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GOLD THE FINAL STANDARD
Nathan K. Lewis
Canyon Maple Publishing, New Berlin, N.Y., 2017, 196 pgs. index, bibliography, notes, charts and tables.
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This is a 'gold bug' theoretical treatise that attempts to support the advocacy that the world financial system should be based on gold as a 'standard' of value on which all financial transactions be based. The historical sections mostly discuss the history of currency and do not give sufficient attention to the monetary role of credit. The idea that there should and can be any type of 'final standard' of value is false. Value is not an attribute that can be fixed to any material or imaterial good or service. Value is purely in the mind of individuals and collectively in the 'mind' of society. The value of an item is trasitory, dependent of supply and demand, relative to all other available items to both seller and buyer. Proponents of using gold (or anything else) as a fixed 'standard' generally cite as an analogy the international standards for time, weight, length and other physical properties.
They do not consider that these standards are established by a monopoly power that forces all individuals to accept them. Such a standard for value would require (and in the past did require) a governing dictatorship. But even such a powerful ruler could not maintain such a 'standard'. The physical 'standards' are possible because BOTH the subjects being measured and the standard by which they are measured are fixed naturally. The length of a brick is a fixed characteristic of the brick, and the length of an inch is fixed by the international organization. Consider, that inches always mainain a fixed relationship with centmeters. But gold, dollars, yen, Euros continually change in relation to each other.
In addition, the author's historical narrative in which he claims milenia of use of gold as a standard of value and medium of exchange is false. Gold has been used as such relatively rarely in comparison with silver and even more so in comparison with credit.
Introduction by George Gilder, another 'gold bug'. Read his own effort - Scandal of Money. He begins with a story from Margaret Mead, a long time discredited anthropoligist. But he provides an excellent, easy, source to some important monetary facts. He notes that the Bank of International Settlements writes that in 2016 the daily volume of currency trade - exchange - was $5.1 Trillion per day - 73 times the value of all exchange of goods and services, 25 times all global GDP. These figures are reported in other sources as well.
But he adds: "Yet this frothy process arrives at no reliable values to guide entrepreneurs and producers of real goods and services as they make their investment decisions across borders."
I disagree, the process itself generates the instatenous, relative spot relationships between the many kinds of money. If it did not, they would create another process.
This introduction provides a good service, since Gilder has filled it with so many of the false beliefs about the history of money, value, and gold. And these are repeated by Lewis in the following chapters. But he is correct in pointing out the fradulent expansion of the finance industry and the way that arbitrageurs and speculators have siphoned off fortunes in paper wealth. But the excesses of the financial industry have nothing to do with the idea that gold could be a permanent and unchanging 'standard of value'. The same kind of financiers used the same methods when silver or gold was used as a medium of exchange - and credit as well.
Chapter 1 - The Study of Currency History
Right off the author excusses himself from considering the most important component of the medium of exchange, credit. He is correct to note that history is by its nature 'complicated'. And indeed, 'finance' is complicated as well. That is all the more reason that it MUST be included in any any study of economics, rather than'simplification by deliberately omitting discussion of finance". He writes correctly: "The world of debt finance not only includes thousands of loan-making banks,in over 150 countries, plus the usual bonds, but also all manner of further complications including such things as money market funds, strutured investments vehicles, and securitized debt instruments..." It appears he is trying to excuse himself. But exchange of goods and services throughout history also involved complicated relationships. He attempts to discount the importance of this for the study of monetary affairs by noteing thatm, after all, all this is accomplished with use of a single measure in each country - for instance dollars, Euros. yen, etcetera. And yes, as he writes, in the19th century the dollar was 'linked' to gold, and in the1
Chapter 2 - The Ancient World, 3500 B.C. - 400 A.D.
Chapter 3 - The Medieval Era, 400 - 1500
Chapter 4 - The Bimetallic Era, 1500 - 1850
Chapter 5 - The Classical Gold Standard, 1850 - 1914
Chapter 6 - The Interwar Period, 1914 - 1944
Chapter 7 - The Bretton Woods Period, 1944 - 1971
Chapter 8 - The Floating Currency Era, 1971 -
Chapter 9 - Conclusions
Gilder, George - Scandal of Money
Mishkin, Frederic S. - The Economics of Money, Banking &Financial Markets Ninth Edition
Frederic Mishkin - The Economnics of Money, Banking, and Financial Masrkets Fifth Edition
Kay, John - Other People's Money
von Mises, Ludwig - The Theory of Money and Credit
Melloan, George - The Great Money Binge
George Selgin - Money Free and Unfree
Podany, Amanda - Ancient Mesopotamia
Graeber, David - Debt The First 5,000 Years
Wetherford, Jack - The History of Money
Wray, L.Randall - Modern Money Theory
Ferguson, Niall - The Assent of Money
Martin, Felix - Money - The Unauthorized Biography
Ingham Geoffrey - The Nature of Money
Davies, Glyn - History of Money
Newman, Patrick - Review of Monetary Regimes and Inflation
Bernholz, Peter - Monetary Regimes and Inflation
Mehrling, Perry - The New Lombard Street: How the Fed Became the Dealer of Last Resort
Salsman, Richard - Gold and Liberty
Michael Johnston - Going for Gold


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Red Sky in Morning: A Novel
by Paul Lynch
A tense, thrilling debut novel that spans two continents, from "a writer to watch out for" (Colum McCann).
