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Musha Shukke Fuu (The Warrior Monk's Way)
Type: Taijutsu
Fighting technique and styles don't just pop out of thin air. Most of the times, there are events that take place, or a following or something that triggered the creation of some type of styles, or religions even that do this as well. The Musha Sukke Fuu's story is no different then these. The creators of such a fighting style are no more then monks. Literally, "Musha Sukke Fuu" Stands for "The Warrior Monks Way." Now, being monks, they are not violent people in the least bit at all. This particular fighting style in derived primarily as a defensive style, however, that's not to take away form the fact that it indeed has offensive capability.
The creation of Musha Sukke Fuu, as a formalized martial art, is attributed to Dong Haichuan in the early 19th century, who apparently learned from Taoist, masters in the mountains of Iwakagure. There is evidence to suggest a synthesis of several pre-existing martial arts taught and practised in the region in which he lived, combined with Taoist circle walking. Because of his work as a servant in the Imperial Palace, he impressed the Tsuchikage with his graceful movements and his skill at martial arts and became an instructor and a body guard to the court. Dong Haichuan taught for many years in Iwa, eventually earning patronage by the Imperial court.
Famous disciples of Dong to become teachers were Ichiro Tamazaki, Kisihmo Kayuga, Raiden Matzui, Ike Lennon, Ma Weiqi , Liu Baozhen, Liang Zhenpu and Liu Dekuan. Although they were all students of the same teacher, their methods of training and expressions of palm techniques differed. The Cheng and Liu styles are said to specialize in "Pushing" the palms, Yin style is known for "Threading" the palms, Song's followers practice "Plum Flower" ( Mei Hua) palm technique and Ma style palms are known as "Hammers." Some of Dong Haichuan's students, including Ike Lennon, participated in the Boxer Rebellion. In general, most Bagua practitioners practice either the Yin , Cheng, or Liang styles of Baguazhang, although Fan, Shi, Liu, Fu, and other styles also used to exist. However with time those other styles and formations of the said style became lost as its creators and followers either died and vanished.
It is said that only four of those who did such still exist, the Four masters of Musha Sukke Fuu. These teachers are Ichiro Tamazaki(尹福), Kisihmo Kayuga(程廷華), Raiden Matzui(宋長榮), Ike Lennon(劉鳳春).Each one resides in a different country, or so they say. There are very few people who even know of the fighting style and the rumors, and even fewer who practice it.The base style known today is really more of a combination of things from the past of the branch teachers, those of the past present. The thing about Musha Shukke Fuu, is even though they are Monks, they traditionally don't mind mixing styles, especially of the same base such as Musha Sukke Fuu. In fact, that's hows it came to be what it is today, or so it is said.
Really, know one ever seems to know, and nothing more of which is ever really mentioned in the history books to prove otherwise. It is a really secretive style to begin with, and finding it would require ones full study and seeking of, and the actual finding of one of the few masters, should they still even exist.
Description on the Abilities and Inner Workings of the Style:
Stage One: The Art of the Spirit (Chakra) Sphere.
The main art of the Musha Shukke Fuu, is the knowledge of summoning the Chakra Sphere. This is the most basics of basic fundamentals with the style. Without the Chakra Sphere, the art could not exist. The Chakra Sphere is a small, hollow sphere of chakra that hovers over one's head. It is however, clearly visible to to others and can be touched, and popped rendering it useless furthermore. The Chakra Sphere consists of one's own chakra, and thus can be reentered into one's body in such a way, with of course proper training, in a way that may be used as an attack within said style. User usually concentrates in meditation in order to learn how to do this incredible feat. The stance is nothing short of a learning method for the Chakra Sphere Summoning. User sits Indian style with crossed legs and rests his hands together forming a special handseal. This handseal is created by pushing the users palms together, and crossing the middle and ring fingers, as the pinky fingers and index fingers clasp together. The thumbs cross as well. Eyes close, and user sits straight upward and meditates. This allows easier flow of chakra within ones chakra system.
Stage Two: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle.
Once Chakra Spheres have been properly summoned, the next challenge the user faces is having the Chakra Sphere re-enter the body for technique use. This is quite simple to do, and Requires a great deal less of training then first summoning the chakra spheres did. The user simply had to do said technique, and handseals and think about the sphere striking their body, and it should happen with rather repetitive training. This stage of training is perhaps the quickest and easiest stage of training. This reduces chakra output, reuses the chakra that is output, and recycles and leftover from the technique, because the chakra is still trapped within the body.
Stage Three: Striking by Striking.
Once the user has mastered the summoning of chakra spheres, and then mastered how to channel them throughout the body, The user now must undergo training to learn how to strike a foe while doing so, while channeling the chakra sphere. This isn't easy. User must stand in front of a stray dummy, tightly packed of course, and continue striking it until it explodes in a small 'boom' where the user strikes. It sounds easy and repetitive as well, but it is truly a lot harder then it sounds. Once the explosion had been seen, the user will repeat this until mastered, where every strike will be a minor explosion. At this level, the user will have mastered the art of the Chakra Sphere.
Stage Four: Techniques
This is the stage in which the user begins and starts training techniques within the fighting style that involve training and special usage of the Chakra Spheres. Specialized techniques that deal in both offense and defense, put primarily defense, are the techniques listed below within the style. Mastering all these techniques takes time, but when accomplished, the user will achieve the Master rank within the monk society.
Additional effects and Restrictions:
- User must be from Kirigakure or Iwagakure
- User must be trained by ~Sanji~
- User must have Mastery of Taijutsu.
- User cannot have a bio that contains Dojutsu.
±± Declined ±± i like the idea. but some things need editing. For example, this isn't a Taijutsu but rather a NinTaijutsu. Also, you need to tie this a bit more with Taijutsu as its appearing to be simply you creating (not summoning...so that also needs tweaking) an orb of chakra as a projectile and striking people with it. You must have Taijutsu moves as a basic and develop this to be something added to the taijutsu, otherwise its all ninjutsu.


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Fox's Johnson's Latest Health Care Fearmongering: Proposed HHS Rule Could Create "Orwellian" State
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Fox continued its record as one of the most unreliable sources for health care information today by hosting legal analyst Peter Johnson Jr. on Fox & Friends to fearmonger about a rule change being proposed by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). Johnson attacked the rule, which has to do with the handling of medical records, as an effort by HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius to obtain "access to each and every doctor visit, every part of your medical record, every part of your medical history" in "one way or the other."
Johnson went on to claim that "some congresspeople are saying, well, this is going to lead to some Orwellian kind of state." Watch:
But Johnson's fearmongering that "Joe American or Jane American" might "wake up some morning ... and read about your health care on the Internet" is a wild distortion of what HHS is actually proposing, and his explanation of what is occurring is an irresponsible oversimplification of a complicated subject.
One of the primary goals of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) is to ensure that all Americans have access to quality health care, regardless of their age or medical condition. For years, health insurance companies have favored insuring the young and healthy at the expense of those who have the greatest need for health insurance. One of the legislative mechanisms for balancing this inequality in access to health care is the "risk adjustment" program. The basic theory behind the program is to compensate insurance plans in the exchanges, as well as in the small group and individual market, which have higher-than-average risk enrollees. A study funded by the Robert Wood Johnson foundation found:
Insurance market reforms face the key challenge of addressing the threat that risk selection poses to the availability of stable, high-value insurance policies that provide long-term risk protection. Many of the strategies in use today fail to address this breakdown in risk pooling, and some even exacerbate it. Flexible risk adjustment schemes are a promising avenue for promoting market stability and limiting insurer cream-skimming, potentially providing greater benefits at lower cost. Reforms intended to increase insurance coverage and the value of care delivered will be much more effective if implemented in conjunction with policies that address these fundamental selection issues.
In order for risk adjustment to operate, the level of risk incurred by a plan for insuring a group of people must be assessed and compared with the level of risk for competing plans. This is where the proposed HHS rule change comes in. As the HHS summary points out, "a robust risk adjustment process requires data to support the determination of an individual's risk score and the corresponding plan and State averages." As a result, HHS is soliciting comments from readers and interested parties as to how to go about this in a way that both maximizes efficiency and protects the privacy of individuals.
