley Rep before heading to Broadway.
"It's a great honor to welcome these gentlemen to our stage," said Rep artistic director Tony Taccone in announcing the show. —I'm sure audiences will be as excited as I am to see these spectacular actors."
In statements released Saturday night, both McKellen and Stewart said they were looking forward to coming to the Bay Area for an extended run with McKellen noting that "it's high time I played Berkeley Rep."
Although best known for their iconic roles in pop culture juggernauts, both actors boast impressive stage credentials. McKellen, hailed by fanboys for playing Gandalf in "The Lord of the Rings" as well as Magneto in the "X-Men" franchise, is also a consummate classical actor who has dazzled in everything from Shakespeare to Strindberg.
Stewart, revered by nerds as Captain Jean-Luc Picard from "Star Trek" as well as Professor Charles Xavier from "X-Men," is also a Tony winner with voluminous theater credits from "Macbeth" to Arthur Miller's "The Ride Down Mount Morgan.''
The two Brits have teamed up before. They starred in Mathias' much-heralded revival of Beckett's "Waiting for Godot" in London's West End in 2009. Now they plan to perform the Beckett masterpiece in a two-play repertory with "No Man's Land" on the Great White Way.
But first they will trod the boards in Berkeley.
Tickets, ranging $35-$135 (subject to change), are on sale to Rep subscribers. Seats will go on sale to the general public on May 19, 510-647-2949. www.berkeleyrep.org
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It's not uncommon for the Silicon Valley Bank team to try to help our clients with things beyond banking, but this holiday season we're even getting our kids in on the act.
When our client, San Francisco-based Callaway Digital Arts, which develops iOS apps to delight kids and families and is funded by Kleiner Perkins, told us they were getting ready to launch a new app before Christmas, we asked if we could help. Mr. Potato Head Create and Play is new in a long line of successful, fun and educational games built by Callaway for kids and digital families.
Like in the 80s hit movie BIG (minus the adult mysteriously trapped in the kids body) we hosted a focus group of 4-10 year olds at our Santa Clara headquarters on Thursday. The bankers' children got to try out the apps and give feedback to directly to Callaway … a somewhat more grueling process than a loan application.
Even after 50 years, Mr. Potato Head is still a kid favorite. "I really liked it. Mr. Potato Head is funny," said Nikko, age 4.
Today's event was the second focus group following a smaller scale event held at Silicon Valley Bank's Palo Alto office earlier in November.
"After the last session with the kids at Silicon Valley Bank we made major changes to the app," said Rex Ishibashi, CEO of Callaway Digital Arts. "Smart adults can't predict the behavior of kids. Today we learned some key things that we're incorporating into our final app submission for next Friday."
"This was just one more way we thought we could help our client, beyond banking," said Jason Mok of SVB's Accelerator team for startups.
"Silicon Valley Bank is more than a bank. It's a true partner and always there to help," Ishibashi added.
Happy holidays, Callaway Digital Arts. Based on what our kids told us, Mr. Potato Head is going to be good for your business.
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TUSCALOOSA | University of Alabama defensive coordinator Kirby Smart has interviewed for the head coaching position at Auburn, but the Crimson Tide's sixth-year assistant coach might not be a primary candidate for the Tigers, sources close to the situation confirmed to The Tuscaloosa News on Monday night.
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Smart is not the only candidate interviewing with Auburn, which is hosting candidates in Nashville, Tenn. A source with direct knowledge of the situation told The Tuscaloosa News that Clemson offensive coordinator Chad Morris had also scheduled an in-person interview with Auburn. Media reports have also cited Arkansas State coach Gus Malzahn — a former Auburn offensive coordinator — former Arkansas coach Bobby Petrino, Louisville coach Charlie Strong and others as candidates.
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AUGUSTA, Ga. (WRDW) -- More than 200 people showed up to support the 2nd Amendment at a rally on Saturday.
Most people at the gun rally are against the gun proposals President Obama supports. However, one person in the crowd did think Obama is on the right track, but another thinks kids should be thought about guns.
The rally started at 1 p.m., but people started checking in early. The Libertarian party of the CSRA organized the event.
One supporter says rallies like this is what the country needs right now. He said Americans need to wake up.
"Our freedoms are being stripped away from by this tyrannical government we have," said Byron Spickard, an Army veteran.
Spickard says the president is way off on the topic of gun control and just wants to control people.
"There is not anything I agree with him on. I know his bottom line agenda," Spickard said.
However, there was one person in the crowd that agreed with the president.
"I agree with what he's doing. I totally support it," said Mari Vargas, who recently had a nephew shot and killed by gun violence in Chicago.
Vargas says it's crazy for people to think they need mass amounts of ammo.
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Vargas says the recent acts of violence are what brings her to that decision.
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WTOK's statewide network partner, WLOX-TV, reported that a Mississippi oil worker was kidnapped off an oil rig on the Nigerian coast.
Network partner, WLBT-TV, traveled to Silver Creek, Miss., in Lawrence County, the home of oil worker James Robertson.
With a population of less than 250 people, news of the kidnapping spread fast.
"I think somebody ought to take care of them, honestly," said resident Larry Smith.
"I never would have thought there would be pirates in 2010," said family friend, Kacey Slocum.
Robertson was on board an oil platform when it was stormed by armed men, who took him and four others captive.
Two other oil workers who were shot were airlifted to a nearby clinic.
Those who know Robertson say they're stunned.
"I know his daughters. They're my age, real nice," said Slocum. "I think he's got seven grandkids. Just a real nice guy. Every time you see him, he speaks to you and says hello, and we just hope he comes home safe and just pray for him."
"I think he's a great person and he's over there doing his job and should be respected than what they're doing to him," Smith said.
Robertson works for the London-based company, Afren PLC. His oil rig is managed by Transocean, the same company that operated the rig tied to the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
No one has claimed responsibility for the attack, and the company says it's seeking a quick resolution.
