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KNOW for a fact that if you want a roomy, practical, comfortable 4X4, the Kia Sportage does the job.
A couple of years ago, I made a several-hundred mile journey to and from Scotland in the previous generation Sportage.
A two-litre diesel automatic, it felt full of energy when laden with my family and luggage and helped to make a holiday north of the border very memorable.
So I was full of expectation that the latest generation would be equally impressive, and I was not disappointed.
It had all the good features of the old model, but now looks better than ever - less box-like and more rounded.
Particularly impressive was the driver position. I was able to manoeuvre the seat to get just the right spot for me.
And the seat-to-steering wheel ratio has to be right. I'm having trouble with a sciatic nerve and if I'm not sitting properly then after anything more than 30 minutes I begin to get uncomfortable. No problems here, though.
No trip to Scotland, either unfortunately. However, I did make a monster trip to the tip to get rid of the frame of an old, giant size bed and, with the seats in the rear easily dropped, the Sportage was able to eat it up, along with loads of other unwanted furniture and rubbish.
In that sense the Sportage really emphasises that it is a vehicle for all seasons, and the combined mileage of nearly 40mpg shows that, for something of this size, a diesel engine is surely the option of choice for discerning drivers.
The diesel unit in Sportage, a 2.0, 1991cc common rail direct injection, was full of vigour and, while speed may perhaps be less important to its drivers, it can still move fairly niftily. However, sometimes the power can arrive in a bit of a surge.
The Sportage is a pleasureable car to drive, particularly in town and the gear-shifts are smooth. Regarding performance, there may be quicker competitors, but who really needs to gets from stationery to 62mph in less than 12 seconds?
My test car had a four-wheel-drive system which sends power to the front wheels in normal driving, but to all four when more traction is needed off-road. Generally, the vehicle was pretty quiet with minimal noise intrusion.
Every Sportage comes with twin front, side and curtain airbags, traction control and anti-lock brakes linked to the latest electronic stopping aids.
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Facebook wants everyone to put a camera in their home as it launches 'Portal' chat screens
The 'Portal' screens mark the digital company's first move into hardware
Facebook is set to release the company's first ever hardware product - a video calling device called "Portal".
The voice-controlled screen, which has Amazon's Alexa voice assistant built-in, can be used to make video calls to friends and family using the social media giant's Messenger platform.
It will compete with already existing video call software available to mobile and tablet users, including Apple's Facetime and Whastapp's video calling feature.
In the wake of several data breaches the company experienced this year, Facebook sought to reassure people over potential privacy fears by confirming the device is fitted with a camera lens cover, and the ability to disable the camera and microphone with a single tap.
The company also stressed that customer's Portal calls will also be secure and encrypted.
"Facebook doesn't listen to, view, or keep the contents of your Portal video calls. Your Portal conversations stay between you and the people you're calling. In addition, video calls on Portal are encrypted, so your calls are always secure," the company said in a blog post announcing the device.
Data breach
Last month, the company confirmed it had been the subject of a data breach affecting up to 50 million users, which is now being investigated by the Irish Data Protection Commission (IDPC), the lead supervising authority for Facebook in the EU.
Portal, which will first go on sale in the US in November, will come with a 10-inch display for video calls, or a 15in display on the Portal+.
The device includes what Facebook calls Smart Camera and Smart Sound technology, which uses artificial intelligence to automatically pan and zoom the camera to keep everyone speaking in view, while Smart Sound minimises background noise and enhances the voice of whoever is speaking to improve call quality.
The social media giant has been the subject of several previous rumours linked to building hardware - including suggestions the company once considered building a smartphone.
Facebook has also been heavily linked with making its own smart speaker to rival the likes of the Amazon Echo and Google Home, but no such device has yet appeared.
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GameZilla Media Gives Back
Update: WE DID IT!!! We broke $7000 and will be delivering 2 gaming carts to C.S Mott Children's Hospital!!!
More images and videos will be added here when we deliver the gaming carts to C.S Mott Children's Hospital.
Thank you to everyone who helped spread the word for our cause! I would like to take a moment and thank everyone who donated to GameZilla Gives Back.
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Thank you all for supporting our cause, we are so proud to be delivering these gaming carts to the kids and wouldn't of been able to make this happen without our amazing community!
GameZilla Media is a Metro-Detroit based multimedia company covering with a heavy focus on the gaming industry. We record 4 weekly podcasts, maintain an active blog, create an assortment of YouTube videos, and have a Twitch.tv stream team, so there's something for everyone.
Our CEO, Jason Parks (Grimlock), spent a tremendous amount of time at the children's hospital for multiple procedures and surgeries when he was younger. Throughout these years it meant less time enjoying video games, which he still remains very passionate of to this day.
His most fond memory at the Children's Hospital is when he received a Game Boy during one of his visits as a birthday gift, which allowed him to keep the gaming going even when he wasn't at home.
Our desire is to help provide children with a way to game while at the hospital, which is why for GameZilla Gives Back 2018 we decided to support Gamers Outreach and donate the funds to build a "GO Kart" (portable gaming cart).
Streaming Event :
Join us live on December 8, 2018 from 12:00pm (noon) EST - 12:00am (midnight) EST over on Testanomics' Twitch channel for a 12 hour Super Smash Brothers: Ultimate charity stream where the GameZilla Media team and local community will be playing and drawing additional awareness to our campaign. Also, we have a few events that'll take place on stream if we reach certain milestones before or during the broadcast.
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The painter Enrico Robusti is renowned for his unabashed and satirical portrayals of the hedonism, and weaknesses, of Italian political society.
Ransom Gallery presented his solo exhibition Vice: Food, Sex and Irony in Italy, on Thursday 22nd May in 2014 at 105 Pimlico Road, Chelsea, London. Robusti's creations attempt to draw public attention to the comedy, or rather the comic tragedy, of Italian politics. In his creations, Robusti portrays politicians' gluttony: everyone is eating, but not only food, his grotesque characters devour food, sex and money. On the launch night of this exciting exhibition, guests were invited to taste a combination of Italian art by Robusti, and delicious food and wine especially selected by Giorgio Locatelli, the renowned Michelin-starred chef and BBC presenter.