It's 1832 and Coll Coyle has killed the wrong man. The dead man's father is an expert tracker and ruthless killer with a single-minded focus on vengeance. The hunt leads from the windswept bogs of County Donegal, across the Atlantic to the choleric work camps of the Pennsylvania railroad, where both men will find their fates in the hardship and rough country… (more)
It's 1832 and Coll Coyle has killed the wrong man. The dead man's father is an expert tracker and ruthless killer with a single-minded focus on vengeance. The hunt leads from the windswept bogs of County Donegal, across the Atlantic to the choleric work camps of the Pennsylvania railroad, where both men will find their fates in the hardship and rough country of the fledgling United States.
Language and landscape combine powerfully in this tense exploration of life and death, parts of which are based on historical events. With lyrical prose balancing the stark realities of the hunter and the hunted, RED SKY IN MORNING is a visceral and meditative novel that marks the debut of a stunning new talent.
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Editorial reviews (4 reviews)
Washington Post : 'Red Sky in Morning,' by Paul Lynch (January 07, 2014)
A debut as passionate as this one is a transporting experience.
Lit Reactor : Bookshots: 'Red Sky in Morning' by Paul Lynch (November 05, 2013)
Red Sky in Morning was a stimulating, chaotic, and surprisingly elegant read that starts off with a bang and rarely lets up the pace.
NPR : 'Red Sky In Morning' Mixes Forceful Language And Powerful Story (November 04, 2013)
Sentence by sentence, a debut definitely worth noticing.
Literary / Irish literature
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company (November 05, 2013)

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Ultimates! We all love Ultimates, right? I'm assuming so, and there's nothing you can do about it, because I'm writing this piece. Ha. I enjoy it, and one of the reasons I like it is because the characters are different, often radically so, to their 616 depictions.
But to be contrary, one of the reasons I like Ultimate Carol Danvers is because she's not very different. She doesn't have superpowers, but she's still the Carol I know from 616.
We meet her as Captain Carol Danvers, Air Force, director of security at a spaceflight facility. She's pleasingly efficient, and when unscheduled alien interventions occur, Mahr-Vehl (the Ultimate answer to Captain Marvel) wakes up with a lump of plastique explosive on his neck. They couldn't get his weird alien suit off, so that seemed like the next best option.
Back to Mahr-Vehl. She interrogates him, she doesn't buy his story, she gets in his face and tells him it's come clean with her, or go to SHIELD for "interrogation on the surgical level".
He comes clean. She has the most beautiful air of disgusted acceptance. A previously unknown alien military is infiltrating the base, and she takes it in stride.
Carol's very good at dealing with the unexpected, and reacting quickly to unexpected situations. In New Ultimates, Amora puts the mind whammy on her. Or does she. (No.) Carol realises some kind of mind control is being attempted, and it's failing due to her, er, anti-mind control contact lenses. (Comics!) So without a flicker, she plays along, playing her part, right up until she gets a chance to turn the tables.
Anyway, after witnessing the Mahr-Vehl show, Captain Danvers is promoted to Nick Fury's personal aide, and promptly has to deal with the Ultimates and the Fantastic Four. She does so calmly, even when addressed as "military-industrial-complex drone girl" by Thor, and ordered to bring beer. "Sure. How far up your backside would you like it rammed?" She never has trouble telling people where they get off, be they superhuman or gods or high-ranking.
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Ultimate Carol is exactly what 616 Carol would be without her powers; dedicated, brave, smart, fierce and gorgeous, and she does it all without powers – one of very few major players in the Ultimate universe to do so. I love her to pieces.
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Glee Club at 25
Twenty-five years after launching in Brum, Mark Tughan's chain of Glee Clubs is the undisputed home of stand-up… and more
Making people laugh for 25 years sounds like a business we'd all love to be in. And for sure, running the Glee Club has had plenty of highs for founder and CEO, Mark Tughan. But it's also had some tough times. Pardon the pun, but comedy can be a funny business.
Mark set up Glee Club in Birmingham after taking "the massive gamble" to quit his city of London investment banking job to strike out as an entrepreneur with a mission to deliver stand-up comedy to 'the regions'. As a 'massive fan' of the Comedy Store, he believed there was a gap in the market for transferring the blueprint outside the capital.
He says he was warned by plenty of people that the comedy club format just wouldn't work in places like Birmingham. "I thought that thinking was a myth," he recalls. And as Glee celebrates its 25th birthday, Mark was proved right.
Birmingham Glee opened in 1994, with Cardiff following in 2001, Oxford and Nottingham in 2010 and Glasgow in February this year. (A sixth Glee Club is on the cards before too long in an as-yet undefined location.) The dates prove the progression in the business has been steady and carefully planned. As Mark says there are no prizes for going at it with all guns blazing, only to be firing a load of blanks.
"There is no doubt about it, there was a bit of luck involved in the Glee's success along the way," he adds. "We were definitely in the right place at the right time – in the late 90s the comedy circuit had really come about and developed, and today there now seems to be an incredible appetite to see comics live."
Since becoming the UK's first dedicated comedy club outside of London, Glee has hosted acts including Jack Whitehall, Jack Dee, Jimmy Carr, Katherine Ryan and Sarah Millican. Comedians who cut their teeth at Glee include Peter Kay and Lee Mack. The Birmingham venue has also played an invaluable role in supporting Midlands comics such as Joe Lycett, and Guz Khan.
