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As I watched my 7 year old son melt into my bed as I gave him an essential oil rub down, my mind started turning. I became curious about the importance of human touch. Over the past few months I have given countless "massages" to my partner and children and I have grown to really love it. I found that studies have shown that touch is the first sense that we acquire. It begins in the womb with the mother's heart beat. This carries into the world where a mother's touch can bring so many different feelings; feelings of comfort, protection, discipline and love. Did you know that preterm newborns who received just three 15-minute touch therapy sessions per day for 5-10 days gains 47 percent more weight than preterm newborns that did not experience physical touch therapy.
Furthermore, I recently took an ArmoaTouch Certification offered by doTERRA. Not only was it a wonderful learning experience, but it was also a solid reminder for me. As humans, we need to be touched. Each night I give my children (mainly my son) a massage with essential oils. Sometimes it is just the feet, other times it is the back and sometimes he lucks out and gets the warm wash cloth over his face with a full rub down. The Oxytocin (otherwise known as the bonding hormone) levels rise and the heart rate lowers, not only for my son, but also for me. In fact, research has shown that the person giving the massage has a reduction in stress hormones as well.
I think about myself and how how rarely I am touched…like truly touched, unless I pay for it….in the form of a massage (get your mind out of the gutter). Looking back, I can replay different times my man has put his hands on my neck, just as a simple embrace and it felt as if he had just absorbed every ounce of stress and anxiety I felt. It is such a relief to have someone else absorb our stresses. It's even more of a relief to know that they don't actually absorb them, but that they are benefitting from the experience as well.
Other studies have shown that touch is fundamental to human communication, bonding and health. It's unfortunate that the United States is such a touch-deprived nation. We are touch-a-phobics – think about our personal space or bubble. While I believe in human connection and touch, I won't be groping my neighbor or hugging strangers on the street. I'll increasingly continue to touch the ones I love…with essential oils. : )
I have a bed-time blend for each of my children (recipes below). I make 10 ml roller balls for them. I use the Vetiver blend on my son before homework as well and within about 15 minutes I can see a difference in his attention. I will usually rub it on the back of his neck and spine for the day. At night, I rub each of their feet with their custom blends.
As of lately, my son has required a little extra touch and I have no complaints about that. I'll take a little longer on his feet and work up into his ankles and calves. I'll help him relax his hands and rub his oils on his chest and shoulders. I took additional Roman Chamomile and rubbed his ears and neck tonight and onto his upper-back. He had a warm wash cloth with coconut oils on his face tonight so I left him on his back to relax. He told me that he wasn't digging the smell of the Roman Chamomile so I added some Serenity to cover it up. It worked like a charm. He was snoring before I was done. I gently covered him with a blanket and left him to his sweet dreams of dirt bikes and mind craft.
I encourage you to touch more. Start with your partner or your child(ren). Even if it is just a simple hand massage or foot massage (after a shower, of course). It doesn't have to be a drawn out event with a massage table and robe. All you need is some coconut oil (essential oils are an added benefit) and love. Share your love with your loved ones. It doesn't matter if you are trained or untrained. You're not going for a deep tissue massage…you are going for an Oxytocin releasing, relaxation inducing, slumber tempting touch therapy. Soon enough, you'll find yourself wrapped up in actually showing your love to that person and you will feel blessed beyond belief. In all honesty, aren't we too blessed to be stressed anyways. : )
Jade's Blend: In a 10 ml roller bottle add 20 drops Serenity, 15 drops Cedarwood, 10 drops Roman Chamomile, 10 drops Ylang Ylang and fill the rest with fractionated coconut oil
Colton's Blend: In a 10 ml roller bottle add 20 drops Vetiver, 10 drops Cedarwood, 10 drops Roman Chamomile and fill the rest with fractionated coconut oil


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The Day the Earth Stood Still
A contemporary reinvention of the 1951 classic.
Keanu Reeves portrays Klaatu, an alien whose arrival on our planet triggers a global upheaval. As governments and scientists race to unravel the mystery behind the visitor's appearance, a woman (Jennifer Connelly) and her young stepson get caught up in his mission – and come to understand the ramifications of his being a self-described "friend to the Earth."
Starring Keanu Reeves, Jennifer Connolly, Kathy Bates, Jaden Smith
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Police were called after a plastic bag was left in front of the building at around 1.30 p.m. (1230 GMT).
Brussels prosecutors said the suspected device included gas cylinders and experts were still examining it to establish, for example, if there was a detonator or not.
"I cannot for the time being confirm whether this device was really going to explode or not," a prosecutors' spokesman said.
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- Mix butter or margarine with sugar until creamy. Add salt, almond or vanilla extract, flour, and nuts. Mix WELL.
- Chill dough until firm enough to handle.
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (180 degrees C).
- Using fingers, shape dough into 1 inch balls or crescents. Place on ungreased cookie sheet. Bake for 12 to 15 minutes or until light brown. While cookies are still warm, roll in powdered sugar. These keep well.
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delicious! we have made them for the last couple holiday seasons. they are a favorite of my whole family. we use vanilla, instead of almond extract. and we roll them in powdered sugar after ...
this has way to much salt and it gave the cookies a bad tast
delicious! we have made them for the last couple holiday seasons. they are a favorite of my whole family. we use vanilla, instead of almond extract. and we roll them in powdered sugar after ...
Yes! These are absolutely NUT BUTTER BALLS! I followed the directions exactly. Made 9 dozen (that's 108 cookies, recipe actually made more so don't be afraid to make them a little bigger) for ...
I made these with pecans run through my food processor, and they came out DELICIOUSLY. I did roll them once while still warm but also rolled them a second time after they had cooled. This is suc...
I made these once with almonds and almond extract, and once with hazelnuts (filberts) and vanilla extract. They were both good, but didn't quite have the melt in my mouth texture I wanted.
Really easy to make, very nutty...nice holiday cookie when you don't have time to spare!
This is the same recipe as the one I know as "almond balls." My recipe uses only a 1/2 tsp of almond extract and just 1 cup of finely-chopped almonds; otherwise it is identical. These are easy...
Extremely easy and tasty...a few adjustments...I used only 1 cup of nuts w/ an extra 1/2 c flour, and it was still a little too nutty (you REALLY have to like nuts) and make sure you ground the ...
These are great with chopped pecans instead of walnuts.
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The Uplands Management Group was commissioned by Defra to develop this guidance that sets out the requirements for a risk assessment approach to planning and preparing for wildfire incidents and includes a wildfire management plan template and associated guidance. These recommendations include templates that will help landowners and land managers develop a wildfire risk assessment and wildfire plans that will establish good upland management practices to protect people, businesses, land and property, sensitive habitats and the provision of ecosystem (natural) services.
A briefing from the Moorland Association on fire and the moorland landscape ahead of the publication of the DEFRA review of wildfire in England in December.
A study demonstrating that it is possible to use some vehicles on blanket bog habitats while minimising damage.
Created by practitioners for practitioners. It explains the current evidence base for peatland restoration and the impacts that different management methods may have, depending on local conditions.
The booklet details the most likely starting points of deep peat you may find on your moor, as described in the Blanket Bog Restoration Strategy. These pages explain how each state of deep peat meets or detracts from the five agreed key outcomes. Actions and examples of restoration scenarios are suggested to move the peatland towards favourable condition.
Use the decision aids in this toolkit on the hill to agree the starting condition of the blanket bog and to decide on best management methods to improve it. The decision aids are intended to aid the thought process when making these decisions, rather than a step-by-step guide to what to do. Use them in conjunction with Blanket Bog: Outcomes and Improvements and Blanket Bog: FAQ to take steps to improve the condition of your blanket bog
The Wemmergill Estate's 25 year Management Plan
The Moorland Association (MA) has answered the eight questions posed by Natural England for this evidence review on wildfire and provided five case studies to illustrate what worked and what did not in mitigating wildfire damage. The MA has drawn 12 observations and conclusions to help the future protection of our precious dry heath and blanket bog from the projected increased threat from wildlife. This threat is now recognised as an urgent climate change risk to natural capital by the Committee for Climate Change Adaption sub-Committee (see page 5.) https://www.theccc.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/UK-CCRA-2017-Synthesis-Report-Committee-on-Climate-Change.pdf
Shooting is under constant and detailed scrutiny and we must demonstrate that we conduct it to high standards. The Code of Good Shooting Practice brings together those standards and makes them easily available to all who participate. It embodies fundamental respect for the quarry species, and care for the environment
Defra publication
Lapwing and golden plover are five times more abundant and curlew twice as abundant on moorland managed for red grouse compared to moors with no gamekeepers. RSPB and GWCT research
Upland Predation Experiment. Why waders thrive on grouse moors. GWCT research.
Of the 10km squares containing breeding Merlin records between 1968 and 2008, around 80% of the records are now located within keepered moorland (Data source: BTO Atlas)
Penny Anderson Associates
Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust
Moors for the Future
Hawk and Owl Trust
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BASC White Paper
Natural England's guidance to land managers for applying for consent for butts, scrapes and grit stations.
Poster presentation to the Upland Hydrology Conference in Leeds
Charlie Pye-Smith's new book makes the case for the need for better wildlife management.
The Moorland Association and British Association for Shooting and Conservation have united to produce this informative infographic on the benefits of grouse shooting.
The British Association for Shooting and Conservation has put together a graphic infogram showing what would happen if there was no shooting. Check out the stark contrasts in Consequences-of-non-shooting BASC infogram
TWO leading conservation organisations have united to deliver a series of messages to MPs following flawed and damaging claims about grouse moors and flooding. The British Association for Shooting and Conservation and the Moorland Association have produced Briefing Note - Grouse Moors and Flooding.
The tragic loss of lapwing and massive reduction of important waders such as golden plover and curlew are highlighted in a study published in the Welsh Ornithological Society's journal Birds in Wales.
The study, which cites the loss of driven grouse shooting as being a possible reason behind the declines, together with afforestation, changes in upland farming and climate change, identifies that a reduction in vital moorland management for red grouse has been associated with changes in numbers of upland birds.
In the 1990s, driven grouse shooting and habitat management stopped in the Berwyn Special Protection Area in North Wales, leading to a serious fall in bird species.
Research into changes in upland bird numbers and distribution between 1983 and 2012 revealed stark findings.
The complete loss of lapwing and serious and rapid declines of many other red listed birds were highlighted. Hen harriers dropped by 48 percent, golden plover by 90 percent, curlew by 79 percent, ring ouzel and black grouse by 78 percent and red grouse by 54 percent.
The Berwyn report demonstrates with great clarity the consequences of losing grouse shooting as a land management tool. The report shows the hugely important work of MA members in their care for 860,000 acres of heather moorland in England and Wales. Without this work, the precious land would revert to scrub and forest and the heather moors lost forever, along with the loss of many red listed birds.
The Countryside Alliance and National Gamekeepers' Organisation have united to produce this guide on the value of grouse moor management.
Paradoxically, it is due to shooting that the red grouse is not on the endangered species list, and that the numbers of many of the birds which share its habitat during the breeding season are at the high levels that they are. On grouse moors, the management continues whether there is a sufficient surplus of grouse to shoot in a season, or not, and with all the factors that can adversely affect their population, there can be some years when no shooting can take place. The income from shooting is used by landowners to help offset the cost of that management, which benefits not just shooters, but also birdwatchers and all those that love to visit our heather moorlands.
75% of of the world's remaining heather moorland is found in Britain – but this area declined alarmingly over the latter part of the last century. The Moorland Association was set up in 1986 to coordinate the efforts of moorland owners and managers to halt this loss, particularly in England and Wales.
Landmark survey reveals moorland birds are thriving A new survey of breeding birds in the Peak District National Park has shown a positive trend in numbers of endangered species. Populations of 16 bird species in the Peak District are up, in contrast to national trends from the UK Government's State of Nature 2019 report. Out of the 29 species sighted, the numbers […]
Moorland Association respond to RSPB game bird shooting review announcement The Moorland Association, which represents moorland owners and managers in England, today urged the RSPB to be 'fair and factual' in the review of game shooting it plans to conduct. Responding to the announcement of the review at the RSPB AGM, Amanda Anderson, director of the Moorland Association, said: "There are hundreds of people within […]


