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It's that time of year again, the Holidays are here!
I've picked out a few things I'm just dying to get this year, a lot of them for our new home! The boots are inspired by our move upstate so I can stay warm while sleigh riding and trudging in the snow, plus they are super cute! Of course, I had to throw a bag in there, I am a girl after all!
These malas are my all time favorite, I already have one but want a half Mala to layer now, since my other is blue, I'm thinking Pink!
Hopefully these will inspire you for some last minute gift giving ideas, or to add to your own wish list if your style is rustic chic like me! I have included the links to everything below, alas the Eat sign is not available at the moment but can we found in the Sundance Catalog when it is!
What do you think? Are you putting any of this on your wish list this year?!
Women's Sorel for J.Crew Joan of the Arctic Boots
Nala Malas Beautiful collection of unique handmade Malas


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The long-term goal for every side in the Baywide Premier rugby competition is to finish in the top four and secure a spot in the semifinals.
After two rounds, Whakarewarewa and Rotoiti sit third and fourth respectively but both are well aware that it is early days.
The two Rotorua sides met last weekend, with Whakarewarewa winning 23-19 and claiming the Tai Mitchell Shield which Rotoiti had a firm grip on for more than a year.
Whakarewarewa are flying high after the win over their local rivals, but will be up against it when they travel to second-placed Te Puke. Both teams have won two from two in the second round.
Whakarewarewa coach Boxer Smith said a strong start to the second round had been a key focus for his side, but this weekend would provide a true test of how they were tracking.
"This is going to be the benchmark for us this weekend. Our focus has been to start this championship round well. We are currently two from two and we are trying to get a win again this weekend to consolidate our place in the top four, but also top two to get a home semi," Smith said.
He said his forward pack had been training hard after being exposed against Rotoiti.
"Rotoiti found our weakness in the scrum and that is something we have worked hard at this week in training. Our focus will be to shore up our scrum so we can target the set piece. If we can compete and win our own ball and make it hard for them then I think we will do well.
"We do know that Te Puke is very structured. They have big forwards and our hardest job will be to nullify their strengths and exploit their weaknesses."
Meanwhile, Rotoiti host Mount Maunganui, the side that beat them 41-8 in last year's final. However, Rotoiti redeemed themselves in round one this year with a convincing 33-3 win at home.
They will be looking to bounce back from their Tai Mitchell Shield loss.
Rotoiti coach Richard Francis felt there were decisions that did not go his side's way during last weekend's clash with Whakarewarewa, but was pleased with the team's effort, considering the number of players they had out injured.
"It showed our depths in the backs, they did well," Francis said after the game.
Farmlands Co-operative Baywide club rugby draw
Premier 1
(Premier kickoff 2.45pm, Development 1pm)
Te Puna v Tauranga Sports at Maramatanga Park, Te Puke v Whakarewarewa at Murray Salt Stadium, Greerton v Rangataua at Greerton Park, Rotoiti v Mount at Emery Park.
Premier 2
(Premier kickoff 2.45pm, Development 1pm)
Arataki v Te Teko at Arataki Park, Waikite v Opotiki at Bellvue Road, Ngongotaha v Whakatane Marist at Ngongotaha Domain, Marist St Michael's v Rangiuru at Marist Park.
Division One
(Kickoff 2.45pm)
Paroa v Judea at Lawson Park, Waimana v Ruatoki at Waimana Domain, Papamoa v Kahukura at Gordon Spratt Reserve, Poroporo v Murupara at Poroporo Park.

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Making a Quilt Pinwheel
-Fabric (at least 2 varieties to vary the pinwheel, I used 8 here)
-Rotary Tool
-Cutting Mat
-Straight Pins
-Sewing Machine
-Ironing Board
1. Cut 4 ½ inch squares or any desired size as long as all the squares are even. Diagonally cut the squares into triangles.
2. Lay out triangles until you are happy with how your pinwheel looks. I had to try a few ways until I was satisfied.
3. Take the two fabrics that make a square, lay face to face and pin together. Sew a quarter inch seam down the long, flat side of the triangle.
4. Repeat with all your triangle squares. Iron seams flat to show the square you have created.
5. Take the two squares that form the right side of your pinwheel and lay them out on the table in the pattern you want your finish product to look like. Fold over the top square face to face on the bottom square. Pin the pieces together and sew a quarter inch seam. Repeat on left side. Make sure you lay them out so that your pattern stays intact after sewing. There is nothing more frustrating than realizing you sewed the wrong side and having to seam rip. Iron seams flat.
6. Lay the left and right pieces next to each other on the table, making sure it is face up and matches your desired pattern. Fold over the right side on top of the left face to face. Pin in place, once you have made sure the center seams are aligned, and sew a quarter inch seam. Iron seam flat.
7. Voila- you have made your first pinwheel. Now repeat as many times needed to finish your desired quilt design.
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text: Spent all day waiting at the hospital ... finally at 4pm, I was taken to the Heart Cathe Lab procedure room. I was given some drugs and knocked out. Then the procedure was done. Around 6:30pm, I was taken back to my room and I promptly fell asleep. At 9pm, I was awakened when my doctor came in. They found that the artery where I have one of my stents is narrowing which could be the source of the chest pain. I did not have a "silent heart attack". Praise God for His blessings today.There is another area of my heart that has atrophied. It just doesn't work which stresses out the other parts of my heart. I have about 30% heart function. I've known about most of this so it wasn't any new news. My doctor did give me the okay to resume all of my activities after a few days of rest. He didn't think that I was over doing things. He did prescribe an antacid medication for my severe acid reflux. So all is going to be well. Thank you everyone for all of your prayers, good thoughts, great wishes and so forth. Hope everyone will have a Merry Christmas and Happy Holiday season.


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Chinese Activist Overjoyed By New Freedom
Associated Press Writer
A Chinese democracy activist who was released from jail and flown to the United States is overjoyed by his new freedom but awed by the task of starting his life over at 59, his daughter said Wednesday.
Xu Wenli, freed after four years in a Chinese jail, spent the day catching up with his family and sleeping off jet lag after arriving in New York, said his daughter, Xu Jin.
"It's overwhelmingly joyful," the daughter said. "There are just a lot of emotions, and it's going to be hard. To start your life all over _ that's tough, but we'll get through."
Xu Wenli was jailed after trying to set up the opposition China Democracy Party with other activists. The communist government quickly crushed the party and sent dozens of members to prison, sentencing Xu to 13 years.
He was freed Tuesday after intense lobbying by Clark Randt, the American ambassador to Beijing, and repeated requests for his freedom by U.S. legislators visiting China.
The release came a week after U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Lorne Craner said he had appealed to Chinese officials in human rights talks in Beijing to free Xu.
Xu and his wife, He Xintong, flew from Beijing to Chicago, where they met 30-year-old daughter Xu Jin. The family then flew to New York City.
"It's nice to be a free man, to be with my wife and daughter," Xu Wenli said after touching down at New York's LaGuardia International Airport. "Because of them I am free."
Xu is the first person convicted of endangering state security _ a charge that has been used against leading Chinese dissidents _ to be released early from prison, according to American human rights activists.
