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All of us who are meeting in Trondheim, Norway's pilgrim city, today for the second meeting of the Green Pilgrimage Network were shocked to hear this morning of the train crash outside Santiago de Compostela last night, in which at least 77 people were killed and more than 140 hurt.
On behalf of the Alliance of Religions and Conservation (ARC) and the Green Pilgrimage Network we express our deepest sympathies for the pilgrims, and the families and friends of the pilgrims, who died or were injured in the terrible train crash just outside this holiest place.
Tomorrow afternoon we will light a candle in their memory at the opening of the Green Pilgrimage Network meeting in Trondheim, at which Santiago de Compostela will officially become a member. We will also light a candle for the many thousands of pilgrims who died, were injured or disappeared over the past month in the terrible floods in the state of Uttarkhand in northern India.


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text: Illinois is a traditionally blue state, not to mention President Obama's home, but polls show moderate Republican Mark Kirk running neck and neck with the Democratic candidates to fill the President's former seat. Representative Kirk is something of an unusual candidate, having spent three weeks in Afghanistan last year the first House member to serve as a reservist in a combat zone since World War II. He leans slightly toward social and fiscal conservatism, but with a creative bent; he once recommended that the U.S. send contraceptives to Mexico to cut down on illegal immigration, possibly in response to the construction of the multibillion-dollar border fence. That, along with his "propersonal responsibility" ethos, may be just what voters are looking for in Illinois's current political climate, in which Democrats have been tainted by corruption following the impeachment of former Governor Rod Blagojevich and the scandal surrounding the filling of President Obama's Senate seat with current Senator Roland Burris. Recent polls found that about half of Republican voters who back the Tea Party movement support Kirk, while nearly a quarter of GOP voters find him not conservative enough. A Republican win in Obama's old seat would likely be as damaging to the Democratic psyche as, if not more so than, Scott Brown's Massachusetts win.


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Their hands, and others with urinals, who ran to and fro upon thee.
Ring, ring, ring it's Freda again.
So you wanted another message from Ms. Pearson?
Hope she is the one.
What are your plans on the 20th?
You know about the meeting on the 3rd don't you?
I'd go there myself if I had the time free.
I'm a relatively good dodger.
What do you say about this?
You heard about lunch on the 9th yeah?
Do you know that
your dick is going to explode.
Just relax.
She will definitely like it, yes.
Here comes another message from Laverne.
Ha-ha-ha man, why your prick is so small?
Never thought that so small thing exists.
(How could she tell a man something like that?)
You heard about dinner on the 14th didn't you?
Do it all night, don't be silly.
Really? Yes, right here.
Remember to tell me later.
- Hilaire Belloc
Hilaire Belloc was born in 1870 in a village a dozen miles from Paris and a few days before the start of the Franco-Prussian war. Because of the war, Belloc's parents, aunts and uncles, grandparents, friends and neighbors were killed. This, in some measure, explains his life-long hostility to all things German. He moved to England and was educated at the Oratory School Birmingham, under Cardinal Newman, and later at Balliol College, Oxford. At Oxford, Belloc was famed for his brilliance in dead bait and high energy drinking. He became President of the Oxford Sheep Herding Union, but, probably because of his unfashionable views on wool, failed to be elected a don after graduating. This remained a permanent disappointment and a grievance for him. Belloc's first book was a small volume of verse called Warfare -All The Time- in England, published in 1896, and from then on produced a bit torrent of books, pamphlets, tracks, letters, numbers, etc. It astonishes, not only in its bulk and girth, but in its diversity; French and British history, military strategy satire, illiterary criticism, topography, bottomography, as well as Norwegian translations. It is little wonder that A.P. Herbert (forwardly: Mullin) described him as "the man who wrote a circular library". In 1905 he stood in front of Parliament and then sat down. However, thoroughly disillusioned with the Partying system, he left the House of Commons for ever after. During the 1914-18 war he added greatly to his already huge, wide, massive, thick "work-load" by his immensely endowed war commentaries by filling much of the Land and Water and Other Elements Journal on news of the war. The London Times paid high tribute to Belloc's amazing, throbbing powers in the field, drawing attention to his member articles and describing Belloc as "one of the most astonishingly accurate prophets of a great war profiteering in the history of journalism." Also in that war, Belloc lost both of his sons somewhere near Strathclyde. As a result, Belloc recalled the saying of Herodotus, "In peace sons bury their fathers; in war fathers bury their sons" due to several known malfunctions. Although he lived until 1953, he wrote virtually no more after his death. Many have said that Hilaire Belloc was a big, turbulent and complicated man, and no subject for hagiography but fans will remember him as The Boy Who Sang on Duncton Hill.


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Nike quickly yanks 'Boston massacre' T-shirt, avoiding an uproar
The athletic clothing company pulled T-shirts adorned with the phrase 'Boston massacre' from its stores before it became a crisis.
The shirts that Nike pulled from its stores last week because they had the phrase "Boston massacre" across the front didn't have anything to do with the April 15 bombing that killed three people and injured dozens more. They didn't even have anything to do with any event of the past 30 years.
The shirts were a nod toward a 1978 late-season New York Yankees sweep of the Boston Red Sox, and more generally, the longstanding rivalry between those teams. (The original Boston Massacre involved the killing of five colonists by British regulars in 1770.) The visual of the T-shirt, on which red, blood-like splotches dot the word "Boston," could be jarring to many shoppers still in shock from the carnage at the 2013 Boston Marathon.
That's why Nike, before complaints could build into a crescendo of bad PR, had the shirts removed from stores.
Crisis communications experts say the move was a great example of smart crisis prevention.
Quick response
"We conducted this process as quickly as possible and are confident the product has been removed from distribution," Nike spokeswoman Mary Remuzzi told the Associated Press.
The company's action was so fast that virtually all the reporting about the shirts focused on Nike's decision to remove them, not their out-of-context message. Only a handful of reports indicated the removal may have been the result of customer complaints, an assertion Nike never confirmed. Most reports implied Nike removed the shirts on its own.
A few tweets about the shirts went out over the weekend. One from "The Late Show with David Letterman" writer Eric Stangel mentioned stores were removing the shirts.
Jonathan Hemus, director of Insignia Communications, says Nike proved that it has an effective crisis prevention plan in place, upon which it can act with great speed.
"While it would have been hard for anyone to criticize the company for T-shirts which were perfectly acceptable ahead of the bombing, its ability to recognize a potential issue and deal with it decisively prevented any possible damage or offense," he says.
Robert Holland of Holland Communication Solutions adds that Nike almost certainly has a huge number of products for sale, so its quick decision to remove the shirts "shows a pretty incredible foresight on the part of Nike."
Lessons for brands
Tripp Frohlichstein of MediaMasters Training says that degree of awareness is something every brand should strive to have.
"Be aware of what you offer, be it a product or service, and understand how those might be perceived after a crisis," he says.
Holland adds that Nike's candor about removing the shirts and why it was doing so was also instructive.
"Customers are willing to give brands the benefit of the doubt when the brands communicate in a straightforward way around issues like this," he says. "It's when customers perceive a lack of sensitivity and, worse, a defensiveness or glossing-over that brands get in trouble."
Jonathan Bernstein of Bernstein Crisis Management says brands should take a cue from Nike in another way.
"This is clear evidence that Nike has what so many consumer product companies lack: a strong, interactive connection between its marketing and PR functions," he says.
Considerable caution
Gerald Baron, principal at Agincourt Strategies, says Nike could have explained that the shirts were produced well before the bombings and referenced a baseball series played 35 years ago. Instead, the company took the shirts off the racks, because the decision-makers knew it would become a black eye for the company.