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SANTA CLARA, Calif. - With last season's loss to San Diego in the WCC opener fresh on their minds, the Santa Clara women's soccer team saw to it that history did not repeat itself Sunday afternoon as Tiffany Roberts and Jordan Angeli netted goals 46 seconds apart in the second half to defeat the Toreros 2-0 at Torero Stadium.
"It was a pretty solid performance for us today, I thought we created many good chances to score," said head coach Jerry Smith. "We scored two nice goals against a tough, physical and determined team on their home field. We took the game to San Diego today, there was no doubt about that. Any conference win is a good win, and when you can get one on the road then it's a great win."
Santa Clara (11-2-1, 1-0-0 WCC) outshot San Diego (3-8-1, 0-1-0 WCC) 14-9 in the match, and only six saves from Torero goalkeeper Brittany Cameron kept San Diego in the match. Although the two teams played a scoreless first half, the Broncos still recorded five shots to only one for the Toreros and very nearly took a lead going into the break.
In the 35th minute, the Broncos worked their way deep into the San Diego zone and just missed putting one on the board as Jordan Angeli's shot was saved and cleared away by San Diego's Vanessa Vella, who was positioned on the line. Tina Estrada also took a point-blank shot on frame two minutes later but it went right at Cameron who was able to make the stop.
The scoreless tie wouldn't hold for much longer though, as at 61:57 Micaela Esquivel got ahead from her left-back position and sent a looping cross towards the far post which found Roberts, whose header got just inside the post to give the Broncos the 1-0 lead.
Santa Clara then pressed their advantage and 46 second later, at 62:43, Jordan Angeli capped off a Bronco rush into the box with a bullet into the back of the net to put the Toreros in a 2-0 hole.
Despite a spirited effort by the Toreros in the final 20 minutes, the Broncos back line held firm, denying San Diego on seven corner kicks in the second half. Julie Ryder made two saves in the match to record her fifth shutout of the year and competently guided her defenders in a second half which saw the two teams combine for a blistering 17 shots.
"San Diego was playing with their backs against the wall today, and it's never fun to play a team like that," Smith added about the Toreros coming off of a difficult non-conference schedule which included losses to such ranked teams as North Carolina, UCLA, Duke and Wake Forest. "They were also the only conference team we lost to last season, plus we were coming off of a Friday night match and they had not played since last Sunday. So, factoring in all of those things, I think it was a very impressive win for us today."
The fifth-ranked Broncos continue West Coast Conference play next week as they return home to host a pair of local conference rivals. Santa Clara will take on the Saint Mary's Gaels Thursday night at 7 p.m. and conclude the weekend's action with a noon kick-off against the San Francisco Dons Sunday afternoon. Both matches will be played at Buck Shaw Stadium and tickets are available by calling (408) 554-4660.