Over the years, Glee has widened its brief to be as inclusive as possible of all genres of comedy and added live music to the mix. It has also played a growing role in comedy and music festivals in Birmingham and at its other venues.
Mark likes to describe the history of the business as 'The Four Epochs of the Glee'. "The first was the pioneer years and learning on the job," he explains. "The business was far from an instant success. It took years for Birmingham to get going." The second epoch Mark labels 'The Jongleurs Years' when fierce competition from the rival chain drove him to "sit round for 10 years and think 'that's it!'" When Jongleurs collapsed in 2009, Mark picked up their clubs in Nottingham and Oxford.
Epoch three involved six years of litigation with Rupert Murdoch over Sky's hugely successful Glee TV show. "The final fourth epoch was when we won the litigation and we opened the Glee Club in Glasgow this year," said Mark. "It all feels a bit like the tortoise and the hare – it has 'only' taken 25 years to become the leading brand in the medium-size comedy market!" Mark is always on the look-out to keep Glee fresh, which is why he is involved with Birmingham Comedy Festival and its Breaking Talent Award and why he travels around the country and buys a ticket to see 'some hot comedian I've been tipped off about'. And if there's any rough, undiscovered comedian out there in the general public, Glee also gives them a shot at its Friday night 'open mic' slot. "We have a six-month waiting list," said Mark.
GLEE FOR LIFE, MATE
He added: "I don't know where the 25 years have gone. I'm just delighted I have made so many people laugh over the years, and hopefully, in my small way, made a contribution to both the local entertainment scene as well as the live comedy and music businesses".
We'll leave the last word on Glee to Guz Khan who said: "Just two years ago, Joe Lycett and the gang at the Glee Club in Birmingham invited me in to perform at a comedy club for the first time. I have now learned that I was lucky enough to start at the very best comedy club in the land. All other comedy clubs can suck their mums as far as I'm concerned. Glee Club Brum Town for life mate!"


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Aaron Giovannone is a poet and translator of poetry from Italian. His work has appeared in journals and magazines in Canada, the US, and Europe. His current projects are a collection of poems titled The Saddest Thing I've Ever Heard, and an English translation of twentieth-century Italian poet Sandro Penna. Aaron spent a year at the Universit di Siena on a grant from the International Council for Canadian Studies, and has also been the recipient of grants from the Alberta Foundation for the Arts, the Canada Council for the Arts, and a SSHRC doctoral scholarship. Originally from St. Catharines in Ontario's Niagara Region, Aaron now studies and works at the University of Calgary.
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Josh holds a BA in economics and math from the University of Rochester and a PhD and MBA in finance from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.
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Journal of Chromatography A, 1022 (2004) 125–129 Liquid chromatography with ultraviolet absorbance detection for the analysis of tetracycline residues in honey Pilar Viñas, Nuria Balsalobre, Carmen López-Erroz, Manuel Hernández-Córdoba Department of Analytical Chemistry, Faculty of Chemistry, University of Murcia, E-30071 Murcia, Spain Received 12 May 2003; received in revised form 18 July 2003; accepted 23 September 2003 Abstract
The separation of tetracyclines (TCs) using reversed-phase liquid chromatography (LC) is proposed. The use of an amide-based stationary phase prevents the interaction of tetracyclines with the residual silanol groups and thus avoids the appearance of tailed peaks. Detection wasbased on using an UV spectrophotometer and gradient elution with acetonitrile–oxalic acid as mobile phase permitted good separation ofall the peaks. Specificity was demonstrated by the retention characteristics, UV spectra and peak purity index. Linearity, precision, recoveryand sensitivity were satisfactory. The procedure was applied to the analysis of tetracycline residues (tetracycline, oxytetracycline (OTC),chlortetracycline (CTC), doxycycline (DC), minocycline (MINO) and methacycline (MTC)) in honey of different types. Extraction involvedusing a mild acidic solvent containing EDTA to release protein-bound or sugar-bound tetracyclines. For the clean-up step, solid phase extractionusing phenyl cartridges was applied. Detection limits in the honey using the proposed procedure are between 15 and 30 ng g−1, depending onthe tetracycline.
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Keywords: Food analysis; Honey; Tetracycline; Antibiotics 1. Introduction
these drugs in honey is illegal at any level The Spanishplan for residue control and healthy food (Plan CREHA) of Tetracyclines (TCs) are broad-spectrum antibiotics which 2002 has established maximum limits for the concentration show activity against Gram-positive and Gram-negative bac- of residual substances As regards the group of tetra- teria, including some anaerobes have been widely cyclines, the analytes included are tetracycline, oxytetracy- used for the treatment of infectious diseases and as an ad- cline (OTC) and chlortetracycline (CTC), which have been ditive in animal foodstuffs. In 1990, the Commission of the analyzed in meat, milk, honey and eggs. The detection limit European Union laid down the procedure for establishing obtained using liquid chromatography (LC) is 20 ng g−1 or maximum residue limits (MRLs) of veterinary drugs in 20 ng ml−1 and the maximum acceptable limit has been set foodstuffs of animal origin. However, no MRLs have been at 100 ng g−1 or 100 ng ml−1. These limits are similar to fixed for use with bee products. Antibiotics such as tetracy- those marked by the Belgian Agency for Safe Foods.
