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Whose birth do we celebrate on this day?
The living embodiment of God?
The only one?
What about you?
What about me?
Even the tiniest blade of grass struggles toward the light.
~ Russ Allison Loar
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Bottomless Pit
Some things never change,
I say,
Such as your stubborn refusal to admit
That change is the one constant of the universe,
Constant change,
That is.
But love is better than hate,
You say,
Will that ever really change?
If you love evil and hate virtue,
I say,
Then someday,
If you are lucky,
You will change and learn to love the good
And hate the bad.
And so the love of goodness,
You say,
Is right and will always be so.
Surely that will never change.
And I say,
Every day,
If we are lucky,
Our understanding of what is good,
Of how to be good,
Will grow,
And growth is change.
But if change is all there is,
You say,
Is not change itself a process
That will never change?
The process of change,
I say,
Is like a fire that consumes
And alters.
Who can say
This fire will never be extinguished?
But if the fire which is constant change
Is someday extinguished,
You say,
Wouldn't that be the end of change
Once and for all?
And without change what is left?
Constant nothingness?
Or constant somethingness,
I say.
The end of change could be the beginning
Of something quite different indeed,
Something larger,
Beyond our comprehension.
We talk like this
On and on
Into the night,
Trying to reason out the truth of our existence,
Temporarily unaware that we are growing older,
Slipping along toward death,
Moment by moment.
~ Russ Allison Loar
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This House
When this house was new
It practically took care of itself.
I thought newness was a permanent state,
Something easily maintained.
I repaired occasional wear and tear,
Restoring, preserving,
But eventually the patina of age took hold,
I reluctantly learned a degree of acceptance,
Trusting the impervious core of this house
To withstand most of the minor disfigurements.
After all,
So many other deteriorating houses still stand,
Still provide shelter,
A place for a life.
Yet the years accumulate
And that which cannot be repaired
And the once indestructible sheen of youth
Has given way to an aura of infirmity,
Filling my thoughts with apprehension.
Where will I live when this house is gone?
~ Russ Allison Loar
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Who Is Asking?
What is the shape of my mind?
The shape of my spirit?
My soul?
What is my essence?
What does it look like?
Just an image in the mirror?
Who is writing these words?
Am I a collection?
A collection of pain,
And everything between and beyond?
Am I a receptacle?
Am I both?
Or neither?
And by the way,
Who is asking?
~ Russ Allison Loar
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Old Cat
Asleep in the midday sun
She is curled atop a couch,
Her old chin cushioned on crossed paws.
A truck bangs its frame on a pothole
But the old Siamese does not stir,
Her tail does not twitch.
She is nearly deaf
And her occasional cries are rough and harsh,
Too loud,
Too full of distress for the routine requests they signal.
She is an old, deaf lady
Who can no longer measure the volume of her speech.
She will awaken soon and cry for food
Or cry to be shown to the litter box
In a place she forgets.
In this way she spends her last days,
Sleeping, eating, excreting
And luxuriating
In the gentle touch
Of the warm hand
That startles her from sleep.
~ Russ Allison Loar
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The Boundaries Of Heaven
We draw the boundaries of heaven
Around the spaces of ourselves,
Marked off by threat
And bluster,
As if heaven were a place
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The Mystery
When the temporal world turns against you
It's hard to sustain faith in the eternal,
To embrace the mystery.
Some say our bodies create our minds,
That our sense of a soul,
A spirit,
Is but an illusion created by our physical existence.
But do we not struggle in this life
Between physical desire and spiritual aspiration?
Why would our minds invent such torment?
The cruelties of existence so often extinguish hope,
The fuel of imagination and inspiration
That calls us to dream,
And to bring our dreams out of the ether,
Into our everyday lives.
Sophisticates reason away spiritual inclinations,
For they are blessed with fortune and purpose.
But this too shall pass
And each of us shall be reduced,
Left for a moment,
Or an eternity,
To enter the heart of the mystery.
~ Russ Allison Loar
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Books on my shelves,
So meticulously bought
And placed according to thought.
The lines of their spines
Reproach me
For ignoring them so.
In false phrases of praises
My bookstore ambitions go.
What would I know
If I'd read them all
And with total recall
Could bring forth their voices?
Who would I be with such choices,
With such knowledge tamed
And insights gained?
Would I really be changed
If rearranged
By the genius of my age
And of ages before?
Would I be an amazing sage
Or just another incredible bore?
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Sole Companion
This little cat,
My sole companion now.
I had nearly a dozen once
When my children were children.
Some inside and tame,
Others too wild,
Strays who came for food,
Never close enough to pet.
Some people are dog people,
But for my family
It was always cats,
Arriving suddenly from mysterious circumstances,
Finding refuge where we lived,
An old rented house on a large lot
Next to an acre or more of vegetables,
A vacant barn.
They'll give you food,
The old cats would advise the passing stranger.
Not nearly as much space at the new house.
More neighbors,
Closer neighbors,
And coyotes,
Great horned owls.
One by one they died,
Some of old age,
Some before their time,
The last old lady sleeping, sleeping, sleeping,
Then still.
This little calico cat,
So sick in the city shelter,
I nursed her back,
Old man that I am with time, time, time.
She is my sole companion now,
Giving each hour of the day a purpose.
A window for the morning,
Watching the excitement of birds
Flapping on and off the feeder,
Then backyard inspection
Under my overprotective supervision,
Then inside for a snack
And a day of favorite places at favorite times
Until at last the evening.
No longer nocturnal she pulls her claws,
Curls into a circle and rests.
