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The Tribe's next move
This is a little long, but here goes. I was going to write about the Indians next move when news broke today about Grady Sizemore possibly returning to the Tribe. Sizemore on verge of deal I have been wondering for a few weeks now what the front office was thinking by not picking up Sizemore's contract. I just can not see them replacing Grady with any comparable player without paying a huge sum of money. And as we all know the Tribe is very unlikely to jump in on a big free agent, especially at this point in the teams development. The Dolan's have spent money before contrary to popular belief, but I don't see the front office spending money at this time. Especially with the uncertainty about this team and what exactly they have. The Tribe could sign Sizemore to incentive laden one year contract. Possibly worth more than the 9 million he was to make. If he plays the entire year and meets the goals that is great. Hopefully the rest of the team will perform as expected and the Indians will have a great season. If he excels but the rest of the team falters the Tribe could easily trade him and get back a good prospect or needed piece. Suppose he is still hurt and plays randomly or he has a lackluster year. The Indians would not be stuck with a multiyear contract. The price to bring in a free agent would probably be much more than taking the risk with Sizemore. I have been researching some of the players that are free agents and players the Tribe may target in trades.
I will start out with the 2011 free agents. Jim Bowden on ESPN.COM has an article on the projected price of each free agent. Obviously the Indians will not be pursuing Pujols or Fielder. Count out Carlos Beltran as he would be to expensive and reportedly he already nixed a midsummer trade to the Tribe. Here is a list of possible free agents with their batting stance and age.
Michael Cuddyer – Twins – Righty age 32 Cuddyer is considered a great clubhouse presence and he hits lefties which the Tribe sorely needs both. He is a career .270 hitter with 20 HR power. He can play multiple positions, but does not excel defensively. Here is the main problem. He will probably command a 10 million dollar annual salary and his name had been linked to numerous high profile teams. He will be to expensive for the Cleveland Kinks (I'm on a Low Budget- as Ray Davies once said).
The next three players played on an Oakland team that made the Tribe's offense look like Murderers' row.
Josh Willingham – Oakland – Righty age 32 The Tribe was linked to Willingham in the summer before the trade deadline. He made 6 million last year while battting .246. He is a career .262 hitter with 20 – 25 HR power. Unlike Cuddyer he does not hit lefties, is an outfielder only, and he is not a great defender. Bowden reports he should command a salary around 7 million a year. Seems like a lot for a player that puts up numbers similar to Sizemore's. Sizemore offers the potential to improve.
David DeJesus – Oakland – Lefty age 31 DeJesus made 6 million last year and is reportedly going to be in the 4 mill this year. He bats left handed and the Tribe could really use a righty. He struggles with left handers like the rest of the Tribe. He has no arm in the outfield and is not the best defender. He is a career .284 hitter but only hit .240 last season and has 10 HR power. At 4 million a year he is an option, but I believe Sizemore brings so much more possible upside to the offense and defense.
Coco Crisp – Oakland – Bats Switch age 32, Can you believe that this is a name that could resurface with the Tribe. Crisp was rumored in trades with the Tribe this summer and again during free agency. He made 5.75 million last year will make approximately the same in his new contract. Another player who has troubles with lefties, but he did steal 49 bases last year. A career .275 hitter, but only a .736 OPS. The Indians need more offense than that and Crisp is not a superstar in the field.
Jason Kubel – Twins – Lefty age 29 Kubel will receive a salary around 5 mil a year. He is a career .271 with 20 HR power. A majority of those coming off the Tribe it seems like. He is a poor defender and actually probably better suited to DH. Just what the Tribe doesn't need, another DH.
Johnny Damon – Tampa Rays – Lefty age 38 The end is coming for Damon. If the Tribe could sign him to a short term contract around a couple million, I would say maybe. He made 5 mil last year while hitting .261 with 16 HR. For Detroit in 2010 he hit .271 with 8 HR. He has a proven track record but the age is a concern.
Andrew Jones – Yankees – Righty age 34 Jones had his best year since 2006. He hit .247 with 13 HR last year. Jones has never been a high average hitter and he is 5 years removed from his monster home run years. He is no longer a premiere outfielder either.
Cody Ross – Giants – Righty age 30 Cody made 6.3 million last year while hitting .240 with 14 HR. He is a career .268 hitter with 20 HR potential. I am not sure I would give him a long term contract, but this may be one player I would add as insurance. If Sizemore was unable to play or another outfielder was injured Ross would be a great insurance policy to have. He could also fill in regularly and give Sizemore, Choo and Brantley a day off. He is also the right handed bat the Tribe has been looking for. I would not want the tribe to replace Sizemore with Ross but to possibly add him to the team.
Kosuke Fukudome – Indians – Lefty age 34 Fukudome joined the Indians last year at the trade deadline. His stats with the Tribe were unimpressive, but I believe he would be a great 4th outfielder. Would he settle for that? I doubt it.
J. D. Drew – Boston – Lefty age 35 Drew has had one good year in his career in my opinion and should NOT be considered.
Rick Ankeil – Washington – Lefty age 32 See J. D. Drew!
The majority of free agents are at an age that most players begin to slow down and most are left handed (like Grady). The Tribe is in search of a right handed bat. I believe that Cody Ross due to his age and that he puts up the same numbers as other free agents, should be on the Indians phone list. He has 20 HR potential will probably command a lower salary than most of the free agents I have discussed. David DeJesus and Johnny Damon could also be low cost options, but I don't know if either would come to possibly be a part time player. Possible Damon, but each has their own warts. DeJesus no defense, doesn't hit lefties and little power. Damon is getting up there in age and is also left handed.
Two players that are free agents that I did not talk about are first basemen Casey Kotchman and Carlos Pena. The Tribe could try and sign either one of these players to replace Sizemore or add offense to the team.
Pena – Cubs – Lefty age 33 Pena could possibly platoon at first base since he has problems with lefties. I don't see the Tribe wanting to add a first baseman that needs to platoon. Pena does take a lot of walks and has a high on base percentage. It is strike out, home run, or walk for Pena. He will reportedly earn 10.5 million this next contract and I pretty sure that will exclude the Tribe.
Kotchman – Tampa Rays – Lefty age 28 Here is a player that I would like to see the Indians pursue. Kotchman is known as one of the better defensive first basemen in the league. He is a career .268 hitter with 10 – 15 HR power. If LaPorta is not considered the first base man for the Tribe, I believe they should consider a superior replacement in the field. Kotchman is going to command a 4 million dollar contract according to Bowden. The Tribe should be able to afford that. They could offer Kotchman a little more money for a one year deal and send LaPort back to the minors. LaPorta does not have anything else to prove, but it may be message to him. I am not sure LaPorta is not major league material. He did have 53 RBI's in 353 at bats last year, but his defense leaves something to be desired. If LaPorta could play everyday he may put up 100 RBI's. If the Tribe believes in LaPorta and that he can fix his mental lapses on defense great. If not they should consider Kotchman.
Derrek Lee is another first basemen free agent. He is 36 and rarely is healthy anymore. Five years age he would have been a player the Indians would have been looking for.
Another route the Indians could take is trading for a player. Here are some of the players that names have been rumored in trades.
Denard Span – Twins – Lefty age 27 Span is speedy defensive center fielder who makes 1 million a year. He is a .285 career hitter who would fit in the Tribe's budget. The only problem is that the Indians would have to probably trade a reliever, possibly Chris Perez. The Tribe has loads of talent coming up through the minors that are relief pitchers. It is the one are that the Indians will probably be set at for a few years. I could see the Tribe trading Perez as they have numerous possible replacements. If the Indians resign Sizemore I don't see the need for Span.
B.J. Upton – Detroit – Righty age 27 Upton is the right handed bat the Tribe is looking for and he is only 27. He has 20 HR power could steal 40 bases. He strikes out a LOT (fits in with the Tribe nicely), and has a low career OPS .758. He also plays with Detroit and do we make a trade with such close competition?
Martin Prado – Braves – Righty age 28 Makes 3 million and can play multiple positions OF/3B. Contact hitter who is a .293 career hitter with 15 home run power. Braves are looking for impact outfield bat. I am not sure what the Tribe could offer.
Charlie Blackmon – Rockies – Lefty age 25 Blackmon was hurt and put on the 60 day DL last year with a fractured left foot. He has a .316 career minor league average and could blossom into a good player. Would be a great option as a 4th outfielder and would probably not take a top player to trade for. One of the Tribe's many minor league relievers would hopefully do the trick.
Brett Wallace – Astros- Lefty 25 Wallace is behind Carlos Lee in Houston and has no position. He was 42nd best prospect in 2009 when LaPorta was the 14th. 2010 he was the 16th best prospect. He is known as a hitting machine, but his brief stints in he majors have shown little. Wallace has 20 plus home run power and a high batting average. He has limited range and he can only play first or DH. A major plus is Wallace makes the league minimum, a perfect fit for the Tribe (Cleveland Kinks). Wallace has been involved in 3 major trades. Once for Matt Holliday, once for Roy Holliday, and in he Roy Oswalt trade.
