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Taurus demon
Skills: Jumping smash, Standing smash, Poke, Hammer swing*
Times died on 1st playthrough: 1
Welcome to the 2nd post of dark souls boss profiles, where we cover all the bosses of dark souls. For today, we will going through the 2nd boss I fought during my playthrough, and thats the Taurus demon. This guy should be familiar to fans, since he appeared alot in screenshots and trailers. He seems so unbeatable at first, but once you figure out the secret of the fight (which isnt that hard to figure out at all), you can beat him no problem. Taurus demon is the boss of undead burg.
|He's quite a terror to fight against on the ground.
Jumping smash- He leaps foward in an attempt to smash you. Its slow, so you gotta time your dodges carefully.
Standing smash- Same as jumping smash, but without the jump. This is even easier to predict once you see it coming.
Poke- This seems to hit me alot, but thankfully, its the lowest damaging out of all his attacks. He stabs you with the blunt thin end of his hammer, almost without warning. Roll away or block, but blocking will cost you a hefty amount of stamina.
Hammer swing*- This hits hard, and its hard not to get his by this. He lifts his hammer sideways and attempts to swipe you. It has good range, and blocking it is a bad idea, since it staggers you. Dodging this is tricky too, since the timing for his swing is awkward as hell, and I always roll at the wrong time. Rolling back once won't cut it, roll back twice just to make sure. Rolling sideways is suicide. If you are hit by this, you will fly (literally).
Another easy boss. If it isnt obvious enough, you aren't suppose to literally 1v1 this boss like a pro, because he will slaughter you. The arena you fight in is super linear, and its just a straight path back and forth. In other words, you don't have alot of room to dodge. There are multiple ways to winning this fight, using the intending jumping stab method, melee him 1 on 1 (not recommended unless you are high leveled or confident with your melee skills), or ranged combat (once again, not really recommended).
I'll start with the easiest method first. When you enter the arena, look for a ladder near your position without moving any further foward (moving too far up front prompts the taurus demon to appear). Climb it and dispatch the 2 skeleton archers up there. Now climb back down and go prompt the taurus demon. When he shows up, climb up the ladder to the top and wait for him to reach your position. When he reaches the tower, he will look up at you, not doing anything, this is your chance to strike. Do a jumping stab on him. Depending on your starting class, you can do up to 400 damage easily. Beware though, if you idle too much up there, he will jump up there and personally clobber your ass.
After your first stab, the rest is easy as well. Run to the halfway point of the arena, and watch him run towards you. When you see him readying an attack, run past him and back to the ladder. If you dodged the attack, take this time to climb up the ladder real quick, if you are hit, reposition yourself and try to dodge his next attack before running for the ladder. Granted that you dodged his attack, you will be able to climb the ladder without taking a scratch, since he will be too busy recovering from his attack to come aftee you. Wait for him to come at you again, and do jumping stab to take off another good chunk of health. Rinse and repeat until dead, shouldnt take more than 4 or 5 times for most classes.
|Kids, don't try this at home.
If you are a mage or hunter, ranging this guy is also a possibility. Especially with mage, since jumping stab with dagger does crappy damage, you're gonna want to range this guy with magic, you're gonna have better results. As usual, start the battle up the tower, do a jumping stab on him. After that, take this battle differently. Prompt him to attack, if its anyting but the jumping smash, roll back a few times, then fire soul arrows at his face. Rinse and repeat, he doesnt have a whole lot of magic defense to begin with, and you definetely won't even need 30 soul arrows to kill him. Hell, I doubt you need 20.
Meleeing him requires a sheer amount of skill, since the arena is so linear. The usual roll and smack strategy applies, but this guy hits to hard its not even funny. I don't recommend meleeing him at all (unless of course you are in NG+). What you're gonna want to do here should be fairly similar to previous strategies. You run, prompt an attack, hit his ass, rinse and repeat. But this time, make sure the attack you are prompting is jumping smash, since it has huge recovery time and you can ALWAYS run behind him when he does this.
Taurus demon is superbly easy to beat if you use the intended jumping stab method, its just a matter of running and climbing. Other methods arent recommended, but if you have shitty damage with melee, it can't really be helped. Meleeing him is the hardest, but people have done it. There are harder bosses to come, don't worry.


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(CNN) -- Imagine going to the internet to search your name only to find a mug shot from years ago posted on multiple websites. There are publications and websites whose sole purpose is to feature police booking photos. Some make a profit selling advertising around the photos, while other websites are offering, for a price, to remove or hide these images permanently. Donald Andrew McMahon learned about the mug shot business the hard way.
In 2003, McMahon woke up one morning covered in blood, with stab wounds and evicted from his home. McMahon was fired from his job and slept in a gas station bathroom that night. McMahon knew his life was in need of a change. At the time, the then-bartender was dealing with the deaths of his best friend and sister within months of each other, along with a family history of drug abuse.
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On paper, McMahon is the quintessential American family man, but his past haunts him in publications and on websites that are using it for profit.
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Caught Up Vice President Geoffrey Bar-Lev said in today's economy the profit margin for this business is relatively low. However, the demand for the publication in smaller communities has remained the same.
The business makes money even if the lives of the people who make up its content have changed, which leaves someone like McMahon out of luck.
Several clients have asked Kavan Singh-Grover, an Atlanta-based criminal defense attorney, about removing their mug shots from the sites and about what legal action can be taken.
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Singh-Grover said legally, there is nothing that can be done. The only thing that could stop the publications and websites is legislation that forbids them. That legislation does not exist.
Caught Up's Broderick said she understands the concerns and said other publications might have a lower standard, but their purpose is to encourage safety in communities, not promote public humiliation.
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RemoveSlander.com via ImageMax Mugshot Removal said it is the first reputation management firm to offer the service. For $399, RemoveSlander.com allows a customer to specify one website from which to have a mug shot deleted. For $699.00, the mug shot is removed from three sites. Remove.Slander.com has 14 business days to remove the mug shot from the website and Google or the customer gets their money back. If a customer has multiple arrests with more than one booking photo, that costs more.
In his suburban Atlanta home, McMahon seems at peace with his new life and everything that comes with it. However, he's eager to talk about his past if it means more people are aware of publications like Caught Up and sites like RemoveSlander.com.
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Related to jump to the conclusion: put on airs, To take care of, come to fruition, give it a shot, cut some slack
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If you want to look like Bruce Willis, it will take you at least three hours ever day in a makeup chair.
That's how long it took Jospeh Gordon-Levitt, 31, to look like a younger Willis, 57, in "Looper," their new action thriller which premieres Thursday night at the opening of the Toronto International Film Festival.
