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Hour of Slack #1228 -- Balloon Boy Live Special 10-18-2009 For once, Hour of Slack offers a news scoop. It turns out that in 2002, the son of Stang (now a director in Hollywood) was employed by Richard Heene, father of the kid known as Balloon Boy. This live show (featuring guest cowpoke Lonesome Cowboy Dave) is a look into the minds, such as they are, of the Heenes, with rather revealing recordings of their 911 calls, testimony about them by young Stang and another former employee of the Heenes, and numerous poems by the writers of alt.slack that were composed during the hoax-news event. We also delve into kookdom in general and the relationships of various kooks with the mass media. A big song by Little Fyodor caps the show.
Direct download: Hour_of_Slack_1228.mp3
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Hour of Slack #1227 - Starwood Festival 2009 Pt. 2 We return to Starwood Festival with Rev. Stang's sermon to the pagans, an interview from Right Where You Are Sitting Now about Starwood, and several bits of location recordings. Little Fyodor and Babushka contribute a song from their new album, and the show is generally punctuated with collages by LeMur and others. Puzzling Evidence is represented. Our frequent caller Bernard is again featured, and we close with the late Prof. Chas Smith's classic "Jaguar Night," performed at Starwood by Witch Disco (the descendant of Chas Smith's band, Einstein's Secret Orchestra).
Direct download: Hour_of_Slack_1227.mp3
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Hour of Slack #1226 - Starwood Festival 2009 Pt. 1
First of two shows centered around the 2009 Starwood festival, utilizing Stang's sermon to the pagans, clips from an episode of Right Where You Are Sitting Now with Stang guesting, Radio Synesthesia from WCSB Cleveland, and location recordings of various Starwood events. Collages by The Great LeMur, The Large and signal2noise, and new songs by Little Fyodor and The Attery Squash help immeasurably in muddying the spiritual waters. Bernard continues to leave important messages on The SubGenius Foundation answer machine.
Direct download: Hour_of_Slack_1226.mp3
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Hour of Slack #1225 - High Weirdness Last summer, Rev. Ivan Stang was interviewed by the British radio show RIGHT WHERE YOU ARE SITTING NOW. The main subject was Stang's old book about extremists of all flavors, HIGH WEIRDNESS BY MAIL. We intercut some of that show with all manner of miscellaneous kook-related music, and audio samples from the actual kooks themselves. Also: New songs from Little Fyodor, The 180 Gs and Ricardo Autobahn.
Direct download: Hour_of_Slack_1225.mp3
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Tuesday, August 12, 2008

Philly Fed: Economy slowing more sharply

From Reuters:

U.S. economic growth is expected to slow more sharply in the coming months than previously forecast with employers shedding staff into next year, according to a Philadelphia Federal Reserve survey released on Tuesday.

"Growth in U.S. real output over the next few quarters looks slower now than it did just three months ago," the Philadelphia Fed said on its Web site.

The current survey also forecast the U.S. unemployment rate would be 5.7 percent in the third quarter, above its previous 5.4 percent forecast, then rising to 5.8 percent in the fourth quarter.

"A weaker near-term outlook for the labor market accompanies the outlook for slower output growth," the Philadelphia Fed said.

We have been talking about the poor labor markets for a while.  As the labor market gets worse, housing is going to get worse.

Economists expect employers to shed jobs at a slower rate in the first three months of next year before adding workers in the second quarter of 2009.

They are already looking to second quarter of 2009 for a recovery.

U.S. core PCE inflation, a gauge the Federal Reserve watches closely, is estimated at 2.2 percent in the third quarter and 2.1 percent in the fourth quarter.

While the inflation is under-reported, going forward, we will be looking at deflation.

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Tuesday, October 30, 2012

St Thomas High School Boys Basketball Tournament November 8-10

St Pius X
Lutheran North
Corpus Christi John Paul II
Noah Jaguars
Concordia Lutheran
St Thomas
Ft Bend Christian
Second Baptist
Cathedral El Paso
Liberty Christian
Plano John Paul II
Oklahoma Storm
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Sunday, October 28, 2012

2012 University of St Thomas Tournament Starts Thursday November 1st

St. Agnes Academy to hit the floor early on Friday November 2nd at 11:30 AM going against John Paul II from Corpus Christi. Complete pool schedule listed below:

November 1st/Thursday

Location @ UST
03:00 PM St Pius vs CHSA /Girls
04:30 PM St Agnes vs Westbury Christian /Girls
06:30 PM CC John Paul II vs The Village School /Boys
08:00 PM St Pius vs HCYA /Boys

Location @ GOC
03:00 PM St Thomas vs The Village School /Boys
04:30 PM Concordia Lutheran vs HCAY /Boys
06:30 PM CHSA vs Incarnate Word /Girls
08:00 PM CC John Paul II vs Westbury Christian /Girls

November 2nd/Friday

Location @ UST
10:00 AM St Pius vs Incarnate Word /Girls
11:30 AM St Agnes vs CC John Paul II/Girls
01:00 PM St Pius vs Concordia Lutheran /Boys
02:30 PM St Thomas vs CC John Paul II/Boys

November 3rd/Saturday

Location @ UST
08:30 AM Girls Pool A#2 vs Pool B #2
10:00 AM Boys Pool A#2 vs Pool B #2
Location @ GOC
08:30 AM Girls Pool A#3 vs Pool B #3
10:00 AM Boys Pool A#3 vs Pool B #3
Location @ UST
04:00 PM Girl's Championship
05:30 PM Boy's Championship

Thursday, October 25, 2012

FLASHBACK! Incarnate Word-Westbury Christian @ St Louis, MO

Highlights from Incarnate Word and Westbury Christian girls basketball game January  16, 2012 Martin Luther King Invitational Tournament @ St. Louis, MO


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Cardio kickboxing is a popular fitness regimen that often replaces aerobics and indoor exercise equipment workouts. Kickboxing and other martial arts-inspired forms of exercise rank among the most popular fitness classes in gyms throughout the country, according to the American Council on Education. Cardio kickboxing is a total-body workout with a plethora of benefits.

