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The ship was renamed Brarena during 1936.
In 1938 the Brarena was sold to Braathens Rederi A/S (Ludv. G. Braathen), Oslo. This company operated routes from Europe to China.
On June 10th 1940, the day that Mussolini declared war on France & Britain, the Brarena was seized by the Italian Government whilst unloading at Naples.
Whilst sailing from Palermo to Tripoli the convoy was bombed by British aircraft south of Lampedusa (Pantelleria) on July 22nd 1941. Explosions from a nearby ammunition ship which had been hit by bombs led to fires starting on the Brarena. Whilst under tow the Brarena came under attack again, this time the attackers were successful in sinking the ship.
Sister ships, all prefixed Scottish : Maiden (sunk 1940), Minstrel (sunk 1940), Standard (sunk 1940), American, Chief (sunk 1942) & Heather. Mostly similar dimensions built between 1922 & 1932.
Built: William Denny & Brothers Ltd, Dumbarton, Yard No 1139
Launched: 1923
Tonnage: 6,996 grt tons
Deadweight: 9,820 tons
Length: 425 ft
Breadth: 56 ft
Draught: 33 ft
Propulsion: Two Denny-Sulzer 4S60 2 stroke 4 cylinder diesel engines each of 1,250hp at 100rpm, 600mm bore x 1060mm stroke.
Auxiliary engines: Two Babcock & Wilcox boilers to produce steam for the deck and engine room auxiliaries.
Screws: Two
Speed: 11 knots
Article in 'The Motor Ship' of June 1923 & Shipbuilding & Shipping Record, December 1923.
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Only a month ago, Vogue editor Anna Wintour was being floated as an ideal candidate to become President Obama's next ambassador to Britain but now the fashionista is in the news for another reason. A British newspaper has found that her boyfriend, J. Shelby Bryan, owes $1.2 million in back taxes to the IRS.
Despite owing the IRS such a hefty amount–he is also in arrears in Texas–Bryan was a high dollar fundraiser for President Obama's 2012 re-election campaign. The socialite was also close to President Clinton serving on his Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board in 1996.
Bryan's past due taxes are nothing new, either. He's owed the money to the IRS since 2006.
Wintour and Bryan have been together since 1999 after he divorced his last wife leaving him with a hefty bankroll but in late 2000 he lost some $60 million because of bad investments in ICG Communications.
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April 7th, 20149:15 pm
I was all set to hate this version of one of my favorite novels, but I kind of love it. The director exercised artistic license in a lot of the scenes, but the overblown gaudiness was refreshing somehow. The film's underlying melancholy and undercurrent of potential violence gave it some interesting dimension, especially the driving scenes that were shot from above. The only actors i had a problem with were Toby Maguire, who I just don't like in general because he's too goofy looking to carry a film, and the actress who played Jordan Baker, who looked like she was just dying to text somebody.
— Trufe Hurts, Florida
February 1st, 20147:45 pm
Maybe if the film weren't in 3D. Maybe if the movie were projected at 48 frames per second....................
— Oriskany52, Winthrop
January 11th, 20147:02 pm
Coco Chanel said "Once you've dressed, and before you leave the house, look in the mirror and take at least one thing off." This is what Baz should have done. In The Great Gatsby's case, a lot more than one thing should have been taken off or out of this film. It is Over The Top; Bad. Too much fake CGI.
In a major cinema complex in Sydney in Cinema 1 (largest theatre in the complex) on the second night of opening it was bearly one quarter full and even then a whole row of 10 patrons walked out after that silly scene in the underground jazz club.
It is a cacophony of nothingness. Too much fluff and tinsel. No sympathy for any character could be felt.
P.S. And the blinking green light... Yes, we can see it. Yes, we know what it means. Yes, we are not dumb!!
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— Carcotas, Romania
October 16th, 20138:55 pm
I saw this last night, prepared to dislike it. I didn't.
The film still has the basic flaws of the book -- a bad transatlantic switch of a pain-filled French novel (Le Grand Meaulnes), a plot that still leaves you wondering what the point of it all was (and whether the characters bear any resemblance to actual homo sapiens) -- but it manages to capture the haunting, melancholic, childlike grasping for more More MORE that comes thru Fitzgerald's unforgettable, beautiful, lyrical writing. It is the best Gatsby on film yet.