Written and directed by Gordon-Levitt's Brick director Rian Johnson, Looper (in theaters Sept. 28) is a time-traveling mind-bender about a group of men in 2044 called loopers who assassinate people sent to them from the future.
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Gordon-Levitt stars as a looper on the hunt to kill himself, only 30 years older and played by--you guessed it!--Willis.
"Joe was such a saint," Johnson tells me. "He was in a chair for three hours every morning. That meant even for early mornings he was there three hours before anyone else."
To make matters worse, Gordon-Levitt wasn't allowed to eat much.
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"He only could drink these protein shakes during the day because oil from food would mess up his makeup," Johnson said, adding with a laugh, "He was tired, hungry and uncomfortable during the entire shoot. But he was a real trooper. I was very impressed."
Rounding out the cast are Emily Blunt, Jeff Daniels, Piper Perabo and Paul Dano.
And then there's Pierce Gagnon, a child actor who was just 5 when they shot the movie. His acting is beyond impressive, playing a child with special telekinetic powers.
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"He's our secret weapon," Johnson said. "We would sit down and do three-page dialogue scenes straight through and then you would tell him an adjustment for half-way through the scene and we would do the scene again and he would make the adjustment perfectly.
"But he wasn't an adult in a 5-year-old's body," he continues. "In between takes he was a normal kid, getting fidgety and antsy."
As for tonight's Toronto Film Fest gala, Johnson said, "I'm getting so excited. We have had the movie finished for three or four months so it's sort of been like this waiting game. I'm just extraordinarily ready for people to start seeing it."
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Beth Monaghan, principal and co-founder of public relations firm Inkhouse in Waltham, Mass., in a "Wonder Woman" power pose. Monday, Jan. 13, 2014, in Waltham, Mass.
This story is part of a week-long series on women and the economy based on "The Shriver Report: A Woman's Nation Pushes Back from the Brink."
Plenty of pundits have idiosyncratic ways of prepping for a big speech. But if you're a six-foot-one progressive lesbian debating a conservative white man on Fox News, you'd better have a good one.
Sally Kohn, 36, has a ritual: A few minutes before she heads on set, she ducks into a hallway, spreads her feet, stands up perfectly straight and puts her hands on her hips, chin tilted up. She holds the pose for two full minutes – at which point her testosterone levels rise and her cortisol drops, making her more confident and less anxious. Then she walks on camera.
Kohn learned the trick from Amy Cuddy, a Harvard Business School social psychologist whose TedTalk on "Power Posing" – a shortcut to boosting confidence and gaining a quick competitive edge — has been viewed nearly 10 million times, and spawned a global following.
The allure of Cuddy's work is in its ease: She knew from studies of facial feedback that when people smile, they can fake themselves into feeling happier.
And so, with two colleagues, she decided to try that theory out on body language – placing 42 research subjects into a series of high-power (bodies spread wide, feet up on desks) and low-power (sitting, slouched, arms wrapped tightly to the body) positions, tracking their hormone levels as she went.
After just two minutes, subjects in the high-power poses saw testosterone levels rise by as much as 20 percent and cortisol levels sink by about 25 – the chemicals linked to confidence versus stress, respectively. As it turns out, the best business leaders — both men and women — have relatively high testosterone and low cortisol levels, traits that tend to increase their appetite for risk, and configure our brain to cope in stressful situations.
For women looking to improve their leadership skills at work — to, as Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg puts it, lean in to their ambitions — could it really be so simple?
"A lot of this stuff isn't gendered, per se — I don't feel like I'm using men's tools," says Kohn. "I feel like I'm using tools that we should all have access to and know about, but women simply haven't been raised to cultivate."
The new tools
Power posing is just one of a number of ways many ambitious young women are adjusting their behavior, ever so slightly, to try to correct for a system in which stereotypically male leadership traits (assertiveness, dominance) are rewarded.
That might mean taking a quick trip to the ladies' room and striking an expansive pose before a pitch then walking in and using your "warmth" (another one of Cuddy's terms) to facilitate trust and communication. It may be devoting yourself to being "relentlessly pleasant," as some experts have described it, to overcome the fact that ambitious, hard-charging women tend to be less liked by their peers.
It's learning how to negotiate like a man, but doing it with a smile – to avoid being branded "pushy" or "aggressive" (and thus, less likely to get the raise). Maybe it's even enrolling in a course to overcome "Impostor Syndrome," that creeping feeling that you just don't really deserve to be there.
Beth Monaghan, a Boston business owner, calls that "faking it until you make it" — or getting over the womanly insecurities that prevent us from confidently articulating our legitimate expertise.
"In general, I feel that we are not going to eliminate sexism overnight — or even in a year — so we should prepare women to do as well as they possibly can, even when facing sexist situations," says Cuddy.
The demand for Cuddy's services — and others — would suggest that women agree. Executive leadership training programs have been around since the 1970s but those targeting women have suddenly become a niche, available at most business schools (Harvard, Northwestern, Stanford) and in specialty programs like the Negotiation Academy for Women at Carnegie Mellon, which launched last year.
"These programs help women feel like they have agency," says Robin Ely, a professor of business administration at Harvard, and one of the journal article's authors.
Evelyn Murphy, the former lieutenant governor of Massachusetts, is the president of a nonprofit called the Wage Project, which provides negotiation trainings on 350 university campuses in 48 states.
Last month, she got a call from a network of Arizona YWCAs who wanted to implement the program for working women, as well as the governor of Montana; he is flying one of her facilitators out to train all the women on his staff.
"We've been doing this for 10 years, and I've never seen this much momentum," says Murphy. "I think women are tired of waiting around for things to change, and so they're going to make the change for themselves."
Making progress
Today, workplace sexism is subtle — and oftentimes, it's not overt sexism at all. Women are more likely to be interrupted when they speak in meetings; according to a 2009 study, they often underestimate their job performance, while men tend to overestimate theirs. Gender bias can take curious forms, like the fact that women are still more likely to internalize that "impostor" feeling, says Valerie Young, the author of "The Secret Thoughts of Successful Women" — or that when men succeed, we like them more, but when women are successful, we like them less (which is why women are so busy smiling and showing gratitude and being appreciative... you get the drill).
But correcting for that doesn't mean acting like men. (No Working Girl suits here.) But it does mean learning the skills that often come more easily to men – confidence, risk-taking – to lead like women. It's what writer Henriette Lazaridis Power calls "sitting tall": owning your body to take up more space, or noticing, as Amy Cuddy has in her graduate students, the way that women make themselves small, hunching their shoulders or wrapping their legs around themselves (which in turn reduces confidence).