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Apartment Chalet Gasserhof (MEL102)
up to 6 guests
4 rooms
3 bedrooms
1 Bathroom(s)
Country view
Distance to centre 2.5 km
Proximity to public transport 20 m
Distance to Lake 18 km
Washing machine
Balcony / Terrace
Baby cot
Non smoking
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apartment, 6 people, 4 room/s, 3 bedroom/s, 1 bathroom/s, approx. 90 m², 2 floor/s, separate access to the property. Please note: Non-smoking house. Furnishing: bright, with much wood, well-kept, tiled floor, wooden floor. Equipment: satellite TV; internet access Wi-Fi (included); underfloor heating. Room layout: Living room(ground floor): sofa, exit to terrace. From the living room stairs to upper levels. Dining area: (corner bench) in the living room. Kitchenette: in the living room. Kitchen/ cooking equipment: 4 gas rings, dish-washer, combination fridge-freezer, coffee machine, water boiler, toaster. Bedroom 1(ground floor): double bed. Bedroom 2(floor 1, roof pitch): double bed, exit to balcony. Bedroom 3(floor 1, roof pitch): double bed, single bed as supplementary bed (see extra charges). Sanitary 1(ground floor): bath, shower, WC. Sanitary 2(floor 1, roof pitch): separate WC. Exterior (private use): Plot description: 1 x parking on the estate; 1 x parking on the estate (roofed). balcony (roofed), terrace (roofed), furnishing provided, 2 sun loungers, sunshade, transportable barbecue.
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Holiday resort tax. Linen/towels available. Change of bed linen/towels every 7 days included. Deposit € 200 (in cash). Extra bed € 10 per day (on order). Cot/High chair free of charge (on order). Pet not allowed.House/Residence
Feature: agricultural estate. Situation: rural, in the district Versein, altitude 1040 m, panoramic view. Estate (shared use with holiday guests): approx. 150 m², partially self-contained (electric entrance gate), well-kept, lawn. Owner lives on the property. On the estate dog, cat, animal husbandry. Infrastructure: reception, bakery service; washing machine (shared use, payment); dryer for shared use (payment); common room. Sale of own produce (eggs, marmelade, fruit, vegetables); breakfast: payment and request on-site. ● Distances: Center Mölten in approx. 2.5 km. Bozen in approx. 24 km. Meran in approx. 29 km. Next shopping possibility (Verschneid) in approx. 800 m. Next supermarket (Mölten) in approx. 2.5 km. Bus stop Bus stop in approx. 20 m. Lake in approx. 18 km (Gargazon). Indoor public swimming pool in approx. 32 km (Meran). Cable car Schlaneid, in approx. 5 km. Golf course Eppan (9-hole golf course) in approx. 15 km.
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Northrop Grumman and Textron's offerings for the JLTV competition were not ready for prime time and the joint Army-Marine team performed decently in managing the competition. That is the core of the JLTV protest decision that was finally released today, two weeks after we reported the basic results.
The protest decision -- denied on all counts -- found that the arguments offered by Northrop and Textron were "without merit." The two companies took the position that the award process was flawed because "BAE and GTV improperly received credit" for having built a demonstrator vehicle, since the agency did not consider whether the demonstrators were comparable to the offerors' proposed JLTV approaches.
This was all part of what built the score received for integrated system maturity, as you can see in the GAO decision. But the GAO found that "nothing in the solicitation required a showing that an offeror's demonstrator was identical to its ultimate proposed design in order to receive some credit in the maturity evaluation for the demonstrator." This just seems like common sense to me. If you build something that meets the RFP -- even if it isn't exactly what you will build for production, you would seem to have demonstrated you can do the job.
And the protesters didn't seem to even get close to the competitors in terms of risk. The GAO said: "In contrast, not only was NG's proposal rated overall only adequate with moderate risk under the ISM subfactor, but each of its... configurations was rated high risk for reliability and maintainability (as well as moderate risk for design). While NG's approach was based on three generations of mock-ups, NG had not built a demonstrator, and AMC determined that there was some doubt that NG would achieve the JLTV program requirements within 27 months. As for Textron, its proposal was rated marginal with high risk under the ISM subfactor, and only adequate with moderate risk under the overall technical factor..."
The biggest winner in the competition was clearly Lockheed, whose proposal "received the highest overall rating under the technical factor (the most important factor), based on a finding that LM's proposed approach and technology were the most mature, with the lowest risk of not achieving the program objectives within the allowed 27 months (including less than 15 months to furnish the required demonstrators)." Of course, we are not forgetting BAE or General Tactical Vehicles, the joint venture of General Dynamics and AM General, who also won technology development contracts, along with Lockheed.
I clambered into both the LM and BAE vehicles at AUSA. While Lockheed may have the best technical approach, I'd love to see them be inspired by BAE's attention to interior design, seat comfort and ease of use.


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Arper Catifa 46 Swivel Chairs
Arper Catifa 46 Swivel Chairs
The clean lines and the minimalist design of the Arper Catifa 46 swivel chairs create style and individuality in every environment, whilst offering the user the greatest possible comfort. The ribbed back seat sits on a chrome 4 star swivel base will add understated style to any workspace. We have 4 dark grey, 6 mid grey and 4 light grey armed chairs, as well as 7 light grey armless chairs.
If you would like to purchase these products, please get in touch with one of our sales team by calling 07944 508282, or you can fill out our Request a Quote Online Form. Alternatively, if you are viewing our website using a Mobile Device, you can click on the Telephone Icon located at the bottom of the page.
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Monthly Archives: October 2018
Halloween Blog Tour
Welcome to the DIY Halloween Costume Sewing Patterns Blog tour hosted by Seams Sew Lo! Make sure to swing by Seams Sew Lo to check out the Best Halloween Sewing Patterns Round Up. I've mentioned in previous blog posts that … Continue reading
My Monster Blog Tour
Welcome to the My Monster Blog Tour hosted by Sewing by Ti. For this blog tour, I had three options to blog about. I've previously blogged about my son's costume, well, his accessories anyway. That leaves me the three costumes … Continue reading
Magnificent Wizards Blog Tour
Welcome to the Magnificent Wizards Blog Tour hosted by Made for Little Gents. 🎶This is Halloween🎶 I don't know why I'm singing that song, it has absolutely nothing to do with my makes for this tour at all. And maybe … Continue reading


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Notes from Madras II
Looking for the uplifting moments India offers to lives lived against a horrifying backdrop of rising crime
By Charu Nivedita
OK. I give up. One can't keep up with the ever-increasing crime rate in India. As I write this, a middle-aged man in Delhi stabbed a twenty-two-year-old girl 32 times in broad daylight. The reason: she spurned his amorous overtures. The incident, caught on CCTV cameras, has gone viral: millions of Indians have watched it.
How much can I write about such gruesomeness. Enough.