This is where Johnson's fearmongering begins to break down. First of all, a shadowy governmental agency attempting to create an "Orwellian kind of state" probably wouldn't post its plans in a public setting and ask the general public to scrutinize its proposal. But this is exactly what HHS has done. In fact, peppered throughout the summary is HHS "solicit[ing] comment" on how best to carry out the proposal.
Second of all, a careful reading of HHS' language reveals that the privacy question is at least as important to them as it is to Johnson. In the explanation of one of the plans HHS formulated for transacting claims data, it explains (emphasis added):
A fully distributed approach would leverage existing infrastructures established to support Exchanges. A distributed approach also keeps individual-level data with the issuers, eliminating privacy risks related to transmission. However, there is reason to be concerned that some issuers would make errors in calculating individual risk scores and plan averages.
We believe the proposed intermediate approach would result in the most complete, actuarially sound risk adjustment methodology and provides support for other functions that also require encounter level data, while maintaining State flexibility. We recognize this approach may raise concerns related to consumer privacy and standard submission formats. Accordingly, we propose national standards to address each of these issues. We seek comment on the proposed approach, as well as comments on the potential advantages and disadvantages of the alternative approaches.
Finally, it is clear from the legislative language provided by HHS that protecting consumers' privacy is a priority. From the HHS proposed rule change (emphasis added):
(d) Uses of risk adjustment data. The State, or HHS on behalf of the State, must make relevant claims and encounter data collected under risk adjustment available to support claims-related activities as follows:
(1) Provide HHS with de-identified claims and encounter data for use in recalibrating Federally-certified risk adjustment models;
(2) Provide HHS with summarized claims cost for use in verifying risk corridor submissions; and
(3) Provide the reinsurance entity with summarized claims and encounter data from reinsurance-eligible plans for payment verification purposes and individual-level from reinsurance-eligible plans for audit purposes.
Wake Forest professor and Commonwealth Fund contributor Mark Hall pointed out:
HHS also deals intelligently with the second hot potato of who controls the clinical data used for risk adjustment. There are two competing issues: patient privacy and verifying the accuracy of risk scores. On privacy, some people might object to government collecting medical data about privately insured people.
To mitigate this possible concern, the proposed rule allows states to collect the necessary clinical and demographic data and turn them over to HHS for risk-adjustment purposes only after identifying information has been removed.
As the health care system transitions toward modern, electronic recordkeeping, there is always going to be cause for concern that, as Johnson puts it, we could "have a wikileaks." But it is a baseless and misleading attack to suggest that individual consumers are more at risk while HHS is processing de-identified claims as they are if their records are held by insurance companies.
Of course, all of this is a complicated way of pointing out what we already know: Peter Johnson Jr. is Fox's go-to man for baseless fearmongering about health care reform. His claim that HHS is saying "one way or the other, we're going to get Americans' health records" is no exception.
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Ohio Unemployment Rate Rises Slightly in July
COLUMBUS, Ohio (WSPD) -- Ohio's unemployment rate was 5.7 percent in July, up from June's 5.5 percent.
It's the first increase in the jobless rate in a year and reflects an increase of 7,000 unemployed workers during the period.
"The recovery certainly isn't complete and we thought it was likely there would be months like this where the rate would tick back up," said Ben Johnson, a spokesman for the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services.
Ohio's unemployment rate was 7.5 percent in July of 2013.
The nation's unemployment rate last month was 6.2 percent.
The state report showed that the number of unemployed rose by 7,000 last month to 323,000.
Johnson attributed that to a combination of factors. "Retiring baby boomers, teenagers and young adults who choose to remain in school rather than entering the workforce. And there are also economic factors--people who are still discouraged and not confident they would be able to find a job if they started looking for one," Johnson says.
According to Johnson, losses in manufacturing outweigh gains in the construction sector.
Job losses were also experienced in the professional and business services, the educational and health services and the leisure and hospitality sectors.
Hiring was taking place in July in the trade, transportation and utilities, and government sectors.


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ARCADIA - Opening day for Santa Anita Park's 76th winter/spring meet delighted fans with mostly sunny skies and for some, a few moments with KISS frontman Gene Simmons.
In an impromptu photo session, Simmons - clad in a black pin-striped blazer, red handkerchief and his signature black leather pants - posed for photos while chatting casually with media and fans in the Paddock Garden.
"You can feel the excitement," Simmons, a savvy businessman who is now helping Santa Anita's parent company, The Stronach Group, with marketing and entertainment at its racetracks, said Wednesday shortly after the first race had posted. "First of all, Arcadia is just beautiful. The drive up here is just gorgeous. Even God likes it - look at the day. He placed the setting, the mountains, the location ... The people (working at the track) are nice too."
Despite early morning showers, most of the storm clouds cleared well in advance of the first post at noon. In preparation for the storm, workers sealed the main track surface overnight, and two of the three races that were slated for the turf were transferred to the main track.
As racetrack officials waited Wednesday to see how badly the forecast of rain would affect opening day attendance, they said they were grateful the weather ultimately broke in their favor.
"We're lucky it's cleared up," said Santa Anita Park President George Haines. "For a lot of people (opening day's) tradition and for other people, it's the start of a new tradition ... There are always new horses, new stories and there will be a lot of them. And here's our first," he said, pointing to Simmons who was joking with fans.
On track attendance on opening day was recorded at 27,273 this year, compared to last year's 55,000-plus attendees, said Mike Willman, a racetrack spokesman. In addition to the early rain, last year's opening day took place on a Monday, when most people had the day off, he said.
An hour before the first race, David Felton of Las Vegas, a retired letter carrier who has been coming to the meet's opening day for about 25 years, was at Clocker's Corner reviewing the horses. He said he comes to opening day as much for Santa Anita's traditional wall calendars that he collects as for wagering on the thoroughbreds.
Felton became interested in horses in the mid-90s when he scored two pick sixes in a month's time, earning him about $325,000.
"They are beautiful animals," Felton said. "They don't know you bet on them and that's why they're a good bet, not like the Dallas Mavericks, messing around with a 12-point spread in the NBA."
Also at Santa Anita Wednesday was Sharon Cahill of Sierra Madre, who has been coming to the racetrack since her high school days. Although she was too young to bet at the time, Cahill would bring family friends to the track and tell them which horses to bet on, she said.
Cahill, 66, found out the day before Thanksgiving that she has stage 3 breast cancer and will begin her chemotherapy treatment on Jan. 3. She will then have surgery and another round of chemotherapy and radiation.
"I thought I would come and enjoy it while I can," she said, noting she's not sure how the chemotherapy will affect her.
Cahill, who is now reading "Seabiscuit," said she hadn't been following the horses too closely in recent months and thus was not planning to wager on Wednesday. She has always enjoyed seeing the "sheer power" of the 1,000-pound thoroughbreds thundering down the track under the command of petite jockeys.
"I'm just hoping I can come back here and enjoy them next year," she said.


