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Tennis Strategy #26 Meet The Disruptors
If you have seen the American hospital drama HOUSE, about the crazy doctor by the same name, you might have seen there was a pattern to the show. Someone brings him a patient with a mysterious illness that no one else can seen to diagnose and treat. He has his team of doctors and they all put their heads together, then House, comes in and orders that they place the patient on 12 different medicines. His staff says, "…but that's gonna kill him." House says, "yes, of course", and they proceed. They figure out which medicines are killing the patient the fastest, and they take them off quickly, until they are left with the treatments that are not contributing to the demise. Of course, for the drama of the show, the person getting treatment has to have some close brushes with death, before they whole thing gets resolved. This is analogous to how the disruptive player plays, except that they figuratively want to kill the opponent. So they look for the shots that bring about the quickest frustration, then ruin of their opponent.
A Wide Skill Set Required
The disruptive player will have many skills, spins, and a wide range of ways to strike and send the ball for different effects to the other side of the court. In playing this strategy, a player needs to select that tactics and strokes that are having an effect, and let go of those that are not having an effect on the match in a positive way. So, everything that is not killing the patient will be removed from the treatment, unless it serves a specific purpose.
Recent and Not So Recent Examples
The first disruptive players who come to mind are Rafa Nadal, Michael Chang, Peng Shuai, and Nick Kyrgios, and they all do their thing very uniquely. The tricky part is that these kinds of players are not always embraced by the tennis world, and can be seen as second class citizens with the obvious exception of Rafa Nadal, because people who are not observing the game closely enough miss out on the quality that is really his number one trait and strength.
What people miss about Rafa and the way he often plays, is the wide variety of spins he employs. Yes is slices the ball, and he employs side spin sometimes, but even his topspin shots are produced on a wide scale from drives, to extreme high arcing looped shots which bounce high to the backhand. His opponents find it very difficult to get on balance to hit a strong shot. Interestingly enough, he has had his struggles against players who are also disruptive, or are tall and strong on the left side, so that the highest bouncing balls do not affect them the same way as most opponents.
Fabrice Santoro was a player whose very idiosyncratic way of playing was shunned by the French Tennis Federation, so he had to pursue his own training without the same support as other French players received who had more conventional ways of playing the sport. Santoro seemed to really enjoy regularly showing up to win a round or two in a Grand Slam, and sometimes would make the fourth round, and at his height quarterfinals. He also holds the record for most wins against top 10 opponents for someone ranked outside the top 40 in his 20 year career with 70 Grand Slam Appearances. This player had a very nice lifestyle for a player that played with two hands on both sides, and hit a lot of strange slice shots. Players like this can face ridicule and people like to make up nicknames for this style of play, I like to call them the vege-matic, because they play like a food processor, or I might say that he used Ginsu Knives, because they dice, they slice…
My B Game As A Gateway
In fact, this is my favorite B game to play, because as I have mentioned before, if my all out net attack is not working, might pull back and not come in as much, but if I am simply not affective at pressuring my opponent's time and space, then the next thing I want to do is wreck their timing, because I may then be able to go back to my A game, playing it more effectively.
More Detail On Rafa
Surprising to most people, the greatest example of disruptive play is Rafael Nadal, who for the majority of his career has played that strategy, although as he has aged he has moved more to a pressure movement, and pressure time and space styles. Let's dig a little deeper on how he keeps people out of the zone. Notice how much he varies his spins, which is much easier to see when you are observing him live in person, but a bit harder to detect in the 2D of the television screen. It struck me pretty hard the first time I saw him play in person, that he uses dramatically different amounts of topspin, heights and speeds of shot to keep the other player off balance. In press conferences he will say "I hit a lot of topspin to the backhand, pretty simple, no?" Which is really a very sarcastic way of exposing the relative lack of sophistication of the press to evaluate his game. There is a lot more going on then what he is saying.
Compelling Match Ups Created
As his career progressed, he began to flatten out more shots to be more effective on hard courts and grass, and he also improved his slicing game, but even more dramatically, he became one of the best doubles players in the world with amazing volley technique, and became much better at closing out points on a singles court at the net. But his bread and butter has been keeping the other player off balance, not able to perfectly time their shot, and/or in less than an ideal position to counter attack his ball. Part of what has made his rivalries with Federer and Djokovic so compelling is that both are such great movers who can arrive in exactly the right spot (Federer), or can contort themselves like a plastic man to play maximum defense (Djokovic).


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Given the amount of excitement it has generated, you'd have to have been living in a cave not to know about the recent release of the Revised 4th Edition of Talisman and six of its expansions by Games Workshop recently!
Thanks to the generous donation from Coiledspring Games, the distributor for the UK and Ireland, I am able to bring you this little competition where you can win a copy of the base game of Talisman!
When thinking about a subject for the competition, I thought it might be fun to concentrate on the fact that the reprints include all of the expansions that have special NPC (Non-Player Character) cards and playing pieces in them.
(Note: Images are actually larger than they appear here. Right click and open image in new tab to see more detail.)
2017 Reprint Overview – Part One 2017 Reprint Overview – Part Two
In the last couple of weeks I've been able to put up an overview of the releases in two parts. The first covering the base game of Talisman, plus The Blood Moon and The Harbinger expansions, and the other concentrating on The Reaper, The Dragon, The City and The Woodland expansions!
Thanks again go out to Fan Boy Three of Manchester for hooking me up with the second batch of reprints after Coiledspring Games had kindly sorted me out with the first batch!
Talisman: Digital Edition at Nomad Games Talisman: The Horus Heresy at Nomad Games
You will probably have seen that each of the reprint boxes comes with a FREE bonus code for a copy of Talisman: Digital Edition from Nomad Games for the Steam digital platform for PC or Mac.
As I already have a copy of the game on Steam (and iOS!), I figured it would be a good idea to offer up the seven codes that I have spare to people as runner-up prizes so that more people can get an experience of the game.
The main prize will of course have a code inside, so the winner will actually end up two copies of Talisman for the price of… umm… none!
The Grim Reaper NPC was originally designed for the 4th Edition of Talisman from Black Industries by Alessio Cavatore, lately of River Horse Games, and was a surprisingly effective foe.
A prowling Werewolf NPC was designed on the watch of John Goodenough, which took advantage of the new Time card and Lycanthrope mechanics brought in with The Blood Moon expansion.
In more recent times, Samuel Bailey developed the Harbinger NPC, with his own unique set of special cards that can bring about the end of the Talisman world! I wonder if you can guess which expansion the Harbinger is from…
Of course, NPCs attracted the attention of fans of Talisman and a number have been made as homebrew additions to the game. I've even come up with a couple myself over the years, along with others like Lasse Brøgger who even sculpted and cast a miniature for his Toad King NPC, and then sculpted an Ice Queen for me!
The Ice Queen was made with The Frostmarch expansion in mind, and triggers whenever a card from that expansion is encountered. It does suffer a bit from deck dilution sadly, so it's best to play with only a couple of expansions in use.
After the veiled reference to the Lady of the Lake in The Sacred Pool expansion, I came up with an idea for the somewhat non-invasive The Lady NPC, whose mechanic is linked with Warlock Quests and giving special Favours to those that complete them.
The Toad King hops around the board chasing after characters who might cast Spells or acquire Magic Objects. He is vulnerable to big-footed adventurers however, though he can also turn you into a slimy toad if you are unlucky!
Though the images shown above are technically "creatures", they could also be the starting point for some interesting NPC interactions.
A Draconic Lord that can move about the board would be a particularly scary prospect, and there are many other encounters in the game, such as the Lord of Darkness from The Dungeon expansion and The Demon Lord Alternative Ending from The Sacred Pool expansion, that would be equally terrifying!
What might you come up with?
So, what do you need to do to be in with a chance of winning a copy of Talisman, either for your tabletop or your computer?
