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G'day! My name is Stef and I'm a 28 year-old freelance photographer & travel writer, contributing to websites such as Australia-Australie.com, CradleMountain.net and OurHikingBlog.com.au. Although I'm French, I've spent most of the last 5 years in Australia and New Zealand, where I can usually be found:
* camping in some obscure national park,
* bogged down in the middle of an obscure dirt road,
* excitedly running around with a camera and a big lens after the "snakey snakey" that just got away.
To make a long story short, I wear the badge of mild insanity with pride.
As you have probably figured out by now, prints of my photographs are available online through Fotomoto – just click "Buy Print" above the picture of your choice and away you go. Photographs can also be licensed for use in a variety of publications – books, magazines, websites, etc. Just drop me a line on toothbrushnomads[at]gmail[dot]com to discuss details.
Want to hire me? Check out my LinkedIn profile. I can write great content that is both informative and entertaining, on topics such as Australia, New Zealand, hiking, backpacking and photography. I'm also available on request for photo shoots and will be delighted to produce beautiful images of your loved ones, your wedding day, your property or your business.
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I joined Claremont in Nov 2003. I achieved my City and Guilds Level 2 Progression Award in Early Years Care and Education in April 2007 and gained my Cache Level 3 NVQ in Children's Care, Learning and Development in Nov 2007.
I have continued to attend training courses through the Early Years/Starting Life Well teams to ensure my knowledge and experience of changes in childcare is up-to-date. I have had experience working with all the age ranges within the nursery. I initially worked full time but after having my daughter Amy who is now at primary school I came back to work three days a week.
I enjoy being creative with the children both indoors and outdoors.

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Even though Guillermo del Toro is finishing Pacific Rim and has to shoot a pilot for his vampire novel The Strain, he's already lined up his next project. It's not Heaven Sent (aka Justice League Dark), but the ghost story Crimson Peak. The film was originally written with Mimic co-writer Matthew Robbins and was set to be made for Universal in 2008. Del Toro is going to rewrite the screenplay with Lucinda Coxon and hopes to start production on Crimson Peak for Warner Bros./Legendary Pictures in early 2014.
Del Toro described Crimson Peak as "a very set-oriented, classical but at the same time modern take on the ghost story. It will allow me to play with the conventions of the genre I know and love, and at the same time subvert the old rules." He elaborated on the ghost story/haunted house genre:
To me that is Robert Wise's The Haunting, which was a big movie, beautifully directed, with the house built magnificently. And the other grand daddy is Jack Clayton's The Innocents. I've always tried to make big-sized horror movies like the ones I grew up watching. Films like The Omen, The Exorcist, and The Shining, the latter of which is another Mount Everest of the haunted house movie. I loved the way that Kubrick had such control over the big sets he used, and how much big production value there was. I think people are getting used to horror subjects done as found footage or B-value budgets. I wanted this to feel like a throwback.
Del Toro explains the shift from Universal to Legendary Pictures after the cut. I've also included the trailers for The Haunting (an adaptation of Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House) and The Innocents (an adaptation of Henry James's The Turn of the Screw). If you're a fan of ghost/haunted house stories and haven't seen those two movies yet, you definitely need to.
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Del Toro said the following about Universal, Warner Bros./Legendary and Crimson Peak:
[Crimson Peak] was the first one I wrote after Pan's Labyrinth, and I sold it to Donna Langley at Universal. She loved it, I was going to direct it, and then Hellboy II happened, and then I was off to New Zealand for The Hobbit. Donna suggested I move aside and produce [Crimson Peak]. It went out to directors, but I didn't quite like anyone for it.
Finally I went through the experience of Pacific Rim with Warner Bros. and Legendary, and it was the best experience I have ever had making a a movie, period. I had a really good working relationship with Thomas Tull and Jon Jashni, and they asked what I wanted to do next. I sent them At the Mountains of Madness, I sent them [The Count of] Monte Cristo, another project I've tried to do for 20 years. I also sent Crimson Peak, but didn't expect a reaction because it's not a typical Legendary movie. Much to my surprise, Thomas Tull called 9:30 at night on the day I sent it and said, "I don't know how it ends, but I am on page 45 and I love it." Next day, Jon Jashni called and said we think it's the best project for us, just the right size.
Maybe At the Mountains of Madness will be the right size next time. (A guy can hope.)
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This is a great place to be able to get away from the big city and relax on a piece of property that has plenty of income potential. There are planted pines on the parcel that would be a great investment opportunity to add to your portfolio and also enjoy the recreation benefits with future generations. This property has had some thinning done which really promotes good growth. It is not lacking road frontage and has great access to Clemson, Easley, Anderson and Greenville with turkey, birds, and deer that normally roam this site. Whether you are shopping for investment, recreation, or primary residence, this tract would be worth a look for sure. Come out today and look at this wonderful property.
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Bill Smith is the Director of the C.S. Lewis Institute Atlanta. He is the author of Conversations on the Question of God with C.S. Lewis and Sigmund Freud, a companion guide to the PBS documentary The Question of God, hosted by Dr. Armand Nicholi. Bill has been teaching and leading discussions on the life and writings of C.S. Lewis in schools, churches, bookstores, etc., for over 10 years. He is a gifted teacher on biblical themes, spiritual formation and Christian apologetics.
Stuart McAllister Stuart McAllister serves as Regional Director, Americas, for Ravi Zacharias International Ministries. With a heavy travel schedule that takes him all over the globe, Stuart speaks in churches, universities and other forums on issues of apologetics, biblical truth and Christian mission. Stuart has been a lecturer at Alliance Theological Seminary in Nyack, New York, where he has been awarded a Doctor of Divinity, and is a Fellow of the Oxford Centre for Christian Apologetics. He has been reading the works of Lewis for over 30 years and has sought to use his model, such as "the argument from desire," in settings across the world.
Date: This event was held on July 20, 2013 Wesleyan School, Peachtree Corners, GA.
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Podcast: Database storage management with Independent Oracle Users Group president Ari Kaplan
IOUG president Ari Kaplan talks about the factors driving a huge increase in database storage needs and gives advice on Oracle tools that help DBAs manage storage more efficiently.
A recent Independent Oracle Users Group (IOUG) survey found that not only do the majority of Oracle database administrators (DBAs) expect their database storage needs to grow in a major way in 2007, but they also believe that they'll be doing much of the work associated with managing stored data -- a job historically reserved for storage managers.
SearchOracle.com caught up with IOUG president Ari Kaplan to discuss the factors at play which are driving the increase in database storage requirements and to find out what Oracle and non-Oracle tools are available to help DBAs manage storage more efficiently. In this Podcast interview, Kaplan also previews next month's Collaborate '07 conference -- one of the biggest Oracle user conferences of the year -- where you can bet that database storage management will be a hot topic.
|Podcast: Database storage management
- Download the podcast here: Find out why the roles of DBA and storage manager are converging and what that means for your future.
Learn more about database storage management
- All-in-One Guides: Database storage management: New software from Oracle promises to save companies money through better data storage management.
- DBAs to storage managers: We want more!: DBAs need more storage capacity to keep up with their ever-growing data stores, according to a new IOUG survey.
- Oracle debuts free Information Lifecycle Management tool: New software from Oracle promises to save companies money through better data storage management.
- Oracle takes on SAP with new GRC suite: Oracle's new GRC suite should help the database and business apps giant level the playing field with SAP, according to one expert.
- Be sure to visit SearchOracle.com's Podcast Library.


