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FORT FRANCES, Ont. – Transportation Safety Board investigators are headed to the scene of a train derailment near Fort Frances, in northern Ontario.
The TSB says about 40 CN freight cars loaded with grain came off the tracks.
The short statement from the TSB didn’t say whether anyone had been injured.
It’s the second CN freight to derail in the past two days.
On Saturday six cars of a train carrying lumber left the tracks in Saskatchewan just west of Saskatoon.
And in Alberta there have been four train derailments in the past two months, including one in October that sparked a dangerous petroleum fire that forced the evacuation of the village of Gainford.
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Despite the progress we’ve made, there’s still a lot of sexism in the world. I surveyed other Her Campus chapter members on at least 10 reasons why we still need feminism, as well as coming up with my own list. I got more responses than I asked for, which already says a lot about sexism in our society. Take a look for yourself on at least 10 reasons we still need feminism.
- Women Get Paid Less Than Men
The gender wage gap is still a very prevalent issue and highlights how we regard the worth of women’s work.
- Violence Against Women is Prevalent
The World Health Organization (WHO) has named violence against women as a “major public health problem” all across the world. The fact that 35% of women have experienced violence is an indicator that this is still a pressing issue.
- Slurs Insulting Women Are Used
Words like “bitch,” “slut,” and “cunt” are often used against women. It’s also used toward men and others, but the fact remains that the language is rooted in sexism.
- Women Aren’t Taken Seriously
This is especially serious in cases such as sexual assault. Even when women come forward thanks to initiatives like the “Me Too Movement,” women are still disproportionately disbelieved, even though most accusations are true.
- Women Are Judged For Their Appearances
The criticism of Jennifer Lopez and Shakira’s performance being “inappropriate” at the 2020 Super Bowl Half Time Shows proves that women are always judged for their appearances, whether they’re “too sexy,” not “sexy enough”, not attractive, etc. The fact that this sort of criticism was aimed at two Latina women exposes the added layer of racism women of color experience in addition to sexism. Finally, there’s the double-standard of the Super Bowl’s history of sexist ads, showing that women’s behavior being “appropriate” is dictated by men.
- Reproductive Rights Are Debated
Cisgender, heterosexual men are usually the loudest ones to speak when it comes to reproductive rights. Aside from being a woman’s body and choice, limiting reproductive access to procedures such as safe abortions does not help when there are several unsafe abortions carried out worldwide. There’s also the fact that femmes, nonbinary, and trans women are often left out when we discuss reproductive rights.
- Male Entitlement Exists
The expectation that men “deserve” attention from women is prevalent. The “nice guy syndrome” in which a man acts “nice” to date and/or sleep with a women, is just one of the many examples of how male entitlement pushes itself onto women.
- Women Are Seen As “Too Emotional”
Women are seen as more emotional than men and are criticized for it as if being emotional is a personal weakness. But anyone can be “emotional” (which is relative), and it’s time to stop judging people who express their emotions differently than others.
- Assertive Women Are Labeled “Bossy”
On the flip side, when a woman is assertive, she’s bossy; when a man’s assertive, he is just being a “good boss” and is well respected.
- Women Are Told to “Be Nice”
There are so many issues faced by women in society that need to be addressed, and there’s no way to discuss all of them at once without going into a dissertation-long essay that would take weeks (if not longer) to get through. But I hope by pointing out several instances of sexism will help people realize how pervasive it is and why feminism is an asset to combating them.

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Hi, is it possible to synchronize two robots operations using Yaskawa Inform Commands (e.g. WAIT and PULSE) in RobotExpert? The internal OLP commands (# Destination MA1400_1 # Send Sync1 1) work well in the MOP simulation. But we need in the program downloaded to robot the INFORM commands that are recognized by the robots.
Once you have the Yaksawa-Inform controller installed you can use its specific syntax, e.g.:
The Yaskawa-Inform controller is available for purchase with the commercial version of RobotExpert.


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The tutorials at worth1000.com are very good and you can learn a lot from them (Even I learned a lot and now I am a good designer!).
Some of their popular tutorials are:
Now its time for the main topic.
Many contests are conducted daily on Worth1000, in which some are paid and some are not. The unpaid one’s are just for fun but they are very helpful in elaborating photoshop skills.
The paid one’s give a lot of money. These include logo-making, banner designing, credit card designing etc., but they are very interesting and you can submit any no. of entries you like!. So there’s a great chance of winning.
I was placed 2nd once in a logo making contest.. 😀
Here is the logo I made for a site named “Get It”…
You can see my entry on worth1000 from here.
Some of my favourite contest (non-paid):
What do you think?
Do you know something interesting about worth1000? Then share it with me!
And please tell me how my logo was….. 🙂
[Editor’s Note: This post is submitted by our blogger Kushagra. Kushagra is interested in graphics design.

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Woman robbed, dragged during cellphone sale: 'I was terrified'
A woman said she was dragged by a car while selling a cellphone in a Deltona parking lot.
The woman said she was terrified, and was scared for her life.
She spoke to WESH 2 News about what happened.
“I'm very bruised, my neck hurts, my back hurts, my head hurts,” the victim, Stabile LeBron, said.
Stabile LeBron said she never dreamed that a simple Sunday night meeting in a supermarket parking lot to sell a used cellphone would turn violent.
The buyer she contacted through social media stayed in her own car, behind the wheel, and looked at the phone.
“All of a sudden, she says, ‘Okay, bye,’ and I say, ‘What?’ I tried to grab the phone from her, and when I did that, she grabbed my arm, and she just started hitting the gas and speeding away,” Stabile LeBron said.
The victim believes she was dragged 15 feet before dropping off. Her phone was gone. Her sense of security was shattered.
“I fell right on the ground, I hit my head, I hit my back,” she said.
“I was terrified, I was just in shock that someone for just a small materialistic thing would go out of their way and almost kill my wife,” said Edward LeBron, the victim’s husband.
Whether it's a cellphone, a laptop or a game console, it's suggested by experts that people look for the safe exchange zone -- usually a parking space in front of any sheriff's substation or police department. It is recommended that there is 24-hour video surveillance there for protection.
The LeBrons didn't know such exchange zones existed, which is why they picked a public parking lot on a Sunday night, only to be victimized.
“She almost killed me, it could have gone the other way. I could have gone like, under the car or anything,” Stabile LeBron said.
The area of the report where a suspect name would be listed is blacked out.