— Sequel, Boston
October 6th, 201311:29 pm
If you expect or demand a literal evocation of Fitzgerald's novel, then this film is not for you. It is not a historical set piece. It goes through the mind of the director as artist to capture an essence. In a similar manner, Picasso's "Guernica" isn't a photorealistic depiction of the Spanish Civil War. But it succeeds in conveying more.
First things first. I had no problem at all with the length, and found the film entertaining and visually dense, a splashy, colorful canvas of movement that at times is maybe too reminiscent of "Moulin Rouge." It tells a story and makes a point. A lot has been said about the music, as if the soundtrack only should have had scratchy Cole Porter recordings. But the modern music, I think, affects audiences in the same way Porter's music affected contemporaneous listeners. And that's the point.
Luhrmann is translating: This is the way things might have seemed in the minds of people actually living in that moment -- oversaturated and exaggerated, as we all view our own lives. And then he tries to help us feel that, using a filmmaker's tools.
I like different approaches and visions, and say, go for it. I think it works, and believe the film will be appreciated more as the harsher criticisms of the moment fade.
— Alan, Hawaii
October 1st, 201310:30 pm
The movie looks great, with an amazing attention to detail. Gatsby's teeming parties are of course filled with twenties memorabilia (and even a few seconds of rap), but the film's looks have been so carefully tended to that when we get a shot of a young Gatsby, the boy looks exactly like Leonardo DiCaprio at the age of seven or so. The long shots of Sands Point looking west over the slag heap where the Wilsons live toward the Emerald City of New York are dazzling, and the view of Daisy's light from Gatsby's dock bears the romantic frisson the story demands. But the breakneck editing that Luhrmann used in Moulin Rouge can be distracting, and Tobey Maguire makes Nick Carroway into a goofball for most of his early scenes. Isn't he supposed to be the only smart person in the whole saga? The Daisy is perfect, though, so weak and selfish that you realize that Gatsby's obsessive love is based purely on the visual. Not unlike the film itself.
— Ethan Mordden, New York
September 7th, 20136:06 pm
Terrible adaption. This movie is loud and boring.
— VGY, Singapore
September 7th, 20136:06 pm
Transferring the ambiguities of a book into a film is a daunting task and anyone audacious enough to attempt it should start a baseline level of esteem. Many are the times that movies did not capture the books essence, miss some critical points and ultimately bring the story down a notch. But this movie was not just good, its a borderline masterpiece. I can't speak for others expectation but I did not anticipate that this flick was going to be more than what I bargained for.
From the spot on casting of Ms Mulligan who if you indeed paid attention, "her face was sad and lovely with bright things in it, bright eyes and a bright and passionate mouth"; her husband's "gruff husky tenor", adding "impressions of fractiousness"; to the ultra-competent acting of Mr Maguire and Mr DiCaprio in complex roles and posturing in a mellifluous swagger of 20's mannerisms. The rambunctiousness of Gatsby's parties (even with the contemporary twists) were just as I imagined them when I read the book. The dedication to the narrative was loyal; and having touched up Fitgerald's story with having Mr Carraway tell the story in the midst of psychological breakdown delves into a very relevant element that is very likely from whence this tale came is pure genius. The told memories amidst the clouds, Gatsby's castle and that imperative green light serve the back drop to the characters as I believe Mr Fitzgerald intended us to conjure in our imaginations.
Anyone who was derisive of it did not understand the emotions and descriptions that this tale was meant to convey. Luhrmann attempted to emphasize the narrative's most critical sentences (which are the same ones I had picked out from own reading) to ensure that the story's emotional jetstream was preserved; as Mr Fitzgerald prose has no visual substitute. This scintillating tale had a robust cinematic rendition. I cannot remember ever watching a movie elevate a piece of literature, ever. But this film has; and shows that it could be done.
— JT, Brooklyn, NY
July 20th, 201310:55 pm
Fake Versace jeans of a film: cheap, gaudy and loud.