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Less than a month before the Sept 11 attack on Benghazi, State Department and other officials met to consider scuttling the Benghazi consulate and moving operations into the CIA annex less than a mile away.
In a cable from an August 15 meeting, an unnamed State Department representative told those at that meeting that security was "trending negatively" and that a "daily pattern of violence would be the 'new normal' for the foreseeable future" in Benghazi. This lack of security was credited to the use of the Libyan security forces instead of U.S. security.
Following the meeting, Sec. of State Hillary Clinton was informed that the Benghazi outpost's redlines — or "tripwires" — were being expanded to include a "suspension of operations" option. In the event that violence got worse, operation at the Benghazi consulate were to be canceled and moved to the CIA annex less than a mile away.
The cable also made it clear that there were at least ten "Islamist militias and Al Qaeda training camps" in and around Benghazi. The cable warned that the consulate could not be defended in the event of a "coordinated attack."
In other words, Ambassador Stevens and others within the consulate were sitting ducks.


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The original sample was Circa 1930's. This sconce is one of a kind, specially made for a theater, of which, we have not seen any other similar examples.
Electrical: This sconce is wired in our UL shop. For economy and energy savings, we have used an energy efficient electronic ballast supporting two 2G11 twin fluorescent bulbs. We will supply the first two bulbs free. Our ballast is really unique. It is a "world" ballast. It can accept and convert power from either 120 volt or 277 volt....50 Hz or 60 Hz. It is robust and energy efficient too.
Shades are acrylic. If you had a project which requires several sconces, talk to us if a different acrylic shade color or metal finish is desired to match color schemes. We have to order 100 shades, at a time, so we would really like a special shade color order to take a major bite out of that requirement. Metal finishes can be done "in house," so we are flexible there.
All mounting hardware will be supplied.
Could be supplied with a switch, but the standard sconce is not supplied since normally theaters do not like the public to have access to electrical powered devices.
UL wired sconce, $595.00 plus careful shipping.
This sconce is a handmade item...not mass produced by machines. Superficial variations may occur during the making of this item, and will vary from sconce to sconce. These are inherent in the making of handmade items, and are not considered defects.
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The Mamas and the Papas are coming to the states, and NO I'm not talking about a revamped version of the group "The Mamas and The Papas", I'm talking about Great Britain's No. 1 Baby Brand!
If you want to splurge a little bit on a cool stroller or trendy baby gear then you'll love Mamas and Papas. They feature deluxe strollers, highchairs, bouncers, and toys and will be exclusively sold at Babies R Us come August. But before you go running to the store I must warn you that you might spend a pretty penny on this chic gear. Their most popular "Urbo" stroller (top picture) goes for $499 (ouch). Mamas and Papas are favorite of celebs including Gwen Stefani so what do you expect??
To find out more about the company and their products go to www.mamasandpapas.com
Sunday, July 11, 2010
Mamas and Papas are coming to Babies R Us.
XOXO, Unknown
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Institute of Innovation and Entrepreneurship
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LeCab founder and LBS Accomplished Entrepreneur Award winner Ben Cardoso has this advice for would-be entrepreneurs
Ben Cardoso graduated from London Business School (LBS)'s Masters in Management (MiM) programme in 2011. He founded the minicab service LeCab after noticing that a law prohibiting minicabs had been lifted. The incumbents fought back hard but Cardoso won through: LeCab is now the largest car-ride provider in France, with 140 staff and 6,000 drivers. "We focus on quality and we listen to our drivers," he says. "We make sure they get best-value insurance and maintenance. We make it as easy for them as possible."
Innovating continually, he introduced a flat five-euro fare across Paris and in five other cities and in 2016 sold 51% of the company to the French state-owned railway company SNCF. "They see we have a shared future," he says. "At the end of the day, we're both getting people from A to B." Cardoso is already thinking ahead to what happens when cars go driverless… watch this space.
1. Talk about your idea. It's tempting to protect your great idea but don't keep it a secret. Get as much feedback as you can. If your idea can survive everyone's criticism and questioning, it just might be good.
2. Be realistic about the commitment. Your start-up is going to take a long time – much longer than you think. Make sure you believe in it enough to give it 10 years of your life, not the two years you imagine. Choose the right idea because otherwise you're going to find yourself questioning if you even like it yourself a few years down the line.
3. Get on with it. A lot of people told me they'd launch their own company. Most of them didn't. When you're first out of business school you don't need anything, you just have your own rent to pay. As you get older your fixed costs go up: you get a wife and kids and a car while your friends are earning more. You become more attached to the system and more scared about leaving it. I really recommend just diving in.
4. Be confident. You need the confidence to move forward because you need to be able to convince others that you're going to succeed. The more you can believe in your journey, the more you can persuade others to invest in you. I had to raise three million Euros to get LeCab off the ground. That's a lot of money to give to a young graduating student, even if having been to LBS had given me some credibility – it showed I was a hard worker.
5. Accept that there'll always be another challenge. At every stage of the start-up you face challenges. Once you've surmounted a few of them, you at least know you'll be able to handle whatever comes along. In November 2013 the traditional taxi drivers forced through legislation requiring all drivers to have 250 hours of training by January 2014. We knew the drivers wouldn't be put off by the hours involved but there was no institution for training them. It didn't exist. So we set up our own school and trained 1,500 drivers in the first year.
6. Plan your proposition carefully. The key is to be very clear about how you're going to do it – to show what you think the challenges are going to be. Even if you turn out to be wrong, it shows that you've been asking yourself all the right questions. It helps that I'm a lawyer by training so I'm good at preparing a good argument and defending myself.
7. Learn from others. I used my time at LBS to gain the topics I'd need to be an entrepreneur – accounting, marketing and how to make a business plan. I went to the Entrepreneurship Club events to hear other entrepreneurs talking about how they started their companies and weighed up what sort of venture I'd like to start up.
8. Hire the right people. An entrepreneur needs to understand people. What makes the difference between a good idea and a great success is your ability to inspire the people around you to make it grow. To do that you need to be able to choose people who will do a better job than you would have done yourself. If you're on their back the whole time you won't grow fast.
9. Don't be a dictator. People between 20 and 30 won't obey orders, we don't like authority. You have to inspire others to follow you and give them trust in return. When starting the company you can manage what's happening very closely – you can talk to anyone in the team. When you have a company of 130, you manage up to six or seven people who manage the others. You're only in control of the managers, so it's a big shift.
10. Pace yourself. Managers often think that if they just had more people in their team, they would grow faster and stronger. What actually happens is they lose focus and slow down. There'll never be enough people in a team. It's tough to argue with your managers that they can't recruit anyone else and it's possible to grow without more people.
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Main Place Treatment Center has launched a new mobile responsive website, www.mainplacetc.com! What does mobile responsive mean? Responsive design provides an optimal viewing experience—easy reading and navigation with a minimum of resizing, panning, and scrolling—across a wide range of devices (from mobile phones to desktop computer monitors)…Thanks DatAchieve Digital!
Our new site you can find information & details about our services and staff as well as a newsletter sign-up to keep up to date with our office and industry news. We hope that you will find the Main Place Treatment Center site to be a useful tool and that you will visit often.


text: Anne is a photographer who has lived on the island of St. John for many years, recently surviving Hurricane Irma in a house with 17 of her closest friends. Living on a tourism-sustained island where locals are few and far in between, people often ask, 'How did you end up here?' The answer is simple - Anne followed the advice she had been getting her whole life: 'Follow your dreams.' So she did, all the way to the beautiful island of St. John. Anne knew the moment she stepped foot in the warm, white sand and gazed at the landscape around her, she was home. As the sun beat down on her skin and her ears filled with sounds of the ocean, Anne found instant peace. She dreamt up STJ Creative Photography, manifesting existence out of possibility, and once again choosing to turn her dreams into reality. You can follow her on Facebook here and Instagram here.


