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Ted Barris is an award-winning author, journalist and broadcaster. For more than forty years, his writing has appeared in the national press and he has authored seventeen non-fiction books. In 2014, his Globe and Mail national bestseller, The Great Escape, received the national Libris Non-Fiction Book of the Year Award. He lives in Uxbridge, Ontario. He presents The Great Escape.
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Few people's lives are as romantic and adventurous as Liona Boyd's has been. She has performed around the world, sold millions of albums and won five Juno awards. Now this internationally renowned musician is releasing her second memoir, No Remedy for Love. Liona released her first memoir in 1998, In My Own Key, which thrilled her fans and became a bestseller. No Remedy for Love details her fascinating journey with the reinvention of her entire career and her lifelong pen pal relationship with Prince Philip. Liona Boyd, known as the First Lady of Guitar, introduced millions around the world to the art of classical guitar through her concerts, television specials, and 27 recordings.
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Another chance to get a free ticket to South Korea and showcase your hidden culinary skills.
The final will be broadcast at MBC should your selected to represent Malaysia.
Korean Embassy in Malaysia is organising "Taste of Korea" Competition.
For other country , please check with your country KTO or Embassy.
Yup a chance in a lifetime !
The main theme is Japchae / glass noodle. They will also provide the ingredients.
I would like to enter it but I'm not a good cook.
If there is anyone who needs help to review their dish, hey I'm here. Lol i can be your taster.
Anyway hurry up and register by 14 May 2014 . The competition will be held at UCSI
on 18 May . Click HERE for more info on the competition.
We can also come as the audience.
Somehow this competition reminds me of Happy Together Late Night Cafe...lol
I cant recall who but someone creatively replace noodle dish with japchae to create a simple late snack.Maybe a fusion food will be a winning entry ?
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Since I'm not a good cook , i can only enter this type of competition.
Ive been watching all type of drama including Saeguk drama, variety shows for like last10 years + since Jewel in the Palace and Winter Sonata i must have learn something... lol
I attend the preliminary test today at Korea Embassy . Some are easy and some are difficult.
The next stage is on 17 May. Well if i continue to talk bout it , it means i have pass the first round. hehe
Winner will represent Malaysia and the final is broadcast at KBS, KBSWorld.


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'Predator' Fan Theory Reaffirms the Characters' Masculinity
John McTiernan's 1987 sci-fi action/horror film Predator is possibly one of the greatest films of its kind. There are few movies that so gleefully embrace its concept to create a film that is as entertaining and iconic. It truly is one of those "must-see" films, regardless of genre. Lucky for us, it just so happens that it's about an alien that adores hunting and, according to Ernest Hemingway, "There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter.
But what if Predator was more thought out and introspective than we give it credit for? What if there is a deeper subtext to the film that has passed us by all these years? After all, at face value, the film is little more than a display of bravado. It's machismo of the highest order and I honestly have no problem with that. However, according to Reddit user Bosola, the film might have a lot more to it than we realize.
Bosola posits that the death of each member of the special forces unit led by Arnold Schwarzenegger is reflective of who they are as a person, as shown in the events leading up to their demise. In fact, it's that very same bravado and machismo that I mentioned earlier that portends their individual slaughter.
Bosola explains, "It's a well-worn idea that Predator is a film about masculinity. You have seven men each competing for alpha status, showboating their strength, stoicism, roughness and physical power. I'd like to go a step further. I'd like to suggest that the trials of the film are a test of masculinity, and that each man who dies does so in a way that mocks his masculine performance."
Let's get into the nitty gritty of this, as I think it's a fan theory that is well worth considering.
Scrawny, glasses-wearing radioman Hawkins is the first to die. Appropriately enough, he is the least successful in projecting his masculinity. He fails to crack bawdy jokes about his girlfriend's vagina, finds little useful intel for the team, and kills no-one during the guerrilla camp raid.
He dies when he runs after Anna and catches the attention of the predator. Out of context, the scene almost resembles a rape – Hawkins chases Anna and wrestles her to the ground. But this dynamic is reversed when the predator runs him through, drags him on his back, strips him naked and disembowels him.
Do you remember the joke he keeps telling? It's about how big his girlfriend's "pussy" is. The predator essentially carves him a fairly large one of his own. We see him moments later, dangling upside a tree, a gaping hole in his belly.
(A ghoulish detail: Judging by the naked marines Billy discovers at the start of the film, similarly skinned and upside down, the predator doesn't just disembowel men – it castrates them.)
Blain's not the weakest of the remaining crew, but he is certainly the showiest, with his enormous minigun. Blain has the most famous line outside of Arnie's: when he's shot in the arm, Ramirez rushes to his aid – "You're bleeding, man!". Blain's having none of it: "I ain't got time to bleed".
Indeed he doesn't. When the predator fires a plasma bolt through Blain's torso, the resulting wound is bloodless:
…Just like the others…no powder burns, no shrapnel.
The wound all fused, cauterized…what the hell did this?
You remember Mac. He's the one who snatches Dillon from behind, threatening that if he blows the team's cover, Mac will "bleed him slow and quiet". He's probably the least mentally stable of the gang: by far the most menacingly violent, and with a propensity to talk to himself. When the Predator escapes the team's trap, Mac takes chase, babbling to himself, mentally decomposing into a violent trance.
You'd think that if anyone can out-sneak the predator, it's Mac, but the predator has him sussed fairly quickly. Sliding on his back, Mac suddenly sees a target on his wrist. It runs over his arm and head and – blam!
At first, it wasn't obvious to me how Mac might have prompted this death in particular. But I recalled two things: firstly, that Mac constantly, ritualistically shaves his head. He's doing it right from the first time we see him on the helicopter. So a headshot seems appropriate, though I'll admit the tie is a little weak. (It may be the only one in the film, though, if you interpret Ramirez's death as neckshot.)
Another link? Mac's apparent madness makes his head his 'weapon'. He's just a little crazy, and that's supposed to make him scary, but there's no brain chemistry so unstable it can't be met with a well-placed microwave pulse. So mocks the predator.
The second thing I remembered is his threat to the predator the night before: "I'll carve my name into your skin". It's actually the predator that marks Mac, with his laser sight. The triangular target is the nearest thing we ever get to the alien's calling card, and it's traced over Mac's flesh slowly and carefully. Eventually it is visually 'imprinted' on his head by force.
