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RIGHT or WRONG? Conflict mediation
- December 14, 2006
- By John Rutledge
RIGHT or WRONG?
Conflict mediation
We've had some relational breakdowns in our congregation. Some have suggested that we contact a conflict-mediation expert. Does that idea have merit?
The heart of your question hinges on the word "some." Does "some" mean 60 percent of the congregation has taken a position in total opposition to the remainder of the congregation? On the other hand, does "some" mean the two most forceful leaders in the congregation have reached an impasse on a particular issue or personality? In either case, the congregation might, through conversation, time and grace, be able to resolve the issue on its own. Alternatively, it may well be that issues are so strong and nerves so frayed that the perspective of a skilled listener with training in mediation could be a positive step toward healing the congregation.
Many times when a congregation calls upon a mediator, the conflict centers upon a staff member who has left or is about to leave the congregation. "Some" want to make a change. "Some" felt the staff member was treated unjustly. In this case, someone, who can be trusted by nearly everyone, who can look at a situation with a fresh pair of eyes, can be invaluable to resolving the issues. Skilled mediators can find the common ground shared by the congregation and help re-establish trust. Sometimes, mediators have to do the hard work of helping the congregation stand up to the bully in the room and reclaim the congregation for the good of the whole.
One more added advantage to the mediator is the objectivity of examining the historic trends within the congregation. From their very inception, many congregations are blessed with a unity of spirit, a shared goal, a love for one another and a mutual desire to see every member of the congregation thrive. A healthy cycle develops in the congregational culture that declares how the congregation will handle difficult issues.
Other churches seem to be plagued with disagreement and conflict from their inception. Consequently, an unhealthy cycle develops in the congregational culture, and members develop bad habits as to how they handle matters. A trusted mediator is able to see the long view of the congregation and spot patterns that are destructive to the life of the congregation. With an honest and open perspective, the congregation can develop a covenant and a strategy for enabling the church to resolve matters and move forward in clear steps.
I would offer the suggestion that if your congregation is considering a mediator, ask for references from previous churches that person has assisted. Contact those referencesboth Baptist churches and churches affiliated with other denominationsand listen to their stories. Do not tell yours. Just listen. Listen to how the mediator helped them see themselves and the mission of the church. Listen to how the mediator recognized their needs and worked to resolve those issues. Listen to the tone of their voice as to how they grew to trust the mediator. Most of the time, these reference calls not only serve as a signal as to whether you are contacting the right person, but they also serve as a beacon of hope, that you, too, can get past this issue and be the presence of Christ in your community.
Stacy Conner, pastor
First Baptist Church


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1. 20 CHICKEN RINGS from White Castle have 1,760 calories. That's 85% of a woman's recommended daily allowance . . . and takes three hours of high-impact aerobics to burn off.
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3. A McDonald's BIG BREAKFAST has 1,350 calories. That takes four hours of cycling.
4. A KFC 10-piece bag of CHICKEN BITES has 1,300 calories. That would take five hours of dancing.
5. The Wendy's three-quarter-pound DAVE'S HOT 'N' JUICY burger has 1,120 calories. That's four hours of bowling.
6. A STEAK and WHITE CHEDDER on baguette from Panera Bread has 980 calories. That takes two hours of low-impact aerobics to burn off.
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9. The Subway MEGA MELT on FLATBREAD with egg has 660 calories. You'll need to rollerblade for an hour.
10. And a SLICE of Pizza Hut's 14-inch LARGE MEAT LOVER'S PAN PIZZA has 470 calories. That's an hour's worth of weight training.

