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I have never liked using a case on my iPhones (from the beginning). I've never found one that didn't make it feel excessively bulky and, well, ugly. I like the feel and look of the devices, and have never liked covering it up with a case. My wife, on the other hand, is pretty rough on her iPhones, and benefits from having one. So I ordered one of the new Apple leather 5/5s cases (blue) for her at the same time I ordered my 5s, with the ulterior motive of evaluating it for myself, to see if I might finally cave in and start using a case.
She loves it – it's super slim, feels and looks very nice, and provides good protection (especially to the back, edges, and corners, which are the most vulnerable areas on the 5 series, IMO). I liked it too, a lot, so I went out and picked one up for my 5s. I went back and forth on color, between black and red, and finally went with red, just to have a little splash of color. I love it so far. Feels nice, looks GREAT, and doesn't add hardly any bulk. One of the best features is that it adds a little grip to these very slippery phones, and I feel like it's much less likely that it'll slip out of my hand with the case on.
I've seen some complaints that the buttons (power and volume) are kind of hard to press through the case, and they are a bit stiff, but not excessively so, and I'm sure they'll loosen up over time. I've also seen complaints that it's hard to remove the phone from the case, which is true, but I don't intend to take it out of the case very often, so it's not a big deal to me. It's kind of pricey at $40, but that's Apple for you. Great quality, worth it to me.
A couple of incidental observations:
I picked up the case at the Washington Square Apple Store (in the Portland, OR area) on Saturday afternoon. I used the Apple Store app on my phone to scan and pay for the case without waiting in any lines, or interacting with anyone. Even in a super crowded store, I could have been in and out of there in a minute if I hadn't stopped to chat with one of the sales guys. Very slick experience.
As I mentioned, the store was PACKED, which isn't unusual, but besides the normal crowd (I've never seen Washington Square mall this crowded, in general), there was a line of about 50 people *outside* the store, queued neatly behind some ropes. Mind you, this was about 4:30pm on a Saturday afternoon. I asked what they were lining up for, and the sales guy told me it was for the 5s. He said that was the first day they'd received any significant stock since launch, and people were still lining up for it.
So, after 6 years, and on my seventh iPhone, I think I finally found a case I like.


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thanks guys for all info on where to find some fal mags but i got lucky and had friend that wanted to get rid of some israli (spelling) mags for 10 bucks a piece so i got 16- 20 rounders and 2 -5 rounders.
i don't think i did to bad
buying up all the guns and ammo i can just to PISS OFF the douche bag liberals
i have not had any problems with the DSA mags
I've had good luck finding them on the secondary market. Keep an eye out on the boards...
J&G Sales has them for $13 to $15 each depending on how many you buy.
When you're born you get a ticket to the freak show. When you're born in America , you get a front row seat. - George Carlin
I think I'll try some DSA's know...maybe get 5 of them.
If they work I'll get several more.


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Malachi necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 325 diseños de 75 diseñadores freelance.
Malachi Constructions
Malachi Constructions is a fresh, young construction company located in regional Australia. Our focus is on building commercial and industrial projects, though we also build custom-designed houses and take on major renovations.
Our main competitors for business are long established, big-name builders in the area. See the websites below
Perkins Builders http://www.perkinsbuilders.com.au/
Smith Constructions http://www.smithconstructions.com.au/
Cimeco http://www.cimeco.com.au/our-busine…jects.html
We need to have a fresh approach in an established industry.
Our slogan is- sustainable construction through strength and experience
Malachi Constructions targets private investors and government developers who want to build commercial or industrial projects, up to $10 million in value.
We plan to be accessible to the mining industry in the future.
We need a simple, striking, bold design- not too complicated. The simpler the better.
The logo needs to be royal blue and white, with a touch or red, black or both.
The name "Malachi Constructions" doesn't have to be incorporated into the logo itself, but it does need to 'fit' together with the name.
This logo will be used from website through to job site- including stationary, vehicles, banners and signs.
Please provide files in vector and JPEG formats
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Harvesting time in Finca Villacreces, considered the "hidden gem" of Ribera del Duero, showing how the grapes are gathered with care and attention to detail to make Pruno, Finca Villacreces, and Nebro wines.