clines have had MRLs imposed for their use in large animals Tetracyclines can be successfully determined using liquid but are illegal for use with bees. Honey is composed primar- chromatography (LC) in the reversed-phase mode ily of sugars and water a natural healthy food. At with different detection modes, such as spectrophotometry present, application of the law in relation to these antibiotics is not harmonised across all member states. Some countries do not permit honey to contain drugs above the correspond- In the present study, the separation of tetracycline, oxyte- ing detection limit, while others apply an action level such as tracycline, chlortetracycline, doxycycline (DC), minocycline 50 ng g−1. However, it must be stressed that the presence of (MINO) and methacycline (MTC) was optimized using anUV detector and a stationary phase involving a ligand withamide groups and the endcapping of trimethylsilyl. This ∗ Corresponding author. Tel.: +34-968367406; fax: +34-968364148.
phase also proved satisfactory for the determination of flu- E-mail address: [email protected] (M. Hern´andez-C´ordoba).
oroquinolone antibacterial agents These tetracyclines 0021-9673/$ – see front matter 2003 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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The Ending Of The Serpent Explained
By Katherine Webb/April 4, 2021 10:25 am EST
When TV dramas are based on real-life events, it can be hard to keep the mystery alive. After all, a viewer only needs to hit up Google to find out what happened to the characters they're watching on screen. The Serpent — Netflix's new drama about the real-life Bikini Killer Charles Sobrahj (Tahar Rahim) and the quest to bring him down — isn't unique in that regard. It's easy to learn even the grittiest details about his crimes without sitting down to watch all eight episodes. So, the team behind the limited series had to find a unique way to captivate its audience.
While The Serpent is largely focused on the events and characters that shaped Charles Sobrahj's infamous murders, it does offer a unique perspective that keeps viewers on their toes. The series doesn't necessarily ask us to consider why he committed his crimes, but rather why he willingly succumbed to his eventual fate.
Let's take a look at what happens to Charles Sobrahj at the end of The Serpent, and how it offers a fascinating perspective on one of the most pivotal moments of his life. But be warned, there will be spoilers for the entire series ahead.
In The Serpent, we see inside Charles Sobrahj's criminal operation
Set primarily in the 1970s but spanning several decades, The Serpent covers a lot of ground in a pretty short number of episodes. We see how Charles Sobrahj and his associates, Marie-Andrée Leclerc (Jenna Coleman) and Ajay Chowdhury (Amesh Edireweera), lured in tourists on the Hippie Trail, a popular countercultural travel route through the Middle East and Southeast Asia, per Timeline. They would party with them, rob them, and drug them — but if their victims put up a fight, the crew would murder them and steal their passports, making it easier for them to travel undetected.
Sobrahj is shown to be charismatic and crafty, and he seems to get as much out of the attention he receives from those around him as he does from the thrill of his dangerous lifestyle. That appears to include his close calls with authorities — the reason he was nicknamed the Serpent was because he was slippery and deft when it came to evading capture (via Express U.K.).
Sobrahj's myriad crimes — robbery, drug dealing, impersonation, and murder — put him on the radar of Interpol, as well as numerous other law enforcement agencies. Dutch embassy official Herman Knippenberg (Billy Howles) becomes particularly invested, tracking Sobrahj for years after he is tied to the disappearance of a young Dutch couple. However, even when Sobrahj is jailed in India in 1997, he manages to escape prison and seek refuge in Paris.
You might think that evading authority would have given him a good reason to lay low. But as we see on The Serpent, Sobrahj shockingly did the exact opposite.
Charles Sobrahj's bizarre actions make for a stunning ending in The Serpent
The Serpent ends with Charles Sobrahj as an international celebrity of sorts. So, when he inexplicably travels to Nepal, one of the few places he can be arrested, and has his photo taken there, it seems as though he's asking to be caught once again. It's clear that he believes the Nepalese police can't hold him because they don't have evidence. But, it turns out, Herman Knippenberg has kept copious records on Sobrahj's crimes — including a confession from Leclerc that heavily implicates Sobhraj in the deaths of at least two of his victims.
The series ends with Sobhraj once again in captivity — this time, the end title cards tell us, for life. But the question remains about why he made it so easy for himself to be caught one last time. It's something that many people who are familiar with Sobhraj have wondered for a long time (via The Guardian).
While the series doesn't explicitly answer the question, it does offer a bit of insight. When contemplating why the criminal made such an obvious move, Knippenberg muses that Sobrahj "enjoys two things." The first, he observes, is "notoriety, so he pulls a stunt like this so the world remembers his name."
The second thing, Knippenberg realizes, is that "he likes to escape." Perhaps, The Serpent seems to be saying, it wasn't just the thrill of capturing his victims, but also the thrill of being chased, that kept Sobhraj going all those years.


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Obituary: Melbourne Metcalf
BELLEVUE, WA (August 11, 2016) — Retired Covenant missionary Melbourne "Mel" Metcalf, 94, died Sunday, August 7.
Mel was born October 29, 1921, in Ashtabula, Ohio. He married June Norleman on September 4, 1945.
He received his associate's degree from North Park College, a bachelor of ministry degree from North Park, a bachelor's degree from Western Michigan College while pastoring the Evangelical Covenant Church in Richland, Michigan, and an M.Div. from North Park Theological Seminary.
Mel also attended Yale University for one year studying Chinese in an intensive program as he prepared to serve as a Covenant missionary to China. The Communists shut the door to mission there before the Metcalfs could begin their work there, so the Covenant sent them to Japan.