— Abai, London
June 17th, 201311:47 am
Well done Baz - thank you for taking this thing on and for choosing Leonardo who is fabulous in this role.
For me however, Carey Mulligan was miscast. She's a very good actress but the Daisy role required someone with less "heaviness". You needed an actress that was light, reflective of light and shiny things around her, not someone who was contemplative of things in her life. Fitzgerald himself describes Daisy (and Tom) as careless creatures. Daisy should have been portrayed with a lightness almost diaphanous quality to her personality - almost an airhead really.
The other thing was the hip hop - hated it as it contrasted with the speech/rhythms of the characters and the time. My vs Mah etc. But horses I suppose.
— Bold, NY
June 17th, 201311:47 am
I looked at my watch and was surprised that only 20 minutes had gone by...it was a lonnnggg evening...z-z-z-z-z...lot's of splash, writhing bodies, fireworks and even some rap music (where F. Scott put that in the book I don't know) it was a "much ado about nothing" type movie...again...z-z-z-z-z....
— Sofedup, San Francisco, CA
June 10th, 20132:20 pm
This isn't really a review, but a comment. The first thing I noticed when the orchestra started playing Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue" while the fireworks were exploding at Gatsby's mansion was that...the story took place in the summer of 1922 and "Rhapsody in Blue" wasn't written until 1924. Tsk tsk. Whoever did historical research of the era should have caught that.
— momcat, North Port, FL
June 3rd, 20139:16 am
This movie reaches its potential during the attempted fusing of contemporary excess with 20s-era decadence - in the outrageously-choreographed party scenes. Rapper bling meets flapper jazzing - utterly immersive and intoxicating. Here is where Luhrmann soars - presenting a fantasy so visceral, it is totally irresistible (like the entire Moulin Rouge). But those scenes ultimately serve to contrast what seem like a missed opportunity, which would have been to maintain the drug-like hyper-theatricality throughout, and let the formidable bones of the book, and these incredible actors, do their own heavy lifting. Lose most of the voice-over narrative, which gratuitously attempt to justify Luhrmann's visual genius with Fitzgerald's literary heft. Lose the several wince-worthy scenes of typed-out words floating up into snowflakes, which seem like amateur-hour breaches of schmaltz-Hollywood into the Luhrmann universe of ecstatic reality. In half the film, one feels as if Luhmann has started to misunderstand himself as a conveyor of conventional narrative, and only that stopped this film from becoming another beacon of originality in the history of his career.
— Cynflor, NY, NY
June 3rd, 20139:16 am
This movie must be seen in 3D to be able to say it worth seen after all. There are no 3D movies with real actors.
Without the 3D, the Gatsby movie is really weak, with the computerized gimmicks reminiscent of the little movies for tourists before the main attractions.
Also, I was surprised by DiCaprio's weak performance - I assume it was director' fault.
Oh, well!
— Tennis fan, NYC
May 31st, 201311:16 am
I loved Moulin Rouge! (2001) ..I loved 'The-Great-Gatsby'
the common denomitor is Baz and your acceptance of his blend of timeperiods. The period display is magnicient, and how he blended and mixed the music eras is pure genius. Perhaps, being in the middle is difficult: you either are appalled or applaud. We viewed this in 3D in an AMC " Recliner" renovated theater, and absolutely loved the experience. Further, it is the best screen adaptation of the novel. Perfectly cast! Tobey Maguire as Nick Carraway is award worthy.
— Swiftbosox, Delaware
May 28th, 201310:48 am
This version of the Great Gatsby is to the book as a spoon sitting on a table is to Dali 's painting. We have seen Gatsby in vanilla, chocolate and strawberry , but this is a sunday with mango sherbet, a scoop of Dolce de leche, and Jerry Garcia . The 3D effects bring ethereal mist separating East and West Egg. The work, while not a literal translation, embodies the spirit of Gatsby. (Leonardo de Caprio demonstrates the underbelly, the optimism and the insecurities superbly .) If you can't understand abstract art, stay away. If you can, you are in for a real treat! The anachronism of J-Zees music only heightens this mesmerizing idea of the era and of Gatsby . For those literary die hards who don't wish to see the other facets and layers of this story, too bad.