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> Sounds like the FreeBSD kernel didn't detect your disk (controller). Did
> you spot any kernel messages that would indicate that it found your
> server's SCSI controller (and I just blindly assume you've got SCSI
> disks in that server ;), or device da0 (first SCSI disk)?
Yes, you're right, it's a SCSI-RAID-Controller. No, I couldn't spot any
message, but they went by really fast and I couldn't scroll back
(because that triggered the reboot). But I assume it would enable the
SCSI disks somewhere in the end where it also enables the CD-ROM drive.
So probably the RAID controller isn't supported.
Sorry that I didn't think about that myself, but I assumed everything
went right because it seemed to boot normally...
> Also, if that server has a spare PATA slot where you can fit in an
> IDE<->CF adapter, you're probably better off using that instead of HDs...
The PATA controller has only the CD-ROM drive attached, so there should
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6/24/09 07:40AMMoonlight_Magic
|Hi, i have a couple of questions for those of you who seem to have somewhat large bladders.
1 Do you ever wish that your bladder was a more normal size or do you prefer having a larger bladder?
2 Do you find that having a larger bladder enhances your fetish or hinders it?
The reason i ask is that sometimes i can find having a larger bladder a bit of a nusiance. For example, It can take hours for me to fill it up enough to what one would consider desperate to pee (although i get very strong bladder spasms at around 900 mls i can stretch my bladder up to 1.9 liters if made to continue holding). Secondly i dont seem to be able to lose bladder control and wet and neither can i initiate urination anywhere i feel its inappropriate to urinate (ie a public place, or sitting in a car etc), so regardles of how badly i need to pee my desperation can drag on for hours and hours unless i find somewhere suitable and voluntarily urinate.
As a result i sometimes feel that my holding partners would prefer it if i had a more normal bladder.
If you too have a larger bladder, what has been your experience regarding the above?
6/24/09 07:42AMMoonlight_Magic
whlist im here, im considering doing some videos for xtube. Would
anyone be remotely interested in seeing me piss nearly 2 liters after a
good hold?
6/24/09 08:09AMluvmybladder4
you pose an interesting question. My maximum capacity is around 1100
ml and normal daily is much less. I've often wished for a superbladder
like yours. BUUT, would I trade my ability to lose bladder control,
along with the other negatives you mention, for the capacity increase? I
have to say "no" as the loss of control is one of my most enjoyable
aspects of this fetish.
On your PS, both I and I'll bet many others would be VERY interested in watching you empty that mighty bladder!
6/24/09 09:00AMbluemonday25
my bladder is quite average, about 750ml before the pain becomes
unbearable. I would prefer to have a larger bladder, because I find
the holding and the releasing to be the most arousing aspect of this
fetish. I am not at all into losing control, or having accidents. I
also have a suspicion that those with large bladders, experience greater
pleasure when they release their huge tanks at one time, than someone
who takes a normal piss.(anyone else think this is true?) And there are
other benefits, such as long road trips!
I don't have a holding partner, but if I did I would be honored to hold wih a champion bladder, who could inspire me to hold more.
MM, I say go for it if you like,and I'm sure we would all really appreciate you sharing. I've always wondered what a 2 litre piss would look like. Take care.
6/24/09 11:26AMPeter-P
|Hi Moonlight_Magic
I really would like to see one or a few of your best (near or even real) 2 liters pisses!
But I also would love to see how you cope with urges, spasms and major spasms after overfilling your strong bladder to 1950+ mls...! As you seem to be a really brave and strong fighter and not just the "owner" of a very expandable water-"bag"
Regarding the capacity and never ending desperation phase:
Did you try holding a lot when wearing really tight clothes (really tight and non stretching jeans, etc)?
Did you try holding a lot when wearing a strong training corset or disciplin corset, limiting your capacity?
Did you try to fill your bladder to a level above the 900 mls and then squeeze your bladder into tight clothes/corset?
Did you try to fill your bladder to top level (1900+ mls) and then squeeze your bladder into tight clothes/corset?
If you like to find your limit, I think one of thes ideas will bring you to even your limit.
But, please be careful, when you squeeze your overfilled bladder into tight clothes/corset...!
And a 3rd idea:
What do you think about uploading your video as a file to e.g. GigaPeta or any other place in a higher than xtube quality...?
6/24/09 11:27AMgottago
|Hi MM!
I too, like you seem to feel it takes forever for my bladder to fill to be super desperate. I start getting those spasms, or strong urges around 500ml but when I get past that they calm down and my muscles learn to just hold tight and not let go at that point. I start to leak around 800-900ml but that's when I get up and walk. But my major spasms and major leaking isn't until about 1,000-1,100 ml. My max I've measured was 1,150 ml. I wish it wouldn't take so long for my bladder to fill. Sometimes I think I get a little dehydrated because I don't always drink a lot so my body just needs it and it doesn't go into my bladder as quickly. I do also think I retain water at certain times and that hinders the process as well.
I, too don't loose full bladder control. I think my leaking prevents me from doing that because it relieves the pressure. I think it is harder to go in the car in which I think it has something to do with the sitting and the position of everything inside and also the pressure isn't as great. But I can go to the bathroom at anytime at the 'drop of a hat'. Yes, I would love to see your video. Almost 2L is a super amount!
6/24/09 02:18PMSnacer
|Hi, Moonlight_Magic!
"1 Do you ever wish that your bladder was a more normal size or do you prefer having a larger bladder?"
I prefer to have big bladder (my record is 1860 ml), and I wish it will even increase in future. Big bladder is convenient, because I don't need to go to the toilet often, and if it's no good toilet around, I can hold it for a long time. I begin feel desperate when I have about 1L in bladder, but can hold it imperceptibly for others till I have about 1.4L in bladder.
"Secondly i dont seem to be able to lose bladder control and wet"
I also never have accidents, last was in childhood when I was 4 y.o., since that time I never peed myself. It seems like my sphincter is stronger than my bladder. I mean, my bladder aching very bad and became hard as wood when I'm bursting to pee, but if I try to hold it, I can squeeze sphincter and prevent peeing myself. When I refuse holding, I do it because of very strong pain in bladder, but not because of inability to hold my pee inside. I don't sure is it good or not. On the one hand, I like that I have such strong spincter and can control myself very good, and also because of it I can fill my bladder till almost bursting state (I like theese feelings, it's exciting for me). But on the other hand, I want feel how it is - wet myself accidentally.
"2 Do you find that having a larger bladder enhances your fetish or hinders it?"
I sure that having big bladder enhances my fetish. I ilke to feel my bladder when it's big and hard, and I want to make my bladder even bigger.
"PS whlist im here, im considering doing some videos for xtube. Would anyone be remotely interested in seeing me piss nearly 2 liters after a good hold?"
Of course, MM, it's great idea! Especially, it would be great to see your bulging bladder (while sitting, standing, laying on back) before peeing. It would be great to see how much you bulging and how you holding your pee. It will be excellent if you'll make this video, and I very want to see it. But why X-tube? X-tube makes not good quality of video. May be you can upload file to some hosting (sendspace.com, gigapeta.com, etc...) in better quality than X-tube?
6/24/09 03:05PMluke1980
|Unfortunately my bladder is not very big: at 700ml the pain is incredible and my record is 850ml!
i think that have a big bladder is very hot for people who have our fetish. i hope to increase my bladder capacity
6/24/09 10:38PMwatchingherhold
|Hello MM, you goddess of the piss-holding world.
1. Alas, odd as it may seem and awkward as it is to admit, I am not particularly into holding myself, although I have been known to on occasion, though mostly unintentionally (There was something interesting on TV and I didn't feel like missing any of it to go to the bathroom, that sort of thing). As a side-effect of this non-fetish, I have never measured my capacity and doubt it to be great.
2. Ah, here is where I seem to get really odd. You see, as my very title would suggest, my fetish lies in watching or reading about others holding, particularly females. I always love to read stories about girls who like to savour their full, bulging bladders, who may even want them to swell and bulge even more (a pity there are so few of those sort of stories to be found). I do notice, though, that I do tend to get more turned on when my bladder is filling (like now, as I type ;P), and usually seem to get a better "response" than I do with an empty bladder.
P.S. YES!!! I freely admit that I've been waiting for a long time for you to pose that question, and my answer is a resounding yes! I, and probably everyone else on this board, would absolutely love to see your magnificent bladder in all its massive glory, and its legendary release on film.
Btw, if I may pose a counter-proposal to you, have you ever considered trying to hold even more than your record 1.9 liters? Perhaps even forcing yourself to by, I dunno, handcuffing yourself to a chair, or even sealing your urethra shut somehow so that, even at such an immense capacity, you still couldn't pee even if you wanted to?
My apologies if any of the above have hit any raw nerves or made you in any way uncomfortable.
6/25/09 07:46AMPeter-P
|Hi again Moonlight_Magic
Snacer writes:
Of course, MM, it's great idea! Especially, it would be great to see your bulging bladder (while sitting, standing, laying on back) before peeing. It would be great to see how much you bulging and how you holding your pee. It will be excellent if you'll make this video, and I very want to see it.
That is a good idea!!!
Please MM, do some exercised showing us how hard you have to fight and how rockhard your bladder is.
How you handle urges, spasms, cramps, major spasms, etc.
Also please show us how different movements or positions work in this extreme state: standing up from a chair and sit down, walk, go up and down stairs, lay down and stand up, etc...
Also some exercises to make it a little harder, as sit-ups, or higher leg lifts, Sholva pressing onto your bladder, etc.
I mean not one of those vids showing a few minutes (of many) about holding, then telling how hard it is and then let go pee, etc. - but a little documentation showing us how you live when your bladder is that extremely overfilled to nearly bursting and ripping part, but you are able to wait as long as you like - even cope with the normal tasks of your life - including all kinds of movements or extreme exercises as standing the external extra pressure of Sholva trying to press your bladder to leak etc.
Please let us find out how you feel, how you handle the situations and how you have to fight to be able to do all this.
Thank you for your offer to make a video
6/25/09 02:43PMKatrina
I say this because medical text volumes given for the human bladder go as high as 1000ml.
Hence, it would seem holding up to 1000ml is a matter of will-power and self-restraint, unless you are really leaking in spurts before then in which case you might have a small bladder.
These days, I'm having a great deal of trouble holding back more than 1.1L of urine.
Technically this might put me in the 1L+ range, but right now I barely qualify.
So, I am answering these questions in the past tense, to a time when I was able to hold back a lot more pee than I've been able to recently.
Now, to answer the question – no.
I very much preferred having a large bladder, and wish to have a large ( 1L to 2L ) bladder again.
I have always found having a larger "max limit" enhances it, but I can kind of see what you're talking about.
Why it would hinder it if the volume at which the urge developed were also large.
For me, the best thing about a large bladder was I could enjoy for hours the intensity of being able to manage holding in a wicked urge to pee; which of course isn't possible once someone reaches their "physical limits". Having a physically large enough bladder meant, not only could I handle intense feelings of being desperate to piss:
1.) I could enjoy it without reaching a "physical limit" much longer.
2.) If I had to, I could handle real life situations of not being able to go with less worry about reaching the point where it's not possible to hold it anymore.
But if my bladder took to long to fill?
I've never had this experience before.
But if I ever did, then yes, I like it better to have the amount where I start "feeling it" smaller.
I guess you could say, as long as I have a "tough" or "flexible/stretchy" bladder – having a larger limit enhances my fetish.
But if I ever found my bladder was just "large form the start",
especially if the difference between when I "first feel it" and when I "can't stretch it anymore" was small - then that would hinder my enjoyment.
The reason i ask is that sometimes i can find having a larger bladder a bit of a nusiance. For example, It can take hours for me to fill it up enough to what one would consider desperate to pee (although i get very strong bladder spasms at around 900 mls i can stretch my bladder up to 1.9 liters if made to continue holding). Secondly i dont seem to be able to lose bladder control and wet and neither can i initiate urination anywhere i feel its inappropriate to urinate (ie a public place, or sitting in a car etc), so regardles of how badly i need to pee my desperation can drag on for hours and hours unless i find somewhere suitable and voluntarily urinate.
Well, I've never considered it "too large".
I do understand what you are talking about though.
And yes, that would hinder rather than enhance this fetish for me.
To me "too large" would refer to how much my bladder had to fill before I first start to feel the urge.
For "maximum limit", how long I can hold in that feeling before I run out of room, bigger is better.
As for the part about never "loosing" bladder control – GAW'D I WISH I HAD YOUR GIFT!!!
I've always been the type to instinctively resist peeing until I couldn't stand it anymore.
