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"Just quit, baby!" still teaches the value of quitting to MultiPodMotivator!
Cellan Jay's article "Just quit, baby!" is yellowed and dog eared. It's been stuck to my fridge and every one I've owned or rented for the last 20 years. This nugget of wisdom read over and over resets my priorities when distractions steer me off course. At the time, I felt like I had found a kindred spirit. But now I realize it was my first encounter with a MultiPod!
I arrived back to find the reception desk vacant. My co worker had absconded after promising to cover while I was in HR. A section of the Globe and Mail was left open on the switchboard. The headline "Just quit, baby!" caught my eye. Flashing pinpricks of light highlighted an illustration through the newsprint of a girl holding her nose midair as she descended into a pool of hot pink water. "Oh you're back", my co worker sang. "Yeah!", I said grabbing the paper. "Hey!", she called. "I need another 10 more minutes!", I said running to the bathroom for privacy.
But, the real advantage to working "temp" was having access to a computer. Between answering phones and other duties, I'd be faxing resumes to keep in the "film loop" and get waitressing gigs on the weekends for corporate functions. I was always active creating income streams and enjoying the freedom of working in different environments doing a variety of tasks. But sometimes I wondered what a 9 to 5 job would be like?
So, I applied to the advertising agency as a Junior Secretary thinking regular hours and a steady pay cheque would alleviate the stress of always looking for work. I also wanted an opportunity to one day hone my skills as a Copy Writer and express my creativity. And where no better than an advertising agency!
However, in the interview I felt like I was on trial. And was deemed a "quitter". HR began to criticize my contract work in Public Relations citing her issue with the short terms of employment. Diplomatically I explained freelance work enabled me to gain experience in my chosen field of Public Relations in order to apply for full time employment. "It's a Catch 22 scenario. If someone doesn't give me a chance…", I added. HR cut me off. She understood the industry was competitive and dismissed the obvious catch I raised. But, I was miffed she failed to identify my strengths as a self starter and the determination I summoned to gain that experience. I remember feeling very uncomfortable with her tone.
Arriving back at reception, I shrugged off HR's label and dismissed her view I was frittering my life away instead of pursuing a solid career track. Calm settled over me knowing I was living my truth. I promptly scoured the phone book to find Jay's phone number. I had to call and thank her for writing something that made me feel like I wasn't alone. There were other people quitting and being judged. And, Jay didn't care. "Why should I?", I muttered under my breath. Jay believed people who quit or failed weren't quitter or failures, "They were brave flouters of convention." Jay picked up the phone immediately. I introduced myself and told her in a gush how the article was a sunny reminder I was living life my own way. I regarded her as my kindred spirit. Her thoughts were what I needed to hear. I thanked her again. And rang off.
Cellan Jay's article, "Just quit, baby!" resonates with me more now as a MultiPod. I felt the same kinship and empowerment when I discovered Jay Emilie Wapnick's TED Talk, "Why some of us don't know our true calling!" . Quitting wasn't about quitting on people or running out on your financial commitments. It was about quitting things that didn't make you happy and pursuing the things that fulfill you. What was wrong with that? HR's yardstick measuring my success and achievement was too rigid for my liking. Her attitude was doing more harm, in my opinion than what was printed on my resume.
But it's the same sentiment that keeps Cellan Jay's article, "Just quit, baby!" stuck to my fridge. It grounds me when I feel alone. And anchors me when I'm being persuaded by the status quo to sail a linear course. But mostly, I keep it as an accolade. I didn't foresee 20 years ago how sparse the job market would be today. Many jobs have been outsourced locally and internationally or have disappeared entirely. Diversifying my skills and having many income streams has put me in good stead. I feel like all the different skills I've acquired over the years has prepared me to achieve something spectacular. And, sometimes when I fret over people not valuing my skills, I appreciate the lessons I've learned on the well worn road. But, value the times I've spent on the one less travelled. Because it has made all the difference.
Cellan Jay's full article "Just Quit Baby!"
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My name is Cellan Jay, and I am the author of "Just Quit, Baby." I cannot tell you what your words mean to me. You write about the comfort of having discovered a kindred spirit when you read my article. Your words have given me the same comfort! As we get older, I think we realize how brave we've been to flout convention and choose our own path, probably braver than we realized at the time. I, too, have followed a freelance path; I have pursued my genuine interests as I have learned what they are (mainly through quitting and failing!); I have managed to avoid being supervised to a large extent (I hate authority); and I have sometimes fretted over people not valueing my skills. I have certainly not gotten rich, and I haven't avoided the intermittent stress of wondering where the next dollar is going to come from. However, I believe the price of pretty constant insecurity has been worth the tradeoff: doing work (and other things) that I genuinely enjoy and overall, living a pretty good life by being true to myself.
I raise a glass to you, whoever you are, a kindred spirit!


* Associate Professor at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, William S. Boyd School of Law. B.A., Northwestern University; J.D., University of Michigan Law School. This article benefited from insights and feedback from Jill E. Family, Hiroshi Motomura, and David Rubenstein. All errors are mine.
. See generally Michael Kagan, A Taxonomy of Discretion: Refining the Legality Debate About Obama's Executive Actions on Immigration, 92 Wash. U. L. Rev. 1083 (2015) (describing President Obama's immigration policy reforms); Jerry Markon, Obama Administration Scales Back Deportations in Policy Shift, Wash. Post (July 2, 2015), https: //www.washingtonpost.com/politics/dhs-scales-back-deportations-aims-to-integrate-illegal-immigrants-into-society/2015/07/02/890960d2-1b56-11e5-93b7-5eddc056ad8a_story.html (discussing President Obama's immigration policy shift toward integration).
. Julia Preston, Most Undocumented Immigrants Will Stay Under Obama's New Policies, Report Says, N.Y. Times (July 23, 2015), http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/23/us/ politics/most-undocumented-immigrants-will-stay-under-obamas-new-policies-report-says. html. The Obama Administration has made it clear that those people granted deferred action will also receive employment authorization, which, in addition to allowing a person to be legally employed, facilitates obtaining Social Security numbers and other benefits. See Frequently Asked Questions: DACA and Your Workplace Rights, Nat'l Immigration L. Ctr. (July 15, 2015), https://nilc.org/dacaworkplacerights.html. Beyond deferred action, President Obama's Department of Homeland Security ("DHS") has announced the criteria it uses to decide whether to prioritize non-citizens for deportation (or non-deportation), which has the potential to allow many unlawfully present immigrants to know in advance whether they are likely to be pursued by Immigration and Customs Enforcement ("ICE"), even if they are not formally granted deferred action. See Markon, supra note 1.


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Football in the afterlife, and a Leeds United starting XI
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Most weeks there are news stories about the chronic health problems and deaths of sporting legends. This week we learnt that former England cricket captain Ted Dexter had died, and that former Middlesbrough, Leeds and England footballer Alan Peacock was diagnosed with dementia in 2018. Like Denis Law, who announced his dementia diagnosis earlier this month, he wanted to raise awareness of the issue.
I have supported Leeds United since childhood, and the roll call of former Leeds players who have died over the last 18 months includes many of the club's all-time greats. Last year, in this piece, I wrote about the recent passing of Jack Charlton, Norman Hunter and Trevor Cherry, all former defenders and League title winners with the club. Jack Charlton also won the World Cup with England in 1966 and his death meant that more of that team were dead than alive. Fellow England defender Nobby Stiles died last October, so now there are only four surviving members of that World Cup winning team: George Cohen, Bobby Charlton, Roger Hunt and Geoff Hurst.
