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Steroids are artificial compounds linked chemically to the male sex hormone Testosterone that is responsible for the maturation of male features falling out during puberty. Steroids were first developed in 1930 to help men who were incapable to produce sufficient testosterone in their bodies.
However, steroids are widely used by jocks that engaged in power sports such as power-lifting, muscle building, baseball, football, and even used by players as a means to get fit for rugby and to boost their performance levels, and build up muscles. Anabolic steroids are often called muscle-building steroids, because the offer great results in muscle building.
The muscle building steroids cause the body to raise the tissue amount and to metabolize fat within the body. Thats why body-builders make use of muscle building steroids to their advantages. However according to the 1988 federal law, the supply & use of muscle building steroids for non-remedial purpose is against the law. The muscle building steroids are restricted medications in the United States, Britain, Canada and many other parts of the world.
Today, the majority of athletes abuse steroids, which is completely erroneous and unlawful. The use of muscle building steroids for competitive purposes is legally banished. The muscle building steroids are available in form of tablets, capsules, gels and injections. There are lots of muscle building steroids available in the market. Some of the highly abused muscle building steroids include Dianabol, Winstrol, Testosterone, Danocrine, Anadur, Anavar, Andriol, AndroGel, Anadrol, Cheque Drops, Oxandrin, Winstrol, Deca-Durabolin, Durabolin, Equipoise, and Depo-testosterone.
There are many risks involved in using muscle building steroids. The muscle building steroids may have serious side effects and dangerous consequences. Some of the common side effects of muscle building steroids include dizziness, early hair loss, sleeping problems, vomiting, sadness, mood changes, pain in joints, hallucinations, mental illness, urinary problems, jaundice, stroke, heart disease, trembling, high blood pressure, and increased chance of injuring muscles and tendons. The muscle building steroids are also responsible for causing aggressiveness, gloominess, nervousness, and uncontrolled bouts of anger.
It remains that better education by sports clubs, gyms, doctors etc can contribute to the reduction or need for use of steroids, all that is required to get fit is an understanding of basics, leave the chemical experimentation to the Timothy Leary types.
The season has started and you have completed your first few events, what adjustments can you make to your diet to improve your performance? What can you eat on a diet?The season has started and you have completed your first few endurance life events or perhaps you are training hard for your biggest challenge yet. Your winter training has paid off but you wander what adjustments you can make to get a few seconds per mile faster to beat your biggest rivals.
Now is the time to start thinking about nutrition. Appetite is one of the biggest keys to getting your weight down and increasing your power to weight ratio, and key to this is your daily intake and knowledge of what you can eat on a diet.
Our appetite has worked well for millions of years of evolution but our modern lifestyle means we can’t rely on our natural appetite, we spend so much time being sedentary that we easily eat too much and get fat. It is important to remember it takes 20 minutes for your body to recognise being full. There are a few things to look out for and change to make you feel like you are running, cycling or kayaking with a turbo attached to your back.
1. Eat natural foods which contain less calories. Nowadays packaged foods are so calorific that we can eat 500-1000 calories in just a few minutes. It could take a lot longer to eat the equivalent amount of calories just eating vegetable such as carrots.
2. Eat a big Breakfast. Research shows those who eat more calories before midday eat less calories as a total for the entire day than those who eat less before midday. You will also experience less cravings throughout the rest of the day.
3. 25% of calories. Aim to eat 25% of your daily calorie intake within an hour of waking up to give you the best chance of maintaining your energy levels throughout the day and shedding a few extra pounds of useless fat.
4. Eat every 2-3 hours throughout the day to prevent sugar highs and lows which result in your body depositing fat. Research shows that people who eat more frequently eat less.
5. Resist temptations, the more you resist treats in a short amount of time the more likely you are to break the bad habits quickly.
6. Don’t supersize it. Just because you get offered the ‘make it double size for the same price’ doesn’t mean you have to have it.
7. Energy Supplements. Try not to use them for every training session, otherwise your body will start to rely on the massive amount of sugar in them. As a result your bodies fat burning mechanism will switch off.
8. Fat Burner. Once a week try doing a ride or run for 1-2 hours before breakfast to get your body burning fat fast. If you haven’t eaten anything since the evening meal on the day before your body will have no choice but to get into fat burning quickly.
If you feel light you will go faster. For a free healthy eat on a diet plan as used by the girl below check out Isabel de la Rios here http://eatonadiet.com
Some of the simple things are often missed out when it comes to training to get fit for rugby or any sport. Breathing is something we do all day every day and so we take it for granted. But there is an art to breathing correctly and getting the most out of each breath. For example if you are asked to take a big breath you do so in such a way that you probably hold your stomach in. But why would you hold your stomach in when really it should be sticking out because of the volume of air inside the lungs. Likewise when you breathe out your stomach and chest should go in as you release the used air as you exhale but so many people push their stomachs outwards. The action of breathing brings air in through the lungs which then goes into the blood and gets transported around the body to help exercise. As you exhale carbon dioxide is removed from the body as a waste product and room is made for new oxygenated air to come in. Good breathing technique will help lower blood pressure, purify the blood, increase metabolism, improve digestion, promote rapid recovery after exercise, help you to relax and most importantly of all have non-stop endurance for adventure.
During exercise most people resort to shallow, short fast breaths, because they are breathing just using the top part of the chest. Excessive panting will be a waste of energy and it won’t deliver enough oxygen to your lungs. This rapid shallow breathing may cause what the experts call a flight-or-flight response. Your heart rate will increase as the heart has to pump faster to use what little oxygen it has been given and this puts bigger stress on the body which will leave you with no choice but to slow down and it will make recovery from your training session take longer. Your mind will think you are exercising at a high intensity when in fact if you were able to breathe correctly you would soon find out that the intensity is not that hard after all. Using just the top of the lungs with this short shallow chest breathing doesn’t make use of the bottom half of your lungs where the most efficient exchange of oxygen takes place. It is important to exhale fully before you take another breath in because if you don’t you simply won’t have enough room for the new oxygen to come in.
Breathing out correctly is like emptying your rubbish bin to make room for more rubbish. You would empty the whole bin before you started to fill it up again. You need to empty your lungs completely before you take another breath in. Stop smoking if you haven´t already.
Make time in your week to do some simple breathing exercises to help you get the most from each breath. Firstly make sure you make some simple changes whilst training. Keep your posture as upright as possible. If your shoulders are rounded and slumped you will not be able to inhale as much oxygen as you need because your diaphragm will be prevented from rising up. So relax your shoulders but keep your chest up and make sure your ears, shoulders and hips are all in one line to maintain good posture. Then as you inhale relax your abdominal muscles so your diaphragm can rise up and then contract your abdominal muscles as you exhale to help exhale completely.
Exercise 1
This is commonly known as abdominal breathing or diaphragmatic breathing. Place one hand on your stomach and the other hand on your chest. As you breathe in look at your hands and make sure the hand on your stomach is rising higher than your hand on your chest. When the hand on your stomach is rising higher than your hand on the chest you know you are making good use of the space at the bottom of the lungs. Next take a deep breath in through your nose and then slowly breathe out through your mouth. When you think you have fully breathed out contract your stomach muscles to help completely empty your lungs. The process of breathing out should take twice as long as breathing in. Once you have mastered the technique repeat the technique for 3-4 minutes at a time. Practice the technique when you are resting and relaxed, then start to incorporate it into your training sessions. You will soon find that your training level of intensity can increase and so your rugby fitness or any other sport will improve immeasurably.
Exercise 2
This is commonly known as bellows breathing and you should try using this just before the start of the endurance life events, as it conditions the body to overcome the shock of a sudden demand for more oxygen by making the muscles involved in heavy breathing ready for action. This technique should be practised at first in the comfort of a chair as it can have the effect of hyperventilation and in some cases people may pass out. Breathe in fast through your nose and mouth and then breathe out fast through your mouth using all the correct muscles. It is especially important to use your abdominal muscles to make sure each time you breathe out you completely empty the lungs. Keep repeating the exercise but if you are new to it only do it for 10 seconds to start with and then build up the time of the exercise by 5 seconds each time you do it. The fast breathing will also release energizing chemicals to your brain.