— Lennysf, san francisco
May 28th, 201310:46 am
The way I feel about F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby" is difficult to put into an ad lib. I go back to the book ceaselessly -- at least three or four times a year. This is the book I keep at bedside like a bible. To a little girl living in exile-land Miami -- Gatsby was a romantic hero possessing immeasurable love for the woman that I so desperately wanted to become. Blond and rich and whimsical and yes destructive and so beloved. I'm all grown up now, but the attraction and the dream remain. Luhrmann's film capture my young longings and then some. I loved the costumes, the music, the shirts flying in the air -- I've never seen such beautiful shirts. This movie is a classic -- and as it's usually the case with A.O. Scott's usualness, his snobbery fits right in with the East Egg characters -- just so intent on being a contrarian with the affected blah,blah,blah for his own sakes. I wish he would review a movie like this with heart. Perhaps mine.
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— Migdia Chinea, Glendale, CA
May 28th, 201310:43 am
My husband and I were spellbound from the opening title (beautifully old-fashioned). Acting, direction, filming...ALL GREAT. Will see it again.
— Cecilia Pelke, Pompano Beach, Florida
May 28th, 201310:38 am
This movie does one great service...it illustrates the weaknesses of Fitzgerald's vastly overrated novel. As an exploration of class in America it fails to move the needle in favor of social justice. Poor people come across as just pathetic. As for Leo's Gatsby...well why not? He's pretty good actually although Carrie Mulligan is a bit too bland for Daisy...everyone else, including Toby McGuire does the best they can with a pseudo-script. Instead of spending money on this film buy George Packer's new book the "Unravelling" for a real look at class in contemporaryAmerica or just go back to Upton Sinclair or Dos Passos.
— Lure D. Lou, Boston
May 28th, 201310:37 am
I thoroughly enjoyed this new version of The Great Gatsby. It was engrossing, beautifully filmed and well-acted. I saw the 1974 version with Mia Farrow & Robt Redford and found it dull and VERY boring. The only thing I can quibble about for this latest version was the music---I would have preferred the very l920-30's kind of music. I did not see the movie in 3D. I just don't care about 3 D and would have had to travel 25 to 65 miles (one-way) to see it in 3D. I just don't see the need to see it in 3D -- it can actually be distracting to the film and script, and acting.
— sedonaal, Sedona AZ
May 22nd, 201311:29 am
Pretty, but ultimately just awful and boring. Why do filmmakers now think that, admittedly, really cool visual effects are enough? Back in the day, movies had amazing visual effects too, different ones, but they weren't so bowled over by them that they forgot about story and acting. This is just lazy.
— rubyleigh, Los Angeles
May 20th, 201310:20 am
I've read the book maybe a dozen times and love it. This movie version has some pretty 3-D effects but it failed to hold my interest. It's all surface w/o much intellectual or emotional heft.
— Bod, Bronx, New York
May 20th, 201310:20 am
It's a movie. Show don't tell. Instead we are "treated" to a film of someone reading a book out loud while we watch some rather unenthusiastic players act out the words as they are being read and flashed across the screen. You don't have to tell us Gatsby stretched out his arm as if reaching for the light. We can watch him do it. You don't have to tell us that Tom and Daisy were careless people, we can reach that conclusion for ourselves. Or we could if it were sufficiently portrayed on the screen. That said, I thought the soundtrack was okay, DiCaprio was also okay, and Joel Edgerton was really good as Tom. Mulligan and Maguire were miscast. But who cares?
— Robin, Framingham, MA
May 20th, 201310:20 am
baz and tarantino are doing what nobody else is with musical scoring and choreography. Ya'll haters are deaf blind and dumb. I read the book. It was a period piece. Antiquated. This film a different entity. Current. Let's not forget thaf Baz also brings contemporary issues like Global Warming and Drug Prohibition front and center. Nobody else saw the meth crystals? Open your eyes to the present. Ain't nothing wrong with remixing Gerswhin, Whinehouse, Beyonce and Cab Calloway.
