A silversmith's vision brings together a woodworker and a painter to collaborate in The Opera Project.
Queen of the Night from the opera The Magic Flute is the first piece in the series of seven. Above you can see how all three artisans' work come together in one piece. You can view here a video depicting the stages in the making of the neck-piece that hangs in this triptych.
NY silversmith, Jennifer Townsend, who envisioned the series, asked me, in GA, to design and build the stages to house her neck-pieces. Sheena Graham-George is a painter, mixed-media and paper artist who has collaborated with Jen on a previous project. Sheena lives in the Orkney Isles, Scotland, UK.
Material: curly maple, poplar,veneers: figured maple,walnut, gold-leaf, paint, LED flex tape lights, piano hinges.


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Q: Having issues creating a table of objects in a loop. Every item in the table is the last item! Lua So I've created a sample program to illustrate a real program that I can't share.
My sample program has a Float object. The Float object holds the integer side and the decimal side.
I have a loop that will create 10 Floats and add them to a numbers table.
When I print out the numbers table, ever item in it is the last item created. I of course want each item to be its own self.
I feel this bug is because of Lua's pass-by-reference model for objects, and I must not have the 'class' set up correctly.
Sample code:
-- Float class

Float = { int = 0, decimal = 0 }
function Float:new(o, i, d)
    o = o or {}
    setmetatable(o, self)
    self.__index = self
    self.int = i
    self.decimal =  d
    return o
end

function Float:print()
    print(self.int.."."..self.decimal)
end
-- Float class end

-- driver code
numbers = {}
function main()

    for i = 0, 10, 1 do
        -- this weird indexing is because in my real program I will be indexing w/ a string so I wanted to mimic that
        numbers["a"..i] = Float:new(nil, i, i)
    end

    for k,v in pairs(numbers) do
        print(v:print())
    end

end

main()

Output:
10.10

10.10

10.10

10.10

10.10

10.10

10.10

10.10

10.10

10.10

10.10

Expected Output (but out of order since pairs() function):
1.1
2.2
3.3
4.4
5.5
6.6
7.7
8.8
9.9
10.10

A: self in Float:new(nil,i,i) refers to Float, not to o.
So, use
o.int = i
o.decimal =  d

instead of
self.int = i
self.decimal =  d

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Thanks For The Happiness, Birthday Girl!
Last night as I ripped to the next day on my Life's Little Instructions calendar, I couldn't help but smile. Considering today's date, the advice seemed handpicked for me. You see, January 28 is Sidney's birthday.
What a fitting Life's Little Instruction for this date.
What can I say? The advice is true, at least from my perspective. If you read this blog or are familiar with our family, you know what part of the 90 percent equation I am on. Much of my happiness in life is derived directly from Sid or by something she has given me (such as a certain toddler).
Sidney blowing out her candles this past weekend while Sloan looks on.
If it wasn't for this date and the girl who was born on it, I don't know where I would be. I truly don't think there is anyone out there who could give me 45 percent of my happiness, let alone double that amount. Sidney fills my cup for sure.
A year after spending her birthday taking care of her sick husband and daughter, she is celebrating her special day in 2019 by doing something more on her terms. This evening, after opening presents with Sloan and I, she is heading off to Columbia, the state capital of South Carolina. Tomorrow is the "SC for Ed Money Matters Lobby Day" and she will join fellow teachers from across the state to let elected officials know the resources educators need to truly give the best educational experience to our youth. Let's pray that Sid travels safe tonight and is well-rested for tomorrow's festivities.
Happy Birthday, Sidney! Thank you for making me happy. Don't Blink.
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This is amazing. I love the song, I love the video. Yes!
I have absolutely fallen in love with this duo from Saratoga Springs, especially after seeing them this sumer with M83 at the Hollywood Bowl (although I missed most of their set). The video is a collage of sensational images showing the resilience of the human body and the world we live in. The song comes from the band's self titled EP [Universal Republic] and will also be featured on the album Voices due out February 2014.
I don't know how I skipped over Good Kid, m.A.A.d. City [Aftermath] all year but I did and I'm realizing now what I've been missing out on. I may be rearranging my Best Albums of 2013 list.. The video for "Sing About Me" is just as minimal as the song, allowing the lyrics and the elegant instrumentals to shine while also brining the artistic vision of visual artist Eddie Peake to life. It's great.
We've seen this black light theme running through lots of videos in the past few months and it doesn't really do much for me; however, if you can see past the neon lights, there's a story to the video…which I'm still piecing together.


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As always at Waikanae, there was a well-filled hall, and as usual when Donald Armstrong is involved, items were given spoken introductions: by him, to the Mozart and Wolf works, and by clarinettist Philip Green to the two clarinet quintets. This was in addition to excellent programme notes.
Of the Mozart, Armstrong said it was 'good-natured… [it] has the greatness without the complexity of his later works. This quartet was written when Mozart was aged only 16.
The players were not quite together at the beginning, but soon settled down. The tone was blended best in the slow movement, and the bright and lively presto finale. There was good playing from the cello throughout the attractive piece.
The version of Wolf's Italian Serenade for string orchestra is perhaps more often played than the quartet original, but the latter is, I think, to be preferred for its clarity, which is particularly important for the unusual harmonies and modulations. At times, they sounded like those to be found in Noël Coward songs. As the programme note said, this is a delicious miniature.
Anthony Ritchie has written a most interesting clarinet quintet, commissioned by Christchurch's musical philanthropist, Christopher Marshall, in 2006. The music begins very quietly, the bird-song-like clarinet along with the strings playing softly on the bridge (ponticello). There was some very striking writing here, especially for the clarinet.
After the slow opening, the allegro first movement, had some marvellous passages for the viola and the clarinet; it ended abruptly. The slow movement began in unison for second violin, viola and cello – a very telling device. Then it returned to ponticello. The fast finale was agitated, even unsettling. Philip Green's clarinet playing was superb throughout the work. It was a most effective work, if somewhat dark and mournful in the main.
The major work on the programme was Brahms's Quintet. Composed in 1891, a few years after the Wolf work but vastly different in character, it has 'an atmosphere of serenity coloured by warm melodies, as well as a wonderful interplay amongst the five players', as the programme note stated.
Again, Philip Green's playing excelled, though sometimes the string sound overwhelmed him. Whether a different seating plan would have helped, I don't know. Mostly, his playing sparkled with brilliance and sensitive interpretation.
The adagio featured the splendid muted first violin of Donald Armstrong, particularly. Ensemble was excellent otherwise, and pianissimo playing was exemplary from all the performers – helped by some alterations to the ceiling of the small platform.
In the Presto third movement, the viola produced some wonderful pizzicato. There was a magical range of dynamics and well-controlled crescendos and decrescendos. The quintet's wonderfully mellifluous ending was beautifully handled, with perfect phrasing.
A stamping, applauding audience obviously enjoyed the concert hugely, especially the Brahms. It was a superb programme from a highly skilled group of players.