As I mentioned earlier that I think it is in the best interest of the Indians to bring back Grady Sizemore. The upside potential with Sizemore is greater than the other free agents available at comparable cost. If Sizemore fails it is for one year. If he returns to Super Sizemore the Tribe can sign him or trade him for other players. Adding a player such as Cody Ross, Charlie Blackmon, Kosuke Fukudome, or Martin Prado should be considered weather Sizemore resigns or not. I believe the Tribe should look seriously at possible adding a first baseman. The player may depend upon Sizemore signing. Kotchman would cost a little more money, but adds a great defensive first baseman. A trade for Wallace adds a big league ready bat that may not have had enough major league experience to show its true worth. In a perfect world the Tribe resigns Sizemore and adds another outfielder, and a first baseman. I am keeping my eyes on these names: Martin Prado, Cody Ross, Charlie Blackmon, Brett Wallace and Casey Kotchman. It would be nice to see two of those name with the Tribe come opening day along with Grady Sizemore.
Check back a the around the first of the year and I will try to post again. A little shorter also.


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Francisco's Fire is an adaptation based loosely on the German dramatist Georg Büchner's stage play Woyzeck written and conceived by Seattle native (now Los Angeles based) playwright and director Keith Watabayashi. Büchner left this particular work incomplete at his death at age 23, but it has been posthumously "finished" in a variety of genres including an opera and provided inspiration for a movie adaptation. Woyzeck has become one of the most performed and influential plays in the German theatre repertory. It's safe to say that this play not only influenced early 19th century literature, but also current and ideological issues that affect our world today.
Similar to the plot of Woyzeck, Francisco's Fire is told in modern day times and tells the story of a Latino Immigrant named Francisco (Eli Hernandez), who works a boring and tedious job as an attendant in a Hollywood hotel to support his adulterous wife (Ana Lopes) and his child. He is described as a commoner and a reflection on the struggles of what is apparent in the Latino American community. Throughout the play, the audience can visualize Francisco's struggle with his inner demons. As they threaten to emerge and weaken his inner soul, his subconscious begins to take over. With the combined stress of his feeble attempts to make a better life for himself, along with outside forces dehumanizing him, Francisco begins to give in to the rage and anger he feels and commits a heinous act that takes him to the point of no return.
Eli Hernandez gives a strong and visceral portrayal of the tortured Francisco. His facial expressions and his awareness of being in the moment allow the audience to empathize with Francisco's pain and struggle. The role of Francisco definitely carries the show and Hernandez's choice of using subtle rage versus over-the-top melodrama makes his performance on point. There are times when Hernandez could easily give the audience more as far as levels go, but he does a great job nonetheless of displaying to us Francisco's tortured soul. Ana Lopes' performance as Francisco's philandering and manipulative wife, Marie, began to grow after the second act as the audience got to see her "supposed" genuine concern for Francisco's state of mind. The other supporting characters tend to be basic fillers and could do so much more in action, volume and characterization to make themselves memorable.
Overall, Watabayashi stays true to the early 19th Century plot of Buchner's tale of social conditions, as well as the exploration of complex themes such as poverty, revenge and manipulation. There are few genres of modern theatrical culture (i.e., plays, musicals and performance art) that have not felt the impact or influence of Brecht's ideas and practices. By choosing to convey the message of this play with the use of prominent Latino characters in modern day Los Angeles, the two ideas (Buchner's and Brecht's) merge seamlessly well for this adaptation. The main character, Francisco, is considered as a commoner by other people of a higher stature which is evident. Watabayashi effectively captures the history and the understanding of this tragic tale of a deeply flawed character and tells it in a way that today's society should be able to understand and relate to its true plight and dehumanization.
Francisco's Fire stars Dagmar Edwards, Mitch Feinstein, Eli Hernandez, Matteo Indelicto, Ana Lopes, Alejandro Rodriguez, Donnell Safford, Zan Calabretta and Natali Steele and is currently being performed at:
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Ben Shpigel profiles the Yankees' new pitching coach Larry Rothschild today in the Times:
At every stop Rothschild, 56, has burnished his reputation as one of baseball's premier pitching instructors, renowned for his meticulous preparation, troubleshooting abilities and communication skills. Along the way, those assets have allowed him to connect with volatile personalities like Carlos Zambrano and Kevin Brown; free spirits like Jose Rijo and Al Leiter; and, yes, even "idiots" like Charlton, who called Rothschild "as good as it gets."
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I always get my dogs tested in the Spring for heartworm and give them Heartgard from June through November. But I have been reading of the side effects of Heartgard. The potential side effects of Ivermectin (the active ingredient in Heartgard) include liver problems, vomiting, diarrhea, loss of appetite, depression, lethargy, skin eruptions, seizures, tremors, paralysis, autoimmune disorders, thyroid problems, fever, weakness, dizziness, coughing, nose bleeds, difficulty breathing, pneumonia, irritability, sudden aggressive behavior, nerve damage, fertility problems, and sudden death. I know these side effects probably don't happen too often. Do you think the benefits of this treatment out weigh the side effects? I only started thinking about this because I have a sickly dog and don't want to put anymore strain on her liver by giving this. Do most of you give Heartgard to your pets?
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After the death of the Foshan Great Wing Chun kungfu master Chan Wah Shun, little Ip Man continued learning Wing Chun under his senior fellow apprentice, Ng Chun Sui. When Ip Man grew up, he left his adopted brother Ip Tin Chi to study in HK alone. Foreigners took this chance to insult and discriminate him. At that time, he met his 3rd Wing Chun master Leung Bik. Ip Man learnt different Wing Chun theories from Leung Pik which greatly improved his Wing Chun kungfu. After his return to Foshan, Ip Man fell in love with Wing Shing and confronted with great barriers. Meanwhile, Ng Chun Sui found that Ip Man's Wing Chun deviated from his traditional style which is totally unacceptable to a man strictly sticking to "origin". How can Ip Man solve such dispute amicably without any disgrace to Ng Chun Sui? In addition, Ip Man discovered the top secret of Tin Chi...
Yuen Biao, Dennis To, Fan Siu Wong, Bernice Liu, Betty Huang Yi, Xu Jiao, Sammo Hung, Louis Cheung, Ip Chun, Rose Chen, Liang Xu Hui, Lee Lik Chi, Lam Suet
Herman Yau
Adventure, Martial Arts
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August 26, 2010
Cantonese, Mandarin
Traditional Chinese, English
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So, where to start off...
Baku is our 16 week old (as of yesterday) Purebred Pitbull pup. He's a very good cow of a dog with the temperament of a house cat.
His name, Baku, is short for Bakuhatsu. It means Explosion in Japanese. My wife is Japanese and wanted to name him something in her native tongue.
He came into the lives of my wife and I when one of my old High school friends was killed in a motorcycle accident. The day after hearing of the incident, I met up with his parents to share my condolences. That's when I learned that their Pit had a litter of 12 puppies. My wife has always loved dogs as her parents in Japan always had one around. I, on the other hand, grew up with a very annoying miniature poodle and grew to hate the species as a whole.
Well, when I heard that their parents were selling the pups, it was a win/win situation for me. I got to make my wife happy and put some money in the pocket of a family that could really use it.
We've had Baku for 2 months now, and he's become a great addition to the family. He has mostly free run of our house as long as he's in sight of us. We don't want him to hurt himself so quickly correct him any time he could get into trouble.
He still has some house training issues, but we're trying our best to work on them as we go. The biggest problem is that when he wants to go out, he doesn't vocalize it at all. He will quietly walk to our door and if we don't see him right away, he'll pee there instead of outside. It's a rather infrequent occurrence, but it does happen.
Anywho, he comes to work with me every day. I work in sheet metal fabrication and he's become our shop mascot while staying in a penned in section of our office. There's a doggy daycare that's 2 doors down from us, and some times after work I'll bring him over to play (very supervised) with a few other dogs. He seems to enjoy it.
I've been taking videos of him since we got him and putting them up on youtube. Here are what I've taken.
Here he is at 8 weeks old.
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Our volunteers consistently go above and beyond in their service to MedShare. In the summer of 2013, MedShare's Western Region volunteers came together to raise over $22,000 to ship a container of much-needed medical supplies to a hospital in Tanzania. But that wasn't enough. Some volunteers decided to travel to the recipient hospital in Tanzania to volunteer their time and talents on the ground.
In mid-February 2014, Camille Harris, Fran Jursco, and Nancy Menne traveled to Shirati KMT Hospital in Tanzania. MedShare's 40-foot container was still en route at the time, but they hand-carried additional medical supplies from MedShare's Western Region Distribution Center as well as specially requested items for the hospital staff.During their stay in Shirati, these intrepid volunteers provided meals for patients at the hospital, toured the facility, and got to observe Dr. Chirangi in the operating room. "Fran and I were recognizing all the stuff we sort (at MedShare): bovies, tips, vicryl sutures, drapes, etc. [in the operating room]. Camille decided surgery was not her thing so she folded gauze for future surgeries," said Nancy. "Even though it appears we will miss the arrival of the container, this has been a very fulfilling trip to see just how desperately our work at Medshare is needed." The volunteers reported that most of the supply cabinets in the hospital are bare and Dr. Chirangi was already using the supplies they brought with them.
Above: Fran Jursco serving food to the patients at Shirati Hospital. Photo credit: Nancy Menne
The group has left Shirati and is now travelling through other parts of Africa. Nancy writes: "We have said goodbye to Tanzania and it was sad to leave. Dr. Chirangi had all his department heads waiting to see us off when we came to say goodbye. Each one of them were so grateful for the work all of the volunteers at MedShare do, for the volunteers putting in the effort and money to ship the container, and for the expense we undertook to travel to Shirati. It was an unbelievable experience, and made me truly understand how much is needed in developing countries where they have no clean water, walk several miles to school each day, no nutritious food at the hospitals or schools, and basically just fight to survive."