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2015 TBR Pile Challenge: March/April Reads (Or: All the Science!)May 01, 2015
As the title of this post makes painfully clear, it's been a while since I've posted anything about the 2015 TBR Pile Challenge, hosted by Adam over at Roof Beam Reader.
It's not that I haven't been reading; on the contrary, I have been doing a ton of reading but not nearly as much reviewing. And this is how we've come to the start of May, and I'm only just ready to talk about a book I read over a month ago.
On to the books!
In March, I read Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick, probably better known by its movie adaptation, Blade Runner. My boyfriend made me watch Blade Runner with him once, but I fell asleep, so I really can't compare the two stories. I'll get back to you once I watch it again. See: above GIF.
The year is 2021. Earth has been plunged into the radioactive dust of World War Terminus; humans can control their emotions via a "mood organ" and use an "empathy box" to feel connected to each other. (I find that last note is especially interesting in the age of social media.) To own a single animal is to be a success in this world; those who can't succeed go for electric replicas.
Here we have the story of Rick Deckard, an "assassin" whose assignment is to hunt down humanoid androids and "retire" them. Assassin and retire get scare quotes because an ever-present theme of this book is what exactly it means to be human and why we're so desperate to destroy anything that is "other."
Here, Rick speaks with Phil, a fellow bounty hunter to whom he's going to administer his android test:
"'I'll give you my laser tube now. So you won't have to worry about my reaction to the test. In terms of your own personal safety.' He held out the tube and Rick accepted it.
'How'll you kill yourself without it?' Rick asked. "If you fail on the test?"
'I'll hold my breath.'
'Chrissake,' Rick said. 'It can't be done.'
'There's no automatic cut-in of the vague nerve,' Phil Resch said, 'in an android. As there is in a human. Weren't you taught that when they trained you? I got taught that years ago.'
'But to die that way,' Rick protested.
'There's no pain. What's the matter with it?'
'It's—' He gestured. Unable to find the right words." —pg. 121, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?The prose is spare and serious, mirroring the quiet desperation of life in the ruins of San Francisco. Two hundred sixteen pages flesh out this crumbling atmosphere, peppered with futuristic technology, and infuse it with age-old philosophy. What does distinguish a human from other creatures? Is it our DNA, our empathy, or could it be something much more basic? How can any of us really know it about ourselves?
I wasn't initially thrilled by the story, but it's grown more impressive to me over time. Any diehard sci-fi fans and/or armchair philosophers would do well to pick this one up.
Just a couple days ago, I finished Bill Bryson's A Short History of Nearly Everything. I originally intended it to be my February read for the challenge, but it took me much longer than expected to get through. This isn't to knock Bryson—he's a fantastic writer and an even better researcher—but man, this guy can pack a lot of information in a paragraph.
In just under 500 pages, Bryson tackles, well, everything: the tiniest parts of atoms, the forces that cause the earth to quake and spew lava, and all phenomena in between get their own chapters. He even ventures from our atmosphere to discuss supernovae, the shape of space, and the moons of Pluto (still a planet at the time this book was published!).
Bryson treats each of his topics with equal care, and he makes a concerted effort to bring the scientists he cites to life; this includes both those long-dead and those he met while researching his book. Here he describes the famed Isaac Newton:
"Newton was a decidedly odd figure—brilliant beyond measure, but solitary, joyless, prickly to the point of paranoia, famously distracted (upon swinging his feet out of bed in the morning he would reportedly sometimes sit for hours, immobilized by the sudden rush of thoughts to his head), and capable of the most riveting strangeness." —pg. 46, A Short History of Nearly EverythingAnd, here, a population geneticist he interviewed:
"[Rosalind] Harding is a small and chirpy Australian, from Brisbane originally, with the rare knack for being amused and earnest at the same time." —pg. 464, ibid.I don't know about you, but I can totally imagine both of them.
There were parts that dragged, particularly the sections that discussed the classification of living things (hominids, animals, plants, etc.), but I really think mileage will vary depending on the scientific topics the reader finds most engaging. He also has a tendency toward gloom and doom—most of the sections on natural disasters seemed to edge toward doomsday predictions eventually—but perhaps this is a natural result from learning a hell of a lot about the planet we inhabit.
Overall, I highly recommend this book for anyone looking to learn a little bit about most things and who doesn't mind taking a couple of months to do it.
Whew, all caught up! It's been a science-y couple of months.
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Six in 10 operators reported higher same-store sales; Operators' outlook for sales growth and the economy improved from recent months
(Washington, D.C.) Driven by stronger same-store sales and a more optimistic outlook among restaurant operators, the National Restaurant Association's Restaurant Performance Index (RPI) posted a moderate gain in October. The RPI – a monthly composite index that tracks the health of and outlook for the U.S. restaurant industry – stood at 102.1 in October, up 0.7 percent from a level of 101.4 in September. In addition, October represented the 32nd consecutive month in which the RPI stood above 100, which signifies expansion in the index of key industry indicators.
"The October gain in the RPI was buoyed by broad-based improvements in the current situation indicators," said Hudson Riehle, senior vice president of the Research and Knowledge Group for the Association. "In addition, restaurant operators are somewhat more optimistic about both sales growth and the economy in the months ahead."
The RPI is constructed so that the health of the restaurant industry is measured in relation to a steady-state level of 100. Index values above 100 indicate that key industry indicators are in a period of expansion, while index values below 100 represent a period of contraction for key industry indicators. The Index consists of two components – the Current Situation Index and the Expectations Index.