"they need to just let him go," Slocum said. "My husband, he works offshore in Brazil and every time he leaves, we're scared to death. I hope they bring him home safe."
At the Robertson's home, family members told this reporter they were told not to talk to the media, by Transocean, and the FBI.
According to the International Maritime Bureau, there were more than 153 vessels that were boarded worldwide in 2009. Forty-nine of those vessels were hijacked and 120 vessels were fired upon. A total of 1052 crew were taken hostage, with 68 injured and 8 killed. The level of violence and injuries has increased throughout the years.


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One of my favorite former college professors used to have this saying: "Fake it 'til you make it." For some reason, it was one of those little things that stuck with me, and that I've gone on to apply to my life, and particularly to my athletic pursuits.
It makes a lot of sense, really: If you truly want to be something - whether that be a professional athlete, doctor, firefighter, writer, teacher... anything, really - you might as well start by playing the part.
Personally, I live by this little mantra every day. I remind myself to "fake it 'til I make it" as I go into training sessions, in racing, during recovery periods, while trying to learn more about endurance sports and how I can improve my performance, and as I face the many challenges that come along with working toward becoming a professional athlete.
For me, this concept serves as a motivating reminder that I am working toward a goal; a destination, really. I am working to become something I have longed to be for quite sometime. It reminds me that there is a reason, and a purpose, for my efforts.
The fake-it-'til-you-make-it concept also helps me go above and beyond what I might otherwise be willing to do. I know that my goal is to become a top-level professional triathlete. As such, I know there are certain things I need to be doing to accomplish that goal. Ultimately, I need to act as though I am that top-level professional already.
It seems to me that if I want top-level-professional performance, I need to be putting in top-level-professional effort, right now. I need to be working to do all of the right things, not just in my training, but outside of it as well. I am constantly working to remind myself that, as any top professional would do, I need to not only be willing to work hard, but to train smart, to recover completely, to sleep enough, to eat well, to say positive, to approach my racing with the confidence of a pro... and the list goes on.
Ultimately, I need to be reaching beyond my current capability levels. If I want to be a better athlete than I am now, I need to act like it. I need to buy into the lifestyle, and play the part. I need to "fake it" - for now - until I really make it.
This is the fake-it-'til-you-make-it mindset. In my opinion, it is a mindset and strategy that can be applied to just about anything in life, not just athletics. Personally, I believe that by acting and living as though we've already arrived where we want to be, we are that much more likely to get there.
So if you want to be X, Y or Z, you'd better start acting like X, Y or Z. Keep your destination steady in your heart, do all the things you would if you had already arrived there, stay the course, have fun along the way, and before you know it, there you'll be. I, for one, am still working on that final step, but I'm confident that if I can keep "faking" it wholeheartedly, and continue to enjoy the journey, I will in fact "make" it, soon enough.
- Kara LaPoint is an elite amateur triathlete competing for LUNA bar, and working up to the pro ranks. She has earned numerous overall amateur podium finishes and age-group wins across distances from Olympic to Ironman, and finished the 2011 season ranked as an All-American nationally among her age group (25-29). Read more about her racing and training at www.karalapoint.wordpress.com. She may be reached at email@example.com.


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Matt Schaub was terrible last season and hasn't been very good so far this preseason—that's relatively impossible to deny by all objective measurements, though the Raiders' coaching staff to this point has mostly denied that Schaub's hold on the starting QB job is at all in jeopardy.
Schaub missed practice Sunday and Monday after telling Dennis Allen that his elbow was sore. Maybe that explains some of the very, very weak throws Schaub has uncorked in the first three exhibition games, although Allen has repeatedly maintained that Schaub's arm strength has looked just fine to him.
We'll see what happens the rest of the week, whether Schaub gets back into practice before Thursday's preseason finale or if it's Derek Carr with the first team into and through that game (and we'll see how Carr's health holds up, too).
Obviously, this has very strong echoes of the Matt Flynn debacle last year, almost exactly with the same timing. Again: We'll see what happens.
But if this Raiders regime goes through a second consecutive summer prepping and paying a veteran QB only to have that guy fall flat BEFORE THE FIRST REGULAR SEASON GAME... and blame it on elbow soreness...
That is not a sign that the regime knows what it's doing with the most important position in football.
—Let's flash back just a bit:
I actually began to write this item a few weeks ago, tying it to the beginning of Flynn's downward spiral last year, then realized it didn't start until Week 3 of the preseason, so I waited a few days to see what would happen with Schaub.
I had already written this sentence:
The Raiders' season-long QB shakiness started in the third week of preseason—that was when Flynn played horribly against Chicago and after that Flynn's reported elbow soreness all but handed the regular-season starting job to Terrelle Pryor.
Hmm. That is very interesting timing. Coincidental, I'm sure.
The headline I had written for this item might already be out of date: "Schaub just needs to hold on—for his sake and for Dennis Allen and Reggie McKenzie, too."
* It will now be tricky for Allen to use the elbow as an excuse for Schaub's weaker throws because to this point Allen has said there have been no such terribly weak throws.
I'm not saying Allen will do that, but if he does, it won't be the most consistent logic ever used by an NFL coach, I'll put it that way.
Flynn is a back-up with the Packers and has been using the sore arm as an excuse for over a year now, by the way, including what he told the national announcers before Friday's Raiders-Green Bay game. Flynn also used it as an excuse for getting beat out by Russell Wilson in Seattle two years ago.
Who knows what's going on with Schaub, but "sore arm" in late summer is sometimes just a veteran's way of saying: I know I have an excuse to be this lousy, just give me time to come up with one.
And it's not a good thing for the same management team to import two veteran QBs who suffer from the late-summer malaise.
* Clearly, Allen and GM Reggie McKenzie had a plan last off-season.
They wanted to go out and acquire a veteran QB they could believe in, they wanted to pump up that guy so everybody on the team felt better than they did after the Flynn-Pryor-McGloin merry-go-round last year, and they also wanted to draft the true QB of the Future.
