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A new report reveals staggering statistics about the extent to which the obesity epidemic is robbing Americans of their health and longevity. Columbia University and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation examined the real impact of obesity on death rates.1
The study found that nearly one in five US deaths is associated with obesity, which is more than three times higher than previous estimates.
The effect varies somewhat by your gender, race and age. The younger you are, the greater obesity's influence on your mortality. And contrary to a previous study2, obesity is not protective if you're elderly. The Columbia study found the following percentage of deaths associated with high BMI (body mass index):
The authors wrote:
"We believe that it is imperative for the US public and those who construct policy for that public to recognize that population health and more than a century of steady gains in life expectancy are being jeopardized by the obesity epidemic. Indeed, evidence has already implicated high rates of obesity as a significant contributor to the United States' relatively low life expectancy among high-income countries."
"We believe that it is imperative for the US public and those who construct policy for that public to recognize that population health and more than a century of steady gains in life expectancy are being jeopardized by the obesity epidemic. Indeed, evidence has already implicated high rates of obesity as a significant contributor to the United States' relatively low life expectancy among high-income countries."
Obesity rates could be much worse than these studies suggest, for a couple of reasons. First, the number of Americans who are overweight or obese increases every year and is already considerably higher today than it was in 2006, the final year for data used in the Columbia University study.3
Secondly and more importantly, the study uses BMI to gauge obesity, which is a seriously flawed index that doesn't take into account percentage body fat, or the distribution of that fat.
When those variables are factored in, the number of people who meet the criteria for obesity is MUCH higher—possibly even twice as high! Even without adjusting for body fat, if obesity trends are accurate, societal impacts will be far worse by 2030. Rates of "extreme obesity" (people with a BMI above 40) have risen by 350 percent over the past few years.4
As far as simple indicators go, waist size is a better predictor of heart disease risk than body weight or BMI. Determining your waist size is easy. With a tape measure, figure the distance around the smallest area of your abdomen below your rib cage and above your belly button. If you're not sure if you have a healthy waist circumference, a general guide is:
Unfortunately, obesity statistics are a bit tricky to determine because obesity itself is never listed as the cause of death. Instead, the complications of obesity, such as heart disease or diabetes, are blamed for a person's death. If you are obese, your risk for a number of serious health problems multiplies. Eight obesity-related diseases account for a staggering 75 percent of healthcare costs in the US. These diseases include:
Type 2 diabetes
Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD)
Polycystic ovarian syndrome
Lipid problems
Cancer (especially breast, endometrial, colon, gallbladder, prostate and kidney5)
Heart disease
The four diseases in the left column are associated with metabolic syndrome, which is a common factor in obesity. However, several other diseases fall within this category as well, which are listed on the right. And many more could be added to that list. According to the Surgeon General, in addition to the above, obesity increases your risk for asthma, sleep disorders (including sleep apnea), depression, pregnancy complications, and poor surgical outcomes.
While obesity is associated with metabolic syndrome and the diseases mentioned above, it is not their cause; it is simply a marker. The common link among them is metabolic dysfunction, and excessive sugar/fructose consumption is a primary driver. Please realize that you can have metabolic dysfunction and be prone to "obesity-related diseases," even if your body weight is fine—you can't rely on your BMI alone, as it won't give you the complete picture.
Socioeconomic forces and a food system that is stacked against healthful eating make it extremely difficult for many people to adopt a healthful lifestyle. This is compounded by the vast sea of misinformation out there, some of which comes directly from government regulators and so-called nutrition experts.
One dogma that has contributed to the ever-worsening health of Western society is "a calorie is a calorie." This is one of the first things dieticians are taught in school, but unfortunately, it is completely FALSE! A second common myth is that obesity results from eating too much and exercising too little—i.e., consuming more calories than you're expending. This has led to the view that obese people are simply "lazy."
But there are societal forces at work that go beyond personal habits. An increasing number of infants are even becoming obese, and "laziness" is certainly not a label that can easily be affixed to an infant. The societal changes over the past 60 years have created what amounts to the perfect storm for eroding human health—a dramatically changing food environment, combined with reduced exercise and increased exposure to a wide array of industrial and agricultural chemicals that have adverse biological effects.
Key among these changes to our food environment is the excessive use of sugar, added to virtually all processed foods primarily in the form of high fructose corn syrup. And this is where the fallacy of "a calorie is a calorie" comes into play, because a calorie from fat does not impact your body in the same way as a calorie from sugar. The single largest factor driving obesity is excess sugar in the Western diet, specifically fructose.
The problem is further inflamed by the recent proclamation by the American Medical Association that "obesity is a disease," which ignores obesity's root causes and calls Big Pharma to the rescue. Conveniently, two new prescription weight loss drugs have recently been released, and two obesity vaccines are under development. Drugs are not the answer, no matter how convincing their advertising campaigns may be. The only way to reverse these trends is with diet and lifestyle changes.
According to Dr. Robert Lustig, one of the leading experts on childhood obesity, excessive amounts of sugar can serve as a toxin that contributes to obesity in a big way, as well as many chronic and lethal diseases. Research shows that fructose can activate taste cells found on your pancreas, which can increase your body's secretion of insulin and raise your risk of type 2 diabetes. Dietary sugar combines with amino acids to create advanced glycation end products (AGEs) in your body, and these compounds cause damage that leads to disease and premature aging.
The idea of losing weight by counting calories simply isn't a valid approach because your body metabolizes glucose and fructose along two distinctly different pathways. Fructose is broken down very much like alcohol, damaging your liver and causing mitochondrial and metabolic dysfunction in the same way as ethanol and other toxins. Your liver immediately converts most of the fructose you eat into fat, for storage. So, you get fat because you are eating the wrong types of calories, as opposed to too many calories, and the problem is amplified by not getting enough exercise.
The average American consumes one-third of a pound of sugar per day, half of which is fructose. As a standard recommendation, I strongly advise keeping your TOTAL fructose consumption below 25 grams per day. You may find this fructose chart helpful in estimating how many grams of fructose you are consuming each day.
For optimal health and longevity, it is necessary to return to a lifestyle closer to our hunter-gatherer roots. We've strayed too far from the foods we were designed to eat, so going back to basics with a focus on fresh, unprocessed whole foods, with a minimal amount of sugar and grain, will prevent most people from becoming overweight. Addressing the following diet and lifestyle factors is your best way of achieving a long and healthy life!
• Proper Food Choices
For a comprehensive nutrition guide, refer to my optimal nutrition plan. Generally speaking, focus on consuming whole, ideally organic, unprocessed foods that come from healthy, sustainable and preferably local sources. For the highest nutritional benefit, eat a good portion of your food raw.
Although there are clearly individual differences, most people would do well to strive for a diet high in healthful fats (as high as 50-70 percent of the calories consumed), moderate amounts of high quality protein, and abundant vegetables. Non-vegetable carbohydrates should be a fairly small part of your overall diet. For sweetening, you can use the herb stevia, or natural cane sugar and honey in very small amounts.
• High-Quality Animal-Based Omega-3 Fats
Increase your intake of omega-3 fats and reduce your intake of processed omega-6 fats. An animal-based omega-3 fat like krill oil is essential for heart and brain health.
