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The different types of RV covers include fabric barriers, carports, and poll barns. Each structure adds an increased level of protection and security from damaging weather elements. Fabric barriers can be purchased from online suppliers and placed over the vehicle in a few hours. Carports may be purchased from local suppliers in a kit form and constructed over several days. Poll barns typically require professional assembly and may need several weeks to install and cure before using.
Motorhomes allow travelers to take the comforts and amenities of home with them onto the open road. They are available in four standard sizes ranging from Class A motorized carriages, which can be driven, to towing trailers which are hitched to the back of a truck or SUV with towing capabilities. Class B and C motorhomes are motorized, but sit on a van body and are lower in weight than Class A. The purchase of this type of vehicle often represents a large financial investment, and care and maintenance generally exceeds that required for a compact car. RV covers play a large role in prolonging the life of this type of investment by protecting the finish on the vehicle from sun and weather damage, and blocking water from seeping into the interior.
The least expensive style of RV covers are fabric barriers. Owners can begin selecting the right size of cover by measuring their RV personally to determine its height, length, and width. Real RV dimensions often differ slightly from the manufacturer's specifications. Covers for Class B, C, and towing trailers are available in several universal sizes, and are pulled over the vehicle from end to end, similar to a compact car cover. Class A sized covers, which can protect campers over 30 feet (9 meters) long, are rolled across the roof of the structure and lowered over the sides in panels, which allow for air circulation around the motorhome when it is covered.
Fabric RV covers may be placed on the vehicle any time it is parked in one location for a period of several days or more. They are most commonly used when the motorhome is in storage outside the owner's full time house. Many covers also include door and window panels so that the vehicle may be used recreationally while covered. Sun and weather damage are minimized, and the interior temperature of the RV can be regulated without the use of air conditioning or artificial heat.
Canopy tarps and carports can also be utilized as RV covers. These structures provide a canvas, plastic, or galvanized steel roof that sits atop four to six posts. Pricing is based on the materials used, and tends to be higher than that of the canvas fabric barriers. This type of structure has the added benefit of allowing owners to drive their vehicles and RV directly beneath the structure and access any portion of the home without moving awkward and often heavy fabric. Protection from weathering elements is also greater than that which is achieved with fabric.
A fully enclosed shed or poll barn is the most secure type of protection and coverage available for motorhomes. The cost of installing the size of structure which can accommodate the long and tall body of an RV is significant in comparison with the pricing of a carport or fabric barrier. Poll barns are typically set on a professionally poured and cured concrete slab. Roofing and siding materials range from vinyl to galvanized steel depending on the owner's preference.
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MUMBAI (Reuters) - BSE Ltd, the operator of the Bombay Stock Exchange which has lost market share to rivals, has chosen 14 banks for a share offering planned for the first half of 2013, its chief executive said.
The company, which operates Asia's oldest stock exchange, is seeking an initial public share offering or IPO that would value it at about $1 billion, Ashishkumar Chauhan told Reuters on Thursday.
A stock market flotation by BSE would join a list of IPOs by Indian companies and could deliver a windfall for its owners including local brokerages, as well as potentially raising funds to help it take on faster growing competitors such as the National Stock Exchange (NSE).
Bank of America Merrill Lynch (BAC.N), JPMorgan (JPM.N), Barclays (BARC.L), UBS UBSN.VX and Indian banks Kotak Mahindra Bank (KTKM.NS) and ICICI Bank (ICBK.NS) are among the lead managers of the planned IPO, he said.
Founded in 1875, BSE has long considered an IPO. India's capital markets regulator SEBI in April approved the listing of local stock exchanges, subject to some conditions.
"The process is on. We are targeting a launch in the first half of next year," Chauhan said on the sidelines of an event.
BSE says it is the world's No. 1 exchange in terms of listed members, with about 5,000 companies. But rival NSE, founded in 1993, has eclipsed BSE in trade volumes.
On Thursday, for example, equity and derivatives turnover by value on the NSE was more than five times that of the BSE.
"Success for the BSE IPO would be more emotional for broker members of the exchange, but the fact is BSE is losing market share to NSE," said Paras Adenwala, managing director and principal portfolio manager at Capital Portfolio Advisors in Mumbai.
Frankfurt-based Deutsche Boerse (DB1Gn.DE) and the Singapore Exchange Ltd (SGXL.SI) each own 5 percent of BSE, whose Sensex index .BSESN remains India's benchmark stock index alongside the rival NSE's Nifty index .NSEI.
Multi Commodity Exchange of India Ltd (MCEI.NS) raised 6.6 billion rupees in an IPO earlier this year, becoming the first Indian bourse to list.
BSE's total income rose 7 percent to 5.78 billion rupees in the year through March from 5.38 billion in the previous year. Net profit, however, fell nearly 12 percent to 2.05 billion.
By comparison, NSE had total income of 10.8 billion rupees and net profit of 7.05 billion for the year through March.
Share sales by Indian companies in the first half of this year were down 4 percent from a year earlier to $7.1 billion, according to Thomson Reuters data, but the IPO market is poised to end the year with a flourish.
Bharti Infratel, the tower arm of top mobile phone carrier Bharti Airtel (BRTI.NS), is seeking to raise as much as $830 million in an IPO next week, while a handful of smaller IPOs are also set to be launched.
Sources have said the government is planning to offload about $1.2 billion worth of shares in state-run miner NMDC Ltd (NMDC.NS) on December 13.
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The Tamarac boys basketball team locked up its first winning season since 2009 with a 64-44 non-league victory against New Lebanon Tuesday, Jan. 22.
Anthony Ciampolillo and Frank Zotto each scored 17 points to lead the Bengals (11-3), who pulled away from the Tigers with a 21-9 run in the second quarter. Cole Erickson had 14 points, and Clayton Erickson contributed 13 points for New Lebanon.
Elsewhere, Duncan Tallman became Mohonasen's all-time scoring leader as the Mighty Warriors defeated Schenectady 71-63. Tallman scored 13 of his game-high 21 points in the fourth quarter lead Mohonasen to victory and surpass Phil DeCarlo atop the school's leaderboard with 1,274 points.
Shawn Gillisslee chipped in with 16 points, and Chase Monroe added 15 points for Mohonasen, which overcame a slow start to build a 33-30 halftime lead. Elijah Johnsen had 15 points for Schenectady. Continue reading "Boys basketball: Tamarac defeats New Lebanon to clinch first winning season in 10 years"


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Topic 40: Binding Theory and Interpreting Pronouns
How do we know how to interpret our pronouns? What rules guide what meanings can go with what words? In this episode, we talk about binding theory: what a pronoun even is, where different pronouns can get their interpretation from, and what principles of syntax oversee our understanding of all the nouns we talk about.
Topic 39: Child Language Experiments
How can we get at what kids know about language? What challenges do linguists face in working with children? In this episode, we take a look at child language experimentation: why it differs from adult testing, descriptions of a couple of types of experiments, and how we need to find the right test to get at exactly what's happening with kids.
Topic 38: Phonological Illusions
Why do we sometimes hear things that aren't there? When does the way we process language leave cracks for illusions to appear? In this episode, we talk about phonological illusions: what varieties there are, the processing strategies that lead to them, and how sometimes, we even try interpreting sounds as language when they aren't linguistic at all.
Topic 37: Pidgins and Creoles
How do we communicate with groups who don't speak the same language as us? What happens when kids start learning the linguistic systems we construct? In this episode, we talk about pidgins and creoles: what pidgins tend to have in common, how pidgins are like and not like natural languages, and what happens when kids take a pidgin and change it into something new.
Topic 36: Wordplay
What kinds of games do we play with language? What do we use those games for? In this episode, we talk about wordplay: what parts of language we play with, how the languages we speak influence the fun we can have, and how, sometimes, wordplay can be used for serious goals.
Topic 35: Word Learning
How do we learn new words? What guidelines do we follow for picking up new terms? In this episode, we take a look at vocabulary development: the difficulties in deciding what sounds go with what meanings, the assumptions we make to help us solve those challenges, and what kinds of morphemes get stored where. Hodor!
Topic 34: Implicatures, Entailments, and Presuppositions
How do we puzzle out what meanings lie beyond our sentences? What different flavours of extra meanings are there? In this episode, we talk about implicatures, entailments, and presuppositions: how to define them, what the differences are between them, and how they enrich our understanding of the world.
Topic 33: Linguistics as a Science
How do we define what qualifies as a science? Does linguistics fit the definition? In this episode, we look at linguistics as a science: whether it fits the scientific method, how scientifically sound different parts of the field are, and why studying linguistics is a great tool for introducing people to how science works.
Topic 32: Gender and Language Processing
How do we deal with gender when we process language? Do we take it into consideration when we hear words and sentences? In this week's episode, we talk about gender and language processing: the different kinds of gender in language, how gender influences our ability to retrieve words from our mental dictionaries, and how our views on gender temporarily keep us from considering otherwise legitimate interpretations of sentences.
Topic 31: Theta Roles
How does a word know what role it should play in a sentence? How can we match up our verbs and nouns so that everything makes sense? In this episode, we talk about theta roles: how they keep us from overstuffing or underfilling our sentences, the different kinds of roles there are, and how it keeps X' Theory from running out of control.