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Washington Examiner, By Amir Basiri
Thuesday, 2 May 2017
President Trump's administration has correctly squared off with Iran, Syria and North Korea, indicating to all parties involved the years of appeasement with dictators has come to an end. As Tehran is coming to understand such policy overhauls from the United States, Trump should also place his crosshairs on Iran's notorious human rights violations.
While Iran does pose a major military threat, through supporting what has been described by Trump as "radical Islamist terrorism," Tehran's ongoing human rights abuses should finally receive the long overdue attention they deserve. In fact, U.S. interests can be advanced through a robust challenging of Iran's domestic dissent crackdown. U.S. strategy seeking to confront Iran would receive a correct boost through combating Tehran's authoritarian dogma.
What needs comprehension in the West is that the mullahs fear U.S. military power far less than its ability to launch a "cultural war." While Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei has mistakenly invested on a theory of military threats rallying the Iranian population around the flag, a cultural onslaught, however, would weaken the willpower of his already dwindling base.
To this end, at a time when Iran's human rights abuses have intensified enormously from the early days of the 1979 revolution, the regime has pressed the gas pedal on such measures when deemed necessary, when the very doctrine of its Islamist rule faces an escalating threat.
For example, through the past four years, while President Hassan Rouhani claimed to lead a so-called "reformist" or "moderate" approach, he has simultaneously sent more than 3,000 people to the gallows.
Following the signing of the Iran nuclear deal, Tehran launched a major crackdown campaign resulting in waves of arrests, reminding many of the days following the 2009 uprising. The regime was quite aware to make it crystal clear for all parties that the nuclear pact would not render any widespread engagement between Iran and the West, most specifically Washington.
This year has also witnessed a very similar surge in human rights violations, reflecting a disturbing trend. Some 200 people have already been executed. Tehran has also escalated the apprehension of civil rights activists, ethnic and religious minorities, journalists and social media users. With the May 19 presidential election just around the corner, and memories of the 2009 uprising very clear in the mullahs' minds, the regime seeks to prevent any mentality of these so-called polls resulting in anything even remotely resembling fundamental change in the regime's character.
The Trump administration can utilize the opportunity of Tehran's utter fear of cultural infiltration, being the force behind its domestic repression. Iran must understand Trump's overall strategy of confronting its Middle East belligerence, including its involvement in Syria, and nuclear/ballistic missile ambitions also increase the cost of human rights violations. Through such an approach, Washington can weaken Tehran's thirst to challenge U.S. interests across the board.
Parallel to such policy overhauls, the U.S. should stand alongside the Iranian people and their organized resistance, represented for decades by the National Council of Resistance of Iran, the umbrella group of different organizations and individuals led by Maryam Rajavi, advocating regime change and peaceful transition to democracy.
Increasing sanctions on Iranian regime elements involved in human rights violations is another aspect that would complete the canvas of Trump's policy vis a vis Iran. Such measures would also send messages to the international community regarding the dangers in seeking short-term economic interests at the cost of the Iranian people's long and ongoing misery.
The Trump administration should take the adequate steps forward to fulfill U.S. interests in Iran and the world over.


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Lent is a great time to be inspired. If you haven't given up your television, laptop, media, or internet, try and find one or more of these titles. Watch, pray, be inspired.
The Way – Currently on Netflix and Amazon Prime (March 2014)
(Martin Sheen, Emilio Estevez)
A deeply Catholic movie. Tom (Martin Sheen) finds out his son, Danny (Emilio Estevez) has recently died on the Camino de Santiago, a Christian pilgrimage following the footsteps of St. James. His rocky relationship with his itinerant son is exposed, and Tom decides to pick up his son's pack and walk the Camino himself.
It is a movie of joy and laughter, but ultimately one of transformation. As many experience on such pilgrimages, Tom becomes defensive, objective to the faith he is experiencing, and has to make a choice that will define his life and his relationship with his son. I can't give it away, but the scene at the end, in the Cathedral, is worth the entire Camino. I hope to trek it one day as well.
The Apostle – Currently on Netflix and Amazon Prime (March 2014)
(Robert Duval)
This book is used as a primer for Patrick Madrid's newest book, . Sonny, a Pentecostal preacher discovers his wife had an affair with a youth pastor and soon his life spins wildly out of control. Running from the law, he makes a new name for himself and ends up as a radio evangelist in the bayous of Louisiana. He ignites a flame in his new found identity, bringing a whole new flock to the gospel.
The story is inspiring, one of discovery, repentance, and forgiveness. You'll love it.
Passion of the Christ – Currently on Netflix (March 2014)
(Mel Gibson's hand, Jim Caviezel)
It's easy to say that this is a lot of people's favorite Lenten movie. Following the last hours of Jesus' life, the film captures the struggle of the Apostles, the trial of Jesus, and His ultimate death and resurrection. Powerful. It's one of the few movies that demands a passionate reaction and response. It still remains the highest grossing movie of all time.
The story of the missionaries who gave their lives for the conversion of the Waodani, a brutal and aggressive Amazonian tribe, is told in detail. The famous missionaries Jim Elliot and Steve Saint are slain shortly after making peaceable contact with the Waodani. The families of the fallen recover the bodies and the torn apart plane, eventually making contact with the natives as well. They choose to live with the Waodani. Their submission becomes evangelism, and the powerful story of the conversion of the ruthless tribe is told. Simply one of the best Christian films of all time.
For Greater Glory – Currently on Netflix (March 2014)
(Andy Garcia)
The true story of the Cristeros War. The people of Mexico are begotten by their own government, an atheistic one that signs into law the anti-Catholic 1917 Constitution of Mexico. A crackdown results in a violent and turbulent civil war in which the Catholic faithful are put to the test in waves of persecution. Jose Luis Sanchez, beatified by Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI in 2005, is the central figure.
The heartbreaking and unforgettable true story of Oskar Schindler and the thousands of Jews he rescued during the Holocaust. Magnificently directed by Steven Spielberg, this drama captures the horror of hate and the potential of self-sacrifice. It is personally, one of my "desert island" movies (if I were to have one movie on a desert island, it would be this).
Les Miserables
(Russell Crowe, Wolverine, the Princess Diaries girl)
Look down. Hear the people sing. Build a barricade. Look down. Notre Dame. Justice. Compassion. More justice. Double the compassion. See it. Nuff Said.


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Believe it or not, resentment and anger have the power to kill. They kill our ability to lead happy and productive lives. They kill our relationships with others.
It's been a rough week, the roughest in quite some time. Although I am reaching out and calling people in my support system, trying to connect and fighting the urge to curl up to reruns of LOST on Hulu and eat Cafe Del Sol nachos, no one seems available. Some friends! Why is it that when my shit hits the fan, people are not lining up to get messy?
Of course it makes me feel sorry for myself. I love to wallow in self-pity at times like this. Instead of looking at you-know-who (myself), I point the finger at them. I get angry and resentful that no one is running to rescue me and watch me lick my wounds. Why do I feel these toxic feelings, which make me feel physically sick, create stress and anxiety, and can lead to self-destructive behavior?
Maybe this time I should break tradition and send kindness, appreciation and love to my busy friends. By allowing anger and resentment to run (or ruin) my life, I squander many hours that could be spent on more noble thoughts and activities. Even in cases where someone purposely harmed me, anger and resentment come right back at me like a boomerang. Sending kindness to those who challenge me in small to great ways sets me free from the venomous effects of unhealthy negative emotions.
I need to get over myself. I can still watch LOST, but I think I'll lose the nacho chips—and the one on my shoulder—and have a few blueberries instead. I'll be fine. As Stuart Smalley from SNL used to say, "I'm good enough. I'm smart enough. And, gosh darn it, people like me!"