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Also, the users of those libraries should gracefully handle the case where the PackageKit daemon is not running or doesn't understand the D-Bus requests. - Create libpackagekit-qt2-0 and libpackagekit-qt2-devel subpackage for the new libpackagekit-qt2 library. - Remove explicit Requires for packages from various devel subpackages as they will automatically be added the pkgconfig() way: + PackageKit-devel: glib2-devel, NetworkManager-devel, sqlite3-devel + libpackagekit-glib2-devel: glib2-devel, NetworkManager-devel, sqlite3-devel (as well as PackageKit itself) + libpackagekit-qt-devel: libqt4-devel (as well as PackageKit itself) - Mark branding-upstream subpackage as noarch. - Set BUILD_CNF to 1 as the file search works again. This means the pk-command-not-found utility will be built again. * Thu Apr 28 2011 email@example.com - Add PackageKit-fix-build.patch to fix build: do not use some deprecated symbol. Taken from git. * Wed Apr 20 2011 email@example.com - Add opensuse-codecs-installer Provides/Obsoletes to gstreamer-plugin subpackage, as it replaces it. * Mon Apr 04 2011 email@example.com - Add gtk3-devel BuildRequires. - Create gtk3-module subpackage. * Fri Mar 11 2011 email@example.com - Update to version 0.6.13 + Libraries: - Allow pk_client_download_packages_async() to be called with no target directory - Port away from PolkitBackendActionLookup to support new versions of PolicyKit + ZYpp Backend: - remove check online in refresh cache - uses the standard system update algorithm from ZYpp. Fixes bnc#637764 (as patch in 0.6.12 package) + Non-zypp backends updates. + Bugfixes: - Add missing python(gio) requirement - Check for polkit_authority_get_sync symbol - Change the connman DBus name - Update for NetworkManager 0.9 snapshots - Drop PackageKit-use-system-solve.patch: fixed upstream. * Sat Feb 26 2011 firstname.lastname@example.com - small (and obvious) fix for bnc#671146 * Fri Feb 18 2011 firstname.lastname@example.com - Add PackageKit-use-system-solve.patch to update ZYpp backend: + uses the standard system update algorithm from ZYpp, which honours user policies. (bnc#637764) + configurable HidePackages=true in [Updates] section in /etc/PackageKit/ZYpp.conf to show only maintenance patches instead of all packages with update candidates. * Fri Feb 18 2011 email@example.com - Update to version 0.6.12: + New Features: - Add speed python backend method - Allow the user to specify a comma delimited list of default backends - Provide a hook so spawned backends can report speed + Libraries (glib): - Allow the service pack self tests to run by setting the temp directory - Avoid spamming lots of low level debugging to .xsession-errors. (rh#668303) - Check sscanf() returned the correct number of items before using the answer - Do not return distro-specific id's whilst testing, to fix 'make check' on Debian - Ensure we test for and always run the self-check-socket-program in 'make check' - Only use g_time_val_from_iso8601() when we have a valid ISO8601 value + Libraries (qt): Build fix. + Bugfixes: - Do not enable command not found debugging by default. (rh#666254) - Explictly include GIO in LDADD to fix a compile error on Debian - Fix calling pk_client_helper_start() with no environment set - Fix bug which caused a crash when the Section() of a package was NULL (lp#591474) - Only try to populate the command list in pkcon after the PkControl command has finished - pkcon: check PK error in pk_console_resolve_package - Set client locale to LC_MESSAGES rather than LC_ALL + Zypp Backend: - Consider autoremove in remove_packages - Don't send package signal in DownloadProgressReportReceiver - Erase system resolvables in zypp_build_pool - Implement download packages - Include system repo when install local rpm - Refresh cache before searching - Support download source RPM packages + Non-zypp backends updates. + Updated translations. * Mon Feb 14 2011 firstname.lastname@example.com - Added support for translation-update-upstream. * Sun Feb 13 2011 email@example.com - Call relevant macros in %post/%postun: + %mime_database_post/postun because the package ships a mime type definition. - Pass %{?no_lang_C} to %find_lang so that english documentation can be packaged with the program, and not in the lang subpackage. * Thu Jan 06 2011 firstname.lastname@example.com - Add %{_libexecdir}/gst-install-plugins-helper as a ghost file in the file list of the gstreamer-plugin subpackage, since we use the update-alternatives mechanism. * Mon Dec 27 2010 firstname.lastname@example.com - Update to version 0.6.11: + Notes: - Additonal notes have been added to the DBus specification that allow backends to send the origin of a installed package. This is optional. - Additionally, more recommendations have been made to allow searching by repository. See the DBus specification for more details. + New Features: - Add a new backend role for updating the whole distro: UpgradeSystem - Allow backend to encode the package origin in the package-id - Added PK_ERROR_ENUM_CANNOT_FETCH_SOURCES when refreshing cache fails - Add recommendation 'repo:foo' to be able to return all packages in a certain repository - Change the spec to recommend 'category:web-development' rather than '@web-development' - Spawn KDE Debconf frontend if KDE is running + Bugfixes: - Allow cancelling a transaction if it is not cancellable - Always show update a package even if already update - Correct the description of org.freedesktop.packagekit.upgrade-system - Do not disable background mode if we are marked as interactive, as the two are orthognal - Ensure we can send a cache-age of maxuint to fix command-not-found - Ensure we emit PK_STATUS_ENUM_WAIT when a transaction is in the 'ready' state - Ignore unknown entries in the pk_x_bitfield_from_string() to ensure forwards compatibility - Use G_LOG_DOMAIN in all the backends + Libraries: - glib: Add some C getters to PkDistroUpgrade - packagekit-qt: . Add searchGroups methods that can take a string so we can search on categories . Emit transactionListChanged(empty) when daemon crashes . Fix order of initialization . Updated enums and converted tabs to spaces . Use QDBusServiceWatcher instead of watching for serviceOwnerChanged() . Write the getCategories() code so we can use it - python: use SetHints now instead of SetLocale + Dummy Backend: - Add a more realistic UpgradeSystem - Fix a potential NULL dereference spotted by clang + Zypp Backend: - Catch ZyppFactoryException in get_zypp - Filter installed packages to update - Fix a logic error in refresh cache - Fix a typo in get_zypp - Port from PK_BACKEND_OPTIONS function table - Support repo filter in getting repo list - Transfer correct restart info while updating packages - Use zypp::sat::SolvAttr::filelist in search file + Non-zypp backends updates. + Updated translations. * Thu Dec 09 2010 firstname.lastname@example.com - Build against mozilla-xulrunner20-devel on 11.4 and later. * Tue Nov 16 2010 firstname.lastname@example.com - Update to version 0.6.10: + Notes: - This is the first release of PackageKit to support session configuration helper support in the GLib and QT libraries. - This allows debconf to work when using PackageKit on Debian. - A formal transaction lifecyle is now in place, which allows future extensions to hook into the transaction at certain points. + New Features: - Add a new optional hint, 'cache-age' to allow the frontend to control the maximum age of the metadata - Add PkClientHelper, which allows a helper session program to be run for a transaction - Add the concept of a transaction lifecycle - Document the @category resolve special case in the specification as it's been used for at least a year now - Document the @category search in the docs, as it's been used in a few backends for over two years. + Libraries: - glib: Add several more FSF free licenses - glib: Add some C getters and setters for PkClient and PkTask - glib: Fix up a lot of the gobject-introspection warnings + Bugfixes: - Add a special case of a DBus unique name of :org.freedesktop.PackageKit which is used in the self check code - Always emit Message(BackendError) when there is a parsing error from a spawned process - Always emit the locked and unlocked signals even if HAL is not available - cnf: Pass all arguments to comand-not-found so we open the newly installed tool with existing argv - Do not strip the trailing plus when comparing licences, as GPL+ exists, but GPL does not - Ensure we notice when a spawn command is invalid by printing it in red on the command line - Make PkLsof find lsof on Debian - rh#641311: Make the output of command-not-found match the bash builtin. - Move the managed bindings to a seporate repo as they are very out of date - Prevent a segfault when estimating the time when the backend issues many ProgressChanged signals at one time. - rh#641691: Raise the default of StateChangedTimeoutPriority from 5 seconds to 30 seconds. - Require GTK >= 2.91.0 for the GTK3 version of the PackageKit font install module - Return with success if the database contained no proxy values for a transaction, as this could be correct - Switch from EggDebug