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This may seem like an obvious best practice, but it's surprising how often PowerPointers forget to give themselves this edge: when doing the final adjustments to the layout on a slide, remember to turn the snap-to-grid feature off.
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But What Do You Do For Cardio?
A Look at MRT, Lifting Weights Faster, and 10 Cardio Protocols that Don't Suck
Ah, the dreaded C-word: cardio.
It's almost a dirty word in the fitness industry. Cardio is not quite, but nearly as bad as that other C-word. You know, the one that makes everyone look at you wide-eyed and think you're a bad person. (No, not that C-word. I meant CrossFit.)
All joking aside, cardio really is regarded strangely in the fitness industry; coaches seem to hate on it specifically because your average, uninformed gym goers seems to love it and treat it like the only way to lose weight.
Smart trainees and educated peeps like you know that isn't true, of course.
You probably also know that—if used correctly—cardio has a place. Depending on what you do, that place will vary…but there is always a place in a good fitness program.
There are a few reasons you should do cardiovascular exercise of some kind, not least of which is that it's good for cardiovascular health. Sure, you can get that from weight training, but the benefits from cardio include increases to aerobic capacity, as well, which has a nice little bonus in terms of CV health—it's easier to continue working on it. And, of course, cardio is an effective tool in terms of fat loss.
Having said all that, let me just go on record and say that I hate cardio. I detest it. I don't like it, I don't want to do it, and to be honest I suck at it. My conditioning and work capacity are both pretty decent, but neither is exceptional, especially compared to my strength levels and overall physique development.
But as much as I hate it, I need to do it, because I want to live longer—but only if I get to be lean. Thankfully, cardio does both.
In an effort to help you live longer and be leaner while doing it, I've compiled a list of my 9 favorite cardio methods—and by "favorites" I means the ones that I hate the least. I still hate doing these, but I hate it less than others I've tried. Further, to give you the most value, I've listed a workout for most of these methods, so you'll have something to try, if any of these are new to you.
These are listed in the order they popped into my head, not in order of preference.
1. Slow Walking on a Treadmill
I'm starting with this one because I know that a lot of other fitness professionals are going to lambast me for it, so I figure if I put it early in the post, they might forget about it by the time they get to the comment section.
Alas, probably not. Haters gon' hate. Just ask her:
In all seriousness, I'm not joking—I really enjoy treadmill walks for cardio. Sure, this isn't intense by any stretch, but sometimes that is exactly what you need. Often, I feel that I'm too beat up from my 5-6 weekly weight-training workouts to do any type of intense conditioning like sprints. This is especially true if my recovery is compromised because I'm in a hefty caloric deficit while dieting down for a shoot.
This puts me in an awkward position: I need to get lean for the shoot, and to do that I need to reduce calories. But reducing calories compromises recovery, limiting my ability to do conditioning, which I need to use to get lean. Yikes. The answer, as you have no doubt deduced, is slow cardio, or low intensity steady state cardio (LISS).
Now, you don't need to do cardio to diet down for a shoot, especially when you're doing 5-6 weight-training sessions per week; however, it does speed things along. In addition, this will increase blood flow to the legs, which will speed up recovery; very important if you're trying to keep your intensity up.
Some LISS cardio is a nice way to enhance recovery and get a little extra caloric expenditure—after all, as I said in a blog post, cardio is like ketchup, and adding a little in never hurts.
Now, one final complaint people often voice about LISS is that in order for it to really have any effect, you have to do it for a while, and that takes up a lot of time. Well, that part is true. For me, that's actually a benefit—hanging out in the gym for an extra 45 minutes keeps me away from food for an extra 45 minutes. And when you're dieting down, that helps. I do this listening to podcasts and audiobooks, so I don't really consider it time wasted.
Anyway, my standard LISS workout is a 30 to 45-minute brisk walk on the mill o' tread at 4.1mph and an incline of 9-12%.
2. Hill Sprints
Definitely my favorite method of intense cardio, hill sprints are nothing short of magic. They'll make you leaner, faster, improve the look of your booty, and of course increase your conditioning.
Chicago Bears legend Walter Payton—who I consider to be the greatest running back of all time—did nearly all of his conditioning with hill sprints. In fact, the hill on which he ran came to be known as "Payton's Hill" and was recently dedicated to him.
Because hills vary so much in length and slope, it's hard to prescribe a workout for hill sprints and so I have just one rule: run as many sprints as you can before you feel your body ask you to stop.
I have a hill near my old high school on Long Island that I use every single time I go home to visit. It's a steep incline, and the distance from the base to the top is 34 yards—I normally get about 12 or 13 full out, balls-to-the-wall sprints before my hammies decide it's quitting time.
Perhaps one day, they'll call it Roman's Hill. That would be sweet. Check out a full guide to getting the most out hill sprints here.
3. Jump Rope
If you watched Rocky when you were a kid, you grew up wanting to be a boxer—or, at least, wanting to jump rope like one.
Note: studies show that playing this song while jumping rope burns 11% more calories.
Hopefully, that desire has lasted into adulthood, and you're somewhat proficient on a rope. If you are, you should use that awesome tool, because jumping rope burns more calories per minute than nearly any other physical activity.
There's really nothing else I can say that is going to be as interesting or impressive as that Rocky video, so let's just move on to the workouts.
There are two ways I like to use a rope for cardio:
- do as many jumps as you can in a 30 minute period
- intervals of one minute on, one minute off for a 10 minute period (done at a faster pace)
4. Kettlebell Swings
I've written about kettlebells before, and while I am not a kettlebell guy per se, over the past few months, I have been using them a lot more frequently, particularly for pressing and conditioning.
When it comes to conditioning and cardio, KBs are hard to beat in terms of their versatility—but, apparently, that is lost on me, because I'm boring and I just like to stick to swings. Again, I'm no KB expert.
A good swing is all hip hinge and power, and since mine isn't pretty enough to film, here's a video of Neghar Fonooni doing swings with a 48kg 'bell:
For my swing workouts, I normally just do this:
- Set a timer for 10 minutes.
- Do as many swings as you can in 10 minutes, split into as few sets as possible.
- Terminate any set when form degrades.
- Record the reps you did on your best set (usually anywhere between first and fifth set).
- Record the total number of reps that you did for the entire workout.
- The next time you perform this workout, try to beat the total number of reps that you do, as well as the number of reps you did on your best set.
Like Neghar in the video above, I have been doing this with a 48kg kettlebell, but I have no idea what that equals in pounds because I'm American and we fear the Metric System. (That's a joke, but please don't ruin it by doing the math and posting it in the comment section.)
5. Battling Ropes
Basically, long ropes that you use to…battle. Sort of. This is a hard one to describe, so here's a video of my boy Jason Ferruggia doing his thang.
My favorite way to do this is 30 seconds on, 30 seconds off. Simple but effective.
6. Stair Sprints
Stair sprints are one of my absolute favorite ways to do cardio in NYC. Generally, the streets are too crowded for sprints, and it's too cold to run hills in the winter, so I like to stay indoors. And when I want to do some indoor cardio, I do sprints in the stairwell. Most people take the elevator, of course, so there are very few people on the stairs.
There are five floors in my apartment building, which means that there are eight short flights of stairs (two for each level, with a small landing that allows the stairs to turn) leading from the ground to the top. This is pretty much the perfect distance for sprints–enough to make it worth it, but not too much so much that you'll lose speed.
I usually do these in an ascending/descending pyramid, for a total of 8 sets.
- Set 1: Sprint to the top of the stairs and come back.
- Set 2: Sprint to the top of the stairs and come back twice (no rest between).
- Set 3: Sprint to the top of the stairs and come back three times (no rest between).
- Set 4: Sprint to the top of the stairs and come back four times (no rest between).
- Set 5: Sprint to the top of the stairs and come back four times (no rest between).
- Set 6: Sprint to the top of the stairs and come back three times (no rest between).
- Set 7: Sprint to the top of the stairs and come back twice (no rest between).
- Set 8: Sprint to the top of the stairs and come back.
Rest 30-60 seconds as needed between sets, but, as noted, do not rest between sprints up and down the stairs–that "rest" will come on your way down, which is easy enough to allow you to recover. I generally recommend resting an extra minute between sets 5 and 6, especially for beginners.
This is a lot of fun, and a great change of pace from most types of sprinting.
7. Sled Work
Pushing and pulling sleds serves two specific purposes:
- Helping you get lean while building your conditioning
- Making you look like a beast
Very few things look more badass than pushing a sled loaded with a few hundred pounds, or, if you don't have a sled, pushing your car around the parking lot.
Sleds have risen to popularity of late, and for good reason: few conditioning tools give you the challenge of the effect of this full body beast. While the standard exercises are pushes, if you have rope attachments, you can do pulls and drags as well.
Using my wife as added resistance.
In addition to that, there are ways to use sleds for variations of traditional exercises like chest presses and rows–these allow you to get the benefit of the concentric while eliminating the eccentric; overall, this allows you to recover faster.
Here's a beginner sled workout:
- Load a sled up with the equivalent of your body weight.
- Push it as far as you can. If you're in a gym, push till the end of the lane; if you're outside, push until you hit the end of the parking lot/road/etc.
- Rest 45 seconds. Push back to the starting point.
- Repeat for a total of 3 pushes in each direction.
Many people experience something called "prowler flu" or sled flu, which essentially means you might puke. Happens to the best of us, I'm afraid.
Sometimes, it's a marathon; other times, a sprint. No matter how you do it or how long it takes, sex is probably the most fun way you can break a sweat. Except laser tag. Nothing beats laser tag–that shit is boss.
I don't have any articles about laser tag, but here's one about sex.
9. Barbell Complexes
Complexes, for those who do not know, are exercises done back to back with the same piece of equipment, generally done without putting it down. They can be done with any piece of equipment, but I almost always choose to do these with a barbell, as that generally allows me to do a number of exercises that I enjoy.
I wrote an entire article on how to make complexes even more potent, so there's no need to rehash overmuch in this piece.
However, in the interest of making this post more awesome, here is complex I default to most time:
- Hang Clean
- Front Squat
- Push Press
- Bent Over Row
- Romanian Deadlift
Each of the exercises is for 8 reps, and you transition from one to another without resting. Perform 5 total complexes, resting 120 seconds between each.
If you've never done complexes before, be fairly conservative with the weight – dudes don't generally need to go above 95 pounds.
10. Beach Sprints
In general, sprints are pretty damn boss for fat loss. Doing them on a beach makes them even more so.
And not just because you can do them shirtless with impunity. The real reason is that beach sprints allow you to reenact the most bromoerotic training scene in the history of cinema.
OMG I want to run on the beach so bad right now.
Beach sprints are also great because the sand forces your calves, legs, and the everything in the foot-ankle complex to work different than the traditional sprint. The slightly unstable surface can have pretty profound effects; after a few sets of beach springs, you'll be sore in ways you can't imagine.
But, it's worth the tradeoff, because beach sprints can actually make you faster. And then, when you race people, they'll be like:
BONUS – The Cardio Method That Sucks the Most: Jogging. Or Joging. Or Yogging.
This is a new fad where you run for an extended period of time. I first heard about this from my Ron. Please see below:
Now, look, for my part, I personally hate jogging. Running for an extended period of time seems like just about the worst fucking thing on the planet, second only to being forced to read Twilight again. Or, even worse, being forced to listen to Twilight on audiobook while jogging. Holy shit that's a terrifying thought.
Long, boring cardio like jogging is, for most people, unnecessary. Further to that, if it's done too often, in can lead to some catabolism. Jogging is what we call "moderate intensity steady state" cardio, or, appropriately enough, MISS.
This is a strange inverse-Goldilocks situation where the extremes on either end (high and low intensity) are kinda awesome for their respective purposes, and the one in the middle, instead of being just right is actually way wrong.
For most people.
There are people, however, who can benefit from doing MISS cardio at least somewhat regularly. If you ever need to run or maintain an activity for an extended period of time, then MISS has a place in your training. For example, if you are training for a Tough Mudder (some other relatively steady duration contest), you should do some yogging.
The main reason for this is simply that if you don't use it, you'll lose it–it being your muscular endurance. Put simply, if you don't occasionally run for an extended period of time, you're going to have a hard time running for an extended period of time.
I learned this the hard way: after doing HIIT exclusively for three years, I decided to run a charity 5K. I thought I would breeze through and perhaps even win. Embarrassingly, though, I had to stop every half miles or so because the muscles in my legs (particularly my hip flexors) just didn't have the endurance for any distance above 200 yards or so.
It was ridiculous. Resultantly, at least once every two weeks, I go for a brisk jog of about a mile. In the summer, I try to hit a 3-mile run once a month or so. Keeps you honest.
That said, if you never plan on running again, skip it. Either way, this should be something you do for general fitness, not as your primary means of fat loss.
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The Bungalow restaurant is located in the Historic Hyde Park District in the North End of Boise. Built by Bill Hodges of Western Reality Advisors around 1996, the building was designed to pay tribute to Hyde Park history and resemble older buildings of Hyde Park. The building itself is a variety of styles though mainly it strives to be a dedication to Hyde Park buildings and not a copy cat. The building was renovated in March of 2007 by Eric McLaughlin, who ran Richard's. He did the renovations himself and sought to return the building the roots of the community. He repainted, added new vintage light fixtures, and inside added two cut in booths that were placed into one of the walls of the restaurant making for an interesting experience. The land Bungalow was built was once a store. As far back as 1912 a store of some kind has been there and around 1980, the store became Hyde Park U-Serve, a self-serve gas station. In 1980 Hyde Park area was designated as a local historic district and was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. The gas station that resided on the land at that time represented an intrusion in the Hyde Park district and was not credited as a contribution to the area. Bungalow is located right in front of the old streetcar turnaround which can still be seen in the road today. The streetcar service supported the district, connecting it to the surrounding neighborhood and downtown. These trolleys were essential for life in the early 1900?s in Boise, enabling passenger access to and from almost anywhere in Boise.
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Jim Flint: The Boy from Peoria (Prairie Avenue Productions) is the second biography of a Chicago LGBT community icon by Windy City authors Tracy Baim and Owen Keehnen. (Leatherman: The Legend of Chuck Renslow was the first.) Best known for his drag persona Felicia, the baton-twirling, roller-skating "queen" of Chicago, Flint opened in 1969 the world-famous Baton Show Lounge, to this day one of the leading female impersonator clubs in the world. Flint also owned the Redoubt gay leather bar, headed the Chicago Knights motorcycle club, founded the Windy City Athletic Association and ran (1987) for the Cook County Board of Commissioners as an openly gay candidate.
Outside of Chicago, Jim Flint is best known as the founder of the Continental Pageant System. Started as a "hobby", the System crowned the first Miss Continental (Chilli Pepper) in Chicago on Labor Day Weekend, 1980. Since then it has grown to become "the ultimate female impersonation pageantry system in the world," honoring such stars as Tiffany Arieagus (1982), Amber Richards (1991) and Candis Cayne (2001).
Now more than three decades old, the Continental Pageant System has gone beyond Miss Continental to include Mr. Continental as well as Elite and Plus competitions. Preliminaries are held all over the country including Florida, which held its Mr. and Miss State of Florida Continental Pageant in Fort Lauderdale on February 19.