What an eye-opening experience and incredible testament to the importance and impact of our work at MedShare. Thank you, Nancy, for sharing these insights from your trip. And thank you to all of MedShare's volunteers and supporters who go above and beyond every day to make our work possible. We are grateful for your dedication to our mission to bridge the gap between the surplus of medical supplies in the United States and the need in hospitals like Shirati KMT Hospital in Tanzania
MedShare container has arrived in Shirati!
Editor's Note: The 40-foot container with medical supplies and equipment sponsored by MedShare's Western Region volunteers was shipped from the U.S. west coast in November 2013. It arrived at Shirati KMT Hospital on Monday, March 10! See photos of the arrival below.


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Approximately 50 percent of the art on display at TMC has been loaned by individuals or organizations. Of the works of art in the hospital's permanent collection, 50 percent were given as gifts and 50 percent are purchases from funds provided by generous donors. No hospital operating funds are used to purchase art.
A Brief History of Art in Healing
The use of art in western medical treatment was first implemented in Greek healing temples, which incorporated art, music, and landscape to create a holistic environment in which ailments were treated. In the 14th century, hospitals were operated by churches, which used paintings, frescoes and other mediums to communicate their teachings. Florence Nightingale's Notes for Nursing, written in 1860, argues that patients require beauty and its effect is not only on the mind, but also on the body. During the Depression, the Federal Art Project employed artists to paint murals in government hospitals. During the 1980s, hospitals began to use art as decorative elements with no particular attention to its therapeutic qualities. The early 1990s brought a newfound interest in the therapeutic qualities of art, resulting in a surge in evidence-based design, which studies the effect of the environment on healing.
According to The Center for Health Design, nearly 50 percent of all hospitals in the U.S. today have arts programs, and according to respondents of a 2003 survey, 96 percent of hospital arts programs are intended to "serve patients directly." Fifty-five percent of the programs surveyed also present art to hospital staff as a way to reduce stress and improve patient care.
"John Bluford and Truman Medical Centers have shown great vision and leadership with the Center for the Healing Arts. Lifting the human spirit is one of the most important roles that art can play, and I can think of no better location for there to be great art than in the healing atmosphere of TMC."
- - Julián Zugazagoitia, Menefee D. and Mary Louise Blackwell Director & CEO, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
"TMC is on the vanguard of an important trend in holistic healing. I pray that hospitals worldwide will come to recognize that healing is not just limited to the time spent in ICU, or on the operating table. Healing involves the entire environment and all of our senses."
- - Christopher Radko, collector and donor to the TMC Healing Arts program
Experiencing the Arts Directly Influences Healing
- A 1993 survey found that patients viewing nature scenes after heart surgery reported less anxiety and stress and needed less pain medication than those in control groups.
- Research in 2001 revealed that trauma and orthopedics patients who were exposed to visual arts and live music had shorter stays and needed significantly less pain relief than patients in control groups.
Excerpted from Kathy Hathorn and Upali Nanda, "A Guide to Evidence-based Art," © The Center for Health Design 2008
Tours & Events
Self-guided audio and cell phone tours of the Healing Arts Galleries are available in the Guest Services offices at TMC-Health Sciences District.
TMC offers guided tours for groups, organizations and clubs. To schedule a tour for your group, please contact TMC Guest Services at 816-404-3325.


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The Jazz Arts Collective and jazz combos at Hope College will perform at Hope on Thursday, Oct. 4, at 7:30 p.m. in Dimnent Memorial Chapel.
The public is invited. Admission is free.
The Jazz Arts Collective, directed by faculty member Brian Coyle, is the college's premier large jazz ensemble. The collective places a creative focus on ensemble communication and improvisation. Comprised of a rhythm section and flexible instrumentation, this select group performs compositions and arrangements from across the full spectrum of music. The collective's repertoire ranges from the great historical jazz composers such as Duke Ellington and Charles Mingus, to works by modern jazz masters like Vince Mendoza, Jim McNeely and John Hollenbeck. The Jazz Arts Collective frequently performs commissions, works by emerging young composers, and originals by Hope faculty and students. The ensemble also collectively reinterprets and re-imagines the music from the 20th century classical repertoire.
Brian Coyle is director of jazz studies and a professor of music. He is a performer, composer, arranger, adjudicator and clinician who frequently appears at festivals, conferences, universities, colleges, high schools and clubs both nationally and internationally. As a composer, he has had compositions commissioned and performed by professional ensembles, universities and high schools throughout the United States. Administratively, he has served on the Executive Board of the International Association for Jazz Education, is a past-president of the Michigan Association for Jazz Education, served as a faculty member at Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp, and is a past chairperson of the college's department of music.
Dimnent Memorial Chapel is located at 277 College Ave., on College Avenue at 12th Street.


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Pac-12 Morning Five: 10.28.11 EditionPosted by AMurawa on October 28th, 2011
- The first exhibition game for a Pac-12 team this year went down on Thursday night, and while the rest of the sports world was enthralled by a magical World Series Game Six, or even Case Keenum throwing like nine or 12 or 15 touchdowns (sorry, lost count) against Rice, defending Pac-10 champion Arizona was busy losing to Seattle Pacific. Sure, it was an exhibition game, and sure, anyone who wants to overreact to this game needs to remember Syracuse losing to Le Moyne a few years back and then proceeding to be a top five team all year, but we got a couple of things out of the game Thursday night. First, and foremost, we got to watch college basketball again, and we got to see an entertaining game and a close finish. More importantly for the long haul, we got a look at the new Arizona. Freshman guard Nick Johnson looked like a guy unafraid to take a big shot in the closing minutes, while back court mate Josiah Turner looked very much like a freshman playing in his first collegiate game. He got the start at point over Jordin Mayes, but despite a few flashes here and there, he looked like a work in progress. For a bit more detail on this surprising game, check out our debut version of After the Buzzer, Pac-12 Edition from late last night.
- As was mentioned in yesterday's Morning Five on the main RTC site, a scrimmage between current Washington players and Washington alumni was cancelled after head coach Lorenzo Romar mentioned the game on a local radio station and some of the players invited fans on Twitter. Holding the scrimmage would not have been a violation, but publicizing the scrimmage in such a manner would have qualified as a secondary violation. Dumb, right? Well, luckily for the players (both current and former), the scrimmage did occur, with former Huskies like Isaiah Thomas, Nate Robinson, Brandon Roy, Quincy Pondexter and others apparently playing for the alumni team. Unfortunately for fans, security was in place keeping anybody from seeing the game. Well done, NCAA.
- USC's redshirt sophomore center Dewayne Dedmon is just one among the several Trojans battling injury concerns in the early going (Jio Fontan and Curtis Washington, the two other prominent injuries on the roster). But for Dedmon, at least, there is a bright side to his injury. A natural lefty, what little basketball Dedmon has played (he didn't start playing organized basketball until his senior year in high school), he has mostly played with his right hand. However, since breaking his right hand on October 11, Dedmon has spent the past few weeks giving his left hand some work. While the injury may not be ideal for the undermanned SC roster, head coach Kevin O'Neill thinks "in the long run, it's going to help." Dedmon's hand will be re-evaluated next week with the hope that he'll be ready to go when the Trojans open their season on November 11 against Cal State Northridge.
- In yesterday's Morning Five, we talked about how Arizona State was toying around with the idea of using two seven-footers, sophomore Jordan Bachynski and junior Ruslan Pateev, in the lineup at the same time. If you wondered why, consider these troublesome stats: Last year ASU didn't outrebound a single conference opponent, opposing post players typically went off against the Sun Devils (for example, career-highs for Derrick Williams, DeAngelo Casto and Matthew Bryan-Amaning in three straight games, which were preceded by double-doubles by Josh Owens and Markhuri Sanders-Frison), and the trio of Kyle Cain, Pateev and Bachynski combined to average 10.6 points and 8.5 rebounds in Pac-10 games. Suffice it to say, there is room for improvement up front for ASU, and with Cain bulking up and Bachynski getting more comfortable after a two-year Mormon mission, advances should be on the horizon.
- Finally, we'd like to unveil a little Friday fun at the five spot. Connor and I will engage in a little pick 'em on Friday mornings, starting with Pac-12 football games for now, but moving onto some of the more interesting basketball games as the season progresses. Each week we'll put our picks for the weekend games here, keep track of them as we go along, and eventually declare a winner and award Paul Bunyan's Old Oaken Skillet (okay, we're still working on the name) at the end of the year. Each week we'll pick the most interesting game and try to call a score on that one (in bold below), while the other games we'll pick straight up. Here are our picks for this week:
|Connor's Pick
|Drew's Pick
|Washington at Arizona
|Colorado at Arizona State
|Arizona State
|Arizona State
|California at UCLA
|Washington State at Oregon
|Oregon State at Utah
|Oregon State
|Stanford at USC
|Stanford 35-28
|Stanford 38-23


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This is a story I wrote for a fiction-writing class I'm taking. It's kind of long, but I like it. Criticism is welcome, of course.
Ten Percent
I woke up with a red-hot knife of pain cutting through the sensitive bits in my head.
"Jesus!†I screamed, sitting bolt upright and jamming the heels of my hands into my eyes.
I felt a word appear in my head, originating from somewhere outside. Sorry. The cutting ebbed somewhat, fading a little into the headache I'd had for the past three days, courtesy of the flu.
We went over this, I thought, hard and desperately, lowering my fists and pounding them on the mattress for emphasis that I doubted would carry over. I have a headache, you stay the fuck out of my head or you make it worse.
