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Celebrate any sporting event in Clacton-on-Sea with our winner's podium, which is portable and sturdy.
Our winners podium has been used in various events across the country. We remain a leading provider of the classic three-deck winner's podium and other products.
If you want to add a professional touch to sporting events, you have come to the right place. Our portable winners podiums are suitable for various events at sports clubs or school sports days.
Please contact our team today to learn more about what we do in Clacton-on-Sea or search our catalogue.
We are the UK's leading Winners Podium experts with over 20 years of experience in the field.
Our modular staging systems in Clacton-on-Sea are simple, safe, and compact, making them suitable for all events and easily transported.
Once our winner's podiums arrive at your site, they are easy to set up and remain secure, so these platforms are safe for everyone. As a leading company in this field, we can provide ongoing advice and support to ensure your event goes well.
We have supplied bespoke solutions for many companies, including local authorities, councils, theatres, schools, and hotels across the UK and internationally.
Our company has designed a unique flat staging system that can be used as a winners podium when set up. What makes out podium unique in Clacton-on-Sea is that it incorporates a sound absorption solution (SAS), making them the quietest staging solution on the market. With that, our decks can be used both indoors and outdoors.
When you use our podiums, compared to any other company, you will not suffer any unnecessary noise caused by walking on the stage, allowing everyone to have their moment in the spotlight.
Our Frames have undergone strict testing by FIRA and are certified to BS EN 6399-1:1996 and BS EN 15372:2008 level 2.
Safety is at the forefront of our core values, and we take it very seriously. This is why we are always available for advice and will help all clients set up our platforms.
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Working with our company gives you access to the best winners' podiums on the market in Clacton-on-Sea.
Not only are our platforms safe and sturdy, but they are made compact, so they are easy to transport and stack and store away at the end of the event. Search our full range (VAT included).
Each modular unit is easy to build on-site, and the front fascia displays a full number. With such a large fascia display, our winner's podium is ideal for photographic moments.
Working with our Essex company gives you access to many benefits, as our podiums are:
The average cost of winner's podiums in the UK is between £1,200 – £3,000 (including VAT).
Portable stages can be as low as £500, but they can also be as high as £5,000 based on your requirements and VAT.
The total price in Clacton-on-Sea can vary based on several factors, such as:
Our company aims to offer a cost-effective podium, which is why we have quantity discounts on offer. The more you buy from our company, the greater the discount.
If you want to learn more about the price of our ceremony products in Essex, do not hesitate to contact the team today.
The total dimensions of our portable winners podium are 540mm x 2250mm.
This includes a 180mm x 750mm 3rd place, 750mm x 750mm second place and 540mm x 750mm first place.
We recommend these dimensions as they allow more than one person to stand on each podium if there is a joint winner.
Most portable award podiums do not allow for this, but it is something to consider when used in schools and sports clubs.
Our winner's podium can be used in a range of school events in Clacton-on-Sea, such as:
Whether you want to honour success, glory, or recognition, or you want to commend those who placed first, second and third. A winner's podium is a great way to present awards and medals, such as gold, silver, and bronze.
Our company operates across the UK and provides schools in Clacton-on-Sea with suitable, safe, attractive platforms for all events. Our decks can be used outdoors and indoors, as they are suitable for any surface, including carpets.
If you are looking for steady and easily constructed platforms for your next school event, you have come to the right place.
Contact the team to learn more about the VAT price.
You can check out our current stock at shop websites, where we have winner's podiums for sale in Clacton-on-Sea. We aim to offer a great price for our products and can meet your needs for any event.
Leave us a description of the kind of winners podium you require, including the fascia style and colour, when you enter items into the basket.
We make each deck based on your description and offer a range of podium-related products on our website.
You can rent a winner's podium from us for a cheaper event solution.
You don't need to purchase a podium for your celebration; hiring a podium to present an honor or prize is a cost-effective alternative!
Our hire winner's podium products are offered at lower prices (including VAT) and can be found on our website. Simply add to the basket to get started.
There are many advantages to our podiums in Clacton-on-Sea:
We offer a great range of winners' podium options, which are the ideal solution when space is at a premium.
Our winners' podium is stored quickly and compactly on a transportable storage shuttle. This is slim enough to fit through a standard doorway and makes transport even easier.
Our winner's podiums are constructed from strong, robust steel frames and high-quality birch plywood decks. A standard frame and deck can support the weight of 10 fully grown men, making them very tough and suitable for your event.
Our staging products are fully guaranteed against faults for ten years from delivery.
Our unique design makes it both lightweight and sturdy, ensuring it can handle any weight while also being easy to transport.
Our winners podium is highly versatile and can be used for various purposes. As they are low-weight and compact, it is easy to transform your stage using our winners' stand with time, and they are the perfect finish for any event you host.
Search on our website to see how our podium can be used in Clacton-on-Sea.
Our company offers the best customer service, and we are always here to help in Clacton-on-Sea.
We will demonstrate how to use the staging system to ensure the highest safety standards on delivery.
We also understand that budgets are tight, and we do not want you to spend more than necessary on your project, which is why we offer a low price (including VAT) for every podium.
Search our website to see the prices we offer.