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Mirra Nerenberg, Certified Professional Midwife, LDM
I was raised back East, spending most of my years living right outside of Philadelphia. I moved to Asheville, NC, for college, which is where I fell in love with both the mountains and my husband. We made our way out to the West Coast, settling in Portland in 2004, ready for a new adventure and community.
The Birth of a Midwife
Thinking back on my journey to becoming a midwife, I always knew I wanted to work in women's health and truly believed that meant being a midwife at some point in my life. I was raised to believe birth was a beautiful and natural process because that's what my mother always told me.
My own birth was the first step in guiding my journey as I was born into my grandfather's hands at the Baltimore Birth Center with my whole family in attendance, including my older siblings. When I was little, I just thought everyone was born out of the hospital!
As an adult, I knew this was far from the truth, which only nudged me further on to find my path to becoming a midwife. After making my way back to Portland after living in Asia for six months and being around strong, beautiful women at ease with motherhood, I knew it was time to start my midwifery education.
I started attending births as a labor doula in 2006 while I started my formal midwifery education at Birthingway College of Midwifery. During midwifery school, I started working at Alma Midwifery as a postpartum doula and office staff. I completed my apprenticeship; and after graduating from Birthingway with a Bachelor of Science in Midwifery in 2010, I continued working as a midwife at Alma where I was fortunate to be a part of so many wonderful families. In the fall of 2014, I decided it was time to start my own midwifery business to offer families in Portland a small, compassionate homebirth practice. By collaborating with Kelley, Portland Natural Birth Midwifery was brought to fruition!
During my own journey as a midwife, I have been blessed with two spirited and beautiful kiddos. After a long first birth, my daughter, Neshamah, was born at home in 2010 with support from my husband and midwives/friends. Three years later, my son, Avi, was born in the same bedroom with my daughter right beside me. After attending so many other strong women giving birth, it was such an empowering experience to truly know what giving birth meant. Giving birth was harder than I had ever expected, but both of my personal births have further validated my belief in the importance of supporting women during this journey to motherhood.
In my free time, you'll most likely find me with my family getting our hands dirty in our garden, biking around our neighborhood, or trying to find time to sew. When I'm not on-call, I love hiking and camping (although both of these activities have taken on new meaning with little kids!) and going back East to visit my family.


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Courtesy of New Mexico Air National Guard
Be sure to mark Thursday, September 24, 2015 on your calendar and be prepared to learn what career opportunities in both aviation and aerospace are available to students of New Mexico.
This awesome event will be held on the grounds of the New Mexico Air National Guard, located at 2251 Air Guard Rd., SE on the Kirtland Air Force Base and promises to offer an outstanding opportunity for middle school through college level students to learn more about the careers and training available at both with the leaders of New Mexico Aviation and Aerospace industries, Aviation schools and the US Military.
During this day (starting at 9:00 and ending at 15:00), students from across New Mexico can view and walk through today's most modern aircraft in the world, both civilian and military, while getting hands on experiences with various equipment and technologies. Participants will also have an opportunity to learn about the New Mexico Air National Guard and recruitment possibilities.
Additionally, the New Mexico Aviation Aerospace Association will have available a variety of aviation and aerospace exhibitors who will share with you the jobs and careers awaiting students.
This event promises to be an exciting experience for all involved. Learn how you can catapult your education and career opportunities in New Mexico's top aviation and aerospace companies while getting valuable insight into today's Air Force and New Mexico's Air and Army National Guard.
The New Mexico Aviation Aerospace Association looks forward to seeing you on September 24, 2015! Shown below are highlights from our 2013 Career Expo.


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I'm a mom in Marion, Indiana looking for affordable ways to keep my family healthy & happy! The purpose of this blog is to keep moms in the area up on events, activities, sales, services, etc. The goal is that this is an opportunity for area moms to SHARE info, so please JOIN the conversation and contribute!
Thursday, April 14, 2011
Aldi's Food - Beware of HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP!
I want to start this post by saying that I'm not out to get Aldi or anything, and also want to let you know that I shop there myself at least once a week. I get milk, eggs, cheese, produce, and a handful of other things at Aldi on a regular basis. I was turned on to Aldi when I moved to Marion, and was impressed by the affordable prices of most of their items.
However, in the last year and a half since I've been a regular shopper there, I have been increasingly frustrated/shocked/disgusted by how much CRAP is in much of their food (including their "Fit & Active" brand). I believe that Aldi food is cheaper than most stores, but I believe that it truly comes at a price (pun intended), the price of our HEALTH.
Almost EVERYTHING I see at Aldi that has a nutrition label lists HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP as one of the top ingredients. What really pushed me over the edge was this morning when at Aldi I picked up a package of "All Beef" hotdogs and read the label, and the 3rd ingredient listed was HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP. Really? In hotdogs????
Why is food at Aldi so cheap? The government subsidises the production of corn, which leads to the production of cheap corn syrup, and thus a cheap filler that Aldi puts in most of their food.
And, in addition to HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP, I'm frustrated by the fact that all of their items list ENRICHED FLOUR (flour stripped of all nutrients - NOT a positive thing, even though "enriched" has a positive connotation) as a top ingredient, and many of their items are very high in sodium. Additionally, quite a few of their items still have trans-fat. Really, most of it is junk, junk, and more junk. High in sugar, high in sodium, low in fiber.... everything that is bad for us.
So, the purpose of my posting is just to remind you to be aware, whether shopping at Aldi or anywhere else - READ the nutrition label before making a purchase. If it lists HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP, think twice about buying it, and if you can at all avoid it, do not make that purchase. What we put in our bodies, and in the bodies of our families TRULY has an impact on our health. My husband just was telling me this morning about an article he saw yesterday (for article CLICK HERE) that said that for the first time in our history, deaths due to LIFESTYLE choices outnumber the deaths from communicable diseases. WE ARE KILLING OURSELVES with the choices we are making - choices to eat crap, not exercise, sit in the sun without protection, not drink enough water, not eat enough fruits and veggies, purchase and use toxic chemicals and add to the toxins in the air and destruction of our environment, etc. We do not always have to be victims to our health - there are MANY things we can do to prevent illness and disease.... reading the labels at Aldi (& anywhere else) is just a start!
Okay, off my soapbox for the day...
5 comments:
Amazing it is even in the hot dogs! Thanks for the blog.ReplyDelete
Yet another reason why the fresh, organic food from Victory Acres is so appealing!ReplyDelete
- J.R. DennisApril 21, 2011 at 2:58 PM
Thought of this post when I read the the linked article.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJune 10, 2013 at 1:02 PM
I don't buy "Crap" at Aldi. Typically the food that I purchase there does NOT have HFCS in it.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousSeptember 7, 2016 at 7:20 AM
They have changed many of their items to not artificially colored less corn syrup and high fructoseReplyDelete


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For Ailsa's Travel Theme "Connections" I chose an old image from a past winter when I went by a double deck train from Stockholm to Göteborg. The train stopped for a short while in Skövde, just in time for the sunset.
The tube connects the different platforms of the station in Skövde.