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Spigt Dutch Caribbean facilitates transactions and advises in the field of corporate law. We also assist our national and international clients in (threatening) disputes. In international matters we work closely with our clients' law and tax firms abroad.
Spigt Dutch Caribbean advises on all matters of corporate law in relation to the interests of shareholders, directors, supervisory directors, investors, the government and financial institutions.
Spigt Dutch Caribbean helps structure and document mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, investment projects, privatizations, management buy-outs, restructurings, legal split-offs, conversions, the transfer of legal entities and liquidations. Where necessary, our corporate and financial lawyers work closely together with our tax advisers ensuring an integrated approach. Our expertise lies among others in drafting and assessing acquisition contracts, merger documentation, joint-venture agreements, shareholder agreements, articles of association, amendment of articles and legal opinions.
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Examples of our expertise in 'onshore' transactions are:
- The sale of the Antillean and Aruban branches of ABN AMRO Bank N.V.
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Apple Doll
What do you do with the biggest, reddest apple of the harvest? Sam brings it to Gram, who peels it and carves it into a fat, juicy, apple head. While the carved head gently dries by the fireplace, Sam and her family occupy themselves with chores, songs, and games throughout the apple season. The crisp, carved apple turns spongy and tan, then brown and wrinkled. Finally, the time is right. Gram tells Sam how her own Indian Grandma carved apple heads. Together, Sam and Gram transform the wrinkled apple face into a merry little doll.
Includes pullout instructions for making an Apple Doll.
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Frequently changed settings such as Wi-Fi or Sound & Vibrate mode can be changed easily in Quick Settings in the notifications panel.
Pull the Status bar down to open the notifications panel. Settings can be changed simply by tapping the various icons in Quick Settings.
Edit: The order or type of icons in Quick Settings can be changed. The volume and brightness control bar display settings can also be changed.
Settings: This brings up the detailed settings screen.
Select User: The user account can be selected.
Quick Settings icon: Frequently used settings can be turned on or off with a single tap.
Brightness control bar
Screen share: This shares your phone screen with a TV.
Allow file receiving: This allows devices nearby to search and send files to your phone.


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David F. Carr and Beth Anne Carr provide writing, editing, and web consulting services. Put us to work telling the story of your great business or your great technology.
David is a former InformationWeek Editor at Large, a former Chief Evangelist for Redbooth, and the author of Social Collaboration for Dummies. He has also written about the issues of healthcare IT, education IT, and CIO issues across all industries. Consulting clients include RingCentral (and its Glip team messaging product), McKesson, AthenaHealth, and SolarWinds.
The webcast replay shown below is a recap of his collaboration track keynote at Interop presentation, where he also represented Redbooth on a panel discussion about new forms of collaboration and signed books on the show floor.
In addition, David represented Redbooth at the Enterprise Connect conference, helped raise Redbooth's social media profile, wrote for the blog, and created customer case studies.
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As an editor at InformationWeek, David covered social and collaboration technology and served as a track chair at the Enterprise 2.0 conference series. But he was also known for his versatility, at various times leading coverage of education technology, healthcare IT, and IT for state and federal government.
David was Technology Editor for Baseline Magazine, a Ziff Davis Enterprise publication dedicated to case studies about the effective use of information technology, from 2001-2007, and previously played a similar role at Internet World Magazine. Some of his articles are available here as PDF downloads on the Clips page.
David's magazine work has also given him the opportunity to research the inner workings of some of the world's largest web operations, including Google, Yahoo, and MySpace. As a web developer, he has created WordPress plugins including RSVPMaker and Facebook Tab Manager.
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I am a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at University College London, where I am part of the UCL Interaction Centre.
My research focuses on understanding human behaviour and preferences through methods such as crowdsourcing, ubiquitous sensing, or self-report – please see my publication overview for more details. I have a background in Computer Science and Interaction Design, and have been involved in the design and development of a wide variety of projects.
Find my up-to-date CV here. Please contact me for more information.
Latest news:
September 2019: My PhD thesis, "Data Quality and Quantity in Mobile Experience Sampling" is now available online!
May 2019: I will attend CHI 2019 (Glasgow, UK) and the accompanying "Where is the Human? Bridging the Gap Between AI and HCI" workshop.
April 2019: Thrilled to announce I will join University College London with a joint position at the UCL Interaction Centre and the Wellcome / EPSRC Centre for Interventional and Surgical Sciences.
September 2015: I will attend UbiComp 2015 (Osaka, Japan).