He was also arrested in 1979 for advocating greater political freedoms during the Democracy Wall movement. He was imprisoned from 1982 to 1993 on charges of counterrevolution.
The family is staying with friends in Manhattan for a few days before traveling to Pawtucket, R.I., where Xu Jin lives and teaches at a private high school.
Xu Jin said in a telephone interview said her father had not yet determined what he would do in the United States.
"I think we'll just go around to see friends, and enjoy vacation, and then go on to a new life," she said. "We'll take it one day at a time."
Xu, who suffers from hepatitis B, was granted medical parole by the Chinese government.
China has rid itself of other prominent political prisoners by paroling them on health grounds _ usually on condition that they go into exile, most often in the United States, where they lose their political influence in China.


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So now we know at least part of the reason Donald Trump is sure there are millions of illegal voters who kept him from winning the popular vote in the election he won: When he told members of Congress all about the millions of illegal voters, he illustrated it with a moving anecdote about pro golfer Bernhard Langer, a personal friend of his (whose daughter says he barely knows Trump), who was prevented from voting but saw two people who didn't look like real citizens get ballots. Except Bernhard Langer is a German citizen and never would have tried to vote here anyway. All clear now? Fine, we shall untangle a bit. But It's Mad Lord Trump we're talking about, so don't expect everything to add up.
According to three people who attended the reception and spoke to the New York Times, Trump told this version of the story, which was later contradicted by a White House official who cleared things up some: Trump's good personal friend Bernhard Langer, who's won the Masters twice, bigly, was standing in line to vote at his local polling place in Florida when the following incredible experience occurred: Langer was told by a poll official he wouldn't be allowed to vote. BUT THERE'S MORE:
Ahead of and behind Mr. Langer were voters who did not look as if they should be allowed to vote, Mr. Trump said, according to the staff members — but they were nonetheless permitted to cast provisional ballots. The president threw out the names of Latin American countries that the voters might have come from.
Mr. Langer, whom he described as a supporter, left feeling frustrated, according to a version of events later contradicted by a White House official.
Disgusting and horrible, huh? These clear illegals were allowed to vote — or at least given provisional ballots, which means maybe they weren't — but a loyal Trump supporter wasn't!
Oh, except the whole story is bunk, and even the Times's reconstruction of the one anecdote turns up multiple versions. Yes, Bernhard Langer lives in Boca Raton, but he's a German citizen with permanent U.S. residence, and presumably not dumb enough to try to go and vote. His daughter, Christina, didn't have a lot to say about the story:
"He is a citizen of Germany," she said, when reached on her father's cellphone. "He is not a friend of President Trump's, and I don't know why he would talk about him."
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She said her father was "very busy" and would not be able to answer any questions.
Fine, but Trump's seen him golfing, maybe, so he's a close friend and a supporter, probably. How could anyone not be?
Ah, but according to a "senior White House staff member, who was not at the Monday reception but has heard Mr. Trump tell the story," the story really goes like this: Langer saw Trump in Florida over Thanksgiving week, and the events happened to a friend of Langer's who'd been kept from voting. So you have one version from the Trump staffer who wasn't there, and another told by staffers who were. Either way, the story bombed with the Congressional leaders, but it really made a big impression on Donald Trump, who sets national policy based on anecdotes.
In unrelated news, Yr Wonkette has learned Mr Trump has directed the Consumer Product Safety Commission to look into the epidemic of cases of little old ladies trying to dry off their poodles in the microwave. The FBI is also reportedly re-opening its manhunt for the notorious serial killer of young couples making out in cars in secluded areas, a one-handed murderer known only as "The Claw."
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When I listen to music, I often pay more attention to the instrumental rather than the lyrical aspects, although I try to be cognizant about what is being said. Musicians often use their music to state their social, political, religious, or other views, which means that I often find myself listening to music with which I do not philosophically agree. To take one example, I do not necessarily endorse the political views of the Clash.
Some people are able to listen to music with which they do not agree, and some do not. Some, however, believe that the music itself is reflective of a political view.
Take this Guardian blog post entitled "Spandau Ballet: The sound of Thatcherism." It's not a compliment.
Thatcherism was about more than politics. It was, obviously, also a cultural phenomenon that transformed British society....
Maybe pop writers loved the avowedly anti-Thatcherite likes of the Smiths – and we certainly still hear plenty about them from pop writers – but the records people were buying were made by musicians who reflected the aspirations and assumptions of the time, even if they did so unwittingly. They were buying records by people like Spandau Ballet.
For purposes of the post, Thatcherism is defined as more than a political movement.
[T]he link between Spandau Ballet and Thatcherism is about more than the personal politics of Tony Hadley. It's about the emptiness of Spandau, the aspiration to do nothing more than look good in a nightclub, the happy embrace of style over substance.
But if you use that definition, there are a number of bands that could be lumped into the Thatcherite category. Perhaps Madness and Depeche Mode would be excluded, but Duran Duran didn't really delve into politics all that much, nor did Culture Club. ("War is stupid" does not rank as the greatest political manifesto of all time.)
And there are plenty of bands from other decades who emphasized style over substance, or sometimes both. The Beach Boys and the Beatles are two examples of bands that played both sides of the fence, and there are die-hard fans of both bands that feel that they either got better or worse in the Pet Sounds/Revolver period.
In my view, the first question is whether the artist in question put out good music that reflected his/her/their views - I can deal with the specific views later. And, measured by that metre-stick, Spandau Ballet passed the test.
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In pursuing its Christian calling, the Council shall uphold:
The Dialogue Reference Group (DRG) of the Multi Sectoral Forum, has met here at ACK Guest House, Nairobi, to take stock of the state of the nation as Kenyans make final preparations for the elections to be held on Tuesday next week. In our consultations, we took to heart the exhortation of Psalms 133: 1 and 5
How good and pleasant it is when brothers live together in unity… for there the Lord bestows His blessing, even life forevermore.
This is the hope that we wish to share with the people of Kenya, that General Elections next week will leave our country better, not worse.
Our Brothers and Sisters, the moment we have been waiting for is here. We urge you to seize this opportunity to exercise your constitutional right and peacefully vote for leaders of your choice. We also urge you to respect the democratic right of other voters and allow them to vote for candidates of their choice. And as you participate in the elections, we counsel you to follow the guidelines provided by the IEBC officials prior to, during and after the elections. On our part, we strongly commend you for conducting yourselves with peace and decorum during the electoral period. Let us uphold this spirit of brotherhood and peace as we come to the close of the electoral process. It is therefore of great importance that you refuse to participate in demonstrations and any criminal activities since this could result in loss of life and property.
Further, we advice you to refrain from speculations and to consume news received through social media with caution as it may be propaganda and fake news aimed at inciting hatred and violence.
This Dialogue Reference Group wishes to express satisfaction with the preparations made by the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) for the General Elections. We have confidence that the IEBC officials and staff have done all that is humanly possible to ensure that the elections will be credible, free and fair. Now all that remains is to practically put the plans and processes into action. It is especially important that the Presiding Officers and Returning Officers refuse to be compromised so that the integrity of the elections is upheld at all levels. We only urge you to constantly communicate with Kenyans so that there is no space for speculation and propaganda in the minds of Kenyans.