All you need to do is come up with an idea for an interesting NPC for use in Talisman, be it like any of the examples or suggestions above, or something completely new!
Don't worry, as you do not have to be adept in Photoshop Wizardry to enter! All you need to do is write up some blurb about your NPC, ideally with a little back story or some design notes about why you have chosen that particular theme.
You can of course send in a complete, print-ready expansion, but what matters most is the idea and story behind the NPC that you come up with.
You will need to send your entries, with a limit of two per person, to me via email using the link at the top right of this page, and please use the subject line NPC Design Competition so I can find them easily!
Postage will be covered by me worldwide for the boxed copy of Talisman, and codes for the digital version will be sent via email once winners have been chosen.
The closing date for the competition will be Friday, 29th December at 23:59pm (GMT), which gives me over the weekend to sort through everything and choose the winning entries.
Winners will be announced at some point on Friday, 5th January 2018, hopefully ensuring that the package won't get caught up in the Christmas post!
Good luck to everybody that enters the competition and I hope that all of you have a very Merry Christmas and a Peaceful New Year!
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Our first Chess Square One, designed for absolute beginners, children and their (grand)parents.
"I think our society would benefit in many ways if parents spent the time to teach their children chess. The bonding experience alone is amazing and the skills kids get from the game will help them in life. Plus their immediate schooling would be enhanced," Laura Sherman, Tampa, FL, author of Chess is Child's Play.
Chess Square One idea is this, it provides (grand)parents – even those who are not familiar with chess yet – with a simple and effective method (I developed for Kennesaw State University) for teaching their kids, plus free counseling and mentoring down the road!
This is a great way everybody spends some quality time together, family bonding and having fun. Think Family Game Night! Leave your digital devices alone for a short while and have some real good time together.
Tell your family and friends about this great (and free) opportunity to learn the basics of chess, the best game ever invented.
To promote chess and make it accessible to more people, we will be rotating places and times, covering north and northwest of metro Atlanta: Marietta, Kennesaw, Smyrna, Vinnings, Sandy Springs, Dunwoody, Roswell, Alpharetta (let me know if you may have in mind a specific place and time for organizing Chess Square One in your neighborhood!).
Good chess to you all!
What style of learning would be most effective for your child, student, resident, patient or loved one?
What physical, visual, motor or cognitive impairments are important to manage?
Would a therapeutic recreational activity enhance your care setting or lifestyle in some way?
What kinds of specialized training in cognition or memory care might interest you?
Are you curious about intergenerational learning opportunities?
As a sidenote, our Facebook community group, Intergenerational Learning, is worldwide, so we welcome you, your staff and volunteers to share ideas with us about social mentoring and group learning. We sincerely hope to continue building relationships together outside our region and look forward to future conversations.
The organizers are very new to the aging services community, but truly feel the wonderful game of chess can and will benefit families and groups. The game of chess is being unearthed in a new and balanced way to improve social interactions. Chess is being adapted to exploit metacognition (learning to learn) and situational analysis. As a result, family relationships may be strengthened and channels to personal growth developed. "Chess Therapy" as its been called builds on strong breakthrough energies as the power of the game becomes a gateway to understanding the natural world.
If you have a taste for intrigue, or learning about chess for the very first time (we hope you are), we encourage you to explore the game of chess through a Canadian television series released in 2011 called Endgame. Shown in the series as a set of "life lessons", we hope you enjoy Endgame as much as we have. The game's enduring principles have been handed down through tireless generations in search for what lies beneath the surface in so many aspects of our lives. This is a social mentoring program for creating intergenerational bonds that we feel are so important with an increasingly aging society that will soon be lost.
Through life's journey we may reflect on and refine our decisions. Life is a game, but not one of chance. It is a struggle for balance, simplicity, interdependence and goodwill. The process of learning the game of chess even still is experimental and is really a laboratory for learning the game of life. The endgame has no end in sight. Chess offers a lifetime of opportunity to learn, enjoy and teach this truly remarkable game.
The game of chess is being unearthed in a new and balanced way to improve social interactions.
A laboratory for learning awaits us here.
I've been offered a lot of encouragement from the staff at a nursing center and family members to continue to grow our community outreach. The center offers physical therapy and cares for patients who require a brief stay to recover from surgery. The center also offers long-term care for those experiencing memory, mobility or other physical challenges. Dedication and patience has been a key ingredient in working with these folks. We've taken a step back since publishing New Tricks in Their Final Stages last year discussing hospice care and have set some time aside to talk about some of the latest happenings with Chess Made Fun.
Family involvement is the cornerstone of what we bring to our community. Working with residents' families has been an inspiration without the need for setting mental goals and instead letting the process of learning chess unfold on its own. Participation has increased during the last several weeks and is more consistent that ever. Although we are "ginnie pigging" our experimentation with aging communities the time has been well spent and feel we are breaking some new ground here. Our activity director at the center has even gone so far as to say that she would like to see "bingo night" slowly phased out and replaced with games like chess that are more mentally stimulating than games of chance. She is discussing this idea with members of the National Council of Certified Activity Professionals (NCCAP) during their annual convention held in Virginia Beach, VA this year.
Although games like bingo are games of chance, Chess Made Fun stands by its purpose in making any activity fun and familiar and makes prizes or even tournament play an important aspect to keep interest in the games as high as we can. Mini-games like the Pawns Game allow everyone to win almost everyday! Inter-generational play is also made possible through the involvement of local chess clubs throughout Georgia. It so happens that one of our residents is a computer specialist and tutors special needs kids. One of his students is an aspiring chess player and wants to join in the fun working with the elderly at the nursing center.
We will continue to track participation and progress with our chess program and may even publish some relevant metrics should we decide to pursue further research in the area of recreation therapy.
I know a reputable chess instructor who would like to add at least one new chess coach to work four afternoons per week to assist with chess in after-school programs. Program times differ for each school, but only require being onsite each day for 1 1/2 hours.
The pay is weekly and private chess lessons will be offered to the person selected. Coaching candidates must be able to pass a school required background check and have experience working with groups of children. Strong communication skills are a must. These coaches must also be reliable. Chess afternoon programs are set by each school and typically are 20 weeks per year.
Please also pass along a resume and availability Monday – Friday. I will pass your information on to the chess instructor hiring for this position.
2010 was filled with emotion coming to grips with family members in risky health situations and even survival. My wife's mother was recovering from major back surgery, and her grandfather was holding on after being diagnosed with stage-4 lung cancer that year. Unfortunately, within a few months, Leonard passed away during the Christmas holidays, so this was a trying time for her family.
The following summer, after she had some time to grieve, we decided to take what we had learned coaching chess in after-school programs and bring it into the healthcare community on a volunteer basis. Compassionate Care Hospice had recently expanded its service offering in locations around the US to include many events and activities centered around individual patient interests. Lin Tatum, our volunteer coordinator in Atlanta, thought chess would be an excellent and fun way to engage her patients. Our first new friend who will go unnamed was 91 and quite with it! She played bingo and spoke a little. The hospice chaplain thought she would enjoy chess. The other reason is that the facility was GREAT and welcomed regular appointments with their patients. Another man we met was not be capable of playing chess on his own, however his wife really enjoyed playing and has been looking after her hubby for a long time. He had been diagnosed as a Cardiac patient. She told us, "you never know, you might get him on a good day and he could play!!!!
Another woman we met was AWESOME…She was 89 (you would never know) and resided at Freedom Point of Roswell, another great facility. Proper dress attire was required (a polo shirt and khakis). They were all about us looking NEAT. This was another good facility for us to get our foot in the door. We spoke with the Activity director about setting up a time for any of the residents to play… Finally, another woman, 84, was TERRIFIC…She loved to play Wii bowling and loves puzzles, so we knew she would be up for CHESS. She resided at Atria of Johnson Ferry which was again a great place for us to get into for other residents. Her daughter came around as she does sometimes.