There are uplifting things to Indian life as well. There are two dogs, and Chintoo, a cat – a more recent addition – in my household. A few days ago, there was a statewide bandh (a consensual lockdown of public and private services as a protest against something or the other). There was no place open to buy fish for Chintoo. Avanthika (my wife) walked down to the nearby Marina beach where an old fisherman in his catamaran was picking out small fish one by one from his net. The fisherman asked Avanthika why she had ventured out even on the day of the bandh to buy fish. She told him about Chintoo's peculiar dietary habits where he (the cat) deemed only fish kosher. Upon hearing this, the fisherman gave her a large basketful of his fresh catch. For free. Yes: he refused to take money. While on the one hand we have suicide bombers intent on killing fellow humans, on the other we do have compassionate folks like this fisherman in every corner of the world.
In the quest for cheerful subjects to write about, I accompanied my photographer friend Prabhu Kalidas to Kumbakonam into the Thanjavur district of Tamil Nadu. There's a place adjoining the town called Darasuram that houses the Airavatesvara temple. The earliest mentions of the Chola dynasty, which ruled southern India (from Thanjavur as their capital) for several centuries, date from the reign of Ashoka (around the third century BC) of the earlier Maurya Empire. As for the Cholas, they were at the peak of their powers between the ninth and the thirteenth century ad.
The naval conquests of the Cholas extended their empire to parts of the Andamans, Maldives, Malaysia, Thailand, Cambodia and Indonesia. Even today, remnants of Chola influence can be found in Southeast Asia. Despite being an Islamic nation, there's no city in Malaysia in which Hindu temples can't be found. There's a giant Ganesha statue in one of Bangkok's streets. The people who worship the statue may not know anything of its origins. When I quizzed one of the devotees while visiting the place, he thought the elephant figure was one of the Buddha's manifestations. Additionally, there are hundreds of Tamil words that have found their way into the Thai language.
The grandest examples of Chola architecture are the Brihadeeswarar temple at Thanjavur built by Rajaraja Chola I (985–1014 ad), Gangaikonda Cholapuram built by his son Rajendra Chola I (c. 1014–44 ad) and the Darasuram Airavatesvara temple built by Rajaraja Chola II (1146–73 ad). All three temples are veritable wonders of the world.
Of course, the Taj Mahal is celebrated as India's most significant global wonder. And rightly so. But I personally cannot see the Taj as the monument to love in the way that most people do. It is built in memory of Mumtaz Mahal, who was thirty-seven when she died. Mughal emperor Shah Jahan took her as his fourth wife when she was nineteen. She died while delivering her fourteenth child. So it is fair to assume Mumtaz was hardly ever not pregnant in her adult life. Only if Mumtaz and Shah Jahan fornicated the very next day after she delivered a child could she have been so prolific a bearer of Mughal progeny. Given its history, I cannot think of the Taj Mahal without necrophilic imagery popping up in my head. The Taj Mahal is a mausoleum: erected in memory of someone dead. The three Chola temples I mentioned however are monuments of joy that celebrate life.
Temples were the focal points of Tamil life back then. With thousands of people congregating in and around these structures, they became the staging ground for the best music, dance, theatre and every other artform. The three Chola temples represent the apogee of human creativity in the fields of architecture, sculpture and art. My personal favourite in this Chola triad is the temple in Darasuram. Every pillar in that temple tells us the genius of the anonymous Tamil sculptors of the twelfth century.
If you go to see Leonardo Da Vinci's iconic Mona Lisa (c.1503–6) in the Louvre, you'll encounter a hundred camera flashlights every minute. It is the most seen, photographed, hagiographed painting in the world. In Darasuram, every pillar has a Mona Lisa sculpted in black granite. They are so marvellous that only the gods themselves could have sculpted them to such perfection. There are sculptures ranging from half-an-inch to larger-than-life figures.
There is one particularly enchanting sculpture of a woman with a smile more enigmatic than Mona Lisa's. The guide informed us that the subject of the sculpture was called Ganga Devi. But we do not know anything about the person who created it.
Sekkizhar was a poet who lived during the reign of Kulothunga Chola II (1135–50). So impressed was the king's young son Rajaraja Chola II with Sekkizhar's epic Periya Puranam that he decided to visually translate the 4,286 songs of the epic and lives of the 63 Shaivite Nayanars in the form of sculptures in the grand Darasuram temple that he would build. These sculptures are made using granite blocks that are about 50cm wide. One scene depicts a man and a woman waist-deep in a pond. They are holding two ends of a bamboo reed. On another side are Shiva and Parvati. All this on a stone of 30cm.
The corresponding story in Periya Puranam goes like this: a potter visits a prostitute. On hearing about it, his wife decrees, 'Swear upon the Neelakanta Shiva that thou shall not touch us.' And because she employs the word 'us' as first person plural, the potter decides to abstain from the pleasures of female company altogether. The couple eschew the pleasure of sex forever. When they both turn old, a mendicant comes to them and deposits his bowl of alms for safekeeping until his return. When the beggar comes back to ask for his bowl, the potter discovers that it's no longer in his custody. He offers to make a brand new one. The beggar refuses, wants his own and accuses the potter of stealing his property. 'If you haven't stolen it, prove it,' declares the beggar. To prove his innocence the potter was asked to enter a pond holding his wife's hand. Bound by his earlier vow, he could not touch his wife. The village council gathered and adjudged that the beggar's demand be fulfilled. The potter and his wife enter the pond holding two ends of a stick. When they reemerge after the dip, they are both youthful again, and can see Shiva and Parvati in front of them.
In Darasuram I met a sculptor who is a part of the lineage of the masters of the past. Without the money to buy metal, some are putting in the smelter their old bronze sculptures to create new ones. More on that story in the next issue.
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Couple held for poisoning children to death in WB
Kolkata, Mar 15: Unable to cope with deteriorating financial condition a couple in Hooghly poisoned their four chidren to death, media reports said.
Kaushal Chowdhury and his wife Preeti were arrested by the Kolkata police for killing their four children- Divya, 20, Prerna, 18, Govinda, 15, and Tiya, 11.
Police was informed about the incident by the woman's brother Madanlal Lohia who said that he had received a phone call from the couple, in which they admitted to their crime and said that they too would commit suicide.
"Kaushal told Madanlal that he had mixed poison in soft drinks that he had given his son and daughters. He also said that he and Preeti, 37, were going to commit suicide," Nirupam Ghosh, officer in charge of Rishra police station
Police said that the couple took the extreme step due to poor financial condition.
"After preliminary investigations, we have gathered that Kaushal was frustrated because of his joblessness," said Ghosh
The children- three girls and four boys were rushed to the Serampore Walsh Hospital, where the girls were declared dead on arrival. the boy died a little later.