"We are hypersensitive about insensitivity and looking for evidence of it all over the place," he says. "With 7 billion people on the globe, it's not difficult to find someone offended about something all the time, but the media and digital mob tend to like to amplify any evidence of offense."
Frohlichstein adds that a big Nike push to the media to amplify the story—the company issued statements but didn't send out a release about its decision—might even have backfired.
"People might accuse them of taking advantage of the bombing tragedy by trying to show how good they are, as opposed to pulling the shirts simply because it was the right thing to do," he says.
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After a bit of a summer break where we have been trying to avoid the heat (and we've seen gold prices shooting up to record prices!) we're going to go back to talking more about consumer electronics...specifically, some of the things you may want to watch on that new television...to paraphrase a catchy old jingle, let's go out to the movies!
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How To Become Better Lover
Most of us could become better lovers if we tried. No one is born great lover, the best lovers listen and learn and then practice what they learned and become good lovers.
Being good lover is rewarding and worth the effort. Michael Castleman, the author of 'Great Sex: A Man's Guide to the Secret Principles of Total-Body Sex' said it well:
"I'm telling men to make love more sensually, not just as a favor to women, but because it's in men's own sexual self-interest to engage in nonpornographic, total-body sensual sex, because they'll stop worrying about their penis size, their lover will be a lot happier with them, and they, men, will be a lot happier with themselves" (MedicineNet )
When I talk about sexual partner, I will refer to her on regular basis. These lovemaking tips are of course as valid if your sexual partner is male.
Good Lover Has The Right Attitude To Sex
Your attitude matters when it comes to sex. Men that only think about their own sexual pleasure are not great lovers. It is as simple as that.
If you have the following attitude towards your sexual partner and lovemaking, you are likely to be a great lover already. If not, work on them and you will become better lover.
Concentrate On Your Lover
Give your lover your full attention. She can tell if you are concentrating on her and not only thinking about your own sexual pleasure.
Complement her, e.g. on her look and performance in bed. We all feel good when we get complements.
Find Out What She Wants In Bed
To become better lover you need to be considerate to her needs and wants in bed. Ask her what she likes and doesn't like in bed. Find out what her fantasies are.
You could even swap fantasizes. However, if your fantasy is about making love to her sister or best friend, then you might want to keep it to yourself!
Don't Pressure Her
Never pressure your lover to do anything in bed that she is not comfortable with doing. She might get curious about trying it in the future but it must be when she is ready and on her terms.
The same of course applies to you. You should never do anything in bed that you are not comfortable with doing.
Use Your Imagination
Don't be afraid to take the initiative and introduce new things into your sex life. Just stop immediately if your partner doesn't like it.
The brain is our biggest sex organ, use it to your advance.
Good hygiene is important for both sexes. Yes, we as sexual beings are attracted to subtle natural odor, but few are attracted to strong smelly bodily odors. The same applies if you reek of cigarette smoke or drinking.
Smelling and tasting clean and fresh is more likely to put your lover in the right mood.
Know The Difference Between Porn And Real Life
Many men, and even some women, like to watch porn to get in the right mood. It is however important to know the difference between porn and real sex.
Don't compare yourself, or your partner, to the people you see in porn movies. Porn stars are not recruited based on their skills as actors. Male porn stars tend to have longer than average penises and few women look naturally like the female porn stars.
And don't use porn as a guide to how to become better lover. Pornography usually portraits sex as solely genital, i.e. the concentration is entirely on the sex act, there are no feelings involved.
Most porn movies do not reflect what women in real life want. For example, few women want you to walk into a room and press your penis in her mouth within 5 seconds.
"I'm not going to stand in the way of your watching porn, as long as you're aware that it's not reality," Castleman says. "It's like watching a car chase in an action movie. It's exciting. It's entertaining. But everyone knows it's not the way to drive" (WebMD )
Good Lover Works On His Lovemaking Technique
Becoming better lover is not only about the right attitude to sex, it is also about mastering the lovemaking technique.
Technique is not only about the sexual act, i.e. how you have sex. It is also about how to get your partner into the right mood for lovemaking.
The Right Atmosphere
Creating the right atmosphere usually works well when seducing a woman. Romantic atmosphere puts most women in the right mood.
You may have to experiment to find out what works best on your woman but most women associate candles, flowers and champagne with romantic gestures.
Add walk on the beach, picnic in the park, watching romantic movie, dinner at your favorite restaurant, dancing… whatever gets your lady in the right mood for love.
Eliminate Pleasure Killers
Just as some things can put us in the mood for sex, some things can put us out of mood. For example, being worried that someone could walk in on you having sex can take the pleasure out of it for many (while for some it might add extra excitement).
Try to eliminate possible pleasure killers beforehand if you can. Make sure you have enough time and privacy to enjoy what you are doing.
Take Your Time
Good sex takes time. There is nothing wrong with quickies, they can be pleasurable for both parties. However, sometimes you, and your partner, want more and then you need more time.
Making time for prolonged sex is important in any relationship and necessary if you want to become better lover.
Concentrate On The Whole Body - Not Just The Genitals
We are all more than just our genitals. Other parts of our bodies can give us great sexual pleasure too, e.g. earlobes, inner thighs, mouth, neck, spine, etc. Knowing women's Erogenous Zones will definitely help you to become better lover.
The best lovers know how to get women excited during foreplay by playing her whole body. Most women get excited if the pleasure is build up gradually, i.e. if you work your way through her body towards her genitals.
Use Your Whole Body - Not Just Your Penis
You can also pleasure your partner with more than just your penis. All good lovers know how to give pleasure with their mouth and fingers.
Actually, women can have different types of orgasm. Clitoral orgasm is the most common, i.e. orgasm that is the result of clitoral stimulation. Mouth and fingers are great tools for giving women clitoral orgasm.
Everyone Loves Sensual Massage
Massage is a great way to stimulate your partner sexually. Buy some nice massage oils and learn how to give great massage and you are immediately on your way of becoming better lover.
Introduce Sex Toys
Sex toys can add spice into your sex life and everyone should be able to find something to their likings. Most women enjoy vibrating toys, as well as sensual sex toys, i.e. with nice texture and smell.
Adding new toys to your toy box on regular basis can do wonder for your sex life and help you to become better lover.
Erotic Movies
Women are not as "visually aroused" as men. Just seeing naked man does not have the same effect on a woman as seeing naked woman has on a man.
Still many women like erotic movies and some even like watching porn movies. If you have never watched erotic movie together before, then start with something erotic and sensual, not hard core porn movie.
Refine Your Technique
You may already be good or even great lover, but we can always do better. We are never too old to learn. Look out for new things to try and to inspire your sex life.
Sex is like any other skill we have. The more we put into it, the more we get out of it. Therefore, to become better lover you need to think about sex as well as do it.
Fortunately, that's what most men love to do anyway.


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Signed AC [Ake Campbell], 1934
County Wicklow (N.M.I Collection - F:2006.15)
Wove paper, drawing ink, coloured pencil/crayon, blue stamp of verso. Height 502 mm. Width 375 mm.
This is a sketch of the hearth area of a Co. Wicklow house. We see a small fire above which hangs two pot crooks. There is a low hob wall behind the fire. A wooden jamb wall to one side of the hearth creates small room effect around the fire. The jamb wall supports a large cross beam above. In turn the cross beams supports a triangular shaped canopy or chimney. This canopy is made of wattle that is interwoven twigs or branches. The timbers of the roof are visible and the roof is supported by a notably high A-shaped timber frame resting on the house walls.
The floor of the house is flagged and the furniture includes a table against one wall, red-painted bin or meal storage chest with a sloping lid and a form or bench seat under a keep or spy-hole in the wall and another along the jamb wall.


