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The Story Behind Rapid Results Fitness
The following text is the history behind how Betsy and Geoff founded Rapid Results Fitness. The story is a true testimonial to how kettlebell training can improve your physical and mental health immensely. It was our passion for the kettlebell and all the benefits from it that lead us to the culmination of a fantastic program, Rapid Results Fitness In.Out.Fit. Our hope in founding this business was to share to others what we know works, producing solid results in lightening speed time! Enjoy!
My name is Geoff Neupert and I've been a Fitness Professional since 1993, which means that I've made my living helping people "get into shape." More specifically, I have trained people from all walks of life to achieve their specific goals: Grandmothers who need to lose 70lbs of fat, Division 1 Athletes who need to win matches, middle-aged women who need to rehabilitate their knees after surgery, high school athletes who need to win a college scholarship--you name it, I've helped people achieve their fitness goals--to get results. However, the number one goal of just about everyone I meet is to "lose weight."
Now, I've always thought a little differently than the rest of the pack, and much of my clients' successes are born of my own personal biases. Let me explain.
You see, I am a power athlete. I am a competitive Olympic weightlifter. We train to lift the heaviest possible weights over our heads, one time. This takes a lot of energy and it is very demanding on the body.
In 1997, I was arguably in the best shape of my life (more on that later)--I was training very, very hard for competition and my body fat percentage was in the middle single digits. My clients at the time wanted to know what I was doing to get so lean.
Their number one question was, "How much cardio are you doing?"
They all refused to believe me that when I told them, "None." I told them that I just lifted very heavy weights, nothing more than five reps, and was meticulous in watching what I ate.
The bottom line was simply this: Training with very heavy weights with short rest periods burns a ton of fat--so much so, there is no need to do "extra cardio."
Not only that, I hate the very idea of cardio--of jumping on a piece of stationary equipment and breathing hard but going nowhere.
I started coaching Strength and Conditioning at Rutgers University in 1997 and noticed that many of the athletes were slow and weak, performed lots of cardio to get in shape, and had relatively high levels of body fat--especially the females.
Needless to say, I was shocked! This was Division 1 Athletics!
What were the common denominators for these athletes being slow, weak, and fat?
Poor nutrition, ineffective/non-existent strength training, and excess long, slow duration cardiovascular exercise.
Once I was able to start implementing some of my ideas with the coaching staffs about lifting heavy, learning how to be explosive, and dropping the long, slow distance runs (These are great for cross-country runners, but that's about it.), injury rates declined, wins started increasing, and body fat percentages started to drop.
One of my favorite teams while at Rutgers was the wrestling team, probably because I'm a former wrestler. These guys were tough. And strong. I wanted them to become more explosive so I taught them the Olympic lifts--the snatch, and the clean and jerk. However, most of these guys had very tight shoulders and wrists so we had to do variations of these exercises and sometimes with dumbbells instead of barbells. The interesting thing about using the dumbbells is that we could increase the work and to burn extra calories without having to do extra cardio.
This is important because wrestling is a weight class sport, which means, most wrestlers have to cut weight to compete. And most college wrestlers cut between 20 and 30lbs to make weight.
And they do it in as little as three months.
That's when I first saw the ad in the back of some fitness magazine for kettlebells. You don't have to be that flexible to use kettlebells--which was great for my wrestlers, because most of them didn't have the upper body flexibility for the barbell Olympic lifts. Kettlebells make it much easier on the wrists, elbows, and shoulders to perform higher repetition snatches and clean and jerks than either barbells or dumbbells, which of course means you can work harder and burn more calories or rather, burn more stored body fat.
Unfortunately, we had no budget for new equipment at that time so I filed them away in the memory banks for a future time and place.
That place was Durham, North Carolina. In July of 2000 we moved to Durham so my wife could attend Duke University for a doctoral program in Physical Therapy. After getting side-tracked in a non-fitness related business venture for almost a year, I restarted my Personal Training business in May of 2001 and I've been hard at work ever since studying and applying and discarding anything and everything that works and that which doesn't.
Fortunately, I've made more than my fair share of mistakes along the way. One of them was sacrificing my sleep in order to build my business. However, I still trained hard with hopes of returning to competition (I qualified for the USA Weightlifting Nationals in 2000, but failed to turn in my application--I know, what a knucklehead--so I didn't go.). Unfortunately, in 2002, due to improper recovery, I hurt my back quite severely while training: I couldn't take a deep breath or bend over for a week! (Do as I say, not as I do--remember?) Earlier that same year I had bought my first set of kettlebells and had started training clients with them. Little did I know at that point that they would be instrumental in rehabbing my back.
Unfortunately, here's where my story takes a turn for the worse.
After ignoring my back injury and continuing to train on it for two years, I decided I was tired of the constant tingling sensation/throbbing in the bottom of my left heel. I started doing the latest cutting-edge corrective exercise programs--I mean, state-of-the-art, the best in the country, learning from leaders in both the exercise and physical therapy fields. The good news is my back got "better."
However, I was still unable to get my left glute (butt muscle) to work properly. This is a major problem since your gluteal muscles are one of the muscle groups responsible for protecting your back when you bend over. One day, out of sheer frustration from the lack of progress of that glute, I picked up my 70lbs kettlebell and started swinging it. On the third rep it felt like I had been shot in the butt as my left glute finally re-awakened after who knows how many years of sleep!
Here's what that exercise looks like (It also happens to be the number 2 exercise we use for rapid fat loss.):
Unfortunately, the chronic right knee pain that I had since I dislocated my kneecap wrestling at age 16 was getting worse. And at this point, my left knee started hurting.
In January of 2005, I was training for a weightlifting meet when I injured my right hip. I have a very high pain tolerance, but after 3 months of having to stretch out my hip muscles just so I could walk without excruciating pain, I finally got a cortisone shot. My orthopedic surgeon, and not just any orthopedic surgeon, but one of the Duke University Sports Medicine Team Surgeons, said I should stop weightlifting as it would exacerbate my injury to the point of a joint replacement in the long run.
In between each of these injuries, the only thing that kept me sane was being able to perform my beloved snatches and clean and jerks with my kettlebells.
Unfortunately, while re-starting my training in September of 2005, I injured my left hip in exactly the same way. Again, kettlebells kept me sane and "healthy." And by healthy, I mean, muscular and lean.
Then, the bottom fell out all the way.
By January 2006, my body had enough. Both my knees "locked up" and the only way I could sit in a chair was to "plop" in it. Bending my knees past 130 degrees was excruciatingly painful. Weightlifting was out of the question. I could still, however, use my beloved kettlebells, which, seemed to rescue me from myself.
This is when I finally started doing "dynamic joint mobility" exercises-- which if done properly is like stretching on steroids.
Here's a picture of just how bad things had gotten:
February 2006
I could not bend my knees any further than this without experiencing that
"stub-your-toe-hold-your-breath-and-swear" kind of pain.
I finally stopped all ideas of weightlifting
and focused on healing my broken body with the Dynamic Joint Mobility*. In case you haven't picked up on a theme,
I love weightlifting. But since I couldn't do any, you guessed it--the only thing that kept me sane was the
*There are lots of Dynamic Joint Mobility programs on the market today, but Rapid Results Fitness uses one very specific program that focuses on quality and precision to yield instantaneous, near miraculous results--in many cases instantly removing pain--even pain caused by pulls and strains.
Here's one of the kettlebell exercises, the Clean and Press, I used to keep my muscles from wasting away and to keep myself from turning into a butter-ball turkey:
Fast-forward to November 3, 2007.
I returned to the weightlifting platform and competed for the first time in almost 8 years despite a back injury, two hip injuries, and a knee injury and I did it all pain-free.
Here's a video clip of me snatching 120kg (264lbs), which is 10kg below my previous competition best:
Kettlebells and Dynamic Joint Mobility.
There is no other more powerful combination that I know of, and trust me, I've seen almost everything the fitness world has to offer--to get you the results you want and demand.
Why did I take the time to tell you my story?
Because whether you want to lose body fat or get back into shape to do the things you used to love doing, I've been there and I can show you how to get there too. I teamed up with Betsy Collie, one of the Triangle's best group fitness instructors and now a kettlebell instructor, to bring you Rapid Results Fitness.
You've already met Betsy--she's the woman performing the Two Hand Swing in the first video.
Betsy and I met through a client of mine. I introduced her to kettlebell training in June of 2007 and she knew instantly that it was exactly what she was looking for and exactly what her group fitness participants were looking for. You see, Betsy also has a ton of experience under her belt as a fitness professional. Between teaching group fitness--every sort you can imagine--and dance, again every sort you can imagine, she's got twenty plus years of experience. But Betsy, as I mentioned before, has a multiple lower back injuries that keep her from performing traditional "cardio" activities. But the kettlebell didn't hurt her back, in fact, it made it feel better. Betsy loved the kettlebell so much she got her kettlebell instruction certification October 2007.
Now here's the best part: Betsy loves to dance--in fact she has been dancing since age three. She has noticed that the combination of kettlebell training and dynamic joint mobility has made her a better dancer--without having to dance more. So whatever you like to do, the combination of Kettlebells and Dynamic Joint Mobility allow you to do it better.
At this point, you probably have a nagging question in your sub-conscious:
Why should I entrust my fitness to two broken and injured fitness professionals?
The dirty little secret in the fitness industry is that anyone who's been "in the game" for any length of time has at least one injury, if not multiple ones. But here's the catch: We've tried almost everything. We've paid the price so you don't have to. But wait, it gets even better: Most rehab programs get you back to where you started if you're lucky: The combination of Kettlebells and Dynamic Joint Mobility help you become better than you ever been. Ever seen a mother of three with less than 10% body fat? Or how about a 200+lbs man climb up two parallel ropes using just his arms? I just described Betsy and myself. I don't share this with you to brag about ourselves, but rather, to show you the possibilities awaiting you.
The Point is this: We have the solutions to your fat loss problems.
If we can opt out of multiple surgeries and re-train our bodies to perform better than they did before, and still stay lean, then you can too, especially if you don't have or haven't had any major injuries.
Not only that, I personally am not injured any more and through the use of kettlebells and dynamic joint mobility exercises, my body has literally reprogrammed itself to be free from injury and be more efficient in movement and fat loss.
I've shown you everything--left nothing out, pulled back the curtain, so-to-speak, so you can can see that we've left nothing to chance regarding your fitness program. The only thing you have to do is show up and work.
Here's the bottom line:
Rapid Results Fitness provides you with EVERYTHING you need to achieve maximum results in minimum time:
- Fat Loss
- Motivation
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- Increased Stamina
- Community
- Increased Strength
- Decreased Pain
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All you have to ask yourself is the following:
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Over and over again throughout my life I've had to fight the battle with acne. One of the things I found out most of my problems were in the foods that I ate. By changing my diet I almost eliminated my acne. Then I restarted my search for adult acne remedies. It took a while but I finally conquered all the problems.