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How We Shop Now Trend Reports
How We Shop - The Festive Edit
The run-up to Christmas is the most important time of the year for both retailers and customers. It's defined by key trends of the season, well-loved traditions and by the varying needs of shoppers, depending on their ages, locations and budgets.
In the Festive Edit, Westfield fuses its grasp of the key factors influencing shopper behaviour, human needs and social activities with an in-depth exploration of what's coming next, and how our relationship with Christmas shopping and events is evolving.
How We Shop Now – The 2017 Food Edit
This is an incredibly exciting era in food and dining. The way we eat, cook, dine out and shop is changing at speed, and it's clear that the Millennial generation is making big changes to our relationship with food, from recipe delivery boxes to pop-up avocado bars to apps that let you order without queuing. Westfield is at the forefront of this transformative time, where the advent of revolutionary changes in technology, society and the lives of consumers will continue to impact on our sector. The successful retailers of the future will be the ones who best recognise and adapt to these changes.
Bringing together quantitative research across 12 regions, this report is part of Westfield's ongoing commitment to creating the best retail experiences in the world, by understanding what consumers want and what retailers and restauranteurs need to do to stay ahead of the evolving world of food retail.
How We Shop Now - What's Next?
'How We Shop Now: What's Next?,' unveils the five key trends that will shape tomorrow's retail industry. The future retail report draws on interviews with leading experts over 13,000 people across the UK and USA to show how emerging consumer trends will shape future stores.
Combined, the trends paint a picture of what the store of the future is likely to look like. It reveals that shoppers are looking to physical retailers to go beyond the transaction and provide richer experiences to the consumer.
Myf Ryan, Chief Marketing Officer, Westfield UK and Europe, commented: "Fashion stores of tomorrow might look radically different - bringing shoppers through the doors to attend a vintage clothing club, rewarding them financially for recycling their old clothes, helping them pick a new outfit with virtual reality and then loaning it to them for a party at the weekend."
The five key future trends identified are:
Pay as you go retail:
Consumers are already accustomed to the 'sharing economy', tapping into Uber for transport, and Airbnb for accommodation. People are increasingly interested in retailers adopting this trend:
One in five people in the UK are interested in renting from their favourite store; a figure that rises to one in three within London.
This trend is particularly strong among millennials for whom renting is the norm, with nearly half (46%) of 25-34 year olds interested in renting.
Exercise equipment topped the list of what people wanted to rent (19%), followed by cars (16%), consumer electronics (15%), bikes (14% and clothing (10%).
Around a fifth of UK shoppers who expressed an interest in renting would be willing to spend £200 or more per month on unlimited clothing rent subscriptions.
Classroom retail:
Shoppers are increasingly seeing retail spaces not only as places to buy new things, but as classrooms where they can learn new skills and build social networks.
About a third of UK shoppers (35%) are interested in attending a lifestyle lesson or club at their favourite store.
Shoppers in the UK want health or fitness sessions first and foremost (27%), followed by inspiring learning sessions such as creative cookery (25%), expert sessions (20%) and then clubs (19%). UK shoppers have greater appetite than their American counterparts for digital up-skilling, with more than a sixth of Brits interested, compared with only 12% of Americans.
Lifestyle loyalty:
There is a new consumer demand for loyalty schemes that reward good lifestyle choices rather than just monetary transactions.
A fifth of UK consumers have said that a lifestyle reward scheme would appeal.
They'd like to be rewarded by retailers for recycling (29%), exercising (20%), spending time with family (19%), getting enough sleep (14%), and charity volunteering (10%)
The youngest, 16-24 year old, audience in both the US and UK particularly crave rewards for having a work-life balance with time spent with loved ones (30%).
Enhanced assistance:
The report predicts that virtual reality will become ubiquitous over the coming years, but shoppers increasingly want virtual reality technology to help bring in-store products closer to their everyday lives.
41% of people in the UK would like to use new technologies, such as virtual reality headsets, to experience how products will look in their home.
A third (33%) agreed they would be interested in using virtual assistance to see how clothes would look on them.
Inside-out retail:
All this time spent engaging with screens plays havoc with our body's sensory system. A sensory retail experience is becoming increasingly important to consumers. We don't just want to smell the flowers or hear birdsong in-store; we want to overload their senses with extraordinary experiences that re-awaken all of their senses, all at once.
All five senses were deemed to enhance the shopper experience. Vision and touch came out top, but just under a third of shoppers also identified smell and hearing.
Taste was also important to more than a fifth of shoppers (28%).
A massive share of UK shoppers said that touch and feel, and trial of the products, was a main benefit of physical stores (73%).
How We Shop Now - The 2015 Report
In 2014 Westfield launched the first How We Shop Now Report which was the culmination of research carried out across 8,000 shoppers Nationwide to reveal not only How We Shop Now, but how the future of shopping is changing. The research revealed new insights to benefit Westfield and our Retailers when it comes to understanding what shoppers want from their in store shopping experience and understanding the new tribes of shoppers that exist. In 2015 the How We Shop Now platform continues to answer how we are shopping and how this will impact the future of retail.
8,000 Shoppers - 12 New Shopping Trends - 8 New Shopper Tribes
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The mission of the Town of Wethersfield, Office of Emergency Management (OEM) and the Emergency Operations Center (EOC), is to effectively coordinate the preparation, response and recovery efforts of Town, State and Federal resources when hazardous or emergency conditions, potentially impact our community. The Town of Wethersfield's Emergency Operations Plan serves as the guiding document for these efforts.
Emergency Management Services for Wethersfield is overseen by the Town Manager who also serves as the Chief Executive Officer and Director of Public Safety for the Town.
The Town of Wethersfield's Office of Emergency Management is led by the Emergency Management Director (EMD) and is comprised of key, senior town management officials who, as a team, manage those hazardous or emergency situations that may impact the town and our residents. Through the use of the Incident Command System (ICS) and the National Incident Management System (NIMS), the Town Manager and the Emergency Management Director, coordinate all town efforts based on the nature of the emergency.
In addition to the Emergency Management Director and Deputy Emergency Management Director, the team is made up of representatives of the Fire, Police, Ambulance, Social Services, Recreation, Public Health, Board of Education, Physical Services, Town Clerk's Office, Finance, Fire Marshal and Engineering departments.
The Town of Wethersfield Emergency Operations Center may be utilized during times of emergency and, under a unified command process, coordinates the mitigation of the emergency; provide timely communications to the populace affected and assists in summoning additional regional, State and Federal resources if needed, operates a system of local shelters, which will provides safe centralized locations for residents during critical times of need.
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I have never been good at taking compliments.
It's not that I don't appreciate people trying to say something well-intended, it's just that I've often found that people tend to say something nice as a means of filling in an ellipsis in the conversation after a training session or a roll (often making it hard to actually believe the authenticity of what the person might be saying).
Now, don't get me wrong, I definitely have a high value for constructive compliments, criticism, and feedback. I just really want to earn it. The equivalent of a participation trophy after each roll is less valuable to me than identifying a specific item that I can look to improve for the next go round. For me, it's an important practice in keeping me grounded, honest about my game, and dialed-in to the things I need to work on in order to improve.
More than anything, it keeps me honest.
So when a training partner looks at me and compliments my strong "wrestling base," I tend to deflect the comment real quick.
Again, not like they're being rude (people sincerely mean it in the best of terms). In that same vein, however, I don't feel I can honestly agree with their assessment.
I have a great respect for wrestlers and their tenacity. The exhibit a number of traits that I do not have (dynamic speed, aggression, a must-win mentality), but have the utmost respect for. So when people ask me if I ever wrestled I school, I politely inform them that no, I never did (wrestling season conflicted with soccer season and I'm brown), I just happen to have passable jiu-jitsu wrestling.
I say this because the minute I go up against a real wrestler (be it someone who's trained in college, high school or, hell, even middle school) all of that "passable jiu-jitsu wrestling" goes completely out the window. I promptly have to abandon all my pho-wrestling tricks and quickly resort to the hallmarks of Brazilian jiu-jitsu guard pulling basics to remotely have a chance against someone of my own relative strength, size, and skill level.
So while it may be tempting to believe the wonderfully polite individuals who compliment my "passable jiu-jitsu wrestling" skills, I happen to know one major key that never seems to fail:
You might be able to fake out another jiujiteiro — who also likely didn't do wrestling in their formal years — into believing you're a wrestler, but you definitely can't fake out a wrestler.
At least not without some kind of heavy training or dedication to that craft.
Which brings me to why I'm writing this here today. I think it's high time I give this wrestling thing a little bit of the old college try.
Now I hear you, there are plenty of jiu-jitsu, judo, and anti-wrestling tricks that you can use to neutralize these sorts of attacks. Believe me, I get it. That still doesn't downplay the importance the art of takedowns, balance, and weight distribution play in the sport of submission grappling.
And yes, I could lead a perfectly fine life pulling guard (or shit, if I got really good at leg locks, just sitting to guard and hoping some kind of magic Eddie "Wolverine" Cummings magic avails itself to me). But I think there's something entirely underwhelming about intentionally ignoring one of the cornerstones of the gentle art for my own progression as a martial arts practitioner.
I have managed to go the past five years of my jiu-jitsu journey getting by on counter-wrestling, misdirection, and (what I like to call) creative sprawling, but I see my tricks getting old real fast. Despite the better efforts of my truly amazing instructors and training partners, my efforts to improve my wrestling skills have been marginal at best. I know that in order to even maintain level of being "passable" as I continue to rise up the ranks in BJJ, I have to evolve.
That is why I've decided to put myself on a 30 day wrestling challenge.
It is also why I have decided to put my intention to do so on this website as a means of keeping myself accountable for the next month.
So what will this entail exactly?
Well people who are familiar with me and my podcast may know that it was about this time last year that I made a similar (but different) challenge to do 30 days of using a grip strengthening product called a JitsGrip. For those who are unfamiliar, here's the basic gest: I outlined thirty days of trying out new things to help improve my famously terrible gi grips, opting to journal my experience through a set of instagram photos, videos, and comedy bits (seen below). The end result was a noticeable improvement. Suddenly, I was able to maintain a grip for at least a small period of time on my training partners (granted it's still terrible, just less terrible).
You can see the rest of #RafsJitsGripsChallenge posts right here:
For this particular challenge, I've opted to use several tenets:
First, I will utilize a handful of the techniques demonstrated in my good friend Justin Rader's Wrestling/Jiu-Jitsu DVD, the Hybrid Success Formula. Justin famously heard how bad my wrestling skills were and sent me a copy of his DVD as a means of trying to help a brother out. And we have obviously seen how the wrestling has worked out for him. If I can get even the smallest of percent better because of it, I feel it's worth a shot. I'll pick a set of tips Justin outlines in his DVD and likely do some write ups on how the implementation of it goes (perhaps even getting some video footage).
Second, I will make it a priority to train at least some form of wrestling during open mat sessions over the next month. I won't like it much, but I will ask my training partners to help push me to at least try some of this stuff during some live rolls.
Third, I will take advantage of watching the Olympics as a further means of study. While I am not stupid enough to believe I will be able to replicate what I see these truly gifted and hardworking athletes do on the television, I will assign myself some homework in deconstructing the small things that make them so effective at what they're doing. I have often found that breaking down even the smallest of things about jiu-jitsu in my writing has helped to uncover some major developments in my game.
Fourth, I will call in for backup. While I may not be all that gifted at wrestling, I happen to have a wide network of people at my disposal here in Southern California who are AND have all offered to help in some way. This may include making some trips to visit some friends you may recognize from the podcast.
And finally, I will take recommendations from you all. I know you've got better things to do, but I've often found the grappling community to be a helpful bunch of individuals. I'll ask that you throw your best YouTube videos, articles or advice my way and do my best to implement it as I adapt the tenets of this challenge as we go. I am a big proponent of constructive notes and will appreciate any help you guys will be willing to give my way.
I fully understand this will not be easy (confronting our weaknesses is never a fun process). I also understand I'll likely be falling flat on my face in front of a mass audience. I don't really mind. My jiu-jitsu journey has always focused on the big picture. Temporary failure is just the path to long term development.
And, yes, I fully get there is a gimmicky element to the 30 Day aspect of this thing. I tend to do well with micro-goals. It's like when I go to roll in a given class, I come up with a set of small goals I look to do each class (perhaps establish a good entry into deep-half, land at least one good sweep, etc. etc.). When I outline a set of micro-goals, I tend to notice I can not only surpass my own expectations, but that I can also chain them together to create even larger goals as a result. Additionally, I've often found the only way to make something a routine is to start. If by the end of it, I elect only to sit to seated guard, then so be it. At least, I'll feel content knowing I challenged myself to try and get out of my comfort zone.
I also texted Rader tonight to let him know I'm finally ready to give this 30 day challenge a shot. He is wildly excited to see how it plays out. Admittedly, so am I. In short, I am lucky to have good friends.
Anyway, thanks much for sticking around to hear my nonsense. I hope you'll follow along as I do this crazy thing.