Over the last six months three more former Leeds greats have died: Peter Lorimer and Frank Worthington within two days of each other back in March and Terry Cooper late last month. They complete an afterlife starting XI of Leeds players from my time watching football that is almost as good as any starting XI made up of living players. (Many of the club's greatest strikers are still alive, thankfully, including my own sporting hero Allan Clarke.) The starting XI includes three players who are younger than me and all played for club in the 1990s: David Rocastle, Gary Speed and Philomen Masinga. The full team is listed at the end of this piece, but first a joke that my son's godfather told me some years ago about football in the next life.
Two old men have been friends since childhood and are reaching the end of their lives. Football has been a lifelong passion for both of them, and they played in the same teams for decades. They both hope that there is football in the afterlife and they make a deal: whoever dies first will come back and tell the other about it.
One of the friends dies, and a few days later visits his mate.
"Good news?" he asks, "Is there football where you are now?"
"Good news and bad news," his friend replies. "There is football, we've got a great team, and we're all playing as well as we did when we were when we were young."
"What's the bad news?"
"Big cup game on Saturday week … and you're in the starting XI."
The Leeds Afterlife Starting XI
Goalkeeper: Gary Sprake (1945-2016)
Defenders: Terry Cooper (1944-2021), Jack, Charlton (1935-2020), Norman, Hunter (1943-2020), Trevor Cherry (1948-2020)
Midfielders: Gary Speed (1969-2011), Peter Lorimer (1946-2021), Billy Bremner (1942-1997), David Rocastle (1967-2001)
Attackers: Frank Worthington (1948-2021), Phil Masinga, (1969-2019)
Sub: Paul Madeley (1944-2018)
Manager: Don Revie (1927-1989)
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Platform evaporite deposits are made up of stratiform beds, usually <50 m thick and composed of stacked <1 to 5 m thick parasequences or evaporite cycles, with a variably-present restricted-marine carbonate unit at a cycle base (Warren, 2010). Salts were deposited as mixed evaporitic mudflat and saltern evaporites, sometimes with local accumulations of bittern salts. Typically, platform salts were deposited in laterally extensive (>50-100 km wide), hydrographically-isolated, subsealevel marine-seepage lagoons (salterns) or evaporitic mudflats (sabkhas and salinas).
These regions have no same-scale modern counterparts and extended as widespread depositional sheets across large portions of hydrographically-isolated marine platform areas, which passed seaward across a subaerial seepage barrier into open marine sediments. In marine margin epeiric settings, such as the Jurassic Arab/Hith and Permian Khuff cycles of the Middle East or the Cretaceous Ferry Lake Anhydrite in the Gulf of Mexico, these platform evaporites are intercalated with shoalwater marine-influenced carbonate shelf/ramp sediments, which in turn pass basinward across a subaerial sill into open marine carbonates. Landward, they tend to pass into arid-zone continental siliciclastics deposited in bajada or eolian mudflat and sandflat settings.


Cupping is not just Chinese but a Great European Tradition Which You Can Learn!
In essence, cupping is just this: a 'cup' is placed open end downwards onto the skin. Air is withdrawn, pulling or sucking the enclosed skin and its underlying flesh up into the evacuated space inside. The cup is left in place for a period of time, after which the air is allowed back in, the cup is removed, and the skin gradually returns to its normal condition.
Theoretically any drinking cup or glass will do. In practice, various methods and designs have been used over the centuries. In early times they used hollow horns: anything that created suction.
For probably thousands of years, a flame was used to heat the air inside. As the air cooled it contracted, creating a vacuum. This is called 'fire'-cupping.
In other methods, the air is withdrawn by means of a small hand-pump, or by means of a squeeze-rubber balloon attached through a tube. When pinched the balloon expels air so that as it re-expands it draws air out, creating suction to draw skin up inside.
'Cups', once made of hollowed gourds, horns and bamboo, are nowadays mostly made of glass.
The tradition is so widespread that it is hard to know where it began.
Its main early use was probably to draw pus and blood out of boils and carbuncles without squeezing the flesh directly and without putting the mouth to it.
Certainly there are records of it in China from over 2200 years ago, where it has since been used for diseases ranging from tuberculosis to removing venom from snake-bites.
However, Egyptian and subsequent Greek records go back much further. They describe its use over 3500 years ago to extract offending matter, probably at infected wound sites. But later it was used for much more than this, bleeding and draining then being important forms of therapy.
In London in the 18th century it was used by both lay people and surgeons. It was much written about by surgeons in the 19th Century when it was used by the British Royal Family and it still remains in common use in many countries worldwide.
For example, many homes in Greece and Turkey keep a set with their first aid kit. However, its use has declined in the 20th Century, probably because doctors became more dependent on, and recommended, antibiotics and other drugs to reduce fevers.
Given the psychological power we invest in our doctors, 'Just take a pill and feel better' presumably persuaded people to abandon old ways.
As we know now, however, antibiotics and other drugs are a mixed blessing as bacteria and viruses mutate and learn how to survive medication, leading to a desperate rush for ever more powerful drugs to combat the bugs.
When new drugs fail or we want to avoid overusing them, perhaps we should look at methods that were tried and tested by our forbears.
Cupping is not a lost art: it's in worldwide use and you can learn how.
Traditionally there were two ways, dry and wet.
Dry cupping means the cup is placed on the skin (when there is no wound in it), and the skin is partially sucked up inside.
During wet cupping it is usually unwise to move the cup much or at all.
If acupuncture is being done at the same time the cup can be placed over the needle after the latter has been inserted at the chosen acupuncture point. Here the cup is not moved once in position.
It can be weak, medium or strong. Weak means mild suction, strong means strong suction. Medium means ... well, you can probably work it out.
It can be used on children and the elderly, but if the patient has poor constitutional strength, only very mild treatment may be beneficial: another kind of treatment might be better.
What do I mean by 'poor constitutional strength'? Someone who lacks vitality, weakens easily, is quickly affected by adverse events, catches every cold or illness going round, is of low spirits, and is probably fearful of his or her health and the future, and needs or looks for plenty of support. Life can bring strong people low, so don't assume because someone has been robustly independent all his or her life that his constitution remains strong. After severe acute illness, or after prolonged periods of ill-health, it takes time to recover. Here you should use mild cupping. Surprisingly, the effects can still be good.
Historically many containers have been used. Anything from which air can be evacuated and with a smooth rim will do.
The Egyptians appear to have used special glass vessels very similar to those we use today, with broad comfortable rims. They are easy to clean and sterilise so many practitioners use them.
first by using a flame, quickly applied from a taper so that the air inside heats up. The taper is quickly removed and the cup put in position. As the air inside cools, it contracts, pulling in the skin. This takes some skill and dexterity to avoid causing a fire elsewhere but is still probably the most common method.
If the cup is big enough, fill it with hot water so that it heats up. Pour out the water and apply the cup. Again, as the steam cools, it contracts, evacuating the space inside. But like fire close to the skin, scalding water has its dangers!