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Join us tonight for another delicious and sensational evening! Suspension bondage artists include Tom Foolery and Jessi K. Also, a sizzlingly sexy fire performance from Eva Lucian!! Plus dominatrix Eve Minax! We'll have extra rope and experts like Topologist to tie you, if you'd like to experience the embrace of rope for yourself! Feel free to bring your own rope and bondage gear, too, if you like to play safely and consensually. Remember that Supperclub is a club, art space, and restaurant (not a dungeon) and alcohol is served. Please keep this in mind as you play, and keep it playful! 🙂
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Blind Pilots
A blanket of soupy fog swept suddenly in over San Diego one evening last week, swallowed a group of 14 Navy planes soaring over the city. Twelve of the planes, Boeing fighters, were up from North Island Naval Air Station. Two, Vought Corsairs, were from U. S. S. Detroit. None was radio-equipped. Few of the pilots were specially trained for enforced blind flight.
After groping in the swirling mist until their fuel ran low, one Boeing after another came down. Some found North Island; others reached Lindbergh Field across the bay; some...
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But mostly I am frustrated sexually.
Yep, I said it. That is now out there for the world to read. I am horny and of course I would be after having my period twice in a row and not wanting to go down there for over two weeks. Now I can go there, I just need some alone time... or a particular gentleman to come and feel me up. Too bad I have not heard from in a few days. The last time we spoke he was out field playing enemy, so who knows if he's back on base and if he wants to come and feel me up.
Just so we're clear I am not talking about having sex with the gentleman, I just want to fool around and see if he can find the clitoris. You know that thing that most guys poke at briefly for five seconds before thinking 'nope, I'm going to ignore that since it makes her moan and do something else'. That thing.
But I'm being a complete girl. I don't want to be the one to message him and ask him to come into town again, isn't it his turn? If I do ask then I look desperate/annoying. If I'm honest with him and say I want him for sexual gratification (hoping he knows what he's doing) then I look like I'm using him. If I do nothing I'm going to tap the end of my bed off with my twitching foot and be even more frustrated.
I want to see him... and other things.
Damn frustrated. Why is it so hard acting like a girl?
I might actually take my mother's advice and go and purchase a vibrator, never thought I would take her advice on this subject.