She chirps as I stroke her fur,
Fur soft as silk from my frequent reassurances
That no matter what may come,
Right now,
All is well.
This little cat,
My sole companion now,
Content to share the warmth of my bed,
The warmth of my body
Against these cold winter nights,
This little cat who contains all the cats I've ever known,
All the cats who've come,
All the cats who've gone.
~ Russ Allison Loar
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Meaning And Pretense
I was an old young man
Singing songs of social protest,
Words I did not understand,
Words I had not lived.
I am a young old man now,
Singing songs of uncertainty,
Words I understand,
Words I have lived.
Now I understand the difference between meaning and pretense.
Now I know you've got to be honest,
You've got to tell the truth to tell the difference.
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Your parents were in love.
At least in lust.
Believe it.
No matter how ugly and ill-suited to romance they now seem,
There is a reason you were born.
Perhaps not so much a reason
As an emotion,
Drawing them together,
Fulfilling their destiny to create a new human being,
The latest version of evolution,
The dream made flesh,
You snot-nosed ungrateful twerp!
~ Russ Allison Loar
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Parallel Lust
There may be an infinite number of alternate realities,
According to some theories.
For each of us,
An infinite number of individual existences,
One for each possible action,
Each possible outcome.
And so my love,
Despite your current disinterest in my affections,
You may be my ardent lover in some other life
Where I am the reluctant one,
Though I suspect my eagerness will persist
With all the beautiful yet reluctant women I know,
Each destined to become my consummated soul mate
In some of my more salacious autobiographies.
In this particular lifespan,
The unremarkable aspects of my love life,
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Something about getting older
Speeds things up,
Something we do to ourselves,
Something we want,
Something we accept,
Something we don't realize,
Don't think about
Until the hours take flight,
Passing by like minutes.
Everything is hurried,
Speeded up,
Stripped down
Until whole decades pass by
Without meaning.
~ Russ Allison Loar
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It Is The Dream That Creates Us
It is the dream that creates us,
However carnal or profane,
However blessed by human charity,
However vengeful or inane.
It is the dream that creates us
And awakens us each day,
And opens a path before us
And sends us on our way.
~ Russ Allison Loar
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Tru Blue Gurus
True blue gurus
Tell me who I should be
With such certainty:
Honest, honorable and wise,
Trusting in providence,
Patient with injustice,
Content with my haphazard existence.
Yes, yes,
It is a blessing to be alive,
But endless, underpaid labor
Leaving little opportunity for imagination
Does not engender exuberance.
True blue gurus
Tell me there are no real obstacles,
That mind is the matter,
But here in the world outside my mind
Things can go terribly wrong.
~ Russ Allison Loar
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Someday I Will Begin
Always another task at hand,
Superseding vague ambitions of transcendence
With immediacy,
The immediacy of earning money,
Of maintenance demanded by inanimate objects,
Then the hungry pursuit of well-deserved reward,
Focused on the more corporeal aspects of existence.
That misty, translucent cloud of angelic eternity still hovers,
Just beyond reach,
(I try to assuage my neglected nobility)
(I earnestly promise)
I will begin.
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You will not let yourself fall in love,
Considering the complete impracticality of the situation.
You will be self-disciplined and wise
And never know bliss,
So brief and troublesome.
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Ninety-nine percent of all brain function
Is controlled by the subconscious,
Some scientist recently said.
Only one percent,
Only one percent,
Consciously aware.
I suspect his findings are the product of his subconscious.
Who knows what demons linger there,
Concocting their devious formulas,
Their sinister yet consciously undetectable little pranks?
How can I hope to make much sense of it
If my perception is mostly governed by my subconscious?
I ponder this conundrum
As I walk to the library,
My head full of conjecture
As I try in vain to open the library door,
Pulling then pushing,
Momentarily unaware of the bright red letters:
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My First Book of Poets
Who are these people?
Who are these fearsome souls
Whose stern and somber portraits
Grace this slim compilation of poetry?
What place is this?
On what planet are humans exalted so,
For a few lines of artfully arranged vocabulary?
I was too young to know much about poetry
Beyond the garden and the goose,
But just old enough to be lightning-struck
By the realization that thought,
Apart from action,
Could be so revered.
O those lofty words of those inspired souls,
So tangled and torn in my child mind,
A foreign language driving me to despair
Over my exclusion,
My denial,
My inability.
A small shaft of light shone through a window.
I kicked open a door.
I stumbled upon the words:
I think that I shall never seeNext to this poem a faded photograph,
A poem lovely as a tree.
Sergeant Joyce Kilmer,
Wearing a steel Army helmet,
A doughboy,
"Killed in action, July 30, 1918."
Compared to the regal majesty of Longfellow,
The bookish bespectacled gaze of Kipling,
This young man with the feminine first name,
With the shadow of death in his last name,
Looked so peaceful and calm in his uniform,
So compassionate, yet resolute.
He was 31 years old when he died
On a barren French battlefield,
A sniper's bullet in his brain,
Famous for this poem,
This poem about the limits of poetry,
About the difference between an idea and a living thing.
So many years and poets later,
He has been called too simplistic,
Too sentimental,
Yet so many years and poets later,
It is he,
He who first taught me,
The difference between a poem
And a tree.
~ Russ Allison Loar
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A Game
It takes a lot of luck,
And money,
To discover
That life is just a game.
It seems much more serious
When you're unlucky
And broke.