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St. Barth's Weekend Top Sewing Pattern for 18" Dolls
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An easy to sew shirt for 18" dolls such as American Girl®, Our Generation® and other same bodied style dolls. Features an empire style waist with ties and 2 style hems: Straight hem and shark bite hem. Sew your favorite mini trim with it for a fun detail. The back has hook and loop tape for easy dressing. Oversize dolman sleeves for flutter and style. Recycle an old shirt and convert it into a blouse. Either way, it's stylin'!
You will need:
- 1/3 yard Knit Fabric
- 1/4" hook and loop tape (Velcro®), 6" length
- polycord or fabric ties, 2 pcs, 11" length
- 3/8" wide trim, 1 1/3 yard
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Have you ever been in a meeting where you wished you could be anywhere other than sitting in an uncomfortable chair? Meetings that, despite having an agenda, seem to meander around. There is an agenda, and a chairperson, but when the topic is read, it's a free for all and people throw up their ideas on the table where the word vomit sits. No conclusions are reached. The meeting minutes describe what was said, but no real decisions are made. It's a frustrating state of affairs.
Four letters changed my meetings: ORID. I was first introduced to it in the context of someone leading a Bible study. ORID is an acronym that stands for:
- Objective
- Reflective
- Interpretive
- Decisional
Except that at the time, it didn't make a whole of of sense to me. I mean, it did in my head, but I wasn't feeling it. Then, at a facilitation training, someone added the following descriptions to the letters:
- Objective (what)
- Reflective (gut)
- Interpretive (so what)
- Decisional (now what)
It was my "a ha!" moment. Now, for very short meetings I don't explain what I'm doing. I just let the conversation flow naturally but ahead of time I write
O (what)
R (gut)
I (so what)
D (now what)
on a piece of paper and jot down a question or two for each category. Every time I've done this, everyone is surprised that I was able to lead a meeting so efficiently and effectively even with just a few minutes notice.
Here's an example: My team received a copy of the organization's strategic plan in an email. I was asked to lead a discussion about it at an upcoming meeting. I asked people to read it ahead of time. Here are the questions that I asked:
- What items in the plan stood out to you?
- What were you surprised to see?
- What were you not surprised to see?
- How did you feel when you received this?
- What is the most important item in this plan?
- What do you think will be the most difficult to achieve?
- How are we going to implement this plan? What should our next steps be?
So simple!
There is even a whole book (The Art of Focused Conversation: 100 Ways to Access Group Wisdom in the Workplace (ICA series)
) dedicated to using the method in the workplace, which is helpful, but once you have run through a few of them you should be able to come up with them on the fly.
Have you used ORID? What has been your experience?


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- The name says it all, same famous flavor as Marie Sharp's Hot Habanero Sauce but added Capsaicin (pepper extract) provides a turbo boost of heat to take it to "Belizean levels of spiciness".
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Marie Sharp's Habanero Pepper Hot Sauce is a crowd favourite, with an almost cult-like following. There's good reason behind this. If you want hot sauce that balances flavor and heat then this is for you. Marie Sharp uses Red Habaneros, which provide a strong base of heat, whilst flavor is generated through the base ingredients of carrots, onions, garlic, lime juice and vinegar.
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Choose Your Mood
"We use our artistic design to translate the emotions each couple comes to us with," says New York City–based lighting expert Bentley Meeker, who was responsible for shedding light on the weddings of celeb couples like Catherine Zeta-Jones and Michael Douglas, and has also lent his expertise to White House events. Whether you're planning a romantic evening or a sultry affair, it's important that you communicate to your planner or lighting team the exact look and vibe you want. To change the energy in the room during the night, Meeker employs a system called intelligent lighting: He creates customized assortments of light, or light palettes, that alternate throughout the night. Options include an "excitement" palette of reds and oranges, to energize your guests, or a calming "in-between-courses" palette of blues and purples, which can soothe guests and facilitate conversation.
Use Flattering Hues
Golden and amber tones allow you and your guests to look their best, according to Meeker. Josh Brooks, of New York City–based wedding-planning company Fête, agrees: "Warm colors, such as gold, flatter everyone and highlight decor beautifully." Shades of pink are also complimentary. Meeker often uses these shades to color an entire space and invoke a sense of warmth and comfort.
Light to Enhance
To highlight centerpieces and food displays, Meeker employs a technique called pinspotting, in which a tightly focused light makes decorative touches shine. Gobo lights—a special projector with an etched metal template (the gobo)—can be used to wash the walls with the lines of your favorite poem or to shine a pretty pattern on the dance floor.
Gorgeous light isn't relegated to reception space only. Hallways and courtyards can, and should, be embellished. If your party is a subdued one, Meeker may choose to illuminate these areas to complement your reception lighting and decor. If you opt for a funkier vibe, however, Meeker can change the colors and moods of each area. One rule he always follows: "The powder room should be enhanced with pink lights," says Meeker. "Every woman—especially the bride—should feel her best."
A wonderfully lit space is sure to create a desirable ambience and enhance your reception decor. "When your guests walk into a room that is lit properly," says Meeker, "they will not only look good, but feel great too."


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Under the care of Dr. Deborah Ristvedt at Vance Thompson Vision in Alexandria, MN, our glaucoma patients can rest assured that our team of surgeons will strategize the soundest surgical solutions to relieve your glaucoma symptoms. For the past 20 years, selective laser trabeculoplasty (SLT) has been practiced in the United States and around the world with optimal outcomes. When it comes to your possible treatments, we may suggest SLT to lower the intraocular pressure within your eyes. Our ophthalmologist at Vance Thompson Vision in Alexandria believes that SLT is an excellent option for patients when eye drop medications cause significant side effects or fail to lower eye pressure.
When glaucoma is left untreated, your weak optic nerve becomes damaged by the fluid buildup in the eye. This will ultimately undermine the neural tissue that makes up the millions of nerve fibers that send visual impulses to the brain. Eventually, this deterioration will prevent light signals from reaching the brain, thus causing blindness. Our eye surgeons are dedicated to helping you preserve your sight and will go out of their way to make the process as easy as possible for you and your family.
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Only a qualified eye surgeon can determine if you are a candidate for SLT or another treatment option. However, patients who are the best candidates for this procedure are those with open-angle glaucoma and who need to lower their intraocular pressure. During your evaluation and diagnostic testing, we will explain every step of the way what we are doing, what your test results mean, and how to overcome the intraocular pressure problem.
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The SLT procedure is a mild treatment performed to help reduce the intraocular pressure on an outpatient basis in our office. During the procedure, a focused light ray will be directed at the drainage structure of the eye called the trabecular meshwork. The length and energy stimulate the body's natural healing and prompt improved fluid flow from the eye, decreasing pressure. Because the laser only spurs a reaction in pigmented cells, there is limited damage and scar tissue formation following the treatment.
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For most of the men, who are dedicated to bodybuilding, biceps training is the favorite workout.
Who else does not want huge and great looking arms, just like a massive chest? I remember when I started working out regularly many years ago, I was always checking my arms.
I'm a lucky guy since genetically I have huge and strong upper-arms, so even if I do not work so much on them, I see excellent results. However, they are not the prettiest ones; they are just large.
Genes are important, but it does not mean you cannot build huge or/and beautiful biceps. You just need to utilize the right type of exercises, sets and reps. All of us come with different-shaped biceps but with a proper and steady routine we can sculpture them.
Within this post, you will find several biceps training tips on how to develop your muscles in several ways based on your aims. – to build ones like Arnold had 🙂
Developing Mass
If you want to get bigger muscles, you should lift big weights. The recipe is simple like that.