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Football: "America's Game" and The New Imperial Playbook
Sports writers dub football "America's Game." This moniker suggests that the game's player attributes, administration and semantics epitomize those of the wider American culture. Unfortunately, while some of football's characteristics intend to foster sportsmanship and fair play, others resonate America's deeply violent and hypermasculine national persona. Physical strength, aggression and the ability to ruggedly endure pain are revered. Play pits offenses against defenses, which Knute Rockne in his book Coaching: The Way of the Winner compares to "warfare." Offenses employ power dives and blast blocking, while defenses run 4-4 attacks and blitzes. Playbooks diagram shotguns, pistols and rocket sweeps. Players are guards, tackles and "strong" safeties.
Blitzers running "up the gut" to sack defenseless quarterbacks provide a powerful metaphor for the ruthless foreign policy of the American Empire and its increasingly militaristic domestic law enforcement. Viewers who don't get that, are indoctrinated through American-flag lapel pins, "Salute to Service Moments," American-Idol versions of the Stars and Stripes and F-16 fly-overs. Images of pretty player wives and their perfectly manicured children, player's multi-million-dollar salaries and hefty commercial endorsements seductively merge into a Norman Rockwell portrait of the American Dream.
In order to maintain football's American identity, rules and terminology should remain current. Terms such as "blitz" are becoming archaic in an age of remote, digital warfare. And surely "blasts" are deadlier now than in Knute Rockne's day. With this in mind, let us imagine a game that introduces four new plays that capture the ruthless nature of America's prevailing golden imperial age.
The Drone Pass
Football is a game of individual confrontation. Quarterbacks battle with blitzers; receivers attempt to outmaneuver safeties. However, today "man-to-man" competition during which contenders are equally at risk of failure and injury is no longer sufficiently shocking, awesome or brutal. This is because football mirrors the playbook of America's dominating neo-conservative ideology. Its credo is best captured by professional wrestler and Minnesota ex-Governor Jesse "The Body" Ventura's famous adage, "Win if you can, lose if you must, but always cheat."
To remain culturally relevant, football needs to reflect the Empire's increasing use of overpowering and incommensurate force to bushwhack perceived threats. It should emulate militarized SWAT teams that execute ferocious no-knock raids that terrorize and injure innocents. Football's "heroes" should enjoy the same protection as drone pilots who, far from harm's way in Nevada, safely pilot drones to defend America from wedding parties in Yemen.
The drone pass provides the required mercilessness, while protecting the quarterback from injury. With the drone pass, the quarterback can throw the football at any defensive player. Once the quarterback informs the back judge that a drone pass will be thrown, play proceeds normally. If the ball strikes a defensive player, the "neutralized" player is ejected from the game. In addition any defensive players within 5 yards of the neutralized player are also ejected. Finally, fans in the first two rows of the stands, and 10 yards on either side of the yard line of the "strike," are escorted from the stadium for the remainder of the game. (There are no refunds to ejected fans.) The defense must then run the next two plays without the ejected players. However, emulating the manifest results of America's decade-long military misadventures in the Middle East, the defense, after the two plays are completed, can bring fifteen players onto the field for the remainder of the game. This is referred to as the "ISIL (Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant) Rule."
The "No Boots" Offense
The "No Boots" offense was developed at Harvard in order to keep uniforms from becoming untidy and, taking a phase from Churchill, presently unpleasant. This play is inspired by Barack Obama's wishful military strategy to defeat the forces of ISIL in Iraq and Syria. This strategy is a muddled concoction of exclusively aerial attacks, logistic and training support of an incompetent and fractured Iraqi military, and the fantasy that the coalition governments will endure. The inherent ineffectiveness of the exclusive use air power to achieve favorable political outcomes is demonstrated by the ongoing political chaos and fighting in Libya. When properly packaged in Administration talking points, this unimaginative reprise of failed policies will presumably remove much of the unpleasantness from the prospect that Obama is leading America into another decade of its endless war.
In the "No Boots" offense, only the center sets at the line of scrimmage. The quarterback is the only back, and stands twenty yards behind the center. The remainder of the offense is comprised of only four wide receivers. This is known as the "Shock and Awe" formation, following the George W. Bush Administration's hypermasculine lingo during the American attack on Iraq in 2003. Once the ball is snapped, receivers run their routes. If the pass is incomplete, the same set is used, but now two additional offensive linemen are brought into play. Upon a second incompletion, the remaining three offensive players not yet on the field are added. This brings the entire eleven-man offensive team back into play. At this point, a backup quarterback must replace the current quarterback for the remainder of the season. In honor of our 43rd President, starting quarterbacks thus replaced are required by rule to learn to paint amateurish portraits during the off-season.
The 4-103 Defense
The massive police rampages during Occupy Wall Street and the protests in Ferguson inspire the 4-103 Defense. This defense is only used against teams that are publicly owned, and only while player-union contract negotiations are underway. Today, the only team against which the 4-103 Defense may be run is the Green Bay Packers. If Green Bay players do not vote in favor of a contract that privately owned teams support, this defense may be used at any point in a game.
The 4-103 Defense allows teams supporting the contract to introduce an additional one hundred defensive backs onto the field. Each of these additional players is allowed to bring onto the field such items as flash-bang grenades and militarized tear gas. Safeties are provided small armored vehicles to expedite blitzes.
It is possible that owners might become concerned about broadcasting these plays to a family audience. We imagine owners and major sports networks going to court over any proposed blackout of these plays. As a negotiating point, the owners might agree to pay for medical expenses due to injuries incurred by camerapersons and sideline commentators during encounters with event personnel attempting to enforce blackouts.
The Abu Ghraib 2
Nothing is more American than spiriting off a suspected terrorist to a black site where he is tortured into admitting anything. Noncompliant detainees provide entertainment for American heroes like the unapologetic Lynndie England, who apparently enjoys humiliating helpless dog-leashed prisoners, and having that memorialized in the social media. The hard-fought advances toward women's political and economic empowerment are thus suitably honored in the Abu Ghraib 2. As the Virginia Slim cigarette commercials during the late nineteen-sixties celebrate, "You've come a long way, baby."
The Abu Ghraib 2 is a variation of Tony Dungy's Tampa 2. Like the Tampa 2, once the ball is snapped, the defensive middle linebacker begins to move into zone coverage to protect against the pass. But this is only a clever ruse. After faking the drop back, the middle linebacker and all rushing linemen penetrate the defensive line. Then they "Abu-grab" the quarter back and "render" him into their locker room. There the QB is placed in a refrigerator-packaging box and his helmet replaced with an unwashed laundry bag.
At this point, the defense's entire cheerleading squad blitzes the locker room and tickles the quarterback until he pees in his pants. YouTube videos of the ritual are taken and posted on social media. Following this, the suitably disgraced quarterback is loaded into a limousine and flown on a private Halliburton jet ("…the official Black-Ops provider for the NFL.") to an all expense paid, 3-day vacation in the Turks and Caicos Islands, a mere stones throw from Guantanamo Bay. The League would need to decide if burning a copy the Football Coaching Bible in front of the quarterback represents unsportsmanlike conduct.
Given the secrecy surrounding Obama's legal determinations that conveniently justify non-judicial executions of suspected terrorists, it seems fitting to add a new official: the FISA Judge. This new judge honors the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court that rubber stamps Administration death penalties and sustains America's ongoing program of extra-judicial assassination around the world. "FISA" stands for "Football Insurgency and Sanction Authority." The FISA judge rules only on complaints by owners concerning player, coaching staff or officiating behavior on the field. Because Green Bay is not privately owned, the hapless Packers cannot appeal to the FISA judge. This judge does not officiate on the field. Rather, he sits in a corporate luxury box watching a 90-inch LED HD TV. The FISA judge doesn't have to abide by NFL rules. Also, he does not hear direct statements from players, coaches or officials. Instead, a designated Hall of Fame quarterback provides brief summaries to the FISA judge, and announces the decision from the 50-yard line.
Having thus modernized football, we can rest comfortably knowing that America's game continues to embody the high moral values manifest in America's golden imperial age. We should raise our collective Bud Light's and cheer the next time we see a Drone Pass thrown against a 4-103 Defense that utilizes an Abu Ghraib 2 in the last seconds of a closely fought contest. But the drama doesn't end there. An appeal will certainly go to the FISA Judge. After the obligatory "Guts-and-Glory" spit-shined, muscle-truck commercial, and as the tear gas clears from the playing field, the ruling is announced. Spectators and the few players remaining on the field who can still walk and breathe, wheeze and cough as a boilerplate ruling is read. "The owners must be right because they hear and see EVERYTHING that happens on the field. They are "job creators" dedicated to the enterprise of football and have its best interests in mind. All personnel cited in the complaint are banned from the game."
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From sushi with foie gras in France or with cream cheese in the US, Japanese food is going global. But not everyone in Japan is pleased.
The Japanese government, joined by some leading local chefs, has launched a campaign to preserve "real" Japanese cuisine from a "bastardized" version that has spread so wildly overseas.
"Our goal is to offer real Japanese cuisine," Agriculture Minister Toshikatsu Matsuoka told a recent conference of food experts in Kyoto.
"We don't want restaurants that look Japanese but whose content is anything but. We would like to differentiate them from those where we can say: Now this is real Japanese cuisine,'" he said.
The number of Japanese restaurants abroad will top 50,000 in three years -- twice the current number, according to government forecasts.
The biggest number of fans live in the US, where Japanese cuisine -- which includes sushi, tempura, miso-soup and ramen and udon noodles -- is prized among health-conscious eaters for its low-fat, high-protein ingredients.
It has also enjoyed an explosive welcome in Europe, Russia and Southeast Asian countries where Japanese restaurants have mushroomed.
But some Japanese traveling overseas are not feeling at home.
Japanese officials and tourists are alarmed by dishes overseas that are not seen in Japan.
While Japanese food is often seen in the West as vegetarian-friendly, Japanese tourists overseas have been alarmed by the absence of fish-stock in miso soup.
And not only is the food under fire, but also the service.
"When I went to Paris and entered a restaurant with a sign in Japanese and called to the waitress `excuse me, excuse me' in Japanese, she didn't turn around even once," bemoaned Yukiko Omori, who, ironically, is a French-style dessert chef.
"So I don't want there to be so-called Japanese restaurants if they're inconsiderate towards guests and tourists," she added.
The Japan External Trade Organization will release a guidebook next month for Parisians listing 50 restaurants in the French capital as real Japanese establishments, out of the 600 that claim to be.
The Japanese government set up a committee of experts on the food authentication issue last month. It is due to reach its conclusions by February.
However, some chefs dismiss the effort as a misplaced cause.
"I don't see what the big fuss is about. Whether you cut sashimi correctly or not doesn't have anything to do with being Japanese but rather on an individual chef's technique," said Sadaharu Nakajima, who has worked in Italy and appears on Japanese television.
A Japanese government plan to certify whether Japanese restaurants abroad are serving "authentic" cuisine could face the chop from finance officials keen to trim fat from the budget.
The agriculture ministry had sought about US$2.3 million in funds to implement it.
But the funding was deleted from a draft budget unveiled this week, forcing Agriculture Minister Toshikatsu Matsuoka to try to revive it in last-ditch negotiations later yesterday.
"This is one of several important points of the final budget negotiations," said Yoichi Masuzoe, a ruling party lawmaker who personally opposes the plan.
The proposal has come under fire as "food nationalism" and a waste of tax money, but Matsuoka touted it in Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's online magazine last week.