During their years in Japan, Mel helped to start new churches, taught English Bible classes, served multiple times as chairman of the Covenant Missionary Society in Japan, and for two years served as the director of the Bible school and seminary in Tokyo.
During retirement, Mel served as interim pastor at the Covenant Church in Everett, Washington, and also served as the pastor of visitation at the Martha Lake Covenant Church in Washington.
He is survived by his wife and by his children: Bruce Metcalf (Kris) of Hilmar, California, Judy Cleversey (Gary) of Springfield, Oregon, Linda Nelson (Tim) of Longview, Washington, and Debbi Larson of Seattle, Washington. He also is survived by 10 grandchildren and 28 great grandchildren.
A memorial service will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday, August 27, at Covenant Shores Retirement Community Center.
Memorials may be directed to the Japan Covenant Seminary building project, and can be sent to The Evangelical Covenant Church at 8303 W Higgins Rd Chicago, IL 60631 Attn: Gretchen DeNeui
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Jeff Schirle says:
Mel was very instrumental in my call to ministry. Tim and Linda Nelson were in my small group at West Hills Covenant Church in Portland, Oregon, so out of politeness I went to Mel's mission presentation. When he gave the "missionary invitation," I knew God was talking to me. Next fall I was at North Park. I discovered I'm not called to be a missionary, but Mel got me there. Thanks!
Taryn Rosenquist Vetter says:
Uncle Mel personified the heart of Jesus. He gave his all to bring joy and love to this world and I praise God that I was blessed with his life!
George B. Elia says:
Mel was a gentle spirit, a most faithful servant of Christ and a beautiful soul. One always felt blessed in his company. Peace to his memory.
Mel truly lived an encarnational ministry in his many years in Japan.
May God bless his ministry and that of his family.
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Grab the best bits of being a strength athlete without ever competing!
You've been around this strength training game for a while. And you've decided you don't ever want to compete. Bodybuilding? Nah, the tan and sparkly suit just isn't calling you. Powerlifting? You prefer to measure your progress in the gym. Oly lifting and Strongwoman look fun, but you don't want to focus all your training on one niche.
Kudos to you for knowing your own mind in an industry which sometimes seems obsessed with competing.
But what now? You're in this for the long haul. Health, fitness, and training are your life. So what can you expect to learn from training, even if you don't compete. There are plenty of ways the fitness lifestyle will enrich you as a person.
The decision not to compete frees you from being tied to the weight on the scale, or the pinch of the calipers. It allows you to embrace the valuable and life-altering lessons of lifting. The habits, routines, and changes in behavior which will improve your body and mind.
Competing gives a clear goal, with a timeframe and an end date. But there are still plenty of goals you can set that don't involve the stage or platform. To identify the type of goal which will resonate with you, look at your athletic background. Are you new to lifting? Or an former competitive athlete? If you come from a non-athletic background, it's time to find your niche. Gym-based goals will help fitness become a positive aspect of your identity, without the need for a competitive outlet. If you spent your teenage years in another sport, lifting could help scratch that competitive itch. You can devote as much time as you want to the gym, and still smash your personal goals.
Training with friends will enrich your life whether you compete or not. Regardless of your shape or size, training automatically qualifies you for a world-wide family. Wherever you go, you'll be able to find men and women who share your love of lifting heavy things up and down. And this extends to the online fitness community, too. We all speak the same language, recognize the same values, and have similar goals. Everyone in fitness wants to feel better, look better, and perform better. The competitors might be at the sharp end of it, but you're in the mix.
Ever noticed how competitors attack their goals step-by-step? They won't start a prep using HIIT, carb-cycling, and dropset all at the same time. Competitors know how to choose their battles, and select the appropriate weapon. It's a useful lesson we can all use. Whatever your personal goal is, develop a smart strategy. Don't go in all guns blazing, and forget trying to use every bit of advice you've read online. Have a plan, stick to it, and make small adjustments when needed. You'll enjoy reaching your goal – and you'll feel healthy enough to keep going!
A lifetime of lifting will give you the ultimate power: the knowledge of how to build the physique YOU want. You don't need to compete to learn that lesson. Train consistently, work to a plan, and just keep chipping away. Before long you will have built the kind of physique you want. As an aside, you'll be stronger, with better posture. Everyday tasks will be easier. You'll be less prone to aches and pains. These are gifts that the gym lifestyle gives us all, not just the competitors. Lifting will show you the value of building muscle, and maintaining it. You'll learn the best training techniques and nutrition strategies for your own body. These are tools for life.
Competitors are some of the most clued-up people in the gym when it comes to nutrition. But they can also take it a bit too far. There's no need to be a slave to your cool-bag. You can still put your nutritional know-how to good use without counting every macro. Take your cue from competitors, and learn how to eat for fat loss, strength, or performance. Focusing on nutrition could teach you a ton: how to improve your grocery shop, choose fresh produce, and cook healthier meals and snacks. It could introduce you to veggies, cuts of meat, and seafood you've never tried. You'll learn which foods make you feel great, and which aren't worth your time or money. And if you choose to learn the art of "food prep", you'll save yourself a ton of money at lunchtime!
The majority of adult women spend their lives hung-up on scale weight. Lifting might not banish the issue completely, but it will change your attitude. You'll start to focus less on bodyweight and more on body size, shape, and composition. You will also get to understand that scale weight can fluctuate due to various random reasons. And you might even end up chasing a higher body weight than you ever thought you'd be comfortable with! Get ready to see way beyond the scale.