to the GLib debugging framework - Switch the default to UseUpdateCache=false now that we are using cache-age + Zypp Backend: - Call zypp_build_pool() when searching with what_provides. - Drop PackageKit-zypp-fix-provides-search.patch: upstream fixed. * Fri Oct 08 2010 email@example.com - Add PackageKit-zypp-fix-provides-search.patch: this fixes the search for provides, and as a side-effect, this fixes bnc#640935. * Tue Oct 05 2010 email@example.com - Update to version 0.6.9: + New Features: - Add transaction_start() and transaction_stop() vfuncs to make backends simpler - Add a feature that allows external scripts to be run after certain transactions - Allow backends to omit the table-of-vfuncs and use GModule functionality to resolve backend functions + Libraries: - glib: Check the GCancellable is not already cancelled at startup in PkClient and PkControl - glib: Do not crash the client if a catalog file has both file and package sections - glib: Do not return simulation failures as critical errors - glib: Only return packages for catalogs that are _not_ installed - qt: Use setHints() on new constructor + Bugfixes: - Add a nicer translated error when UpdatePackages has no packages to update. Fixes fdo#30459 - browser-plugin: Do not query PkDesktop by default - browser-plugin: Fix up 2 small memory leaks in error paths - cnf: Add a proper error message when the transaction was cancelled - Don't call back into the daemon (from the daemon) when checking service packs. Fixes rh#634628 - Ensure we set an error if the spawned backend gets cancelled - Fix build with newer gobject-introspection - Fix generating an updates service pack using pkgenpack - Use the correct network state for connman + Zypp backend: - Add development package support to filtering - Calculate sizes for patches correctly: bmo#2281, bnc#559802 - Enable proxy for zypp backend - Include patches in 'resolve' results. bmo#2059 - Refresh cache and sat solv pool data if necessary - Refresh cache before getting upgrade and installing - Refresh system rpmdb while refresh cache - Remove premature require_restart emission in update_packages_thread + Non-zypp backends updates. - Drop PackageKit-fix-introspection-build.patch: fixed upstream. - Drop PackageKit-BNC559802-zypp-count-patch-size.patch: fixed upstream. * Fri Oct 01 2010 email@example.com - Add PackageKit-fix-introspection-build.patch to fix build with recent gobject-introspection. * Tue Sep 28 2010 email@example.com - Change lang package Requires to Recommends since it is not mandatory at runtime. * Sat Sep 18 2010 email@example.com - Move gir files to devel subpackage. * Mon Sep 06 2010 email@example.com - Update to version 0.6.8: + Libraries: - packagekit-qt: Fix compilation - packagekit-qt: Fixed error on proxy creating, extended API - packagekit-qt: Forgot to setHints() + Bugfixes: - Add accessor to detect if an error is already set on a backend - Ensure gobject-introspection is installed before running configure. Fixes fdo#29861 - Fix compile with the latest PolicyKit release - Increase timeout between an error message and assuming the thread is dead - Set allow_cancel default in init to match that in pk_transaction_set_running ie. FALSE + Zypp backend: - Immediately abort transactions that set errors relating to signature interactions - Remove a double pk_backend_finish path, and an incorrect update_packages callback + Non-zypp backends updates. + Updated translations. * Fri Aug 06 2010 firstname.lastname@example.com - Update to version 0.6.7: + New Features: - Add a long document explaining the media-repo functionality - If either of ProxyHTTP are set in PackageKit.conf then ignore the user proxy setting. Fixes rh#604317 + Libraries: - glib: Add an 'interactive' property to PkTask so that we can use it to do '-y' in pkcon properly + Bugfixes: - Add 0install to the user list - cron: Do not exit with 1 if the cron script is disabled in the config - Don't ship README AUTHORS NEWS COPYING in all subpackages. Fixes rh#612332 - Make the PkBackend always start with the WAIT state, but do not proxy this onto the bus - Recognise bluetooth connections as mobile networks. Fixes rh#609827 - Unbreak CNF after the daemon moved to libexec. Fixes rh#613514 + Non-zypp backends updates. + Updated translations. - Drop PackageKit-cron-disabled-is-no-error.patch: fixed upstream. * Thu Jul 22 2010 email@example.com - Update to version 0.6.6: + New Features: - Add a MaxSearchTime entry in CommandNotFound.conf and default to 2000ms - Assign names to our idle sources when using new versions of glib2 - Build the gtk-module for gtk-3.0 as well as gtk-2.0 if available - Port 'make check' to GTest rather than using our homegrown EggTest functionality - Get the control properties async when the user starts the pkmon tool + Bugfixes: - Only set a cancelled error after we've given the backend a fighting chance to process the request - Move the packagekitd binary to libexec - Ensure we clear the cancel timer when we finish a PkBackend transaction - Ensure filters are properly split for spawned backends + Libraries: - glib: Explicitly mark the library as LGPLv2 by using the correct boilerplate code + Zypp backend: - Disable get_zypp in intialize - Fix FPE when there are no repos - Don't crash checking status of non-patches + Non-zypp backends updates. + Updated translations. - Change tag of PackageKit-cron-disabled-is-no-error.patch to mention upstream bug. - Obsoletes ruck to make sure it gets removed since it's not supported anymore. - Version the Requires on PackageKit-branding to fix a rpmlint warning. * Wed Jun 23 2010 email@example.com - Update to version 0.6.5: + New Features: - Add --force argument to pkcon refresh - Show the MediaChangeRequired signals in pkmon - Use the new PkTask API in pkcon so we can deal with Media and Eula querie + Bugfixes: - Build conditional BUILD_ZIF needs to be at the top level - Fix problem whereby the terminal wouldn't return data to scanf from a read - Fix up several daemon thinkos when a client tries to set a root other than '/' + Libraries: - glib: Add some new PkTask methods that handle the Media and Eula callbacks - qt: Add Q_ENUMS to DaemonError - python: Fix a typo in format_string + Zypp backend: - Detect and advertise from /etc/meego-release - Re-factor to pass PkBackend around - Re-work install_packages_thread - Unify code used to generate the list of updates + Non-zypp backends updates. - Changes from version 0.6.4: + Notes: - This release is the first to support a relocatable root, which may be useful to LTSP and some virtualised environments. It's not yet well tested, and early adopters are encouraged to joint the mailing list + New Features: - Allow clients to request a relocatable root, but only with admin authority - Add hint:simulate boolean on the backend, set for all simulation methods, to increase code re-use - Add maximum wait time limit to cron checks - Add support for the 'frontend-socket' hint and pass it to backends - Ported PackageKit to Haiku - Send a message when other updates are held back so we can add a note to the GUI tool + Bugfixes: - fdo#27527: Correctly fallback by checking the transaction role, not the backend role. - Don't return from SetProxy() before we've got the authentication result - Downgrade required autoconf version - Ensure the daemon emits Message() signals when replaying the cached GetUpdates data - Fix parallel-build snafu wrt. MOC generated files - Fix system name variable name inconsistency in the cron script - Fix the permission of /etc/sysconfig/packagekit-background to be non-executable - Fix up three typos in translated strings - If http_proxy or ftp_proxy are set in the environment, use them in pkcon - Remove the ruck client, it's been broken for the last few releases + Libraries: - glib: Add C accessors for PkMessage - glib: Add some more C accessors for PkPackage + Zypp backend: - Attempt to improve backend_find_packages - Cleanup a certain amount of superstitious coding - cleanup 'resolve' filtering code - Factor pool item change notification out into zypp_backend_pool_item_notify - Fix leaks in GetRequires, resolve and what_provides - Fix memory leaks - Fix multiple bugs in Resolve() - Get the final 'finished' signal right on remove - Implement simulated package removal - Improve exception handling - Introduce a pseudo-architecture "source" to distinguish source packages from binary ones - Let libzypp determine whether a patch is needed - Share the version / architecture comparison code into zypp_ver_and_arch_equal - Tweak filtering to ensure that we never emit both states even if a package is also re-installable + Non-zypp backends updates. + Updated translations. - Drop upstream included patches: + 0001-zypp-fix-memeory-leaks.patch + 0002-zypp-attempt-to-improve-backend_find_packages.patch + 0003-zypp-let-libzypp-determine-whether-a-patch-is-needed.patch + PackageKit-libzypp6.patch - Rebase patches: + PackageKit-cron-disabled-is-no-error.patch + PackageKit-sysconfig-cron.patch - Delete ruck subpackage: ruck client has been broken for a few releases. - Remove workaround to make %{_sysconfdir}/sysconfig/packagekit-background non-executable. * Fri Jun 