Any podium you add to the basket to buy, regardless of finish or description, can last a long time if it is maintained properly.
After each use, every podium should be cleaned with a damp cloth and mild soapy water. Allow the podium to dry completely before storing it, preserving the finish.
You can search our site or contact the team in Clacton-on-Sea for any additional advice, as we are happy to help.
Our standard staging sets come with spiral stack shuttles, which can hold up to 24 decks and frames.
With a diameter of 1.07m and a height of up to 2.20m, spiral storage shuttles are ideal for most storage solutions.
If you need to transport your staging through narrow areas and doorways, you might want to consider an inline storage shuttle with a width of only 0.90m, which you can also find on our trading site, VAT reg and VAT included in all prices.
Our unique location mechanism ensures the staging looks more aesthetically pleasing and improves our unrivalled safety features.
A single Frame (540mm height) is tested for up to 675kg.
Standard items can usually be delivered for UK orders in 3-4 weeks.
Bespoke items can usually be dispatched in 8 weeks.
We can ship our products to most locations in Clacton-on-Sea.
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Celebrate the talent at any event with our winner's podium.
Our company specialises in podiums and decks, which can be used as staging, offering a range of bespoke items for low VAT costs. We can make the deck suit any needs, with any finish and design you require for your event.
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We understand that privacy and the security of your personal information is extremely important and we are committed to maintaining the trust and confidence of the visitors to our websites and our customers by keeping your personal data secure and respecting your privacy rights.
We will always handle your data fairly and legally and are committed to being transparent about the data we collect and how we use it.
We don't rent or trade information about you with other organisations and businesses.
We may collect the following information about you:
Our websites are not intended for children and we do not knowingly collect data relating to children.
The types of data listed above is not exhaustive and, in some instances, we may need to collect additional data for the purposes set out in this policy or to provide you with certain products and services.
If shop with us using a credit or debit card, or if we take these details for payment authorisation, we will securely collect and store this information. We will ask if you want us to automatically store these details to speed up future payments. If you set up a direct debit payment, we will also collect bank details from you.
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The information we collect may be used to:
We will only use your personal data for marketing purposes with your consent. We may do this by post, email, text message, online or through social media, push notifications via apps, or other electronic means and will aim to update you only about those products and services you are interested in or which relevant to you.
You may amend your marketing preferences and have the right to opt out of receiving promotional communications at any time, by:
We won't send you marketing messages if you tell us not to, but we will still need to send you occasional service-related messages.
As part of the registration process for our newsletter, we collect personal information. We use that information to: tell you about our offers, products and services; contact you if we need to obtain or provide additional information; check our records are correct and up-to-date; and make sure that you're happy and satisfied with our services. To do so we use a third-party provider, [ADD NAME], to deliver our newsletter. We gather statistics around email opening and clicks using industry standard technologies to help us monitor and improve our newsletter. For more information about this, please see [ADD NAME]'s privacy notice. You can unsubscribe from our newsletter at any time by clicking the unsubscribe link at the bottom of our emails or by contacting us (see HOW TO CONTACT US).
If you are a member of any of our reward or loyalty schemes we may collect data directly from you, as well as analysing your browsing and purchasing activity, both on-line and in store, and your responses to marketing communications. The results of this analysis, together with other demographic data, allows us to personalise the information and offers we send to you, make that are relevant to you and understand more about you as a customer. We use software and other technology (automated processing) to do this.
If you visit our websites, you may receive personalised advertisements whilst browsing other websites. Any such advertisements will relate to the products you have viewed whilst browsing our websites on your computer or other devices. These advertisements are provided by us through specialist providers using 'cookies' placed on your computer or other devices (further information on the use of cookies can be found here OUR USE OF COOKIES including information on how to change your browser setting and disable cookies.
When you visit our websites, we use service providers, like Google Analytics and Sumo Logic, to collect internet log information and details of visitor behaviour patterns. We do this to understand how visitors use our websites. This information is only processed in a way which does not identify anyone.
We may share your personal information with [NAME OF GROUP] from time to time so we can provide you with services across our group. That includes [ADD DETAILS].
We work with partners, suppliers, service providers and agencies and may need to share your personal information with them to provide certain services. However, we will only do so where they meet our standards for processing data and have confirmed that they have appropriate data protection and security controls in place. We will only share information with them that is necessary for them to provide services to us or directly to you and our contracts with them prevent them from using your personal information for any other purposes. These include:
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We will not sell or rent our customer data to other organisations for marketing purposes.
If you place an order with us and you are outside of [COUNTRY] we will transfer your personal information to [COUNTRY].
Although your personal data will be held in [COUNTRY] data centres it is sometimes necessary for us to share your personal information outside of the European Economic Area (or the EEA), so that we can deliver products and provide services to you or to transfer your personal information to our group companies, suppliers or service providers based outside of the EEA for the purposes described in this policy. This will usually be the case when either you, your delivery address or our service providers are located outside the EEA.
If this happens, your personal information will continue to be subject to one or more appropriate safeguards set out in the law. We will ensure that the transfer will be compliant with data protection law and all personal information will be secure. Our standard practice is to use 'standard data protection clauses' for such transfers or ensuring that our suppliers sign up to an independent privacy scheme (like the US 'Privacy Shield' scheme). These methods have been approved by regulators to ensure adequate safeguards are in place.
