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If I could have forseen this month I would have told the evil witch to stick her crystal ball up her bottom and try again. With everything that happened with SI I have been totally stoked. Then out of the blue yesterday I get a PM from someone who I adore, Beckie Dreyer. She loves my "Pirate Princess" layout and has chosen me to send her Rusty Pickle RAK to. Out of everyone.. ME!! This is a woman who's work I adore. Totally honoured and gushing :)
I really have to get some crafting done. I'm seriously going rusty. I keep saying that I will do some every night but with all the pc troubles I have been having it has been near impossible. I seem to get sucked into trying to fix the PC and then procrastinating on the internet. SIGH.
I want to send some kind of blog prayer magic to two friends. TL and Wendy. I love you guys and at the moment your lives are tough. Hoping things get easier soon x
I will update a bit later when I can think of something interesting to say and when I have that work I've been promising for a week now!
if you're readin.. I love yer!
Thursday, March 20, 2008
I'm going rusty..
3 comments:
- Dappyme said...
((((hugs)))) Love you too, you crazy woman! :)
- Friday, March 21, 2008 2:43:00 pm
- Dappyme said...
Meant to ad a huge wooo hooo for you Mel, well done you are truely deserving as you have such a unique style! Way to go! :)
- Friday, March 21, 2008 2:43:00 pm
- Beckie aka Bexter said...
Aw thanks for your lovely comments about me :) makes me feel darn special! Really hope you have great fun when the pickle arrives.
Take care
- Monday, April 28, 2008 12:24:00 pm
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This week marks the end of an era for one of Denver's most beloved journalists as 9NEWS' Adele Arakawa officially signs off on June 30. She's been the evening news anchor for 24 years.
I couldn't help but feel a little wistful after reading Joanne Ostrow's article on Arakawa as it seemed clear to me from the article that she is not just ready to retire, but she may be disillusioned with the state of journalism today. If you haven't read the article, it's worth a read and you can draw your own conclusions.
It seemed only fitting that Ostrow wrote the piece on Arakawa, as Ostrow had bid farewell in a column less than a year ago to her job at The Denver Post. Ostrow shared her thoughts on a long and productive career reporting about the media for newspapers and magazines, and all the changes she too had seen in the news and entertainment industry.


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OK, let's face it. Golf games aren't the most popular of sports titles, but they've always held their own amongst a small group of dedicated gamers (rather like fishing titles). However, Hot Shots Golf has sold nearly a million copies in its native Japan. Perhaps the game's success stems from its focus -- by choosing arcade cuteness over strict simulation, the game has appealed to everyone (indeed, the game is called Everyone's Golf in Japan).
If you've ever played a console golf game but were turned off by the intimidating interface, have no fear. Hot Shots Golf has been designed with the casual gamer in mind, and is easy as pie to pick up. There's just one swing bar across the bottom of the screen, and by pressing one button you're ready as Freddy. The computer even aims you right at the hole! And, if you're a complete moron (or young child) the Lesson mode will sort you right out. The golfers are super cute as well, with funky big heads and little bodies (that's called super-deformed in Japan). There's even a Miniature Golf mode to practice your putting.
At its heart, though, Hot Shots Golf is a basic game of golf. You can play on a course on your own or against the computer, and up to four players can go at the same time (with the help of a multi-tap). Betting adds a nice element of competition as well. To encourage replay, Sony has included 10 players to compete against, each becoming available to play as you beat them. In addition, you can gain access to six courses by acquiring experience points.
For the hardcore golfer, the caddy mode can be turned off, allowing you to choose your own clubs and gauge wind direction. The interactive camera is extremely helpful in exploring the course, and will aid in avoiding sand traps and lakes. The lack of loading times is nice as well.
Hot Shots Golf should make a nice alternative to sim golf titles, but whether its target audience (the casual gamer) is even remotely interested remains to be seen.
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Mortgage applications rose 15.5% last week
Mortgage applications shot up last week to the highest level since December, as low interest rates led to increased refinancing activity and a slowly improving jobs situation is starting to help the mortgage market, according to a leading trade association. The Mortgage Bankers Association said its market composite index rose 15.5% for the week ended March 4. On an unadjusted basis, the index climbed 16.1% last week. The prior week did not include an adjustment for the President's Day holiday. "Taking into account typical seasonal patterns, purchase applications rose to their highest level of the year last week. On an unadjusted basis, purchase application activity is the highest since last May," said Michael Fratantoni, MBA's vice president of research and economics. "An improving job market is beginning to pave the way for an improving housing market. Additionally, mortgage interest rates remained below 5% for a second week, maintaining affordability for buyers and leading to an increase in refinance applications." Refinancing activity rose 17.2% last week to the highest level since early January. The purchase index increased 12.5% from the week earlier to the highest level of 2011. The unadjusted purchase increased 14.3% from the prior week but is also 14.3% lower than a year earlier. In four-week moving averages, the market index is up 2.7%, with the purchase index 1.2% higher and the refinance index is up 3.6%. The level of refinancings rose last week but remains lower than it has been. The loans accounted for 65.5% of all mortgage applications last week up from 64.9% the prior week. The MBA said the average interest rate for a 30-year fixed mortgage increased to 4.93% last week from 4.84% the prior week. The average rate for a 15-year fixed mortgage stayed flat at 4.17%. Write to Jason Philyaw.


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.... A pilgrimage, a prayerful, contemplative journey to help reflect on our lives, faith and world.
Monday 30th March - Thursday 2nd April, 2015
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Directions to Moss Lea Farm:
From Scarborough on the A171 turn left at the petrol station onto Limestone Road, Burniston. Go straight on passed the school keep to the left (road curves) turn left and continue up Limestone Road until you get to the crossroads and turn right (look for temporary signs with arrows giving directions). Follow the road until you get to Moss Lea Farm on the left (look out for a sign on the gate). Drive into the field and park at the top. Toilet facilities and refreshments will be available.
The land has wildlife, a lake and lots of seating so that you can take in the beautiful surroundings.
Why not come and experience the peace and quiet!
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A service of Holy Communion held on North Bay outside of Blue Crush Café/Bar and Sands Development followed by breakfast in Watermark Café (for those who wish to stay) all are welcome to receive communion!
For the last five years we have been holding 'Labyrinths' at Moss Lea Farm in Burniston and at various other locations during the Lent and Easter period. A labyrinth is designed to make us think about Christ's suffering as he journeyed towards the cross. A journey takes you through several stations where you can reflect on the true meaning of Easter and what it means to you.


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Gollub was elected to membership in the National Academy of Sciences in 1993, and became a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1992. He was awarded the Fluid Dynamics Prize of the American Physical Society in 2003, and was the first recipient of the APS Award for Research in an Undergraduate Institution in 1985. He was a Guggenheim Fellow in 1984-85, won an international "Science for Art" Award in 1994, and earlier held Danforth and Woodrow Wilson Fellowships. Gollub was a Morris Loeb Lecturer in Physics at Harvard University in 1990, a Sigma Xi National Lecturer in 1983-85, and a Visiting Professor at Ecole Normale in 1985, and 1991. He previously served as Provost (Chief Academic Officer) at Haverford. Gollu received his Ph.D. in experimental condensed matter physics at Harvard University in 1971.
Gollub serves on the Governing Board of the National Research Counci (NRC)l, the research arm of the National Academy. He recently completed a term on the NAS governing Council. He is a past Chair of the Division of Fluid Dynamics of the American Physical Society, and served on the Editorial Boards of Physics of Fluids, and Physical Review Letters. He was Co-Chair of the NRC Committee on Programs for Advanced High School Science and Mathematics Education. He is an invited columnist for Physics Today, and has been a member of the Executive Board of the American Physical Society.
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Gollub's research is in the general area of Nonlinear Physics, which is concerned with the mesoscopic and macroscopic behavior of complex systems. Often these systems are described by nonlinear partial differential equations such as the Navier-Stokes equations of fluid motion. His group has conducted experimental work on many aspects of nonlinear systems over the years, addressing questions such as these: How can we use topological ideas to understand the onset of chaotic space-time motion in fluids? How do particles suspended in a fluid move? How do swimming microorganisms affect the fluid around them? And to what extent are granular flows similar to or different from ordinary fluids. Many Haverford students, postdoctoral associates, and visitors have participated in these projects.
