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Quaker Theology #15
The Spiritual Similarities of Quaker Silence
and Pentecostal Glossolalia in Worship
By Ho Yan Au
The means for worship and liturgy vary among Christian denominations. Traditional churches such as the Orthodox, Roman Catholic and Anglican/Episcopal Church promote a sensible sacredness and solemnity through symbolic rituals with materials such as incense, bells, candles, etc. Protestant churches simplify the whole process by abandoning the use of materials and focus on preaching and scripture readings. Undeniably, they can potentially draw worshippers' focus on God and mediate his presence.
However, I suggest that Pentecostal glossolalia and Quaker silence are distinct means for worship since ontologically, they are about the direct guidance of the Spirit and practically they usher this directness by a personal contact with the Spirit without words, music, materials and priests. Outwardly, Quaker silence seems to be different from Pentecostal glossolalia – a contrast of inward and outward in two aspects. First, as Daniel N. Maltz says, Quakers take the inner spiritual self and seek for inspiration from the Spirit by silent waiting, while Pentecostals "conceptualize the Holy Spirit as external" by regarding themselves as "vessels being filled by the Spirit."[1]
Second, silence focuses on the inward light which is intangible while glossolalia per se is an outward manifestation which is audible. Nevertheless, implicitly, they both share four spiritual characteristics– 1. a sign of direct experience with God, 2. the Spirit's sovereignty in worship, 3. the edification of self and others, and 4. the challenge of human language which will be elaborated in the following.It is worth noting that in this article, "Pentecostal glossolalia" does not carry a denominational meaning, but solely refers to a spiritual phenomenon. This is for two reasons. First, the interpretation of glossolalia varies among Pentecostal denominations. The Assembly of God in the USA and the Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) uphold the belief of glossolalia as an initial physical evidence of the Spirit baptism, while Elim Pentecostal Church of Britain does not have the same doctrine.[2]
Second, there is no common understanding of glossolalia between Classical Pentecostals and charismatics who experienced the Spirit baptism and gifts in the mainline protestant churches and the Roman Catholic Church. Missiologically, referring to the Lukan illustration in Acts 2, Classical Pentecostals in the early stage of the movement believed that glossolalia was a gift for world evangelization by speaking local languages without learning. In addition, from the Pauline account of glossolalia, they also find the evangelical purpose of glossolalia used in the public as a sign to non-believers so that they may know Jesus Christ (1 Cor. 14:22).[3] Eschatologically, based on their premillennial view, Classical Pentecostals consider glossolalia to be a sign of the final harvest and the imminent second coming of Jesus Christ.
Charismatics neither uphold the doctrine of initial physical evidence, nor the missiological nor eschatological views. They believe that it is a gift from the Spirit for praise and prayer, a sign of the Spirit renewing the church and uniting Christians from all traditions.
However, they both agree on the use of glossolalia for worship, and hence this article is concerned with its functions and spiritual significance in worship. The word "Pentecostal" carries a broader meaning than denominations and refers to movements of the Spirit which revives and renews churches with the outpouring and endowment of gifts from the Spirit.British Quakerism today has become theologically and religiously more liberal than Twentieth Century Liberal Quakerism.[4] Its members do not just adhere to Christian faith, but also to Buddhism, Islam, Hinduism, Universalism, pantheism, atheism or nontheism. For Evangelical Quakers, some of them believe in Jesus Christ as the only true God and the Saviour, while some of them regard themselves as Christian because of their acceptance of Jesus' ethical teachings or based on their own definitions. Pink Dandelion proposed the term "post-Christian" to describe the diverse spiritualities within the Society.[5] Nonetheless, they still worship together at Meetings through silence, which they insist is the only medium for direct guidance of the spirit(s).
Their reasons for silence are almost the same as the early Quakers in the seventeenth century: the redundancy of preaching and a distrust of human language.[6] They believed that God's Word was not solely represented by scripture preached by ministers, but was rather an "ongoing and progressive process to be realized in every man." It is absolutely possible for every individual to directly receive divine revelation from God without preaching.[7] Therefore, there is no need to keep such a role-separation of preacher from listeners, but instead, everybody can play these two roles simultaneously through listening to God silently.
Moreover, as preaching is communicated through human language which can easily be used in "trivial, irreligious or untruthful matter…which gratified the earthly but not the spiritual side of man,"[8] they think that spiritual messages can be distorted by earthly ideas and consequently the edifying power is diminished. Hence, complete silence with a well-prepared heart that waits for God's word and the glow of the inward light is the best way to receive the purest and truest inspirations. As the founder George Fox urged his adherents,
Be still and cool in thy own mind and spirit from thy own thoughts, and then thou wilt feel the principle of God to turn thy mind to the Lord God, whereby thou wilt receive his strength and power from whence life comes, to allay all tempests, against blusterings and storms. That is it which moulds up into patience, into innocency, into soberness, into stillness, into stayedness, into quietness, up to God, with his power.[9]
Nowadays at Quaker Meetings, silence is still "the central part of its ritual" and believed to be a "…medium through which God's will is heard, voiced and discerned."[10] After understanding the definitions and meanings of Pentecostal glossolalia and Quaker silence, we can explore their spiritual similarities during worship under four headings.
1. Signs of direct experience of God.
Both Pentecostal glossolalia and Quaker silence lead to a direct experience of God through three processes: self-disclosure, intimacy, and transcendence.
Firstly, they usher a divine-human self-disclosure which is due to a mutual pursuit for each other. The American Quaker scholar Rufus Jones believes that "God is seeking for persons even as persons are seeking for God".[11] Seeking implies a self preparation of the seeker for communication with others. Quakers prepare themselves for the spirit(s) by intentionally maintaining a physical and spiritual stillness while Pentecostals worship in tongues, the utterances of which are seen as a desperate cry to God to reveal himself more and more.
For Friends, the divine disclosure comes when "the Inner Light begins to glow–a tiny spark". It will "blaze and illuminate our dwelling" and "make of our whole being a source from which the Light may shine out" if attention is paid to it with love.[12] The divine discloses himself in a status of silence which becomes "the welcoming acceptance of the other."[13]
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I kind of go in with a pretty solid sense of what the big mile markers are going to be. I knew we were going to do the whole dynamic with Tara, I was going to build to Clay ultimately putting himself in that box, and with Jax taking the president's patch. I knew that I ultimately, not unlike what we kind of did with Mackey, would trap Clay. To me, after everything we did with Clay, it was almost too easy to just put a bullet in his head. How do you ultimately punish that guy? It's to strip him of his power, strip him of his virility, and I want to play out some scenes next season where he's literally sitting in Piney's seat with an oxygen mask. To me, there's such a cool irony to play out that dynamic.