The USTA announced the kickoff to the Australian Open Wild Card Challenge. The Wild Card Challenge, in its third year, will utilize the USTA Pro Circuit to award wild cards into the men's and women's singles main draws of the 2017 Australian Open. The wild card challenge begins this week at the W.L. Amos Sr. Tennis Classic, a $50,000 women's event in Macon, Ga.
In this Wild Card Challenge, the American man and American woman who earn the most ATP World Tour and WTA ranking points at two of the three select USTA Pro Circuit hard-court events this fall will earn main draw wild cards into the 2017 Australian Open. Only Americans who did not earn direct entry into the Australian Open are eligible. The USTA and Tennis Australia have a reciprocal agreement in which wild cards into the 2016 US Open and 2017 Australian Open are exchanged.
All participating tournaments will be streamed live on www.procircuit.usta.com and can also be followed on the USTA Pro Circuit app by searching "procircuit" in the app store.
The 2017 Australian Open main draw will be held Monday, Jan. 16, to Sunday, Jan. 29.
Information on the USTA Pro Circuit's Australian Open Wild Card Challenge will be available at www.procircuit.usta.com and on Twitter through @USTAProCircuit.


This is a story about one of those God moments that completely and totally changes one's perspective. And boy did I need it.
It was November 5, 2010. We had started the adoption process for Sally in the fall of 2009. Almost a year had gone by. We were in the waiting stage. And I was to turn 50 in 1 month.
Though I will, I do not feel able or qualified to write about the last 24 hours.
We are on a small prop plane, a Bombadier, that has a capacity of 75 people.
Yesterday I found out more detail on how children are matched with adoptive parents. Apparently Duni's mother runs an orphanage and I guess has for years. Remember, Duni was our adoption agency coordinator over here in Addis. Many of these orphanages are private. A person just decides to start one. I thought they were government run, like they are in Russia.


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'You damn right I left Texas' | House Democrats testify before Congress to push for voting rights
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Updated: 5:53 PM CDT July 29, 2021
WASHINGTON, D.C., USA — Weeks after Texas Democrats left the state for Washington, D.C., to halt GOP-backed election reform legislation, the Democrats are testifying before Congress on voting rights.
The Democrats believe the legislation restricts the rights of voters and are pushing for federal voting rights legislation. Texas Republicans believe the election reform legislation ensures the integrity of elections.
On Thursday, July 29, Texas lawmakers testified before the U.S. House Oversight and Reform Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties.
Election reform bills could lead to automatically rejecting mail-in ballot applications, Texas Monthly report finds
Warrant issued after Texas Democrat returns to Austin, then leaves for Washington a second time
Special Session halfway over, House Democrats still in Washington, D.C.
In powerful testimony, Rep. Senfronia Thompson recalled having to pay a poll tax because she is Black and she recalled not being allowed to vote in primaries.
She said she left Texas to protect her constituents' right to vote.
"You damn right I left Texas," Thompson said. "I left Texas to give my people the right to be able to vote without them being infringed upon."
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Rep. Diego Bernal explained how the bill would practically impact voters with a story. Every year he takes his neighbor, a senior citizen who isn't comfortable speaking English, to the polls.
On Election Day, he took her to vote after she told him she had not voted yet. When they arrived at the polls and got to the front of the line, he filled out a form, stating who he is and why he helps his neighbor. He said that under House Bill 3, he would have to sign an oath, under the penalty of perjury, saying he didn't coerce her to come vote and can only translate. And he's nervous because he did ask her if she voted yet. He said he would also be worried about the poll watchers if HB 3 passed.
A Republican lawmaker testified remotely, telling his Democratic colleagues, "You've had your fun, it's time to come home."
LIVE: Texas House Democrats testify before Congress on voting rights and election bill
Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Maryland) said he salutes the Texas Democrats for coming to "urge us to protect their voting rights." He said voting has been a long-time struggle for Americans.
"The struggle for the right to vote has been a struggle against all political parties in our history, and nobody has clean hands here when you look at it historically," Raskin said. "The question is whether we are willing to commit ourselves to a struggle that extends the right to vote for everyone. It's not a partisan question, it's a question of small-d democracy."
Rep. Pete Sessions (R-Waco) said, "Republicans don't walk out. We don't go and accuse people of things just because we're losing."
The Democrats have been in D.C. since July 12. While in D.C, the lawmakers are doing dozens of interviews every day, social media Q&As and anything to get the word out about why they fled to Washington to halt progress on what they call a "voter suppression" bill. They are also urging the U.S. Congress to pass federal voting protection bills.
In Texas, Republicans are still moving along with plans to push more legislation through the special session. These are the bills they have passed in the Senate so far:
Senate Bill 1 amends the state's election code to clamp down voting-by-mail rules and limit initiatives Harris County took in 2020 to widen access to voting. Passed by 18-4 vote.
Senate Bill 3 bans critical race theory in Texas schools. Passed by an 18-4 vote.
Senate Bill 4 is an abortion-related bill focused on "the regulation of drug-induced abortion procedures." Passed on a 19-3 vote.
Senate Bill 6 would keep more people who have been accused but not convicted of violent or sexual crimes in jail unless they have enough cash. It would also restrict charitable bail groups' ability to pay to get people out of jail.
Senate Bill 7, or the "13th Check," gives retired teachers, counselors and school staff in the Teacher Retirement System of Texas (TRST) who retired on or before Dec. 31, 2020, an additional, one-time retirement check. Passed unanimously.
Senate Bill 8 and Senate Bill 12, both related to property tax.
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Sabien's Quest: The Light - YA Fantasy kindle ebook by Shomari Black
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"Representation is a big deal to me. I wanted to write a fantasy story for every kid. I never looked like the Pevensies or Harry Potter. I look like one of the Huxtables. My Fellowship of friends was pretty mixed-up looking. That's why I wrote about Sabien and Ska. I had two big sisters growing up. They looked out for me. I want girls to know that action and adventure aren't just for boys. That's why I wrote about Ei Lata'n. And princesses don't have to sit and wait in a tower. That's why I wrote Magnificent. I want every kid in this world, boy or girl, to know that there's a fantasy world out there where they can exist, too." – Shomari Black, author of Sabien's Quest
What if you started with Lord of the Rings then made all the heroes teenagers, gave them contemporary voices (like in The Princess Bride), and had their different races reflect in their skin color as well as their stature?
This is the story of a 15 year old monk in a medieval fantasy world who gets kicked out of his monastery and isn't allowed to return unless he can find a lost relic. While he's looking for it, demons are crawling up out of hell to find and kill him because if he manages to get his hands on the relic, he'll stop their well-orchestrated apocalypse. What he doesn't know is that he was hidden in the monastery as a baby because he is the illegitimate son of the king, and true heir to the throne.
Now, the acting prince is betrothed to a princess who finds him so revolting, that she packs her bags right after their betrothal ceremony and leaves in search of the true heir to the throne so that she can marry him instead. Meanwhile, the monk is fumbling through the nations in the kingdom and building a ragtag group of friends who join him on his quest: a werewolf, a forest dwelling troll thingie, etc. And popping in and out of the story is a half-werewolf/half-elf assassin who can't decide if she wants to help the monk or not.