Underground wine cellars. Aranda de Duero
Couple enjoying a glass of Ribera del Duero wine
Valbuena monastery
Square in Peñaranda de Duero
Contact details
Plaza del Trigo 10, 3º
09400 Aranda de Duero, Burgos (Castilla y Leon)
Ribera del Duero wine route
Tel.:+34 947107254
More info
The Ribera del Duero wine route runs through inland Spain, and more particularly, through four provinces in Castile-León: Burgos, Segovia, Soria and Valladolid. It covers a length of 115 kilometres, throughout which the Duero River is a constant travelling companion along the whole way. Underground wine cellars to take visitors back in time to the origins of wine, the tradition of wine-producing families, the combination of avant-garde architecture, the typical gastronomy of Castile, cultural heritage and natural landscapes... all these elements make this journey an unforgettable experience.
Wineries on the route.
- >Bodegas Viña Solorca Winery
- >Bodegas Traslascuestas Winery
- >Bodegas y Viñedos Ortega Fournier Wineries
- >Bodegas Valdubón Winery
- >Bodegas Tarsus Winery
- >Cillar de Silos
- >CIAVIN- Bodega de las Animas Winery
- >Bodega Matarromera Winery
- >Bodega Emina and Wine Museum
- >Bodegas y Viñedos Señorío de Bocos Winery
What are the wines like?
The Ribera del Duero wine route offers rosé wines, young reds and young oak-aged wines as well as crianza, reserva and gran reserva categories... Different presentations in the bottle, but with one common denominator: the Tempranillo grape. This local variety is typical of the Ribera del Duero area and endows these wines with the colour, aroma and body that make them so special. In addition to Tempranillo, the Regulatory Board allows other varieties: red grapes such as Cabernet-Sauvignon, Merlot, Malbec and Garnacha Tinta, and the only authorised white grape, Albillo. These six varieties of grape give these wines a unique and unmistakable flavour and strength, and guarantee quality in every bottle. The wine route covers a total of 21,000 hectares of vineyards, in an area that produces almost 50 million litres of wine each year.
What will I find?
The region is home to a rich historic and artistic heritage thanks to such important monuments as the church of Santa María La Real, monasteries like Nuestra Señora de la Vid or Valbuena, collegiate churches, castles, towers and Arab watchtowers, Romanesque art and architecture in the area around Soria, and Celtic-Iberian and Roman archaeological sites. You can also visit a multitude of museums and information centres. The cultural calendar features an array of events, and highlights include the festivities in honour of Nuestra Señora de las Viñas, San Roque and La Asunción, the Wine Harvest Festival, mediaeval street markets, the Sonorama-Ribera rock festival and La Francesada, in addition to its Easter week commemorations, with the famous ceremony known as the Descent of the Angel. It is also a land of excellent gastronomy thanks to products such as milk-fed baby lamb, lamb roasted at 180 ºC in traditional clay ovens and served in the typical roast-meat restaurants or 'asadors', sausages such as black pudding and chorizo, cheese, mushrooms, typical Castilian soup, baby lamb chops, partridge and a range of typical sweets including 'empiñonados', pastries and crystallized egg yolks. The route features traditional wine presses and age-old wine cellars that in many places are in the form of underground tunnels, and grand wineries in spectacular avant-garde buildings. There are also a number of activities associated to the world of wine, including wine tasting in wineries, the chance to sample a range of gastronomic delicacies, walking amid vineyards, and wine therapy treatments available in spa resorts.
How to get there
The Ribera del Duero region is in the heart of the plateau of Castile-León in inland Spain, and the Duero river acts as a natural companion along the route. If you are travelling by car, you can reach it on the A-1 dual carriageway which runs through the centre of the area covered by the Designation of Origin (places like Aranda de Duero are located about 160 kilometres from Madrid), or on the N-122 main road that connects Aragon with Castile-León and Portugal through the Duero valley. If you're travelling by public transport there are various stations and bus stops located in all the main towns along the route. The nearest airports are Valladolid (100 kilometres) and Burgos (90 kilometres).