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Courses for a broad audience are a particular interest; examples over the years include "Energy Options and Science Policy", "Living in a Fluid World", "About Time", and "Predictability in Science". He also teaches material on fluid dynamics, a subject with many applications, in our upper level mechanics course.


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Stop it !
Stop violence against women..
Language may differ but the message is very clear " Stop violence against women".
This message spreading widely through a campaign. The 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence Campaign is a global campaign dedicated to ending gender-based violence. It runs each year from November 25th: International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, to December 10th: Human Rights Day. Coordinated by the Center for Women's Global Leadership, the Campaign has seen over 4,100 organizations in 172 countries participate since 1991.
The 16 Days Campaign is dedicated to:
Raising awareness about gender-based violence as a human rights issue; Strengthening local work around violence against women; Providing a forum to develop and share strategies; Demonstrating the solidarity of activists around the world; and Calling governments to account, respond, protect, and prevent violence against women.
A very much needed campaign for my country where we really need to aware our women about their rights and a need to change in our society about their abnormal behaviors towards a very important part of their society Women. As we all know its a very slow process but I strongly believe that with continuous efforts we can bring the change... a big positive change.
In 2011 Violence against women in Pakistan has been increased 6.74 per cent as compared to 2010.
A newly issued report of Aurat Foundation (AF) a leading women's rights organization. Says that , "8539 different incidents of violence occurred against women in different parts of Pakistan which shows 6.74 per cent increase in violence against women in 2011 as compared to 2010."
The report says the number of violence against women remained high in Punjab where 6188 cases of violence against women have been registered, 1316 in Sindh, 694 in Kyber Pakhtunkhowa (KPK) and 193 in Balochistan. "322 women were killed in the name of honour in Punjab, 266 in Sindh, 86 in Balochistan and 30 cases were surfaced in KPK in 2011" the report added. According to the report the number of reported cases of rape and gang rape are 827 and 734 have been reported in Punjab. for more click here
In Pakistan the total population is 180million, amongst which women make 51% of the whole population. There have been 2nd class citizenship given to women. The laws against domestic violence is not executed at all. In the year 2011 more than 8,000 cases of offenses against women were reported in media. The unreported are still beneath the attention of laws.
At any day, pick a news paper, you will find a report about violence of any kind against women.
What are the forms of violence against women?
In Pakistan, in addition to the obvious brutalities to victimize females such as the physical and psychological violence, gross injustice like lack of independence to women in their personal choices and the absence of fair opportunities in life exists as well. In most cases, society and culture work hand in hand against the common Pakistani woman. Below are some examples:
- This all happens in our society because we live in a society where men were and are still considered to be the bread-winner.
- Parents pampering the boy child and discriminating the girl child which gives a superiority complex to most typical males in our society.
- Illiteracy and extremism is a big cause.
- Forced marriages are still a form of torture prevalent throughout the country.
The United Nations estimates that nearly 70 per cent of women in the world suffer from some form of violence during their lifetime; in Pakistan perhaps the percentage is even higher. for more click here. The bottom line is violence prevails because we allow it to.
The time has come that we should take a stand and try to stop all kinds of violence against women in our own households and the women who work outside their homes.
Watch this video..... think!!!!
I hope you will do your part and will rise at least your voice against the Violence. you can register your voice by commenting on this blog.....Speak up!!!!!
You may also like to read :
Harrasment of Women at work place
Who killed Farida Afridi
Land of Burnt Faces
See what students think about Violence against women click here
Saturday, December 1, 2012
Posted by Fahmina Arshad
Harassment at workplace
Bigger than any issue, Sexual Harassment of women at workplace is the most common issue around the globe. without any restriction of race, religion, country or society women around the world facing the issue at all levels, either she is working in a office or in a field, the problem is same.
According to Wikipedia Sexual harassment is intimidation, bullying or coercion of a sexual nature, or the unwelcome or inappropriate promise of rewards in exchange for sexual favors In most modern legal contexts sexual harassment is illegal. As defined by EEOC, "It is unlawful to harass a person (an applicant or employee) because of that person's sex. Although it applies on both women and men but unfortunately in this men's world women suffer in a large number. ABC News/Washington Post poll finds that One in four U.S women has experienced workplace sexual harassment, now come to home sweet home,
In Pakistan harassment at the workplace is, to date, not recognized as a punishable offense,
In Pakistan harassment at the workplace is, to date, not recognized as a punishable offense,
don't know how long we should wait to get the recognition like so many other issues. Because of this many women do not get as much support as they should get, in fact a complaint can create even more problems for the woman being harassed. I know a couple of NGOs who work for the said issue one is Bedari and the second is Aasha an umbrella group of six NGOs formed in 2001, assisted in drafting a code of conduct for the workplace, which has served as the foundation of the anti-harassment bill. Data on the number of women affected by harassment is hard to come by since there is no law under which cases can be registered.
Ambreen Ajaib who has been working as a psychologist with Bedari said I see about 50 to 70 women per year. Now the question is why these women need to see a psychologist, the answer is because the sexual harassment of women at workplace effects them and have very serious consequences.
Maheen Usmani, who used to work at Dunya TV, says she faced even more problems after she filed a complaint against the channel's managing director, Yousaf Mirza Baig. "He would call me late at night, stare me down during meetings and eventually he started cutting out TV reports that I had worked on." In what eventually became a famous case, Usmani says she was barred from entering her own office and later heard defamatory rumours about herself.
There are so many women around us in real life who suffered or still facing the situation, I was also a victim of harassment at work place, and I cannot forget the stress, indirect pressure and unpleasant working conditions, and I could not got any help due to lack of awareness about the issue.
Effects of sexual harassment:
The consequences to the individual employee can be many and serious. In some situations, a harassed woman risks losing her job or the chance for a promotion if she refuses to give in to the sexual demands of someone in authority. In other situations, the unwelcome sexual conduct of co-workers makes the working conditions hostile and unpleasant- putting indirect pressure on her to leave the job. Sometimes, the employee is so traumatized by the harassment that she suffers serious emotional and physical consequences—and very often, becomes unable to perform her job properly.
According to data complied by Equal Rights Advocates, a women's law center in the U.S., 90 to 95% of sexually harassed women suffer from some debilitating stress reaction, including anxiety, depression, headaches, sleep disorders, weight loss or gain, nausea, lowered self-esteem. The effect on the morale of all employees can also be serious. Both men and women in a workplace can find their work disrupted by sexual harassment even if they are not directly involved. Sexual harassment can have a demoralizing effect on everyone within range of it, and it often negatively impacts company productivity on the whole.
Despite the fact that due to great Red tape we are not able a get a right time for having a law for the said issue we still hope and looking forward to an Anti Harassment bill and of course the implementation of the bill, which is the most important part.
Your views will be welcome openly about the issue, do write.....
Saturday, September 8, 2012
Posted by Fahmina Arshad
Who Killed Farida Afridi?
|Farida Afridi, Co- founder of Women's Group in Pakistan
Who Killed Farida Afridi?:(
The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has condemned the killing of Farida Afridi, a social worker.
In a meeting held on Thursday, HRCP said:
"It is a matter of grave concern that the risks facing human rights defenders and those working to ameliorate the lot of marginalised segments remain very high across the country. HRCP is utterly shocked at the targeted killing of Farida Afridi, whose only crime was working for the uplift of women in an area where they need such help the most.
Farida, together with her sister, Noorzia Afridi, co-founded SAWERA. At a young age, the sisters chose to devote their lives to promoting women's empowerment and peace in the tribal regions of Pakistan. Despite this, that we should help them or praise them, our society do no give them the right to stay alive.
Our hearts go out to Noorzia and their parents, family and friends. We hope they get at least some comfort in knowing that Farida has already helped many, in her short life.
This incident once again highlight the level of brutalisation that Pakistani society has reached.
To read more about Afridi Sisters please click here.
Mohammad Ali Jinnah, 1944 - 'Founding Father' of Pakistan said;
No nation can rise to the height of glory unless your women are side by side with you; we are victims of evil customs. It is a crime against humanity that our women are shut up within the four walls of the houses as prisoners. There is no sanction anywhere for the deplorable condition in which our women have to live."
Saturday, July 7, 2012
Posted by Fahmina Arshad
Acid Attacks on women in Pakistan
Acid Attacks on women in Pakistan
The Land of Burnt Faces
Soon Pakistan's name will change into " Ethiopia". Why?
The word " Ethiopia" derived from the Greek word Aethiop and means "The land of burnt faces." in the case of Pakistan the cause is not hardship of life,but the increasing number of women who burnt by throwing ACID on them.