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Raymond Knight was born February 12, 1899, in Salem, Massachusetts. A scholar, Ray graduated from Boston University with undergraduate and law degrees and passed the Massachusetts Bar examination. But rather than go into law, he went in for more education and attended Harvard University's 47 Workshop, where he studied drama and writing. Ray then began studying drama at Yale University.
In 1927, he made his debut on Broadway in the musical revue, The Manhatters, which ran from August through October of that year.
Ray earned most of his living from writing. He was a very versatile performer who was witty, charming, and mostly satirical. In 1929 Bertha "Betty" Brainard (1890-1956), who was the programmer for NBC in New York, told Ray, who was writing several shows and commercials at the time, to come up with something cuckoo for the Blue Network.
What he came up with was the most popular radio comedy program of the 1930s: The KUKU Hour. This show was the forerunner to most of what America thought was funny afterwards. Ray, unlike most of the other radio personalities at the time, didn't have a background in vaudeville. He did all of his work within a short distance from home. Consequently, Ray had a good grasp on what people did when they were at home. Nothing was safe from Ray Knight's sarcasm. It wasn't meant to be rude or upsetting. But the KUKU Hour was so different from anything that was going on at the time. He would bounce back and forth between networks. The show started on NBC and was there for a few years before moving to Mutual.
The KUKU Hour did not always have the same characters but it would have the same elements in each show. One of these was a segment called the "Firing Squad." In this, Ray would make comments about a person, a group, or an idea, and then have everyone in the studio shoot at it with toy guns (paper cap guns were provided for members of the studio audience and even the technical people got involved in this!)
Ray also worked on the children's series Wheatenaville Sketches, in which he played Billy Batchelor, the publisher of the town newspaper.
Ladies Love Hats was Ray's one motion picture appearance. This 18 minute film premiered at movie theaters on November 1, 1935.
In 1938, Ray wrote a comedy play for Broadway, Run Sheep Run. It started on November 3 and ran for 12 days, closing on November 15. Two of the cast members were William Bendix and Dick Van Patten (who was quite young at the time)
Ray created a soap opera called A House in the Country. It was the story of Joan and Bruce and their trials and tribulations. Ray played the part of shopkeeper on the show, which aired from October 1941 to October 1942.
During World War II, after ABC (the Blue Network) broke off from NBC, Ray was the network's national program manager (roughly the same job that Betty Brainard had at NBC).
He wrote articles of all kinds for many magazines.
Ray's last job was writing for the radio comedy team of Bob and Ray (Bob Elliott and Ray Goulding) on CBS from about 1949.
Ray Knight died on his 54th birthday, February 12, 1953, in New York City. His widow, Lee, married Bob Elliott in 1954.


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Currently: Back-to-School Favorites
I know what you're thinking, where have I been?! I'm so so so sorry I have been absent from my blog, as well as social media. Things started getting a bit crazy around here with work starting back up again, school starting, and still working a part-time job. Over the past two weeks I have managed to start a math class that is slowly consuming my life, I stopped writing on the blog, and I stopped going to the gym. I feel awful about the last part. Today, however, things seemed to be getting a bit better. I pretty much stopped that part-time after-school job, our schedules weren't meshing, and now I can focus more on all the school work I have and hopefully get my ass back to the gym, before I stress eat another cheese-it.
I have been trying to keep it together and thought I would share some of the items/products that have been making things a little bit easier for me:
LARGE Vera Bradly tote bag–a must have by pretty much every teacher I know. My old one was ripping from too much wear and tear, so I upgraded and bought the Grand Tote. It's a tad big but will easily fit everything–so far so good!
Lean Cuisine frozen lunches–I'm not much of a frozen food person, but they totally have re-vamped Lean Cuisine. Less sodium, all-natural, low-calories, but full of protein. I bought a few to have throughout the week when I am too lazy to prepare a sandwich the night before. #winning
Matrix Oil Wonder–a new product given to me by my hairdresser and so far I really like everything that it does, making my morning routine much quicker. It softens, de-frizzes, protects my color, and add shines, all in one step.
Chocolate Covered Blueberries–from Trader Joe's (of course), these things are dark chocolate, which is my favorite, and perfect for an after-dinner treat that I don't feel too guilty about. Seriously I'm addicted.
Coastal Scents Revealed Palette–not that I'm putting on too much makeup in this heat, but this palette is seriously awesome and VERY similar to the pricey Urban Decay Naked palettes. If I dare put on eye makeup in the morning this is my go-to with colors for every occasion.
So as you can see, things around here mostly revolve around food and makeup, two things that keep me sane during this busy time. I'm going to work on my scheduling, but don't get worried if you don't see us around for a bit. Classes are crazy and I need to focus on that if I intend to graduate in May.
xoxo Lindsay
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Sam // DIY Just Cuz
Hi Lindsay! I just wanted to pop in and say keep it up. I see that you've got tons on your plate (and I totally understand that), but just keep chugging along. I think it's great that you're concerned about going to the gym…that's a great way to relax and lose some of the pent up stress. Also good call on the dark chocolate covered blueberries. If you're going to have chocolate anything might as well make it dark chocolate since it's good for you (though I personally hate it haha!). Thanks for sharing with Welcome Home Wednesday, come back next week if you're not too busy with all the things going on in your life! 😀View Comment
Lindsay Carreiro
Thanks for stopping by!! I'm def coming back, thanks!!View Comment


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This is a post about what happens when you leave your A&S project at home on the counter, but you have borrage petals and a hotel room with a stove.
Artifacts of a Life was an event where contestants were judge by a body of work in a given area and persona. My persona is that of a 16th century grocer/confectioner. My entry was breadth of knowledge across this discipline. One recipe called for borrage water to be added at time of service to help with stomach issues. Since it was added later and not at the time of crafting, I had it on the counter ready to pack up to take on the road trip to the event. I packed the dried borrage flowers so people could see the raw ingredients.
When I got to the hotel that night, I realized I left the water at home. The hotel had pots, pans, and a stove in the room. I had borrage flowers and distilled water. So… the night before the event, I distilled borrage water, like you do when you forget things at home.
My water ended up less than water colored. My pan was not deep enough for the bowl I had placed as a condensation vessel. So there was a little bit of borrage tea water that got into the distillation as I removed the bowl. This gave it a beautiful faint purple color and a slightly stronger borrage flavor. The hotel did not have ice and I didn't think to bring any. This meant I needed to do the condensation portion without the addition of an external cooling agent. Turns out, that it's not really needed. As long as I kept the heat low and the water at a constant rate in the pan, I got condensation in my collection bowl. It took twice as long, but it did work.
This is something I would not have discovered without my forgetting the original water at home. I was able to make new water, learned some new science, and people at the event were able to try the citrus syrup as it was written in Mrs Corlyon's book.


