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Do you always get your homework done on time? Do you do your fair share when working on group projects? Are you on time at the beginning of every class? If you said no to any of these questions, you might want to think about how you can be more reliable.
Being reliable sounds kind of boring. Lots of the funny characters in movies and cartoons are unreliable, and everyone seems to like them, right? Wrong! People like to watch those characters, but in real life, they don't like to be around them. A reliable person who sticks to their word quickly becomes respected and widely sought after. Just imagine: If you're on a team and you don't follow a play the way you practiced it, will your teammates think it's funny? On the other hand, if you play as you agreed to and the team scores a goal, how do you think it will make your teammates feel about you?
When you keep your word to others, it will build your confidence. One reason for this is because you're building a better relationship with your friends and earning their trust. If you always keep your word, you'll feel good about looking people in the eye because you know you have nothing to be embarrassed about. Plus, if you're in the habit of doing as you say you will, you'll be less likely to question yourself. Deep down, you'll remember all the times you kept your word and there won't be any doubt that you can do it again.
People take notice when they know they can count on you. Reliable people are much harder to find than unreliable people, so word will get around about what a trustworthy person you are. It feels good when people come find you because they know you'll be able to take care of business.
If you're unreliable and you know it, that's okay! It's not something you're born with; it's something you learn. The questions at the beginning of this article are a good place to start. Work on always being on time. After that, make sure you always get your homework done. Whenever you reach an agreement with someone, see it through. Remember, if you know you can't do something, it's better to say "no" than to break your word later.


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IQ-Touch Series Built-In Wine Cooler with 11 Bottle Capacity, Right Hinge, in Stainless Steel
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- Width: 23.81"
- Height: 34"
- Depth: 24.25"
Running out of room for drinks in your refirgerator? The Electrolux beverage center is the answer - it keeps soda, wine, beer and other beverages refreshingly cold and ready to enjoy. 6 cu. ft. of storage, Luxury-Close� Door, Energy-Saving, Vacation mode and Sabbath Mode (Star-K� Certified). This versatile beverage center will add a 'wow' factor to any room. Available at AppliancesConnection
Running out of room for drinks in your refirgerator? The Electrolux beverage center is the answer - it keeps soda, wine, beer and other beverages refreshingly cold and ready to enjoy. 6 cu. ft. of storage, Luxury-Close� Door, Energy-Saving, Vacation mode and Sabbath Mode (Star-K� Certified). This versatile beverage center will add a 'wow' factor to any room.
Perfect Set� Temperature Control
Set a temperature anywhere between 35 � F and 45 � F degrees - the beverage center will hold it to within one degree of variance to keep your beverages perfectly chilled.
Luxury-Design� Lighting
LED Illumination System is as beautiful as it is functional, keeping your wine clearly visible. In display mode, the lights can stay on to display your wine collection.
UV-Filtered Glass Door
Helps protect wine's flavor from deterioration caused by harmful UV rays.
Integrated Controls
Controls located at the top of the door - where they're easiest to use.
PureAdvantage� Air Filter
Keeps air fresh by circulating clean, filtered air throughout.
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With a ball-bearing system, shelves are so smooth they extend effortlessly.
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Notifies you if there's been a power failure, if a door stays open longer than five minutes, and if the interior temperature rises 10 degrees or more for four hours.
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EI24BC65GS Sabbath Mode (Star-K� Certified)
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6 cu. ft. Installation Type
Built-In, Freestanding Controls
IQ-Touch� Control Panel
Fully Integrated Control Lockout
Electronic Front Display
Blue LED Frost-Free Performance
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Dynamic Air Filter
PureAdvantage Controls
Perfect Set Display Temp Mode
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LED Exhibit Lighting with Manual Control
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2 Black Soft Coat Wireform Wine Rack
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Metal Oven Door and Handle Design
Soft-Arc Window Type
UV-Filtered, Tinted Glass Field-Reversible Door
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34" - Height (Max)
35" - Width
23-13/16" - Depth (to Center of Arc)
24-1/4" Depth (with 90� Door Open)
47" Power Supply Connection Location
Right Bottom Rear Voltage Rating
120V / 60Hz / 15A Connected Load (kW Rating) @ 120 Volts
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- Brand:Electrolux
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- Product Number:EI24BC65GS
- Series:IQ-Touch
- Color:Stainless Steel
- Type:Built-In
- Total Capacity:6 cu. ft.
- Undercounter:Yes
- Bottle Capacity:11
- Size:Compact
- Cabinet Color:Black
- Series:IQ-Touch
- Volts:120 Volts
- Amps:15A
- Approved for Outdoor Use:No
- Frequency:60 Hz
- Hinge Side:Right
- Field Reversible Doors:Yes
- Width:23.81"
- Height:34"
- Depth:24.25"
- Energy Star:No
- Style:Beverage Center
- Number of Shelves:3
- Type of Shelves:Glass
- Refrigerator Capacity:6 cu. ft.