I'm sorry, came the answer like another blade behind my eyes. But I have a chemistry exam and I can't remember how to calculate bond order. Can you tell me how?
You woke me up to dig through my head for bond order? I responded, a little incredulous but not entirely surprised. I should have known Josh would need something like that, and sacrifice my comfort to get it.
Yeah, he answered, as gently as he could, which still wasn't very gentle.
You couldn't search anyone else? I asked.
I know your mind better than theirs, came the answer. Besides, I don't trust the people around me.
Well, the actual answer to the question was to take half of the difference between bonding electrons and anti-bonding electrons, but there was no way Josh would understand that in the early part of his general chemistry class. So what was the other way to do it, the easy way? I thought about it for a few seconds, and was just about to articulate the answer when Josh stabbed his way back in, saw the shape of my thought, gave a hurried thanks and an invitation to lunch later that day and slid out of my head, leaving me with my baseline headache again and fully conscious at 9:22 in the morning even though I was too sick to be going to class and had already made arrangements to sleep as late as I could. I laid my head back down and shut my eyes and prayed that Josh's little mental intrusion hadn't made sleep impossible. Fortunately, my headache won out over my alertness and I fell back to sleep within a half hour.
Having a telepath for a best friend always made things interesting, but sometimes "interesting†bled into "annoyingâ€, when having Josh around wasn't outright embarrassing or, as it was when I had the flu, intensely painful. Really, a bad headache was the only thing that could make his mental visits painful, and headaches had never been a huge problem for me, so normally it was okay, but I'd asked him not to try and read my mind while I was sick and he still did anyway, which I suppose is typical for Josh – promises are other people's problems. I suppose I kept him around because he understood me (probably because he had a clearer map of my own mind than I did), but one thing he never really understood was boundaries.
The vast majority of people didn't know Josh was psychic; his parents wanted it kept a secret, which I guess is understandable. I'd actually only known in the last couple of years before then, and unlike everyone at our school I'd known Josh since long before college. He'd moved to my town in sixth grade and his powers matured that summer, but at that point no one knew but his parents, who were sort of expecting it; apparently telepathy ran in Josh's family on his father's side, with a grandmother who had it but only had a fraction of Josh's natural flair at it. He told me about his ability when we were juniors in high school, and I didn't believe it until he showed me, sometime after which I realized that it explained a lot; he was actually a very normal person who just looked at the world differently because he could listen to your thoughts like a Walkman, read your memories like a comic book, and eat your innermost secrets like a hot dog. On top of that, his being a telepath was a well-kept secret, and sometimes he seemed like he was about to snap at any moment from the effort of keeping it.
I'd have no idea what to think about Josh if I didn't know the man could read minds. His reflexes were phenomenal when he was reacting to another person and merely average when he was reacting to his environment. He talked fast, but was always just clear enough to be understood, and if you didn't quite catch something he'd just said then you'd have it repeated for you even before you could make a noise to that effect. If someone had an idea, he'd listen for about ten seconds before he'd either elaborate on it in a way that grasped the whole idea and included some new bits he'd just come up with – he was annoyingly creative – or shoot it down and refuse to listen even if they hadn't gotten to the good part. Sometimes he even fucked with people by anticipating an idea they'd come up with and making up some story about how someone had already come up with it; his favorite figures to attribute these fake ideas to were René Descartes, Richard Feynman, 5th century B.C. Greek philosopher Zeno of Elea, his own Uncle Andy, and Batman (citing a fake reference to an issue of the comic). He hated talking on the phone and he hated talking over the internet, unless you were within the comfortable range of his telepathy (the distance between my dorm room and the lecture hall of his chemistry class was outside that, and I'm sure it took a lot of effort for him to get into my head from that far). He was infinitely charming when he was interested in a girl and was obviously the perfect boyfriend whenever it came time to play that role, but he usually lost interest quickly, usually right after the first time the girl in question had even a stray thought about another guy when Josh was eavesdropping, which he did often.
Josh was, in short, the world's most selfish person, and that only became more apparent as time went on and he relied more and more on his powers. It would get worse before it got better, but fate had some changes in store for Josh and for me.
I guess it would have been about a week or two after I recovered from my flu that my head started to be pressed into service as Josh's day planner and memo pad. This is, of course, not to say that there was ever a time since I first found out about his secret when he didn't feel free to have a look inside my brain – at first it was the novelty of having a telepathic best friend that spurred me to give my consent, and once the novelty wore off, I guess I just figured that there was nothing in there he hadn't seen. This was something different, something that felt a lot more like some basic line was crossed.
We were joking around on our way to a late dinner at a restaurant one Friday night. I don't remember what we were saying; probably the usual stuff we'd been throwing around since middle school, like the debate on whether Batman could beat Dhalsim from Street Fighter in a fistfight or which historical figures could take a punch (we both agreed on George Washington and Augustus Caesar) and which couldn't (Thomas Jefferson and Caligula). Josh was also pointing out people on drugs whenever we passed them; he could identify them by how hard it was to read their minds. He said people on really heavy stuff seemed almost not to have any.
Josh's cell phone rang. "Hang on a sec,†he said, pulling it out of his jacket. "It's my mom.â€
He answered it, and began to communicate with his mother the way he normally did, through the morphemes "uh-huh†and "yupâ€; this conversation also included the phrase "don't worry†and ended with a "sure, byeâ€. During the conversation, he popped the knuckles on one hand, which he knew I hated but did anyway out of habit.
"What'd your mom want?†I asked.
"For me not to forget to call my grandmother for her 80th birthday tomorrow,†he answered, rolling his eyes and smoothing out his short brown hair.
"You know you're never gonna remember, dude,†I pointed out.
"Yeah,†he said, squinting up at me. "You're probably right. You remember it for me.â€
"That's stupid,†I said, "I'll forget it immediately.â€
No you won't, I heard in my mind. The buzzing that I felt in my head whenever Josh was near – pretty much everyone could feel it when they were around him, but I doubt anyone else probably noticed, and no one else knew what it was – got a little stronger as I felt something being pushed into my head. He grinned at me.
"What did you do?†I asked. I couldn't feel what it was.
"Try to forget it now,†Josh said, laughing.
There was something there, but trying to figure out what it was reminded me of trying to remember the face of someone I'd only seen once.
Josh peered at me, puzzled for a moment as he sensed my confusion. "Weird, I can read it fine,†he said, "although it doesn't really feel like one of your thoughts, now that I look. I guess it's one of mine, and that's probably why it's gibberish to your head. That's pretty cool, actually. It's kind of like writing a reminder for myself on your face; it doesn't bother you at all, but I can see it pretty easily.†He laughed.
"Thanks,†I said sarcastically. "I appreciate you using my head as a dry-erase board.â€
"Nah, bigger than that,†he answered. "There's a lot of space there. Like, right between the meaning of the word 'prevaricate' and your memory of senior prom.â€
I had the mental image of an empty warehouse with "PREVARICATE: v, to lie†written in huge letters on one wall and an enormous photo of me and my date at prom plastered on the opposite wall. Josh saw it and cracked up.
"But seriously,†he said, now obviously thinking about his idea in a serious way. "Know how they say you only use ten percent of your brain? That's an urban myth – the real number's a lot more than that, and that's why brain damage is so dangerous, but the fact is there's a shit-ton of space I can use in there. I mean, how else would you fit new memories, right?â€
I didn't really argue the point, and if Josh felt my reluctance to accept his rationale, he ignored it. He just did what he usually did – whatever he wanted. I would have to live with his notes in my head and that was that.
I started hanging out with Josh less over the next while, and he got offended. I couldn't pass it off as anything but what it was, because it was physically impossible for me to lie to him, so he knew that I really was angry because of the way he was treating me. He was getting reckless, too – not showing up to classes, telepathically cheating on tests (even more than usual), driving unsafely whenever there wasn't a cop around, and getting as many one-night stands as he wanted by lying and telling girls what they wanted to hear. He almost decided to shoplift to see if he could, but that happened to be one of the rare times I was with him and could talk him out of it. He still used me as his notepad when I was near enough, which was pretty often just because of how close he lived to me.
I confronted him about his behavior one day; I remember it was about two weeks before the start of finals because I was coming out of a review session when I felt the buzzing in my head that meant he was close. I saw him, not that far away, walking alone away from me. He stopped when he felt me close and what was on my mind.
You want to talk, he sent. It wasn't a question; he had no use for questions because he could find the answers himself pretty easily.
Yeah, I thought. He turned and walked toward me, his face passive. The buzzing got stronger as he got closer. Much stronger; he was becoming very powerful, indeed.
"Walk with me,†he said when he passed me. I did, in silence, for several minutes; I knew he would rather sense my emotions and my thoughts themselves than hear me try to articulate them, but I had no such luxury and would have to wait for his answers to either come out of his mouth or go into my head.
"You think I'm an asshole,†he told me after a few minutes of buzz-filled silence, punctuated by the sickening bone-on-bone crack of Josh popping his knuckles.
I didn't say anything. He knew the answer well enough.