According to the doctors in the hospital, children had been poisoned with aluminum sulphate.
The couple was arrested by the police in Howrah. They will be produced in court later in the day.
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Who will forget the name of Hiroshima wherever the first atomic bombs was dropped? There exists Peace Park and Peace Memorial Museum while in the metropolis that were designed to commemorate the destruction of metropolis through Environment War II. Your vacation to Japan is incomplete should you don't visit Hiroshima as it holds historical and political significance.
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Japanese meals can tickle your flavor buds as there is certainly minimalist class may be the area food stuff items. Most of the dishes are prepared employing meat. Japanese foods is not confined to sushi and noodles only. You can find some inexpensive and chic taking in retailers in which you can gorge on regional Japanese foods without having shelling out considerably. Incorporating on, there are some intercontinental eateries in significant metropolitan areas which serve almost every delicacies out there across the globe.
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|Wild coffee by Jan Schormann
|Wild coffee II by Jan Schromann
In the forest
Coffee enjoys its personal rainbow of colours. It starts at harvest time, with red dots on the background of the green forest.Then, one by one, the beans get inside the brown basket used by the locals for harvesting.
|Generous by Ioana Muntenescu
|So many reasons to be happy by Ioana Muntenescu
Later on the yellow basket (zambilo in Amharic) will embrace the red, ripe coffee beans on their way home, through the village, to the market.
After drying in the sun on a wide, hand made bamboo bed, the coffee fruits get a more intense red. Soon they will start their journey to special stations where they will be dehulled.
When the peel has been removed they look green again, like in their infancy in the forest.
|Lying in the sun by Jan Schormann
The coffee ceremony
The women in the family roast the coffee on a plate above the fire and give it the colour of patience and warmth. The coffee ceremony is a process of getting together, of sharing time, not consuming it. It can also be the right time to make some music: the girls assist the mother, clap their hands and bring on the rhythm of coffee making.
The coffee ceremony is about natural beauty. The ladies of the house pick up flowers and place them around the coffee table, for decoration. The guests enjoy now a private, indoor rainbow of colours.
|Coffee Ceremony by Jan Schormann
The dark brown coffee gets much of its intensity by contrast with the white clothes the local ladies wear with genuine elegance. By candle light you have time to recollect for a few moments the journey of the coffee beans: protected by the shaded mountain rainforest, basking in the sun on bamboo beds, roasted on a metal plate inside the tukul…
What turns this daily process into a ceremony, besides the beautiful flowers and the dressing up? It is the generous gesture of offering the first 'touch' of the freshly roasted coffee beans to the guest or to the head of the family. This first encounter with the aroma of wild coffee is a gift offered by the ladies, a sign of being welcomed and recognized as a friend.
And then one day when it happens to rain, a rainbow in the sky smiles to all the colours that coffee can take, down there, on the earth of Kafa.
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NEW YORK (CBS.MW) - After spending much of the day in negative territory Thursday, investors warmed up to the battered sector, at least for now.
"We're seeing the abatement of tax-loss selling and we could get a bit of a rally on Friday," said Bruce Lupatkin, portfolio manager at North Bay Technology Partners.
The Goldman Sachs Internet Index finished the day on the plus side, gaining 1.2 percent; Merrill Lynch Internet Holdrs added 2 percent, after giving up 5 percent earlier. The Amex Internet Index ended unchanged.
But early in the session, the Goldman Internet Index slumped below the 300 mark.
Much of the negative sentiment was due to ongoing signs that the economic slowdown is hurting business prospects in light of Nortel Networks disappointing warning.
Tax-loss selling also weighed on issues, said Lupatkin, who predicted earlier in the session that the selling would draw to a close, which it did.
He also predicted that the markets could advance ahead of the presidential elections and into the end of the year.
Also helping to support the turn-around were signs that bearish sentiment was rising. In a just-released survey of investment advisor sentiment conducted by Investor Intelligence, bearish sentiment increased from 28 percent last week to 32 percent this week. The bullish sentiment decreased from 47 percent to 43 percent.
"The latest indication on market sentiment suggests that more people are turning bearish, which is positive for the market," they're still at relatively high levels," said Mat Johnson, growth-stock strategist at Thomas Weisel Partners. "But they're still at relatively high levels and we'd like to see the bullish sentiment roughly around 40 percent."
Yahoo YHOO added 0.8 percent to $56; America Online AOL, -1.75% slipped to $46.70; Amazon.com AMZN, -0.52% jumped $5 to $36.88.
Earnings watch
After the close Thursday, Inktomi INKT posted a fourth-quarter profit of $8.8 million, or 7 cents a share, topping expectations by 2 cents. Quarterly revenue grew to $78.6 million, up 28 percent from the previous quarter and topping some estimates of $72 million.
On the conference call, Inktomi executives said that due to the FastForward Networks acquisition, first-quarter profits would come in between 2 and 3 cents, down from the consensus estimate of 5 cents, which excludes the FastForward purchase. Executives also said that they expect quarterly revenue to grow by 16 percent in its fiscal first quarter and up 110 percent to between $455 and $465 million for the full year.
Ahead of the news, shares fell 1 percent to $83. In after-hours trading, however, shares fell to $75.
"While the stock is down, investors need to focus on Inktomi's continued expansion of the enterprise market and the upcoming sales of the FastForward content acceleration product," said Kevin Trosian, analyst at Banc of America Securities. "When we see those signs, it should raise investor focus that this company is a leader and will remain a leader in the caching and content distribution marketplace."
InfoSpace INSP, +3.45% added 38 cents to $20.69, after trading as high as $23.19 earlier. InfoSpace reported a third-quarter profit of 3 cents a share on revenue of $57.7 million, besting expectations laid out in mid-September. Wireless revenue, a major growth driver, came in higher than some estimates. More than 10 percent of that revenue came from InfoSpace's wireless unit. W.R. Hambrecht analyst Peter Friedland expected that only 5 percent of revenue would come from the wireless division.
Moreover, executives on the post-earnings conference call guided fourth-quarter revenue and earnings higher. They also said that they'd exceed prior projections calling for 1 million wireless Internet subscribers by the end of this year. See full story.
VeriSign VRSN, +0.13% gave up $5.06 to $142.31 after the Internet security company said that it earned a third-quarter profit of $38.4 million, or 18 cents a share, topping the consensus estimate of 6 cents a share. Quarterly revenue grew to $173.1 million. Shares of VeriSign fell 12 percent to $147.44 in regular trading. The stock traded higher in after-hours action following the release.