Add these two breathing exercises to your training plan twice a week and you will see the benefits within a few weeks. Poor breathing technique will inhibit your ability to progress and perform at your full physical potential.
The difference between moas and chickens. Well moas probably tasted like a chicken deer cross and were undoubtably harder to catch, and of course they´re long extinct, but there is more mana and mystery surrounding the history of the Moa, I don´t even think the colonels chicken recipie is secret anymore.
The french put up a great display, they were fast, responsive, good with defense and quick to attack. Luckily for new zealanders, the boys knew how to "go hard out" with a wobbly wheel, like the Last Indian perhaps? Compared to the bloody display the week before, this mornings match was pretty tame and I guess rightly so, If you throw a chicken up in the air enough times it´s still not going to fly, but it will eventually shit itself and noone like to be shat on. Congrats to the kiwi boys and the other teams for a great rugby world cup, all you guys are champions of rugby. For the kiwis with hearts of a moa, time for a well earnt bucket of chicken before sorting out that wobbly wheel I reckon.
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AWESOME! good win from the boys in the All Black vs france rwc 2011 match 37 17... Except, Sweet! I know this is shit quality but it was a great tackle that set the mood for the match, nice work Nonu chur chur from Bs As
France back row Julien Bonnaire has begun the mind games ahead of Saturday's crucial World Cup clash with New Zealand by questioning whether the All Blacks will buckle beneath the weight of expectation.
Test rugby's greatest team have dominated the game since the inception of the World Cup yet have won the tournament just once, the inaugural event in 1987. With the 2011 competition being staged at home, the pressure is building like never before and Bonnaire is keen to inject doubt in their minds.
"The All Blacks know we are unpredictable, both in a good and a bad way actually. We can either fail or pull it off - and that is what they fear," he said. "Clearly there are high expectations from a whole nation who support them fully - perhaps too much even. We experienced that ourselves in 2007 in France."
Much of the build-up to the match has concentrated on what has been described in the New Zealand press as a second-string line-up. The claim does not stand up to scrutiny with a host of big names - among them captain Thierry Dusautoir, scrum-half Dimitri Yachvili and winger Vincent Clerc - starting.
The main area of discussion has been on the selection of Morgan Parra at fly-half in what will be his first Test start in the position. Muddying the waters on the debate over whether Marc Lievremont has selected a weakened side is the knowledge that defeat would place them in the easier half of the quarter-final draw where two of England, Ireland or Wales will lie in wait.
"Controversy is part of the deal," said Bonnaire. "The media are looking to get their hands on anything. It doesn't affect me. It's up to us to prove them wrong on the field."
France have become something of a World Cup nemesis for New Zealand after staging famous upset victories against them in 1999 and 2007. All Black lock Brad Thorn admits Les Bleus can be unpredictable.
"The French can play a really attractive game of rugby. It can be out of the box, it's quite unique," he said. "They can throw the ball wide off their own try line, so it makes for interesting footy.
"My message to spectators would be to enjoy the rugby. Cheer their hearts out. Get every cent's worth out of their admission and just express themselves and have fun. Hopefully the two teams can put on a performance that can really excite fans from not only New Zealand, but from everywhere."
Match Facts: Check out the facts and figures ahead of South Africa's clash with Wales in the rugby world cup on Sunday.
Wales have lost all but two of their 25 matches against South Africa, a 6-6 draw in 1970 and a 29-19 win in 1999 being the exceptions, yet this will be their first RWC meeting.
Wales have only been prevented from scoring in three of their matches against South Africa (1906, 1912 and 1960).
Wales’s 96-13 defeat to South Africa in Pretoria in 1998 was the heaviest defeat in their history.
South Africa need six more tries to reach the landmark of 100 World Cup tries.
Defending champions South Africa have won their last seven World Cup matches and indeed have the best win percentage (87.50) of any nation in the competition.
South Africa have won all of their opening World Cup matches and have averaged 51 points in these four fixtures.
If Shane Williams scores a try in this game he will stand alone as Wales’ top try-scorer in World Cup games. He is currently tied on seven with Gareth Thomas and Ieuan Evans.
If John Smit starts this match he will become the seventh South African to have started 10 World Cup matches.
South Africa have been given two red cards in their RWC history, James Dalton in 1995 and Saracens’ technical director Brendan Venter in 1999, only Tonga and Canada have accrued more.
Wales won all four of their games in New Zealand at the 1987 World Cup, finishing third after losing in the semi-finals to New Zealand in Brisbane. c/o Eurosport
Kiwis do this great! The community spirit in NZ is alive and kicking (well at least in the main centres, but that post is for another blog another time) One of the reasons has to be our small population base it is easy to be amiable and quaint when you´re small!
One of the greatest rugby champions of all time was George Nepia and back in the 20th century "the boot" as he was known was the 1900´s equivalent of Dan Carter. “It is not for me a question of whether Nepia was the best fullback in history. It is a question of which of the others is fit to lace up his cotton Oxford boots.” Denzil Batchelor, English rugby journalist. One of Nepia´s boots is to be found in the trophy cabinet at Tauranga Boys´College, I used to think it looked big and smelly, lord knows what it smells like now but probably better than DC´s!
Photo from Cliff Porter Collection, NZ Rugby Museum
The RWC roadshow is a tv series taking you through the land of the long white cloud aka Aotearoa where you will get to meet the people and supporters that are going to make the RWC 2011 an event to remember. The quakes in Christchurch were only a precursor to the epic rumblings that will take place around the 26th September but whatever happens expect people to rally together. The rugby rule is the same, if you´re on the ground let it go and enjoy the sensation of the rolling maul or scrum passing over (or through) you. Good waves to you all & go the all blacks!
If you are one of the lucky wealthy enough to travel between the event stadiums be forewarned that the pencil plane flights between Nth and Sth Island can be hairy! But make your peace and enjoy the champion rollercoaster ride into windy Wellington! If you haven´t already, or if you know anyone looking Get a Room for the Sth Africa vs Wales RWC 2011 weekend, please forward this post if you know of someone, we cannot go (were in Buenos Aires) and need to sell it! Good waves and Go the All Blacks!
That Rugby Football was believed to have originated in 1823 when William Webb Ellis took the football in his hands and ran with it to the goal post, of course you did.
That in Asia, the ASIAD Rugby tournament was supposed to have originated in the mid nineties. The twentieth ASIAD Rugby Football tournament that was to be staged from the 18th to 25th of November in Sri Lanka now stands postponed due to participating teams, particularly, Hong Kong, Singapore and Japan expressing concerns over the prevailing security situation in Sri Lanka.
That the United States are the world's reigning rugby champions - when it comes to the Olympics, anyway. The US rugby team took the gold medal when the game was last played at the Olympics back in 1924. Rugby was dropped from the tournament after that, but there's a growing campaign to make it an Olympic sport again.