"Don't judge me,†he said, quickly getting irritated, swinging his short legs in the way he did when he was angry. "I am what I am. If I was faster than everyone else, would running be cheating? I'm using my fucking God-given abilities, same as anyone else. Just because mine are better than yours doesn't mean you get any right to be my moral fucking compass.â€
I started to say something to prevent him from making a scene, but we were at one of the main roads of campus and Josh's sense of the dramatic kicked in – fortunately, there weren't very many pedestrians around. I knew that particular stretch was clear of cars at that moment because I couldn't hear any engines, but Josh leapt into the center of the road anyway and turned to challenge me, squeezing his eyes shut. "I can't be touched!†he called out. "A car could come down here going eighty and I could avoid it without opening my eyes. That's power. You think I'm reckless? Seems to me like it's practically my birthright. I don't have to listen to rules, and I know I don't have to listen to you.â€
I left, then, in a convoluted mixture of exasperation, disgust, sadness, and worry, knowing that Josh could feel every bit of it and pretty sure he wouldn't care anyway.
The car, when it did hit Josh about a week and a half later, was only going forty miles an hour, which turned out to be fast enough, and Josh had his eyes wide open. The driver, a Caucasian male in his thirties, had evidently been experimenting with cocktails of drugs but thought he was okay to drive; to Josh, it probably felt like the man's mind was splattered across campus, so it didn't entirely surprise me that Josh didn't sense him coming. That Josh didn't hear him also made sense – he was the only person I knew who felt safe walking around with noise-canceling headphones on, and he was wrong in this particular case. One of his ribs was broken and two ribs were cracked by the initial hit, which also left a ton of bruises up and down his left arm and fractured his left wrist. He bounced a little, and that was how his head hit the windshield and how he wound up with a pretty nasty concussion. Still, it wasn't as bad as it could have been, and when I came to visit him a week later after my second final he was awake and alert, with apparently no damage that would be permanent, according to the doctors.
"Name, please?†the nurse at the hospital asked me.
"Alex Lin, here to see Josh Card in Room 1644,†I answered, leaning my lanky 6'2†frame against her desk and running a hand through my unkempt black hair as she checked the system to make sure he was a real person and not allergic to Asians and whatever else crap they had on there about him. I thought about what I'd say to Josh, and tried to get my thoughts in order so if there was a confrontation between us he wouldn't be bolstered by playing off my confusion.
The nurse let me go up to Josh's room, where he was sitting up in a ridiculous-looking neck brace and re-reading Song of Susannah by Stephen King, turning the pages with his right hand. He put the paperback aside when I got there.
"I've been the worst kind of asshole,†he said.
I didn't say anything, because I knew he could hear what I was thinking, and that there really wasn't anything I could do to keep the thoughts from coming. They weren't nice.
"I'm sorry, Alex,†he said. There was a pained look on his face. Something was different about him besides his injuries, but I couldn't put my finger on it.
I shrugged, the shape of my thoughts making it very clear that I was willing to forgive him if things changed. He didn't react.
"Say something, man, seriously,†he said. That confused me.
"Why do you need me to say something?†I asked. That's when I realized what was different – the buzzing was gone. I was near Josh, and yet completely alone in my head; even when he wasn't actively reading my mind, I normally felt the buzzing around him. It was just a fact of life.
"They're gone,†he said, looking pale and morose. "I'm like you.â€
I almost choked. "Your powers are gone?â€
He tried to nod but failed, and so settled for an affirmative grunt. "The doctors were so happy that there wasn't any brain damage,†he said. "I can see, talk, dance, whatever the hell you want. There wasn't even that much swelling. I'm a modern medical fucking miracle, surviving a hit like that. Too bad I lost something a little more special.†He did manage a half-shrug, careful not to move his left side much. "Not like I deserved what I had anyway.â€
"Are you gonna be okay?†I asked. It was strange, talking to Josh and expecting him to respond to my words and not my thoughts and feelings.
"I might be, I might not,†he said. "I already applied to retake all my classes next semester – I wouldn't be able to pass on my own steam if I took my finals right now anyway, I'm sure I don't have to tell you that. The university is pretty cautious about my family suing, so they're willing to do a lot.â€
I nodded, perched awkwardly on the cheap armchair in his hospital room, hating the sterile odor of rubbing alcohol. We talked for a little while after that – it was mostly him apologizing and me just taking it. I was far better prepared for an argument than what I got, but I wasn't about to complain.
I graduated on time, he didn't, and we lost touch. I had an okay job – not great, but it paid the bills – for three years before I heard from Josh again one day in late January. He still lived at home with his parents, and since at the time I was caring for my father while he recovered from hip replacement surgery I was more than close enough to meet Josh for lunch. Eating meals with someone was always Josh's favorite activity, back when he had his powers; he always said there was nothing quite like tasting everyone's meal at once. He liked to eat with me especially – I'm what's called a supertaster, which is an honest-to-God scientific term for someone whose sense of taste is especially strong (it's more common among Asians than among white people like Josh) and Josh loved to experience that.
We got burgers at a place that we'd gone to about twice a week when we were kids. I didn't recognize anybody in the place, which didn't really surprise me, even though I knew the entire staff by name back in high school. Times change, as they say.
"They're starting to come back, you know,†Josh said, laying down his burger on his plate after about twenty minutes of catching up on each other's lives.
"What?†I asked.
"My powers,†he said, sitting back in his chair with a half-smile on his face, popping all the knuckles on his right hand. "They're spotty usually, but sometimes they come through really clear. I guess it's the same thing as if I'd lost my motor skills in the accident and had to do rehab to relearn them. I'm teaching other parts of my brain to do telepathy, slowly but surely. Can you feel it?â€
I could, and told him. It wasn't anything like it used to be (I was kind of afraid of how powerful he'd be right now if he hadn't gotten hit), but I could feel the buzzing. It was more like radio static than the constant buzz it used to be, but it was there. He seemed excited to be getting that part of himself back, and I was glad for him. It felt good to be glad for him; I guess that's when I really forgave him for what happened in college.
We were there for a while, and it was pretty dark when we left. That area of town had been getting pretty bad since we were in high school, and we probably ought to have been more on our guard than we were, but you never really expect a man to come out of an alleyway with a gun until it actually happens.
"Let's see those wallets,†the guy said. He was white, his hair and most of his face out of view in the darkness under a gray hoodie that I bet he thought he looked like Eminem in. I took my wallet out and handed it to him – I didn't have anything in there worth more than my life.
Josh apparently thought differently, if the way the buzz heightened was any indication. The mugger reeled. I don't know what Josh was doing to the man, and for that I'm kind of glad – his face, now visible, kept going from awe to pain to terror.
Josh took a step closer to go for the gun while the man was distracted, but the momentary lapse of concentration on the mental assault that that move required took a toll and I felt the buzz cut out. The man's trigger finger flexed in a panicked reflex once he had control over it again and the determined set of Josh's jaw changed to a surprised "O†shape as the gun went off, a hole in his jacket attesting to the fact that my friend had been shot in the chest. The entire thing there was happened in about two seconds, and I was too stunned to do anything about it.
Josh and I both slumped to the ground as the man ran off – Josh because he was dying, and me because I was in complete shock. Josh's eyes, wide and fearful, locked on mine. I could hear the buzzing of his telepathy again, as strong as I'd ever heard it and growing stronger and stronger. It grew in intensity until it was unbearable; at the same time, I blacked out at the intrusion of the largest push into my mind I'd ever felt.
There was an investigation and an autopsy, and between what they discovered about the bullet, the prints on my wallet which the mugger had dropped, and my own testimony, the man who slaughtered my friend was found guilty after a jury deliberation of about two and a half minutes. I didn't stay for the sentence, but the deadbeat had an extensive police record already and the judge didn't seem to look on him favorably. He'd be rotting in jail a good long time, and while I'm not generally of a religious bent I'm inclined to believe in hell in the special case of that man.
Josh's body was buried in a cemetery in our hometown. Pretty much everyone there was crying except for me; no one questioned it, I guess because everyone thought I was still beyond emotion. I was given special condolences for the dual horrors of being present at Josh's death and having to recount it in court, but I didn't need condolences. Josh was about as religious as I was, but there was still a priest there – his parents, at least, were nominally Catholic – that I guess did a pretty good job of telling everyone how bad it was to lose a guy as young as Josh, even though if he'd said twenty words to Josh since Josh was ten that would beat my expectations by an order of magnitude. I made sure to give my own condolences to Mr. and Mrs. Card, of course; they'd lost a son far more than I'd lost a friend.
I stood around a little while after the funeral, wondering what I'd do with the rest of my day. Go home and change, maybe, I thought. Take a nap. Something like that.
Nah, said another voice in my head. Let's get some lunch.
My hands rose up idly, my right hand trying to coax the knuckles on my left hand into popping to no avail. I couldn't suppress a chuckle.
Can it, the voice in my head grumbled, sulking. Let's go get some Chinese food.
You hate Chinese food, I pointed out.
Yeah, yeah, answered the voice of my passenger, but it's your mouth, and you don't.
I shrugged and walked toward the nearest Chinese restaurant, hearing the buzz that would stay with me for the rest of my life. The rest of our shared life, I guess; it's not just mine anymore. No one could say I was using only ten percent of my brain with two minds in there.


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A little bit different from my usual posts this one. I usually stick to topics relating to reading or writing fiction, but a Twitter pal requested recently that I do a post offering what advice I can on how to build and grow the numbers of people who view your blog – so here it is.
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Ok, so I've been doing my blog for around 18 months now and I suppose I've learned a few things in that time which might be of use to those just starting out, or who want to grow their blog traffic. The advice I offer here is just what I've picked up over time through trial and error and through listening to other bloggers – it's what has worked for me – so I hope you find it useful.
The first thing I'd suggest is that you adopt a regular pattern of posting on the same day each week. If you have the stamina to post twice a week, or even more often, then great – pick your days and update on each day like clockwork.