In China, bamboo cups are widely used. For personal use they are fine but they cannot be sterilised properly so not many professional acupuncturists use them. They also have narrow rims, meaning that the suction produces deep skin imprints which are sore, though the Chinese don't appear to mind. Also, being opaque, you can't see how strong the suction is.
These are made of glass with an extension at the top to accommodate a rubber squeeze ball which when squeezed and released pulls air, followed by skin, up into the vacant area.
Easy to sterilise, broad-rimmed, these are generally good to use, but don't have the capacity for strong suction. Excellent to keep at home and quick to apply.
The rubber here is corrugated so that one just presses it into position. Being rubber they accommodate to the terrain of the skin so may be useful where the mouths of glass cups are too broad. Comfortable and easy to use, they can also be cleaned and sterilised easily. Good for home use. However, they don't achieve strong suction.
Many devices exist, using cups which can be detached for cleaning and which have broad rims. Expensive to buy and probably mainly useful for professionals. Can produce very strong suction so must be used with care and consideration.
For full directions, see below under 'Preparing the Patient for Cupping'.
Many patients are apprehensive their first time. It pays to show them how it works on the palm of your hand, by applying the cup there and once suction occurs, showing them how it stays in place even when you turn your hand to face downwards.
Consider your patient's strength and state of health. Make sure they are seated or lying, and kept warm. Bare only as much skin as necessary.
To increase blood flow if the patient is cold or has poor circulation, either vigorously rub the area to be treated or have them take a warm bath or shower. Even better, do the treatment while they're in the bath!
Otherwise, place a warmed pad, or bean bag or hot water bottle over the area for a while until it warms up. Only then start the treatment.
This is a fantastic method of treatment for many kinds of condition. There is a Chinese saying to the effect that over half the ills of mankind are curable with acupuncture and cupping, but even on its own just cupping's pretty good.
To understand what kinds of illness it can benefit, one should understand what it aims to do.
The early stages of many diseases benefit from it: for example, what we call colds, chills, or fevers. Many diseases, including these, start with an invasion of 'wind-heat' or 'wind-cold', or sometimes just 'wind'. Also, have a look at Excess.
The Chinese understanding of this is that at an early stage, the disease remains near the surface of the body, so action there – on the skin – can often clear it.
Often in the early stage of wind-cold or wind-heat invasion, you feel alternately hot and cold, sweaty and shivery, as the battle between your body and the invader goes one way or the other.
Forget the idea of virus and bacteria for the moment, or at least consider it from another point of view. Especially at the early stages of a disease, the invading organism hasn't taken hold: your body is fighting it. The signs of that fight are your symptoms of hot and cold, headache, itchy throat etc. Those symptoms have been instigated by the invader: your body merely responds as programmed over millennia.
Suppose you could remove the signs of the invader – wouldn't that mean it had gone? This at any rate is the experience of Chinese medicine. If the 'wind-heat' or 'wind-cold' can be cleared [Wind is shivery and restless, Heat and Cold are the hot and cold sensations you feel], well: you'll get better, or the illness will progress much more slowly or not as far.
Cupping has traditionally been used for this, and the literature is full of its benefits. Indeed, in the 1930s New York barbers advertised 'cups for colds'.
The treatment pulls the invasive forces to the surface of the body, clearing them from the interior.
By the way, this form of treatment - cupping - is only one traditional way of dealing with such an 'invasion'.
Another way, sometimes used in herbalism for Wind-Cold, is to help your body achieve a satisfactory fever more quickly, the fever being seen as your body's best early response to making life hard for the invader.
In Western medicine, the fever may also hasten the production of the appropriate antibodies. Another method is gua sha, where gentle scraping on the surface of the body produces hyperthermia, drawing heat and blood to the area.
Read more about Excess here.
Blood stagnation includes poor circulation, many kinds of rheumatism, neuralgia and tension in muscles. Cupping is excellent in many diseases of the digestive system, the respiratory system and for general circulation, and it has a stimulating effect on the skin and its underlying tissues, can often help blood pressure, hardened arteries and stiffness: all of these if due to stagnation.
Are you wondering where Qi Stagnation comes in? It often causes Blood Stagnation. Read my book for much more on this.
Cupping helps the body clear out toxic matter, both old and new. This was perhaps its first use thousands of years ago. Forcing blood into an area stimulates movement of lymph, bringing new blood to old or damaged tissues, and making the skin glow as a result of healthier blood coursing through the area.
All these signs of blood stagnation potentially helped! Not bad, eh?!
But don't forget acupuncture - also really good for helping to clear external pathogenic factors, as they are called! There's a whole section of this site explaining the matter. See Four Levels for example.
If you judge that your patient is weak, tired, lethargic, slow, heavy, easily put out of breath, pale, discouraged and in low spirits, mild cupping can be great. Read more about this at Deficiency.
But it needs to be done quickly and repeated a number of times.
The upper back is a good place to do it: place the cups, mild suction, between shoulder blades and spine: remove and replace.
Keep doing this for a few minutes until you see the area reddening. Then stop.
Alternatively, once placed on the skin, pull it gently along the surface of the skin, up and down the back, again for just a few minutes.
With frail people like this, treatment should be mild and frequent.
Done this way it has a great stimulating effect on the metabolism.
You may think hygiene is not an issue. That's fine until one day you do it on someone who gets infected because you took no precautions.
The skin is our first line of defence. It's under constant attack from chemicals in the atmosphere, from abrasions, cuts, bites, wounds and tears. It is amazingly flexible and durable: it repairs itself all the time, shedding the old skin and replacing it with new skin which pushes up from inside.
But all those tears and abrasions mean that really unpleasant bacteria can, given half a chance, find an entrance.
Our skins are occupied by an extraordinary array of bacteria, viruses and other inhabitants too small to see. Some are friendly some are not. You may not like the idea, but the MRSA (methicillin resistant staphylococcus aureus) bacteria is probably living quietly on your skin right now – and if you are healthy it's fine there. In fact it is probably keeping what are generally described as 'good' bacteria in check – and vice versa.
But when you are less than healthy, MRSA can take advantage of your weakness and pounce.
Likewise, if infected skin is treated with cups which without being properly cleansed are then used on someone else, the second person may acquire the skin infection of the first.
After use, lightly wipe the cups with a clean cloth or paper tissue, then immerse them in bleach for five minutes. Finally wash them in soapy water, rinse and leave to dry naturally or wipe dry with a new clean tissue. If you are a practitioner, wear surgical rubber or latex gloves.
Ensure the patient understands what the treatment is and does and is not apprehensive. As the patient will have to remove some clothing, make sure the room is warm and draft-free.
Ask the patient to remove clothes covering the area you will be treating.
Discuss with the patient what position will be suitable. If you are treating his back, then probably he should lie on his front or sit in a chair the reverse way round and lean forward on its back.
If treating someone's chest or abdomen, lying supine is usually best. If on the shoulder or neck area, it can be done sitting.
If treating the legs, make sure the patient is lying in a position from which he won't need to move for a while.
If someone is prone to get cold easily, have a warm towel handy to cover the exposed area after the cups have been applied there.
A small matter but ... make sure the floor is covered in carpet or matting. If glass falls on a hard floor it may shatter. Not only will the noise be a shock, but clearing it up can be embarrassing.
A way to protect and clean your hands if dealing with pus or blood. Latex-type or surgical-rubber gloves work well.
