On August 19, 2012, police arrested and detained four participants of Women of the Wall during the monthly service at the Western Wall (Kotel). The women are being accused of two offenses: Disturbing the public peace according to regulation 201 A4 of the Israeli legal code, the punishment for which is six months in prison, and the violation of regulation 287A by performing a religious act that "offends the feelings of others." The punishment for the second crime is up to two years in prison.
On the Muslim holiday of Eid Al Fitr and the Jewish new month of Elul while Jerusalem's Old City and its holy sites were busy and chaotic, Israeli Police chose to become "fashion police", by arresting four women who wore tradition Jewish prayer shawls (white with black or blue stripes, commonly and traditionally associated as male). The Women of the Wall were arrested mid-prayer and stood amongst dozens of women who wore colorful prayer shawls and were left alone by police.
For over twenty years Women of the Wall has continued to fight for religious freedom and women's rights at the Western Wall. As Women of the Wall, our central mission is to achieve the social and legal recognition of our right, as women, to wear prayer shawls, pray, and read from the Torah collectively and out loud at the Western Wall.
מצטערת שלא יכולתי לבוא-אני בחופשת מחלה. אני איתכן ברוח ומתכננת לבוא אי"ה בחודש (מר) חשון .עד אז מאחלת לכל נשות הכותל וכל תומכיה שנה טובה.
Yasher Koach on your courage to bring equality for every Jew!! I am proud to support you and to have participated in a minyan with you previously.
Lorraine's tallit is actually white on white. Thus, even by their definition, she was not wearing a "man's tallit." But, yes, she wears a tallit every morning at morning minyan in a traditional manner, and not as a shawl. We support you women for your courage and pray for the day when Jews will stop hating their fellow Jews.


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Caution tape surrounds the scene of a wind-damaged tree in Portland, Ore., Wednesday, Nov. 12, 2014. Forecasters say frigid air will continue to gust Wednesday through parts of Oregon, including the Columbia River Gorge and the Portland area with snow expected to move into the region by Thursday.(AP Photo/Don Ryan)
A Georgia police officer and a suspect are dead following a shooting that began following a traffic stop in a town north of Atlanta, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation said Thursday.
The shooting happened in Holly Springs, Georgia, a town located about 35 miles north of Atlanta. According to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, the incident occurred on Wednesday night.
WXIA-TV in Atlanta reports that several roads in the area are closed so officials can conduct an investigation. A Holly Springs Police Department spokesperson told the AJC that the scene is still "very active."
The identity of the officer and the suspect were not immediately available, as officials worked to notify next of kin.
This story is breaking and will be updated.
The incident started as a traffic stop. At this point, we are still working to gather details and will provide updates as we learn more. (2/2)
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Sounds good, the background noise does not bother me so much as your guitar sounds loud and clear enough. Well played, I thought, you looked as if you played without much effort, wel done. A comment made which was also made earlier is about he arched fingers. I am not sure what the intention is but I find it requires less effort to play with arched fingers, although the positioning is more critical. I imagine that when playing fast the arched fingers become hammers and require hardly any effort to ensure the strings don't buzz. More experienced players than me would have more relevant things to say I think.
Thanks, Erik. I had a little difficulty playing it without missing a couple of notes here and there, I guess the tempo suffered as a result.
Here are my submissions for lesson 4: thanks for listening. Merry Christmas!
Nice job, your posture is good, finger looks great.
Brian Hunker wrote: Bill, one thing I noticed in your Alouette video. Measures 7 and 8 are all D notes (3 high D's and 3 low D's). I believe you read this as low D to open B string, which is common because the D and B lines are right next to each other on the staff. Other than that your performance was excellent. I only point out this minor mistake because octave jumps like this D-to-D exchange are REALLY common in music and you can benefit greatly if you learn to recognize octave jumps by-ear in this song. So it's kind of worth a second look in that regard.
You are spot on! I can't believe I didn't catch that. It doesn't even sound right. lol. Great catch and thank you for letting me know. I re-recorded and edited my post so the updated one is there.
Again, thank you for taking the time to really listening and catch that mistake .
Thank you for listening to my recordings. Funny thing is, Brian noticed the same problem with Alouette as you did. Please see my response to Brian. Thanks!
As for La Cucaracha, I did the same thing as I did in Alouette. After listening I noticed I hit the open G again rather than the open B then D. Great catch! I re-recorded La Cucaracha and updated my post.
Again, thank you for taking the time to listen and provide feedback.
Your picking hand looks natural. I wish had a little longer fingers to help with the longer stretches. You were right about missing the repeat in Rousselle. The first 5 bars should be repeated then the rest of it played through. However, your recording played all the way through an then finished with the first 5 bars.
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You're coming along well . I noticed at the end of Lundi Matin you pushed through the 1/4 notes in the second to last bar at the same speed as your 1/8 notes before them. I really struggle with keeping tempo so I try to practice with a metronome and then get the tempo in my head so I can count it without the metronome. I know there are some varying opinions on keeping tempo. This is what I do.
OMG ! this thread has suddenly flooded with submissions and discussions ! ! Nice to see that.