So they picked up Schaub and have gushed about him from Day 1.
—It's like Harbaugh with Alex Smith in 2011—the coaches' season construct is to build up and around a shattered veteran QB. For now.
—The Raiders have to pump Schaub up and keep pumping him up or else they'll never get anything out of him. Except if he never gives them what they're hoping for, then it all looks kind of dumb.
Then McKenzie drafted Carr, who is absolutely the Raiders' future, but they can't push Carr right away (even if he looks better than Schaub) without looking a little silly for going so ga-ga about Schaub.
They still might have to go to Carr (or to McGloin temporarily), but Allen and McKenzie would have to swallow some pride doing it, since so much energy (and money) have been spent to prop up Schaub after he was so awful in Houston last year.
Of course, they had a plan last year, too: Move on from Carson Palmer and go with the steady Flynn... with Pryor only as a secondary thought and maybe McGloin or Tyler Wilson down the road. Then Flynn flopped and it was right to Pryor in Week 1.
The Raiders had a plan, they ditched it and operated on the fly for the entirety of the 2013 season, and things didn't turn out so well.
Back in December, as the 2013 season lurched towards it's inevitable 4-12 ending with questions about Pryor and McGloin and beyond, I wondered if McKenzie and Allen were really the guys you wanted picking the next Raiders QB.
(Remember, McKenzie also wasted a fourth-round pick on Wilson last year.)
* Carr is a better option now than Pryor was last year, but it just isn't a good sign for a management team to miss on the QB in two straight years.
It's not just the money, though the Raiders are into Flynn and Schaub about $10.6M this year. (Flynn counts as $2.6M in dead money this season. Schaub has a guaranteed $4.5M salary and he has already collected a $3.5M signing bonus.)
The QB is the most important part of setting up your entire roster for an entire season. You need to get that spot right. Maybe the Raiders will get it right with Schaub-Carr-McGloin this season.
So far, it looks like they're scrambling. Again.
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HELSINKI (AP) — Fed up with the neighbors? Pipes burst in the kitchen? Or, you just want to get away from it all for a while?
Hotel Finn in the heart of Helsinki might just be the ticket — they're seeking a "professional sleeper" for 35 days to test their rooms and write all about it.
Hotel manager Tio Tikka says he thought up the stunt to help promote the hotel after lengthy renovations.
Tikka said Wednesday that they were looking for a "dynamic person to write a quality blog" about their daily experiences at the basic hotel, which has no bar or restaurant.
Requirements: Fluent Finnish and English, Russian a plus. The job opens May 17 with applications closing end of April.
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Louisiana Lotto players matching all six numbers drawn would have won or shared a $475,000 prize. The prize will rise to an estimated $500,000 for the next drawing, on Saturday.
Powerball players matching all five numbers and the Powerball would have won or shared a $222 million jackpot. That prize will rise to an estimated $270 million for Saturday.
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I am a beginning runner. I've used the C25K program before but stopped before finishing it. This time I'm gonna do it! There is a 5K coming up at the end of June that I'd like to participate in, but know that I'll be nowhere ready to run it. I'd really like to do it to have fun with some friends and finish it even if I have to run/walk the entire way. Am I pushing it? Should I wait until I've completed the C25K program? Looking for some advice...
I don't have some advice but am offering support. I was at the end of Week 4 when i got a concussion (unrelated) and am just now trying again - on week 2. I think I will likely look for one NOW for about a month from now, to keep me committed.
So proud of you for working through it and inspiring me!
Oh wow! Glad you're better and trying it again! I also think that actually signing up for a 5K and participating might keep me committed as well. Thanks so much for the support! Good luck to you.
I say go for it. There's no need to wait until the end of the C25K program, unless you have a certain time you'd like to hit in a "goal" race.
If you go in with the right expectations, and just set out to enjoy yourself, I think it could be a really fun day; and who knows, you might even surprise yourself!
I say GO FOR IT! I just wrote a post on my blog about my friend Monica. This past Saturday we did her first 5K. No training no worries, just alot of fun. She did it for the joy of it. We all could learn alot from her.
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Go for it. You'll be close enough to finishing C25K in any event. Do it run/walk to start. If you get half-way or so and you're feeling good, see how much you can run.
I say go for it too! I'm on Week 4 Day 3 of C25K and am signed up for my local July 4th 5K. If everything goes as planned I'll finish it by June 15th. I'll have about 2 1/2 weeks to improve it. Right now I'm only making 2 miles average (Week 4 walking & running) and wonder how another 1.1 miles is really realistic for me running the entire 5K. But my family will be there and we're going to have a lot of fun being out on the the 4th of July. I figure when I'm done I can jump in the pool or ocean whichever comes first.
I just came up with an idea for this last week. I'm in the same boat, so as long as you run a 5K that allows you to wear an ear bud, just do you C25K training app as you run the 5K. You can repeat a training day if you need to to make it run long enough, you'll be at intervals you're comfortable with, and it's not so likely you will injure yourself. It will also be a great confidence builder for your training and your future races.
The most important part of the question is . . . can you run / walk the 3.1 miles now? If you can, then go for it. If you absolutely cannot, don't set yourself up for failure.
I say go for it. About 8 years ago I decided I wanted to be a runner. I followed the C25K and was running approximately 2 miles comfortably. I had the same concern signing up for a 5k before I had finished the program but did it anyway to keep myself motivated. I got through it taking lots of walk breaks and then walked 2 more miles home. I did the 5k in just over 47 minutes.
So again, go for it but I'll also add: provided you can confortabley do 2 miles. Listen to your body, walk as many times as you need to and have fun.
Definitely go for it. I have done 2 5ks just walking and jogging them and my goal is that I will run my July 5k. I have one a month that I have signed up for now and most are obstacle runs that keep it fun and challenging as well but want to run a true 5k also. I just started back with the C25K with my sister and hope to stay motivated with the races I have signed up for. Good luck!!