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Quantity Surveying and Cost Management
Effective Cost Management through the appointment of a professional Quantity Surveyor is essential to any successful project.
Castons aim to provide clients with the highest degree of cost certainty possible at each stage of a project. Clients are made aware of the following:
- The overall expected out turn costs of the project
- When the money is to be expended
- What the current expenditure and liabilities are
- Where changes can be made to enhance the value obtained from the project
- What the present risks are
- The contractual and commercial arrangements that are required to be in place.
When clients appoint Castons to cost manage their project they can be confident that they will be regularly appraised of the financial position.
Castons will provide a comprehensive commercial and financial service covering all aspects of the project in order for the client to make informed decisions and develop the project strategies in the right direction.
We implement innovative construction procurement routes including partnering and various other methods of fast tracking and risk sharing. This knowledge will ensure that the route chosen will align with the client's business case and deliver the project they require, when they require it.


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- Video tutorials are available at the training page (MIPortal Video Tutorials)
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Launch a browser (Internet Explorer (IE) 7, IE8, Safari and/or Firefox)
Enter http://miportal.ncifcrf.gov in the navigation toolbar.
Click "Login" at the right side of the page.
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- To login to the remote desktop:On user local machine, click on the Start bar->All Programs->Accessories->Remote Desktop Connection
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- Image display and analysis programs installed on the server:
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- MIPAV: The MIPAV (Medical Image Processing, Analysis, and Visualization) application enables quantitative analysis and visualization of medical images of numerous modalities such as PET, MRI, CT, or microscopy.
- 3D Slicer: 3D Slicer, is a free, open source software package for visualization and image analysis. 3D Slicer is natively designed to be available on multiple platforms, including Windows, Linux and Mac Os X.
- Fiji ImageJ: Fiji is an image processing package. It is a distribution of ImageJ together with Java, Java 3D and a lot of plugins organized into a coherent menu structure.
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Thin Client Imaging Workstations
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Augusta Tops in Job Growth in Georgia
During the past year, Augusta was the place to be if you needed a job.
According to statistics released by Simon Medcalfe, an economist with the Hull College of Business at GRU, Augusta's employment grew by 3.5 percent from October 2013 to October 2014. That was tops in the state of Georgia among the 14 cities surveyed. It was also well ahead of Georgia's overall growth rate during that time, 2.4 percent.
Trailing Augusta in the survey were Gainesville, at 3 percent; Atlanta, 2.4 percent and Savannah, 2 percent. Three cities – Warner Robins, Albany and Dalton – experienced negative employment growth during the same time.
Medcalfe also reported that Augusta's Leading Economic Index (LEI) increased by 0.8 percent from September to October. It marked eight consecutive months of growth. Overall, the LEI increased by 4.9 percent from October 2013 to October 2014.
The LEI is a monthly composite of several national, regional and local indicators into a single variable. The LEI is not a forecast but may indicate future economic activity.
Augusta's LEI provides local decision makers with timely information about future business cycle patterns. The Augusta LEI includes the Augusta metro area, as well as seven counties (Burke, Columbia, Lincoln, McDuffie and Richmond in Georgia, and Aiken and Edgefiled in South Carolina).
The Hull College of Business will present its annual Economic Forecast breakfast at 7:30 a.m. Jan. 28.


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Eclipse offers an innovative suite of Proton Planning tools combining accurate proton Monte Carlo dose calculation algorithms with robust planning features allowing for improved accuracy and increased confidence in plan outcomes. Eclipse remains an open platform offering a single solution for all planning modalities and supporting a variety of proton delivery systems.
With a suite of powerful planning tools and automated contouring features, Eclipse simplifies the planning process without sacrificing plan quality.
- Fast efficient planning workflow and standardization using clinical protocols and Smart Segmentation® features enables faster and more streamlined proton therapy planning.
- Easy 4D viewing to enable planning for organ motion for gated or non-gated treatments.
- Field Specific target allows for compensating for the effect of setup error, internal target motion, and range uncertainty around the clinical target volume.
- Robust optimization allowing for optimal target coverage and acceptable organ-at-risk sparing while taking the various uncertainties associated with proton planning into consideration.
- Adaptive planning tools allow for quick assessment of the effects that changes in patient positioning or tumor location have on target and normal tissue dose.


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Tag Archives: New Zealand
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My latest exhibition is currently on show at Flagstaff Gallery, Devonport, Auckland. It features 4 works on paper and 7 paintings. Within the realm of Tongan culture 'Koloa' is defined as textile arts. Women have focused on the production of … Continue reading
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It's been one of those very damp, miserable, weeks where nothing of interest has happened or even looked like happening. Been busy with 'stuff' so this very lazy update is just to show I haven't died of boredom or been washed away in a flood just yet. Hopefully, the weather is beginning to improve – there was a glimpse of sun today.
Something to Look At
Took a drive down to Klong Son, the Klong Son on the mainland, not the one of Koh Chang, for lunch the other day to show one of our guests what some real non touristy fishing villages and small ports look like.
Something to Click
The popular Blue Lagoon Bungalows in Klong Prao has a very pretty new website. See Blue Lagoon and Cooking Story
Something to Note if you are going to Koh Mak
Panan Speedboat Schedule from 1 October. Ticket price 450 baht/person each way.
Monday – Thursday 2 times a day
Departure from Koh Mak Resort at 9:00 am and 13:30 pm
Departure from Laem Ngop 14:00 pm and 16:00 pm
Friday-Saturday -Sunday 3 times a day
Departure from Koh Mak Resort 9:00 am , 12:00 pm and 13:30 pm
Departure from Laem Ngop 10:30 am 14:00 pm and 16:00 pm
Something to Rent
A comfortable, new, airconditioned, 2 Bedroom house will be available for rent from 1 December onwards. Yours for 18,000 Baht/month (negotiable for long term rent) Quiet location but less than 5 minutes walk to shops, restaurants and the beach. Photos and More info
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Foster and Partners has completed this 237m-tall office tower in the Canadian city of Calgary.
Opened this week, The Bow has become the city's tallest building and houses the shared headquarters for North American energy company Encana and Canadian oil company Cenovus.
The scheme is being billed as 'the first major development on the east side of Centre Street' and the publicly accessible base of the tower is filled with 'shops, restaurants and cafés' which spill out into a plaza.
The skyscraper houses three, six-storey sky gardens at floors at levels 24, 42 and 54 and links in with Calgary's system of enclosed walkways, which offer 'a retreat from the city's harsh winters'.
The architect's view - Nigel Dancey, senior partner at Foster + Partners:
'The tower's form was shaped by the unique Calgary climate – facing south, the building curves to define a series of spectacular light-filled six-storey atria, with mature sky gardens, cafés and meeting areas, which bring a vital social dimension to the office floors.
'This principle extends to the base of the tower, which is highly permeable, with a +15 enclosed bridge connection to downtown, an atrium of shops and cafés and a fantastic new plaza.
'Every aspect, from the raised floors to the diagrid structure, is designed to be highly efficient. The Bow is a bold new symbol for Calgary, and is testament to the strength of our team and excellent local relationships.'
Source: Nigel Young
Previous story (AJ 13.10.2006)
Foster and Partners has revealed plans for this tower in the Canadian city of Calgary.
Foster's mixed-use project will become the headquarters for the new EnCana corporation, a major player in the North American oil market.
The scheme, called The Bow, will also attempt to develop a social and cultural hub for the area, east of Centre Street.
Norman Foster said: 'We are thrilled to be working with an enlightened client, to realise not only a highly innovative new headquarters building, but also a civic destination for Calgary that can be a catalyst for the regeneration of the surrounding area.'
One of the potential problems for the project is the presence of a series of 'early 20th-century buildings', on the site, which represent architectural heritage in the city.
Work is set to start in spring next year - pending City of Calgary approvals.
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Send only address through I2C using Python
Alfonso Blanco
Whereas the I2C Python functions have worked fine so far, I've come across a sensor that, in order to start the measurement, needs to receive a I2C frame with no data (just containing the slave address).
Does such a function exist in the OmegaExpansion package?
If not, is there a way to create it?
Thanks in advance,


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text: The 30 E.22nd Street Facade Renovation located in the residential neighborhood of Gramercy in the center of Manhattan in New York City, seeks to explore the articulation of a traditional town house facade by combining the old style of the wrought iron work found on entry canopies, fences and facade grills around the city with a more contemporary approach to this elements as facade enhancers with a modern motif. Allowing the use of light, shadow and perforation patterns to cast an artistic approach on what remains to be a simple brick punched open facade. A composition of sculptural metal frames serving as shading elements and air conditioning covering grills will adorn the facade by emphasizing the textures of the brick with lighting concealed within the metal frames. The frames being carefully placed to enhance the vertical quality of the building, maintain a desirable proportion with the adjoining street scape. Concrete planters at the street edge of the building seek to enhance the entry experience by the means of a more organic presence on the sidewalk, the planters flooded with lighting and evergreen vegetation start to create a sense of ownership over the public realm creating a bi lateral relationship between a re salvaged wood bench sitting on a concrete planter and another wood bench on the opposite side of the sidewalk serving as a protection fence around a Ginkgo tree that enhances the facade.