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Chance are Forging Links
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Hi Laura! What fun this project must be. Have you discovered anything on the Chance Brothers' work for British Columbia lighthouses? I am writing a book on BC lighthouses (my 17th lighthouse book! www.ElinorDeWire.com) and am looking for pictures and info on the lenses and other equipment made for British Columbia. Thanks for any information. You can contact me through email@example.com or firstname.lastname@example.com. Thanks! Elinor DeWire, Seabeck, WA, USAReplyDeleteReplies
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The Crossclaim Loophole Left Open by the America Invents Act, Inter-circuit Patent-law Splits
Congress established the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit over 30 years ago to bring uniformity to patent law. But the Federal Circuit is not truly a national patent court.
The Federal Circuit has never had jurisdiction over all appeals involving patents. The jurisdictional statute that Congress wrote for the Federal Circuit gave that court appellate jurisdiction over any civil action "arising under" the patent laws.
For many years, it was an open question whether the Federal Circuit had appellate jurisdiction over an action where there was no patent claim in the complaint but there was a patent claim in the answer or counterclaim. In 2002, the Supreme Court answered the question, holding that the Federal Circuit didn't have jurisdiction unless the complaint raised a patent-law issue. Holmes Group, Inc. v. Vornado Air Circulation Systems, Inc., 535 U.S. 826. Patent-law issues in an answer or counterclaim did not give the Federal Circuit jurisdiction, because "arising under" is a legal term of art that refers to the well-pleaded complaint rule—a court will look only at the complaint, and not other pleadings.
The America Invents Act (section 19(b)) overruled Vornado, and expanded the Federal Circuit's jurisdiction to include cases where a patent law issue arises in a compulsory counterclaim:
(b) COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FEDERAL CIRCUIT.–Section 1295(a)(1) of title 28, United States Code, is amended to read as follows:
"(1) of an appeal from a final decision of a district court of the United States, the District Court of Guam, the District Court of the Virgin Islands, or the District Court of the Northern Mariana Islands, in any civil action arising under, or in any civil action in which a party has asserted a compulsory counterclaim arising under, any Act of Congress relating to patents or plant variety protection;"
But even after this amendment, some patent appeals will not go to the Federal Circuit. Patent-law crossclaims, for example, do not give the Federal Circuit jurisdiction. Nor do permissive patent-law counterclaims.
This crossclaim loophole apparently reflects Congress's preference to avoid appellate forum shopping over patent-law uniformity.
A hypothetical law that gives the Federal Circuit jurisdiction over all actions involving a patent-law claim of any kind could lead to appellate forum shopping in non-patent cases. A party involved in a non-patent case who holds a potential permissive patent-law claim would be able to choose whether the Federal Circuit hears the appeal simply by adding a permissive patent-law crossclaim or counterclaim. Until such a law is passed, though, some patent cases will be appealable to regional circuits, leaving open the possibility of inter-circuit splits on areas of substantive patent law.
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Who goes where in 2010?
The Formula 1 season is over and there are expected to be decisions soon over who will be driving where in 2010. The situation at the moment is that World Champions Brawn GP has yet to confirm a driver. However it is almost certain that Jenson Button will re-sign and will be joined by Nico Rosberg. Rubens Barrichello is confirmed with the Williams team.
Red Bull will stay with Renault engines and has deals confirmed with Mark Webber and Sebastian Vettel, so will go through the winter with no major changes to the team.
McLaren had Lewis Hamilton under contract and will continue with Mercedes-Benz engines, although there are doubts about whether the relationship will be the same as it has been up to now. The team will probably replace Heikki Kovalainen as he did not score sufficient points this year. It is not yet clear who will join Hamilton. Kimi Raikkonen is likely if he will agree a deal that is financially realistic, if not the drive could go to someone else. Several drivers would like to join McLaren, notably Adrian Sutil, but the team could spring a surprise if a deal with Raikkonen is not possible.
Ferrari will change both drivers in 2010 with Felipe Massa returning from his injury and Fernando Alonso switching to Maranello from Renault.
The future of the Toyota remains uncertain at the moment but if the team is still in business it is safe to assume that one seat will go to new boy Kamui Kobayashi. A number of drivers have been mentioned in relation to the other seat but no decisions will be made until the future of the team is clear.
The future of Toyota to a large extent will also dictate the future of the Sauber Qadbak team. This will switch from BMW to Ferrari engines but nothing can be done until its entry is certain. If Toyota pulls out the Swiss team will become the 13th entry. If that happens Nick Heidfeld will be retained. There has been no real discussion about the second drive.
Williams is switching from Toyota engines to Cosworths and has announced that Rubens Barrichello will lead the team with new boy Nico Hulkenberg alongside him.
Renault's future ownership is under discussion but the team has already signed a deal with Robert Kubica. It is expected that Timo Glock will get the second seat as Romain Grosjean has done nothing to warrant any further chances with the team.
Force India will continue with Mercedes and Tonio Liuzzi is believed to have a 2010 contract already. Adrian Sutil will probably stay on but the tem has recently done some simulator work with Neel Jani and Karun Chandhok and if Sutil moves on Jani is the favourite to get the drive.
Scuderia Toro Rosso is building its own cars in 2010 although these are likely to be developments of the current Red Bull design. Neither Sebastien Buemi nor Jaime Alguersuari is confirmed for 2010 and the team might benefit from a driver with a bit more experience.
The four new teams have yet to say much but Campos Meta will have Bruno Senna in one car, probably with backing from Petrobras and other Brazilian companies. Pedro de la Rosa is thought likely to be the second driver, but he is believed to be waiting to see what happens with the second McLaren drive before committing himself to Campos. There has also been talk of de la Rosa at USF1. The name Nelson Piquet has also been mentioned in relation to Campos.
The Manor team will become Virgin F1 at some point in the next few weeks, if all goes according to plan. The word is that Lucas di Grassi will bring funding for one car and Christian Klien has been talking hard with the team for some weeks.
USF1 has yet to name any drivers but as there are no Americans around with superlicences the team will probably have to rely on European veterans. The obvious choice is Pedro de la Rosa although Jacques Villeneuve may also get a look-in. The long term goal is to get an American and the men most likely to move up in the years ahead are GP2 driver Alexander Rossi and Jonathan Summerton if he can get himself into GP2.
The Lotus team seems to be pretty well organised with backing from a Malaysian joint stock company. Jarno Trulli is being strongly rumoured as one driver while the Malaysians would like to see Fairuz Fauzy in one of the cars. The other name that has been mentioned is that of Anthony Davidson, who may aslo be on other lists as he is a highly experienced test driver and thus his experience may get him a chance with one of the other new teams. However this will largely depend on who has money as the budget sare going to be important in some cases.