We the religious leaders call upon all candidates for all the positions to explicitly instruct your supporters to participate in the elections peacefully and respect other voters. You also need to publicly commit to accept the elections results announced by the IEBC, or to file petitions in court if you are not satisfied with what is announced. You have no right to incite your supporters to engage in demonstrations or violence against other Kenyans should the results not be in your favour.
We especially request the Presidential Polls candidates Your Excellency President Uhuru Kenyatta and Rt Hon Raila Odinga, as well as the other presidential polls candidates, to conclude your campaigns by assuring Kenyans that you stand for unqualified peace before, during and after the elections.
Further to promoting peace, we urge all those who form the national and county level governments to explicitly be inclusive and show the face of Kenya in their teams.
We are aware that some politicians have organized gangs of youths to engage in pre meditated political violence, and then pretend it is spontaneous. This is a grievous and evil political strategy. Kenyans witnessed it in 2007 / 2008 and the country has never fully recovered from the aftermath.
We as religious leaders renounce in unequivocal terms this practice by some politicians to trivialize the sanctity of the lives of Kenyans, relegating their lives or injury to mere political capital. It is quite notable to us that none of their children or relatives are ever on the frontline of the mayhem.
We strongly advice the parents and spouses of youths who may be killed or maimed in political confrontations to sue the political parties that organised the chaos for compensation. We will be happy to be enjoined in such cases.
We as religious leaders wish to commend all security agencies for the efforts made to maintain peace and security in the country in the lead up to the elections. We now urge you to conduct yourselves within the law and serve all Kenyans equally without fear or favour. You must be firm and refuse to be intimidated by politicians as you fulfil your constitutional mandate.
We therefore urge you to take firm action against the political actors who are organizing criminal gangs that are visiting violence and terror on Kenyans across the board. Beyond engaging in riot control measures, we urge you to ensure that the sponsors of the groups are arrested and prosecuted so as to prevent a breakdown to bloodshed.
To achieve this, we encourage the National Intelligence Service to feed the other security agencies with updated and accurate intelligence so that they take specific and targeted actions.
We as religious leaders call upon all the media houses to commit to objective, balanced and factual reporting in appreciation of the sensitivity of the news you broadcast during this period. While we appreciate the competition to be the first to break news, we counsel that you take time to crosscheck and verify information before you share it with Kenyans.
We as religious leaders kindly remind our fellow faith leaders to take these remaining days to organise private and public prayers for the elections. Let us reach out to, and pray and counsel with all the candidates so that they are spiritually and psychologically prepared for the elections and the results announced by the IEBC.
We call upon whoever forms the next national government to coordinate national energies towards an authentic and inclusive conversation of all Kenyans to agree on a structure of national governance that is more unifying. This is crucial to facilitate attainment of national cohesion and integration as well as political, social, economic and cultural aspirations.
It must also be a structure that facilitates productive engagement of the youth.
This is the surest cure to the toxicity, anxiety and desperation that has characterized elections in Kenya.
We conclude by commending Kenyans for the continued commitment to peace and good neighbourliness. Let us approach the 8th August General Elections with hope and confidence that Kenya will emerge stronger and better.
Let us be confident that God has heard and will continue to answer the prayer we make through our National Anthem:
O God of all Creation, Bless this our Land and Nation, Justice be our shield and defender
May we dwell in unity, peace and liberty, plenty be found within our borders
May God bless Kenya now and forever more.


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Buying clothing online can occasionally be a very disappointing experience. What is more embarrassing here is when the clothing you purchased is ill fitting and nevertheless completely nothing you can make about it as you can return it. In any case, when deciding to get a certain type of dress, the first thing you have in brain is to have something that only put cover with regards to your body but that which supplies comfort and satisfaction a person. But when you do not derive utility from the product might develop a lot of money on, you feel quiet dejected and out of place. It is therefore important to be careful when selecting clothes get online.
However, there many websites, which came up with the concept of letting their customers take their measurements first before placing their orders about the. Most of these websites use the web cam method to ensure that what you are purchasing is in the right measurements. Something be surprised to find out that this method produces more accurate results than the ones taken by a tailor. For those who have been wondering how the whole issue can be dealt with, authorities that in the offing. There are a couple of systems that may possibly help. For example there is the UPcload gadget (deriving common history by simply mushing up "upload and clothes.") The will be aimed at helping companies to assist their online customers to find greatest fitting clothes without necessarily having to go into a dressing enough space.
Incidentally, the clothing industry is one of the most visited marketplaces everywhere around the world. It grows day by night and statistics show that come 2015, the US cloth industry can have grown to greater heights of $279 billion from online marketing $176 billion recorded in 2010. It is a research done by FORR – Forrester Research. However, factors concerns about the downward trend around. Many people tend to are put off by buying clothes online with most pros afraid of not getting the right fit and that 20% of all clothing purchased online are returned with owners citing size among other reasons.
In this case, many companies have now resorted to these kinds of system of allowing their customers to consider and upload their photos and practically try on goods in a bid to find suitable outfits. On another hand, if you are looking forward to buying your wedding dress online, it is that you are familiar with the right size desire before placing your order on the world wide web. Some companies use the system of size correlation across various retailers. What they require from you is detailed information on the type of clothing you wish to purchase so how they have the right size for your site.
As such, discover in this program are quite advanced as they involve the use of software so that those intending to buy their clothing online can pose for photos while put on tight dark outfits. They stand in front of a wall (white) with a CD in their hands. The CD helps to recognize the system's photo's software in order to establish the gap between the person and the webcam and großhandel unterwäsche come up with accurate calculations. However, it is also good to keep in mind that the system isn't fool proof. Utilizing the normal software, it will not be easy so that you can subtly differentiate the shading.


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Mark Thirsty visits sunny Nicaragua and sits in on the five gallon water jug with the local Gigante band Garland. It was a beautiful night at LaGaviota in the small fishing village of Gigante, as the band played to a friendly crowd from the Redonda Bay area. The Brothers are on a short winter break from their touring schedule but the music doesn't stop. MT sat in for the night playing guitar, singing, and banging on the jug. Mark would like to thank all of the members of Garland for their hospitality at this beach side gig.
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The one people love to hate
Tulsi has bettered her creator Ekta Kapoor because if Ekta changed the face of Indian TV, Tulsi worked as the adhesive which largely helped her do that, writes Kumkum Chadha.india Updated: Aug 10, 2008 23:21 IST
Wht Tulsi? What has she done except portray the Indian woman in the worst possible manner." Often heard from Tulsi baiters, particularly women's organisations who will never forgive her for the "I kiss the ground you walk on" image of the Indian housewife. Their objection is not to husband loyalty but the subservience that comes with it. In other words suffering in silence via glycerine bottles...
"But of course Tulsi. Who else but her? She keeps us glued to the TV." Often heard from fans who bless her. She has, they say, bettered her creator Ekta Kapoor because if Ekta changed the face of Indian TV, Tulsi worked as the adhesive which largely helped her do that. "It was because of Tulsi that one started watching serials" they say..