You played very well. Your timing and tempo was very good in Anonyme Alouette, Gentille Alouette. In Lundi Matin, your tempo varied but your notes were spot on.
Your videos were fabulous. You seem so relaxed when you play, no wonder you produce that kind of music from your guitar and your posture is also so good. Everything seemed right to me in all your pieces, you surely have worked hard on them. Good Work ! !
And, thank you for your feedback.
Wow ! Nice way to sum up everything in one video You have progressed a lot. From your previous lessons to this, you surely have made a remarkable improvement. I could see your fingers had quick movements and i-m-p switching was also very smooth. In some measures, I could see there were some hiccups but with more and more practice you can easily eliminate all that. All in all nice work, you have worked hard, practice harder ! ! And thanks for your feedback !
Thank you for your feedback, I appreciate it. And, well I am not using a laptop to record videos, but a camera. I have got a lot of suggestions from everyone here and I will try to work on them to eliminate that sound !
Regarding the arched fingers that I haven't used in some pieces, it is because I needed to damp the lower string as per the music sheet. It does look awkward, at times, placing the finger like a bar but then that is possibly the only way to damp the string taking least amount of time. In the music sheet, Mr JFD has emphasized a lot on damping and I really like damping . I feel I have now started damping even those notes that are not required and this is not good. I have to be careful.
If you haven't already, look very carefully at the way Delcamp moves his (left?) striking hand from left to right as he moves up and down the first 2 scale exercises. When he starts his fingers are right over the sound hole. Then as he moves to the notes on the low E string his hand moves closer to the bridge. Then back over the sound hole as the phrase returns.
Also, does anybody happen to know if Prof Delcamp is actually left-handed or is this another one of those mirror-image-camera situations?
I completed my task for this month.. thank you for watching and leaving your comments.
I would like to wish you all Marry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
Hi Brian, I believe prof Delcamp is actually left handed. I think I have read that in the forums somewhere.


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The Cuban Arlenis Sierra sixth in the fifth stage of the Giro a Italia
by Prensa COPACI | Jul 5, 2022 | noti_en | 0 comments
The Cuban Arlenis Sierra entered sixth today in another massive sprint in the fifth stage of the Giro a Italia, disputed over 126.1 kilometers between Carpi and Reggio Emilia. Her Movistar team maintained the individual leadership of the Dutch star Annemieek Van Vleuten.
Arlenis once again fulfilled the role of teammate with excellence, staying all the time with her teammates under the care of the Olympic and world champion Annemiek, who crossed in 24th place with a similar time of 3:05.02 hours to the winner, the Italian Elisa Balsamo (Trek-Segafredo).
The hundred riders who arrived behind Balsamo deserved the same time, so there were no significant changes in the individual general classification after the longest section of the tour.
Movistar, which is second among 24 teams, keeps the Serbian Jelena Eric in seat 17; Arlenes at 24; the Colombian Paula Patiño in 34; the Danish Emma Norgaard in 107 and the French Aude Biannic in 118.
For the Italian champion of powerful shooting, this was her second victory, after prevailing on that day, and wearing the "pink jersey" in the third and fourth, until in the latter Van Vleuten attacked in the mountains and triumphed with enough difference to snatch her privileged position from the also world champion.
According to the site esciclismo.com, the last kilometer was somewhat bumpy; however, the favorites had no setbacks to discuss the sprint, in which the Dutch Charlotte Kool (DSM) entered second and behind her her compatriot, the multiple Olympic and world medalist Marianne Vos (Jumbo-Visma).
Once again it was a day characterized by heat, with a time of 3 hours, 5 minutes and 2 seconds, Balsamo – world champion and cycling jersey of the race – prevailed at the arrival in Reggio Emilia ahead of the Dutch Charlotte Kool (DSM) and Marianne Vos (Jumbo-Visma), second and third, respectively.
A quintet starred in the break of the day. The group opened the pace from the first bars of the race until the multicolored "ball" quelled the rebellion by capturing the Italian Giorgia Bariani (Top Girls Fassa Bortolo), the last of the escapees to be absorbed less than five kilometers from the line of goal.
This Wednesday the sixth stage will take place in a section of 114.7 kilometers starting in Sarnico and ending in Bergamo.