Cannibalism and Rugby - "I believe that when man evolves to a civilization higher than the mechanized but still primitive one he has now, the eating of human flesh will be sanctioned. For then man will have thrown off all of his superstitions and irrational taboos." (Diego Rivera)
"One calls 'barbarism' whatever he is not accustomed to." (Montaigne, On Cannibalism)
"Then Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, ye have no life in you. Whoso eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day. For my flesh is meat indeed, and my blood is drink indeed." (New Testament, John 6:53-55)
Cannibalism (more precisely, anthropophagy) is an age-old tradition that, judging by a constant stream of flabbergasted news reports, is far from extinct. Much-debated indications exist that our Neanderthal, Proto-Neolithic, and Neolithic (Stone Age) predecessors were cannibals. Similarly contested claims were made with regards to the 12th century advanced Anasazi culture in the southwestern United States and the Minoans in Crete (today's Greece). The Britannica Encyclopedia (2005 edition) recounts how the "Binderwurs of central India ate their sick and aged in the belief that the act was pleasing to their goddess, Kali." Cannibalism may also have been common among followers of the Shaktism cults in India. Other sources attribute cannibalism to the 16th century Imbangala in today's Angola and Congo, the Fang in Cameroon, the Mangbetu in Central Africa, the Ache in Paraguay, the Tonkawa in today's Texas, the Calusa in current day Florida, the Caddo and Iroquois confederacies of Indians in North America, the Cree in Canada, the Witoto, natives of Colombia and Peru, the Carib in the Lesser Antilles (whose distorted name - Canib - gave rise to the word "cannibalism"), to Maori tribes in today's New Zealand, and to various peoples in Sumatra (like the Batak). The Wikipedia numbers among the practitioners of cannibalism the ancient Chinese, the Korowai tribe of southeastern Papua, the Fore tribe in New Guinea (and many other tribes in Melanesia), the Aztecs, the people of Yucatan, the Purchas from Popayan, Colombia, the denizens of the Marquesas Islands of Polynesia, and the natives of the captaincy of Sergipe in Brazil. From Congo and Central Africa to Germany and from Mexico to New Zealand, cannibalism is enjoying a morbid revival of interest, if not of practice. A veritable torrent of sensational tomes and movies adds to our ambivalent fascination with man-eaters.
Cannibalism is not a monolithic affair. It can be divided thus:
I. Non-consensual consumption of human flesh post-mortem For example, when the corpses of prisoners of war are devoured by their captors. This used to be a common exercise among island tribes (e.g., in Fiji, the Andaman and Cook islands) and is still the case in godforsaken battle zones such as Congo (formerly Zaire), or among the defeated Japanese soldiers in World War II. Similarly, human organs and fetuses as well as mummies are still being gobbled up - mainly in Africa and Asia - for remedial and medicinal purposes and in order to enhance one's libido and vigor. On numerous occasions the organs of dead companions, colleagues, family, or neighbors were reluctantly ingested by isolated survivors of horrid accidents (the Uruguay rugby team whose plane crashed in the Andes, the boat people fleeing Asia), denizens of besieged cities (e.g., during the siege of Leningrad), members of exploratory expeditions gone astray (the Donner Party in Sierra Nevada, California and John Franklin's Polar expedition), famine-stricken populations (Ukraine in the 1930s, China in the 1960s), and the like. Finally, in various pre-nation-state and tribal societies, members of the family were encouraged to eat specific parts of their dead relatives as a sign of respect or in order to partake of the deceased's wisdom, courage, or other positive traits (endocannibalism).
II. Non-consensual consumption of human flesh from a live source For example, when prisoners of war are butchered for the express purpose of being eaten by their victorious enemies. A notorious and rare representative of this category of cannibalism is the punitive ritual of being eaten alive. The kings of the tribes of the Cook Islands were thought to embody the gods. They punished dissent by dissecting their screaming and conscious adversaries and consuming their flesh piecemeal, eyeballs first. The Sawney Bean family in Scotland, during the reign of King James I, survived for decades on the remains (and personal belongings) of victims of their murderous sprees. Real-life serial killers, like Jeffrey Dahmer, Albert Fish, Sascha Spesiwtsew, Fritz Haarmann, Issei Sagawa, and Ed Gein, lured, abducted, and massacred countless people and then consumed their flesh and preserved the inedible parts as trophies. These lurid deeds inspired a slew of books and films, most notably The Silence of the Lambs with Hannibal (Lecter) the Cannibal as its protagonist. III. Consensual consumption of human flesh from live and dead human bodies Armin Meiwes, the "Master Butcher (Der Metzgermeister)", arranged over the Internet to meet Bernd Jurgen Brandes on March 2001. Meiwes amputated the penis of his guest and they both ate it. He then proceeded to kill Brandes (with the latter's consent recorded on video), and snack on what remained of him. Sexual cannibalism is a paraphilia and an extreme - and thankfully, rare - form of fetishism. The Aztecs willingly volunteered to serve as human sacrifices (and to be tucked into afterwards). They firmly believed that they were offerings, chosen by the gods themselves, thus being rendered immortal. Dutiful sons and daughters in China made their amputated organs and sliced tissues (mainly the liver) available to their sick parents (practices known as Ko Ku and Ko Kan). Such donation were considered remedial. Princess Miao Chuang who surrendered her severed hands to her ailing father was henceforth deified. Non-consensual cannibalism is murder, pure and simple. The attendant act of cannibalism, though aesthetically and ethically reprehensible, cannot aggravate this supreme assault on all that we hold sacred. But consensual cannibalism is a lot trickier. Modern medicine, for instance, has blurred the already thin line between right and wrong. What is the ethical difference between consensual, post-mortem, organ harvesting and consensual, post-mortem cannibalism? Why is stem cell harvesting (from aborted fetuses) morally superior to consensual post-mortem cannibalism? When members of a plane-wrecked rugby team, stranded on an inaccessible, snow-piled, mountain range resort to eating each other in order to survive, we turn a blind eye to their repeated acts of cannibalism - but we condemn the very same deed in the harshest terms if it takes place between two consenting, and even eager adults in Germany. Surely, we don't treat murder, pedophilia, and incest the same way! As the Auxiliary Bishop of Montevideo said after the crash: "... Eating someone who has died in order to survive is incorporating their substance, and it is quite possible to compare this with a graft. Flesh survives when assimilated by someone in extreme need, just as it does when an eye or heart of a dead man is grafted onto a living man..." (Read, P.P. 1974. Alive. Avon, New York) Complex ethical issues are involved in the apparently straightforward practice of consensual cannibalism. Consensual, in vivo, cannibalism (a-la Messrs. Meiwes and Brandes) resembles suicide. The cannibal is merely the instrument of voluntary self-destruction. Questions:
Why would we treat it different to the way we treat any other form of suicide pact? Consensual cannibalism is not the equivalent of drug abuse because it has no social costs. Unlike junkies, the cannibal and his meal are unlikely to harm others.
What gives society the right to intervene, therefore? If we own our bodies and, thus, have the right to smoke, drink, have an abortion, commit suicide, and will our organs to science after we die - why don't we possess the inalienable right to will our delectable tissues to a discerning cannibal post-mortem (or to victims of famine in Africa)?
When does our right to dispose of our organs in any way we see fit crystallize? Is it when we die? Or after we are dead? If so, what is the meaning and legal validity of a living will? And why can't we make a living will and bequeath our cadaverous selves to the nearest cannibal?
Do dead people have rights and can they claim and invoke them while they are still alive?
Is the live person the same as his dead body, does he "own" it, does the state have any rights in it?
Does the corpse still retain its previous occupant's "personhood"? Are cadavers still human, in any sense of the word?
We find all three culinary variants abhorrent. Yet, this instinctive repulsion is a curious matter. The onerous demands of survival should have encouraged cannibalism rather than make it a taboo. Human flesh is protein-rich. Most societies, past and present (with the exception of the industrialized West), need to make efficient use of rare protein-intensive resources. If cannibalism enhances the chances of survival - why is it universally prohibited? For many a reason.
I. The Sanctity of Life Historically, cannibalism preceded, followed, or precipitated an act of murder or extreme deprivation (such as torture). It habitually clashed with the principle of the sanctity of life. Once allowed, even under the strictest guidelines, cannibalism tended to debase and devalue human life and foster homicide, propelling its practitioners down a slippery ethical slope towards bloodlust and orgiastic massacres.
II. The Afterlife Moreover, in life, the human body and form are considered by most religions (and philosophers) to be the abode of the soul, the divine spark that animates us all. The post-mortem integrity of this shrine is widely thought to guarantee a faster, unhindered access to the afterlife, to immortality, and eventual reincarnation (or karmic cycle in eastern religions). For this reason, to this very day, orthodox Jews refuse to subject their relatives to a post-mortem autopsy and organ harvesting. Fijians and Cook Islanders used to consume their enemies' carcasses in order to prevent their souls from joining hostile ancestors in heaven.