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Unless we are required to by law, we will not retain your data for longer than necessary for the purposes set out in this policy.
Different retention periods apply for different types of data, however the longest we will normally hold any personal data for is 6 years.
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You can ask us to confirm what personal information we hold about you and how we use it, where we are obliged to provide copies of this personal information we will do so free of charge.
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Before providing personal information to you or another person on your behalf, we may ask for proof of identity and sufficient information about your interactions with us that we can locate your personal information.
You also have the right to lodge a complaint with a data protection regulator where your personal information has or is being used in a way that you believe does not comply with data protection law. Usually this would be in the country where you live or where your legal rights have been infringed. Our lead authority is [ADD NAME AND CONTACT DETAILS].
We are required to set out the legal basis for our 'processing' of personal data.
We collect and use your personal data because is it necessary:
In general, we only rely on consent as a legal basis for using your personal data in relation to sending direct marketing communications to you via email or text message. You have the right to withdraw consent at any time and, where consent is the only legal basis for processing your personal information, we will cease to process data after consent is withdrawn.
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We may partner with trusted service providers to make additional products and services available to you and may sometimes provide you with links to other websites that are not under our control.
In these instances, we will not be liable to you for any issues with their use of your personal information, the website content or the products and services offered or provided to you by these websites.
These websites are not owned and operated by us and they are responsible for processing personal data in accordance with their own privacy policies. We recommend that you consult the privacy policy and terms and conditions on each website to see how your personal information will be used.
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Cookies are used on all versions of our websites and in our website applications.
Cookies are designed to enable your computer or device to remember something you have done within that website (such as remembering that you have logged in, or which buttons you have clicked) and are essential for the effective operation of our websites and to help you shop online. They are also used to tailor the products and services offered and advertised to you, both on our websites and elsewhere.
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To help you understand cookies better we have outlined some of the main types below:
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We do not use cookies to collect or record information about your name, address or other contact details or credit cards.
We do not control what information is collected and stored by Third-Party Cookies, or how they are set and we do not accept any liability in connection with these cookies, you should check the relevant website for more information about what they do with cookies and how you can manage them. These may include social networking sites, like Facebook and Twitter. If you share content in this way, the social network may send cookies to your browser.
For details of the Third-Party Cookies we use please see our COOKIE LIST.
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You have different options to manage the cookies on your computer or device.
You can change your browser settings to prevent cookies from being accepted, or, depending on which browser you are using, you might be able to receive an alert when a website is trying to place one on your browser.
With most browsers, you can allow First-Party Cookies to be set but refuse to accept Third-Party Cookies.
The main purposes we use cookies for are:
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If you disable ALL cookies, you will be unable to complete a purchase on our websites.
This list is intended to help you understand how we use cookies on our websites.
We will update this list as we make changes to the shopping experience on our websites and as we gather more information on such cookies or as any cookies change. Whilst we intend to update this page regularly, there may occasionally be some cookies missing from the list.
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Watch C-SPAN long enough, and you'll see members of Congress using visual aids: big, brightly colored poster boards, known on Capitol Hill as floor charts.
They've become an essential part of congressional messaging.
Almost every day the House of Representatives is in session, lawmakers line up to give what are known as one-minute speeches. Florida Democrat Frederica Wilson is always there.
And she always has her floor chart with her. It displays the number of days since Wilson came to Congress and the number of Americans unemployed.
"When you are in the minority, you have to find ways to get your message across because there's no other way. You don't have a bill that they're going to hear. There's no committee that will receive your suggestions," Wilson says.
She's been reusing the same chart since February, just swapping out the number of days in red type. Some members have dozens of them, ready to go at a moment's notice. Indiana Republican Rep. Todd Rokita has a whole stack of charts in his office, leftover from a lengthy presentation he gave back in April on the national debt. Back then, he offered a bar chart showing budget deficits through the years, with pictures of presidents on top of each bar. If you had seen it on C-SPAN, occasionally you'd see a hand come into the shot, switching to the next chart. That is Zach Zagar, Rokita's communications director.
"I was Vanna White on the House floor, one beautiful night this spring," Zagar says.
So how exactly do these things get made?
First the content: These are actually just PowerPoint slides from a presentation Rokita often gives when he's back home in his district — printed real big for use on the House floor.
"The House doesn't quite have a PowerPoint projector on the floor," says Zagar. "So this is what we get."
There are a couple of nice ones, made expertly and mounted by the House graphics office. But most in this stack are just printed on giant sheets of paper, then wrapped around and taped onto previously used poster boards. Zagar says the House Republican Conference has a big printer, which makes these charts cheap to make, if not aesthetically perfect up close.
"Sometimes you get the backend of a weird leftover presentation. Sometimes you get a poster board with a giant wedge taken out of it, so yeah, it varies," he says. "The presentation via television is barely noticeable."
A little secret about Congress that may not be obvious watching on TV: Often when members give these speeches, the room is virtually empty. But that doesn't really matter, because the cameras are always rolling.