Vacillating between the why and but of course Tulsi, is Smriti Irani who in the course of her rocky journey, made more foes than friends, invited wrath and praise and dabbled in politics and direction while pursuing acting on the small screen. Consequently she became a household name and invoked divided opinion even within cohesive families.
Malhotra ki beti
She grew up as one and got tired of being referred to as her father's daughter. Mention him and Smriti aka Tulsi wants her father kept out: "Don't make him a villain," she pleads. But the fact is that despite her mini battles with her father, it is because of him that Smriti emerged.
Smriti's father (a certain Mr Malhotra) never encouraged her. He saw her as average and certainly not stuff successful people are made of. He was also fiercely protective of her. Therefore, one day, when she walked home all by herself, without waiting for her car, hell broke loose. Later as his employee in the family-run courier company, when she got a raise, her colleagues smirked: "Malhotra ki beti ko nahin milega to aur kise…..? (If Malhotra's daughter does not get a raise, who else will?)
Selling shampoo and mopping floors
But before all this Smriti had set up a makeshift shop in Janpath's shopping area in New Delhi. She had other pavement dwellers for company who could not figure out what an educated young teenager was doing on the streets. She was all of 16 (years) then. While others sold hair clips and safety pins, Smriti set up a herbal cream counter. Later she mopped floors at McDonalds. She appeared for the Miss India contest but never made it. Even the pressure cooker advertisement for which she auditioned did not select her because she lacked the "Indian housewife look". It is a quirk of fate that today hers is the face with which millions of housewives across the country identify.
Yet she sees herself as a "mere entertainer" who can rule hearts rather than minds. This perhaps drove her to politics where she failed to transform her star charisma into votes.
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Till Tulsi happened, Smriti wanted to do "what NDTV's Prannay Roy did". One day she landed at his office and demanded a job.
Had the news channel hired her, TV would be bereft of Tulsi.
Off screen, Smriti's baiters have been women rather than men. The top rung of Balaji Telefilms hated her guts; women's organisations decried her and her forays into politics generated enough criticism from women co-stars.
Men are a different ball game. "They are controlled by women. It could be his wife, mother or daughter. Except they are smart enough not to make a noise about it. It being a man's world is a fallacy," Smriti told HT. She has enough evidence to back this up given that her husband waits on her and contrary to her role portrayal, he kisses the ground she treads.


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President of the Surety and Fidelity Association of America (SFAA) Lynn Schubert spoke at the Iowa chapter's meeting in July. Merchants Bonding Company hosted Schubert's first-time visit to Iowa to promote SFAA priorities.
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The Pilbara in Western Australia is a region of superlatives: it has the world's most ancient natural landscapes of two billion years; Ningaloo Reef which is Australia's largest fringing reef at 300km, one of the largest on Earth; Tom Price which is the highest town above sea level in Western Australia; and the historic ghost town of Cossack which is the oldest settlement in North West Australia. It's also vast. It covers more than 500,000 square kilometres and everything from large canyons to deep pools. And it's also home to a massive mining industry that has earned the Pilbara a tagline of 'the engine room of Australia'.
Here you'll also find Rio Tinto's iconic iron ore operations, where the company has pioneered ground breaking technology like driverless haul trucks and trains. It's among the most technologically advanced mining operations in the world.
Where Women Work caught up with Rio Tinto's Kylie Jackson, a Mobile Equipment Maintenance Supervisor at the company's Paraburdoo mine, located 1528km north west of Perth.
Kylie supervises a team of mechanical and electrical maintainers who service and perform repairs on the mining equipment onsite such as haul trucks, excavators, dozers and drills. She is a talented woman - and her career with Rio Tinto is thriving.
We spoke to Kylie about living and working in remote Australia, what she thinks about working for mining giant Rio Tinto, and to learn more about what the Pilbara region has to offer.
Kylie has lived for the majority of her life on the East Coast of Australia. She spent her childhood in Victoria, Epping, and the Sunshine Coast. She studied in Brisbane and has worked in the states of Queensland and New South Wales. Kylie moved to Paraburdoo, a mining town in the Pilbara - a place she had never been to before.
The Pilbara is very different indeed from the rolling green hills and stretches of water in the East Coast where Kylie grew up. She chose to work for Rio Tinto, however, because she found the culture very welcoming and positive. "I developed a great feeling about Rio Tinto, its people and work culture right from the very first day that I came to the Pilbara for my initial site visit," explains Kylie.
Kylie's big decision to move across Australia for work came from her philosophy about life. "I want to experience as much as I can in life, take opportunities when they arise and continue to learn and develop with an open mind. This will enable me to continue in life with no regrets, no matter how long my time here on earth is," comments Kylie.
Kylie is an active member of Women in Mining, with whom Rio Tinto maintains an ongoing supportive relationship, and has extensive career experience in the industry.
"I started in the mines as a High Voltage plant electrician in the Hunter Valley in New South Wales. I stayed in this role for three years while filling into project and planning roles along the way. I then moved over to the mobile workshop as a crew supervisor and looked after the breakdown maintainers. I stayed in that role for three years and on many occasions I stepped up into the workshop supervisor role while I was there," explains Kylie.
Kylie's days are busy and varied. She monitors safety performance, supports the maintenance team's work progress, delivers orientation training for new contractors, and liaises with other mine site personnel including planners, inspectors, technical specialists, production supervisors and the warehouse.
Kylie says the Pilbara is both harsh and beautiful: the arid desert hides some of the most beautiful places in Australia. One of Kylie's favourite places to unearth is the Karijini National Park, the second largest national park in Western Australia. The idyllic oasis is famous for its emerald creeks, spectacular gorges and towering chasms up to 100 metres deep.
"Working for Rio Tinto is perfect for anyone with a thirst for adventure and a love for getting involved in outdoor activities - whether that's climbing mountains, swimming around the picturesque beaches, camping out in the wilderness, or driving around on scooters and go-karts," says Kylie.
Sometimes between working and exploring, however, people need some peace and quiet and that's where the Pilbara sky comes into its own. "The sky can seem a bit like a movie set backdrop. There is nothing interrupting your view for as far as you can see - 360 degree horizons, no clouds, just perfect blue sky surrounding you. Of course, the best part of this is the night sky where you can see stars galore lighting up like fairy lights," describes Kylie.
The idyllic serenity of the Pilbara also makes it a brilliant place to bring up young children, and there's also a strong sense of community and safety that may not always be present in urban areas.
Most importantly, working for Rio Tinto provides plentiful opportunities for women like Kylie.
"I was pleased to find high numbers of women in all roles across Rio Tinto - from operators to general managers," commented Kylie. "Rio Tinto's Pilbara operations offer a great way to gain a wide variety of skills in both your professional and personal life. Being a large business with so many job opportunities out here means there is no way you will be bored.
And there are financial benefits to living in a remote area too. Allowances for people living in remote areas support people to live in the Pilbara, with subsidises provided for accommodation and utilities. Overall, living in a small isolated town is great for making friends, bringing up small children and learning some important life skills."
See where your own sense of adventure and career drive can take you - take a look at what job vacancies Rio Tinto has in the Pilbara region or research current career opportunities in other areas.