A bleach mixture and soapy and clean water to cleanse the cups after use.
Warn the patient that if suction fails the cup will fall away from the body and that this is quite all right! It only reduces the effect of the treatment at that point.
People's skin varies. The amount of hair varies. Good suction is achieved when there is excellent contact between skin and rim of the vessel.
If the skin is very rough or hairy, suction may be poor, meaning it won't remain in place for so long and will fall off. Unless you stay to replace it, the patient will be disturbed.
Often patients like to be left alone when the containers are in place, so achieving good contact in the first place is best.
If in doubt, apply massage oil over the area first. This improves contact and makes it easier to move the cup's position.
When the patient is ready, in the right position and with the skin exposed, place the cupping vessel over the area and squeeze the rubber ball.
If a patient has never had it before, and is apprehensive or has poor constitutional strength or is weakened by age or infirmity, apply only mild suction the first few times.
Strong suction has a draining effect and is excellent when there is an invading pathogen but done on somebody frail, can weaken them.
So if in doubt use mild suction!
If it is being done over a boil or where there is toxic matter, with the intention of drawing out the pus, have several cups of different widths available.
A narrow cup here will concentrate pressure round the boil or abscess, which may be intolerably painful, especially if the boil is at the red and inflamed stage without much pus production. A wider one may be better, but patient feedback is what you need.
Over a boil, don't move it around: once in place, leave it there.
However, for invasive pathogens, such as when you are catching a cold, (wind-cold or wind-heat in Chinese medicine), stronger cupping is usually possible.
If performed on the patient's back, it's a great treatment, skin texture allowing, to draw the cup up and down the area between the shoulder blades and the spine, and parallel to the spine. Do this slowly to maintain suction, and keep doing it for as long as it takes to produce really good redness on the skin.
NB Some patients have skins that go red very easily. Here you should continue for five minutes anyway, unless the patient requests you stop.
Unless the patient is very bony, you can draw it up and down over the spine, and from side to side over it. But not where the vertebrae stick out: it's too painful.
After, say, five minutes of this, leave them, one cup on either side, near the upper edge of the shoulder-blades, at around the level of the second or third dorsal vertebra. This position has benefits for the underlying acupuncture points there which help clear the qi of exterior invasions.
If they are being left in place, the main aim is to leave them there until the colour of the skin in the cup has become slightly dark, and then for another minute or two.
However, many patients like to remain undisturbed for ten or fifteen minutes and unless the patient is frail and you've applied suction that is too strong, this doesn't seem to matter, and may actually help. However, skin marks will remain for longer ... so warn your patient.
In the case of Wind-Cold invasion-type colds, you would normally apply heat (moxibustion) after cupping - as well as acupuncture, if you know where to put the needles. The aim, with Wind-Cold, is to provoke the body into getting warm and perspiring a little.
If moxibustion is not available, try a warm bath!
Theoretically, where there is Cold, Fire cupping is better, being yang and warming.
If using a glass cup, press the skin beside its rim to let air seep in slowly. If you've left it in place for some time, using strong suction, it may be sore, so warn your patient and do it gradually.
If using rubber squeeze tops, just squeeze the top to reduce the vacuum, then lift it away.
Offer the patient the opportunity to rest a little while after they are removed: cover the patient with a warm towel. The reason is that you have moved blood around in various ways, either to clear an invading pathogen or to release pus. This is a bit of a shock to the system, so allow time for rest.
Cupping can also temporarily reduce blood pressure which may be a problem if the patient already has low blood pressure: if the patient rises too fast, he or she may feel faint, which can be alarming for both of you.
So allow a few minutes rest. Meantime or soon after the rest, clean the area: using a paper tissue, now rub the area you treated. Unless you cupped a boil, when you must wipe very carefully round the skin opening and may wish to wash the area with a little soapy water or with alcoholic swabs, you can rub it quite firmly. This helps the blood move again and may reduce soreness from any bruising caused by the cup rim's pressure on the skin.
If to achieve good suction you had to apply lots of oil in the first place, this rubbing will remove most of the oil but not all of it. So discuss with your patient whether they will mind the slight smell and sensation of the oil on their clothing.
If they do mind, you will need to apply a cleanser to the area. Such skin cleansers are familiar products in many shops.
Alternatively, acquire neat alcohol if legally available, and use this to rub the area: but don't do it too slowly because as the alcohol evaporates it cools the skin. Instead rub firmly and the effect can be nicely invigorating.
Cupping Results Can be spectacular!
Someone who is getting a cold or having difficulty breathing may find that the cold doesn't develop or that their breathing is much easier, they sleep better and recover faster.
Over sore joints, the pain eases.
Over the abdomen, the sensation of blockage and tension goes away.
During pregnancy, anywhere over the abdomen: but it is usually safe to cup over the lower back until the sixth month.
Where haemorrhage has occurred or is suspected, wherever it occurs in the body. This would include very heavy ongoing menses.
Where patients are taking anti-coagulant drugs and you are bleeding a point, monitor the cupping regularly to ensure there is no major loss of blood: 100mls maximum.
To get some cupping done for you, contact a qualified acupuncturist!
The book is a great resource, easy to understand and with plenty of illustrations.
It's written by someone from Turkey, who says he learned it from his grandmother.
Years later, he discovered its use by practitioners of Chinese medicine, who had worked out the theory behind it.
He's a warm and engaging enthusiast and you'll enjoy the read.
And yes, well, it's expensive. This page is much cheaper and tells you pretty much everything you need to know. But still, the book is worth reading.
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It really helped my back, especially under my shoulder blades, but since cupping, I'm fighting a cold. Any correlation?
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If your frustration continues for long, you'll get Qi Stagnation.


The air was heavy. Four days previously I had broken up from the best relationship I had been in. A relationship that had walked with me through one of the most challenging and life changing (for the better) years of my life. For months now, I had a dam of emotions and ideas that I'd been unable to put thought or even words to. I felt stuck, each day weighing heavier and heavier. This night though, there was something different in the air. It felt like precipice. So pen to paper, and in classic Hemmingway fashion (except with a glass of wine vs a glass of whiskey), I started writing. I didn't re-read or look back until I had finished. Until, finally, the last period drawn, I looked up. I could breathe.
What I had written surprised me. There was no reasoning in it or attempts to thoughtfully explain like is my usual m.o. No minute by minute recordings. Rather, in it's place were brief sentences, moments in time that somehow had signified and locked each turning point in my brain. It truly is, as one friend referred to it as, a "kiss and tell". But really, more a kiss and tell of my heart and it's total peace with my journey then of the relationships. There is no malice behind it. I love my life, my heart and my mind, and l love the journey that I've been on with each one of it's odd little, for better or worse, turns and hills.
You see, I grew up thinking that the entirety of a relationship was pretty much like a disney movie. No, I kid you not. I thought girl meets boy (and, because I was a Christian, I thought he would also automatically be a "Christian" -there would simply be no attraction to anyone else). The girl and the boy have a mutual crush. If that crush continues for more then a year (and it will), you call it love and you get married the following year. Now, a little bit after the wedding, that crush will wear off. Being in a relationship will be hard, but that's why you made the commitment of marriage. So with a lot of hard work and perseverance you will get through and then you will be in love again. And somewhere in the mix of that you will also achieve your dreams, have a few kids and make great friends. Done and done. Put a bow on it and put it under the Christmas tree.