- Accepts Custom Panels:No
- Child Lock:Yes
- Glass Door:Yes
- Temperature Zones:Single
- Wine Racks:Yes
- Depth without Door and Handles:21.5625"
- Depth without Handles:24.25"
- Height without Hinges:34"
- Slide-out Shelves:Yes
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- Split Shelves:No
- Spill Safe Shelves:No
- Wine Rack:No
- Can Dispenser:No
- Digital Temperature Control:Yes
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Congress returns, with health care, Supreme Court on agenda
Congress returns to Washington this week to confront dramatic decisions on health care and the Supreme Court that may help determine the course of Donald Trump's presidency.
President Barack Obama signed the sweeping Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act into law on March 23, 2010. Since then, the law has withstood various legal assaults, including one leading to a landmark U.S. Supreme opinion affirming the law's constitutionality.
Congress returns to Washington this week to confront dramatic decisions on health care and the Supreme Court that may help determine the course of Donald Trump's presidency.
Trump has had a fraught relationship with the annual conservative confab, but began his remarks Friday saying, "I wouldn't miss a chance to talk to my friends." He quickly turned to bashing the media.
U.S. Rep. Tim Walz says he's giving a run for Minnesota governor serious consideration and expects to make a decision by April.
Some people outside Emmer's meeting held signs with messages including "Universal health care Now" and "We stand with Minnesota's refugees."
Constituents have been confronting legislators over everything from the GOP's plan to repeal and replace Obamacare to the Trump White House. Here's a look at particularly rowdy events this week.
Instead of face-to-face meetings, some have held telephone town halls. Since President Trump took office, people who oppose his policies have been speaking out during those forums.
If you're trying to convince your constituents that you respect opposing views, it's probably best not to insult them in the process. Rep. Jason Lewis has been under some fire for telephone town halls rather than showing up in person. On Monday night in Northfield, citizens held a town hall forum where they knew he…
President Trump promised to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act simultaneously, but we haven't seen anything from Republican lawmakers.
If you're at all a fan of the First Amendment, there was plenty to like about today's decision by the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals striking down a Florida law that prohibited doctors from asking whether there are guns in the home.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell says Republicans intend to overhaul health care and the tax code this year without Democratic help.
The plan that House Republicans discussed Thursday would replace Affordable Care Act subsidies with tax credits and cut Medicaid funds to the states.
"We can no longer serve a president whose policies aim to create outcomes that are diametrically opposite to our principles, goals and charge," the resigning commissioners said in a letter sent to President Donald Trump on Wednesday.
Leading Republicans said conflict remained, and the details and timing of how the GOP will deliver on its long-promised replacement of President Barack Obama's law went unanswered.
Two political experts talk about the barrage of news coming out of the White House and the reactions from members of Congress on both sides of the aisle.
The Trump administration took steps Wednesday intended to help calm jittery insurance companies and make tax compliance with former President Barack Obama's health law less burdensome for some people.
Many Native Americans have shifted to the Affordable Care Act for health coverage, and in rural Montana that's created jobs. The state could lose 3,000 health care jobs if the ACA is repealed.
The Minnesota senator very publicly raises questions about the president's mental stability.
However, experts say high-risk pools create their own problems.
Lawmakers say they're meeting on the topic every day.
MNsure's record-breaking enrollment for 2017 belies a startling trend in Minnesota's health insurance market: The number of residents buying coverage on their own is getting smaller.


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WSCA Judges in Minnesota.
Ok so im just wondering if anyone knows how much it costs to have a WSCA judge for the day in minnesota. I know the price probaly ranges but whats the average price it would cost. I'm wondering because the saddle club where i live cant afford a judge and to travel to a WSCA show is 2 or more hours we live as far north as possible lol. But im gonna talk to my family about paying for the judge so we can qualify for champ show. So if you have any idea about cost please let me know.:D
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what I wore : TargetYourEssenceThursday, February 11, 2016
Can I tell you guys a secret? I love doing as much grocery shopping as I can at Target because it gives me an excuse to talk myself into purchasing a few other odds and ends while I'm there. Oh yeah, I totally did need new pens. Some new undies? Well, sure! Cant forget the most dangerous aisles of all... cosmetics! Sometimes I make it a point to not even go down those aisles because it's so hard for me to resist picking out something I want. There's a light at the end of that wallet draining tunnel though - Essence cosmetics!
Essence is an up and coming brand that launched in Germany in 2001. Essence is known for high quality, on-trend, products that are available at super affordable prices. They believe beauty is about being yourself and having fun doing it. That's something I can get behind 100%! They first came to the U.S. in 2007. Now they're available at over 500 select Target locations nationwide and guess who was lucky enough to have a local Target start carrying their products? ME!