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3 Changes You Should Make To Get A More Confident Smile
Everyone wants that beautifully white, glistening set of teeth like the ones you see in the toothpaste commercials, but alas, not all of us are blessed with perfect teeth. In fact, most adults find one or more problems with their teeth but very few people are doing what is necessary to ensure that their oral health is maintained. Oral health is important not just to have that winning smile, but also to make sure that you are a healthy individual. Here are 3 simple changes you can make to become a more aware and attentive person towards your precious teeth;
Pay Regular Visits to Your Dentist
Are you still afraid of visiting the dentist? You should be more afraid of losing your teeth due to negligence and maltreatment rather than being afraid of letting a stranger put their hands in your mouth. Yes it can be a bit uncomfortable at first but a few visits in, you won't mind it as much. And what is most important is that the health of your teeth and gums is maintained, isn't it? Visit your Arabic dentist in Dubai on a regular basis to maintain dental hygiene and prevent any unnecessary damage.
Let's Brighten Things Up in There
Be honest – your teeth are yellow and you know it. Very few people are fortunate enough to have naturally white teeth, and because of various practices such as drinking too much coffee, smoking and consuming food that is harmful to tooth enamel, most adults lose the lustre and pleasant colour of their teeth over time. Teeth whitening in Dubai is therefore a very good option for you if you want to get a better colour on those faded looking teeth. Speak to your dentist to find out when and how you can get the process started. But remember that you may have to lay off the caffeine, nicotine and food with added colour for a while until the process is complete.
Good Oral Care at Home
One of the things you can and essentially should do on your own to take better care of your teeth and gums is to practice good oral hygiene at home. Remember your mom telling you when you were younger that you should brush your teeth twice a day? She said this with good reason. Sound hygiene helps keep bacteria and other harmful build ups away from your teeth by removing any food residue from in between your teeth. It can also help prevent bad breath and improve your appearance. Make sure your daily diet includes the essential nutrients such as calcium for the preservation of the strength of your teeth. When you look good, you will feel good, which will make you want to smile often and a confident smile is a good boost for self-esteem.


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About Scott Bailey
Sott Bailey's work has for years dealt, overtly or peripherally, with his changing relationship to the landscape. He continually investigates the world around him through bodies of work that highlight political and social forces acting upon the earth, the contemporary technology that we use to understand and define it, and metaphorical connections present in the processes of painting itself. With the landscape as a central motif, he searches for visceral expressions of the challenge to remain fully human in a world simultaneously augmented and corrupted by technology.
While predominately a painter, Bailey has created work in a variety of media, including sculpture, video, installation, and digital media. Forms, imagery, styles, and technology may change, but the quality of the handmade, aesthetic object remains constant: even after utilizing the most contemporary technologies to obtain source imagery, it is the physical, human contact with the materials that keeps him grounded.
Bailey has held solo exhibitions in the U.S., Japan, Italy, Egypt, and South Africa, and his work has been critically recognized in a variety of national and international publications. He works also as a writer, curator, and educator who has written as the Seattle corresponding editor for Contemporary Magazine (London) and currently serves as the head of the Art Department at Wenatchee Valley College, in Washington. His work draws heavily on his experiences of living in Italy, Japan, and Egypt, and having traveled to more than 50 countries.
See more of Scott Bailey's work at www.sbailey.us.
The Digital Frontier by Scott Bailey
Enter the ARTerrain Gallery
All images in this ARTerrain Gallery are copyright © by Scott Bailey. All rights reserved. No work may be used or reproduced without express written consent of the artist.


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5 DSLR Features You Must Know
1. Continuous Burst Mode
Have you ever tried the continuous burst mode on your digital SLR? Try it you are going to love it. If you shoot portraits for a living, you can never take a single shot.
Whether it is because your model moved at the very last fraction of a second, blinked or made a wrong facial expression a majority of the time you will need to click the shutter button at least twice. If you are shooting wildlife or sports, you need to be able to shoot as many frames as you can so that you get at least one that is good.
Modern digital SLRs are a joy to shoot with. Not because they have huge resolution (some such as the D800 which you can actually print billboards out of the shots) but because they are capable of shooting in the craziest of ISOs.
I am not a big fan or the flash so it gives me pleasure to see that these cameras can shoot at ISO 6400 or ISO 12800 and still get usable exposures. Plus you can always remove much of the noise in Photoshop.
3. Focus Mode
Focus mode is often an unknown quantity so far as amateur photographers are concerned. If you have just bought DSLR and is wondering what the heck the Single-shot, Continuous Servo and Auto Servo focus modes are, I suggest that you continue reading this.
If your subject is moving about, what focusing mode should you be using? If you say continuous servo I would say it depends. Check the way they are moving. If they are moving in a straight line parallel to you, use the Single-servo mode.
The thing about focusing is that it takes into consideration the distance between the camera and the subject. If the subject is moving parallel to you it is in the same plane of focus. However, if the subject is moving back and forth and side-ways such as what soccer players do, use the Continuous Servo mode.
4. Exposure Compensation
Works when you know that you know better than the camera. The easiest and fastest way to shoot pictures the way you want without the nagging metering system telling you what to do.
If you are shooting in dark use the exposure compensation to go negative so that you can make the picture the way you look at it with your naked eyes.
Use positive exposure compensation when you are shooting in snow so that the camera does not make it underexposed and in effect gray.
5. Aperture Priority
There are photographers who would keep their camera on the aperture priority more than 80% of the time. They do this because aperture value is closely linked with Depth of Field, an important aspect of any type of photography.
Be it landscape, nature, portraiture, sports or architecture you need to be able to control the Depth of Field. In order to blur out uninteresting elements in the background you need to open up the aperture wide enough.
If you are shooting landscape photography you need a smaller aperture so that you can keep as much of the background sharp as possible and so on.


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Can the EPA's main antagonist become its next leader?
WASHINGTON >> Scott Pruitt, the Oklahoma attorney general who has spent the past six years in office battling the Environmental Protection Agency, will get his chance Wednesday morning to convince lawmakers on Capitol Hill that he is qualified to run the agency.
Democrats on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee are likely to barrage the 48-year-old former state lawmaker with questions about his financial ties to the fossil fuel industry, which has given him hundreds of thousands of dollars over the years, and his past skepticism about the urgency of combating climate change.
Pruitt's tenure as attorney general in Oklahoma has been marked by his role in opposing many of the Obama administration's key initiatives, often arguing that the executive branch was overstepping its constitutional authority and trying to circumvent the role of Congress.
He became a leading voice among a group of Republican attorneys general who sued over issues including the Affordable Care Act, Wall Street reforms and immigration. But he has been particularly aggressive in attacking the EPA's efforts, repeatedly suing the agency to challenge its legal authority to regulate toxic mercury pollution, smog, carbon emissions from power plants, and the quality of wetlands and other waters.
That combative approach has earned him broad support from fellow Republicans and from the fossil fuel industry, which helped fund his campaigns and contributed large sums to the Republican Attorneys General Association under Pruitt's leadership.
Yet his nomination has galvanized environmental advocacy groups, who note that Pruitt dismantled a specialized environmental protection unit that had existed under his predecessor and poured resources into a new "federalism unit" aimed at challenging "unwarranted regulation and systematic overreach" from Washington.
They argue that his close ties to the oil and gas industry and his litigious history with the EPA make him a disastrous choice to run an agency created to protect ordinary Americans from pollution. They have called him a climate change denier - a label he is likely to reject in Wednesday's hearing - who lacks the sense of urgency necessary to tackle the problems caused by global warming.
"He's the worst nominee anyone has tapped to run the EPA in the agency's 46-year history," Rhea Suh, president of the Natural Resources Defense Council, said Tuesday in announcing a letter from more than 170 environmental and public-health groups that oppose his confirmation. "He's made a career out of suing the EPA to try to block it from doing its job as the guardian of our environment and health."
For his part, Pruitt has repeatedly framed his EPA opposition as driven not by ideology but by constitutional questions over the separation of powers.
"There truly is an attitude in Washington that the states are mere vessels of federal will, and so long as they act in accordance with the federal government's view . . . things are fine," he said in a speech in July. "But when states actually engage and exercise the authority they possess, that's where the conflict and the tension rises."
Pruitt has powerful forces pushing for the GOP-controlled Senate to confirm him.
The conservative America Rising Squared, an arm of the Republican super PAC America Rising, recently launched ConfirmPruitt.com to promote him as someone who can return the EPA to its "core mission" of protecting the nation's water and air but leaving broader authority in the hands of the states and industry.
Last week, a coalition of nearly two dozen conservative advocacy groups separately backed his nomination, writing that he has "demonstrated his commitment to upholding the Constitution and ensuring the EPA works for American families and consumers."
Pruitt's personal finances pale in comparison with some other Trump Cabinet nominees, who include the likes of billionaire investor Wilbur Ross. In ethics disclosures, Pruitt listed an investment portfolio valued between $420,000 and $1 million, with debt between $500,000 and $1 million involving a mortgage on his home.