Really not a bad way... IF that's how it worked. Don't get me wrong... I knew friends that it did work EXACTLY like that for. And I'm so so happy for them. That's just not how it worked for me.
You can imagine my shock and horror when my first mutual crush no longer wanted to be with me. It shook me. And I'm not being dramatic here... I had truly thought, "this is it". I didn't love him, he didn't love me; we hadn't even spent much time together, really. But when he called it off, I was floored. What to do? This isn't how it works.
I called it a fluke and picked myself up and continued on. My next mutual crush was with a guy who didn't call himself a Christian. Again, I was bewildered. Suddenly, and without warning, two of my ideals/truths were clashing.
Girl meets boy. Check. Boy and girl have a mutual crush. Check. Boy is not a Christian. Wait. What??
The relationship ideals kept spiraling. What I knew as truth kept sinking. Relationship with a Christian that I didn't like, but he was Christian, so everyone told me it was great. Relationship with a non-Christian that lasted for years, but wasn't healthy. More relationships. More heart break. Good and bad. All mixed.
Maybe you guys are different from me. Maybe you never held ideals as solid truths. Maybe you've always had more of a natural understanding of the ebb and flow of relationships and how they work. Good on you. I think deep down, though, we all hold certain ideals as truth. When in reality, it's simply what we see, in the moment, as "ideal", and it's not truth at all. This, my friends, is so so very harmful. Not only to self and our view of life, but also to our relationships (both romantic and platonic).
What's more important then focusing on those funny little "ideals" that we've created for relationships, is, to instead, focus on what is most important to you. In what sort of environment do you thrive and allow others to thrive? What attributes do you value? What makes your soul sing? Demonstrate and seek this in relationships. Don't force it. If it's not there, it's not going to be there. Let go. Finally, once you have found this, then you can work on communications, commitment and being intentional.
Finally, I'm not living an "ideal" life, no one is, don't fool yourself. Instead, we are each living a life far far better. A journey with beautiful, stunning moments in it. (Side note: that's why I love photography... it sees the entire picture, the mess, the crazy, and it chooses to focus on one small thing that creates glorious moment). Let's move, and make mistakes. Let's share. Let's let go and laugh out loud.
Let's be better then the ideal.


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Ellen Holds Halloween Event in Chicago
Segment taped outside NBC Chicago's Studio 5 will air Friday
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Ellen DeGeneres fans will have to wait until Friday to learn the full details of what went down outside NBC Chicago's Studio 5 on Tuesday afternoon.
In a series of Tweets, the talk show host invited her fans to congregate on the plaza outside the studio wearing their "most creative Halloween costume."
"Did I mention there's a big prize? Cuz there is," she told followers.
Actor/Rapper LL Cool J also took to Twitter, revealing that he'd be a part of the event in some way.
"I will be on @TheEllenShow Today! Lot of fun," he said in a post.
All of those details came after a coy Tweet DeGeneres sent out Monday night:
The last time DeGeneres started a Twitter campaign in Chicago, a local family ended up winning $10,000 during a holiday sweater meetup at The Bean in 2010.
Chicagoans are urged to follow her Twitter account for more details.
Ellen airs weekdays on NBC Chicago at 3 p.m.


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Scholars have proposed a new reading of the Mesha Stele: one line refers not to the "House of David," but to the Moab king Balak from the story of Balaam in the Bible.
The Lod Mosaic—Jewish, Christian or Pagan?
A series of stunning mosaic floors dated to around 300 C.E. were uncovered in Lod, Israel. Plants, birds, fish and animals are depicted in the mosaics—but no human figures. Who made these mosaics?
Wilderness Wanderings: Where is Kadesh?
According to the Bible, the Israelites stayed at a place called Kadesh-Barnea following their Exodus from Egypt and wanderings through the desert. Where is Kadesh-Barnea?
Jewish Purification: Stone Vessel Workshop Discovered in Galilee
An excavation at a cave in Galilee has uncovered what may be a 2,000-year-old stone vessel production center. In the first century C.E., Jews commonly used stone vessels in observance of Jewish purity laws.
King David's Palace and the Millo
In the study of Biblical archaeology, Biblical texts and archaeological finds must be examined critically and independently, but ultimately, they must be interpreted together. Such an approach can be applied to King David's Palace and the Millo.
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Off the shores of Nicea, archaeologists have uncovered a basilica, which stands over what appears to be an earlier church. Could this church be where the famous Council of Nicea first met in 325 C.E.?


Decreasing the risk of wildfire should be a primary consideration for every woodland owner. Adopting a mindset in which you are responsible for the defence of your property is often the first step in constructing a strategy for reducing the risk of wildfire. By using a proactive approach, wildfire is preventable and—should a fire escape—damage to your property can be minimized. As we learned in Lesson 1, you can initiate wildfire prevention by removing potential fuel sources and making sure that fire has fewer opportunities to develop into a wildfire.
One of the most significant structures a woodland owner can construct to control fires is a fie pond in an accessible location. Fire ponds provide the peace of mind that year-round water is available if it is needed to suppress a local fie. If there is already a natural pond in an accessible location on your woodland, make sure that it is large enough to hold plenty of water year-round. Be sure it is not a vernal pool, since these small areas contribute immensely to the biodiversity of your woodland.
Woodland fie ponds are not difficult o construct. The best time to choose a location for a pond is when you are building a woodland road, since the excavated soil can be used in road construction. Small sites with year-round supplies of fresh water located next to a road are good choices for ponds.
You may be surprised how quickly a woodland fie pond assumes a character of its own. After construction, the margins of the pond soon teem with plants and insects, while amphibians begin to inhabit the shallows where there is abundant food.
Figure 14. A woodland pond can be a valuable source of water Like any body of water, a fie pond can be potentially hazardous to forest workers and the public. It is your responsibility as the landowner to make sure that your pond is safe for everyone. The pond should be clearly marked with signage to indicate that deep water is present, particularly if it is adjacent to an access road.
Any small bodies of water in woodlands are natural habitats for wildlife, including wetland plants. Constructed ponds may replicate vernal pools, which are some of the most valuable wildlife habitat in woodland areas. Here, freshwater aquatic organisms live in close proximity to terrestrial animals and birds. Salamanders, newts, frogs, and other amphibians are important inhabitants of pools and ponds. They feed on small invertebrates and in turn provide food for animals and birds further up the woodland food chain. Raccoons, mink, red fox, and other mammals may stop by to check on the resources your pond has offered them. If you are really fortunate, your pond may support a small colony of fish lie sticklebacks, mudpuppies, or brook trout, adding another dimension to the health and wealth of your woodland.
For further details on conserving and enhancing woodland habitat, see Home Study Module 4 (Woodlots and Wildlife).
By reducing the fuel load and making sure that an ample supply of water is available if it is needed, you have taken the critical first steps in peventing wildfie on your woodland. By constructing or maintaining a fie pond, you will have also contributed to the wildlife habitat on your property—and added a significant component o the biodiversity of your woodland!


6 Abdominal Exercises: to regain good strength & control of your abdominal muscles!
Are you fit for Zero Pressure Gymnastic?
Check the scar of c-section if there is one, it should be perfectly healed before starting to exercise.