I knew that was going to go down. I didn't know exactly how we were going to work the Tara thing or what the threat would be. In fact, fucking up her hand was literally something we came up with on the script level. We needed that one more thing to push her to the dark side, to get her to ultimately that place with Jax. That's where we thought that taking away from her the thing that defines her was an interesting parallel with Jax, taking away the thing that defines her after he was about to get away from the things that defines him, which is the club.
That was decided at the jump. It's a tricky thing. I don't know. I guess I just overestimated people's espionage experience. (laughs) I was afraid we were going to tip our hands on that storyline. What we tried to do was lay in clues throughout the piece. And then I just found myself pulling some of those back in post because I didn't want to tip my hand. At the very least, I feel like – whether you like the twist or not – because we did know we would do it from the beginning, it wasn't something that was tacked on as a fix, if you go back and you watch those scenes, everything lines up, from them showing up in episode two to protect the club, to the little pieces of conversation between Romeo and Luis. And then especially with Tara. When Clay puts the hit on Tara, why doesn't that guy just roll up and put a bullet in the back of her head and take off? Why did they kidnap her? And the other clue that I thought everyone was going to pick up, I guess people thought it was bad casting, was we had those guys in the truck speaking Spanish, and they just took their hoods off and they were clean-cut white guys. We tried to lay in some clues, but I think I was so cautious about not wanting to tip that reveal. I think it worked in terms of everybody was surprised. But the fact that everybody's asking me when did you know suggests I may have pulled back a little too much.
You've read my review, so you've seen my take on that twist, and a lot of my readers were even more unhappy with it and said it felt like a cheat – that it came out of nowhere and wiped away all these stories you'd been telling. What would you say in response to that?
Look, I was talking to (FX PR chief John) Solberg about this. When you're moving at such a fever pitch throughout the season, and with episodes that have such high intensity, I think there's just an expectation at the end for all of that to come. I told John that I think people wanted the Hindenburg, and I didn't. I don't think everyone can be satisfied. Looking at some of the comments, people's expectations, the only way I could have satisfied everybody would be to write a finale that would essentially end the series, and I'm not ready to do that.
I don't think so, man. I just feel like to prolong the John Teller original sin hanging over Jax's head for six or seven seasons, it would have gotten thin and really lost its potency. Season 3 helped set Jax up in terms of giving him some backstory on his dad, this season was the reveal on some of that backstory. And quite frankly, I know in your review you talked about the set-up for next season seems potentially less interesting for you. I knew I always wanted to play out at least a couple of seasons with Jax at the head of that table. In the evolution of the character, and the evolution of the prince, I think there's a lot of room for great drama in this guy trying to figure out what kind of king he wants to be. Can he be Clay without becoming Clay? Can he be John teller without suffering the fate of John Teller? What's Clay's phoenix moment in season 5 and 6?
I think you're right. We'll jump into next season with a sense of playing that. Not that I want to spoil season 5, but it's not about suddenly we come back to the exact same dynamic. I really want to see Clay broken. What does this guy do to fucking strap his balls back on, and steam rising up. You didn't see that with the Vic/Shane dynamic. I think Clay has an interesting arc to play out with potentially Gemma and gathering his power base. Right now, the only one in his corner is Tig. I think there's something to be played out with that, but at some point, there has to be some sense of, if Clay does rise up and becomes a threat to Jax, you can only get so much out of that, because we've played a lot of that. So I don't know. I knew that this wasn't the time for Clay to go away. Whether he makes it through all seven seasons, I don't know.
That will be the crux of the Opie arc next season. I knew one thing. I knew that after the struggle that Opie's had this season, and I dug the fact that this guy had to marry somebody else to finally start grieving Donna's death. I think all of that felt real, all of these guys aren't that self-aware and have the emotional skills to know how to deal with that shit. And to have the Piney death thrown into the mix. Which is why I felt it would be silly, almost, for Opie to suddenly sit at the table with Jax like that. I think it's going to take a while for Opie to come back, if he comes back. That dynamic will play out between Jax and Opie. He's definitely still part of the show, and I think there's a way to keep him part of the club. Him sitting across that table form Clay will be a difficult thing to do. I think that will probably be a lot of what the Opie/Jax relationship wrestles with in season 5.
I think that will continue to play out. At this point, I think Jax is just trying to protect the information that he's just received. Knowing that he ultimately has to tell Tara, and trying to figure out how to keep Opie close. But I think you're right. Opie being in the wind will continue to be a threat to Clay and something that Jax has to rectify. Quite honestly, I just loved the dynamic of in that moment, with that information, I loved the way Charlie played the line in that scene with Opie where Opie asks him if he found anything out today, and Jax says, "Yeah, a little bit." All that shit's been downloaded on Jax in 24 hours. In that moment, he makes a decision to not violate the trust and give that information to Opie, because Opie's in an unpredictable state. For Jax to give Opie the information at that point probably feels more dangerous than potentially keeping it to himself. Opie's obviously a threat to Clay and will continue to be one, and that's a problem. The state of mind that Opie's in at that point, it feels too unstable for Jax to hand him that top-secret information.
One of the reasons everyone was so satisfied with last year's finale was that after the Sons had been manipulated by the Irish characters for most of the season, they got to seize control of their destinies again, and everything that happened was as a result of their choices, not someone else's. Most of this season was about Jax making choices, Clay making choices, Juice making choices, but in the end, everything is decided based on what Romeo wants. How much of the action on the show do you feel should be driven by what the main characters want versus what other people are deciding?
Obviously, there's both of that going on. But some of that, dude, quite frankly, I understand it's a show about our guys and our heroes, but the idea that the life itself is subject to so many variables. To me, I liked the fact that suddenly they're moving towards one thing and they think they have control of the situation, and the truth is, they don't. I think the season 3 finale was very satisfying, but I also think the experience of the season 3 finale was more enjoyable because I don't think people were as invested in the season. I think people were distracted by season 3 and not as plugged in. I think the finale of season 3 felt like, "Oh, this is what the show is and they're coming back." I think the experience people had for the finale in season 4 was the season was building at such an intense rate that ultimately, they wanted that intensity topped at the end, and I just didn't think that was good storytelling to put a bullet in somebody or blow it to hell. That was my thinking in terms of those two season finales.
Why does Jax not tell Opie more about their situation?