A final, tenuous link: Mac promises to 'bleed' Dillon 'slowly'. Mac's own death seems to be the slowest: even when his forebrain is blasted apart, we see his body continue gasping and twitching until at least scene cut (and therefore implicitly longer). Everyone else dies fast.
Dutch's old friend from some unnamed army unit, Dillon is keen to show he hasn't softened with promotion into the higher ranks of military brass. He greets Dutch with an arm wrestle, and he loses. This turns out to matter.
Dillon has his arm lasered off and is shortly run through by the predator's claws.
This death is the most obviously telegraphed: it's the same arm. In the former scene, the arm is brought to the ground as it desperately pushes back; in the latter, the arm falls to the ground firing its weapon impotently.
Blond-haired and wiry, Ramirez isn't a major presence in the movie, so this one's a little tougher to read. If you can't remember, he's the green beret who gets hit by the log trap, sent flying and landing in a crippled heap. He limps along for a little while before being unceremoniously shot in the neck.
Ramirez's greatest swaggers happen in the guerrilla camp raid. Carrying a six-shooter grenade-launcher, his well-placed blasts fling enemies through the air over and over. I counted four shots of men being thrown towards the camera by explosions in that scene, and three of them belong to Ramirez. (The other is a grenade from Billy). The film fixates on these shots enough to conclude they're supposed to be impressive, so it's a pointed irony that Ramirez is thrown through the air in a similar manner.
Not convinced? There's a little ad-hoc addition to the original screenplay. When Blain boldly asserts he "ain't got time to bleed", Ramirez quips back: "Oh yeah? Have you got time to duck?". Ramirez is later crippled by a fast-moving log to the chest that everyone else jumps under.
Billy doesn't swagger. He acknowledges his fear, listens to his superstitious instincts and generally prefers to act rather than talk. He is granted the most noble death of all the soldiers: an off-screen fate that preserves his mystery and lets us imagine – or rather hope – he died bravely.
But he dies all the same, because he chooses not to run. And that is the difference between him and Dutch. Running is how Schwarzenegger's character survives. He runs and falls into the river, covering himself in mud. He backs into a corner, camouflaged thermally. He lets the predator chase him into a trap, which eventually proves the alien's undoing.
Of course, there's a practical reason for Dutch to retreat: the way power shifts between man and monster makes the scene engaging and tense. It modulates our fear and hope. But it's curious how feminine our hero's cries are when we hear them from the Predator's POV; they're high pitched and whimpering. Dutch doesn't hide his pain or his fear; in fact he's actually the least ostentatiously masculine of all the squadron – his masculinity comes from acting with instinct and knowing the land, not swaggering performance.
Turns out, that's the only real masculinity that actually matters.


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As it continues to fight to keep the Southwestern Virginia Training Center (SWVTC) in Hillsville open, the Carroll County Board of Supervisors is encouraging citizens to join the cause.
During the board's August 10 meeting, Supervisor Dr. Tom Littrell said the board is very concerned about the possibility of the local training center closing in 2018 as the result of a settlement between the Commonwealth of Virginia and the Department of Justice (DOJ). Littrell said the board is partnering with the Parent Advocacy and Advisory Council (PAAC) of the SWVTC.
"They have started a rally to try to keep the training center open," Littrell said.
The Regional ADA (Americans with Disabilities Act) Rally will be held on Saturday, August 29 from 2-4 p.m. at the Wytheville Meeting Center on the Wytheville Community College campus. Littrell said Delegate Jeff Campbell and other public officials will be in attendance. The rally will partly be to help the public better understand the Olmstead Decision and the Parent and Guardian rights for your intellectually/developmentally disabled loved ones.
"We are hoping there will be a big crowd there to support the board as well as the folks that are trying to work to keep the training center open," Littrell said.
As part of the DOJ's agreement with Virginia, the Southwestern Virginia Training Center is scheduled to close on June 30, 2018. Littrell said that in Fiscal Year 2013, the average annual cost per person for individuals receiving services at the training center was $165,418. At the same time, the average cost for an individual in the community receiving similar services was $140,611.
"So it's not a tremendous amount of difference between those two figures. As of June 5, 2014, there were 148 residents at our Southwestern Virginia Training Center," Littrell said. "And in spite of the fact it is slated to be closed, since 2005 the following renovations have been made – all bathrooms have been installed with new floors, new cabinets and updated appliances to the kitchens, new medicine cabinets, new fire alarm system, a backup generator for food service, new hood system, new shingled roofs approximately eight years old, and the gym floor is three years old, which seems strange if they are planning on closing in just a few years."
Littrell noted that a lot of people don't understand the Olmstead Act. It's not a law, but a 1999 Supreme Court decision that found the segregation of persons with disabilities constitutes discrimination in violation of Title II in the ADA. Since that decision, Littrell said the agreement happened in Virginia to close four of the five training centers in existence at that time. It came about after the DOJ initiated an investigation in 2008 of the Central Virginia Training Center in Lynchburg pursuant to the Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act. The DOJ then notified the Commonwealth that it was expanding the investigation to focus on Virginia's compliance with the ADA and the U.S. Supreme Court's Olmstead ruling.
"And the Olmstead Decision, which I think is a very important point that some people seem to be overlooking, states that it requires that individuals be served in the most integrated settings appropriate to meet their needs consistent with their choice," Littrell said. "In February of 2011, the DOJ submitted a findings letter concluding that the Commonwealth fails to provide services to individuals with intellectual and developmentally disabilities in the most integrated setting appropriate to their needs."
Littrell said when supervisors met with the PAAC, a lot of parents stated their choice was for their loved ones to be a resident of a place like the Southwestern Virginia Training Center. That is consistent with their choice, he said, as laid out in the Olmstead Decision.
"And so I hope you will support this group as well as the board as we move forward to trying to keep the training center open. Not only are we concerned with the residents there receiving services, but it is a fairly large employer of Carroll County," he said. "We have been unable to get an exact number of employees there, but we think it's between 350 and 400 employees. Please work with us and keep this ball rolling to try to stop it."