Perhaps it's walking into a salary negotiation — as one New York businesswoman recently did – and starting it at the top with: "The research shows you're going to like me less after I negotiate. So I just wanted to get that out of the way." (You can imagine the stunned silence.)
"I actually hate the word 'tactics' – as if I'm playing some game," says Kathleen Warner, a 49-year-old startup founder who has worked in law, government and business. "But I've developed skills and strategies that have held me in good stead: I've rarely thought that it's about 'acting as a man' but rather, exercising a muscle that I already have that has been under-utilized and under-developed. I always take a seat at the table. I have a 'power' pose and a strong handshake. I try to stay focused, firm and moving forward but always with a smile and a fair amount of charm. Oh and I fake drinking shots a lot. Seriously."
Peeling back all those layers of internalized gender bias ... well, it sounds exhausting. And yet, it works. Just as research has found that women who negotiate are considered pushy and less likable — and, in some cases, less likely to be offered jobs as a result – the economist Linda Babcock, at Carnegie Mellon, has determined that women can counteract that assessment by appearing warm or friendly.
The key, of course, is making the tools feel authentic – or nobody will believe you anyway.
"I'm not telling women to be like men or to be different from who they are now; I'm recommending they should be their best, most effective selves," says Cuddy. "Why would anyone not strive for that?"
Jessica Bennett is a New York-based journalist and a contributing editor at LeanIn.Org


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The New Republic's Alec MacGillis writes on the Romney campaign's reason for pushing so hard the line about Obama's "War on Coal."
However, Murray's eye-catching prayer raises another question that I did not explore fully in my piece last month: What, exactly, was Mitt Romney thinking in making such an aggressive play for coal country, and allying himself with Bob Murray as part of that? The answer may seem obvious: three of the swing states Romney dearly wanted to win are coal-producing–Ohio, Virginia and Colorado–as is Pennsylvania, the state Republicans have been trying to get back in their column for two decades.
Coal country tends to be dominated by just the sort of working-class white voters who have been cool to Obama from the get-go. And, whatever the reality of Obama's impact on the coal industry, there is a strong sense among its executives that he has indeed been engaged in a four-year "war on coal." (Never mind that as a senator in coal-producing Illinois he was for a time awfully cozy with the industry.) To the Romney campaign, this must've made for a seeming no-brainer: Want to win those three or four states? Go hard on coal.
But was this the right calculation? It seems that this may have been another instance where the Romney campaign made the mistake of elevating anecdote and instinct over hard numbers. And the press may have been in complicit in this. We talk a lot about "coal country" as if it's a major swath of the country and a trove of swing-state votes, but it really isn't. According to the National Mining Association, there are only 2,800 mining jobs in Ohio, 5,000 in Virginia, 2,200 in Colorado and 8,300 in Pennsylvania. The largest coal-producing states are solidly Republican: West Virginia (21,000 jobs) and Kentucky (17,000 jobs). And it's not just the industry that doesn't have a whole lot of swing-state numbers–it's coal country as a whole.
Simply put, coal country is very sparsely populated territory. The Murray operations in Ohio are concentrated in Belmont and Monroe counties in the Ohio River Valley in the southeastern part of the state. In 2008, slightly more than 32,000 people voted in Belmont County and fewer than 7,000 voted in Monroe (the second-lowest vote tally in the state). Romney improved on John McCain's numbers in this part of the state, but to little effect -- in Belmont, he picked up a swing of about 3,500 votes, and in Monroe, fewer than 1,200. Contrast that with the scale of the auto industry in the state: Roughly one in eight Ohio jobs are linked to auto makers and parts suppliers, and there's a plant or supplier in all but a few of the state's counties. Lucas County, which includes Toledo and one of the Jeep plants that Romney wrongly said was headed to China, netted Obama more than 61,000 votes, more than 10,000 above his 2008 margin in Lucas.
Good points. The rhetoric about coal always struck me as overwrought, especially as it's being killed much more by cheap natural gas than regulatory burden from the EPA. There was no need for the GOP to compound an already egregious mistake by tying fortunes to a dying industry, but such was the decision. And while I doubt it was a huge player for the award of "What was most bungled political decision for this cycle," it certainly didn't help the Governor's campaign.


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The First Step is the Most Important
Congratulations on taking the first step toward a healthier approach to living! The key to long-lasting health and wellness is maintaining a balance of work and play; eat well, enjoy activities and spend time with friends and loved ones. This guide provides you with useful information on what and how to eat, optimizing your exercise program and making time for mental health and relaxation. As you get started, it may be helpful to plan your daily diet and exercise goals until you forge a system that compliments your lifestyle. Once you have the hang of eating right and exercising regularly, maintaining your new routine becomes easy. This Diet and Exercise Plan should be approached as a lifestyle modification rather than a short term change. Ready, Steady, Go!
Enjoy the Food You Eat
hen considering a dietary change, the idea isn't to deprive yourself, but rather learn how to make wise food choices. Once you understand the importance of particular foods and how to incorporate them into your daily life, making healthy food choices becomes easy. In essence, variety is the right idea! Try new foods and explore adding various spices to your diet, such as garlic and cinnamon. Try to keep your plate colorful and experiment with different food textures. Remember healthy food choices is not about sacrifice, its about identifying what is the best diet option and changing the way you think and feel about food. For a balanced diet its important to incorporate a variety of different foods. Understanding when and what to eat and what would make the most sense in your life is what will facilitate overall success.
What Should You Eat?
Eating is essential and making wise food choices will give your health and your waistline the support it really needs. Whole food is a term used a lot but may not be completely understood. The term refers literally to food in its whole form, with minimal processing to keep it as close to its original form as possible. For example; visualize a whole apple and compare it to a glass of apple juice. The juice on its own does not contain all of the skin, seeds or fleshy center. The whole apple offers all the goodness of the entire fruit and so offers greater health properties. This example applies to most all foods, so choosing whole foods over processed means you get the richest supply of nutrients possible.
Color is important. Antioxidants called polyphenols are responsible for the brightly colored pigments (vibrant reds, greens, blues and purples) of many fruits and vegetables. By keeping your food choices colorful, not only do you get a gorgeous looking meal, but you'll also benefit from the positive health impact those colorful foods provide.