I wouldn't say I go to it consciously. The truth is, I just didn't want to kill Juice because I really liked the actor a lot, and I knew what we were doing to Piney in episode 8. I felt it would have diminished both of those deaths if we had done them back to back like that. I didn't necessarily see the shooting of Clay as necessarily a cliffhanger, you know? Meaning that with Juice, yes, there was definitely a sense of he's dead, and then the branch breaks and he's not. With Clay, I guess there was a perception because he took a couple of bullets, but we get out of that so quick that to me, there wasn't a sense of finality of, "Oh, he's dead," and then we come back and not. There was a sense of, "Are they going to let him die? Is Opie going to put another bullet in him?" It's not a device I consciously go to in terms of telling that story. It was the best way to do that, I feel, to really tell the story in that moment.
I think that there's a sense that if RICO goes down, they'd all go down, unless he cuts some kind of deal. The idea is that they have enough on these guys to bring them down. Obviously, they want to cast a bigger net. For me, the idea that if Jax undermines this deal, at that point, Romeo is going to hand back over to the feds to process them. Don't forget: there may be more steps to do that, but we've seen the information established, and we know that the case is ready to go. It's significant leverage for Romeo. But I do think that Jax would be part of that. But I think the bigger thing for Jax is really, the idea that he's willing to walk away from the club, but it's still too much a part of him to let it all just fucking go away. I really wanted to create a dynamic where it just felt too easy for Jax to read those letters and then to say, "Oh, Clay killed my father and now I have to stay here and avenge my father's death and fix the club because that's where you wanted," that felt a little too Shakespearean and a little too unrealistic with everything we'd done with Jax's season, the revelations he'd had in jail and desire to take care of his family. To have him throw that out and say "I have to do this for my father" didn't have enough weight for me and didn't feel real. It was really about choosing between the life or death of SAMCRO, and he couldn't let it die. So he is sort of being forced to stay, and what does that look like, with that element in play? He's a guy who still loves his family, still wants to get them out, but he's forced to stay and keep the secret to keep them alive. Does that ultimately impact his ability to lead? Does that all go away and he gets caught up in the life he knows? Does he lose focus of his family and his other desire to get out? I think that creates more internal conflict for the character.
You referred before to the guys in the club as "heroes," or maybe that's just how the viewers look at them. The episode where Tara was abducted and injured her hand seemed to have as its theme the idea that the club is a cancer that destroys everything it touches, and that no one can get away with it. Is that how you feel about the club at this stage of the series? Is that how you want the audience to feel?
What I enjoy about the nature of the world and the things we do on the show is that we embellish and we, in a pulpy way, we build up these themes of brotherhood and freedom and power. It's all the things that people plug into the subculture for. But there's also the underbelly of that world, which is incredibly dangerous and incredibly violent. For me, what I like to do is, as we're moving along and playing with these other themes and values in terms of what the MC is, to then have those moments where we slap the people in the face and go, "Don't forget: this is who these people really are. They are racists, or have racist roots that are part of the club's foundation. They are guys who beat the fucking shit out of their women." Jax says it in the beginning, in the first episode: "We've lost focus." It's not about brotherhood, it's about greed. The idea of these guys you love are also incredibly dangerous and despicable. For me as a storyteller, I like playing with that notion, of pulling people in and saying, "We love these guys and they're funny and they would kill for each other – and, oh yeah, by the way, they're this, too." There's that constant sense of push and pull. I'd like to think that helps make the show more interesting to watch and more compelling to play out those two things.
I don't know what the standard is. I just think that sometimes, I love what I do, I think I do it well, and I feel like sometimes the analysis of this show, people are missing some of the point of it – or at least the function of it. That's just my perception of it, whether it's true or not. All that stuff is true. The guys I know in the life, they love this show, but they love it because it's a soap opera. They laugh at me at the shit we do, that it's so over the top and would never happen. The prospects give me shit all the time, because the guys on our show treat the prospects way better than in real clubs.
But in terms of your question and the standard I expect people to watch the show with? I don't know what that is, and I can't impose it and control how people watch the show. That's just what I do on my blog: I get to vent about what frustrates me sometimes when I read these reviews. I think, quite frankly, and we never experienced it on "The Shield," because there weren't so many people blogging on every line and moment. The scrutiny of hundreds of people commenting on every episode and scene, I think at a certain point, the scrutiny gets a little absurd and overwhelming. I think it was more a response to that. I have no standard by which I want people to watch the show. I just know that, for me, some of the things we do are just the pulpy nature of the show. It's what I enjoy doing creatively, and it helps keep the show entertaining, and as I said in that blog, it's the things that make the brutality and the ugliness of the world a little more palatable. It distances itself from the reality of the show a little.
in retrospect, seeing the reaction of some critics and fans, i think splitting the finale into two parts did not serve the show. i stand by the story and the twists, but i feel like somehow i assumed people would sew 413 and 414 together as a viewing experience. see it as first the half and the second half (that's why i called it act 1 and act 2). i realize now that i put the expectations of an entire season on an hour of tv that was really only half-structured. meaning, 414 was never written as an episode, so structurally it was off.why did i do that? well, when you're sitting in post with a cut that's 28 minutes over, trying to figure out what story arc to gut, you look for solutions. i couldn't get a two-hour finale (it's a union thing, turns it into long-form tv which impacts every rate from the ground up), adding the extra episode seemed like a valid (and generous of the network and studio) solution. i found a natural break in the story and recut both of them as separate hours. 413 got the lion's share of action and energy, 414 got the reveal and slower emotional decisions. i think if i delivered 413 as a one 90-minute episode, although the story would be the same, the viewing experience of the finale would have been much more satisfying. honestly, and this is the truth, i just didn't want to cheat the fans — i wanted to give them all of it. and critically, i'm paying for that. more lessons.


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Seventeen years ago, the noughties reboot of Charlie's Angels arrived at our cinemas and made everyone across the land fancy Eric Knox dancing to 'Got To Give It Up.'
No, just us?
The film also brought together two juggernauts of the acting world, Drew Barrymore and Cameron Diaz.
The firm friends were spotted out-and-about in Los Angeles on Friday of last week, apparently going furniture shopping.
Over the weekend Drew posted a snap of the two of them looking quite adorable and spoke about the importance of friendship in her life.
She captioned the picture:
#beautyjunkieweek#sisters. getting out of your house with your girlfriend. And being a whole person, with your sister. Remember to spend a moment with the ones you love in your busy life. She has made me feel beyond beautiful. Always has. Always will. #thankgodforyourfriends. They rejuvenate and confirm everything.