— Neo Pacific, San Diego
May 20th, 201310:20 am
Don't judge The Great Gatsby by the trailers. In the same way that a mediocre movie can be made to look great, a surprisingly good film can be made to look like an overblown time-waster. That's what happened here.
I disagree with those who criticize the stunning visuals as being too over the top. Not only did they capture the zeitgeist of the Jazz Age and the Lost Generation, they were, by contrast, part of what made the quiet, elegiacal moments in the story more poignant and genuinely moving.
I have always loved Fitzgerald and this novel in particular, and I think this is the first movie version that did justice to it. The Redford version, which I saw in college, was a terrible bore because Redford and Farrow were so miscast and too old for the roles. DiCaprio and Mulligan, much better actors, got it right.
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Scientists have genetically engineered mice with enhanced memory that persists until researchers switch it off by removing a drug that controls a gene that encodes a key memory-governing enzyme. With enhanced memory, the mice perform better on memory tests and then revert to normal when the drug is removed.
The achievement, say the researchers who developed the mouse model, offers important insights into the delicate molecular balance by which memory storage is achieved. Although memory-boosting drugs are a long way off, the researchers believe that the work opens new avenues for understanding the molecular basis of memory.
Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) investigator Eric R. Kandel and his colleagues reported their experiments in the March 9, 2001, issue of Cell. Lead co-authors of the paper are Gaël Malleret and Isabelle Mansuy, who was formerly in Kandels Columbia University laboratory. Mansuy is now at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich.
The scientists created the mice by inserting a gene that, when activated by the antibiotic doxycycline, produces an inhibitor of the enzyme calcineurin. In the brains principal memory-storage region, the hippocampus, calcineurin counteracts the effects of another enzyme, PKA, in signaling pathways governing a process called long-term potentiation (LTP). LTP enhances connections between neurons and is one of the main neural pathways by which are stored in the brain. PKA is a kinase, which adds a phosphate to enzymes, and calcineurin is a phosphatase, which removes a phosphate.
Development of the mouse was prompted by an earlier study conducted at the HHMI laboratories at Columbia University with Cell co-authors Danny G. Winder and Isabelle Mansuy, said Kandel. "In that study, we overexpressed calcineurin in mice using this same system by which genes can be switched on and off," said Kandel. "And, we saw that such overexpression inhibited a component of LTP, and interfered with memory storage. We reasoned that inhibiting the action of calcineurin would enhance LTP and memory storage."
After developing the mice, the scientists first performed biochemical studies on slices of hippocampus and electrophysiological studies in whole mice that confirmed that doxycycline enhanced LTP. The whole-animal studies were performed by co-authors Tim V. P. Bliss and Matthew W. Jones of the National Institute for Medical Research in London. "The whole-animal studies allowed recording the effects of calcineurin inhibition for days and convinced us that we were really seeing an enhancement of LTP even in the intact animal," said Kandel.
The researchers next measured the animals memories in behavioral tests. The researchers found that the calcineurin-inhibited animals were better able to remember when familiar objects were moved to novel locations or replaced with novel objects. The calcineurin-inhibited mice were compared to both normal mice and mice that had been taken off doxycycline.
"An important point is that we built into this experiment tests showing that we could reverse the memory enhancement by switching off the inhibitory gene," said Kandel. "You worry in such experiments that the animals memory will become better or worse because youve somehow interfered with some normal function during development. But we found that was not the case; and we also did experiments showing that the animals can see, smell and locomote perfectly well, and are well motivated. So we really are seeing an effect on hippocampal learning."
In other studies, the scientists showed that the calcineurin-inhibited animals displayed enhanced spatial memorythey were better able remember the location of a platform in a murky water pool. And, the scientists performed tests showing that working memorymemory of immediate past circumstanceswas not affected by the inhibition. In those tests, the animals were required to find food in a radial-arm maze, a task enhanced by immediate recall of the maze arms already explored.