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George F. Dark, FCSLA, FASLA, OALA, is an urban designer and landscape architect. He is a Fellow of the Canadian Society of Landscape Architects and a member of the College of Fellows of the American Society of Landscape Architects. George is the 2018 recipient of the Governor General's Medal in Landscape Architecture (GGMLA), the highest honour given to a landscape architect by the Canadian Society of Landscape Architects (CSLA). He has also received the OALA Pinnacle Award for Landscape Architecture.
George began his practice of landscape architecture and urban design in 1978. George's work focuses on the quality of urban environments and he regularly coordinates large groups of diverse professionals. He excels at guiding projects through complex design, approval and public consultation processes. In the past 40 years, George has directed numerous urban master plan and open space system projects for communities in Toronto and Ontario. He has also completed projects in PEI, Alberta, Rhode Island, Minnesota, Florida and Barbados BWI. George is Chairman Emeritus of the Evergreen Foundation / Brickworks, Chair of the Social Innovation Institute at CSI Toronto and a Trustee of the McMichael Canadian Gallery.
With over 30 years of experience as an architect and urban designer, Joe Lobko, OAA, FRAIC, LEED AP BD+C, has a broad range of experience on public and private developments with particular emphasis on urban design, adaptive reuse and the non-profit sector. In 2006, he joined DTAH as a partner with the merger of his practice Joe Lobko Architect, and in the same year he received an urban leadership award from the Canadian Urban Institute and became a fellow of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada. Volunteer efforts include serving on the Board of Directors for ArtsBuild Ontario and as past chair of the Toronto Society of Architects.
Notable award-winning projects include leading the design of renewal and restoration projects such as Artscape Wychwood Barns and Evergreen Brick Works; the planning and urban design of Waterfront Toronto's West Don Lands community (with UDA); the L'Arche Dayspring Chapel; Artscape's first legal live/work project in Toronto; the competition-winning Sims Square office building adjacent to Burlington's City Hall; and the Fort York Transitional Residence.


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A group of deportees, some sailors who jumped ship in New York, arrive at Pier 3, in Hoboken, N.J., May 1, 1952, aboard Coast Guard cutter Tuckahoe, prior to boarding the liner Argentina for Europe. The group is part of 269 to be deported in a single week, the New York District Office of the Immigration and Naturalization Service announced. (Courtesy of Associated Press)
In Harisiades v. Shaughnessy, 342 U.S. 580 (1952), the Supreme Court upheld a provision of the Alien Registration Act of 1940 requiring deportation of resident aliens who at the time of their entry or thereafter belong to organizations, in this case the Communist Party, that advocate the unlawful overthrow of the government. The Court decided that these deportations were not inconsistent with either the freedoms of speech or assembly guaranteed by the First Amendment rights or with other constitutional protections.
Harisiades, who had been born in Greece, was joined by individuals born in Italy and Russia who challenged the legality of their deportation by Shaughnessy, a district director of immigration and naturalization.
Legal alien residents do not hold 'vested right'
Writing the opinion for the Court, Justice Robert H. Jackson rejected claims that the deportation violated the due process clause of the Fifth Amendment, abridged First Amendment expressive freedoms, or was an unconstitutional ex post facto law. In addressing the first issue, Jackson stated that being a permanent resident does not confer a "vested right" on aliens equal to that of citizens. Legal alien residents are in America not by "right" but as "a matter of permission and tolerance." International law permits deportation as a "weapon of defense and reprisal." Moreover, this is a matter "so exclusively entrusted to the political branches of government as to be largely immune from judicial inquiry or interference." In a concurrence, Justice Felix Frankfurter pointed to the primary responsibility of Congress to deal with matters of naturalization.
As to First Amendment freedoms of speech, press, and assembly, the Court had established in Dennis v. United States (1951) that none of these rights "include the practice or incitement of violence." Moreover, the Court held that the law did not violate the ex post facto clause because it involved a civil rather than a criminal matter and was consistent with earlier laws on the subject.
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Veteran defender Per Mertesacker has warned his teammates ahead of Tuesday's clash against German giants Bayern Munich, stating his belief that the Bundesliga Champions are a much stronger side compared to last year (via Goal.com). Bayern are always a strong contender for the Champions League, and were semi-finalists last year as well, before being knocked out by eventual winners Barcelona.
But Mertesacker believes that the German champions have 'evolved' even more since then, with the purchases of Douglas Costa and Arturo Vidal over the summer making them even stronger. This is in addition to their already star studded squad, which includes the likes of Manuel Neuer, Mario Gotze, Thomas Muller, and goal machine Robert Lewandowski. Bayern are also on a hot streak of form at the moment, having won all of their last twelve games – while scoring 40 goals and conceding just five. Although Arsenal will enjoy the home advantage tomorrow, it will still be a massive uphill task for us to get a win over the group leaders. It is something we absolutely have to do though, to ensure that we still have a chance to progress in Europe.
Speaking to Goal, Per confirmed that the team knew it was an enormous challenge, "Due to the two defeats [in the group stages], we are facing one of the biggest challenges that a club can face.
"It is hoped that you can get closer [to the top teams] over the years, but the problem is that Bayern are constantly evolving, conjuring up new players like rabbits out of a hat, which again make the difference.
"That makes it even more difficult to beat them at the moment."
We have received a minor boost on the personnel front, as Munich winger Arjen Robben is a confirmed absentee for the game tomorrow (via Goal). Even then, it will require a very memorable performance from the Gunners to see off a side of that quality.
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A classic book can change your life. Oddly, on occasion, a much lesser and truly flawed work can have a similar effect.
Over forty years ago, I read Robert Graves's daring 1946 novel King Jesus, which a later publisher's blurb characterized as "one of the most controversial historical novels of all time." Not once was I under the illusion that this was his best writing, or that it came vaguely close in quality to his Claudius novels. At times, his ideas are downright silly. Yet the intoxicating wealth of ideas in this quirky book had an immense impact of me, and in some ways, I am still working through them. I owe a lot of my later interests to following up on those thoughts. Oddly, too, many of Graves's insights from so many years ago still demand attention today. In my next couple of columns, I will be exploring some of these ideas. (I am adapting parts of the following text from my recent column at aleteia.org).
The plot of King Jesus alternates between brilliant and bizarre. It is presented not as a pseudo-gospel, but as a sober historical work by the fictional Agabus the Decapolitan, writing in 93AD. Agabus offers a secular and political interpretation of Jesus's career, whose kingdom was definitely of this world. Jesus's mother was Mary, descended from an ancient royal line, and his father was Antipater, oldest son of Herod the Great. Jesus was thus the legitimate heir of the Herodian dynasty, and rightful king of Israel. On top of all this, Graves had his distinctive ideas about the ritual nature of sacred kingship, drawing heavily on books like Sir James Frazer's The Golden Bough. Graves also listened far too much to a number of crank theorists and charlatans who wandered into his orbit. Parts of the book are incomprehensible speculations about lost sacred calendars, together with eccentric parallels between Hebrew religion and Greek mythology. Wikipedia describes the book, generously, as "semi-historical."