Wine towns
There are 82 municipalities in the Ribera del Duero region. You'll find tourist offices for the Ribera del Duero Designation of Origen in the towns of Aranda de Duero, Fuentelcésped, La Horra, Peñafiel, Peñaranda de Duero, Roa de Duero, San Esteban de Gormaz and Valbuena de Duero. Use the map on this page to see all these destinations.


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An archive of my previous user page can be found here. I am an active contributor to English Wikipedia. My name there is Wikipedian Penguin.
I edited in 2008 and will probably give this wiki another shot, after having lost interest. A lot has changed, so I'll begin with incremental edits. Things seem to be getting intense in the manga, and that is restoring my motivation.
If I mess up or violate a new rule that has been placed since I left, a kind reminder is always nice. I try my best not to repeat mistakes.
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If there's one lesson to take from Francis Ford Coppola's celebrated mafia trilogy, it's that when the Godfather talks, you listen. So it is that when the Godfather of Grappling -- the legendary "Judo" Gene LeBell -- is willing to take SLAM! Wrestling on a tour through his career in the ring and doing stunt work in films that men half his age would shy away from, careful attention must be paid.
What emerged after speaking with LeBell and two of his fellow wrestlers-turned-actors was the portrait of a man who stands up for his friends, for passionate work, and who hides a caring nature underneath a rough-and-tumble exterior.
"Once in a while it's nice to be able to take care of yourself," LeBell states matter-of-factly, providing an understatement concerning his credentials in the professional fighting world. LeBell defines his first love, grappling, as a combination of styles as diverse as Greco-Roman and freestyle wrestling, judo, boxing, and more. Ed "Strangler" Lewis introduced LeBell to grappling, teaching him the barbaric beauty of a sport in which you could "hit someone in the mouth and go into a front-face lock -- legally," as LeBell describes it.
The future Godfather met the Strangler while LeBell's mother, Aileen Eaton, ran the operations of the Los Angeles Auditorium. Since she booked legendary boxers such as Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier, along with equally luminary wrestlers John Tolos and Andre the Giant, she gave her son an advantage in growing up with magnificent talents from these different disciplines surrounding him. It was therefore only logical that he would find his way into some facet of the fighting or entertainment business at some point (Gene's brother, Mike, would run the Los Angeles wrestling territory as well).
He tried many different roads with his various skills, rubbing shoulders over the years with a roll call of people that reads like a hall of fame induction list: Mike Mazurki, Mando Guerrero and Lou Thesz are names that come off the top of LeBell's head, harkening back to a different era in pro wrestling.
It's an era that LeBell misses. "You have to have show business now," he states. "You look at Lou Thesz -- he never over-acted and he always went for the finishing holds -- and they believed it. When I first went to Japan and saw some of the superstars from over here clowning around, the audience said 'no way.' We want something than we can believe."
LeBell never had any trouble with people disbelieving his fighting prowess. In judo, he claimed National Judo Heavyweight Championships in 1954 and 1955. In amateur wrestling, LeBell's record is a little harder to quantify since he doesn't count his disqualifications as losses -- and there were many disqualifications.
"I spent my life doing grappling, which is illegal," he explains. "So when I wrestled amateurs I'd either win or get disqualified." In the crowning moment of his career in professional wrestling, however, LeBell managed to both win and get disqualified in the same match. After taking the heavyweight title from Australian Pat O'Connor in Amarillo, Texas, LeBell got a little carried away and swung the belt around in celebration. He clocked the commissioner on the head with the belt and was abruptly stripped of the title. Still, he had reached the top of yet another mountain (albeit briefly), and LeBell looked for a new challenge. He found it in Hollywood.
LeBell has been recognized in the past as a "Reel Honouree" by the Cauliflower Alley Club, an award bestowed upon him for an endless array of credits in acting and stunt work (he also received the CAC's top honor, the Iron Mike Mazurki Award, in 1995). As with others that have made the transition from squared circle to silver screen, LeBell considered the business in the ring and in front of the camera to be complimentary, and he offered some insight as to why there has been such a legion of talent able to cross over in both directions.
"A lot of the pros do so well because they're used to the interviews and they can do dialogue so easily -- it doesn't intimidate them," he surmises. "Wrestlers are easy to work with, they do what you say because there's no ego."
Wait -- no ego amongst wrestlers?