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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Quotes On Life, Love, Progress And Freedom
By Nathan Young on January 21, 2019
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Martin Luther King Jr. was born in Atlanta, Georgia on January 15, 1929. He was a pivotal advocate for African Americans during the Civil Rights Movement in the United States.
King experienced racism from an early age, and those events stayed with and eventually brought him to a life of activism. After graduating college with a doctorate degree in theology, King became a pastor in Montgomery, Alabama. He began a series of peaceful protests in the South that eventually changed many laws dealing with the equality of African Americans. King gave hundreds of moving speeches across the country, and in 1964 was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
His legacy will be honored in Birmingham on the King Holiday with a series of events, including the King Unity Breakfast. It starts at 7:30 a.m. and will be held at the BJCC.
On April 4, 1968, King was shot and killed while in Memphis, Tennessee. Although his life ended that day, the work that he had accomplished changed the nation. King will be remembered not only for his commitment to the cause of equality for African Americans, but also for his profound speeches that moved so many.
The following King quotes on life, love, progress, and freedom helped shape the progressive world we live in today.
"We are not makers of history. We are made by history."
"Lightning makes no sound until it strikes."
"Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness."
"Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge, which is power; religion gives man wisdom, which is control. Science deals mainly with facts; religion deals mainly with values. The two are not rivals."
"We must use time creatively, in the knowledge that the time is always ripe to do right."
"There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual bogged down in the length of life, devoid of breadth."
"Property is intended to serve life, and no matter how much we surround it with rights and respect, it has no personal being. It is part of the earth man walks on. It is not man."
"The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character – that is the goal of true education."
"All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence."
"An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity."
"Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think."
"Every man lives in two realms: the internal and the external. The internal is that realm of spiritual ends expressed in art, literature, morals, and religion. The external is that complex of devices, techniques, mechanisms, and instrumentalities by means of which we live."
"Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will."
"There comes a time when people get tired of being pushed out of the glittering sunlight of life's July and left standing amid the piercing chill of an alpine November."
"The quality, not the longevity, of one's life is what is important."
"A lie cannot live."
"The past is prophetic in that it asserts loudly that wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows."
"The limitation of riots, moral questions aside, is that they cannot win and their participants know it. Hence, rioting is not revolutionary but reactionary because it invites defeat. It involves an emotional catharsis, but it must be followed by a sense of futility."
Martin Luther King Jr. at the Civil Rights March on Washington, D.C. (National Archives/Photographer Rowland Sherman)
"Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend."
"He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love."
"I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant."
"There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love."
"We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies."
"I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear."
"Nonviolence is absolute commitment to the way of love. Love is not emotional bash; it is not empty sentimentalism. It is the active outpouring of one's whole being into the being of another."
"Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love."
"It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it."
"If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward."
"Only in the darkness can you see the stars."
"Let no man pull you so low as to hate him."
"There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe nor politic nor popular, but he must take it because his conscience tells him it is right."
"Everybody can be great … because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love."
"No one really knows why they are alive until they know what they'd die for."
"A man who won't die for something is not fit to live."
"We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear."
"We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope."
"Those who are not looking for happiness are the most likely to find it, because those who are searching forget that the surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others."
"Never succumb to the temptation of bitterness."
"No person has the right to rain on your dreams."
"You will change your mind. You will change your looks. You will change your smile, laugh, and ways, but no matter what you change, you will always be you."
"Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better. "
"Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see."
"We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war but the positive affirmation of peace."
"The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one."
"A riot is the language of the unheard."
The Revs. Fred Shuttlesworth, Ralph Abernathy and Martin Luther King Jr. take part in a civil rights demonstration in Birmingham on Good Friday 1963.
"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy."
"Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity."
"Never, never be afraid to do what's right, especially if the well-being of a person or animal is at stake. Society's punishments are small compared to the wounds we inflict on our soul when we look the other way."
"Forgiveness is not an occasional act; it is a constant attitude."
"Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?'"
"Ten thousand fools proclaim themselves into obscurity, while one wise man forgets himself into immortality."
"When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative."
"That old law about 'an eye for an eye' leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing."
"If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way."
"Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle."
"We are prone to judge success by the index of our salaries or the size of our automobiles rather than by the quality of our service and relationship to mankind."
"Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the interrelated structure of reality."
"Not everybody can be famous but everybody can be great because greatness is determined by service… You only need a heart full of grace and a soul generated by love."
"I came to the conclusion that there is an existential moment in your life when you must decide to speak for yourself; nobody else can speak for you."
"Almost always, the creative dedicated minority has made the world better."