That's great! I say you should go for it just make sure you listen to your body and don't push yourself beyond your limits because injury would set you up for disaster as a beginning runner! Good luck and I hope you rock this 5K!
I started a C25K, and couldn't get through one minute of running without horrible pain. I opted to lose weight first so I don't stress my joints out. So I started walking regularly, still can't run, but I knew I could do 2.5 miles on a treadmill at a pretty good walking pace. A 5k came up that I wanted to enter (for one of my favorite causes), but it was less than a week away... I entered anyway. I didn't run a single second of it, and honestly, I barely made it walking (turns out the hills in Forest Park are a lot more difficult than a treadmill incline!), but I DID make it. I was easily the most out-of-shape, overweight participant there, but even when some of the others gave up, I didn't. The excitement, pride, and satisfaction motivated me to keep training to actually run one. Holding off right now, since I gotta get proper shoes (the damage done by cheap shoes is a big part of why I barely managed to walk it), but I've got another 5k at the end of August, and I plan on running most of it. It's a glow/electric run, so some of it's gonna be, erm... danced, boogied, whatever'd. But the rest will be running.
I've also signed up for the Zombie Run three weeks from now, but as a zombie instead a runner. Still the great experience of being at the race and being physically active, without the pressure to get trained up in that short of a time.
You go for it!!! Unless your goal is to be a real 'racer', set the world on fire and set some world records, don't wait!! The important thing is to safely, take that first step, finish and have fun!! My group is a bunch of novice runners and we have only been running/walking for the last 7 weeks. You bet we've already done a couple of races and we are doing Run Like A Girl on Sunday, June 2. We will run, jog, sprint and walk but we will FINISH and that's what counts! Go for it!!
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Definition of synchronic in English:
Concerned with something, especially a language, as it exists at one point in time: synchronic linguistics Often contrasted with diachronic.
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- Currently, linguists generally prefer the synchronic study of spoken language to the diachronic comparison of words in texts, and have tended to regard philology as pre-scientific.
- From a diachronic viewpoint, languages seem to change from being more pragmatic to more syntactic; from a synchronic perspective, different languages may simply be at different stages of this evolutional circle.
- One of the tenets of sociolinguistics is that synchronic variation of the type illustrated here and in the examples in Chapter 3 represents a stage in long-term change.
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- Part of the problem in making extrapolations from these patterns to build a theory is that the relationship between language and social structure may vary considerably, both synchronically and diachronically.
- Each can be studied synchronically or diachronically and the order in which they have been dealt with within a grammar has fluctuated over the years.
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The media server was working quite well up until today. Last night I was freeing some space on my laptop's HD and I don't know if I deleted a file that I didn't have to. I checked today because I wanted to play a video I just had downloaded and the streaming was very very slow, up to the point that I couldn't watch nothing at all. The Media Server detects the PS3 and the Media Server icon shows up on the XMB bar and I can browse every file normally, but the problem is with the streaming. Even with music files it takes ages to play, I had to wait over 2 min to start listening to a song. I'm almost sure the problem has to do with the home network(which is wired by the way) and probably I deleted a file that wasn't meant to be deleted. I also tried working with TVersity media server and the problem's the same, but I can't figure out how to solve it. My laptop runs with vista. Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks
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Gene-Environment Interactions: Context Matters
This is a guest post by Alycia Halladay, Ph.D. and Leanne Chukoskie, Ph.D. Dr. Halladay is Autism Speaks' Director, Research for Enivronmental Services. Leanne earned her Ph.D. at NYU's Center for Neural Science studying the neural mechanisms that mediate vision during eye movements. During her postdoctoral training at the Salk Institute she studied search behavior in both humans and animals. A family connection as well as the curious manner in which people with autism tend to scan a visual scene led her to work for Autism Speaks as the Assistant Director of Science Communication and Special Projects. Leanne also continues her research as a Project Scientist at UCSD.
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There is nothing new here and nothing that gives families hope.
I am so disappointed that AS science has chosen a PhD in eye studies to work for AS science. It is the most grossly over funded are of autism research and one that done nothing to address causation factors or help children living today.
Of course environmental context matters but the National Children's Study will take a decade to achieve any meaningful results.
AS science need to focus on real environmental issues that families want researched- and that does not include eye gazing.
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How Do I Know if I Have Chlamydia?
It is not easy to tell if you are infected with chlamydia since symptoms are not always apparent. But when they do occur, they are usually noticeable within one to three weeks of contact and can include the following:
Chlamydia symptoms in women
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- Pain when having sex
- Itching or burning in or around the vagina
- Pain when urinating
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There are a few different tests your doctor can use to diagnose chlamydia. He or she will probably use a swab to take a sample from the urethra in men or from the cervix in women and then send the specimen to a laboratory to be analyzed. There are also other tests which check a urine sample for the presence of the bacteria.
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Brazil's Hydroelectric Dam Boom is Bringing Tensions
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When it is completed in 2015, the Jirau hydroelectric dam will span 8km across the Madeira river and feature more giant turbines than any other dam in the world. Then there are the power lines, draped along 2,250km of forests and fields to carry electricity to Brazil's urban nerve centre, São Paulo.
Still, it won't be enough. The dam and the Santo Antonio complex that is being built a few kilometres downstream will provide just 5% of what government energy planners say the country will need in the next 10 years. So Brazil is building many more dams, courting controversy by locating the vast majority in the world's largest and most biodiverse forest.
"The investment to build these plants is very high, and they are to be put in a region which is an icon for environmental preservation, the Amazon," said Paulo Domingues, energy planning director for the ministry of mines and energy. "So that has worldwide repercussions."
Between now and 2021, the energy ministry's building schedule will be feverish: Brazilian companies and foreign conglomerates will put up 34 sizeable dams in an effort to increase the country's capacity to produce energy by more than 50%.The Brazil projects have received less attention than China's dam-building spree, which has plugged up canyons and bankrolled hydroelectric projects far from Asia.