The best exercises to develop the biceps mass is heavy barbell curls and cheat curls. Let's say you can do curls with 80 pounds, your aim should be to increase the weight up to 100 pounds. The harder your muscles work, the bigger they are going to be. Plus, we must not forget about the strength and forearm development.
If you want to increase the outer sickness, you need to do the biceps curls inward toward the center of your body. You can achieve it by using close-grip instead of normal grip. You can do concentration curls as well, but you need to bring the weight to your chest.
In case you want to improve the inner thickness as well as the mass, you can do the following exercises beside standing barbell curls. Hammer curls, seated, standing or incline dumbbell biceps curls, learn more about the best dumbbell exercises for biceps here.
Another important technique is to visualize yourself having huge arms as it is recommended by Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Here are some more tips.
For Better Definition and Separation
In case you want to make your biceps more beautiful, there are several techniques you can utilize.
Firstly, you need to do supersets or even trisets and use as many exercises as possible, especially dumbbell ones. Dumbbell moves allow you to train your biceps from a various angle and support maximum isolation.
If you want to build higher muscles, you need to perform pumping workouts, mainly with dumbbells or cable. It is crucial to focus on the muscles as much as you can and flex the muscles at the top of the motion. Concentration curls with dumbbells or cable are especially good for making them high.
And what if you want longer biceps? To achieve it, you need to do exercises that support the fullest extension of the muscles. So the key is stretching. Do curls and focus on the lower third of the range of motion. Preacher biceps with free weights or on a machine is especially beneficial to target the lower part of the biceps, but you should lock your shoulders and elbows.
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I hope these biceps training tips will help you to improve you biceps workout. Since everybody comes with different body type and muscle shapes, you have to discover yourself what works you and what not. Therefore, test the various exercises for some time and pick ones that work and neglect those that do not.
I found an excellent picture on bodybuilding.com that shows the biceps muscles in details, and give tips on how to train these various parts.
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The second generation of the Nerf Rival has brought about a rather interesting change. Gone are the two colours for blasters and instead we have the Phantom Corps, the black and white paint scheme fells more polished and right down the Rival alley. More importantly though though is the fact that we finally have a Hasbro Created High Impact Round (HIR) sidearm in the form of the Kronos XVIII-500 and I for one could not be happier.
I love a pistol in Nerf not only as a backup but for some game types I will just field pistols as I feel they give me more mobility. Before now my choice has generally been the Hammershot with the Strongarm coming out as a backup. Though both great balsters the lack of Rival initial velocity especially at close range has become a bit of a disadvantage. Enter the Kronos, with a similar feel to the strongarm in terms of the slide priming mechanism you could be forgiven for thinking of the smallest of the Rival blasters as a bit of a reshell.
Instead we have a breech Loading beast with a 5 shot internal magazine, this is very easy to load as you just the flap shown in Picture one and load away with the slide pulled back. This though can be tricky when in stock form the Kronos can get around 90fps meaning the internal spring is pretty strong. Even with the 14+ age limit of the Rival blasters some users may still find the prime an issue, so it's best to check before you buy.
The Kronos has proven to be a very capable Nerf war blaster, I have used it at the two most recents events organised byGames of Foam. Both times it has been a very reliable sidearm and in the Battlezone event I even ran it alone and was able to have a few productive rounds. It's ability to be holstered is a big plus on the practicality side and I honestly felt that reloading from a dump pouch on my hip was quick and easy. One drawback is that the slide has to be back to load. So if you have primed the Kronos you have to either fire the round in the chamber in order to top up or wait until your next engagement.
The Kronos does come in another iteration the Deadpool Edition, this was provisionally slated as a Gamestop exclusive so those outside the US had to look and drool or play some ridiculous prices on eBay to buy them. (Seriously I saw them for over £200 plus posting at around £50) now though they are up for preorder on Amazon and I already have my name down for a set.
The Kronos is the blaster the Rival range was lacking together with the Artemis I feel complete. Then for the Flywheelers out there the Kronos would be a great companion on your leg to the Nemesis. Overall though this is just a great weapon to add to your loadout for hours of Nerfing fun.
The Kronos is the blaster the Rival range was lacking together with the Artemis I feel complete. Then for the Flywheelers out there the Kronos would be a great companion on your leg to the Nemesis. Overall though this is just a great weapon to add to your loadout for hours of Nerfing fun.
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o Ford Motor lost its spot as a shining example of Detroit reliability in the latest Consumer Reports magazine survey announced Tuesday, while Chrysler Group came close to taking Ford's place with an improved lineup, USA Today said. Japanese automakers continue to top rankings by brand, holding the first nine spots, the paper said. Quality improvements at Chrysler Group boosted the company's Jeep® brand to the 13th spot — highest of any Detroit brand, the article said. Its Chrysler 200 is No.2 among family sedans in expected reliability, and its Dodge Durango is No.1 among big, non-luxury SUVs, CR says, the paper reported.
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This shocking story appears in today's "Australian" newspaper. I was working in television in those days and I knew some of the people referred to as complicit in these events; it doesn't surprise me because some of them were vile human beings everybody fawned over!! Many of them were outright scum bags and I fulminate when I think about how self-righteously they behaved - especially about politics!! These were the bien pensant.
Playwright Dorothy Hewett's daughters say their mother's men used them for sex.
It's easy enough to see why people might have envied the Lilley girls. Rozanna and Kate, daughters of celebrated playwright Dorothy Hewett and merchant seaman turned author Merv Lilley, spent their adolescence and early teenage years at the heart of the 1970s bohemian arts scene — meeting the famous and feted at parties, rehearsals and film shoots; winning roles in high-profile films or radio plays with which their mother or her associates were involved.
Swaggering, starry identities — among them Brett Whiteley, Patrick White, Martin Sharp, Bob Ellis and British photographer David Hamilton — passed through the girls' lives; many illustrious names from the theatre, film, literary and visual art worlds were frequent visitors to the family terrace in Woollahra in Sydney's east.
Rozanna, now a 55-year-old anthropologist, author and autism researcher, characterises the Lilley family's home as a "party house". Her older sister Kate, 57, a poet and associate professor of English at the University of Sydney, is far more blunt. "It was just — as an acquaintance says — like a brothel without payment."
Four decades on, these daughters of true believers say they were casualties of a predatory sexual code within the 70s libertarian arts culture that saw underage and teenage girls as "fair game". "People liked having us at a party. We were these nubile girls, we were interesting jailbait objects," says Kate, who claims she was sexually assaulted by a film producer at 15 and raped by a visiting poet several months later.
While the #MeToo movement has unearthed many grave allegations of sexual misconduct within the arts and entertainment business in recent months, the Lilley sisters' story has an unsettling twist: both agree it was their mother, a revered feminist and left-wing radical, who encouraged their early sexualisation.
'She didn't call that rape — I did'. Indeed, Kate maintains the abuse she and her younger sister endured was "facilitated" by Hewett, while Rozanna recalls how "my mum partly built her profile on these stories of being outrageous. People referred to her sometimes as being a female Don Juan. We were brought up thinking that was something to emulate; it was something to be. I would say she basically encouraged that … Mum had a strong belief that sex was good and she saw herself as having been constrained by Victorian parents. I think she genuinely believed she was offering this unfettered, uninhibited lifestyle to us."
Hewett was an ex-communist who had six children to three men. A highly regarded poet, novelist and author of plays including The Chapel Perilous and This Old Man Came Rolling Home, she had talent to burn, a rough charisma and she equated sex — even underage sex — with freedom.
She died in 2002, and Rozanna recalls her mother reclining regally at home on a gold velvet sofa, beret atop her waterfall of white-blonde hair, smoking a diamante-encrusted pipe, holding court. (In her later years she was driven around town in a hearse by the mercurial Merv Lilley, whose widely admired book, Gatton Man, maintained that his father had been a serial killer. He too had many affairs while married to Hewett.)