Volunteering our time with Compassionate Care Hospice was a wonderful experience. We encourage you to try something new if you have already thought about doing something like this and have even included a volunteer application for their office in Atlanta, GA.
Depending upon each patient's individual needs and condition, holistic therapy can be quite beneficial. It can meet a wide range of patient needs, including emotional, spiritual, cognitive, social and physical. Holistic therapies can be just as, if not more, effective in relieving various forms of pain and discomfort than traditional methods.
With all of the chess literature developed through history and to date, any chess enthusiast knows there are countless resources available. It would seem that becoming a chess coach is an easy enough possibility. Becoming a chess coach with only basic knowledge of the game however can feel a bit more challenging. Warren and I had the honor and good fortune of meeting and working with Carolina Blanco. Carolina is a top women's international master and proved to be an invaluable asset for the training we desparately needed. For those of you interested in learning and coaching chess without a F.I.D.E. master in your telephone contact list — let's talk. Chess Made Fun finally found a tool that anyone can use without being overwhelmed with complex diagrams and games shown in what would appear to be some type of code: d4,e5 etc.
One month ago I opened in my hands for the first time ever a chess book written for the "Average Joe". Warren and I sat down immediately after reading through a single chapter. We repeated this process after each chapter. Instead of trying to teach chess all in one sitting, each chapter uses a new concept of teaching chess called "mini-games". This method seems so completely simple! Let me emphasize SIMPLE! Warren taught me to play chess in 2009. Since that time we have searched through hundreds of websites, hundreds of books or chess blogs determined to find something that we could use or understand. As it happened, we decided to stop searching and start developing our own materials. Well, as I have been told many times throughout my life when you stop searching for what you are looking for it will find its way to you. Once again, this rang true when we randomly connected with Laura Sherman through social media. It seems crazy that technology allows random paths to cross in our everyday world! (Ironically, that is how Warren and my paths crossed, and I am so grateful for that everyday)!
Laura just released a book called Chess is Child's Play written with Bill Kilpatrick. I encourage any person who would like to play chess with young or old minds to purchase this book. You too will be surprised how easy it is to learn and how easy it is to teach chess to anyone of any age!! Thank you Laura for writing our most cherished coaching tool yet! For you those of you who would like to learn more from the author who laid this golden egg, this is a quick video introduction to the book by Laura herself. Good luck Laura as your book sales take off! We look forward to purchasing these books for our local chess events soon!
Chess Is Child's Play is a book designed to teach parents how to teach very young kids to play chess. Laura Sherman is a freelance writer and chess coach. Together with her husband, Dan, she founded Your Chess Coach in Florida. They enjoy teaching dozens of children the wonders of chess!
Well, it's been just over a year since our last blog post. With the best of intentions the beat moves on. Everyday life is a thing of the past as I share new experiences with my wife in the Garden State. We moved from Atlanta, GA last fall to Southern New Jersey. To those of you here, Chess Made Fun is bringing chess to some of the newly explored locations along the Jersey Shore and wonderous outdoor parks!
Of course, what we're really about is making new friends along the way. We thought we would share with you some of the places we've visited this year.
We've put some time aside to practice play and to network through Facebook with a few volunteer groups since our move. We're getting back into full swing albeit a late start with summer activities already underway. Compared with the Southern US, outdoor activities seem to be more common with kids than adults. Community events however are very organized and we're enjoying the 'old world' culture and feel of farmers markets and large volunteer drives without the need for corporate sponsorship and promotion found in larger cities. Southern New Jersey seems like a great place to have landed to spread the word about what we're doing to help local communities.
Throughout the forest are rivers and streams for canoeing, hiking trails (including a major section of the Batona Trail), miles of unpaved roads for mountain biking, horseback riding plus numerous lakes, ponds and fields ideal for wildlife observation. Tent camping in family, primative and wilderneness.
Where do I start? Yvonne's parents were in a car accident on their way to West Georgia which is about a 45 minute accident-free drive. Thankfully we were sitting down to Easter lunch only two hours later – all passengers accounted for along with a car load of delicious food. Everyone meets at Yvonne's grandparent's house for most holidays. Arriving late is one of the family traditions began by none other than Yvonne's family. Yvonne and I have taken the #1 spot on the "will arrive late" list, so we normally arrive late in the 3rd quarter.
I'm new around here – to the area and to the family. I think I'm doing OK. My new aunt does not think of me as a "nephew in-law", nor does an estranged brother I've been lucky to see a couple of times. I told him last week he did a fantastic job power washing his grandparents deck. I thought it had been rebuilt from scratch.
My new aunt invited Yvonne and me to go camping this weekend with a large group of teenagers. I haven't done this since I was one myself. These kids are supposed to fend for themselves. They're not allowed to ask us for any camping supplies over the weekend. We'll also be riding horses in the Talladega National Forest. I never really learned to ride horses well and have always been a little scared of horses from a young age. My first experience was at age 7 in the mountains at Circle K Ranch outside Durango, Colorado. I did go back the following year – for the trout fishing and tug-of-war on the river that ran through our campground.
Safe & sound at our grandparent's house in West Georgia.
Back to Easter weekend. We eventually made our way to my wife's parents house to enjoy the rest of time we had. Her family lives near us throughout Atlanta and beyond. Traditions have been set down especially around the holidays. Traditions include a "friendly" game of family poker around a large table. If you consider a single lottery ticket I bought for my sister in 1992 when the lottery came to Texas, I could say that I've been lucky with games of chance – which chess is not.
Chess for the first time has given me the confidence to participate in the family fun. Aside from a "meeting of the minds" about everyday life, the game has also offered me one-on-one interaction with my father in-law – not an easy task with so much going on.
Warren and I are always looking for local chess events that we can attend. To our surprise there really aren't too many! There was a group that met at Barnes & Noble in Roswell. That group stopped a year ago. We noticed chess.com has partnered with meetup.com to create a national chess meetup day. We are excited to find an event located in our area!
Starbucks is only 10 minutes from our house. The sun was shining early, so we had all the makings for a good morning! It was a little cool. We shivered through it and enjoyed a few hours of playing chess. At one point we had as many as five games being played at once! I had the pleasure of playing Henry, Dave, and Krish and losing to each of them. I did have one victorious rematch. I noticed that everyone was sure to acknowledge they were beginners before starting a game. You could slowly start to see who has been playing chess for years! Chess tournaments can be extremely competitive. This relaxed atmosphere of casual chess games was a lot more enjoyable for me.
I personally enjoyed meeting local chess enthusiasts and would love to keep this group going. Does anyone have ideas of locations in the Kennesaw/Marietta area that might allow 10 – 20 players to play chess comfortably for a few hours? It sounds like we missed a few people unable to make it in the morning. Maybe we can meet one Saturday morning each month and one weekday evening a month to accommodate all schedules. Warren and I created a Chess Made Fun Facebook page. We will post chess events in our area. Be sure to click on the link and "Like" our page. We will send you invitations to all events so you do not miss out on an opportunity to get your brain workout!
For those of you who don't remember that cool April morning at Starbucks in 2011, take a close look at the pictures.


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When Yetunde Ogunje, a final-year student of the Ekiti State University, arrived Ado-Ekiti, capital of the state, three years ago, to resume at the institution, the first warming handed down to her by her uncle, Gbenga Adeseke, a lecturer at the school, was: "I congratulate you for being admitted to study a course of your dream, but I must warn you to beware of Yahoo Boys masquerading as children of the rich and the powerful on this campus, so that you won't end up becoming their pawn for money-making rituals."
The warning gave Yetunde the shock of her life as she had never heard of Internet scammers and fraudsters, commonly known in the local parlance as Yahoo Boys, being involved in voodoo.