To clarify, LeBell defines ego in wrestling and ego in Hollywood as different entities. "In the film business, everybody's trying to get the jobs, and if there's a good script, and a big budget, movie stars will try and get on it," he suggests. "It's not physical, but they do whatever they can politically."
This aspect of playing such mind games within the film business seems to rub LeBell the wrong way, and it's no surprise for a man who has always been accustomed to handling problems with his bare hands. If anything, LeBell uses his political clout to help people, not hold them down.
"I think he actually works harder for his boys than for himself," Armstrong suggests. "He's a very giving guy, which people don't know because he's a tough guy. But when he takes you under his wing, you're flying. Some guys want to take advantage of him because he's a nice guy, but the smart guys are the ones that learn from Gene. He'll teach you stuff like not to rush on the show."
Not rushing on the show must be part of a commitment to getting the job done just right ... right? "No, you'll get double-time if you stay another two hours," laughs Armstrong.
As for the politicking in pro wrestling: "The difference is you can get hurt," LeBell explains succinctly. "If a guy doesn't like you and he's a better wrestler than you, he beats the crap out of you -- and I've seen that many times. But if you can wrestle, really wrestle, you don't get hurt nearly as much."
As previously mentioned, LeBell hails from a time when being able to "really wrestle" was the chief commodity for achieving success. He adds his voice to countless others that look back fondly on a bygone era. "I'm from the old school, and I like people that can wrestle," he says. "If you have a little charisma, that's a plus. But clowns that just make an abortion out of wrestling, they can't be my heroes."
However, one can't deny that it's exactly this mixture of showmanship and athletic ability that has enabled LeBell and others like him to craft lengthy careers spanning various fields of entertainment. Every wrestler must be in part a showman, and it is clear that LeBell is simply of the opinion that most pro wrestlers today lean too heavily towards the showmanship.
Impressive as The Rock's success has been, however, he's still a potential flash-in-the-pan when compared to LeBell as you look at his whole career. While amassing an amazing range of credits that has allowed LeBell to be a part of such seminary films as Raging Bull and a host of Carl Reiner comedies (including The One and Only), he attributes his success to an unlikely and self-deprecatory feature: "I've made a lot of money in the movie by being ugly, not by being pretty," he laughs. "If there's a pretty guy, they don't want to beat them up in the movies. Even when I was younger, if they wanted to beat me up, I had to wear a mustache or a scar, so the audience doesn't feel sorry for me."
And you wouldn't be out of line feeling sorry for LeBell if you caught sight of him doing some of his stunt work. Taking falls, crashing cars and motorbikes, being set on fire -- it's all in a day's work. Of course, let's not beat around the bush: for LeBell to be so involved in this line of work at his age is remarkable (LeBell was very reluctant to speak of his age, so I'll simply say he's in the high double-digits ... the man knows where I live).
Scott L. Schwartz, another wrestler-turned actor that owes LeBell for helping to get his foot in the door, has the utmost respect for LeBell's workrate in the stunt world.
"Gene has no fear," Schwartz says, indicating what he believes to be LeBell's greatest asset. "There are a couple of guys who can play a senior citizen walking down a hall, getting knocked into a wall, but nobody in the business will take it to the level that Gene does. I can still see him at a hundred years old in a wheelchair, getting knocked down three flights of stairwells, laying still until they call 'cut' and then he'll dust himself off and go do it again."
Armstrong has a similar suggestion as to how LeBell has accomplished everything he has: "He's a fanatic," he says. "Gene always delivered. He still delivers."
All of this has helped create the legend that is Gene LeBell in the stunt business. "In North America, I'm as well known as any guy," he explains. "That doesn't mean I'm the best stuntman, just that I'm known more than the others. I've been doing stunts for 50 years, and there are a lot of great stuntmen a lot better than me, but I work a lot because people know me and like me."
There was one much-publicized incident of an actor getting hurt that LeBell had a ringside seat for: Man on the Moon. "I've worked on series where the star had too much of an ego to let the stunt guy do it, and the star got hurt and closed down the show," he says. In this case, he doesn't name Jim Carrey as that person, but he does say this: "I said to Buddy Joe Hooker (stunt coordinator for Man on the Moon), 'the guy's not a wrestler.' But he went out and did it anyway, and you know how bad they wanted publicity, and they got some good copy on it."