III. Chastening Reminders Cannibalism is a chilling reminder of our humble origins in the animal kingdom. To the cannibal, we are no better and no more than cattle or sheep. Cannibalism confronts us with the irreversibility of our death and its finality. Surely, we cannot survive our demise with our cadaver mutilated and gutted and our skeletal bones scattered, gnawed, and chewed on?
IV. Medical Reasons Infrequently, cannibalism results in prion diseases of the nervous system, such as kuru. The same paternalism that gave rise to the banning of drug abuse, the outlawing of suicide, and the Prohibition of alcoholic drinks in the 1920s - seeks to shelter us from the pernicious medical outcomes of cannibalism and to protect others who might become our victims.
V. The Fear of Being Objectified Being treated as an object (being objectified) is the most torturous form of abuse. People go to great lengths to seek empathy and to be perceived by others as three dimensional entities with emotions, needs, priorities, wishes, and preferences. The cannibal reduces others by treating them as so much meat. Many cannibal serial killers transformed the organs of their victims into trophies. The Cook Islanders sought to humiliate their enemies by eating, digesting, and then defecating them - having absorbed their mana (prowess, life force) in the process.
VI. The Argument from Nature Cannibalism is often castigated as "unnatural". Animals, goes the myth, don't prey on their own kind. Alas, like so many other romantic lores, this is untrue. Most species - including our closest relatives, the chimpanzees - do cannibalize. Cannibalism in nature is widespread and serves diverse purposes such as population control (chickens, salamanders, toads), food and protein security in conditions of scarcity (hippopotamuses, scorpions, certain types of dinosaurs), threat avoidance (rabbits, mice, rats, and hamsters), and the propagation of genetic material through exclusive mating (Red-back spider and many mantids). Moreover, humans are a part of nature. Our deeds and misdeeds are natural by definition. Seeking to tame nature is a natural act. Seeking to establish hierarchies and subdue or relinquish our enemies are natural propensities. By avoiding cannibalism we seek to transcend nature. Refraining from cannibalism is the unnatural act.
VII. The Argument from Progress It is a circular syllogism involving a tautology and goes like this: Cannibalism is barbaric. Cannibals are, therefore, barbarians. Progress entails the abolition of this practice. The premises - both explicit and implicit - are axiomatic and, therefore, shaky. What makes cannibalism barbarian? And why is progress a desirable outcome? There is a prescriptive fallacy involved, as well: Because we do not eat the bodies of dead people - we ought not to eat them.
VIII. Arguments from Religious Ethics The major monotheistic religions are curiously mute when it comes to cannibalism. Human sacrifice is denounced numerous times in the Old Testament - but man-eating goes virtually unmentioned. The Eucharist in Christianity - when the believers consume the actual body and blood of Jesus - is an act of undisguised cannibalism: "That the consequence of Transubstantiation, as a conversion of the total substance, is the transition of the entire substance of the bread and wine into the Body and Blood of Christ, is the express doctrine of the Church ...." (Catholic Encyclopedia) "CANON lI.-If any one saith, that, in the sacred and holy sacrament of the Eucharist, the substance of the bread and wine remains conjointly with the body and blood of our Lord Jesus Christ, and denieth that wonderful and singular conversion of the whole substance of the bread into the Body, and of the whole substance of the wine into the Blood-the species Only of the bread and wine remaining-which conversion indeed the Catholic Church most aptly calls Transubstantiation; let him be anathema. CANON VIII.-lf any one saith, that Christ, given in the Eucharist, is eaten spiritually only, and not also sacramentally and really; let him be anathema." (The Council of Trent, The Thirteenth Session - The canons and decrees of the sacred and oecumenical Council of Trent, Ed. and trans. J. Waterworth (London: Dolman, 1848), 75-91.) Still, most systems of morality and ethics impute to Man a privileged position in the scheme of things (having been created in the "image of God"). Men and women are supposed to transcend their animal roots and inhibit their baser instincts (an idea incorporated into Freud's tripartite model of the human psyche). The anthropocentric chauvinistic view is that it is permissible to kill all other animals in order to consume their flesh. Man, in this respect, is sui generis. Yet, it is impossible to rigorously derive a prohibition to eat human flesh from any known moral system. As Richard Routley-Silvan observes in his essay "In Defence of Cannibalism", that something is innately repugnant does not make it morally prohibited. Moreover, that we find cannibalism nauseating is probably the outcome of upbringing and conditioning rather than anything innate. According to Greek mythology, Man was created from the ashes of the Titans, the children of Uranus and Gaea, whom Zeus struck with thunderbolts for murdering his son, Zagreus, and then devouring his body. Mankind, therefore, is directly descendant from the Titans, who may well have been the first cannibals.
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This reserve/purchase link is not in anyway affiliated with the hotel, it has been added to my blog for ease and security of a one only transaction. The hotel has no additional vacancies for these dates and once I have transferred the room this post will be removed. If I don´t take it down you will know there is at least one empty hotel room in Wellington..
Aitken on Mulgrave
I have one hotel room left with full kitchen & queen-size bed
3 nights:
9th-10th & 11th on the week-end of the Wales vs South Africa match 11th Sept.
Questions? please mail to Raymond at info@globaljet.mewith RWC in subjectline.
A bit about the neighbourhood. Thordon is one of the older parts of Wellington city and borders the CBD (central business district,) the prime minister´s residence is about 5 minutes walk from the hotel and the lovely botanic gardens are 10-15 minutes walk up the hill, through the "village." Once in the gardens you can easily lose an hour or two wandering the trails and discovering the different sculptures, if you can find the Henry Moore work you have done well and have possibly built up a healthy glow.
At the top you have an excellent view of the whole harbour and downtown area and can catch the old cable car down onto Lambton Quay, at the bottom I can unreservedly reccommend going upstairs into "concrete" which is on the left as soon as you exit the cable car for quality food and a beer or sample Andrew´s excellent wine stock, say hi from me.
For those of you that are a bit more sporty, directlybehind the hotel is part of the Wellington town belt, there are numerous tracks up there but the climb is steep! I can also reccommend taking a city bus around the bays to view the numerous beaches and perhaps walking up mount Victoria to the lookout area for a different view of the city. If you are arriving on the 9th I can suggest enquiring about "Wild About Wellington" a boutique style tour run by Jennifer is is truely wild about Wellington, from memory the tour includes the brewery and chocolate factory but better do your own due dilligence on this, Jennifer is tops though and you will be well entertained and informed.
To give you an idea of the type of people to expect in Wellington, when we were there in February I was showing my girl one of the older neighbourhoods and snapping some photos when an older gentleman asked if we would care to take photos from upstairs in his house for a different aspect, whilst perhaps not typical it certainly isn´t unusual and even the Jonah Lomu type city labourers will say "gidday." Enjoy!
Price hikes for Rugby World Cup - tell us your stories
The Rugby World Cup is less than 100 days away and there have been reports of accommodation price hikes of up to 1000 percent around Auckland. Doubling or tripling standard room rates is more common – this means paying hundreds of dollars a night more for accommodation than you would usually. The price gouging has occurred as Auckland accommodation providers attempt to make the most of the influx of an estimated 85,000 visitors to the country during September and October.
It’s basic supply and demand – large numbers of people require accommodation, especially in Auckland where the final, third place playoff, semi finals, two quarter finals and crucial All Blacks vs France matches are being played. No doubt it’s not limited to Auckland or to the accommodation industry.
The best ways to avoid such expensive prices are to stay with friends or family, stay further away from the venue, or even try some kind of house exchange programme. If these aren't options and the nearest park bench won't do, let your feet do the talking by refusing to pay such exorbitant prices.
There is a risk involved, but if no one pays the expensive rates being charged then accommodation providers will be forced to lower their prices or be left with empty rooms. You never know, New Zealand might do the unthinkable and win the Rugby World Cup, so you could be partying all night anyway!
Tell us about your experiences with paying inflated prices for anything during the Rugby World Cup period. Do you agree with the accommodation providers that raise their prices? Or do you think they give New Zealand a bad name? Scott Donaldson
Well it seems the bros from the cape are a silent lot and are keeping their game faces on until the last minute so I ´m going to stop with the Afrikaans lingo posts it´s just too much extra work and those boys are too shy to comment. Maybe I will put one in occassionally we see how it goes.