In Lagos, where she grew up, she knew the Yahoo Boys as some smart Internet-savvy youngsters who outsmart gullible and/or greedy white women and men in search of fun or involved in some businesses that would bring massive interest on investment. She equally had identified the Yahoo Boys as those crazy youngsters who spent stupendously on ladies, ride very expensive cars, and lavish money on one another and the ladies in nightclubs and parties.
It never occurred to her that the smart guys had graduated from using their brains to using juju to make money. It is now called Yahoo Plus.
Yetunde said: "The Yahoo Boys who use girls for money-making rituals are real here in Ekiti. It appears that merely using their brains to cajole their white victims or some dubious moneybags no longer yields results. So, they have chosen other heinous ways to make huge money and this is, indeed, diabolical.
"I was curious about my uncle's warning. I had some friends who were into Yahoo business in Lagos and what they did was to take ladies out and spoil them silly.
"ut on getting to the campus here, I heard so many gory stories of pretty campus girls missing after going out at night. The bodies of such girls were found later without some sensitive parts such as v----a and breasts. Sometimes, their bodies were never found at all. They were victims of Yahoo Boys."
Funmilola Ojo, an undergraduate at the lkere College of Education, in Ikere Ekiti, is one of those who would have fallen victim of the rampaging Yahoo Plus boys, but for heeding the warnings from some friends on campus.
She said: "I am an outgoing person naturally and as such l like partying a lot. So, once I arrived on campus, I already had a mindset to indulge myself in partying and regular nightclubing. And I can tell you that there are many of such activities here in Ekiti.
"Although when you come to school from a bigger city such as Lagos, you are tempted to look down on Ekiti as a local place, where nothing really serious is happening in terms of social life, there are lots of fun places in Ado-Ekiti. The city bubbles at night because of the huge presence of Yahoo Boys.
"It does seem this is the headquarters of those boys in southwest Nigeria from my experience.
"So, when I started clubbing here, our friends, who already understood the terrain, gave us some tips on how to play safe.
"Asking too many questions from a rich Yahoo guy may land you in trouble as that gives him a warning signal that you might have had foreknowledge of what he really does and going to a club in a group of other girls may put you in safe company as this does not put you in lonely danger zone with a Yahoo Plus guy."
Recounting some ugly experiences on campus, Rosaline Agu, an undergraduate of Federal University, Oye-Ekiti, said: "We have had cases of some girls who were used by Yahoo Boys. We know of a lady who suddenly became ill after spending a few days with her Yahoo boyfriend. She eventually bled to death and people said she must have been used for money rituals.
"While there are many cases of girls missing and never found, there are also instances of those who were found dead in the bush or gutter, with sensitive parts of their body severed. Such body parts include their public hairs and breasts.
"There was the case of Mercy, a student of Ekiti State University, who was taken away by her rich guy and when she returned to campus two days later, she started vomiting blood and blood gushing from her nostrils. She was rushed to the hospital but she died. What many people could make out of that strange thing was that she was used by Yahoo Plus boys."
Saidi Adegbite, a secondary school teacher in Ekiti, told the reporter that the Yahoo Plus boys murder their victims in a most gruesome manner and harvest their blood or body parts. He recalled that some recent murders were speculated to have been carried out by Yahoo Plus boys.
Consider this: An old woman in Ajilosun, Ado Ekiti, a retiree from the old Ondo State civil service, Madam Akande, was found in a pool of blood, with her head smashed, by some church members and neighbours.
One of her daughters, who challenged the police to fish out the killers of her mother, said she suspected some Badoo or Yahoo Plus boys must have murdered her mother.
A 25-year-old mother of two, Kehinde Olomola, was on August 29, 2018, clubbed to death by a young man who had been making love advances towards her that she had reportedly rejected on a number of occasions on the ground that the man was involved in drug abuse.
A neighbour found Kehinde's lifeless body one early morning in her one-room apartment in Igede Ekiti community, Ifelodun/Irepodun Local Government Area of the state. Her torn underwear and an axe were found in the room suggesting that she must have been clubbed to death after being raped and beaten mercilessly in her struggle with her assailant.
Similarly, some young men suspected of indulging in money-making rituals have been seen running mad on the streets of the city.
In October 2018, one of such young men suspected to be involved in Yahoo Plus had gone to have his expensive car washed in Ado-Ekiti.
He was said to have dropped his car key for the car wash attendants, who were as usual awed by the beauty of the car and decided to step beyond their boundary by ransacking the luxurious vehicle. They eventually found the abominable in the booth of the car: It was a live tortoise allegedly emitting crisp naira notes.
However, the shocked car wash boys were said to have stuffed some of the naira notes into their pockets and carefully locked the booth. But then, some signals had been sent to the Yahoo Plus boy who rushed back from where he had gone, panting and demanding to get the car key and immediately made for the booth.
"On seeing the strange object in the booth of his car and the strange thing it was doing, the Yahoo boy went wild with regret, asking "Why did this happen to me?" He instantly became berserk and started removing his clothes and displaying other insane manners.
"That was because his money-making secret had been blown open," a witness said.
Yahoo Plus boys in Ekiti also do other appalling things to get rich. One of such is eating fresh human excreta.
A young man in his 30s said to be a cleric was caught consuming human excreta in the Odo-Ado area of Ado Ekiti on January 21.
An old woman who alleged that she saw the pastor feeding on the excrement raised the alarm, saying: "Everybody come. They have come again o. This one is eating poo. We have warned our people to stop open defecation but they would not listen. See this man; he is feeding on their excreta now."
The man was promptly apprehended by an irate mob and he was lynched. He was stripped Unclad and paraded around the town. Thereafter, they put a used tyre around his neck, poured fuel on him and set him ablaze before security agents arrived the scene.
Encounter with Ekiti Yahoo Plus boys
The reporter was on an official trip to Osun State to cover the last governorship election. He had boarded a commercial bus that evening and found himself among some young men in the uniforms of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC).
In a chat, one of them said: "With this iPhone, I make millions every hour. I have my laptop in my bag. I am doing the NYSC in Ekiti but I don't ever teach at the school that is my place of primary assignment. I am a big boy. I ride Honda Evil Spirit and I have other cars such as Muscle Camry. I don't downgrade myself following some corrupt politicians who will promise heaven and earth to their foolish supporters only to get there and become unreachable and unapproachable.
"I am a big boy. Once I have a tortoise or some object from my Baba under my laptop, whatever command I give to those white folks is promptly obeyed and I rake in millions of naira into my many accounts. I only pretend to be a small boy when I come to sign at my place of primary assignment in Ekiti. Back in Oshogbo, I am a big boy and my parents are happy with me."
Determined to get more information from him and two others who joined the discussion, the reporter said: "But using juju to make money is evil and has consequences." He replied: "Yahoo Boys don't use juju to harm anyone. We only use what we have to retrieve the wealth of Africa the white men took when they colonised our forefathers. We are taking those things from them. When we were using our brains to take it, they got smarter over time and no longer fell for our tricks but now, except you have no human blood in your veins, my juju and incantations from the spirits must capture you for me."
Herbalist's view
It was learnt that some herbalists are usually consulted by Yahoo Plus boys to make juju that hypnotise their victims on the Internet. So, Daily Sun decided to investigate the veracity of the claims by visiting some herbalists.
For Chief Odofin Oluwo, he knows that Yahoo boys consult some of his colleagues who are fond of doing juju charms for them but he has never done it for anyone as his spiritual powers are not meant for such evil. He, however, narrated the encounters that some of his colleagues have had with Yahoo boys.
His words: "I recall an encounter a colleague of mine who used to be involved in such practices had with a certain Yahoo Plus boy whom he had requested to bring a lady that could be used for money rituals.