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Video: Spoon - "Do You"
One of our favorite songs of the year gets an apocalyptic video.
Spoon'sThey Want My Soul is probably our most anticipated record of the year right now, in part considering it's the first album in four years from one of our favorite bands in the world, and in part because everything we've heard from it so far is awesome. "Do You" is probably our favorite single so far, so we're psyched that it now has a video, courtesy Urban Outfitters and the director Hiro Murai, that stars frontman Britt Daniel looking shell-shocked as he drives through a trashed, burning city overrun with giant children. Check it out - They Want My Soul is out August 5th.


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Love for Shoes
Give a girl the right shoes, and she can conquer the world. Marilyn Monroe
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World of Shoes
It is said that statistics is the most powerful tool and it never lies. And the footwear market is so demanding and changing. You also know, that nice is not only fashion and style, it is convenience, comfort and lifestyle. If You want to take a confident and solid step to the elite? It can only be the kind of good and high quality shoes.
Have you ever thought of putting your new shoes and thinking — how much time did it take to make them? And who produced them? In 2018 according to data, 6 out of 10 boots in the world were made in China.
And if you ever thought of buying an unnecessary but very beautiful pair of shoes,consider about these stats. Based on Sh. American and European average – the statistical woman has even 21 pair of shoes, man is 12. And only 3 pairs of them avi constantly!
The shoes industry is growing rapidly. This is driven by the changing trend in fashion and the growing economic conditions. The wide variety of footwear and the easy availability of products on retail channels stimulate the purchase of consumer impulses.
The popularity of sports footwear and footwear for nature-friendly has increased significantly over the past year. This has led to the abandonment of giant leather, glue, plastic and rubber, and the promotion of ecological life. People's wellness trends increase the purchase of sports shoes, sports shoes conquer the world and the hearts of people, more and more people are choosing sportswear boots, especially this trend is noticeable among women.


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Posts tagged 'hard drive'
Make the most of your photos
May 10th, 2013
There are three problems with the way people treat their digital photos:
- They take too many
- They don't back them up
- They never look at them
Each thing on this list is a shame, and yet all together it makes you wonder why people bother taking photos in the first place! With the rise of digital technology – cameras as well as laptops and tablets – it's too easy to amass a huge number of photos, and even easier to lose them all. If you've taken time out of your day by the seaside to peer through a lens (or stare up at a tiny screen) then do yourself a favour and make that moment worthwhile! Read more
Hard Drive Defragmentation
April 17th, 2012
When you first install Windows, all the files are written in a sequence, together on the hard drive. When you add more files – documents, music, photos – this process continues. But when you delete files, gaps are left in this neat sequence, which Windows fills whenever it can, to write a new file which will fit. Sometimes it has to split files into pieces to fill these small gaps, and over time this means that newer files are scattered across the drive, meaning more work to load large programs or a whole photo album.
This process is called fragmentation, and causes PCs to slow down, makes it harder to save lost data, and can shorten the life of components.
What you need is something to defragment, or 'defrag' your hard drives to keep them in peak condition. Read more


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text: SAN JOSE, Calif., Aug.7 -- Cisco Systems Inc. has signed an agreement with Qwest Communications International Inc. to help Qwest expand its long-haul, core and metro area networks. Qwest will deploy Cisco's IP+Optical solutions including the ONS 15454 metro optical transport platform, 12416 Internet routers and 10008 Internet routers. "Cisco's ability to deliver high performing and reliable products in both the long-haul and metro networks will play a major part in Qwest's build-out plans," said James Becker, executive vice president of Qwest worldwide networks. "Qwest is aggressively pursuing metro network build-out and service deployment. Technology partners such as Cisco are important to achieving our goals."


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It's Time to Do Away with the Direct Primary
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If there's one thing that I have become convinced of during this year's presidential campaign, it's that the time has come to do away with the direct primary.
A product of Progressive Era reforms, the direct primary - where ordinary people choose their party's nominees in what is essentially an election before the election - was supposed to take power away from the party bosses and give it to the people.
Half of that goal was achieved - it seems fairly clear that the Democratic and Republican party establishment would both like to avoid being saddled with certain nominees this year (Bernie Sanders, Donald Trump, and Ted Cruz come to mind), but they have little say in who they must ultimately back in the general election.
So has the direct primary largely stripped the party elite of their power? Absolutely.
But has given that power to the people and made the process more democratic? Not really. Not unless by "the people" you mean 15-17 percent of the most extreme partisan voters who exist on the ideological fringes.
That's right, nationwide voter turnout in the statewide primaries during 2012 was somewhere between 15.9 and 17.3 percent (and in caucus states, participation is even lower - usually in the single digits).
The problem is that this very small percentage of the population doesn't represent the views of a majority of general election voters (let alone a majority of the American public) and, even worse, it would seem that they either don't realize or don't care that their preferred candidate has little or no chance of winning a general election. Say what you want about party bosses, at least they have the virtue of wanting to nominate candidates who can go on to win general elections!
So let's give the power to choose their own nominees back to the parties. The people can choose the president in the general election.
In what has turned out to be the strangest presidential election year in my lifetime, it is worth noting that would necessarily preclude candidates like Bernie Sanders or Donald Trump; they could still mount independent or third party general election campaigns and, if they were able attract enough general election voters (most of whom are near the ideological center), they could even win.
What they wouldn't be able to do, however, is secure a major party's nomination by appealing only to a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of the electorate.
Opinions expressed here are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of Andy Rapp, Q-TV, Delta College, or PBS.
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text: TN Mongo, SASS #61450 345 Posted April 14, 2019 About a year ago both my wife's .357 1873 rifle and mine would occasionally experience a piece of sticky brass that was very hard to lever out. I purchased a Slix Chamber Scraper and was a little more diligent with my cleaning regiment and the problems went away. Recently, however, about once a match, I get an empty that requires extreme effort to eject. I'm not as young as I once was, but I'm still a former college wrestler and linebacker. Nothing ruins a good rifle string like having to fight with a rifle lever. I was stumped. The chamber was clean; no trace of a carbon ring from shooting .38s in a .357. After experiencing another sticky piece of brass in yesterday's match, I took all the empty rifle brass from yesterday's match and dropped each one into a .357 chamber checker. Approximately 6 of the 120 pieces had trouble dropping into the chamber checker. I was unable to push one piece into the chamber checker, even with considerable force. I had found the culprit! Each of these pieces of brass seemed to be slightly bulged near the bottom of the case, near the rims. I admit to being a brass "hoarder" I have a full 5 gallon bucket of mixed brass .38s and at least a 2 gallon bucket of nickle plated .38s. The nickle stuff seems to split more easily so I only use those in revolvers. I started testing other brass from the big bucket and I started finding more brass that wouldn't fit in the chamber checker. I know a number of shooters who only shoot one brand of brass (normally Starline) and get rid of it after a certain number of reloads. I don't know if I'll go to that extreme, but I will start checking all my brass with the chamber checker, before, and after, I load it. I haven't had problems with loaded rounds (probably because I run it all through a Lee Factory Crimp Die). I'm assuming that some of the older brass is getting weaker and the resizing die and the Lee Factory crimp don't resize the last bit of the case near the rim. I've done this for a couple of years with my shotgun shells for my SKBs and sticky hulls are no longer a problem. My doubles prefer Remington STS and Nitro hulls. I'm sure I'll discover which brass functions the best in the rifles also. I just mention this in case any of you have experienced a similar problem. Just when I think I have pretty much everything figured out some other "gremlin" appears. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites