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Ambiance Counseling Services offers DUI Classes:
DUI Level I Education
DUI Level II Education
DUI Level II Therapy
Interlock Enhancement Counseling (IEC) Program
DUI Classes use The Change Companies Impaired Driver Education / Therapy Program (IDEP), which is an evidence based, OBH approved program designed specifically for the State of Colorado.
- IDEP combines Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, and the Stages of Change Model, created to help people make positive, lasting change
- IDEP is an interactive and dynamic way to explore risks, needs and skill deficits, as well as strengths, resources and solutions to problem behaviors
- IDEP promotes public safety by reducing the harmful effects of substance misuse, especially driving under the influence of alcohol or other drugs
- IDEP has been proven to reduce recidivism and substance use, even with repeat offenders
- IDEP applies leading behavioral-change research, in a way that is accessible, meaningful, and motivational
Ambiance Counseling Services is approved by the Colorado Office of Behavioral Health (OBH) as a Licensed Substance Use Disorder Treatment Program in Dillon and Frisco, Colorado to provide DUI Classes and Adolescent Substance Abuse Treatment.
DUI Classes days and times:
DUI Level II Education:
- Tuesday 5:00-7:00 PM (Frisco)
- Wednesday 7:00-9:00 PM (Dillon)
- Thursday 8:00-10:00 AM (Frisco)
DUI Level II Therapy:
- Tuesday 7:00-9:00 PM (Frisco)
- Wednesday 9:00-11:00 AM (Dillon)
- Wednesday 5:00-7:00 PM (Dillon)
- Thursday 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM (Frisco)
Interlock Enhancement Counseling Group
- Every second Thursday of the month 5:00-7:00 PM (Dillon)
DUI Services Fees:
- All DUI Classes are $30 each
- DUI Intake: $60
- DUI Level I / Level II Education Impaired Driver Education Program (IDEP) Workbook: $15
- DUI Level II Therapy Journals: $5 per workbook / per month
What is DUI Level I Education?
Level I Education includes 12 hours of DUI Education over a minimum 3 day period, and not more than 4 hours can be conducted in one calendar day. Please call for pricing and availability.
What is DUI Level II Education?
Level II Education includes 24 hours of DUI Education over 12 weeks. There is a two hour class once a week.
What is DUI Level II Therapy?
When Level II Therapy is required, it follows Level II Education and can range from 5 to 10 months depending on the track assigned. The track assigned depends on the BAC (or refusal to take a test), any prior impaired driving offenses, and other clinical indicators. Track recommendations are made by the alcohol/ drug evaluator (probation), or a DUI licensed treatment agency in the absence of an evaluation.
Level II Therapy track guidelines for impaired driving offenses that occurred on or after 01/01/2014:
Track A: 42 hours over 21 weeks, usually for a first time offender with a BAC below .15
Track B: 52 hours over 26 weeks, usually for a first time offender with a BAC of .15 or above or refusal
Track C: 68 hours over 34 weeks, usually for someone with a prior DWAI/DUI, and a BAC below .15
Track D: 86 hours over 43 weeks, usually for someone with a prior DWAI/DUI, and a BAC of .15 or above or refusal
What is the Interlock Enhancement Counseling (IEC) Program?
The Interlock Enhancement Counseling Program is a 10 hour program that includes four 2-hour monthly groups and four 30-minute individual sessions. If you complete the entire 10 hour program, you will get credit for 10 hours / 5 weeks toward your DUI therapy program. The four groups are held on the second Thursday of every month in Dillon from 5-7pm. In the IEC program, you will learn skills to be more successful with and without the interlock device. The total cost for the 10 hour IEC program is $250. To be eligible to complete the IEC program, you must currently have a valid driver's license, a vehicle, an interlock device currently installed in your vehicle, and be currently enrolled in DUI Level II Therapy Track B, C or D.


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Hiring candidates is a lot like taking on new clients for your work. Finding the best match for your company takes time and effort, and the quality of candidate you get walking in the door directly correlates to how much work you put in to your job description and resume review process. When you're hiring to fill an open position, if you want to find the right fit for your company, you need to focus on getting the right candidates to respond to the job posting. Here's a few important things to do when you're setting up a job listing and preparing for interviews.
1. Understand what you need.
It's true that the right experience, qualifications, and credentials are all important. But bear in mind that great employees don't just do a job, they solve problems. Identify your business's critical problems that this person could address, determine how you will measure success in the position, make a list of the common attributes of your top performers, and determine what qualities mesh with your culture.
Once you've done that, tailor the job description and the interview process to finding the perfect person to solve that critical business need. Instead of having software screen resumes, do it yourself; it takes a little extra time, but finding a great candidate who might have fallen through the cracks is well worth it.
2. Set measurements.
Determine what exactly you're looking for. That may include certifications, specific accomplishments, the right references, or even a test.
Make sure you frame your requirements within the context of your culture. For example, skills are important, but attitude is often more important, so determine how you will identify the person with the right personality, interpersonal skills, and interests.
3. Write the map.
Make sure that a crystal clear picture of what to expect: when to interview, where to interview, who will be involved in the interview – everything. No surprises, no tricks, no uncertainties, no loose ends. Then, communicate those expectations to your candidates. Explain what you will do and when you plan to do it.
Few things are worse than being a candidate who has no idea what, when, or if something happens next. Don't make the candidate ask what happens next. Tell them. And above all, politely provide closure to every candidate – failing to do so is incredibly rude, and can hurt you as disgruntled candidates take to the internet to warn others off your process.


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The Donald Gee Annual Lecture is hosted at Mattersey Hall. Speakers are drawn from the Pentecostal and Charismatic world and are asked to present a paper based on their experience, theology and reflection in active ministry and study.
The Annual Lecture is open to anyone who would like to attend, whether active members of the Archive or not. There is normally an offering received to help with the costs of the evening.
Our next lecture evening will be held on Tuesday 7th June 2016 from 7.00pm.
We are delighted that our speaker will be John Lancaster (Elim).
The programme for the evening will run as follows:
7.00pm. Arrival and refreshments.
7.30pm-8.30pm. Professor William Kay will be interviewing John Lancaster on his reflections and remembrances of many decades in Pentecostal ministry..
8.30pm. Q&A to follow concluding at 9.00pm.
All welcome but please contact Peter Cavanna at Mattersey Hall to confirm you will be attending. There will be a suggested offering of five pounds per person payable on the evening to cover the costs. We look forward to seeing you and enjoying a wonderful time together.


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Twenty advocates speak out for press freedom in the lead up to World Press Freedom Day
Starting today, in the countdown to 3 May, UNESCO will release a series of 20 video-interviews about press freedom to celebrate the 20th Anniversary of World Press Freedom Day.
In the interviews, journalists, bloggers and experts from around the world address fundamental questions about the past, present and future of press freedom. Every day a new interview will be released.
World Press Freedom Day is dedicated to the defense of freedom of expression around the world. This year, the main conference will take place in San José, Costa Rica, from 2 to 4 May.
For 2013, UNESCO has chosen the theme "Safe to Speak: Securing Freedom of Expression in All Media", focusing on the safety of journalists, the issue of impunity in crimes against journalists, and Internet freedom as a precondition for online safety.


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When I operated DCBachelor.com, approximately 50% of my readers were from the DC area. Now, it's about 3%. The city is slowly slipping out of the top 10. Here's the current ranking:
1. New York
2. Toronto
3. London
4. Los Angeles
5. Sydney
6. Chicago
7. Melbourne
8. Montreal
9. Washington DC
10. San Francisco
Two Australian cities are beating out my birthplace! In spite of that, I have received many emails and comments from guys still stuck in DC, so I figure it's a good idea to arrange a meetup to exchange war stories and sympathy tears.
When: Wednesday, April 30 from 8-11pm
Where: Location will be announced on my Twitter and Facebook feeds at 5pm EST on the day of the meetup. The neighborhood will be U Street.
Secret Handshake: "Do you know if there's a pet shop around here?" If the man answers in the affirmative, or doesn't look at you like you're into bestiality, he's one of us.
"Why are you doing this on a weekday? I'd come if it was a weekend." There were too many people last time. I like being able to have more intimate conversations instead of two-minute superficial chats. By scheduling it on a Wednesday and only giving five days advance notice, I want to limit the size.
"Will this be a sausage fest?" Yes. Come to meet your fellow man, not to get laid. In other words, line up a porn clip for later masturbation before heading out to the meetup.
Picture from the last meetup:
"Can I buy you a drink?" I appreciate the gesture, but please don't. For such an event I have to maintain my mental faculties at the highest level of sobriety for the philosophical and metaphysical conversations that are likely to take place.
"I'm a non-obese girl, can I come?" Sure, but you must fornicate with at least one male attendee. It is absolutely unacceptable for you to attend if you just want to receive male attention or validation. Unless you are definitely trying to get the pipe that night from the man—or men—you are most attracted to, don't even bother.


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It took me some time, but I managed to get the DHTML Chess Widget working. Below you can find 1001 Brilliant Checkmates as a kind of exercise. You can make the moves by dragging and dropping a piece.
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The widget works in Internet Explorer, Firefox and Chrome, but unfortunately originally not in Opera and Safari. It seems to work in the most recent versions. See the comments.


text: David Wells obtained a defense verdict in a motor vehicle versus pedestrian case that was tried before Judge Alan Mann in the Circuit Court of Madison County, Alabama the week of April 20th. Factually the defendant struck the plaintiff with his car in a parking lot after an altercation at a party. There was conflicting testimony about what occurred with respect to the altercation as well as how the incident actually occurred. The plaintiff suffered a fractured skull with a subdural hematoma as well as various other injuries. The plaintiff claimed that as a result of his injuries he had significant cognitive defects and was totally disabled. The plaintiff's medical bills exceeded $60,000 and were unpaid and owed at the time of Trial. At the close of the plaintiff's case, his attorneys dismissed their negligence claim against the defendant driver and the negligent entrustment claim against the vehicle owner and submitted their case on a wantonness count only. Plaintiff's counsel asked for compensatory and punitive damages in excess of $7,000,000 during closing arguments After deliberating for approximately an hour and a half the jury returned a verdict for the defendant.