In these days a cheap and easily available, the quickest weapon to destroy a woman's life is ACID in our beloved country Pakistan.
|acid easily available in masses
According to a research, in 20 countries at least 1500 people are attacked in this way every year.
80 % are women and between 40 and 70 % of them are under 18 years of age. In Pakistan, people use acid to attack their victims as a form of revenge for refusal of sexual advances, proposals of marriage and demands for dowry.
According to a Rand Corporation commentary, hundreds of women in Pakistan and Afghanistan have been blinded or maimed when acid was thrown on their unveiled faces by male fanatics who considered them improperly dressed.
Campaigners in Pakistan say cases of acid attacks are increasing in most areas, even though tougher penalties were introduced last year. An Oscar-winning Pakistani documentary has put the crime under the spotlight, but it is estimated that more than 150 women have acid thrown on them every year - usually by husbands or in-laws - and many never get justice. The BBC's Orla Guerin reports.
A lady whose name is "Shama" ( meaning candle) said ; her husband burnt her flesh as if it was a candlewick.
A report tells us that
After acid attacks, women find refuge, independence as beauticians.
People are working for acid survivors like:
Express Tribune has also covered such stories. Click here to read
According to New York Times reporter Nicholas D. Kristof, acid attacks are at an all time high in Pakistan and increasing every year. The Pakistani attacks he describes are typically the work of husbands against their wives who have "dishonored them"
Under the Qisas law of Pakistan, the perpetrator may suffer the same fate as the victim, and may be punished by having drops of acid placed in his/her eyes.
So we have the law..... but as always the biggest problem of our country is " Implementation".
So we have the law..... but as always the biggest problem of our country is " Implementation".
Hope for a better Pakistan, with a literate nation, a better and safer place to live.
Friday, June 22, 2012
Posted by Fahmina Arshad
Think about yourself
No one could help us.....except us. We should start thinking about us if we want to make our life better and make this world a better and a safe place for us.
Friday, June 15, 2012
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On Apr 16, 2004, at 19:11, Bjoern Hoehrmann wrote: > Improving the usability of the W3C MarkUp Validator includes > improvements for the layout; it would thus be great to get some > discussion on this matter and ideally see some proposals on how > it could be improved Agreed, absolutely. I'll note that our change of style for the beta validator announced today is an attempt at making things look better, but that should not preclude anyone to work on and propose something different, even wildly so. > My alternate format differs in the following ways: > * it groups identical error messages, this helps to identify This is a nice addition indeed. "Ideally" we'd find a way to do both, at the user's discretion. > * no right-hand navigation bar, I think it just distracts > and takes space Yes, your demo (earlier today) quite convinced me that (at least now that the most important links are in the horizontal top bar) the righthand navbar could be kept only for the homepage, and real-estate reclaimed on other pages, especially results page. So +1 on that, and I'll work on implementing that on our current layout. > * the address of the validated page is not locked inside > an <input> field but rather an active link to the page Well, the markup validator gives it as a link if valid, in the field to revalidate if not. I suppose consistency wouldn't hurt, though. > * it does not include the overly large and distracting > THIS PAGE IS NOT VALID HTML 4.0 TRANSITIONAL! > banner. I'd say it's not needed I guess something needs to say valid/not. But it does not have to be a big banner, certainly. > * it does not include page source. I am not sure whether > it should. It's sometimes useful, sometimes not. It's > not what I intended to demonstrate... Fair enough. Your demo shows that you can show the problem in the source by putting it next to the error message. I still think that at least an option should make it possible to see the whole source, as it gives context, but that's just MHO. > * it does not include the navigation elements on the top, > it certainly should, but again, that's been out of scope yes. > * it does not include all this legal stuff in the footer, > whether it must I do not know; I would not put it there That's been imposed, for good reasons I reckon. I am not the expert, and I am happy with their inclusion in a way that is not too showy, e.g as Terje did it. > * it looks much much better, IMHO, and the styles are cross- > browser, the validator beta has issues with IE/Windows. Quite frankly, though I don't pretend to be a style-sheet expert, I would say that IE/Win has issues with the validator. Nuance... > How would you re-design the Validator? > Feel free to take my XSLT and modify it or just download validator > output, change what you like and get back to us! Everyone, yes, please do. This is a big chance to show that validation does not have to rhyme with ugly, so thanks a lot to Bjoern for showing this can be done, and I'm looking forward to seeing what others do from here / with the same idea. Thank you. -- olivierReceived on Friday, 16 April 2004 08:50:27 UTC
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BtoB recently interviewed key bloggers and social media experts at these companies to take the pulse of corporate blogging. The conversations reveal the following trends: the emergence of chief blogger as a corporate job title; the globalization and segmentation of corporate blogs; the emergence of accepted metrics for measuring the success of blogging efforts (see sidebar, page 48); and mixed feelings about CEO blogs.
I found this article interesting - and I carefully considered the points in the above-quoted paragraph:
CHIEF BLOGGER: I am the original blogger at Indium, and still the "chief blogger". That said, there are a few very savvy people on our blogging team that are really doing a great job. It may be time to share this title.
GLOBALIZATION: One of Indium's original goals was (and is) to blog on electronics assembly in Chinese. We have been doing that for months now. Some issues are: our CHIEF BLOGGER doesn't speak/write Chinese, so comprehension, support, guidance, review are not possible, and we want to blog in other languages and are still developing this program.
SEGMENTATION: Indium is blogging to market segments including: Pb-free, halogen-free, semiconductor, printed circuit board assembly, solar photovoltaic, thermal interface materials, and more. This ties into another topic discussed in the article: EVANGELIST BLOGGERS. Indium enjoys a handful of technology evangelists who are helping to lead the industries' conversations in these areas. Evangelist bloggers really enable segmentation blogging. I am thrilled to have such evangelists on my team.
METRICS: our goal is to drive visits to our site and to establish ourselves as strong, contributing participants in each marketplace. So, we measure visits to our blogs - and not much else. We'd love to learn of a more meaningful and effective metric.
CEO BLOG: we really don't see a strong need for or benefit of a "CEO BLOG". We will continue monitoring the concept.
The article's final paragraph reads as follows:
All of our bloggers have day jobs as engineers or executives, and that imposes limits to how much time they can devote to blogging,Ó" Rodkins said. Fortunately we are starting to see a gradual shift in the organization whereby blogging and other conversational marketing activities are called out as part of an employee's job description, and participation in these activities is recognized as a contribution in the employee's performance evaluation. The importance of this step cannot be underestimated if an organization is truly committed to blogging.Ó""Rodkins" is Annie Rodkins, Intel's program manager for Web marketing. Her comment is spot on. I would like to develop this statement one step further and include the underlying goal. Indium (and, I am sure Intel) are not blogging for blogging's sake. We are blogging(ultimately) to enhanceour revenue, profit, and/or brand.
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Following the bumbling antics of a female cartoonist who becomes embroiled in a tale of espionage and international intrigue, My Lucky Star, the first Chinese film to be directed by an American woman, essentially functions as China's answer to Johnny English, yet another limp spy spoof that fails to make any interesting critiques about the genre, let alone construct a humorous gag. The film opens with Sofie (Zhang Ziyi) being held hostage within a nondescript industrial complex. Just as she's about to be interrogated, she's simultaneously rescued and swept off her feet by super spy David (Leehom Wang). But this sequence is quickly revealed to be just another one of Sofie's daydreams. In order to escape the crushing banality of her life, she often lets her imagination run wild throughout various, hyper-stylized fantasies, such as beating her boss with oversized boxing gloves, and wherein her various cartoon drawings spring to life. Fantasy quickly bleeds into reality, though, after Sofie stumbles into the actual flesh-and-blood David, causing herself to become entangled in his mission to acquire the Lucky Star diamond.
David and Sofie are less characters than props, and the film is perfectly content to treat them as such, swiftly moving them from location to location, allowing Sofie to get into danger and have David subsequently swoop in to save her, all while engaging in dull, monotonous gags that Austin Powers beat to death long ago. Director Dennie Gordon desperately attempts to enhance the rote proceedings by having the stylization of Sofie's dreams bleed into the films very form: Action sequences often fracture into various different split screens, and the transition between locations is achieved through comic-book-esque animations. Unfortunately, most of the animations look like they were crafted using Microsoft Paint, contributing to the film's already cheap production values.