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Hooker Keven Mealamu, die is op weg om de Blues record dit seizoen met de meeste minuten gespeeld, blijft herdefiniëren bezienswaardigheden als hij bereidt zich uit te draaien voor Oriel Super Rugby spel nummer 130.
De nieuwe record, breken Reuben Thorne de mijlpaal van 129 wedstrijden voor de kruisvaarders, kan worden verkregen met Mealamu zijn onvermoeibare reputatie hooghouden door op zijn minst in de wedstrijd 22 van elke Blues kant deze campagne.
De 32-jarige debuteerde Super Rugby tegen de Brumbies voor de Blues in 2000.
Twee jaar later debuteerde hij test tegen Wales, de één seizoen was hij weg van zijn geliefde Blues, vertegenwoordigen de Chiefs voor 11 wedstrijden.
Hij werd de Blues eerste Super Rugby centurion, en zijn buitengewone tally van matches blijft in de test arena, met Mealamu (83 tests) vierde zittend op de all-time lijst achter collega hooker Sean Fitzpatrick (92) en Richie McCaw en Mils Muliaina (beide 94) – een illustere lijst met elke speler de All Blacks selectie.
Mealamu zal breken verder records, met de Blues kapitein en de huidige zittende All Blacks hooker opnieuw met de New Zealand Rugby Union voor twee jaar eerder dit seizoen.
Blues coach Pat Lam betaalde eerder hulde aan Mealamu.
"Het is geen geheim over mijn bewondering van Keven als de kapitein en de leider van deze franchise," zei hij.
"Zeker wat u met het team nu zien en wat Keven gedaan over de laatste 100 oneven spelen, is dat inzet en waarden komen door van hem als de leider van het team.
"Het ding dat het meest opvalt is dat hij zo'n een goede vent is en totaal respect heeft.
"Als u op zoek naar een kapitein en een leider je hebt om respect van de mensen en de spelers om je heen te hebben. In deze hele franchise iedereen ziet er maximaal is Keven en het werk dat hij in de Gemeenschap doet net zo belangrijk als het werk dat hij op het veld doet.
Mealamu en zijn vrouw Latai zijn gepassioneerd over zijn familie, met de rake test een grapje dat verwanten betekende dat hij was altijd verblijf in Nieuw-Zeeland.
"Ik heb altijd gezegd dat ik in de problemen van mijn ouders krijgen zou als ik nam hun kleinkinderen weg, dus het is leuk om te kunnen om hier te blijven.
Als voor het raken van een andere mijlpaal, was Mealamu enigszins verbaasd.
"Wow, dat nummer kroop op mij," zei hij.
"We zijn allemaal erg enthousiast om te spelen terug in Eden Park-het is een speciale grond voor mij en waar ik mijn 100e wedstrijd in Super Rugby speelde. Dat nacht die de Blues een zeer goede te winnen was zo zal worden op zoek naar hetzelfde op deze doen."
Chiefs flanker Sam Cane krijgt zijn eerste Oriel Super Rugby start van het seizoen op zaterdag na vandaag wordt genoemd in de zijkant om de kruisvaarders in Napier gezicht.
De Cane opgenomen in de openside van het scrum betekent Liam Messam gaat terug naar de blindside en Taiasina Tuifua daalt tot de Bank.
In de een andere wijziging aan de eerste 15 die begon de overwinning over de Stormers afgelopen weekend, komt Sona Taumalolo uit de Bank als loosehead prop, swapping plaatsen met Toby Smith.
Op de rechtervleugel, Leila Masaga, die kreeg een knock aan een been in opleiding, is geweest tussen haakjes Tim Nanai-Williams.
Team: Mils Muliaina (aanvoerder), Lelia Masaga/Tim Nanai-Williams, Richard Kahui, Dwayne Sweeney, Sitiveni Sivivatu, Stephen Donald, Brendon Leonard, Fritz Lee, Sam Cane, Liam Messam, Romana Graham, Craig Clarke, Ben Afeaki, Hika Elliot, Sona Taumalolo. Reserves: Aled de Malmanche, Toby Smith, Culum Retallick, Taiasina Tuifua, Tawera Kerr-Barlow, Nanai-Williams/Mike Delany,
De voorlaatste etappe van de 2010/2011 HSBC World Zevens Series begint dit weekend in Twickenham, en na een record hiaat van twee jaar, het team van Nieuw-Zeeland Zevens is goed geplaatst om te breken hun kampioenschap droogte.
Huidige kampioenen Samoa zijn derde (100 punten) en 2008/2009 winnaars Zuid-Afrika vierde (92), twee kanten die beheerd te breken wat regelmatige succes door Gordon Tietjens mannen – alleen Fiji eenmaal had beweerd de titel buiten van Nieuw-Zeeland in de eerste negen jaar van de nu legendarische Zevens serie is geweest.
Nieuw-Zeeland zijn geplaatst eerst in de serie standen (134) met tweede geplaatste Engeland (121) hun belangrijkste uitdagers, en het is passend dat het toernooi komt naar Londen waar de thuisploeg hoop zal druk uit te oefenen op de leiders.
Terwijl Nieuw-Zeeland hebben pedigree als Zevens exponenten, Engeland is zeker groeien.
Vorig seizoen de Rugby Football Unie (RFU) aangeboden centrale rugby contracten aan hun Zevens sterren, en coach Ben Ryan heeft genomen zijn team aan de rand van een eerste titel.
Nieuw-Zeeland was altijd gaat om formidabele dit seizoen, graag versterken zich op het circuit, maar ze zal concurreren tegen een van de record menigte ooit gezien op een Zevens evenement.
Ticketverkoop eindelijk graaf waren op 89,866, en op de rails te breken de 100.000 markeren en Twickenham maken dit weekend de grootste menigte ooit bij te wonen een twee-daagse Zevens gebeurtenis. De huidige record aantal is de menigte van 100.000 capaciteit opgenomen in de Dubai Zevens in 2008.
Nieuw-Zeeland, duwen voor hun negende titel in 12 jaar, heeft vier van de zes benen tot nu toe dit seizoen te beweren poleposition gewonnen.
Engeland echter beweerde Dubai, en bereikte de finale in George, Wellington en Hong Kong.
Londen wordt algemeen beschouwd als een zelfs toernooi, met de laatste vijf winnaars alle worden verschillende teams.
Tietjens zei hij was blij met het standpunt van zijn team, maar waarschuwde tegen de jongens denken de baan was compleet ondanks een comfortabele 13-punt buffer tussen de eerste en tweede.
"We hebben vier van de zes toernooien gewonnen dit jaar en het is geweldig om te gaan in deze laatste twee toernooien in de leiding," zei hij.
"Maar we weten dat een van de top vijf teams deze toernooien winnen, kan dus we niet zelfgenoegzaam mogen.
"Engeland is nog steeds een reële bedreiging voor ons en we zullen moeten uitvoeren op de top van ons spel om de titel van de serie."
Ryan zei dat een grote menigte en afgelopen succes kon inspireren zijn mannen.
"De Emiraten luchtvaartmaatschappij Londen Zevens wordt steeds groter en beter elk jaar. Op en buiten het veld is een briljante spektakel en zijn populariteit is ook een bewijs van de globale boom Zevens is genieten van,"zei de Engeland coach.
"Er is niets die we genieten van meer dan spelen in de voorkant van onze eigen fans en met de serie nog in leven dat we weten we herhalen onze 2009 toernooi winnen om de achterstand op Nieuw-Zeeland."
"Het is niet het begin van het seizoen waar in interviews je wordt gevraagd wat uw kansen zijn. Er is niet een lange weg te gaan en dit is een zeer belangrijk voor ons, in golfen termen. We got to nail dit en we nog niet veel speelruimte. Het is moeilijker dan elk toernooi die we dit jaar, wat betreft de externe druk om te presteren hebben, maar hopelijk hebben we een groep van spelers die tot de gelegenheid stijgen zal."