Stabile LeBron knows who she set up the meeting with for the sale online, but no arrest has been made.
The victim said she was selling the phone for $160 and can't believe all this happened over a phone.


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American culture has gone through certain dramatic swings in our preference for sun exposure, from the obsession with lily-white skin in the 1800s to a tanning culture in the 1960s to a real awareness today of the dangers of getting too much UV light exposure. So should you get outside and let the sun see you, or not? We think the answer is a resounding yes, though we would advocate wearing your sunscreen. Here are some of the ways that our boot camp workout will boost your well-being by giving you some sun exposure.
Sunlight Gives You Vitamin D
Skin can’t conduct photosynthesis (wouldn’t that be cool?), but it can produce vitamin D just from being exposed to sunlight. Vitamin D is present in very few foods and has many beneficial effects on our bodies. In particular, it promotes your ability to absorb calcium and build healthy bones. Vitamin D deficiency not only contributes to weak, soft, or brittle bones, it also comes with other health risks, including cardiovascular disease, cognitive impairment, asthma, and cancer. Vitamin D fights disease, boosts weight loss, and reduces depression, making it a robust nutrient that you simply can’t do without.
Sunlight Boosts Your Alertness
Just like darkness triggers your body to release the hormone melatonin, which puts you to sleep, bright sunshine causes your body to release the hormone serotonin, which helps you to be alert, calm, and focused.
Sunlight Improves Your Mood
Bright sunlight has both a psychological and a physiological effect on your body. While sunlight striking your skin promotes Vitamin D production, sunlight striking your eye promotes your body to improve your mood. It’s strange but true that bright light can induce positive effects on your state of mind and mental health. Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) is a condition that happens to people who don’t see enough bright, full-spectrum light, particularly in the winter when the days tend to be shorter and cloudier and people tend to stay indoors more.
The same hormone, serotonin, which we mentioned in the previous section, also acts as a natural antidepressant in the brain, boosting your mood and improving your emotional outlook. Add to that the beneficial, mood-boosting effects of the exercise itself, and you’ve got a double whammy when you do a boot camp workout outside.
Sunlight Is Good For Certain Skin Conditions
Don’t think that exposure to sunshine is pure skin cancer waiting to happen. While you certainly want to limit your sun exposure, avoid sunburns, and wear sunscreen while you’re outside, the sun actually has beneficial effects on your skin when you get a balanced amount of it. If you’re suffering from skin conditions such as psoriasis, eczema, jaundice, or acne, sun exposure can do you a lot of good.
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Alternative Medicine is Mainstream recently ran in The Wall Street Journal and talked about how alternative medical care needs to be in the forefront in our future national health plan.
President Barack Obama said in his health plan, "This nation is facing a true epidemic of chronic disease. An increasing number of Americans are suffering and dying needlessly from diseases such as obesity, diabetes, heart disease, asthma and HIV/AIDS, all of which can be delayed in onset if not prevented entirely."
Our "health-care system" is primarily a disease-care system and is one of the worst systems of any industrialized country. Last year, $2.1 trillion was spent in the U.S. on medical care, or 16.5% of the gross national product. Of these trillions, 95 cents of every dollar was spent to treat disease after it had already occurred. At least 75% of these costs were spent on treating chronic diseases, such as heart disease and diabetes, that are preventable or even reversible.
In 2004, The Interheart Study followed 30,000 men and women on six continents and found that changing lifestyle could prevent at least 90% of all heart disease. Yes, you read it right... Lifestyle could prevent 90% of all heart disease!
Research is finally starting to catch up with the beliefs on which the profession of chiropractic was founded on more than 100 years ago -- our bodies have the innate ability to heal themselves, given there is no stress or interference slowing this process. To achieve the maximal healing potential in our bodies we have to eliminate all forms of stress. These forms of stress come from interferences of the spinal cord, eating unhealthy, moving unhealthy and mental stress. Until you eliminate all these forms of stress on your body you aren’t going to be able to function and heal at 100%.
President Obama also recognizes chiropractic will play a very critical role in the future health of the Unit ed States. 2009 is a year of change -- not only for our country, but also an opportunity for change for your health by taking it in your own hands.
Source: Alternative Medicine is Mainstream, Deepak Chopra, M.D.; Interheart Study, Medscape.com; Letter to Doctors of Chiropractic, Barack Obama, barackobama.com. Picture compliments of: Martin Kozlowski, WSJ
Americans have been bombarded with commercials, magazine ads, billboards and many other forms of advertising for milk. All of these ads promote how healthy milk is for us. But could this be false advertising?
The milk found in your typical supermarket is very unhealthy and has been linked to a variety of symptoms and illnesses such as; allergies, gas, constipation, obesity, cancer, heart disease and osteoporosis.
Contrary to popular belief -- drinking milk can actually cause osteoporosis instead of preventing it.
What's so bad about milk?
1.Humans are the only species on earth that drinks milk after we go through the infant stage. Many adults actually lose their enzymes to digest milk as they age because our bodies aren’t supposed to drink milk. For instance, approximately 95% of Asians are lactose intolerant.
2.Cows in natural environments produce 10 gallons of milk per day where as cows that are in modern day dairy farms produce 100 gallons of milk today because of all the growth hormones given to them, making their udders so large they often drag on the ground
3.The USDA allows milk to contain 1.5 million pus particles per milliliter. These particles come from the growth hormones, antibiotics, and grains fed to the cows.
4.Cows are forced to eat grains which cause them to become sick. Farmers then give them antibiotics to keep them alive. These grains and antibiotics cause the milk produced by the cows to become very inflammatory, which causes disease.
5.After cow’s milk is collected it is then pasteurized and homogenized. This process basically destroys all of the healthy enzymes, vitamins, proteins and bacteria.
Does this mean you can’t ever drink milk? No, if you can find raw, organic, unpasteurized and unhomogenized milk, it can provide many healthy benefits. You can also replace cow milk with goat’s milk, or unsweetened almond milk.
Sources: 150 Healthiest Foods on Earth, Jonny Bowden; The New Wellness Revolution, Paul Zane Pilzer; Origins and Evolution of the Western Diet: Health Implications for the 21st Century, Loren Cordain; Osteoarthritis, Angiogenesis and Inflammation, C.S. Bonnet.