But Brazil is undertaking one of the world's largest public works projects, one that will cost more than $150bn, and harness the force of this continent's great rivers. The objective is to help the country of 199 million achieve what Brazilian leaders call its destiny: becoming a modern, efficient world-class economy with an ample supply of energy for office towers, assembly lines, refineries and iron works. "Brazil is a country that's growing, developing, and it needs energy," said Eduardo de Melo Pinto, president of Santo Antonio Energia. "And the potential in energy production in Brazil is located, for the most part, in Amazonia. And that's why this is important for this project to be developed."
Jirau, Santo Antonio and other projects, however, have generated more tension than electricity, raising questions that range from their environmental impact to whether future generations will be saddled with gigantic debt.
International Rivers, a US-based environmental group that has tracked government agencies involved in the dam building, says plans call for 168 dams to be completed by 2021. Most are small dams that will be used to regulate water or to power silos, mineral extraction facilities or industrial complexes. But whether the dams are large or small, homesteaders and Indian leaders say they will cause irreversible changes in a forest that plays a vital role in absorbing the world's carbon emissions.
Across Brazil, rivers are being diverted. Canals and dykes are being built. Roads are being paved, and blocks of concrete are being laid across a network of waterways that provides a fifth of the world's fresh water. And the big dams will inundate at least 6,470 sq km of forests and fields.
Environmentalists say the dams are a throwback, not the kind of projects a modern, democratic country should be aggressively pursuing. They say Brazil should focus instead on developing wind and solar energy while overhauling existing plants and instituting other reforms to reduce electrical demand.
"This is a sort of 1950s development mentality that often proceeds in a very authoritarian way, in terms of not respecting human rights, not respecting environmental law, not really looking at the alternatives," said Brent Millikan, the Amazon programme director in Brazil for International Rivers.
In a swath of Rondonia state, along the BR-364 highway, several residents said the dams had uprooted communities of subsistence farmers and fishermen, unalterably changing their way of life for the worse.
Telma Santos Pinto, 53, said she had to leave her home of 36 years, receiving $18,000 as compensation from the companies building Jirau. "The compensation was very, very low," she said. "And we were obliged to accept that." Her town, Mutum Paraná, was left under water. Most of her neighbours moved into Nova Mutum – or New Mutum – a town of 1,600 homes, schools, churches and stores put up by the builders of Jirau. "We were a community, all of us united," she said. "All of us helped each other."
Such laments come up against the hard economic realities Brazil faces. By 2021 the economy is projected to expand by 63%, the energy ministry says. Hundreds of thousands of people are receiving electricity for the first time each year, and a ballooning middle class is consuming more. Economic planners also predict that Brazil could become the world's fifth-largest economy in a few years.
No Brazilian leader is more focused on that objective than President Dilma Rousseff, a former 1970s-era guerrilla who was energy minister in her predecessor's government. She says that Brazil is "privileged" to have so much water and that it is logical for the country to rely heavily on hydropower. She counters environmentalists by arguing that Brazil's energy mix – it also relies on solar, wind and biomass, all renewable energy sources – is among the world's cleanest.
"Economic growth is not contrary to the best environmental practices," Rousseff said at the inauguration of one huge dam in October. "We are proving that it's possible to increase electrical generation and at the same time respect the environment."
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In Leaving Haven, Kathleen McCleary, author of A Simple Thing, explores the intricacies of love, friendship, and parenthood.
Georgia longs for a baby, but she's had miscarriage after miscarriage since her daughter was born more than a decade ago. Through a miraculous egg donation, Georgia is thrilled to find herself pregnant—until she makes a startling discovery that changes her mind about how much she really wants the baby…
Georgia's best friend, Alice, has a happy teenage daughter, a faithful husband, and a perfectly organized life. But her world spins off its axis when she falls for a man who is everything she knows she doesn't want…
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Georgia Bing and Alice Kinnaird have always been there for each other. Eager to help her best friend have another baby after several miscarriages, Alice donates one of her eggs. When Georgia learns she's going to have the baby boy she's always wanted, she's thrilled—until a devastating discovery destroys her dreams.
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Have you heard him speak? This isn't a politician, but a man who loves his job. I'm talking about Scott Turner, assistant DA in Judicial District 5. He's the Republican candidate running for the DA position, which will be vacated by term-limited DA, Mark Hurlbert.
Just take a look at Scott's website (www.scottturner4da.com) which details his experience and accomplishments? Impressive stuff. He's light years ahead of his opponent. Scott recognizes the difference between those who have made a foolish mistake and those who are evil. He's a huge supporter of organizations which help victims of sexual assault. He sees the value of mental health treatment in the rehabilitation process. He needs your vote in November to continue and extend his good work in the county and around the state. Scott Turner is a JD5 keeper!
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Cover Stream
Put Cover Flow on your desktop.
Control, browse and search you music, without interrupting your workflow. Cover Stream presents you with iTunes Cover Flow view in a floating, stylish window right on your Desktop, for quick and easy access from any application.
Key features include playlist filter, search filter, integrated songs browser, full screen mode, Last FM, Growl, Apple Remote, Apple-flavored bezels, inbuilt notification system, desktop artwork, global hotkeys, info bar, menu bar item, and much more!
Required OS: not specified
Tags: audio , itunes , productivity , music , remote , desktop
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i love this app.... but too many BUGGGSSS.....
Req. Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard or later, iTunes 7,5 or later.
Very nice, just bought it!
@arne : Please check again 2.0, it improved allot and perhaps will match your request :)
This could potentially be interesting, but in my opinion it has a while to go until it can match the likes of CoverSutra.
The sceaming obvious idea that springs to mind when using this application is the possibility of "turning" around the cover to reveal a track-list so you can pick individual tracks, much like the iPhone.
It's a pleasure to use this application!