If it's ok, your transverse muscle is competent and you can start "zero pressure gymnastic".
Breathe out with your mouth and pull gently your tummy in as if you wanted to fit into tight jeans and hold a pelvic floor contraction in the same time.
Breathe out through your mouth and pull gently your tummy in as if you wanted to fit into tight jeans and hold a pelvic floor contraction in the same time.
To create a synergy between transverse muscle and pelvic floor muscles. This synergy prevents an increase of intra abdominal pressure which push on your pelvic floor leading to its weakening and issues such as incontinence and prolapse.
For more details have a look at our articles on prolapse and incontinence or our video about Sport to Do or to Avoid in Pregnancy!
Zero pressure gymnastic is difficult to understand and to perform at first as it require a good awareness and control of abdominal, diaphragm and pelvic floor muscles. To be sure to perform these exercises correctly do not hesitate to ask to your Woman's health physiotherapist!
As usual don't hesitate if you have any question!
Congratulations on writing about low pressure exercises. The exercises described are not zero pressure, are low pressure. They are exercises that come from yoga, Uddiyana Bandha. If you add myofascial stretches, neurodynamics, postural and respiratory techniques, an updated methodology and didactics, you will get something much more updated, Low Pressure Fitness (see the website). Regards.
Thank you for your comment. Actually, these exercises come from hypopressive gymnastique (French name). They were developed in the 80s by Marcel Caufriez (http://www.marcel-caufriez.net/fr/) and Bernadette De Gasquet (http://www.degasquet.com/). The last one is a Yoga teacher she probably was inspired by Yoga exercises.
As mentioned, it is a difficult gymnastic and we don't intent to give all the details just a quick introduction. We aim both to present briefly this gymnastic and also help our patients to remember exercises we give them.
DO YOU WANT CLIENT TO HOLD THERE BREATH AS THEY HOKD THR CONNECTION 12 to 15 seconds or do you want them to breath normally as they hold ? Would they not then need to breath more thoracically (probably would do this sub consciously ) . Thank you i look firwards to hearing from you .
It is an apnea, so yes patients need to hold their breath.


July 6 – Thanks to all the households in Summit (144 and growing!) which have stepped up to join Summit Neighborhood Association in 2006. We always ask new and renewing members what they care about. Most people don't take advantage, but many do. In no particular order or organization, here's what SNA members have said is on their minds as they mailed their 2006 memberships in.
Just support SNA – keep up the good work. I'm a retired leafletter.
Sign or fence to keep dogs out of children's at park on Bl. Blvd, Lippitt Park.
Wish I had one ("great idea for Summit"). I like the newsletter very much.
Saving and planting trees; making walking safe and pleasant.
Resurface badly patched streets. Mine never done in 52 years! Summit needs this! High taxes deserve it!
Instead of Trader Joes, how about Ikea. That would bring people around!
Schools, parks (need more) – more bumpouts between 5th and Blackstone on Lorimer – just speed back up.
Yard maintenance, absentee landlord neglect.
(No) more bump outs! DON'T LIKE THEM: End of Brewster is ruined – was nice wide Y turn, now a slow, hard S turn. – No one shovels the sidewalks after it snows.
I love that deco fountain in Lippitt Park – go for it!
Continued street tree plantings – strategic, coordinated, technically supported.
Triple-deckers going condo, selling for unbelievablly high prices, takiing away affordable housing and substituting completely unaffordable.
Giant yard sale and children's day end of August. Charge for tables. Recruit hospital and businesses.
Fix all the potholes around the Cypress and Ivy intersections – PS – My sidewalk is a mess.
Dumping oil on Edgehill, Summit & Dexterdale.
Is anyone else disturbed by the strong smell of solvents or spray lacquer that blankets the north side of Summit when the wind blows from the north/northwest? It must be from a nearby factory/manufacturing facility. It's amazingly strong sometimes and I worry about its impact on our health.
re: bumpouts — my husband calls them "bike killers". Can we add bike lanes to our list of wishes, along with decent sidewalks with curb cuts between each street??
Idea for traffic. Remove bump-outs, invest this money spent to repair sideWALKS!! Utilize our property tax money (and the bond money wasted on bump-outs) by having police posted on alternate streets to catch speeders. Impose hefty fines for speeders. Increase the revenue.
Steets are for cars. Sidewalks are for the safety of people. heathy,handicapped or disabled. It is a disgrace to think that kevin Jackson does not think individually of the people who voted him in.
If you want to attract foot traffic and minimize vehicle traffic, make the sidewalks safe and attractive to use. Fix the multi-year sidewalk issues!


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EQ and Compression may be the more popular topics of mixing discussion, but the truth is, something as comparatively "basic" as the general placement of each instrument within the stereo field can actually have just as much of an impact on the overall quality of a mix!
In order to achieve a wide mix, you first need to understand some of the basic differences between Mono and Stereo.
Mono, is when you have the same signal coming out of both speakers, resulting in a "Phantom Center" appearing in the middle. Changing the L/R balance of said signal in favor of one side or the other results in the signal being Panned in that direction.
Stereo, is when you have a unique signal coming out of each speaker, creating a discernable difference between the directionality of left and right content when combined.
The primary conclusion we can make based on these descriptions? – The more difference there is between the left/right channels, the wider the mix will sound!
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What can we learn from this video?
As Joey masterfully demonstrates in the clip above, the goal with this type of processing isn't to drastically change things and potentially run the risk of major phasing issues, but rather to super-subtly push a mix slightly further outside of the speakers without screwing everything up!
In rock and metal, it's extremely common to double-track guitars and pan them hard-left and right to get them out the way of the center. But what if the song you're given to mix only has a single guitar track…?
It's like there's no winning!
Simply put, the Haas effect is the time delay between when a sound hits each of our ears, in return, allowing them to tell which direction the sound is coming from.
In the context of mixing: If you have a mono sound source going to both the left and right speaker (aka. the phantom center), but delay one of the sides by up to 35ms, the combined L+R result will be a wider, "faux stereo" version of the same sound.
The absolute best way of achieving a wide mix is to arrange and record your song with stereo width in mind to begin with.
Using slightly different gear for each guitar part: Although double tracking and hard-panning a riff is already great for getting it out of the center and giving your mix some width, there are a few things you can do to take this process a step further.
Try using different (yet complementary) guitar, amp, cab, microphone – and even guitarist combinations for each of your doubles/quads in order to add a lot more variation between takes and truly separate left from right.
Metal production veterans such as Andy Sneap and Colin Richardson have been known to use the classic "Mesa Dual Rectifier and Peavey 5150" combo on many of their biggest albums for this exact purpose!
Relying on tight performances rather than editing: Let's face it… as an audio engineer, it's inevitable that you're gonna have to tighten up a poor guitar performance or two every now and then.
The problem comes when you're automatically editing every single performance just for the sake of it, and actually unknowingly having a significant negative impact on the stereo width of your guitars!
The width of a double tracked guitar part primarily comes from the slight differences in timing and timbre caused by the natural variations in a guitarist's playing.
If you go in and align every single transient & waveform in your doubles to be perfectly in-time and in-phase with each other, you're basically making the two takes more similar, and in return, causing them to become more MONO when combined.