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Throughout my career in auto finance I have found that it can be difficult, especially for an independent dealer, to stay compliant while being pulled in numerous directions. Seeing the need, I started Northern California Registration Services to do just that, keep dealers compliant.


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If you read the "About Me" blurb in this blog, you will see that I claim to still be in possession of 2 of the 3 artifacts that I departed home with on my way to college: the boyfriend (now husband) and the canning kettle. Technically, the husband does not qualify as an artifact. (I know this, since I minored in Anthropology.)
An artifact is something that is impacted by man, a signature of his presence on the scene. Aside from acknowledging the role of my in-laws in his conception, I can hardly claim my husband as an artifact.
On the other hand. . . he is the world's chief artifact curator of farmer's junk. If it was used once, it can be used again: field fencing, screws, pieces of wood, cardboard, scrap lumber, and way too many coffee cans. So, he is preserving American culture.
If a catastrophic volcano (think Pompeii–wow, we aren't too far from Mt. St. Helens) wipes us all out, our property will be preserved for posterity and graduate anthropology students. They will dig through the remains of our property 200 years from now–they will see the work of Mr. Artifact. I'm sure they will wonder why these earlier people had so many coffee cans.


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Did you Know that NENGUN CO LTD has over 5 acres of available land to hold 20 or 40 foot containers. There would be very few companies in Japan with this type of land mass available. Did you know that the Nengun Yahoo Auctions is actually set up so that large volumes such Containers can be held on our premise and packed as each Auction is won on your behalf. Its quite simple for our Auction team to allocate you a code which allows you to bid without paying for the freight in advance because you are paying for the whole container once its filled. We have the most advanced system where you can download the packing list as you are filling the container so you know exactly what you have purchased and how much you paid for each part. We can even set up a community container. Basically you could have a Group Forums individually bidding on their desired parts. All you would need is a Gate keeper to organize the distribution of the parts once they arrived. Preferably the container would arrive in the same country and state for the forum members to collect their parts. We can also arrange from other venders like up garage etc to have your purchased parts sent via one of our containers.
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Kernel Recovery Tools has been known for providing the comprehensive data recovery and email migration solutions. The company has constantly aimed and worked in introducing solutions that are related to data recovery, email migrations, and other security monitoring tools. Offering some of the best data recovery solutions, the company has launched the latest Kernel MBOX Viewer software.
The Kernel MBOX Viewer software is programmed and optimized to run in the latest technological environment. In fact, the software is an answer for easy and complete viewing of MBOX email items without requiring the MBOX email-client. Furthermore, the Kernel MBOX Viewer software is integrated with a dashboard, which provides complete support to various MBOX email-clients. In the overall extraction process, this tool maintains the hierarchy and structure of email items.
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To explore the public's awareness of and support for the new Common Core State Standards and aligned common assessments Achieve commissioned a national poll in August 2011. It is not surprising that awareness of the Common Core State Standards and common assessments remains low given that implementation efforts were just getting underway. The voting public favors the idea of states having common standards and assessments and when given additional information about the CCSS, their support remains high. The challenge now is to maintain the public's—and educators'—enthusiasm for these initiatives as the CCSS and related policies move from being an "idea" to becoming real in classrooms. Read the press release [1].
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Since we launched in 2009 £5 million more has gone to charity, as a result of fundraisers choosing Virgin Money Giving instead of other fundraising websites. To celebrate this fantastic achievement and at raise even more for charity, we've challenged the Virgin Money Store network to raise 5 million pennies (£50,000) that is £667 per Store.
The stores are supporting either a a local cause or Virgin Money's corporate charity Anthony Nolan. Their task is to come up with a range of fundraising events to hit their donation target. So far we've seen ideas from wine tasting in Dorking to Marathon running in Belfast.
John, the Store Manager from Cheltenham even spent 4 hours cycling outside his local Asda superstore and the Kingston Store have organised a 'Benefit Evening' filled with live entertainment, a DJ, casino tables and an auction.
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ATLANTA, GA--(Marketwired - Sep 28, 2017) - Title King, through its parent Company, New America Energy Corp. (OTC PINK: NECA), announces that the Company has retained the services of Pickard & Company, CPAs to immediately complete the process of regaining current information status tier on OTC Markets. Proof that this process has been initiated shall accompany this announcement on our official company twitter feed at the following link: https://twitter.com/titlekingloans
Jeff Canouse, CEO, commented: "With our newly announced era of growth and our recently announced joint ventures, we want to ensure that our market reflects our commitment to maintaining full transparency moving forward. Furthermore, other business initiatives already planned over the coming weeks can begin to move forward as soon as we have attained the Current Information status tier on OTC Markets. I wish to thank our core shareholders for their patience as we complete the necessary filings and look forward to providing more updates on this process in the very near future."
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Based in Atlanta GA, through its title loan subsidiary, Title King, LLC, provides short-term high interest loans to consumers through the collateral use of car and truck titles. The Company operates in the alternative financial services industry, providing automobile title loans to consumers who own their vehicle free and clear and need convenient and simple access to funds. Other products offered in this industry include other forms of consumer loans, check cashing, money orders and money transfers. Consumers who use alternative financial services are often referred to as "underserved" or "underbanked" by banks and other traditional financial institutions. With store operations expected to expand throughout the South East, Title King expects to provide short-term loans to a wider reach of consumers. www.titlekingloans.com
Photos of our Title Loan store can be viewed on our Twitter account at https://twitter.com/titlekingloans
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Mayweather Jailhouse Letters
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Former Floyd associate Tommy Summers, A.K.A. Tommy Smalls, reached out to the boxing champion while he was incarcerated and tried to convince him that his longtime adviser, Al Haymon, had cut deals behind his back to hold fights at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas costing Floyd millions of dollars in the process. Summers also accused Haymon of funneling all of his fighters to rival promotional company Golden Boy instead of Floyd's Mayweather Promotions. Check the letters after the jump…


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The meeting of the Governing Board of Gilbert Public Schools scheduled for January 26, 2016 is going to be where Superintendent Christina Kishimoto will hustle board approval of her pet projects and unprecedented spending of taxpayer money. She wants those financial handcuffs taken off so she can officially do whatever she wants! What little oversight the board exercises will be a thing of the past, and that's exactly the point, it seems.