Obviously I'm a colorful person (who is wearing mostly black and grey in this post, whoops!) that loves to experiment with my look but I'm a little more timid with my make up. I only started really getting into it these last few years, and still feel like I have a lot to learn. I want to be really great at make up, like YouTube beauty guru good, but that obviously takes practice. Something that always kind of scared me away and made it more difficult for me practice is the price of make up. I don't want to spend lots of money on something I'm not sure of. Essence changes everything though. $1.99 nail polish? $3.99 gel eyeliner? $4.99 mascara? $2.99 lipstick? YES, PLEASE. Those prices make it super easy to be guilt free about experimenting with things. For under $35, I got everything pictured below. Score!
Have you guys tried Essence yet? What are some of your favorite products from them? I'm seriously so excited to experiment more. Aside from more lipsticks and nail polishes, I think my next purchase will be this volumizing eyelash powder!
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That lipstick looks perfect on you!ReplyDelete
I have been using Essence for years. They sell it in most cosmetic/pharmacies here in South Africa. I also love the fact that it's soo affordable and decent quality :) and all the cool bits and bobs for nails(like magnetic nailpolish and stamps) I've loved experimenting with over the years :) was soo happy to see you posted about itReplyDeleteReplies
I know, I can't wait to play with more of the nail products!Delete
Ooh! Loving the nails, and the boots. You look amazing!ReplyDelete
Volumizing eyelash powder? I don't think I've ever heard of anything like that before, I'll have to check it out too! You are too cute in this post- I love your funky and fresh style, those nails, and your fresh face look. It's all FAB! #clientReplyDeleteReplies
Thank you so much, Jenna!Delete
I love this outfit!!! And your makeup looks great!ReplyDelete
I was bummed when I saw that Essence was available at Target, because we no longer have Target in Canada (at least not on the west coast), but, thanks to trusty ole Google, I see it's available at Shoppers Drug Mart! Wahoo. Thanks for sharing your experience with it. I am looking forward to trying it out :)Replies
No Target in Canada!?!!! Ahhhh.Delete
I'd love to hear what ya try and what ya think of it! :)
Oh man, as a lipstick fiend, I know the gut wrenching feeling when you realize that you've bought a terrible lipstick! Are Essence lipsticks moisturizing? How is the taste? Try as I might, I always end up licking my lips and I end up tasting the lipstick as well.ReplyDelete
Love the nails! And the lipstick matches well with your hair!Replies
I don't know that I would call them moisturizing but I guess they are because I know there are some lipsticks that after I put them on I have to put a little bit of regular old chapstick on top so my lips don't feel dry. I don't have to do that with these.Delete
They taste very neutral, not bad or good but I do really enjoy the way they smell.
Their eyeshadow primer and their matte setting powder are great!ReplyDeleteReplies
Good to know! :DDelete
I love Essence mostly for the same reasons: there is a lot of colors and it's super affordable! Unfortunately it's not sold in Brazil :(ReplyDelete
I like a lot Essence. They have a good quality/price relationship. Obviously, it's not a lancome or channel product, but they are quite food for the daily make :)ReplyDelete
your nails look GREAT!ReplyDelete
i have tried to follow you tube beauty videos and i can never get it quite right. i wish i was good at makeup too! For my birthday two years ago my best friend took me to sephora for a free make over and it was so fun. the girl who did it was cool and put a bunch of stuff on my i actually liked. i've been wearing pretty much just that since. and glitter eyeliner.Replies
Thank you, Rae! :DDelete
I've been wanting to do that for so long but feel like such a goof going alone. I need some solid lady friends to go to "girl stuff" with.
What glitter eyeliner do you use? I've tried a few different kinds and they all make my eyes burn but I so desperately want some.
I haven't heard of this brand yet but I'll have to check them out! Oh man, I love Target.. I always end up with about ten different things that I didn't anticipate on buying whenever I go there.ReplyDeleteReplies
YEP. I know exactly how that goes! :PDelete
Your nails are bomb!!ReplyDeleteReplies
Thanks, Emily! :)Delete
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By Stuart Bunting, University of Essex and Nesar Ahmed, Bangladesh Agricultural University
Prawn-fish-rice agroecosystems consist of farming freshwater prawns (Macrobrachium rosenbergii) and selected fish species in rice fields. Wider spacing of rice plants in such integrated systems promotes primary production throughout the water column. Ecological functions performed by rice plants contribute to favourable water quality and temperatures for optimum prawn and fish production. The plants provide shelter for the cultured fish, helping reduce predation and stress. Foraging of sediments and consumption of phytoplankton by the fish promotes nutrient exchange between the water and soil; the fish also consume rice pests and weeds. Overall, the presence of cultivated fish and prawns results in a reduced need for pesticides and fertilizers. Dike-cropping in these systems can also optimise the productive use of nutrient and water resources.