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The kicking and punching moves of the exercise help to improve balance and coordination. Reflexes become sharpened from the workout.

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Understanding the various types of depression

If you or someone you know is dealing with depression, then you should be aware of the various types of depression. Finding out how to fight depression can be easier if you understand which type you’re actually dealing with.

The main categories of depression are: bipolar disorder (also called manic-depressive disorder), dysthmyia, and major depression.

Bipolar depression: Sufferers of manic-depressive or bipolar disorders experience sudden extreme shifts in moods in a cyclic pattern. They switch from feeling mania to depressed to “normal”, then back to mania or depressed. Some individuals do not even undergo the period of “normal” mood in their manic-depressive episodes. These sudden episodic swings, if left untreated, can make it difficult to maintain relationships or even a stable job. Fortunately, there is treatment available for this disorder.

Dysthymia: Someone who suffers from this condition experiences depression on a constant, persistent basis. The depression they experience is typically less severe than major depression (it is in fact classified as mild depression), but has been with them for so long that it has pretty much become their “normal” mood. Sufferers of dysthymia may or may not be able to cope with their everyday lives. Support from friends and family as well as therapy will greatly help such people.

Major depression: This is the most common type of depression. It is also called clinical or unipolar depression. Symptoms of major depression vary across individuals. Sufferers will feel worthless and feel everything is pointless. This leads them to isolate themselves and prevents them from doing any activities, which further strengthens their feelings of despair. At this point, they may feel as if they are stuck in some kind of pit, unable to even bother to take the first step to climb out, or that they don’t deserve to be happy. People dealing with depression of such severity see suicide as their only reasonable option, and absolutely need support from others to help them climb out of their pit.

Dysthymia and major depression can be further divided into the following subcategories: atypical depression, melancholic depression and postpartum/postnatal depression.

In atypical depression, the sufferer is actually able to feel happiness (or at least experience a lift in mood) in reaction to some good news or events, but lapses into deep feelings of sadness and despair the rest of the time. This condition is frequently associated with excessive eating and sleeping.

This is in contrast to melancholic depression, where the sufferer is absolutely unable to feel any tinge of happiness in reaction to positive news or events. It is typically associated with severe weight loss, excessive feelings of guilt and insomnia. This is one of the most severe forms of depression, and dealing with depression of this type requires medication as part of the overall treatment.

Postpartum or postnatal depression occurs after pregnancy. It is actually fairly common for women to experience this within 3 months after their labor. This can be a difficult condition to diagnose, as women typically feel sad and tired after pregnancy. The difference with postpartum depression is that these feelings are more severe and can significantly impact on their day-to-day activities and relationships.

Depression during pregnancy itself is also a fairly common occurrence, and again, can be difficult to diagnose. Such depression is caused by the hormonal changes in the woman’s body, which causes intense feelings of despair and gloom during pregnancy.

Dealing with depression, regardless of what type it is, is never easy. Medication is necessary in more severe cases. Do not feel embarassed to seek professional help as well as support from your loved ones.

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  1. Exercising and taking my medication has aided me greatly. Contributing to the welfare of other people by volunteering appears to be an excellent way to focus on constructive events which pulls me outside of myself.

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It’s 5:00 a.m. Still night-time cool and damp but the sky is light. I’ve had roughly four hours of sleep – the usual amount when I’m taking steroids. I’ll stay up for a few hours and then suddenly run out of gas & sleep for couple more.

I apologize for my silence (again) – and this will likely not be the last time. Lately, my life has shrunk down to a daily effort to stay awake and find ways to cope with symptoms. It takes an hour to face the task of moving from a sitting to standing position, without toppling over and there may be one of two amusing slapstick stores but  I find they are wearing thin. I asked The Dave where I might find help and he made some inquiries.

Yesterday, I was assessed by at Rehab. I attempted to stand on one foot. I attempted to stand with my eyes closed. I was waiting for them to ask me fly. Why not? Just about as feasible an idea at this point. I was astonished that I could do some of the tests and bombed completely on others.

They got me a cane to try. Oh great, one more wobbly limb to think of. I hated it. I do not have the élan of Dr. Gregory House. I thudded up and down, protesting, doing it wrong (apparently). Next came the four wheel walker – a device I regarded earlier with complete horror. I whipped along, did fancy turns, went faster than I’ve walked in a year, until Gail, the head physio lady, ordered me to stop turning pirouettes. I want one. I have a medial requisition to have a loaner from the Red Cross. I don’t care how it looks. Too late for that vanity.

It’s now at the point, where Heather has stepped in and is doing almost everything in the house. I’ve reached the point where I’ve stopped thinking this is optional. I start to cook, walk away and forget (momentarily, so far) that the stove is on. I get out of the car and leave the door hanging open. My short term memory retains a full two seconds of anything.

I have no idea whether the brain edema (swelling) is coming from radiation or whether I’ve sprung a few new aliens – in either case, the only help for it is steroids. I weaned off them after radiation and had a couple good weeks. But edema kicked in with a spectacular field goal and soon I was seeing triple, falling down, had zero appetite, headaches and just for something different, started throwing up. Back to the Decadron.

Two days ago, I started recording my meds because it is standard now for me to forget what I did 3 seconds ago. Did I take the Decadron? Or did I think I took the Decadron? You see the problem. So. I wrote down my a.m. dose – 2.5 mg. I wrote down my afternoon dose – 1.5 milligrams. No. Actually, I wrote – 3:45. Looking right at my notebook, I wrote the time of day, starting straight at my book, absolutely convinced I written the dosage.