Since their Charlie's Angel days, both actresses have gotten married - 44 year-old Diaz to Benji Madden in 2015 and 42 year-old Drew Barrymore to Will Kopelman in 2012, with whom she has two daughters.
Unfortunately, Drew and Will's marriage ended last summer.
Diaz, who was a bridesmaid at their wedding, spoke out at the time about the importance of friendship when things aren't going very well.
On a radio show in the US she was asked about Drew, to which she responded,
Everybody pulls the wagons around [for] our friends, whoever needs us at whatever point in time. Even if it's something that the public doesn't know about. Internally were all going, 'OK, who needs us now?' We've been in this industry for a really long time together, and that's a feat. To have people that you've known for that long, those are real relationships, real friendships. We've gone through a lot in life together.
As you get older you start to lose people in your life, and when you lose people in your life, you have less of a purpose. So it's really, really important to stay engaged. I know, for myself with my girlfriends, how important it is to stay engaged [and] how close we all are together and how much we rely on each other.
Someone pass us a phone, we need to call our bestie ASAP.


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Friday, June 9, 2017
Ike's world challenge
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- Borqna said...
Gorgeous card, Tink! I feel this greece mood!
Thank you very much for coming over to play at IKEsWORLD Challenges!
Good luck!
Have a great weekend!
- June 9, 2017 at 12:42 PM
- Sall said...
Ah isn't that great, a very clever idea. Thank you for taking the time to join in with our challenge and sharing your creativity with us, I love to see your talent, creativity and imagination at work. I hope to see more of your creativity in the near future. Love 'n' hugs Sall IkesWorld Challenges DT
- June 9, 2017 at 2:55 PM
- ike said...
WoW - that is lovely. I really like how you put the picture behind the window. Gorgeous. This has such a wonderful Greek feel about it. :-D
Thank you very much for coming to play at IKEsWORLD Challenges.
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- June 11, 2017 at 3:41 AM
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Super design...love how you have combined the images!
Thank you for sharing with IKE'S WORLD Challenges!
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Today I have been admiring the way the sweet cicely has chosen to sow itself in amongst the peony. They are such a happy partnership. I have also been potting on my seedlings from Sarah Raven.
I decided that the answer to my cutting garden conumdrum this year would be to buy in some annual seedlings for the squares which I haven't yet filled. I have twenty seedlings of four different varieties of cosmos: Dazzler and Double Click Cranberry, both carmine pink, one single flowered, one double, and Purity and Psyche White, both white, again one single and one semi double. As usual I have bought far too many so these will do my cutting garden, the gaps in the side garden and should still leave a few left over for my daughter in law who is starting a brand new garden in their new house.
I also bought sweetpea seedlings: Lord Nelson, Prince Edward of York and Matucana. These are all very strongly scented and seem to do ok up here if the place where they grow is richly composted or manured.
I have bought these as seedlings from Sarah Raven before and they are generally sturdy and well grown. I have also grown all of these from seed myself but I have left it too late this year, again! Long experience of our conditions up here on our hillside has taught me that they will all fare best if potted on and allowed to get quite big as they harden off before they go out. They will then withstand the depredations of slugs and snails much better. Potting things on is one of those jobs which needs to be approached in the right frame of mind. If I am in a rush it always annoys me that it takes far longer to do properly than I think it should. Going at it too quickly I am not careful enough to tuck the plants in, I rush with the watering, missing some and drowning others and I often skip labelling the pots in the totally mistaken belief that this year I will remember what I have put where. Why do I think this? I am always wrong.
Today I have taken it slowly, potting on gently, labelling carefully, watering thoroughly and even taking out my gardening diary to record what I have been doing. Again it took far longer than I had thought it would, more than an hour as against my predicted half an hour, but I enjoyed it more and focussed on it more, disciplining myself to ignore the weeds poking their heads up in the herb beds. Perhaps this is one of the results of the 100 day project: finding myself able to take my time instead of crashing about trying to tick things off a mental or real to do list.
And then I took my cup of coffee down to the kitchen garden to admire the delicate froth of the sweet cicely again and to roll its leaves in my fingers and smell the faint, sweet scent of it. It goes very well with rhubarb but we don't have enough rhubarb just yet so I will just have to love it sitting in the sunshine.


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Stunning actress Neha Dhupia will don a one of a kind Sonu Dharnidharka creation this Lakme Fashion Week Summer/Resort 2015. Imagine a beautiful dawn gently lighting up the ramp and its grandeur leaving you in awe. Inspired by the classical beauty of the ancient Greco-Romans, Sonu Dharnidharka's RRISO brings to you 'Eos'. Check out the gorgeous outfits!
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Humour me if you will, a theory of mine that I have, one that can't really be rationalised by conventional means of psychiatric evaluation. A notion I believe to be a reasonable assertion that has been compiled through hours of diligent testing, with examinations performed with the utmost sensitivity and keen scientific analysis. You see through the aforementioned research I've conducted, I believe that the survival of console gaming, or perhaps the consolidation of them hinges on not only popularity, but accessibility, convenience, portability and (this where we take a sharp left!) the ability to access hardware on the toilet. A startling observation I'm sure you'll agree but hear me out.
Gaming has never been cheap, with the current range of hardware available perpetuating this tradition. As a child you are left relying on the generosity of your parents to furnish you with the latest console or games. As annoying as this maybe to your liberty you are afforded the luxury of juvenile endeavours such as school holidays and weekends to play them. As you get older and begin earning your own wages you can save and purchase new consoles without having to consult parental authority to validate their acquisition, usually through forced behavioural initiatives invoked by parents who want you to behave to obtain the desired product. But as a result of financial obligations, relationships or even your own parental responsibilities you aren't permitted the time to play them. With a hybrid console like the Switch though, you can.
The biggest hindrance I face when it comes to gaming is life in general. Time allocated to recreation is limited primarily to family oriented jaunts such as going to farms, parks and swimming pools to assuage the boredom my rambunctious infant daughter feels from being at home for too long. There are periods in the day when my daughter collapses in exhaustion face down in the wreckage of her building blocks and my girlfriend has a quick nap on the sofa, delegating me a small window of opportunity to engage in some console comfort. The trouble there though is that you're afforded a tenuous allocation of time to familiarise and immerse yourself, with much of it feeling rather awkward. You know that at any moment your child will wake from their lenient slumber and come bounding over to you trying to wrestle the controller from your hand, just so she can gnaw on the analogue sticks or toss it into the washing machine. With a composite console like the Switch I can simply detach the joy cons, attach them to the tablet and continue again at my earliest convenience. Whether that's for 5 minutes, 10 minutes or if I'm lucky when I'm using the toilet.