Speaking of good copy, as soon as LeBell learns that I'm calling from the good-looking side of Niagara Falls, he goes on to share some "Canadian Content" material.
"My wife was born in Canada," he tells me before going on to proclaim a certain respect for Canada and Canadian wrestlers. "There are some good wrestlers from Canada --Gene Kiniski and all the Harts were good wrestlers," he notes. "The father was good, the sons are good."
He also attributes his continuing good health in part to "the clean living in Vancouver." As for films in Hollywood North, he remembers having fun on Rat Race, for which he was the second unit director but didn't have too long to strut his stuff on-screen. "The only time you see me is when I play an old man in a home," he laughs. "One of the comedians dresses up like Hitler and I try and shoot him, and they carry me away."
As you scan down his list of credits, you'll see that LeBell often plays "Referee", "Guard", or some such tough-guy role. In real life, it's LeBell's role as teacher at his school for grappling in California that gives him the greatest sense of satisfaction and fulfillment. "It gives me a feeling of well-being to take a guy in and instead of him being a hoodlum, he ends up being a credit to society, which I think is very important, especially in L.A.," he explains. "Anyone can walk across the Mexican border, and often they don't speak English. That doesn't mean they're bad, but a lot of them don't have jobs so they steal for a living or whatever they have to do to survive."
Hardly a politician's delicate speech, but it's not LeBell's intent to keep his feelings and opinions hidden. "I feel I help society and I help the individual. If a guy comes in with an attitude, I give him an attitude adjustment. He either changes or he doesn't come back. You don't want to teach anybody to fight that'll just go punch people out in a bar."
Thankfully, LeBell is more than a hoodlum or a bully, and he has used his skills for admirable purposes in teaching and helping to forge paths for other wrestlers to find their way into the film business.
His legendary status in the film world is built upon his role as an integral part of a film's structure, one that doesn't garner as much recognition as the actor, writer or director, but rest assured, many sequences just wouldn't be possible without LeBell's expertise and fearlessness.
So the next time you see a film featuring a red-haired "senior citizen" taking a tumble down an apartment fire escape to the street below, remember it's probably Gene LeBell, so not only was he unhurt -- he probably got up and did it again.


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Based after the book, Blue Gold: The Fight to Stop the Corporate Theft of the World's Water by Maude Barlow and Tony Clarke, Blue Gold the film is not for the faint hearted, as it kicks off its 90 minutes by explaining that human eyes dry out after a few days without water, making you literally cry blood. Then the film declares we're running out of clean water.
How could we be running out of a renewable resource like water? Basically, we're wasting and polluting the water we've got — then preventing new clean water from getting created. Farming, for example, pollutes water with fertilizer runoff, and also wastes water because farms get free water rights with built-in disincentives for conservation. Cities too create pollution via acid rain and urban runoff — and shrinks our water tables because all the paved surfaces prevent water from soaking back into the earth. Then we've got all the industrial pollution and dams and bad flood control measures that further throw our water cycle out of whack.
To make up for all the water we've wasted and polluted, we pump too much groundwater out, creating giant sinkholes! And of course, if we're pumping out more than nature puts in, we're gonna run out of groundwater sooner or later.
And in that scarcity, big corporations see money-making opportunities — and are taking private ownership of water. In fact, in exchange for debt relief, some third world countries were forced to allow privatization of water — which resulted in lower water quality and service plus a hike in rates. Blue Gold implicates the United Nations and World Bank for this "new colonialism" created by the privatization of water, where polluted natural bodies of water become a boon for corporations that want to sell water, and where the virtual water trade — i.e. Kenya's water-intensive flowers sold to European countries unwilling to use their own water — depletes what natural resources developing nations still have.
Overwhelmed yet? Blue Gold does try to provide some ideas for solutions at the end of the film, ranging from the usual water saving tips around the home to hydroponics to permeable pavement. But what Blue Gold makes clear is that bigger policy and trade changes have to happen to prevent corporate bullying, to encourage conservation and discourage pollution, and to allow for sustainable economic development.
