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I know fans who woud eat their shirts — or yours — just to be in attendance at this major event of the professional racing season at Daytona, Florida. To some "racing" means car racing, h+ turbo automotive h+style racing. News of today's goings-on will flood us during the event, unless the rain doesn't cooperate again today. I've been trying to find out how long the NASCAR Daytona 500 typically lasts, in order to estimate how long that dang rain has hold off. It's going to become harder and harder to reschedule successfully, as other events in the sport and in the sports culture and wider culture will be backing up onto the possible new dates.
The video below presents one of the more tragic racing disasters — as it affected racing's key female star. I present it here for its news-value and for its conveyance of the feel of a major racing event.
The text below is by sports journo Cindy Boren, and it gives a taste of what the racing pros and their support teams went thru yesterday, many of them struggling for focus and maintenance of their readiness — both key emotional (psychological) factors in professional racing. What an edge, rather edginess, must have prevailed for most.
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Keith Urban sings the theme song of Act of Valor, the much-anticipated new movie about USA Navy Seals. Titled simply "For You," the song explores the experience of committing oneself to sacrifice — for someone else, the other, perhaps the beloved -- I do this for you.
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What a disgrace — Washington DC's Capitals hockey team came north to the Canadian capital city of Ottawa and lost with only 2 scoring shots against 5 for Canada's Senators. Yes, suddenly the National Hockey League's ordinary game becomes a contest between the overall hockey prowess of the countries' general sports values. That's not the way either team or the NHL plans it. The matter is just too much overpowered by the sport and, at the same t+m, the weit of metaphors that sweep fans up into a kind of nationalism. After all, it's the NHL teams from the two countries' capitals, with names like "Capitals" and "Senators" (which coud confuse Americans becawz so many of them don't even know theirs is not the only country that has an elected office of Senator ... well, actually in Canada, Senators (the political kind) are not elected but appointed (how regressive can you be?), while Senators (the hockey kind) are mostly bawt and sold with weird Get-off-the-Team-Now cards available, at least to some players who're discontented with where they've ended up. Now, Ottawa is not a very hospitable town, cold, and rather empty on the weekends. Much of the workweek's populace live across the river in Hull, Quebec, and some of them want a separate French-speaking country but do l+k Gringo and Anglo dollars that speak English. I mean Caps vs Senators sets a whole nationalistic lingo and metaphory in motion with decades of political overt+m suddenly made volatile in the fevered imaginations of fans in the icey North above the tree-line and the DEW-line. Okay, okay, I'm stretching it a bit.May I quote a sociologist of sport? Writing about hockey in Canada, Alan Bairner in his Sport, Nationalism, and Globalization: European and North American Perspectives (2001) reminds us,
Time and again, the cry goes up — hockey is Canada's game or, as the legend on countless T shirts woud have it, 'Canada is Hockey.' This is not to ignore the fact that it is played in numerous other countries. But implicit is the widely held belief that Canada and the Canadians have a special affinity with the game that is matched in no other country. For many years, it was also felt that the Canadians were undoubtedly the best hockey players in the world. By the 1960s, however, it had become apparent that the Russians as well as other Europeans and even Americans coud also play a bit. The result was a period of national soul searching. Victory [by Canada] in a challenge series against the Soviet Union in 1972 provided temporary relief. ... (page 134).All of which pertains at least obliquely to the headline of Katie Carrera's article in Washington Post's online feature Post Sports which focusses on the absence of the Cap's Russian star Alex Ovechkin.
One often doesn't feel there's h+ enuff regard for the customers and clients of the big companies, like Apple and Google, that make possible personal computing (especially blogging). I don't like criticizing either company as I'm still amazed at the tech marvels I have come to enjoy in my old age. And the matter at issue between the two competitors is probably settled — thanks to Congresswoman Mack. Still, there's a long-term war going on. To me, it seems that Apple just wants to corner the technical market, whereas Google seems to want to do so for the sake of some power-agenda bent on influencing the culture more than it lets on. Hope that's not the case, but let the buyer beware of the supplier!
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It's a good question, if you've got any inclination toward sociology or psychology. But we don't need the sciences to raise it: just look around you. You may want to mull over the subject of this inquiry — and you can post it on our Comments thingy, if you want to, as one can also ask Why do people hate commenting on blog-entries? There is such a simple thing as taste and t+m, as you're probably aware as you pawz to listen to the slow-cadenced aria sung by opera-star Maria Callas (sounds like she's feeling the pinch of the tapeworm she swallowed to control her weit, huh?) and then follow that listening with a sample of TurboRap by Ceza's Holocaust (sorry, the subtitles only appear in German).
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They say his voice, now baritone but with considerable range upward, is amazing. And, of course, his song-wr+ting swarms around the themes of late-teenage. But to an aging-onlooker/listener, the first telltale s+n of potential greatness is his first-off durability on the charts — until you hear him. Without a video, you can't help imagining a dude at least 10 years older. Oh yeah, hear him sing while he plays basketball for his local h+school. See him hoop assist that last-second shot of a recent game for Garner H+ School! 8-)
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refWrite comment: The InformationWeek niche-blog for security-info in the digital realms of the Internet is trying to keep those concerned (laity) and IT specialists (professionals) uptodate on the acts of the hactivists (as they're called) who seek to disrupt the institutions that provide and/or protect certain databases and communcations vital to the USA's political and strategic well-being. However, the system does require security, so that delicate info doesn't leak from its banks of data to individuals wishing to harm our system (I don't want to paint a roseate picture of the moral achievements of the system as a whole, or of its security taskforce personnel, tho I do count most of them on the s+d of the good angels). Nevertheless, for whatever reasons, strong forces of reaction to USA Security as a functioning concept and mandate, and of a reaction to its diplomacy with other nations (as is the case of the Wikileaks info-leaks/flood), have congealed into action groups with grudges and technical skills in a cyber-lethal combination. One such action group is Anonymous; Anonymous is famous. And now the m+ty deeds sung around its campfires include a direct, purposeful assault on the Central Intelligence Agency's webs+t open to the public (while CIA's intranet s+ts seem not to have been penetrated). Anonymous must be regarding this CIA public webs+t as merely a propaganda instrument to impress, persuade, and perhaps confuse especially the American public. That proposition seems inherently an implication of its action.
In response to an apparently non-Anonymous attack, one that targetted an Alabama state-police database for the purpose of data-theft and then dumped some of the info garnered to the media, replied to their critics like DataBreaches.net saying:
"Yeah but we arent gonna post that shit! [names of sex offenders plus limited info on the victims and the crimes, while vehicle info and license plate digits were released]. We are exposing the flaw [in the Alabama cyber-security system] not the names of the innocent!"
So the vigilantes in this case protect the child abusers and rapists, while gathering their cloaks about them after spewing out venom on the (cyber-security) system as such. After all, it is flawed. They thus parade their own expertise, while trying to heap the public's disdain on the agencies and officials who work in this field on behalf of Alabama's state government and the law-abiding public. They are thus, at best, to be classed as vigilantes. Anonymous, however, doesn't even rise to this dubious standard.— Technowlb
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