The morning meal should be comprised mostly of protein. People mistakenly presume that a carbohydrate breakfast is the best choice. This is partially correct in that carbohydrates such as whole grain cereals are high in fiber which promotes digestive health. However, after fasting for 12 hours overnight, eating carbohydrates only for breakfast results in a glucose surge or sugar spike, followed shortly after by a sugar slump, characterized by low energy and the return of hunger. Energy produced from proteins and fats are delivered in a more sustaining form to avoid drastic spikes and falls in blood sugar. Look to include proteins for breakfast such as yoghurt, turkey sausage and bacon, lean steak, eggs or a protein shake.
When Should You Eat?
Always eat breakfast! Breakfast is the most important meal of the day, after fasting for 8 hours through the night; the body relies on sustenance in the morning for physical and mental energy and focus. Ideally you should eat within an hour of waking to stimulate metabolism and get you going for the day. By not giving your body fuel at regular intervals, every 3-6(max) hours, the body goes into what we call 'starvation mode'. Starvation mode involves the body hording calories from food into fat cells instead of burning it. In this way, it can be used for fuel when the body goes longer than needed without sustenance. This is why when trying to maintain a healthy weight its best to eat small meals every 3 hours (4-5 times per day) to encourage optimal break down of food and stimulate metabolism.
Eating snacks in between meals helps to maintain balanced blood sugar levels and restricts overeating. See the list of healthy snack options below for ideas.
The occasional carbohydrate heavy meal such as pasta, rice, breads and potatoes, should only be eaten in the middle of the day, versus in the morning. Try to balance the impact of carbohydrates on blood sugar by adding protein.
Keep your evening meal light and try to eat before 7pm. Your body uses night time sleeping hours to cleanse, restore and rejuvenate the digestive and eliminatory systems. For your metabolism to function at its most efficient, it depends on this nightly restorative process to keep your body operating at optimum levels.
A Suggested Menu Plan for a Day
Eat small meals throughout the day to optimize digestive metabolism. This puts less of a burden on your digestive system and allows your metabolism to function more efficiently. Drink a glass of water before meals to decrease the chances of overeating. Keep a supply of low fat healthy snacks around to lessen the chance of falling into bad habits and overeating. Here are some healthy snack suggestions:
- Vegetable sticks with almond butter, hummus, cottage cheese or low-fat ranch dressing
- Rice cakes with avocado or tomatoes
- Raw or roasted unsalted nuts such as walnuts, almonds and brazil nuts
- No added sugar yogurt with fresh fruit
- Low fat cheese with crackers
- Vegetable juice
- Edamame
- Low sodium soup
- Trail mix
Breakfast: Bowl of oatmeal, low fat plain yoghurt, 1 cup of berries, 1 cup of low fat milk. 2 slices of turkey bacon, glass of water and cup of green tea.
Morning Snack: Half cup of toasted unsalted mixed nuts and a banana. Glass of water. Fruit is the perfect snack! Fruit is full of necessary fiber, energy and nutrients. Try eating a variety of fruits like apples, papayas, plums, melons, grapes, strawberries, pears, peaches, oranges and grapefruit.
Lunch: Cup of cooked brown rice with baked chicken breast, ¼ cup steamed broccoli and ¼ cup of carrots. Glass of water with lemon. Vegetables provide important vitamins, minerals and fiber so eat in abundance. Other vegetables to include might be spinach, carrots, celery, asparagus and broccoli, avocado, kale and beets. Carbohydrates come in many forms. They help you feel full and provide you with the energy to keep going. Healthy carbohydrate choices include: oatmeal, bran muffins, rice, whole grain bread, quinoa and whole wheat pasta and cous cous.
Afternoon Snack: Glass of water, apple and 1 oz. low fat cheese. Dairy foods help provide necessary calcium and other nutrients, other examples include: goat products, yogurt, milk and cottage cheese. Optimally choose organic products when possible.
Dinner: Glass of water. 3 oz. of Fish (baked with garlic, lemon and ginger and tbsp of olive oil) with salad. Protein helps you maintain good muscle tone and supports a lean physique. Other examples are: lean steak, skinless chicken, fish, beans, eggs, tofu and tempeh. When possible it is ideal to choose organic free range meats and eggs and choose wild caught fish. Tip for cooking protein: baking, steaming or lightly stir frying keeps protein lean and helps to maintain nutrients.
Foods to Avoid (keep to a minimum):
- Fried Foods
- Refined sugars
- Carbonated Drinks
- Sodium rich foods
- Highly-processed foods/fast food
REMEMBER: Don't get discouraged if you eat a food that isn't the best for you, just remember tomorrow is a new day and a great opportunity to get back on track.
Ten Helpful Hints for Dieting Success:
- Drink eight or more glasses of water a day. Drink at least one glass before every meal. Water helps your body operate at its highest calorie-burning mode and also helps control the appetite.
- Try new foods whenever possible, it allows opportunity to bring variety to your healthy diet.
- Avoid going to a party on an empty stomach. Eat a small salad and drink a glass of water or before you go.
- As soon as you are done eating, leave the table so you won't pick at your food and eat more.
- When you eat out, ask for all sauces and dressings on the side.
- Try on new clothes. This is one of the best self-motivating tools you can use to eat right.
- Take only half of what your appetite calls for. You'll be surprised that you may not want a second helping.
- It takes approximately 20 minutes for your brain to recognize that you're full. Eat slowly and chew each bite, chewing is an integral part of the breaking down and metabolism of foods.
- Brush your teeth after eating so you won't eat anymore.
- Read ingredient labels when grocery shopping. Isolate key information such as saturated fat content, sodium and sugar. Ideally, saturated fat should be under 4gms per serving, sodium under 500mg per serving and sugar no more than 6gms per serving.
How to Exercise
Make a commitment to invest at least four hours per week to exercise. Aim for 30-60 minute workouts 3 times per week to support a healthy body and mind. As soon as you feel your enthusiasm decreasing, try a different activity. Team up with a friend. Having a buddy who is committed to a fitness strategy will keep you motivated and increase your chances of success. To achieve a toned, hard-body look, try adding at least two hours a week of free -weight or weight-machine training to your aerobic routine. Lean muscle weighs more than fat, so pay less attention to scales. Exercising in the morning will encourage calorie burning and energy all day long and exercising before meals helps reduce your appetite.
Which Exercise is Best?
Cardiovascular exercises such as jogging, rollerblading, bike riding and basketball stimulates your entire body, encouraging circulation, stamina, heart and lung health, lymphatic drainage and more. It can also help to enhance your mood and focus. Weight-training exercise increases lean muscle mass. Muscle tissue burns calories for energy so the greater amount of muscle tissue you have, the more calories you can burn.
Other forms of exercise like yoga, rock climbing and dancing use many muscle groups as well as encourage deep breathing and stamina.