What this does is let people learn when you will be posting a new update so they can look out for it. I post on Saturday morning every week and consequently, Saturday is by far my biggest day on the blog for views – double or even triple my other days.
If you are interested in building a following for your blog the other very basic tip I would give you is to keep on keeping on. For the first few months I did mine, maybe even the first six, my figures were fairly stable and fairly low – looked at on a monthly basis they were always pretty much the same – disappointing. And I admit I did start to wonder if there would ever be a breakthrough. Then suddenly, around month seven, a lot more people started taking a look at my blog – and this rise continued over the next couple of months. I found I had shot up to three times my viewing figures in a matter of weeks – and maintained this new much improved position.
I will be honest and say I don't know how I did it. I didn't change the nature of what I was writing. I don't think there was one big magic wand I waved. But over time I adopted some of the strategies I outline in this post. I think the main lesson is just to persevere and keep at it. It takes time for people to find you and to cotton on to what you are doing.
When I first started I didn't think it mattered what my blog looked like – I kept it all white and basic. I didn't think about pictures too much either. A blogging pal asked me why I didn't make my offering more attractive like hers was? I took a look at hers and at mine, and she was right. I know mine's not a rainbow of fruit flavours now but I have made an effort to make it at least easy on the eye.
Equally, be inviting in what you write – have an eye to entertaining a little as well as informing. I always think: I'm taking up five minutes of someone's time which they've been kind enough to give to me – I should repay that by giving them something they can use or something to make them smile, preferably both.
It's great when people comment on your blog and I've found the posts which encourage people to do that most successfully are the ones which discuss issues and ideas. People will comment if there's something to comment on – if you have raised issues they feel they have an opinion on. So a 'think piece' which raises questions your readers can answer for you, or starts a debate they can take part in, is a good idea.
Personal column
I'm just throwing this out there – and it is very much a 'do as I say not as I do' kind of tip. But I've noticed some of the most successful blogs are ones in which people discuss their lives very openly in all sorts of ways. People follow people I guess and if you are up for making your life an open book it's one route to blogging success. It's not for me though, I do try to put a little of myself into what I write on the blog but you won't find any 'dear diary' entries on there. I always take the view that other people are a lot more interesting than me – and I prefer to write about them, in my fiction and in my blog.
Guest posts
I do like to have visitors on my blog – I find other writers fascinating and like to give them a platform to talk about themselves and their work. This also helps bring their readers to my blog – and perhaps once they've found me, they will even come back another time to look at some of my other posts.
News You Can Use
Some of my most successful blog posts in terms of numbers of visitors, are the ones which offer advice and information which people can use. I would predict that this post, for example, will be popular for that reason. Some of my post popular posts so far have included:
Tips on how to get followers on Twitter
Advice on how to find a publisher for your book
An interview with my publisher about what they are looking for in a book they take on.
These are posts which are not only popular in the week they appear, but keep getting regular hits over the weeks and months which follow.
Take requests
I think it pays to learn to give people what they want. If you have had a particularly successful post then look at doing something else in the same vein. Also, if friends on social media suggest a topic you might like to have a go at then do your best to accommodate them. As I said at the top, this particular post was in response to a request and I'm finding that happens more often as my blog has become better established.
Search Engine Optimisation is something of a specialist area and I'm certainly not claiming any particular expertise but I would offer a few tips.
Firstly – pop into the help and advice section of your blog platform and put in place the optimisation tips you are offered there. I followed the bits and pieces of advice offered by WordPress, it took me about half an hour and didn't stretch my limited technical ability. Has it made a difference? Hard to tell, but it's done now and I'm sure it can't hurt.
While we're on the subject – it's also a good idea to include relevant tags when you put up a new post. Again, it's something I never bothered with to start off with but always do now, it doesn't take two minutes to add some tags and it can help search engines find you by topic and theme.
Social Media
This is a bigger deal for SEO I think. Google loves Facebook and it loves Twitter. If you have decent followings on these two social media mega-sites then link to your blog on there regularly (without being too spammy obviously).
I get more referrals from Twitter than anywhere else, followed by Facebook.
Not surprisingly Google also loves Google+, even though the rest of us make it feel about as welcome as a red-headed step-child. I'm not suggesting you use it like Facebook but just open an account and stick your blog links on there for the SEO benefit – job done.
And …
Stumble Upon
They have a link shortening tool called su.pr which is worth using in preference to tiny.url or similar because, as well as making your links short it also gives you access to the Stumble Upon community and gets you extra blog traffic that way. Worth doing!
* UPDATE SEPT 2013: su.pr now appears to have been closed down as a service by Stumble Upon as part of an update, which is a shame as it was useful. It is still worth adding your pages to Stumble Upon as this does encourage some extra traffic to your blog – you can still add pages etc, it's only the link shortener which is no longer in service.
Final tip – Have Fun!
How many surrealists does it take to change a light bulb?
When you are writing a blog it never hurts to chuck in a few jokes.
Any tips you would like to add – or corrections to mine? You know the comment drill!


text: Raspberry Pi, the new and novel credit-card-sized computer, has inspired the minds and workshops of an entire hacking community, who not only develop software projects for it, but are creating external interfaces with clever abandon. We've rounded up a few of our favorites to share with you here. This doll-house-scale videogame cabinet made of laser-cut plastic, MAME emulator software and a Raspberry Pi recreates the childhood memories of millions of gamers on a 2.4-inch TFT screen. Especially impressive is that Jeroen Domburg of SpritesMods.com pulled this together from rough paper prototype to final wiring with no prior Raspberry Pi experience. Just as the Arduino platform has enabled creators to explore the possibilities of combining bits and atoms, this sweet new computing platform has given hackers and designers a new set of tools to combine physical and virtual worlds. Raspberry Pi lets developers code in popular languages like Python, reducing the learning curve for pros and making it more accessible to designers who might have picked up a bit of experience on the web. The microprocessor on board also opens up more applications for video and other rich media applications, or in Domburg's case, the greatest hits from '80s arcades. If you want to try your hand at recreating this cute cabinet, he's made the schematics and code available. If you want to see what else the design friendly Raspberry Pi community is cooking up, the following examples are great recipes for creative construction. And let us know what your favorite Raspberry Pi projects are in the comments. Bonus: Realizing that the joy of playing Street Fighter 2 on a computer the size of a credit card shouldn't be the exclusive domain of hardware hackers, the team at Pimoroni are developing a simpler kit-based alternative. It just completed a successful Kickstarter campaign and should be available for pre-order soon. Photo: SpritesModsAssemble a Pibow Rainbow Box The Pibow (Raspberry Pi Rainbow) protects fragile PCBs while paying homage to the original rainbow-striped logo of a certain computer/phone/tablet company. Designed by Paul Beech, the man responsible for the Raspberry Pi's logo, the Pibow provides stylish structural integrity. For those who want to hack the design, or perhaps just a less daring aesthetic, they can cut their own case using plans available on Thingiverse. Unfortunate souls without access to lasers or makerspaces, can buy PiBows for $33; a portion of every sale goes to the Raspberry Pi foundation. Photo: Pimoroni3-D Print a Case Release a new open source computing platform and it's only a matter of time before open source hardware enthusiasts rev up their 3-D printers to create enclosures. What makes the Raspberry Pi community so special is the focus on innovating in aesthetics as well as functionality — especially compared to the Arduino, where the top result on Thingiverse is literally a black box. The design above cleverly uses dual extruded plastic to replicate the logo's color scheme (with the green of the PCB cleverly coloring the leaves), but there is no shortage of cool DIY case models, like this simple case that achieved multiple colors by hot swapping filaments during a print job: Or this model that provides color distinction by snapping parts together: Or this asymmetrical enclosure that eschews screws and makes the "fasteners" a design feature: Photos: ThingiversePaint With Light Combine a Raspberry Pi with addressable RGB LEDs and a camera that can take long-exposure photographs and a whole new artistic medium opens up. While technically possible with other platforms, like Arduino, the team at AdaFruit Industries found that the more powerful processor and memory of the Pi made more complex graphics possible and easy. Within a couple of days of being introduced to the platform, LEDs were mounted on a bike and some hot public art was being produced. A detailed tutorial with links to all the required components is available on their site for those that want to make a Tron light cycle of their own. These fire tracks (below) made with a Raspberry Pi based rig will convince any neighbors that a time-traveling Delorean just made its escape. Photos: AdaFruit IndustriesWrite Minecraft Code Mojang, the creators of Minecraft, are on a roll. In the last week they have announced a new iPhone app that brings Minecraft models into the real world and that they would be porting their software to run on the Raspberry Pi platform. Raspberry Pi was designed to make computing less expensive so computer science could be taught more broadly. Now students can get started building in the game world, but also take a peek at the technical foundation. Mojang's "Chief World Officer" Owen Hill lays out the vision on their blog and writes "You can start by building structures in the traditional Minecraft way, but once you've got to grips with the in-game features, there's opportunity to break open the code and use programming language to manipulate things in the game world. You'll be learning new skills through Minecraft." Photo: MojangConstruct a Lego Case A well-designed logo works at multiple scales, in monochrome and multiple color applications, but only a great logo can translate to Lego. Originally designed by a 12-year-old roboticist, this brick/berry case is now a commercial offering, so popular it's back-ordered. While it still needs to be handled with care, this product is the rare triple-threat able to garner geek cred in the design, Lego, and OSHW communities. Photo: Raspberry PiMod a Robot Chassis You can make weather stations, home automation hubs, quadcopters, and even supercomputing clusters with Raspberry Pi, but there is always room for improvement on simple robot designs. This 'bot doesn't have any extraordinary functionality, but demonstrates a little prompting in the form of a logo and a community supportive of design can lead to better designed products. Photo: University of CambridgeWearable Computing Why wait for Google Glass to ship when for $382, a little time, and a thick skin for teasing, you can wear a fully functional Linux computer on your head today? Jarred Glickstein's homebrew creation took first prize in the Instructables Raspberry Pi contest earlier this month and provides a good starting point for anyone interested in wearable computing. Photo: Instructables


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get wise (to someone or something)
get wise (to someone or something)
To find out, become aware of, more fully understand, and/or no longer be deceived (by something or someone). I've been taking small supplies from the office for a long time, but I think the boss is getting wise. People are finally starting to get wise to the need for environmental protection.