A far better alternative to editing guitars to "perfection" is to simply work hard on recording the double-tracked parts as tightly as humanly possible and to leave the subtle variations untouched for some nice L/R fluctuation.
Room Reverb: Reverb doesn't always have to be a washy or obvious effect! Try sending your mono sound source to a short, stereo room-reverb and blending it in under the dry signal gently to where it's felt rather than heard.
Convolution/Impulse-response based reverb FX are often better than linear/digital algorithms for this purpose. This is because sampled "real" spaces aren't often acoustically symmetrical or "perfect", meaning there are some welcome differences between the left and right returns which create width.
These "mono" delays don't have to be completely mono however!
My favourite delay plugin, Soundtoys' "Echoboy" for example, isn't just a great emulator of classic analog delay units, but also has an excellent built-in haas-effect-esque stereo widening algorithm, allowing you to push the mono effect return further out towards the sides of the speakers and get it out of the way of your dry signal.
Micro-Pitch-Shift: Another extremely popular method of adding some instant width & dimension to a mono sound source is by using a stereo "pitch shifting" plugin such as Soundtoys' "MicroShift" or Waves' "Doubler".
This effect was popularised in the mid 80's with several presets found in the Eventide "H3000" analog FX processor (which they also now do in a plugin form), and is still heavily used by pro engineers to this day!
You can either haphazardly fill it up, resulting in a single, blurry, murky colour that masks all of the intricate detail hidden beneath, OR… work in strategically placed, contrasting strokes that compliment each other, forming a dazzling technicolour masterpiece in which each tone has a place to clearly shine through and be seen.
Stereo width can have a huge effect on the quality of your mixes, so you better do everything in your power to learn how to manipulate it effectively!
This concludes "The Secrets To A Wide Mix". I hope that this article has given you some new ideas to try out during your next project. Be sure to comment below if any of this information has helped you out, or if you have any questions.


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Yoon Seok (John) Shin
"Yoon Seok Shin, from South Korea, possessing enormous technical ability…."- Robert Beale (Manchester Evening News)
"He plays with an unostentatious authority, and his performances have a polish and poise combined with a warm musical response." - Philip Fowke (British Concert Pianist & Senior Fellow Professor)
Having won several major International and National Competitions and Awards, South Korean pianist Yoon Seok (John) Shin is much in demand as a recitalist, concerto soloist and chamber musician across Europe, Asia and the United Kingdom. Praised by many acclaimed critics with his poised, polished and innovative performances, Yoon Seok is currently an official artist of T&B Entertainment (South Korea) and a member of Incorporated Society of Musicians, UK.
Born in South Korea, Yoon Seok graduated from the Royal College of Music, London after completing the prestigious Artist Diploma (ArtDip) Performance Doctorate and the Master of Music (MMus) in Advanced Performance under the tutelage of Prof. Andrew Ball. Previously, he gained his Bachelor of Music, BMus (Hons) in Performance at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance (Trinity College of Music), London where he studied with Prof. Philip Fowke and was awarded 1st Class Honours. In addition, Yoon Seok was awarded the City Livery Club Prize in recognition of his outstanding performances and achievements.
Yoon Seok has performed in many celebrated venues such as Steinway Hall, St. John's Smith Square, the Southbank Centre, St James's Church Piccadilly, the Regent Hall, The Reform Club, London, Konserthuset - The Nobel Prize Award Hall in Sweden, Seoul Sejong Centre Chamber Hall and Seoul Arts Centre Concert Hall in South Korea.
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HEIDEVOLK "BATAVI" – RELEASE DATE: 02 Mar 2012 / 06 Mar 2012 (US)
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Few could have envisioned the bright future that the Norns had in store for HEIDEVOLK back in 2002. Since its inception in Arnhem (The Netherlands) a decade ago, HEIDEVOLK came, saw, and conquered stages throughout Europe with their very own brand of folk metal. The instantly recognizable dual clean male vocals and irresistibly catchy songs have ignited the pagan fire in the souls of many on the continent. They deliver their songs on divine matters and profane pleasures with equal integrity, fueled by a folkloric fire and pagan pride.
With a repertoire ranging from epic to raging, captivating live shows, and an undying desire to perform, HEIDEVOLK has become a familiar face in Europe. HEIDEVOLK stands for an uncompromising attitude, intense shows, and the transcendence of barriers between performer and audience… Even if your Dutch sucks!
In 2003, HEIDEVOLK released its first CD, "De strijdlust is geboren", followed by the "Wodan Heerst" EP in 2005. Both releases were re-released on one CD by Napalm Records in 2008.
The sophomore full-length CD "Walhalla Wacht" (Napalm Records) also saw its worldwide release in 2008. With their third full-length, "Uit oude grond" (2010), HEIDEVOLK combined its folk roots and raw energy with more mature songwriting. The album was their most varied release to date, and opened many doors to tours and festivals. It also set the bar high for its successor. Yet HEIDEVOLK now deliver their heaviest, most aggressive and powerful album ever: "Batavi"
The band travels 2,000 years back in time to an era in which numerous Germanic tribes struggled for dominance against the Roman Empire in Northwest Europe, along the shores of the river Rhine. Caught in the middle of it all were the Batavians: the protagonists and namesakes of HEIDEVOLK's latest album.
"Batavi" is a concept album that deals with the early history of the Batavian tribe: from its beginnings to its daring revolt against one of the greatest empires the world has ever seen. Set against the backdrop of war, alliances, intrigue, and betrayal, the nine songs relate the struggle of a people needing to redefine themselves in order to survive this turbulent time.
While HEIDEVOLK's musical path continues to explore traditional pagan metal, it proves to be much more resolute and aggressive than ever before. The characteristic clean sound of both Heidevolk vocalists recounts the stories comprising "Batavi", while heavy guitars, thundering drums, and folk melodies build the foundation of each track: at times sweeping and at others melancholic. Peter Tägtgren's mix has masterfully defined the band's sound on this 2012 release. "Batavi" catapults the listener directly onto the northwestern European battlefields of the Roman Empire.
Heidevolk is:
Joost den Vellenknotscher – Drums
Joris den Boghtdrincker – Vocals
Mark Splintervuyscht – Vocals
Reamon Bomenbreker – Guitars
Rowan Roodbaert – Bass
Official Web Site: http://www.heidevolk.com
MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/officialheidevolk
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Never watched the movie <那些年> but was introduced to the theme song my last day in HK, when we sang it with gusto at my first karaoke session. It popped into my head on the bus home from a late and very brief lunch with Zyd and as per my regrettable habit, has been on repeat every since. It's plaintive, and very nostalgic.
My head is achingly full this evening, but my mastery of words is wholly inadequate, as always. To my mind, at least. I can only hope my schizophrenic train of thoughts winds through some interesting scenery.
and off I went. I was so surprised I nearly fell right off – way to be counterproductive, Karen! But I was off, on my first try, and I was controlling my direction; I had finally figured out how to use the mast angle as leverage, as rudder, and it was phenomenal, feeling the board turn under my feet with each tilt of my hands. I just went back and forth after that. It was lovely. I went up close enough – far from close enough for my liking, but that will come in time – to those tanker ships to pick out the white words on the front. Can't read them yet, though … maybe next time.