More troubling than the film's formal and narrative ineptitude is how it regards Sofie as a character. From the outset, all she desires is a man to take care of her, casting herself as the damsel in distress even in fantasy, the place where a person is most able to exert mastery over their various fears and desires. And as the narrative progresses, Sofie never evolves, remaining clumsily in need of David's rescue from escalating dangers. Risibly, the only instances when Sofie is of use to their mission are when her body is involved, as in an extended sequence set inside a nightclub where she dances provocatively onstage in a skimpy nurse costume as an all-male audience leers from the shadows. Laura Mulvey's worst nightmare. My Lucky Star isn't a film, but a test of how many sexist and unfunny scenarios one can endure.


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About One Planet
One Planet is a company founded on passion. We're passionate about our products, our people and our planet.
In our Melbourne factory, we produce world-class gear, specialising in rucksacks, sleeping bags and tents for the travel and outdoor adventure markets. Our philosophy is simple: make it good, make it work, make it last. We have been manufacturing outdoor gear for more than 30 years, during which time both products and company have continually evolved.
Whilst celebrating our 30th birthday was a milestone, it's no excuse to rest on our laurels. We continue to craft high quality gear for adventures in Australia, New Zealand and beyond. We know what works, and the simplicity of our products belies the complex design principles underpinning them. Our products are built to last: our philosophy of over-engineering is matched by the durability of our materials and construction methods.
One Planet products are designed and developed locally, which allows us to make small changes and continually improve our products. We do not subscribe to the 'close enough is good enough' philosophy: we're passionate about getting it right.
Comfort is our highest priority when designing products, so you can concentrate on enjoying your adventures.
In an industry where local manufacturing is almost extinct and importing from Asia is the norm, One Planet still proudly manufactures the majority of its products in Australia. Products that we cannot economically produce in Melbourne are developed and tested locally, then produced in China or Vietnam in close association with our partner factories.
One Planet as it is today is the culmination of mergers between Aiking Equipment, Adventure Designs and One Planet, and owned by Managing Director Andrew King. (He's got a bit of experience in the industry: he first began making rucksacks in 1988!)
One Planet is a small company, employing around 30 people. It is very much a hands-on operation, with everything from design to production to sales done from the Melbourne factory and office, allowing real control over quality, the company's direction, customer satisfaction, and just about everything else.
At One Planet, we go to great lengths to minimise our environmental impact. We make gear that lasts, reducing the waste of both materials and money. We also service our gear and are very happy to provide spare parts: we don't want your pack to be binned because a rat ate the hipbelt… Most of our products are made in our Melbourne factory, which has been carbon neutral since 2005: emissions are reduced as much as possible, with the remainder offset through our partner Green Fleet. And there's much more…
CO² neutral factory
To minimise our environmental impact, we follow a very stringent daily operating routine in our Melbourne factory.
- Staff travel to and from work, on flights and public transport, is calculated and offset through Green Fleet. Flights are also carbon offset.
- All paper is reused, then recycled.
- All paper, cardboard, soft and hard plastics, steel and aluminium from the factory and office are recycled.
- All electricity is 'GreenPower' accredited renewable energy.
- Food is prepared on site and provided in our canteen: this means less travel, cheaper food and healthier options.
Ethically sourced down
Our down is ethically sourced, harvested and cleaned before purchase, with both the down and our supplier passing independent International Down and Feather Laboratory (IDFL) audits relating to ethical traceability. This means that the white down and feathers we purchase are from animals that haven't been live plucked or force-fed at any point during the supply chain.
The IDFL has been around almost 40 years and has a solid base in China, from where around 75% of the global supply of down is sourced. There are more details on the IDFL here: www.idfl.com/whytest
One Planet acknowledges the Kulin nation of peoples as the traditional custodians of the factory's land. One Planet pays respect to the elders of the Kulin nation, both past and present, and extends that respect to other Aboriginal people.


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With an ongoing credit crunch, and Christmas approaching, many of us are looking at ways to economise. It may just be that you need to stretch your income further, due to the increased prices in the shops, or sadly that you have become unemployed this year. Whatever the reason there are many ways to economise and plenty of them have the knock on effect of helping the environment.
A good place to start is assessing your energy needs, by which I mean your gas and electric, and the like. In the long run it may be worth investing in Solar power or new double glazed windows but for now it will be worth assessing your current use of these expensive resources. Begin by taking a stroll through your home, no matter how large or small it may be and having a proper look at what you use, how and why.
Things You Will Need
A sensible approach.
The means to research.
An honest assessment of your situation.
Step 1
Thermostats, such as those with your central heating can usually be turned down a notch or two. Do not forget to make sure that your refrigerator's thermostat is not set higher than is necessary.
Step 2
Light bulbs can be replaced with the energy efficient kind, which also last longer. These are much less expensive than they used to be and will last much longer than conventional bulbs.
Step 3When you need to replace any of your white goods aim to buy the most energy efficient item that you can afford. In the long run these modern appliances will pay for themselves by using less energy. White goods are energy efficiency rated in the UK with AAA being the most efficient and G the least.
Step 4Never leave lights and appliances on in empty rooms. We are all guilty of this at times but with a little thought we can save lots of vital energy.
Step 5Avoid using the Stand-By modes on televisions, computers and the like. It is better to switch the appliance of at the socket. Consider your home microwave. Often the only benefit to leaving this item on all the time is the clock. We all have so many clocks, around our homes these days, is this really necessary.
Step 6Invest in a new condensing boiler for optimum use. In the UK you may be able to receive a government grant toward the cost of such a boiler. Even if you cannot, these boilers save so much energy that, they will almost pay for thmselves in a couple of years.
Step 7Ensure that you prevent draughts especially for the winter period. Basic draught excluders and insulating tape are cheap to buy but will keep you cosier at home without the need for hefty fuel bills. Make some old fashioned snake, draught excluders for the bottom of your doors. These are cheap to make as you can utilise old rags.
Step 8Check out whether or not you could save money by swapping your energy provider. There are many websites that will help you compare prices and change your provider. Remember though that some sites have a vested interest in encouraging you to swap to certain providers. Make sure that you consult a wide section before you make your final choice.
Step 9Shower instead of bathing. It is a well known fact that, you use less water taking a shower than having a bath. This means that a shower not only saves energy but saves water also.
Step 10If you have any dripping taps get them fixed. A leaking tap is leaking money down the drain. Again this has a double benefit of saving precious water.
Step 11Never overfill kettles. Make sure that they are only filled with the amount of water which you require.
Step 12Make sure that you use the most energy efficient wash cycles on your washing machine and dish-washer. Most of us always use the same programmes but could really use different ones. Some of the programmes wash at lower temperatures and the like. Remember to try and not use these machines for small amounts. It would be far better to simply wash those couple of cups or pairs of socks by hand.
There are so many ways to economise. Cutting back on the energy you use will help the environment and save you far more money than you may imagine.
Once you have assessed your own home's energy you may find other ways that you can use to economise. Remember to close the drapes, as soon as it is dark in the evening, and, if you are feeling cool, initially consider putting on a sweater or a cardigan, rather than turning up the heating.
Tips & Warnings
Do not sacrifice quality for the sake of economy.
Ensure there is enough light around your home for health and safety.
Do not block your home from draughts, so much so, that it is airtight. This could be dangerous


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"Back to the Future Part III" is the third and last payment of the Back to the Future phase. Like the some other two films, it stars Michael J. Fox and Christopher Lloyd. This motion picture as well stars Mary Steenburgen as Clara Clayton, the Doc's warmth interests whom he meets in 1885.
"Back to the Future Part III" is sort of a sci-fi occidental picture show. It picks up where sector 2 left off, after Marty gets a missive from the Doc from 1885. The younger Doc in 1955 teams up beside Marty to acquire the DeLorean from underground, where on earth the old Doc had lower-level it. Doc must fix the substandard example electrical circuit beside 1955 practical application. He's past all set to let Marty voyage subsidise to 1985, but a great deal to his horror, Marty sees the Doc's memorial from 1885 in the graveyard. They thieve pictures of the headstone and sprint to the library and stumble on that the elderly Doc had been shot by Buford (Mad Dog) Tannen, Biff's remarkable grandfather, completed a substance of 80 dollars. Marty decides to go final to 1885 to recover him.