18 2010 email@example.com - Add PackageKit-bnc609409.patch. Failure getting dependencies for upates. * Wed Apr 28 2010 email@example.com - Add patches: + 0001-zypp-fix-memeory-leaks.patch: fix memeory leaks. + 0002-zypp-attempt-to-improve-backend_find_packages.patch zypp: attempt to improve backend_find_packages. (bnc#597772) + 0003-zypp-let-libzypp-determine-whether-a-patch-is-needed.patch zypp: let libzypp determine whether a patch is needed. Together with the latest libzypp, this will no longer classify locked patches as being needed. (bnc#577118) * Wed Apr 28 2010 email@example.com - Add PackageKit-cron-disabled-is-no-error.patch: having the cron job disabled is not an error (after all it is configurable). Return value should be 0 in this case to stop annoying cronjob mails. * Wed Apr 21 2010 email@example.com - added obsoletes/provides for the renamed package to allow zypp to migrate it correctly on update. * Fri Apr 09 2010 email@example.com - Use %py_requires instead of an explicit python PreReq. - Create browser-plugin, gstreamer-plugin and gtk-module subpackages. - Use update-alternatives to setup the gstreamer helper, so we don't have to pass a special argument when building gstreamer-0_10-plugins-base. - Do not build the PackageKit-based command-not-found since it doesn't work with our zypp backend. We make it easy to have it back with a build-time option. - Build the cron script, that makes it possible to update the system daily with PackageKit: + remove --disable-cron from configure + add PackageKit-sysconfig-cron.patch to make the configuration a real sysconfig-like configuration + add %fillup_prereq PreReq + add a %post section to fill the sysconfig configuration based on the template * Tue Mar 30 2010 email@example.com - Update to version 0.6.3: + Notes: - Two important bugfixes, one that causes high CPU load in client programs, and one that fixes an odd crash in the libnm-glib threading code. + Libraries: - glib: Add pk_package_sack_filter() and pk_package_sack_remove_by_filter() - glib: Do not generate a PkPackageSack from the package array, instead add packages as they appear - glib: Ensure we remove CLEANUP and FINISHED from the package sack before we run the simulate callback - glib: Fix up a critical warning when installing a file, not a package - qt: Fixed UpdateState enum - python: Fixed packagekit.client.search_file() + New Features: - Add a configure option UseThreadsInBackend so we can more easily debug packagekitd - Break internal python API by supplying a list of filters to the backend, not a delimited list - Add a boolean configure variable 'SimilarNameSearch' to allow skipping swizzle testing. Fixes fdo#27246 - Show PkPackage changes in pkmon for easier debugging + Bugfixes: - Add some missing G_BEGIN_DECLS and G_END_DECLS to fix including from C++ - Be more careful when testing the value of waitpid() to try to debug a problem where the backend appears to exit - Do not crash libdbus when libnm-glib uses it's own context - Do not finish the transaction with success when the spawned backend does a non-finished exit - Do not show installed packages when we choose packages to download - Ensure the Package(finished) signal is always sent during the transaction. Fixes rh#522628 - Fix a nasty segfault if the library check-restart code tries to emit a restart-required - Fix Kubuntu support for upgrade - Fix reporting distribution upgrades by setting the correct property in two places - Never exit the daemon, even when we hit a race in PkSpawn - just cleanup, warn, and continue - Do not call finished before exiting the script due to an error - When realpath fails, do not silently fail but return with an error + Non-zypp backends updates. + Updated translations. - Drop PackageKit-fix-pk-qt.patch: fixed upstream. * Fri Mar 26 2010 firstname.lastname@example.com - Add PackageKit-fix-pk-qt.patch, taken from git, to make libpackagekit-qt work correctly. * Fri Mar 26 2010 email@example.com - Build against mozilla-xulrunner192-devel on openSUSE > 11.2. * Tue Mar 23 2010 email@example.com - Update to version 0.6.2: + Notes: - We broke PackageKit-Qt API in a big way this release. You'll need a new KPackageKit if you're using KDE. - There is a _tiny_ API break in PackageKit-glib2 which means most apps just need a recompile. + Libraries: - PackageKit-glib2: Add pk_control_suggest_daemon_quit() - PackageKit-Qt: Add a Last[enum-type] entry to each type - PackageKit-Qt: Added more constness to the lib - PackageKit-Qt: Drop QObject for Package - PackageKit-Qt: Fix filtersToString and make enumToString more robust - PackageKit-Qt: Fix up a typo that prevents compiling programs that use -pedantic-errors - PackageKit-Qt: Fully automatize the proxy generation - PackageKit-Qt: Moved the package enums to Enum class - PackageKit-Qt: Port tests to current API - PackageKit-Qt: Port the tests to the new Enum class - PackageKit-Qt: Switch from QDbusReply to QDBusPendingReply + New Features: - Add a new library function: pk_package_sack_filter_by_info() - Add a pk_backend_set_speed() helper function - Added autoremove to simulateRemovePackage - Add the eula-required python method helper - Change the python helpers to get sent an array of values, not a delimited string - Define a new error code for when the user declines the simulation - Removed deprecated SetLocale - Show messages in the pkmon output when the task has completed + Bugfixes: - Add the environment variable accepted_eulas to the spawned processes - Add the polkit backend library in LIBADD, not LDFLAGS. Fixes fdo#26373 - Do not run the transaction with only_trusted if the simulation inferred that any packages were unsigned - Ensure that a malicious user can't make the backend exit by injecting a bogus EULA call into the transaction - Fix a logic problem where the PkSpawn and PkBackend instances would race and sometimes issue a pk_backend_finished() when the dispatcher instance was being changed - Initialize relevant GError's in the daemon to NULL - Install the introspection data to the correct location - Update the list of free licences from the Fedora wiki + Backends: - zypp: add more features to repo_set_data - zypp: change policy to download first - Non-zypp backends updates. + Updated translations. - Add gobject-introspection-devel BuildRequires. - Rename libpackagekit-glib2-13 to libpackagekit-glib2-14 and libpackagekit-qt13 to libpackagekit-qt14 after soversion change. - Add workaround to install pm-utils files in libexecdir, since this is how pm-utils is configured in openSUSE. * Fri Mar 19 2010 email@example.com - Add branding infrastructure, and create a PackageKit-branding-upstream. There is some vendor-specific settings that really belongs to branding packages, and we can also change the default configuration there. Fix bnc#471377. - Drop PackageKit_release.patch: this will be done in the branding package. * Thu Mar 18 2010 email@example.com - Update to version 0.6.1: + Backends: - zypp: Add more features to repo_set_data - zypp: Partial support of multiple values for search params - zypp: Work with packagekit-glib2 - Non-zypp backends updates. + New Features: - Add Kubuntu support for upgrade - Add support for the 'interactive' hint in the daemon, and also sent it to the backend - Add a new message enum 'repo-for-developers-only' for repos that should not be used by users - Add sync versions of the PkPackageSack functions - Enable initial introspection support in PackageKit-glib2 - Sort the packages by name in all pkcon results + Bugfixes: - Ensure we enter SETUP before we run the pre-transaction checks - Add a parent object to all the source objects to track the source role and transacton id - Ensure we set an error when the transaction is cancelled - Ensure PkProgress sends ::notify signals when properties change - When adopting a transaction ensure we set the role on the PkResults object - Show the translated role and status when using pkgenpack - Ensure that pkgenpack generates filenames without ';' embedded in them - If the user uses 'pkcon install dave.rpm' then give a useful error message - Fixed packagekit.client.install_packages() in Python bindings - Cache autoremove too in transaction_remove_packages + Updated translations. - Update to version 0.6.0: + New Features: - Remove the deprecated DBus methods from the daemon - Break internal and external API to support OR queries - Add a new error enum 'failed-due-to-running-process' for future code - Add a new config file entry, NoUpdateProcessList that specifies processes that should not be updated when running - glib: Remove the deprecated glib library - packagekit-qt: Removed deprecated methods - packagekit-qt: Added searchNames, searchFiles and searchGroups + Bugfixes: - cnf: Ensure we send error messages to stderr, not stdout. Fixes rh#545220 - Fix a crash where the extra library check file callbacks had the wrong signature - Allow the inhibit call to go through even if cancel is not implemented - packagekit-qt: Improved and fixed transaction handling so does not crash kded module anymore - packagekit-qt: Fixed the naming of the conviniece functions to match the same function + Non-zypp backends updates. + Updated