In the couple of months or so I have beta tested this app, my stale eclectic taste buds have regrouped and are now kicking ass and listening to good tunes.
Who wants to go to a big ol' iTunes window to browse their music...
Cover Stream, rediscover your music =)


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Wednesday, January 18, 2012
Chewy Tri-Chocolate Oatmeal Cookies
I like to start out in the depths of despair and then end up hanging the moon. So in the interest of breaking you down before miraculously building you back up again, I shall start with the less-than-perfect nutritional information for this recipe. These are NOT low fat, low calorie or low sugar cookies. Wait! STAY!!
Quickly....before the shackles of nutritional depression take permanent hold, let me share with you the good news about this recipe. And then you shall love me once again. Swears.
First of all, by using the Pythagorean Theorem and Newton's Law of Gravity, I have established that these cookies are 80% whole grain. Don't hold me to my calculations or take me to court over it however. Do your own homework but for the love of Mike, do NOT use pi in the equation at any time or you'll screw up the nutritional info entirely (it's because of the crust, you know.)
Secondly, the use of dark and bittersweet chocolate makes these cookies high in flavoniods. I don't make these words up folks, I promise. Why would I use a word that sounds like a second-cousin-once-removed from hemorrhoids? But I digress. Flavoniods keep cholesterol from gathering in blood vessels, reduce the risk of blood clots, and slow down the immune responses that lead to clogged arteries. Have I reassured you that these cookies are OK to eat? I hope so, because they're mighty tasty.
Chewy Tri-Chocolate Oatmeal Cookies (makes about 6 dozen)
1 1/2 cups butter-flavored vegetable shortening (I used butter-flavored Crisco)
2 2/3 cups (packed) light brown sugar
4 large eggs, beaten
2 tsp vanilla
1 cup all-purpose flour
1 cup whole wheat pastry flour
1 1/2 tsp baking soda
1 tsp salt
3 1/2 cups oatmeal
8 oz. bittersweet chocolate, grated
8 oz. semi-sweet chocolate chips
8 oz. milk chocolate chunks
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
In medium bowl, combine flours, baking soda and salt. Set aside.
In large mixing bowl, beat shortening and brown sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in eggs and vanilla. Scrape down beaters. Beat in the flour mixture. Slowly add in the oatmeal on lowest setting. Stir in all the chocolate by hand.
Drop by rounded tablespoonfuls onto ungreased baking sheets. Bake for 10-12 minutes. Remove from oven and allow to cool on baking sheets for a minute or two before removing to a cooling rack to cool completely.
P.S. Thanks for hanging in there with me. It felt REALLY REALLY good to bake and blog today.
20 comments:
- Emily Suess said...
I'm pinning these for later. They look so good!
- January 18, 2012 at 9:33 AM
LOVE your blog.
- January 18, 2012 at 11:12 AM
- June said...
So GREAT to see you baking and blogging! Something tells me these cookies are well worth the wait. Hugs Mags and thanks for the laughs too!
- January 18, 2012 at 11:30 AM
- thisoldbroad said...
Welcome back!
These cookies look so good, I've never tried whole wheat pastry flour - but for you I'll buy some. xo
- January 18, 2012 at 12:35 PM
- Lyndsey said...
They look like the perfect cookie to me. I wish I could reach in and grab one.
- January 18, 2012 at 1:30 PM
- The Mom Chef said...
It felt really, really good to see your baking and blogging! And, it's nice to see your humor back at peak. You had me giggling. And drooling. The drool is over the cookies. They look delicious.
- January 18, 2012 at 2:02 PM
- Pam said...
Pass the plate, please! They look delicious! Great to see you back here. Hugs
- January 18, 2012 at 4:13 PM
- Shelby said...
Every post I read of yours the thought goes through my head "she has got to be some sort of relation to me". ;o)
- January 18, 2012 at 5:44 PM
- Janet said...
You've convinced me! These must good for me - and yummy too!
- January 18, 2012 at 6:13 PM
- Bizzy B. Bakes said...
You did good and you did well. These are great cookies.
- January 18, 2012 at 7:24 PM
- Jen @ My Kitchen Addiction said...
These cookies look amazing... and, I love your calculations to determine the whole grain. :)
- January 18, 2012 at 7:29 PM
- Kat said...
Your photos are great!
- January 19, 2012 at 8:20 AM
- stephchows said...
mm healthy are not I like your reasoning!!
- January 25, 2012 at 1:14 PM
- Laurie@The Baking Bookworm said...
You had me at 'they're not healthy'. ;) These look wonderful, Mags. We're on a total oatmeal cookie kick at the moment. We'll give these a go this weekend. Thanks.
- January 25, 2012 at 9:04 PM
- SeattleDee said...
It was a double treat to read this new post and hear the humor back in your writing voice. My latest baking "adventure" also featured chocolate chip cookies - with bacon no less. Not healthy and not what I had expected, but they were fun to mess with.
- January 27, 2012 at 6:33 PM
- Donalyn said...
Mmmmm - great looking recipe Mags!
- February 2, 2012 at 4:25 PM
- 'Le ricette dell'Amore Vero' di Claudia Annie said...
wooooooooooow che delizia! complimenti, un bacio :)
ps: ho realizzato un nuovo concorso "Fashion Food": in premio 100 euro di shopping! Ti aspetto :)
- February 3, 2012 at 12:07 PM
Just stumbled upon your quite-entertaining blog! Since I love to cook, I anticipate chuckling aloud while baking :)
- February 12, 2012 at 12:58 PM
- dp said...
I made these for our company bake sale a fundraiser for pediatric cancer research and they are a hit. Thanks for posting the recipe and I am glad you are doing okay.
- February 14, 2012 at 4:56 PM
Ok- I love you and want to have your babies! Ok, I too am over 50 and do not lead an alternative lifestyle but these cookies look so good! I should have stopped surfing your site at the Zucchini Casserole to Die For! My Bunko group will love me this month. (I only host it once a year- but the pressure!) :-)
- March 5, 2012 at 5:54 PM


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Joy Johnson, 86, Dies After Finishing New York City Marathon
"I want to die running."