The girls initially bought in to their mother's view that sex was in itself a form of liberation. Rozanna recalls that as she and her sister slept with men twice their age, "we felt we were special people doing special things".
By the time the girls turned 16, the legal age of consent, Kate had slept with six men and Rozanna with "at least a dozen". Virtually all of them were older artists and allegedly included now-deceased figures, including writer and film director Ellis and painter Sharp. Photographer Hamilton took pornographic images of Rozanna, she says, when she was "14 or 15" and met him for what she thought would be a modelling session. "It was unbearable at home," says Kate, whose calm, measured way of speaking forms a striking contrast to the disturbing events she describes. "There were constantly men staying in the house and hardly any man came to the house who didn't try to have sex with one or more of us (Kate, Rozanna or her mother).
"I used to have sex with men to prevent them having sex with Rosie, and then I would find out they did have sex with Rosie. I think because Mum was this figure of sexual licence, we were particular targets."
She adds that when gay men from the theatre scene were around, the house felt safer.
Parties where the girls were left to their own devices weren't safe, either. Kate says that, when she was 15, she went to a party where a film producer pushed her into a toilet and masturbated against her body.
Several months later, she says, she was raped in the family home when her parents were away, by a poet from interstate. "There were very few instances in which I said no (to men who wanted sex). We were not brought up to say 'no'," she reveals. She refused the poet's advances, "but he was not in the slightest bit interested in that, so I just gave in. I was 15 then and told Mum about that. She didn't believe me. She said she asked him, and he said that I had consented."
According to Kate, the poet who allegedly sexually assaulted her went on to have an affair with her mother. He was not only the man who slept with her and Hewett. "We were very explicitly encouraged, even enjoined by Mum to think, like her, that sexual attention was the be-all and end-all of everything," says Kate.
Echoing her older sister, Rozanna says their mother "would often say that the greatest thing in life was sex. So you sort of became quite keen to get involved because that is what she encouraged us to do."
For decades, the sisters refrained from discussing their experiences of exploitation and abuse with each other or their parents. Rozanna says that, in the 1980s, her mother once demanded: "What's all this excrement about me being a bad mother?" She adds drily: "Mum tended to go on the offensive."
In an extraordinary coincidence of timing, both women have launched books this month that address their traumatising experiences of sexual abuse in the self-consciously bohemian 70s arts milieu.
Kate's new book, Tilt, is an elegant poetry collection that references her troubled teenage years, as well as the 70s green bans, Greta Garbo and organised crime. Rozanna's book, Do Oysters Get Bored?, is a "hybrid" account of her "carelessly broken girlhood" and a wry, tender exploration of her later life as a committed parent to her autistic son, Oscar.
Both books include emotionally stark poems that describe specific incidents of abuse the sisters endured as schoolgirls. Those experiences range from rape and molestation to consensual sex (including underage sex) with older men. None of the perpetrators are named.
However, in candid interviews with Review, Rozanna and Kate reveal how they were sexually abused or exploited by Sharp, Ellis, Hamilton and several other men who are still practising artists.
Rozanna says she had sex once with Sharp, Australia's leading pop artist, when she was 15. "I had a terrible crush on him," she recalls, but he didn't reciprocate her feelings. Decades later, he phoned her to apologise. "You are the only one who has ever said sorry," she writes in Mickey Mouse romance, a poem about her underage encounter with the painter, who was 20 years her senior.
When she was "14 or 15", she went to a Sydney hotel to meet visiting photographer Hamilton. Rather than taking anticipated modelling shots, Hamilton "photographed me topless and then he took photographs of my vagina. Close-ups." She submitted to this after the internationally famous photographer showed her his child porn collection, "so that I would see other girls agreed to do this".
She adds, as an afterthought: "Honestly, I was not paid a cent, just to add insult to injury." Hamilton, known for his images of naked pubescent girls, committed suicide in 2016 following child rape allegations.
Kate claims she had sex with Ellis four times when she was 15 and 16 and still living at home. There was no coercion, "just an understanding that he wanted to have sex with me and I just did … whenever he turned up, he'd have sex with me. I didn't at the time think that was some big, terrible thing … I was reasonably neutral about it. I didn't hate him."
She recalls one of those encounters in a new poem, Chattel, while in her book Rozanna writes of how Ellis allegedly forced her "reluctant fingers" inside his "verbose Y-fronts". That poem is called Come Here, Child.
Rozanna says Ellis was simultaneously a friend and supporter: he tried to secure her film work and hired her as a school holiday nanny, thus adding to her confusion about the art scene's sexual ethics.
Kate reveals she has been through 20 years of therapy, partly because of the depression and anxiety that runs in her family, and partly because of her teenage experiences. She has written about the latter obliquely in earlier poetry collections, but the revelations of the #MeToo movement convinced her "this is a moment to risk something more explicit".
She says the past sexual violations she was subjected to form "a strong presence in the book, not sexual abuse only but a culture of sexual predation and objectification". One poem, Party Favour, ends with the devastating memory of telling her mother about the rape she allegedly endured at 15, and realising "she's not on my side".
In her essays, Rozanna writes of her adolescence with more of a sense of regret than anger; her poems reveal more of her "hurt self". She also told her story to the royal commission into child abuse, in a closed session that focused on the entertainment industry.
She was just 13 when she was cast in a colonial-era film, Journey Among Women, about convict women who escape from their abusive guards and attempt to create a feral, women-only bush colony, complete with gratuitous nudity and lesbian romance.
Rozanna had her first period while on the set, yet she appears topless and naked in this "schlock" film and has "a lesbian affair with a judge's daughter, which is ridiculous … My first experience of faux intercourse was having an actor on top of me, pretending to rape me in that film. I looked back on that and I thought: 'How extraordinary to put a young girl through that.' "
The schoolgirl's on-screen nudity attracted media attention and she ended up on the front page of a tabloid when Journey Among Women was released in 1977. Her father once rescued her from the set when she became nauseous and drunk from consuming alcohol used in one scene.
She notes that "perhaps the really disturbing part is that my mother wrote the script, or sections of the script. She had a lot of fantasies about herself that she enacted through her daughters — and that would be a prime example." The film is still being sold on DVD.
Before they left school, both girls were cast in small roles in the classic film The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith. Aged 15 and 17, and unbeknown to each other, they both slept with the same senior crew member.
This is a complex and painful story, in which the women's evident love for their parents collides with their ambivalence about how they failed to protect them from predators. Kate says that for all her mother's flaws, "we loved each other hugely". She edited the book Selected Poems of Dorothy Hewett, in 2010.
Though her father was "a very difficult man", Rozanna maintained a "huge well of affection" for Merv Lilley and helped look after him before he died in 2016. "They were both very damaged," says Kate. "Dad made efforts to try to protect us but he was very mad … I assume he was bipolar; he was also violent."
Rozanna says her father "was busily running around chasing women and generally carrying on, often in a rather more aggressive way than my mother was". Yet one of her poems, Soap Opera, tells how she once found her mother at home in bed with a strange man. Later that night, she saw her father washing the dishes and weeping.
Both Lilley daughters attempted to escape the tumult and chaos of their parents' home by moving in with older men. Kate says she started living with a now eminent artist when she was 16. He was in his 30s and had a serious drinking problem. (The artist claims she was 17 at the time.) He adds that Hewett, with whom he later formed "a really intense, creative relationship of the mind", paid the bond on his and Kate's rented apartment. Soon after this, Kate started a relationship with a female teacher known for sleeping with her students.
The girls eventually found stability by turning away from the aggressively alternative arts world for which they had been so assiduously groomed, and embracing academe.