I sleep 12 or more hours a day. My favorite pastime is sitting on the balcony with out potted plants, cheering buds to open. I identify with the plants – content to be out in the sun and fresh air doing little else than enjoying the weather. I’m also watching a lot of stand up comedy. Occupations that take zero energy and are good for the soul.

I’ve been noticing that my green crochet sweater has been hanging on the back of my computer chair for a week. One day, when my energy is at a high of maybe…oh…50%, I’ll cross the room and hang it up. Meanwhile, you’ll find me sleeping.

Glen said...

It's so nice to hear your voice again and I'm pleased the walker is giving you some stability and mobility. I'm sure your pirouettes were spectacular! Lots of love.

:-) MaryLou said...

I read this and can only imagine what you're going through and how difficult it is to cope with it all. Get that four-wheeled walker thing. You need to do some pirouettes because they obviously made you happy. {{hugs}}

NEDbeads said...

While you're sleeping, I hope you're having sweet dreams, of flowers and cats and beading and romantic walks with the one who really made a difference. I hope that whatever sleep you get, brings you peace and a rest from the symptoms. Sending you love as always, and some for Wendy and Heather too - because they love you.

Sandy said...

Ruth Jensen said...

Great post, Linda - your thoughts have the mobility your body doesn't (but will, with Rodney!); your wonderful words travel the world.


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Sunday, December 28, 2008

Kayden's "real" Birthday!

Kayden's "real" birthday was 12/20. So we typically have a party with her friends a week before (cause Christmas) and then on her actual birthday we do a family celebration! This year her birthday fell on Saturday so we went to church, then over to my Grandma's (she just came home from rehab the Wednesday before) house for lunch, presents, and cupcakes! It was a special day because it was her birthday but even better that my Grandma was around another year to be apart of her life!

Showing me how old she is! She said she felt older!!!
At church, such a big girl!
Always will be a daddy's girl!
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New Fancy Nancy shoes from Aumie

Happy Birthday to you....Happy Birthday to you....

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Harness, chalk bag, and climbing shoes from mommy and daddy!!!
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Thursday, March 18, 2010

Poop update - read at your own risk

Sam actually pooped in the potty on Tuesday, for the first time!

My elation was short-lived, though. Ten minutes later he pooped more, but in his pants. Poor kid is always having near-diarrhea. He has ALWAYS been this way. In the past week I have taken him to two social events and had to change his poopy pants 2 or 3 times in one hour. Almost everywhere we take him he poops. And I don't think I've ever taken him to McDonald's without him pooping. Something about those playland tubes is very intestinally stimulating to him.

So I asked my pediatrician brother what to do to make his stools firmer and he said take away all juice and limit him to maintenance fluids. (He currently is allowed 8 oz of juice per day, and likes to drink a lot of water. He doesn't drink milk of any kind.) Buzz is so awesome, he even calculated Sam's maintenance fluids on the spot: 40 oz a day. But Bryan remains unconvinced. He doesn't want to take away the juice. I can't imagine why Bryan resisted this idea, especially directly after cleaning up Sam twice in one restaurant meal. In fact, immediately after we had this enlightening conversation about the juice, Bryan gave Sam a juice popsicle at home. Men.

Anyway, I am still trying to convince him to give Sam a couple of juice-free weeks. Wish me luck. If this makes the difference it will be a very happy thing.

Mommavia said...

Glad you have found something that has for getting something that will work to get the other half on board!

Tammy said...

Sounds like a great idea to take him off juice and reduce his fluids. Annoying that Bryan won't cooperate. MEN indeed....grrrrr!!!

Kimberly said...

Sweet Sam. He's got a very nice, clean colon! If it's any consolation (eh, er Bryan), our family has been juice free for four years. There are far more nutritious ways to get your fruit than through juice -- such as eating the actual fruit :) -- and I personally reserve juice for sick children who need extra incentive to stay hydrated.

Have you tried bananas to help bulk his stool? These days, we're loving almond milk blended with frozen banana, vanilla and unsweetened cocoa.

Hunca Munca said...

Kim - thanks for the encouragement. If it were up to me, I would never have juice in the house, but a certain someone feels it is necessary. I feel the same way you do about the nutritional aspect, but luckily our kids eat a lot of fruit so I'm not too worried about it. We just stocked up on bananas too! The frozen banana idea sounds marvelous - thanks for the idea!


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I have been using PET tape on my heated bed for a long time now. It works very well as long as I clean it with acetone about every 100 hours. It does need a high temperature (145°C) for the first layer with some types of ABS though .

It seems to last forever, the only failure mode is that large thick objects with sharp corners can defeat the adhesive and raise blisters at the corners near the edge of the bed. I solve that by building little heat shields to keep the corners warm. I am always on the lookout for something better though. It would be nice to get rid of the lines where the tape butts against itself.

A friend gave me a sheet of 1mm thick PETG to try. I clipped it onto my heated bed, and thinking it would behave like PET tape, I ran a build using the same temperatures.

Big mistake, PET has a glass transition at 75°C so it went soft and floppy. The object stuck to it very well and was hard to remove, but after getting a knife under one corner, it peeled cleanly. However it left an impression in the PETG.

The base of the object is flat but the filaments are more ridged because they sank into the sheet rather than being squashed.

When the sheet cooled down it warped badly, so that was the end of that experiment. I did have a small offcut though so I tried again at 70°C.

This time the object warped badly. It stayed stuck to the PETG but it warped the sheet. The adhesion was less and the object was easily peel-able. The PETG warped where the object was but the rest of it stayed flat. The heat of the object must have been enough to tip it over its glass transition locally. It left an impression, but not as deep as the first time.