"The requirement, according to him, was that such a lady must possess some spiritual fortunes such as a bright future, which could be manipulated through diabolical means in favour of the Yahoo boy. Once such a lady is found, she would be used and the Yahoo boy would have to continue to take good care of her. The consequences for the lady is that she would never be able to have success or breakthrough in any of her endeavours in life as those fortunes have been converted to the Yahoo boy's fortune who may end up marrying her or sending her away with a huge amount of money to fix her life.
"Such ladies who fall victim would end up not being able to give birth to a child or she would nurse a strange sickness throughout her lifetime.
"The way the Yahoo boys do this is to introduce the lady to the herbalist who normally would disguise as a friend or relative of the boy and, over time, administer some concoction or the other on the girl to cure some ailment such as menstrual pains or other common ailments for ladies.
"I feel so sad for ladies in Ekiti because one day my friend and colleague told me that there was a certain boy who was instructed by the herbalist to bring one of his girlfriends for such rituals. It happened that the boy had to bring up to 25 girls who were undergraduates for the money-making ritual but none of the girls qualified for the rituals because the herbalist found out that they had all been already used by some other Yahoo Plus boys who earlier dated them.
"Eventually, it was about the 26th or 27th girl the boy brought that qualified for the ritual, to show you how many young greedy girls have ruined their lives in Ekiti with their relationships with Yahoo boys."
Responding to the issue of prevalence of Internet fraudsters in Ekiti, the state police public relations officer, Mr. Caleb Nwachukwu, said: "When you say that Yahoo-Yahoo boys are everywhere, how can the police know, when not informed, because we are not spirits.
"One of such cases on ritualists that we have caught, like you said, was in Odo-Ekiti, where we busted a shrine of suspected ritualists in their den. We can actually link that to money swindlers and we can say such people are fraudsters.
"But I want to urge members of the public to be very careful and be contented with what they have. It is when you are greedy that you can easily be duped or defrauded. We also wish to advise bank managers to ensure that they screen anyone they are hiring to man their use of technology for banking very well before hiring them. Customers of banks too should be very careful not to give out details of their banking activities such as their password and all that. What I can confidently say is that the police do not just go after some people. It doesn't mean that we can't work on suspected cases. If anyone reports cases of fraud to us, the police will investigate. And if such a case is one that doesn't fall within our purview, we will refer such case to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission and the ICPC. There is a synergy between the sister organisations and this is being done to ensure effective and efficient security operations."
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with what i am seeing,few of this incidents,are clearly pointing to the activities of cultist
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Hollywood, 1929. Sly-as-a-fox talent agent Manny Weisenberg has got a problem. Several. His biggest client, Bob "Whiplash" McCord -- a British classical actor trapped playing a silent cowboy hero -- wants out of his contract. Manny's girlfriend Cherie, an aspiring actress, wants out of LA. And local gangster Joey Bananas wants to break Manny's legs for default of certain debts. Manny's solution is to create the greatest seaside pageant ever seen: "The Marriage of Miss Hollywood and King Neptune." A screwball comedy a la Kaufman and Hart, set against the backdrop of early Hollywood and classic LA political corruption.
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RESULTS: The dominant bacterial composition did not remain constant over the different intake periods. Compared with baseline, the daily consumption of red wine polyphenol for 4 wk significantly increased the number of Enterococcus, Prevotella, Bacteroides, Bifidobacterium, Bacteroides uniformis, Eggerthella lenta, and Blautia coccoides-Eubacterium rectale groups (P < 0.05). In parallel, systolic and diastolic blood pressures and triglyceride, total cholesterol, HDL cholesterol, and C-reactive protein concentrations decreased significantly (P < 0.05). Moreover, changes in cholesterol and C-reactive protein concentrations were linked to changes in the bifidobacteria number.
CONCLUSION: This study showed that red wine consumption can significantly modulate the growth of select gut microbiota in humans, which suggests possible prebiotic benefits associated with the inclusion of red wine polyphenols in the diet.
Extensive research within the last decade has revealed that most chronic illnesses such as cancer, cardiovascular and pulmonary diseases, neurological diseases, diabetes, and autoimmune diseases exhibit dysregulation of multiple cell signaling pathways that have been linked to inflammation. Thus mono-targeted therapies developed for the last two decades for these diseases have proven to be unsafe, ineffective and expensive. Although fruits and vegetables are regarded to have therapeutic potential against chronic illnesses, neither their active component nor the mechanism of action is well understood. Resveratrol (trans-3, 5, 4'-trihydroxystilbene), a component of grapes, berries, peanuts and other traditional medicines, is one such polyphenol that has been shown to mediate its effects through modulation of many different pathways. This stilbene has been shown to bind to numerous cell-signaling molecules such as multi drug resistance protein, topoisomerase II, aromatase, DNA polymerase, estrogen receptors, tubulin and F1-ATPase. Resveratrol has also been shown to activate various transcription factor (e.g; NFkappaB, STAT3, HIF-1alpha, beta-catenin and PPAR-gamma), suppress the expression of antiapoptotic gene products (e.g; Bcl-2, Bcl-X(L), XIAP and survivin), inhibit protein kinases (e.g; src, PI3K, JNK, and AKT), induce antioxidant enzymes (e,g; catalase, superoxide dismutase and hemoxygenase-1), suppress the expression of inflammatory biomarkers (e.g., TNF, COX-2, iNOS, and CRP), inhibit the expression of angiogenic and metastatic gene products (e.g., MMPs, VEGF, cathepsin D, and ICAM-1), and modulate cell cycle regulatory genes (e.g., p53, Rb, PTEN, cyclins and CDKs). Numerous animal studies have demonstrated that this polyphenol holds promise against numerous age-associated diseases including cancer, diabetes, Alzheimer, cardiovascular and pulmonary diseases. In view of these studies, resveratrol's prospects for use in the clinics are rapidly accelerating. Efforts are also underway to improve its activity in vivo through structural modification and reformulation. Our review describes various targets of resveratrol and their therapeutic potential.
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CONCLUSIONS: More intervention studies are needed to provide further evidence of the health-protective effects of wine proanthocyanidins.


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using System;
using System.IO;
using System.Runtime.CompilerServices;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
using TWCore.Serialization;
// ReSharper disable EventNeverSubscribedTo.Global

namespace TWCore.IO
{
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    /// </summary>
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    {
        private readonly object _locker = new object();
        private FileSystemWatcher _fwatcher;
        private T _instance;
        private Guid _id = Guid.Empty;

        #region Properties
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        #region Events
        /// <summary>
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        /// </summary>
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        /// <summary>
        /// Event fired when an exception occurs
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        #region .ctor
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        public FileObject(string filePath, ISerializer serializer = null)
        {
            FilePath = filePath;
            Serializer = serializer ?? new XmlTextSerializer();
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        ~FileObject()
        {
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        /// Load configuration file instance
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        [MethodImpl(MethodImplOptions.AggressiveInlining)]
        public void LoadConfig()
        {
            lock (_locker)
            {
                var currentPath = Path.GetDirectoryName(AppContext.BaseDirectory);
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                    _instance = Activator.CreateInstance<T>();
                    _id = Guid.NewGuid();
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        /// Save the current object instance to disk
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        public void Save()
        {
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                _fwatcher.EnableRaisingEvents = false;
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                            fpath = FilePath + fExt + Serializer.Compressor.FileExtension;
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                if (!exist) return false;
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        /// Creates a new file watcher
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        private FileSystemWatcher CreateWatcher()
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            var watcher = new FileSystemWatcher
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            };
            // Add event handlers.
            watcher.Changed += OnFileWatcherChanged;
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            // Begin watching.