1. Elisa Balsamo (ITA/Trek-Segafredo)- 3:05:02 hours
2. Charlotte Kool (NED/DSM) – m.t.
3. Marianne Vos (NED/Jumbo-Visma) – m.t.
4. Chiara Consonni (ITA/Valcar) – m.t.
5. Marta Bastianelli (ITA/UAE-Adq) – m.t.
6. Arlenis Sierra (CUB/Movistar) – m.t.
7. Rachele Barbieri (ITA/Liv Racing-Xstra) – m.t.
8. Clara Copponi (ITA/FDJ) – m.t.
9. Emanuela Zanetti (ITA/Isolmant-Premac) – m.t.
10. Lea Teutenberg (GER/LIN Ceratizit-WNT) – m.t.
1. Annemiek van Vleuten (NED/Movistar) – 11:51:35 a.m.
2. Mavi Garcia (ESP/UAE-Adq) at 0:25
3. Marta Cavalli (ITA/FDJ) at 0:57
4. Amanda Spratt (AUS/BikeExchange) at 5:14
5. Elise Chabbey (SUI/Canyon-Sram) at 5:21
6. Cecilie Uttrup Ludwig (DEN/FDJ) at 5:26
7. Niamh Fisher-Black (NZL/SD Worx) at 5:28
8. Silvia Persico (ITA / Valcar) at 5:29
9. Évita Muzic (FRA/FDJ) at 5:48
10. Erica Magnaldi (ITA/UAE-Adq) at 6:23
Stage 6: Grumello del Monte–Bergamo (114.7 km)
Stage 7: Prevalle–Passo Maniva (112.9 km)
Stage 8: Povereto–Aldeno (104.7km)
Stage 9: San Michele All'Adige–San Lorenzo Dorsino (112.8 km)
Stage 10: Abano Terme–Padova (90.5km)
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LeBron James doesn't believe in managing minutes to avoid injury
LeBron James finally revealed the extent of his ankle injury that sidelined him much of last season, but it isn't changing how he is approaching this season for the Lakers.
By Jacob Rude@JacobRude Oct 18, 2021, 5:01pm PDT
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Even LeBron James, a basketball cyborg who has spent most of his career toeing the line as to whether he's mortal on the court, found his match last season. James missed the majority of the second half of the season with an ankle sprain before playing through the injury late in the regular season and into the postseason.
However, he was very clearly never at 100% during those contests, even after delaying his comeback until the final games of the regular season. On Monday, James revealed the true extent of his injury for the first time, and how long into the offseason it took for him to recover from the ankle sprain.
"It took a while," James said after the team's final practice of the preseason. "It took a while. I didn't do much basketball stuff for probably like the first two months of the summer — which is very rare for me — because my ankle wasn't responding how we would like for it to respond."
Father Time may be undefeated, but it was summertime James needed to fight him this time around.
"The best thing about the summertime is that I had time. I had time to really just give it an opportunity to get ready to where my ankle was ready to go," James said. "I was always training. I wasn't on the basketball court, but I was always doing other stuff, training, pushing and seeing things I could do with my ankle until I got to a point where I didn't feel any sharp pains anymore, and my flexibility was back to where it was before."
Those sharp pains James mentioned on Monday were one of the reasons for his delayed comeback. After returning to the floor on April 30 against San Antonio and playing two games, James went back to the sideline for two more weeks before returning for a back-to-back on the final weekend of the season.
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"No," James said. "For one, I don't play the game thinking about injuries. And also, I feel worse when I play low minutes."
Throughout his tenure as head coach, Frank Vogel has deferred at least some of the decision-making to his star players when it comes to how many games they'll play and how many minutes they're comfortable playing. On Monday, he indicated that would continue to be the plan.
"We will be intelligent," Vogel said of managing James' workload. "Obviously you probably don't want to have him play 82 games, but we're not going to pre-script X amount of nights off. We'll take it as it comes throughout the year."
Frank Vogel will consult with LeBron James, Anthony Davis and front office on starting lineup
Anthony Davis says he feels good physically heading into the regular season
Across his three years in Los Angeles, James has averaged 34.5 minutes per game, and a career-low 33.4 minutes per game last season. Last year, though, was an exception and not the beginning of a trend for James, Vogel said.
"We still want to be around the 34 (minute) range as a script," Vogel said. "The 34-36 (minute range) and then obviously hope for situations where if the group out there on the floor is playing well then we can leave him out there a little longer.
"In some ways, if he stays over there too long and gets cold, it's worse for him than to get back in there. Especially because he's been playing this type of rotation for so long."
Similar to James, Vogel said the Lakers intend to keep Anthony Davis and Russell Westbrook's minutes in the mid-30s range as well this season, though they certainly will have a similar level of input in potential nights off throughout the season as James does.
What remains clear is that neither the Lakers nor James are treating last season's injury as any sort of warning or precursor, but instead as a one-off fluke caused by a player diving under him, and not some sign of age-related decline. And when considering the large sample size of James' career and his relative lack of injuries thus far (knock on wood), it's a fair assumption to make.
For now, James will look to continue to defy conventional wisdom on the basketball court... and possibly look to avoid any role players diving at his legs this season. That may be more productive than playing a few less minutes here and there.
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I am writing this to highly recommend Kim Bregman to any perspective Home Buyer. My wife and I were new to Florida and had very little idea of where we wanted to live or what type of house we wanted to live in. We went through several realtors until we met Kim and knew that she was the one who could help us find our home.
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I have been through many brokers and agents, yet it was only when I met Kim that I realized the level of professionalism one can possess. Kim is highly knowledgable, focused and more important very sincere with no hidden interests whatsoever, representing the true interests of you as a buyer.
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Kim Bregman is an outstanding real estate broker who cares deeply for her clients needs. Kim is an excellent communicator and extremely knowledgeable about every phase of our profession. I've had the pleasure of working with Kim over the years and highly recommend her services.