~ Russ Allison Loar
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Life Of The Mind
The dream remains a dream for most of us
Who gather together in darkened theaters
To experience the dream made flesh,
Who watch television late into the night
To transfuse contemplation,
Who read best-sellers to absorb meaning into memory,
Memory that overshadows,
Muffles our disappointment with the everyday.
~ Russ Allison Loar
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Looking Forward
"When hell freezes over!"
My dearly beloved intoned,
Responding to my request for a hot buttered cinnamon roll.
Not an unpleasant thought,
Not at all.
Free of matrimonial bonds
In the realm of human weakness,
Bundled up against the sudden change in climate,
Sipping hot chocolate
While the scent of warm cinnamon
Drifts lazily into my nostrils
From the buffet of frosted pastries.
O yes, when hell freezes over,
Now there's something to look forward to.
~ Russ Allison Loar
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Today I have a super fun manicure to share with you all from the lovely Olivia from Never Ending Nails, while I am away on holiday! I'll let Olivia explain the rest:
Hello everyone! First of all, my name is Olivia and I run a little blog called Never Ending Nails. It's my space on the Internet where I write about new polish that I've bought, nail art that I've created, and sometimes, I let you in on how I did it! Secondly, I want to say a big thank you to Kerrie for letting me do a guest post. Her blog is so fabulous, and it's a privilege to have my nail art shown on here!
Now, I know that a lot of people already know about cartoon nail art, but I wanted to share with you how I do mine.
Can you see why I called it candy-coloured cartoon nail art? Haha!
For this nail art, I used Barry M's Grapefruit Gelly, because it's a super bright pink with an amazing shine. I also used an unbranded black nail art pen and the white Barry M nail art pen.
First of all, I used the brush in the black nail art pen to paint two coats of black polish on to each nail.
When this had fully dried, I used the Grapefruit Gelly to paint on the bright centre. I made sure to leave the black outline, as on any good cartoon, everything is outlined! I did two coats of the pink polish to get the full brightness.
Last of all, I drew on a curved exclamation mark with the white nail art pen. This is the light reflection, giving you that final touch to the crazy, cartoon effect!
To make this even better, and more 'fake' looking, I suggest using a matte top coat. It would take off the shine that a regular top coat would give you, and would look amazing!
This is a great look that anyone could pull off! It would be especially great for a fancy dress party if you were going as a cartoon character.
Thank you for reading my post, and I hope you enjoyed it! Thank you once again to Kerrie for having me on her blog!
Olivia x
Thank you so much for this Olivia, this looks so easy that I have to give this a try myself! I want to do multi coloured skittle cartoon nails! As always please show Olivia some love and give her a comment or pop over to her blog and say hi!


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Decompensation with Clubbell Yoga
Tissues need decompensation work in order to unload the stresses placed on them during training. However, time is so precious that it is hard to justify putting a yoga class into an already jam-packed schedule. So when faced with the question: to stretch or not to stretch... often athletes pack up and head out, neglecting to facilitate proper decompensation.
Clubbell Yoga is a sport specific training system that allows athletes to train both strength and flexibility at the same time. My vision with Clubbell Yoga is to bridge the gap that exists between the strength training world and the yoga world, and to train movement patterns which help us actually decompensate and repair - not just isolate a stretch.
Scott Sonnon has endorsed Clubbell Yoga as being the ultimate way to garner 'expressful power.' The three principles driving a Clubbell Yoga practice are simple: awaken, condition, and practice. Here is a sample of a closed hip Clubbell Yoga sequence that can be done in under 7 minutes.
Awaken with joint mobility infused stretches. In the first two photos, Travis Janeway moves back and forth between kneeling lunge with thoracic extension and then straightens the front knee to come into Sonnon's "gunslinger" mobility drill. Inhale upon extension of the spine, and exhale as you shoot your hands forward. Perform 6-10 total syncing movement with breath.
Condition with Clubbell exercises that focus on flexibility and balance, like Warrior 3 holding the Clubbell in two handed flag position (pictured on grid, the eighth and ninth photos). This recruits hip stabilizers and postural muscles, while creating dynamic flexibility in the base leg. The drill can be done for 8-12 reps, holding each extended position isometrically for a few moments before going to the next rep.
Practice short 'sport specific' loaded yoga sequences. For example, start in kneeling lunge with Clubbell in two handed torch above head, ensure elbow is locked (the fourth photo). Then transition to 'Warrior one' by lifting back knee and placing foot on the ground at a 45 degree angle (the fifth photo). Keeping hips facing forward will stretch the hip flexors. Transition to 'Pyramid' pose, hips still face forward, feeling a stretch in front hamstring (the sixth photo). Lastly, transition to 'Warrior 3' a balance pose that integrates everything in the closed hip sequence (the last two photos).
Typically in a Clubbell Yoga class, we then perform an unloaded sequence after the loaded sequence for maximum benefit. You will notice a huge difference in your ability to 'nail' these poses once you have done them with a Clubbell.
Clubbell Yoga allows the athlete to focus on moving from mobility, to conditioning, to yoga flow in a way that makes sense on a neuromuscular level. There is no 'cocktailing' of yoga poses, instead the sequences are geared toward improving sport specific skills like single leg balance, hip recruitment, maximizing power and much more. You can practice at home via Clubbell Yoga DVD set, or come to a seminar near you. The next seminars are offered in London this April, New York in June, and Budapest in late June.
Thank you to Travis Janeway, of Bellingham Strength & Conditioning for modeling and facilitating this photoshoot. Thank you also for your dedication to spreading Clubbell Yoga amonst athletes. You rock!