You know it will work – Christina Kishimoto now gets anything and everything she wants. It's like second grade, where the playground bullies yell, "Nanny nanny boo boo – we got three votes, so you lose." Yes, the losers include taxpayers, teachers and staffers who don't inhabit the district offices in the White Castle.
In the meantime, some Gilbert Public Schools' employees have not been paid. The Great Payday Melee continues. Superintendent Christina Kishimoto thinks her letter that employees can take to the bank will do the job when they get overdraft charges. Watch your credit rating carefully, GPS employees. But don't hold out too much hope that GPS actually will reimburse you for all the expenses you have as a result of their incompetence. No, they already have limited that to simple bank charges for BANK FEES that result from their failure to pay employees on time. Westie knows that's an artificial limit, and it will gob-smack you in the face when you realize how many OTHER expenses cascade from the failure of the implementation of the GPS software system known as Infinite Visions. This will be an uglier story as time goes by.
The Superintendent's *alleged* boyfriend's resignation should be effective at the end of this week. In other words, when the going got tough
and the Infinite Visions software implementation imploded, Executive Director of Technology Charles Stevin Smith, aka Steve Smith, bailed out of Gilbert Public Schools. Or maybe he bailed because of the anonymous letter about his *inappropriate relationship* with his boss, Superintendent Christina Kishimoto. Did he pay the $2,500.00 required by the hostage clause that other GPS employees are required to pay if they quit before their contracts are finished? Yeah, we don't think so, either. There are lots of *fringe benefits* associated with being Superintendent Christina Kishimoto's *alleged* boyfriend. Getting a $10,000.00 raise appears to be one of them. Notice in this fiasco that even Her Three Votes apparently approved of the Superintendent's dalliances. Too bad the whole "GPS is the Technology District" now is a total failure. Other school districts must be ROFLAO. Muchly.
One of the *recommendations* Her Three Votes will approve at the aforesaid Governing Board Meeting is $100,000 as the new purchasing limit that Superintendent Christina Kishimoto wanted for herself and her minions. We all know it's so gosh-awful HARD to keep up with the Superintendent's new spending spree of expected tax override dollars and new bond money. Christina Kishimoto wrote a memo that said surrounding districts have the $100,000 purchasing limit she now absolutely needs for herself.
Let's tune in to hear Superintendent Christina Kishimoto talk about the new contracting limits she wants.
Governing Board Clerk Jill Humpherys doesn't have any problem giving out these higher limits. It's not like $100,000 is a whole lot of money, she says. Principals can spend it in a flash in Walmart!
Trying to be a voice of reason, Governing Board Member Daryl Colvin says this is not wise; it's using a machete instead of a scalpel:
There's a cute little provision in Superintendent Christina Kishimoto's recommended changes to GPS procurement policies: she can contract for up to ONE MILLION DOLLARS in construction contracts without jumping through procurement hoops. Now we're really getting to what's important in her recommendations, don't you think? Here's Daryl Colvin's view on why this is totally stupid. But we all know Her Three Votes will approve:
We'll talk about teacher contracts in our next post. Another doozie coming up!
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I am very honoured to have been featured in the Georgia Straight again. Please direct your comments directly to the article and spark up some discussion! Thanks, Scott
Posted in Oxfam Vancouver | Tagged Activism, georgia straight, millennium development goals, Oxfam, scott andrews | Leave a Comment »
A whole bunch of activists came together last Saturday afternoon for a Flashmob to End Global Poverty. The United Nations Millennium Development Goal review summit wrapped on Tuesday, so we decided we would make some noise for the Millennium Development Goals! Check it out!
Posted in Oxfam Vancouver | Tagged Activism, millennium development goals, Oxfam, united nations, Vancouver | Leave a Comment »
Over ten years ago at the United Nations Millennium Summit 189 world leaders came together at the turn of the Millennium to make the most important commitments of our generation. The political climate for change was just right. The economies in the Western World were strong and progressive leaders like Bill Clinton, Kofi Annan and Nelson Mandela were centre stage. Coupled with the symbolism of the Millennium, conditions were perfect for a framework that would eliminate extreme poverty as we know it by 2015. We are now beginning the race to the finish line. With only five years left to fulfill these commitments leaders sat down earlier this week at the United Nation's Millennium Review Summit.
The Millennium declaration back in 2000 stated that all leaders would strive to "free all men, women, and children from the abject and dehumanizing conditions of extreme poverty". Despite widespread pessimism, this declaration was possible within the fifteen year timeframe the leaders put forward. With ten years of broken promises and negligible progress by most measures of Millennium Development Goals, we can still do it. We have the ability to drastically reduce poverty by 2015.
To put things into perspective, according to a recent Oxfam International press release, providing comprehensive education for children in all the poorest countries would cost 16 billion dollars per year. In total, all the rich countries combined donations are sitting at 4 billion per year. A recent article in the Toronto Star calculates that Canada's recent corporate tax cuts will cost our country 12 billion dollars in foregone revenue each year. In 2008, Canada dolled out 4.78 billion in Official Overseas Development Aid. This is about one third of the aid we committed back in 1970. In fact it was Canada with Lester B. Pearson at the helm who called the world to make the same commitment forty years ago. The Millennium Development initiative as held on to this benchmark ever since. In short, there is enough money, resources and skills available to accomplish these goals. What is lacking is the will.
I am not going to ignore the fact that many countries in the developing world, specifically in sub-Saharan Africa have systematic corruption and internal conflict. This however, is not a good enough reason to turn our backs on the possibility for progress. After spending time in Uganda, India and Southeast Asia with several development organizations I witnessed many of the obstacles to development. In the vast majority of cases it is due to the lack of long term commitments and far too much money being channelled through governments with no mechanism of accountability. Divert this through grassroots community based organizations and the situation becomes much brighter. To dig further into the roots of corruption we can look at the rifts generated during the cold war. Don't forget the massive multinational grab for resources by massive corporations. When accosting corrupt dictators, we have to ask who is signing their cheques.