Bill Gray is a producer at C-SPAN, and a man so obsessed with floor charts he's created a blog to catalog their use.
"Budget and deficit and deficit reduction and anything that has to do with hard numbers, those are the most popular because if you show a giant red line going from low to high, then it's going to draw the number, and it's just very simple — this number is higher than it used to be, here we go," Gray says.
But perhaps the most popular floor chart of all time (though, admittedly, this is hard to gauge) was used by Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa back in 2009.
Here's how he described that chart at the time: "the rising cost of health care as a massive fire-breathing debt and deficit dragon."
That's right. The debt and deficit dragon — a gray fire-breathing dragon, labeled with yellow Olde English-style print on a blue background. It got a lot of attention, which is exactly what Grassley says he's going for.
"I think they're very beneficial, probably more to the public at large than they are to our colleagues," Grassley says.
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And another one bites the dust. What a card that God is! He tells Oral that Oral will be summarily killed if the money isn't raised to keep his faith healing center afloat. And so Oral gets the money, and then the center shuts down three years later anyway! Then God waits until the fellow is basically decades older than the average human life expectancy, and kills him then, without a warning or cash extortion attempt of any kind. God, you joker you!
Oh, well, actually, God was never involved in any part of it. Oral was just another huckster who struck it rich exploiting ignorance and gullibility, and enjoyed the sort of long and prosperous life that, if we lived in a just world, honest people would be more entitled to. But I suspect even Oral wasn't as shady as the federally-investigated Kenneth Copeland, seen below administering a kind of Christian rolfing to the ORU patriarch. If you wish to commemorate Oral's passing by captioning/LOLing this, we won't stop you.
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The How To Book of the Mass by Michael Dubruiel is a great resource for inquirers and RCIA sessions.
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In this complete guide you get:
- step-by-step guidelines to walk you through the Mass
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- helpful hints and insights from the Tradition of the Church
- aids in overcoming distractions at Mass
- ways to make every Mass a way to grow in your relationship with Jesus
If you want to learn what the Mass means to a truly Catholic life—and share this practice with others—you can't be without The How-To Book of the Mass.
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- Intercede for others
- Be a Good Steward
- Give Thanks to God
- Give the Sign of Peace
- Receive the Eucharist
- Receive a Blessing
- Evangelize Others
- Get something Out of Every Mass You Attend
"Is this not the same movement as the Paschal meal of the risen Jesus with his disciples? Walking with them he explained the Scriptures to them; sitting with them at table 'he took bread, blessed and broke it, and gave it to them."
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Anyone who gives up gluten, either by choice or medical necessity, will inevitably feel a twinge of regret bidding adieu to bread, pasta or pastries. But for some, the greatest hardship may be saying no to beer — especially at times like Super Bowl Sunday, when having a cold one in hand is part of many people's game day tradition.
So it's no small thing that a growing number of brewers are offering gluten-free beers that are both tasty and satisfying.
They're joining other food and beverage producers who've discovered that gluten-free is now a $4.2 billion market, as the ranks of people with celiac disease and gluten sensitivity grow.
While many gluten-free beer drinkers complain of the lack of quality or variety, the choices have grown steadily. Consider that in 2007, when the Great American Beer Festival officially added a gluten-free category to its competition, only eight beers were entered. At last year's festival, the category drew 20 entries.
When I tell Abbey Potter, a librarian at the Library of Congress who was diagnosed with celiac disease five years ago, that several brewers are now focused only on making good beer without gluten, her answer is immediate: "God bless them."
Potter learned to appreciate craft beer during her college years in Kalamazoo, Mich. She eventually took up home brewing, buying equipment that later sat unused. For her, the treat of drinking Kalamazoo-made Bell's beers in Washington, D.C., was short-lived; she was diagnosed with celiac not long after Bell's hit local shelves.
So I invited Abbey to join me in a tasting of gluten-free beers. I was a bit dubious of the quality we'd find, knowing that malted wheat or barley, which are responsible for the gluten in most beers, also add a lot of flavor and heft. But Abbey had recently said she'd found options that taste like "real" beer, and I had tracked down a couple I wanted to try, as well.
Most brewers use one of two strategies for making beer without gluten. Some avoid cereals like wheat, barley and rye, substituting sorghum, rice or fruit. Others brew with barley and then extract gluten from the beer. Drinkers who are highly sensitive to gluten often avoid these beers. But the process removes enough of the protein to be deemed gluten-free according to international standards. And Abbey says she hasn't had a problem with them.
"They're trying to give you the real experience," she says. "Because that's what you miss the most when you have to drink gluten-free beer: feeling like you're having a beer."
Some of the following selections are widely available; some are more limited, owing to seasonal releases or distribution deals.
New Planet Pale Ale (5 percent alcohol by volume)
This beer, from a brewery whose owner is gluten-intolerant, replaces malted grains with sorghum and brown rice extract. Like a traditional pale ale, it has a floral bitterness that brings craft beer to mind.
"It has that little bitterness to it, which is nice," Abbey says. "Because sorghum can be kind of sweet."
Dogfish Head Tweason'Ale (6 percent ABV)
Featuring strawberries and sorghum along with hops, this crisp ale is a nod to the sweet and sour flavors of a Belgian lambic. The fruit adds a little complexity without taking over — "it smells like beer," Abbey says.