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Instagram and Snapchat are Most Popular Social Networks for Teens; Black Teens are Most Active on Social Media, Messaging Apps
A new nationally representative survey of 790 American teenagers shows that nearly all teens age 13-17 (94 percent) use social media platforms. This study by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research points to Snapchat, a multifaceted application for sharing short-lived images and video narratives as well as engaging with news, and Instagram, a photo and video sharing application, as the most popular social media platforms among teens.
Building on historically greater uptake of smartphones, black teens are more likely to use certain social media platforms—especially those designed and optimized for mobile use—and to use Instagram and Snapchat more frequently than white teens.
Black teens are particularly connected to messaging apps, using more apps and using them more frequently than other teens. They are also more enthusiastic about video chatting and live streaming video.
87 percent of black teens video chat with friends and family compared with 72 percent of white teens.
The data for this report were collected in a nationally representative survey fielded between December 7-31, 2016, using the AmeriSpeak® Panel, the probability based panel of NORC at the University of Chicago. Online and telephone interviews using landlines and cell phones were conducted with 790 teens 13 to 17 years old after consent was granted by a parent or guardian.
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> Hold this: Help the bike lover in your life get the tool (s)he needs to tinker and repair. A bike repair stand is durable and collapses when not in use; they're something every avid cyclist wants, but rarely buy for themselves!
> Accessorize and customize: Add-ons like bells and baskets, bar tape and Brooks saddles allow the bike fiend to show flare all their own.
> Kid-friendly: We have bikes with streamers, stylish helmets and bells, plus child seats and racks for when they're riding along with you.
> Sign up for a class: Give the gift of a repair class, so your loved one can learn to fix a flat or even something more intensive. Or, do you know someone who wants to ride? Empower a loved one with a class to learn to ride the first time – or more experienced folks, learn to race!
> Clothing: Maybe you want to help them wear their heart on their sleeve, or keep their arms warm. (Right now, most of our fall and winter clothing is 20% off.) Unusual gifts include shoe covers to keep toes dry and warm while riding; arm warmers that afford layers without feeling bulky; non-nerdy shorts for protecting your tush and special parts from chaffing (yes, we all have "special parts"); wool socks for wicking – but only our parents or distant uncles give the gift of socks.
> Stay in shape – indoors: When the weather outside gets frightful, your cyclist can always hop on a trainer. From rollers and trainers to endurance-focused tools, indoor cycling helps bike nuts stay active and in cycling shape through the off-season.
> "I Bike NY" t-shirts: A classic favorite – now available in kids sizes.
And, when in doubt, there's always gift cards.
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2014's Christmas Raffle was drawn, in Out Patients in the Hospital of St Cross on Friday 19th December, and exceeded all hopes and expectations by raising a staggering £2,727, which is approximately 3 times the average amount achieved in recent years.
On Sunday 7th December , three supporters and their dog completed the 5k UHCW Charity Jingle Jog at Ryton Pools and have raised £840 so far in aid of the Appeal.
The Friends of St Cross have donated a special hospital bed which can be adjusted to suit the needs of taller and heavier patients.
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Twitter is quite a bit different than other social media channels (like Facebook for example) in that the number of times you can post in a given day can (and should!) be increased markedly.
The issue for so many people is they cannot come up with all that content to post on a daily basis.
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You can post pretty much as often as you want (even 20 times an hour it appears!) as long as you don't repeat the same post over and over in a given day. If you do that, you'll come off as spamming…your users will not like it and neither will Twitter. Check out how often we post.
You don't. Every type of content you generate (blog posts, videos, Facebook posts, quotes, memes etc…) can be set up in a 'Jukebox' to be posted out to your users over and over…content syndication. You achieve this by…
Unlike most social media posting tools (where you manually schedule each post to go out when you determine) Social Jukebox let's you put all your content in a 'Jukebox' and schedule it to go out as often as you want. For example, you have 20 different pieces of content. You set those to go out every other day and Social Jukebox will post them for you in random order (to make it more natural). SJ will keep doing that as long as you have that Jukebox on.
The advantage to using a tool like Social Jukebox is it allows you to post all your older content so your users see it. And as you add more and more content you just drop it in to your jukebox and it gets seen over time continuously building your brand (and leads!) on auto-pilot. Nifty, eh? You can also schedule your Facebook posts and even post to Linkedin.
If you're going to have a content strategy for your online business (which you should!) this is a must. It will make your life so much easier and build your following for you.
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Over three years now I'm using newLISP for several projects, most of them were web projects. During these years I've experimented with other LISPs like clisp, clojure and so on, but always coming back to newLISP because it's more fun and easier to solve my computing tasks.
So how will get newLISP more popular - what do we have to do in 2013?
I've written down some ideas I'd like to share with You:
1. Make newlisp.org more sexy - I'm working on some styles Lutz can easy use with his wiki
2. Write an ebook for children about "Programming with newLISP on the Raspberry Pi"
=> The internet of things is right around the corner and I think children like to influence their world via a computer. With newLISP it's easy to access the GPIO Pins from the Raspberry Pi to read out sensors or do some home automation.
3. Developing a portable, embedded social network device. Something like "Facebook to Go" using newLISPs networking functions, because I think the discussions about personal data and privacy will become more active.
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The Seahawks signed Terrell Owens to a one-year contract on Monday. It was a short-sighted, possibly disastrous decision.