The filaments on the bottom were squashed tighter, not as smooth as when using tape.

So a failed experiment. It is a shame because at high temperatures it bonds very well but, unlike PC, it still peels, but it is no good if it doesn't remain rigid. Wikipedia does say that PETG has a lower melting point than PET. It doesn't mention how it affects Tg, but it gives the Tg of PET as 75°C. Odd then that PET tape doesn't go soft at 75°C. My next trial will be Mylar, which is another form of PET (BoPET).

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  2. The reason the PET tape works is that it has been biaxially stretched during production of the film, thus raising its temperature resistance well above 120C (if fact to completely melt the film you would have to go over 200). But the base polymer (in simple extruded form) indeed will have a Tg of about 75C. With Melinex you will find the same behaviour as your socalled PET tape (which is probably Melinex of another producer).

  3. Thanks, that is something I had begun to suspect, i.e. PET tape is actually BoPET.


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Governor Otter's Domestic Violence Policy

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But I digress. I'd like to see Gov Otter issue a policy with real teeth. Direct Fish and Game to write rules that prevent a person convicted of domestic violence from getting a hunting or fishing license for three years or so. Consider a rule that state employees convicted of domestic violence will be discharged upon conviction, or that they're not eligible for merit raises for three years. If Idaho really wants to support families, reducing domestic violence would be a good place to start, and policies with serious consequences can be a part of that.

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That's been Otter's M.O. since he took office. Talk a good game, say the right things, but when it comes down to brass tacks offer nothing of substance. Whether the issue is water, transportation infrastructure, taxation, that nasty commute from Star to Boise, or this, the common thread is all talk, no action. Otter seems to have forgotten that there's a difference between being a libertarian and being a statist. Thus far, he's demonstrated he's clearly the latter.

It also goes to show how dysfunctional the Idaho Republicans have become. One one side you have true-believer do-gooder neophytes like Steven Thayn, who want to legislate family values but can't seem to stay on message long enough to have any impact, and then you have folks like Otter, who's certainly been around long enough to know how things work, but for whatever reason doesn't do anything about it. The result is a big mess in the public sector.

People say I'm unorthodox for looking at running for governor three years early. Hell, Otter basically ran for governor for more like _30_ years. Now that he has it, what's he doing with it? That's a valid question if there ever was one.

Bay Views said...

Isn't there already a law that states that a person convicted of domestic abuse cannot have a firearm? Or is that just in Washington State?

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There is a bill by Frank Lautenberg, but I'm not sure of it's scope. It might just apply to federal employees, or it might apply to everyone. I doubt the latter, because the NRA would have gone crazy had that been the case.


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Each day of the work week has a pattern at the Marriage Factory.  As Joe has told us often, Fridays are insanely busy, and he loves it.  I used to do Wednesday and Monday afternoons.  Wednesdays were slow but not dull.  Monday afternoons were busy.  Now I work Monday mornings from 8:30 to 12:30.  Usually nothing much happens until 10:00 or 10:30.

Not this week.  People were waiting to get in when I arrived.  I had my first wedding at 9:00 and had done 3 others by 10:15.  I left at 12:20 and I had performed 8 ceremonies.  One of the clerks did a couple of Spanish weddings.  Not a huge rush, but constant.   When I left the next volunteer had a license in her hand, another dropped on the desk, and 4 were in the queue.  She was really going to have a busy day.

Some of us wondered if we were so busy because it was the last day of June.  Were they all rushing to have a June wedding?  So I thought I would ask.  Lawyers have a saying, never ask a question you don't already know the answer.  I asked a couple if they just wanted to have a June wedding, and the bride said, " I wish.  I have to have an operation and I have to be married to be on his insurance."  I felt really pushy then and hated I had asked.  She later told me they already had deposits paid for an October wedding and were still going to have the "party" then.

Two men from Maryland were my 9:00 wedding.  Both were very dapper in matching grey suits.  I asked if they had come because of last week's Gay Pride celebrations.  They laughed and said they had arrived last night, and didn't know about Gay Pride week.  They had just decided since they had to fly somewhere to be legal to marry, they would come to Oakland and visit a friend.  I asked what all they were doing during the visit.  One of them said getting married and then we fly out at 2:00 this afternoon.  I was a little surprised, big expense to fly here for less than 24 hours.  There are much closer states to marry in.  They said no expense, they worked for Southwest airlines.  So fly to Oakland, visit a friend, get married with no wait time or appointments needed, fly home and go to work Tuesday.  Love is amazing.

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Helping out

Today kak khadijah and her family moved into their permanent house at 123 Albert road.. well not really that far from my house.. but on the other side of the road.. need to walk thru up a hill side.. passing thru some rich and bungalow house.. and just opposite the crosshill railway station..

Abg shah has promised earlier to help with the moving. Around 9am.. he arrived and started to pick and transfer all the begs and things to their house. Due to their moving in.. I decided to absent from the department today heheh ponteng... After sending all the stuff to the house.. we went to Bonnypack to buy some new stuff for the new living.. all the household things.. glasses.. cup .. plates.. knife.. cutlery set.. bedding.. duvet.. pillows.. well you just can imagine all the stuff that you need to start a new life in a new home.. I still remember the day when we brought all those stuff.. and I remember how hubby had to bring along a set of dinner plates.. cups and glasses.. Just imagine how he manage to handle all those heavy stuff on the way home by bus.. so hassle and tiring.. but we manage it out in the end..