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The Bull Hotel
64 High Street
Stony Stratford
Milton Keynes
If you are coming to the Bull Hotel and want to know where else to visit, here are a few suggestions:
Stony Stratford is known as the jewel of Milton Keynes! Whilst part of one of the fastest growing new cities in Britain, Stony Stratford has its own style and charm and retains its character as a lively market town.
Whilst in the town, you should visit the many shops and unique boutiques and enjoy one of the many heritage walks mapped out. If you are also venturing out of the area, it maybe worth visiting the following;
Xscape Milton Keynes - If you're looking for sports action and extreme excitement then Xscape is for you.
Where else can you find the country's biggest indoor REAL snow slopes, Europe's first purpose-built body flying tunnel, rock climbing walls, bowling, multiplex cinema, gym and fitness centre, numerous bars and restaurants and urban retail outlets all under one roof?
Bletchley Park - The historic site of secret British codebreaking activities during WWII and birthplace of the modern computer.
Stowe Landscaped Gardens - One of the most remarkable creations of Georgian England, Stowe was created by a family once so powerful they were richer than the king.
Since the National Trust acquired the gardens an ambitious programme of restoration has ensured that over 40 temples and monuments remain, gracing an inspiring backdrop of lakes and valleys with an endless variety of walks and trails, a delight to explore at any time of year.


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Advisory Board
Baron Mark Malloch-Brown
Mark Malloch-Brown is now with FTI Consulting, a leading global advisory firm. Formerly he was Minister of State in the Foreign Office, covering Africa and Asia, and was a member of Gordon Brown's cabinet. He had previously served as Deputy Secretary-General and Chief of Staff of the UN under Kofi Annan. For six years he was Administrator of the UNDP, leading the UN's development efforts around the world. Other positions have included vice-chairman of George Soros's Investment Funds, as well as his Open Society Institute, a Vice-President at the World Bank and the lead international partner in a political consulting firm. He also has served as Vice-Chairman of the World Economic Forum.
He is chair of the Royal Africa Society and on a number of non-profit and advisory boards, including the International Crisis Group, the Open Society Foundation and the Centre for Global Development in Washington. He is a member of the House of Lords and was knighted in 2007.
Mark is also a Distinguished Practitioner of the Blavatnik School of Government at Oxford University and was formerly a visiting distinguished fellow at the Yale Centre for the Study of Globalisation.
He is the author of "The Unfinished Global Revolution" and in 2005 Time Magazine put him on its list of the 100 most influential people in the world.
Maria Livanos Cattaui
Maria Livanos Cattaui is a member of the Board of Directors of Petroplus Holdings, Switzerland. She was Secretary General of the International Chamber of Commerce from 1996 to 2005. Mrs Cattaui worked with the World Economic Forum in Geneva from 1977 to 1996, where she became Managing Director, responsible for the celebrated Annual Meeeting in Davos, building the public awareness it enjoys today.
She holds Executive Board, Board and Advisory Board memberships on the International Crisis Group, EastWest Institute, the Institute of International Education, the Elliott School of International Affairs (George Washington University), among others.
Mrs Cattaui, of Greek origin and Swiss nationality, was educated in the United States. She graduated with honors from Harvard University and holds an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from York University, Toronto.
Laura Gitman
Laura spearheads BSR's New York office, working with multinational companies across a range of industry sectors and sustainability issues. She also serves on BSR's Executive Committee and oversees global membership strategy and services.
She runs senior-level strategy workshops and multistakeholder forums, and has published reports on environmental, social, and governance integration in mainstream investing. From 2006 to 2010, Laura facilitated the Electronic Industry Citizenship Coalition, growing the initiative from 15 to more than 50 electronics companies. She also launched BSR's global financial services and media practices.
Laura previously worked for Deloitte Consulting, where she acquired extensive strategy experience advising multinational financial services companies. She also managed a community development project in Ecuador, developed the business strategy for a startup, and worked with the biotechnology sector in Chile.
Laura holds an M.B.A. from Stanford University and a B.S. in Industrial and Labor Relations from Cornell University.
Frank Giustra
Mr. Giustra is President and CEO of Fiore Financial Corporation, a private firm managing a broad portfolio of private equity investments. Mr. Giustra has an established track record of building natural resource companies through access to capital and creative deal-making. As Chairman of Endeavour Financial from 2001 to 2007, his vision and leadership led to the successful launch of numerous resource companies, including Wheaton River Minerals (acquired by Goldcorp), Silver Wheaton and Pacific Rubiales Energy. Mr. Giustra's entrepreneurial success also includes the founding of Lionsgate Entertainment, now one of the world's largest independent film companies.
Mr. Giustra is a strong believer in philanthropy, and devotes much of his time to a variety of causes. In 1997, he established The Radcliffe Foundation, and holds the position of President. The Radcliffe Foundation supports a wide variety of international and local charities. Since 2005, Mr. Giustra has become an active executive member and significant contributor to the International Crisis Group. The International Crisis Group is widely recognized as the leading independent, non-partisan source of analysis and advice to policymakers on the prevention and resolution of deadly conflict.
In 2007, Mr. Giustra and former President Bill Clinton launched the Clinton Giustra Enterprise Partnership, with the focus of creating social and economic development programs in parts of the world where poverty is widespread, including Colombia, Peru, Mexico and Haiti.
Frank Giustra is a board member of Lionsgate Entertainment Corporation, Thunderbird Films, Endeavour Mining Corporation and Petromanas Energy Incorporated. In addition, he sits on boards of the Clinton Giustra Enterprise Partnership, The Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Foundation, International Crisis Group, The Radcliffe Foundation and Streetohome Foundation. Mr. Giustra is a Trustee of the Boston's Museum of Fine Arts.
Ambassador Melanne Verveer
In 2009, President Obama nominated Melanne Verveer to be the first ever U.S. Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women's Issues at the Department of State. Ambassador Verveer spent the past four years working with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to coordinate foreign policy issues and activities relating to the political, economic and social advancement of women, traveling to nearly sixty countries. In such capacity, she worked to mobilize concrete support for women's political and economic empowerment through public-private partnerships as well by working to fully integrate women's participation and rights into U.S. foreign policy. President Obama also appointed Verveer to serve as U.S. Representative to the UN Commission on the Status of Women.
Today she is the Director of Georgetown University's newly-established Institute for Women, Peace and Security. The Institute seeks to enhance national and global security by documenting the crucial role women play in peace-building and security through research and scholarship and by engaging global leaders from government, civil society and the private sector in conversations on the urgent issues of out times.
Ambassador Verveer is also the founding partner of Seneca Point Global, the global women strategy firm. SPG partners with leading companies and institutions to design, implement and measure integrated strategies that focus on women and girls and drive sustainable results – whether social, economic or both.
Prior to her role at the State Department, Ambassador Verveer served as Chair and Co-CEO of Vital Voices Global Partnership, an international NGO she co-founded to invest in emerging women leaders. Prior to Vital Voices, she served as Assistant to the President and Chief of Staff to the First Lady in the Clinton Administration. She was chief assistant to Hillary Clinton in her wide-ranging international activities to advance women's rights and further social development, democracy and peace-building initiatives. She also led the effort to establish the President's Interagency Council on Women and was instrumental in the adoption of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000. Prior to her time in the White House, Ambassador Verveer served in a number of leadership roles in public policy organizations and as congressional staff.
Ambassador Verveer has a B.S. and M.S. from Georgetown University. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Trilateral Commission and the World Bank Advisory Council on Gender and Development. She has served as the 2013 Humanitas visiting professor at Cambridge University. In 2008, the President of Ukraine awarded her the Order of Princess Olga. She holds several honorary degrees and is the recipient of numerous awards, including the U.S. Secretary of State's Award for Distinguished Service.