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When we got married last September, I wouldn't have believed you if you'd told me that in just five months I'd be a stay-at-home wife with a baby on the way. Losing my job earlier this year has led to a strange chapter in my life. Every morning I wake up with the single task of deciding what to do with myself that day. Most days, this comes as a luxury. But there are days when it feels less wonderful and a little burdensome. I find myself waking up earlier than usual on weekends simply because I usually have somewhere to BE. Something to get ready for other than a trip to Trader Joe's.
Luckily, I've found the perfect cure for any idle woes that start to get to me. With my due date pending and my belly ever expanding, I have been spending more time reading baby books, from labor and delivery to breastfeeding to sleep schedules to screaming infant struggles. When I start thinking about how to interpret different cries and essentially read my baby's mind in order to be a great nurturer, Trader Joe's for the day sounds pretty good. I can do two and a half more months of this vacation, no problem.
So the relentless scenarios and subjects posed by these baby books have me feeling pretty overwhelmed with the challenges ahead. But that's probably a good thing. I think we're supposed to feel freaked out. Even if you were one of those that had your own baby-sitters club growing up, (I never did get mine off the ground, although I was sworn in as club secretary) the difference between caring for a child for a few hours versus being responsible for that child for its entire life is a big one. And based on what I have heard and what I already feel for this little life inside me, I think it's safe to say I will care a whole hell of a lot more.
Which leads me to the greatest concern I have at this point: my paranoia. Here's why. Just last night, I became convinced that something was off with Henry.
"He's TIRED," Josh kept telling me. "Remember how he sleeps all day and night long?"
And there I was, my face pressed to Henry's furry little body, close to tears. "No, but his eyes are different! Henry, honey please tell mommy if you are okay."
But of course, Henry didn't give me the feedback I needed in my desperation. Images start forming in my head of waking up to a near dying pup between us, all because I ignored the signs that something was wrong. Was this my maternal instinct trying to motivate me into action and save Henry's precious life?
Apparently not. At 7 am this morning I look up to see him tearing around the bedroom and hopping up on the bed to smother my face in kisses (his most eager method of telling me he wants to go outside). Tired no more, and perfectly healthy. My "instincts" in this case had turned out to be emotionally driven, and wrong. One of several false alarms created in my own head.
And I only have one thought. What am I going to do when it's my baby girl who seems off? Or is screaming her heart out inconsolably? Do Moms really just KNOW what to do? Because I personally seem to make the leap from concerned to paranoid to morbid in just a few minutes with my dog.
I know that there's a learning curve and part of the process now is just bracing myself for the times when I won't know what to do. So I've started praying that motherhood won't lead me to develop more of these schizophrenic tendencies. My husband is usually my number one sedative in situations where my mind starts to spiral, but he's not always going to be here. And sometimes, I am able to convince him that we just can't take any chances and $300 worth of vet bills and a totally fine puppy later, I'm left sheepishly shrugging.
Lord, please help me to keep it in check and not rile up the whole house in the process of my paranoia. And thank you for giving me sisters with babies who have seen and heard it all before. Oh, and thank you for letting me have a baby when Google exists.
I've decided that next week when we're at the beach, I'm giving myself a vacation from my vacation. No baby books that will allow my mind to visualize hellish scenes that right now are intangible and subsequently, all the more impossible to deal with. Instead I'm going to curl up with books that don't make my head spin and focus on enjoying the beginning of the end, of both pregnancy and the easy road.


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'From Scared to Sacred', is a body of artwork exploring the spiritual nature of living through different states of consciousness in our earthly existence.
The solo exhibition, 'From Scared to Sacred' will be unveiled at Replants in Fremantle, on July 28th, and will open to the public July 29th. The exhibition will be available throughout August for private viewing. For details, press here.
Below are two of the paintings that will be exhibited.
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Özcan Saraç
1988 Born in Izmir.
Lives and works in Istanbul and Zurich.
2012, University of Essex, BSC
2013, School of Visual Arts New York, Workshop
2014, École Parsons à Paris, Transdisciplinary
2016, Zürcher Hochschule der Künste, Medienkunst, Zürich
Özcan Saraç's works mainly focus on the faulty effects of the most basic concepts which has been created by humankind itself. As mankind is curtaining off the sense of the bigger picture, in other words universal system, the logical explanations of current situation of evolution are more hardly to be found in a glitch of actuality. For the sake of creating modular thinking spaces, the projects use live and on the site conceptual research areas running on scientific and technological platforms to connect with the audience who will bedirected to be part of the act itself as the main purpose is not to implement an idea in the minds, but to welcome them to their own questionings.


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Giancarlo Guerrero will stay with the Nashville Symphony for nearly another decade, at least. The music director has agreed to a five-year extension of his existing contract.
The new deal sets him up to become one of the longest-serving conductors in the ensemble's history, second only to Kenneth Schermerhorn, who took over the orchestra in 1983 and directed it until his death in 2005.


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Two words: pink flamingos.
Three words: really old ones.
I saw them in the yard of a house, those birds put there a decade ago maybe, probably on a lark. Which is funny, because the house is on 21st Avenue between Wren Street and Sparrow Street, and Lark is farther down toward the river. No kidding.
I wish I could share this entire day with you . . . but at some point, I just decided to accept it and delight in it. I did not even take any pictures except that leaf up there. Oh, toward the end I did take a couple, but I will save them.
And nevermind because here they are:
Earlier, I'd seen a doorknob, burnished bronze, that I had never seen before. It was worn smooth in one place where unknown hands had touched it. Perhaps it was the same hand of the same person, over and over again, in that same spot. Someone lonely? Or maybe it has been worn smooth from many visitors to that home by the river. Parties and gaiety over the years may have brought many friends to that house and may have brought others who became friends. Each one may have left a kind of mark on that doorknob. Perhaps they still come, or perhaps it has all gone away. And the owner of that house lives all alone now. Perhaps.
I saw those flamingos. Maybe they were placed there 10 years ago, like I said, when the kids were in high school. Why are they still there, even though the pink barely shows through the years? What happened to those kids, all grown now, with families? Did they move away, and the parents said, hey you can always come home and we will keep the flamingos here for you? Or, maybe those kids just moved down the street to the house with the burnished knob.
I saw some steps I had never seen before. The people at the bottom of the steps had a parcel. They do not get mail because they have a PO box, but I delivered a box to their door today for the first time. With the package, I skipped down the steps with my eye on that door. But on the way up and with a little time on my hands I took some of that time to notice that the steps were very old. And worn smooth. From visitors? Those stones, on the way up, had a delightful fleur de lis pattern in them. I stepped lightly in ascent.