When Marty goes back, the prime entity he encounters is a people of Indians on horses, charging at him beside bows and arrows, followed by the Cavalry charging after them. Marty card game the DeLorean and hides in a cave, singular to brainstorm it populous by a bear. Marty then discovers that the oil armored vehicle has been busted by an mark. Marty wanders into town on foot, encountering his large grandparents along the way, who let him human activity at their sheep farm.Post ads:
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Marty encounters Buford and his association of outlaws at the local saloon, who harrass him. He runs distant from them and they well-nigh hang him at the new courthouse, but the Doc finds him and saves him. Marty later tells the Doc of his fate, screening him the photograph of the monument. The Doc tells Marty that the DeLorean can't run in need gasoline, which has all leaked out. The two do all you can to find a way to get the DeLorean up to 88 miles per 60 minutes. Eventually they know that they can fasten it to the educate and have it hard-pressed up to that vigour.
The Doc meets Clara Clayton, a early schoolteacher, and becomes quickly enamored beside her. He saves her from toppling into the vale after a snake spooks her equine.
On Saturday night, Marty and the Doc be a provincial hop festival. There they encounter Buford once again. Buford insists that the Doc owes him $80, but the Doc refuses to pay. This results in a brawl, next which Marty challenges Buford to a dual on Monday.Post ads:
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Marty thinks he's redeemed the Doc from self chatoyant but in a moment realizes that he's expected to be the one to get killed, particularly when he sees the cross on the see of the headstone changing. The Doc starts to alteration his psyche active active support with Marty since he's in worship near Clara and doesn't deprivation to hand down her behind, but Marty convinces him to go hindmost near him. The Doc tells Clara that he's from the future, but she doesn't feel him and feels awfully heartbroken, as does the Doc, who spends all dark in the bar.
The subsequent morning, the duple is to be fought at 8AM. Marty manages to save the Doc from fugacious out on a chalice of spirits. He tries to support out of the dual, but Buford insists on shooting him nonetheless. Luckily, Marty has fortified himself by tiring a bullet-proof vest ready-made from the stove door.
Now Marty and the Doc are prompt to come flooding back surroundings. They highjack a tank engine and pain one exceptional oil to get it up to 88 miles per 60 minutes. Clara learns of the truth, finds the Doc, and goes after him. She manages to rise on committee the train. Once the Doc sees her, he requirements to withdraw the train, but they've merely passed the spike of no return, so they must dart on. Luckily, the Doc has kept the hoverboard from 2015, which he uses to recovery her from the public transport. They fly off both just as the railroad train reaches 88 miles per hour, by which circumstance Marty has managed to get into the DeLorean and be transported into the prospective as the instruct plummets into the canyon.
Marty arrives soundly in 1985 on a railway system skywalk which has been improved since the hardship. Marty narrowly manages to soar out of the car as an oncoming train strikes and demolishes it, destroying the clip contrivance.
Marty meets up next to his woman Jenny, who tells him of a graphic wool-gathering she'd had in which she'd heavily traveled to the future, seen her projected home, and Marty had gotten unemployed. Soon she worries it was a dream, however, particularly after Marty's classmate Needles challenges him to a race in his new lorry. Luckily, Marty backs out of the competition at the ultimate diminutive and next realizes that if he'd raced Needles, he would've hit a Rolls Royce and his prospective would've upset out much worsened. Jenny looks at a fax from the prospective she'd kept which says "YOU'RE FIRED!" and sees the text fade away. Marty later tells her the proof about the Doc and his occurrence piece of equipment and takes her to the particle on the line where on earth it had been finished. Then, noticeably to some of their surprises, the railroad gates move thrown with no instruct in peek. Next they see a outsize hovering educate motor with agency materializing in the air and future to part on the tracks. The Doc and Clara recognise Marty and Jenny, on beside their two new sons, Jules and Verne. The Doc likewise presents Marty with the gift of a picture of both of them in frontmost of the courthouse clock, interpreted in 1885.


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Hormone Timeline
In this article I am going to go over what I think is going on inside me with regards to hormones and how they interact with one another to be as anabolic and 'muscle preservingly' catabolic as possible. I'll start by firstly disclosing that this may all be wrong, however it does kinda fit with my experience and results.
Iv gone from 102.4kg Obese 28%body fat, to 81kg 14.5%BF and yet I am still eating shitloads
BMR/RMR = Basil metabolic rate, Resting Metabolic rate = the number of calories you burn just being alive each day,
So lets start off with the hormone that everyone enjoys talking about so much
Insulin is an anabolic Hormone, Its purpose is to grab a hold of sugary glucose and other cool shit in your blood stream and shove it into your bodies cells such as your muscle and fat cells and importantly, the Liver
Now it is not just a case of dragging the sugar (glucose) to all your cells in your body. It is more a case of dragging the glucose to the cells that are crying out for it. This is where the idea of being Insulin sensitive comes into play, You can have a shit load of insulin pumping out of your pancrease in response to a shit load of food but if you are INSULIN resistant, it is not, only, that you are making loads, but also that you are just not having the insulin work very well. It is not finding the cells to dump the sugar and it is staying elevated for a long period of time which means you have a longer time of elevated blood sugar which is not too good.
It also shoves in a lot of amino acids to help rebuild any broken cells.
Insulin thus raises as you eat, in fact it spikes just after you have eaten, then it falls and keeps falling until you eat again.
Insulin sensitivity on the other hand raises the longer you go without food (up to a point).
What you want is for your insulin profile to be as effective as possible, not as big or as long as possible. (ie having a massive or long dick is no use if you can't get it up and pump till the cows come home additionally it can be a little dangerous just swinging around knocking things over, giving you a sore back etc)
Insulin is from a part of your pancreas which is a ugly looking thing inside you just after your stomach and pumps its stuff into you very close to the start of your intestine
INSULIN and CORTISOL
These guys dont like each other, and Cortisol blunts the effect of insulin thus meaning that you have to pump out a lot more than normal if you have an intake of food while you have high cortisol.
INSULIN and GROWTH HORMONE
these guys are like armies facing different directions. Insulin response to food and GH response to a bunch of other things, when insulin is pumped out Growth hormone tends to drop. In terms of fasting then GH and Insulin are two sides of a coin. In terms of weight training, they can be brought together(more on that later).
INSULIN and FAT
Insulin first pushes aminos and carbs (sugars) into your muscles and it leaves fatty acids in your blood, they then circulate and can be deposited after the carbs and protein in either your muscles or maybe even in your fat cells, yes your fat cells may get a little bigger from eating! However it also goes that the fatter you are the more insulin resistant you may be, weight loss and exercise is the key to heightening your insulin sensitivity again.
INSULIN and Glucagon
yep, they done like each other, Glucagon wants to convert stored sugar into active sugar in the blood. when insulin is high (from eating) glucagon shuts down for a while
INSULIN and Stress (Psychological)
Not really any affect, insulin is really a digestion hormone and psychological stress will have little effect on its output, however constant psychological stress can increase base levels of Cortisol which in effect may make you a little Less insulin sensitive, meaning you may have to pump out more.
INSULIN and Stress (Physiological)
By doing bad ass exercise you are depleting your glycogen stores, you are making your body crave the sugar to go back into its cells. You are making your cells more insulin sensitive. Bingo, Exercise increases Insulin sensitivity and thus potentially decreases insulin production.
INSULIN and Fasting
Same as above, by fasting you are not letting your body constantly have a supply of sugar and amino so the longer you fast the more sensitive your body is to insulin.
Fasting will cause your parasympathetic nervous system (PNS) to chill out for a while as you are not digesting or pooing and thus your SNS gets a little bit of a boost while you are in an unfed state thus indicating an increase in your resting metabolism

INSULIN and Immune system
Not really related, but people who are type 2 diabetic, insulin resistant are at greater risk to their health. again the question is is it that lots of insulin is the danger factor, or is it the resistance to it? Maybe if your cells are resistant to insulin then it cant shuttle neutrients and antigens to the cells, thus leading to potential illness.
INSULIN and Food (Carbohydrate and Protein and Fat)
There is an insulin response to Carbohydrates (that get broken down to sugars) and to Protein (that gets broken down to aminos) However however the change in blood sugar is much more with carbohydrate rich meals, potentially it is that the hormone response is nearly the same however the heightening of the hormone sensitivity may be more with protein than with carbs. (need to research this more). However i suspect that whether carbs or protein, you will still have the same insulin response but protein has a greater effect on reducing appatite compared to carbs and is usually less energy dense ie fills you up more with less calories. (quote, However, fat will also suppress HSL even when insulin levels are low. This means you will be unable to lose fat even when carbohydrate intake is low, if you are overeating on calories. If you ate no carbohydrate but 5,000 calories of fat, you would still be unable to lose fat even though insulin would not be elevated.)