As Graves himself wrote,
"These researches have taken me into uncomfortably remote fields. For example, the mystical meanings here given to the Golden Calf and the Seven Pillars of Wisdom are deduced largely from the remnants of Gnostic, ultimately Essene, secret lore preserved in Calder's 'Hearings of the Scholars' and other miscellanies of ancient Irish poetic doctrine, and in the 13th century Welsh 'Llyfr Coch o Hergest;' and they yield their full sense only in the light of Babylonian astrology, Talmudic speculation, the liturgy of the Ethiopian Church, the homilies of Clement of Alexandria, the religious essays of Plutarch, and recent studies of Bronze Age archeology."
It all gets wearing. But prospective readers, take note. If you can get through the first 160 pages or so, until Jesus finally appears as a character, your patience will be well rewarded.
Obvious flaws apart, so much of King Jesus is fascinating, not least in terms of the alternative theories about Jesus and early Christianity that Graves presents. So many of these, moreover, are familiar to us today in the form of supposedly astonishing discoveries from recently found Gnostic gospels. Reading King Jesus, though, we see that these ideas were standard components of a 1940s bestseller, written the year before the celebrated finds at Nag Hammadi (and two years before the Dead Sea Scrolls were found).
Think of a contemporary modern speculation about Jesus, and Graves already had it in 1945. We find here Jesus as the secular revolutionary; the husband of the pagan goddess of the land; the expounder of Oriental wisdom; the secret heir to the secular kingdom of Israel; the master of Hellenistic mysteries; a participant in tribal fertility rites; an esoteric teacher and numerologist; and the husband of Mary Magdalene.Quite apart from the political content of the main plot, this is a thoroughly mystical Jesus utterly at home with the Gnostic schools of thought of the second and third centuries. As so often in the texts of such later movements, Jesus moves in a world of active and powerful female interlocutors, including Mary Magdalene and Salome. This is a Jesus that we have come to know so well from modern reconstructions of the Gnostic gospels.
Most surprising, perhaps, for a modern reader is Graves's presentation of Jesus's mission as literally a gender war, a struggle to defeat and root out the remnants of the Goddess cult that (supposedly) pervaded Judaism. As the apocryphal scripture credits Jesus with saying, "I am come to destroy the works of the female." Graves followed closely the work of Raphael Patai about the Hebrew Goddess, which he would first explore in print in his 1947 book Man and Temple in Ancient Jewish Myth and Ritual and later in his 1967 The Hebrew Goddess. The long friendship between the two is recorded in Patai's Robert Graves and the Hebrew Myths (Wayne State University Press, 1992).
The first reason, then, to read King Jesus is to place in context recent claims about the revolutionary insights modern scholars have reputedly learned about the enormous diversity of early Christianity, as described in the Gnostic gospels. Reading Graves, we find that such ideas were utterly familiar even before the Nag Hammadi finds, to the point of being old hat. They were easily available to anyone prepared to buy a standard texts such as the Fragments of a Faith Forgotten, by G. R. S. Mead (1900) and more especially M. R. James's Apocryphal New Testament (1924). Graves had certainly read early heresiarchs like Epiphanius, as well. By incorporating these ideas into a popular novel, Graves further spread basic knowledge of the "Alternative Jesus" to anyone with the price of a current hardback. Anyone with access to the 1910 Encyclopedia Britannica could read the wide-ranging scholarship of authorities like R. H. Charles.
Just pulling recent themes together, I was recently writing about the pseudepigraphic work called the Psalms of Solomon, probably from the first century BC. A standard English edition of those works appeared as early as 1891, as Psalms of the Pharisees: Commonly Called the Psalms of Solomon, edited by Herbert Edward Ryle and M. R. James (Cambridge University Press, 1891).
Knowing Graves's book has also given me a healthy skepticism about subsequent claims about ostensibly astounding new discoveries. My first question when I read such a story is, roughly, but didn't M. R. James or R. H. Charles write about that ninety years back? Or Mead even earlier? And the German academic world was still more inquisitive and accomplished than the English.
Speaking personally, following up such "alternative gospels" – and trying to understand how they fitted in with Christian history – has also been enormously enlightening. Although I rarely agree with Graves's specific interpretation or slant, the quest has been very rewarding. Among other things, it laid the foundations for the work that led me to write books like Hidden Gospels (2001) and The Many Faces of Christ (forthcoming this Fall).
I'll have more to say about Graves's provocative ideas.
By the way, the New York Times just did a fine piece about Graves himself and his life on the Mediterranean island of Majorca.


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1/3 cup coconut oil melted
1/2 cup maple
2 eggs
2 ripe mashed bananas
1/4 cup oat milk/ almond milk
1 + 3/4 cup wholemeal flour
1. Preheat the oven to 160 degrees
2. Whisk the melted coconut oil, maple and eggs together until combines
3. Add the bananas and milk and mix until smooth
4. Add in the Wholemeal flour and fold the mixture in.
5. Place in a baking tin for 50-50 mins in the oven.


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"If you wait for perfect conditions, you'll never get anything done"
—Ecclesiastes 11:4
The biggest reason why folks say they don't workout is due to a lack of time.
Is this you, too?
Do you feel like you are always fighting the clock, and there simply are not enough hours in the day to get a workout?
I realize that life is busy, time is short, and people often work long hours with long commutes stacked on top.
It's understandable to feel like you don't have time to workout.
But let me ask you a question, "why exactly do you feel like you don't have time to workout?"
I know we just said because of long work days, and a long commute, but there has to be more to it.
• Is it because you feel like you have to workout at a gym?
• Is it because you simply don't know what to do?
• Is it because you feel like each workout has to last at least 60 minutes to get results?
The truth is you don't have to workout at a gym to get results, and you certainly don't have to workout for 60-90 minutes to have an effective workout.
In this epic home workout guide we're going to dive deep down the rabbit hole of exercising from home. We're going to leave no stone un-turned.
In this article we're going to cover a wide range of topics, including:
• The benefits of working out from home
• The different types of home workouts you can do
• The best equipment for maximizing your workouts, with minimal space
• The different home workout programs that are out there
• How to make bodyweight exercises a lot harder, so you can always challenge yourself even without any equipment
• And so much more
By the end of this epic home workout guide I hope to shine a bright light on "how to workout from home", and leave you with a complete road map for doing so.
By the end of this article I hope you'll see that saying "you don't have time to workout" is really just a bad excuse (hint: you do have time).
Alright, lets begin
Because a lot of people feel like they don't have time to workout, the benefits of home workouts are a powerful fitness multipier to be taken seriously.
The benefits of home workouts include:
• save you money by not having to join a gym
• they teach you how to workout from anywhere
• save you hours by not having to drive to the gym
• convenient; allowing you to workout anytime you wish
Honestly, you can do much of the same type of exercises/workouts that you would do at the gym.
Here are a few examples the different flavors you can use to spice up your home workout routine:
• #1. Bodyweight exercises –>
As the name implies these are exercises that you do using only your body weight as resistance.
Bodyweight exercises are also know as "calisthenics", and have withstood the test of time as highly effective means for working out.
But, don't be fooled into thinking that just because you're only working out with your bodyweight, that these exercises are easy.