I guess all new families here were so lucky to have people helping around.. guiding them thru all the way.. advice them and all other stuff that they need to do .. I remember how life was for both of us when we were in Edinburgh 7 years ago.. how we only have about 2 weeks before we arrived in Edinburgh.. Nobody wait for us at the airport.. for 5 days we stay at the hostel.. 3 days at the university hotel.. then another 2 days at the hostel.. and as well.. classes have started.. how I try to look for house while attending classes.. most housing in Edinburgh if you want to rent it you have to go thru an agency.. all the viewing appointment.. the tiredness.. the frustation.. the pressure and decline.. I remember how it takes us around 1 and half month to find a house.. and while looking for houses.. we manage to rent a room from a bruneian family whom his wife is a Japanese. They have 2 little kids.. mohd ryota and nayumi.. I always remember how ryota will asked both of us a same question every day.. "uncle auntie.. where are you going??" and every day I had to tell him that I'm going to school.. heheh..

well that life .. even thou life in Edinburgh was hard and difficult.. I manage to finish my study in a year.. and graduate.. Now I'm here again.. in a different city.. but the life seem to be the same.. there are happy and sad moments.. but that is life.. we need to be strong and have faith within our heart.. may Allah bless us all the way insyallah..

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Approaching the Sunnah

by  Dr.Yusuf Al-Qaradawi

The Sunnah still provides the stable moral framework the grammar that enables Muslims, by formal rules and inward sense, to know right from wrong. However, separation from the mainstream of life puts the Sunnah in danger of becoming rigid an archaism. Addressing that danger, this book explains how the Sunnah can function as the grammar of a living, adaptive language, capable of guiding (and not shying from) the mainstream. The first chapter sets out the qualities that characterize authentic application of the Sunnah: universality, coherence (so that different spheres of human responsibility are not split), compassionate realism, moderation, and humility. The second explains standards and procedures for determining the Sunnah in the fields of jurisprudence and moral instruction. The third chapter illustrates through detailed examples common errors in understanding the Sunnah reading hadiths singly without sufficient context, confusing legal and moral injunctions, means and ends, figurative and literal meanings... and it proposes remedies for these errors.

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Wednesday, October 5, 2005

The Spiel des Jahre-nominated Kremlin was arguably the first real "euro" game Avalon Hill did, back in 1988. With a paltry couple pages of rules and a modest playing time, but a wonderfully flavorful and humorous backdrop, this is a game that I have fond memories of. It's like Junta, but with a) a game, b) quality, and c) fun.

The basic idea is that each player represents a faction in Soviet politics. You secretly allocate influence to amusingly-named politicians (like Purgemoff or Shootemdedsky), which you can then later reveal and "declare" at your discretion. The player with the most "declared" influence on a politician is allowed to use the power of his office. Nine politicians occupy the Politburo: the Party Chief (who can reorganize everyone else on a whim, as well as having first option on promoting and demoting politicians), the KGB Chief (who can purge you off to Siberia), Foreign Minister (who has some control over the succession to party chief), and Defense Minister (who can bring accusations of treason - same practical upshot as being purged, but if you can bribe a couple other politicians into believing you're innocent, you can escape), and then some low-level flunkies like the Sport minister who only have real power if someone else croaks (which happens about as often as you might expect, that is to say, a fair amount). The rest are waiting out in the wings, ready to take over once the inevitable purges get rolling.

The limits on the exercise of these powers, such as they are, are your age. Most of these guys start out old, and at best age slowly. Purging people, being accused of treason, and other activities of office will age you before your time, as you accumulate "stress points" - which is really just taking years off of your life one at a time. As you get older, you get more likely to get sick (which negatively impacts your job performance), keel over, and die.

The object of the game is to control the Party Chief. If you can do that three times, you win.

With one significant caveat (which we'll come to in a moment), I really enjoyed playing Kremlin again. Many of the games from this time period are not ones I'd generally go back to, but this is one where the fond memories were not spoiled by playing it again, and it's a game that holds up rather well to modern designs. It's fast-paced. There is always stuff to do. There is plenty of opportunity for planning and scheming, with both strategic and tactical depth to the gameplay. There is just a touch of negotiation if you want to play it that way, but like the recent Shadow of the Emperor, it's not really a negotiation game. There is little downtime. It's a very dynamic, fluid situation - one moment you're sitting pretty with control of the Party Chief and the KGB Chief, the next moment someone is declaring another couple points of influence on the KGB Chief, purging your supporters, and then sending you to Siberia after being on the wrong end of a spy investigation - but despite the chaotic situation I feel like I have control, generally. Since the vast majority of your influence is allocated up-front, it's possible to be unlucky and not ultimately control many politicians, but since there is significant incentive to hold influence in reserve and "undeclared", even if in the end you are hosed you'll probably have plenty to do along the way, and you won't know until the end most likely. And, of course, even though the system is very Teutonic, it's very flavorful. For me, this is definitely one of the successful mergings of German and American design sensibilities. A game I'd like to try to play again soon.

The only problem I had with the game, and it's admittedly non-trivial, is the tie-breaker victory conditions. The idea is to control the Party Chief during three - not necessarily consecutive - years (well, actually, the goal is to "wave" throughout the October parade, which gets harder if you are sick, but close enough). If nobody has done this by the end, you go into tie-breaker mode, which means that you play one more turn and whoever controls the highest-ranking politician, regardless of game performance before this point, wins. At this point, Kim leaned over to me and said, "I think this game might have a kingmaking problem". Ah, yeah. It's hard to imagine anyone controlling the Party Chief long enough to wave 3 times (out of 10 turns) in a 6 player game, and it seems a bit dicey in a 5-player game. This is the crux of the matter; if this tie-breaker were comparatively rare, I think it would be OK, as it favors players who put a lot of influence on low-ranking, and so late-game, politicians; but I'm not sure it's rare enough with large numbers of players. I don't recall it being that much of an issue when we played in the late 80s, but I would have been playing with 4 primarily back then. Anyway, playing more turns is impractical, since most of the pool of politicians are going to be dead or in Siberia at this point. A better solution should not be beyond the wit of man, though; I'd suggest that the "bonus" turn should be ditched and if nobody has waved three times at the end of turn 10, the player who has waved the most should win, and if there is a tie, the tied player who holds the highest ranking politician should win. It's not perfect either, but I think it would be a better solution than the somewhat arbitrary way its done now.