By Noon I was getting drunk with delight and I did notice that the music was helpful and comforting as well. On the radio came this:
After getting drunk, I did indeed have to go to that bar again because they had mail and even a small package. The parking lot was full, and it was barely 1:30 in the afternoon. When I went in, I put the mail and package on the dark wood bar next to the row of taps. That barkeep who is too friendly was also too busy to notice, thank God, so I dropped and ran. To the restroom to pray.
I saw people everywhere, out for a walk in the cool sunshine. I wonder if any of them live with the flamingos? Or belong to that doorknob? I wonder what you were doing when I was doing what I am writing?
It was inexplicable joy on Thursday. Functional bliss on Friday. And sweet delight on this day. All day long.
Sabbath has ended now, and that means Sunday is here. And soon we will see the light of dawn.
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2014 Annual General Meeting – Almonte Soccer Club
The AGM of Almonte Soccer Club will be held in the hall at the rear of the Hillside Reformed Presbyterian Church (273 Almonte Street, Almonte) 7:00 p.m., Tuesday November 18, 2014.
All welcome.
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To provide an opportunity for any person to play organized soccer at recreation and competitive levels whenever possible, and to assist participants in reaching their potential through the provision of programs for developing players, coaches and referees in the Town of Almonte and its surrounding area.


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The Bandits
The sprinkles had just finished, the humidity still clinging and cloying, and the clouds still dark and heavy. It was time to pick up Joey from school and as I was putting away my laptop and hunting for my phone, I heard a racket going on in the backyard, which had been silent for most of the afternoon. Just outside my office window stands a holly tree covered in bright red berries. As I neared the window, something small and lithe and graceful flew out of the branches, its beak holding a little red berry. I traced its flight with my eyes to our leafless oak tree, still deciding whether or not to put out little leaves, and I saw that the branches were filled with one of my very favorite birds, cedar waxwings. Cedar waxwings look like little porcelain birds, sleek and smooth, wearing a black mask around their beady eyes. Their underbelly is a brilliant Easter egg yellow, while their top feathers are a dove grey/blue with just the very tip of their tail a matching yellow. Their heads are a fawn color, topped off with a sharp crest, which sets off their robber mask quite nicely.
They are indeed robbers and bandits. They had the holly tree stripped bare in a matter of minutes, leaving not one berry behind, before swooping over the fence and heading east. I think I saw this same flock last week on one of my runs, all lined up on a telephone wire, chittering and chattering away, covering the wire from pole to pole.
Wouldn't you love to hold one in your hands?
This will probably be the last I see of this flock, hopefully not, but my dad thinks that they may be heading north and won't be around much longer. But if they're on their way to colder climes, does that mean that spring is here to stay?


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No Place to Run
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The last person Sam Kelly expected to save was Sophie Lundgren. Once they shared a brief, intense affair while Sam was undercover and then she vanished. She's spent the last few months on the run, knowing that any mistake would cost her both her life and that of their unborn child. Now she's resurfaced with a warning for Sam: this time, he's the one in danger.
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Damien Grant opens up about his time in prison
Today, Damien Grant features in NBR for his role as principal of Waterstone Insolvency, unwinding the mess at companies that have gone off the rails – or in his role as a conservative political commentator. He's an entrepreneur (Waterstone is just one of several business interests), a family man and someone with a reputation for being brutally honest.
Things were racier in his youth.
At age 26, Grant was sentenced to 30 months' jail for his part in a multimillion-dollar share-dealing scam.
He was living the high life, spending money on his lifestyle and travel, and "working" when he wanted to.
"It's intellectually very interesting because you're operating against the state," he says now, of the lifestyle back then.
"There are people who want to stop you doing what you're doing. Once you beat the system and get some money out of it, there is an arrogance and a hubris that comes with that.
"Here I am in my early 20s, and the government and state have set up all these things – and I managed to beat it. Aren't I clever."
Things began to unravel when he and some cohorts converted some of their ill-gotten scrip to gold, then tried to smuggle the ingots out of the country. They got caught.
Initially, he made bail. Then, panicking, he went on the run for a month, hiding with friends down the line. But he found the freedom to be illusory; he had little freedom of choice or action as he tried to "go off the reservation."
When he returned to Auckland, this time as a known flight risk, he knew his High Court hearing would not go well (read documents relating to the case and its aftermath here and here) – and when the judge adjourned the session for lunch, he walked over the road to a cafe and bought three cigarette packets (the maximum he could take to prison).
He can't remember who else was in the van, only the fear.
His purchase was indeed prescient. The judge ordered he be held on remand, and he was bundled into a police van and taken to Mt Eden Prison, where he would stay for the weeks until his sentencing.
Grant's first three months, at the gothic Mt Eden then, post-sentencing, Waikeria – the minimum to high-security 650-prisoner jail south of Hamilton (that has recently been at the centre of the "mega prison" debate) – were the hardest.
There were only three or four other white faces, he says.
He had to share a cell, and witnessed some brutal scenes.
At one point he sat playing chess with a fellow inmate as he listened to the screams from a known sex offender being beaten in a toilet block "and beaten hard." Guards arrived and the victim was segregated but it was a terrifying reminder of "just how Lord of the Flies-vulnerable you were if the mood of that group of people went against you," he says.
He tried to keep to himself but it wasn't an option.
He learned that to survive, you had to stand up for yourself. To gain respect, you had to fight back, even if you lost.
"If somebody wants to fight you, you have to engage," he says.
Grant himself survived on his wits. He developed a higher-brow defence mechanism, revolving around verbally engaging with other prisoners, forming links by asking them the old prison-film standby, "what are you in for?"
He recounts, "Oddly enough some of the harder guys, the more senior guys, once they were confident in talking to me, they were quite interesting — senior gang guys. Junior guys would talk about selling drugs, [and] the senior guys would talk about the commercialisation — how they ran their dubious criminal empires. I got to know some of those guys and formed a good relationship."
He also bonded with other inmates by accepting an invite to play "Crash," a bone-crunching version of rugby played on hard asphalt. It sounds unforgiving but Grant says he actually enjoyed it because it was the only opportunity for physical contact.
He read books, often many times overs. He bought cigarettes, which he had to ration to three or four a day. Mainly, he got spectacularly bored.
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Things got easier when Grant was moved to Tongariro/Rangipo Prison, the low-to-medium security prison-farm at Turangi, where he would spend the rest of his sentence (which, in the end, was 13 months, plus his time on remand).
He got his own room and found that, "if you stayed within the rules, it was a relatively easy experience." He cut down trees, wielding a chainsaw badly, and befriended local farmers.