Bodyweight exercises are anything but easy. A little later in the article I'll show you exactly how you can make any bodyweight exercise far more challenging.
• #2. Dumbbell or kettlebell exercises –>
A great way to take your workouts up a notch is to keep a few dumbbells and/or kettlebells lying around.
We'll talk more about why these are great tools to have in the equipment section of this article.
• #3. High intensity circuits –>
Regardless of your available equipment high intensity circuits are a fantastic way to blast a ton of calories in a short amount of time.
A circuit = performing many exercises right after each other, with little to no rest between exercises.
When performing circuits the goal is to keep moving quickly. As you can probably tell circuits will sky rocket your heartrate to the moon–and likely leave you lying in a puddle of your own sweat.
Circuits are awesome because they are so time efficient. They allow busy people an opportunity to do highly effective workouts from home, without taking up too much of their time.
• #4. Workout complexes –>
Workout complexes and high intensity circuits sort of fall into the same camp.
A workout complex = perform 2-5 exercises back to back, with a seamless flow between the exercises.
So, where circuits can be done with or without equipment, complexes do require some equipment. When you're working out at home the best tools for complexes are dumbbells or kettlebells.
Of course, you can perform a complex with just one dumbell or kettlebell as well.
The key ingredient that makes complexes so fiery is the smooth flow between exercises.
Complexes are awesome for getting a full body workout in just a few minutes.
• #5. Strength work –>
If you're working out from home you probably won't have access to large amounts of weight for strength work.
That's totally cool; and expected.
But, you're probably wondering how you can get stronger at home, without having heavy weights to lift.
Using hard variations of bodyweight exercises is a great place to start. Again I'll slow you how to do this in just a second.
Another great option is to use tempo reps and pauses.
• Tempo reps = taking X seconds to complete a single rep
• Pause rep = pausing at different points during the rep
Tempo reps and pause reps are great because they kill any momentum generated during the rep. This forces your body to remain highly tense from start to finish.
• High tension = good for building strength
For example–> If you only have a moderate weight kettlebell at home, but want to build leg strength try the little tempo rep workout below.
Try this tempo rep workout…
Three rounds of:
2x 60 second goblet squat
(take 20 seconds to lower, 20 second pause in the bottom, 20 seconds to stand).
Trust me, this little workout may not look like much on paper, but it will leave your legs shaking worse than a new-born horse trying to walk.
There is a stark difference between doing 30 reps of an exercise, and taking 30 seconds to perform a single rep of that same exercise.
• #6. Skill development –>
Here we're talking about mastering bodyweight exercise skills.
Examples of this include:
• Free standing handstands
• Frog holds
• Head balancing
• Pistol squats
However, don't be discouraged if the above exercises seem impossible right now. Skill development applies to everyone, regardless of their current skill level.
Lets say you can't do air squats quite. With practice you'll soon find that you air squat prowess will improve.
Thus, you've developed your air squatting skills.
So as you can see, no matter where you fall on the bodyweight exercise skill continuum if you're getting better at an exercise, you're improving your skills.
Alright, now that you know a few different ways to spice up your home workout routine, the next logical question is what equipment do you need.
Frankly, you don't need any equipment.
You can perform high quality workouts, indefinitely, using just your bodyweight.
With that being said, I realize for some folks working out with just their bodyweight is about as appealing as eating raw chicken.
Listed below are my recommendations for home workout equipment, which doesn't take up a lot of space.
• #1. Dumbbells → Take up very little space, and are relatively inexpensive. If you're price shopping you should be able to find dumbbells for about $0.50-$1 per pound.
Dumbbells can be put together in metabolic type workout complexes to really put a hurt on body fat, or can be used for more traditional muscle building. Either way, dumbbells are highly effective pieces of exercise equipment and should be at the top of your home gym equipment list.
• #1a. Kettlebells → For the most part, kettlebells and dumbbells are interchangable. I prefer to use dumbbells, but if you're a kettlebell guy or girl you can't go wrong adding a various weight bells to your home gym equipment arsenal.
• #2. Doorframe pullup bar → In my opinion, a must have for any serious home gym. You can get a doorframe pullup bar system off Amazon for under $30, at any local sporting good stores, or even Wal-Mart.
Having this will unlock many highly effective exercises such as, the pullup variations, bar hanging variations, and hanging ab/core workout exercises.
#3. TRX straps → The TRX is an incredibly versatile piece of exercise equipment. I used the TRX to train both my beginner levels clients, as well as my hard charging athletes and military special operations guys.
Also, a nice feature is that the TRX breaks down quickly and can easily be thrown in a travel bag for to bring on vacation or business trips.
• #4. Resistance bands → Resistance bands are excellent pieces of workout equipment which hardly take up any space, and will challenge your body differently than dumbbells or kettlebells can.
This is another piece of exercise equipment that is also very easy to travel with. I highly recommend adding resistance bands to your home gym setup.
• #5. Jump rope → If space allows, and you don't live above any neighbors I highly recommend getting a jump rope. Jumping rope is a fantastic way to ramp up your high intensity cardio routines.
It's a full body workout that burns a lot of calories, and will definitely leave you drenched in sweat.
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1. Perform high repetitions-
Performing sets of 15-50 repetitions is a great way to use body weight exercises to improve muscular endurance, stamina, and to build mental toughness.
Always pay attention to proper form.
Once the form breaks that set is over.
2. Increase time under tension-
Increasing the time it takes to perform a single repetition greatly challenges strength .
When a muscle contracts against resistance it becomes stronger.
Taking 15 seconds to perform a single pullup (or, pushup, squat, situp…etc) is a far different sensation than performing 15 pullups in a row, as fast as you can.
3. Add weight-
Adding weight to exercises is great for building strength. Adding weight to bodyweight is no exception.
Wearing a weight vest, adding chains, or wearing a rucksack are great ways add weight and challenge your muscles with even the most basic bodyweight exercises.
4. Change the leverage-
Archimedes joked that he could tip the world with a long enough lever. He was talking about leverage.
No different when it comes to bodyweight exercises.
Body weight strength training can be as simple as applying basic physics to the body, in order to create mechanical disadvantage, which in turn makes the exercise harder, your muscles work harder, and thus builds strength.
The basic principles of leverage:
• The longer the lever, the easier it is to move an object.
• The shorter the lever, the more effort required to move that same object.
Leverage applied to body weight exercises:
• The more elevated your feet, the harder the exercise becomes (ie…L-sit pull-ups, handstand pushups, and body rows with your feet on a box)
• The more elevated your hands, the easier the exercise becomes (ie…wall pushups and standing ring rows)
5. Re-distribute your weight-
Another technique to make BW exercises harder is to simply re-distribute the weight of our body.
Removing a hand or foot places nearly 100% of the demand on the other limb.
Here you're thinking:
• one handed pull-ups
• single arm pushups
• single leg squats (pistols)
However, if single limb movements seem daunting don't worry.
Instead of going for broke and removing an entire limb completely, simply shift more of the weight to the other side of the body.
Instead of a 100/ 0% approach you're aiming for more like 70/30 or 80/20% weight distribution.