That was motto of Joy Johnson, a marathoner in the truest sense of the word, and she came pretty close to fulfilling it.
Johnson, who lived in San Jose, Calif., was 86 when she crossed the finish line at the New York City Marathon Sunday in 7:57:41. It was Johnson's 25th New York Marathon, though she had completed dozens of other races throughout the country. (Read a 2008 story on Johnson.) This one might have been her most courageous, though. Johnson fell around mile 16, suffered cuts to her face, then got up and finished anyway.
According to her daughter, Diana Boydston, Johnson got bandaged up in the medical tent but didn't bother going to a hospital for further examination.
Monday morning she woke up and followed the ritual that had become a part of her New York marathon routine – she went to stand outside of the Today show studios with her medal to say hello to Al Roker. As usual, Roker found her and shared a few words with Johnson, who collapsed minutes after the interview and was soon pronounced dead at Bellevue Hospital.
Johnson, a former physical education teacher who didn't take up running until 1985, had made it clear to everyone that if she collapsed running she did not want to be resuscitated.
She spent about two hours each morning circling the track and running the bleachers at a local high school in San Jose. She ran half-marathons in the freezing February cold of her native Minnesota and trained at running camps in Lake Tahoe with renowned coaches, including Jeff Galloway.
"She went out happy," Boydston said Tuesday. "She couldn't have asked for more than that, except maybe a few more years."
On Johnson's kitchen wall and never far from her thoughts was the runner's mantra she often recited from the Book of Isaiah.
"But they who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength. They shall mount up with wings like eagles. They shall run and not be weary, they shall walk and not faint."
At Johnson's request, her family is planning a burial for her in Minnesota.
Watch a WSJ video profile of Johnson from 2008:


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Delegate the responsibility of managing your calendar to someone else. A delegate manages someone else's schedule, meetings, and appointments, freely and visibly. Outlook makes it easy to do this.
About this course
This course includes:
Two practice sessions for hands-on experience. Practices require Outlook 2007.
A Quick Reference Card you can take away from the course.
After completing this course you will be able to:
Make someone a delegate with access to your calendar.
Act as a delegate, request and accept meetings and schedule appointments on behalf of someone else.
Before you begin
You should complete the course Calendar II: See and use multiple calendars or be familiar with basic calendar sharing and side-by-side calendars.
Note The features discussed in this course work only when you're using Outlook with Microsoft Exchange Server.
Delegation involves (at least) two people. We assume that you're taking this course with sharing in mind, and that you have someone in mind to share with. If you can, take this course along with that person. The two of you can do the practices together and experience delegate access in action.
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Someone or something that is lame, uncool, or generally disliked. They are often times from the southern part of the United States, which may or may not have a relation to the plant, "buckwheat". It can be used as a direct insult or used playfully between friends. The noun "buckweed", is not considered a swear or overly inappropriate but is not something good to be called.
"Don't touch that you stupid buckweed!"
"Dave is such a buckweed, I can't beleive he lost my phone."
"Get over here you buckweeed, you have some explaining to do."
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He was found in a Biffa bin... someone gave him Buckweeds
by gammaguy117 February 23, 2011
A term used in Northern Ireland to describe a person with little or no common sence. A complete eejit of a human who lacks the most basic hygenic and communication skills that most of us take for granted.
Buckweeds are commonly found speeding through the narrow country roads in white BMW's while sporting a massive joint.
Buckweeds are commonly found speeding through the narrow country roads in white BMW's while sporting a massive joint.
Look, here comes this buckweed Andy, he's lookin a right cunt.
by Clubfoot January 28, 2007
(noun)A Term meaning sick,ugly or nasty. Not cool at all. often used by chocolates.
HimDavid says to HeJohn, "did u see mcvans car!its gay as a buckweed!"
by mangina face January 17, 2008
Apparently a corruption of "buckwheat," a shrub (Eriogonum fasciculatum and other species) that is a major plant component of sage scrub and chaparral in Southern California. Currently (10-22-07) being used by the media to describe the Agua Dulce fire now raging in the Santa Clarita area north of Los Angeles. Local Los Angeles news media generally betray a total lack of knowledge of the native flora, having in the past described coastal fires in Malibu as "burning hundreds of acres of mesquite" --a plant that does not grow there. I am unable to come up with a place name called "Buckweed" and I am assuming that the so-called "so-called Buckweed Fire" is in fact based on a corruption of buckwheat. I'd be happy to learn otherwise.
"The so-called Buckweed Fire continues to rage out of control."
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Rest In Peace, Jeff. Hard to say goodbye to the best guitarists too soon. Rest assured, Jeff, you will not be forgotten.
R.I.P Jeff Hanneman
This guy ruled <3 R.I.P
@seeyouinberkley I'm not a slayer fan but he was from Oakland
OKAY PEOPLE!!! This is the guitarist of the best metal band ever, slayer. Occlos, what the f? Raider nation?
Sorry guys. I don't get it. Who is this guy? He obviously knows how to rock, but I don't know who he is. Please shed some light. Thanks!
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City workers and university students alike discharge the pressures of daily life in a night of live music and a whirlwind of pillows on Christmas day (December 25).
Now in its seventh year, the pillow fight falls around Christmas in Shanghai each year and was designed as a creative outlet for releasing stress and marking the holiday season.
Steven Tao, the founder and mastermind behind the epic pillow fights, said that the annual stress release was important for young people facing pressures from work and school.
"Many young people in city have a fast pace of life and have a lot of pressure. We offer this relaxed environment for them to release pressure, adjust their moods and relax their minds," he said.
Around one thousand participants held pillows above their heads as organizers counted down before the 10 minute fight which saw pillows and feathers flying through the air.