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It's well-known to the world that the most important archipelagic nation has Pancasila because the official and foundational ideology of the Indonesian state. Pancasila isn't just a phrase that embodies as state's regulation instrument however the 5 rules are essential to Indonesians as they signify the nation's nationwide ideology and id. The significance of Pancasila was not simply admitted by Indonesians solely, as acknowledged by Affiliate Professor Greg Fealy of the Australian Nationwide College, the Pancasila has an virtually sacred standing each to Indonesians and neighboring nations, like Australian themselves as a result of they revered one another imaginative and prescient and sovereignty.
Pancasila is made up of two Previous Javanese phrases, "panca" which means 5, and "sila" which means rules. Pancasila was first spoken about by Indonesian nationalist chief Soekarno in 1945, simply earlier than the nation's independence. Soekarno argued the nation must be based mostly on these 5 rules, that are: (1) Perception within the One and Solely God, (2) A simply and civilized humanity, (3) A unified Indonesia, (4) Democracy, beneath the clever steerage of consultant of the Folks, (5) Social justice for all Indonesians. All these rules have been recited and taught to all Indonesians since they entered faculty age. When the 5 rules of Pancasila translated in folks's every day exercise in Indonesia, it's clear that Pancasila has information the Indonesian folks to construct a peaceable nation.
Though everyone knows that Indonesia is a multicultural nation with totally different tradition, language and faith possessed by the nation; there is no such thing as a entity that's increased or higher than the opposite. As acknowledged clearly within the fifth precept, Indonesia has assured an equal social justice for all Indonesian residents, regardless their background and id. Pancasila can also be a mirrored image of Indonesian society's optimism in constructing stronger nation collectively as a result of we now have widespread targets that glued the nation. Based mostly on Pancasila, it's confirmed that the orientation of Indonesian ideology isn't constructed upon fascism or communism; worshiping racial superiority, romanticizing sure faith or categorized teams based mostly on energy. Indonesia and its Pancasila are current to not negate or demean different civilizations, however to be one of many pillars that contribute to the peacebuilding of world civilization.
As a rustic made up of 17,500 islands, and thirty-three provinces, which means that the cultural panorama can also be a various one, mixing indigenous customs. There are a lot of foreigners working in Indonesia really feel the identical approach too about Indonesian variety. "I've travelled to most Southeast Asian nations however nowhere is the cultural variety as wealthy as what I've seen in Indonesia," a robust assertion comes from German Cultural Centre "Goethe-Institute", Director Franz Xaver Augustin. With greater than 500 ethnic teams, every with their very own language and dialect, Indonesia can't be in contrast with some other nation on the subject of cultural variety. Folks is perhaps from totally different areas, ethnic or geographic backgrounds, however Pancasila is a approach to see themselves as having a typical id and set of values. In different phrases, Pancasila is the widespread assertion of Indonesian unity and in addition variety.
Due to this fact, Indonesian has all the time assist the democracy and freedom of speech – as acknowledged additionally within the fourth precept of Pancasila – but, it is very important notice that the hall of democracy must be in keeping with the opposite precept of Pancasila. Not like a dictatorship, a democratic authorities exists to serve the folks, however residents in democracies like Indonesian residents should additionally comply with abide by the principles and obligations by which they're ruled by Indonesian authorities. Though the liberty of speech is a precondition for democracy, it's certainly not an absolute freedom. Throughout one in all his speech in European Council, the President of Turkish Constitutional Courtroom, Zühtü Arslan has spoken on behalf of many democracies the on the earth, together with Indonesia – that the fitting to the liberty of expression could also be restricted on sure grounds such because the safety of the rights of others, nationwide safety and public security. Taking the phrases again to Indonesian context, it's concluded that as a democratic nation, the liberty of speech and expression is inspired broadly in Indonesia so long as it's nonetheless in keeping with the Pancasila as a result of these 5 rules is the ideology that glued the nation up till as we speak.
Regarding the assertion of Zühtü Arslan on the nationwide safety and public security, the difficult state of affairs occurred in Indonesian on the subject of the Separatist Motion in West Papua Province (KSP). From very long time, the separatist group has been voicing their demanded for the unbiased territory. Their expression and speech can't be included as a approach on training their voice as part of democracy, fairly, they expression is disturbing the nation's sovereignty. The separatist group wished a brand new state exterior Indonesia due to conflicting state of affairs between Indonesian authorities and the West Papuan folks. The truth is, there are a lot of democratic nations on the earth that doesn't specific their freedom of speech in a accountable approach. Even additional, if we examined the supporter nations that helps West Papuan's independence specifically Tuvalu, Vanuatu and Marshall Islands – all the three are democratic nations. Nonetheless, though they adopted democracy as their approach of governing the state, their political tradition is totally different from that in most Western democracies, with sturdy components of clientelism (emphasis on social relations to achieve energy), and political debate that focuses strongly on the distribution of assets amongst communities fairly than ideology. Due to this fact, their helps for West Papuan independence is comprehensible figuring out that it has heavy political motives fairly than on pure ideological spirit.
Moreover, if we analyze the inner state of affairs within the area of West Papua, we are able to conclude that the request from KSP to be separated from Indonesia is unrealistic and egocentric. KSP all the time emphasises their melanesian roots the place West Papuan area is a part of it and totally different with the remainder of Indonesian. Nonetheless, little did the KSP know; the range of ethnic and race is the core worth of Pancasila. Due to this fact, there is no such thing as a want for West Papuan area to be separated from Indonesia due to their totally different races. But, we have to focus extra on the event of higher Papua.
west papua Indonesia As written strongly by the training activist for Papuan Studying Neighborhood, Djuneidi Saripurnawan, Papuan neighborhood must be freed not from Indonesia however from poverty, illiteracy, corruption, international hegemony and worry. The imaginative and prescient to be its personal state isn't just dangerous for the Indonesian unity but in addition dangerous to the West Papuan neighborhood. The separatist motion is clearly a self-seeking political motion to devastate the nation as a result of West Papua is part of Indonesia and Indonesia just isn't a rustic with out West Papua as one in all its provinces. Additional, to develop West Papuan neighborhood within the international period like as we speak, the separatist group has to realized that Indonesia has good potential in creating in the direction of higher nation which routinely will deliver additional improvement to Papuans neighborhood.
west papua indonesia – Vital to acknowledge, by many initiatives, Indonesia has restoration in its authorities system and regulation enforcement. This progress will contribute to remove West Papuan society from illiteracy, corruption, international hegemony and worry. One of many clear signal for the area's upgrading is the extra authorities funds for West Papua Province that considerably enhance throughout 2015-2019 (Jokowi's period), which means, the area has safe necessary place within the nation's blue paper for improvement. This situation won't ever occur if the separatist motion succeeds as a result of beginning a state just isn't a simple job studying from Timor Leste's expertise after get its unbiased from Indonesia in 2002.


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Bridge Run Weekend Parties at Charleston Area Restaurants
The Cooper River Bridge Run weekend is once again upon us in Charleston, and that means that our local economy is about to get a direct infusion of $20+ million according to studies from years past. Many areas of the Lowcountry are affected by the increase in tourists, and restaurants from high end to fast food are historically extremely busy. A 2011 impact study shows that Charleston area restaurants generate over $10 million in revenue during the weekend of this annual event.
So, it is no surprise that area restaurants have planned events centered around the Bridge Run. The events calendar on holycitysinner.com is filled with pre and after-parties this Saturday, April 1st. The restaurants listed include...
6am - Bridge Run Pre-Party, Dunkin' Donuts, 840 Coleman Blvd., Mt Pleasant, SC
9am - Bridge Run After Party Luau, Mellow Mushroom, 309 King St., Charleston, SC
9am - Bridge Run Saturday, Fish Restaurant, 442 King St, Charleston, SC
9:30am - Bridge Run After Party, The Alley, 131 Columbus Street, Charleston, SC
9:30am - Running for Brews Charleston Bridge Run After Party, Gentry Bar & Room, 276 King St., Charleston, SC
10am - Bridge Run After Party, Bay Street Biergarten, 549 East Bay Street, Charleston
10am - Bridge Run Celebration, 5Church, 32 N Market St., Charleston, SC
10am - Cooper River Bridge Run After Party: Burgers, Beer and Bluegrass, The Macintosh, 479 King Street, Charleston, SC
10am - The Unofficial Bridge Run After-Party, Revelry Brewing, 10 Conroy St, Charleston, SC
11am - Bridge Run Party And Final Four, Cumberland Smokehouse, 5 Cumberland St., Charleston, SC
11am - Bridge Run Rooftop After Party, The Harbour Club, 35 Prioleau St., Charleston, SC
11am - Cooper River Bridge Run After Party, O-Ku, 463-A King Street, Charleston, SC
11am - Music Festival Bridge Run Brew Bash ft Strung Like a Horse, Palmetto Brewing, 289 Huger St, Charleston, SC
12pm - Cooper River Bridge Run After Party, Eleve Restaurant & Rootop (Grand Bohemian Hotel), 55 Wentworth St., Charleston, SC
Regardless of who wins the Bridge Run in 2017, there is little doubt that Charleston will be the big winner.