I've never known why, I've just always been like that when it comes to not going pee for as far back as I can remember.
When the whole thing with my boobs and uterus growing too soon for the rest of me started (Certain parts of my body seriously misread the memo about when puberty was supposed to start, so I had a 13 year old's uterus and breasts when the rest of me was about 8 or 9), my bladder got squished between a teenager's uterus and a little kid's hip bones. For a girl like me, that was absolutely horrible.
From about age 9, the "small tickle" would start about 30 minutes to an hour or so after my last trip to the bathroom. It was really hard to ignore, quickly grew into a clear urge, and it was very hard to handle the feeling. It was never more than an hour after a trip to the bathroom before I started feeling like I had to go again; and 2 or 3 hours before the urge to urinate was driving me so far out of my mind I couldn't even think strait – I just wanted to pee any chance I could get.
Once I made up my mind I wasn't going to let my bladder get away with making me go when ever it wanted to anymore, and started practicing trying to make it bigger, I was able to extend how long I could handle the feeling without going. But my "physical limit" didn't go up until the rest of me started catching up with the parts that decided to become a woman 4 years too early. By the time I started measuring capacity my hips had caught up, giving my pelvis the normal amount of room, and I measured my "max" at about 650ml to 750ml.
The most I've ever held was 1506ml. But I've always started feeling a slight "tickle to pee" after about the same amount of time between trips to the ladies room; roughly an hour or so. (Although my proportions have grown to be normal, and quite lovely IMHO thank you, on the inside I still have a small problem with my uterus being tipped to far over, so it still tends to press down on my bladder more than it should.)
Recently I've measured "the tickle" at 175ml, "clear urge" to be 225ml, which I think is normal to a little on the small side; and an urge starting to spread up the front of my bladder at around 375ml. The only things to have gotten "larger" are how well I manage holding it back; and what my "max physical limit" is. And those are good things to make larger…so I am happy as it is.
~ Autumn
6/26/09 03:26AMwtlinda
I like having a larger bladder a lot.
It very much enhances my fetish. I can get desperate without taking a great deal of time by planning ahead: I eat very light that day so there's plenty of room in my stomach for water and liquids, and there's no irritating water retention from the salt in food. Then I drink a whole lot, maybe 20 oz (~ 600 ml) every 15-20 minutes, or as soon as there's room in my stomach for more. At that rate I get full in 1-2 hrs and really desperate by 2 hrs. I like holding, but only after I can feel my bladder. I enjoy the feeling of it getting fuller, so I prefer these quicker holds. I can get impatient with the longer ones where there's no noticable increase in pressure in my bladder for long periods of time. I've done them to see if they result in a greater holding capacity, but I'm not sure yet whether that's actually the case for me. I sometimes get bladder spasms that can ruin a hold for me, which is extremely irritating when it happens early on, before I get to my capacity. I mean, I like having accidents, but only if I'm truly very desperate, and not as a result of these kinds of early spasms. I don't seem to have iron sphincter muscles like you do. Its almost a matter of thinking it makes it so - I think "I'm not going to lose it and wet myself, I'm not, and then my bladder starts spasming and it starts spurting out! Is this a 'nervous bladder' type of thing? This happens sometimes, and other times I don't have that problem, or at least not until I've reached my capacity. But it totally amazes me that you - or anyone - can have bladder spasms and still not wet. The only way I've been able to do that is with sexual stimulation. I'm not totally sure how or why that works, but it does. Is it just a strong distraction, or does it cause the sphincter muscles to contract and stay tight? I don't know, probably the latter. I also like wetting, very much, and having a larger bladder means more copious wettings, longer wettings, and wettings that are much more exciting for me and others - partners or potential partners - who are into it.
As far as you posting holding/peeing videos, I'm not sexually into other females holding/peeing but I'd definitely like to see yours out of curiousity, and I know you'd make some people at xtube very happy if you posted any there!
6/26/09 09:18AMMoonlight_Magic
|Thankyou for the replies, im reading through them all.
When i say my bladder takes a long time to fill i mean it takes quite a long time for it to reach its limit. When i say my limit i mean the maximum capacity i can tolerate pain wise. At 1.9 liters i can no longer tolerate the discomfort and urinate voluntarily. I have not tried pushing further than that to see if i would wet if i continued to hold. Then again i though that i would wet if i continued to hold past my limit when it was 1.5 liters but my bladder just seemed to stretch again. I guess it must have a point where it refuses to stretch anymore. I was once told, when i used to practice yoga regularly, that i was unusually flexible joint wise, so maybe my bladdr follows suit lol.
To answer peters first reply, no ive not tried wearing tight clothing or a corset but i may well try that at some point in the future. I have had sholva press on my bladder and i do know that when im very very full i may leak very slightly during sex, I can also get a very small dribble when or if i cough or laugh hard when im holding 1.5 plus. However the leaking is not substancial or does not progress into full blown wetting (ie not enough to even leave a noticeable wet patch on the bedding the majority of the time).
Sorry if there are any typos in this post, i slashed my hand earlier on a glass whilst doing the washing up (damn thing just broke), was patched up by a nice paramedic with some dermabond, steristrips and a bandage so my typing is a little slow today as a result.
I also bled all over sholvas kitchen..,
Not exactly the kind of leakage or accident that one would hope for, i know...
6/27/09 04:29AMPeter-P
|Get well soon, Moonlight_Magic !
I hope the cut was not too deep and will heal quick and without any complications nor too much pain!
is it possible, that you get these early spasms when drinking too fast?
Normally a bladder reacts with urges and in extreme with spasms against quick and extreme expansion...
6/27/09 10:03AMbursting_2_piss
- Have you ever wished that your bladder was a more normal size or do you prefer having a larger bladder?
I like having a big bladder! I like it for the convenience of being able to hold it a long time, and less worry of
where the next toilet is. My biggest pee ever was measured at 1892 ml; my bladder can hold as much as
1000ml - 1200 ml in a normal everyday situation and be, at worst, "uncomfortable but ok"; its only above that
level I start to get fidgety and start to consider it "getting urgent".
- 2 Do you find that having a larger bladder enhances your fetish or hinders it?
I find it enhances it! I recently played a game with a friend where we only get to pee every
12 hrs like clockwork. (we tried something like every 8 but it proved to be not
that challenging to our bladders). My bladder released 1300 ml - 1450 ml at my
scheduled pee breaks. I find being able to hold large volumes exciting and stimulating
and find the same very attractive in a partner; I also like when my partner finds my
abilities exciting. Its nice, in a couple situation, to be able to agree that "we'll just wait and
train our bladders" and hold the urge for some hours together. Admittedly it takes longer
to get "really full" but that just means you have to start earlier and wait longer, by denying
the bladder relief starting some hours earlier in the day.
- i get very strong bladder spasms at around 900 mls i can stretch my bladder up to 1.9 liters if made to continue holding.
I'm about the same, I measured and noticed my responses during my recent holding games and sometimes. When my
bladder is in a "bad mood", it might spasm as early as 950 ml, although when my bladder is happy the spasms tend
to start closer to 1300 ml.
- i dont seem to be able to lose bladder control and wet and neither can i initiate urination anywhere i feel its inappropriate to urinate
This is where we differ! One I reach the point of bladder spasms, all bets are off. The earlier ones I can usually fight by concentrating
on holding with all my strength. As I pass the 1400 ml + mark they could very well cause me to be unable to hold it (although I don't
wet, I run to the toilet, but if I made myself not get up and run and try to hold anyway, I'm sure I'd lose some pee).
- As a result i sometimes feel that my holding partners would prefer it if i had a more normal bladder.
I prefer a partner who prefers me the way I am. If that made sense
- whlist im here, im considering doing some videos for xtube. Would anyone be remotely interested in seeing me piss nearly 2 liters?
LOL, do you really need to ask? Yes please!!!
6/27/09 09:32PMholdingonhard
am sure that we would all like to see your xtube videos.I don't have
any lesbian leaning but it is always interesting to see someone hold to
I have always found a big bladder to be an advantage. My max is 1600ml but that is when I drink a lot quickly. I can't seem to last as long when it is the result of a "normal" day's worth of fluid. In fact, some days at work I find myself dancing when I know that my bladder can hold more but if the urine is concentrated I can't wait too long. I also don't want to seem desperate at work so I get edgy more quickly than when I am at home.
I do sometimes worry that I have stretched my bladder too much and that it willl come back to haunt me. I have been told that holding too often will give you a "floppy" bladder and that can lead to incontinence. Since I am NOT into wetting, only desperation that worries me.
I guess to answer your questions- I am glad that I don't have a small bladder and yes, I would watch an Xtube video of desperation.
Have a great night!
6/28/09 01:56AMwtlinda
I don't think drinking water fast is the cause of the early spasms. I
can hold to capacity or near it, it seems, regardless of whether I drink
water fast or let my bladder fill slowly. When I get the early spasms
they seem to be caused by other factors.
7/6/09 01:46PMtnt1p
|I would like to see you holding to max on x tube.
I think a larger bladder is an advantage, although mine is not that large, my max is 1200 but i start to leak a bit around the 800 mark if i move around. Although i dont loose control completly it gets too painful at close to 1200 and my bladder feels rock hard.
7/6/09 01:47PMtnt1p
|I would like to see you holding to max on x tube.
I think a larger bladder is an advantage, although mine is not that large, my max is 1200 but i start to leak a bit around the 800 mark if i move around. Although i dont loose control completly it gets too painful at close to 1200 and my bladder feels rock hard.
7/6/09 07:50PMWS-Guru
too, like most --- don't have a huge bladder, but it's a comfort to
know that every time I take a trip somewhere a mere 500mL isn't going to
be what makes me have to stop in the middle of travel. Although I have
yet to eclipse the 1-liter mark myself (yet, possibly?) - the sensation
of a full bladder is what I enjoy. Does it enhance the feeling of sexual
experiences? Yes, to a point --- more so if the female I'm with is also
into the fetish. I'm not much for wetting, so my enjoyment usually
concludes when my bladder can no longer hold anymore - and I measure
what I've been able to hold inside. From what I've heard females have
gained a much more pleasurable sensation from being (at the very least)
comfortably full. Having said that, would sexual contact be better if I
was with a female partner who was currently holding a massive amount ---
yes, given she is comfortable enough to enjoy it herself. Hope that
pretty well explains my views, holding/desperation is really a key
point(s) here with this fetish, so enjoying it to the most and helping
females enjoy it to the most is what I'm all about.
Moonlight Magic, I'm sure I speak for hundreds by saying....even just the sight of seeing a beautiful woman void such a large amount would be a time that would not soon be forgotten. The determination and self-will to remain strong and hold it all in until you've reached even 1500-1700 mL is a true testament to your desire to wanna increase your volume. I would FULLY enjoy seeing you (or any woman, I've also had the privilege of seeing "wtlinda" void an amazing amount as well on xtube) - burst with whatever your maximum hold would be. If it be 600mL or 1600 mL ---- the ability and desire to hold on until your body just no longer can is what sets you ladies apart from those who give in early. My hat continues to be off to you all for your amazing abilities to hold such large amounts.
Cannot wait to see the outcome of this thread!
7/8/09 04:52PMNerissa
don't find having a large-ish bladder affects the fetish at all, but
then, I drink far, far more fluids than is probably normal, so it
wouldn't take long for my bladder to fill anyway - I've looked at these
24 hour holds that people have done recently, I just don't think I could
drink as little as 3 1/2 litres of water in a 24 hour period! I'm a
6-litre a day girl, I think because I get a dry mouth really easily, and
I think that excludes being a 24-hour all-day girl, although if I ever
kick the water habit I'll give it a go.
Medical training, now that'll kill a fetish for you. Although the current rotation has killed my whole sex drive I've become a 24-hour medical-brain girl with no space in my head for any of the other stuff that makes me, me...
10/27/09 01:26AMPottyParityPariah83
|1 Do you ever wish that your bladder was a more normal size or do you prefer having a larger bladder?
I actually have a very small bladder. Generally I go every hour or two. If I drink a liter or two I'll be very desperate in an hour, exploding by two!
2 Do you find that having a larger bladder enhances your fetish or hinders it?
I've wondered what it would be like to have a huge bladder but I think I owe my fetish to my smaller bladder. It was through being desperate often that I developed this kink. Since I like the feelings of helplessness and vunerability, having to pee frequently has caused me to like my small bladder. With a partner I could see this as an advantage, I could likely get desperate multiple times for them in a short period. I also kind of like envying the bigger bladdered. A person with a tiny bladder will never know the conveinence of a larger bladder, but if your into desperation that can be a good thing. Seeing others able to hold so long makes things more intense .