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        {
            try
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                var watchException = e.GetException();
                OnException?.Invoke(this, new EventArgs<Exception>(watchException));
                FileObjectEvents.FireException(this, watchException);
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                {
                    if (fw is null) return;
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                        nWatcher = CreateWatcher();
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                    catch
                    {
                        await Task.Delay(500).ConfigureAwait(false);
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            catch (Exception ex)
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                Core.Log.Write(ex);
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        {
            lock (this)
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}

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Design may focus on the big picture. But this week architect and designer Kaja Skytte has directed the focus towards some of the basic components of design: how parts connect, how one part connects to another. Dealing with these smaller components, students may immerse themselves in studies of materials and not necessarily think of function or context. As a result the pictures show some rather personal experiments – being but experiments.
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Is Music Neutral?
Why Do We Worship on Sunday?
Published by admin Published at February 26, 2017
Criswell Tabernacle Is Music Neutral
The answer is "NO!"
In fact, music influences and manipulates us more than we know.
And when we refer to music, we are referring to the score or composition and not the lyrics.
Music affects the human body in subtle, but powerful ways.
A well established fact is the human body and mind can be controlled and altered with music. Many scientific and medical studies have proved conclusively the tremendous effects of music upon the human physiology and anatomy. Music is used to lower blood pressure, treat mental illness, depression, mental retardation, insomnia and many others.
Musicologist Julius Portnoy found that not only can music, "change metabolism, affect muscular energy, raise or lower blood pressure, and influence digestion," but "It may be able to do all these things more successfully … than any other stimulants that produce those changes in our bodies." (Tame, David, The Secret Power of Music, p. 138).
Clinical researchers at the U.C.L.A. School of Nursing in Los Angeles, and at Georgia Baptist Medical Center in Atlanta, found that premature babies gained weight faster and were able to use oxygen more efficiently when they listened to soothing music.
At Baltimore's St. Agnes Hospital, classical music was provided in the critical-care units. "Half an hour of music produced the same effect as ten milligrams of Valium," says Dr. Raymond Bahr, head of the coronary-care unit.
The great pianist and composer of the 1800's, Frederic Chopin, at the age of ten, was often summoned to play for the Grand Duke Constantine, governor of Poland. The Duke had recurring seizures of madness which could seemingly be controlled only by Chopin's music. When the little boy played, the seizures abated and the governor could resume his normal activities, only to send for Chopin again when the musical medicine wore off.
How does music help? Some studies show it can lower blood pressure, basal-metabolism and respiration rates, thus lessening physiological responses to stress. Other studies suggest music may help increase production of endorphins (natural pain relievers) and S- IgA (Salivary immunoglobulin A). S-IgA speeds healing, reduces the danger of infections, and controls the heart rate. Studies indicate both hemispheres of the brain are involved in processing music. Dr. Sacks explains, "The neurological basis of musical responses is robust and may even survive damage to both hemispheres" ("Music's Surprising Power to Heal," 8/92 Reader's Digest).
"To the question, 'Does music affect man's physical body?' modern research applies in the clear affirmative. There is scarcely a single function of the body which cannot be affected by musical tones. The roots of the auditory nerves are more widely distributed and possess more extensive connections than those of any other nerves in the body. Investigation has shown that music affects digestion, internal secretions, circulation, nutrition and respiration. Even neural networks of the brain have been found to be sensitive to harmonic principles" (Tame, David, The Secret Power of Music, p. 136).
Music can also be dangerous to the body.
Dr. Adam Knieste, a musicologist who studies the effects of music upon people noted:
"It's really a powerful drug. Music can POISON you, lift your spirits, or MAKE YOU SICK without knowing why." (Family Weekly Magazine, January 30, 1983, p. 12, article by David Chagall)
Rock music can literally kill.
The view that music is amoral or neutral with no inherent power to effect is completely proven false by extensive research performed on plant life. Rock music, with it's hard driving beat, played to plants will kill the plants – while soothing classical music causes the plants to grow twice as fast.
"Paradoxical as it may seem, music's effect upon the more primitive vegetable kingdom is one of the most convincing methods of all for proving that music does affect life, including human life. For experiments conducted with humans, and even, to some extent, with animals, have the extra factor of the mind to contend with. This means that while men or animals may be demonstrated to have been affected by tones, the effect may not have been a direct or objective one. Rather, the effect upon the body may have been caused by the mind's subjective reaction to the music heard. In the case of plant-music research, however, psychological factors cannot really be said to be present. If music can be shown to affect plants, then such effects have to be due to the objective influence of the tones directly upon the cells and processes of the life-form."
"An intensive series of studies carried out by Dorothy Retallack of Denver, Colorado, demonstrated the effects of different kinds of music on a variety of household plants. The experiments were controlled under strict scientific conditions, and the plants were kept within large closed cabinets on wheels in which light, temperature and air were automatically regulated. Three hours a day of acid rock, played through a loudspeaker at the side of the cabinet, was found to stunt and damage squash plants, philodendrons and corn in under four weeks. Mrs Retallack played the music of the two different Denver radio stations to two groups of petunias. The radio stations were KIMN (a rock station) and KLIR (a semiclassical station). The Denver Post reported:
'The petunias listening to KIMN refused to bloom. Those on KLIR developed six beautiful blooms. By the end of the second week, the KIMN petunias were LEANING AWAY from the radio and showing very erratic growth. The petunia blooms hearing KLIR were all leaning TOWARD THE SOUND. Within a month all plants exposed to rock music DIED.
In another experiment, conducted over three weeks, Dorothy Retallack played the music of Led Zeppelin and Vanilla Fudge to one group of beans, squash (marrow), corn, morning glory and coleus; she also played contemporary avant-garde atonal music to a second group; and, as a control, played nothing to a third group. Within ten days, the plants exposed to Led Zeppelin and Vanilla Fudge were all LEANING AWAY FROM THE SPEAKER. After three weeks they were stunted and DYING. The beans exposed to the 'new music' leaned 15 degrees from the speaker and were found to have middle- sized roots. The plants left in silence had the longest roots and grew the highest. Further, it was discovered that plants to which placid, devotional music was played not only grew two inches taller than plants left in silence, but also leaned TOWARDS THE SPEAKER. (Tame, David, The Secret Power of Music, p. 142 – 144)
All the plants that were next to the rock music – LEANED AWAY FROM THE SPEAKERS – trying to get away from the music! And to show that it was not just the noise itself – the plants next to the classical music – LEANED TOWARD THE SPEAKERS – actually trying to get closer to the music.
In the end – ALL the plants next to the rock music – DIED!
Do you still think music is neutral?
Rock music, not the lyrics – JUST THE MUSIC, has been scientifically proven to literally KILL!
And some Christians actually believe that the giver of LIFE – the Lord Jesus Christ is the author and god of "rock and roll"! The One that made the plants and LIFE itself is the author of a killer – Rock music! What could be more ridiculous!
The Lord Jesus Christ said in John 10:10, ". . . The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to KILL, and to destroy: I am come that they might have LIFE, and that they might have it more abundantly."
John 14:6, says "Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the LIFE: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me."
And Christian rocker Larry Norman expects you to take him seriously when he falsely claims "rock music comes from God through the church". (Hart, Lowell, Satan's Music Exposed, Salem Kirban Inc., 1980 p.20)
Christian rock band Petra has the gall to sing "God Gave Rock and Roll to You".
If you love the sound
And don't forget the source…
you can love the rock
and let it free your soul
God gave Rock and roll to you
Gave Rock and Roll to you
Put it in the soul of everyone
Is music neutral – Absolutely Not!
Music by the arrangement of rhythms, tones and harmonics can have deadly effects! David Tame writes in The Secret Power of Music:
"In conclusion, we can say that insofar as the physical body is concerned, the notion that music has no effect upon man, or that all music is harmless, is absolutely in error." (Tame, David, The Secret Power of Music, p.141).
Rock music can literally cook an egg!