Perhaps we can all start by getting involved at the local level. Do you know what the state of water is in your 'hood? Start finding out by visiting Food & Watch's website, which has a section devoted to local water facts.
Blue Gold features the authors of Blue Gold the book and experts from Food & Water Watch and other organizations. The $24.99 DVD's available at the PBS store.


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Racist Who Threatened Obama Doesn't 'Understand What She Did Wrong' [VIDEO]
Earlier this week 22-year-old California woman Denise Helms made some disastrous social media choices after President Barack Obama won re-election.
Helms wrote on Facebook: "Another 4 years of this [N-word]. Maybe he will get assassinated this term."
The racist comment immediately went viral and Helms was criticized for her racism and assassination talk. Since then, Helms lost her job at Cold Stone Creamery after her employer found out about her comments and the public reaction to them.
But it seems Helms has yet to understand the severity of the situation.
"I didn't think it would be that big of a deal," she tells Fox 40 News. "The assassination part is kind of harsh. I'm not saying, like, I would go do that or anything like that, by any means, but if it was to happen, I don't think I'd care one bit."
Helms deactivated her Facebook soon after the controversy.
But Helms' post won't simply die down as social media chit-chat. Secret Service Agent Scott Gillingham from the Sacramento office has told The Modesto Bee that he would be looking into the post and the video above.
Under U.S. Code Section 871, threats against the president are considered a felony. The Code prohibits knowingly threatening "to take the life of, to kidnap, or to inflict bodily harm" on the president, vice president or other office officials in line for the seat.
The Modesto Bee also found that Helms was not a registered voter in the state of California but did Like the Romney/Ryan Facebook page.
Watch Helms defend her comment in the video above.
Do you think Helms should face some sort of legal action for her comments? Share your thoughts in the comments below.


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I've ridden past it every day since and I've yet to notice either support rally or protest rally outside of the Luxembourg Embassy related to the Fränk's positive drug test. This is what the Duchy's embassy looks like. Normally when I ride past the embassy, I drop my chain in Andy's honor, but now I'm just going to start taking banned diuretics.
|So now you know what the Luxembourg Embassy looks like.
Mass to Q. Same as always.
I rode past the Jewish Community Center at 16th with an above-the-fray, bemused smile. I normally drop the smile when I cross 16th because there's a parking lot behind the JCC and it's one of the most dangerous places I pass on my route. The lot is up a slight hill and there's almost always a driver pulling in or out and the driveway entrance is between parked cars, so the visibility is limited. There's also some street parking spots right there with high turnover. Bike lanes really don't mix well with streets that have lots of curb cuts.
Traffic Control Officer at 11th and Massachusetts and L and L.
Normally, technological solutions (such as traffic lights) have a negative impact on certain kinds of employment. Not here. He was doing a great job and for the most part, drivers actually did what he directed. It seems like a Sisyphusean task, though. It must appeal to a certain kind of person to stand athwart
The downed bollard at Penn and 7th was replaced some time today. Thanks, DDOT. It's part of their "broken windows" strategy of bike infrastructure. I don't know if this a real thing or if it should be. Frankly, I'd prefer a bolder strategy of enforcement, perhaps involve SWAT teams and helicopters, but I've always had a flair for the dramatic. A flare for the dramatic might be useful in alerting a search party made up entirely of actors.
I watched a guy in a suit try to hard to bike in circles rather than just stop and put his foot down. Believe it or not, those striped areas on the road aren't exclusively meant for it. As I watched the guy circle, another guy, he on a Furley, shoaled me on the left. "Hell hath no Furley like a Raleigh scorned." Ok, that makes no sense and I'm trying too hard.
As I nearly rode into a group of tourists who were in the process of moving out of the center of street into my path as I tried to pass them on the right, I said "Please. Excuse me." I'm not sure they heard the period. This would have been an exceptionally bad crash and I'm glad that no one walked into me.
I stopped at the store and I bought two things and it took 20 minutes at the self-checkout line. Sometimes you just get in the wrong line.


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• Retail and/or customer service experience preferred.
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CELEB TRAINER: Kathy Kaehler
1. Eat! One big mistake women make is severely cutting calories, which slows your metabolism and makes you feel deprived. The result? You binge and gain weight.