• Comprehensive Exercise Program, Including High-Intensity Exercise
Even if you're eating the best diet in the world, you still need to exercise—and exercise effectively—if you wish to optimize your health. You should be incorporating core-strengthening exercises, strength training, and the right kind of stretching, as well as high-intensity "burst" type activities. Consider combining these with intermittent fasting to supercharge your metabolism. Extreme endurance training has been scientifically proven to do more harm than good so should be avoided.
• Optimize Your Vitamin D
The important factor when it comes to vitamin D is your serum level, which should ideally be between 50-70 ng/ml year-round, and the only way to determine this is with a blood test. Sun exposure or a safe tanning bed is the preferred method, but a vitamin D3 supplement can be used when necessary. Most adults need about 8,000 IU's of vitamin D per day to achieve serum levels of 40 ng/ml.
If you take supplemental vitamin D, you also need to make sure you're getting enough vitamin K2, as these two nutrients work in tandem to ensure calcium is distributed into the proper areas in your body. Vitamin K2 deficiency is actually what produces the symptoms of vitamin D toxicity, which includes inappropriate calcification that can lead to hardening of your arteries. Fermented vegetables can be a great source of vitamin K2 if you ferment your own using the proper starter culture designed to generate vitamin K2 like the one we will offer later this year. Gouda and Edam cheese are also good sources.
• Stress Reduction and Emotional Housekeeping
There are often emotional factors underlying weight gain, so it's important to do some regular emotional housekeeping. In fact, your emotional state plays a roll in nearly every physical disease, and yet it's the factor most often neglected. Stress has a direct impact on inflammation, which underlies many of the chronic diseases that kill people prematurely every day. Meditation, prayer, yoga, and energy psychology tools such as Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) are all viable options that can help you relieve stress and clear out hidden emotional blocks.
• Avoid as Many Chemicals, Toxins, and Pollutants as Possible
This includes tossing out your toxic household cleaners, soaps, personal hygiene products, cosmetics, air fresheners, bug sprays, pesticides and insecticides, just to name a few, and replacing them with non-toxic alternatives.
• Earthing, or Grounding Yourself to the Earth
When walking barefoot on the earth, free electrons transfer from the ground into your body through the soles of your feet. These free electrons are some of the most potent antioxidants known to man. Experiments have shown that these electrons decrease pain and inflammation, improve heart rate, promote sound sleep, and make your blood less viscous, which has a beneficial impact on your health.
Lack of grounding due to widespread use of rubber or plastic-soled shoes has contributed to the rise of modern diseases by allowing chronic inflammation to proliferate unchecked. So the more you can walk barefoot on the ground, the better. Ideal locations are the beach, close to or in the water, and on dewy grass. If you spend much time indoors, you may want to consider investing in an Earthing mat.
• Drink Plenty of Fresh, Pure Water Every Day.
• Be Sure to Get Plenty of High-Quality, Restorative Sleep.
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The Tzenkethi Coalition is a governing body led by the Tzenkethi. It is situated in the Alpha Quadrant.
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Around 15,000 years ago, the Tzenkethi race discovered warp drive and quickly flowered into a great civilization of arts and science, colonizing many worlds and becoming the Tzenkethi Empire. It is thought their technology was equivalent to or slightly more advanced than modern day Federation Technology.
Civil War
Sometime around 13,000 years ago, the Tzenkethi fell into a state of extreme civil unrest, war and catastrophe. Based on analysis of former Tzenkethi worlds, it is possible that they were harnessing the Omega Particle, when their facilities lost containment. Civil unrest likely followed, which led into outright civil war.
The Tzenkethi were absolutely devastated. Their civil war had blasted themselves into the Stone Age, and heavy use of EMP and Subspace Weaponry had rendered all technology useless and their homeworld decimated
The Tzenkethi had to painfully sledge back through every technological stage of development, barely making it into space and reinventing warp drive.
Tzenkethi Coalition
Many Tzenkethi groups were located on different worlds, and once warp drive was slowly rediscovered a by a few, they were in danger of reviving old hostilities. Fortunately, pioneer deep space pilot Kzint was able to successfully propose to all groups a Coalition of all Tzenkethi worlds. The Tzenkethi Coalition was formed in 2057 Earth Calendar.
Federation War
The Tzenkethi briefly declared war on the Federation, from 2354 to 2356, for attempting to colonize an ancestral Tzenkethi world. The war lasted briefly with light casualties, and the Federation and Tzenkethi signed a peace treaty, which gave a small amount of Federation territory to the Tzenkethi Coalition.
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The Tzenkethi stayed out of the intergalactic politics scene for the most part during the latter 24th century. The Tzenkethi decided not to involve themselves in the Dominion War or any of the resulting post-war conferences and alliances, preferring to stay back and watch events unfold. Tzenkethi ships have been spotted loitering around in the Kaillera Expanse, leaving some to question the Coalition's motives.

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Transition Chepstow has been developing a vision for the future of our community that will help guide the projects that we and others undertake over the coming years.
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This group was set up in November 2012 in order to provide a basis for Transition Chepstow's long-term planning. Its purpose is to clarify the broad features of a low carbon Chepstow, both for members and the wider public.
In March 2013 Dave ran a visioning workshop to prompt reflection on what a low carbon Chepstow might look like. Consultation across all Transition Chepstow interest groups provided a wealth of further written and visual material for this endeavour. Eight key themes emerged from this:
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- Sustainable Schools, Sustainable Futures – A resource for teachers – A free book on sustainable futures for teachers, parents and Transitioners by David Hicks.
- Further work on visioning and low carbon futures can be found in Dave's book: Educating for Hope in Troubled Times: Climate change and the transition to a post-carbon future
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The reality spin off, which was scrapped completely last year in the wake of the Shilpa Shetty row with Jade Goody, Danielle Lloyd and Jo O'Meara, will be back on January 2, but fans will no longer be able to watch the 24 hour feed.
Which was completely dull if you ask us anyway...
A show source said: "Fans will be royally short-changed. What used to be a reality show has turned into a farce. They've scrapped the 24-hour feed for many reasons but the main one is to get more control.
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Tabgha (the site of the Miracle of "Fish and Loaves")
Dead Sea is the ideal place to visit for a natural spa experience
Day 1 : Thursday - Tel Aviv
The beginning of your journey in the Holy Land. Upon arrival you will meet our representative and be transferred to your hotel in Tel Aviv.
Day 2 : Friday - Tel Aviv / Sea of Galilee / Tiberias
CTO's tour guide will pick you up from your hotel. We drive for a short visit of the city of Jaffa (Joppa) where we will take a short walking tour in picturesque alleys of the old, fortified town. We will pass by the house of Simon the Tanner and marvel at the views from the hill top. We drive north along the coast to the archaeological ruins of Caesarea, built by Herod the Great in honor of Augustus Caesar. From there we go on to visit Megiddo where the book of Revelations mentions a great battle at the place called "Armageddon". It is an ancient city inhabited continuously for more than five millennia (6000-500 B.C.). After exploring the ancient ruins we drive toward the Sea of Galilee. Arrive at Tiberias and check-in to your hotel.