This practice has been widely adopted by smallholder producers across 30,000 hectares (115 square miles) in the coastal districts of Bagerhat, Khulna and Satkhira in southwest Bangladesh. As a consequence of traditional land-holding patterns and contemporary land-use policy, individual farms are relatively small in size (0.15 to 0.4 hectares or under one acre). Thus, benefits accrued from the substantial area under prawn-fish-rice cultivation are being shared amongst a large number of farming households.
Prawn-fish-rice culture has generated notable benefits for farmers, local communities and the country. Prawns cultivated in the rice fields are destined for export markets and generate vital foreign exchange. The staple rice crop and nutritionally important fish find their way to local markets and play a significant role in subsistence consumption and local food security. Catches of small indigenous fish from the integrated rice fields are consumed preferentially by farming households and constitute an invaluable source of micronutrients, minerals and vitamins. A formal sustainable livelihoods assessment of these communities demonstrates that they benefit from enhanced income, food and fish consumption and fulfillment of basic needs.
These integrated aquaculture-agriculture agroecosystems are well-suited to the prevailing environmental and hydrological conditions in the area and significantly increase agrobiodiversity and lessen production risks faced by producers. However, the low-lying coastal areas where prawn-fish-rice culture has been established are particularly vulnerable to climate change impacts including drought, flood, cyclone, sea-level rise, greater salinity and sea surface temperature variability.
Consequently, appropriate adaptation measures are needed to cope with climate change impacts and maintain these important ecosystems and livelihoods. After reviewing the complex socio-economic setting, we advocated for "Community-based climate change adaptation strategies for integrated prawn-fish-rice farming in Bangladesh to promote social-ecological resilience." Adaptation must facilitate the participation of all concerned stakeholders, while increasing the capacity of communities to plan for anticipated worsening climate change impacts. Establishment of resilient livelihood strategies, disaster risk preparedness and reduction strategies, empowerment and social mobilization and capacity development within institutions also constitute critical elements of such adaptation strategies.
Barriers to establishing prawn-fish-rice plots in less vulnerable areas may or may not exist. Systematic evaluation of key criteria are needed and could be achieved, for example, through Bayesian Belief Network analysis, facilitation of a stakeholder Delphi assessment or the formulation of a suitable Geographical Information Systems planning tool to demarcate potential development zones. Policies could be conceived to encourage uptake and relocation, coordinate supporting infrastructure development and enable equitable credit and services provision in partnership with NGOs and the private sector. Composition and dissemination of better management practice guideline—including measures to promote social capital, ensure environmental protection and enhance aquatic and terrestrial biodiversity—are crucial.
Estimates indicate that converting 25% of the existing seasonal rice fields in Bangladesh to prawn-fish-rice culture could generate an additional US $2.35 billion in export earnings, while contributing to increased local food security and environmental benefits. Therefore, assuming it is possible to identify geographical areas where these agroecosystems could flourish, this poses the question: how can we best garner support from policy-makers and promote uptake amongst farmers, while ensuring that a transition to landscapes dominated by prawn-fish-rice cultivation does not adversely affect biodiversity, compromise ecosystem services or disadvantage poor and marginal groups?Photo: Nesar Ahmed, Bangladesh Agricultural University


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INDIANAPOLIS — Barkevious Mingo is ready for questions he will face this weekend in Indianapolis.
Seemingly every NFL team at the annual scouting combine will ask about his relationship with former college teammate Tyrann Mathieu and whether he ever hung out with the troubled cornerback.
The answers could make as much difference in Mingo living up to his projection as a first-round draft pick as his time in the 40-yard dash. So the LSU star has left nothing to chance, carving out time to prepare for the 15-minute interviews.
"It's one thing that all the guys that came out from LSU are going to face," Mingo said during a telephone interview. "We know what kind of guy he was and we're always going to be there for him."
Interview training has become an essential component for draft hopefuls. Most, if not all, of the 333 players expected to arrive in Indy for the combine have been instructed in how to answer coaches and general managers properly.
This year, the questions run the gamut.
Running back Marcus Lattimore is trying to prove he can return from a gruesome knee injury. Mathieu, a cornerback, and Da'Rick Rogers, a receiver, both were booted off the teams they intended to play for last fall after failing drug tests. Linebacker Alec Ogletree will have to answer for a series of problems that included a suspension for violating team rules early last season, and linebacker Manti Te'o will likely contend with the girlfriend hoax all over again. And those are just the big-name guys.