2. But, eat slowly. After each bite, put down your fork and count to 10. This allows your brain to tell your stomach, "Enough."
3. MUST-DO MOVE: Card shuffle
TARGETS: Inner and outer thighs
HOW TO DO IT: Place 10 playing cards on the floor. Now squat, pick up one card, and shuffle four paces to the right. Squat; put the card down. Shuffle back to the pile, pick another card, and repeat until all 10 cards have been moved to the right.
CELEB TRAINER: Harley Pasternak
4. Uphill walking is the best cardio exercise. (Do it outside or on a treadmill's highest incline.) It's easy on your knees while tightening your butt, thighs, and lower legs.
5. Dumbbells are better for muscle toning than weight machines, because they require no adjusting, they allow the body to move naturally, and they can be used for dozens of different exercises (while machines have a limited repertoire).
6. MUST-DO MOVE: Upper-body twist
TARGETS: Obliques (sides of stomach)
HOW TO DO IT: Sit on a mat or rug with your knees bent and your feet flexed. Lean back slightly (at a 45-degree angle). Now reach across your body with your right hand, as though you're grabbing something on your left, then reach to the right with your left hand. Do 10 reps (five on each side), rest for 30 seconds, then do two more sets.
CELEB TRAINER: David Kirsch
7. Stick your butt out on the elliptical machine. This shifts the focus to your butt, hamstrings, outer thighs, and quadriceps. (If you stand up too straight--a common mistake--you work only your quads.)
8. When you're doing any kind of athletic movement--jumping, lunging, lifting weights--never lock your elbows or knees. Keep them slightly "soft" (but not floppy) to prevent joint injury.
9. MUST-DO MOVE: Platypus walk
TARGETS: Butt
HOW TO DO IT: Firmly grasp a seven- to 10-pound medicine ball--or a dumbbell that weighs between four and 10 pounds--overhead with both hands (keeping arms straight). Squat as low as you can go, toes pointing out. Remaining in the squat, walk slowly forward for eight steps, then slowly backward for another eight. Repeat the sequence.
CELEB TRAINER: Gunnar Peterson
10. Quit quick-stepping on the stairclimber! This works fewer muscles and burns fewer calories than long, deep steps.
11. Sit still for no more than three minutes between weight-lifting sets. Waiting longer allows your muscles to cool down, weakening the benefits of the exercise.
12. MUST-DO MOVE: Tricep extension
TARGETS: The backs of the arms
HOW TO DO IT: Hold one end of a five-to-eight-pound dumbbell in both hands above your head. Slowly lower the weight behind your head so elbows point to the ceiling, then lift. Aim for three sets of eight.
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Solid-state storage proving its worth among users
More than one-third of total respondents to a recent ESG survey said their organizations are leveraging solid-state storage in some form today.
More than one-third of total respondents to a recent ESG survey said their organizations are leveraging solid-state storage in some form today.
Based on a recent Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) survey on solid-state storage adoption trends among 223 IT professionals, there's no escaping the conclusion that solid-state storage -- once viewed with skepticism due to price and performance tradeoffs -- is becoming a mainstream part of enterprise storage environments. Survey participants represented enterprise-class organizations (1,000 employees or more) in North America. For the purposes of this survey, "solid-state storage" was defined as storage that uses solid-state memory (most frequently in the form of various types of flash memory, but can also include DRAM) to store data. That means it resides in a storage system (in the form of a solid-state drive or SSD), in a storage controller, in a server or in a standalone appliance. However, for the purposes of this survey, solid-state storage didn't include solid-state drives for desktop or laptop PCs, or portable flash storage devices, such as USB drives.
Solid-state trends
To understand the relevance of the study, it's important to note that it showed solid-state storage usage, not just awareness, is increasing. More than one-third of total respondents indicated their organizations are leveraging solid-state storage in some form today. In addition, 17% have plans to deploy the technology within the next 12 months, while another 18% are in the evaluation phase. Given the pervasive media coverage of flash drive technology -- whether pertaining to enterprise IT systems or endpoint devices like laptops -- it's not surprising that only 2% of respondents said they're not familiar with solid-state storage.