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Loris Capirossi (P13, 1'36.786, 27 laps) and Alvaro Bautista (P15, 1'37.384, 25 laps) both used the information they had from Silverstone to good effect as they set about closing the time gap between themselves and the rest of the pack. Capirossi's team made fundamental changes to his Suzuki GSV-R and he was able to reap the benefits as his lap times improved and the team were able to see a clear direction to go for the rest of the weekend.
Bautista is still struggling with his shoulder injury, especially on the physically demanding 4,542m Assen circuit. He did improve both his bike's setting and his lap-times during the session and is confident that the stronger he gets, the quicker he will get.
Today's' practice was held in dry and sunny conditions with air temperatures getting up to 27oC, helping to generate more grip for both Rizla Suzuki riders as the track temperature rose to 44oC. World Championship leader Jorge Lorenzo set the quickest time of the day.
Rizla Suzuki has one more practice session tomorrow morning, followed by qualifying in the afternoon. The 80th running of the Dutch TT takes place on Saturday 26th June at 14.00hrs local time (12.00hrs GMT).
Loris Capirossi:
"The temperature has been much warmer here and we have started to use a different setting to make the tyre work for us. We have got a better feeling today, but it still needs to improve a bit. We used a shorter bike today than usual to try and get more grip on the back and this did help. Tomorrow we will try to make the bike go a bit quicker overall, because at some points we are struggling. We were also a bit too soft on the spring so we will change that for tomorrow. I am much happier than I was in Silverstone, my position is not so good today, but I know we can improve a lot!"
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Senator Hillary Clinton: "I can't make a decision now. I have made no decision, but if that concerns any voter, they should factor that into the vote they make."
Shipman: "A recent 'Time' magazine poll shows Clinton well ahead of Obama in a potential presidential race, 43 percent to 30. But the comparatively unknown Obama has shown this week, if he decides to run, he can generate a lot of buzz in a hurry."
Sabato: "Obama has the charisma to skyrocket right to the head of the pack."
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Roberts: "Yeah, the Republicans may play to that. But let me ask you, why do you think he's changed his mind and is apparently now considering a run for the White House?"
Shipman: "It is interesting. It's so different from what he said just a year ago. He and his, his advisors were saying he would not seek to run for president so early. But what's happened is, is he's campaigned around the country for other Democrats. Since he's been on his book tours, he's received such an extraordinary reaction that prominent Democrats are urging him to consider a run now, to strike while the iron is hot, Robin."