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Thursday, August 18, 2011

Hamlet's Hit Points for Boardgamers

I recently finished reading Robin D. Laws' book Hamlet's Hit Points. This is a short, highly readable book that I recommend for anyone interested in a little deeper understanding of how these games of ours grab and keep our attention and interest. It's true that the book is written primarily with role-players in mind, and will be invaluable for game masters, but the concepts and techniques discussed are 100% portable to the realm of boardgames.
The basic idea is this: the conception of narrative that you probably got back in school was one of escalating conflict and tension, followed by a climax and resolution, then denouement. This is also how I tended to think good games should feel. It has a lot of intuitive appeal, especially in the light of various practical problems boardgames usually have. Given that hobbyist games don't tend to get a ton of replay and mixed experience levels are very common, you'd like to give your players a chance to warm up with some lower-stakes conflicts early before proceeding to the high-stakes endgame. It also serves as a built-in catch-up mechanism since players who make poor choices or have bad luck early can still get back into the game with good moves later.
But as Hamlet's Hit Points makes clear, while this may be true on the macro level, this misses out on a very important key to how narratives keep and hold your attention during the moment-to-moment action. The book takes three classic plots – Hamlet, Dr. No, and Casablanca – and plots the action on a hope/fear axis. In each moment (or narrative "beat") your empathy for or feelings about the protagonist or other characters in the narrative are moving somehow: towards hope that things are going to work out well, or towards fear that they are not. Narrative tension relies on skillfully moving back and forth between these drives, not giving you too much hope without an injection of fear, or vice versa. In his analysis of Hamlet – an analysis I agree with – he finds that "down" (towards fear) or "up" (towards hope) beats in the story never cluster together in groups of more than about 3 in a row.
Bearing in mind that everything is obvious once it's been properly explained, this seems so clearly true, and so useful to GMs, designers, and people just wanting to understand a bit more about games, it's surprising nobody's said it before. Maybe they did, they just didn't have as clever a title or explain it as clearly.
Anyway, this simple concept has a great deal of explanatory power as to why some games work from a narrative perspective and why other, quite similar games don't.
Before starting, I'll stipulate a lot of boardgames don't necessarily succeed or fail based on emotional engagement or narrative. There is a branch of boardgames (let's call it the Caylus/Age of Steam branch) that fans like because of the pure intellectual challenge, and as such perhaps has more in common with a puzzle than a play or movie. Some players enjoy the lengthy period of frustration followed by the exhilaration of finding a solution. Having said that, let's also not make the mistake of associating "narrative" strictly with "thematic", or not looking at how nominally abstract games can engage us emotionally. Many successful abstract games, like the GIPF-series games or the classics like Chess and Go, do work with this pattern of balance between hope and fear.
With these caveats though, looking closely at the hope/fear beats of boardgames shows pretty quickly why some games are so engaging and some are not. I'll look at a pair of games, one successful, the other not so much: Reiner Knizia's Lord of the Rings and Arkham Horror.
The turn structure of these cooperative games, which is "do something good"/"do something evil", is clearly aimed at this modulation. In Lord of the Rings, the fear of what the tile draws from the bag are going to be is quite visceral. Looking at the structure of the events on the boards, which is what drives the fear of those tile draws, usually the events that occur early in each narrative are of the structure "meet some condition to receive a significant reward, otherwise suffer a significant penalty", which give the players hope for success but fear of failure. Later events tend then to get very bad, but at this point they are balanced against the hope of actually finishing the episode and moving on to the next, when the game reset involved in the episode transition gives the players a large jolt of hope as they move on to face the next challenge. Then when you get a chance to take your turn, you almost always receive clear, immediate, useful rewards that feed your hope of getting out of this mess alive.
So why does Arkham Horror not work as well as Lord of the Rings? If you think about it as an exercise in trying to move between hope and fear in reasonably tight circles, it's fairly obvious: Arkham Horror neither reliably rewards the characters to give them hope nor does it reliably put them in enough danger to be really fearful. Often you will visit a building with some hope of receiving a useful item or piece of information, but too often the rewards are minor, nonexistent, tangential to what you are trying to achieve, and generally not enough to inspire hope. The Mythos cards rarely have the dimension of meting out rewards or punishment that could inspire hope or fear, they are simply one-off events that the characters too infrequently can't do anything at all to anticipate, they simply respond. They are also too unreliable in their effects to get into any kind of cycle between hope and fear. An event that is not foreseen with at least some clarity can't inspire fear. The same thing can be said for character actions: too often there isn't enough you can do to give you hope, because clues are unavailable, you have to waste time in the hospital to recover health or sanity, and a route towards positive progress is not reliably open. Without some way to reliably make significant forward progress, we are denied the jolt of hope we need to keep interested.
This is not to say Arkham Horror can't get onto this virtuous cycle; sometimes the cards flow well and the situation develops in an interesting manner. But compared to the well-plotted structure of Lord of the Rings, Arkham Horror is relying on the luck of the draw to get into a good narrative zone. This is obviously not a great way to do this. As board gamers we tend not to like "scripting" in games, but scripting is obviously a mixed blessing. To the degree that it constrains player choice, it's not great. But narrative needs structure to work. As a recent convert to the GUMSHOE roleplaying system (designed by Robin Laws), I appreciate the book sections in the Esoterrorists book (also in Trail of Cthulhu) where he talks about railroading and the importance of giving the players the illusion of player control while keeping them on the narrative straight and narrow. These things are not contradictory.
While the comparison between Arkham Horror and Lord of the Rings is clear, you can see the logic here in tons of boardgames. For me, the difference between Dominion and Thunderstone in that Dominion is a fairly linear procession, while Thunderstone has some of this modulation. The flow of monsters up from the depths of the dungeon obviously helps. If you think of breach effect, traps, and treasures as hope/fear modulators and amplifiers, they make a lot of sense. Crucially, by giving you a set of characters with at least some personality that you can hope will advance in level and get more powerful while being afraid that they will die, Thunderstone helps you get invested in the game and actually feel something. Dominion gives you nothing.
There are plenty of other good examples in thematic games. Small World, where hope spring eternal when you draft a new race – and the personalization of the races and powers make a huge difference in our being able to identify with them – but gives way to fear as the race reaches the end of its rope and it becomes incredibly fragile in decline. Agricola is another classic manipulator, catching you between fear of starvation and ruin and the hopes that you have to build your farm, and thinking in these terms its tremendous popularity is easily explained. Classic games like Dune, Civilization, Titan, or Republic of Rome operate on longer time scales, but have amplified peaks and troughs of hope and fear, as anyone who has stared at their opponent across a combat wheel in a high-stakes battle in Dune can attest. Traditional games like Risk give you a lot of hope on your turn as your armies rampage across the board but then leave you to be very afraid of what your opponents are going to do to you once you pass the dice.
When you think about it terms of hope and fear, the visceral appeal of card driven wargames, especially the good ones like Hannibal, Successors, and Paths of Glory are likewise easily explained. Even titles which may not be as solid on game system merits (like Labyrinth or Twilight Struggle) can nonetheless be compelling because of the way they are always jerking you between hope for the cards you are holding and fear of what your opponent is going to do to you. Similarly, block games like Rommel in the Desert and EastFront manage this hope/fear balance, as they have the players playing in an environment of scarce information which is revealed in fits and starts, sometimes answering questions, sometimes creating new problems for you to grapple with, and giving you plenty of room to create your own hopes and fears.
Being about RPGs, one challenge that boardgames face that Hamlet's Hit Points doesn't talk about is how a narrative can keep this structure of hope and fear going when you play the game 5, 10, 15 times and know the general contours of the experience. This is not as much of an obstacle as you might think. The source narratives Laws analyzes are plays and movies which have survived a fair amount of repeat viewing. These emotional experiences the narrative aims to evoke are fundamentally manipulative. If you succeed the first time you can probably do it again.
This sort of modulation is obviously not the only way that narratives can be compelling. As mentioned in the book, rules are made to be broken, and some of our most compelling art comes from rules-breaking. But the lessons of Hamlet's Hit Points are extremely powerful as a tool to understanding what makes games tick.