The tranquil serenity facilitated by this draughty bastion can not be understated. The last remaining sanctuary from the tyranny of washing up and other arbitrary duties. A place of quite contemplation and meditative reflection, where one can find solace in the confines of a room that can't be breached by the insolent violations of a two foot high wrecking ball! With the Switches adaptable hardware catering to this temporary state of sensory sedation, the capability to both game and poop is compelling. Take Skyrim for instance, a cash cow that certainly has some substantially resilient udders to withstand 6 years worth suckling, has been released again! You'd think that repetition and interminable exposure would breed contempt, but actually the Switch is where this game makes the most sense.
Sure it lacks the superior graphical fidelity of a PC or even its Sony/Microsoft counterparts, but that's missing the point. Skyrim utilises the platforms most distinguishing assets, most notably its portability. The fact that this compartmentalized "console", not handheld or phone can be played, paused, taken with you to the toilet, resumed from where you left off while you hatch that brown egg with comfort is a technical marvel! You don't know the simple pleasures of nailing a 30 yard headshot with a quiver while defecating lasts nights steak and ale pie. It's gloriously cathartic and frankly, about time.
To me this is where the future of the gaming consoles lies: in portable functionality, in the adaptable versatility of the platform and modest simplicity of the content. But most importantly it's in allowing me the latitude to game and poop at the same damn time. The future trajectory of the industry has been determined and its swirling down the toilet. What a time to be alive!


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Sunday, September 25, 2011
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Paper Source made by Paddywax and the scent instantly made me excited for cold weather, fallen leaves, and spiced apple cider. It's called Wassail, and it's a delightful mix of apple, nutmeg, and rum.
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Thanks to Stephen's amazing grandparents celebrating their 50th Anniversary, we were able to not only go to Hawaii as a summer trip, but Disneyland as well! We had too much fun. Even the Merkley's were there so we could hang out with them.
Stephen finally tried the Bengal Barbeque, and of course loved it!
Had our annual Blue Bayou lunch for Father's Day
The Haynie family with Grandma and Grandpa Benson
I love this picture too much!
We went to eat at Ruby's at the Pier.
Mickey's house with Merkley's
Too much fun at toon town.
And for our last day we bought new shirts. Stitch laying on the beach in a hammock! For reals I don't think there's a better shirt for me!
Loved the trip, thanks to an amazing family taking the time to enjoy one another and make memories together!!
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The birth of Jesus Christ is the cornerstone of Christmas. It was a miraculous event that shows us the hope of salvation, it reveals to us good tidings of great joy, and proclaims peace on earth. The birth of Jesus Christ is the true meaning of Christmas.
As we celebrate the beauty of the birth of Christ, I can not help but think of the journey it took to get there. Mary was with child of the Holy Ghost and Joseph was a "just man" that obeyed the angel of the Lord to continue his engagement to Mary. It was not an easy decision to make and as they both discovered, the journey was not easy either.
In Luke 2, we find a decree from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be taxed. Everyone would return to their home city, to participate in this census/tax. As notes in the MacArthur Study Bible say, "Both Joseph and Mary were descendants of David and therefore went to their tribal home in Judea to be registered."
Joseph and Mary had to travel to Bethlehem, a journey that would take them across mountain terrain of more than 70 miles.¹ Mary was "great with child." It was not a short trip, probably lasting several days, and it was not a smooth trip. I am sure Joseph had to make tough decisions concerning their journey such as: which route to take, where to spend the night, what to pack, etc. Mary had to not only go on the journey herself, whether riding a donkey or by foot, we do not know, but she had to carry the baby too.
Judea was at a higher elevation than Galilee, so they had to go up. Is that the truth of when God calls us up out of our daily routine? Joseph was just a carpenter by trade.² He was not a King, but God chose him to be responsible for the delivery of the King of Kings.
When they arrived in Bethlehem "the house of bread", there was no room for them. They had to stay with the animals in a stable. Mary gave birth to the greatest gift of all in a humble place. Emmanuel, God with us, was laid in an animal feeding trough.
Luke 2:7
And she brought forth her firstborn son, and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger; because there was no room for them in the inn.
I hope you can find room for Jesus in your life this Christmas. You may be in the middle of a difficult journey. The road is bumpy and you feel like you are carrying the load of two. People have no room for you and you have been turned away, rejected, and embarrassed. I would not worry, you are in good company.
¹ MacArthur Study Bible, notes on Luke 2:4. ² John Gill's Exposition of the Bible, notes on Luke 2:4.


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X2GO Home: an outstanding Remote Desktop solution for Ubuntu
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The software discussed in this article was tested on Ubuntu 9.10 32 bit edition. I guess it will also work on Ubuntu 10.04, but I did not test it in that environment. If anybody uses it successfully in an Ubuntu 10.04 environment, please post a comment.
In a previous article, I discussed the possibility of remote controlling virtually any desktop (Linux, Macintosh, Windows) with the very fine (bèta) Teamviewer for Linux application. After installation, it just works out of the box. This software is intended primarily for helpdesk usage. It is for this reason that a user "at the other side" has to authorize a session, with a session ID and a password.
But what if you just want to have a full remote desktop session to one of your other Ubuntu computers, at home or through the Internet? What if "the user at the other side" just does not exist? If you want to have a fully working Remote Desktop solution for Ubuntu, do not look any further. Surf to the x2Go website, and start installing the software. A brief installation procedure for Ubuntu is available at the x2go website. Here is a full description on how to install the software on Ubuntu 9.10 (and maybe on 10.04 as well, but again, I did not test it with 10.04 – According to the info on the website, it should just work). I tested the x2go server Home Edition. As a side note, x2go has many, many more possibilities than the Home Edition allows – amongst other things, authentication against any LDAP server. This implies that, e.g. Novell eDirectory, or Microsoft Active Directory, could be used as backend authentication mechanisms.
Ok, for now, let's go back to the Home edition.
X2go consists of a server side component, and of a client component.
The server side component
Let's start with the server side. First of all: you don't need an Ubuntu server to use the software. Your Ubuntu desktop will do fine, and that's what you want: have full access to your Ubuntu desktop remotely, as if you were doing an Remote Desktop (RDP) session in Windows. For the "server" side, you can just follow the instructions indicated at the x2go site. The easiest way to do as instructed on the x2go web site, translated into the Ubuntu graphical interface is: Clik on System – > Management -> Installation Sources; enter your password, and add as additional installation source: deb http://x2go.obviously-nice.de/deb/ lenny main. If you're familiar with command line, use gedit or vi, and edit sources.list, just do it the command line way. If you're doing it that way, don't forget to sudo apt-get update.