Thus, just suppressing insulin aint going to get you ripped you can still be a fatty if you still eat over your recommended BMR of calories
Next biggie that everyone loves
GROWTH HORMONE (GH or HGH)
This is the stuff that we are all trying to produce more of nowadays. Its purpose is to protect muscle and break down fat to provide fuel. It shuts down the uptake of glucose into muscle tissue but also stops the conversion of amino acids into glucose. So kinda stopping you dragging sugar out of your blood but not letting you get fuel from your muscle cells!
You pump out tones of this stuff during sleep, more if you go for a full 8 hours and even more if you go to bed at 10 compared to going to bed just 2 hours later at 12. The more you dream the more REM you have and the more GH output you have.
During your sleep you are burning fat like nobodies business. Your body is repairing itself during your sleep, the growth hormone is stimulating repair and put poshly Protein synthasis
It also stimulates the immune system. so maybe there is good advice in the old saying, "starve a cold" The feed a feaver part is cos a feaver is a bit more badass and you want some food in you to survive)
So growth hormone is elevated by
1)deep sleep
2)HIT exercise
4) Sauna
5) Pain
GROWTH HORMONE and Sleep
So to rock that hormone profile, Get to bed at 9.30 sleep from 10 deeply, wake up dont eat, and beast it in the gym, have a sauna then stub your toe on the way out and keep on not eating as your GH will just keep on rising as your blood sugar levels will be wanting to fall.
GROWTH HORMONE and EXERCISE
Loves it if it is hard core, high intensity, and short in duration. The hard core bit means using lots of muscles. Seemingly it is more stimulated by lactic acid build up in large muscle groups, not just bicep curls but hill sprints, or rowing sprints. The term used these days is your Lactate Threshold, and you have to destroy it as fast as possible, ie do an exercise which makes you produce more lactic acid than you can handle… guess that is also part of the pain factor in the list above.
PAIN IS GOOD FOR YOU. For the guys who do the olympic 400m they are trying to get their all out threshold to last for the 40s of running. for the rest of us it is probibly more around the 20-30s of balls to the wall sprinting or rowing.
GROWTH HORMONE and FASTING
The longer you fast the more your hormone goes up, usually kicks in at around the 8-12hours and has increasing effect from the 12-24hours then still raised but not continuously increasing after 24hours., you still get your peaks of GH during sleep and after intense exercise and the rest of the increase in GH is more due to glycogen depletion raising your base level of GH. Over a 4 day fast each day total GH will increase but if you have a poor nights sleep… you will probably have lost all the benefits.
The other thing is that over eating massively kills GH output!!!
The picture above shows HG response is normal on the first day of over eating, no bad thing (ie it is ok to over eat for a day) but by day 3 of over eating by 75%over BMR you have a totally flat GH response! So a 3 day food binge=bad (no shit!)
Ok so your thinking, simple, Insulin good, growth hormone good, try and get equal amounts of both. and that would be a very good move. So my advice here is, eat in a short time period, say between 3-8, then you have 2hours till sleep time, when you get lots of growth hormone, then when you wake up and if you dont eat and go to the gym you get a double dose of GH because you are doing HIT training and being fasted. BINGO! And when you do eat your cells in your body are primed to accept the sugar in your blood so that your insulin can drop quickly after eating so that you can get busy burning off your fat stores and preserving your glycogen stores.
GH and Insulin
They are not actually mutually exclusive, yes GH likes to come out of its fasting hole when your asleep and when you are low in glycogen and thus insulin but your body can still pump out GH and insulin together. This makes for a very anabolic situation and is found when you eat right after a workout. GH response to HIT training and infact so does Testosterone so combining GH, Insulin and Testosterone and you are onto a real winner!
My tip would be that if you are doing a double workout day, make the morning session cardio based and the evening session much more weight bearing, have your lunch(break fast) before the gym, about 3 hours or so and then eat after the gym and bingo, all kinds of gains!
GH and Cortisol
GH is anabolic, we know that, and Cortisol is Catabolic (more on that below) However these guys could work together in a very positive, fat burning way, Cortisol breaks down cells, and GH protects muscle cells, so thus leading the Cortisol to only be able to break down the Fat cells for energy! Bingo mixing GH and Cortisol = fat burning
Both Cortisol and GH are increased with exercise, be it HIT or Heavy weights. In the morning you have a lot of cortisol so quickly combine some exercise so that it doesnt have time to start breaking down your muscle cells!
GH and Glucagon
Kinda buddies, If you inject a kid with Glucagon, soon after there is an increase in GH. Glucagon breaks down stored glycogen and puts it back into the blood, in doing so triggers GH to be secreted to protect the muscles
GH and the Immune System
awesome! stimulates it like a motherfuther! Think about it. Your a cave man running around trying to find some food, you run and catch something but it gets away from you, you need your muscles and health so you can pick yourself back up and go chase it down again. no food in you means your body is not fighting all the bacteria in your stomach from the food and is insted just flopping around killing off annoying cells all over your body.
Same goes for your bones, GH makes you retain more calcium and makes your bones stronger.
Anything else to think about?
What about being CATABOLIC!
To understand this you need to think of your body, not as a car (ie fuel in, performance out) but as a constantly changing CITY. Over time roads get pot holed, buildings crack, windows get broken, parks need up keeping people need moving and so on its the same with your body nothing stays the same. there is something around 70 Trillion cells in a human and almost all of them get destroyed and replaced repeatedly over a life time (apart from brain cells) There is a theory that every cell in your body in 7 years time will be different ones to the ones you have today. So just imagine that as a city every building and road will be updated torn down, built back up, repainted retarmacked and so on and so forth. Being catabolic for a while is needed to get rid of the dieing/ degrading cells to help replace them and also to create the energy to help rebuild the new cells.
The term use it or lose it springs to mind with these catabolic hormones, if it is something you are not using then they will just come and rip it away from you. If you are not using your muscles..... ie sitting at a desk all day being stressed, then it will sure as hell target them as they are easier to breakdown than fat cells.
The bummer is that these hormones are produced not just when we are exercising but when we are stressed psychologically. Tough job, bitchy mother in law, parking wardens etc induces stress which gets the body pumping out these hormones which go on the attack and just strip any cell they come across (like a riot in the city tearing down shops) This can most definitely lead to muscle wasting and fat storage because your muscles have an easier supply of aminos and when they get ripped apart the aminos float in the blood stream and then as there is no insulin floating around they get board and drop off in the nearest fat cell. (imagine the riot tearing up shops and the staff in the shops leaving then heading to the pub to sit around until the shops are fixed)
But what if we could get the Riot group to specifically target all the bakers and pie shops? We, the city would still be catabolic as it would be ripping them apart but it would be ripping apart what we want to get rid of, FAT
What we need to do is put down the metal shutters on the good shops leave the doors unlocked on the fat shops.
This is where the interplay of GROWTH Hormone becomes very important, and if we give the message right, we can lead the riot squad right to the doors of fat.
This is something that is regularly touted as something to be avoided, and that is true, if you are a sedentary lazy thumb sucking life fearing turd. Sitting on your ass all day being worried about everything will motivate your fear response, pump out cortisol and it will go out on the rampage ripping up muscle cells and getting bored with the extra energy in the blood stream and then dump the stuff in fatcells. NOT GOOD! leading to muscle wasting and fat gaining. DOUBLE BUMMER!
Cortisol runs on a diurnal cycle, ie it goes up first thing in the morning as you wake up and is near flat at around 3am at night when your in dream land.
It is ravishing your body at around 8am!? WHY? what is the bonus of that? Well, you have been asleep for 8 or so hours, and you have gone from a physical state of sleep to awake which in itself is akin to the difference between sitting at your desk awake and blasting out a balls to the wall 10 mile hill sprint!, Its a big change in your bodies homeostasis, which your body wants to keep roughly the same all the time. You have also not eaten for around 10 hours and suddenly you need all that stored up glucose and aminos that you have stored in your muscles and fat and liver back in your blood streem so that you can get going. Caffeine as well as being a neural stimulate also increases your cortisol, which is why people love a coffee in the morning!
So it sucks, first thing in the morning you will be breaking down muscle and fat cells for energy. So how do you quickly change that to it just breaking down fat cells?