  1. I was with you on this all the way until you got to the bit where you claim LotR succeeds and AH doesn't. A lot of people are going to disagree with you that the narrative element in AH is unsuccessful - it's a hugely popular game and was, at least at one time, FFG's best seller. A small minority of people, including me, are also going to disagree with you that LotR is successful. While it might be an interesting game mechanically, a thin narrative is a common criticism of the system.

    So unless you can use your thesis to explain these extremely common differences in opinion about the quality of your examples, I'm not buying it I'm afraid.

  2. Arkham Horror is a commercial success because of what I think of as "player provided theme". The Cthulhu Mythos is very popular with a large built-in fan base of gamers familiar with the material. These players bring their affection for the Mythos with them to the table, and can fill in the missing pieces, especially when FFG provides such large quantities of art and flavor text.

    You could make the same arguments for Kinizia's Lord of the Rings - it is Knizia' best-selling game, I think, largely because of the LotR tie-in. I would argue, though, that because it's less directly thematic, because player choices in the game don't seem to directly model character actions in the books, making it harder for players to construct their own narrative, it has to be more successful in terms of the raw game.

    At the end of the day, theme has to work for you, regardless of how well implemented it is. Knizia's Beowulf is a classic example for me of a game that does a ton of stuff right, but for whatever reason doesn't seem to speak to a lot of gamers. Plenty of people don't like Hamlet either.

  3. This appears to be the driving core of slot machines. You can bet bigger and lose bigger, but bigger bets pay bigger payouts if you win. You go up a little and down a little, then a little more. Then there are bonus rounds, the lure of free spins, and more.

    Look how successful video slot machines are these days. It sure seems to work for them to cycle hope and fear.

    Poker has much of this, too. On every hand you're hopeful for good cards, then really hopeful when you get a good hand that someone else doesn't have a great one. You're hopeful when you push more money in and of course fearful that you'll lose it.

    These feelings make gambling very popular even when the games involve real-world risk and reward . It makes sense it would work for other games as well.

  4. Excellent repurposing of HHP into board games.

    I think that the rapid hands of Dominion provide, if not a hope/fear cycle, then at least pulses of exhilaration and rest. It is the nature of Dominion decks to fill up with cards of limited play value, and drawing a bad hand (useless cards) builds a realistic hope that the next hand will be better because you just tossed weak cards. And even on the bad hands, you'll reward yourself with *something*.

    Thunderstone, the one time I played it, mostly felt like running a bunch of sums, making an obvious play, then repeating. Not much of a cycle.