Day 3 : Saturday - Golan Heights & Sea of Galilee
Ascend to the Golan Heights to view the panoramic view of the peaks of Mt. Hermon, the rugged plateau of the Golan Heights, and beneath it the green pastoral Hula Valley. Our next destination will be Capernaum, the center of Jesus ministry. On to Tabgha, just north of Tiberias, the site of Christ's miracle of feeding the 5,000 and at the Church of Multiplication, where the mosaic floor depicts a basket with loaves and two fishes. We drive on to the Mount of Beatitudes overlooking the Sea, where Jesus preached the "Sermon on the Mount" and it is believed that Jesus picked his 12 apostles. Return to Tiberias for another lovely night in town.
Day 4 : Sunday - Nazareth / Jordan Valley / Jerusalem
This morning we travel to Cana to visit the Wedding Church where Jesus performed his first miracle, turning water into wine. We proceed to Nazareth, where Jesus spent his childhood, and the Church of Annunciation, built on the site where archaeologists believe the Archangel Gabriel appeared to the Virgin Mary. You will also see Mary's Well and Joseph's Church. Drive to Beit Shean with its recently excavated amphitheater. Visit the excavations of this beautiful preserved Roman City which was destroyed in an earthquake.Continue along the Jordan Valley to Jerusalem, to check-in at your hotel.
Day 5 : Monday - Masada & Dead Sea
En route to the Dead Sea, visit the site of the Qumran Caves where the Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered. Through remarkable scenery of the Dead Sea we continue to Masada which is situated on an isolated cliff in the Judean Desert. The site was declared as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2001. Ascend by cable car to the fortress, which was the last stronghold of the Jewish Zealots in their war against the Romans. Visit the excavations, King Herod's palace, the synagogue, bathhouse and much more. Enjoy the breathtaking view of the Roman camps and the Dead Sea. Nearly 1,300 feet below sea level, the Dead Sea is the lowest point on the earth's surface. Bring your swimsuit as if weather permits it's possible to "float" on the salty, mineral rich, water. Return to Jerusalem for overnight.
Day 6 : Tuesday - Jerusalem
Start the day at Mt. Scopus. Enjoy the spectacular panoramic view of Jerusalem. The holy city for each of the world's three great religions – Christianity, Judaism and Islam, Jerusalem occupies a unique place in the world. Your tour includes the Mount of Olives, a stop at the site where Jesus first gave the Lord's Prayer, and the Garden of Gethsemane where Judas betrayed Jesus. In the Old City you will see the Western Wall and the actual site of the Second Temple, the Temple Mount. Walk the Way of the Cross, the Via Dolorosa, to Calvary and the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, housing both the traditional site of Crucifixion and the Tomb of the Resurrection. To the southwest, just outside the Old City, is Mount Zion, with the traditional tomb of King David and the Room of the Last Supper. Return to hotel.
Day 7 : Wednesday - Jerusalem
Today's tour includes Yad Vashem the official memorial to the Jewish victims of the Holocaust, established in 1953, located at the foot of Mt. Hertzl. Enjoy Ein Karem; a picturesque village in the south western outskirts of Jerusalem. This small village has great significance in Christian traditions, since this is where according to tradition John the Baptist was born. Visit the Israel Museum with a detailed model of Jerusalem from the time of the Second Temple and the Shrine of the Book, which houses the Dead Sea Scrolls. Drive by the Knesset (House of Parliament) and the campus of the Hebrew University. Visit Bethlehem to see Rachel's Tomb and the Church of the Nativity. * Back to your hotel for overnight.
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We have reached our final day on this tour. We will take you back to the airport for your flight back home or extend your tour to the kingdom of Jordan and/or Egypt.


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Alright I've had my hands on it over 24 hours now and I've gone back to it 2 times after playing sessions. It's a competent poor man's quake3/UT4 without the vehicles. You can grind out some interesting and USEFUL skills along with an attractive easy to use interface. The gameplay is buttery smooth along with a wicked power jump. (think half-life one style ctrl-jumping around Crossfire map with the jump pack and character physics that handle like Unreal Tournament style models) The artist for the game is an old favorite for his previous work such as...
I'm not sure how it handles on a controller but it's a solid 3rd person shooter that gives you the options through creative weapon optics to have crisp aim. The weapons themselves are fairly basic with rocks being fairly overpowered but overall things feel balanced which is a good thing. Matches really aren't a blowout unless you can tell the other team is a 4 man. The 3 modes of play (capture the "hammer" which is just CTF where the flag is a big weapon you can use, Base capturing where the "base" to cap is random among several that "activate and deactivate" as they are taken. Last but not least team DM.
The store revolved around costumes/outfits for characters and other fluff. Nothing real crucial to gameplay nor excepting enough to want to spend real money on. The grind feels just right speed and I'm pleasantly surprised with the "daily prize" offered as a mini-game. The "taunts"/ humor is non existent because the game is so fun people stay on the move and focus on playing and both the respawn system and game lobbies seem to have been built with the player in mind first. It scratches an itch for oldschool Deathmatch players and for the price of "free" I can't see why anyone would not want to check it out.
The Loadout Steam starter pack is 50% off during the summer sale. I thought it was worth it.
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Peter Byerly isn't sure what drew him into this particular bookshop in the Welsh town of Hay-on-Wye. Nine months earlier, the death of his beloved wife, Amanda, had left him shattered. The young antiquarian bookseller relocated from North Carolina to the English countryside, hoping to outrun his grief and rediscover the joy he once took in collecting and restoring rare books. But upon opening an eighteenth-century study of Shakespeare forgeries, Peter is shocked when a portrait of Amanda tumbles out of its pages. Of course, it can't be her. The watercolor is clearly Victorian. Yet, the resemblance is uncanny, and Peter becomes obsessed with learning the picture's origins.
Communing with Amanda's spirit as he wrestles with the mystery, Peter follows a trail of clues across the centuries—from a raucous London tavern where the unscrupulous bookseller Barthlomew Habottle plots against the "upstart crow" William Shakespeare, to the unfinished ramparts of an Oxfordshire mansion where a frustrated Victorian painter mourns his lost love and takes revenge on his book-collecting rival. Along the way Peter discovers his Holy Grail: a priceless literary artifact that could prove the truth about Shakespeare's identity. Fearing the book may be a forgery, Peter races against time to prove its authenticity, evading the clutches of a murderer, meeting a woman who may hold the key to the mystery of the portrait, and finally discovering the truth about his own past and his precious Amanda.
The Bookman's Tale is a former antiquarian bookseller's sparkling novel that is at once a deeply moving love story as well as a delightful exploration of one of literature's most tantalizing mysteries.
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The validation of the Canadian norms for the Alberta Infant Motor Scale within the Cape Metropolitan
Thesis (MScPhysio (Physiotherapy))--University of Stellenbosch, 2010.