You need something to either preserve muscle or to cut down the cortisol.
1) First option is to eat breakfast, Doing so you will have a spike in insulin which will send back all the glucose in the blood back to the cells and also on the way put in some more of the glucose from the food you have just consumed. This may also put some more back into the fat cells.
That is the easy option but not the best option. Annoyingly cortisol kinda counteracts the effects of Insulin so your body has to pump out more insulin for the same effect. which is not so good as stated above.
2) Option 2 which is what i have been doing is to go to the gym at 7am, a light warm up and then a couple….3-5 sets of balls to the wall rowing or skipping or something. Yes this will further increase cortisol and possibly even get me producing adrenaline. My blood sugar levels may try and drop further, and if i dont eat my body will have to respond with a blast of GROWTH HORMONE, which sends out the signal to preserve the muscle and motivates the fat cells to get used instead. Leptin is also produced or, potentially more accurately your brain becomes more senstive to leptin and further rallies the catabolic hormones to the fat cells!
YEEHA! Burn fat BURNNNNN!
Cortisol also has some extra added benefits!
It is an anti inflamitory, ie it is your bodies natural Hydrocotisone (ie stops itching from midge bites) and also swelling from muscle tears.
It raises blood pressure, good for getting warmed up for a workout quickly
and stimulates hepatic detoxification (ie reduces heavy metals from the body)
It increases your pain tolerance, deminishes fatigue and strenghtens motivation
This may explain how on my 40hour fast where I did 3 gym sessions 1@12hours, 2@20hours and 3@32hours, where I did my 10 Ton Challenge at each time (1 set per exercise as many reps as possible, what ever weight, adding up all the reps and weight to reach 10,000kg moved)
I managed to do my 10 ton challenge fastest and easiest on the 3rd go while massively depleted in glycogen and possibly massively pumping out Cortisol and Growth Hormone

But weakens the immune system, stops calcium being transported to the bones, works with adrenaline to create flashbacks (PTSD), and is a diuretic (makes you piss lots).
So it is a real give and take hormone that is best tempered with a nice dose of imune system boosting GH and fasting.
Interesting hormone here. It is actually produced in fat cells!, the amount of circulating Leptin is directly proportional to the amount of Fat you have. Fat people have a lot of leptin.
Strangely, Leptin is a hormone that goes from fat to the brain to tell you to stop being hungry!
Fat people should not be hungry!
Well kind of, Firstly Leptin is considered a Long term hormone, it tells you how hungry you should be in a general scale, not like an instant appatite hormone such as Cholecystokinin.
So the leaner you are the harder it is to produce more leptin however just like insulin the trick here is not to produce more but to more senstive the the amount that is produced. Getting it working harder father than being bigger or more.
So how does fit man increase leptin sensitivity?
Recent research says 1 bout of all out 30s cycling sprints does the trick. They didnt test more but i suspect that more would have an even greater effect, so again this supports the idea of doing some High intensity balls to the wall 20-30second all body, or main big muscle group exercises, ie hill sprints, rowing sprints, but not bicep curls!
This is a little bitch of a hormone, It is secreted from your stomach lining and triggers hunger! It usually pops up at around 5-6hours after your last meal. It is advised that you try and be asleep at this point. It is a hormone that goes to your brain and has no actual purpose apart from to promote you to eat. In the past it had a purpose as it promoted you to get off your fat ass and go hunting for some food but with todays unlimited access to food, it just makes you waddle to the fridge and eat a pie!
Good thing though is that when this guy pops up, and no food is consumed guess what happens!
Signals go to the brain and say OI we just asked for food and we aint getting any! Lets rev this machine up and get going beeach, Brain responses and goes, ok hers some GH and some catecholomines! lets go!
So Ghrelin and no food = GH increase, good ho!
Ok so lets put this all together now, what should the most effective, fat burning, muscle preserving, immune boosting, metabolism rising, day look like?
(Suppliment) Coffee
Wake up after an 8 hour sleep, if you went to bed at 10, then you can get up at 6am! If you feel tired when you wake up which you will, cos you have just woken up, go grab yourself a coffee.
This time of day your cortisol will be rising, not good as it will be ravishing your muscles as well as your fat cells.
(Suppliment) Aminos (table spoons worth)
So time to get some good anabolic hormones into you to stop the negative effects and get you burning fat instead.
This is where morning High Intensity Training will help, Go to the gym before work, destroy it on the rowing machine (3-5 sets of 30s balls to the wall rows, with a good 2-4minutes rest between). This promotes GH and also if you pulled hard enough it will also raise your Testosterone. As well as even more Cortisol.
If your lucky enough then go and get yourself a sauna afterwards, The heat further promotes GH and instigates an artificial fever which further boosts white blood cell count and thus immune system!
Take a couple of aminos or a small amount of protein so that you at least have some good stuff floating around inside (no more than 10g, large table spoon)
(Suppliment) Coffee, green tea, diet cola.
Time to go to work,
Dont eat!
If tired have a diet coke, or a coffee (very little milk or sugar) or if your tummy can handle it, green tea or if your a pussy like me and love your sweet tooth get a diet coke in you to keep you satisfied.
If you have a job. Or do your normal days stuff. dont just sit and watch cookery programmes!
These 6 hours your body will be ravishing your fat cells for energy the longer you wait the more your fat cells will be used. I suspect the time between 1-3 is the most badass inside your body.
(Suppliment) Protein shake, chia seeds, Creatine
eat! eat like your starving! You will deffo be hungry by now Ghrelin will have been high and insulin low, your cells will be craving sugar and be super insulin sensitive. Try and make it healthy. I suspect you could eat what ever the hell you want to eat at this time but as a double benefit supply your cells with quality stuffs and also Nutrient dense but calorie low food stuffs, fruit, bananas, veg, and protein are very important at this time. this is the time your body is storing all that goodness in your cells.
(Suppliment) Pre-workout stimulants, aminos, coffee.
Heavy weights, raise your testosterone and GH levels, Squats, deadlifts, pull ups, bench press, shoulder presses, leg presses etc This is not about high intensity just about OVERLOAD with weight.
Suppliments (Protein shake, chia seeds)
Get home, shower or sauna, and have a more protein rich dinner. Try and avoid sugars and also caffeine, you want your body to start chilling out, so eat slowly but eat as much as you need.
My advice would be whole eggs at this time. 4-7 eggs will give you the protein and also the fats to help build your muscles, promote testosterone and the B vitamines to help you break down the broken cells during night.
(Suppliment) Herbal tea, Chamomile or honey and mint. (not ginger) (pint of water beside bed)
Go to bed, you should be tired and satisfied. close all curtains so that the room is dark and better yet, put your phone on charge in a different room, so that if someone does text you it dosnt wake you up but when the alarm goes off in the morning, you have to drag your sorry ass out of bed quickly to turn it off.
The pint of water is so that when you wake up, you down all that water, and that means you really give a nudge to your innards to push out any built up turd and also it gets you rehydrated quickly.
However that is just what i have been doing. and it is what i am seeing fantastic results on.
This isnt easy. Your body wants you to just eat when you can which unfortunatly is all the time nowadays. You will have to, at some points, be hungry, you will also have to exercise, you will also have sore muscles, you will also sweat!
But in the end you will also be ripped and have an awesome immune system!
If it was easy everyone would do it. But it takes a bit of discipline.... thats why so many people are fat.


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Effect of Supplementary Vitamins on Oxidant Gene Expression in the Lungs of Healthy Smokers
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|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00565214
Recruitment Status : Completed
First Posted : November 29, 2007
Last Update Posted : May 25, 2017
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Smoking damages the airway epithelium. The major mechanism by which this is done is by molecules called free radicals. Our body attempts to deal with these damaging molecules in two ways. One mechanism is via the presence of protective anti-oxidant vitamins and the other is via proteins that are produced by the body to convert free radicals to safer, less reactive molecules. Vitamins in our diet play a significant role in antioxidant defenses by directly neutralizing the damaging free-radicals and by providing co-factors to cellular proteins that neutralize the free radicals. This project is designed to look at the effects of giving individuals supplemental vitamins to see if it improves their defenses against oxidant insults. The investigators plan to look at the effects of these supplements over a 30 day period and monitor the effects by measuring vitamin levels in the blood and in the lung, and by measuring the response of cells in the lung through the increase or decrease in expression of genes responsive to oxidants.