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On Feb 9, 2009, at 4:50 PM, Jan Lehnardt wrote: > On 9 Feb 2009, at 16:18, Wout Mertens wrote: > >> On Feb 9, 2009, at 3:57 PM, Noah Slater wrote: >> >>> On Mon, Feb 09, 2009 at 09:51:18AM -0500, Adam Petty wrote: >>>> Could this thread be added to the wiki - with only minor editing >>>> for length >>>> - maybe as "a RDBMS vs couch 'Discussion' ?" or something >>>> similar?"... >>> >>> We've learnt from the book that such comparisons tend to be harmful. >>> >>> They lead people into thinking that there is a direct meaningful >>> comparison. >>> >>> Fundamentally, CouchDB and RDMS solve different problems. >> >> I dunno, I think it would be interesting to compare the main >> benefits of each so that you know what the strong points of each are. > > Quoting myself from a few mails ago: > >> CouchDB solves the[sic] similar problems as an RDBMS, but starting >> from a different angle (distributed operation instead of single-node >> operation, CAP, yadda yadda). > > The differences as a consequence of different CAP-feature priorization > would be interesting, but then, I had hoped that the "Eventual > Consistency"* > chapter had done that. > > * http://books.couchdb.org/relax/eventual-consistency Funny how nobody is really upset about the schema missing versus RDBMS. It seems like schemas are a lot like static typing in programming languages - no matter how you look at it, there are a *lot* of people doing just fine without it. I remember taking Databases at university and we had to read this book (forgot which one but it's pretty much the standard) and the schema and relational concepts are very intertwined. I really liked the theory where you would make a fully decomposed DB schema and then used queries to tie everything together. The thing I liked best was writeable queries, basically if you are careful you can automatically update the underlying tables except in some edge cases, thanks to a strict schema. However, as far as I know no current RDBMS implements this. Maybe there isn't much use for schemas. Non-trivial applications can't rely on just schemas for data validation. A thought occurred: If you are consistent in interfacing with your database using only views, then you have created an ad-hoc schema. This is probably old news to most of you but it felt nice realizing it ;-) So basically I'm saying maybe schema-free should be touted more as a nice-to-have feature? Wout.
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Muscle is composed of fibers, nerves and connective tissues and account for over 40% of the body weight. The fibers contract to produce tension on the associated tissues or tendons. Muscle tissue is enclosed in facia, which in turn is attached to other structures including ligament. There are three types of muscle tissues : skeletal, cardiac and smooth muscles. Muscle tissue provides a) posture and body support b) locomotion and c) heat production. Muscle tissue is examined with respect to function and types of muscle, structure and mechanism of contraction and attachments.
· Locomotion: One of the most obvious functions of muscle tissue is locomotion. When muscles contract, the fibers pull or relax bones to which they are attached, thus causing locomotion.
· Muscle contraction is also the primary means of moving lymph in the lymphatic vessel. The circulation and return of venous blood is also partly dependent on muscle contraction.
· Heat production: The contraction of muscle produce heat, which keeps the body warm during the winter cold months. The production of heat is also an indication of active metabolic activity in the muscle tissue.
· The muscle provides the framework for the body in addition to maintaining posture and flexible joints.
· There are three types of muscle tissues: skeletal, cardiac and smooth muscles
a. skeletal muscle: multinucleated, striated; attached to bones producing locomotion, general support and posture; producing heat. Contraction is voluntary, and not long-sustained.
b. Cardiac muscle: found only in the heart and responsible for contraction of cardiac tissue and distribution of blood. It is striated, contains individual units called intercalated discs, and functions spontaneously without tiring.
c. Smooth muscle: tissue is anucleated, non-striated but similar to cardiac tissue relative to functional spontaneity and long sustained contraction. It is found in the lining of blood vessels, urinary bladder, kidneys, esophagus and small intestines.
· All muscle tissues have a superficial covering of vary thickness called fascia, made of connective tissue and laced with adipose tissue.
· Inside the facia, the muscle tissue is surrounded by epimysium and individual muscle bundles or faciculus are surrounded by perimysium.
· Endomycium is the connective tissue that separates muscle fibers within a faciculus.
· The unit of a faciculus is a muscle fiber (or cell) called myofibril.
· Muscel cells are similar to other tissues. They contain mitochondria (lots of them), Golgi apparatus, ER, SER and other organelles.
Structure of Muscle fiber
· Unlike other cells, muscle fibers are the functional units of the tissue.
· A typical fiber is multinucleated, striated (striped) and surrounded by cell membrane called sarcolemma and cytoplasm called sarcoplasm.
· A network of membranous channels (sarcoplasmic reticulum) are dispersed throughout the sarcoplasm. Transverse tubes or T-tubes runs perpendicular (longitudinal) throughout the sarcoplasm.
· Myofibrils, the functional unit of a muscle tissue consist of protein filaments called myofilaments which consists of thin filaments, actin and thick filaments, myosin. The characteristic light and dark bands on a muscle are due to the arrangement of these myofilaments.
· The dark bands are called A-band and the light band is I- band. The I-band also contain thin lines called Z lines. The A-band and I-band overlap in arrangement. An H zone is an area of light filament where the A and I-bands do not overlap.
· Sacomeres is a subunit myofibril that forms a repeating band of Z-line to Z-line.
Muscle Twitch, Summation and Tetanus
· A physiograph is the equipment used in recording muscle contraction.
· Myogram is the tracing or chart showing muscle contractions. A typical myograph consist of a latent period (initiation), period of contraction and period of relaxation.
· The amount of force needed to produce a stimulus is called threshold stimulus
· Twitch is a response produced when muscle is sufficiently stimulated and produces a series of responses (provide sufficient time is allowed between stimulations and sufficient force is applied.). The response is directly related the strength of the voltage
· When the strength of stimulation and the frequency is stronger and faster, the muscle tissue does not recover sufficiently between stimulations, however the twitches summate or accumulate. The response produces summation due to incomplete tetanus (summation or fusion of series of twitches).
· When contraction is smooth, sustained and normal, this is called complete tetanus.
· Thus a summation is a series of tetani in response to increased frequency and voltage of stimulation.
· In vitro stimulation of muscle obeys the all-or-none law; This means that upon application of greater stimulus, each muscle fiber is individually recruited to contract maximally or not at all. The stronger the stimulus, greater the number of fibers recruited and the greater the response.
· Because of the individual recruitment, muscle contraction can result in a graded contraction.
· Treppe: A stircase-effect of muscle contraction is produced when series of strong electrical stimulus is administered and there is no relaxation between tetanus. It may represent a gradual increament in the response to the stimulus and may be due to an increase in intracellular calcium ion (Ca++) build up.
· A motor unit (a neuron and groups of muscle fibers) innervate and control muscle contraction. The unit contains a muscle endplate or organ, nerve(s), neuromuscular junction. Acetylcholine is the neurotransmitter in muscle that produce muscle contraction.
Isotonic and Isomeric Contractions
When muscle contract, the stimulatory force causing contraction must be stronger than forces opposing contraction. For example, in order to lift the arm alone or with weight (book, etc), the contractile force (tension) necessary to lift the arm and the weight must be greater than the forces of gravity.
· Contraction that results in relatively constant shortening in length of the muscle fibers is called isotonic contraction.
· Isometric contraction is produced, if the motor units recruited are too few or the opposing forces are too weak to shorten the muscle (contraction) and movement does not occur.
The sliding of thin filaments (actin) over and between thick filaments (myosin) produce contraction. ATP is required for the cross-bridge cycle.
· During muscle contraction the sacomeres and the myofibril elements shorten (decrease in length). However the A-bands (myosin) do not short but move close together.
· I-band which represent the distance between A band of successive sacomere also decrease in length (shortens). However, the actin elements within the I-band does not shorten.
Mechanism of contraction
· When activated a motor neuron releases acetylcholine into the synaptic cleft of the neuromuscular junction. Acetylcholine binds to receptors on the sarcolemma which triggers series of events leading to release of Ca++ ions from storage areas within the muscle fiber
· Ca++ ions activate (acts as a control switch) actin filaments (consist of two proteins: troponin and tropomyosin) and enable cross-bridges from myosin filaments to attach to the exposed sites on actin.
· One of the many roles of Ca ions in contraction is cause conformational changes in the shape of troponin and tropomysin that allows the cross-bridges to attach to actin and produce muscle contraction.
· Energy from ATP causes the cross-bridges to bend to pulling actin filaments towards the center of the sacomere. The actin and myosin filaments attach and detach as the molecules proceeds towards the center provided there is enough ATP, until maximum contraction is achieved.
· As soon as contraction occurs, the sarcolemma secretes an enzyme acetylcholinersterase, which decomposes acetylcholine. Decomposition of acetylcholine is necessary to prevent continued stimulation of the muscle fiber and to prepare the fiber for the next stimulus.
· Energy for contraction comes from ATP molecules in the cell. When the body harvest ATP energy in excess (energy in phosphate bones), some energy is temporarily stored as creatine phosphate (CP). When ATP energy is reduced (ADP), a phosphate bond is broken and phosphate energy is released to ADP to form ATP
Anaerobic Respiration and Oxygen debt.
ATP is formed during cellular respiration (36-38 moles) and thru anaerobic respiration (2-4 moles of ATP).
· The amt of ATP formed during anaerobic respiration is not enough to support life
· The ultimate purpose of Oxygen during cellular respiration is to accept the electrons (H+) produced from the oxidation of food molecules for the production of ATP (36-38 moles)
· During aerobic respiration (muscle inactivity), the muscle received it blood supply in the form of myoglobin, which supports the oxidation of glucose to pyruvic acid and CO2.
· Under anaerobic respiration (when there is not enough O2) Pyruvic acid is converted to lactic acid and small amount of ATP formed
· Lactic acid accumulation causes muscle irritation and cramps and fatigue develops. During a period of exercise break when the person is taking in sufficient debt is paid, lactic acid is converted in the liver back to glucose. Hence, after the break, the person feels reenergized.
Slow- and fast- twitch fibers
Muscles are classified on the basis of their contraction speed (time required to reach maximum tension). Base on this classification, there are three types of muscle fibers in humans: Slow-twitch (Type I), Intermediate Type IIA and fast (Type IIB) fibers.
· Classification is associated with different myosin APPase isozymes designated as "slow" or "fast" by which the tissues can be identified.
· Fast-twitch (type II) fibers are thick and contracts fast. They are also called white fibers, and are adapted to anaerobic respiration because of large storage of glycogen and glycolytic enzymes. For example the ocular muscles that position the eye have a high speed contraction reaching a maximum tension in 7.3 msecs.
· Slow-twitch: The soleus muscle in the leg by contrast has a high proportion of slow-twitch fibers and requires about 100 msec to reach max tension. Slow twitch fibers have a rich supply of capillaries, mitochondria and aerobic respiratory enzymes and high conc. of myoglobin. Because of the rich supply of myoglobin, they are also called red fibers.
· Intermediate fibers: are fast-twitch fibers with high concentration for aerobic capacity.
Cramps: involuntary painful, sustained titanic contractions of a muscle. Precise cause is unknown but a cramp may result from chemical changes in the muscle such as lactic acid accumulation or calcium deficiencies. Sometimes a severe blow to a muscle can produce a cramp
Fibrosis: an abnormal increase of fibrous connective tissue in muscle. Usually it results from connective tissue replacing dead muscle fibers following an injury.
Fibrositis: an inflammation of the connective tissue especially muscle sheaths and fascia associated with muscles, producing soreness and stiffness that is commonly called muscular rheumatism.
Muscular dystrophy: an inherited disease characterized by progressive degeneration of muscle tissue, resulting in atrophy(shrink) of affected muscle and general crippling of the patient.
Myositis: inflammation of the muscle tissue producing soreness and stiffness similar to fibrositis of the muscles
Strains: pulled muscles result when a muscle is stretched extensively; severe pain are common and function may be impaired.
Neurological Disorders Affecting Muscle
Botulism: poisoning caused eating contaminated food (e.g improperly canned vegetables, or meat that contain C. botulinium). Botulinium is a neurotoxin produced by the bacterium Clostridium botulinium. Toxin prevents releaase of acetylcholine necessary for muscle contraction. Condition may result in paralysis if not properly treated and death may occur.
Myasthenia gravis: is an autoimmune disease in which antibodies are produced that attached to the acetylcholine receptors on the sarcolemma, thus blocking or reducing the stimulatory effect of the neurotransmitter. The disease is characterized by extreme muscle weakness.
Poliomyelitis: viral disease of motor neurons in the spinal cord. Destruction of the neurons leads to paralysis of the skeletal muscle. The disease is rare in industrialized countries due to the availability of a polio vaccine. All
children in the US receive this vaccine which protects them from polio.
Spasms: sudden involuntary contraction of a muscle or a group of muscles. They may vary from simple twitches to severe convulsion and may be accompanied by pain. Spasms may be caused by irritations of the motor neurons to the muscle, emotional stress or neurological disorders. Spasm of the smooth muscle in the wall of the small intestines and respiratory passages or blood vessels can be harzadous. Hiccupping is one type of spasm.
Tetanus: disease is caused by sthe anaerobic bacterium Clostridium tetani (common in soil). Infection results from puncture wound. C. tetani produces a neutotoxin that affects motor neuron in the spinal cord resulting in continuous stimulation and titanic contraction of muscles.
Origin: immovable attachment and insertion is the movable attachment. Muscles are arranged in groups with opposing actions: agonist and antagonists
Muscles are named based on several criteria including shape, location, attachment and size. These criteria are only useful in remembering the names of muscles
Shape: rhomboideus (like in rhomboid); trapezius (as in trapezoid); Triceps or biceps (indicating # of heads of insertion).
Location: pectoralis (in the chest or pectus); intercostals (between ribs; brachii (upper arm)
Attachment: many facial muscles (zygomaticus, nasalis, temporalis); sternocleidomastoid (sternum, clavicle and mastoid process of the skull).
Size: maximus (larger, largest); minimus (smaller, smallest); longus (long); brevis (short)
Orientation of fibers: rectus (straight); transverse (across); oblique (in a slanting or slopping direction)
A. Facial muscle attachments
There are a wide variety of attachment of facial muscles. The are used for a variety of functions such as smilling, chewing, eye movement and movement of the tongue.
Facial expression and mastication
Located on the scalp, face and neck. They originate from the skull and insert on connective tissue of the skin.
a. Epicranius: consists of frontalis over the frontal bone and occipitalis over the occipital bone. The masseter and the temporalis are two major pairs of muscle that raise the mandible in the process of mastication.
b. Others include orbicularis, oculi, orbicularis oris, buccinatior, zygomaticus and platysma.
Muscles that move the Head
Several pairs of neck muscles are responsible for flexing, extending and turning the head. The sternocleidomastoid (origin is clavicle and sternum and insertion is mastoid process and temporal bone) and splenius capitis (orig: cervix and upper thorax vertebrae; insertion is mastoid process and temporalis bone) lower are two major muscles. Trapezoid can also extend the head althought that's not one of its functions.
Muscles of the Abdominopelvic wall
These pair muscles provide support for the anterior and lateral portions of the abdominal and pelvic