Information on the normal gross motor skills in a healthy population is important since normative data provides a benchmark for health professionals to evaluate deviations from the norm. The Alberta Infant Motor Scale (AIMS) was developed to assist with the motor assessment of young infants from birth through to independent walking. The validation of the Canadian cohort for the AIMS needs to be done with regards to infants in South Africa (Cape Town), before it can be utilised by health professionals working in Paediatric Health Care. To determine if the Canadian norms for the AIMS are valid for infants aged 4 - 18 months within the Cape Metropole, South Africa. A prospective descriptive study was conducted to validate the AIMS. A total of 67 infants from one private and one public institution participated in the study. Infants were assessed at 4, 8, 12 and 18 months of age with the AIMS. Results were analysed using ANOVA and t-tests to determine the relationship between age, ethnicity, gender and clinics.The AIMS gross motor scores of this sample of infants were not significantly different from the Canadian norms, bar at 4 months. Female infants performed significantly (p<0.05) better than males at four months. It was not possible to convert the 18 month old infants" raw scores into percentile rankings and therefore it could not be compared to the Canadian norms. The results yielded from this study indicate that the AIMS is a valid assessment tool for healthy infants from 8 - 12 months of age within the Cape Metropole, South Africa, however, care should be taken when infants" scores at 4 months are compared to the scores of the normative sample. The AIMS can therefore be used by health care professionals at the Baby Well clinics in the Cape Metropole to assess gross motor development in infants for this age group and can consequently refer infants who may display delays in motor development to appropriate paediatric specialists. The results from this pilot study also make provision for future in-depth research on the AIMS with a larger cohort and with more ethnic diversity.


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|Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 6:49 PM
By Navy Chief Petty Officer Ahron Arendes
Commander, Submarine Group 9
BANGOR, Wash., June 30, 2014 - The Trident strategic missile submarine USS Pennsylvania manned by its "Gold" crew returned home to Naval Base Kitsap-Bangor here June 14 following a 140-day, record-breaking patrol.
Tridents are nuclear-powered, Ohio-class submarines. The Pennsylvania set a new record for the longest patrol completed by an Ohio-class ballistic missile submarine.
The Ohio-class submarines have two crews, called Blue and Gold, which rotate patrols. One crew is at sea usually for 60 to 90 days, while the other trains ashore. In this way, the vessels can be employed at sea 70 percent of the time, when not undergoing scheduled maintenance in port.
The Pennsylvania's "Gold" crew patrol, which began in January, is not only the longest for an Ohio-class submarine, but the longest since beginning of the Poseidon C3 ballistic missile program in the early 1970s, according to records maintained by the Submarine Launched Ballistic Missile Weapon System Evaluation program.
"It's an honor. It was a challenge. The job kept calling for us to stay at sea but we were ready, willing and able. So we stayed at sea and finished the mission," said Navy Cmdr. Tiger Pittman, the Pennsylvania's "Gold" crew commanding officer.
"I'm incredibly proud of my crew," Pittman added. "I've been amazed by their resiliency throughout the entire time, and not only the crew, but the families. We leave and we serve, but they stay home and they serve as well."
Trident submarines -- nicknamed "Boomers" -- carry as many as 24 Trident II D-5 nuclear ballistic missiles. At 560 feet long and 42 feet wide, they are the largest submarines in the U.S. Navy's inventory.
The Pennsylvania's Navy hull classification symbol is SSBN 735. The SS denotes "Ship, Submersible." The B denotes "ballistic missile," and the N denotes "nuclear powered."
As Pennsylvania emerged from an extended maintenance period in 2013, the patrol had originally been planned to be longer than is considered normal for Trident strategic missile submarine. The crew spent nearly the entire patrol underway, since unlike most other Navy vessels, Trident submarines don't make routine port visits except when returning to home port.
"USS Pennsylvania 'Gold's' patrol is an exceptional example of the flexibility and capability of the Ohio-class ballistic missile submarine. We had always expected this to be a longer than normal patrol and a highly-capable crew made it happen," said Navy Capt. Mark VanYe, chief of staff at Commander, Submarine Group 9. "When operational commitments changed, we knew the exceptional sailors serving on Pennsylvania and their families back home were up to the task.
"They have excelled across their entire mission set," VanYe added. "We are glad now to have them home and congratulate them on a job well-done."
Upon their return home, Pennsylvania's "Gold" crew was greeted by Commander of Submarine Force U.S. Pacific Fleet Navy Rear Adm. Phillip Sawyer, who wanted to personally thank them and congratulate them on a job well-done.
"The SSBN strategic deterrent patrol is the most important unit mission in the submarine force and vital to the defense our nation," Sawyer said. "The Pennsylvania 'Gold' crew was on the front line of deterrence, conducting critical missions from the time the ship got underway until returning home and I couldn't be prouder of what they have accomplished."
The USS Pennsylvania, part of the nation's strategic deterrence forces, is one of eight Ohio-class ballistic missile submarines home-ported at Naval Base Kitsap-Bangor.
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NEPAL: The police state quite likes torture
Thu, Jun 26, 2014 at 11:09 AM
A Statement from the Asian Human Rights Commission
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Nepal is a country where torture and ill-treatment are widely practiced by state and non-state actors. Torture haunts detention centers, and there is no mechanism for the investigation of allegations of torture in the country. The culture of impunity strengthens its hold in Nepal, despite the armed insurgency having ended, and the Comprehensive Peace Agreement signed, in 2006.
The police have been using torture as if it is the most credible form of investigation. Both the police and the courts are under resourced and suffer from lack of training. The incapacity of the police to investigate a case scientifically and the abuse of power in Nepal restrict the liberty of Nepalese citizens.
Impunity and the incapacity of the Nepal police to investigate cases have been exposed continually. Earlier this year, the police brutally tortured Kalu and Hikmat Chaudhari for trying to teach them about law and jurisdiction. The Nepal police have even tortured children aged 9 and 11. The police are shrewd and try to cover up their tracks. They frequently torture victims when victims are detained in police stations. After releasing them, the police often call them back to torture them again. In some cases that the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has helped document, such instances of serial torture have continued for over a year.
Nepal has acceded to the Convention against Torture (CAT) on May 14, 1991. In 1996, the Government of Nepal promulgated the Compensation relating to Torture Act, 1996, also known as the Torture Compensation Act (TCA), which demonstrates a lack of understanding of torture and fails to match the standards of the CAT. Nevertheless the TCA prohibits torture, provides for compensation to victims of torture, and prescribes departmental action against government employees who inflict torture.
The Interim Constitution of Nepal, 2007, penalizes torture. Apart from the TCA and the Interim Constitution, the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) Act, 2012, the Evidence Act, 1974, the Draft Criminal Code and Country Code, 1963, also contain important provisions against torture. However the NHRC is restricted to only receiving complaints of torture and making recommendations to the government; the government has been turning a deaf ear to these recommendations. And, laws and provisions have not safeguarded more and more Nepalese from falling victim to torture.
None of the provisions and laws related to torture criminalizes the act in Nepal. The government has failed to criminalize torture despite a 2007 Supreme Court order directing it to do so.
The government prepared a bill to criminalize torture; it was tabled in Parliament in 2012. However, Parliament was dissolved before the bill could be passed. The AHRC has learned that the police have expressed strong resentment to the proposed law. Threats have been made that if the government were to pass such a law, the police would not be able to maintain peace and order in society.