A Suggested Exercise Plan for One Week:
When getting started set your goals at 15-30min each day and build it up to 30-60min over time.
- Example Week For A Beginner:
Monday: 30 min brisk walk/jog before breakfast.
Tuesday: Rest
Wednesday: 30 min on elliptical machine followed by squats with free weights
Thursday: Rest
Friday: Rest
Saturday: 1 and half hour yoga class or exercise dvd
Sunday: Rest.
- Example Week For Intermediate Fitness Level:
Monday: 45 min roller blading before breakfast
Tuesday: Rest
Wednesday: 30 min brisk walk and 20 squats before dinner
Thursday: Rest
Friday: 1 and half hour bike ride
Saturday: 1 hour dancing
Sunday: Rest
- Example Week For Advanced Fitness Level:
Monday: 45 min run before breakfast
Tuesday: 1 and half hour spin class
Wednesday: Rest
Thursday: 30 min elliptical machine, free weights and 30 squats
Friday: 30 min run before dinner
Saturday: 1 hour playing basketball
Sunday: Rest
Some Exercises are Better Than Others
When it comes to dieting, the goal is to burn calories and different exercises do that at different rates. Here are some examples of the energy expended by a 150-pound person in 30 minutes of continuous exercise:
Reduce Your Calories by 3,500 and You Will Lose 1 Pound
That does not mean starve yourself. The goal is to maintain a healthy, balanced diet while reducing total caloric intake. If your trying to lose weight starving yourself is one of the worst things you can do. The key is, as we have said, slow and steady weight loss.
Alcohol May Not Be All Bad
Alcohol contains 7 calories per gram, so it's nearly twice as fattening as carbohydrates or protein.
In addition, alcohol can encourage the munchies. This leads to extra calorie intake which can cause weight gain. That said , a major US survey has found that dieters who give up alcohol lose no more weight than dieters who include moderate amounts of alcohol in their diet.
Calories in Sample Drinks
Weight loss depends on your overall calorie intake. Reduce your calories by 3500 and you will lose 1 pound. So since alcohol is fairly high in calories with little or no nutrition, you will certainly save calories by abstaining.
Top 10 Myths About Weight Loss:
- Be autonomously motivated - It's great to be inspired to lose weight for a special occasion, a reunion or a party but studies have shown that the people who are most likely to maintain their weight loss are the ones who aren't motivated by anything outside of themselves. These are people who have simply decided that it's time for them to lose weight and improve their health.
- Set realistic goals - Even with the best behavior-modification programs people can typically reduce their weight by 10 to 15 percent . If you try to lose 20 or 30 percent, you're likely to either fail and be discouraged or simply regain the weight. By setting realistic targets you set yourself up for success, once the target has been reached it's easier to define a new one with the confidence that comes from success.
- Replace bad habits with good ones - There's nothing wrong with having a snack in the afternoon, in fact it's a great idea, just make sure that the food you chose is a piece of fruit or a low fat yogurt and not a donut.
- You will have bad days, they come with the territory - It's important to realize that. Factor disappointment into your overall plan. One day of weakness does not undo one month of hard work.
- Think less about losing weight and more about gaining health - You may start out trying to fit into that new dress and wind up saving your life. Obesity is only one symptom of an unhealthy lifestyle. Think healthy, not just skinny. Diet sodas, Wow chips, and artificially sweetened candy bars may help you cut calories, but healthy they're not. Each time you chew on a high- or low-calorie candy bar you miss a chance to swallow some phytochemicals neatly packaged in a wedge of watermelon or a handful of berries. Luckily, the same foods that cut your risk of cancer, heart disease, diabetes, and stroke should help you trim that extra padding. Don't think of them as punishment.
- Shrink your servings - People who frequent restaurants are more likely to be overweight. That's not only because of the type of food they eat but also the portion size. Restaurants find it extremely cost effective to serve large portionsthe cost of food is a very small percentage of overhead, people get used to large portions and think that's the norm.
- Curb liquid calories - Liquid calories don't trip our satiety mechanisms: you don't feel full after a soda or juice although you may have just downed as many calories as a small meal.
- Make movement part of your life - This doesn't necessarily mean five sets of tennis or marathon running. Gardening, raking leaves, mowing the lawn, and washing windows also count. People who boost their lifestyle activity are just as successful at keeping the weight off as people who participate in formal exercise programs. In fact, overweight children lose more weight when told to limit sedentary activities than when told to exercise (or to do both). Getting kids to turn off the TV or spend less time at the computer works better than urging them to increase their aerobic activity.
- Exercise for weight maintenance - Surprisingly, exercise doesn't actually make much difference when you're trying to lose weight. Fairly strenuous exercise-30 to 40 minutes three or four times a week-produces only a two to six pound weight loss over six months, that's because exercise just doesn't burn that many calories. However it is a great way to keep weight off and make you healthier, and as we keep saying the secret is to think about gaining health not losing weight.
- Be patient - It's not easy to make such a radical change in your lifestyle you're relearning habits that may have taken you a lifetime to learn, so have a little patience with yourself.


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Happy New Year 2012! Wishing you and your family a year filled with peace and happiness.
Osechi ryori (御節料理) is traditional Japanese new year foods, usually present in a stack of special lacquer boxes called jubako (重箱). I reused this black box came with osechi we ordered last year as we do not have a jubako here in Malaysia.
Traditionally, osechi is cooked in bulk before the dawn of new year and it supposes to last for a few days, but I cooked in small amount. It was just nice for two meals for a family of four, after I packed a small box of osechi for our neighbour. DH had some (not from the box) on the new year eve with his favourite syochu (焼酎) and Japanese countdown entertainment program on NHK.
Onishime (お煮しめ) - a stew dish cooked with winter vegetables and usually cooked in a large pot.
Before I dozed off last night after a tired day I then realised I had not used a single drop of cooking oil in all dishes!


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EDMONTON, Alberta -- A member of the Canadian parliament says the Stanley Cup should be awarded to an amateur team if the NHL labor fight isn't settled in time to save the season.
Brent Rathgeber suggests the cup could be the prize in a national competition to determine the best non-pro team in Canada.
A group of recreational players made a similar suggestion during the 2004-05 lockout, when they argued in court that Lord Stanley's cup wasn't the exclusive property of the NHL.
An out-of-court settlement back then said the cup's trustees have the option -- but not the obligation -- of awarding the prize to another team if there is no NHL champion.
Writing on his blog, Rathgeber points out the trustees' original purpose was to promote amateur hockey in Canada.