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In software hacking, you're going to come acrossĀrepositoriesĀeventually.Ā

If you have never used a repository before (subversion or any kind), then this free course for a few hours will be helpful. I'm giving this course for some of my colleagues at work and we have room for a few more.

I'm hoping to hold a training on Wednesday 5-May around 6pm. This is not set in stone yet because because I want to get feedback on all those interested in coming and find a schedule that works for everyone. This *will* be at UC Berkeley in Stanley Hall (that part isn't flexible).

We will start off with the very basics.

We give you a sample subversion repository -- a complete toy that you can hack on. We'll learn how to check out code, how to make updates, and how the repository serializes those updates. Thus, we learn why it's important to do an update before a check-in.

We will learn how to then do a check-in and, if there are conflicts, how to resolve them. We will, of course, learn what a conflict is, why it exists and what it means.

Plan for this to last for two hours, although we can be flexible depending upon the needs of the group that evening.

This is completely lab based where people will be working in pairs. One of you will add some "code" and the other will update that "code" in scenarios that I set up to demonstrate all of the above. You do *not* need to know how to program to take this course. "Code" in our example will be text files with different words on each line.

What we won't cover is how to merge branches, make tags, do svnadmin, or other advanced features. We can hold an intermediate class for such things if you're interested. This, however, is a beginners class at a beginners level meant to make you much more comfortable using the repository.

You will be given a small recipe booklet on all the above and much more, that you can take with you.

Please let me know if you are interested so we can make final arrangements. We have one participant for certain and it works well if we have at least one pair (or two pairs) of people. We can host up to 20 people. You will need your own laptop with wireless capability and to have the subversion client program already installed.