While there are a number of ways to leverage flash memory to accelerate performance, SSDs are the most common type of solid-state storage implementation. Because the latest wave of solid-state usage started with enterprise data storage vendors shipping external disk storage subsystems with solid-state drives, it's not surprising that nearly half of current users leverage this option today. Likewise, almost 50% of potential adopters expect to use solid-state drives in an external disk storage subsystem within the next 12 months to 18 months. Looking ahead, standalone solid-state storage appliances -- whether serving as primary storage or a cache -- appear poised to make the most significant gains over the next 18 months in terms of market adoption among both current users and potential adopters.
Performance is still viewed as the biggest solid-state storage adoption driver, but reliability is also being recognized as a chief benefit. Improved performance is the most recognized advantage solid-state storage provides over traditional mechanical drives; however, as recently as a few years ago, there was considerable negative press about solid-state longevity and duty cycles, so many viewed this as a potential solid-state concern. Because hard disk drives (HDDs) have moving components, solid-state storage is typically more reliable, which many current users have witnessed firsthand. Improved reliability/mean time between failures (MTBF) is another important attribute to potential adopters, suggesting these organizations are looking for long-term value out of their solid-state storage investments.
ESG found that solid-state is often purchased in association with particular applications and/or workloads, but there's a shift toward broader usage. Nearly two-thirds of current solid-state storage users report their organizations purchased the technology to alleviate performance challenges associated with a specific application. Conversely, more than half of potential solid-state storage adopters don't believe their organizations will deploy the technology as a means to address specific application performance challenges. In addition, current users were more than two times as likely as potential adopters to single out I/O bottlenecks caused by server virtualization as the primary reason for initial solid-state storage adoption. These two points highlight solid-state storage technology's shift toward broader/more horizontal applicability.
There's a tight link between the use of solid-state storage and automated tiering. Automated storage tiering supports the concept of aligning more in-demand data with a higher performing storage tier, such as solid-state. It makes sense that a significant number of organizations, both current users and potential adopters of solid-state storage, have seen tiering serve as a catalyst for solid-state storage adoption. Conversely, nearly one-third of current solid-state storage users report the technology drove their initial deployment of automated tiered storage.
Pricing concerns
Lofty pricing is a stigma attached to solid-state storage and a deterrent to adoption in some cases, according to the survey. However, there's potentially good news to be gleaned from the fact that current users are significantly less likely to identify cost as a challenge. This suggests that many in this population are deriving value from the actual deployment of solid-state storage. Because solid-state storage still carries a significant price premium, there's additional pressure on IT decision-makers to ensure a satisfactory return on these investments. As such, it makes sense that a majority of both current users and planned adopters of solid-state storage view the brand of the actual components as either critical or very important in their purchase decisions. Most current users and potential adopters also reported that components vendors and system vendors have equal sway over solid-state decisions.
Although prices have been declining steadily, solid-state storage is still expensive relative to HDDs. It follows, then, that more than half of organizations with no interest in solid-state storage point to its cost relative to HDDs as an impediment to adoption. The other significant barrier to solid-state storage implementation is the feeling that the technology is still relatively immature at this point -- not an uncommon sentiment toward new and leading-edge IT solutions.
The bigger truth
Given that just about every storage vendor is actively promoting the benefits of solid-state, it seems like a foregone conclusion that the technology will continue to ramp up over the next couple of years. Considering the large number of emerging startups, the choices for IT organizations will be plentiful. Indeed, as user knowledge of solid-state capabilities improves, and the functional and financial value of vendor offerings increases, broad adoption of solid-state looks inevitable.
Solid-state won't replace hard disk drives; HDDs will continue to dominate the bulk capacity and revenue number. Instead, a relatively small amount of solid-state will be standard practice in most environments. And it's likely to be less connected to specific applications, at least from a purchase decision perspective, and more likely to be employed more as a horizontal infrastructure "turbo boost" powered by caching or automated tiering software. This means the percentage of I/O handled by solid-state will far outstrip its share of the storage dollar spend or total installed disk-based storage capacity. This may change years from now as more advanced foundational solid-state technologies emerge. But for the moment, solid-state looks set to become a small but valuable play in capacity terms, but a huge I/O play in the storage game.
BIO: Terri McClure is a senior storage analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group, Milford, Mass.
Related Resources
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