Lee Gordon, a former television anchor, runs a training program for Athletes Performance, whose client list includes Mingo and Lattimore. His advice: Be appealing, believable and accentuate the positive.
"We tell them up front that coaching you on this is similar to tackling techniques and the things you do on the field, but you have to be yourself," Gordon said. "You can't be fake or people will see right through it. What we do is give them a chance to see the media and the (team) interviews as a business opportunity."
Obviously, the advice deviates greatly from player to player.
For instance, Gordon suggested Lattimore explain to teams that he will be ready on opening day, if that's what he truly believes, and to provide supporting medical evidence to prove it.
Some don't need as much training as others, though everyone seems to benefit. UCLA running back Jonathan Franklin, another of Gordon's clients, worked as an intern in the Los Angeles mayor's office and filmed a teen reality show in which he was depicted as a role model for inner-city children. Going through this program, though, gave Franklin a different perspective on how to handle things in Indy.
"In the mayor's office, it's more about helping people and saying things to give people hope where you help them believe things are going to happen. Sometimes it takes time. So in the mayor's office, you have to speak more patiently," Franklin said. "Here, you have to be more aggressive and more hands on and let them know you're going to be the man."
All this coaching has made things infinitely more difficult for the teams to sort out.
Over the years, Bill Polian, the architect of four Super Bowl teams in Buffalo and two in Indianapolis, grew so wary of these "coached" answers that he changed the way the Colts did business. Instead of asking the questions himself or having other front office personnel or coaches conduct interviews, Polian used a psychologist who could immediately tell the difference between honest answers and scripted ones. If the person believed the answers had been programmed, the order of the questions changed.
Even today, Polian is skeptical that teams will get the answers needed to make the right choices.
"I wouldn't put any stock into the answers they give you. You know it's spin. I'm not saying they're not being truthful, but you have to go through it and figure it out for yourself," he said when asked about the responses from players with drug issues or criminal allegations in their past.
He later added: "It's not like what most people would think of a job interview. Here you have agents and advisers involved, and the agent's idea is 'Let me give you as little information as possible about this kid until the draft.'"
Breaking down that information is entirely up to the teams, and that's not the only thing that has changed about the combine.
Over the past decade, NFL officials have moved media interviews from hotel hallways to podiums. Hundreds of reporters are now credentialed to cover the event as opposed to the dozens who used to show up 15 years ago, a scene Te'o might have to contend with this weekend for the first time since the hoax story broke.
This year, the league will introduce a new measuring tool — the NFL Player Assessment Test, which has been billed as a compliment to the Wonderlic intelligence test. Polian described it as more of a personality test than a psychological examination but acknowledged most teams have been examining the personality traits of draft hopefuls for years.
What else is different?
The lessons Gordon gives on social media, the same medium that turned Te'o from a national inspiration into a national punch line.
"What we do is have interns go find out who we'll be working with and try to friend them, and usually about 85 percent of them will say yes," Gordon said. "We'll tell them we're all real people with real pictures and then we'll show them how easy it is to get access to their life and their world. We'll tell them that people are truly disguising themselves as other people, and if you don't know them to defriend them because regardless of who it is, these people can see your pictures and all that stuff. We explain that these NFL guys, they know everything. So we tell them to clean it up before it's too late."
And he does mean everything.
While the stories of Mathieu, Ogletree and others have been well-documented over the past year, it's not just those players who will face questioning this weekend.
"I've been asked that already," Mingo said. "He knows he messed up, he made it harder on himself. He'll be prepared for it (the questions)."
Just like all the other pro prospects this weekend.
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I don't know if somebody had suggested this already.
Since we already have cops - Sentinel. Why don't we have a clan for their prisoners - Cryme? (convicted thieves, serial killers, corrupt politicians, etc) They could escape their cells, during the night, through a secret hole in their dining hall (possibly created by the Vortex to help them mess with the present Clint City.) Vengeance is their sole purpose of escaping. However they must return to their respective cells before the sun rises or else they may risk themselves from a harsh detention by the sents or worse thrown into maximum security. (in this case they became CR.)
If this happens, I bet cards from this clan will have interesting stories and bios. (see Hugo's bio)
I really like the idea of a medieval clan, you would have ogres, dragons, knights, and the LD would have to be the king, just to make it perfect, his last level art would be him sitting on the throne, with his sword by his side...
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Saturated Fat 3.2 g15.8%
Trans Fat 0 g
Cholesterol 425.1 mg141.7%
Sodium 1745.4 mg72.7%
Total Carbohydrates 9 g3.1%
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Sugars 7.1 g
Protein 17 g34.9%
Vitamin A 41.5% Vitamin C 3%
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This huge croissant is a rolled up billboard poster for Danerolles, the ready-to-bake puff pastry for making your own fresh croissants.
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I love it. It evokes the right amount of curiosity for further investigation to occur.