I have seen top performing elementary schools in Uganda operate with only for only a few thousands dollars per month. I have met tons of incredibly gifted Ugandans with the skills and willingness to seize their destiny and work tirelessly for a brighter shared future. With unprecedented wealth and technology, we have everything necessary to put an end to the 50,000 preventable poverty deaths that occur each day. It's high time to bury the scepticism that is plaguing the mandate of the Millennium Declaration.
With the net increases in the world's wealth and I am more optimistic than ever that progress is possible. As citizens of a historically and geographically privileged country, we have an incredibly opportunity to join the movement for change. Within a few clicks of a mouse, you have the email address for your Member of Parliament and with that, the power to lend your voice to an incredibly powerful movement. There are many groups, associations and online actions to join. From hitting the streets, to joining a local advocacy group, it's time to stand up and make some noise for the Millennium Development Goals.
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It's just an accusation, but not out of the realm of possibility. I'll leave it to you to decide… It might also be useful to point out that Omar al-Bashir (President of Sudan) is the only head of state ever charged with Genocide.
Sudan: North guilty of using LRA rebels to destabilize south? – Afrik-news.com : Africa news, Maghreb news – The african daily newspaper.
The accusation comes a day after members the Darfur rebel Liberation and Justice Movement (LJM) were attacked by militiamen of the LRA in western Sudan.
"A group of LRA attacked our forces in Dafak in South Darfur yesterday, Their language was one of the ways we knew they were LRA. They probably have a relationship with the government of Sudan," Haydar Galucuma Ateem, vice president of the Darfur rebel Liberation and Justice Movement (LJM), was quoted by Reuters.
According to LJM officials, the attackers were identified as LRA rebels after they left some of their belongings behind as they escaped into Central African Republic, a neighboring country. Other reports claim that two small groups of about 20 young LRA rebels carrying small arms shot and killed one LJM soldier before retreating into dense forest in remote South Darfur.
But Justine Labeja, a leading member of the LRA, has denied the allegations saying "I don't see the reason why LRA should go up to Darfur to look for another rebel [group] to attack them. You know, on this planet, anybody is free to say anything about anybody. That is why I'm saying it's a baseless statement or accusation".
"The accusation they are talking about is very easy to send a monitoring team to go and verify what happened, why and where exactly […] If it was found that LRA did that, they have to account for it because what we know [is that] LRA has become so many on this planet, especially in the region.
"You can find LRA in Sudan. You can find LRA in Congo and you can find another LRA in Central African Republic. But, [of] all these, which one are we talking about?" Justine Labeja is quoted as saying by VOA.
South Sudan
And south Sudan, which engaged the north in decades of civil wars over ideologies and resources until a 2005 peace deal ended the combat, has accused the northern government in Khartoum of arming the LRA to destabilize the semi-autonomous region ahead of the south's referendum for independence scheduled to take place on the 9th of January.
Groups of LRA soldiers frequently attack south Sudanese villages near the border with Democratic Republic of Congo, according to the United Nations and south Sudan government. The UN has also indicated that over 25,000 people have been forced from their homes by LRA since the beginning of 2010.
While Uganda has also joined in the chorus to accuse Sudan's central government in Khartoum of providing support to the LRA, although northern Sudan deny the charges, US-based Human Rights Watch has warned that the rebels have gone on a massive recruitment campaign in the Democratic Republic of Congo and the Central African Republic.
"Many of the young people in the area say they [Northern Sudan] are arming the LRA," adds Ateem, the Darfuri LJM vice president.
LRA wants ceasefire?
However, LRA official Justine Labeja argues that his "group has often been used as a scapegoat for selfish different political reasons" whilst insisting that "the leader of the LRA rebels wants a ceasefire with the governments of Sudan, Uganda and the Central African Republic to jump-start the peace process ahead of south Sudan's referendum scheduled for January 9 next year," he told VOA news.
The LRA, headed by war crimes suspect Joseph Kony, moved into remote areas in neighboring countries like Sudan and Central African Republic, after coming under pressure from the Ugandan army.
The LRA leader has been on the run since December 2008 when regional states launched a hunt to arrest him after he refused to sign a peace deal with Kampala.
The LRA is known for their abduction of child soldiers and extreme brutality. And there is an arrest warrant by the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued to LRA commanders, whose tactics include mutilating their victims by cutting off their lips and ears.
Posted in Oxfam Vancouver | Tagged LRA, Omar al-Bashir, scott andrews, Sudan, Uganda, War Crimes | Leave a Comment »
Wow, it has been nearly five years since I have stepped into a University classroom. Needless to say, my first day at Simon Fraser University today was very exciting and much anticipated. I have been offline for almost three three weeks, so there were many shocks to myself in the pipe on this Sunny September 8th. On the activist front, there is so many issues to catch up on and I am so far out of the loop I don't even know where to start, but when in doubt, blog!
Before my summer hibernation, the backlash against the assault on Canadian Civil Liberties at June's G8/G20 in Ontario was buzzing, but since then Pakistan has been hit by a huge flood, the Sahel Region of northwest Africa is facing a huge food crisis and locally, some five hundred (or just under) tamil asylum seekers landed in Vancouver. While I don't have too much to say, as I have been starved of news in the past weeks, I wanted to give them a brief mention as I attempt to cure my writers' block.
Where I stand on all issues is no surprise, we need more aid from individuals, but especially from our Governments for Pakistan and the Sahel region. In the case of the Tamil Asylum seekers, we have to step back and realize that we are a settler nation. As Canadians, we are all only a few generations away from where these asylum seekers are today. Are we going to be haters or do we stand for something greater? Thanks to Duncan Campbell, a freelance journalist reporting from Vancouver with the Guardian for being a straight shooter in his recent article, "Sri Lankan Tamil refugees spark racism row in Canada".
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When I hoped off my bike after work this afternoon, it wasn't the sunniest of the days. Sunshine aside, being able to zip around the city at high speeds without the rain pelting down is reason enough to "carpe diem" and head for Stanley Park. After a quick snack and bumping into an old friend, I decided to head back to homestead only to find my bicycle tire went flat. Drat! I had built my routine around my new wheels. Finding out that I missed the bicycle repair shop by 20 minutes, I decided to hit up the local market for some tasty dinner options.
As I loaded my bike up with the groceries, I immediately started laughing (inside my head) that loading up and pushing vegetables on a bicycle in Vancouver requires a very specific set of circumstances, where in Uganda it's not only routine but a lifeline as pictured below.