Back to the graphical way. Click on Close. An error message about a public key missing in the new installation sources will appear, just ignore the message. A message will appear, indicating that your installation sources need to be updated. Just allow the installation sources to be updated.
Ok, now next, open System -> Management -> Synaptic package management, and search for x2goserver-home. Install the software, and accept all extra packages. After installation, no further configuration is required, the x2go server is ready to use. It will be started automatically when booting the computer. Maybe it's a good idea to see if your Ubuntu firewall allows traffic over SSH port 22, since that is used by x2go. An excellent tool to manage your Ubuntu firewall is Firestarter…for Ubuntu 9.x versions, it's available in the Software Center. After allowing access to SSH port 22, the x2go server is ready for use. All existing users on the x2go server are automatically allowed remote access.
The client component
The client side component is not difficult at all, you just need two packages, which are available on the x2go web site. The packages that you need are available at:
These are the files you need for an Ubuntu 32 bit computer:
Download both packages. First, install pinentry-x2go-gtk_0.7.5-1_i386.deb, and next x2goclient-gtk_2.99-3_i386.deb. Installation should be as easy as double-clicking the file, entering your password, and installing the package.
After installation, you will find in your Applications -> Internet a new package: X2Go Client(gtk). Just launch the software. Configure a session with the IP address (or DNS name) of the x2go server, and enter the type of graphical session (Gnome or KDE)…enter your username and password (as configured on the "x2go server") …and off you are! Have fun!
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I run this on ubuntu 10.10.. it's awesome!
Thanks for your article, it's easy to understand but it won't work for me. I tried to launch x2goclient_gtk and configured it with the external IP adress from my other (Ubuntu 10.10) PC, both PC's are on different networks.
I unblocked port 22 from the server PC but I only get this message when I try to connect: Connection failed 22: Connection timed out
I can also not ping my external IP (sounds strange to me?!)
Hope you can help me out!
Before i take a plunge…
Has anybody tried it with IPv6 ?
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For almost 100 years, the Swiss firm of Hermes has specialized in the manufacture of sweeteners. It has worked with IT since 1982 – at first with proprietary solutions. Since 1997, it has worked with an integrated, but inadequate system that was strongly oriented to the metal industry. The solution did not cover the concrete requirements of the food industry, such as batch traceability. Above all, Hermes was unable to realize flexible planning of production orders. Manual planning demanded a great deal of time, and a rapid reaction to new orders was impossible.
Hermes spent two years looking for a software solution better tailored to its needs. It chose SAP from among 16 suppliers, primarily because of the comprehensive planning functions and the investment security offered by over 1,000 installations in Switzerland. SLI Consulting AG stood fast as the implementation partner. It had already analyzed the existing system landscape and processes at Hermes.
After eleven and a half months, the soft go-live occurred as planned on January 6, 2003 at two locations: Zurich (management and sales) and Vouvry (production). Helmut Nonn, director of finance and administration at Hermes describes the ease of conversion to SAP R/3 4.6C: "Putting the plug of one system into the other – it was anything but spectacular."
Graphical Planning Tool: The Bridge Between Sales and Production
But spectacular does describe the improvements that Hermes achieved with the newly implemented graphical planning tool. Hermes is probably the first user to work with all functions of the tool completely. The tool enables the company to optimize its production planning and design it more flexibly.
Previously, all production orders had to be created manually in a separate IT system. Every change meant deleting and reentering the orders. To visualize the process, planners used a board with magnetic strips, each with production orders written on it.
The board could easily handle some tasks. For example, placing new orders or postponing follow-up orders posed no problems. However, this approach did not bring data into conformity with IT. In other words, if the production number, starting date, or quantity changed, the planner had to maintain the new data manually in the system and recalculate the production plan. Bottlenecks for materials or machines became evident only afterward. And there was always a potential for error because of reentering the order data.
MRP Controller in the Picture Right Away
Today, the old boards used since 1976 are just decorations and reminders of the old days. The planner's workstation is now a computer whose screen displays the planned orders clearly on a graphical capacity planning table. The SAP solution takes care of the calculations needed to produce the production plan.
Once sales releases orders, SAP R/3 creates the first level of planning orders. All the orders released for production can be dragged from an order pool – preplanning – into current production planning with the mouse. The solution uses simulations to compute the new production plan with optimal set-up times and the required materials. The MRP controller sees any capacity bottlenecks that might occur immediately in a list, such as unavailable raw materials or machinery.
Optimized Set-Up Times
The planning solution has also optimized the set-up times for machinery. The solution automatically plans production orders to require minimal conversion times between orders. For example, all products that need the same or similar packaging are produced right behind each other. The only differences are the recipes, the charge, or the covering.
The MRP controller gets a quick overview of the technical requirements for production just by positioning the pointer on individual orders. A pop-up message displays the order's parameters, including the type of packaging, the volume, the country, and the charge.
The SLI consultants spent two months modifying SAP Production Planning to meet Hermes' needs. "We've taken full advantage of all the options for detailed planning that the solution offers – we're even the first ones to use some of the functions at all," says Helmut Nonn. "Visualization of planning with simple options for simulation with drag and drop – that eases things for us enormously. And we also save time because of the optimized set-up times."
Sales, Demand Planning, and Production from one Mold
Sales, demand planning, and production were never integrated before. Because these areas were not coupled to each other, the demand planning performed by the sales staff had no consequences for preplanning production – and therefore occurred completely independently of capacities and reserves. Today, the sales staff has access to all plan data. As soon as an order comes in, they can use an availability check to see exactly if the required material is available, when the order will be completed, and when it can be delivered. Sales personnel can now deliver part of the ordered goods immediately and postpone the rest of the delivery to the following month.
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The numbers for controlling have also improved. Integration with Hydra, the time and quantity entry system used since 1995, enables concurrent calculations during production. Over 40 employees work with the SAP solution directly in production. The upcoming production order is selected by barcode, and Hydra captures the production times of the employees involved in manufacturing along with the machine times. The production orders are settled with the actual usage numbers. Data on the material used and the actual number of finished goods is reported to SAP R/3 over an interface. Final costing can be called in the solution immediately.