He says the hardest, scariest thing was trying to get his head around what he would do when he got out.
In the end he was, of course, able to found and build Waterstone. He's always been up-front about his past (albeit with coverage by NBR and other media about his escapades giving him little choice at times).
Life after porridge
By choosing to live a relatively high-profile life through his political commentary and newspaper column, Grant was aware his past would always be highlighted.
At times it has hurt. NBR initially resisted publishing anything by Grant. But his self-published pieces on business were so good that he eventually inveigled his way in.
Still, his past lingers. One member of the NBR View production crew, who knows people financially hurt by Grant's offending, was disgusted this interview was ever arranged.
"It's not on my website and it's not a point of difference that I look to sell my business with," Grant says of his background.
"But when you look at what I do — I'm a liquidator. I've got millions of dollars sitting in my trust account. I got out there, I ask people, I ask banks. I was in a meeting yesterday with Inland Revenue, asking for its support [with a liquidation].
"I look at it like this: People like you who don't have a conviction for dishonesty are entitled to a presumption of integrity; you are entitled to think that other people out there will assess you as an honest person. Your actions can confirm or dissuade people from their default position but you're entitled to that presumption of honesty. I'm not, because I have these convictions for dishonesty," he says.
"So, if people use that as their starting point, I can't complain about that. What I need to do is demonstrate as to why the wider commercial community and my staff and the banks and people who engage with me that I am entitled to be considered as an honest person despite what I've done in the past.
"And if I'm going to ask people to do that, then the quid pro quo is that, if someone like yourself says 'hey, I want to talk about this stuff,' I can't duck away and hide."
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Exhibitions drawing from the beauty of nature coming to The Civic
Exhibitions drawing from the beauty of nature coming to The Civic
The Gallery@ The Civic is proud to announce a forthcoming exhibition by acclaimed ceramicist Adele Howitt alongside a debut by Barnsley Artist Louise Wright which will bring sculpture and drawings inspired by natural forms into the modern building.
Organic shapes and textures flow through the clean lines of the Panorama. Inspired by pollen grains, Howitt creates detailed ceramic objects, which are appear as natural as they do alien. Wright also draws inspiration from living forms, with intricate drawings, almost abstract and pattern like and filled with a host of details. During the exhibition Wright will also hold workshops to pass on her skills and creativity to young people.
"For The Civic it's a fine opportunity to see the Panorama space used in this unique way, enabling not only art lovers, but also our theatre audience to engage with art." – Helen Ball, CEO at The Civic
Adele Howitt
While resident artist at Naturalia in Sevilla, Spain (2012), Howitt developed an interest in pollen grains and a new understanding of the natural world around her. At the same time she also rediscovered her pottery skills, and began pushing the craft to exciting new limits. Combining this research with influences from the countryside and coast near her Humber home, Howitt has utilised her strong technical skills to craft these beautiful and unique ceramic objects.
These core collections of sculptures that make up Ceramic Landscapes are also complimented by film and sketches, offering a fresh insight into the creative drive and working method of this accomplished ceramicist.
Howitt has previously exhibited across Europe, including the Steninge Slott Cultural Centre in Sweden, VI Biennal de Ceramica del Vendrell in Barcelona, Spain, the Ceramica Multiplex at Kerameikon, Croatia, and various RHS Gardens including the Chelsea Flower Show.
Louise Wright
Working in ink and watercolour, Barnsley artist Louise Wright is an obsessive drawer, creating incredibly detailed drawings inspired by microbiology, botany and nature. Wright occasionally ventures into printing and large scale drawings, but the majority of her oeuvre is painstakingly miniscule.
Wright has recently been selected to take part in The Sketchbook Project, which features 35,225 artists' books contributed by creative people from 135+ countries and is housed at Brooklyn Art Library.
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The Android Smartphone war is heating up and Indian Mobile Manufacturer Intex is about to send its competitor by February of this year.
All Android Smartphones already have standard features like Wi-Fi and GPS and now companies can stand up in the market only on two aspects. Quality and Price. With Price playing a much important role in developing countries like India. As the operating system is open source, the production cost for the companies are greatly reduced. So Every company is interested in creating their own Android Smartphone.
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Today we spent 8 hours (8 hours!!!) driving into the desert to stay with Lahcen's extended family and talk to them about his late grandfather who had been a story-teller in their village. Lahcen says the drive will take 3 hours. Around the 5 hour mark he tells us a story about driving with his father a long distance and his father telling him 'If we don't arrive today, we'll arrive tomorrow'. I think this might become a motto.
The reason it takes so long is partly because we have to go over the mountains - the perilous Tchika - which used to terrify Lahcen as a young boy. Noah doesn't seem fazed but he is mostly clamped to my breast to try and keep him asleep (having promised to provide us with a car seat our friendly car hire man never re-appeared so Noah is on my lap for the duration). When even the breast won't pacify him we resort to James Blunt - which we discovered has a strangely soporific effect on him and brought with us (a CD not the real person) expressly for that purpose. Now whenever I hear James Blunt I will picture the winding passes and stunning views over the Atlas mountains.
Finally we arrive and the welcome is all the more sweet for the long journey preceding it. Couscous, tea, a beautiful room in which Will, Noah and I are staying and a much needed shower! We arrive empty-handed (a huge faux-pas in Arab culture) but it is so late we can barely stagger from the car to the house as it is. So tomorrow we will make good and buy food for lunch.


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New Horizons Finds A Massive Lava Lake On Jupiter's Moon Io
A paper recently published in Nature details the research of a massive 'lava lake' on the surface of Io, one of Jupiter's moons.
The lava lake, known as Loki Patera, is the largest on the surface at 200 kilometers (125 miles) across. It's so big, that it dwarves lava lakes seen here on Earth, where our largest known lava lake is a mere 200 meters (600 feet) in width.
Using a process known as occultation, a team from the University of California, Berkeley (UCB) was able to indirectly observe the motion of the waves across Loki Patera to infer the size of the lake. Using this process, they were able to infer that the lake was shifting in temperature from 270 Kelvin to 330 Kelvin which suggests an "overturn" in the volcanic process – that can lead to the formation of a crust, or land.
An occultation is an event that occurs when one object is hidden by another object that passes between it and the observer.
As the team watched Europa cross Io's path using the Large Binocular Telescope Observatory in Arizona, they were able to get a full look at Loki Patera. The occultation process blocked out all of the external light and allowed for the team to focus only on the heat emitted from the Lake, an impressive feat considering there is over 400 active volcanoes on the surface of Io.