Hmm. Paper, pullable at head-height? How many nanoseconds did this single-instance ad actually stay up?
Maybe we should ask the... copywriter... on the project, who doubtless had a lot of standing around to do on this one.
Harsh I know. It's a good idea. But entirely impractical - if it wasn't kids that doomed this it would be the weather. The only thing this is selling is Agency Ego, and it's long past time these darlings were fitted with an auto-abort button.
I'm happy to say that we thought for a few nanoseconds longer than you did.
We made the croissant with a special kind of polyethylene or PVC if you will, which was flexible yet durable. Then we printed the visual and stuck it on. The whole thing was screwed directly onto the billboard. We chose this spot because it's a busy intersection in the center of Amsterdam. And the small fence you see in the background goes all the way around the billboard keeping curious children safe.
Andrew Maaldrink, Copywriter, Y&R Not Just Film, Amsterdam
Thanks Andrew; given the information provided, I thought for as long as needed. I do value the full background, too late and just in time to make me feel a bit stupid. And thanks for the nanosecond jibe, nice touch.
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They were called a generation without heroes. Then they were called upon to be heroes. Within hours of 9/11, America's war on terrorism fell to those like the twenty-three Marines of the First Recon Battalion, the first generation dispatched into open-ended combat since Vietnam. They were a new breed of American warrior unrecognizable to their forebears—soldiers raised on hip-hop, Internet porn, Marilyn Manson, video games, and The Real World, a band of born-again Christians, dopers, Buddhists, and New Agers who gleaned their precepts from kung fu movies and Oprah Winfrey. Cocky, brave, headstrong, wary, and mostly unprepared for the physical, emotional, and moral horrors ahead, the "First Suicide Battalion" would spearhead the blitzkrieg on Iraq and fight against the hardest resistance Saddam had to offer.
Generation Kill is the funny, frightening, and profane firsthand account of these remarkable men, of the personal toll of victory, and of the randomness, brutality, and camaraderie of a new American war.
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Chapter OneMAJOR GENERAL JAMES MATTIS calls the men in First Reconnaissance Battalion "cocky, obnoxious bastards." Recon Marines belong to a distinct military occupational specialty, and there are only about a thousand of them in the entire Marine Corps. They think of themselves, as much as this is possible within the rigid hierarchy of the military, as individualists, as the Marine Corps' cowboys. They evolved as jacks-of-all-trades, trained to move, observe, hunt and kill in any environment-land, sea or air. They are its special forces.
Recon Marines go through much of the same training as do Navy SEALs and Army Special Forces soldiers. They are physical prodigies who can run twelve miles loaded with 150-pound packs, then jump in the ocean and swim several more miles, still wearing their boots and fatigues, and carrying their weapons and packs. They are trained to parachute, scuba dive, snowshoe, mountain climb and rappel from helicopters. Fewer than 2 percent of all Marines who enter in the Corps are selected for Recon training, and of those chosen, more than half wash out. Even those who make it commonly only do so after suffering bodily injury that borders on the grievous, from shattered legs to broken backs.
Recon Marines are also put through Survival Evasion Resistance Escape school (SERE), a secretive training course where Marines, fighter pilots, Navy SEALs and other military personnel in high-risk jobs are held "captive" in a simulated prisoner-of-war camp in which the student inmates are locked in cages, beaten and subjected to psychological torture overseen by military psychiatrists-all with the intent of training them to stand up to enemy captivity. When Gunny Wynn went through SERE, his "captors," playing on his Texas accent, forced him to wear a Ku Klux Klan hood for several days and pull one of his fellow "inmate" Marines, an African American, around on a leash, treating him as a slave. "They'll think of anything to fuck you up in the head," Gunny Wynn says.
Those who make it through Recon training in one piece, which takes several years to cycle all the way through, are by objective standards the best and toughest in the Marine Corps. Traditionally, their mission is highly specialized. Their training is geared toward stealth-sneaking behind enemy lines in teams of four to six men, observing positions and, above all, avoiding contact with hostile forces.
The one thing they are not trained for is to fight from Humvees, maneuvering in convoys, rushing headlong into enemy positions. This is exactly what they will be doing in Iraq. While the vast majority of the troops will reach Baghdad by swinging west onto modern superhighways and driving, largely unopposed, until they reach the outskirts of the Iraqi capital, Colbert's team in First Recon will get there by fighting its way through some of the crummiest, most treacherous parts of Iraq, usually far ahead of all other American forces. By the end of the campaign, Marines will dub their unit "First Suicide Battalion."