Went back and forth parallel to the bay. Still can't do a jibe confidently enough, but the boom is starting to feel familiar and friendly in my hands, and my sea legs are more stable now. The waves are not unremarkable; I was jolted a few times, but it is something else altogether to ride them. No words for it. And me here still just a toddler at this.
Did not capsize a single time! Made it back to the bay of my own accord. All milestones.
Next: I flagged down a cab to East Coast because my meeting ended at 2.30 pm and windsurfing rentals close at 3 pm. It is too easy to be lured by cabs now that I'm making hourly pay. I will resist, though. Some expenses are not worth it.
Third: I have so many emotions regarding my job. A week now, and – I think I am gaining so much from it it is almost scandalous that I am getting paid, on top of everything. It has inspired, or at least necessitated, a renewed interest in literature and english, compelled a search for a more intimate acquaintance. There is no unpretentious, untrite way of professing my "love for literature", and I sincerely doubt I have dedicated the time and energy and passion and sacrifice required to merit that claim, but … more times than I can count, words have calmed me when nothing else could, have brought me to my knees and humbled me into tears, rend my heart into pieces and pierce it whole again, carried me to the brink of despair and through it, a birdsong clearing a path through fog and the grime of reality, have illuminated the shuddering recesses of my thoughts with borrowed words far lighter and wiser than any I could imagine.
But this feeling has been building ever since my first class, and especially over the past two days, when I've had my two lit classes. Reading reminds me of the joy and more importantly, catharsis, I derive from it, and I'm trying so hard to let my class see some of that. Most of them don't appreciate literature very much, or haven't learnt to, and many of them don't read (as they admit, gleefully). At this point, I found Doris Lessing's 2007 Nobel prize speech, which is very relevant and poignant and something I might show the class.
There is a goat trying to find sustenance in some aged grass. The headmaster has embezzled the school funds and is suspended. My friend doesn't have any money because everyone, pupils and teachers, borrow from him when he is paid and will probably never pay it back. The pupils range from six to 26, because some who did not get schooling as children are here to make it up. Some pupils walk many miles every morning, rain or shine and across rivers. They cannot do homework because there is no electricity in the villages, and you can't study easily by the light of a burning log. The girls have to fetch water and cook before they set off for school and when they get back.
As I sit with my friend in his room, people shyly drop in, and everyone begs for books. "Please send us books when you get back to London," one man says. "They taught us to read but we have no books." Everybody I met, everyone, begged for books.
That poor girl trudging through the dust, dreaming of an education for her children, do we think that we are better than she is – we, stuffed full of food, our cupboards full of clothes, stifling in our superfluities?
I think it is that girl and the women who were talking about books and an education when they had not eaten for three days, that may yet define us.
Maybe it is, and maybe it isn't. Looking around the rug one thing's for sure: it's here.
But language is important, and literature is visceral, and they save lives. There is nothing I want more than to give my borrowed classes the opportunity to feel that, even once. For email/letter writing, I showed them a few personal correspondence, and the response was gratifying. I think they saw how effective or ineffective tone could be, and format, and style.
Back to the class, I am trying the hardest I can to make classes fun and engaging and non-stressful. Personal experience, of course, but … it matters to me that everyone in the class learns, or is getting something out of it, and it matters to me that everything I say be important and relevant, and that I speak only when necessary. Class is faintly exhausting, truth be told, and thinking up new exercises and activities that include both productive use of technology and sufficient interactive class discussion and are fun and are useful for the learning outcomes is … ridiculously difficult and time-consuming. What a surprise, right?
Fourth: What else can you say to this?
We travel, then, in search of both self and anonymity — and, of course, in finding the one we apprehend the other. Abroad, we are wonderfully free of caste and job and standing; we are, as Hazlitt puts it, just the "gentlemen in the parlour," and people cannot put a name or tag to us. And precisely because we are clarified in this way, and freed of inessential labels, we have the opportunity to come into contact with more essential parts of ourselves (which may begin to explain why we may feel most alive when far from home).
And if travel is like love, it is, in the end, mostly because it's a heightened state of awareness, in which we are mindful, receptive, undimmed by familiarity and ready to be transformed. That is why the best trips, like the best love affairs, never really end.
I remember one of my first few conversations with KM after I returned this summer, and confessing my guilt at moping about staying in Singapore for a paltry 12 weeks when some of my peers and friends have two, three, four years ahead of them. She brushed it off, said laughingly that it wasn't that bad for them, that I probably wanted it – needed – it a lot more. Can I ever think that? But whatever it is, I do have the chance now, so there is nothing to it but to exhaust it, I reckon.
Five: I am quite wrung out now, but in a recuperative sense. Looks like an early night. I said during lunch today how … routine my life has become. I wake up at 6.15 am bleary and disoriented, stay in school for at least 6.5 hours to get a full day's pay, either hit the gym or go windsurfing or beg off due to fatigue, return home for dinner, and then start on my french and germand podcasts and maybe some lesson planning all the while (usually) chatting to K online (if he deigns to purchase Internet in his unreasonably glamorous and spacious hotel room) and some others, besides. I do not go out. I read. I wash my face thrice a day and brush my teeth twice. The Singaporean version of rural tranquillity?
Goodnight. This is an inordinately long post.


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Movie Review The Angels' Share
April 6, 2015	| Posted in MOVIES, THRILLER | By Arthur Chappell
A 2012 movie from the often brilliant Ken Loach, which seems uncertain of its balance between comedy and commenting on social problems, veering from outright farce to scenes of brutality and ultimately showing a strangely maverick view to crime. The movie is set in Glasgow, and the Scottish Highlands.
Paul Brannigan plays Robbie, a violent young offender who is put on a community services programme instead of being sent to prison as a gesture of good-will as his girlfriend is heavily pregnant. Unfortunately, though intent on going straight, Robbie is attacked by his girlfriend's family, who want to force him to leave town and leave her too. He daren't fight back as that could lead to a very long prison sentence for him.
On the birth of his son, Robbie is treated to a whiskey by his caring Community Service manager, Harry, played by John Henshaw, and develops a genuine fascination for Scottish Whisky. Harry takes Robbie to a distillery, where Robbie learns of the Angel's Share of the title – the whisky lost from a cask-conditioned barrel by evaporation, which is seen as having gone to the angels.
Robbie also learns of an auction of a rare malt-whisky that could be worth a million pounds, and hits on a plan to steal some for a private collector, using his Community Service chums to help him out.
Though the thieves are bumblingly incompetent, the heist is surprisingly hitch free and lacking real tension, and the success of the mission allows Robbie to take his girlfriend and son away for a new life away from the violent Glasgow streets.
There are moments of genuine humour and pathos, as well as a sense of how dangerous things are around Robbie, but ultimately he is saved by middle class crooks from the simple thuggery of the working classes, with people often depicted in movies as unscrupulous being surprisingly pleasant to him. The characters and situations her seem rather contrived. The thieves wear kilts to remind us they are in Scotland and for a rather forced gag as the police hassle them by making the boys show what they are wearing under the kilts.
An opening scene showing one of the support characters falling drunkenly from a train platform through taking a railway official's instruction's to step back from the edge too literally is funny, but gives a sense of a different movie and leading protagonist than we actually get later.
Robbie's heist is seen as his one shot at freedom from his troubles and goes off perfectly for him, giving a sense of fairy tale romance to what, from Loach would normally be a much more tragic dark edged comedy-drama.
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