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Megan Milks’s Kill Marguerite is a collection that wears its power lightly, and as such, is quite a difficult book to write about in order to do it any justice. When I was asked to review this book, I was apprehensive because I wanted very much to read it, but felt like I was supremely underqualified to talk about it at length. A general search on Google will probably reveal various reviews that describe Kill Marguerite as a collection of playful, imaginative, weird, freaky, grotesque, queered-up stories that upend heteronormativity, stories that are irreverent of bourgeois norms of bodily discretion and propriety. Indeed, it’s all that. Kill Marguerite is slimy, gooey, inappropriate, and (metaphorically) shitty. I am incredibly squeamish and can’t deal very well with expectorating orifices, and here in Kill Marguerite was a girl with expectorating orifices. I am embarrassed to admit that part of my initial apprehension about reading this book had much to do with how disgusting it would be.
But Milks is not a writer in it for the shock or the cheap transgressions and Kill Marguerite is a rich, bizarre, and unpredictable collection of stories that break genre boundaries of fantasy, science fiction, and speculative myth retellings. In a thoroughly engaging discussion with Anne Yoder in Newcity Lit, Milks explains her obsession with bodily fluids as something that is concurrent with her obsession with shame:
There is something very threatening still about the grotesque leaky ‘feminine’ body, especially as opposed to the closed, impenetrable ‘masculine’ body. Many of the stories are interested in the transgressive, heroic properties of the grotesque female body. Others actually cut against the feminization of the grotesque. Some of the leaky (and penetrable) bodies are (hetero) masculine bodies—the figure of the father, for instance, gives birth, is impaled, et cetera, in a number of ways.
Her ability to render these abject bodies, with a tenderness and intelligence that cuts through the shame in an attempt to reach some kind of truth, is a testament to the strength of her writing. What are these leaky, disgusting, hysterical bodies trying to say? In stretching the limits of narrative form, Milks isn’t merely playing around with structure, writing clever stories that may impress upon first reading but quickly become forgettable. Instead, the structure informs the content, so much so that the body is not merely made transgressive, but is opened up, stretched out, and expanded until it becomes the very landscape of the story—like in “Swamp Cycle,” where the “(hetero) masculine body,” to use Milks’s phrase, of the narrator’s father is rendered penetrable and mutable, indistinguishable from the narrator’s body and the swamp that surrounds them.
“The Girl with Expectorating Orifices” is a title that suggests that the story is fundamentally interested in the leaky, feminine body, but when the unnamed narrator tells us, “Now, I’m the expectorator. I am crying and wheezing and shitting and puking and there is no one around to absorb it” (p. 182), it becomes clear that Milks is also dealing with excess, the too-muchness of being, which is always gendered feminine, and always represented as weak, or as a form of malfunction, like hysteria. This excess suggests an inability to comport oneself with dignity in the world. To be constantly secreting fluids and emotions is to be a constant spectacle—with the attendant assumption that one must not be able to reason, or think one’s way out of a situation. Women can’t do anything, hence they cry and bleed and scream. That’s a very basic stereotype, and perhaps no one really thinks this way, even the most hardened of men’s rights activists, but the basic, crude stereotype sets in motion various cultural and social assumptions about the excessiveness of the feminine, and the impotence of the masculine should it demonstrate the same. In Milks’s story, the girl with the expectorating orifices is possibly also the narrator, who is possibly also unreliable, and who may or may not be telling you a “true” story. “There is no one around to absorb” the fluids, and no readers willing to enter into a story, no people willing to risk themselves in love. The story then becomes a meditation on both the impossibility of love and of writing, perhaps, if there is no one around to absorb what one has to give. In juxtaposing the excessiveness of the body against the “hyper”-emotional, Milks doesn’t just use the body as a vessel to get to some higher truth in her fiction or focus on a mind vs. body duality, but instead looks imaginatively at how both body and mind produce the other.
Another story that deals explicitly with the feminine body and its disgusting emissions is “Floaters” (co-written by Milks and Leeyanne Moore), one of the most subtly painful stories in the collection. The narrator is (presumably) a regular white guy who also happens to be a stand-up comedian, and his Korean girlfriend’s bulimia becomes the subject of his highly successful routines. (The audience laughs and laps it up.) The boyfriend is long-suffering, having watched and heard his girlfriend puke her guts out after a meal, having had to stare at the remnants of her laxative-consumption in the toilet bowl—hence the title, “floaters”—and come upon the remains of her vomit in a pot in the kitchen. It’s so unremittingly gross, and it’s telling that for someone like myself who tries not to look at her own bodily, er, emissions in the toilet bowl, that these were the details of the story that my brain fixated on. “Floaters” hurts because of how easily appropriation of another person’s pain occurs, especially when one half of the partnership considers himself the creative one, the artist (the writer and stand-up comic being no different in mining their life experiences for stories that would gain them an adoring audience). It also hurts because it deftly brings to the fore misogyny, white privilege, and racism without letting the reader off the hook; in reading the story and enjoying it, one is participating in the narrator’s appropriation of his girlfriend’s illness. The Korean girlfriend exists not only as the laugh-a-minute stereotypes that the narrator peppers his comedy routines with, she also exists mainly as the contents of her body: shit and puke. How awful to be reduced to your gender or your race, and objectified in those terms. But how much more awful is it to be reduced to one’s shit? While reading the story the reader knows, and feels, the white male narrator’s pain and confusion—but whose excrement is held up as a matter of contempt, and the subject of comedy? It’s a story that forces the reader to pay attention to power and its effects, as well as to the intersections where disgust and desire meet. The girlfriend’s illness is erotic, which is partly why the narrator still hangs on to the relationship: things can be really bad, but if it makes you come, people are willing to endure a lot for the pleasure. This self-deception, about the reason why the boyfriend hangs on to the relationship and turns his girlfriend’s illness into an object of comedy, lays bare the intersection of gender, race, and sexuality.
The unsettling, disturbing facets of desire are also a feature in “Slug,” a story I truly expected to hate, but of course ended up loving. There is an element of the fantastic and the grotesque which Milks, the skilled writer, is able to control and manipulate very well without losing control of the structure and the narrative. The body doesn’t take over Milks’s stories; even at their grossest, these stories are self-aware and cognizant of the limits of fantasy. “Slug” seems to me the perfect narrative to a world in which desire has gone rampant. Sex sells everything in contemporary capitalism; it is abstracted from actual social relations between people and is fully exploited and commodified, and held up merely as exchange value. How does an individual “get in touch with their own desire,” so to speak? It seems quite impossible. In “Slug,” Patty’s fantasies are ludicrous, at parts reading like the at-times sad and humorous captions and video titles on porn websites, and they become all-encompassing until she literally loses herself. But as with all Milks’ stories, it’s unclear if she has lost herself or merely transformed into the kind of being she really needs to be. But slug Patty gets no happy ending, either. When all avenues for exploring desire have been exhausted, when one has turned oneself inside out and become the cock that one really needs, what is left?