According to Kandel, the mouse studies revealed the importance of a balance of activation and inhibition in memory storage. "One tends to think of memory storage as a process that is only positively directed, involving a mechanism that allows you to store memories," he said. "But our earlier work on lower organisms had revealed inhibitory constraints on memory storage, and in this present work, we demonstrate the first evidence for an inhibitory threshold in a mammalian brain. It confirms what is really common sensethat you only want to store important things in memory, so you need inhibitory constraints that you have to overcome."
Kandel emphasized that further study will likely reveal other such balancing mechanisms. He also emphasized that practical applications in the form of memory-enhancing drugs remain possible, yet unclear.
"While its quite uncertain at this point, these findings could yield a useful target for drugs designed to enhance memory in people with age-related memory loss, although not for those with serious memory loss due to Alzheimers disease," he said. "Such drugs might prove to be the aspirins of memoryin the sense that they are able to enhance memory modestly," he said. Kandel cautioned that any memory-enhancing drugs that target calcineurin would have to be quite specific since calcineurin plays a number of important roles in the body, especially in the immune system.
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Nutritional Information
Amount per serving
- Calories: 283
- Calories from fat: 54%
- Protein: 29g
- Fat: 17g
- Saturated fat: 10g
- Carbohydrate: 1.5g
- Fiber: 0.2g
- Sodium: 298mg
- Cholesterol: 103mg
- 1 boned center-cut pork loin (about 3 lb.), fat trimmed
- 6 mustard-green leaves (9 to10 in. long)
- 2 packages (5.2 oz. each) herb- and garlic-flavor Boursin cheese
- 1/2 cup grated parmesan cheese
- Fresh-ground pepper
- 1 cup fat-skimmed chicken broth
- 1. Lay loin fat side down. Make a cut lengthwise down the center of the meat and about 2/3 of the way through it. Push meat flat and, starting from the deepest part of the center cut, make a 1-inch horizontal cut toward each side running the length of the meat. Push meat flat again.
- 2. Trim stem ends from mustard greens, rinse leaves, and dip in boiling water to wilt; drain briefly.
- 3. Line meat lengthwise with greens, overlapping as needed, extending about 4 inches beyond ends of meat. Spoon Boursin onto leaves down center of roast, then sprinkle evenly with parmesan. Fold extended leaves over cheese flush with ends of meat. Then lap leaves across cheese lengthwise. Gently roll loin back into a log (don't squish out cheese) and tie with cotton string at 2-inch intervals.
- 4. Set loin cut side down, in a 10- by 15-inch pan and sprinkle generously with pepper
- 5. Bake in a 375º oven until meat is 150º to 155º in center of thickest part (not in cheese), 50 to 55 minutes. Remove from oven and let stand at least 20 minutes.
- 6. Transfer roast to a platter and keep warm. Skim and discard fat from pan drippings. Add broth and whisk until smooth. Boil over high heat until reduced to about 1 1/4 cups, about 10 minutes. For a smooth sauce, whirl in a blender.
- 7. Cut loin into 3/4- to 1-inch slices, remove string, and serve with sauce.
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I just don't get why guys have so much crazy confidence. This hit me the other day when a homeless guy asked me for money. Let me just say, the panhandling is not the shocking part. This poor soul had dirty, tattered clothes, holes in his shoes, and missing teeth - my heart went out to him. As I reached in my purse for a dollar, he shared his hard-luck story about losing his job and being out on the streets.
But then, something totally unexpected happened. HE ASKED ME OUT! I was literally stunned silent. My first thoughts: "Where would we go? Who would pay? Wait, do I look like I would say yes?"
Then it dawned on me, there is a bigger issue going on here. Dudes really don't buy into the concept that a woman can be out of their league. That is the only possible reason why a guy - who was definitely kind, sincere and seemingly lucid - would ask out a woman who just gave him her spare change.
Unlike women, men never seem to question if they are good enough, smart enough, cute enough, thin enough. Why is that? Where does this innate cockiness come from when girls start out so much better at everything.
We learn to walk and talk sooner. We are more emotionally mature and infinitely more perceptive. Still, that unwavering confidence eludes just about over woman I know when it comes to dating. My gorgeous, single girlfriends spend days debating whether a guy really, truly likes them or how to craft the perfect reply to a flirty text. It's as though we naturally second guess ourselves when it comes to the opposite sex.