"The soft-minded man always fears change. He feels security in the status quo, and he has an almost morbid fear of the new. For him, the greatest pain is the pain of a new idea."
"We cannot walk alone."
"He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it."
"I am not interested in power for power's sake, but I'm interested in power that is moral, that is right and that is good."
On Progress
The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. (Dick DeMarsico/Library of Congress)
"Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable … Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals."
"People fail to get along because they fear each other; they fear each other because they don't know each other; they don't know each other because they have not communicated with each other."
"The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people."
"I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality… I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word."
"We will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."
"We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools."
"Capitalism does not permit an even flow of economic resources. With this system, a small privileged few are rich beyond conscience, and almost all others are doomed to be poor at some level. That's the way the system works. And since we know that the system will not change the rules, we are going to have to change the system."
"Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men."
"We must come to see that the end we seek is a society at peace with itself, a society that can live with its conscience."
"I have a dream that one day little black boys and girls will be holding hands with little white boys and girls."
"What is wrong in the world today is that the nations of the world are engaged in a bitter, colossal contest for supremacy."
"All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem."
"History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people."
"A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan."
"The more there are riots, the more repressive action will take place, and the more we face the danger of a right-wing takeover and eventually a fascist society."
On Justice
"No, no, we are not satisfied, and we will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream."
"The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood."
"The moral arc of the universe bends at the elbow of justice."
"It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important."
"Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane."
"Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal."
"I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law."
"The principle of self-defense, even involving weapons and bloodshed, has never been condemned, even by Gandhi."
On Nonviolence
"We who engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface the hidden tension that is already alive."
"Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him."
"At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love."
"Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon which cuts without wounding and ennobles the man who wields it. It is a sword that heals."
"Violence as a way of achieving racial justice is both impractical and immoral. I am not unmindful of the fact that violence often brings about momentary results. Nations have frequently won their independence in battle. But in spite of temporary victories, violence never brings permanent peace."
"World peace through nonviolent means is neither absurd nor unattainable. All other methods have failed. Thus we must begin anew. Nonviolence is a good starting point. Those of us who believe in this method can be voices of reason, sanity, and understanding amid the voices of violence, hatred, and emotion. We can very well set a mood of peace out of which a system of peace can be built."
"Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness in a descending spiral of destruction."
"Mankind must put an end to war or war will put an end to mankind."
On Freedom
"If the cruelties of slavery could not stop us, the opposition we now face will surely fail. Because the goal of America is freedom, abused and scorned tho' we may be, our destiny is tied up with America's destiny."
"Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed."
"In our glorious fight for civil rights, we must guard against being fooled by false slogans, as 'right-to-work.' It provides no 'rights' and no 'works.' Its purpose is to destroy labor unions and the freedom of collective bargaining … We demand this fraud be stopped."
"In the process of gaining our rightful place, we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred. We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence. Again and again, we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force."
"I have the audacity to believe that peoples everywhere can have three meals a day for their bodies, education and culture for their minds, and dignity, equality, and freedom for their spirits."
"If physical death is the price that I must pay to free my white brothers and sisters from a permanent death of the spirit, then nothing can be more redemptive."
"Oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever. The yearning for freedom eventually manifests itself."
"I want to be the white man's brother, not his brother-in-law."
"When we let freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual, 'Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!' "
"If any earthly institution or custom conflicts with God's will, it is your Christian duty to oppose it. You must never allow the transitory, evanescent demands of man-made institutions to take precedence over the eternal demands of the Almighty God."
"Courage is an inner resolution to go forward despite obstacles; Cowardice is submissive surrender to circumstances. Courage breeds creativity; cowardice represses fear and is mastered by it. Cowardice asks the question, is it safe? Expediency asks the question, is it politic? Vanity asks the question, is it popular? But conscience ask the question, is it right? And there comes a time when we must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but one must take it because it is right."
"Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step."
"By opening our lives to God in Christ, we become new creatures. This experience, which Jesus spoke of as the new birth, is essential if we are to be transformed nonconformists … Only through an inner spiritual transformation do we gain the strength to fight vigorously the evils of the world in a humble and loving spirit."
"Now there is a final reason I think that Jesus says, 'Love your enemies.' It is this: that love has within it a redemptive power. And there is a power there that eventually transforms individuals. Just keep being friendly to that person. Just keep loving them, and they can't stand it too long. Oh, they react in many ways in the beginning. They react with guilt feelings, and sometimes they'll hate you a little more at that transition period, but just keep loving them. And by the power of your love they will break down under the load. That's love, you see. It is redemptive, and this is why Jesus says 'love'. There's something about love that builds up and is creative. There is something about hate that tears down and is destructive. So love your enemies."