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It's a mother's unfathomable nightmare. The idea that the person in whose hands you leave your kids could turn around and harm them. It's a situation every working parent grapples with; finding that perfect combination of love, affection and street smart sense in an individual who will care for your offspring when you can't care for them yourself. Yesterday the tony Upper West side of Manhattan was rocked over the horrific details which emerged after a mother, Marina Krim, returned to her apartment to find her two kids, Leo, 2, and Lucia, 6, allegedly stabbed to death by their 50-year-old nanny, Yoselyn Ortega. Even typing out this last sentence, my stomach is in knots, at the thought that this mother — who just hours before had written a lovely blog post about her kids and their mundane, yet completely extraordinary milestones and lives — could suffer such a devastating loss.
As a working parent — or as this mom was, a parent who needed an extra set of hands to help with her three young children — how can one process the aftermath of this situation, and the fear that a person you hire to come into your home and protect your most precious of assets, your children, could be capable of such an atrocity? Up until she had her third child, this mother was a stay-at-home mom who cared for her kids exclusively. When she and her husband had chosen to look for childcare, they had been extra careful in hiring their nanny and vetting her, going as far as to spend nine days with her family in the Dominican Republic before inviting her into their home. This family took every precaution to vet the credentials of this woman, so how can a parent ever know what lurks in the heart of her nanny ?
Sure, millions of parents have been leaving their kids in the care of nannies for thousands of years, and this type of tragedy is relatively rare. Even if parents follow all the recommendations for finding a capable and supportive caregiver, is there ever a guarantee that something like this couldn't happen?
According to Elissa Freeman, whose daughter has been in the care of a nanny since she was two and a half, this tragedy has hit a chord. "So many of us entrust the care of our children to live-in caregivers," says Freeman. "This is a very unusual and tragic case and not all caregivers should be painted with the same brush. As a mother, I would hope the vetting process on behalf of the agency was sound, as would be my own good judgment."
Cara Paiuk, an Upper West Side mom who just last year wrote this post about her beloved nanny, says UWS moms are going to be freaking out over this and rightfully so but, they shouldn't let it change their lives.
"I won't live in fear," says Paiuk. "Honestly, I think what happened is an isolated incident. No amount of vetting, or gut instinct, which is what my husband and I used, can ensure the safety of our kids. It's all a crap shoot and we just do our best. We loved our nanny. She was part of our family. Could I say with 100 percent certainty that she wouldn't lose her sh*t one day and do something unthinkable? Probably not."
For most working parents, childcare is not a luxury; it is a necessity. There are no words of comfort for these grieving parents and, as a collective community, we need to look at this tragedy and measure it against our own lives. That every moment spent with our loved ones is a precious gift not to be squandered. And unfortunately, try as we might to protect and guide our children and steer them clear from any and all harm, we simply can't.
Do you have any advice or thoughts you can share which have helped you find the right caregiver for your kids?


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SYDNEY (AP) Former champion Li Na advanced to the second round of the Sydney International with a 7-6 (2), 7-5 win over Christina McHale on Monday, and Sam Stosur extended her miserable start to 2013 with another first-round loss.
The fourth-seeded Li, who won the Shenzhen Open last week, started her breakthrough 2011 season with a title in Sydney before reaching her first Grand Slam final at the Australian Open, then winning her first major at Roland Garros. She has slipped slightly in the rankings but is coming back to conditions that suit her in Australia.
The 30-year-old Chinese player will next meet Japanese qualifier Ayumi Morita, who ousted Daniela Hantuchova of Slovakia 1-6, 6-3, 6-3.
The ninth-ranked Stosur lost 6-3, 6-7 (7), 6-4 to Zheng Jie of China, her fifth loss in as many matches on Australian soil dating to last season.
The 2011 U.S. Open champion will head to the season's first major at Melbourne Park next week with only two matches since minor ankle surgery six weeks ago.
In another upset result, American teenager Madison Keys defeated 17th-ranked Lucie Safarova of the Czech Republic 6-2, 6-1.
Former No. 1 Jelena Jankovic beat Tamira Paszek 6-2, 7-6 (5) to set up a showdown with unseeded Italian veteran Roberta Vinci, who upset eighth-seeded Nadia Petrova 7-5, 7-5.
French Open finalist Sara Errani advanced 6-1, 6-3 over Czech qualifier Karolina Pliskova and will go into a second-round match against Maria Kirilenko of Russia, a 7-5, 6-2 winner over Australian wild-card Olivia Rogowska.
In other first-round matches, 42-year-old Kimiko Date-Krumm of Japan beat Casey Dellacqua of Australia 6-4, 6-1 and former U.S. Open and French Open winner Svetlana Kuznetsova downed Julia Goerges of Germany 3-6, 6-3, 6-3 to continue her comeback from a knee injury that marred her 2012 season.
In men's matches, fifth-seeded Florian Mayer of Germany beat Joao Sousa of Portugal 6-1, 6-2, No. 8 Marcel Granollers of Spain had a 5-7, 7-5, 6-1 win over Matthew Ebden of Australia and Denis Istomin of Uzbekistan defeated Australian qualifier James Duckworth 6-7 (4), 6-4, 7-6(3).


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The Apple iPhone 6s Plus includes the very latest 3D Touch technology from Apple and a stunning 5.5-inch touchscreen Retina display.
3D Touch will detect how hard you are pressing the screen and open apps depending on your interactions giving you the option to peek at apps without fully opening them with a light tap or launch them with a harder press.
The A9 processor has been enhanced for even better power management allowing Siri to be always ready in the background without draining the power. 4G, Wi-Fi and GPS are on board and the Touch ID fingerprint sensor keeps your information secure as well as allowing you to use the iPhone 6s Plus to pay for goods in various outlets.
The 12-megapixel iSight camera now captures 4K video for amazing detail on your video clips and the front facing 5-megapixel camera on the front is on hand for FaceTime chats. The phone is encased in an aluminium chassis made from the same allow used in the aerospace industry making this phone durable as well as beautiful.


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When you get the urge to take your life in an exciting new direction, do you talk yourself out of doing anything? Suppose you notice an interesting stranger you'd like to meet. Do approach them in a friendly manner, or do you stare for a while then turn away? When you set goals or make big plans, do you gear up and get ready to act, or do you quickly change your mind? Do you take chances and calculated risks when a worthy prize presents itself, or do you wait around for the perfect opportunity to knock at the door, walk in, and hop in your lap?
If you're like a lot of people, you probably drag your feet when faced with the prospect of doing something bold and daring, yet risky. Or maybe you make excuses and hesitate when it's time to get busy accomplishing a worthwhile, but challenging goal. So why is that we so often engage in acts of self-sabotage when it comes to our best vision, and sink ourselves before we've even began?