I base this suddenly "controversial opinion" on the decade-plus of evidence that existed about Owens until early this week, when a sudden revisionist storm rolled through the league on a low-pressure system caused by ex-players saying nice things about a guy they will probably bump into at golf tournaments. While it's always good to keep an open mind about a free-agent gamble, Owens spent an awfully long time closing an awful lot of minds. There is such a thing as too much benefit of the doubt.
Here are several of the reasons why signing Terrell Owens was a major mistake. An exhaustive list would be so long that it would tie up your Internet connection.
Owens is 38 years old. He will be 39 in December. He was out of football last year. Here is a list of receivers within one year of Owens' age who were Pro Bowlers in their day but were out of football in 2011: Terry Glenn, Eric Moulds, Amani Toomer (turns 38 before the opener), Eddie Kennison, Muhsin Muhammad. Here are some good receivers much younger than Owens who are now out of football: Torry Holt, Hines Ward, Peerless Price, Marty Booker, Chris Chambers, Laveranues Coles.
Owens has shown no evidence of defying the age curve. He entered an obvious decline phase after the 2007 season, his last All-Pro season. His yards per catch dipped in every season after that. His receptions and yards dropped significantly in 2008 and 2009 before a little mirage bounce in 2010. Owens has been fading for years, and he no doubt faded a little more during his season of injury rehab and indoor football.
Even with his skills fading, Owens may still have what it takes to be a third receiver for a good team, but good teams don't sign 38-year-olds to be third receivers. Roster spots and practice reps are precious, and backup wideouts are expected to be either developing prospects or versatile role players. Owens is neither. He's a luxury item, the kind that a team like the Patriots might be able to afford, but a still-rebuilding team like the Seahawks absolutely cannot.
Notice that the primary reason why signing Owens was a mistake has nothing to do with his reputation as a divisive locker room migraine, a reputation that he has been saddled with because of his decade-long commitment to being a divisive locker room migraine. Let's touch on that minor detail now.
Owens hasn't changed. When we last heard from Owens, he quit the Allen Wranglers of the Indoor Football League with two games left in the season. Wranglers GM Drew Pearson, a former Pro-Bowl receiver, said that Owens "was a model citizen and did everything right, but throughout the season, that enthusiasm continually deteriorated."
Before the IFL odyssey, Owens played one season for the Bengals. He appeared on a reality show with Chad Ochocinco, the Bengals went 4-12, and Owens spent the final games of the season criticizing the entire organization while sidelined with an injury.
The year before that, Owens played for the Bills. Owens had a nine-catch, 197-yard game against the Jaguars (in a loss) and caught 46 passes for 632 yards in the other 14 games. The Bills went 6-10 and fired their coach in midseason. But Owens didn't do or say anything inflammatory, so this was a "good" year.
The year before that, Owens complained that Tony Romo throws too many passes to Jason Witten, then cried about his relationship with Romo after the Cowboys were eliminated from the playoffs. Owens also accidently (according to the final police report) overdosed on painkillers during his Cowboys tenure. It takes a special player to produce so many scandals that the overdose doesn't arrive until the end of the fifth paragraph.
And his one-man effort to rip up a Super Bowl team by its foundations gets "oh, remember this?" treatment in the sixth paragraph.
The guy who put himself above Donovan McNabb and the Eagles in 2005 was still putting himself above Pearson and the Wranglers in June. The ego is still big; it's the leagues that keep getting smaller. It's a pattern that never changes. The only difference now is that Owens is too old to qualify as "worth the headaches."
The "Grab an Old Goofball Receiver" strategy never works. Old Goofball receivers are always on the free-agent market, and teams sometimes cannot help but take a chance on them. So far, here's a breakdown on the "Old Goofball" success rate:
Old Goofballs who helped: Randy Moss for the Patriots.
Old Goofballs who were useless, at best: every single one of the others. And "old" Moss was 30 when the Patriots got him.
Owens, as we have seen, was a nonfactor-distraction-disruption for the Bills, Bengals and Wranglers. Moss' tenures with the Titans and Vikings should have been fair warning to the Niners. Plaxico Burress had an Owens season for the Jets last season: the numbers were better than the production, and the receiver-starved Jets decided to not to retain him.
There is a rising generation of new Old Goofballs, including Roy Williams, Antonio Bryant and Braylon Edwards, beginning their sojourns from team to team. Edwards is Owens' teammate now, and Bryant just flunked a tryout with the Seahawks. Many coaches think that they can "reach" these guys. It rarely happens. Old Goofballs don't help teams win Super Bowls for three reasons: a) they are old; b) they are goofballs; c) smart organizations, the kind likely to be one player away from winning the Super Bowl, are acutely aware of a) and b).
The Seahawks have a quarterback controversy. Of course, there is no reason to think that the guy who ripped McNabb, Romo and Jeff Garcia would have anything non-constructive to say about Matt Flynn, Tarvaris Jackson or Russell Wilson, unless you believe in things like consistent, documented patterns of behavior.
Those who fail to learn from the past are doomed to repeat it. Here is the past that the Seahawks are now doomed to repeat. Owens will catch 45 passes for 612 yards and eight touchdowns: Plaxico Burress' exact production from 2011. The Seahawks will go 6-10. Owens will lose interest in the team as soon as he reaches a performance bonus or two, and we will all know it. The Seahawks will cut him after the season, and his locker room politicking will linger as the team spends a second season trying to sort out its quarterback situation.
Owens will then lobby publically to play in the NFL in 2013, and we will hear about how he keeps himself in great shape and put up pretty good numbers, last year, again.