Drs. Earl W. Flosdorf and Leslie A. Chambers found in a series of experiments that shrill sounds projected into a liquid media coagulated proteins. A recent teenage fad was that of taking soft eggs to rock concerts and placing them at the foot of the stage. Midway through the concert the eggs could be eaten hard-boiled as a result of the music. Amazingly few rock fans wondered what that same music might do to their bodies. (Larson, Bob, The Day Music Died, p.116)
If music is neutral – how is it that certain music can literally break glass!
Bob Larson writes in The Day Music Died:
Perhaps you have seen the demonstration of the breaking of a glass by synchronizing high frequency vibrations with the vibrations of the chemical combination of the molecules in the glass. This in a word picture is what may happen physiologically to the human body when dancing frantically to rock music. (Larson, Bob, The Day Music Died, p.124)
Music has a profound effect upon the mind…
One of the most frightening display of the awesome power of music upon the human brain occurred in the conversion of Patty Hearst. In February, 1974, Patty Hearst was kidnapped by the Symbionese Liberation Army. But shortly after the kidnapping, Patty is helping the SLA rob banks. You wonder how they converted her? Dr. William Sargant, Britain's foremost expert on brainwashing examined Patty Hearst. Here's his alarming conclusion from Newsweek magazine, February 16, 1976, (p. 24):
"…she was an unwilling victim of a "FORCED CONVERSION" or brainwashing. According to Sargant, a person whose nervous system is under constant pressure can "inhibit" and "exhibit paradoxical brain activity – bad becomes good and vice versa." And that, Sargant argues, is precisely what happened to Patty… Her nervous system was kept at maximum stress by the continual playing of loud ROCK MUSIC." (Newsweek, February 16, 1976 p. 24)
Not the LYRICS! Not the WORDS! But simply the MUSIC!
"Music is used everywhere to condition the human mind. It can be just as powerful as a drug and much more dangerous, because nobody takes musical manipulation very seriously." (Family Weekly, January 30, 1983, p. 15)
"…music is more than a language. It is the language of languages. It can be said that of all the arts, there is… none other that more powerfully moves and changes the consciousness." (Tame, David, The Secret Power of Music, p.151)
Dr. Howard Hanson, of the of the famous Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester, and one of the greatest authorities on music, stated:
"Music is a curiously subtle art with innumerable, varying emotional connotations. It is made up of many ingredients and, according to the proportions of those components, it can be soothing or invigorating, ennobling or vulgarizing, philosophical or orgiastic. It has POWERS FOR EVIL as well as for good." (The American Journal of Psychiatry, vol. 99, p. 317)
But isn't music just notes and chords, etc.? How can notes be "bad" or "good"?
Tim Fisher, former music professor, and founder of Sacred Music Services, gives this excellent analogy in his book, The Battle for Christian Music:
"Perhaps some of you are asking yourselves the question, But how can a musical note be inherently good or bad? Aren't notes just a matter of pitch variation, tonal vibration, compressions and decompressions of air? Those are fair questions. Let's look at this more closely. Years ago I heard a tape of a man who was defending the neutrality of music in a public service. He walked over to the piano and played a C major chord. Then, he asked the audience if it was a good C major chord or an evil C major chord. After some scattered laughter, he said 'See, there's no such thing as good or evil music,' He made a rather obvious mistake, however, in his reasoning: a C major chord isn't music! It is a building block of music-and there's a big difference."
"Take the English language, for example. If I write the letter 'e', is that a good 'e' or a bad 'e'? Neither. As a building block of the English language it is a neutral entity. However, I as a creative writer can put that letter in conjunction with other letters and communicate something like…Praise the Lord…or I hate God.
"In both of the above usages I have taken neutral letters and put them together to communicate something to you. However, what I have communicated is definitely not neutral, and my intent is clearly conveyed. "(Fisher, Tim The Battle for Christian Music, pp 60-61)
Lowell Hart in his book, Satan's Music Exposed, writes of the following experiment:
"The unsuspecting "guinea- pigs" were a teenage boy and girl. They had never met previously and were completely unaware of any strange happenings. Unfortunately for them, as they sat getting acquainted in a cozy "private" room with soft music playing in the background, their reactions were being observed and recorded. When classical music and soft ballads were piped into the room they talked and were friendly, but somewhat aloof. When pop music and jazz were played they quickly developed a much "friendlier" attitude and began to hold hands and put their arms around each other. When the music changed back to classical and ballads they would again become more formal and reserved. If the music would swing back to the jazz and pop music "their formality would give way to familiarity."(Hart, Lowell, Satan's Music Exposed, p.63)
Highly-respected, Professor Alan Bloom, professor of social thought at the University of Chicago, who has also taught at Yale, the University of Paris, the University of Toronto, Cornell and many other schools, writes in his best-selling book, The Closing of the American Mind:
"Nothing is more singular about this generation than its ADDICTION to music. . . It is their passion; nothing else excites them as it does; they cannot take seriously anything alien to music. . . I suspect that the rock addiction, particularly in the absence of strong counter attractions, has an effect similar to that of drugs." (Bloom, Alan, The Closing of the American Mind, pp 68…81)
Another "proof" of the effects of music on a person is the billion dollar industry called Muzak or "moodsongs". Muzak is the "mood music" that is piped into stores, airports, doctor offices, et. al. in order to "create an atmosphere". The book, Elevator Music by Joseph Lanza, tells the history of Muzak and other moodsongs. Lanza describes an episode at the Hilton in Las Vegas when rock music was used as the "moodsong". And because of the rock music customers experienced petit mal seizures! Lanza writes, "A doctor friend, a psychiatrist, later told me that kind of pulsation might create problems. I've gone into markets, telling them they are killing their business with high-speed rock." (Lanza, Joseph, Elevator Music, p.142)
Lanza also states, "Some background music has been known to induce musicogenic epilepsy, triggering a chemical brain reaction that elicits thoughts of suicide or murder…doctors had documented seventy-six similar cases." (Lanza, Joseph, Elevator Music, p.194)
Lanza also makes this startling statement:
"…music designed to soothe can be altered to TORMENT…" (Lanza, Joseph, Elevator Music, p.196)
It's worth noting, that we are not talking about "lyrics" but simply the instrumental music.
Rock music has been proven to obstruct the brain's ability to think!
In 1978, a California music therapist, investigating the effects of rock music on teenagers, administered to 240 school children aged 10-18 an emotional stability test during which rock was being played. The results were then examined by a psychologist who was unaware of the experiment. He concluded that the test had been given in a mental institution. (Hart, Lowell, Satan's Music Exposed, p.101)
Is this one of the reasons, since the 1960's, when rock music began "taking over", our education system has been a disaster? Despite spending billions and billions of tax payers dollars on our education system – we can no longer teach the average young person even simple reading and arithmetic!
The Bible clearly teaches music is NOT neutral!
Anyone who has read 1 Samuel 16 knows that music is not neutral. Even back during the time of Saul (around 1079 B.C.) they knew the power of music. When the "evil spirit from the Lord" began troubling Saul – it wasn't a doctor or soothsayer they called – but a musician! David! They knew music had inherent powers! They knew music wasn't neutral!
14 But the spirit of the LORD departed from Saul, and an evil spirit from the LORD troubled him.
15 And Saul's servants said unto him, Behold now, an evil spirit from God troubleth thee.
16 Let our lord now command thy servants, which are before thee, to seek out a man, who is a cunning player on a harp: and it shall come to pass, when the evil spirit from God is upon thee, that he shall play with his hand, and thou shalt be well.
17 And Saul said unto his servants, Provide me now a man that can play well, and bring him to me.
18 Then answered one of the servants, and said, Behold, I have seen a son of Jesse the Bethlehemite, that is cunning in playing, and a mighty valiant man, and a man of war, and prudent in matters, and a comely person, and the LORD is with him…
23 And it came to pass, when the evil spirit from God was upon Saul, that David took an harp, and played with his hand: so Saul was refreshed, and was well, and the evil spirit departed from him.