A university student, Chen Yue, said the experience was so exciting including finding herself the target of pillow-wielding opponents.
"It's a great feeling when I am hit by others. It's a pillow fight. It's impossible that you are always hitting others. Sure you will feel great when you are hitting others but you will feel enthusiastic and energitic when hit by others. It will inspire your ambition and you will want to hit it back," she said.
The Creative Party Network, the organizers of the soft combat events, had outlined more than 10 rounds of pillow fights with distinct variations in rules, but soon learned it was impossible to break the keen warriors apart once engaged.
Zhou Wei said that it was good to finally break out in sweat after long hours in the office all year.
"I feel finally to have a chance to release myself after holding for a year. It's a kind of soft violence to release some sadness and discontents in a year without hurting others. It feels like a flood breaking the dam after finding a crack. I feel entirely free," he added.
A ticket to the pillow fight night at a local stadium in Shanghai cost around twenty-four US dollars.


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A living relative of James Sylvester Scott, the ragtime composer and Carthage native, will attend the Carthage Historic Preservation's Phelps House Ragtime Ball III, slated for 7 p.m.-11 p.m. Saturday at the historic home on Grand Avenue.
Admission to the Ball includes a year's membership in Carthage Historic Preservation. Cost is $30 for individuals and $50 for a family.
Judy Goff, with Carthage Historic Preservation, said Marcella Dixon, a niece of James Scott, will attend the event.
"She said she can't dance, but she'd like to come and listen," Goff said. "She's in her 80s now."
"Ragtime Bill" Rowland, Broken Arrow, Okla., will be on the piano, playing ragtime hits by Scott and other composers, while Judy Schneider, of Judy's Ballroom Dancing, Joplin will give lessons on the dance styles of the era.
Scott was born in Neosho in 1885, according to the late Carthage Press Columnist and Editor Marvin VanGilder, and lived there until 1899 when his family moved to Ottawa, Kan.
The family moved to Carthage in 1901 and he lived here until 1914.
VanGilder said Charles Dumars, with the Dumars Music Company, on the north side of the Carthage Square, hired Scott as a general helper, but when he heard him playing a piano in the back room, he made him a song plugger, and people flocked to the store to hear him play.
Dumars published Scott's first three rags in 1903 and 1904. Scott published several more rags while living in Carthage before moving to Kansas City and living there from 1914-1938.
He died on Aug. 10, 1938, but the graves of he and his wife went unmarked until 1981.
For more information about Saturday's event at the Phelps House, people can call Judy Hill 358-9688.
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ALL CITY of San antonio department NEWS
Communications and Public Affairs: 207-7234
Published on Wednesday, September 25, 2013
Mayor Julián Castro will visit Miami on Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2013 to complete a service project for City Year and help feed wounded veterans at a local Fisher House as part of his friendly wager on the San Antonio Spurs in last year's NBA Finals.
"No one can forget the grit the Spurs showed getting to the NBA Finals again," Mayor Castro said. "The great thing about San Antonio is that we are also gracious competitors, and the Miami Heat deserves to be congratulated."
After completing the service project with Miami-Dade County Mayor Carlos A. Gimenez on Wednesday morning, the two mayors will visit a local Fisher House that afternoon where about two dozen veterans will be served fresh cuisine from Mi Tierra restaurant. The Cortez family, which owns and operates the iconic downtown eatery, is sending a culinary team to Miami at its own expense.
"We feel honored that Mayor Castro would think of us," Mi Tierra co-owner Michael Cortez said. "Although our Spurs played with class, the loss still stings a little and we're looking forward to the new season. As a 70-year-old family business in historic Market Square, we are excited about bringing a unique San Antonio experience to the City of Miami full of Mi Tierra's authentic Tex-Mex flavor."
Mayor Castro added, ''I want to thank the Cortez Family for their generosity. They are going above and beyond the call of duty to honor our brave veterans in true San Antonio style."
The restaurant will also deliver food to Miami City Mayor Tomas Regalado with whom Mayor Castro also made a Spurs-Heat wager.
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CORPUS CHRISTI – Joy Williamson has been named the GoIslanders.com Student-Athlete of the Week, presented by Pepsi. Williamson earned the award after leading the men's basketball team in scoring last week.
In his first two games back after a concussion, Williamson led the Islanders in scoring in both of the team's games. The junior came off the bench to provide 12 points on 3-of-6 shooting against Lamar, then played 34 minutes off the bench against McNeese State, matching his career high with 15 points and adding six rebounds.
Williamson and the rest of the men's basketball team will be in action on Thursday, Feb. 14, when they take on Central Arkansas in Conway, Ark.
Keep up-to-date with GoIslanders.com each week to see who is named the GoIslanders.com Student-Athlete of the week, presented by Pepsi. Also, for the latest information, follow Islanders Athletics on Twitter (@Go_Islanders) and Facebook (Islanders Athletics).
2012-13 GoIslanders.com Student-Athlete of the week, presented by Pepsi Weekly Winners:
9-5-12: Shannon Hullum, Volleyball
9-11-12: Ivy Baresh, Volleyball
9-18-12: Tyger Holt, Volleyball
9-25-12: Peter Nagy, Men's Tennis and Maider Martin, Women's Tennis
10-2-12: Peter Nagy, Men's Tennis
10-9-12: Shannon Hullum, Volleyball
10-16-12: Vanessa Johnson, Women's Golf
10-23-12: Odon Barta, Men's Tennis
10-30-12: Patrick Kimeli, Men's Cross Country and BreAnna Briggs, Women's Cross Country
11-6-12: Micah Nolan, Volleyball
11-20-12: Hameed Ali, Men's Basketball
11-27-12: Nate Maxey, Men's Basketball
12-18-12: Brandon Pye, Men's Basketball
1-15-13: Daniel Barlow, Men's Track and Field
1-29-13: Maider Martin, Women's Tennis
2-5-13: Roger De La Cruz, Men's Track and Field
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