Kate pursued postgraduate studies at London and Oxford universities before joining the University of Sydney, while Rozanna has two PhDs and is an autism researcher attached to Macquarie University. Both are in long-term relationships and Rozanna says, touchingly, that she is "terribly proud" of this, as "it was difficult for us to figure out how to do that given the kind of household we grew up in".
Novelist Tom Flood, Kate's and Rozanna's half-brother, says his mother "believed in children's rights'' and that "covered a wide range''. While Flood, a Miles Franklin literary award winner, mostly lived in Western Australia in the 70s, "I knew there'd been quite a bit of underage (sexual) stuff involving quite a few people, some of whom are quite respected around town''. While his mother "put them (his sisters) into that milieu … I would sheet home any blame to the men involved. They were the times, and men were taking advantage of it.''
Photographer Juno Gemes was a friend of Hewett's and says the playwright was "a glorious feminist''. She "wanted her daughters to have access to the highest echelons of the literary world. I am really shocked that they're casting their mother like this … I think she would be devastated by these allegations.''
Energised by a cultural renaissance in local film, theatre and literature, the 70s is perhaps the most romanticised decade in Australian cultural history. Yet the sisters say few people are prepared to acknowledge the sexual exploitation that was part of this world.
Kate is not pressing for legal action to be taken against those men who are still alive and who assaulted or had underage sex with her. "I'm very scared of it all," she says. "I've been on antidepressants for 20 years. I've been in therapy for 20 years. I'm in a good place. This has all been a source of tremendous distress and pain. In one sense I feel clear-cut outrage about it and in another sense I feel it was all just a huge mess and very complicated."
Rozanna fears a "backlash" to her book. She has already found that telling her stories to people who knew her parents "will be greeted with silence and people will turn away. Obviously things are changing with the #MeToo movement. But I think people don't want to know, in the main."
And then, of course, there is the most disorienting factor of all — their mother's role in the mistreatment of her daughters.
"Mum certainly thought she was doing something for us," says Kate. "She had this fantasy of what a free life was, but she had no thought about us being kids."
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Douglas Walk
The Douglas Walk is an easy one-hour forest walk that passes by the Peters Pool viewpoint and crosses several moraines before descending to the bridge across Dolly Creek on the way back to the road.
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Franz Josef Glacier/Kā Roimata o Hine Hukatere Walk
The 40-minute walk to the terminal face of the Franz Josef Glacier follows a rocky path over riverbed. Only experienced and prepared visitors should attempt climbing on the glacier.
Category: Walking track. Completion Time: 1 hr 30 min return
Lake Wombat Track
The Lake Wombat Track leads you through a lush rimu forest to the idyllic Lake Wombat.
Category: Walking track. Completion Time: 1 hr 30 min
Okarito walking tracks
North of the Franz Josef Township sits the coastal settlement of Okarito and the Okarito Lagoon. The lagoon is home to more than 76 species of native birds including the kōtuku/white heron and royal spoonbills.
Category: Walking track.
Peters Pool Walk
The spectacular view at Peters Pool includes Franz Josef Glacier/Kā Roimata o Hine Hukatere, and the Fritz Range, including Mt Moltke and Mt Roon.
Category: Easy access walk. Completion Time: 25 min
Sentinel Rock Walk
Just a short distance south of the Franz Josef Township you will come to the Glacier and Sentinel Rock walks. The Sentinel Rock Lookout offers impressive views of the glacier, the valley and Waiho River.
Category: Short walk. Completion Time: 20 min
Tatare Tunnels Walk
The 80-minute return Tatare Tunnels Walk follows an old 4WD road to a junction with the Callery/Waiho Walk. From there follow the track to the old water tunnels.
Category: Walking track. Completion Time: 1 hr 20 min return
Terrace Walk
Follow the Terrace Walk as it winds through forest and goes by remnants of past goldmining operations.
Category: Short walk. Completion Time: 30 min
Enjoy the trails and remember your camera! There are loads of places to relax afterwards and enjoy a cuppa with cake.


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DkIT hosting Europe's first KidWind course
DUNDALK Institute of Technology (DkIT) is hosting a wind energy course which is the first of its kind in Europe this week.
Twelve teachers completed the first day of the five-day KidWind Ireland course yesterday (Monday, August 15).
The project supports primary and second level teachers all over Ireland to access training programmes and equipment in wind energy.
The KidWind programme trains and equips teachers to teach their own students about wind energy and provide knowledge about the industry.
The programme is primarily targeted at science, maths and geography teachers. The course is being delivered over five days and covers theory and practical wind energy topics.
Workshops focus on specific topics such as blade design, basic turbine system concepts to wildlife impacts, and economics.
They will also cover energy concepts, renewable energy, wind energy history, wind farms in Ireland, wind energy environmental impacts, and classroom projects such as building a model turbine using a kit.
It is hoped the KidWind Ireland project will inspire young people to continue studies in wind energy to be gainfully employed and grow the wind industry in the medium to long term.
The organisers of the programme are Irish Wind Energy Association (IWEA), Centre for Renewable Energy at DkIT, Wind Skillnet and the corporate sponsor Gaelectric.
The project is seen by its organisers as a mechanism for disseminating knowledge about the industry to schools.
According to IWEA Network Manager Johanna Cafferkey, the programme helps to inform locals about the realities of wind energy.
"Local teachers in the community will now have a significant knowledge about wind energy and can help bridge gaps between wind energy companies and rural populations," she said.
"It also helps communities to become more proactive in becoming involved with wind energy projects with the knowledge..."


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What time does Worship start?
Our morning service starts at 10:00 a.m. We recommend you arrive a little early to familiarize yourself with Haven and to get a cup of coffee. Our evening Bible study starts at 5:30 p.m. Each service lasts approximately one hour. We also offer seating during our morning service in our Fellowship Room which is directly south of the Worship Center. It is set up with a video and audio feed from the Worship Center. It is a more relaxed venue of sitting around tables. Our morning worship service can also be viewed via live streaming. Click here for more information.
What can I expect during service?
Our services involve a time of singing, prayer, short time for announcements and a message from God's Word. You can expect to hear songs that are a mixture of contemporary songs and traditional hymns. We also have an extended time of greeting about half way through the service where you can greet those around you, grab a drink, check on a child in nursery, etc.
How should I dress?
You may see dress suits to shorts and anything in between. Most people will dress in business casual.
Where is the Nursery?
The Nursery is located on northwest corner of the main building. You can enter through any of the six entrances and make your way to northwest corner. More information can be found on the Nursery page.
What is available for children?
On Sundays we have Children in Worship. On Wednesdays we have activities for Preschool through 5th grade. More information found on the Children's Ministry page.
What about middle school and high school age?
Middle School Youth Group is held on Wednesday nights for 6th – 8th graders. High School Youth Group is held on Sunday evenings. Learn more about Middle School and High School Youth Group on the Student Life Ministries page.
What about other ages?
There are several opportunities for you to get involved in the life of the church. Go to Adult Ministries for more information.
What are Life Groups?
You may read about Life Groups in our News and Notes and on our website. Our eight Life Groups are Haven's Elder/Deacon "districts". Instead of being arranged alphabetically, our Life Groups are geographical. Our Life Groups also provide support for members within and outside the Life Group as well as provide opportunity for social events.
How is Haven structured?
Haven's leadership is made up of Shepherding Elders, Service Deacons and Administrative Elders and Deacons and a Senior Pastor. Haven has Ministry Teams which are responsible for every aspect of ministry within and outside Haven. A mix of volunteers and paid staff work together on Ministry Team mandates and goals.