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CIOs should 'reset' hybrid cloud expectations
No single hybrid cloud offering is perfect, advises Red Hat
CIOs need to reset their expectations about the possibilities of hybrid cloud when considering it as a technology enabler, according to Alessandro Perilli, general manager of Red Hat's Open Hybrid Cloud Platform.
Speaking to ITP.net at the Red Hat Forum in Dubai earlier this week, Perilli said that, though the hybrid cloud market is maturing, no currently available solution is perfect, and that there was still a long way to go when it comes to the capabilities of hybrid cloud.
"CIOs need to accept the fact that there is no such thing as a fully automated environment - that is just a marketing claim. Yes, there is some level of automation, and we definitely have the assets - as you will see more often - that are capable of doing a lot of orchestration and automation," he said.
"I'm just saying that there is a difference between the level of automation that existing technologies on the market can provide, and that one-button, turn-key, fully automated platform that doesn't exist."
Once CIOs have accepted that hybrid cloud offerings were limited in what they can do, Perilli said that they should then look very closely at the hybrid cloud vendors that they are willing to work with.
"They need to realise that, exactly because no solution is perfect despite all the marketing claims, what is more important is the trust, the relationship, the credibility that the vendor has," he said.
Perilli went on to bemoan vendors that claim to offer everything an enterprise could possibly need. He said that many vendors offer bundled solutions containing up to 12 different products, and that no organisation would realistically use all of those products.
Instead of opting for bundled offerings, Perilli said that enterprises should take a step-by-step approach to hybrid cloud build-outs, choosing each piece of technology extremely carefully.
"Yes, you can build a cloud in six months, but that is just the beginning. You need to add pieces and evolve the solution, and get more mature and add more control, and more capacity management. You don't build all those components overnight. It's like you're starting a new legacy," he said.


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With the summer holidays in full swing, it's time to discuss some of our top Summer Nail Tips to keep your and your client's Calgel nails looking beautiful! Prepare yourself and your clients about the effect the sun, sand, creams and oils may have on their beautiful gels. The sun can cause colour pigments to destabilise- ever notice how your hair changes colour, or your bikini fades? Unfortunately, this can happen to nail products too! This includes nail varnishes, gel varnish and true gels. UV rays can break down the chemical bonds of colour pigments leading to a bleaching effect. Certain pig...Read More
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Your application brush is your golden tool to create the perfect set of nails. Keeping the bristles soft and flexible is key! Brushes don't last forever, but looking after them will save you money and time. Follow up steps to get the most from your brushesAt the end of the day: 1. Clean bristles with a dry nail wipe removing traces of gel. Avoiding using too much Guard, as this can dehydrate the brushes. Return bristles to their original shape. 2. Dip the bristles in clear Calgel half way down the bristle and wrap in foil. Try not to bend the bristles. Don't worry if there's some pigment left...Read More
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Izabelle Hammon Ltd is proud to announce the launch of it's newest Calgel collection; The Secret Garden. Launching October 12th 2015 Get carried towards winter and fall in love with these sweet and dusky shades. Inspired by nature's beauty, The Secret Garden Collection, offers you and your clients the chance to fall in love with a choice of soft and sophisticated hues. Feel the romance as you discover our four charming new shades and remember first loves and misty mornings; this is one secret you don't have to keep to yourself. CG980 First Love A medium pink. Similar to the now discontinue...Read More
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Once Upon a Time: New Calgel Collection A dream is a wish your heart makes, this winter we've been dreaming of those enchanting and magical colours that make this time of year so special. Launching Monday the 16th of November With warm hues and charming shimmers create your own Happily Ever After this season with Calgel's Once Upon a Time Collection with five bewitching new shades. Take a walk through the Enchanted Forest but be sure to be avoid the Poison or risk becoming Spellbound into a deep slumber. Only True Love's Kiss will break the spell and awaken the Belle of the Ball. True Love'...Read More
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Longer cure = longer lasting, according to this latest article from allure.com (read here) and we can't say we completely disagree! While many technicians are opting for nail systems that cure quicker, Calgel colour remains a 3 minute cure under UV light giving results that last up to six, chip free, weeks. We can't say it's all down to a longer cure time, a fabulous product, like Calgel, can made a difference too. Do your clients have concerns about UV lamps causing cancer? There's very little to worry about; there is more UV light exposure to our hands driving a car than there is from a ge...Read More


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The Leawo Total Media Converter Ultimate claims to be an all-inclusive media management system that allows you to transcode and backup Blu-ray, DVD, and just about any other media format available. The Total Media Converter Ultimate is priced at $99, which makes it one of the pricier options for media conversion and storage. In this article, Benchmark Reviews will look at the Leawo Total Media Converter Ultimate and determine if it is worth the price premium for the functionality it provides.
This is a software review I've been wanting to do for a long time, and since Benchmark Reviews has decided the object of this review may be a nice addition to our readers arsenal of computing tools, that's exactly what I'm doing today. I've wanted to do this review because it's a piece of software that gives Windows users something that has been lacking since Windows 2.0-a good dual pane file manager utility. Good news too--there is also a free version. In this article, Benchmark Reviews tests the Zabcat xplorer² File Management Software suite.


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Wash DC Feb. Event
Washington, D.C., Chapter
2017 Patent Damages Symposium
Advanced Topics and Current Issues
Panel Discussion & Reception
Thursday, February 23, 2017
Panel Discussion: 3:00-5:30 p.m.
Reception: 5:30-6:30 p.m.
Featured Speaker: 6:30-7:00
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LES Member: $25.00
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Program Description:
Join us for a discussion of advanced topics and current issues in patent damages, followed by a reception. Our panel of experts will briefly introduce damages topics and then engage in a dynamic roundtable discussion that encourages attendee participation. Whether a litigator, consultant, prosecutor, or licensing professional, this promises to be an engaging and informative session.
In addition to recent developments in design patent damages and extraterritoriality, the panel will address continuing developments in apportionment, the entire market value rule and issues for patent prosecutors and litigators to consider in claim drafting and enforcement. The session will also discuss the application of the "Book of Wisdom" as well as the use of econometrics, citation data and survey evidence in damages calculations.
Raymond Van Dyke
Founder and Principal
Van Dyke Law
Raymond Van Dyke is an intellectual property practitioner and educator. After being an equity partner in large law firms, he founded his own firm in 2010, is an Adjunct Professor at SMU, serves as the Greater Washington, DC Chapter Chair for LES, Chair of the Intellectual Property Section of the Montgomery County Bar Association, and is active in the AIPLA, IPO, MSBA, and various other technical and legal associations. He obtained his JD and an MS in Computer Science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. A patent/IP practitioner for over 25 years, he handles patent/trademark/IP procurement, licensing and enforcement for his various clientele, domestic and international. He is also active in legislation and policy regarding IP, and has testified for/against various bills and proposals.
Reception Speaker:
Politicians Assault Patent Transactions Between Private Parties Who Can Better Calculate Market Value
The Honorable Paul Michel (Ret.)
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Judge Michel served for more than 22 years on the Federal Circuit, retiring on May 31, 2010. From December 25, 2004 until his retirement, he also discharged the duties of Chief Judge of this national court, serving simultaneously on the U.S. Judicial Conference -- the Judiciary's governing body -- and by appointment of the Chief Justice on its seven-judge Executive Committee.
He judged several thousand appeals and authored more than 800 opinions, one third concerning intellectual property law. Intellectual Asset Management magazine inducted him into its Hall of Fame, and he was designated one of the 50 most influential leaders in intellectual property law in the world. His contributions were also recognized by lifetime achievement and similar awards by the American Intellectual Property Law Association (AIPLA); Intellectual Property Owners Education Foundation (IPO); the American Bar Association's Intellectual Property Section; Managing Intellectual Property magazine; the Sedona Conference; the Patent and Trademark Office Society (PTOS); the New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, and Los Angeles Intellectual Property Law Associations; and the William C. Connor, the Giles S. Rich, and the Richard Linn Intellectual Property American Inns of Court. In 2010 the Los Angeles IP Inn was renamed in his honor as the Paul R. Michel IP Inn.
Judge Michel received the Jefferson Medal, the Eli Whitney Award, and the Katz-Kiley Prize as well as Honorary Doctor of Law degrees from the Catholic University of America and the John Marshall Law School. He is a lifetime Member of Honore of FICPI, the international association of private practitioners of intellectual property law. Williams College granted him the Kellogg Award for "outstanding leadership in law and public service."
Judge Michel has written numerous articles on patent law and advocacy, taught related courses and master classes at George Washington University, the University of Akron, and John Marshall law schools, serving as well on their IP advisory boards and on counterpart boards at the universities of California (Berkeley), Washington, and Maryland. He co-authored a casebook, Patent Litigation and Strategy (West, 1999) and an August 2010 editorial in the New York Times on strengthening the patent system to promote prosperity and create new jobs.
A frequent speaker at conferences and law schools during his judicial tenure and since, he retired from a lifetime appointment to be free to speak out on the national need for better patent policy and protection of intellectual property and the vital, unmet resource needs of the courts, the PTO, the International Trade Commission, and other IP-related agencies. He was appointed Distinguished Scholar in Residence by IPO, following his retirement. Judge Michel also consults for law firms and their clients in intellectual property litigations, conducting moot courts, mock trials, case evaluations, editing briefs, advising on strategy, and providing mediation and arbitration services.
The Washington, D.C., Chapter uses online registration for members and non-members and accepts payment by credit card. Members should login to the registration page with their LES online account.
Cancellations are non-refundable after February 21. Substitutions will be accepted. Contact Dana Whitley at (703) 234-4054 for assistance.
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After several months of passive membership I have begun playing with Twitter (see my Twitter feed in the right hand column, @alacre). Each year one social networking tool gets the full media spotlight and Twitter is the star of 2009 (Facebook was 2008 and Second Life was 2007). If the present media hype is any guide I'm probably one of the last people on earth to join up but you can't have an opinion unless you've actually tried using something.
The reason behind my hesitant approach is that once you start it's hard to set limits. My three blogs have become rather addictive and they're a bit like those wonderful Tamagotchi creatures that once inhabited people's cellphones; once you've got one you need to feed it regularly or it will die. I'm interested in following other people's tweets to get ideas and links but once you start following you soon feel the urge to start contributing! There are of course lots of tools that can gather all these channels together and I use Netvibes for all RSS feeds from news sites, blogs, Facebook, Twitter, Delicious and many other clever widgets. Another nice tool for gathering all your feeds in a graphically attractive way is Seesmic.
The key is to integrate all the new communication channels. Back in the early nineties there were numerous e-mail tools which were mostly incompatible with each other. It took a few years before the world could agree on common principles and suddenly we could all communicate. It seems we're heading into a similar situation today. As I write this I have the following communication tools open: desk phone, cellphone, 2 e-mail accounts, Skype, Facebook and Twitter. Then there are several more channels that I use only seldom. All with different user names, passwords, addresses and so on.