Who that has ever read 2 Chronicles 5 could ever believe that the Lord thought music was neutral? At the sound of music – the glory of God was so strong the priests could not even stand "for the glory of the LORD had filled the house of God."
13 It came even to pass, as the trumpeters and singers were as one, to make one sound to be heard in praising and thanking the LORD; and when they lifted up their voice with the trumpets and cymbals and instruments of music, and praised the LORD, saying, For he is good; for his mercy endureth for ever: that then the house was filled with a cloud, even the house of the LORD;
14 So that the priests could not stand to minister by reason of the cloud: for the glory of the LORD had filled the house of God. (2 Chronicles 5:13-14)
The Apostle Paul clearly taught in 1 Corinthians 14 that certain sound, by themselves, had meaning and are not neutral.
7 And even things without life giving sound, whether pipe or harp, except they give a distinction in the sounds, how shall it be known what is piped or harped?
8 For if the trumpet gives an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself to the battle? (1 Corinthians 14:7-8)
Let there be no doubt… Music is not neutral. It has never been neutral nor ever will be neutral.
Anyone who suggests music is neutral goes against all known disciplines of science, musicology, academics, medicine, physiology and the word of God.
"Like human nature itself, music CANNOT POSSIBLY BE NEUTRAL in its spiritual direction … ultimately all uses of tone and all musical lyrics can be classified according to their spiritual direction, upward or downward. … To put it plainly, music tends to be of either the darkness or of the light. (Tame, David, The Secret Power of Music, 1984 p.187).
Neil Postman, professor of communication arts and sciences at New York University and a highly respected critic, educator, sociologist, and communication theorist who has written more than fifteen book states point-blank, in his book, Amusing Ourselves to Death:
"To maintain that technology [music] is neutral… is… stupidity plain and simple." (Postman, Neil, Amusing Ourselves to Death, p. 157)
Dr. Schoen, writes in The Psychology of Music:
"Music is the most powerful stimulus known among the perceptive senses. The medical, psychiatric and other evidence for the non-neutrality of music is so overwhelming that it frankly amazes me that anyone should seriously say otherwise."
Tim Fisher writes in The Battle for Christian Music:
"It is almost impossible to overstate the absurdity of the claim that music is neutral, amoral, or void of communication by itself. . . Those who have looked beyond the current music publications know that no one has ever taken the position that music is neutral except for Christians in the last twenty-five years who are trying to justify bringing rock into the church."(Fisher, Tim, The Battle for Christian Music, pp.52…56)
Dr Alfred B. Smith, author of many hymns and choruses including the chorus, "For God So Loved The World" and editor of Living Hymns states:
"Some would have us believe that all music is a-moral and that it is only the words that make it Christian or not. I beg to differ with this philosophy!…music in itself is a language which can capture and control the very thoughts and actions of an individual, a crowd, or a nation. It is the fountainhead for good or for evil! As one must be discerning in the device of their friends and their food for a happy and healthy life … so we must be careful and prayerful in the music we chose to listen to or sing." (Hart, Lowell, Satan's Music Exposed, foreword)
In his famous work Laws, Plato could have been writing about Christians and their foolish insistence that music is neutral in order to justify their love for wicked rock music.
"Through foolishness they, the people, DECEIVED THEMSELVES into thinking that there was no right or wrong in music that it was to be judged good or bad by the pleasure it gave." (Plato, Laws as quoted by Tame, David, The Secret Power of Music, p. 189)
It's important to note, that musicologist, David Tame, who shows no sign of being a Christian, makes these alarming statements:
"More than any other form of the misuse of sound, it is rock with which we must deal today. … It is a global phenomenon; a pounding, pounding destructive beat which is heard from America and Western Europe to Africa and Asia. Its effect upon the soul is to make nigh-impossible the true inner silence and peace necessary for the contemplation of eternal verities. … How necessary is it in this age for some to have the courage to be the ones who are 'different' and TO SEPARATE themselves out from the pack who long ago sold their lives and personalities to this sound. . . I adamantly believe that rock in all its forms is a critical problem which our civilization must get to grips. . . if it wishes long to survive" (Tame, David, The Secret Power of Music, 1984 p. 204).
IS MUSIC NEUTRAL? NO!
Not according to EVERY serious scientific, medical, physiological and psychiatric research known. Not according to EVERY serious musicologist.Not according to the word of God.


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Why Would a Pro Bodybuilder Need a Personal Trainer?
By Andy Bruchey – One question I get as a longtime trainer and gym owner, is why a professional bodybuilder would need a personal trainer. It's a fair enough question, and a rather logical one at that. The premise of the inquisitor is that bodybuilders, especially the professionals, have been working out for such a long time, that they should know what they're doing by now. The honest answer to this is that of course they know what they are doing, but that's not any kind of a reason for them to discard their trainers. Based upon that same intuitive logic, one could ponder why an elite professional golfer such as Tiger Woods would have a swing coach when you consider how many hundreds of thousands of times that man has swung a golf club throughout his life. Tom Brady could be quizzed as well, as to why he has a throwing coach, considering how many times he has successfully thrown a football over the years.
There are many reasons why a professional bodybuilder would hire a personal trainer. One such reason, is that the trainer, if they are a quality, top notch, and experienced one, can offer insights about certain techniques that should be employed on certain exercises, based upon observation of the trainee's posture, gate, form, and so on. Sure, a pro bodybuilder knows how to do a bicep curl, for example, but if I asked them to take a more medial grip when curling so as to put more of a concentration on the lateral heads of the biceps, as I know they personally are overly tight there, and have remedied the problem previously through myofacial release techniques, they would be able to get more growth on that side of the muscle than previously possible as the muscle is now elongated and the trainee is able to recruit more muscle fibers when performing the exercise. That's one example of how I prove my professional worth.
Another reason for a professional bodybuilder to employ a personal trainer is less technical, but much more intuitive. It's an extra set of eyes. It's one thing to be able to read imbalances on a body, fix them, and help the client grow more muscle as a result, but it's also a lot simpler than that sometimes. If I see a client, pro bodybuilder or housewife, it is irrelevant, shrugging while doing the reps of the aforementioned bicep curls, I can point that out, as the client may be focused solely on the rep count, or even just the burning sensation within the muscles, and may have lost focus on the form we are wanting to use.
A huge part of what I do as a longtime personal trainer in Austin, is not only read a client's imbalances, remedy them, and of course, guide them through individualized workouts, but also guide them through nutrition. A lot of professional bodybuilders have nutritionists to help them through their contest prep diets, but I've always believed a personal trainer should be thoroughly knowledgeable in that area as well. Personal trainers, like any profession one could name, has it's share of good ones and bad ones. Obviously it would go without saying that an accomplished, professional bodybuilder would have no interest in the stereotypical personal trainer working at a big box gym with 6 months experience under their belts. Just the same, you aren't overly likely to hire a cook at a fast food joint to whip up an amazing 6 course gourmet meal either. Not that it is impossible in every case, but it's simply rather unlikely.
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Another reason a professional bodybuilder would work with a personal trainer, is to get an extra push. When you are working out as hard as they need to, and pushing your body to the limit in so many ways, from dieting, to supplements, the weight training, as well as the necessary cardio, it's easy to allow yourself a bit of a reprieve, and coast from time to time. A good, experienced personal trainer will have an exceptional rapport with his or her clients, and therefore be influential in helping motivate their client when the client is looking to back off a little too much, as far as intensity goes. A great trainer will understand not only the client's mindset, but also their body as well, so their limits won't be exceeded, which is when it's far more likely that the client will incur an injury. If a bodybuilder tears a muscle or any of their connective tissue, it's game over. Therefore, the relationship between trainer and trainee, whether they are a newcomer to fitness or a professional bodybuilder looking to take a Sandow, is based upon well earned respect and trust. This way, everyone wins in the end.


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