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It matters not how strait the gate,How charged with punishments the scroll,I am the master of my fate,I am the captain of my soul. -William Ernest Henley
As an Ethiopian-American, I read with great interest your recent article focusing upon Rep. Donald Payne's embrace of terror -state Eritrea at the expense of U.S. allies Ethiopia and Somalia.
Don't glamorize insurgents
Re "Ethiopia's war on its own," Opinion, Feb. 25
Ronan Farrow sends a misleading message about Ethiopia's effort to battle international terrorism and local insurgents. The article failed to study the geopolitical intricacies of the Horn of Africa and the emergence of terrorism as a weapon of proxy war by a rogue regime in the region.
He quoted a single person in Kenya claiming Ethiopian security forces were responsible for human rights abuses, but the "separatist rebels" had merely carried out a few attacks. To set the record straight, as recently as last April, the Ogaden National Liberation Front, or ONLF, with the military and financial support of the Al Itahid Al Islamia and Union of Islamic Lords, massacred 74 Ethiopian and Chinese oil exploration workers inside the Somali region of Ethiopia. The separatist ONLF, in collaboration with the Al Shebeb jihadist operation, has murdered dozens of local government officials and clan leaders and targeted civilians by planting mines on roads.
The Ethiopian government acted responsibly to bring the perpetrators to justice. Peace and stability are now largely reestablished, enabling the free flow of humanitarian assistance to the Ogaden region.
The best way to check international terrorism is neither by hiding one's head in the sand nor by glamorizing insurgents and misrepresenting them as liberators.
Ambassador Taye Atske SelassieConsul General of Ethiopia, Los Angeles
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We've spoken before about how trampolines are incredible for fitness, but it's often easy to overlook the fact that the kids' favourite backyard past time is also an unbeatable workout platform! Not only is bouncing a tonne of fun, it burns plenty of kilojoules and tones muscles.
For a starter guide on exercising on your trampoline, have a look at our previous article on the subject. If you're searching for a quick daily workout to slip into your busy routine, then read on for our 10 Minute Cardio Killer workout. All you need for the routine is your Vuly trampoline!
Do 4 sets of 10!
Although regular bouncing doesn't feel like much of a sweat-breaker, it's actually burning through a lot of your energy and firing up your glutes, quads and calves. A bounce that alternates between gentle and athletic is a great way to warm up your body and get that heart-rate going.
Do 3 sets of 10!
Now is time to amp up that bouncing! Star jumps (or jumping jacks) involve jumping and spreading your legs apart whilst also spreading your arms out above your head to create a star shape. Any exercise that involves raising and lowering the arms is going to activate your core muscles and increase blood flow around your body.
Do 3 sets of 10!
Just like the regular version that you'd perform on the ground, high knees involves jogging on the spot and raising your knees up towards your hip region. Place your hands on your hips to help stabilise you; the balance component of this exercise is great for working out the abdominal muscles. Remember to take a quick breather in between sets so that you don't wear yourself out.
Do 3 sets of 10!
Sumo squats are similar to regular squats, except that they involve a little jump in between. Spread your legs out wide, and 'sit down' until you're nice and low. Now, spring up with your legs extended, and land softly—lowering back into the squat position. Remember to keep an eye on your knees when you squat; they should be in line with your toes.
3 sets of 10!
These crunches are all about making you feel the burn, and the spongy trampoline surface will be much more forgiving on your back! Lie flat on your back, and raise both of your legs into the air—hovering above the ground. Place your hands behind your head to support your neck, and slowly curl up in a crunch position. As you do, raise your legs to meet you (keeping them nice and straight). Lower your legs back down to their hovering position as you relax your core.
Once you've finished each exercise, repeat for two more rounds to complete this speedy, yet intense, kilojoule-burning workout!
Do you ever work out on your Vuly trampoline? Which exercises do you find are the most effective to perform on the springy mat?


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The Valence Group advises Kennametal on its acquisition of Deloro Stellite
The Valence Group, a specialist M&A investment bank offering advisory services to companies and investors in the chemicals, materials and related sectors, has advised Kennametal (NYSE: KMT) on its proposed acquisition of Deloro Stellite Group from Duke Street Capital for approximately Euro 277 million. The transaction, which is expected to close in 60 to 90 days, remains subject to customary regulatory approval and negotiated conditions of closing.
Deloro Stellite is a global manufacturer and provider of alloy-based critical wear solutions for extreme environments involving high temperature, corrosion and abrasion. Headquartered in the U.K., the company employs nearly 1,300 people across seven primary facilities globally, including locations in the U.S., Canada, Germany, Italy, India and China. Through proprietary metal alloys and materials expertise, as well as specialized engineering design and fabrication capabilities, Deloro Stellite delivers value-added tailored wear solutions for customers in Kennametals current end markets of oil/gas, power generation, transportation and aerospace.
œAlready our second transaction of 2012, The Valence Groups record continues to demonstrate the extent to which our sector focus and expertise is valued in the chemicals and materials M&A arena, said Telly Zachariades, a co-founder and partner at Valence.
"We were very pleased to have been associated with a premier materials company such as Kennametal and advising them on this highly strategic acquisition. said Kirk McIntosh, a co-founder and partner at Valence.
About Kennametal
Kennametal Inc. (NYSE: KMT) delivers productivity to customers seeking peak performance in demanding environments by providing innovative custom and standard wear-resistant solutions. This proven productivity is enabled through advanced materials sciences and application knowledge. Kennametals commitment to a sustainable environment provides additional value to customers. Companies operating in everything from airframes to coal mining, from engines to oil wells and from turbochargers to construction, recognize Kennametal for extraordinary contributions to their value chains. In fiscal year 2011, customers bought approximately $2.4 billion of Kennametal products and services " delivered by approximately 12,000 talented employees doing business in more than 60 countries " with more than 50 percent of these revenues coming from outside North America.
About The Valence Group
The Valence Group is a specialist M&A investment bank offering advisory services exclusively to companies and investors in the chemicals, materials and related sectors. The Valence Group team includes a unique combination of professionals with backgrounds in investment banking, strategic consulting and senior management within the chemicals and materials industries, all focused exclusively on providing M&A advisory services to the chemicals and materials sector. The senior members of The Valence Group have collectively more than 300 years of experience, more than 200 closed transactions valued cumulatively at over $80 billion and spanning more than 100 different chemicals/materials subsectors. The firm's offices are located in New York, London, and Shanghai.