"The God whom we worship is not a weak and incompetent God. He is able to beat back gigantic waves of opposition and to bring low prodigious mountains of evil. The ringing testimony of the Christian faith is that God is able."
"I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made straight and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together."
"The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: 'If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?' But… the good Samaritan reversed the question: 'If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?'
"Seeing is not always believing."
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Report: Deadly Blaze Hits Two Ships off Kerch Strait
At least ten seafarers have died after two ships burst into flames in the Black Sea near the Kerch Strait on January 21, according to local media reports.
The incident allegedly occurred during fuel transfer operations between the two Tanzania-flagged vessels, identified as Candy and Maestro, Russian state news agency TASS said. Data provided by MarineTraffic shows that the ships in question are LPG tankers.
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Celebrity Flora Hits the Water at Shipyard De Hoop
Shipyard De Hoop has launched Celebrity Cruises new expedition cruise vessel named Celebrity Flora from its yard in Lobith-Tolkamer, the Netherlands.
The 333 ft (101 metres) long and 5,739 ton-vessel can achieve a cruising speed of 10-14 knots.
Monjasa Upgrades Panama Canal s Bunker Fleet
Danish bunker company Monjasa has decided to introduce a larger and more modern tanker for bunkering activities in the Panama Canal.
As part of the company s move to rejuvenate the overall Panama Canal bunker fleet, Monjasa deployed the 2010-built, 8,800 dwt tanker Accra in the waterway.
Salamis Lines to Expand Fleet with RoRo Ship
Cyprus-based shipping company Salamis Lines has signed an agreement to acquire a roll-on/roll-off (RoRo) vessel.
Salamis said the vessel has a gross capacity of 20,831 tons, without disclosing any further details.
OOCL: No Plan to Order New Ships at the Moment
Hong Kong-based container shipping and logistics service company Orient Overseas Container Line Limited (OOCL) doesn t plan to order any new ships at the moment.
Stephen Ng, Director of Trades at OOCL, said this in a statement to World Maritime News when asked about the rumored 23,000 TEU sextet order.
Stena Line Ferry in Near Miss with Royal Navy Submarine
A Stena Line ferry recently had a close quarters encounter with a nuclear-powered Royal Navy submarine, according to the UK Marine Accident Investigation Branch (MAIB).
The company s 30,285 gross ton Stena Superfast VII, which operates between Northern Ireland and Scotland, had a near miss with the submarine operating at periscope depth in the Irish Sea.
ASC to Design, Extend Vancouver Port s Container Terminal
ACS Group, through its affiliate Dragados, has been awarded a large-scale project for the design and construction of Vancouver Fraser Authority Port s container terminal extension in Canada.
As informed, the project is intended to extend the terminal s surface and to rearrange it towards increasing its capacity from the current 900,000 to 1.5 million TEUs annually.
NGOs Call for Ban of Scrubbers in European ECAs
A coalition of non-governmental organizations is pushing for a ban of exhaust gas cleaning systems in European emission control areas (ECAs).
A number of organizations, including Naturschutzbund Deutschland (NABU), France Nature Environnement (FNE), BirdLife Malta and others, have called for a ban of heavy fuel oil and consequently a ban of scrubbers.
Brightoil Faced with USD 250 Mn of Creditor Claims
Hong Kong-listed Brightoil Petroleum (Holdings) Limited has accumulated around USD 250 million of total creditor claims.
The group is engaged in upstream oil and gas resources exploration as well as marine transportation, oil storage and terminal facilities and international trading and bunkering business.
Rotterdam Port Launches Scheme Supporting Climate-Friendly Shipping
The Port of Rotterdam Authority has launched a new financial scheme supporting projects intended to reduce the shipping sector s CO2 emissions.
As of today, interested parties can apply for funding via the Incentive Scheme Climate-Friendly Shipping. The scheme runs until the end of 2022.
Poland s Szczecin Best Performing Port in BIMCO s Dry Bulk Terminals Report
The best performing port in BIMCO s Dry Bulk Terminals Vetting Report 2018 is Szczecin in Poland, the world s largest international shipping association said.
The report collected input from 144 ships covering 381 terminals. A total of 97% of the reports were rated as average or better, which gave an average rating of 3.6 out of five.
Apapa Road Construction Excites Port Users
Port stakeholders have commended the construction company handling the two-kilometre Apapa Wharf road as the construction of the road nears completion and ready for use.
The reconstruction, which ignited the chronic and dreaded gridlock at Apapa began two years ago, and defeated all solutions, including the Presidential directive of a 48hour to free the road, after an earlier directive of the Lagos Government failed.
Lithuania LNG port aims to be Baltic hub, double flows
Lithuania s Klaipeda liquefied natural gas (LNG) import terminal will more than double its LNG volumes once gas pipelines to Poland and Finland open after 2021, turning the Baltic port into a regional supply hub, its operator said in an interview.
The import facility, named "Independence", was built in Klaipeda port in 2014 to break the monopoly of Russia s Gazprom over gas supplies to Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, Baltic countries formerly ruled from Moscow.
Hong Kong s port has fallen behind rivals. Industry experts say it needs to be more competitive
Hong Kong s once world-beating port needs to raise its game or risk falling further behind competitors in Shanghai, Singapore and elsewhere, industry experts said.
The city s massive container facility has seen rivals, especially in mainland China, expand and improve at a faster pace, air and rail options for shipping goods increase and, more recently, uncertainty resulting from the ongoing Washington-Beijing trade war.
Qingdao Port lists on Shanghai Stock Exchange
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Breast cancer is the most common malignant tumor among women today. Available techniques for treating breast cancer often introduce strong side effects. The non-invasive electromagnetic ablation of breast tumors has a lot of potential, because it can provide a quick treatment modality without introducing harmful side effects. In this project we assess the feasibility of non-invasive electromagnetic ablation of female breast tumors. The two main challenges in this project are: 1. The computation of electromagnetic fields inside the female breast. 2. The focussing of power such that the power dissipated in the tumor is maximized while the power dissipated in healthy tissue is minimized. In our investigation we simulate a two-dimensional configuration with a circular array of line-sources operating at a single-frequency within the range of 1 to 10 GHz. The electromagnetic fields are computed using a discretized EFIE method, after which we evaluate three algorithms that focus the dissipated power in order to gain insight in the potential of this treatment modality.