This makes it seem like Kill Marguerite is an entire collection of stories about slug sex and excrement, but it’s not. Some of the other stories are intertextual puzzles in the best sense, intensely creative in imagining possibilities beyond a heterosexual, able-bodied, white, and affluent vision of life and thus serious about what it intends to interrogate: heterocentric romance narratives, compulsory heterosexuality and its attendant forms of femininity, aspects of affluent white teen girlhood. As a writer, Milks is able to combine the sly humour and farcical, almost carnivalesque aspects of fantasy with some heavy themes because she takes both her work and her readers seriously. The Sweet Valley Twins-Choose Your Own Adventure mashup story, with bits of The Babysitters Club and My Teacher Is an Alien thrown in, is an absolute delight because of how it plays with both YA and science fiction genre conventions, but also taps into the underlying sadness of the formulaic ghost-written stories of the Sweet Valley series that is most often felt by the readers who identified with Elizabeth Wakefield. But then, are there Sweet Valley readers who didn’t identify with Elizabeth? (Presumably those who identified as Jessica would have been too busy Living Life to have wasted their time on boring activities like reading.) Still, identification with a white, blonde, upper-middle-class American teenager can only go so far for the thousands (millions?) of brown-skinned, dark-haired, not-so-middle-class readers of Sweet Valley and similar-themed YA fiction in both the “first world” and the “developing world,” and this is something Milks is shrewdly attentive to, deploying the standard repetitive clichés of the ghost-written books in a way that draws attention to its own ridiculous unattainability. This is also skillfully explored in the anthology’s title story, which combines the structural elements of video games with the seemingly standard narrative structure of YA girl stories into a subtly powerful meditation on the impossibility of escaping the trap that is teenage gender trouble. Mean girls are a symptom, not the cause, of adolescent gender and sexual relations, but sometimes, like Tori Amos in “Waitress,” you can believe in peace and still want to kill.
Other stories, like “Dionysus” and “My Father and I Were Bent Groundward” are speculative fantasies that wrestle with the patriarchal hero-worship narrative of Greek myths, while “Earl and Ed” is an utter heartbreak of a story, dealing with the love between a wasp and an orchid, but bringing to the surface all the fears and confusions that surround non-normative relationships and the difficulties of “love” to sustain and flourish a relationship outside of the dictates of capitalism’s reproductive futurism. “Traumarama” is the least story-like of all the stories, being a compilation of various confessions by the writer’s friends; interesting and quite disturbing for how, in the midst of “cutesy” traumas that fit the teen magazine narrative framework of “something embarrassing, not too horrific,” there are stories that crack open the framework to reveal, as it were, too much, throwing into question the entire edifice of the traumarama-industry of the teen girl magazine: Your trauma is a media company’s profits, so learn to view your pain and the pain of others through the prism of ease of comprehensibility and disposability! In next month’s issue . . .  In Milks’s collaborative version, though, there are stories that remind the reader that there nothing easy or disposable about a narrative of trauma.
About a quarter of the way through writing this review, around midnight two nights ago, I was suddenly overcome by chills, dizziness, and nausea. Two hours later, spent and exhausted in the bathroom, I was the girl with the expectorating orifices, with my feverish forehead pressed against the cool tiles of the bathroom wall. At some point I must have been so tapped out that I fell momentarily asleep in this awkward position, and awoke to feel as though my clammy forehead had been sucked into the bathroom walls, and I thought for a second, and I had a brief vision of Catherine Deneuve’s apartment walls in Repulsion and a more insistent thought: Oh my god, I am a Megan Milks story. Reader, it turned out to be ordinary gastroenteritis, but for that moment it felt like I could not give the author a higher compliment than to feel as though I had not only absorbed the book, but the book had absorbed me into itself, too.
Subashini Navaratnam lives in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and has published poetry in Quarterly Literary Review Singapore, Mascara, Aesthetix, and Sein und Werden. Her writings on books have appeared in The Star (Malaysia), Pop Matters, and Full Stop and she has published nonfiction in MPH's anthology, Sini Sana and Buku Fixi's KL Noir: Yellow. She tweets as @SubaBat and blogs at disquietblog.wordpress.com.
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- Magic in the Cloister: Pious Motives, Illicit Interests, and Occult Approaches to the Medieval Universe by Sophie Page
There is something thrilling for the researcher about working in a library for the first time, familiarizing oneself with its contents, both their riches and their lacunae, figuring out its organizational principles, stumbling upon evidence of past users and important benefactors, and then by ever more extended use, discerning the patterns and trajectory of the library’s development over time. The experience encompasses both archaeological and forensic dimensions, and can be of far greater and longer-term value than getting to the individual volumes that brought the researcher to the library in the first place. As Sophie Page demonstrates in Magic in the Cloister, the thrill is not limited to a summer spent in a scrupulously maintained Fachbibliothek at a twenty-first-century university institute, but can also be won through a more constructed visit to a library in the distant past. [End Page 815]
The library in question in Magic in the Cloister is the late-medieval library of the Abbey of St. Augustine in Canterbury, especially its collection of learned magic. The collection amounts to some thirty volumes and warrants Page’s efforts on account of the pre-eminence of the abbey in English ecclesiastical and intellectual life. Her self-stated aim is to ascertain the internal rationality of the magic collection and to evaluate the rationale for its possession and use in a religiously orthodox monastic context.