"It would definitely work for me in a ballpark, picnic situation — and I would not feel like a weird outcast," she says. "I think they have a good recipe."
Still, she notes, "It's not as carbonated as 'real beer.' "
Omission Pale Ale (5.8 percent ABV)
Omission comes from Craft Brew Alliance, which also produces Widmer Brothers and other malted beers. To reduce the gluten content, the brewer uses low-protein barley and adds an enzyme called Brewers Clarex, which breaks down gluten. The end product isn't 100 percent gluten-free, though, and Abbey could feel the effects of it after drinking it.
But she enjoyed the flavor enough to keep at it, anyway.
"That tastes more like beer to me," Potter says. "It tastes malty. Which is hard" when you're making beer without gluten.
Green's 'Quest' Tripel Blonde Ale (8.5 percent ABV)
This Belgian beer pours with a rich, full head. Like some of our other selections, hops and a relatively high alcohol content help it avoid the sweet and watery qualities of other gluten-free beers.
"This has that refreshingness — you drink it, it makes you go, 'Aah,' " Abbey says.
Made with millet, buckwheat and rice, Quest has a full body that's made more complex by Belgian yeast.
"You can see there's something in there," Abbey says. "It looks like a craft beer; it's not clear. It has a nice bitterness to it, too ... it's like an orange coriander beer."
Indeed, gluten-free beers have come a long way since 2007, when two sorghum-based beers — Anheuser-Busch's RedBridge and Lakefront Brewing's New Grist — took the Great American Beer Festival's top two spots for gluten-free beer. Since then, the winners have included Strange Brewing Co.'s Gluten-Free Lemon Pale and The Alchemist's Celia Pale Ale. Another contender is Harvester Brewing, a Portland company that uses gluten-free oats and chestnuts from Oregon.
And the trading of gluten-free home-brewing tips online, along with gluten-reducing enzymes like Clarex, means that celiac beer-lovers can tinker with their own recipes, as well.
In fact, Abbey says, she and a friend recently used her brewing kit to make a batch of gluten-free beer. After considering roasted millet and malted buckwheat, they settled on sorghum extract — and a large dose of hops.
"It was delicious," she says. "It made me think that beer was possible again."
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Game-changing plays in any sport and at any level are tremendously exciting. Whether we're watching Pop Warner football, middle school recreational soccer, high school basketball, or Major League Baseball, an extraordinary athletic play makes us stand up and cheer. If our team takes the lead as a result, so much the better.
Attempting to make a game-changing play is known as swinging for the fences. But forcing the action in this way is not always a good idea. People who want to be healthy and well can gain value from considering the contrast between swinging for the fences vs. staying within themselves.
For example, if you've played any team sport for any length of time, you know a little bit about what this feels like. Bottom of the ninth, your team is two runs down. You're at the plate with two runners on base. What's going through your mind? Hit a home run, that's what. One swing, game over. Forget situational hitting, you're swinging for the fences.
Or you're the quarterback of your football team. Your team is behind but the score is close. You know you need to make a momentum-shifting play. You've got years of mental images in your head of Peyton Manning and Tom Brady using the vertical part of the field, going downfield, way downfield. You call the play, take the snap, drop back three steps, and heave the ball toward your wide receiver racing to the corner of the end zone. The Hail Mary pass you've just thrown is the football equivalent of swinging for the fences. But your deep pass could just as easily be intercepted instead of resulting in the difference-making touchdown.
The analogy holds true in all sports. The game-winning penalty kick in soccer. The thundering, momentum-shifting slam dunk in basketball. The dominating volleyball kill shot which drains the spirit from the opposing team. Each key moment is a sport-specific swing for the fences. Again, the opposite result could just as easily occur.
We can see that striving to make a big play is often a mistake and can easily lead to a loss. Forcing the action never works. Smart athletes stay within themselves, letting the game come to them. The best athletes are able, more often than not, to rise to the occasion when an opportunity presents itself. Then, in the context of the flow of the game, you'll see the baseball flying over the fence or the beautifully arcing touchdown pass floating into the hands of the receiver.
This is especially true regarding exercise. When it comes to exercise, slow and steady wins the race.1,2,3 Trying to do too much usually results in an injury, which sets you back and wastes precious time in the recovery process. In strength-training, for example, lifting big weight is not the goal. Progressive, incremental gains are what build lifetime fitness. Aerobic exercise is similar. Going for a five-mile walk is a bad idea if you haven't walked at all in six months or more. Going for an eight-mile run when you're used to running three miles is another bad idea. Gradual increases in time and distance are what works.
Swinging for the fences is great when it happens. In exercise and fitness, achieving a personal best is cause for celebration. But in exercise and fitness, personal bests result from much effort and preparation. When you have a long-term, solid base of fitness, you can swing for the fences with confidence.


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Air travel is stressful. While some stress may be unavoidable, like the long lines at security, other sources of stress, like dealing with luggage check-in and baggage claim, can be reduced. If you think checking in luggage for your two-week vacation is inescapable, think again. Here are some ideas to help you get by with just a carry-on and by-pass the hassles (and fees) of checking in luggage.