This segue certainly put things into perspective. Spending an hour walking my decrepit bike from Stanley Park and to the vegetable market this afternoon was an inconvenience, it did not however, bear any dire consequences. I could have left my bike in the park and it would not have impacted my overall mobility or my financial situation drastically. I could have called a cab, or stopped at a restaurant for food and paid my with my credit card. Not only that, I did not have to carry water! That is the largest difference that came to mind as I walked the streets of Vancouver and compared my lifestyle to many rural Ugandans I met last year.
All in, it was kind of fun having people flash me strange glances as I pushed my bike down the streets with fruits and vegetables draped from the handlebars. If only everyone knew how common an activity this is in many parts of the world.
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Canadian Politics | Scott Andrews: For Distribution July 2, 2010
Yesterday marked Canada's 143rd Birthday. 2010 has been brimful for our juvenile nation, though we have not behaved well this year. I am an extraordinarily proud Canadian, I believe that Canada can be great, but this July 1st, less that one week after the largest mass arrest in Canada, I am embarrassed.
Canada has accomplished many great feats in the past, many of which I share with people when I am traveling and think of when I sport our Maple leaf. A Canadian invented peace keeping, we see health care as a human right and in the past we have opened our doors and provided safe homes for refugees. Canadian forces stood their ground in 1994 when one the most devastating Genocides in Human History swept through Rwanda, and in 2003 we clenched our jaw and told George Bush that we will have no part in his invasion of Iraq.
Fast forward to 2010 and we live in a much different Country. In 2004/2005 Canada started tapping into the Athabasca Oil Sands, which became commonly known as the "Tar Sands". In 2006, Canada cut funding to all Women's groups who engage in advocacy. Just a few months ago our minister of finance bragged "We are staying on course to having the lowest corporate income tax rate in the G7 by 2012.″ To top off the emetic assault on Canada's working class, this weekend marks the debut of the HST – a consumer tax, which by all definitions is regressive, ie: hurts poor people. The bill for the Vancouver 2010 Olympics was nearly 50% greater than our entire annual Overseas Development Assistance.
Two weeks ago I was in Toronto with Oxfam Canada for their National Assembly and for the lead up to the G20 meetings. On Saturday June 18th, I took part in a peaceful protest rallying against Canada's imposition of the "Gag Rule" which bars funding to groups in the third world who provide safe abortions (The Global Gag Rule prohibits US family planning assistance to foreign non-governmental organizations (NGOs) that provide abortion-related information or services, even if these services are legal in their own countries and are funded with their own money. The rule prevents NGOs from even participating in public debates or speaking out on issues concerning abortion.) Our rally pictured below featured a few hundred activists taking to the streets and participating in a rally. We were met by dozens of Police on bicycles who did not let us take one step on the road. After participating in a Gaza Solidarity march in Vancouver a few days earlier, I was shocked at how overbearing these police were. The events that took place the following weekend, however, are the reason I am not wearing a Maple Leaf on my chest this Canada day.
I was back on the West Coast for the Vancouver Peoples' Summit, so I was fortunately spared the baton and the substandard detention cells. With Canada having spent one billion dollars on security for the G20 summit, $12 million per hour, The French Prime Minister Nicholas Sarkozy was quick to announce that he will do next year's G8/G20 for one tenth the cost. Amidst so many recent cuts to social spending, a billion dollars on security is not only a slap in the face, but an indicator as to what kind of a society our government is looking to create. A police state that makes no attempt to tackle the underlying causes of poverty and crime is not the type of Canada I want to be a part of.
To dig a little further into what exactly happened last weekend on the streets of Toronto, a few inconsistencies begin to emerge. The mainstream media has been repeating the images of the "black bloc" protestors who lit two police cars on fire and broke several windows in the financial district of Toronto. For those of you unfamiliar, black bloc protesting is a tactic (not a group) which entails wearing black clothing and balaclavas to hide your identity, often with violent intent. It goes without saying that violent protest at the G8/G20 is counter productive and absolutely unacceptable. Peaceful demonstrations on the other hand have been pivotal in turning the tides in the civil rights movements, women's emancipation and in the ongoing struggle for universal human rights. From the actions of the Toronto Police during this monumental summit, the target was undoubtedly the peaceful activists.
With 20,000 police and a one billion dollar budget, it would seem that stopping the violence that was taking placed shouldn't have been too much of an issue. This rings especially true when we consider the violence happened right in the middle of the financial district in downtown Toronto. Joe Wenkoff, a photo journalist recounts his first hand experience in a video posted online.
"At the end of the Protest reached Queen and Spadina at around three o'clock, somewhere between seventy five and one hundred black bloc members rallied. They left the main protest and started quickly back down Queen street heading east. On the way they encountered two police cars, with the police in them, which they attacked – broke windows. There were riot police at the intersections at each street that went South from Queen street into the Financial district, but they did not engage the protestors, they just watched them go smashing windows and spray painting.
From there they turned south on Bay street and started into the Financial district. There were three police cars abandoned in the intersection and King and Bay. The black bloc started smashing the police cars and set one of them on fire. After around fifteen minutes they walked North on Young street smashing windows along the way. There were no police to be seen anywhere. The streets were full of people just doing normal things. At 4:20 they reached College where they smashed more windows on their way back to Queen's park. They also smashed some windows at a police station. When they arrived back at Queen's, they had all huddled in a circle to remove their black clothing and then after I lost track of them – they all blended into the crowd with the peaceful protestors.
After about half an hour, the riot police began moving into the protest zone in Queen's park. Another group of riot police came from behind Queen's park and surrounded the protestors. They squeezed the bystanders and protestors as they pushed us back, hitting us with batons. They hit me in the back and my field producer in the hand, breaking his finger. They were also pepper spraying the protestors at that time. We knew we were going to follow the black bloc, so we wore helmets for protection. But we ended up needing them for protection from police more so."
After only short reflection, it is very clear that police were not interested in stopping the violence. From Joe's videos it is very clear that the riot police waited at the intersections and watched the protestors smash the police cars that were strangely abandoned in the middle of the road. Nine hundred people were arrested, but consider the fact that the police allowed the black bloc to disperse into the crowd.