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Posted on September 6, 2018 by JimS
By Gwen Sinclair
Librarian, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa Library
If you had told me when I was 25 or 30 that I would run my first marathon at age 42, I would have rolled my eyes and asked, "Why would anyone want to do that?" I could not fathom running even 10 miles, much less 26.2. I had been a casual runner for many years, but I'd avoided distance events. Too hard!
I found many reasons to keep running in the watershed year of 2004. For starters, my sister was diagnosed with lymphoma and endured a whole year of grueling chemotherapy. Although I wasn't close to her, I felt very helpless, and guilty, too, so I signed up to do the Honolulu Marathon as part of Team in Training, the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society's fundraising program. All you have to do is run a marathon — and raise thousands of dollars for research. It turned out to be harder for me to ask people for money than it was to get up early every weekend for the 16-mile training runs. To my surprise, the donations poured in, which of course put me in the position of absolutely, positively having to finish the marathon in December 2004.
My free time revolved around marathon training, so on Saturday, October 30, 2004, after my husband Steve and I had seen a mediocre movie at the Varsity Theatre, "What the Bleep Do We Know?" I'd gone to bed, planning to get up early the next morning for the usual Sunday training run.
Indeed, we didn't know bleep. We got the phone call after we were already in bed, around 10:00 p.m. "There's been a flood at the library," reported Steve's boss Jean, an administrator at Hamilton Library. "How bad could it be?" we asked each other as we got dressed. Steve was the building manager of Hamilton Library, so he was used to dealing with these little disasters. A couple of inches of water on the floor — we could handle that. We'd dealt with many leaks and minor floods, like the time the asbestos removal company had flooded the basement with water, or the day a construction worker had cut into a pipe without checking to see whether the water was turned off.
It was difficult to see anything amiss when we drove onto campus. The flood had evidently made the electricity go off, so there were no street lights to illuminate our way. In the dark, the first thing we noticed was a motorcycle on its side and a couple of cars that were sitting on the Maile Way median. "How did they get there?" we wondered, our hopes fading.
Everything seemed normal when we first entered the library, except it was dark. Only a few emergency lights illuminated the interior. We heard the distant high-pitched ringing of the fire alarm panel (it always went off in damp weather) as we stopped at Steve's office to get a flashlight. As we made our way down the gloomy stairs to check things out in the basement, we could see dark water pooled at the bottom. We were afraid to go any further — maybe we'd be electrocuted! — so we retreated and made our way to another set of stairs where we could look down into my department, Government Documents & Maps.
First we noticed the elevator. One of the doors was akimbo, as if King Kong had tried to rip it open. There was a line on the wall next to it, about six feet up, showing how high the water had risen. Where was the wall between the book stacks and the hallway? It had collapsed, so that you could see into the room containing rows of bookshelves. Only they weren't upright; they were bowed like trees in a hurricane. The contents had fallen onto the floor, so that books lay everywhere in great heaps. I learned later that when books get soaked, they expand, and eventually they are so fat that the shelves cannot contain them and they explode, like Mr. Creosote in "Monty Python's the Meaning of Life" who has eaten one "wafer-thin morsel" too many.
Piles of muddy government documents. Photo: Lloyd Tsukano, 2004.
Although it hadn't been raining particularly hard that night, Mānoa Stream jumped out of its bed and ran straight through campus. In its wake it left stinking, silt-filled, muddy water, and not just that: frogs, snails, insects, and all manner of detritus coated floors, walls, furniture, and hallways. Thirty-two buildings on campus were flooded, but due to its location at a low point on campus, Hamilton Library received the worst damage by far.
The water punched through windows and doors, turning the basement into a filthy swimming pool swirling with books, desks, and computers. The stream water flowed straight through the building, leaving books, maps, and aerial photographs strewn all the way to the quarry parking on lower campus.
In the days following the flood, we braved the mud-filled, stinking, moldy basement, trying to salvage books, maps, photographs, and our personal belongings. Every day, I wore a uniform of sorts: a brown Merrie Monarch t-shirt, a pair of hiking shorts, and olive green rubber boots. Oh, and there was the ever-present face mask to protect me from the mold. When I didn't have it over my nose and mouth, it sat on top of my head like an ersatz cap.
Gwen washing aerial photographs. Photo: Lloyd Tsukano, 2004
You might think that when my life shifted to full-time disaster response mode, I would have abandoned marathon training. But I owed that race to the LLS donors. And, strangely, running is what saved me from drowning. When I ran, I forgot about the depressing scene at the library and the years of recovery work ahead. I thought about my sister, who was so exhausted from chemo that she could hardly put her shoes on. I focused on how I needed to raise money to fund the research that would put an end to the scourge of cancer. I ran, and I kept my head above the water.
Gwen after completing the Honolulu Marathon in 2004. Photo: S. Pickering
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Popples is a children's animated television series based on the Popples toy line produced by Saban Brands and Zagtoon . The series portrays the adventures of the comedic pals Bubbles, Sunny, Lulu, Izzy, and Yikes.  It is an original series distributed by Netflix . The last Popples television adaptation to air was a 1986 animated series.