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- Page 1 Unique Melody Aero Review
- Page 2 Sound Quality Review
- Page 3 Custom Mould & Verdict Review
- Well made
- Completely bespoke designs
- Excellent audio clarity and detail
- Hard shell lacks comfort of soft shell alternatives
- Sound signature suffers on bass heavy tracks
- Requires amplification to see best results
Key Specifications
- Review Price: £475.00
- Custom-moulded in hard plastic
- Can choose your own design
- Triple driver design
- Detachable cables
Unique Melody is a company with ambition. After years as an audiophile's secret, the high-end Chinese custom IEM maker is coming to the UK in conjunction with specialist distributor AmpCity. It is arriving with a bang. In March it announced four premium models: the £405 dual driver Marvel, the £475 triple driver Aero, £575 quadruple driver Mage and mind numbing six driver £775 Miracle (and they've just added a five driver model as well, the Merlin). We'll have a review of the Mage for you shortly, but today it is the turn of the Aero.
It may be the entry level model, but with a current asking price of £455 (plus £20 to get some moulds of your ears taken) it is fair to set expectations high. Initial impressions suggest these will be met. Like any custom moulded in-ear monitor (IEM) the snag is you cannot try before you buy, but put your money where your mouth is and Unique Melody will let you choose any colour and any artwork you like inclusive in the price.
For our review sample we chose the colour British Racing Green and the astronomical symbol for Mercury (spot the speed theme). Once decisions are made you visit a local audiologist (map guide here) to have your impressions taken, then there is a waiting time of three to four weeks while the monitors are made.
Build quality is good. Like most customs, Unique Melody uses a hard-shell which results in an extremely accurate reproduction of your mould's impression and the Mercury symbol we requested was precisely engraved with a clean finish. Being hard the shell itself has no give (more of which later), but it is translucent letting you see the mechanics inside – a nice touch its intended audiophile target market will no doubt enjoy.
Unique Melody also uses detachable cables which means should anything happen to their cable it can be easily replaced. The cable is surprisingly thin so it does tangle easily, but the braded texture means it should prove hardwearing and results in minimal microphony. Accessories include a leather carrying pouch, a cleaning tool for removing any ear wax that gets stuck in the monitors (grim, but useful) and a presentation hard case made of stiff cardboard with a magnet seal which is finished in pink (though admittedly more red than it appears in the photo).
If the pink case will divide option, however, that is nothing compared to the audio performance…
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text: 70mm Film Festival menus at Tom Douglas restaurants Palace Kitchen, TanakaSan & Cantina Leña will be combining their love of cooking, bartending and film by celebrating Cinerama's 70mm festival with cocktail and food specials during the entire party. Find more information at TomDouglas.com for more information. Cantina Leña Blood & Sand (Spartacus) Napalm en la Mañana (Apocalypse Now) Face Hugger Jell-O Shot (Aliens) Palace Kitchen The Peter O'Toole (Lawrence of Arabia) Old HAL (2001: A Space Odyssey—riffing an Old Pal, which is whiskey, campari, and dry vermouth) In Like Flynn (Tron) Wormholes and Revelations (Interstellar) Gordita Beach Club (Inherent Vice) The Cause (The Master) Bloody Tarantino (The Hateful Eight) Hadleys Hope (Aliens) Ordeal and Triumph (Patton) Gilmour's Revenge / Floyd Pinkerton (Pink Floyd The Wall) The Space Vampire (Lifeforce) Brando's Horror (Apocalypse Now) Bridges to Heaven (Starman) Kubrick's History (Spartacus) Excessive Behavior (Year of the Dragon) My Favorite Things (Sound of Music) 70mm (Baraka) TanakaSan Food specials: "Take a Bao" - Mini chinese buns "It's a wrap" - lumpia w/lettuce & herbs "Final cut" - Meaty spare ribs Drink specials: "Martini shot"- sake, plum wine, bitters "Reel it in"- bourbon, mint, orange Curaçao "Three strip slushie" - frozen sake, cherry, cola


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Power line plan touted
Cuomo is urged by members of Congress to support transmission line project
ALBANY -- Twenty members of Congress -- including U.S. Rep. Paul Tonko -- are urging Gov. Andrew Cuomo to support the Champlain Hudson Power Express, a 330-mile power transmission line that would take power from Quebec to New York City.
Unlike traditional overhead power lines atop giant towers, the Champlain Express will run under Lake Champlain and the Hudson River and along railroad beds, keeping it mostly out of public view. A section runs through the Capital Region.
The Blackstone Group, a New York City investment firm, is developing the project with $1.9 billion in private financing.
Although the project recently obtained approval from the New York State Department of State, the state Public Service Commission must also give its blessing in a ruling expected by the end of the year. Federal approval could follow next year before construction begins.
Although many people view transmission lines as eyesores, they are critical to the state's energy needs because they transfer power generated by power plants -- many of them located upstate -- to where the power is needed.
Because of their unpopularity, transmission lines are often difficult to build. Over the years, the state's electrical needs -- especially in the New York City area -- have caused bottlenecks in existing transmission lines, making it difficult to get power to where it is needed most. Those bottlenecks also raise the cost of power.
The bottlenecks also make it difficult to move wind and hydro power generated in upstate New York and Quebec to other parts of the state.
In their letter to Cuomo, Tonko and others predict that the Champlain Hudson Express could save New York ratepayers more than $500 million annually while also tapping into more renewable energy sources.
"We would encourage you to continue to support projects like this in the future to ensure that consumers and businesses in New York state have access to clean, affordable and reliable energy, which will encourage economic growth through our great state," the letter states.
Towns and environmental groups that are impacted by the power line route are allowed to become part of the PSC's approval process. A negotiated settlement between the company, state regulators and the various groups and municipalities is expected to be presented to the commission in August. Additional hearings will also likely be held.
Cuomo's office did not return a call seeking comment about whether he supports the project.
The PSC is a five-member commission that acts independently of the governor and other state agencies, although it takes an active role in helping to shape state energy policy such as energy efficiency programs.
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With only hours to go before an interim deadline, a special congressional committee appears set to announce its failure to reach agreement on ways to cut the U.S. deficit by $1.2 trillion over the next 10 years.
Republican and Democratic lawmakers already have begun to blame each other for the likely failure of the "supercommittee" to reach a deal.
The U.S. Capitol was largely quiet Monday, with most lawmakers already back in their home districts for the coming Thanksgiving holiday. But a handful of supercommittee members worked in a last-ditch effort to reach an agreement to cut the deficit. Democrat Senator John Kerry said there is still hope, but that there has to be real compromise.
"It is the insistence on extending the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy, which the vast majority of Americans do not think we should do," he told Bloomberg news, blaming Republicans for the supercommittee's failure so far.
What Happens if the supercommittee fails?
- $1.2 billion in cuts split equally between defense and non-defense spending are triggered.
- Estimated at $55 billion in each type of spending per year from 2013 through 2021.
- Social Security, Medicare, and other programs exempt from cuts.
- U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta warns cuts could leave U.S. military with its smallest ground force since 1940s.
-The automatic spending reductions are known as "sequestration."
Ideological differences have kept Republicans and Democrats from agreeing on how to rein in the country's budget deficits for much of the past year. Democrats refuse to accept big cuts to the social welfare programs for the poor and the elderly, and Republicans refuse the tax increases for the wealthiest Americans that Democrats are pushing.
Republican Senator Jeff Sessions, who is not a member of the supercommittee, told Bloomberg he had never held high hopes for the panel, which largely met in secret, to tackle the crucial issue of the country's debt.
"I think what Congress should do is fulfill its responsibility, to publicly, openly debate these serious issues, the most incredible issue of our time," said Sessions.
The committee was created in August when the White House, the Senate and the House of Representatives were unable to resolve a dispute on raising the U.S. debt ceiling. The government came within hours of being unable to pay its debts and the country's credit rating was downgraded for the first time in history.
President Barack Obama has not been involved in the supercommittee's efforts but has called on the panel to make tough choices and "do its job." In a written statement Monday, Republican House Speaker John Boehner blamed President Obama and Democrats for insisting on tax hikes on what Boehner called America's "job creators."
With the likely collapse of the U.S. debt talks and continuing concerns about the European debt crisis, world stock markets fell Monday. When Congress returns after its recess, there is likely to be more of each side blaming the other. Political analysts say it may be up to American voters to decide next year whether they want to focus on tax increases or cuts to social programs to reduce the deficit.