Torture and ill-treatment are widely practised on victims who have no connection to the crime being "investigated", in particular to help fabricate charges and extract confessions. And, virtually no perpetrators of torture and fabrication of charges have been tried and punished in Nepal.
When there is an allegation of torture, the allegation is not investigated, forget about being tried and proven, as both the perpetrators and investigators are police officers, often working in the same police station. Consequently, torture remains unaddressed by the institutions of the Nepal State.
The Government of Nepal has to not taken steps to reduce the incidence of torture. It continues to express commitment to criminalize torture, to investigate cases of torture, and to reform the functioning of security forces. These commitments remain unfulfilled.
There is need for an anti-torture law in Nepal, in line with the definition stipulated in Article 1 of the CAT. The Government should also ratify the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture (OPCAT) and become a state party. There is also need to bring a Witness Protection Act with robust mechanisms. And, separate mechanisms should be introduced in order to provide trauma counseling services to torture victims.
However, simply promulgating such a law or laws will be insufficient; as such laws are not enforced in practice. To address the core problem, the country will need to strengthen its criminal justice institutions. A legal framework needs to be developed so investigations and prosecutions are possible in the cases of human rights violations, including torture. Unless Nepal strengthens its criminal justice institutions, the practice of torture is going to remain a tool for "investigation".
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About AHRC: The Asian Human Rights Commission is a regional non-governmental organisation that monitors human rights in Asia, documents violations and advocates for justice and institutional reform to ensure the protection and promotion of these rights. The Hong Kong-based group was founded in 1984.
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Fantastic plastic
Aniruddha Gupte from industrial design has developed a kit that can be used for experiments with synthetic materials in the upper forms of the Danish public schools. This kit equips the next generation with tools to create their own recycling solutions.
The global challenge
On a global scale plastic recycling is a huge challenge. Aniruddha Gupte has identified four main reasons:
- Plastic is not just plastic but exists in several different chemical compositions, polymers. There are six overall types of polymers and plastic recycling requires that these are separated in order to recycle the material. The possibility of recycling the material may also depend on the colour.
- The majority of the existing machinery is unable to treat unclean raw material, i.e. plastic waste containing a mixture of polymers. In addition the machinery is very expensive and requires large investments.
- The conversion of plastic waste into compact pellets for recycling material requires substantial amounts of energy and is thus not immediately sustainable.
- In numerous countries – in particular 3rd world countries – plastic waste needs to be transported over vast distances in order to reach a recycling station that can recycle the material.
Do-It-Yourself system
The principle behind Aniruddha Gupte's system is simple chemistry and involves finely sorting the plastics so they are ready for recycling. There are six types of polymers. In a specific chemical solution each of them will sink to the bottom while the other polymers stay on the surface. Aniruddha Gupte has therefore built five tanks.
Tank number one contains a mixture of different types of plastic cut into confetti. In this tank all pieces of PVC will sink to the bottom and are thus separated out. The rest of the material that stays on the surface of the liquid is collected in a small cylinder and dried with hot air. In the prototype experiment a simple hairdryer was used.
The bulk of the plastic containing the remaining five polymers are then placed in tank number 2 that contains a new solution. In this tank PET plastic sinks to the bottom and the remaining plastic material is dried again and placed in tank number 3, where yet another separation process takes place and so on.
After the end of that process all five tanks contain finely sorted plastic material where each polymer is ready to be recycled.
The system has already been successfully tested at the adult education centre Kolding HF and VUC.
Easy, fun and educational
Behind Aniruddha Gupte's project is a pedagogical aspiration to democratise plastic recycling.
"When a large system is facing a challenge the solution can often come from below" he explains.
Therefore the final drawings will be shared in an open-source forum called 'Precious Plastic', where you will also find instructions for machinery that can re-cast plastic – into lamp shades, bowls, piggy banks and much more.
"Thus implementing the project will offer personal gain," he explains, "and for the individual the transformation towards a better use of plastic can begin."
See more examples on www.preciousplastic.com
In his basic research Aniruddha Gupte has visited and exchanged experiences with several Danish companies and institutions: Økolariet and RENOSYD and not least Aage Vestergaard Larsen A/S who is Denmark's leading company in the field of plastic recycling.


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Safe Home sells these units primarily for use below decks of ships, especially in engine rooms and for underground storage facilities like yours. The Safe Escape Oxygen Generating Self-Rescue Respirators give you 30 minutes up to 60 minutes of breathable oxygen (21% Concentration). Unlike the SCBA (Self Contained Breathing Apparatus) oxygen tanks, these units are lightweight and have no risk of secondary explosions due to oxygen tank issues. No maintenance and no special fitting are needed. Each closed system unit has an orange hood that fits any sized head. The nose/mouthpiece has been tested, passed and certified by SGS. This oxygen respirator unit is vacuum sealed in a bag: no moisture can enter. Just open, escape and throw it away. The case is steel: certified and compliant for IMO, International Maritime Organization for use in engine rooms and areas of ships below deck.The respirator hood is made from PVC that provides protection for up to 100 degrees Celsius (over 2000 degrees Fahrenheit) as well as direct flame and hot falling ash protection.The high temperature rubber neck band seals off the breathing area to keep 100% of any possible toxins from entering the respirator.Other uses for this self-rescue oxygen generating respirator are private yachts, chemical facilities, oil platforms and refineries, hotels, high rise office buildings, correctional facilities, police, military, fire rescue, first responders, subways, or underground mining industry.Safe Escape Oxygen Generating Self-Rescue Respirator AFSY30 EEBD Stainless Steel Case Features: Self-contained oxygen generation for 30 to 60 minutes SGS certified mouthpiece and nose piece IMO certified and compliant for use in engine room areas and ship areas below deck. PVC hood withstands temperatures up to 1000 degrees C. Hood color is orange Stainless Steel Hard Case: 4 inches by 5.25 inches by 7.5 inches Weight: approx. 2 KG or 5 lbs. WARRANTY: This product has a 5 year Shelf Life from the Date of Manufacture. FREE ONE TIME REPLACEMENT, Excluding shipping costs/ Taxes or Duties) should you use it in an actual Documented Case where Fire / Smoke are or / were present where-upon these units were used to facilitate escape or while awaiting rescue during the 4 or 5 years. Product should be returned to Distributor or Ourselves along with a Official Report from Law Enforcement / Fire / Civil Defense / Military Authorities in order to verify its usage in an actual situation where Smoke and/or Fire were present. We will replace them Once During the 5 Year Shelf Life. For Government Agencies / Departments no more than once a year with proper documentation supporting their claim and the return to us of the used unit along with documentation / official police / fire report.Note: Special colors are available in minimum orders of 500 units. Imprinting is available. Available colors include black, sand and army green.
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It is still early in the morning as I write this and some people will not have heard the news yet, while others who have been up all night still haven't even had breakfast, but already the finger-pointing has started.
And there are, of course, many easy culprits to blame for the devastating outcome of yesterday's referendum vote on Britain's EU membership.