Mattis began hatching his plans for First Recon's unorthodox mission back in November. The General is a small man in his mid-fifties who moves and speaks quickly, with a vowel-mashing speech impediment that gives him a sort of folksy charm. A bold thinker, Mattis's favorite expression is "Doctrine is the last refuge of the unimaginative." On the battlefield, his call sign is "Chaos." His plan for the Marines in Iraq would hinge on disregarding sacred tenets of American military doctrine. His goal was not to shield his Marines from chaos, but to embrace it. No unit would embody this daring philosophy more than First Recon.
In the months leading up to the war on Iraq, battles over doctrine and tactics were still raging within the military. The struggle was primarily between the more cautious "Clinton generals" in the Army, who advocated a methodical invasion with a robust force of several hundred thousand, and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and his acolytes, who argued for unleashing a sort of American blitzkrieg on Iraq, using a much smaller invasion force-one that would rely on speed and mobility more than on firepower. Rumsfeld's interest in "maneuver warfare," as the doctrine that emphasizes mobility over firepower is called, predated invasion planning for Iraq. Ever since becoming Secretary of Defense, Rumsfeld had been pushing his vision of a stripped-down, more mobile military force on the Pentagon as part of a sweeping transformation plan.
Mattis and the Marine Corps had been moving in that direction for nearly a decade. The Iraq campaign would showcase the Corps' embrace of maneuver warfare. Mattis envisioned the Marines' role in Iraq as a rush. While the U.S. Army-all-powerful, slow-moving and cautious-planned its methodical, logistically robust movement up a broad, desert highway, Mattis prepared the Marines for an entirely different campaign. After seizing southern oil facilities within the first forty-eight hours of the war, Mattis planned to immediately send First Recon and a force of some 6,000 Marines into a violent assault through Iraq's Fertile Crescent. Their mission would be to seize the most treacherous route to Baghdad-the roughly 185-kilometer-long, canal-laced urban and agricultural corridor from Nasiriyah to Al Kut.
Saddam had viewed this route, with its almost impenetrable terrain of canals, villages, rickety bridges, hidden tar swamps and dense groves of palm trees, as his not-so-secret weapon in bogging down the Americans. Thousands of Saddam loyalists, both Iraqi regulars and foreign jihadi warriors from Syria, Egypt and Palestinian refugee camps, would hunker down in towns and ambush points along the route. They had excavated thousands of bunkers along the main roads, sown mines and propositioned tens of thousands of weapons. When Saddam famously promised to sink the American invaders into a "quagmire," he was probably thinking of the road from Nasiriyah to Al Kut. It was the worst place in Iraq to send an invading army.
Mattis planned to subvert the quagmire strategy Saddam had planned there by throwing out a basic element of military doctrine: His Marines would assault through the planned route and continue moving without pausing to establish rear security. According to conventional wisdom, invading armies take great pains to secure supply lines to their rear, or they perish. In Mattis's plan, the Marines would never stop charging.
The men in First Recon would be his "shock troops." During key phases of the assault, First Recon would race ahead of the already swift-moving Marine battle forces to throw the Iraqis further off balance. Not only would the Marines in First Recon spearhead the invasion on the ground, they would be at the forefront of a grand American experiment in maneuver warfare. Abstract theories of transforming U.S. military doctrine would come down on their shoulders in the form of sleepless nights and driving into bullets and bombs day after day, often with no idea what their objective was. This experiment would succeed in producing an astonishingly fast invasion. It would also result, in the view of some Marines who witnessed the descent of liberated Baghdad into chaos, in a Pyrrhic victory for a conquering force ill-trained and unequipped to impose order on the country it occupied.
Mattis did not reveal his radical plans for First Recon to its commander, Lieutenant Colonel Stephen Ferrando, until November 2002, a couple of months before the battalion deployed to the Middle East. Ferrando would later tell me, "Major General Mattis's plan went against all our training and doctrine, but I can't tell a general I don't do windows."
At the time of Ferrando's initial planning meetings with Mattis, the battalion possessed neither Humvees nor the heavy weapons that go with them. To the men in First Recon, trained to swim or parachute into enemy territory in small teams, the concept of fighting in columns of up to seventy vehicles, as they would in Iraq, was entirely new. Many didn't even have military operators' licenses for Humvees. The vehicles had to be scrounged from Marine Corps recycling depots and arrived in poor condition. The Marines were given only a few weeks to practice combat maneuvers in the Humvees, and just a few days to practice firing the heavy weapons mounted on them before the invasion.
What made Mattis's selection of First Recon for this daring role in the campaign even more surprising is that he had other units available to him-specifically, Light Armored Reconnaissance (LAR) battalions-which are trained and equipped to fight through enemy ambushes in specialized armored vehicles. When I later ask Mattis why he put First Recon into this unorthodox role, he falls back on what sounds like romantic palaver: "What I look for in the people I want on the battlefield," he says, "are not specific job titles but courage and initiative."