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Tis the season for marriage proposals with Valentine's Day around the corner! In honor of all of the lucky couples out there, I've compiled a list of the top TV marriage proposals. As you can see, many of them stray from my typical proposal do's and don'ts, but through the magic of TV, all of them are still wonderful and still perfect, because she says yes! 1. Jim & Pam from The Office. My personal favorite - nothing was perfect and yet it was still perfect.
2. Charlotte & Harry from Sex and the City. No ring, no plan but all kinds of love!
3. Monica & Chandler from Friends. Proof that the proposal doesn't have to start with the man! Click here for the clip.


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While the movie 'Snakes on a Plane' is just a touch unbelievable, I'm sorry to inform you that the concept of snakes flying isn't.
There are actual flying snakes – and they don't need no airplane.
Other animals and even planes use wings that fix in place to catch wind and generate lift, but we all know snakes don't like to conform (limbs are so mainstream). So instead the paradise tree snake has adopted a completely different way of gliding through the trees and into our nightmares.
How exactly does this snake fly? First it manages to scale a vertical tree trunk by pushing its ridge shaped scales against the wood. Once it selects a branch it begins to hang from it, making a J shape with it's body. From here it jumps.
Swinging up and away from the branch it manages to flatten its body till it's roughly double in width and accelerates into the jungle. It does this by squeezing flat it's guts and flaring out it's ribs, which sounds super comfortable, but actually helps it to become more aerodynamic.
Now this isn't just a snake falling from a tree; the paradise tree snake actually has great control over the direction it travels. As it glides through the air it makes undulations with it's body starting from the head downwards.
It's the most dynamic form of flight by any animal, as they fly they're continuously doing the Mexican wave with their body.
The paradise tree snake is found in parts of South East Asia, so if you're taking a walk around there, just be careful. Because you could get hit in the face by a snake.
Socha, J. J. (2002). Kinematics: Gliding flight in the paradise tree snake. Nature, 418(6898), 603-604.
Socha, J. J., & LaBarbera, M. (2005). Effects of size and behavior on aerial performance of two species of flying snakes (Chrysopelea). Journal of experimental biology, 208(10), 1835-1847.


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J Leblanc vinegars are widely considered the best in the business. When Tim, our Director, worked for the famous Roux brothers these were the vinegars they insisted upon. Flavours include: cider, raspberry, red wine, white wine, walnut, champagne and truffle. This company has been making oils and vinegars for more than 120 years in the south of Burgundy. Here's more detail:
Leblanc Balsamic Vinegar 500 ml
This balsamic vinegar has a rich, fruity flavour. It is produced according to traditional techniques using the cooked musts of grapes that are aged in wooden barrels to achieve the distinctive colour and flavour. It is ideal for use in salad dressings, seasoning vegetables and grilled meat and adding depth to sauces and stews.
Leblanc Walnut Vinegar 500 ml
Their walnut vinegar has a distinctive nutty flavour. It is flavoured with specially selected walnuts chosen for their flavour and aroma. It is simply processed for a naturally rich, nutty flavour and is perfect for salad dressings.
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Their truffle vinegar has a distinctive earthy flavour. It is infused with specially selected truffles and simply processed.
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Their red wine vinegar made has a full bodied, rich flavour. It is made from grapes grown in the Burgundy region and has a fabulous rich flavour and colour. Perfect for cooking, this superb vinegar adds depth and flavour to stews and marinades and is great for deglazing meat pans to add complexity and quality to sauces.
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This white wine vinegar has a crisp, fruity flavour. It is made from grapes grown in the Bourgogne region. It is simply processed for a naturally smooth fruity flavour and is perfect for making salad dressings, flavoursome marinades and deglazing meat pans to add depth and quality to sauces.
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The Banyuls vinegar has a distinctive sweet and sour flavour. It is made from the same grapes that are used to make the famous Banyuls dessert wine. It is perfect for making salad dressings, flavoursome marinades and seasoning foie gras, cheeses, figs or even vanilla ice cream.
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The tarragon Vinegar is made by white wine vinegar infused with tarragon resulting in a herbal, aniseed flavour.
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Their raspberry vinegar has a sweet and sour fruity flavour. It is perfect with game or soft cheeses in salad dressings, marinades or sauces.
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The cider vinegar has a distinctive fruity flavour and is made from apples that are specially selected for their flavour, texture and aroma.
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Their champagne vinegar has a superior quality and distinctive flavour. It is made from Pinot Gris and Meuniere grapes grown in the Champagne region and is one of the finest white wine vinegars available.


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This has now been replaced by the TFi-40i
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WELLINGTON (Reuters) - New Zealand's central bank unexpectedly committed to keep interest rates at record lows through to 2020 and said it was worried about persistently disappointing growth, a dovish tilt that sent the local currency skidding to multi-year lows.
The Reserve Bank of New Zealand (RBNZ) downgraded its forecasts for 2019 gross domestic product (GDP) growth to 2.6 percent from 3.1 percent earlier as it kept its official cash rate on hold at 1.75 percent in a widely expected move.
The RBNZ now sees the cash rate steady for much longer than earlier forecast, signaling stable rates until late 2020. Back in May, the central bank had projected rates at 2.0 percent by March 2020.
"On balance, we just need to be continuing to make sure that we are blowing wind into the sails of the economy for some time yet," Governor Adrian Orr told Reuters.
"And in fact, if you saw a deterioration in growth, i.e. a non response, then we might have to blow more wind."
The dovish policy slant caught markets off guard, and the New Zealand dollar NZD=D4 fell sharply to a trough of $0.6665, its lowest in nearly 2-1/2 years, having traded above $0.6750 on Wednesday.
"The RBNZ has very consciously sent a message that they have become more dovish in the past six weeks," economists at ANZ Bank said in a report.
The rates outlook was significantly more cautious than financial markets had bargained for. Before Thursday's meeting, they were pricing in a full 25 basis point hike to 2.0 percent by the middle of next year.
Orr said the central bank's growth forecasts had proven too optimistic over the past 18 months, and it was sensitive to further downward surprises. In contrast, while inflation was edging toward the 2 percent midpoint of the RBNZ's target, it was well contained and unlikely to surge.
The economy hit a soft patch earlier this year and business confidence has sunk to decade lows, raising concerns a slowdown in business investment could further dent domestic activity.
"That's our number one downside risk... that people talk themselves into not investing," Orr said.
The economy expanded at an annual rate of 2.7 percent in the first quarter from 2.8 percent at the end of 2017, and is below a recent peak of 3.3 percent in 2017.
"The main message for the Reserve Bank was one of heightened uncertainty, as downside risks prevail," Kiwibank economists said in a report, calling the RBNZ's projections "blatantly dovish".
"It's time to watch, worry and wait."
Orr said the New Zealand dollar's recent fall was consistent with its modeling around interest rate and inflation differentials, and was near what the central bank calculated to be fair value. It was projected to weaken further in trade-weighted terms, with the gap to the U.S. Federal funds rate set to widen.
"I mentioned that I have been really pleased with how the exchange rate has been behaving, because effectively it's been doing what it's meant to do, which is reflect the relative expected inflation differentials between two currencies."
However, the currency's sharp drop on the more dovish central bank tone took its losses against the U.S. dollar this year to 6 percent.
Kiwibank economists cut their year-end and mid-2019 forecasts for the currency by four cents to $0.65 and $0.63 respectively.
Orr said while the escalating trade war between the United States and China was attracting a lot of attention, so far the impact on New Zealand, which is an open trade-dependent economy, was not large - but that could change.
"It's a very hard thing to model, we had a crack at it, and the answer is from what we've seen to date it doesn't make a huge difference," he said.
"But it could get bigger, and/or it could impact global business confidence."
Reporting by Charlotte Greenfield and John Mair in WELLINGTON, Wayne Cole and Swati Pandey in SYDNEY; Editing by Sandra Maler & Shri Navaratnam