Most obviously there is David Cameron. A taxi driver of Pakistani origin I spoke to yesterday (who insisted – perhaps like many others – on seeing the referendum as a choice between Cameron and Boris Johnson) kept repeating, 'Why? Why did he have to do this? There was no need. Politicians are always breaking manifesto promises'. And it is a common view that this most shallow man was prepared to risk Britain's future simply as a lazy way of dealing with the Tory Party's right wing to bring about some semblance of unity and marginalise UKIP in the run-up to the last general election (which, it is widely thought, he wasn't even expecting the Tories to win). It is also widely believed that Boris Johnson was playing an even more cynical game: wanting Cameron's job as Tory leader and gambling that the majority of Tories would vote to leave the EU (leaving him as the most popular potential successor) but that Britain would be held back from the brink by Labour, Lib-Dem, Green, SNP and Plaid Cymru voters. This would leave him as Conservative leader without any real challenge to the technocratic neoliberal global regime with which he still identifies.
Alternatively we can blame the populist right, whipping up xenophobic hatred (in alliance with the toxic popular press) to take advantage of the gullibility and disillusion of the working class victims of neoliberal globalisation to redirect their anger at refugees and immigrants.
Or – and this is a heavy weight for its recipients to bear – we can blame the Blairite centre left for identifying its interests with that same technocratic neoliberal globalisation project, contributing directly to that disillusion and anger and leaving traditional Labour supporters with nowhere else to go, with compromises that continued under Miliband's leadership (Remember those 'controls on immigration' mugs produced as part of Labour's campaign in the last general election – a campaign that also failed to challenge austerity?).
This anger undoubtedly led to the huge wave of support for Corbyn in last year's Labour leadership campaign. But his leadership is not immune from blame either, albeit from several different contradictory directions. I woke this morning to the sound of Kate Hoey on Radio 4 blaming him for not taking the lead in a Labour Brexit campaign. Others think he did not campaign strongly enough for staying in the EU.
It seems to me that, whoever is blamed, the predicament that we are now in results from a fundamental contradiction in the nature of capitalism that social democratic parties and the trade unions have shied away from addressing directly over many decades, whose full horrors are only emerging now, in what might be regarded as the full maturity of globalisation.
This contradiction relates to what Marxists call the 'reserve army of labour' and how it is deployed under capitalism. I will be brief now (breakfast calls) but in essence the problem is this: the only way that workers can exert any control over their circumstances against a capitalist employer determined to extract as much profit as possible from their labour is to organise: to protect their safety; to be able to say 'enough is enough'; to earn enough to survive. And the only way this organisation can lead to results is by ensuring some solidarity: if everybody agrees not to work more than a certain number of hours, or not to accept wages below a certain level, then the employer can be obliged to abide by these terms. From such beginnings trade unions grew. For employers, the easiest strategy to circumvent these requirements – especially important during periods when their profits are squeezed – is to bring in different workers who will accept poorer conditions and lower wages.
When Marx and Engels were writing, these workers were, by and large, drawn from an indigenous pool of unemployed people desperate for any means of earning a livelihood – the 'reserve army'. Historically this reserve army has always extended beyond national borders. The canals and railways that provided the infrastructure for the expansion of British capitalism were largely built by Irish navvies; the South Wales steel industry in the 19th century drew in workers from as far afield as Spain, and of course the British Empire was built on slave and plantation and 'coolie' labour across the world. The reserve army also extended into the household, drawing in the labour of women and children, paid below the level of an adult male, so that the entire family had to work to survive.
The logic of the way this reserve army is deployed pits worker against worker. It is objectively in the interests of organised groups of workers to keep out any outsiders who will work for less, or, if they are admitted, to ensure that they are only admitted on terms that do not allow them to undercut the existing workforce. And this same logic, of course, disadvantages those whose starting position is as outsiders, whether because of gender, ethnicity or some other factor.
Nevertheless, in historical periods when the nation state was dominant, and most capitalists nationally based, it was possible for socialists to overcome this contradiction. The means for doing so was to go beyond making demands for particular groups of workers, represented by particular trade unions, to making general demands for the working class as a whole. In the 20th century this took the form of developing national welfare states: creating universal health and education services and social protection systems that would mean that the unemployed were never so destitute and desperate that they would take any work that was going, to the detriment of organised labour.
In our current era of neoliberal globalisation it is this pattern that has unravelled. Since the end of the cold war, employers have been able to access a reserve army that extends across the world, an army that can be accessed in multiple ways. They can do it by exporting the jobs to parts of the world with cheap labour, or by bringing in the cheap labour to the sites where the jobs have been traditionally carried out. The losers from this process are the native working class.
And this referendum vote can be seen as the revolt of these losers. The tragedy is that although they know what they are against they do not seem to have any clear vision of what alternative they want or how it will be achieved. The danger is that someone will reinvent National Socialism as a 'solution'.
To categorise them as racist is to miss the point. But solutions can, nevertheless, not be found until racism has been tackled.
This is the painful nettle that Labour has to grasp. Urgently!


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BALTIMORE, MD – Patient Amanda Stanley was having a terrible day: her appendix had ruptured, her hospital gown was unflattering, and she was assigned to a hospital room with a drab view of the parking garage. To make matters worse, there was an intrusive thunderstorm outside. The weather was the final straw.
"Get me my nurse!" she told the poor nursing assistant Patty Booth. "I need the weather changed immediately!"
The nurse Mary Beth Arkins was busy resuscitating a dying patient down the hall. When she arrived in Stanley's room apologizing profusely for the wait, the patient became even more livid. "I don't want to hear your excuses, Nurse. I hate thunder! It triggers my depression, so make it stop now! NOW NOW NOW NOW! "
Mary Beth was horrified at the patient's lack of understanding but then came to the acute realization that the weather too was her responsibility. If finding pharmacy medications, handling interns, efficient internet connection, and mediating divorces was part of her job, then changing the weather didn't seem quite so unreasonable.
Determined to save the day, Mary Beth Arkins sent a high priority page to God and the weather was soon adjusted accordingly.
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(Posted by David Taylor in the absence of David Newman)
In the blog dated Tuesday, January 17, I offered details for the 35mm filmout test we initiated with the Canon XL H1 shot in its 24F mode. During the shooting portion of the test, the XL H1 was simultaneously recorded to HDV tape and also to the Wafian HR-1 direct-to-disk recorder. In this post I'll offer some subjective commentary on the results of the filmout.
After our first day of shooting (described below) we did a second day of shooting. In addition to the XL H1, the second day of shooting also included a Sony F900 that was recorded to HDCam tape in 24p mode. Unfortunately we did not have an HD-SDI module for the F900, and we acknowledge that recording to tape reduces its visual fidelity somewhat. When recording HDCam to tape the spatial resolution is 1440 x 1080 (same as HDV) with 3:1:1 chroma (versus 4:2:0) and 8 bits of precision (same). The filmout included the F900 material after it was ingested from HDCam tape. Comparatively, the CineForm Intermediate files are always 1920 x 1080 with 4:2:2 chroma and 10 bits of precision.