Magic in the Cloister is the substantially revised dissertation submitted by Page for her doctorate at the Warburg Institute in 2000. Those origins would suggest that Page has been working in this medieval library, whose contents were dispersed during Britain’s early-sixteenth-century monastic dissolution, for about two decades. The familiarity that comes from such a long association enriches the analysis. Three highlights follow: First, the monograph contributes to a current research priority in the study of magic that magical texts should be analyzed in their codicological and librarious contexts. The series Magic in History has done much to shape this research agenda and includes this volume, Richard Kieckhefer’s Forbidden Rites (1998) and Benedek Lang’s Unlocked Books (2008). Page’s chapter on the monks who acquired the magic books for the abbey is exemplary in this regard. Second, the monograph attends with sophistication to the medieval diffusion in Western Europe of magical works of Mediterranean origin. Her analysis of the liber vaccae in the second chapter and her consideration of theurgy in the sixth shed important light on the appropriation of Arab and Jewish magical thought into the Western Christian world. Third, Page includes two translated texts as appendices, the Glossulae super librum imaginum lunae and the Liber de essentiali spirituum. These are shorter texts that would not likely otherwise find their way to press, that are important to particular chapters in the monograph, and that are now happily available for broader classroom use. Their inclusion is to be applauded.
Weaknesses are apparent only in contrast to the volume’s overriding strengths: the epilogue on John Dee, although at points intriguing, is unclearly linked to the substantive chapters that precede it. Furthermore, the concern to establish the “orthodoxy” of the texts’ possessors is overwrought at points: Cecco d’Ascoli’s execution in Florence would be more the exception than the rule and too far away to have been of real concern to readers at St. Augustine’s. Nonetheless, Magic in the Cloister is a stimulating work: its research is meticulous, its insights compelling, and its prose limpid. For this reviewer, the first visit to the library of St. Augustine’s was thrilling indeed.

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Extraneal®, a new peritoneal dialysis solution, was recently approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for use during the long dwell of peritoneal dialysis (PD). It represents a new class of osmotic agents with demonstrated clinical advantages over standard dextrose-based solutions, particularly for patients who would benefit from an improvement in ultrafiltration (UF). Studies comparing icodextrin and 2.5% dextrose for the long dwell have consistently demonstrated greater UF with icodextrin. In addition, because the icodextrin solution does not contain dextrose, the daily glucose load and associated risk of metabolic abnormalities are reduced. Icodextrin also has benefits beyond improved UF, including improvement in blood pressure control, fluid balance, and glycemic control, as well as extension of the time patients are able to stay on the therapy. These benefits could allow patients the opportunity to continue on their preferred dialysis modality.
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|Journal||Dialysis and Transplantation|
|State||Published - Nov 1 2003|
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7/10 The Challenger has found its sister starship, but the crew are living in total isolation.
2/9 Earth's last living man discovers that his wife's tomb is a lair for vampires.
2/5 Love and death are in the air and the Belgian sleuth declines a curious case.
2/5 On holiday in Europe, Frances and Richard try to track down a missing British agent.
7/15 Hortense's landlady Queenie tells of her war job, and her boring husband.
3/4 The Edinburgh detective must secure some rapid counterfeiter convictions.
1/4 A special wartime edition of the nostalgic spoof of boys' adventure story papers.
3/4 Hell's got workforce problems and Satan learns who truly wields power. From October 1995.
1/4 Comedian Luke Roberts tries to solve the big arguments using light entertainment.
6/6 The frugal comedian features an excerpt from his stand-up show at the Edinburgh Festival.
1/5 Ivor Cutler and friends with poems and songs, including 'I Am a Yellow Fly'. From Jun 1997
2/6 The youngster is a pawn in his parent's war and he's educated by philosopher Aristotle.
An electrician's visit brings worrying news about the pier. Dad's Army spin-off.
3/8 With digging in the playground, lessons are learned when an old boy visits the school.
Big Toe Books is a daily children's radio programme on BBC7.
Kenneth Horne, Kenneth Williams and Betty Marsden pay tribute to the Summer Concert Party.
The team bring you the nation's favourite police sirens, from the Warwick Arts Centre.
3/5 Following Arden's death, the Belgian sleuth gets involved. With John Moffatt.
3/5 With two agents contacted, the British couple's search moves to Austria.
8/15 Gilbert reveals how Jamaican fighters face racism from Americans and the British.
4/4 An unsolved murder is bringing vigilantes onto the streets. Stars Brian Cox.
3/6 The young man goes into battle, while King Philip's remarriage causes tensions.
The stumps fly at Hurst Cricket Club.
8/10 The injured Doctor Fitzpiers writes to Grace, and hopes are raised and dashed.
8/8 As Robert Louis Stevenson's adventure concludes, there's a last supper with his donkey.
78/216 Money had to be found for the war and taxes were high.
David Robinson and writer David Thomson celebrate the film star and his movie machine.
Join all your CBeebies friends for songs, rhymes and stories on BBC7.
2/6 Patrick pursues a job at his old school and meets his ex-teacher. Stars Jim Sweeney.
6/8 Clare's latest love affair proves difficult to keep secret from granny Eleanor. From 1986.
8/10 The crew of Challenger have mounted an escape, but their starship has vanished.
3/9 Earth's last living man Robert Neville steps up his fight against the vampires.
6/8 Liam and Anton witness through their goldfish bowl Martin and Susan breaking up.
1/6 Uruguay's President arrives at the Quando brothers' hair salon. From November 1999.
2/6 The management consultants plug into media technology. From November 2002.
3/6 The comedian sets out to discover how many people it takes to create a music scene.
Thursday 10 July 2008

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Cancer is predominantly caused by environmental factors, rather than inherent biological factors. Importantly, it is possible to reduce exposure to many of these risk factors.
What exactly do we mean by environmental factors? This includes infectious agents such as Human Papilloma Virus, Hepatitis B Virus, and Hepatitis C Virus, lifestyle-related risk factors such as tobacco use, diet, alcohol consumption, lack of physical activity, and sun exposure, as well as exposure to environmental carcinogens and pollutants such as benzene and formaldehyde.
A cancer-causing agent/factor is officially known as a carcinogen. Carcinogens attack the DNA of the cell, causing mutations. This can cause cells to divide or multiply out of control. These cancer cells multiply and grow into a lump or tumour and can spread to other parts of the body.
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NIXA, Mo. - The Jefferson City American Legion Post 5 Seniors won their pool in the Howard Johnson Invitational with a victory early Friday.
After two wins in the event Thursday, Post 5 improved to 3-0 with an 8-7 win over the Midwest Black Sox.
The local club fell behind 7-2 after 21â„2 innings before starting to rally. In the bottom of the third, Cole Distler tripled and later scored on a hit by Connor Hager.
Post 5 got within 7-4 in the fourth with a two-out score. Seth Lehmen walked, moved up on an error and a passed ball and scored on an RBI single by Clayton Harrison.
Distler scored another run in the fifth to cut the deficit to 7-5.