How to Pack Lightly
There are several simple strategies that may help you survive your next getaway with only carry-on luggage.
Start with a Small Bag
Humans tend to fill up the space allowed them. So, start your packing with a bag that will meet the carry-on criteria.
Mix and Match
Pack clothes that can be mixed and matched so you can wear a variety of outfits with fewer clothes.
Bring the Right Clothes
Ready-to-wear and fast-dry apparel will allow you to more readily re-use clothes.
Two Shoes Maximum
Shoes take up a lot of room, so consider a one pair for active use and another for the casual nights out.
Don't Bring What You Can Buy
If you can buy items at your destination (e.g., shampoo and suntan lotion), then don't take up valuable space with these items.
Finally, consider not just what you pack, but how you pack it. Use space efficiently by rolling your clothes and using your shoes' foot space for packing smaller items.
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Noam Chomsky: US control is diminishing, but it still thinks it owns the world
US control is diminishing, but it still thinks it owns the world
The United States has long assumed the right to use violence to achieve its aims, but it is now less able to implement its policies
Noam Chomsky for TomDispatch, part of the Guardian Comment Network
guardian.co.uk, Monday 4 February 2013 09.01 EST
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'We "stabilise" countries when we invade them and destroy them.' Photograph: Olivier Laban-Mattei/AFP/Getty Images
This piece is adapted from Uprisings, a chapter in Power Systems: Conversations on Global Democratic Uprisings and the New Challenges to US Empire, Noam Chomsky's new book of interviews with David Barsamian (with thanks to the publisher, Metropolitan Books). The questions are Barsamian's, the answers Chomsky's.
Does the United States still have the same level of control over the energy resources of the Middle East as it once had?
The major energy-producing countries are still firmly under the control of the western-backed dictatorships. So, actually, the progress made by the Arab spring is limited, but it's not insignificant. The western-controlled dictatorial system is being eroded. In fact, it's been being eroded for some time. So, for example, if you go back 50 years, the energy resources – the main concern of US planners – have been mostly nationalised. There are constantly attempts to reverse that, but they have not succeeded.
Take the US invasion of Iraq, for example. To everyone except a dedicated ideologue, it was pretty obvious that we invaded Iraq not because of our love of democracy but because it's maybe the second- or third-largest source of oil in the world, and is right in the middle of the major energy-producing region. You're not supposed to say this. It's considered a conspiracy theory.
The United States was seriously defeated in Iraq by Iraqi nationalism – mostly by nonviolent resistance. The United States could kill the insurgents, but they couldn't deal with half a million people demonstrating in the streets. Step by step, Iraq was able to dismantle the controls put in place by the occupying forces. By November 2007, it was becoming pretty clear that it was going to be very hard to reach US goals. And at that point, interestingly, those goals were explicitly stated. So in November 2007 the Bush II administration came out with an official declaration about what any future arrangement with Iraq would have to be. It had two major requirements: one, that the United States must be free to carry out combat operations from its military bases, which it will retain; and, two, "encouraging the flow of foreign investments to Iraq, especially American investments". In January 2008, Bush made this clear in one of his signing statements. A couple of months later, in the face of Iraqi resistance, the United States had to give that up. Control of Iraq is now disappearing before their eyes.
Iraq was an attempt to reinstitute by force something like the old system of control, but it was beaten back. In general, I think, US policies remain constant, going back to the second world war. But the capacity to implement them is declining.
Declining because of economic weakness?
Partly because the world is just becoming more diverse. It has more diverse power centres. At the end of the second world war, the United States was absolutely at the peak of its power. It had half the world's wealth, and every one of its competitors was seriously damaged or destroyed. It had a position of unimaginable security and developed plans to essentially run the world – not unrealistically at the time.
This was called "grand area" planning?
Yes. Right after the second world war, George Kennan, head of the US state department policy planning staff, and others sketched out the details, and then they were implemented. What's happening now in the Middle East and north Africa, to an extent, and in South America substantially goes all the way back to the late 1940s. The first major successful resistance to US hegemony was in 1949. That's when an event took place that, interestingly, is called "the loss of China". It's a very interesting phrase, never challenged. There was a lot of discussion about who is responsible for the loss of China. It became a huge domestic issue. But it's a very interesting phrase. You can only lose something if you own it. It was just taken for granted: we possess China – and, if they move toward independence, we've lost China. Later came concerns about "the loss of Latin America", "the loss of the Middle East", "the loss of" certain countries, all based on the premise that we own the world and anything that weakens our control is a loss to us and we wonder how to recover it.
Today, if you read, say, foreign policy journals or, in a farcical form, listen to the Republican debates, they're asking, "How do we prevent further losses?"
On the other hand, the capacity to preserve control has sharply declined. By 1970, the world was already what was called tripolar economically, with a US-based North American industrial centre, a German-based European centre, roughly comparable in size, and a Japan-based east Asian centre, which was then the most dynamic growth region in the world. Since then, the global economic order has become much more diverse. So it's harder to carry out our policies, but the underlying principles have not changed much.