Of course viewing 35mm material on-screen is mainly a visual experience, and is inherently subjective. Perhaps the most consistent comment by all 20-ish of us who had the privilege of viewing the material was "Awesome!". It can be stated emphatically that the XL H1 when printed to 35 mm film really looks excellent – colors, shadows, highlights, range, low noise, etc. It held up very well to the F900. I'm not sure why, and it was a surprise to us, but the F900 had a noisier appearance than the XL H1.
I've included a few image grabs from the test sequences used in the filmout that compare the XL H1 in its HDV mode and its D2D mode using the Wafian HR-1. The images were created by grabbing corresponding frames out of the video sequences and exporting them as bitmaps. Note that the source images were 10-bit CineForm Intermediate files, and the bitmaps are 8-bit files. As is evident in the images there is more resolution and more preservation of detail in the XL H1 D2D captures than the HDV captures. Unfortunately I do not have any F900 images to compare to. The F900 sequences were ingested at I/O Film during the recording session and were not grabbed separately on the editing workstation.
As a final comment, we've had the privilege of being invited to two additional camera test shoots also intended for 35mm filmout. Both shoots were performed earlier this week: One included the HVX200 and XL H1. The other included the Grass Valley Viper, shot in its HDStream mode, and the XL H1. We'll offer more details on these shoots in the coming weeks after the filmout process.
Many thanks are in order for this filmout project, including to Robert Margouleff at Mi Casa Multimedia who initiated the project, Scott Billups for managing and performing the tests, Chris Angel at Mirage Productions for doing the post work, IO Film for doing the filmout, Birns and Sawyer for offering their facility for the first camera shoot, HDVision for use of their facility for the second shoot, and FotoKem for offering their viewing facilities.
Friday, February 17, 2006
Canon XL H1 Filmout Results - Awesome!
(Posted by David Taylor in the absence of David Newman)


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DESCRIPTION: Three rows of stunning, crystalline Aquamarine gems with brass detailing, our signature ginkgo leaf charm and intricately detailed openwork brass with steel facet detail antique* button closure, circa 1800s. On brown, 100% cotton cord** that stretches and shrinks to fit beautifully. One-loop with slide bead closure adjusts to fit wrists 6.5-8.0" Width: 7/8" Button: 1.0". Can be custom ordered at no additional charge, subject to material availability.
*Our button closures are collectable-quality genuine antique or vintage and show normal wear for such aged treasures.
**Saltwater and chlorinated water will shorten the life and compromise the integrity of this jewelry, please remove before swimming.


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Hi everyone! I have just given my "about" page a pretty serious rewrite. It's a little more descriptive about the "why" for knit equals joy. I hope you will enjoy it!
Welcome to my about page! In this blog, you will find not only an exploration of all that is good in our knitterly lives, but also a variety of posts tying together my passions for writing, photography, and my home state of Oregon. Stop on by and take a look!
As you may have surmised, I love knitting! My sister taught me to knit in 2007, and it fit all of my previous creative inclinations perfectly. It brings together a love for color, texture, and pattern. Little did I know when we sat down for that first lesson that I would find a passion!
I also love yarn – so many wonderful, delectable fibers are now available – and with such amazing colorways! One of my friends says that I'm passionate about color. She may just be right.
I also love to write. This is a passion that has long lain dormant and which I have accidentally rediscovered in the process of publishing this blog. In Winter Ramblings, I muse a bit about the love of writing and its renewed appearance in my life. I love thinking about and writing about both the creative process and the design process.
Two other passions merge in this blog, photography and a love for my beautiful home state, Oregon, particularly the Oregon Coast. Wordless Wednesday posts are stories told almost exclusively through photography, and many of those photos feature the beautiful and varied Oregon landscape. I hope you'll take some time to look through and see the beauty of Oregon.
And finally, all of these passions came together and led me to knitting design. You will find pages for each pattern in the menu, as well as a link in the sidebar to my Ravelry store. Come check out my group on Ravelry where we have a great time chatting and have knit-a-longs, swaps and the occasional test knit.
Please contact me if you ever have questions about my designs or if there are topics you would like to see addressed on the blog. Thank you for reading knit = joy!


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One of the most common questions we receive from new WordPress users is Why won't my image upload? In the vast majority of cases this is down to the image simply being too big. That might be a bit baffling for non technical types, but too big means that the size of the file in KB or MB is too large. On most operating system if you click on an image on your computer you will be presented with some information about that file, usually a file name, dimension i.e. 1000px x 1000px and a file size i.e 500kb or 2MB. As a general rule of thumb you should keep all images below 500kb if you are looking to upload them. With the proliferation of high quality digital cameras and the vast improvements in mobile phone cameras, mean that most files you will be dealing with will probably be a bit too big and so you need to learn how to resize images for WordPress.
There are any number of software packages out there to do the job, but for this tutorial we are going to use the freely available online tool at pixlr.com which is effectively a free online Photoshop, brilliant. Head over to pixlr.com and having selected the editor you'll seethe below screen;
As we are trying to resize an image we'll want to navigate to that picture on the computer and open it. You can also use Pixlr to create your own images too, but that's for another post.
Once you've opened the image select the 'image' option from the top menu and scroll down to the image size option, see below;
Once you have selected the image size option you'll see a box very much like the one on the right. Here is where you make your change, ensuring the 'constrain proportions' box is checked simply change the number in the width box for a smaller one.
How much smaller? Well, that kind of depends on what you are going to be doing with the image. If its purely for a thumbnail or featured image then you could go as small as 200 or 300, as a maximum, given the plethora of smaller screens being used for internet browsing you could use 800px as a loose maximum.
Once you have changed the width number click OK and resave your image, thats it you're all done. See below
Image courtesy of Jonny Showbiz
The original image was over 500kb and as you can see one simple adjustment has made a dramatic reduction in file size, which will have a dramatic effect on the time it takes to load your page, the amount of energy it takes your page and therefore the happiness of your visitors! If you have any questions or think I could have explained this an awful lot better, let me know in a comment below.


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This sterling silver plated bangle bracelet features a band of colorful cross stitches. Available as a kit, the bracelet is easy to stitch, but has a big impact! Each kit includes material to make one bracelet.
The stitching is done on a strip of Aida fabric. The kit includes instructions to make any of five different designs, so you can pick your favorite. After stitching, the fabric is trimmed to size and attached to the silver channel bracelet. Complete finishing instructions are in the kit.
- One sterling silver bracelet blank (2-3/4" in diameter x 3/8" wide)
- 18-count Aida fabric
- Cotton embroidery floss (navy, pink, and aqua)
- Tapestry needle
- Fusible interfacing
- Easy-to-follow instructions
Additional supplies needed to finish the bracelet include scissors, iron and press cloth, tacky craft glue, a small paintbrush for applying the glue, fray check (optional), and a hoop for frame for stitching (optional).


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'Transformers: Age of Extinction': The reviews are in...
Critics have long given Michael Bay and his Transformers franchise the high hat—but after more than $2.7 billion in box office across the globe, the filmmaker can basically thumb his nose at the naysayers who sniff at his brand of CG rock-em, sock-em spectacle. The fourth film, Transformers: The Age of Extinction, is both a sequel and a reboot, with Mark Wahlberg coming aboard to anchor the franchise as a poor Texas inventor who accidentally salvages the remnants of Optimus Prime and gets entangled in a city-leveling war between good and bad alien 'bots, as well as the secret government agency tasked with hunting down and eliminating the Transformers.