Nieuw-Zeeland Zevens team voor Londen
Toby Arnold baai van overvloed Tomasi Cama Manawatu Shane Christie Tasman Scott Curry baai van overvloed DJ Forbes, captain Manukau County Frank Halai Waikato Bryce Heem Auckland Solomon King North Harbour Tim Mikkelson Waikato Buxton Popoalii Otago Lote Raikabula Manawatu David Raikuna North Harbour
Londen toernooi (alle tijden zijn lokaal)
21 Mei Nieuw-Zeeland v Kenia, 11: 58 am Nieuw-Zeeland / Spanje, 3-d: 16.00 uur Nieuw-Zeeland v Wales, 19: 18.15
A week after defeating the Australian conference leading Reds and ending their seven-match unbeaten streak, the Hurricanes this weekend face the New Zealand conference leading Blues.
The Blues have won six matches on the trot, a record under coach Pat Lam, but the Hurricanes – who are all but out of final’s calculations – would like to at the very least close the season out as a giant killer.
Their 28-26 win over the Queensland Reds was all the more remarkable for the fact that key All Blacks were missing, yet it was the return of Aaron Cruden that sparked the Hurricanes vaunted running game.
He took on the line constantly and played the same style of flat attack that the Reds have employed to great success in the last season and a half courtesy of Quade Cooper.
Cruden’s well taken options on attack will be something that the All Blacks coaches would have taken note of; with the current regime famously employing the flat offensive style (also coined the ‘Randwick’ attack) with mixed success in 2004.
Of further interest will be the dual playmaking combination of Cruden and new second five-eighth Daniel Kirkpatrick, a dynamic duo that could thrive if the Hurricanes produce as much quality ball as they did in the first half against the Reds.
Kirkpatrick, who replaces Charlie Ngatai (broken ankle, suffered in a collision with Scott Higginbotham), is the only change to a settled and happy Hurricanes team.
Coach Mark Hammett has remarked that the camp more positive than they have been all season, and reports indicate that the intensity and execution displayed in this week’s training sessions have been of a high standard.
He did though stress that the team still needed to follow the processes on field.
“A lot of that is around attitude as well,” he said.
“The trainings have been outstanding, but at training you're not against opposition coming back at you a hundred miles an hour.”
“The clarity and the understanding of how we want to play is really good, but if we go to B before we get A done we get in trouble.”
Alle zwarten tweede vijf-achtste Sonny Bill Williams en flankers, Matt Todd en Jonathan Poff, werd de laatste slachtoffers voor een slag-getekend kruisvaarders team op zoek naar de winnende vorm op de hoofden van kosten in hun ronde 14 Oriel Super Rugby wedstrijd in Napier weer op zaterdagavond.
Williams (knie), Todd (bovenbeen) en Poff (rib) alle zwarten Israël Dagg, Andy Ellis en Sam Whitlock, Sean Maitland, Kahn Fotuali'i en Adam Whitlock op zich aan de groeiende lijst van het lopen gewonden.
Het enige goede nieuws voor de kruisvaarders coach Todd Blackadder was dat alle zwarten lock Brad Thorn sneller dan verwacht was hersteld van zijn stam kalf en zou komen uit de Bank tegen de Chiefs.
Meer goed nieuws kan komen volgende week, echter, met alle zwarten en kruisvaarders kapitein, Richie McCaw, die aangeeft dat hij bereid was te volgen Dan Carter en ondertekenen met de New Zealand Rugby Union.
Blackadder zei dat Williams was niet hersteld van de knie-blessure die hem uit het veld in het 33-20 verlies de Cheetahs (Rugby) in Bloemfontein afgelopen weekend moest.
"Het heeft niet beter. Ze afgevoerd sommige vloeistof uit het afgelopen nacht, maar het is niet het risico waard. Door alle rekeningen hij zal terecht voor volgende week (tegen de tabel-topping Reds) dus er geen manier is wij willen het in gevaar brengen,"zei hij.
De livewire Todd, die elke wedstrijd in zijn eerste Super seizoen speelde, was met een kurk dij en collega flanker, Poff, die is gebonden voor Londen wespen, een rib schade op opleiding en werd vervangen in de reserves door Joe Wheeler uitgesloten.
Blackadder heeft slechts twee wijzigingen aangebracht aan het team die eruit zag kort op energie en enthousiasme toe te geven aan de Cheetahs (Rugby) na een een-punt voorsprong op de helft van de tijd. Auckland werven Brent Ward zal worden op de rechtervleugel met Ryan Crotty en Robbie Fruean verplaatsen in een plaats voor de afwezig Williams. De voorste rij rotatie blijft met een All Blacks prop, Wyatt Crockett, ter vervanging van een andere, Owen Franken.
"We niet kunnen veroorloven om weg te nemen iedereen die is niet 100 procent, omdat dit zal een veeleisende spel," zei Blackadder. "We weten dat we gaan in een gevecht hier en het zal een moeilijke wedstrijd. Deze Nieuw-Zeeland Derby's altijd zijn, maar wij zijn klaar voor het en op zoek naar het."
Blackadder zei enkele van de kruisvaarders besluitvorming ontbrak tegen de Cheetahs (Rugby). "Het was altijd gaat worden een moeilijke spel als we sommige veel in het spel tegen de kracht en de Stormers die van test match proporties was. Het duurde veel van ons op de hoge veldt en we waren niet helemaal op het geld.
"Maar we hebt opgeladen, de jongens een paar dagen uit en we hadden een van onze beste trainingen vandaag. We zijn vrij gericht. We zijn een bepaalde groep hier en als om het even wat zijn we aangemoedigd en vastberadener dan wat wij vorige week waren."
De kruisvaarders hun laatste drie wedstrijden tegen de Chiefs hebben gewonnen, waaronder een 34-16 overwinning in hun ronde negen match op Mount Maunganui, maar het verlies aan de Cheetahs heeft verlaten de Super zeven-keer kampioen vijf punten achter de Blues in de Conferentie van Nieuw-Zeeland.
McLean Park in Napier is een andere wedstrijd voor de crusading Zuidereiland franchise en de Chiefs zijn hoog op vertrouwen na tipping over de Highlanders en de Stormers in de laatste twee weken. Met alle zwarten Siviveni Sivivatu eyeing Richard Kahui en Brendon Leonard vinden van top form de Chiefs een hinderlaag van hun schade-hit rivaal.
Verwondingen hebben wiegde het kamp Stormers voor hun Oriel Super Rugby wedstrijd met de Blues in het Eden Park op vrijdag.
Uit zijn het middenveld van de Springboks van de eerste vijf-achtsten Peter Grant, tweede vijf-achtsten Jean de Villiers en centrum Jaque Fourie.
Grant heeft een enkelblessure, De Villiers een borst letsel en Fourie een Lies probleem.
Lionel Cronje is benoemd op eerste vijf, terwijl Juan de Jongh en Johann Sadie in de centra spelen zullen.
Coach Allister Coetzee zei op de Stormers' website: "Sadie is een out-and-out 13 en ook betrekking kunnen hebben vleugel, terwijl de Juan kan spelen zowel 12 en 13.
"Terwijl ze niet veel ervaring samen als een combinatie hebben, Juan is een internationale en Sadie heeft die X-factor. De spelers en de team zijn enthousiast over de mogelijkheden."
CJ van der Linde is benoemd tot op tighthead prop voor Brok Harris.
"De Blues zijn grote rugby spelen en top van hun conferentie op dit moment. Het zal worden een groot spel en ondanks de schade zorgen we zijn gericht, gemotiveerd en enthousiast als een team,"zei Coetzee.
Het team is: 1. Wicus Blaauw, 2. Deon Fourie, 3. CJ van der Linde, 4. Rynhardt Elstadt, 5. Andries Bekker, 6. Schalk Burger (captain), 7. Francois Louw, 8. Duane Vermeulen, 9. Ricky Januarie, 10. Lionel Cronje, 11. Bryan Habana, 12. Juan de Jongh, 13. Johann Sadie, 14. Gio Aplon, 15. Conrad Jantjes.