Then in the bottom of the seventh, Post 5 loaded the bases with one out. Trevor Schnieders drew a walk to pull Jefferson City within 7-6, then Post 5 tied it on a sacrifice fly by Patrick Schnieders. Lehmen then followed with the game-winning hit, a single down the left-field line that scored Corey Beard.
Nolan Bax was the winning pitcher, as he allowed no hits and struck out five in his four innings of work.
Post 5 returned to action late Friday night against Springfield Kickapoo at Kickapoo High School.


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Monday, January 26, 2009
To all readers "Happy Chinese New Year", today is the first day of the new year. Though there were lots of doubt on world economy, recession and war, I do hope all this will end and regain some stability.
Having said those, in the entertainment industry, lots of great stuff coming out on the silver screen and also on TV. Last December I saw "Ip Man" starring Hong Kong star Donnie Yen, the kung fu was awesome, it was done in a very fresh approach, which made the art of "Wing Chun" way cool. There is a rumour a sequel is in planning...let's hope it will live up to the previous. For those who missed "Ip Man", go watch it.
Over in Hollywood, tons of movies are releasing this 2009 such as Wolverine, Watchmen, Sherlock Holmes and many more blockbusters and great films. As for me, I was also given the responsibility to give fresh and exiting TV content. My works are in progress and hopefully they will explode in Malaysia.
I also managed to catch "Kinta 1881", the first martial art chinese film in Malaysia. I must say thought the storyline is weak, bu the fight scenes and the cinematography were quite impressive. Given it's the first effort, I do hope this will inspire more of this genre.
(movie posters courtesy from google)

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Imdadullah Muhajir Makki
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Religious work and travels
At the age of eighteen, his bay'at was accepted by Nasiruddin Naqshbandi. Later he went to study under Mianji (Noor Mohammad Jhanjhanvi), as an initiate of the Chishti-Sabiri Sufi order, but after Mianji's death he temporarily became a semi-recluse. After wandering in the wilderness for six months he was overcome by a strong urge to travel to Medina. On December 7, 1845, he arrived at Banares. From there, he departed for Arabia for Hajj and pilgrimage of the tomb of shrine of Muhammad.
After the completion of his hajj, Imadadullah remained with Ishaq Muhajir Makki and others. Shah informed him that, after his pilgrimage to Medina, he should return to India. Sayyid Qudratullah Banarasi Makki sent several of his murids to accompany him to Medina.
Freedom struggle against the British
Imdadullah married for the first time when he was 48 years old. After the death of his first wife, he married a blind widow. Because she was blind, she could not manage all household work, so she requested him to take another wife so all household work. Imdadullah then married for the third time. None of his three wives bore him children.
Imadadullah was of frail physical stature. In his last years, his body deteriorated to such an extent that, towards his death, it became difficult for him to even turn onto his side. He died in 1896 at the age of eighty-two.
In Makki's poem in Imdad ul Mushtaq regarding his teacher Noor Muhammad, he says:
تم ہو اے نور محمد خاص محبوب خدا
ہند میں ہو نائب حضرت محمد مصطفیٰ
تم مدد گار مدد،امداد کو پھر خوف کیا
عشق کی پر سن کے باتیں کانپتے ہیں دست و پا
اے شہ نور محمد،وقت ہے امداد کا
آسرا دنیا میں ہے از بس تمہاری ذات کا
This translates into English as:
You are, O Noor Muhammad, the remarkably beloved of Allah; you are the deputy of Hazrat Muhammad Mustafa pbuh in India.
You are the helper then what to worry for assistance; but hands and feet shiver when hear communications of love (‘Ishq).
O master Noor Muhammad! This is the time for assistance; the only reliance in the world is your personality.”
His books include:
- Hashiya Mathnavi Moulana Rumi: This is an annotation in Persian on the Mathnawi-i Ma’nawi by Rumi. During Imadadullah's lifetime, only two parts could be printed. The remainder was printed after his death.
- Ghiza-e-Ruh (The Nourishment of the Soul): Imadadullah wrote this book in 1264 AH. Mianji Noor Mohammad Jhanjhanvi is also discussed. It consists of 1600 verses of poetry.
- Ikleelul Quran (Tafseer Quran in Arabi). First Published in Bahraich by Taj Offcet Press formerly Aqeel Press NazirPura Bahraich
- Jihad-e-Akbar (The Greater Jihad): He composed this book in 1268 AH. It is a poetic work in Persian that he translated it into Urdu. It consists of 17 pages with 679 verses.
- Mathnavi Tuhfatul Ushshaq (Mathnavi – A Gift for Lovers): This consists of 1324 poetic verses and was compiled in 1281 AH.
- Risala Dard Ghamnak (The Treatise of Painful Sorrow): It consists of 5 pages with 175 verses.
- Irshad-e-Murshid (The Directive of the Murshid): This book deals with wadha'if, muraaqabaat, aurad, and shajaraat of the four silsilas. It was written in 1293 AH.
- Zia ul Quloob (Glitter of the Hearts): This book is in Persian. He wrote this kitab in Makkah in 1282 AH on the request of Hafiz Muhammad Yusuf, the son of Hafiz Muhammad Zamin.
- http://www.hadhrat.com/haji-imdadullah-muhajir-makki-r-a/, Profile of Haji Imdadullah, Retrieved 26 March 2017
- Scott A. Kugle, Sufis and Saints' Bodies, p 222. ISBN 0807872776
- Scott A. Kugle, Sufis and Saints' Bodies, p 223. ISBN 0807872776
- Sherali Tareen (Franklin & Marshall College Lancaster, Pennsylvania), Haji Imdadullah’s Hermeneutics of Reconciliation, p 3.
- https://archive.org/details/HajiImdadullah2 Profile of Haji Imdadullah, Retrieved 26 March 2017
- Imdad ul Mushtaq. Ashraf Ali Thanvi and Mushtaq Ahmed. p. 116.
- https://islamicbookslibrary.wordpress.com/?s=Haji+Imdadullah+&submit=Search, Books written by Haji Imdadullah on Islamic Books Library website, Published 15 December 2011, Retrieved 26 March 2017


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This week I have realized that I desperately need to get my tomatoes into larger containers. They have really grown fast!
I’m hoping that the roots haven’t grown together too much.