Athletic people have a different relationship with their own body. They understand how to listen to it. They're in tune with their energy levels, and hunger signals. Most people walk through life without enjoying this deep understanding of the body's language. You don't have to compete to get in tune with your body. Every training session will help you appreciate what your body needs.
Ever noticed the confidence with which competitors walk around the gym? Sure, with some of them it borders on egotistical swagger. But even the humblest competitor looks like they feel at home there. It's because they do. Training like a competitor (even when you're not one) will give you that confidence, too. And it's about more than walking into any gym, anywhere in the world. Training will give you amazing self-confidence. In your own abilities, in your body's capabilities. In your strength, your power, your achievements. Lifting weights is unforgiving. You either lift it, or you don't. Nobody else is doing the work for you. So next time you set a PR, or try a heavier weight than last week, it's a deposit in the confidence bank. It all carries over into everyday life, making you feel stronger at work and in your relationships. Competitors can sometimes feel the need for validation from placing in a contest. You're not a competitor, so you don't need that. Your validation comes from turning up every day and working on your goals.
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Shadowhunters S2.E17 "A Dark Reflection"
By: Mandy Wan | July 31, 2017
Title: Shadowhunters S2.E17 "A Dark Reflection"
Series: Shadowhunters
Shadowhunter of the Week: Clary
Previously: Clary creates a rune that takes her and Jace to Valentine's cabin near Lake Lyn, where Sebastian/Jonathan had recently held Valentine hostage until Valentine convinced Jonathan that they should work together instead; and Valentine's old journals revealed that he had been experimenting on both Jace and Jonathan.
Since most of the characters aren't yet aware that Sebastian is Jonathan, I think I'm going to use them interchangeably depending on the context. (For now, anyway. Everyone else, clue in soon so he can go back to having one name!)
Clary and Jace follow a hunch that Valentine and Jonathan are gathering the Mortal Instruments in order to summon the angel Raziel and wish for the end of the Downworld. Each pair is trying to locate the last Instrument, the Mortal Mirror, with 'Sebastian' playing both sides and intercepting Clary and Jace in his true form. Clary's on the verge of convincing her brother to join her, until Dot creates an escape portal for the Shadowhunters and tries to fend off Jonathan singlehandedly.
Word of the Soul Sword's disappearance finally reaches our lycanthrope and warlock leaders, with Magnus super pissed at Alec's secrecy and outright deceit in service of the Clave. Luke tries to calm him down, but an alliance with the Clave-hating Seelie Queen seems pretty dang good to Magnus right about now.
Meanwhile, Maia's been keeping Simon at an arm's length due to bad relationship experience, but she's def. romantically interested in him. And Izzy's had to get over her overprotectiveness of Max due to the v. real danger of Valentine… only to have Max stumble into the v. real danger of discovering that Sebastian is Jonathan.
Shadowhighlights
LOLOLLOLLL, shirtless Jace to the rescue from Clary's night terrors. (Although I do wonder how rune placement gets decided, since it definitely could have been more artful.)
Elliott's bookstore, Ouroboros!
Luke's chuckle at Simon pursuing yet another of his surrogate daughters.
Banner episode for ladies whom I had written off as dead numerous times: Dot and Cleo! Also glad to see Dot looking healthy again.
The show's really working at bringing Izzy and Simon closer together, but I can't say that I'm mad at it. Plus, Simon hamming it up for Max's training session ranks as one of my favourite moments of his.
Shadowlowlights
The seriousness of Clary's underwater nightmare vision was undercut by how much it reminded me of the merman ad in Zoolander. (Minus the drowning bits, anyway.)
I can't even with Alec telling Max that he's ready for his first mission when the two of them barely fit in the same frame together. Matthew Daddario having, like, 2 feet and 15+ years on his screen partner does not help with my impression of Max being super young.
Gaslighter extraordinaire Valentine telling Elliott that to be grateful that his life was spared. Yeah — because you put it in danger in the first place, asshole.
All that became of the Jace/Maia hookup was a couple of throwaway lines? Why even put them together in the first place if you're not going to MINE TEH DRAMZ?!? (But LOLZ at Maia spilling to Izzy unprompted. What a gossip!)
This is something that's always bugged me, but why tf does Jade Wolf have to be every freaking Chinese restaurant stereotype? At least drop the 'WE ARE IN A CHINESE RESTAURANT' background music, FFS.
MALEC FIGHTING </3 And not an unreasonable or contrived fight at all, which makes that much scarier of an obstacle. (NGL, Alec's rationale of shielding Magnus from the burden of the truth is pretty condescending. He's a grown-ass warlock!)
OMG CLARY AND JACE, work out your shit AFTER the vital mission! (Or preferably before, since y'all should have really come up with a game plan for dealing with Jonathan ahead of time.)
OH DAMMIT Simon is singing again. I appreciate the hustle and it's not like the music is offensively awful, but these scenes take me out of the show entirely.
Shadowhunter of the Week
Poor Clary practically spent the entire episode in tears. Despite all that she's been through (and it is A LOT), she manages to hang onto her compassion for her long-lost, demon-blooded brother. I was so hoping that she'd get through to Jonathan and not have her faith in others completely shattered, 'cause girlfriend really needs to catch a break. (She might yet still, though!)
Alec: "All the legends are true."
OH, GROAN — the show made Alec say the tagline. (I feel like this may have also happened before with someone else?)