Kim is all about the business and getting the job done well.
Great Buyer Agent! I have been through many brokers and agents, yet it was only when I met Kim that I realized the level of professionalism one can possess. Kim is highly knowledgable, focused and more important very sincere with no hidden interests whatsoever, representing the true interests of you as a buyer.
I worked with Kim when I first bought a house in 1999 and then again when I moved into a bigger house in 2004. Kim is smart and organized and once we honed in on what I was looking for, she kept on top of the market and updated me as soon as a property that fit my profile went up for sale.
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I have moved 3 times since I got married and Kim Bregman has handled the purchase of our home every time. Kim puts real effort into helping her clients find what they like and I remember that we were often this first people to look at houses because Kim was so on top of the new listings that hit the market.
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Whether or not you are a first time buyer, house hunting is a stressful experience, especially in areas and surroundings not thoroughly familiar to a buyer. Kim Bregman of Optima Properties, could not have been more accommodating, patient as well as relentless in helping us in our search..
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Kim's expertise in South Florida real estate ranges from the city of Fort Lauderdale where they have "everything under the sun!" to Jupiter's exclusive golf clubs and breathtaking waterfront communities. As an experienced Realtor in Boca Raton, Kim is more than able to assist you in acquiring luxury waterfront homes, high end apartments and condominiums that will best suit your preferences.
Optima Properties has been meeting or exceeding the expectations of South Florida's real estate buyers for over 3 decades. Kim N. Bregman, the company's owner and broker, will personally represent you through your buying experience. Kim, an MBA with experience as a business consultant, offers world‐class service and is dedicated to providing a top‐tier experience for each and every single buyer looking to secure their dream home or property.
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Be aware I wish to be with you in the joy of your thoughts, not that which separates us in the despair of the world. Now you are not less in my sight but I wish you to love my ways, so we can celebrate in my living love and your heart can overflow in the oneness of completion revealing the riddles of life. Be you beautiful to others in the light we share for I will witness this and prepare a special place for you.
Most perfect love upon High, how blessed we are in our closeness to you. I am overwhelmed by the trust you place and move within me. Jesus my Lord of Lords. Amen.


Now that I had Mytro under my belt I realized I could probably do this whole thing myself. Using a free InDesign template and working with Sonia Budner, an amazing Polish artist, I had a full book together in about a day. A few copy edits by my buddy Chris Nesi and I was ready to go.
In a few minutes I uploaded the book and cover, pressed "Publish," and saw the book available on the Kindle store. I went on vacation and, when I came back, I had a few minutes to look at the paperback edition. Another hour or so and I was done. The paperback edition was up and available.
The hardest thing, I guess, was the writing. The easiest was everything else.
I sold about 100 copies so far – not bad for some dude on the Internet – and I am now confident in my abilities to quickly and accurately put any old thing into peoples' hands in a few hours. I'm a publisher! Excelsior!
I'm constantly amazed by the modern publishing marketplace. It's amazingly easy and it's getting easier. Folks like Tablo are making it easy to share books with the world and the guys at Reedsy are adding features like marketing and promotion. In short, indie publishers have all the tools the big guys have at their disposal.
I love to write. All this technology just makes it all 100% better.


Given gold's bullish medium-term backdrop, we continue to watch for signs that another leg higher is on the cards. However, with the USD continuing to strengthen following Yellen's increasingly Hawkish tones, a strong change in momentum is needed to halt this retracement. Moreover, with prices now back below the interior structural formed at the April and July highs, traders must wait for clear confirmation that this retracement has ended before going long.
From our perspective, only a decisive breakout from the September retracement channel would offer a strong enough signal to move long. For those that question this call, cast your eyes to the two bar-reversal pattern witnessed on September 25th / 26th. Despite the shares breaking higher from range compression, range compression formed at resistance turned support no less, a sharp selloff over the following sessions has destroyed the notion that this mid-trend retracement phase is over.
With prices now sitting on the 50% Fibonacci retracement level ($1,281), there is once again every chance that gold may indeed rally higher from here. In fact, at the time of writing, zooming into the hourly candle chart reveals that after breaking below $1,281, prices then quickly rebounded above this level. Were prices to close here, then this would see a false break pattern emerge and offer further evidence that a move higher could be on the cards.
However, as per above, until a decisive break of September's established retracement channel is apparent, traders should beware calling the bottom of this pullback. In the meantime, we recommend trading the range of the retracement channel and focusing on lower timeframe trade setups to do so.


Sit down with some green tea and your pup to read this week's top stories.
This week went to the dogs with Pet Week stories, but we still managed to discuss important issues like the fine art of the counteroffer, healthy productivity hacks, and the male role in gender equality.
Here are the stories you loved in Leadership, for the week of October 20.
Leave the negotiating tricks and persuasion tactics behind. People who get what they want know how to connect with the person across the table and at the other end of the handshake. Proceed with kindness, and be open to connection.
With a happy puppy in your lap, how can you stay stressed? These companies have gone to the dogs, including a Pointer with a Google key card, and a Pomeranian with his own blog.