Take the Clinton doctrine. The Clinton doctrine was that the United States was entitled to resort to unilateral force to ensure "uninhibited access to key markets, energy supplies and strategic resources". That goes beyond anything that George W Bush said. But it was quiet and it wasn't arrogant and abrasive, so it didn't cause much of an uproar. The belief in that entitlement continues right to the present. It's also part of the intellectual culture.
Right after the assassination of Osama bin Laden, amid all the cheers and applause, there were a few critical comments questioning the legality of the act. Centuries ago, there used to be something called presumption of innocence. If you apprehend a suspect, he's a suspect until proven guilty. He should be brought to trial. It's a core part of American law. You can trace it back to Magna Carta. So there were a couple of voices saying maybe we shouldn't throw out the whole basis of Anglo-American law. That led to a lot of very angry and infuriated reactions, but the most interesting ones were, as usual, on the left-liberal end of the spectrum.Matthew Yglesias, a well-known and highly respected left-liberal commentator, wrote an article in which he ridiculed these views. He said they were "amazingly naive" and silly. Then he explained the reason. He said: "One of the main functions of the international institutional order is precisely to legitimate the use of deadly military force by western powers." Of course, he didn't mean Norway. He meant the United States. So the principle on which the international system is based is that the US is entitled to use force at will. To talk about the US violating international law or something like that is amazingly naive, completely silly. Incidentally, I was the target of those remarks, and I'm happy to confess my guilt. I do think that Magna Carta and international law are worth paying some attention to.
I merely mention that to illustrate that, in the intellectual culture, even at what's called the left-liberal end of the political spectrum, the core principles haven't changed very much. But the capacity to implement them has been sharply reduced. That's why you get all this talk about American decline. Take a look at the year-end issue of Foreign Affairs, the main establishment journal. Its big front-page cover asks, in bold face, "Is America Over?" It's a standard complaint of those who believe they should have everything. If you believe you should have everything and anything gets away from you, it's a tragedy, and the world is collapsing. So is America over? A long time ago we "lost" China, we've lost southeast Asia, we've lost South America. Maybe we'll lose the Middle East and north African countries. Is America over? It's a kind of paranoia, but it's the paranoia of the super-rich and the super-powerful. If you don't have everything, it's a disaster.
The New York Times describes the "defining policy quandary of the Arab spring as how to square contradictory US impulses, including support for democratic change, a desire for stability, and wariness of Islamists who have become a potent political force". The Times identifies three US goals. What do you make of them?
Two of them are accurate. The United States is in favour of stability. But you have to remember what stability means. Stability means conformity to US orders. So, for example, one of the charges against Iran, the big foreign policy threat, is that it is destabilising Iraq and Afghanistan. How? By trying to expand its influence into neighbouring countries. On the other hand, we "stabilise" countries when we invade them and destroy them.
I've occasionally quoted one of my favourite illustrations of this, which is from a well-known, very good liberal foreign policy analyst, James Chace, a former editor of Foreign Affairs. Writing about the overthrow of the Salvador Allende regime and the imposition of the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet in 1973, he said that we had to "destabilise" Chile in the interests of "stability". That's not perceived to be a contradiction – and it isn't. We had to destroy the parliamentary system in order to gain stability, meaning that they do what we say. So yes, we are in favour of stability in this technical sense.
Concern about political Islam is just like concern about any independent development. Anything that's independent you have to have concern about, because it may undermine you. In fact, it's a little paradoxical, because traditionally the United States and Britain have by and large strongly supported radical Islamic fundamentalism, not political Islam, as a force to block secular nationalism, the real concern. So, for example, Saudi Arabia is the most extreme fundamentalist state in the world, a radical Islamic state. It has missionary zeal, is spreading radical Islam to Pakistan and funding terror. But it's the bastion of US and British policy. They've consistently supported it against the threat of secular nationalism from Gamal Abdel Nasser's Egypt and Abd al-Karim Qasim's Iraq, among many others. But they don't like political Islam because it may become independent.
The first of the three points, our yearning for democracy, that's about on the level of Joseph Stalin talking about the Russian commitment to freedom, democracy and liberty for the world. It's the kind of statement you laugh about when you hear it from commissars or Iranian clerics, but you nod politely, and maybe even with awe, when you hear it from their western counterparts.
If you look at the record, the yearning for democracy is a bad joke. That's even recognised by leading scholars, though they don't put it this way. One of the major scholars on so-called democracy promotion is Thomas Carothers, who is pretty conservative and highly regarded – a neo-Reaganite, not a flaming liberal. He worked in Reagan's state department and has several books reviewing the course of democracy promotion, which he takes very seriously. He says, yes, this is a deep-seated American ideal, but it has a funny history. The history is that every US administration is "schizophrenic". They support democracy only if it conforms to certain strategic and economic interests. He describes this as a strange pathology, as if the United States needed psychiatric treatment or something. Of course, there's another interpretation, but one that can't come to mind if you're a well-educated, properly behaved intellectual.
Within several months of the toppling of [President Hosni] Mubarak in Egypt, he was in the dock facing criminal charges and prosecution. It's inconceivable that US leaders will ever be held to account for their crimes in Iraq or beyond. Is that going to change anytime soon?