Not so with guys. And when I politely told this nice homeless fella I was married, he didn't even flinch. "Just my luck. Let me know if that ever changes," he said with a gummy smile. I wish more women - myself included - could be so self-assured.
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Because we're a fed a steady diet of "not good enough". We don't measure up to the models and TV stars and magazines and porn stars. Very few of us do. And the guys judging us? Ugly, fat, bald idiots.
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If you are like me, then you were hoping that we would see some follow-through buying interest coming from China this past week and the outside markets would settle down some and add support to the grain markets. Unfortunately, that scenario has not played out the way I had anticipated, and in actuality has done just the opposite.
I have been humbled by these markets many times in the past and I am certain this time will not be the last. Fortunately, for those following our complete Ag Advisory Program, some great cash sales were made early in the marketing year and have helped ease some of the pain.
Currently we are 50% sold in new crop corn at a cash price average of about $4.07, and 100% sold in the old crop. We also have 30% of our new crop hedged using various option strategies that we have been promoting the past few months. Certainly not as good as I would have hoped, but I am optimistic, as there is still a ton of time left.
I know there are some services out there that have been advising their clients to get 100% of their 2010 sold, and even suggesting that they start selling or hedging their 2011. I personally believe that is a very bold move. Not to say that it's wrong, I just don't like the approach. Our market data and pricing strategies have proven time and time again that by using that type of approach you have to be extremely gifted at predicting market direction. I have found that without the help of a crystal ball, this can often be a daunting task and can oftentimes backfire, leaving you in a very precarious situation.
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I wish I was good enough to tell you to get 100% sold and could guarantee you that we are heading lower from here; unfortunately, I am just not that good. Sure, I would have loved to have gotten another 20% off the board and been 70% sold; it just didn't happen. Be cautiously optimistic in moving forward.
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Hey, I was curious how many people here do direct arm work? I havent done any direct arm work in a few weeks and i swear my arms feel bigger than before......wierd.
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Hey, I was curious how many people here do direct arm work? I havent done any direct arm work in a few weeks and i swear my arms feel bigger than before......wierd.
I hardly do any upper body work at all right now, so no.
Sometimes I do, sometimes I don't.
5-6 sets of direct bicep work, 5-6 sets of direct tricep work a week (two exercises for each, 6-12 reps)
i do, twice a week
I do, once a week
after i work my back i do 3 sets of dumbell curls and 2 sets of barbell
Twice a week ;)
After working back (which works the biceps anyway) I do one set of hammer curls.
After working chest (which works the triceps anyway) I do one set of either dips or cable extensions.
I don't, i have in the past and have actually noticed more progress without the extra work.
once a week, maybe 8-10 sets total.
I work them once a week 2-3 sets for bis and 2-3 sets for tris.
once a week, about 10-12 sets
If I'm in the mood, I'll do 2-3 sets.
I do Dips which targets the tris but no Isolations on Bicep or Triceps. I bulked 12lbs and gained 1/2" on my arms without no direct arm work. :cool:
No direct work for Tris or Bis. I only do DB Bench, Dips, Chins and Seated Pulley Rows and my arms are quite large doing 350lb(BW+125) Dips.
generally no. Maybe every other week I will do a couple sets of biceps.
I'll do 2-4 sets of various curls at the end of my back day, once a week. Other than that, it's all compound work for my arms.
once a week, 6 sets of triceps & 5sets of biceps, heavy to failure.
Very rarely. Maybe a couple sets for tri's and bi's once a month.
2 sets of BB curls and 2 sets of DB curls, done after my back workout.
I do close grip bench and dips for tris, but those really arent isolating the tris as much as the curls isolate the bis.
I havnt done bicep work but maybe 3 times in the last few years lol
One a week... day 3 of WBB1
The dips and bench on day 1 hit the triceps a little I guess and the rows hit the biceps a little but it's not "direct arm work".
I do 5 sets for bi's and 6 sets for tri's once a week..
I can't remember the last time I did a curl.


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