Having witnessed the police set up a week prior to the G20 summits and bearing witness to the security during the Olympic Games in Vancouver, I am outraged. Outraged at a very strategic and political display of force that aims to subvert and discredit civil society. This Canada Day I am taking the day to reflect on the fact that I cannot take for granted that my country respects the rule of law and values human rights. In this situation of manufactured chaos and panic we forget that an active civil society strengthens democracy. If you have taken the time to see past the thirty second clip brought to your familiar media conglomerate and pieced together the puzzle, please speak up and lend your voice to the chorus that is calling for accountability for what happened Saturday June 26th on the streets of Toronto. To quickly take action, join the Facebook group and sign the petition on Amnesty International's website demanding a Public Inquiry into the Toronto G20.
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Jacob/Mathias/Christian/George Adreon
I am an Adrian descendant as shown below:
Benjamin Sedgwick/Sarah Adrion, b. abt 1746
Jacob "Sedgwick" Adreon/Keturah Cole - Maryland/Ohio
Jacob Adrian/Elizabeth Rowland - Maryland/Ohio
Joseph Adrian/Sarah Palmer - Ohio/Indiana
Winfield Scott Adrian/Laura Belle Rowland - Ohio/Michigan
Ethel Adrian/Charles Peters - Ohio/Michigan
Listed below is a link to a website that shows Sarah Adrion's four sons changing their last name from Sedgwick to Adreon on January 25, 1806.
Passed Jan. 25, 1806.CHAP. V.
An Act to change the Names of Jacob Sedgwick, Matthias Sedgwick,
George Sedgwick and Christian Sedgwick, to the Names of Jacob
Adreon, Matthias Adreon, George Adreon and Christian Adreon.
Lib. TH. No. 1, fol. 4.A Private Act.
I have a copy of Christian Adrian's Will where he leaves land to Sarah's four sons.It is said that Christian, having no sons, wanted to make sure that the Adrian name carried on.In exchange for the name change, Christian left land to Sarah's four sons.
Please let me know if you have any additional information to share on this.
Thanks, Debbie


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What you, as horse owners, can do to help manage this challenging condition.
Cushing's Disease (PPiD)
Equine Cushing's is now termed PPID (Pars Pituitary Intermedia Dysfunction). This means that an area of the pituitary gland at the base of the brain overproduces several hormones. This results in raised ACTH1 which circulates in the blood to the adrenal glands and causes excess cortisol (a steroid hormone) to be produced.
It is a gradual age-related change so primarily affects ponies and horses over 15 years of age but recent studies have shown it to be evident in some 10-15 year olds.
A significant proportion of horses with laminitis have PPID.
Key points
- PPID mainly affects ponies and horses over 15 years of age but it should be considered in younger age groups too, especially if laminitis is present.
- A wavy hairy coat is the classic sign but often signs may be more subtle
- Diagnosis and treatment to manage the disease can result in a greatly improved quality of life and are crucial in cases of laminitis if PPID is the suspected cause.
- Laminitis - occurring acutely or as recurrent bouts and often unresponsive to treatment until the PPID is controlled;
- A hairy coat (hirsutism) which can become thick and curly often be preceded by patchy or late shedding of the hair coat;
- Drinking excessively and producing large volumes of urine (polydipsia and polyuria);
- Lethargy - this can be perceived by owners to be just a normal age-related change and the problem may only be appreciated following improvement after treatment;
- Loss of muscle with a dipped back and pot- bellied appearance;
- Bulging fat pads visible above the eyes;
- Weight loss;
- Excess sweating;
- The immune system is compromised making affected horses more prone to skin, respiratory, dental infections and parasite infestation.
DiagnosisBlood tests can be performed to help diagnose PPID.
There are several tests available but the most commonly performed ones are:
- The ACTH test - this is the most commonly used test, affected horses usually show a high level when compared to the seasonal reference range.
- The overnight dexamethasone suppression test - this involves collecting a blood sample at about 5pm just prior to an injection of dexamethasone and a second blood sample the following morning. Horses with PPID show a continued high level of cortisol on the second sample compared to normal horses. The test may be unreliable July to October.
- The TRH2 stimulation test – this measures ACTH levels before and 30 minutes after an injection of TRH. This can be useful to identify cases with a borderline result on the ACTH test. The test may be unreliable July to October.
There is no cure for PPID but the disease can be well controlled with daily tablet medication.
Pergolide is the drug of choice for treatment; it acts to control the over production of ACTH and cortisol and should be continued for life. Follow up blood samples will help to find and maintain the correct dose for each individual.
Good management is also very important:
- Clipping hair can improve comfort levels;
- Frequent checks for early identification of wounds and infection;
- Regular farriery, dentistry and worming checks.
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Hi Chandrasekhar G., I noticed your profile a...G., I noticed your profile and would like to offer you my project. We can discuss any details over chat. I am a Restaurateur based in Australia looking a get recipe costing under control.. I am still old school dont like software currently Just need excel database or may be access database. Can we talk
Hi, I have a school management system project that uses servlets and an oracle database connection. I already have the code, I just need someone yo set up the project for me and to run the project on localhost. I will provide Team Viewer access to my host computer. Deadline: 3 hours from the time the project is posted Budget: 15 USD. PLEASE BID ONL...
...have a scheduling database, but I need someone to review the code and add a few functionalities and additional reports. The database is a split database used to create schedules for a school with various units and divisions. I need someone who is extremely gifted in access databases and visual basic, and who can finish this project quickly and efficient...
...supervisor in a school, I am doing everything daily with manual papers. I want to create a database for students in our school, which related to: Daily absence, weekly reports, monthly reports, school exist permits, nurse permits, students behaviors tracking.. etc. I also like to make all of those reports done and recorded by access using FORMS. level
We have access to a database with just over 1100 schools, but need email address pulled for each school and each coach for the major sports (football, baseball, softball, volleyball, womens & mens baseketball, womens & mens soccer, track, etc). Each school has approximately 2-15 emails that are needed. Right now our database has 1110 schools
I have vb project for school , very basic for updating salaries information in access database. Program forms: - "Login form" is ready. - "Maintenance form" for insert/update/delete partially done 50%. - "Transaction form" to update a specific field in the database, after a calculation. This form is about to complete 85%. - "Rep...