In 2014, Netflix announced that at least 26 episodes would be released.   10 episodes were planned for the first season; Each episode runs for 22 minutes and consists of two segments. The episodes were released on October 30, 2015.
The second season of Popples was released on Netflix on March 11, 2016.
The third season of Popples was released on Netflix on July 24, 2016.
Saban Brands has the exclusive rights to the Popples characters and has distributed a toy line through Spin Master in 2016. Much like their previous incarnations of the 1980s, the toys can be rolled into a ball and "popped" back out.
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Jump up^ Truong, Kimberly (October 13, 2015). "Meet the Popples: Netflix unveils trailer, photos for new children's show" . Mashable . Retrieved 9 September 2016 .
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An Essay about [Indistinct Conversations] by author Heather O'Neill Many of the songs in Indistinct Conversations are framed by snippets of background noises. The songs begin with recordings of overheard conversations and phone messages. And then Lizzie begins to sing. It is as though she is in the room and we are hearing her inner monologue. It is a voice-over that has nothing at all to do with what is going on around her. We are just in the mind of a quiet genius daydreaming. The voice is so sweet and vulnerable. There is a nostalgia to the songs, that harkens back to a 1990s melancholia that captured the broken heart of the twentieth century, like that found in the songs Mazzy Starr and Elliot Smith. But is reminiscent also of the continued struggle of people searching for power and voice when they find themselves forced into the shadows of the inarticulate. It reminds one of an orphaned hero in a novel, lost and absolutely vulnerable, or a chorus girl writing her pensées about bad relationships on a train. Indistinct Conversation is an album about a person trying to communicate with lovers and potential lovers who cannot hear them or give them the love they want back. It illustrates the ferocious capacity for love that an introspective and profound person can have and how that can go unreciprocated in the world. It captures how even the best of us are handicapped by love: you throw away your umbrella in a rainstorm, or your paddles off the side of the boat, and then ask yourself, why in the world did I do that? The strength of vulnerability is exhibited in the juxtaposition between Lizzie's voice and the masterful, loud, forceful manner in which she plays guitar, along with the calculated cacophony that is The Land of Talk sound. Land of Talk is made up of Lizzie Powell on vocals, guitars and keys, Mark "Bucky" Wheaton on drums and keys, and Christopher McCarron on bass. All the songs were written by Lizzie and produced and arranged by the trio. Christopher McCarron went and built a studio in the basement of Bucky's Park Extension apartment in Montreal especially to record and engineer the unique humble appeal of this album. The longing in Lizzie's voice rises above the raw power of Land of Talk's instrumentation, not because of its muscular strength, but because of its sweet honesty. The album relates the devastating effect of emotional vulnerability. It's as though, instead of jumping, Anna Karenina decided to sing by the train tracks. Not even the velocity and noise of the train tracks and the modern world can silence her passions. The last song is just the sound of snatches of overheard conversation against a melody, during which the singer has nothing left to say. Her mind has gone quiet and she is no longer allowing us in. We are left with a memory of someone in a room. Someone we refused to love back and who now becomes the one who got away. - Heather O'Neill 2020
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Those who think flat roofs are actually flat should know there is at least a ten percent slope. This facilitates draining rain and snow. Flat roofs continue to be a popular choice for homeowners as they provide a timelessness factor to new home construction while still looking modern and sleek. Many homeowners also use them as living roofs for common spaces.
Part of roof maintenance is checking for loose shingles or ruptured flashing. Although emergency roof repair is easier on a flat roof, there are new materials for flat roofs about which homeowners should know. They are durable and last longer, are energy efficient, and give sloped roofs a run for their money.
All three types of flat roof cost relatively the same amount per square feet. Offering a ten to twenty year warranty, they last for upwards of 25 years. These facts are dependent on the weather conditions of the region as well as the size of the structure.
This roof consists of layers of a waterproof material (in the past it was tar paper) tar, and ballast such as crushed stones or sand. One thing to note about this material is that it is heavy. Due to this, the struts need strengthening so that is something our team will ensure we take care of for your roof repair or roof replacement.
One pro of this kind of flat roof is that it's fire-proof. One con is that the stones and sand clog gutters. Today's roofing companies use energy-efficient fiberglass membranes instead of old-fashioned tar paper.
With this type of flat roof, one layer of roofing stands between the homeowner and the weather. Today's materials, however, are tough enough for the job. These are PVC membranes, TPO or Thermoplastic Olefin membranes, and Ethylene Propylene Diene Monomer or EPDM membranes.
Roofing contractors recommend using membranes at least 50 mil thick. Most ten foot wide membranes are around 90 mil thick, however. PVC is considered the best roofing membrane due to its uniform thickness. TPO has no oversight to keep its thickness or worthiness reliable.
This is a single-ply roofing material on a roll. Some require the adhesive to be heated as it's rolled out. Called Torch Down system, this is not recommended if homeowners want to live in the house. It's not fireproofed.