Lead like a boss with these tips on knowing your team better, and knowing when to fire effectively. Just don't go around shoving your "#1 Boss" mug in people's faces.
Before lunch, your thoughts are wandering to the falafel cart. After, you're dozing off. Try these foods, teas, and simple routine-hacks in the morning for a more productive day.
"We will never reach equality with only one gender putting forth all the effort," asserts Leadership Editor Kathleen Davis. If you want to be a part of bringing about real change towards a more equitable workplace for everyone, there's a lot of work to be done. Here are are five places to start.
Dying to bring your perfectly polite pet into work with you? Take this list to your boss–it's hard to argue with improved company culture, lower stress, boosts in creativity and connection with the consumer.


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The Play Nexus
find your one square joyful inch
Learning Lover Play
Flow Play August 12, 2013 Natalie KinseyLeave a comment
It's summer, the whole world is in bloom, and we're all wearing as little as possible. Could there be a more delicious time to to deepen your frolic in the lover playspace?
The inimitable Zanzibar Buck-Buck McFate, in his first guest blog, explores the nuances of the lover journey from less fun to so much deep lover yum
Don is a dancer and a lover. He lives and plays in New Hampshire with his family.
He is the go to man for silly puddy, manly jokes about lady feet and the sweetest dance of your life.
I have been involved with conscious play for about three months beginning with my first encounter with Play Nexus. I have been involved in, what I would call semi-conscious play, for much longer. By semi-conscious, I mean that I liked to play, thought about the benefits of being playful, and engaged regularly in playful practices. What I didn't do, was take the concept of play into the scary or difficult places. Play or playfulness was an add-on or an aspect, a costume if you will. I would use it occasionally to relieve tension or stress, but I never played with the tension and the stress. I would use it as an escape from difficult emotions, but I never played with my difficult emotions. I would use it to attract a lover, but I had never played with love.
Part of this realization came from a game called the play map. With colorful pens and markers and a big piece of paper, we began creating a map of our primary playgrounds, or the places in our life where we wanted to play. I found it easy to come up with a number of areas in my life where I feel really playful; giving gifts a real playground for me, and generosity in general is an active and conscious playground (though it was here that I began thinking of it as a playground). My work was an area where I felt I needed to be more playful. So I had maybe six or seven playgrounds on my map at the end. When sharing our playgrounds, I realized a vital area I had left out, love and sex. I had friendship on my map, my children were there, my community, but not the most vital and potentially rewarding area of my life. It was eye opening to me that I had not even thought to put that on the map, and I definitely had time, I was searching my mind for other playgrounds during the exercise, but this area never emerged until I saw it on everyone else's list.
What did that mean? I realized that I viewed intimacy as work; hard work; often unpleasant work; serious work. I have often split my relationships apart by separating friendship from intimacy. "We are great friends" I would say, "but we struggle with intimacy". Or I would say "We have a great friendship and we also have a lot of passion". The difference, the reason for the split, was that while I had learned to be playful around friendship, intimacy and sex were difficult and required, I thought, a different kind of attention. Why so difficult? I had a lot of fear; fear of inadequacy, of doing the wrong thing, of being too strong, of being too weak, of hurting, of not pleasing. I felt like I didn't know what I was doing, and didn't know how to learn. So I separated those areas where I felt proficient, confident and playful, from those which required work to overcome my fears …
It was in the context of my realization that I was not playful in this essential aspect of my life, that I remembered the way that children play. Children naturally practice the everyday things in life through their play. They play house, they play mommy and daddy, they play at building and relating and living and dying. They learn softer skills as well, like how to share and correct and own their own imagination and learn from each other. Everyone understands that play is a vital, essential part of childhood development. Somewhere, we lose that idea that, even though we are still learning, that play is our best tool for learning. How that is lost is another discussion, but I think it is safe to say that, as a culture, we separate out those things that are work, and those things that are play; and we generally treat the things we view as most vital, most important to survival, as work; including our love relationships. I can't tell you how many times I have heard that a relationship is a lot of work. What I am realizing is that relationships should be lot of play.
The work ethic is deeply instilled in me through culture and family. I often approach new things with the desire to work hard and master something, all with the hope that when I am proficient, I will be able to be relaxed, playful, and creative; as though playfulness and creativity are hard earned rights. Needless to say, that approach rarely works. Even when it appears to work, as it did when I was learning dance or database programming, it was because I was deeply in love with what I was doing, and with what I was learning. These areas never felt like work because I took so much joy in them that I was naturally playing.
Realizing this really begged the questions: Do I love loving? Do I love sex? Do I love intimacy?
The answer was that I wanted to love these things, but I had become so bogged down in my fears and my attempts to work my way to proficiency.
The answer to the real question, of how then do I fall in love with loving and intimacy and sex, is to play. Like children play, I realized my way forward was to play with love and intimacy and sex. In this context, play is not about form, but about attitude, it is about the approach to your lover. Play is about experimenting emotionally, being willing to make a mistake, to do the wrong thing, to learn and grow, to say what you really think and feel and want. Play is about coming in with the skills you have and enjoying the process of developing new skills and pathways and spaces. Playfulness makes it easier to open, easier to try, easier to learn. Play opens the doors of creativity and expression. Play allows for differences, for rules and for rule changes, for creating new games and new roles and newness in general.