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Amazing #594, the second issue since their relaunch, has now hit the stands. While the first issue had a cover with a painting of Star Trek's Enterprise, this one has an eye-catching cover piece by Mark Zug which illustrates Diane Duane's "Recensions," a story set in WotC's STAR*DRIVE gaming campaign. "Recensions," unfortunately, reads less like a story than background information for a story. It is a tale within a tale and introduces the sesheyans and explains a little about their culture, which seems at odds with the bureaucratic tale the sesheyan scribe offers.
Ursula Le Guin's story, "The Island of the Immortals" also suffers from a sense that the author is presenting background information. The story of a woman's search for an island on an alien planet where people grow to be immortal opens with a long description of her research into the island, and with the story of an ancient sage who visited it. The same information could have been presented in a more active way, and the pacing is not helped by the fact that when the woman arrives on the island the atmosphere, which she hardly comments on, is one which could depress an hyena.
The first non-fiction article which appears in Amazing is Ben Bova's "You Might Live Forever," an excerpt from his recent book Immortality. This essays ties in well to the immortality theme in Le Guin's "The Island of the Immortals." In essence, a short description of the current knowledge of aging and possible ways to prevent them, the article comes across as summary rather than anything new.
The first story in this issue is the first publication of James Tiptree, Jr.'s first story, "Please Don't Mess With the Time Machine." Although it's a light send-up of traditional space-opera, it has a muted punchline, one which is seen fairly frequently and often done better. Whereas the title is a typically fantastic Tiptree title, it is also misleading, as this is not a time machine/travel story in any way.
Kristine Kathryn Rusch's "Going Native" is an almost Luddite examination of the fears and hysteria which surround the introduction of new technology. In this particular case, the technology is teleportation, but that is less important to the story than the themes Rusch explores. The story works well, although it does end at a point where it could be expanded should Rusch decide to continue it.
Although Gregory Benford's "Scientifiction" non-fiction column mostly deals with the purpose of science fiction (not to predict, but to prevent), he also discusses why science fiction is so separate from mainstream fiction and comes to a conclusion which complements Rusch's anti-technological theme.
J. Gregory Keyes's "Good With Secrets" is an excerpt from his upcoming Babylon 5 novel, Dark Genesis. Perhaps not surprisingly, it has an unfinished feel, almost as if it is an outline that needs fleshing out. The relationship which develops between the two main characters doesn't feel as if it has any grounding beyond the fact that they are in close proximity, and the logical leaps required to solve the mystery Keyes sets up are worthy of Arthur Conan Doyle.
One of the best stories in the magazine has the unlikely title "Thematic Torus in Search of a Cusp," by the writing team of William Barton and Michael Capobianco. In this alternate history, Mariner 4 has discovered evidence of at least one city on Mars. For the most part, the story deals with the way scientists and politicians deal with the discovery, although there is a cute twist on the end which works. Like so many of the stories in this issue of Amazing, this one also feels as if it ends before it really gets to the point.
Eliot Fintushel's "Crane Fly" deals with alien entities who are trying to return to their home world from Earth. In order to achieve their goal, they must arrange for humans around the world to lose their appetites. The "About the Author" note mentions that "Crane Fly" is part of a short story cycle Fintushel is working on, and it is difficult to believe that knowledge of the earlier stories wouldn't make "Crane Fly" more complete and enjoyable.
While parts of William R. Eakin's "Encounter at Redgunk," about a redneck's guilt at beating up the town genius and killing his mother in a car accident, work, at other times Eakin seems to fall into the trap of portraying the inhabitants of Redgunk as stereotypical poor white trash. His depictions come across as mean-spirited rather than satirical. However, the story manages to work because he eventually focuses on Bobby Joe Raymond Thornton's feelings and guilt rather than on his "Southerness."
"What Does the Algae Eat?" by Uncle River is practically a stream-of-consciousness rambling which fails to have a plot and seems to begin with an examination of faith in the modern world and eventually moves on to discuss environmental issues. Perhaps the most unfocussed piece in this issue of Amazing, it is, perhaps, the only story which would never have appeared in a magazine edited by Amazing's patron editor, Hugo Gernsback.
Not only is the cover a full color glossy illustration, the interior of the magazine is filled with similar paintings and graphics, giving Amazing a very slick look and feel. Each story is accompanied by a sidebar in which a short biography of both author and illustrator are provided and frequently include a small pictures of them.
There is a very self-promotional feel about Amazing, partly due to the number of ads for Wizards of the Coast properties or Babylon 5 tie-ins. This is increased because scattered throughout the magazine are reproductions of various Amazing covers from the past. These covers are accompanied by promotional material about what was included in the magazines and could be a nice historical overview if they were somehow linked together. As it is, they come across as filler materials, like the quotes at the end of some Analog articles.
While it is good that Amazing has once again risen from the ashes, the editor (currently Kim Mohan) must select his stories more carefully. Otherwise, the magazine will close shop again because of the inability to present enough cutting edge SF, relying instead, as this issue seems to, on works which have been rejected from the other major markets.
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Two players, Nick Nickell and Mike Passell, will be inducted into the American Contract Bridge League's Hall of Fame on Thursday in Las Vegas at the start of the Summer North American Championships.
The expert's expert, Passell has won two world titles, the Bermuda Bowl in 1979 and the Transnational Teams in 2001, and has two world silver medals. He has 10 national team titles: one Grand National, four Reisingers, three Spingolds and two Vanderbilts.
He perhaps plays more tournament deals in a year than anyone else, being happy to sit down every day and compete for hours, making very few mistakes.