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It is quite common to see people change their identity in movies. But the question is whether it can happen in real life?
Let us try and find out whether this is possible and feasible. At a first instance it would be quite clear that it would be impossible to complete get rid or erase one's identify, especially in today's world of technology where everything about a person can be captured in some form of other. The only entity which perhaps can do this is the government of the day. Though quite difficult it is quite possible for you to change your social security number or SSN as it is better understood. However, changing your SSN number is more of an exception than a rule. It can be done only under very rare circumstances. Even if it happens, there are ways and means by which the old SSN number could get linked to the new number.
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Identity change expert reveals a little-known technique on how to get a new identity and live under the radar (100% legal).
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There are many websites which promise to help you to change your identity and they also talk about their capability of discarding the past completely. However, some of those sites should not be taken on their face value because most of them are scams. They are there to make some fast bucks and get out. At the most they might hand over a fake ID which you will not be able to use. You could also be booked for falsifying information and could face legal charges. Changing birth records, faking them may all have been possible a few decades ago. However, today when all records are computerized it would be virtually improbable to do so.
So Is There No Way Around
Your best bet would be to have your name changed legally. You could also think about moving to a distant place, perhaps away from your own country. You could take up a different profession and try and start life afresh. You might also try and do the tricks which are oft repeated in movies. You could have a complete makeover of your looks and appearances and could also change the way you walk, speak and move around.
Some Legal Ways Of Creating A New Person
The first legal way is to have your name changed. You may have to do away with the name you parents might have given you. Changing names is perfectly legal and not very uncommon. There are certain procedures for changing names and checking with the local government authorities could be the best way out. The reason for name change must be clearly mentioned. The authority will put up the name change request for public scrutiny. If there are no objections being raised then the name change procedure can go through.
Hence at the end of the day, though it might be theoretically possible to change names and start afresh, getting it done on the ground is not an easy job. It calls for understanding various processes and going through the same. But still you might end up with slippages which might cost you dearly.
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We are pleased to present to you the list of top 10 class action settlements obtained in the United States in the year 2018. The list is comprised of cases filed either in a state or federal court. It does, however, exclude cases settled for an undisclosed amount.
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Amount: $6,240,000,000.00
Attorneys: Merrill G. Davidoff, Bart D. Cohen, Michael J. Kane of Berger & Montague PC; K. Craig Wildfang, Thomas J. Undlin, Ryan W. Marth of Robins Kaplan LLP; Bonny E. Sweeney, David W. Mitchell, Patrick J. Coughlin, Alexandra S. Bernay, Carmen A. Medici of Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP
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Case: In Re Domestic Airline Travel Antitrust Litigation (American Airlines)
Type: Antitrust Violation, Class Action, Conspiracy, Consumer Fraud, Fraud, Intentional Tort, Price Fixing
State: District of Columbia
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Closing Out Matches
"We had it. It was mine. I can't believe it. What happened? I blew it. I choked. Aaargh."
Matches at all levels are lost every day because players are unable to "close it out." Pros, juniors, college players, and competitive league players confront this challenge universally. Interestingly, in many ways, this phenomenon is a microcosm of the dynamics that play out in athletic competition in general – trusting your skills and playing to win, focusing on the process versus the results, maintaining concentration and intensity, and neutralizing momentum shifts.
We've all been there – leading 5-2 in a set then somehow letting it slip away. And how these losses hurt! After the match we shake our heads and replay the key shots in our minds wondering what would have happened if we had only attacked that second serve or come to the net for a volley at match point. Deep down we are disappointed in ourselves because the loss could have been avoided. We fell short not because we didn't have the strokes, but because we lost our mental and emotional edge. This realization irritates us for days. We can live with the other player out hitting us, picking up his game at key moments but giving it away is unforgivable, and we are very hard on ourselves. But it is this very challenge and those frustrations that intrigue us and bring us back the next time to test ourselves again.
So what typically happens when a player is leading in a match and then loses? Well, it depends on the player, but here are several reasons:
Protecting the Lead
The most typical response in this situation is to tighten up and become tentative. Players begin to protect their lead and hope their opponent will hand them the match. These players, as Tim Gallwey long ago discussed, begin playing "not to lose." In other words, they abandon their more aggressive style of play and rely on the opponent to make errors. This is a recipe for disaster. Even if these players win they feel horrible about how they played. It hurts their confidence, and, unfortunately, reinforces the possibility that they will play in a similar way the next time.
Attached to Results (High Arousal)
Invariably, players become overly attached to results, particularly in competition that counts. Getting absorbed in the process of competition — being in the moment and focused on the task at hand, enjoying the experience separate from the outcome of the match — that is the ultimate challenge for tennis players and athletes alike. As players begin savoring the possibility of winning, they become distracted by the attractiveness of this outcome. They lose focus, are unable to stick with their game plan, and instead of enjoying the game, they shift their attention to the results. They become too attached to winning and it makes them tight. As they try to protect their lead, they get nervous and over analyze, which negatively affects stroke production.
Relax and Lose Momentum (Low Arousal)
Other players, though less frequently, actually relax too much. They feel they are in the "drivers seat", and have the room to pull out from the match for a moment and briefly celebrate their success. This is often fatal. Losing a game or two at this point can be very costly. The players with the lead frantically attempt to bring their attention back to the match – they get tight, over think, and perceive the momentum has shifted. And, often, it has shifted. Relaxing when leading, though on the surface seems to be the opposite of getting tight, is simply a different manifestation of the same problem—attachment to results. Attention shifts to the score and we feel we have some "breathing room." Although relaxing feels better than getting nervous, it can be just as costly. As soon as a game or two is lost, we are back to the anxiety anyway. In many cases, we have created a momentum shift both in our own minds and in our opponent's as well.
The Critical Voice Kicks In
We all have a critical voice with which we must contend. We grew up with that voice—the doubter, the critic—and he/she comes out in full force when we need him the least. As soon as we are on the verge of something good, enter Mr. Doubt. "You better not lose this now. You've choked before. Here we go again." He knocks on our door and we let him in. It's all down hill from there. And once again, we've lost the "mental edge." Instead, answer the intruding critic with "I'm tougher than this player. I'm not going away until it's over. He's going to have to beat me"
How Do We Keep the Mental Edge?
Stay with your game plan. Don't change it because you are leading. Finish him/her off with the strokes and strategy that got you there.
Use positive phrases to maintain concentration and appropriate arousal. When you need it, repeat any of the following affirmations as much as possible: "I am winning this match." "This is mine." "I deserve this one." "I love this challenge."
Smile when the critic comes knocking. Don't fight him. Laugh at him. You are in control and busy enjoying the competition.
Keep your eyes focused on specific targets–Strings, ground, where you want to hit the ball. Avoid looking around.
Breathe deeply and rhythmically to maintain physical relaxation. Make this a routine. Players tend to constrict their breathing under stress.
In the final analysis, closing out a match is no different than any other aspect of competition. Like every point in the match, it requires total focus, intensity, and appropriate arousal level. Stay loose, stick to your game, focus on each point, and enjoy the challenge. Diffuse the inner critic with a smile and you are on your way to having and keeping the mental edge.
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1 j And you were k dead in the trespasses and sins 2 l in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following m the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in n the sons of disobedience - 3 among whom we all once lived in o the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body 7 and the mind, and p were by nature q children of wrath, like the rest of mankind. 4 But 8 God, being r rich in mercy, s because of the great love with which he loved us, 5 even t when we were dead in our trespasses, u made us alive together with Christ - v by grace you have been saved - 6 and raised us up with him and w seated us with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, 7 so that in the coming ages he might show the immeasurable x riches of his grace in y kindness toward us in Christ Jesus. 8 For z by grace you have been saved a through faith. And this is b not your own doing; c it is the gift of God, 9 d not a result of works, e so that no one may boast. 10 For f we are his workmanship, g created in Christ Jesus h for good works, i which God prepared beforehand, j that we should walk in them.
11 Therefore remember that at one time you Gentiles in the flesh, called "the uncircumcision" by what is called k the circumcision, which is made in the flesh by hands - 12 remember l that you were at that time separated from Christ, m alienated from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers to n the covenants of promise, o having no hope and without God in the world. 13 But now in Christ Jesus you who once were p far off have been brought near q by the blood of Christ. 14 For r he himself is our peace, s who has made us both one and has broken down t in his flesh the dividing wall of hostility 15 by abolishing the law of commandments expressed in u ordinances, that he might create in himself one v new man in place of the two, so making peace, 16 and might w reconcile us both to God in one body through the cross, thereby killing the hostility. 17 And he came and x preached peace to you who were y far off and peace to those who were z near. 18 For a through him we both have b access in c one Spirit to the Father. 19 So then you are no longer d strangers and aliens, 9 but you are e fellow citizens with the saints and f members of the household of God, 20 g built on the foundation of the h apostles and prophets, i Christ Jesus himself being j the cornerstone, 21 k in whom the whole structure, being joined together, grows into l a holy temple in the Lord. 22 In him m you also are being built together n into a dwelling place for God by 10 the Spirit.
And the Lord has declared today that you are a people for his treasured possession, as he has promised you, and that you are to keep all his commandments.
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