translations. - Update to version 0.5.5: + New Features: - Add a --plain option to pkcon to better support not-running with a console - Moved get_distro id to a daemon property - Fixed one old call to get_distro_id and changed all identifiers to distro;version;arch - Make the scan for desktop files be recursive + Bugfixes: - Switch the signed install permission to require the root password + Many other bugfixes and libraries updates (see NEWS for details) + Non-zypp backends updates. + Updated translations. - Changes from version 0.5.4: + Backends - zypp: Add support for get_mime_types + New Features - Add a vtable entry get_roles() to allow the backend to override what is advertised by the daemon + Many bugfixes and libraries updates (see NEWS for details) + Non-zypp backends updates. + Updated translations. - Changes from version 0.5.3: + Notes: - Quite a few method and property additions and clarifications to the spec, with 7 methods now deprecated. We'll be supporting the deprecated methods all through 0.5.x so client code does not have to worry until 0.6.x. - Support for using idle bandwidth, disk and CPU in some circumstances. - A new 'slapt' backend for slackware packages as a preview release. - This is the first release to use the glib2 library internally. This makes the client tools faster, more stable and more supportable. The headers are also now used in the daemon and many of the synchronous methods are now async. It is not yet recommended for external client programs use packagekit-glib2 as the API is not yet set in stone and may change. This is expected in 0.6.x. + Specification - Add a Speed property to the interface as some users require the download speed - Add a per-Transaction ::Changed() signal and deprecate the other FooChanged() signals - Add OR delimiters to SearchName, SearchDetails, SearchGroup, SearchFile and WhatProvides - Add ElapsedTime and RemainingTime as properties on the Transaction interface - Mandate that ::Files() from DownloadPackages must be one per package, with the package_id set correctly - Deprecate SetLocale() and add another method to replace it, SetHints() - Deprecate ::Locked() and ::NetworkStateChanged() and add properties and a ::Changed() signal + Various small new features, many bugfixes and libraries updates (see NEWS for details) + Non-zypp backends updates. + Updated translations. - Changes from version 0.5.2: + Notes - A new read-only backend for FreeBSD Ports. - New Simulate* methods added to find out what a transaction will do. - Resove() now accepts a package_id as well as a package name. - New properties on the DBus interfaces, with the old methods deprecated. - The new packagekit-glib2 library is experimental and unstable, but is designed to replace the old packagekit-glib library long term. Early testing welcomed. + New Features - Make the browser plugin interaction better - Simulate installing packages and files in pkcon if possible - Add the device rebinding functionality required for the session to install drivers - Add PK_PROVIDES_ENUM_POSTSCRIPT_DRIVER for the new foomatic functionality - Allow resolve to match on an exact package_id - Property names have to be WindowsStyleCaps + Many bugfixes and libraries updates (see NEWS for details) + Non-zypp backends updates. + Updated translations. - Add libgudev-1_0-devel BuildRequires. - Add pm-utils BuildRequires and drop PackageKit-force-pm-utils.patch since the new pm-utils has a pkg-config file. Also remove autoreconf call. - Rebase PackageKit_release.patch to remove part that is fixed upstream. - Drop PackageKit-BNC543595.patch: fixed upstream. - Drop PackageKit-BNC383261-suggest-daemon-quit.patch: this API is now upstream (but the API had changed, so it's named differently) - Drop PackageKit-webyast.patch: fixed upstream. - Rename libpackagekit-glib12 and libpackagekit-glib12-devel to libpackagekit-glib2-13 and libpackagekit-glib2-devel after library name change (note that we don't put the soversion in the devel package name anymore). - Rename libpackagekit-qt12 to libpackagekit-qt13 after soversion change, and rename libpackagekit-qt12-devel to libpackagekit-qt-devel to follow the library policy. Make libpackagekit-qt-devel obsolete libpackagekit-qt12-devel, but not provide it (since it's not the same ABI). - Improve summary of ruck to fix rpmlint warning. * Wed Mar 17 2010 email@example.com - enhanced zypp backend to calculate the download size of a patch while sending the package details. 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The module for the lib is still included - Packagekit-Qt: Switch some QSets to QFlags, because keyToValue() returns int not qint64 - Packagekit-Qt: Adds registration to MessageType - Packagekit-Qt: Fixed Message enum the same way as Filter and Action - Packagekit-Qt: Removed a useless resolv method - Packagekit-Qt: Renamed various enums to have a prefix to avoid conflicts - Python: Add two further helpers get_package_id and split_package_id - Python: Add two helpers format_string and text_to_bool to the backend module + Non-zypp backends updates. - Update PackageKit_release.patch: drop the part that is not needed anymore. - Pass --disable-cron to configure (this is what the old part of PackageKit_release.patch used to do). * Sat Apr 04 2009 firstname.lastname@example.com - Update to version 0.4.6: + Notes: - Lots of profiling lead to many speed increases, most at cold startup - Fixes to command not found for bash 4.0 - Experimental aptcc backend merged, which does not use python-apt at all + New Features: - Add a config variable to be able to turn off the updates cache for debugging - Warn if there are any pending sources at the end of each self test section + Bugfixes: - Make the GTK+ module resident to fix crash when session is reloaded - Only check the transaction database once at startup, to reduce 25ms off the cold start - Don't force SQLite to do fsync in PkTransactionDb, to reduce our cold cache start by 700ms - Don't store the job-id in a separate file, as this adds 37ms to each generate method - Don't allow pk_backend_error_timeout_delay_cb() to be called more than once - Escape the ';' in the UpdateDetail:ChangeLog signal so we can send more than one line - Use the bash 4.0 command_not_found function name to fix new versions of bash - When we get the update detail in pkcon, resolve not-installed packages. 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I am having an issue with both a BackTrack 3 live-cd and live-usb (would that be the correct term?). I have two laptops that I've tried to boot off of, only being able to boot correctly off of one.
The Laptop that does boot is a Compaq Presario V6000, BackTrack has no problems with it. My Compaq Presario F700 on the other hand will boot off of the two listed medias, but will not run off of any of the listed boot settings (i.e. KDE, VESA KDE, etc.). It will start to load the specified boot settings, but will instantly black out the screen. After manually powering down the computer the screen will fill with some boot information, but it doesn't list any errors. It then shuts down.
I am wondering if anyone might know of some custom boot params. that I might use to be able to use BackTrack on this computer (maybe help me get to a shell). I have used google and have spent many hours looking for a solution before posting, but anything that I come across with the same description is some completely different problem.
I hope that I am not bothering anyone with such a trivial circumstance (as seen by some people).
I Thank You for your help and patience in advance,
Doc Haven.
Second, that doesn't help the OP with his problem.
I'm sorry I can't offer you a direct solution , but maybe try some of these boot modifications:
Be sensitive in choosing where you ask your question. You are likely to be ignored, or written off as a loser, if you:
* post your question to a forum where it's off topic
* post a very elementary question to a forum where advanced technical questions are expected, or vice-versa
* cross-post to too many different newsgroups
* post a personal e-mail to somebody who is neither an acquaintance of yours nor personally responsible for solving your problem
It's probably your video card, though I'm surprised it doesn't work in vesa mode. See if you can't find something for drivers for a nVidia GeForce 7000m.
Of course, if you really wanted to have some fun, go to Wal-Mart late at night and ask the greeter if they could help you find trashbags, roll of carpet, rope, quicklime, clorox and a shovel. See if they give you any strange looks. --Streaker69
Thank you all for at least reading and responding to my question.
I tried out the "bt acpi=off" parameter from the wiki, and it seems to be a solution (not completely tested though). I have been able to use KDE and some random programmes without any trouble.
I'm not sure if the problem is with the video card, but it is most likely not a driver issue due to it working properly after adding the "bt acpi=off" parameter to the boot selection. I could however be wrong.
I am glad to have been helped, and am glad to say that your time was not wasted. I'm glad to now join the forum.