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Gourmet and honey aficionados love this honey! We take pure Northwest Washington Honey (varieties will vary over time) and infuse it with our lavender until the flavor is just right. Then we strain it and some of those little bits of lavender are still there for your enjoyment. Some of the local NW honey varieties we use are Fireweed, Blackberry, and Raspberry.
Northwest Honey will sometimes crystallize so, if you want to bring it back to liquidity, just put it in a pot of water at NO MORE than 130º until it's liquid again.
Ingredients: Honey and Lavender. Net wt. 3 oz.


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Bhubaneswar Railway station is located in the capital city of Odisha state of India. It is amongst one of the main rail heads of the state. Bhubaneswar is one of the 3rd temple cities of Odisha state. It is a religious centre for the followers of Hindu and Buddhist religions.
The city is also referred as the 'temple city' and tourist will get the chance to see several wonderful examples of Oriya architecture in the older part of the city. Some popular temples have been built in between the period of 11th to 13th century.
Bhubaneswar Yard and Khurda Road-Bhubaneswar section was electrified in 2001-02. Bhubaneswar-Barang section was electrified in 2002-03
Busy Station:
Bhubaneswar railway station is amongst the top hundred booking stations of Indian Railway.[5] The total number of halting trains in Bhubaneswar railway station is 173 and the total number of originating trains is 34
Bhubaneswar railway station(BBS):East Coast Railway:6(Platforms)
Mancheswar railway station(MCS):East Coast Railway:4(Platforms)
Lingaraj Temple Road railway station:(LGTR):East Coast Railway:2(Platforms)
Vani Vihar railway station:(BNBH)East Coast Railway:2(Platforms)
Patia railway station(PTBA)East Coast Railway:2(Platforms)
Under Construction:
Currently Bhubaneswar railway station has 6 platforms. Two more platforms are being planned for construction, which was approved earlier jointly by the East Coast Railways (ECoR) and the Government of Odisha. The Bhubaneswar Railway Station will have a seven storey building with four upper class waiting halls to accommodate six hundred passengers, the two executive lounges will have a capacity to lodge hundred people, five second-class waiting halls, which will have a combined capacity of 1,000. In addition to all these, all the floors in the building will have retiring rooms and dormitories (both air-conditioned and general) with world class modern amenities. All the floors of the proposed station building will have multi-cuisine restaurants, bookshops, medicine counters, booking counters, tourism counters and kiosks of many different categories. The multi-storey parking facility will have a 4,000sqm basement to accommodate 3,200 scooters as well as cycles, while 900 cars can be parked from the second to seventh floor. The Government of Odisha have decided to make the Bhubaneswar Railway Station a world class railway station. If the space between Reservation counter in the station and Platform no.1 can be utilised properly then Bhubaneswar station can have 2 additional platforms and total no platforms can be 8. To decongest the existing station more number of platform is required and very soon the work is going to start.
Some Important Trains to Passing Through Bhubaneswar:
- 22823/24: Bhubaneswar Rajdhani Express-BBSR TO New Delhi
- 12381/82:Bhubaneswar Garib Rath-Bhubaneswar To Dhanbad
- 12801/02:Purushottam Express-Puri To New Delhi
- 11019/20:Konark Express-Bhubaneswar To Mumbai
- 12841/42:Coromandel Express-Howrah To Chennai
- 12839/40:Howrah Chennai Mail-Howrah To Chennai
- 18463/64:Prashanti Express-Bhubaneswar To Bengaluru
- 12703/04:Falaknuma Express-Howrah To Hyderabad
- 12277/78:Puri Howrah Shatabdi Express Puri To Howrah
- 12843/44:Puri Ahmedabad Express-Puri To Ahmedabad
- 12509/10:Kaziranga Express-Guwahati To Bengaluru
- 18477/78:Kalinga Utkal Express-Puri To Haridwar
- 18507/08:Hirakud Express-Amritsar To Visakhapatnam
- 18451/52:Tapaswini Express-Puri To Ranchi
- 18473/74:Puri Jodhpur Express-Puri To Jodhpur
- 12073/74:Bhubaneswar Howrah Jan Shatabdi Express -Bhubaneswar To Howrah
- 22865/66:Puri Lokmanya Tilak Terminus Express-Puri To Mumbai
- 18447/48:Hirakhand express-Bhubaneswar To Jabdalpur
- 17015/16:Visakha Express-Bhubaneswar To Hyderabad
- 18047/48:Amaravati Express-Howrah To Vasco da Gama
- 18645/46:East Coast Express (India)-Howrah To Hyderabad
- 12875/76:Neelachal Express-Puri To New Delhi
- 12507/08:Guwahati Trivandrum Express-Guwahati To Trivandrum
- 12281/82:Bhubaneswar Duronto Express-Bhubaneswar To New Delhi
- 12821/22:Dhauli Express-Puri To Howrah
- 18495/96:Bhubaneswar Weekly Express-Bhubaneswar To Rameswaram Bhubaneswar
Nearest Hotels in Bhubaneswar Railway Station:
1.Hotel Deepali International
2.Hotel Eden Roc
3.Hotel Excellency
4.Hotel Grand Central
5.Hotel Kalinga Ashok
6.Hotel Miland Palace
7.Hotel Pushpak
8.Hotel Pushpak Executive
9.Hotel Royal Inn
10.Hotel Upasana
11.Patra Guest House
12.Swosti Grand
Bhubaneshwar railway station handles around 100 trains on daily basis which makes it a very busy railway station. It is built in the city centre and people can reach at the station easily. Around 150, 000 passengers visit the station everyday. Good services are provided to the passengers. The Bhubaneswar railway station is categorized as one of the top hundred booking stations of Indian Railway.
The divisional headquarters of East Coast railways is Bhubaneswar. Administrative control of the station is under South Eastern Railways. It is well linked to the main cities of India through direct trains. It is located on the main track line from Kolkata to Chennai. Passengers can get trains arrival and departure timings and other details from the Indian Railway website: www.indianrail.gov.in/
Some important Express and mail trains such as Rajdhani Express, Nandankanan Express, Konark Express and Lokmanya Tilak Express, Coromandel Express, Chennai Howrah mail, Dhauli Express, Janasatabdi Express, Falaknuma Express, East Coast Express, Konark Express, Prashanti Express, Yeshwantpur Howrah Express and Yeshwantpur Guwahati Express etc. pass through the station and connect it to the major cities of India such as Delhi, Bombay, Hyderabad, Bangalore, Howrah and Chennai etc.
Bhubaneswar railway station has the facilities of waiting room, cloak room, retiring room, water cooler, book stall and telephone booth which provide good comfort to the travellers at the station. Computerized reservation office is built at the station for booking tickets. One can get vegetarian and non vegetarian foods from the refreshment room available there.
Station Code of Bhubaneswar Railway Junction is BBS and for reservation enquiry one can dial 0674 – 2534434 to 37. To find out Arrival and Departure status one should dial 136, 0674 – 2532233, 2534434 to 37
Bus stand is at the distance of 8 km from Railway station and Airport is 7.2 km far from the station.