I have a new island on my play map; lover island. It is largely unexplored. I know there are high places and deep places to explore, and I am excited to engage in that exploration, to play and dance my way over this terrain. I am falling in love with love itself, with intimacy and sex, and falling very deeply in love with my playful lover.
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• Heyer and Markus Egger had the eighth most qualifying points in their quest to play in the 2004 Athens Olympics but ranked third among Swiss teams, making them the highest ranked team to not qualify for the Games.
• Heyer secured a berth in the 2012 London Olympics in the last qualifying event, the Grand Slam in Rome, when he and Sebastian Chevallier tied their career best as a team with a bronze medal.
2009: Heyer and Heuscher had a best of fifth twice on the FIVB Tour. On the CEV Tour the pair played in three finals, winning once, and finished fifth in the European Championships.
2008: Heyer and Heuscher played in nine FIVB events with a best of ninth. The duo won two medals on the CEV Tour, and placed fifth in the European Championships.
2007: Heyer formed a new partnership with Patrick Heuscher, winning a bronze in their first event together. They later won a silver medal, and placed 17th in the World Championships in Gstaad. They won an FIVB Satellite and a CEV event before finishing ninth in the European Championships.
2006: Heyer and Laciga had a best of fifth in their 10 FIVB events together.
2005: Heyer formed a partnership with Paul Laciga, advancing to two semifinals including winning a silver medal in the World Championships in Berlin in what was just their fourth FIVB event together. They also played in two CEV events with a best of ninth, and Heyer finished ninth with David Wenger in a CEV event.
2004: Heyer and Markus Egger won two medals, a silver and a bronze, finishing the year as the seventh-ranked teams in season points. The duo played in two CEV tournaments, finishing third before a second-place finish in the European Championships.
2003: Heyer and Markus Egger played in 10 FIVB events, placing fifth four times and winning their second silver medal. They placed 17th in the World Championships in Rio de Janeiro and finished third in an FIVB Satellite. They finished third in an FIVB Satellite and played in two CEV tournaments, winning one before placing third in the European Championships.
2002: Heyer continued playing with Markus Egger, winning his first medal, a silver, in a Grand Slam in Klagenfurt. The duo played in nine FIVB events and one CEV tournament, finishing seventh in the European Championships.
2001: Heyer and Markus Egger played in nine FIVB events, advancing to the main draw in five of the six qualifiers they played in, including twice getting a best of ninth place. Three other times the duo was seeded directly into the main draw, including the World Championships in Klagenfurt where they finished 17th. The duo placed third in an FIVB Satellite and won the CEV European Championships.
2000: Heyer and Walser played in three FIVB qualifiers. The duo finished third in an FIVB Challenger and 13th in a CEV event. Heyer teamed with Markus Egger for two FIVB Satellite tournaments, finishing second in one and winning the other one. They duo also placed second in the CEV European Championships.
1999: Heyer formed a new partnership with Martin Tschudi, competing in eight FIVB qualifiers, including finishing 41st in the World Championships in Marseille. The duo had a best finish of 25th after being seeded directly into a main draw. The pair played in three FIVB Satellite events, with a best of third. They also placed seventh in the CEV European Championships.
1998: Heyer partnered with Martin Fluckiger, playing in three FIVB qualifiers. The duo also played in one FIVB Satellite event, finishing ninth. Heyer and Walser placed ninth in an FIVB Challenger.
1997: Heyer and Markus Egger played four times, with a best of 17th twice. He also played one tournament with Stefan Kobel, losing in the qualifier.
1996: Heyer played alongside Martin Walser in five FIVB tournaments with a best of 17th twice. THe duo also finished fourth in their only CEV event.
1995: Heyer competed in his first FIVB event, losing in the qualifier.
Born in Zurich, Heyer and his family current reside in Frauenfeld. He and his wife (Nicole) have a son (Saro) and daughter (Nila). The son of (Balthasar Felix and Silvia Elisabeth), Heyer has two brothers (Jan and Sven). Heyer has a Master of Science degree from a school in Switzerland. Heyer started playing volleyball in 1989 and began competing on the beach in 1991. Heyer also served several seasons as a representative for the players on the FIVB Beach Volleyball Commission.
• In the 2008 Beijing Olympics Heyer qualified with Patrick Heuscher as the 11th seed. The pair went 1-2 in pool play, but then lost in the lucky loser match, finishing 17th.


How would you define a "smart dog"?
I come from a training background, so I personally think that the rate at which a dog learns is directly related to how smart he is: If he learns fast, he's a pretty smart pup. But many people (who are not "all about the training") feel problem-solving ability is a better barometer of brains.