If we're honest, we'll admit that the very thing that usually stops us in our tracks lives right inside our heads. That's right; it's the critical voice within our own psyches.
You're intimately familiar with this critical voice. It most likely came into being a long time ago, and it's probably getting louder all the time. This voice constantly draws self-defeating conclusions, paints bleak scenarios, and anticipates the worst from everything and everyone. And you usually listen to it, which serves to puts the brakes on your most ambitious plans.
So how do we tame this critical inner voice? In other words, how do we get out of our own way on the path to our goals? Listed below are three strategies for silencing the critical inner voice, and advancing in the direction of our desires:
Realize It May Not Be Your Voice
If you place your critical inner voice under intense scrutiny, you may eventually realize that it's not even your voice! So whose voice is it that's always shouting you down? Is it a well-meaning, but negative thinking parent? Could it be a sarcastic teacher from your long-forgotten past? Does it belong to a mean-spirited relative? Or does it sound like society in general, in the form of the messages it sends through the mass media? You know, the messages that insinuate this is what it means to be smart, popular, beautiful, intelligent, etc., and you're not this?
As easy as it sounds, once we divine the origins of this inner voice, we can simply ask ourselves if we want to listen to it/them anymore. The choice is, and always has been ours. We have a mute button on our television remotes, so why can't we have one in our minds? We gave this inner voice its authority, and we can revoke this authority in an instant. Once freed from the tyranny of this voice, we can start entertaining thoughts that are far more constructive and uplifting than what we used to listen to.
Have Compassion for the Inner Voice
So what purpose does your critical voice within serve anyway? Is it self-protection or self-preservation? Does it exist to guard you from real or imagined threats? Is its primary job to dissuade you from doing anything that has a risk of failure, especially a failure that could deliver a devastating blow to your self-esteem?
Once the purpose of your critical inner voice becomes clear, you can adopt a stance of compassion towards it. After all, it's only attempting to shield you from things that it believes can hurt you. Then, you can thank it for its service. Finally, you can let it go, telling it that you're going to be ok, and that you're heading in the direction of your dreams from now on, no matter what.
Embrace Uncertainty
One of the main problems with your critical inner voice is that it's severely lacking in knowledge, but it holds itself to be some kind of authority. If you think about it, there are always a ton of unknown factors, variables, and possibilities for every situation. We can't possibly understand, predict, or anticipate every outcome. Yet, the critical inner voice acts as if it is all-knowing, and whispers to us many negative things: "He/she wouldn't find you attractive," "You're not smart enough to earn a college degree," "They'll never hire you for that job," "You can't start your own business," or "They don't give people like you a chance."
So what can you do? A better option is to embrace the inherent uncertainty that's an inescapable part of life. You've already identified how limited in information the critical inner voice is, and can see that it doesn't have all the answers. So go on and take the chance, assume the risk, venture out, and place your cards on the table. Be uncertain to what's going to happen, and do it anyway.
When you decide to start living this way, you're in for a huge surprise. Yes, you will have some setbacks and disappointments, but you will also discover a range of possibilities that you never knew existed. All the things that you inner voice told you wasn't practical, or realistic, or possible will be proven to be utterly false. Ask anyone who is successful, and they will tell that this is always the case.
So go ahead, embrace uncertainty. Great things will happen, and your critical inner voice will slowly lose credibility. When you start ignoring it completely, it'll pack it bags and move out. Watch and see.
Learning the truth about your critical inner voice is a journey that few wish to make, but one that everyone needs to embark upon eventually. In fact, it can literally be the difference between being constantly unfulfilled, and living a successful life. Tame your critical inner voice once and for all, and watch your whole world change. You'll see the old, limited reality you used to dwell in replaced by one far richer, exciting, and more fulfilling than you ever imagined.
Lisa H. Wright is a mother, blogger, runner and happiness seeker. Her blog, Getting to Zen inspires personal success through action. In addition to blogging, Lisa is a co-author of Overcoming Fear: Sticking it to What's Holding You Back, a unique program designed to help you get out of your own way and create the life that you want. To read more of Lisa's articles, visit her blog. Don't forget to download her free goodies while you are there.
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Editor's note: Columnist Roslyn Kunin recently wrote about the dangers of civil disobedience to civil society. She pointed out that the Sierra Club Canada was discussing taking up civil disobedience. John Bennett, executive director of the Sierra Club Canada, was asked to respond.
OTTAWA — All the benefits Roslyn Kunin attributes to life in Canada in her recent column, including peace and order and good government, came about through civil disobedience. The suffragettes who won women the right vote did not shy away from it.
Civil disobedience is breaking an unjust law or breaking a law to draw attention to an unjust law. It has played a major role in creating democracy around the world. We shouldn't forget that ever.
Nor will I shy away from discussing it, but to be clear I have not said Sierra Club Canada members will be taking up civil disobedience. We are discussing it for good reason.
Last year, the energy industry sent the government a list of changes to federal environmental laws including: the Environmental Assessment Act, the Fisheries Act, the Navigable Waters Act and the Species at Risk Act.
Without disclosing this letter, the federal government stuffed the changes into two omnibus budget bills and rammed them through Parliament despite the objections of tens of thousands of Canadians and more than 650 environmental, faith, health and business organizations that spoke out against them.
In the few short months since, an estimated 4,000 environmental assessments have been dropped. There are now rules preventing members of the public from participating in environmental assessments and the same cabinet ministers who promote projects and describe opponents as "radicals" and "money launderers" now have the final say on all projects.
There no longer is an arm's-length process to determine the acceptability environmentally or otherwise of industrial projects. Thirty years of developing environmental policies to protect our air, forests and wildlife have been swept away.
These changes have deprived Canadians of their rights to participate in the decision that will impact them and their children. By any definition these are unjust laws that demand challenging.
Personally, I am no stranger to the concept of direct action and non-violent civil disobedience, but it has been 30 years since I deliberately broke a law to draw attention to an important issue. I have grown to believe it's used far too often. So for many years, I, like Sierra Club Canada, have followed a legal course of what I call "technical" campaigning.
We research issues and solutions to ensure our policies and solutions are based on sound science and are sustainable and economically desirable. Then using the media and person-to-person contact, we first try to impact public opinion, and then to persuade government and industry to act. It is an effective technique (coal plants in Ontario are being shut down because of it and Agent Orange and a broad range of toxic substances are banned because of it).