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Thursday, September 8 2011 - Other Important News
The NS Interview: Donna Marsh O'Connor, peace activist
For more information on the organization discussed in this interview, Families for Peaceful Tomorrows, and their incredibly great work, please see their website, PeacefulTomorrows.org.
– Ed.
by Sophie Elmhirst
"I can't believe I haven't seen my daughter in ten years"
You lost your daughter in the attacks on the World Trade Center on
9/11. Does the tenth anniversary feel particularly painful?
Do you remember 11 September 2001 clearly?
How did 9/11 transform the US?
Has your perception of your country changed?
Since then, you've become an activist. Why?
What did you feel you had lost?
You have said you would never celebrate the death of Osama Bin Laden.
How do you think President Obama has handled these issues?
Do you believe that Islamophobia is a growing problem in the US?
Is there anything that gives you hope?
Do you vote?
I assume not for the Republicans?
Is there anything you regret?
Is there a plan?
Are we all doomed?
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Mental Marathon Training is a series I started…then took a long hiatus on, but I now have my topics set and I'm ready to get rolling again!
Most marathon plans are laid out to give you a gradual progression of speed work, tempo runs and long runs that will train your body to handle the rigors of 26.2 miles. A few of the plans will also spend a little time talking about mantra's or visualization, but I don't think any of them really tell you how finishing a marathon is nearly 50% mental and 50% physical.
I know a lot of athletes who could run 26.2 miles, but cannot mentally make the leap. So they either never try, start a plan then quit, or commit and then find themselves in a world of anguish on race day. In all of my reading and personal experiences over the last 9 years, I have whittled it down to 10 essential Mental Marathon Training areas:
If for some reason one of the blow podcasts will not load you can access them here
- Body Signals
- Defining success and failure
- Long Run Routine
- Lucky Socks
- Race Day Goals
- Feel Good Fuel
- Accepting Bad Runs
- Visualization (an updated version coming)
- Running Form
- Overcoming Beliefs
Those episodes which have been previously recorded are linked in the list above and additional episodes are coming soon. I hope with the many races coming up that even one of these will help give you a little more pep in your step on race day. I know that a recent post by Emily about digging deep has stuck with me for weeks now and truly made a difference in my own efforts.
Happy Friday! Hope you have taken advantage of the many giveaways I have going right now…there are more coming because I'm just in the mood to give back and say thank you for being such loyal readers! See links in the right hand bar and yesterday's post on all natural hair care.
Gratitude Journal
April 8
I am grateful for vacation days
I am grateful for new running shoes
I am grateful for non-stinky running clothes
I am grateful for beach runs
I am grateful for pleasantly sore muscles


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CHARLOTTE -- March 14, 2013 -- Charlotte 49ers head football coach Brad Lambert will begin the 49ers first official spring practice season on Monday, March 18. The spring practice season will conclude with the 49ers first Spring Game, which will be held Saturday, April 20, at 1 p.m.
"We're excited to get back out on the field," said Lambert. "We'll continue to install our offense and defense and kicking games. We'll take the next step in progressing towards the fall season. We're looking forward to getting set for our spring game on April 20."
The 49ers, who begin play in 2013 as a Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) independent, will move to the Football Bowl Subdivision's (FBS) Conference USA in 2015 and become a full FBS member with bowl eligibility in 2016.
The Charlotte 49ers, who completed their on-campus 15,300-seat football stadium in the fall, will hold practices at both their practice fields and stadium sites during the spring.
The schedule for the 2013 inaugural season is complete.
To purchase Football Seat Licenses (FSLs), fans can contact the 49ers Ticket Office or Athletic Foundation at 704-687-4949 or 704-687-4950.
Aug. 31, 2013 - CAMPBELL (H)
Sept. 7, 2013 - CHOWAN (H)
Sept. 14, 2013 - NC CENTRAL (H)
Sept. 28, 2013 - at Presbyterian (A)
Oct. 5, 2013 - GARDNER WEBB (H)
Oct. 12, 2013 - UNC PEMBROKE (H)
Oct. 26, 2013 - at Charleston Southern (A)
Nov. 2, 2013 - at Coastal Carolina (A)
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Nov. 16, 2013 - at Old Dominion (A)
Nov. 23, 2013 - at Morehead State (A)
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On View
Roy Lichtenstein
Pyramids II
Roy Lichtenstein
American, 1923-1997
Pyramids II, 1969
Oil on canvas
98 x 172.9 cm (38 9/16 x 68 1/16 inches)
Museum purchase with funds from the National Endowment for the Arts 69.081
Roy Lichtenstein's work blurs the line between "high art" and mass-produced popular art. In his early comic-book paintings from the beginning of the Pop Art movement, he illustrated in paint the colored Benday dot screens that commercial lithography uses to reproduce and print images. After this series, Lichtenstein turned to art-historical subjects. He painted a series of famous monuments, including Egypt's Pyramids of Giza. Pyramids II exemplifies his trademark use of primary colors, in this case, only black, white, and yellow, and simplified outlined images. Black outlines separate a vibrant yellow ground from the sky and pyramids, and flat planes of enlarged black dots paradoxically suggest three-dimensional shading.


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By Jennifer Bardsley
One morning this summer I woke up in my 4-year-old's bed, looked over, and saw a horse head.
It was straight out of the movie "The Godfather." Only in my reality, this horse head was purple and attached to a stick. My daughter gave an evil grin and pushed a button, and the stick-horse started to whinny.
That'll teach me to sleep in.
"I wouldn't believe that story except I live in this house and know it to be true," my husband said when I told him.
We're both used to our kids leaving weird stuff around the house all the time. Right now, for instance, there's fake dog poop in our bathtub.
"Don't worry, Mommy," my daughter said about the poop. "It's from China."
I'm not exactly sure how that makes things better.
The fake poop is so realistic-looking that I have to alert dinner guests before they come over that we don't actually own a dog.
"I'm glad you warned me," said a friend who doesn't have children herself. "That poop really caught me by surprise."
In retrospect, I should have also explained to her about the Hexbug larva.
I read a Facebook post from a mom last week asking, "How can I make my 6-year-old keep his room clean?"
Heck if I know.
Yes, my kids have chores. I frequently put them to work with the vacuum cleaner and feather duster. I dock my son's allowance if the table isn't set for dinner. But teaching kids about housework seems to be easier than teaching them to pick up their own trail.
The toys my kids leave in my bedroom are the ones that annoy me the worst: pirate swords, firefighter helmets, fairy wings, Frisbees. If a Realtor walked into our master bedroom right now, he'd probably get the wrong idea.
I know one mom who doesn't even allow her children to come into her bedroom. That's a very bold move in the world of modern parenting.
I am of the philosophy that I want my children to feel welcome in their own home, but not so welcome that they leave detritus all over the place. Like many philosophies, this one's practically useless.
So I clean up and I try to teach my kids to be tidy. We buy less stuff. We donate to Goodwill. Still, the toy clutter crops up.
When things get too bad, I'm even guilty of saying the unthinkable: "Put your toys away right now or they're going in the trash!"
Sometimes you have to make kids an offer they can't refuse.
Jennifer Bardsley blogs at teachingmybabytoread.com.


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CESANA PARIOL, Italy -- Teammates, roommates, friends, Olympic medallists.
Marking the latest chapter in a relationship that helped two Calgarians contribute to Canadian Olympic history, Duff Gibson and Jeff Pain claimed gold and silver in Olympic skeleton yesterday.
It's only the third time Canadians have finished first and second in the same event at the Winter Games.
"To come across the line to have my wife there, my best friend, my teammates ... just fantastic," said an emotional Gibson, a Calgary firefighter who was mobbed in the finish area when his final run landed him 26 one-hundredths of a second ahead of Pain.
"Our relationship has gone through a lot of changes over the years and if we had stayed separate and fought, we would not have reached this point."
The reigning world champ and heavy favourite heading into the event, Pain set the table for the dramatic finish by narrowly averting a crash heading into the final turn to post the best time with one slider remaining -- Gibson, who won the first heat.
His smooth run left no doubt he'd turned a 10th-place finish in Salt Lake City into gold.