Here is some sweet basil. I have learned a lesson about seed quality. I had purchased some of the herb seed from Baker Creek Seed, and also had some seed that I purchased at Wal-Mart from Burpee. I have to be honest and tell you that the Burpee seed isn’t doing very well at all. The germination rate isn’t very impressive and the seedlings that have grown either look anemic or have shriveled and died. 😦 So, I guess I will be making another order from Baker Creek. Very soon. 🙂
The peppers are looking very good as well. I don’t think I’ve ever had seedlings look this good. I’m sure it’s because I have them under grow lights this year.
I should have planted peas, lettuce, radishes, and cabbage by this point, but I haven’t had the chance. More on that later…
I have convinced 😉 my sweet man to take me out on a date…. and even wear nice clothes. So, he decided that we should go out next Friday night. Yay! However, a few minutes later I realized that next Friday is Good Friday, and we are showing a video at church. I reminded him, and his response was, “Oh, yeah. I forgot what week that was. Well, I guess I’ll be taking you to a move.” Um, no. That’s not a date. 😛 So, I don’t know when we will be going out, but at least I did convinced him. 😉

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Mizoram Board MBSE HSLC (10th) Result 2022
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The Mizoram Board of School Education (MBSE) on May 17 announced HSLC or Class 10 final examination result, 2022.
The Mizoram Board of School Education (MBSE) on Tuesday, May 17 declared the result of Higher School Leaving Certificate (HSLC) Class 10 exam 2022. The students can check the HSLC result on the website -fastresult.in. Students can also get their MBSE HSLC result 2022 via SMS. Here is the direct link and steps to download mark sheets.
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Caused by the deterioration of the macula, macular degeneration impacts more than 10 million Americans. This makes macular degeneration the number one cause of vision loss in the United States. Scroll down to learn more about macular degeneration symptoms and treatment options.
Macular Degeneration Symptoms
What Is Macular Degeneration?
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One of the oldest inhabited cities in Punjab, Jalandhar has undergone rapid urbanisation and developed into a highly industrialised centre of commerce. In fact, it is a global hub for the manufacture of sporting equipment. And now, after facing failure in two rounds of competition, Jalandhar has finally made it to the government's smart cities list. With a vision statement titled'Healthy and Productive Jalandhar, the leading sports and manufacturing hub in Asia', Dr Basant Garg, Municipal Commissioner, Municipal Corporation Jalandhar, discusses the city's plans with SERAPHINA D'SOUZA.
Tell us about the smart projects initiated within the city and the amount invested.
We are looking at a Rs 1,985-crore investment under the smart cities programme, for which we will receive funds from the Centre, state, the urban local body, the corporation's own resources and some projects handled under PPP. Area-based development (ABD) is taking up a huge chunk of funds whereas the pan-city initiatives have a lower budget. That said, to make a city actually smart, we need to spend more funds across it.
Thus, we will be designing other projects as well. Under ABD, we have chosen the 1,010-acre Burlton Park to be designed and retrofitted as a showcase for the smart city at Rs 1,520 crore. Along with basic facilities, a huge state-of-the-art multipurpose stadium and astounding shops and shopping arcades will be developed here. Under pan-city, we have identified smart LED lighting, WiFi services, smart poles and efficient transportation as well as projects related to multilevel parking, CCTV cameras, and space city initiatives and surveillance systems for traffic management.
We are also looking at projects under the Internet of Things (IoT). We are currently at the project management consultant (PMC) appointment stage, after which, we will float tenders to prepare the DPR in about two months.
Introduce us to the other core infrastructure projects planned.
At present, Jalandhar relies on 100-per-cent groundwater. This is fast depleting. We also incur a lot of expenditure to run the 520 tube wells to provide water to the city. So, one major project is surface water supply, through which water from river Beas will be provided to the city for drinking. This is in the design stage and estimated to cost about Rs 2,000 crore. The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has already evinced interest in providing technical assistance in design as well as financial support. Besides, we have vastly improved our roads in the past three years; many flyovers have come up to increase connectivity. Under the Smart City programme, we are looking at increasing traffic mobility. We have located two areas where we need better connectivity with infrastructure such as flyovers. Further, we will also invest in maintaining existing roads.
What about projects initiated under AMRUT and JNNURM?
Under AMRUT, we have projects that include laying and rehabilitating the existing water supply and sewer systems and providing for sewage treatment plants (STP). We are essentially aiming at 24 + 7 water supply for 100 per cent of the area as well as 100 per cent water and sewerage treatment, for which we have already invited tenders.
We want to efficiently handle the entire water cycle by reducing non-revenue water. We are also planning a SCADA system, wherein the existing water pipeline will be rehabilitated, for which bulk metres will be installed. The overall budget for this water management system is about Rs 109 crore.
This is in three phases. We could not get any bidders for the first phase, but hope to get them in due course. Another project is a 100-MLD STP existing on old technology that we want to shift to SBR technology. We will also be coming up with another 50-MLD STP. At present, the treatment capacity is around 225 MLD; we are looking at around 300 MLD. We also have projects for transportation services and park and city development under AMRUT.
Also, share the various aspects of effective waste management, water or power distribution undertaken in the city.
We have already started designing our solid waste management project, in convergence with the Swachh Bharat mission. We are at the expression of interest (EoI) stage and have invited various parties to handle proposals. We want to develop this on a PPP basis.
We have an old system where solid waste was indefinitely dumped to a 14-acre landfill; we are now reclaiming our landfill through a bio-mining project. We will clear and segregate the waste accumulated over the past 30 years. We have already finalised details for the Rs 28-crore project.
Second, we are working on a proposal to set up a waste-to-energy plant. Third, we will set up biomethanation plants to handle organic waste at places such as sabji mandis where there are bulk generators. Our aim is to set up eight such plants of 5 tonne per day (tpd) capacity at eight identified areas where bulk generators can feed the plants. We will float tenders for these in another two months. Besides, we are also looking at stormwater sewers. Currently, only 4-5 per cent of the city area has stormwater sewers. We have suggested that this project be taken up under ADB support at about Rs 800 crore.
How is the city gearing up to become a magnet for sports activities?
The theme we have chosen for Jalandhar Smart City is that of a sporting hub; the city is also a hand tool manufacturing hub.
The area of Burlton Park will be developed in line with this. We are in the process of appointing a PMC for the stadium project, after which the DPR will be prepared and actual construction will start.
What is the annual budget planned for the city?