For it to work, however, government must be prepared to act on scientific basis. Every successful campaign has relied on scientific evidence and when it was present government acted. However, when it comes to climate change, the government Canada is ignoring the science, and, worse, laying off scientists and silencing those who have kept their jobs. For 20 years I have been campaigning for action on climate change. We have experienced the 10 hottest years in history in that time. Storms have grown stronger and more frequent. Glaciers and Arctic sea ice have melted and still no action.
There is an ideology ruling this country seeking to profit from our natural resources without taking responsibility for climatic catastrophe that awaits our children. When it is opposed using the law, it changes the law. When it is presented with evidence, it turns a blind eye and approves the next oil project.
This has caused many people, including members of Sierra Club Canada, to question the efficacy of technical campaigning.
Repeatedly throughout the 20th century, people were forced to stand up to ideologues — often at great peril to themselves. People like Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr. stood up to duly elected governments and demanded action using civil disobedience — it's not a novel, or radical, idea. Nelson Mandela spent 28 years in prison for opposing government policy. These are the people who come to mind when the discussion turns to civil disobedience.
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A group of protesters blocking road and rail traffic on Highway 16 at the Trans-Canada Highway left the site early Wednesday evening.
Tensions flared late Wednesday afternoon as RCMP officers confronted a handful of protesters who vowed to remain at a standoff blocking road and rail traffic on Highway 16 at the Trans Canada Highway west of Portage la Prairie.
The protest, organized by several aboriginal leaders including former Roseau River First Nation chief Terry Nelson, blocked a CN freight train and some traffic on Highway 16, also known as the Yellowhead.
Around noon the train was forced to stop several hundred metres before a group of protesters who took to the tracks that cross the Yellowhead.
Earlier in the day Nelson said about 20 people had attended the protest, and he expected more later in the day.
By late afternoon, three women and Peter Yellowquill, former chief of the Long Plain First Nation, said they intended to keep the rail blockade in place indefinitely -- but around 6 p.m. they left the area without incident around.
Wednesday afternoon CN Rail obtained an injunction declaring all blockades on its rail lines in Manitoba illegal and ordering aboriginal protesters to leave the property, but officials would not say if the company requested police evict the protesters from the blockade.
Spokesman Jim Feeny said the injunction was obtained in Court of Queen's Bench, adding it's in force until Jan. 24 and it can be extended if necessary.
"We're working with local authorities to determine the appropriate course of action," Feeny said.
Papers reported to be related to the court injunction were kicked onto the the tracks by protesters, who said they were prepared to be arrested.
"It's clear we are defying the court order... it is null and void," said Yellowquill. He said the blockade was intended to send a message to the Prime Minister to honour the treaties or deal with blockades instead.
"We support the treaty law and we want to point out to Canadians that it's treaty law that being broken."
RCMP officers, led by the local detachment inspector, talked briefly with protesters. They then spoke among themselves and returned, telling the protesters they did not intend to arrest them. Instead they would divert traffic away from the area.
One truck driver, who gave his name as Dennis, expressed mixed feelings about the blockade.
"I thought they were blocking the trains, not us," he said. Hauling a semi-trailer full of corn to deliver to Saskatchewan, he shrugged when asked if he was upset with the delay.
"They have their rights," the trucker said. Minutes later he reversed his truck and backed off, heading to Saskatchewan on the Trans-Canada Highway rather than the Yellowhead.
Former Roseau River chief Terry Nelson left the protest site late in the afternoon, saying the group intended to challenge the injunction.
"The train is basically hauling natural resources. It's hauling billions and billions of dollars worth of First nations wealth," said Nelson, a vice-chairman of the American Indian Movement. "It's hauling oil, it's hauling timber, it's hauling gravel, it's hauling everything basically that comes from the land.
"It's our property if the treaties have been breached."
Nelson said the plan to stop the train was to last "as long as it takes for Canadians to come to their senses. He himself had earlier planned to remain at the site for at least 72 hours, but left the site late Wednesday afternoon, saying the group would challenge the injunction.
Nelson defined people who are "not indigenous" as being "immigrants."
"We want to get the immigrants who came to our land to understand something. They're living on our lands, they're living on our resources, they're living on our wealth," he said.
"One of the things that really angers us is that in all of the websites, and all of the comments made by immigrant Canadians, is that we live off their good graces, not the Canadian taxpayer," said Nelson. "We're here to tell them that (their) lifestyle is subsidized by our lands and our wealth, and our natural resources, so we're stopping the natural resources from moving."
One organizer, Kylo Prince, said participants gathered this morning at the Red Sun Gas Bar on Highway 6, just off the Perimeter, and headed west to the rail crossings by noon, where they were met by others who are waiting for them.
Prince said this morning's blockade is part of a national campaign and the last peaceful attempt to pressure the Harper government to withdraw the controversial Bill C-45, adding if this fails violent actions will take place.
Prince, from the Long Plain First Nation, said the Portage blockade has been organized by the American Indian Movement, adding that the street demonstrations organized by the Idle No More group have only angered the rest of society and have had little impact.
"AIM has been around a lot longer than Idle No More," Prince said. "I don't think the government cares if we're dancing in the streets."
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"If we block rail lines, that affects corporations and we'll interrupt their dollars," he said.
Meanwhile, in Winnipeg this morning about 25 people rallied downtown at Portage Avenue and Memorial Boulevard and then marched to the steps of the Legislature. The group, from Berens River First Nation, wanted their voices heard on issues affecting their band, like education and healthy living conditions.
In The Pas, Facebook supporters circulated word of another rail blockade to be held by Pukatawagan First Nation supporters today.
The Manitoba protests were among many across the country today, several of them organized in support of the Idle No More movement. Most were peaceful.
The Idle No More movement started in December to protest federal omnibus Bill C-45 and other legislation aboriginal people say erodes treaty rights, threatens fisheries and protection of lakes and rivers in Canada.
Bill C-45, introduced in the Commons in October, amends legislation in 64 other acts and has since passed and received royal assent. Native groups believe the series of changes proposed in the legislation erode indigenous rights, specifically portions of the act that apply to the Indian Act, the Navigation Protection Act, and the Environmental Assessment Act.-P96xavpg.js">
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Four politicians enter a bar at the end of a day in the commons, but strangely, despite having the means and the will, none of them buys a drink.
The first politician refuses to accept that the bar exists. The second, accepts the bar is there but refuses to believe it is open. The third accepts the bar both exists and is open, but is unsure how it all works and is therefore unprepared to commit at this time. The fourth politician, absolutely certain he knows where he is and what is going on, is at the bar demanding to be sold a pound of potatoes and some oranges no matter what and is prepared to bring a motion in the house to facilitate his wishes.