Reserves: 16. Tiaan Liebenberg, 17. Brok Harris, 18. Steve Kitshoff, 19. Anton van Zyl, 20. Dewaldt Duvenage, 21. Danie Poolman, 22. Nick Koster.
Herinneringen van een 21-33 badstof door de Stormers in het Eden Park vorig jaar is een grote motiverende factor voor Blues flanker Jerome Kaino voor vrijdag Oriel Super Rugby botsing geweest.
Hoewel er de natuurlijke anticipatie van een wedstrijd met een aantal van de beste losse vooruit in de competitie in Schalk hamburger en Francois Louw was, zei Kaino dat er een verlangen om het record rechtdoor over hun thuisbasis voor de Blues.
"De jongens hebben gesproken over hoe laten we dat game slip en hoe we onszelf kunnen helpen dit weekend.
"Denken terug te dat spel we laten hen krijgen drie pogingen in die eerste helft en het was vrij gelijkaardig aan de Reds spel in het weekend en we ons niet veroorloven te laten vooruit te komen omdat [tegen] een klasse kant als de Stormers het zal moeilijk zijn om terug te gaan"Kaino gezegd.
Terwijl hij gefrustreerd was met gedwongen af te nemen een week, was Kaino dankbaar na zijn terugkeer naar eerder deze week toen zijn hamstring aangescherpt tijdens een fitnesstest, opleiding van de medische staf voorzichtigheid betalingsbevelen. Echter, hij zei hij herstelde en klaar om te spelen.
Wanneer de schade is gebeurd tegen de orkanen, wist Kaino het was niet te streng en de medische staf had het besluit om hem te trekken uit het veld voordat het werd slechter gemaakt. Kaino was niet zo bezorgd dat hij ging aan de lange van alle zwarten die al aanzienlijke slachtoffers tijdens het seizoen.
"Het was gewoon krijgen strak en niet losraken opwaarts. Ik was niet te doen het team geen dienst, ik was niet zo hard als ik kon uit schrijdend. Ik was niet echt betrokken."
Kaino zei dat hij niet eventuele extra werkbelasting voelde vanwege van het uitgebreide Super Rugby seizoen.
"Als ik niet vorige week uit ik zou nog steeds voelen op dezelfde manier. Ik ben nog steeds graag te krijgen in het en klaar voor het spel op vrijdagavond.
"We hebben alleen onze eigen spel te spelen. Je zag de Chiefs, ze nam hun sterke punten. Uiteraard hun lineout rit was een factor die kon niet met de Chiefs stoppen en hebben we rugby spelen. Ze hebben een van de beste verdedigende set-ups.
"We hebben te komen met manieren niet zij verwachten van ons om aan te vallen en hopelijk komt het uit," zei hij.
"We proberen te baseren een spel van plan die zal verschijnen een paar verrassingen tijdens het spel dus hopelijk zal een goed."
Was er aandacht besteed aan het gebruik van Stormers, iets wat alle Zuid-Afrikaanse partijen deed het goed, het omgaan met de rolling mauls tactiek en de Blues waren hoopvol dat ze kon worden opgenomen.
Kaino dacht niet dat de Stormers zou sterk worden beïnvloed door het ontbreken van eerste vijf-achtsten Peter Grant omdat zijn vervanging Lionel Cronje was een ongrijpbare atleet, die druk op de binnenkant uitoefenen zou kanalen.
Sonny Bill Williams zal kijken op als zijn kruisvaarders kant Oriel Super Rugby rivalen de Chiefs Napier op zaterdagavond spelen.
De All Blacks tweede vijf-achtste is het ongemak van een gekneusd knie die dwong hem uit het veld voor de tweede helft van het team van verlies aan de Cheetahs (Rugby) in Zuid-Afrika vorig weekend niet overwinnen.
Williams gedwongen afwezigheid is een van vijf veranderingen de beginnende 15 gemaakt door coach Todd Blackadder.
Wyatt Crockett begint bij loosehead prop, met Ben Franken verplaatsen naar de tighthead en Owen Franken
beginnen op de bank reserves.
Ryan Crotty is verplaatst in een plek naar tweede vijf-achtste, met Robbie Fruean, die op de rechtervleugel tegen de Cheetahs speelde, bewegen terug naar het centrum.
Brent Ward krijgt zijn eerste start sinds het verkrijgen van een call-up zoals schade dekken van vorige week en zal spelen op de rechtervleugel.
Alle zwarten vergrendelen Brad Thorn, die gespannen een kalf in de wedstrijd tegen de Highlanders in Nelson vijf weken geleden, heeft tussen haakjes op de bank reserves met Joe Wheeler.
In-vorm flanker Matt Todd heeft geregeerd uit respect vanwege een kurk dij, dwingt hem om te missen een match voor de eerste keer dit seizoen.
Blackadder zei dat de kruisvaarders waren op de hoogte van de bedreigingen die de Chiefs bezeten.
"Zij goed de laatste tijd heb gespeeld en zal voor deze. Het is een Nieuw-Zeeland derby, dus het zal
compromisloze en fysieke, dat is zeker.
De kruisvaarders verslaan de Chiefs 34-16 in de negende ronde op 15 April op Mt Maunganui.
Kruisvaarders: Tom Marshall, Brent Ward, Robbie Fruean, Ryan Crotty, Zac Guildford, Dan Carter, Willi Heinz, Kieran lezen, Richie McCaw (captain), George Whitlock, Chris Jack, Luke Romano, Ben Franken, Corey Flynn, Wyatt Crockett. Reserves: Quentin MacDonald, Owen Franken, Brad Thorn/Joe Wheeler, Jonathan Poff, Steve Alfeld, Mat Berquist, Tu Umaga-Marshall.
All Blacks winger Sitiveni Sivivatu returns to the Chiefs team for their Investec Super rugby match against the Highlanders in Hamilton on Saturday night after an injury-enforced week on the sidelines.
Sivivatu, who missed last week's loss to the Bulls in Pretoria because of a hamstring strain, regains his left wing spot with Save Tokula dropping out of the 22, while the other change to the starting lineup sees Hika Elliot take over the hooking duties from Aled de Malmanche, who has been named on the bench.
Openside flanker Tanerau Latimer has won a spot on the bench after missing the Chiefs' two matches in South African because of a head knock suffered against the Crusaders in Mt Maunganui last month. He replaces Sam Cane for a match Chiefs coach Ian Foster has labelled "must win".
The Chiefs are ninth with 23 points, 12 behind the fifth-placed Highlanders.
The match also marks captain Mils Muliaina's 50th cap for the Chiefs.
Chiefs: Mils Muliaina, Lelia Masaga, Richard Kahui, Dwayne Sweeney, Sitiveni Sivivatu, Stephen Donald, Brendon Leonard, Fritz Lee, Scott Waldrom, Liam Messam, Romana Graham, Craig Clarke, Ben Afeaki, Hika Elliot, Toby Smith. Reserves: Aled de Malmanche, Sona Taumalolo, Isaac Ross, Tanerau Latimer, Tawera Kerr-Barlow, Tim Nanai-Williams, Jackson Willison.
De Blues en de kruisvaarders zijn primer voor fysieke ontmoetingen als ze proberen te herontdekken hun winnende manieren in de 14e ronde van het Oriel Super Rugby competitie.
De wortel voor de Blues wanneer zij de Stormers in Auckland op vrijdagavond host is de kans om terug te krijgen op zelfs voorwaarden met de bovenkant van de tabel Reds, zal iets dat een bonus punt winnen zorgen. De Reds, die sloeg de Blues afgelopen weekend in Brisbane, zitten deze week met een bye en toppositie op punten verschil zal behouden, zelfs als de kant van Pat Lam-gecoacht veilig een vijf-punts win.
De Blues, die streven zal naar het produceren van een passend bij captain Keven Mealamu van 130 Super rugby match prestaties, waarbij hem voorbij Reuben Thorne van Nieuw-Zeeland record van 129 caps, zal echter op hun hoede voor een kant nog steeds stekende na het blazen van een 17-punts rust lood tegen de Chiefs in Hamilton afgelopen zaterdag.