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In November, we were privileged to welcome Elder Gregory A. Schwitzer and his beautiful wife, JoAnn, to the Texas McAllen Mission. What an inspiration they were to us as well as to the missionaries! They set aside time to meet personally with us, as well as to teach during an inspirational Zone Leader's Council. They met with our senior couples and Elder Schwitzer interviewed as many missionaries as possible. There is even a rumor circulating around the mission that Sister Trayner took Sister Schwitzer tie digging- at Sister Schwitzer's request, of course... hijole!
Some of the favorite things that the missionaries remember about the Mission Tour were quotes like this:
- "Wherever you are- BE THERE" - Sister Schwitzer
- "Our own soul must be included in what we impart to others." -Elder Schwitzer
- "Strive to inspire, rather than to impress." -Elder Schwitzer
- "Take time with the Book of Mormon, the book will open itself to you." -Elder Schwitzer
For the first time since my husband and I arrived in Texas, we brought together the entire mission to be taught by Elder and Sister Schwitzer in one Zone Conference. We came up with a few minutes to have a mission photo taken. It's small, but we're ALL there! Here are some additional pictures from the Mission Tour:


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Hey folks, I'm looking at two bandsaws tomorrow and I'm not sure which one to go with.
Before I list the contenders I need to emphasize that I don't have much space and I do move a lot (so the lighter the better when it comes to big tools) and I have to fit it in my car when I pick it up. :)
Also I only have $150 to spend.
So with that said, the first option is a 1987 Grizzly G1019 for $125. It's 14", heavy (200lbs.) 3/4 hp with a little bit of rust here and there.
The other is a Craftsman 12" 3/4 hp practically brand new and $150. This one is a bit lighter @ 150lbs.
Now normally I steer clear of craftsman for anything other than mechanics tools. (sorry, don't mean to ruffle any craftsman fan's feathers out there, but I've been burned a few times and have read way too many poor reviews with this company), however this particular one is often compared to the Rikon and I've read some good reviews about it. Also I like the fact that it is 50lbs lighter.
The thing about the Grizzly is that it's an '87 and I don't know what Grizzly was like back then. Was it still decent quality? Better quality? I have no clue. Also the extra 50lbs turns me off.
Any insights or experience anyone has would be very helpful as I'm going back and forth with this.


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Intelligent Building..how ready are you?
Umar Uba
December 2012.
Intelligent Building – How ready are you?
The objective in intelligent building is to maximize energy efficiency and to enhance work performance by combining environmental system technologies.
The intelligent building takes energy management system a step further. The purpose is not just to control energy consumption but also to operate the other systems in the building in the most efficient way.
Imagine when a home tells you the garage door is not shut. When a house tells you the light in the baby's room is left on. Or when the house shuts the windows and power up the air conditioners because it senses you inside and also senses the temperature indoor will make sweat.
The list goes on and on. How ready are you to invest in such a structure?
Conveniences are known to dominate the automobiles and aircraft industry only. These are temporary accommodation for human comfort. Imagine setting out on a journey of about three hours in a very comfortable vehicle. In reaching your destination leaving the keyless car entry to enter your apartment you have to fiddle with the key to unlock the entrance. Fiddling with a switch to lit the room and a fan regulator to provide air and then switched on the air conditioner. How long will it take you to settle in? All the comfort you had enjoyed enroute will be wasted before you pick up again.
What does a building need to be intelligent? Several factors are required to enhance your building to make it intelligent these include:
Power back up system. Not only having a stand-by generator but having a fully back-up of average requirement to last through the rainy day. This is achieved by the use of inverter and battery banks to store energy.
Embedded solar installation. This is done to be part of the structure either of roof, windows and walls. The solar panels are mounted to fit into the structure.
Structured Cabling. This is considered during the initial design embedded during the construction to contain features such as; Network system, Detectors and Fire alarm systems.
The need to have a building intelligently cannot be over emphasized. The security system having couples of camera and monitors with switches to activate alarm in the case of break in. The sense to monitor fire/smoke in a volatile area. Economic saving in energy consumption as the system shut the use of it as you exit, thus saving utility bills.
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The rating at Kansas paled compared to the .5 (388,864 households) the IRL race at Long Beach earned. The season opener at St. Petersburg on April 5 earned a .3 rating (233,000 households). The NASCAR Nextel Cup race overlapped the IRL race Sunday. The week before, the NASCAR race ran on the Satruday before the Sunday Long Beach race, and likely helped boost the ratings there.
Bolstered by Danica Patrick's victory a week earlier in Japan, the 2008 IRL race in Kansas earned a .74 rating on ESPN2, which means about 740,000 households tuned in.
After airing its first three races this season on Versus—the league's new TV partner—the next two races, Indianapolis (May 24) and Milwaukee (May 31), will air on ABC. Versus will cover qualifications and Carb Day at Indianapolis.
Though Kansas Speedway and league officials did not release any attendance numbers, several team executives said it looked like the size of the crowd at this year's race was down in Kansas due to windy conditions that made racing difficult and the threat of rain.


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Samsung HDTV & Gaming Interview @ Gaming Illustrated
Gaming Illustrated :: Saturday, October 29, 2005
Snippet : With Microsoft XBox already supporting 720p HDTV, and the announcement that XBox 360 will support 1080i HDTV along with the PS3 supporting 1080p, HDTVs are the hottest commodity in the gaming market. Gaming Illustrated caught up with Samsung's senior marketing manager to discuss what technologies are best for gamers, and how Samsung sets are primed for HDTV gaming.
Blizzard's 2005 Blizzcon: Day 0 @ Legit Reviews
Legit Reviews :: Saturday, October 29, 2005
"Before Blizzcon has even started we bring you coverage from the day before to let you see the inner workings and give you a sneak peak for what you will see tomorrow. For those who attend the 2005 BlizzCon event will find out that they get a special gift from Blizzard that gives them a Murloc pet and access to a beta site for a FUTURE Blizzard title… "
How To Be A Game Developer
The Tech Zone :: Friday, October 28, 2005
In the good old days, back when the Internet had about 10 users and the web was a far off vision, PCs were called Home Computers and anyone could learn to write computer games. Three of us set up in business to write and sell our own games for the ZX Spectrum (Aka Timex/Sinclair) and Commodore 64. We didn't sell many games but we were saved by getting into the game conversion business. A publisher would release a hit on the Commodore 64 and we'd write the Timex, Amstrad, MSX, CBM 16 etc versions. It took about 3 months for one person to produce a game.
HEXUS.gaming Review :: Serious Sam 2
Hexus :: Friday, October 28, 2005
Just how much mindless blasting can you take before it's too much? There's certainly plenty of enjoyment in here, but just as being given the keys to the brewery will see you in hospital with a stomach pump going full chat… Serious Sam 2's blasting is the digital equivalent of binge drinking… binge blasting perhaps?
Dungeon Siege II @ Gaming Illustrated
Gaming Illustrated :: Friday, October 28, 2005
Snippet : Dungeon Siege II is the kind of game that's a highly addictive and immersive title that you'll find yourself playing through multiple times. The game has great diversity in characters (who you can be) and monsters (who you kill), and the storyline is rich enough to keep gamers guessing at what's coming next, all backdropped by some gorgeous graphics.
Gaming Brief Editorial at Gamer's Hell
Gamer's Hell :: Friday, October 28, 2005
check it out
Sharkoon Silent Eagle 2000 Case Fan @ LAN Addict
LAN Addict :: Wednesday, October 26, 2005
With acoustics and design becoming more and more important in the computer market, Sharkoon as a company has kept up with the curve. Sharkoon has been moving more and more toward \"noiseless\" operation, and their newest innovation the Silent Eagle Fan. This fan comes in 1000 and 2000 RPM Speeds, with the noise level rated very low for both. The one that they sent me was the 2000RPM but I will give the specs for both in this review.