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Yesterday was a mixed bag. April 25 was ANZAC Day and there was a brief, sincere tribute honouring the 100th anniversary of the Gallipoli campaign in World War I. It was also some kind of special day in Manila, to be marked by a parade beginning around noon. Our excursion set off at 10 a.m. We began at a park and I chose with some others to stay on the AC bus, to preserve my cool and my foot. The big stop at the park and ruins of Fort Santiago intrigued me. I kept expecting Antonio Banderas to swing down from a balcony although I knew it was the wrong country. I left my iPad (camera) on the bus so I had someone take picture of me sitting between two military statues and I must try to get copy. I have been similarly caught with the statures of John Hirsch and Tom Hendry in Winnipeg and of Glen Gould in Toronto. The third will make a collection. Some buildings have been restored but I liked the ruins best, much easier to conjure up the past. The heat, however, drained my energy and swoll (?) my foot. We waited for the bus to pick us up but were directed instead into a gift shop to wait for the "Jeepney Ride" – the reason I opted for this tour.
Apparently, the Americans left behind their jeeps after the war (WWI) and a few entrepreneurs used them as jitneys (a jitney is a bus or other vehicle carrying passengers for a low fare). Then they added on, extra seats at first but then they made larger vehicles. The latest addition has been air-conditioning, of a sort, of which the guide seemed to be very proud. It was not what I had envisioned and it was a very short ride, for which I was grateful. The driver spent the first five or ten minutes getting out of the parking lot. A man stood outside the Jeepney and slapped the side of it to indicate which way to go while the driver hee-hawed and diddley-dawed to get it into a position to squeeze past other cars and the wall of a building on the left side where I was sitting, and into the street. I helped b sucking in my breath as we inched past the wall beside me.
Then we drove for about three minutes to a church and got out. That was the last we saw of our Jeepney.
I and three other people were limping in the heat by this time and chose not to attempt the guided tour: 45 minutes of history and artifacts. Plastic chairs were found for two of us and we listened to the detailed complain of one of our number about the shortcomings of this tour and others. On the right side, we saw a bride and her wedding party: two young girls in red and green dresses, respectively, and two younger boys with dress shirts, no ties. (It was hot.)
The guide, determined to give people their money's worth, gave the m about 45 minutes before he returned and guided us across the street to another building, adding an extra lecture before we crossed to give several beggar children time to paw us for money. I know I am blessed and fortunate above and beyond and I felt guilty but not generous.
Inside this other building we were to see how rich people lived: more walking in the heat, three stories this time. Five people stayed on the steps in the courtyard; two of us sat on benches in the shade beside a beautiful flower-covered archway leading to a - kiosk? Perhaps. She and I just sat and talked.
I'm sorry I didn't take the opportunity to see how rich people in Manila live but you have to remember how old I am and also how much of this world have already seen. I am trying to sort out and organize and cut down on my essential memory banks.
One last stop: the Manila Hotel, for ten minutes. Built in 1912, according to he beautiful carved wooden (mahogany?) chairs in a side foyer, it looked like a colonial hotel, with lovely chandeliers and a carved wooden ceiling. Apparently it was the headquarters for McArthur's last stand, and was visited by John F. Kennedy and Michael Jackson, among others. To our left, down the hall from the big chairs, was the Champagne Room, featuring beautiful umbrellas of crystal leaves arching over the chandeliers. Pretty. I had champagne for my Happy Hour when I got back to the ship. It made my foot feel better.


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OAKLAND — One man was shot and two others stabbed — one during an attempted robbery — within an hour Tuesday night in different parts of the city, authorities said Wednesday.
The incidents don't appear to be connected at this time, authorities said.
The shooting happened about 10:30 p.m. near the intersection of High Street and International Boulevard in East Oakland.
A 26-year-old man was shot multiple times as he was walking but it was not known if it was by someone in a car or on the street.
He was able to flag down a passerby, who drove him to a hospital where his condition was not available.
There is no motive yet for the shooting and no suspects were in custody.
The first stabbing happened about 10 p.m. on Fish Ranch Road.
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The man was able to get his own ride to a hospital and was in stable condition.
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About 11:30 p.m., a 45-year-old man was stabbed in the arm during an attempted robbery in the 4000 block of Telegraph Avenue in North Oakland.
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My wife is a big Boston sports fan. So for the sake of happy little bursts of marital bliss I have backed Beantown teams (except when they play their counterparts from Chicago, of course) since I said "I do" coming up on 11 years ago.
For a while there, the satisfaction I took from their success had almost as much to do with Boston's perennial underdog status as it did my own situation. Late in the 1990s and early in the 2000s, there was a real kinship between Boston and Chicago baseball fans in particular, but really in all sports (the Celtics had been great for a long time but they had struggled for a decade, and the Red Sox and Patriots had been championship-less for just about forever).
When the Patriots won their first Super Bowl in January of 2002 with that glorious upset of a Rams team trying to win its second in three years, I was fired up. In fact, I was more excited when Adam Vinatieri put that 48-yarder through the uprights on the final play than I had been when the Bears triumphed in 1986 (take it easy Chicago fans - were you really all that excited at the end of Super Bowl XX? The Bears had blown the game open more than an hour earlier).
The only drama at the end of the Bears' triumph was how the carrying-the-coach-off-the-field ritual would play out, and wasn't it special when a couple dimwits decided to hoist Buddy "Delusions of Grandeur" Ryan on their shoulders at the same time Ditka was being carried off the field. It was a little bit of sports infamy.
And then there were the Red Sox.
Early on, while the Patriots were flooding the town headline-writers delight in calling the Hub (it fits beautifully in narrow sports section spaces) with wins, the Red Sox still couldn't get past the Yankees.
The funniest thing about Boston fandom at that point was the belief in the existence of some sort of Red Sox-Yankee rivalry. When one team has won 26 championships and the other zero during an 80-year stretch, it simply doesn't qualify (Cardinals-Cubs isn't quite as bad - 10-0 - but it is still pretty lame).
Both teams were good in the early '00s, however, and they engaged in some epic battles capped off by unbelievably dramatic ALCS's in 2003 and 2004. I joined in a little of the euphoria the second time around when the Red Sox pulled off that ridiculous comeback from 0-3 to finally knock off the Yanks in seven and then went on to crush the Cardinals (you had to love that) to break through in the World Series.
I thought my Boston-backing had run out of gas when the Celtics hit this year's NBA playoffs. As far as the local connections go, well, Kevin Garnett simply doesn't qualify. The guy took what amounted to a post-graduate year at Farragut High School on the West Side before rolling straight into the NBA out of high school. He's South Carolina through-and-through, and he never really out-and-out said he wanted to come to the Bulls when his career with the Timberwolves was winding down.