Mattis apparently had such faith in their skills that the Marines in First Recon were kept in the dark as to the nature of their mission in Iraq. Their commanders never told them they would be leading the way through much of the invasion, serving more or less as guinea pigs in the military's experiment with maneuver warfare. Most of the men in First Recon entered the war under the impression that they had been given Humvees to be used as transport vehicles to get them into position to execute conventional, stealthy recon missions on foot. Few imagined the ambush-hunting role they would play in the war. As one of the Marines in First Recon would later put it, "Bunch of psycho officers sent us into shit we never should have gone into. But we came out okay, dog, even though all we was packing was some sac."
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Generation Kill is a daunting and eye opening account of the invasion of Iraq in 2003. I as well as most people in America I'm sure, thought of the invasion to be an easy sweep across the desert country. It was compared to other military invasions, but when you get down to the nitty gritty of it and experience what the individual soldiers experienced you see just how special these men and women are. This book details the atrocities a group of special marines had to go through on their way to Baghdad. The buildup of the characters in important in portraying the events as real. You don't want to see them get hurt. You want to relate to them or put yourselves in their shoes. I have never seen the HBO series, but I don't need to. This book does enough to illustrate the strong will of these men and what it took to take over Iraq and occupy it. A good read would be an understatement.
I found it very hard to put this book down once I started reading it. Actually I have not yet finished with it, I'm stretching it out to last as long as possible. If you want a realistic and accurate impression of the start of the current war in Iraq, this tome is for you. Sometimes happy, sometimes sad and tragic, many times funny. The dialogue is very catchy, for instance you don't say fire when you want to engage the enemy, you say 'light em up'. Also included are many good photos of the cast of characters. It gives you the feeling you almost know these Marines, most just out of their teens. So if you like reading about the Military and Military conflict as I do, I recommend that you buy, beg, borrow or steal this book.
Very entertaining and well written. I throughly enjoyed reading every single page in this book. It offers an interesting perspective on the war in Iraq.
As a former Marine NCO, this book reveals alot about the basic day to day facts of life that Marines endure when deployed over seas. This is one of the few books that actually protrays life in a line unit. Both the good and the bad.
What a revelation!! Young combat Marines being emotional and speaking their minds to a willing Walter Mitty. Just kidding about the revelation thing. I was in the 1st Marine Division during this time period and believe me all these men are interchangeable with every other Marine...at least in thought processes if not qualifications. The only exception was that the other Marines were well led. Too bad the author got stuck with the moronic leadership of that company and in that battalion at that time. Although his agenda was clear, and would have been for any other unit he embedded with, the book leads one to believe that malcontents stumbled their way to victory. Obviously not the case. This leads me to believe his goal was to appeal to the 'wanna-be' commando types like some of the reviewers below who believe everything written to be fact. Add this book to your soldier of fortune hero collection.
I've been trying to read first hand accounts of the Iraq War, as many of you have, to experience (through reading only) what the enlisted man went through as a soldier in this war. Politics has totally corrupted the current events genre, and the politics of this war are particulary disrupting. This author, Evan Wright, has NO BONES TO PICK. (the most important thing right now). The reviewer before who gave this book one star is completely incorrect, the platoon never does anything more than complain about the grooming standard, or the commander of first Recon who administors it. The author states they respect him (Ferrando) although they think is going to get them killed through his aggresiveness. However, they do rebel against their company commander (Captain America). I suggest the previous reviewer did not find the book supportive enough of his/her opinions of the war and he/she should stick to accounts of the war by partisans who parade as military historians/reporters such as Ollie North, and not a real non-fiction novel. A real telling of the war would have to include plenty of ammunition against the war, because after all, we do not live in a black and white world, and war is one hell of a policy. The best thing about this book is it's depiction of the soldiers who fight in it. You will not find more vivid and real characters. With those characters, tells the story of a new generation who bring new dimensions to the battlefield such as 'gameboys', rap music, and digital video cameras. MUST READ. I PROMISE.
Since I am not of the military, the jargon could bog me down at times. As a mother of two men, I am saddened at what our young men appear to be turned into: cold hearted killers who are just doing their jobs. Theysound so young, so immature and then I remember that is what they are: kids put into unthinkable positions. This story pretty much helped me realize that there never has been anything noble about war. What was our mission in this country? I dont think I know any more than these young men knew: nothing From the Vietnam books I have read on the ineptness and waste in that useless war, to the awful March 2005 rape and murder of an entire innocent family by an out ofcontrol unit, I simply cannot fathom why we send anyone into war when many of our own commanders are inept, egotistical, narcissists who simply play a game of gotcha. I am appalled at the likez of Capt America and that he was allowed to continue. My heart aches for every kid and I mean that literally called upon to be killers in a world that leaves them with what? PTSD as well as questions about their own humanity.


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