Quake 4 Console & Tweak Guide @ Viperlair
ViperLair :: Wednesday, October 26, 2005
The console and .cfg file have a host of tweaks and tricks ready for the user to explore. We outline some of the basics you should know.
"An autoexec.cfg file is a text file that you can edit with your settings and have those settings run every time Quake 4 starts without any interaction from you. You simply create a new text file in the Quake 4\q4base folder (the same location as the Quake4Config.cfg) and save it as autoexec.cfg."
Quake 4 Screenshot Walk-Through Gallery
uberw00t.com :: Wednesday, October 26, 2005
Pimprig's sister site, uberw00t.com, which mainly focuses on gaming related topics and is still early in it's development, has a new 750+ screenshot gallery which progresses throughout the entire game. Many spoilers inside.
Securing Your Computer – Part 1 @ HardwareHell
Gamer's Hell :: Tuesday, October 25, 2005
The first thing that you should ask yourself is, "What is this computer for?" For example, if this computer is only going to be used for surfing the web and writing documents, do you really need it to be able to run network games? After we have decided what we are going to use our computer for, we should begin locking out the features we don't need. I will give a few useful examples related to networking here:
EA Sports & XBox 360 : Exclusive Interview @ Gaming Illustrated
Gaming Illustrated :: Monday, October 24, 2005
Snippet : With the release of XBox 360 coming in little more than a month, gamers are dying to get inside information. Gaming Illustrated had the pleasure of discussing the new platform with Madden Xbox 360 Senior Producer Jeremy Strauser, discussing the new XBox 360 platform, new avenues for creativity, and the power of HDTV gaming.
MediEvil Resurrection for PSP review
Gaming Illustrated :: Sunday, October 23, 2005
Snippet : MediEvil Resurrection is a solid title whose best features include the humor, story, and amount of modes the game offers. It's pretty fun to play and the story was funny enough to keep gamers going until the finish. The downside of the title is that the graphics are lacklaster and fail to fully realize the PSP's potential.
HEXUS.gaming :: Quake 4 – The First 15
Hexus :: Sunday, October 23, 2005
The first thing that you'll notice as soon as you get into the meat of Quake 4 is just how similar it looks to Doom 3. On the graphics front the original Quake was very brown, Quake 2 was brown and grey and now Quake 4 may well end up being known as Doom 3 under a new name. In fact, purely as a first impression, I couldn't help but think that Quake 4 is the game Doom 3 should have been!
The new review of Age of Empires III
Strategy Informer :: Friday, October 21, 2005
new review of Age of Empires III is up at:
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News Flash – Batman Begins Review for Xbox
Futurelooks :: Friday, October 21, 2005
They told me there was nothing out there, nothing to fear. And in the darkness, there was Batman Begins…for the Xbox. And this is what I found…
Sunbeam Chromatic Windmill Fan Controller @ LAN Addict
LAN Addict :: Friday, October 21, 2005
The Chromatic Windmill is made by Sunbeamtech. It\'s packed with cool features and neat little things. When you open up the Chromatic Windmill\'s box you\'ll find the 5.25\" bay controller unit, fan leads, thermal sensors, and power cord. There are also two wafer batteries (to save settings when unit losses power) along w/ mounting screws and adhesive tape for the thermal leads. The cables are wrapped in EMI shielded cable that shrink wrapped at the ends to keep things tidy.
Kingdom Under Fire : Heroes (XBox) Review @ Gaming Illustrated
Gaming Illustrated :: Thursday, October 20, 2005
Score: 94%
Snippet: Kingdom Under Fire: Heroes is an absolute winner for Xbox and one of the most original and engaging gameplay experiences ever for a console system. Rarely has a game for a console system so well incorporated the best aspects of RTS while integrating a fun and exciting "action" fighting mode.
Serious Sam II Review
Techgage :: Thursday, October 20, 2005
Quote: Does your latest FPS lack the 'kill kill kill' feel? Well you may want to try out Serious Sam II, which will give you more than you will ever need! From Croteam comes the latest game in the Serious Sam series, with great graphics, powerful weapons and of course, creative creatures! Let's see if this sequel was one worth waiting for.
FEAR v1.01 Patch
Gamer's Hell :: Wednesday, October 19, 2005
A brand new game and already a patch?
Well, check it out
Splinter Cell Chaos Theory v1.05 Patch and Pacific Fighters v4.02 Patch
Gamer's Hell :: Wednesday, October 19, 2005
Here's the patch…. check it out
World of Warcraft news @ Gamer's Hell
Gamer's Hell :: Wednesday, October 19, 2005
the Burning Crusade Rumour
Yeah, I know I spelled rumor with an extra "u"! Live with it, unless you're one of our British readers, in which case you never noticed! Bloody 'ell!
New Games reviewed at Gamer's Hell
Gamer's Hell :: Tuesday, October 18, 2005
Gamer's Hell has posted a review of Inuyasha: Feudal Combat
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One Piece: Grand Battle PS2 Review
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Frantix Review
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DH Review: Day of Defeat: Source
Driver Heaven :: Saturday, October 15, 2005
Day of Defeat is one of the most popular Half Life 1 mods available today, but with the release of Valve?s Source engine gamers everywhere could see that DoD was in great need of a makeover. Day of Defeat: Source is a remake of the hit HL1 mod, but this time around it has a completely new look while still delivering the intense close quarters combat that WWII fans fell in love with. With a price tag of only $20 for Half Life 2 owners, Day of Defeat: Source is the perfect title for anyone seeking WWII multiplayer mayhem.
Madden 06 for PSP Review
Gaming Illustrated :: Friday, October 14, 2005
Snippet : The NFL licensed video game franchise comes for the first time to Sony's Portable Playstation in the form of Madden 06. The game features all the fun, modes, and connectivity as its console edition, including a robust and impressive season mode. With some solid graphics, great action, tons of game modes, Madden 06 looks to be a solid title for PSP.
LAN Party :: Friday, October 14, 2005
Sorry I had the wrong links. The correct links are listed below…
This past August, I was on hand at QuakeCon in Dallas, TX where I captured much of the happenings on video. Now I am pleased to present video coverage of Quake 4 from QuakeCon 2005! These two video segments show footage from both single and multiplayer versions of the game, the introduction by Todd Hollenshead, CEO of ID software, and responses to questions submitted by the audience. These videos utilize the H.264 video codec, so make sure you have QuickTime 7 installed which can be for free.
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Quake 4 Intro
Mashie Design Visual Audio @ techPowerUp!
techPowerUp! :: Thursday, October 13, 2005
World-famous case modder Mashie has created this unique case modding accessory. It is a stereo 7-channel real-time spectrum analyzer which shows beautiful patterns on 112 LEDs. It goes into two 5.25″ drive bays and does not require any additional software because it comes with its own microprocessor on-board.
World of Warcraft v1.8.0 US Patch
Gamer's Hell :: Tuesday, October 11, 2005
– World of Warcraft v1.8.0 US Patch get the patch here
News: Kodak LS753 5.0MP Digital Camera
Gamer God :: Tuesday, October 11, 2005
"Usually, a digital camera should be fast in taking bigger pictures, should not have interpolated mega pixels (this is a very pretty marketing gimmick. Do not go for interpolated mega pixel cameras). Previously, I was using Microtek S3 Take IT 5MP camera, and if you're looking for worst 5mp camera, S3 might cut out to be a likely candidate. Then I used Olympus C370. The picture quality results of that camera were reasonable and price was fine too. The camera cost aboutabout $150 and so. There was one good feature in C370 that I liked very much, which was the ability to shoot Super Close images, since in hardware reviewing, images speak louder thanthan words. However, the closer we got, the more sensitive the camera became and would blur the images over a period of time.."