get wise to
Also be wise to. See through the deception of; also, become aware of. For example, It took a while, but she finally got wise to Fred's lies, or I'm wise to the fact that her clothes come from a thrift shop. [Colloquial; mid-1800s]


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Latest News
Video Competition Results - the winners! (2008-08-26)
The votes have been counted and the final results for the Redwolf Airsoft "Who Dares Wins" video competition have been compiled into this super sleek graph you see below. The votes were counted from the YouTube comments pages along with the votes from a newsletter survey we sent out to all our newsletter contacts. For most videos, they proved to be as popular with our newsletter contacts as they were on their respective YouTube comments page, although for some videos there were slightly more contrasting views from the newsletter contacts and the YouTube comments pages. As our newsletter contacts represents a large number of people, it was quite a big factor in the final result. However the top 2 videos were quite clear cut, which you can see in the graph below - click to enlarge and see who won the competition!
In the end, the winner was quite distinguishable, with the Grand Prize going to a video that we enjoyed as much as the general public did. We were quite amazed by the amount of great videos that we received and would like to thank everyone for taking part in the contest.
Grand Prize Winner
Title: First Person Shooter
By: hnapierala
Age: 22
Country: Poland
Prize: Inokatsu Mk43
As the title says, it's a video taken from a first-person perspective, packed with a variety of special effects that envokes a certain emotion inside of you that makes you instantly utter the words "wow". It makes you want to play, and play hard. It leaves one salivating, wanting more. It's the number 1 video, and that says it all. Congratualtions!
Redwolf sat down with all fellow wolves and spent some time to watch all of the 20 fantastic videos to decide the Most Creative and Most Entertaining prizes. In the end we decided to adopt an olympic-style, 3 position system by handing out awards to the "Best", "Runner-Up" and also an "Honourable Mention". All those videos in the Top 20 that didn't make it will still receive a complimentary gift from Redwolf. We start off with the Most Creative award, starting off with the winner:
Most Creative Video Winner
This video came a close second in the votes for the Grand Prize, thus don't have any hesitations to declare this the most creative video. This stop-animation video blew us away when we first saw it. It has all the right elements and messages presented in an aesthetically-pleasing style. Each frame is taken, one-by-one, then put together to make a moving picture. It takes a lot of time to do it, and much props to dandman3039 for having the vision to do it.
| Most Creative - Runner-Up
Title: Redwolf Airsoft Video Contest_Out
By: MartinT123456789
Age: 23
Country: France
Prize: Airsoft Surgeon Glock 17 Caspian
Another stop-animation entry, and we have to say that this came a very close second to dandman3039's effort. It has all the right messages and the stop-animation is executed perfectly, accompanied by some superb sound effects. Even though i didn't receive that many votes from the public, our wolves howled in appreciation of this superb video. Enjoy!
| Most Creative - Honourable Mention
Title: Plastic Slug
By: demuizj
Age: 22
Country: France
Prize: Tokyo Marui Detonics .45
Made to look like a 2D platform game from the 16-bit era, this is an impressive visual feast of a video that has a cool soundtrack along with great animation that reminds one of the days playing Metal Slug, Contra and such like. A very cool concept and perfectly executed.
The following videos are for the award of Most Entertaining, starting off with the winner:
| Most Entertaining Video Winner
Title: Give It All
By: JayInVenice
Age: 26
Country: United States
Prize: Deep Fire MRF-CX
We thoroughly enjoyed this video, it tickled us silly with laughter, felt sorry for the protagonist as he gets a full-auto round pelting his privates, then cheered when he gets turned into a super cool sniper. The English accent was very amusing, and a bevvy of beauties feature in the video.
| Most Entertaining - Runner-up
Title: Redwolf Airsoft Video
By: alleywayairsoft
Country: United States
Prize: Airsoft Surgeon Glock 17 Caspian
This video advert features some superb special effects, which gives it the first part of this video a true movie feel. It feels like a movie trailer and apart from that it picks out the best bits of imformation about Redwolf to display.
| Most Entertaining - Honourable Mention
Title: Airsoftile Dysfunction
By: jsan0101
Age: 21
Prize: Tokyo Marui Detonics .45
If you have ever seen those erectile dysfunction adverts, you will know what this video is trying to parody. It's done in exactly the same kind of style and we sniggered like little school kids when we watched this one.


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16-30 June 2010
Table of Contents
Mr Minister! Jamia is Our Offspring (Tahir Mahmood) 1
Cartoon MG/Yusuf 1
Issue / Opinion
A Wake Up Call for "Muslim Leaders" (Navaid Hamid) 2
Outright condemnation of the Israeli terrorism (NA Ansari) 3
Madrasa demolished in Lucknow (Afzal Shah) 3
India and Israel to have free trade! (T. Riyas Babu) 4
Atrocities against Dalit girl 4
Sivanandan supersedes Gafoor, made new police chief 4
"AMU all set to start off-campuses this academic year" (NA Ansari) 4
Kerala allots Malabar new 120 HSSs (T. Riyas Babu) 4
Muslims unable to benefit from govt welfare schemes (NA Ansari) 4
Break all ties with Israel: Muslim groups (T. Riyas Babu) 5
Left organises protest against the Israeli blockade of Gaza (T. Riyas Babu) 5
PFI Manipur's sit-in protest against the Israeli attack (Benjamin M. Shah) 5
Social Profiling: Indian Style (Subhash Gatade) 6
Nine custodial deaths, 43 missing, six rapes: SHRC's report (Syed Junaid Hashmi) 6
Good results of
Urdu medium schools (NA Ansari) 7
Israel a danger to world peace and security: Asrarul Haque (NA Ansari) 7
Mushawarat on the Israeli piracy 7
Gadkari's initial steps a shamble, fails to unite BJP (Mohammad Naushad Khan) 7
CPM labels Muslim outfits communal (T. Riyas Babu) 8
14 years of clinging ends, "fed up" INL leaves LDF (T. Riyas Babu) 8
Why Hyderabad police being targeted? (NA Ansari) 8
Hundreds of Muslims arrested in Ajmer on Urs eve (NA Ansari) 8
Akshardham attack case: HC upholds death for three 8
Teesra Swadhinta Andolan to fight for "Liberation" (T. Riyas Babu) 9
Communal riot in Gujarat (NA Ansari) 9
Lok Sabha Report Card: Owaisi hits century 9
Number of orphans increasing in Kashmir (NA Ansari) 9
Ittehad-e-Millat's aim is to bring equality and justice to the oppressed 9
BJP tries to cut Gujarat Muslim votes by delimitation (Abdul Hafiz Lakhani) 10
Sadbhavna sammelan held in Ahmedabad (Abdul Hafiz Lakhani) 10
Modi brings out ghost of Naxalism (Abdul Hafiz Lakhani) 10
Arjun Modhwadia raps Modi government (Abdul Hafiz Lakhani) 10
Attack on riot witness (Abdul Hafiz Lakhani) 10
Legal notice by Tulsi's mother (Abdul Hafiz Lakhani) 10
NDTV rates Modi as the best CM! (Abdul Hafiz Lakhani) 10
Human Rights / Terrorism
Samad's arrest divided Central, state HMs, ATS confused (Majid Jahangir) 11
NIA to tread cautiously while probing minorities (Mohammad Naushad Khan) 11
International implications of the Malegaon blasts (Mustafa Khan) 11
Narco analysis: Supreme Court sets out the truth (Human Rights Features) 12
Canada takes notice of army excesses (Afsana Rashid) 12
National Integration: The Way Forward (Ram Puniyani) 13
Committed at home, opposed abroad (Sandeep Dikshit) 13
Communication Gap: Govt & Kashmiris (Nilofar Suhrawardy) 14
Fact-Finding report on the Dhulia Police firing (Report by Suresh Khairnar) 14
Who rules India? Who owns India? (Ghulam Muhammed) 14
Jammu & Kashmir
Dateline Srinagar: Afsana Rashid 15
First Amnesty team visits Valley in 20 years 15
Mirwaiz spells out contours of settlement 15
Army officers involved in fake encounter 15
Community News
Foul Alsafa banned (Mohammad Naushad Khan) 16
Kashmiri translation of Qur'an released (NA Ansari) 16
Congress to mobilise Muslim votes with Qaisar in Bihar (Mohammad Naushad Khan) 16
Search for intelligent and talented Shi'a students (NA Ansari) 16
Educational awareness conference and Mushaira (Nisar Ahmad) 16
Pawar plays minority card to evade price rise and IPL (Mohammad Naushad Khan) 16