Passell is an imaginative and quick-thinking player, as shown by his defense in the diagramed deal. He was East, defending against four spades by South. West led the club queen. South took the trick with his ace and ran the spade eight. How did Passell defend?
South opened with one no-trump, showing 15 to 17 points, and North responded four hearts, which was a Texas transfer promising at least a six-card spade suit. South completed the transfer and North passed.
As soon as Passell saw the opening lead and the dummy, he knew that his partner had no more high cards. There were 8 points on the board, he had 13, and partner had already shown up with 3. That left 16 for South, and East could "see" all four jacks: two on the board, one in his hand and one promised by his partner's opening lead.
So when declarer took the spade finesse at Trick 2, East smoothly won with his ace, cashed the diamond ace and continued with the diamond five.
South believed that he could go down only if he took a losing diamond finesse and West then gave East a diamond ruff. Declarer therefore rose with his diamond king and played a spade to dummy's jack.
You can imagine his reaction when Passell produced the spade queen and cashed the diamond queen to defeat the contract.
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Corsican Wine
The granite island of Corsica boasts a free-draining hilly topography and sun-kissed Mediterranean climate is are ideally suited to viticulture yet sadly its wines are all too often overlooked by critics and consumers. This is partly due to large numbers of visiting tourists absolving the need to establish export-markets, but also due to a general ignorance about how good the best wines are. The silver lining to that cloud is that they remain remarkably good value despite the additional costs of shipping via mainland France.
We made our first buying trip to Corsica in 2005 and have shipped increasing volumes since then while our retaining undimmed enthusiasm. The Imbert family's Domaine de Torraccia, in the hills above Porto-Vecchio, has proved an unfailingly reliable source of characterful, organic wines with a strong sense of terroir. Their white, from pure Vermentino, has appealing wild herb aromas and a zesty, citrus-edged palate, which lends it well to the plentiful local seafood. A rosé stablemate comes from a blend of Corsican curious 'Nielluccio' and 'Sciacarello' along with more mainstream Cinsault and Grenache. It has a lovely coral pink colour and delicate crushed berry scents and flavours so is perfect for al fresco imbibing. The Imbert's principal red deploys the same grapes but switches Cinsault for Syrah. It has a briary bouquet and a palate of dark autumnal fruit with peppery undertones and supple tannins. A flagship red bottling, called 'Oriu' (meaning 'cache') is made from 80% Nielluccio and 20% Sciacarello. It is a dense, concentrated and full-bodied vin de garde that requires 5 years bottle age for its tannins to soften and its full potential to be revealed.
On the other side of the island at Sartène, Philippe Farinelli's 'Domaine Saparale' is another exemplary estate. His scrub-scented white Vermentino has a lovely resinous texture and an elegant, dry finish. A rosé, blended from Sciacarello, Nielluccio and Vermentino, is redolent of rosehips and redcurrants and is offset by a palate-cleansing acidity. Completing the line-up is a redoubtable red with aromas of myrtle and thyme and a darkly-fruited, mineral-streaked palate. It makes a fine foil for figatelli and fitonu sausages and cellars well for 3-5 years.
Up on the eastern flank of the Cap Corse promontory at Luri, Lina Pieretti makes one of Corsica's most revered vinous treasures: Muscat du Cap Corse. It is a golden hued Vin Doux Naturel with a bouquet of orange blossom and a richly-honeyed peach palate. It is traditionally served as a pre-prandial bonne bouche but also makes a versatile partner to fruit-based desserts. Lina also makes a delicious Coteaux du Cap Corse rosé from a blend of Nielluccio, Grenache Noir and Alicanté. It has an attractive 'wild salmon' robe, subtle raspberry scents and a racy summer berry palate with a crisp, clean finish. A full-bodied rouge combines around 30% of southern French staple Grenache Noir with the Corsican Nielluccio, a close relation to Tuscan Sangiovese. The resulting cuvée is coloured a deep violet that belies an intense spicy red-fruit nose backed up by garrigue herbiness, an almost saline acidity and a lengthy finish.
A recent serendipitous discovery has been the wine of Domaine Paradella in Poggio d'Oletta in Patrimonio. Despite being made from Nielluccio in hills below Mont di Tuda, it's a wine with a strong Bordelais influence as patron Lionel Wojcik is great friends with Louis Mitjavile of Saint-Emilion Grand Cru Château Le Tertre Rôteboeuf, so deploys the same 'Radoux' oak barrels and mechanised cellar 'misting' system as they do. It has an 18 month élevage before blending and bottling giving the finished wine cinnamon, pepper and truffle aromas and a rich palate of dark autumnal fruit with fine-grained tannins and balanced acidity. It has an untamed Corsican quality beneath its glossy veneer and will cellar well for a decade, as its 'Vis Temporis' label suggests.
Quick and Easy Guide to Corsican wine
Impress your dinner guests with expert knowledge of the Granite Island.
Corsicans are fiercely proud of their gastronomic and viticultural heritage and want visitors to the Granite Isle to enjoy their sublime seafood, world-class charcuterie, pungent artisanal cheeses and good quality wines.
Area Under Vine:
3,000 hectares.
Key AOCs:
Patrimonio, Ajaccio, Vin de Corse Porto Vecchio, Muscat de Cap Corse, IGP Ile de Beauté
Principal grapes:
Sciacerello, Nielluccio (related to Sangiovese), Vermentino (aka Malvoisie or Rolle).
Notable domaines:
Torraccia, Leccia, Arena, Canarelli, Saparale, Pieretti, Nicrosi.