Cheers,

Glen

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In 1955, footballers in the best team in the land were paid about #8 a game
in cash and provident fund money. Their bonus came when the hat was passed
around the MCG Members' bars and dining rooms on the last Saturday night in
September, collecting enough to present each of Melbourne's 20 premiership
players with close to #100 extra.
The next year, after a second consecutive grand final win over Collingwood,
defender Trevor Johnson estimates the bonus was about #60. And when the Demons
of 1957 became just the fourth group in VFL history to claim three successive
flags, the reward had shrunk by a further third.
"They certainly weren't reaching as deep into their pockets," recalled
Johnson, now a successful Perth mushroom farmer and explosives manufacturer,
with a chuckle. "We'd worn out our welcome!"
As more recent premiers, Brisbane, Essendon and the Kangaroos can attest that
modern success has had a rather more inflationary effect, and that new-fangled
device, the salary cap, has compounded the difficulty of keeping flag-winning
squads together. No longer, though, is there a reliance on supporters to augment
the part-timers' wages symbolic of a time well past.
And yet, in the 45 completed seasons since what would now be called a
three-peat, no team has replicated what Melbourne last achieved with a team of
bank tellers, teachers, tyre salesmen and milk bar owners, one of whom, Geoff
Tunbridge, asked only for the petrol money to cover his drive from Ballarat, and
would arrive 20 minutes before the first bounce munching on a meat pie.
Back then, in what was supposed to be a rebuilding year after the retirements
of captain Noel McMahen, his deputy Ken Melville, Denis Cordner, Stuart
Spencer, Ralph Lane and Geoff McGivern from the 1956 team generally acknowledged
as the best of a golden era, the peerless Norm Smith managed to galvanise his
less experienced troops for what would be the third of five premierships in six
The only blot was the famous grand final upset against loathed rival
Collingwood in 1958, but that's a story for another day. "Going into '57 we
didn't think that we'd have a team good enough to win the premiership, so that's
really what made '57 so special, the fact that Norm Smith was able to get us up
for three in a row," said former rover Ian Ridley. "We were more worried about
four in a row; we thought we'd get four. And that's when we came unstuck."
But not before the hat-trick was completed. In 1957, Melbourne finished the
18 home-and-away rounds six points clear on top of the ladder, but was upset by
Essendon in the second semi-final after trailing by 48 at half-time, at which
time captain John Beckwith had climbed on to the locker-room bench to lead a
rallying rendition of the Grand Old Flag.
His team fell 16 points short that day, but the recovery was in motion, and,
after a 68-point preliminary final towelling of Hawthorn, a 10-goal revenge
beating was inflicted on the Bombers before 100,324 grand final spectators.
While Beckwith could barely jog around the Albert Ground during a secret 10am
"fitness test" on match day, best-afield was his 21-year-old deputy, Ron
Barassi junior, who had kicked four goals by half-time.
Gathering first in the clubrooms under the members' stand, the players and
their partners celebrated at a low-key dinner at the MCG where, two years
earlier, the most outrageous event was the serving of red and blue ice-cream.
"It went on until one or two in the morning, and, by and large, that was
it," recalled Dick Fenton-Smith, a first-year player from the amateurs with the
appropriately cliched hyphenated name. "A few of us went back to the ground the
next day for a Pleasant Sunday Morning, but that was the extent of it, because
we all had jobs to go to. We were getting #8 a week, so you had to have a job
beside it."
Football-wise, Melbourne's was a job very well done. The injection of youth
and unfulfilled ambition helped to spark the older players facing the challenges
of such a long stay at the top, challenges that were more mental than physical.
"It does affect your mind quite a bit," said Beckwith. "When you get close to
it, you know that one slip and you're gone."
Five-time premiership midfielder Laurie Mithen adds: "The other teams try
harder. We used to say to ourselves in the middle of the season to expect them
to throw everything at us because they have everything to gain if they can beat
the premiers, and it got a little bit harder for us to keep turning them back.
"When you're on the rise, for the first year or two, it's all still fairly
exhilarating and you don't have to talk yourself into getting motivated; it's
late in the second year and the third year and into the fourth where you've got
to force yourself to keep up the high standard. You know you've got to hold the
rest of them off. It would make an interesting psychological study."
The Lions would probably acknowledge as much privately, although defender
Chris Johnson said at the Gabba last week that it is only the media and,
occasionally, supporters, who talk about the possibility of a historic treble
that may be as few as 17 games away. Having lost only Des Headland from last
year's premiership 22, the players will admit only to more immediate goals, such
as Saturday night's fixture against Melbourne.
"Brisbane are the chopping block now, aren't they? Every game is going to be
really hard for them," said dual premiership half-back Keith Carroll. "It's a
great challenge, isn't it?" agreed Ian Thorogood, a first-year player in '57
who played in the 1959-60 flags and later coached Carlton. "They've got the task
in front of them. Anything can happen and the real key is injuries."
Last Monday at the Gabba, Brisbane coach Leigh Matthews said that part of his
team's problem this season had been that each week about six players from his
chosen 22 had "struggled to be reasonable contributors". Interestingly,
Beckwith had some weeks earlier admitted that the signs of Melbourne's
occasional complacency had manifested similarly.
"You don't approach the game with the same fierceness that you should every
week," he said. "We found it was six players would play well, and six players
would play average, and six players would play ordinary, but it wouldn't be the
same six every week, and I think that does apply to Brisbane. There's a pretty
fine line. It doesn't take much for your ability or your attitude to drop. It is
hard to keep up for the whole year."
Even so, no member of the 1957 team would have imagined that their
achievement would still be awaiting repetition in mid-2003. After all, it had
last been done just 16 years earlier, and by the all-conquering Magpies little
more than a decade before that. "If you'd asked me, I would have said it would
have been done again in the next 20 years or something, but it's been a while,
hasn't it?" Barassi said. "Nearly half a century."
Should Brisbane achieve such a feat this year, Matthews' men would rightly be
hailed as immortals, yet, at at the time, less was made of what Barassi calls
the "triple" than the fact that it was yet another flag for the power club of
the decade.
"In those days the other 11 clubs weren't that keen on Melbourne, because we
kept on winning," said Johnson. "We were not that popular."
Mithen believes the Demons' reaction to their success reflected a more
relaxed, but no less popular, football age. "We enjoyed the moment, but then
when it was over we got on with the rest of our lives, and waited until the next
season rolled round in February-March, so we had this different perspective on
what we were doing," he said. "It was a relief to get the third one done, and
an attitude of 'let's go and enjoy it like we did the others'."
Yet the club's darkest grand final day was just a year away, with Collingwood
destined to upset the raging favourites and protect its record as the only team
to win four successive pennants. It was a truly bitter pill, for even though
the Demons dominated again in 1959-60, and won five of the seven successive
grand finals they played in from 1954 to 1960, too much success, it seems, is
never enough.
"There were a few players there like (Brian) Dixon, (Frank) Adams and myself,
just to name a couple, who were greedy, greedy, greedy," admitted Barassi, an
immortal himself all these years later. "We wouldn't have cared if we'd won 10
in a row, we'd still want the 11th."
Melbourne's 1955-77 treble may come into sharper focus in grand final week,
should the Brisbane Lions make it through for another tilt at the flag. On the
Wednesday before the grand final, the 1950s Demons players will gather for a
reunion in the club rooms under the members' stand - the last such gathering
before the building is demolished to make way for a new stand.
1906: Carlton 15.4 (94) d Fitzroy 6.9 (45)
1907: Carlton 6.14 (50) d South Melbourne 6.9 (45)
1908: Carlton 5.5 (35) d Essendon 3.8 (26)
1939: Melbourne 21.22 (148) d Collingwood 14.11 (95)
1940: Melbourne 15.17 (107) d Richmond 10.8 (68)
1941: Melbourne 19.13 (127) d Essendon 13.20 (98)
1955: Melbourne 8.16 (64) d Collingwood 5.6 (36)
1956: Melbourne 17.19 (121) d Collingwood 6.12 (48)
1957: Melbourne 17. 14 (116) d Essendon 7.13 (55)
1927: Collingwood 2.13 (25) d Richmond 1.7 (13)
1928: Collingwood 13.18 (96) d Richmond 9.9 (63)
1929: Collingwood 11.13 (79) d Richmond 7.8 (50)
1930: Collingwood 14.16 (100) d Geelong 9.16 (70)
Melbourne 1955-57
Even though these were the days of 18 players and two reserves, the Demons
had only nine players - Frank Adams, Ron Barassi, John Beckwith, Bob Johnson,
Trevor Johnson, Peter Marquis, Laurie Mithen, Ian Ridley and Don Williams - who
completed the hat-trick of flags.
Brisbane Lions 2001-03
There are 20 players in with a chance of completing the hat-trick this
season. They are: Jason Akermanis, Marcus Ashcroft, Simon Black, Jonathan Brown,
Shaun Hart, Chris Johnson, Clark Keating, Nigel Lappin, Justin Leppitsch,
Alastair Lynch, Beau McDonald, Craig McRae, Mal Michael, Tim Notting, Martin
Pike, Luke Power, Brad Scott, Chris Scott, Michael Voss and Darryl White.
Other Lions premiership players were Robert Copeland and Daniel Bradshaw in
2001, and Des Headland and Aaron Shattock in 2002.
Norm Smith
The Melbourne icon played in four premierships (1939-41, 1948) and coached
the Demons to six flags (1955-57, 1959-60, 1964) from eight grand finals.
Leigh Matthews
The Hawthorn great played in seven grand finals, winning four of them (1971,
1974, 1976, 1983). He has never lost a grand final as a coach (Collingwood 1990,
JOHN BECKWITH (captain, back pocket)
"I'm very proud of playing in an era like that. If Brisbane do it, good luck
to 'em, because it's a very difficult achievement."
PETER MARQUIS (full-back)
"It was a defensive game of football back then. I'd kick it to Johnny
Beckwith and he'd kick it out of bounds, and we did that for 100 minutes."
DICK FENTON-SMITH (back pocket)
"It just personifies the excellence of Norm Smith that he was able to take 13
brand new players into a side in 1957 and in one year mould them into a
premiership side."
KEITH CARROLL (half-back)
"I think we expected to do it, that was the trouble. I think we just thought
we'd win each week. Being defeated was always a shock."
JOHN LORD (centre half-back)
DON WILLIAMS (half-back)
IAN McLEAN (wing)
LAURIE MITHEN (centre)
"It wasn't as thrilling in '57; it was just sort of a relief that we'd held
them all off again for another year, so let's go celebrate."
BRIAN DIXON (wing)
"I was conscious of at least equalling what had been achieved in '39-40-41
and I think most of my teammates were."
GEOFF CASE (half-forward)
TREVOR JOHNSON (centre half-forward)
"I'm sure people didn't appreciate how hard it was to win three in a row. And
I don't think we would have if we hadn't had Norm Smith."
GEOFF TUNBRIDGE (half-forward)
"There was a good feeling about winning three in a row; there was a terrible
feeling about losing the next one."
IAN RIDLEY (forward pocket)
"When you look back at it now, it's incredible that it hasn't been done again
in almost 50 years. It just shows you how hard it is."
ATHOL WEBB (full-forward)
RON BARASSI JNR (forward pocket)
"Quite a few senior players retired, so the youngsters were pretty chuffed to
come up with the goodies. We took a lot of pride in that particular win."
BOB JOHNSON (ruck)
COLIN WILSON (ruck-rover)
FRANK ADAMS (rover)
"There's so much more scrutiny on the club, the team and the individual
player now. In our day in '57, television had only been in a year."
IAN THOROGOOD (reserve)
"It was the first premiership for me, and that in itself was special; whether
it was two in a row or three in a row really didn't matter."
PETER BRENCHLEY (reserve)
NORM SMITH (coach)
B: White Leppitsch Johnson
F: R. Johnson Clarke Ridley
HB: Ashcroft C. Scott B.Scott
HF: Mithen Laidlaw McKenzie
C: Akermanis Lappin Black
C: McLean Melville Case
HF: Power Brown Copeland.
HB: Williams McGivern McMahen (c)
F: Bradshaw Lynch Pike.
B: Beckwith Marquis T. Johnson
FOLL: Keating, Voss (c), Hart.
FOLL: Denis Cordner, Barassi, Spencer.
INTER: McRae, Notting, Michael, McDonald.
RESERVES: Gleeson, Adams.
B: Power Michael Johnson
F: R. Johnson Webb Ridley
HB: Ashcroft Leppitsch C. Scott
HF: Mithen Laidlaw Sandral
C: Lappin Voss (c) Headland
C: Adams Melville Dixon
HF: Akermanis Brown White
HB: Williams McMahen (c) Carroll
F: B. Scott Lynch Pike
FOLL: Keating, Black, Hart.
INTER: McRae, Notting, Shattock, McDonald.
RESERVES: Gleeson, Lane.
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7th grade math
posted by Daniel .
Ruth makes a scale drawing of her room.She uses the scale 3/2in:1ft.In the drawing, the dimensions of her room are 18in by 24in.What are the actual dimensions of her room
3/2in ??
Do you mean 1 1/2 inches = 1 foot?
yes ido
One way to solve this problem is with proportions.
1.5/1 = 18/x
Cross multiply:
1.5x = 18
x = 18/1.5
x = 12 feet
Try the second dimension. I'll be glad to check your answer.
Is it 16 inches
am i right
Your number is correct, but the unit is wrong. Your question asks what are the dimensions of her room.
I told you one of the dimensions is 12 feet. I don't think the other dimension is 16 inches.
thank you Ms.Sue
Your welcome.
I hope you realize that the room measures 12 feet by 16 feet.
How to find the width of if the rectangular room is 2 inches and 5 inches and the actual room size is 1:72 what is the width?
Tamisha works as an interno in an architects office. A designer drew a scale drawing of a kitchen without using grid paper. In the drawing 1 Incháustegui represents 2 and a half feet. Tamishas supervisor wants her to determine the scale factors for the lenghts and the scale factors for the areas