Clary: "It's Jonathan, my brother."
Clary says, just as Sebastian walks into frame. SO SUBTLE.
Valentine: "Which you? Jonathan or Sebastian?"
Valentine keeps asking all my questions for me, I swear.
Simon: "Look, after the Seelie Court business, I'm done chasing girls who only want to be my friend."
Isabelle: "I didn't take you for a quitter."
Simon: "Easy for you to say. When was the last time you got shot down?"
Isabelle: "You'd be surprised."
WHAT. What kind of Lloyd Dobler bullshit is this Simon and Izzy convo?!? (Also, RAPHAEL </3)
Maia: "I know this is going to be difficult, but I'm going to ask you to not speak, OK?"
… and then Simon promptly fails to fulfill the request.
Swimfan Says
Here's Shadowhunter Chronicles expert and co-host of The Parabatai Podcast, Meredith (@legallyblonde), with her thoughts!
While there was important exposition going on, let's focus on Jace's extended shirtlessness for a moment before everything gets terrible, okay?
There's a scene in City of Glass where Sebastian kisses Clary, and I've been wondering if the show was going to go there. And they did, because Sebastian's demon blood has done all sorts of things to him, in addition to the special powers. I'm looking forward to seeing how that continues to develop.
Luke laughing when Simon arrived at the bar to see Maia was probably one of my favorite moments, and the scenes between the two of them were great this week.
The final scene between Alec and Magnus was incredibly heartbreaking: Alec is between a rock and a hard place of being the Institute Head and Magnus' boyfriend, while Magnus feels betrayed when their relationship has been huge on honesty. Magnus' further reaction, when talking to Luke, had me yelling at the TV not to make any rash decisions while heartbroken. (I can't believe he didn't listen to me.)
P.S. I'm really concerned about Max and Dot.
Does Dot survive? I've been prematurely calling her death since her first appearance, so I'm sitting this one out.
Was I seeing things, or did Valentine's serum make Cleo a little demon-y? It kind of looked like she was turning, if not for her resistant Iron Sister blood.
How did Jocelyn manage to keep two Mortal Instruments AND Clary hidden for so long? The woman we met did not seem capable of much, let alone THAT much.
SEBASTIAN WHUT WHY IS THIS SHOW OBSESSED WITH INCEST?!?!? Just because Cersei used to be your mom doesn't mean you have to go full Lannister, Jonathan.
But most importantly, when will Malec kiss and makeup?!?
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The town of Wells River on my Green Mountain Division is located on a stub end peninsula and features several sidings with moderate size industries. I decided that since I model the 1950's this small town should have an oil dealer to supply fuel for homes, farms and businesses in the area. This small oil depot consists of a small wooden warehouse, a pair of oil tanks on metal supports, a truck loading area, four vertical storage tanks for gasoline and diesel fuel and another small brick maintenance shop at the other end of the facility. As far as rail service goes there are spots for two tank cars to be unloaded and a spot at the warehouse for boxcar unloading. The wooden warehouse was one of two buildings in BEST Scale Models "Elwell General Store" kit and was meant to be a small freight station. I thought it worked very well at the oil dealer for bringing in and storing supplies. Next to the warehouse is a pair of elevated oil tanks that came from two old Revell diesel servicing kits. I always like these kits and decided that a pair of them would work well in this scene. I added Tichy safety cage ladders and metal walkways to the tanks. I also added some extra details like hoses for unloading tank cars and loading trucks.
These two Revell tanks worked out quite well here and are typical of tanks found at small oil dealers. Note the Tichy walkways and cage ladders.
These two brick building are where trucks are loaded with various products for local delivery.
The two brick loading buildings and the four vertical storage tanks are from a Walthers kit. I assembled, painted and weathered these structures to simulate light weathering since they probably haven't been around all that long. They are the perfect size for a smaller oil dealer.
This is the back side of the loading are. The vertical unloading pipes were also part of the kit. The large pipes and valves came with a Walthers piping kit. Here you get a little closer look at the drip pans between the rails.
I added piping and valves where I thought they might go at a prototype facility. I found a nice Walthers kit with piping, elbows, curved sections, pipe supports and various valves and fittings. The addition of these details help make the scene look more interesting.
The four vertical storage tanks are also from the Walthers kit. They come with a cast plastic spill retention dam which I felt took up too much real estate so I fabricated a new wall from square styrene to simulate poured concrete. I feel this looks much better and is more compact in the overall scene.
This area is just about complete. I still need to add some more smaller details but it is ready to receive tank cars of oil and diesel fuel and the odd boxcar of supplies for the dealership. Both B&M and CPR switchers service this facility.
This closeup shows some of the piping detail added to the scene.
The four vertical storage tanks make a nice addition to the scene and add variety to the various structures at the facility. The brick building in the foreground is a maintenance shop. It is an old Magnuson Models structure.
A tank car is being unloaded at the elevated storage tanks. The large cream coloured structure in the background is the Boston & Maine freight shed.
Here we see CP 8163 spotting a tank car at Richland Fuels. The CPR SW1200RS was nicely weathered by Jim Sloan.
One of many neat looking little scenes on Ken's layout.
Not only does the ground views tell a story here is a look above.
Kevin is MMR number 528 a nice accomplishment.
Kevin had his layout featured in the November 2013 issue of MR. He got a nice copy of the title page signed by the editors that worked on his feature.