That's basically the Yglesias principle: the very foundation of the international order is that the United States has the right to use violence at will. So how can you charge anybody?
And no one else has that right?
Of course not. Well, maybe our clients do. If Israel invades Lebanon and kills 1,000 people and destroys half the country, OK, that's all right. It's interesting. Barack Obama was a senator before he was president. He didn't do much as a senator, but he did a couple of things, including one he was particularly proud of. In fact, if you looked at his website before the primaries, he highlighted the fact that, during the Israeli invasion of Lebanon in 2006, he co-sponsored a Senate resolution demanding that the United States do nothing to impede Israel's military actions until they had achieved their objectives, and censuring Iran and Syria because they were supporting resistance to Israel's destruction of southern Lebanon, incidentally, for the fifth time in 25 years. So they inherit the right. Other clients do, too.
But the rights really reside in Washington. That's what it means to own the world. It's like the air you breathe. You can't question it. The main founder of contemporary IR [international relations] theory, Hans Morgenthau, was really quite a decent person, one of the very few political scientists and international affairs specialists to criticise the Vietnam war on moral, not tactical, grounds. Very rare. He wrote a book called The Purpose of American Politics. You already know what's coming. Other countries don't have purposes. The purpose of America, on the other hand, is "transcendent" – to bring freedom and justice to the rest of the world. But he's a good scholar, like Carothers. So he went through the records. He said that, when you studied the record, it looked as if the United States hadn't lived up to its transcendent purpose. But then he says that to criticise our transcendent purpose "is to fall into the error of atheism, which denies the validity of religion on similar grounds" – which is a good comparison. It's a deeply entrenched religious belief. It's so deep that it's going to be hard to disentangle it. And if anyone questions that, it leads to near-hysteria and often to charges of anti-Americanism or "hating America" – interesting concepts that don't exist in democratic societies, only in totalitarian societies and here, where they're just taken for granted.
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WASHINGTON – Yes, it is true that there was no al-Qaeda in Iraq when George W. Bush took office. But it is equally true that there was essentially no al-Qaeda in Iraq remaining when Barack Obama took office.
Which makes Bush responsible for the terrible costs incurred to defeat the 2003-09 jihadist war engendered by his invasion. We can debate forever whether those costs were worth it, but what is not debatable is Obama's responsibility for the return of the Islamist insurgency that had been routed by the time he became president.
By 2009, al-Qaeda in Iraq had not just been decimated but humiliated by the American surge and the Anbar Awakening. Here were aggrieved Sunnis, having ferociously fought the Americans who had overthrown 80 years of Sunni hegemony, now reversing allegiance and joining the infidel invader in crushing, indeed extirpating from Iraq, their fellow Sunnis of al-Qaeda.
At the same time, Shiite Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki turned the Iraqi army against radical Shiite militias from Basra all the way north to Baghdad.
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He offered to leave about 3,000-5,000 troops, a ridiculous number. U.S. commanders said they needed nearly 20,000. (We have 28,500 in South Korea and 38,000 in Japan to this day.) Such a minuscule contingent would spend all its time just protecting itself. Iraqis know a nonserious offer when they see one. Why bear the domestic political liability of a continued U.S. presence for a mere token?
Moreover, as historian Max Boot has pointed out, Obama insisted on parliamentary ratification, which the Iraqis explained was not just impossible but unnecessary. So Obama ordered a full withdrawal. And with it disappeared U.S. influence in curbing sectarianism, mediating among factions and providing both intelligence and tactical advice to Iraqi forces now operating on their own.
The result was predictable. And predicted. Overnight, Iran and its promotion of Shiite supremacy became the dominant influence in Iraq. The day after the U.S. departure, Maliki ordered the arrest of the Sunni vice president. He cut off funding for the Sons of Iraq, the Sunnis who had fought with us against al-Qaeda. And subsequently so persecuted and alienated Sunnis that they were ready to welcome back al-Qaeda in Iraq – rebranded in its Syrian refuge as the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria – as the lesser of two evils. Hence the stunningly swift ISIS capture of so much of Iraq.
But the jihadist revival is the result of a double Obama abdication: creating a vacuum not just in Iraq but in Syria. Obama dithered and speechified during the early days of the Syrian revolution, before the jihadists had arrived, when the secular revolt was systematically advancing on the Damascus regime.
Hezbollah, Iran and Russia helped the regime survive. Meanwhile, a jihadist enclave (including remnants of the once-routed al-Qaeda in Iraq) developed in large swaths of northern and eastern Syria. They thrived on massive outside support while the secular revolutionaries foundered, waiting vainly for American help.
Faced with a de facto jihadi state spanning both countries, a surprised Obama now has little choice but to try to re-create overnight, from scratch and in miniature, the kind of U.S. presence – providing intelligence, tactical advice and perhaps even air support – he abjured three years ago
His announcement that he is sending 300 military advisers is the beginning of that re-creation – a pale substitute but the only option Obama has left himself. The leverage he forfeited will be hard to reclaim. But it's our only chance to keep Iraq out of the hands of the Sunni jihadists of ISIS and the Shiite jihadists of Tehran.
Charles Krauthammer's column is distributed by The Washington Post Writers Group.