Local delicacies:
Oursin (sea urchins), figatelli (chestnut-smoked sausage), lonzu (cured ham), brocciu (goat or sheep's cheese).
Restaurants we like:
Le Rouf in St-Marie-Porto-Vecchio, Stella d'Oro in Bonifacio (for aubergine à la bonifacienne), le 3.2 on the beach at Santa Julia.
Famous people from the region:
Pascal Paoli, Napoleon.
Things to do:
Laze on sandy beaches in the south; hike the GR20; sail around the island; hunt wild boar; watch Le Grand Départ 2013; visit the citadels of Bonifacio & Calvi; listen to polyphonic chanting in Sartène.
Things not to do:
Burst into a rendition of 'La Marseillaise' in a bar. Start a vendetta.
Useful local sayings:
"At the end of many disasters, there's usually an Italian."
Further reading & viewing:
Yapp blogs, The Honourable Bandit - A Walk across Corsica, Granite Island: A Portrait of Corsica.
Bien classique:
Vin de Corse Sartène: Domaine Saparale rouge.
Autre chose:
Muscat du Cap Corse: Domaine Pieretti.


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Episode #53: Kathmandu Aawaz
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This week we feature the work of Anthropologist Laura Kunreuther who takes us on a sonic exploration of the soundscape of Kathmandu.
About the author:
Laura Kunreuther is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at Bard College, and an alumni of University of Pennsylvania (C '91). Her research centers on the intimate and political registers of voice, urban publics, radio, mediation, sound, and liberal and illiberal subjectivity in Nepal. It has appeared in journals such as Cultural Anthropology, American Ethnologist, and Journal of Linguistic Anthropology. Her book Voicing Subjects: Public Intimacy and Mediation in Kathmandu was published by University of California Press, 2014.
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Fringe is a sci-fi thriller. After years of being locked away in an asylum Dr. Walter Bishop is released to the care of his estranged genius son, Peter. He is release for the sole purpose of ascertaining the reasons for several strange and unexplained world events. Just as an example, entire buildings and towns disappear. Why? No one knows.
Now we're in the fifth season. You can only imagine the craziness that's happening now. J.J. Abrams is a genius, but that's really a different topic entirely.
The scene that brought this whole post to my mind occurred when Walter, the doctor, is being tortured by a mind reader, or observer, for information. In the background music the viewer hears classical music playing. The Observer says, "You're trying to think of music? You miss music....we tolerate it. But it's merely tones, rhythms, and harmonic vibrations. I don't understand."
Walter replies to the stall inquisitive Observer, "Mostly [music] amazes me. Music helps you to shift perspective. To see things differently if you need to."
"To see things like...hope?"
"Yeah, very much like that."
So...that was a long story, but I loved this scene. You should watch the show. It's available on through this link on Hulu.com.
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It's been said that necessity is the mother of all invention. Then frugality must be like a second mother! Have you ever noticed how most frugal people are also very creative? It's no coincidence; I believe there is a strong correlation between frugality and creativity. There's plenty of examples out there of frugal people finding creative solutions to life's problems – sometimes in an effort to save money, and other times simply to extend the useful life of everyday things.
Mowing by flashlight
The idea for this post came to me Saturday night while mowing our lawn late in the evening. As it got dark, I switched on the lawn tractor's headlight feature without success. In a matter of minutes I would soon be mowing in the dark. With no time to investigate why the lamp wasn't working, and little time (and money) to start looking for a replacement, I did what any frugal person would do. I duct taped an old MAGLIGHT flashlight to the hood and finished mowing.
Of course, this probably won't be a long-term solution, although after looking up the cost of a new headlamp I'm thinking I might just live with it for a while (and start mowing earlier in the day!).
Painting the top of my van with Rustoleum auto paint
A while back I noticed the top of my old van was seriously rusted. I was less concerned with aesthetics and more concerned that it would eventually leak during heavy rains. Recognizing that it is a large vehicle, I figured having a new paint job would be expensive, so I decided to do it myself.
One Saturday morning I hand-sanded the top of the van with sandpaper fine enough for auto surfaces, but coarse enough to remove most of the rust. I then gave the van a good washing to remove any sanding residue and loose paint/rust chips.
The next morning I applied a couple coats of Rustoleum auto spray paint to the roof in an almost matching color. It's really more two-toned now, but not many people can see the top of a van, so it certainly doesn't bother me. With a little elbow grease, and $20 worth of supplies I had solved most of my rust problem. At 19 years old, the chances of me having to repaint the roof during the van's useful life are slim.
Made a "book" rest
A few weeks ago I was cleaning out my work office when I found some very old programming books. These thousand-plus page monsters were extremely outdated and were ready to hit the recycle bin long ago. But I had a different idea.
I grabbed two of the books of equal size, and found four door wedges (those triangular things that slide under a door to hold it open), and glued two to each book, about a 1/3 of the way in on both sides. What I had left was a gently elevated footrest for each foot that I put against the backside of my desk.
No offense to the books' authors intended of course, but the software the books were written for stop being supported five years ago. At several inches thick they make a perfect way to elevate my feet under my office desk,and saved me from having to buy an expensive footrest. Why not extend their useful life a bit?
Naturally, these homemade solutions are not always better. There are plenty of times where it makes sense to go shopping for a new product or service that will solve your problem. However, I applaud those who stop to think about finding a frugal, creative solution using the things they already have, rather than rushing out to a store to buy something new–adding to the clutter in their home or office.


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