Kevin added some really interesting detailing to these old junk pieces along the foreground.
Some really nice old junk modeled extremely well.
Kevin not only works at the RPI he also is a member of the NEB&W. Some of the decals found their way onto his equipment. I have a few of these decals that John Nerich gave me 25 years ago...thinking I should do the same.
I bit of inspiration is found here. Note that Kevin glued ground foam to the photo background trees making them 3D.
Don and Kevin pose at the entrance to the layout. Note one side is one level and the other side double decked.
I thought this was a nice little ferry landing area.
The two motor car sheds are ready for inclusion on two friends layouts. A good number of details really make a difference.
Well built from scratch and ready for an upgrade.
The roofing is just masking tape but seems to work well on the structure.
The base colour for this paint job was a coat of Home Hardware Camo olive green from a spray bomb. The additional colouring on the walls is PanPastel raw umber shade a great weathering colour. Some signs are added.
A pigeon and a few board add interest to the roof.
The roof is painted black. Some roof seams are applied with a pencil then glossed over for seam repairs. Bragdon powders and PanPastel gray is streaked over the roof to finish it off.
The barrel and lids are Tichy details. The tie plates are Monster Model Works laser cut wood. Newspapers, signs and boards make up most of the other details.
Ken Karlewicz passed along a video he recently uploaded to Youtube called a Sense of Place. It's a 22 minute video combining Ken's use of video and photography which shares his views of upstate NY and Vermont, prototype and modeled. Ken is a true artist and his work is really presented well. You might want to check this one out...thanks Ken.
Here's a shot Geoff Southwood used on this year's Christmas Card. Geoff allowed me to use it here on the WRD blog. Geoff did not put notes on the original slide, but he thinks it was The Canadian westbound at Pointe Claire QC in 1965 or 1966. Merry Christmas!!
Central Vermont at Richford, Vt. Geoff Southwood photo.
Don Janes collection of baggage cars ready to be deployed on the Green Mountain Route. Don Janes photo.
As part of our workday Monday Peter and I assembled three baggage carts and painted the luggage. A finished Jordan baggage cart from a past build is seen in the photo.
The baggage carts got a coat of flat black from a spray bomb.
Peter and I used green and red chalk powders to colour our models. This was done in a short amount of time. The baggage was then glued down.
Don had a large amount of baggage carts on hand. He decided to build them all at one time in a assembly line process so he could get them out on the layout. Don Janes photo.
Don's baggage cart up close.
Another look at Don's baggage cart. Don Janes photo.
At the White River Jct. station platform a number of baggage carts are seen loaded and ready to go.
My most recent baggage cart is at the New Haven station.
Throwback Thursday - Root For the Underdog.
CN 9309 is among friends as it reposes on the shop track at the Rectory Street locomotive facility in London, Ontario on Feb. 09, 1992.
I always enjoyed encountering one of CN's GP40 locomotives. Built by GMD in 1966/67, there were originally 16 of these units. They were numbered in the 4000-series, right after the two GP35s. By the time of this photo, 14 of these units remained on the roster, and they had been renumbered into the 9300-series. Our subject locomotive would originally have sported number 4009. In 1992, most mainline freights were handled by one or more of CN's ubiquitous GP40-2 diesels, so seeing one of the 9300s in a consist was a bit of a treat.
As so often happened as locomotive rosters transitioned from first generation to second, this was actually CN's second use of this 9300 number series. CN 9300-9344 (even numbers only) were CLC CFA16-4 C-Line locomotives, while 9301-9305 (odd) were model CPB16-4.
George and I recently attended the Model Railroad Expo in Albany NY. On the Sunday there were several layouts open in the nearby area. One such layout was owned by Kevin Surman in Saratoga Springs NY. After a stop at the Amtrak Station there to watch a passenger train we headed over to Kevin's house. Once in the basement we saw a large double deck railroad that filled the basement utilizing several rooms.
Kevin explained that he is modelling mainline railroad operations in the 1950's in New Jersey which include steam, diesel and electric trains from the Pennsylvania, Central RR of New Jersey and other northeastern railroads. The layout features a fully operational CTC signalling system. .Kevin is the main electrical maintenance man at RPI and says wiring up signal systems is one of his favourite aspects of the hobby and believe me there is a ton of wiring on this layout. Kevin proudly displays his "Model Railroad Engineer-Electrical" Certificate of Achievement on the wall as you enter the basement. Kevin is also a master at building structures and scenes for the layout.
Rather than going on with a lot of text I will share with you some of the great looking structures and scenes that we saw on Kevin's layout. Kevin was a gracious host and told us he was going to tear out a large section of his layout and rebuild it so I am looking forward to seeing it again once he has the new sections finished.
Here we see the Newark, NJ passenger station (above) and a set of electric MU passenger cars running under the overhead catenary wires.
Kevin has done great job of depicting scenes along the Jersey shoreline, typical of what you would actually see there.
The above three photos show the extent of the detail Kevin has added to some of the many urban scenes on the layout.
There are a lot of rail served scenes on the layout with many of the structures scratchbuilt or kitbashed by Kevin.
One scene that caught my eye was this wooden road bridge. It turns out I built ascratchbuilt a model of this bridge using the same plans Kevin did from an old copy of a model railroad magazine. It really hides the entrance in to another room very well.
One more industrial scene wit a backdrop of now out of business Sceniking backdrop photos.
Throwback Thursday - That's an Oopsy!