The true local hero should be Celtics coach Doc Rivers. The Proviso East graduate, who had strong runs through Marquette and the NBA, was a part of the city's storied guard line (from Cazzie Russell to Quinn Buckner to Maurice Cheeks to Isiah Thomas to Derrick Rose with many great players in between). But I still have my doubts about him as a coach. And Celtic reserve guard Tony Allen is a Crane graduate and West Side native but he has barely played in the playoffs.
The Red Sox and Patriots and even the Celtics are also appealing by the way because the best sports columnist working in the United States today, ESPN's Bill Simmons, makes his Boston fandom a centerpiece of many of his masterpieces. Simmons broke down Rivers' failings as a coach (including one that is just about unforgivable for me - finding ways to put the blame on players when things go wrong while accepting too much glory when times are good) about a hundred times during the seasons leading up to this one.
Rivers obviously has been better this time around, leading the Celtics to the best record in the NBA during the regular season and sheperding them through rocky but ultimately successful playoff series' against the Atlanta Hawks and Cleveland Cavaliers. But at times the Celtics have seemed to win despite Rivers' highly uneven substitution patterns and his struggles to get his team in offensive sets that have any chance of succeeding in crunch time, especially on the road.
The Celtics also lead the universe in woofing and chest thumps. I swear to goodness Garnett is going to stop his own heart at some point when he pounds on his chest for the 18th time after hitting a shot that, while important in a given game, probably isn't worthy of the most ostentatious celebration seen since, well, since Garnett last made a big play.
And then there is forward Paul Pierce, who is still capable of amazingly clutch point production (the most recent example was Game 7 of Round 2, when he out-dueled LeBron), but who too frequently insists on many of the same histrionics as Garnett. And he did major damage to his rep early in the post-season. That was when he was accused of - and fined $25,000 for - flashing a gang sign at an Atlanta Hawk who had ticked him off. It was a ground-breaking bit of misbehavior on the part of a professional athlete, but despite the innovation (at least I had never heard of a star losing control in this fashion prior to this act) it was tough to take.
But in the end, who else are you going to root for in these NBA playoffs? The Pistons? Yeah, right. I have always been a Tayshaun Prince fan (the quiet forward is longer than a praying mantis and makes about a dozen smooth-as-silk plays at both ends per game) but no matter who is in the jerseys, they still say "Pistons."
And out in the Western Conference you have the battle of the Spurs and the Lakers. I'm not a Spurs fan for a variety of reasons (although Manu Ginobili is a great, great shooting guard despite his flopping and his having the biggest by far shnozz in the game), but first and foremost is their overrated coach.
People, especially the ones who now call Greg Popovich the best in the business, forget how he got the job.
Way back in the middle of last decade, Popovich was the general manager of a terrible San Antonio Spurs team. The main reason they were terrible was because star center David Robinson was out with a bad back, but still, they were terrible. Fortunately, it seemed, Robinson's back got better and he was ready to return, at least for the last month of the season. But at that point, the Spurs decided their best interests lay in tanking games and improving draft odds. So they kept Robinson on the injured list. Popovich then orchestrated a truly Machiavellian little chain of events. I don't remember the exact order of things but after hamstringing the Spurs coach, Bob Hill, by keeping his best player on the bench for a big chunk of the season, Popovich gave Hill the boot. The Spurs won the lottery, drafted center Tim Duncan, and Popovich declared himself the new coach. The Italian Prince of power would have been very proud. Ten years later, Popovich is considered an exemplary leader of men.
On the other hand, no one can deny that Popovich is in the same position as Phil Jackson after his run with the Bulls. He won't deserve huge kudos until he proves he can get it done without Duncan, the super-duper-star who is the main reason the Spurs have won four titles. Also, I'm one of many who are simply sick of the sleepy center and crew. Just go away already.
And then there is the heartbreak that is the Lakers. Specifically of course, Mr. Pau Gasol, who so obviously should have been a Bull. Watching him play a big role in a championship will be very difficult to take. And while Kobe wanted to be a Bull and has been amazingly good for most of this season, he mailed it in for about the first 15 games of the campaign while sulking about not having been traded and about the Lakers not having done enough in the off-season to upgrade their roster.
Wasn't it fascinating when, because the Lakers had not made a rash move in the off-season, they were in position to steal Gasol from the dimwitted Memphis Grizzlies in the middle of the season. Star players never make good GMs.
So go Celtics go. Make my wife happy. Just try to avoid cardiac arrest and gang warfare in the process.
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20 Feb-24 March. Wunderkammern presents Of Changes, an exhibition by Italian artist MP5, known for her striking black and white drawings, illustrations, mural works and video animations.
Described by the gallery as "one of the most promising and versatile artists of the moment", MP5's works have been exhibited in important national and international galleries and festivals.
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For the second year in a row, Transcontinental Robbie has been recognized with a Gold award in addition to the prestigious "Best of Show" award in the Wide Web/Process/Film category for the Post Fruity Pebbles/Cocoa Pebbles packages. The judges say "The image pops off the web! Highlight dots are clean, crisp and solid. Register is perfect."
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TC Transcontinental Packaging won the Gold award for Sustainability with its compostable peanut bag. The new flexible peanut bag was designed using certified compostable materials to support arenas and stadiums' green initiatives and help sports teams, venues, and leagues achieve the next level of landfill waste diversion.
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I am so proud of my darling grandbaby Ania…..and the multi coloured jacket I made for her last month is proving a real hit. I'm sure it's because it's crafted in multi.
On our recent family camping holiday one of the highlights everyday was an early morning 5k walk. The jacket was perfect to ward off the early morning chill for a backpacking toddler.
Every morning Ania would choose the jacket for the outing. It was a relief knowing she would be nice and toasty as we strode along.
Our walk would always end with us enjoying a coffee at a local cafe….the home made Neenish tarts were delish.
We often got comments from people admiring Ania's jacket, and asking where we got it from. Accolades for ones knitting don't come much better than that……except from observing Ania herself, the sweetest little 1-year-old, intentionally choosing to wear it herself …..priceless 🙂
Needless to say, Ania herself turned heads wherever she went, she is so gorgeous (any detection of bias here is completely intentional!)
hmm……I'm tempted to take orders……I've already decided to make Ania a possum / merino version in 'lipstick' by The Wool Company, i.e. raspberry, in the next size up.
iKnit is back next week…..same place…same time…..I'm really looking forward to meeting up with everyone….see you then !