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Bloodbraid Month, Pt. 1: History of a Ban
January 2, 2018 – by David Ernenwein 0
Happy New Year! At least, I'm assuming it's the new year. Hard to say; I'm typing this article from the bottom of what used to be a barrel of eggnog. Anyway, let's not let less-than-optimal writing conditions get in the way—it's Bloodbraid Month! Which is an excuse to hold off revealing the data from the banlist test at the end of the month. Before we get there, there's a lot of history and legwork to discuss. So find your seats and get comfortable: class is now in session.
I have an unusual opportunity with this banlist test. Unlike the other cards, Bloodbraid Elf had a good run in Modern. Preordain doesn't count, as it only survived Modern's inauguration. Bloodbraid had roughly a year and a half, from the creation of Modern until February 2013. That's not long in the grand scheme of things, but it's still a lot of time to generate data. Of course, there are complications with this time period. It was Modern's infancy, and with that came a lot of teething bans and adjustments. What I intend to do is focus my inquiry to the relatively stable period before Deathrite Shaman was released. This focus will isolate Bloodbraid Elf's impact on Jund and allow me to investigate how good that Jund deck actually was.
Modern was proposed at the end of May 2011 and formally established by mid-August, partially to create a non-rotating format that Wizards could unabashedly support, unlike Legacy. The other reason was that Extended had become dramatically unpopular thanks to rotation changes, Cawblade dominance, and a general lack of support from the top.
When Modern stepped in to fill void, nobody really knew what to expect. The 2011 Community Cup was the only guidance anyone had going into PT Philadelphia, which wasn't particularly helpful as Hypergenesis was the deck from that event. PT Philadelphia was one of the most broken Pro Tours in history, with blistering combo strategies dominating the tournament. This was followed by Worlds, a tournament dominated by Zoo and Punishing Fire. This imbalance resulted in the densest cluster of bans in Magic history.
2012 was far more stable, yielding only the unban of Valakut, the Molten Pinnacle in September. Of course, on October 5th, Return to Ravnica released, and with it came arguably the best creature in the game: Deathrite Shaman. The following period led to an incredible surge of Jund wins, prompting Wizards to ban Bloodbraid Elf at the end of January.
Many subsequently pointed to Deathrite as being the real problem with Jund, claiming Bloodbraid was unfairly blamed. Furthermore, it has been argued that Jund was declining in popularity prior to Return to Ravnica's release, and Deathrite boosted the deck's popularity so much it appeared like a problem. These are the claims that I will investigate today. To do so, I will focus on the event data from January to October 2012.
Bloodbraid Elf-powered Jund was the deck of its era. In fact, the only reason it didn't win Worlds that year is because of a quirk of the multi-format event that favored the otherwise unremarkable Naya Lightsaber deck. Naya deck was widely considered a worse Jund list at the time, as the subsequent year of Jund domination supported. The deck technically won its Block Pro Tour, too. And even when it didn't win an event outright, it consistently still put up excellent numbers. A port of the Standard deck used to win in Extended during the Thopter Foundry/Dark Depths era; Bloodbraid-powered Jund was a multi-format all-star even pre-Modern.
The power of Bloodbraid was always cascade. Getting to play and additional spell off the top of your deck is very good. The key was maximizing the good hits and minimizing misses, and Jund had the highest concentration of good cards at the time. Blightning was usually the best, and the reason that control struggled so hard in that era, but even Putrid Leech made for a solid rip. Elf provided a reliable two-for-one or better plus a tempo boost, outpacing every other deck.
Into Modern
It wasn't clear whether Jund's pre-Modern success would continue in this new format. Combo and Cloudpost were so prevalent early on that Jund struggled. If you think Tron is bad for midrange now, imagine Jund's 12-Post matchup. That said, a few Junds did sneak in. And once the bannings took effect, Jund began to rise, eventually peaking in popularity and power at the end of 2012.
Overall Data
Modern Nexus didn't exist back then, but MTGTop8 did, and they retain their aggregate data from that era. Their metagame data for the entire year (the only way to find it without going through the entire list yourself) shows Jund sitting firmly at the top of Tier 1 at 15%, followed distantly by Affinity (11%), Birthing Pod (9%), Tron (7%), and Twin (6%). Of course, this data does include results with Deathrite legal, but only for two and a half months of the year displayed. Deathrite Shaman doesn't appear until the middle result on page 6 of 14, and there are a page and a half of results just from PT Return to Ravnica. That means that out of 13.5 pages of non-Pro Tour results, 7.5 house only Bloodbraid Jund. Even if you don't remove the PT, those results are more than Tron's total for the entire year. Simply put, Jund was Tier 1 independent of Deathrite Shaman.
The PT results for Affinity begin on page 3 of 10, leaving roughly 7.5 pages of results before the PT, as with Jund. It is reasonable to argue that Jund and Affinity kept pace with each other for the top spot in Modern at that point. Birthing Pod has 6.5 pages of pre-PT results, so it was behind, but close; a solid third. All the other decks were well behind this pace on October 21, 2012, so they were never going to compete for the top slot. Deathrite indeed provided a massive power boost to Jund, but the deck didn't really need it to keep the crown.