"Of course I wanted to win gold, but I knew at that moment we had two medals -- that's the most important thing," said Pain, 35, who offered his teammate a "Let's go get 'em" between the two runs.
"I didn't really care if he beat me. To be one-two on a podium with a friend is awesome."
Gibson's winning run bumped Calgary teammate Paul Boehm to fourth, putting only the slightest damper on a celebration they'd quietly talked about being a Canadian sweep for years.
"There were no mixed emotions -- I was happy," said Boehm, 31 who immediately joined the post-race celebrations with a healthy crowd of Canadian fans who sang O Canada.
"My first thought was that I was just excited for Duff and Jeff and then I saw their wives and I started crying."
Tears flowed throughout the night as Gibson lived an Olympic dream he has had since he was 10 years old.
A former Alberta speed skating champ who left bobsled to try skeleton seven years ago, Gibson said it took years to settle into a sport he used to make fun of as a bobsledder.
Part of those growing pains included a rift between him and Pain for some time.
"Two years ago, I had been a very selfish athlete and when I injured my foot, I told Duff I had been a bad teammate and hoped that we could work together," said Pain, who rooms with Gibson on the road.
"I was really lucky -- I took a chance and we've achieved more together than we could have apart."
The oldest true athlete on the Canadian team at age 39, Gibson said wrapping up a season full of injury and sled problems with Olympic gold is the perfect time for him to leave the sport.
"It has been a dream of mine to go out on top," said the Toronto-born Gibson as his wife Jennifer clutched Pain's wife Alyson.
"For awhile I thought I would stick around until the first World Cup in Calgary next season, but because I finished where I did today that was it -- that was my last two runs."
The only other Canadian Olympians to finish one-two were 500-metre long track speed skaters Catriona Le May Doan and Susan Auch in 1998 and 500-metre short trackers Marc Gagnon and Jonathan Guilmette in 2002.


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Press Release - Sessions: American Families and Small Businesses Deserve Greater Tax Certainty
WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Congressman Pete Sessions (R-TX), Chairman of the House Rules Committee, today released the following statement regarding House passage of H.R. 644, Fighting Hunger Incentive Act of 2015, and H.R. 636, America's Small Business Tax Relief Act of 2015:


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30 YEARS AGO: AFTER weeks of anxiety, Bolton Wanderers were starting to look a safe bet for Division Two survival after a 3-2 win at Cambridge United.
Neil Whatmore's late winner – his 100th league goal for Wanderers –- ended Cambridge's resistance at the Abbey Stadium, where the home side twice came from behind, and put Stan Anderson's side five points clear of the drop zone. With five games to play, they were starting to breathe a lot easier.
It was anything but a comfortable ride for Wanderers, who had Peter Nicholson, Dusan Nikolic and Alan Gowling booked while Cambridge had skipper Steve Fallon sent off 10 minutes from time for kicking John Thomas right under the referee's nose.
Wanderers almost ended up with 10 men themselves when Peter Reid, who had already been booked for dissent, got away with a blatant bit of shirt-tugging on Lyndsay Smith, who was one of three Cambridge players booked.
Wanderers worked hard for the points. They twice led with goals from Reid and Nikolic, and, although manager Anderson admitted he would have settled for 2-2 at the end, Whatmore's winner was well deserved.
Brian Kidd, level with Whatmore as the club's joint leading scorer, was the latest big name player to be lured by the razamataz of "soccer" American style.
Kidd, the former Manchester United, Arsenal, Manchester City and Everton striker, was in talks with representatives of Atlanta Chiefs who wanted to take him to the States at the end of the season.
Anderson approved the switch after Kidd assured Wanderers he would be back at Burnden Park the following season.
"Bolton is obviously my priority," Kidd said. "So if there are any legal difficulties affecting my career with Bolton, I'll forget the whole thing."
Bolton's newest sports star, Tony Knowles, was being tipped to shine as the world snooker championships got under way at Sheffield's Crucible Theatre.
Knowles, who was just 22, booked himself a place at the finals by beating Canada's Jim Wych 9-3 in the final qualifying round. He was drawn against fellow Englishman Graham Miles in the first round and was scheduled to play world champion Cliff Thorburn if he got through.
Another local player, three-time world champion John Spencer, was also competing at Sheffield.
Horwich's popular professional Mudassar Nazar offered local cricket enthusiasts a treat when he revealed he had received assurances that West Indies pace trio Andy Roberts, Michael Holding and Collis King would play in his testimonial and that, right out of the blue, his fellow Pakistan international Imran Khan had phoned him to say he wanted to take part in the May Day match between a Horwich XI and an All Stars team led by Rohan Kanhai.
30 YEARS AGO: WORLD Cup fever cranked up a notch when England manager Alf Ramsey named his preliminary list of 40 players who would carry the hopes of the host nation in the summer's finals.
Peter Osgood, the 19-year-old centre forward who was making a big name for himself in his first season at Chelsea, was one of the surprise inclusions.
Martin Peters, the in-form West Ham wing-half, was another unexpected choice.
But there were many familiar figures in Ramsey's list, with the north well represented.
Six of the seven full backs were from the region and established stars like the Charlton brothers – Bobby and Jack – Alan Ball, John Connelly and Nobby Stiles were all predictable selections.
The preliminary squad did not have to be named until the end of May but was announced early in order to give clubs a chance to plan ahead. The final 22, which was not allowed to be changed, had to be notified to FIFA by July 3.
On the domestic front, Derek Temple and Fred Pickering got the goals that gave First Division Everton a 2-0 victory over Second Division Manchester City in a second replay at Molineux to finally book the Toffees' an FA Cup semi-final date with Manchester United.
The Everton-United duel would take place at Burnden Park and Wanderers most loyal fans were rewarded by being included on the priority list for match tickets.
The much-maligned British heavyweight Jack Bodell was on the verge of ramming the words of his critics down their throats by landing a world title shot.
Bodell was preparing to take on Thad Spencer, sixth in the world rankings, at Manchester and plans were in place for the winner to challenge Ernie Terrell, the WBA champion.
West Ham's chances of retaining the European Cup Winners Cup suffered a serious setback when they lost 3-1 at home to West German side Borussia Dortmund in the first leg of their semi-final. Celtic and Liverpool were paired in the other semi-final.
20 YEARS AGO: TONY Philliskirk scored his 24th goal of the season in Wanderers' 3-1 victory over Birmingham City and predicted they were just four wins away from winning automatic promotion back to the Second Division.
Third in the table with a four-point lead over fourth-placed Tranmere Rovers and with just six games to play, Phil Neal's men were in pole position to take one of the top-three places.
"We still have six hard games to go and I don't want to count our chickens but if we can win four of them, that could be enough," said a confident Philliskirk.
Even the usually reserved Neal said: "The race is hotting up – bubbling nicely. The best thing for football is the three points for a win –- things can change so quickly."
Philliskirk, cheered on by his wife Lesley who was due to give birth to their first child at any time, gave Wanderers the lead on 33 minutes, set up Julian Darby to head the second then was grateful to his new strike partner Tony Cunningham – signed for £70,000 from local promotion rivals Bury – for saving his blushes.
Philliskirk missed a sitter after Tony Gayle had pulled one back for Lou Macari's Blues, and ,with the visitors forcing no fewer than eight corners in pursuit of an equaliser, was mightily relieved when Cunningham scored his first goal in Bolton colours to make the game safe.
Cunningham's old Bury team-mates lost ground when they could only manage a 1-1 draw at Preston.
Battle-weary Wigan – stretched by a sequence of 10 games in 35 days – beat Castleford 24-4 to register their 15th consecutive win to set up a potenial title-decider against Widnes.
Nick Faldo delivered an astonishing attack on his fellow players three days before embarking on the defence of his US Masters title.
The Englishman, hoping to make history by winning the Masters for a third year running, called into question the technical ability of rivals Paul Azinger, and Greg Norman; Payne Stewart's colourful outfits; and the attitude of Curtis Strange.
Former world heavyweight champion Larry Holmes took just 123 seconds to beat Tim Anderson in a comeback fight at the age of 41.