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It was 1982, and Robert Weide was 22 years old, when he first approached Woody Allen about profiling the comic in a documentary. Weide, a fan of comedy legends since his childhood, had already made The Marx Brothers in a Nutshell, an acclaimed film about Groucho and his brothers, but Allen politely turned him down. Instead, the filmmaker turned his focus to Mort Sahl, about whom he made 1989's Mort Sahl: The Loyal Opposition, and Lenny Bruce, subject of his Emmy- and Oscar-nominated 1998 film, Lenny Bruce: Swear to Tell the Truth. Then he helped Larry David create Curb Your Enthusiasm, for which he served as executive producer for five seasons. When he approached Allen again, in 2008, the answer was yes.
The result is Woody Allen: A Documentary, a three-hour, two-part film for which Allen granted Weide extensive access to his life. It premieres Sunday night on PBS, as part of the "American Masters" series.
Weide joined Vox Tablet host Sara Ivry to discuss why he makes films about comedians, how Allen directs his films, and what made Woody finally say OK. [Running time: 18:51.]


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I just love that the signature image for the upcoming ICP exhibition Perspectives 2012 (Jan 20 - May 6, 2012) is Anna Shteynshleyger's Covered (2008). Images of women with their faces covered by hair seem to be abundant these days, especially in fashion. Covered, with its mass of hair out of place, evokes the freakish and outsider as well as the play of identity politics, whether that be of troubled youth or in relationship to gender. A sense of shame, embarrassment, and shyness can all be read in this powerful image of isolation - a girl, in profile, hidden by the cascade of hair over of her face. But the edginess of the image becomes stranger as we notice that there are two tones of hair color. Is that a wig? A fall? Is what we are looking at staged or natural? Real or digitally manipulated?
Other images of faces or heads covered by hair suggest ideas of masks, in particular:
Herb Ritts, mask, Hollywood, 1989
© herb ritts photography inc., courtesy fondation cartier
Irving Penn, Issey Miyake Fashion: Face Covered with Hair, New York, May 1991
via Art Institute of Chicago
via Art Institute of Chicago
Levi van Veluw, Natural transfer III, II, and I, 2009
Seb Patane, Four Generations, Ballpoint pen on printed paper, 2004.
via MOMA
via MOMA
Seb Patane deserves a blog post of his own. Using found images, he turns them into ghostly, yet humerous, portraits.
Charlie le Mindu, Fall 2010
The runway hair stylist Charlie le Mindu is also going to get his own blog post! His outrageous hair work transforms models, by frequently distorting or concealing the head.
Gerhard Richter, Betty, oil on canvas, 1988
Saint Louis Museum of Art
However, it is Betty by Gerhard Richter that appears most like Covered, even though the portrait is less about the hair. What Betty shares with Covered is the subject's withheld intimacy. Both images ask us to look, yet deny us the ability to see or to know.


text: Brand MarketingAd of the Day: ESPNRabid sports fandom is its own gift in Wieden's slow-motion homageBy Gabriel Beltrone|August 16, 2011 ShareBy Gabriel Beltrone|August 16, 2011 Share So you're not a brain surgeon or a record-shattering athlete. Even if you lack the razor-sharp intellect and/or physical prowess of humanity's elite, you might be blessed with a different sort of forte: intense loyalty to your sport of choice. Some call it zealotry. ESPN, in a new spot for the British market by Wieden + Kennedy, Amsterdam, calls it "The Gift." A paean to the everyman and everywoman fan, the ad handily captures, and celebrates, the devotion of spectators as they sit glued to their games. "You are all super. And you are heroes," the ad's voiceover affirms. Without ever showing a television, it also affectionately pokes fun at its couch-potato subjects and their powerful reactions. The idea isn't totally original: At least one other recent ad has capitalized similarly on awkward, overly informative footage of slow-motion antics for comic effect. But overall, the flattering copy and unflattering imagery complement one another well, and the spot benefits from such unexpected gems as an airborne dachshund. Now, someone just needs to tell the guy in the gray polo shirt that Michele Bachmann wants her eyes back. CREDITS: Client: ESPN U.K. Group Marketing Director, ESPN Europe, the Middle East and Africa: Mike McKibbin Associate Marketing Director, ESPN Europe, the Middle East and Africa: Alex Lowe Spot: "The Gift" Agency: Wieden + Kennedy, Amsterdam Executive Creative Directors: Mark Bernath, Eric Quennoy Art Director: Barney Hobson Copywriter: Rick Chant Broadcast Director: Erik Verheijen Agency Producer: Ross Plummer Planner: Dan Hill Group Account Director: Andrew Kay Account Director: Philip Jacobson Art Buyer: Annette Krutzik Project Manager: Sharon Kwiatkowski Business Affairs: Marieke van Helden Production Company: Coy! Directors: Mark Denton, Sean De Sperango Director of Photography: Will Bex Producer: Cathy Green Executive Producer: Sara Cummins Editing Company: W+K Amsterdam AV Editor: Rene Pannevis Audio Post: Wave Sound Studios, Amsterdam Sound Designer/Mixer: Alex Nicholls-Lee Executive Producer: Monique Wichard Music: Michael Kneebone, "The Gift" Music Company: Toolbox Music Supervisor: Michael Kneebone Postproduction: Glassworks Amsterdam Flame: Lise Prud'homme, Kyle Obley Telecine: Ben Rogers Producer: Hannah McDonald Sharehttp://adweek.it/2kTUsci copy Adweek Adweek


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Music is life
Whether it's shooting in the crowd (mobile phone, compact camera) or frontstage (SLR), the rush of concert photography is thrilling. When you look at the photos , I want you to feel like you were there. In future I would also love to do some band photography. "You don't take a photograph, you make it." Ansel Adams