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Hi Royalcalif, I have created a small database for my school project, and i'm struggling with creating two desired reports on the ms access based on the tables and data created. Could you please look at the report requirements, and help me with creating the queries to generate the required reports? It shouldn't take longer than 20min
...main goal for this project is to pin school data into a custom Google Map with in scattered format such that our parents are able to hit each pin to find other parents in their area to contact. This data will need to be refreshed from our school database via CSV or table view. We wish to automate this with our main school database. See below screens...
...made it different by different id .Add suggestion friends School passout batch,college,dob. Responsivity, Dp not visible on [login to view URL] private/public. , Create Page(Page Likes, Like comment share on Posts). Note:- Some more crucial project after this. a). Dynamic Website's Database & Hosting is available for Use or Development of Static
I need a new app for school project You can use any of 8 features from following list: • Persistent storage on device (using SQLite database) - [login to view URL] • Persistent storage using "app properties" (name-value pairs) - [login to view URL] • Persistent storage using file I/O - [login to view URL] • Use of Android's Menu button...
...it's just a demo and I don't need to publish it. I simply have to build the website and connect it to a database, say my laptop using odbs to Microsoft Access. when a user purchases an item the information gets stored in MS Access. it a school project so I have to keep it simple and good not do not make it advance. I only know HTML so if it can be ...
...[login to view URL] 3. I want to sell 2.5-5 million different t-shirts of very similar t-shirt design to every High School and City in America. Similar to this site: [login to view URL] 4. I have already setup an example directory structure
...created a somewhat ok api(100% php, no frameworks) but it is far from what is expected for an app like this. If you are interested, I can send you more details and the project itself. You do not need to style the app, I can do that myself, I only need the functionality both app and api to be done. Also, at the moment I have integrated firebase for
...created a somewhat ok api(100% php, no frameworks) but it is far from what is expected for an app like this. If you are interested, I can send you more details and the project itself. You do not need to style the app, I can do that myself, I only need the functionality both app and api to be done. Also, at the moment I have integrated firebase for


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|The NTP was issued on 5/24/2016 and the project was scheduled for completion within 420 consecutive calendar days of the NTP date, thus establishing a substantial completion date of 7/17/2017 and a final completion date of 9/15/2017.
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Saint Paul's Catholic High School in Wythenshawe has created an absolute cracker of a musical with its rousing production of Calamity Jane that fizzes with energy from the very start.
Calamity Jane can outrun and outshoot any man in Deadwood. Hard, boastful and desperate to impress, she travels to Chicago on the Deadwood Stage to recruit a star, Adelaide Adams. But things don't go too smoothly for Calamity, as everyone in town favours the new girl and she struggles to keep her jealousy and pride in check. It takes her long standing enemy Wild Bill Hickok to make her see sense, and realise her Secret Love…
Sarah Moran played the feisty, buckskin-wearing Calamity with gusto, telling tall tales and shooting (not to mention rooting and of course, tooting) as good as any man. She is a short-tempered firecracker who boasts of her amazing tales of adventure but then, "she's not exactly lying but she's careless with the truth."
Calamity is in love with Lt. Danny (Jacob Woolstencroft), but her real match is Wild Bill Hickok, a powerful spirited performance from the charismatic Jim Essien.
Petrina Emerson is the vexed owner of the saloon, Henry Miller, who has booked the voluptuous Frances Fryer (Cole Morris) to perform, much to the enthusiasm of the locals. But when she turns out to be a man owing to a misunderstanding in the spelling of the name, things turn nasty.
Jessica Murphy gives a fantastic performance in the role of the diva Adelaide. Hannah Ruddock is delightful as the ambitious Katie Brown who has been left Miss Adelaide's costumes and believes that she can sing as well as the star, who has now gone on a European tour.
This was very much an ensemble show with superlative support from Emily Burns as Doc, Rebecca Vesey as Rattlesnake, Oceana Cage as Joe and Olivia Lingard playing Susan.
Mrs Fiona Minshall, Head Teacher, said: "The show was directed with flair and panache and the set was superbly designed perfectly recreating the Golden Garter Saloon. It was a pure delight to watch. It was impossible to prevent yourself from tapping along to the music; I was desperate to shout out 'yeehah'!
"The cast were hairs-raised-on-the-back-of-your-neck stunning. They had such commitment and energy. I felt incredibly proud that they are our pupils."


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It's at the tip of my tongue.
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It's slipped my mind.
The thought escapes me.
It's left my head.
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DES MOINES, Iowa –Athletes are headed to the metro for the Hy-Vee Triathlon, and a few will use a high performance bike made in Des Moines.
Professional Triathlete and Ironman TJ Tollakson started Ruster Sports five years ago. This year, the company started making the Dimond Bike. Tollakson says, "We design and manufacture one of the most aerodynamic, if not the most aerodynamic, bike in the world of triathlon."
Tollakson says they tested the bike in a wind tunnel and found it performed 30 to 60 seconds faster than the company's competitors. He says, "Being able to go 30 to 60 seconds faster with the same amount of effort is an enormous advantage, especially when races come down to a lot of times being won by seconds."
Seven people work for Ruster Sports at newly created manufacturing space on SW 7th Street. It takes about two weeks to make, paint and ship the bike. Director of Engineering David Morse says it's unusual for a bike to be designed and made in one location. He says, "Typically you'll have the engineers who are very enthusiastic and very knowledgeable about the culture and sport based in the west because that is where cycling is most popular. And, then they rely on larger factories in Asia who are experts in carbon fiber manufacturing, and they will use those factories to produce their designs."
The bike sells for $7,000 to $13,000. Morse says, "That may seem ludicrous to a lot of people, but triathletes are really intense, really driven people, and they want the best equipment. And, we're here to offer them the fastest best bicycle."
A few people will use the bike in the Hy-Vee Triathlon. Tollakson will take his Dimond bike to Hawaii this October when he competes in the Ironman World Championship.
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Magician Display Beautiful Necklace in his hands, now he take his necklace in hand and cut the thread of necklace he separate all beads and drop into the Empty glass
he again cut the thread into small pieces and drop into the same glass.
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