Examples of this are:
• staggered hand pushups
• using assistance to help you move through single leg squats
• using assistance to help you progress towards single arm pull-ups.
Through simple weight distribution we can make body weight exercises extremely challenging.
(Removing one limb completely)
6. Combine two or more elements-
Who says you can't combine multiple elements to further increase the difficulty of body weight exercises?
Well, only haters I guess.
But, no reason to listen to them anyway…
To make body weight exercises harder even still, you can combine multiple elements from the list above.
For example, changing the leverage + increasing time under tension, as in doing L-sit pullups (change of leverage) with chains (adding weight) → Ouch.
7. Be explosive-
Generating power and explosiveness is referred to as plyometric training.
Most, but not all, plyometric exercises are body weight focused.
For power development keep the repetitions between 1-4 and allow maximal recovery between sets.
Examples of this are the long jump, jump squats, clapping pushups, and hand release pull-ups.
Adding in explosiveness to bodyweight exercises can help you bust through plateaus and really skyrocket your strength gains.
A word of caution:
Before you start aggressively using explosive exercises you need to build a base of strength. This is necessary to help prevent injuries caused from explosive exercises.
I didn't think it would be fair to give you all this awesome info, but not give you something tangible you can use today.
Outlined below is a sample home workout plan.
You can follow it as written, or simply use it to get your own creative juices flowing.
Sample Workout Plan…
[Day 1- Dumbbell complex]
Complete 6 rounds of:
6 deadlifts
1 clean
4 front squats
2 overhead presses
20 foot walk holding dumbbells straight above your head
Rest 30 seconds between rounds
[Day 2- Core strength + fitness walking]
Complete 3 rounds of:
30 second single arm dumbbell farmers carry, left arm
30 second single arm dumbbell farmers carry, right arm
30 second hollow hold
30 second full tension plank hold
1 minute rest between rounds
Go for a fast walk for 20-40 minutes.
[Day 3- Bodyweight circuit]
Five rounds of:
10 Pushups
16 Walking lunges
1 minute of crawling (bear crawls, crab crawls…etc)
30 second jumping jacks
30 seconds of burpees
30 second rest between rounds
[Day 4- Up to you]
Use this day to play around and do what you feel like doing. This could be another dumbbell complex, a brisk fitness walk or jog, a yoga or Pilates class, or simply a game of pickup basketball with your buddies.
A big part of the success of a long term workout plan comes from doing things you enjoy.
Yes, you've heard correctly.
As you can probably tell by now I'm a big fan of working out from home.
However, if weight loss is your goal it doesn't really matter where you workout. You'll need to pay attention to your diet.
Now, this doesn't mean you need to count every calorie that you eat, or break out food scales and weigh and measure your food like a crazy mad scientist.
There are much simpler ways to diet for weight loss.
I've written about dieting for weight loss ad nauseam, so instead of belaboring the point I'm going to link to those articles below.
Useful diet advice I've already written about:
• Is high fructose corn syrup making you fat?
• The complete guide to intermittent fasting –> Everything you need to know to get started with fasting
• What will happen if you don't eat carbs for 3 weeks –> Will you die or actually lose weight?
• The Five Day Diet –> my approach to dieting for sustainable weight loss…without counting calories
We've covered a lot of ground in this epic home workout guide
I hope by now you are starting to see that you don't need a fancy gym, or 60 minutes 5x per week in order to get high quality workouts.
Working out from the comfort of your home is a great way to save you time, money, and allow you to workout when its' convenient for you.
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90° / 270° EXIF oriantation not supported ?
Why Hero 5 Black does not properly mark photos that are 90° and 270° rotated ? It is full of advanced gyro magneto gps sensors (whose data are saved even in video altough not easily accessible withou third party scripts)... Only 180° rotation is saved in EXIF if Auto option set in Preferences.
In the settings, there is only Up,Down, Auto (correctly would be called Auto @180°). Could there be also Auto@90° ? This is very standard feature in all cameras 10 years back.
Re: 90° / 270° EXIF oriantation not supported ?
Re: 90° / 270° EXIF oriantation not supported ?
I don't understant your reply. I just want my photos to have proper orientation, when i take "portrait" (+ or - 90° ) (opposite of landscape) photos. This is common across all cameras and even dumb-phones for 10 years. GoPro saves orientation information only in case of 180° orientation. Hero 5 obvivously has simple orientation sensor* (besides precies gyro/magneto/acceleration sensors allowing fancy "telemetry" in videos. ), but it is not used to mark proper rotation of photos except 180° taken photos.
So now when I take bunch of photos I must manually find and select all improperly rotated photos and then lossless-jpg-rotate them in batch.
Actually, it might not necessarily have simple orientation sensor, it is surely capable of extracting simple orientation** from the precise set of sensors.
**simple orientation is term in computer sensors area. It is useful in phones and tables and digital cameras how to rotate screen content (0,90,180,270).


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MILWAUKEE – Sophomore Anna O'Donnell scored in the seventh minute and the defense made it hold up as the MSOE women's soccer team defeated Dominican 1-0 Tuesday evening at MSOE Field.
With the win, the Raiders (9-8, 6-3 NACC) clinched their place in next month's NACC Tournament.
The scoring play started on the back line where sophomore Tori St. Martin served a long ball into the penalty area. O'Donnell collected the ball with one touch and then banged it into the net for her first goal of the season and the eventual game-winner.
The MSOE defense was tough all night, limiting the Stars to mostly long-range shots and few extended attacks in the attacking third. On the other end of the field, the Red and White held a number of extended possessions, but were just unable to add any insurance goals
Freshman Sydney Stephens made four saves for her third shutout of the season. Her best cave came in the closing seconds on a point-blank attempt by Nathalie Mathis, denying her the equalizer and ensuring her team the win.
The Raiders out shot their visitors 18-8 in the match and held an 8-1 advantage in corner kicks.
MSOE returns to action Saturday at Lakeland. The team is looking to secure a home tournament game with two regular season contests remaining.


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Fred thought to his brother, seeing how much fun he was having with Faesocha. The song subsided and he let out a sigh. "I could go on all night guys, but its time." He said looking at George with a wink. "Remember, dont drink the punch. George and I will be back." He said smiling widely and scooping Anna up into his arms. "I had a marvalous time." He said spinning her once and releasing her. He looked into her eyes and didnt want to look away. She had some fur fall into her eyes and he pushed it aside. Back to top Anna BargadosNew studentJoined: 09 Jun 2006Posts: 9 Posted: Mon Jun 26, 2006 8:51 pm Post subject: Anna smiled contentedly at Fred; she loved the feeling of being in his arms. She stared back at him unblinkingly not wanting him to leave. "Me too." she whispered breathlessly. 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July 14th
It was a stay over,
Like a layover,
Spent the day on a hangover.
Had nothing but intention,
Made that body the invention,
Made the same mistake before,
Made the same walk away before,
Spent the nights waking up in my own
Full throttle to this place again,
To these coffee cups again,
To the place where I fear is home,
Is the only one I have known.
I see a leader lead,
And this heavy hand just follows me,
An untimely mission that you have set for
If I hang around here for long,
It will be over,
I am crashing next to home,
And that's no escape.