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cc/ email@example.com I'm looking at the information we have on the project site for Trademark Usage http://incubator.apache.org/openofficeorg/trademarks.html First item, logos: "For the Apache OpenOffice project these trademarks include the names Apache OpenOffice and OpenOffice.org, as well as the graphical logo." I would take this to mean the current logo on the "trademarks.html" page, which is not the same as the logo on the website: http://www.openoffice.org/images/AOO_logos/OOo_Website_v2_copy.png -or- the older web logo http://www.openoffice.org/images/AOO_logos/ooo-logo.png So, I would like to do a few things: - also put http://incubator.apache.org/openofficeorg/images/300x100_dj_trans.png in http://www.openoffice.org/images/AOO_logos Change "For the Apache OpenOffice project these trademarks include the names Apache OpenOffice and OpenOffice.org, as well as the graphical logo." -- to -- "For the Apache OpenOffice project these trademarks include the names Apache OpenOffice and OpenOffice.org, as well as the graphical logos." and link the word "logos" to all elements in: http://www.openoffice.org/images/AOO_logos (there's actually one item in there we aren't using which I need to remove) I will also change the logos area in: http://www.openoffice.org/marketing/art/ and list all possible logos in: http://www.openoffice.org/marketing/art/galleries/logos/ Second item, other artwork: All artwork in: http://www.openoffice.org/marketing/art/ seems to be either LGPL or PDL. I would like to include some verbiage on the above page that will advise viewers to review the licensing for the object(s) they would like to use and tell them simply (I think this would expedite usage. If we did this, I think the ONLY thing they might explicitly require usage for is the actual logo and nothing else): "If you are planning on using an object from this area, you may modify an object as you like subject to the following conditions: (1) Use of any of the logos requires explicit permission. See: http://incubator.apache.org/openofficeorg/trademarks.html (2) Please note the licensing conditions for any other object you want to use (either LGPL or PDL) (3) If the object is licensed with LGPL (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl.html) license, you may modify it as you like but should cite Apache OpenOffice (formerly OpenOffice.org) as the provider of the original artwork on which your modification is based (3) If the object is licensed PDL (http://www.openoffice.org/licenses/PDL.html), you may modify the object as you desire but must make you modification publicly available. --- end of items --- We seem to be getting many folks interested in using our artwork in various forms lately. We still have the "Distribution FAQ" on cwiki barely started, but it would be very helpful if we could get some of the elements correctly aligned before I can complete that. - - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ MzK "There's no crying in baseball!" -- Jimmy Dugan (Tom Hanks), "A League of Their Own"
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J Frisco are an award-winning avant-garde jazz trio (Jazz North Introduces 2017) featuring soprano saxophone, electric guitar, keyboards and vocals; they create improvised genre-fluid soundscapes and noise drawn from emotion, political, and gender issues. They thrive on challenging both their own and their audiences perceptions of time, space and sound.
Performance highlights include a headline show at Vortex Jazz Club, Sofar Sounds, The Cockpit: Jazz in the Round and many UK jazz festivals including Gateshead International Jazz Festival, Lancaster Jazz Festival, Manchester Jazz Festival and have supported acts including Courtney Pine, Portico Quartet, Laura Jurd, Roller Trio, Matthew Bourne, and Elliott Galvin.
They have recently released their debut album 'naked' available on all streaming platforms and are set to play London Jazz Festival on November 15th at Kings Place. Their second album will be released as a series of singles through 2020.
"Fearless music making" Martin Pyne
"Challenging established models of genre, performance, gender, and time, J Frisco have placed themselves within the perfect vehicle for releasing and curating their creative ideas. If their recent activity is anything to go by, J Frisco will be the ones that other musicians will want to follow."
- Matthew Bourne
Avant-Garde Jazz
"more left field sounds came from all female Leeds - based trio J Frisco, confusing darkly cinematic, angst-laden atmospherics via guitar, sax, electronics and vocals in an angrily defiant statement. Compelling performers, their progress will be well worth watching" - Jazzwise Magazine


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Smartphone trailblazer Kata extends its digital technology to enhance home entertainment experience with the new Android-based Kata Box.
Introducing the Kata Box, the not-your-ordinary TV box designed to deliver not only your favorite online video content channels but a whole new plethora of content including digital media, games and apps.
The new Kata Box is set to "change the way you view home entertainment," the company statement said.
"The Kata Box is created to turn your TV into a gateway for an amazing viewing experience," the statement said.
The Kata Box runs on Google Android Kitkat 4.4 platform, and is equipped with Mali 450 and Amlogic S805 quad-core 1.5GHz processor, designed to turn your TV into a whole new world of content.
It also has a built-in 1GB RAM + 8GB ROM internal storage, that can allow users to save not only videos, but documents and apps which could be used for other tasks apart from just watching videos.
By simply connecting the Kata Box to a Wi-Fi router, users can begin to download apps, movies and other media, or access Facebook or YouTube.
Why not enjoy everything on a bigger screen? In order to maximize digital home entertainment experience, Kata box also has additional accessories: a game controller which lets users enjoy Android games, wireless keyboard with mouse, and an HDMI to VGA converter. All of these come in competitive prices.
"Kata has been known as a brand, which focuses on providing premium devices at affordable prices. It is our vision to provide our customers with the best digital experience straight into their homes," Kata Digital David Chen said.
"Now they can take home any content that they like, and at very affordable prices. It will always be a pleasure for us to turn this vision into something tangible and doable," Chen said.
The Kata Box is set to launch by the last week of September and will be available for Php2,999 retail price this September.