For the current financial year, the corporation's total budget is Rs 535 crore. Of this, we received 40 per cent as our share, which will not be converted into GST share. So, about 60 per cent is funded by the Centre and the state, while we raise the rest through our own resources such as building approvals, water supply, user charges, property tax, etc. Under Smart Cities, we are looking at about Rs 1,985 crore, 20 per cent of which will be funded by the corporation or through its own resources û through PPP or bonds - in the next five years. So, we are looking at funding of about Rs 400 crore over five years.
Total city area: 110 sq km.
Population: 8.74 lakh (as per 2011 Census).
Year of establishment: 1977.
No. of administrative wards: 60.
No. of households: 1.56 lakh (as per 2011 Census).
Annual budget: Rs.535 crore.
Smart city budget: Rs.1,985 crore over five years.
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Roughly 500,000 people fight their way through New York City's Grand Central Station on a daily basis, but on Wednesday, world wrestling superpowers United States, Iran and Russia put Vanderbilt Hall in a headlock—something they'd like to do to the members of the International Olympic Committee (IOC).
The event was billed as "The Rumble On The Rails," and it showcased the sport in an effort to keep the wrestling movement alive and remind the IOC that it should always have a place in the Olympics.
The star power that came out to support the cause included Olympic Gold Medalist's Rulon Gardner and Kurt Angle, actor and wrestling advocate Billy Baldwin and hard-hitting Hall of Fame cornerback/safety Ronnie Lott—all sharing a deep passion for what many people consider to be the oldest sport on earth.
While it still feels like a bad dream, back on February 12 the IOC suggested that wrestling be excluded from the 2020 Olympic Games.
The IOC's announcement summoned an immediate and widespread outcry from wrestling fans around the world.
Backlash ranged from casual enthusiasts who tune in to watch every four years even though they don't quite grasp the rules to passionate devotees who live and breathe it.
One of the more passionate and knowledgeable fans of the sport is actor and former high school and college wrestler, Baldwin.
Baldwin is on the Committee to Preserve Olympic Wrestling, and he vividly recalled his reaction and action after hearing the shocking recommendation by the IOC back in February.
I sent out an email to my wrestling database which is like 500 people, and I sent the link to the article and in the subject heading, I wrote that this is an outrage. They have bleeped with the wrong people.
Baldwin later went on to say that most of the blame actually falls on the International Federation of Associated Wrestling Styles (FILA), the governing body that represents wrestling to the IOC.
These guys [IOC] have been requesting and warning us for years now that you have to make the sport more popular, better and grow it. They've been saying to make it cooler and make scoring more interesting, exciting, dynamic and make it better for television.
While 2012 Olympic Champion and USA's greatest hope Jordan Burroughs shined in Wednesday's exhibition, I caught up with Gardner—former gold medalist from the 2000 games and bronze medalist from 2004.
The fact that we're even in this position right now means we're in trouble and we got a lot of work to do. Somewhere in the IOC's thinking process, they feel that the oldest and greatest Olympic sport out there [wrestling] shouldn't be in the games.
I think it's just a lack of education on our part, but ultimately we didn't sell the sport, we didn't let them know why the sport of wrestling is so great, and it's our responsibility to do that. All the emotion is gone now, and we have to show them why the Olympic movement has to have wrestling involved.
I didn't have to stray too far in order to find another former gold medalist and current pro TNA wrestler, and Angle was happy for the attention the event garnered, but was adamantly upset with what has transpired.
This turned out to be a great event, and it's cool to see everybody coming together. Very seldom do you get the Americans, Iranians and Russians shaking hands and hugging each other, but we're all here for one reason and that's to save Olympic wrestling.
I was disgusted with the IOC's suggestion to drop wrestling—a lot of sports are dying, but wrestling isn't one of them.
Thank god we hired a new president of FILA [Nenad Lalovic]. He doesn't know a lot about Olympic wrestling, but he's a great politician, he's going to push the sport of wrestling and we're going to hope and pray that everything works out.
I believe that when they [IOC] do the final voting in September, they're going to realize that they just wasted several months of taking the sport out and then adding it back in.
I left Angle before he body-slammed me for taking his attention away from the action, and as I looked to make my way back to my seat, who else do I bump into but San Francisco 49er legend Mr. Lott.
While Lott wasn't ever a wrestler, he holds the sport in very high regard and shared with me the greatness of wrestling and how we can't let the IOC take it out of the Olympics.
I couldn't believe the IOC would ever suggest to exclude wrestling. They have to understand that a lot of the sports in the Olympics that we see today wouldn't even be around if it wasn't for wrestling.
We can't take this sport for granted because it shapes people's lives. I had a chance to watch Dan Gable and I read his books, and I knew that if I had what he had inside and I could apply it to football, I'd have a shot.
Besides wrestling, the seven other sports vying for the 26th core sport of the 2020 Olympic games are: baseball/softball, karate, roller sports, sport climbing, squash, wakeboarding and wushu.
The IOC will meet in Buenos Aires, Argentina from September 7 to 10 to decide which sport gets the nod.
Lott has one wish for the committee for when they sit down to deliberate.
"Understand that in your heart you wrestle to make great decisions all the time, and the decision to include wrestling is one that you have to make."
Couldn't have said it better myself.
Unless otherwise noted, all quotes were obtained firsthand.


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IPL Highlights, SRH vs RCB Highlights: SunRisers Hyderabad Beat Royal Challengers Bangalore By 118 Runs
IPL 2019, SunRisers Hyderabad vs Royal Challengers Bangalore Highlights: David Warner and Jonny Bairstow both scored centuries at the top of the order.
SunRisers Hyderabad registered a massive 118-run victory against Royal Challengers Bangalore in Sunday's afternoon game at the Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium in Hyderabad. RCB captain Virat Kohli won the toss and opted to bowl. However, this turned out to backfire as SRH openers David Warner and Jonny Bairstow exploded at the beginning of the innings itself. The duo created several batting records on way to their 185-run stand. Both Bairstow and Warner scored centuries. Chasing a mammoth 232 for victory, RCB lost the plot very early on. Afghanistan's Mohammed Nabi, playing his first match this season, tore through the RCB batting order, picking up 4 wickets for 11 runs in his four overs. Colin de Grandhomme put up a 37-run resistance, but this was only good enough to delay the inevitable defeat. SRH now have two wins in three matches and are at the top of the table. RCB are yet to register a win after three games in IPL 2019. (SCORECARD)

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Published on 07 Sep 11
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