Panchayat directs Muslim woman to return to first husband 16
Federation of Muslim Educational Institutions formed 16
AMU signs MoU with Uni of North Carolina 16
Community News
KU's Iqbal Library is now ISO certified (NA Ansari) 17
Khap system intrudes Muslim society also 17
Prof Zahida Zaidi felicitated (Sami Rafiq) 17
Community News
Shibli's Madarsa remembers him (Salman Sultan) 18
22 Muslims won in Kolkata Municipal Corporation elections (Mohammad Naushad Khan) 18
Aisha Adarsh Girls High School of Bihar (NA Ansari) 18
Kerala HC stays AMU off-campus (T. Riyas Babu) 18
CBI raid on Jaipur's Unani Medical College (NA Ansari) 18
American University students visit IOS (NA Ansari) 18
Four colleges to be set up in Saharanpur villages (NA Ansari) 18
Rs 3 lakh compensation to school girls who had fallen sick (NA Ansari) 18
All Assam Jamiat Ahl-e-Hadith President joins Congress (NA Ansari) 18
Mukhtar Ansari booked under MCOCA (Mohammad Naushad Khan) 18
Community News
Muslims love the country, not worship it (NA Ansari) 19
Employment oriented training to minority students (NA Ansari) 19
Is SIMI an unlawful body? 19
Micro financing scheme for minorities (NA Ansari) 19
Hamdard School's annual training programme for mothers (NA Ansari) 19
Haj Committee of India's office shifted to Nizamuddin (NA Ansari) 19
IUML not to ally with Jamaat Islami in panchayat elections 19
AICMEU distriburses aid to the physically challenged 19
Special Reports
Balesar riot victims maltreated by Rajasthan govt (Mohammad Naushad Khan) 20
UP minority commission encourages Muslim women to voice their plight (Mohammad Naushad Khan) 20
Monorail to serve pilgrims this Haj (Galal Fakkar) 17 extent congestion 20
Drabu first Kashmiri to be awarded UK honour of commander (Iftikhar Gilani) 21
Cartoon (By Yusuf) 21
No Turkish Delights for Israel (Arshi Khan) 22
Surge, Bribe and Run: America's New Policy in Afghanistan (Anis Ahmad) 18
US-Muslim relations one year after Cairo speech (Abdus Sattar Ghazal) 23
Israel welcomed into OECD 23
The Old Gaza Boy and the Sea (Ramzy Baroud) 24
Attack On Turkish Flotilla: Zionists' Making Holes In Their Own Ship (Soroor Ahmed) 24
7 Questions for Defenders of Israel's Inhumane Siege of Gaza (Joshua Holland) 25
Israel's Piracy on the High Seas: Not so in American Eyes (Karamatullah K. Ghori) 26
Israeli attack on Aid Flotilla
The Day The World Became Gaza (Ali Abunimah) 27
Global censure for Israel 27
Israeli attack on Aid Flotilla
'Israelis threw 4 injured into the sea' 28
Autopsies reveal 9 men on Gaza aid boat shot, 5 in head (Ivan Watson and Talia Kayali) 28
MV Rachel Corrie seized by force 28
Defenders of the Mavi Marmara (Ken O'Keefe) 28
Press TV reporter missing after attack 28
Israeli attack on Aid Flotilla
Greek witness: Israelis killed Turkish activist to stop media broadcast 29
Eyewitness: 'I saw people shot' (socialistworker.co.uk) 29
Israelis Execute American (huffingtonpost.com) 29-30
Legal Framework of International Law (Lynda Brayer) 29
After staying on a flotilla ship, Israeli activist converts to Islam (Jack Khoury) 29
Israeli attack on Aid Flotilla
Kidnapped by Israel, forsaken by UK (blogs.aljazeera.net) 30-31
Israeli document: Gaza blockade isn't about security (Frenkel, a McClatchy special correspondent, reported from Jerusalem. Warren P. Strobel and Steven Thomma contributed to this article from Washington) 30
Israeli attack on Aid Flotilla
UN's Pillay: Gaza blockade is illegal (maannews.net) 31
Protesters say Israel had an assassination list 31-32
Twelve Reasons for the International Community to Bomb Israel (Yamin Zakaria) 31
Israeli attack on Aid Flotilla
'Israelis threw 4 injured into the sea' 32
World reaction 32-33
America's Complicity in Evil (Paul Craig Roberts) 32
Israeli attack on Aid Flotilla
Message from US Congresswoman Cynthia Mckinney 33-34
Mad-Dog of the Planet (Patrick Cockburn) 33
Israeli attack on Aid Flotilla
Israel Takes the Bait (George Packer) 34
All at sea (Yvonne Ridley) 34
Gaza occupation and siege are illegal (George Bisharat) 34
Israeli lawmaker: No arms on flotilla 34
Madrasa education in India - a historical survey
B book: Qadeem Hindustan mein Ulum-e-Deen ke Sarchashme / Fountains of Religious Education in Ancient India, Author: Dr. Rahi Fidai, English Version:
Dr 'Abdul Ghaffar Khan, Publisher: Iqra Publications, No. 21, Oosman Street, III Cross, Haneefia Masjid Road, Khush Hal Nagar, K.G. Halli, Bangalore 560045 - Mob: 09448166536, Year: 2009 Price: Rs. 150 / Pages: (68 Urdu+72 English in single volume)
ISBN: 978-93-80124-05-06 (Dr Abdul Ghaffar Khan) 35
Books released: Twelve books written by the noted religious scholar, author, journalist and columnist, Maulana Nadeemul Wajidi… (NA Ansari) 35
Islamic Perspectives
Ulama - a strategy for change - ii (Yawar Baig) 36
MG Classifieds 37
Rejoinder / Opinion / Letters
MG (Mohammad Azam) 38
Fatwa hype is a media creation (Manzar Imam) 38
Deoband fatwa a gameplan of media (Mohammad Azam) 38
News about UPSC topper (Faisal Khan) 38
Union Carbide (Syed Khurshid Anwar) 38
Tussle over Jamia Millia's minority character (S. Haque) 38
Massacres, Law and the leaders (Abdul Hannan Siwani Nadvi) 38
The Real Face of Terrorism in India (G. Hasnain Kaif) 38
Rarely used term Hindutva terrorist becomes common (Mushtaque Madni) 38
Fate of Afzal Guru (Dr. Abdul Hameed Maqdoomi, Hem Raj Jain) 38
Dear Mr. Praveen Swami (Dr. Abdul Hameed Maqdoomi) 38
Dr. Abdul Hameed Maqdoomi (S. Haque) 38
NHRC chairperson (Subhash Chandra Agarwal) 38
Rejoinder / Opinion / Letters
BJP's faulty role as an opposition (Dr. Abdul Hameed Maqdoomi) 39
Oh! The pious inheritors of the world (Mustafa Kamal Sherwani) 39
When will caste system get abolished? (Mohd Ziyaullah Khan, Farzana Z Khan) 39
Shiv Sena and Shanties (Dr.Mookhi Amir Ali) 39
Israel's inhuman attack on humanitarian aid (Farzana Z Khan, Abdul Hannan Siwani Nadvi, Syed Sultan Mohiddin, Dr. Shah Alam Khan) 39
Obama's mind (Sultan A. Patel) 39
UN anti-terror Court' to save the democratic world (Hem Raj Jain) 39
Zanzibar University (Tanzania) requires Lecturer in economics 3
Idafa Investments Pvt. Ltd. 3
Kaleem Kawaja 6
Kanti Weekly / Kanti Monthly 16
Taarikh Tadween Sunnat (Islamic Studies Research Academy) 17
Voice of Kashmir 24
Idarah Al-Hasanaat (Rampur) 25
Free Online Health Consultation 37
Urdu Book Review 37
India's first and only Scientific and Informative 37
G.M. Banatwalla Saheb (Farooq Abdul Gaffar Bawani) 40
Kamaluddin Ahmed's plassey to proclamation 40


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text: Monday, June 24, 2013 New Podcasts: Research Advocacy, Functional Limitation Reporting Hear updates on rehabilitation research and functional limitation reporting requirements in 2 new podcasts that APTA has recorded and posted online. In the latest "Heard on the Hill," APTA's Adnan Jalil, lead congressional affairs specialist, reports on activities that stemmed from a Section on Research fly-in earlier this year to Capitol Hill, including legislation (S 1027) that calls for follow-up to the National Institutes of Health's Blue Ribbon Panel Report on Medical Rehabilitation. The second podcast covers the Medicare Part B functional limitation reporting (FLR) requirements that move out of the testing period on July 1. If physical therapists don't include appropriate G-codes and modifiers on claims forms, Medicare will return the claims unpaid. Listen to Heather Smith, APTA's program director of quality, and avail yourself to APTA's other resources on FLR so you aren't caught off guard come July 1. APTA podcasts are prerecorded discussions and interviews, not live events. Transcripts accompany most podcasts. Members can listen to podcasts at their convenience by clicking on the links provided in News Now articles, visiting www.apta.org/Podcasts/, or subscribing to APTA podcasts on iTunes.


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I'll grab one because my 400% Wicket needs a friend to help protect him from Fett...
I've been selling off my Kubricks, except the 400% versions and a couple favourites like Vader, Boba Fett, a Royal Guard and 2 Stormtroopers. But I still have this strange desire to add Paploo to my collection. Perhaps so Wicket won't be alone.
As much $$ as some of these go for, I just can't bring myself to sell em all, unless I have a major emergency.The Indy Chase, the Kane Chestbuster, the Snowtrooper, Tarkin...all are so cool!I'm to much of a Geek to let go!
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