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Hey Whole Life Challenge… I'm journaling here 🙂 I haven't had a Quest bar, or any other cheat. I'm still not in love excited with doing this thing again, but I'm also not willing to give up on it. I made a really good and easy chicken soup in my Crockpot the other day that's been a god-send with this lame cold. Will make it again for sure! Even considering a batch to freeze cause who wants to cook when you're not feeling well? Nope. Just want to curl up with a good bowl of soup.
Crockpot Chicken Soup:
Layer your Crockpot like this:
- 1 medium onion, diced
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- 1 tsp sea salt
- 1 tbsp Herb de Provence
- 2 chicken breasts, bone in – skin on
- fresh ground pepper
- enough fresh water to cover veggies and half way up chicken
Cook on low for 8 hours. Remove chickens and discard skin and bones. Place back into Crockpot roughly shredded. If you have issues with your chicken becoming overly shredded, get over them or don't make this 😉 8 hours in a crockpot will do that! Delicious anyways. Enjoy!
Boo 😦 Steelers lost! The lazy Sunday spent mostly on the couch watching football I'm hoping made for a little bit of improvement with this dumb cold, although the feeling that I swallowed a bucket of razor blades that appeared this morning would suggest maybe not… Anyways, I'm still alive. Looking out my front door to find yet another fresh 5cm blanket of the fluffy white crap wasn't entirely welcome, but the pure bliss with which Yuko bounded out into it made me laugh a little at least 😉 And I PR'd my front squat. Not too shabby way to start the week! Although my original plan had been to go light and easy this week cause I don't want to be tired and sore for the comp this weekend… Couldn't help it. Just moving too well today to let the opportunity pass me by.
Part 1. For Max Reps:
5 minutes of max reps: Burpee Box Jump Overs 52
5 minutes rest
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Back Squats 2-2-2 #155
Front Squats: 2-2 #135 + 1 @ #155!!
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Ok, I'm sorry for complaining about the cough. It has purpose now, I won't get too graphic but I don't know how I could have so much shit in my lungs. Not ideal conditions for the WLC baseline workout, but that's reality I suppose. Our mini team hasn't discussed the game plan yet, but I'd like to use the "official WLC workout" from 2014:
In 11 minutes:
1000m row
In the time remaining, complete as much of the following list as you can:
30 Air Squats
30 Sit Ups
30 Plank Ups
40 Lunges
40 Bicycles
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50 Flutter Kicks
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100 Burpees
Your score is the total number of reps you complete.
Result – 201 reps (made it to 31 push-ups)
11 minutes of hell, but I made a little vow to myself after the last WLC that I would never do that baseline workout again. Or at least not until the memory of how horrible it felt fades… I'm not there yet. Not even close. Today's selection was challenging, but didn't destroy me for the rest of the day thankfully 🙂


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Throw a couple dozen dancers on a stage in a dark venue, set them in motion, and try to capture the moment. What happens?
A lot of fun! That's what! When the school asked me to come shoot their award-winning dance team at their Spring concert, there was no way I was going to decline the invitation. This is a dynamic group of young people with heart, soul, and passion, so it wasn't going to be your run-of-the-mill dance shoot. It was some of the very best in the valley, and I couldn't wait. This was happening!
Shooting from the side of the auditorium posed a few issues, but they were easily enough overcome by a combination of patience and "spray and pray". Catching action meant I had to set the shutter speed very fast, and the darkness forced an ISO between 1600 and 3200, but somehow I managed to get all the expressions and movement I could have hoped for. I tossed a lot of blurry pics, too, but the keepers made it worth it. This shoot was a sheer joy.
These shoots are so different than portraits, even though the intent is the same. Ultimately in both, you are looking for expression and telling a story of the individual(s) framed. In a portrait shoot, though, the photographer has some element of control in locale, posing, and the like. Shooting live action, you get what's put in front of you, and you follow where it takes you, and that is so much fun! You get a genuine range of emotions and you're capturing people who are enjoying themselves in a moment. That's what the Platinum Dancers brought, and it was my joy to try to honor that with the lens.
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Chikako Ikeguchi: Quiet Cry
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DOMANI ―The Art of Tomorrow 2005
〈The work of fellow artists sent abroad by the Agency for Cultural Affairs〉
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Here's the latest update from the Shoal Creek Protected Bicycle Lane Team!
We just hit 1,000 signatures for protected bike lanes on Shoal Creek Boulevard Thank you for your support! What's next?
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Decorum reigns supreme at Wimbledon, a bastion of middle class gentility where the British stiff upper lip never trembles on the hallowed Centre Court.
At the Australian and US Grand Slams, crowds whoop and holler for their favourites and French crowds sometimes love to boo any sign of gamesmanship from a player. Not so at Wimbledon, where etiquette is everything. The programme for the world's most famous tennis tournament even warns fans how to behave:
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Do not applaud a net cord or double fault.
Gentlemen are requested to keep their shirts on.
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"It certainly does reflect the British character," said Wimbledon spokesman Johnny Perkins. "This is all part of a quintessentially British experience — echoes of tennis and croquet in an English country garden with everyone enjoying themselves."
The contrast could not be more with Britain's raucous soccer stadiums and the "barmy army" of fans who follow English cricket. Golf is the nearest equivalent, Perkins argued. "Both sets of fans have the knowledge and the respect for the players and their fellow fans," he said. "The Wimbledon crowds are both knowledgeable and sporting. A lot of the people who come here are tennis players," he added.
Wimbledon crowds also revel in that perennial topic of British conversation — the weather. In the inevitable rain breaks that constantly pepper Wimbledon, they sit huddled under umbrellas stoically sipping tea from a thermos and glancing hopefully at the sky. Bookmaker William Hill are offering odds of 5-1 for a naked fan on court during the men's final and 4-1 at the ladies final. Decorum may be the order of the day among the fans but definitely not among the players, bookmakers believe. "It's a 100-1 shot that there will be no argument between a player and an umpire during the tournament. The spirit of John McEnroe is alive, well and still arguing," spokesman Graham Sharpe said.
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I feel Culottes are one of the most interesting trousers for women. Now you can wear your Culottes with a difference - style them with your favourite kurti! An embroidered or embellished kurti paired with trendy Culottes can make a great ethnic wear look for Indian weddings. Leave your dupatta at home and let your unique style be the centre of attention. The above monochromatic kurti from 'W for women' is instant love! You can buy it from here.
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Now that you have read this article, make sure you style your Kurtis in trendy and unique ways to make a fashion statement. Let me know which look you loved the most - I would love to know!
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