To participate in this protocol, the research subject should first be enrolled in Weill-IRB protocol #0005004439 entitled "Evaluation of the Lungs of Normal (Smokers, Ex-smokers, Non-Smokers) Individuals with Segmental Bronchopulmonary Lung Lavage, Bronchial Brushing, and Bronchial Wall Biopsy", fulfilling the inclusion/exclusion criteria of that protocol. They will be invited to participate in this Vitamin protocol only if they meet the additional inclusion/exclusion criteria of this protocol.
|Condition or disease
|Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)
|Dietary Supplement: Group 1 Dietary Supplement: Group 2
|Not Applicable
|Study Type :
|Interventional (Clinical Trial)
|Actual Enrollment :
|46 participants
|Intervention Model:
|Parallel Assignment
|Double (Participant, Investigator)
|Primary Purpose:
|Health Services Research
|Official Title:
|Effect of Supplementary Vitamins on Oxidant Gene Expression in the Lungs of Healthy Smokers
|Study Start Date :
|September 2007
|Actual Primary Completion Date :
|December 2009
|Actual Study Completion Date :
|October 2010
Active Comparator: Group 1
On Day 1, Group 1 will initiate in a double-blinded fashion, a once daily vitamin combination of selenomethionine(400 μg), vitamin E(400 IU), and vitamin C (1000 mg) orally for 30 days at home. After 30 days of treatment with Vitamin supplements, the gene expression of the airway epithelium will be compared to that of the Placebo group.
Dietary Supplement: Group 1
The treatment plan involves the administration of a combination of 3 vitamins (vitamin C 1000 mg, vitamin E 400 IU, selenomethionine 400 μg) to study volunteers in a 2:1 randomization, Vitamins are to be taken orally, once a day, for a duration of 30 days.
Other Name: Vitamin C, Vitamin E, Selenium
Placebo Comparator: Group 2
On Day 1, Group 2 will initiate the placebo in a double-blinded fashion.
Dietary Supplement: Group 2
The treatment plan involves the administration of a combination of 3 placebos to be taken orally, once daily for a duration of 30 days.
Other Name: Placebo
- The effects of the supplements on gene expression [ Time Frame: After 30 days of intervention ]To test whether 1 month of dietary antioxidant vitamin supplements alter the expression in lung epithelial cells of genes related to oxidant response.
- Vitamin supplementation [ Time Frame: After 30 days of intervention ]The ability of vitamin supplementation to raise lung and serum vitamin levels will be evaluated.
- Oxidant stress in the lung. [ Time Frame: After 30 days of intervention ]The levels of oxidant stress in the lung will be evaluated.
- Changes in airway epithelial gene expression in genes other than oxidant related genes. [ Time Frame: After 30 days of intervention ]To determine whether the vitamin supplementation can induce changes in airway epithelial gene expression in genes other than oxidant related genes.
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|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years to 70 Years (Adult, Older Adult)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- All study individual should be enrolled in Weill-IRB protocol #0005004439 entitled "Evaluation of the Lungs of Normal (Smokers, Ex-smokers, Non-Smokers) Individuals with Segmental Bronchopulmonary Lung Lavage, Bronchial Brushing, and Bronchial Wall Biopsy."
- All study subjects should be able to provide informed consent.
- Males or females ages 18 years and older.
- Current smokers with at least a 15 pack-year history (1 pack year = on average 20 cigarettes per day for 1 year).
Exclusion Criteria:
- Drug and/or alcohol abuse within the past six months.
- Individuals already on supplemental vitamins.
- Subjects intending to quit smoking in the next 30 days.
To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contact information provided by the sponsor.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT00565214
|United States, New York
|Weill Cornell Medical College
|New York, New York, United States, 10021
|Principal Investigator:
|Ronald G Crystal, MD
|Weill Medical College of Cornell University
|Responsible Party:
|Weill Medical College of Cornell University
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|NCT00565214 History of Changes
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|First Posted:
|November 29, 2007 Key Record Dates
|Last Update Posted:
|May 25, 2017
|Last Verified:
|May 2017
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|Plan to Share IPD:
Keywords provided by Weill Medical College of Cornell University:
vitamin supplements
healthy smokers
epithelial lung tissue
antioxidant levels
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Lung Diseases
Lung Diseases, Obstructive
Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive
Respiratory Tract Diseases
Ascorbic Acid
Vitamin E
Growth Substances
Physiological Effects of Drugs
Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action
Protective Agents


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PURCHASE, N.Y., Feb. 7, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- International Safety Group, (OTC BB: ISGI), an occupational risk management services company, today announced that it signed a contract to provide construction safety management at a new BJ's shopping center in Brooklyn, NY.
A 200,000-square-foot, $150 million shopping center is slated to join Ceasar's Bay Shopping Center on the southern Brooklyn waterfront if all goes according to the developer's plan. The project, named Shore Parkway by developer Thor Equities, LLC, will feature a restaurant or other concession, a three-level, 690-space garage, and 2.5 acres of publicly accessible parkland along the waterfront.
"I am pleased to announce this contract as we continue to build on our robust pipeline of new potential business," stated Michael Gianatasio, President and CEO of International Safety Group. "This contract with such a well known industry developer is a clear testament to the quality and reputation of our services but also on the extreme need for our expertise. I look forward to announcing additional contracts throughout the coming year."
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When a group chooses to call itself Australian Skeptics Inc and purports to promote critical thinking via a journal and public literature to schools and libraries and the media, to expose charlatans who feed society misinformation and to scientifically investigate the paranormal, its own affairs and operations need not only to be seen to be beyond reproach, but actually need to be so.
There is an urgent need for the following steps to be taken:
- An independent auditor needs to be called in to audit the books of the Australian Skeptics Inc and the Australian Skeptics Science and Education Foundation, at least since 1996 when the Whalley bequest was made, and the results of this audit should be made public. There is no evidence we can find that the accounts of either group were ever independently audited.
- Steps must be taken to set up a truly national organisation which any interested sceptical Australian can join, and via which they can exercise influence on Skeptics policy and activity. Responsibility for running this national body could rotate every three to five years between state organisations, so that no one group can retain control.
- The necessity for the appointment of a full-time officer needs to be reviewed, and if it is found to be viable and an effective use of available funds, then the position should be declared vacant and widely advertised in free thought circles, with the best person for the job as selected by an independent panel being appointed.
- The membership of the Australian Skeptics Science and Education Foundation needs to be revised so that it includes one or more members nominated by each state organisation, perhaps for a set term (five-ten years?) instead of for life.
- An effective editorial committee needs to be established for The Skeptic, which could provide a pool of peer reviewers and upgrade the reputation of the journal.
Even the Skeptics' founders, Dick Smith, Phillip Adams and Richard Carleton, are not formally connected to the group, although Dick Smith is a fellow of CSICOP.
* Mark Plummer, the Australian Skeptics founding first president, has since been de-listed as a 'fellow' of CSICOP, according to chief executive Barry Karr.
The small group of individuals who now control the Australian Skeptics Inc. no doubt began with honest intentions, and always believed they were acting in the best interests of the Skeptics movement, but it must be clear even to them that their actions have exposed the group to accusations of dubious practices and handicapped its ability to perform its functions as effectively as it might. At the same time they have disenfranchised many hundreds of genuine sceptics Australia wide who would be only too willing to contribute time, expertise, energy and money to the cause of scepticism but who feel unable to find a valid and respected place in the movement.
If Stanley Whalley knew of the goings-on that his last will and testament would play a part in, he probably would have used as much caution writing his will as he spent on carefully studying stock trends.
Anyone with nominations for the new millennium's first 'Bent Spoon Award'?
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Mock Panegyric On A Young Friend - Poem by Jane Austen
In measured verse I'll now rehearse
The charms of lovely Anna:
And, first, her mind is unconfined
Like any vast savannah.
Ontario's lake may fitly speak
Her fancy's ample bound:
Its circuit may, on strict survey
Five hundred miles be found.
Her wit descends on foes and friends
Like famed Niagara's fall;
And travellers gaze in wild amaze,
And listen, one and all.
Her judgment sound, thick, black, profound,
Like transatlantic groves,
Dispenses aid, and friendly shade
To all that in it roves.
If thus her mind to be defined
America exhausts,
And all that's grand in that great land
In similes it costs --
Oh how can I her person try
To image and portray?
How paint the face, the form how trace,
In which those virtues lay?
Another world must be unfurled,
Another language known,
Ere tongue or sound can publish round
Her charms of flesh and bone.
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