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Wednesday, February 23, 2011

18 weeks!!:)

Hi everyone!! Hope you are all having a great week!!:)
God Bless
Pregnancy Highlights:

How Far Along: 18 Weeks( tomorrow)
Size of baby:about the size of a cantaloupe
Total Weight Gain/Loss: Gained 3 lbs
Maternity Clothes:I have bought some but haven't worn the pants yet. I have worn a few of the tops but only because I needed some new winter clothes anyways from losing so much weight last year.
GenderHopefully we will find out Monday!!:)
Sleep: I'm sleeping pretty good just can't get enough!!
What I miss: Energy!!
Cravings:carrots, cucumbers, cheese, crackers and fruits!!:)
Symptoms: Still tired some but much better!!:)

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A recent Nature article on the topic of work-life balance and avoiding burnout features some helpful tips from Harvard-MIT Health Sciences MEMP PhD student, Ben Mead. A 4th year student in Jeffrey Karp’s lab, Ben is working on building new tools to study how the body interacts with microbes in health and disease, in a dish.

Ben says, “One of the great things about HST is how passionate each member of our community is about their work, but this can make it difficult to disengage. This article makes a clear case for the benefits of taking the time to disengage, which can be anything from a few minutes to a few weeks, but can really help when you find you’re running into a wall, which inevitably we all do.”

In the article written by Kendall Powell, Ben shares his method for staying motivated in the lab on a daily basis. “‘Bench scientists should incorporate daily breaks into their routines . . .’ He tries to maintain the mindset that graduate training is similar to a marathon, not a short race. As such, he doesn’t take lengthy holidays, but takes daily breaks and brief holidays throughout the year.

When struggling with a lack of motivation, Mead uses the ‘pomodoro’ technique to advance his work. The method, named after a tomato-shaped timer that its developer used, sections off tasks into 4 sets of 25-minute intervals, split up by breaks of 3–5 minutes and then punctuated by a longer one of 15–30 minutes. Mead sets his lab timer for 20 minutes of work, then gives himself a 2–3-minute break for social media or another distraction.”

See the full article by Kendall Powell at http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v545/n7654/full/nj7654-375a.html


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Kathy Mattea sings for Clean Energy Jobs

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Tuesday September 22, 2009

Pittsburgh, PA – The Alliance for Climate Protection’s Repower America campaign, the United Steelworkers and the Blue Green Alliance will conclude their Clean Energy Jobs Tour with a rally in Pittsburgh on September 23rd. The Jobs Tour, a month‐long campaign with more than 50 events in 22 states, is highlighting how a transition to a clean energy economy will create jobs while reducing harmful carbon pollution and breaking our dependence on foreign oil.

The Pittsburgh event will feature musical entertainment, including Joan Jett & The Blackhearts, Big Head Todd & the Monsters, Joe Grushecky & the Houserockers, the Pittsburgh Gospel Choir and Grammy‐award winning artist Kathy Mattea. Scheduled speakers include Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell and other elected officials, as well as leaders from the labor, business, faith, sportsmen and environmental communities. The event is free and open to the public. Information can be found at

“American workers and their families need jobs, and a clean energy economy is a sure‐fire way to put our country back to work and on a path toward long‐term economic prosperity,” said Maggie L. Fox, President and CEO of the Alliance for Climate Protection. According to the Center for American Progress, transitioning to a clean energy economy will create more than 70,000 jobs in Pennsylvania. A recent report by the Blue Green Alliance showed that Pennsylvania stands to gain more than 42,000 manufacturing jobs in wind, solar, geothermal and biomass by instituting a renewable electricity standard.

“We can create millions of jobs building the clean energy economy – whether it’s manufacturing the parts for windmills, building hybrid car batteries or weatherizing homes to make them more efficient,” said David Foster, Executive Director of the Blue Green Alliance. “By transitioning to a clean energy economy, we can revitalize America’s manufacturing sector and boost our economy for the long run — by creating jobs here at home.”

“Building a clean energy economy can revitalize American manufacturing, but only if we commit to using domestically produced components,” said United Steelworkers International President Leo W. Gerard. “In confronting the challenges of recession, global warming and energy independence, we have an opportunity to transform our economy and create good jobs that truly are Made in America.”

WHAT: Clean Energy Jobs Now! Rally
WHERE: Point State Park
Pittsburgh, PA
WHEN: Wednesday, September 23, 2009
5:30 p.m. doors open, 7 p.m. program
WHO: Governor Edward G. Rendell
Dan Onorato, Allegheny County Executive
Pittsburgh Mayor Luke Ravenstahl
State Senator Jim Ferlo
Big Head Todd & the Monsters
Anna Burger, Chair, Change to Win
Da Flow Band
David Foster, Executive Director, Blue Green Alliance
Maggie Fox, President and CEO, The Alliance for Climate Protection
Lee Geisse, USW Member and clean energy worker from Canton, Ohio
Leo W. Gerard, International President, United Steelworkers
Joan Jett & The Blackhearts
Joe Grushecky & the Houserockers
Alec Loorz, Founder, Kids vs Global Warming and Youth Leader, Alliance for Climate Education
Kathy Mattea, Grammy Award Winning Artist
The Pittsburgh Gospel Choir, Directed by Dr. Herbert Jones
Carl Pope, Executive Director, Sierra Club
Gloria Reuben, Actor/Activist
Larry Schweiger, President, National Wildlife Federation
Richard L. Trumka, President, AFL‐CIO
Rev. Lennox Yearwood, President and CEO, Hip Hop Caucus

For more information about the Clean Energy Jobs Tour, visit Repower America or the Blue Green Alliance at

For media inquiries, please contact:
Julia Payne, Alice McKeon, Repower America, (202) 628‐1999,
Kelly Schwinghammer, Blue Green Alliance, (612) 466‐4488,
Benjamin Freed, Repower Pennsylvania, (917) 903‐3031,
Wayne Ranick, United Steelworkers, (412) 562‐2444,

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