As EW's film critic Chris Nashawaty writes in his review, "Sitting in the theater, watching the end credits roll on Transformers: Age of Extinction, I was certain of two things: 1. That I'd just witnessed the stupidest movie of the year; and 2. It will make a billion dollars."
Chances are, the reviews aren't going to affect whether you decide to see the latest Transformers, but at the very least, the choice analytical bits below make for some amusing reading.
Chris Nashawaty (Entertainment Weekly) ▼
"For the first hour, Bay's baroque orgy of ear-shredding, eye-dazzling destruction is impressive. Then you realize there's almost two hours left to go, and the movie becomes numbing, exhausting, and migraine-inducing. (A great missed opportunity: a scene in which one of the characters twists open a bottle of Excedrin.)"
Peter Keough (Boston Globe) ▼
"In short, the cinematic equivalent of being tied in a bag and being beaten by pipes. One thing you have to give Bay credit for: He has a knack for bringing A-list talent down to his level."
David Edelstein (New York)
"Wahlberg does have one enormous asset: He's not Shia LeBeouf. Also, I like seeing him in pretty much anything. Even when he's not too sharp, he gives the movie some human credibility."
Clarence Tsui (Hollywood Reporter) ▼
"Being the only character whose personality arc actually changes within the film, Tucci is given a wealth of opportunities to ham it up, just like John Turturro, John Malkovich and Frances McDormand have done before; his clownish antics while racing for survival in a Hong Kong tenement block are probably the highlight of the film."
Maggie Lee (Variety)
"It's the robots—endowed here with character-rich physicality and almost human-scaled facial features—who give the film its emotional heft. … The character most likely to be beloved by audiences, especially tykes, remains Bumblebee, whose mischievous personality brings much-needed comic relief."
Rene Rodriguez (Miami Herald)
"To say that Age of Extinction is the best installment in the money-minting Transformers franchise is like saying the best episode of The Love Boat was the one that had Charo in it: The praise is so faint, it's close to meaningless."
A.O. Scott (New York Times)
"Although they may look like soulless corporate studio product, they are really examples of personal cinema, expressions of the will and imagination of their director, Michael Bay. The narrative incoherence is a feature, not a bug."
Betsy Sharkey (Los Angeles Times)
"The filmmaker has actually built a better Transformers in Age of Extinction, one I'm sure fans of the franchise will adore. It's still not a great movie, but it is, most definitely, full-metal Bay."
Richard Roeper (Chicago Sun-Times) ▼
"With a running time of 165 minutes—roughly the same as a double feature of Battleship Potemkin and Annie Hall—the fourth entry in the Transformers franchise is like a spoiled kid who insists on showing you every single toy he owns."
Ignatiy Vishnevetsky (AV Club)
"Bay's flashy, amped-up style packs movies with off-kilter compositions, gonzo effects shots, and bursts of super-saturated color; it stimulates, often at the expense of consistency or coherence. With Transformers: Age Of Extinction, however, Bay seems to have exhausted himself."
Richard Corliss (TIME) ▼
"The final half-hour devolves into a kind of Abstract Expressionist chaos, with commercials. Nothing coheres. Movies usually try to come together at the end; this one falls apart. If that's Bay's intention, then cinema has finally entered its Age of Extinction."
Transformers: Age of Extinction
Overall Metacritic rating (1-100): 31
Rotten Tomatoes: 20 percent
Rated: PG-13
Length: 157 minutes
Director: Michael Bay
Starring Mark Wahlberg, Nicola Peltz, Stanley Tucci, Kelsey Grammer
Distributor: Paramount


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Holiday park Ackersate offers spacious fully serviced pitches all provided with the required facilities.
Good times camping with your tent, folding camper or caravan at Ackersate. All pitches are fully serviced pitches and provided with hook-up ( minimum 6 amp), water, grey water and tv access points.
All pitches are on grass. The pitches are car free and have a layer of gravel under the awning. This way no flooding should the weather be less nice. Moreover, all our paths are paved so you can leave your wellies at home. Our lawn mower keeps the grass neat and tidy and the grass is picked up too, so no grass inside your awning.Alternative Period
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Seal Beach, California
Due to the small amount of listings, we searched a 30 mile radius from Seal Beach, CA.
If we located any, we list them below along with the distance from Seal Beach, CA.
We did not find any low income / affordable housing in Seal Beach, so we have listed the closest low income housing and housing assistance agencies nearest to Seal Beach, CA.
Our search checked a full 30 mile radius from the center of Seal Beach. The distances from Seal Beach are displayed next to each listing.
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NOVA's Paula Apsell Named Senior Executive Producer Emerita
BOSTON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Paula Apsell, the award-winning science journalist who guided the PBS
program "NOVA" to worldwide acclaim as the most popular science program
on American television and online, has been named Senior Executive
Producer Emerita. The announcement comes as Apsell retires from Boston
public television station WGBH, where she spent more than four decades.
"Paula's remarkable talent and dedication to science literacy has kept
NOVA at the forefront of science media," said WGBH President Jonathan
Abbott. "She has worked to advance the public understanding of science
for generations of NOVA viewers. I am pleased to appoint her Senior
Executive Producer Emerita."
In 2018, Apsell was honored with a Lifetime
Achievement Award from the National Association of Television Arts
and Sciences. This week, WGBH announced it is establishing an annual
scholarship in her name in recognition of Apsell's distinguished service
and steadfast support of science education. The Paula S. Apsell/WGBH
STEM Boston Public School Scholarship will be granted to Boston public
school students who plan to study in the fields of science, technology,
engineering and mathematics at the college level.
"I am honored to have this scholarship bear my name and hope it provides
the opportunity for students to realize their dreams of studying in a
STEM field," said Apsell. "I wish to thank WGBH, the team at NOVA, and
our independent producers for their tremendous support over the years.
Whatever I have accomplished, it is because of those talented, dedicated
and hardworking individuals."
In 1975, Apsell joined NOVA, producing science documentaries on subjects
as varied as smallpox eradication, genetic engineering and artificial
intelligence. In 1985, after spending a year as a Knight Fellow in
Science Journalism at MIT, she returned to NOVA as Executive Producer,
remaining at the helm for 33 years and introducing such
innovative miniseries as Origins with Dr. Neil de
Grasse Tyson and The Elegant Universe hosted by Dr. Brian
Greene. Under her leadership, NOVA earned Emmy, Peabody, and duPont Gold
and Silver Baton awards. She served on the board of the Smithsonian
National Museum of Natural History and is a Fellow of the American
Association for the Advancement of Science.
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On May 21st a space shuttle external fuel tank will make it's way from Marina Del Rey all the way to the California Science Center in Exposition Park. The tank will join the Space Shuttle Endeavor, which is currently on display at the museum. How long is this journey expected to take?
16-18 hours
Source: http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-shuttle-tank-20160303-story.html
Those answering correctly:
WA2RPY – Barry
Thanks to all that checked into the net. Special thanks to Gary (W6NVY) for use of the repeater.


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