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Travel back to the late 90's early 2000's and Drake was at the top of the game for bindings. It was a short trip to the bottom but they're still alive and kicking it. Our little tester Kevin went out and braved the shit show that is Winter Park to test these out for you.
Binding: Drake Supersport Antti Autti
Board Used: Signal OG Flat 151
Stance: 22 wide 12 neg 12 goofy
Boots Used: Flow Hylite 9
Location: Winter Park
Conditions: The frozen groomers have thawed and aren't mushy yet!
Adjustability: Straps had a couple different positions to mount, length was tool less, highback needs a driver and the footbed snaps in.
Straps: When clamped down like fat kids hands on his candy flavored slushy drink the toestraps held on to my boot just fine. But if you don't get them this tight they likes to migrate on rounded semi-slippy toe boxes. On a positive note, even when strapped down that tight I couldn't feel them on my toe, I do have stiffer toe boxes so a mushier constructed boot might have problems with this. I felt like the ankle straps were very well designed in shape as I never felt uncomfortable in them, but it's not a very conformable construction. Once all the ladder slack is taken in and you get initial boot to strap contact you then have about 4 clicks until you can't tighten down any more without a considerable amount of effort. If you're looking for something that you can play with strap snugness you're going to be disappointed. If you like a good, tight, but not too tight feel and hate having to find that spot on malleable straps, these you'll like. For support they did well for the type of binding this is. Good to drive into and really let me push and pull on my stick of choice.
Highback: This was the highpoint of this binding for me. It's a cupped feel with a little bit more pronounced flange on the inside than outside. Basically they worked kinda like mini wings. They let me kinda squeeze the board into turns and drive my zero cam between the feet and lent to a lot of leverage in a press. If you don't wanna run full wings but liked what the leverage did for your rail and ground game, these highbacks are money. If you want a more skate influenced feel and freedom up top, not gonna happen.
Binding Flex- The footprint of the binding on the board was larger than industry average and created a noticeable dead spot, really the worst thing about these boot clamps. That amount of binding on the board does let you put more energy in the tips, but that inconsistent flex messes with things a bit in a turn and overall is just a feel that 90% of people don't prefer. They're stiffer overall and provided plenty of response front to back and side to side, nothing that shocked me but I never wanted for more. The dampening was pretty interesting to me. Usually a bindings gel or rubber or foam in the heel soaks up the impact shock as best it can and sends the rest to your feet and knees. The Supersports absorbed top end shock OK but what was interesting is they redistribute the leftovers over the whole footbed. It really was a pretty unique feel and was pretty effective overall. If you just isolate the heel dampening it was average but count in the redirection and it was better than average. Vibration dampening was average and did its job fine but nothing amazing, pretty standard EVA level.
Ratchets: Grabbed the ladders well and no issues tightening, release on both toe and heel straps was really good. Release had a pop feel to it that took a satisfactory amount of effort to pop. Basically they weren't too easy to release so you don't have to worry about them popping while riding, but they're plenty easy to release when you get your hand on them.
Rider in Mind: Pro level park guru or aggressive all mountain charger.
Personal Thoughts: Drake was a super power back in the 90's and was really the only other option to Burton or Technine. They since fell off a bit and are trying to bring it back to their previous glory. The Super Sport is a good step in that direction, for a stiffer board where you'll notice the dead spot less these are an option, especially if you are looking for a more aggressive binding and have liked the feel of wings in park bindings.
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The Neocon Nightmare World
But because I want this to be seen, I am excerpting liberally:
Both Bloom and Lasch understood that a society pays a price when it values individualism and freedom above all other values. For both men the laissez faire in Liberalism creates a fragmented, atomized society. This is a problem for Lasch because it diminishes the possibility for human community life, destroys local traditions and neighborhoods, and creates a culture of narcissism, a culture of minimal selves--of lost souls who don't know who they are, a society of ungrounded people who are empty of any real interior life, and who are therefore weak and easy to manipulate.
In other words, Liberalism creates a vacuum in the life of a society where instead there should be a soul. Nature abhors a vacuum, and so the emptiness is filled with the crudest kinds of impulses. ... The problem lies with a society that is fragmented, because it is weak. An open, multicultural society in which every thing is equal, in which no value or cultural ideal is considered any better than any other, an anything-goes "different strokes for different folks" society loses any sense of cohesiveness and is very vulnerable to manipulation by a willful, well-disciplined minority that has no qualms about violently asserting its own values and suppressing any other value system as inferior and to be annihilated.
In other words, the easygoing, nonjudgmental laissez faire of Liberalism invites its own destruction by those whose attitudes are anything but laissez faire. ...
For the neocons, politics is thuggery, and you fight thuggery with thuggery, so the only thing that matters is whether the thugs you approve of are running things. The thuggery that we began to see assert itself on the right starting with Newt Gingrich, the impeachment of Clinton, through to the the bullying of Tom Delay in the House are all justified by Straussian theory. It's thuggery in the cause of the higher good. They really believe that. Liberalism must be destroyed or America will be destroyed by its enemies.
For the Straussians, following Carl Schmidt, politics is not the sphere of compromise and working things out, it's the realm of domination of the weak by the strong. For the neocons, politics is war. It's about controlling the political process or being controlled, annihilating or being annihilated. They understand power as the central truth, and every other value has value only insofar as it promotes power. And the neocon influence in the Republican party seems bent on proving their theory right by doing everything it can to discredit and destroy Liberal ideas and Liberal institutions. And so far, judging by the compliancy of the Democrats, they seem to have proven their case.
All of this has become so much clearer for me after reading Shadia Drury's Leo Strauss and the American Right -- particularly the virulence of the conservative attack on Liberalism which until recently I had naively dismissed as crackpot. Most normal people think of wingnuts like Limbaugh, Robertson, and Coulter as comical, barely sane troglodytes. These wingnuts, on the other hand, take the Liberals very seriously, and see them as a cancer that is destroying American society and making it spineless and weak, and as such all the more vulnerable to its enemies. They believe that Liberalism is destroying America, and they are totally committed to preventing that by destroying Liberalism. "Let the Liberals laugh at us," think the wingnuts. "We'll see how hard they laugh when eventually we put our boot on their throats."
The great virtue of the Liberal credo is its belief that a society can be built on truth, philosophy, and enlightened self-interest. But I also think that over the long haul that's not enough. Conservatives understand that a society needs myths, religion, and to stand for something worth dying for. Otherwise, as Drury points out, "it is little more than an animal farm." I would say that a postmodern America needs to find a way to integrate both the Liberal and Conservative credos. ...
Until reading Drury's book, I thought that the alliance between the intellectually sophisticated neocons and the simplistic religious-right extremists like Falwell and Robertson was a marriage of convenience engineered for short-term political gains. But Drury makes clear that the neocons believe that the religious right is essential for continued American dominance because it provides the requisite myths that justify American supremacy. ... ...
For the Straussians, if a society does not believe in itself as superior in every way to its enemies, it will be defeated by an enemy who is not intimidated and that believes itself superior. The neocons therefore have formed an alliance with the Christian Right not for political convenience, but because the Christian Right naively and fanatically accepts the myth of American superiority and of its special God-given role in world history. The neocons support the wingnut attitude that anyone who does not believe this myth is an America-hater and, as Ann Coulter puts it, is guilty of treason. There is no gray area. There is no room to criticize. It's my country right or wrong--any other attitude leads to inevitable defeat by another society that believes in itself more.
Sane people dismiss extremists like Coulter as comical crazies. I know that's been my attitude. But the very fact that her views have been legitimated by her ubiquitous presence in the media points to the drift of things in this country toward insanity. What should by now be clear to everyone is that the right is not just indulging in a lot of crazy talk. They are walking their talk. ...
Does that mean that anybody who wishes to oppose the neocons must resort to thuggery to defeat them? No. But I do not believe that secular liberalism has the resources to defeat it. Even if the Democrats win in the short run, the problem remains for the long run. We need a tough, principled, idealistic politics in the spirit of King, Mandela, Gandhi. These men were not nihilists. They were genuinely religious humanists who understood evil and knew how to fight against it on their own principled terms, not on the terms defined by the thugs.
The Straussians are convinced that we all live in a nightmare world and that there is no ultimate purpose or meaning to human existence... They believe that the masses have to be anesthetized and controlled with myths and religious fictions, but that the grownups have to run things, and the grownups understand that it's all about power, and that so long as the U.S. has the enormous power it now possesses, it had better use it or lose it.
This explains their gambit in Iraq--it was an opportunity to fill a geopolitical power vacuum with American power after the collapse of the Soviet sphere of influence in the Middle East. It's a gambit that has failed--the Muslims there are not Liberals, and they do not fold so easily. But I for one am worried about what they have up their sleeve now that their policies are being discredited by their failure. They will not walk away with their tail between their legs. They still believe they are right even if their tactics were ineffective. They will not be gracious in defeat.
And they are not going away. Wingnuttery in America will always be a problem so long as there is a vacuum in American society where there should be a soul. How to solve that problem in a sane, progressive way is for me the most pressing issue that confronts Americans in the 21st Century.