De sparse menigte op Waikato stadion zag de Stormers weer hun eigen versie van de sociale media rage van gangboord - liggen onder een revival Chiefs. Het verliet kapitein Schalk Burger irate met hun tweede helft lethargie na een eerste 40 minuten waarin de gepest de thuisploeg, voornamelijk door middel van hun meesterschap van de rolling maul.
"De tweede helft was weerzinwekkend echt," zei hij na de match.
De Blues, die hebben alle zwarten hoopvol Rene Ranger aan de Bank liet vallen na een handvol matte voorstellingen en Lachie Munro verhuisde naar vleugelverdediger, zal dus dankbaar om de schurende Jerome Kaino terug in de startende line-up te helpen bestrijden wat naar verwachting zijn een fired up pack met openhartige beoordeling Burger's in hun oren.
Mealamu de understudy, Tom McCartney, die op loosehead prop voor zijn eerste Super rugby start in het Eden Park spelen zal, vertelde NZPA dat hij was maar al te bewust van de uitdaging die de Stormers zou presenteren.
"Ze hebben een grote pack en we zeker gaan om te stoppen dat rolling maul van hen hebben. Je laten niet gewoon samenvouwen u het veld als dat teams. Het doet niet veel voor uw spel."
De Stormers bieden een handige opnemen tegen de Blues - winnen drie van hun acht wedstrijden in Auckland, met inbegrip van een 33-21 win vorig jaar.
De nomadische kruisvaarders nemen hun schade verarmd kant om van deze week home van McLean Park in Napier op zaterdag gesterkt door de wetenschap dat eerste vijf-achtste Dan Carter zal in hun gelederen voor nog eens vier jaar, maar missen Sonny Bill Williams met een knieblessure.
Coach Todd Blackadder gaf zijn kant twee dagen af deze week na hun reis terug uit Zuid-Afrika volgende hun 33-20 verslaan door de Cheetahs (Rugby) in Bloemfontein, maar was ervan overtuigd van dat zijn kant zou omgaan met de verminderde werklast voor de wedstrijd tegen de Chiefs.
"We be right, dat we be fine," zei hij.
Maar ze kunnen verwachten dat een andere stern onderzoek van hun diepte na het verliezen van Israël Dagg, Sean Maitland en Adam Whitlock voor het seizoen en het ontbreken van Williams en de indrukwekkende flanker Matt Todd voor de reis noorden.
Ten minste Blackadder kunt Welkom terug All Blacks Brad Thorn vergrendelen om de Bank en de dreigende terugkeer van halfback Andy Ellis tegemoet kunnen zien.
Chiefs kapitein Mils Muliaina was optimistisch ze konden nog maken de playoffs na hun 30-23 comeback winnen tegen de Stormers - hun tweede overwinning in successie - maar zij zullen moeten houden die worden uitgevoerd voor volgende week bye te gaan als dat sprankje hoop blijven zal gaan flikkeren.
Coach Ian Foster heeft slechts twee wijzigingen aangebracht aan de kant met flanker die Sam Cane instellen om zijn eerste Super 15 start en prop Sona Taumalolo Toby Smith gedegradeerd tot de Bank.
De orkanen en Highlanders genieten van een week uit met de Reds, terwijl de leeuwen, vers van stapelen meer wee op de ongelukkige Brumbies vorige week, kijken te breken hun eend in Sydney tegen de Waratahs op zaterdag nacht. Transvaal, de katten noch de Lions zijn erin geslaagd een overwinning in de stad en vorig jaar de Lions copped een 73-12 verbergen.
De Brumbies reizen naar Perth onder ogen zien de kracht op zondag ochtend (NZT) in een strijd van de verliezers, terwijl later die ochtend de Cheetahs (Rugby), met een veer in hun stap na de kruisvaarders, kijken naar meer Zuid-Afrikaanse pijn toebrengen aan de rebellen die waren downing 47-10 door de stieren vorige week bonsde.
De laatste wedstrijd van de ronde kuilen de haaien, een punt achter de Stormers, tegen de Bulls in het Absa Stadium in Durban - iets van een gelukkig jachtgebied voor de bezoekers die hebben verloren slechts eenmaal er sinds 2003.
Kruisvaarders en Tasman losse forward Jonathan Poff heeft ondertekend om te spelen voor Londen rugby club wespen in het volgende seizoen van het noordelijk halfrond.
Een Nieuw-Zeelands scholen en onder 21-vertegenwoordiger, Poff geweest spaarzaam gebruikt door de kruisvaarders sinds 2009, met zijn mogelijkheden beperkt door hun internationale klasse losse vooruit instellen.
De opkomst dit seizoen van jonge openside flanker Matt Todd bedoeld Poff gleed verder naar beneden de pikorde.
"Ik kijk uit naar een verschillende uitdaging in Engeland na een paar jaar van goede ervaring in Super rugby," zei Poff.
"Is het moeilijk te zijn achter deze een grote speler als Richie McCaw. Mijn kansen om te beginnen zijn uiteraard minder dan ik had gewenst.
"Dus ik ga naar Londen wespen met het doel van spijkeren neer een regelmatige plek in het team, ook al weet ik dat er een heleboel goede achterste rij talent er is."
Wespen chief executive die Chris Thomas zei van de club coaches was onder de indruk van Poff van workrate en voelde zijn kruisvaarders ervaring kan profiteren ze voor volgend seizoen de Engels Premier League.
Voormalige Wellington en orkanen lock Ross Filipo is ook toetreding wespen volgend seizoen na een stint met Franse club Bayonne.
Australische Rugby Union vandaag aangekondigd Qantas Wallabies flyhalf die quade Cooper heeft opnieuw getekend met Australische Rugby tot het einde van 2012.
Cooper, die featured in de startende line-up van 13 van de Qantas Wallabies 15 Tests in 2010, is de 17e speler te ondertekenen met Australische Rugby in 2011 de Wallabies voorraden voor de komende Tri Nations en Rugby World Cup verder te versterken.
De creatieve flyhalf opgedaan eerste selectie in 2008 als deel van Australië de lente Tour ploeg na een indrukwekkende tonen op de inaugurele U20s World Cup in Wales eerder dat jaar.
Cooper featured in vier van de zes wedstrijden op die reis, bevestigt de indruk dat er dingen gebeuren als hij betrokken, is nadat hij het beslissende proberen 10 minuten in zijn Test debuut tegen Italië in Padua tijdens Australië's 10-punt winnen scoorde.
Sinds zijn debuut in 2008 Cooper heeft zich gevestigd als een sleutelfactor en play maker in de Qantas Wallabies terug regel 24 Test caps verdienen.
Cooper, zei hij blij om af te ronden van een overeenkomst met de ARU was en nu was gericht op de rest van de Reds' 2011 campagne.
"Het is een spannende tijd om deel van Australische Rugby met de Reds zo goed gaat en de World Cup coming up, dus ik ben blij dat alles nu weg wordt gekwadrateerd," zei Cooper.
ARU-directeur en CEO John O'Neill, die in contact met Cooper tijdens het onderhandelingsproces, betaalde hulde aan de Test pivot van talenten was.
"Quade levert een X-Factor, dat is onmiskenbaar," zei de heer O'Neill.
"Hij heeft die zeldzame capaciteit om te wekken een publiek en hebben een defensie op waarschuwing elke keer als hij raakt de bal.
"Zijn visie voor het spel en atletische talent maken hem een geboren entertainer en sport is een entertainment business.
"Ik ben blij dat we hebben uitgebreide Quade van tenure in Rugby buiten dit jaar is de Rugby World Cup, omdat ik denk dat er sommige prachtige tijden vooruit voor hem en deze jonge Wallabies team.
"Quade en zijn helften partner zal Genia zijn prachtig en consequent bijdragen aan de Roden en de Wallabies geworden en het is moeilijk voor te stellen een betere dubbele act in Rugby world."