Thought Experiment
Consider this hypothetical: if Deathrite Shaman had not existed, what might Modern have looked like at the end of 2012? I'd argue that it would have looked nearly the same as it actually did. Jund would have held a metagame share similar to Affinity's, above other challengers. Remember: Jund's most significant non-Deathrite card from Return was Abrupt Decay. Decay was a fine removal spell, but it was always limited and only truly great against Splinter Twin decks. The flexibility was nice against Affinity and Pyromancer Ascension decks, but it doesn't substantially impact those matchups for Jund even today.
The data show that Jund took off after Return, but there is no reason to think that it would not have kept pace with the other established decks without Deathrite. No other deck received a noticeable boost from Return. Jace, Architect of Thought would be great in Twin eventually, but it took a while to be adopted.
This is a solid result, but it does rely on my interpretation of the MTGTop8 data. Therefore, I will build a separate data set based on the paper results. As far as I can tell, Star City did not support Modern in 2012; just Standard and Legacy. Therefore I will use the results from WoTC's official coverage for pre-Return to Ravnica Modern. This is composed of four Grand Prix, the Magic Cup, and the Player's Championship. I'm separating out the Player's Championship from the rest of the results because they are very weird and would skew the data. Aggregating the Top 8 decklists (which are the only ones available for the most part) yields this result:
Jund 7
RUG Delver 6
Birthing Pod 6
Affinity 5
Jeskai Geist 4
Mono-U Faeries 2
UR Twin 2
UW Geist 1
Doran, the Siege Tower 1
Gr Tron 1
WB Tokens 1
Soul Sisters 1
Esper Gifts 1
Jund had the most paper Top 8's prior to October 2012. Not by much, perhaps, but the deck was still solidly Tier 1. At least one Jund deck was in every Top 8, with the earlier tournaments having multiple. Jund had a solid steady presence before Return, contrary to claims of Jund's decline.
The Player's Championship, being an invitational tournament, had a very weird metagame. Therefore I'm going to treat it separately. The table should make why clear.
Total #
RUG Control 1
4 Color Delver 1
As you can see, Zoo was inordinately popular here. It shows up nowhere else, and including these results with the rest would have distorted the metagame. It makes Zoo look like a good deck, and it wasn't. That said, Jund was the second most popular deck and arguably the best. Yuuya Wantanabe won with Jund, only losing one match the whole weekend. Bloodbraid Elf was also the coverage team's #1 card of the tournament, for whatever that's worth. In both the Deck Tech videos and conversation surrounding the event, players were singing Elf's praises, pointing to it as the glue and soul of the deck. Its intrinsic two-for-one and tempo boost was as good in Modern as it had been in Standard.
It is worth noting that the Player's Champtionship was the last paper Modern event before Return arrived. Jund had not merely won; Yuuya dominated with the deck. In fact, we see a large spike in Jund results following that tournament. Before August, MTGO Daily results for Jund are rare. There are eight Daily/Premier results prior to August, eight in August, and 36 in September. In other words, in August there were as many Jund decks reported from MTGO Daily's as in the rest of the year combined, and 4.5 times that amount in September. That is a significant and rapid increase going into the Pro Tour.
The claim that Jund was declining in popularity before Return is therefore suspect at best, and more likely outright false. The data show clearly that Jund was in fact becoming more successful online and was preforming highly in paper prior to October 2012. Why this surge happened when it did is hard to say. Maybe it was just Pro Tour testing. Perhaps players were just waiting for a break-out performance to pick up the deck. Maybe it was a lack of confidence in Modern as a whole that resolved itself over the course of 2012. Regardless, the bottom line is that Jund was more popular and successful in September than at any point in the earlier data.
It is impossible to say with certainty that Bloodbraid Elf would still have been banned without Deathrite Shaman's printing. However, the data show that Jund was a very strong and successful deck without Shaman. Its popularity and success was increasing prior to the explosion in October, and the trend of Jund winning paper events began in August—a trend which was specifically cited in the banning announcement.
Therefore, in my analysis, the claim that Bloodbraid Elf was only banned because of Deathrite Shaman should be considered suspect. There is evidence and data to show that it was powerful enough to propel the deck to Tier 1 without the one-mana planeswalker's help.
I believe that Jund would have been the top deck in Modern even without Deathrite Shaman. Whether it could maintain its position is hard to say. Dragon's Maze would bring Voice of Resurgence, among other cards, which would prove critical to the Birthing Pod value plan that eventually led to that deck's banning. Maybe Jund would have naturally fallen off; maybe it would have maintained or expanded its position. Who knows? What's unequivocal is that Jund was already a top deck when it was boosted by Deathrite Shaman. Therefore, given Wizards's old bad habit of banning the best decks prior to the Pro Tour, I think that Bloodbraid would have been banned eventually anyway. At most, Deathrite accelerated the timeframe.
Next week, I'll describe the struggle to actually test the elf. Until then, does anyone have suggestions for getting unwedged from the bottom of an eggnog barrel?
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David began playing Magic during Odyssey block, quit playing Magic when Caw Blade ruled the world, and returned to Modern shortly before Deathrite was banned. He's made an appearance at the Pro Tour, made money at GP Denver, and is constantly grinding and brewing in Modern.
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