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Monday, June 2, 2008
FAIR GO is one of TVNZ's longest-running and highest-rating programmes. Its host, Kevin Milne, was included in last year's Queen's Birthday honours list. It's the sort of show TVNZ's publicity department would doubtless call iconic.
To suggest Fair Go is anything less than sainted is about as unpatriotic as calling for an open season on the little spotted kiwi. Yet whenever I watch it, I feel uneasy.
Over the years it has acquired a tone of smug self-righteousness. It panders to the public appetite for clearcut heroes and villains to the extent that you can sense the viewers at home booing and hissing on cue – as in an old-fashioned music hall pantomime – whenever the bad guy is mentioned.
Not content with exposing greedy business people and heartless bureaucrats, the show demands that they undergo a purifying confession in front of the nation.
The format seems to demand an admission of guilt, a grovelling apology and an offer of reparations. "Be a good boy, make an offer of compensation, and we'll let you off with a friendly warning," is the usual message. It's a form of bullying that takes advantage of television's enormous power.
Well okay, you might say; of course a consumer rights programme is going to expose bad business practices. That's its purpose. But I get the feeling, watching Fair Go, that virtually every story matches a pre-ordained template.
There seems a built-in bias in favour of the complainant; an underlying supposition that the underdog is always right. The presumed wrongdoer is on a hiding to nothing.
The weekly moral fable is completed by the ritual capitulation of the "guilty" party, at which point Milne and his team pat themselves on the backs for having righted another wrong.
Of course whomever Fair Go has lined up in its sights can refuse to go on the programme, but these are the people for whom a special punishment is reserved. Their names and pictures go on "the wall", where they may be named and shamed repeatedly in successive weeks.
Refusing to play Fair Go's game is considered the greatest sin of all. Not only is it taken as a tacit admission of guilt, but it deprives Fair Go of its moment of triumph – the denouement when the black-hearted villain recants and promises to be nicer in future.
What concerns me is the possibility that some recant not because they believe they have done anything wrong, but because they daren't risk vilification on a top-rating TV show in which the dice are overwhelmingly loaded against them.
THE brouhaha over the attempted reshuffling of the Green Party list is a perfect example of how, under MMP, politicians treat the public – even their own supporters – with contempt.
The plan was for sitting MP Nandor Tanczos to resign from Parliament, which would have cleared the way for co-leader Russel Norman to become an MP and thus become eligible for a parliamentary salary and associated perks such as free travel. All very cosy and convenient for the party leadership, and uncontaminated by anything so untidy as giving the voters a say.
Trouble was, Mr Norman was ranked only tenth on the Greens' list at the last election, before he became co-leader. Two Green stalwarts, Mike Ward and Catherine Delahunty, were above him. And while Ms Delahunty (at number nine) reportedly agreed to stand aside so that Mr Norman could be fast-tracked into Parliament, Mr Ward – ranked eighth on the list in 2005 – deliciously dug his toes in and refused to relinquish his place.
I am no cheerleader for Mr Ward. He's not exactly one of the Greens' hard grafters and by some accounts led a splendidly cruisy life when he was an MP from 2002 to 2005, being noted for the frequency with which he was seen grazing in the fashionable cafés of Lambton Quay.
In refusing to make way for Mr Norman he might be motivated by hubris or sheer cussedness, but the inescapable fact is that he has principle on his side. Green supporters voted for a list that placed him ahead of Mr Norman, and if the Greens had any respect for the voters' wishes they wouldn't have tried to tinker with the rankings.
The irony here is that a party that likes to claim the moral high ground has been caught out attempting to subvert the election result for its own convenience.
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- Steve Withers said...
I don't watch Fair Go, so can't comment usefully there. Your comments on the Green Party are interesting.
The Green Party has no local seats, so any Green voter would have cast a meaningful vote for the party and its list in order to win representation.
In that context, a Green vote is for the whole list - and the party itself - and not for any person per se.
For minds schooled under First Past the Post, that can be a very difficult thing to accept. For someone now used to MMP, it makes perfect sense. I voted for them all - whatever party I vote for. Whether or not they actually got in on the night is another matter.
"Retiring" Green MP, Nandor Tancszos has been quoted in media reports as saying he believes that any list MP planning to not stand again should stand aside to allow people on the previous election's list who will be standing again, (but who didn't make it in), a chance to get their feet wet in the House prior to an election. That sounds very sensible and practical.
There is no way to have a by-election for list MPs, so this is most practical alternative.
Nandor says he offered to stand aside for this reason. It makes even more sense to do so in order for one of the party's co-leaders to enter Parliament.
Co-leader, Russell Norman, was on the list in a high rank at the last election, so Green voters have already endorsed him along with all the others on the list. If they support their party, they will certainly support their co-leader being able to take a place in the House as soon as practicable.
The idea that this is in any way shonky is hard to account for. Under MMP, a party with only list MPs can't have an MP in a safe seat stand aside for a new leader as the two major parties can do. Even if they wanted to have some form of by-election, it simply isn't possible.
They also could not expect the opposition party to not run against them in a by-election....as would happen for the two major parties should the same issue arise for them.
Allowing the list to operate as normal and for people on the list - who have already been voted on as a group - to declare themselves as available for service (or not) - is entirely appropriate. In the event, Mike Ward placed himself above the interests of the wider Green party and they - collectively - will see him in that light going forward.
It's worth noting that for candidate selection, every Green party member gets to vote on the entire party list ranking. No other party does this. It is arguably the most democratic party of all.
- June 3, 2008 at 5:12 PM
- Karl du Fresne said...
Fair enough, up to a point. But I think you're overlooking the high level of personal support for Ward in Nelson. People who voted Green in Nelson (where support for the party is relatively high) presumably did so on the basis of a party list that placed Ward at number eight, and therefore gave him a pretty good chance of getting into Parliament. To then arbitrarily replace someone they knew well (Ward is a former Nelson city councillor, and known to everyone in town by virtue of his main street jewellery stall) with a candidate who was ranked 10th and probably isn't at all well known in the electorate is, I would argue, an arrogant breach of faith with those Nelson voters.
- June 4, 2008 at 11:43 AM
- Steve Withers said...
Thanks for the comment. I guess it would boil down to whether a Green voter in Nelson consciously saw their Green Party party vote as primarily a vote for Mike Ward or for the entire list. You may be right for some, but for many others a vote for the Green Party on the party side is a vote with national import....whereas their local vote would be their explicit support for a single candidate. I would hope that no voter for any party cast their party vote thinking it was mainly for a single person on the list. Events, as we see in this case and others (Paul East in 1999?), may change things.
From a democratic perspective, it has been interesting watching some very vocal National Party supporters criticising the Greens' democratic credentials.
The Greens allow every member to vote to elect both their leaders, ALL list candidates AND their rank.
National voters can't do any of that. At best, they get to chose one local candidate who MAY decide to allow is/her name to also appear on the list. Members play no role in ranking....or party policy. These are the people criticising the Greens? Hypocrisy must come in deep blue.
- June 4, 2008 at 8:10 PM


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