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It affects leaching LH (luteinizing hormone), which in the body regulates testosterone production, but also increases estradiol (one of estrogen, which is responsible for the growth of the mammary gland). In rare cases, some individuals sensitive to elevated levels of estradiol may result in deterioration of gynecomastia. The aforementioned substances have a significant effect on increasing testosterone levels in men, in some cases up to 30%. When taking Alpha Force Testo containing natural ingredients can expect an increase in libido, improve mood and confidence.
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Several years ago, I was flying home from a reporting trip when the pilot came on the loudspeaker and reported trouble with the controls that direct the plane.
He said we needed to make an emergency landing, and rescue vehicles would be waiting as a precaution. But he stressed that the flashing lights on the ground shouldn't alarm anyone because he didn't expect any problem landing the plane.
That statement would have provided more comfort if I hadn't kept asking myself: If the plane were going to crash, would he be so candid as to say so?
"Attention, passengers, I fully expect that we are all about to die. Please buckle your seat belts and get your affairs in order."
For an anxious flyer such as myself, that experience was scary enough.
But I can't even imagine what the passengers of Southwest Flight 1380 endured this week. As you no doubt heard, one passenger was killed and seven others wounded Tuesday after an engine exploded.
However, as I noted Wednesday, devout Christian pilot Tammie Jo Shults is being praised for her "nerves of steel" in calmly maneuvering the plane to the ground and avoiding a much worse catastrophe:
Since I wrote that post, I've come across more faith-filled news coverage that needs to be highlighted.
The New York Times' front-page narrative today on the "20 Minutes of Chaos and Terror" is especially compelling:
"Tell the girls we love them and that Jesus is with them always." Tissue, anybody? Seriously, I couldn't help but become teary-eyed reading that part.
From the start, the religious details flow freely in this Times story:
Tens of thousands of feet above the earth, the passengers clasped hands with strangers, prayed together and got ready to die.
Moments earlier on Tuesday morning, they had been playing Sudoku, catching up on their reading for church and curling up together to watch funny movies as their Southwest Airlines flight climbed above 30,000 feet on its way from New York to Dallas. It was around 11 a.m., 20 minutes into a four-hour flight, as they skimmed above the clouds and waited for flight attendants to hand out drinks.
Then, with a deafening roar, Flight 1380 became a midair scene of chaos and terror for the 144 passengers and five crew members on board.
Keep reading, and there's another A-plus quote heavy on faith:
"I grabbed my wife's hand and I started praying: 'Dear Jesus, send some angels. Just save us from this,'" said Timothy C. Bourman, 36, a pastor from Woodside, N.Y., who was on his way to a church retreat in San Antonio. "I thought we were goners."
Strangely, though, the Times still doesn't mention the pilot's Christian underpinning (my original post pointed out this missing element in an earlier Times profile of Shults).
But Shults' faith figures prominently in the San Antonio Express-News' front-page story on the local pilot. In fact, the Express-News' Hearst sister paper the Houston Chronicle put this headline on the story, which it also used on Page 1:
Southwest pilot guided by faith
From the story:
In Boerne, a town northwest of San Antonio, Shults and her husband Dean, 53, also a Southwest Airlines pilot, have earned a reputation as a strongly religious, community-minded couple. They live in a Kendall County subdivision with two children, both young adults.
Friends and neighbors said the unruffled Tammie Jo Shults they heard in the cockpit recordings is the person they've always known — polite, approachable, practical, never one to raise her voice.
And more:
Longtime friend Staci Thompson, 38, heard that and was not surprised at Shults' calmness during crisis.
"It sounds just like a normal conversation with her on the phone," Thompson said.
"She has strength of character and faith in God," said Kim Young, who has known the family since they moved to the area about15 years ago.
And just a little more:
Thompson, an administrator with First Baptist Church in Boerne who has known the family 21 years, said Dean Shults told her that his wife feels for the family of Riordan, the woman who died. "It weghs heavy on her heart," Thompson said.
Calling her friend a woman with a big heart and giving spirit, Thompson said the Shults' are involved with the church, and that Tammie Jo is a regular volunteer at Meadowland Charter School.
The school takes in at-risk youths who have either dropped out of regular schools or have had problems in the foster care system.
Finally, in case you missed it, CNN has an interview with the pastor who prayed for Jesus to send angels.
It's worth your time. Check it out.


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Since fish oil is now regarded by many as a necessary dietary supplement, many pharmaceutical companies have created their own fish oil brands that offer different levels of Omega 3 fatty acid content.
Fish oil is rich in Omega 3 fatty acids, which are needed by the body to improve the circulatory and immune systems, among others.The two important types of essential fat contained in Omega 3 fatty acids are Docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) and Eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA). Since the body cannot produce such fatty acids on its own, it needs to get this omega oil from external sources. This is what the supplement provides.
What does fish oil do for your body?
There are many benefits of fish oil provides, from improving blood circulation down to preventing cancer. Here are some of the most common health benefits of this omega oil:
- Strengthens the Circulatory System – Taking in a pill a day will prevent the blood from clotting, thereby reducing the risk of heart attacks, high blood pressure and high cholesterol level. The pill can maintain normal blood pressure and regulate heart rate.
- Prevents Breast, Colon, and Prostate Cancer – Fish oil inhibits the growth of cancer cells. This will prevent the cancer cells from growing into a huge mass and spreading throughout the body. In some cases, drinking the pill will even spur apoptosis or cell death.
- Soothes Pain – Those suffering from arthritis and rheumatism can drink this omega oil due to its anti-inflammatory qualities.
- Helps Brain Function – Most of the fat in a person's brain is DHA. This is why the oil is helpful in improving memory and recall. It also makes the person more focused and alert.
Different Fish Oil Brands on the Market: Similarities and Differences
The best fish oil supplement will depend on how clean the fish used in the supplement are. The amount of DHA and EPA in each pill will also matter. Here is a list of the famous fish oil brands on the market:
- Carlson Fish Oil – Created by John and Susan Carlson in 1965, this brand uses mackerel and anchovies for their product, which is available in lemon and orange flavours. The supplement comes in liquid form, and the fishy burp and aftertaste is minimal in contrast to generic supplements. Just refrigerate the liquid after use to preserve its freshness. Furthermore, one dose will provide 1,600mg of Omega 3.
- Kirkland Fish Oil – One dose of this product will provide 300mg of Omega 3. Despite the small dosage per pill, it makes use of molecular distillation, which is the process of removing metals like lead and mercury from the fish, leaving it free from toxins and pollutants. It also does not contain artificial colouring and flavouring.
- Dr. Barry Sears Fish Oil – This brand is perfect for those suffering from heart disorders that require a higher dose of Omega 3. Each pill provides over 60% of DHA and EPA, in contrast to generic brands that only contain 30% per pill. Dr. Sears fish oil offers fine quality supplements, plus the benefits of contributing to weight loss and anti-aging, and increasing stamina.
- Nordic Naturals Fish Oil – Invented by Joar Opheim, Nordic Naturals makes use of small fish found in Norwegian waters such sardines and anchovies. This is because larger fish contain more contaminants and toxins than those found in smaller bodies of water. The fish undergoes molecular distillation, similar to Kirkland fish oil. Nordic fish oil has won several awards for their contaminant-free pills. Moreover, how they process their pills is based on latest research, thus making its technology up-to-date and its pills, less prone to side effects.
- Norwegian Fish Oil – Another brand from Norway, Norwegian fish oil offers supplements in liquid or capsule form. Similar to Nordic Naturals, they use unique machinery to produce quality omega oils free of toxins and pollutants. Moreover, they use salmon and shark from the Arctic Ocean.
- Spring Valley Fish Oil – This brand is famous for their enteric-coated fish oil pills Normally, a liquid dose of fish oil is better than taking in a capsule since the nutrients are absorbed directly and immediately in liquid form. With enteric-coated fish oil pills, the soft gel capsule will only dissolve once it is already in the small intestine, so the effect would be the same as drinking the oil itself. Also, the enteric coating will prevent the fishy aftertaste and burp, which is common if one drinks generic fish oil supplements.
The type of fish oil brand for you will depend on bodily needs and your health record. It is safe to assume that buying branded supplements are better than generic ones because the former is more guaranteed in terms of technology and research. Hence, knowing the different fish oil brands available on the market is the first step towards making a healthy choice.


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Dining Room Updates/
We have a new chandelier, which means that we have a new dining room, which means that I am P-U-M-P PUMPED! When we first moved into this lovely space it was brown town and empty and drab. The back wall was painted an even DARKER brown than the rest of the space. And yes, that is some sort of wood paneling thing happening there. The chandelier was also vintage 1992. Snazzy.
We painted, got a table, a clock from Ikea, and the bar sign we used for our wedding. The room was looking a lot better. But that chandelier still remained.
I found this chandelier from Ballard Designs and registered for it. Lo and behold, about a month after our wedding a HUGE box showed up from my momma, and BABAM! It was our chandelier!
I have been slammed at work and trying to get my shoulder surgery scheduled that I haven't been able to get a good mid-day picture of the thing, but you get the idea that it is badass and epic and wonderful from these photos. Since I was going to update the House Tour page photos, I took some lighter shots. So now you get nighttime and daytime. You're welcome.
Now a word about installation: it was a giant bizzo. It was the hardest thing manual labor wise we have done on this house. And considering we redid the whole kitchen ourselves, that is saying a lot. That thing is never moving from that spot, but holy crap it was terrible. I have a life policy of not hiring out simple life fixture swaps because Lawren is super skilled at all things electricity. But in hindsight, I would have hired someone to do the manual labor part. Said shoulder was NOT happy after this adventure. (Eyeballs: Thrilled. Shoulder: pissed).
Anywho, we love it and just think it's the best wedding present ever... you know... besides being married to each other and stuff.


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Show Racism the Red Card welcomes our latest patron
Former professional footballer Pat Nevin becomes our newest Patron.
In a 20 year career, Pat played for Clyde, Chelsea, Everton, Tranmere Rovers, Kilmarnock and Motherwell. Pat has been a huge supporter of the campaign for many years and we are thrilled that he has accepted our invitation to become a Patron.
Pat Nevin, said:
'I have been working against the scourge of racism for 32 years now and we have certainly come a long way in this country, we cannot however afford to drop our guard.
Show Racism the Red card didn't exist in football when I started campaigning, in fact there was no voice in football attempting to make it an unacceptable intrusion in our national sport.
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I am proud that it is now the case and am proud to be associated with the ongoing work that Show Racism the Red Card is doing."