text: OVERVIEW OF BUSINESS ACTIVITY 1st Quarter, 1996 (January, February, March 1996) First Quarter, 1996 gross income posted an increase of 4.8 percent over First Quarter, 1995; this compares to a 2.7 percent decline during Fourth Quarter, 1995. First Quarter, 1996 gains were largely the result of increases in the retail trade and service sectors. The industrial sectors, such as construction and manufacturing, posted nominal gains from the previous year. Within the industrial sectors, contract construction was up 1.4 percent. General building contractors reported a 4.4 percent gain and special trade contractors an 11.8 percent increase; however, an 8.9 percent decline in heavy construction largely offset these gains. Manufacturing reported a 1.6 percent increase although most manufacturing industries reported gains. The most significant increases were in food products, up 8.1 percent, apparel and textiles up 9.1 percent, primary metals industries 7.5 percent, and fabricated metal products 15.2 percent. However, the two largest gross income industries in the manufacturing sector, lumber and wood products and transportation equipment, reported declines of 5.4 percent and 4.1 percent respectively. Transportation and allied services reported a 7.8 percent increase. Within this sector, a nearly 30 percent decline in gross income for railroads was offset by a 26 percent increase in motor freight and warehousing. It appears, however, that at least some of the decline for railroads and of the increase reported under motor freight was due to tax rate and reporting changes recently instituted for railroad companies. Thus, the overall transportation sector increase of 7.8 percent is indicative of gross income growth across the board for most transportation services. Both the communication and utilities and the wholesale trade sectors reported increases of 4.3 percent. Within the communication and utilities sector, communication was up 6.6 percent. The wholesale trade sector, broken down between durable and nondurable goods, was up 5 percent for durable goods and 3.5 percent for nondurable goods. A number of industries within the nondurable goods sector were down, while two industries, petroleum and petroleum products and farm product raw materials posted significant increases of 15.1 and 31.4 percent respectively. Retail trade posted a respectable 5.9 percent overall gain. Within retail trade, general merchandise stores were up 8.3 percent, auto dealers 13.1 percent, and furniture, furnishings and equipment 18.3 percent. Notable for their declines were apparel and accessories down 18 percent and appliances 10.4 percent. Most of the increase in furniture, furnishings and equipment was driven by a 35.9 percent increase in electronics/music stores. The finance, insurance and real estate sector reported a 14 percent gain in finance and a 13.6 percent increase in insurance. Real estate was up 6.8 percent, while other finance was down 26 percent. The overall gain for this sector was 11.7 percent. The services and other business sector continued strong steady growth with an 8.1 percent increase. Business services reported significant growth with computer services up 23.6 percent. Motion picture theaters and production reported a 33 percent increase. Any declines in gross income within the service sector were mostly in the personal services activities, although legal services also reported a 3.2 percent decline. Overall, First Quarter 1996 reported moderate growth after slow gross income growth in most sectors during Fourth Quarter, 1995. Any consumer-led turnabout in retailing growth has yet to be evident, although sales for auto dealers showed stronger than expected growth. Marginal manufacturing growth and strong service industry increases round out the performance of First Quarter, 1996. 1


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From Philip J. Farmer, of Peoria, Illinois, author of
Tarzan Alive
The September issue of the journal is very enjoyable, especially the science-fictional story by J. A. Russell, "Postscript to
The Final Problem
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The background and technology
FACTS consists of two main technologies: series compensation and dynamic shunt compensation.
Series compensation was invented by ABB in 1950. It made possible the world's first 400 kilovolt (kV) transmission in 1952 by resolving the issue of how to transmit power over long distances. The solution lay in making the distance between the power-generation plant and the end-users of electricity seem shorter, in an electrical sense. As a result, power can be transmitted at levels considerably higher than the natural loading of the transmission lines.
Dynamic shunt compensation is a technology that uses high-power semiconductors to automatically adjust the voltage level in a specific area of the power system if necessary. This helps avoid sudden surges and improves the stability of the grid.
FACTS and energy efficiency
Electricity is lost during transmission and losses can be minimized by increasing the voltage. FACTS technologies provide a fast and effective way of increasing the capacity of electrical grids by offering remedies for voltage and stability issues and allow the transmission system to run more efficiently.
FACTS therefore enables more power to reach consumers with minimum impact on the environment and at a fraction of the cost compared with the alternative of building new transmission lines or power plants.
Building a new overhead transmission line takes several years and has a huge impact on the environment, whereas a FACTS installation requires no or limited access to new land and is normally in service 12 to 18 months after a contract is awarded to the supplier.
China, for instance, increased capacity by 40 percent on a transmission corridor into Beijing in 2004 by using series compensation, one of the FACTS technologies. The increase helped the Chinese capital meet the demands of its rapid expansion ahead of the Olympic Games in 2008.
In Sweden, eight 400 kilovolt (kV) systems equipped with FACTS transport electrical energy from the north, where hydropower is generated, to the south, where it is used. An additional four 400 kV transmission systems would be necessary if FACTS were not used on the existing systems.


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Many vehicles have become trapped in water across the Epping Forest district as a result of flooding.
Stondon Road in Ongar is closed in both directions and bollards have been placed at the entrance of the road to warn motorists to avoid driving through the flooded section.
Essex firefighters were called to Millers Green Road, in Willingale, Ongar at 1.20pm this afternoon after a vehicle containing a mother and child got stuck in flood water.
The woman and child managed to get out of the car before firefighters arrived at the scene and are both safe.
Since Wednesday, the Environment Agency has had a flood alert in place for the upper River Roding in the Ongar, Stapleford and Great Dunmow area.
The latest update on the alert issued this morning states water levels on the upper River Roding are rising as a result of the continual rainfall last night.
This is likely to result in flooding to lower lying land, roads and gardens next to the river and surface water flooding can also be expected in some locations.
A flood warning is in place for the River Roding in Abridge with flooding expected across the surrounding area. Residents are being advised to take action, particularly properties at Hillmans Cottages in Ongar Road,
The middle River Roding and lower River Roding also have flood alerts in place.


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The RBA must cut interest rates next Tuesday to bolster the chances of a housing recovery in 2013, the Housing Industry Association has said.
The HIA reported that new home sales rose 3.4 per cent in October after weak mid-year figures.
The biggest October increases were across multi-unit developments. Sales were up 31.4 per cent in October.
Detached house sales fell for the fifth time in six months, dropping 2 per cent.
While detached house sales rose 4.7 per cent in New South Wales and 3.7 per cent in Western Australia- albeit from low bases- they fell 12 per cent in Victoria.
HIA chief economist Harley Dale said the jury was still out on how the market would perform in 2013.
"We need to see evidence emerge in coming months of a stronger, broader based recovery for new home building," he said.
"The fact we don't have that evidence now is precisely why the Reserve Bank of Australia should cut interest rates next Tuesday."
The Australian Financial Review