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Well it's been a long time since I last blogged. I may have slacked off on the blogging front but I think getting divorced, moving house and getting used to shared parenting are pretty valid excuses for my prolonged absence from writing. I have not however slacked off on my hiking. In fact hiking has been essential in seeing me through what has been an incredibly difficult period in my life. Being able to plan a hike, look forward to a hike and think about that hike in the days and weeks afterwards until I can get out and do my next one, has provided me with immense physical and mental relief.
I have hiked locally and further away. I have discovered amazing new places and rediscovered others that I have not visited in some time. From world heritage rainforests to the highest mountains in the country and the dusty outback in between, I have immersed myself in this awe inspiring country of ours – disconnecting from the outside world in order to reconnect to myself. And while the hiking is set to continue I am also hoping to resume the blogging and share these beautiful places in the hope that you may enjoy them too.
So first hike off the rank to get you into your boots and out of the house is The Cougals near the picturesque Currumbin Valley on the NSW/ QLD border. Running Man and I met in Currumbin and I jumped in his car to share the ride up through the valley and to the Garden of Eden Road,where there is a turn out area for a few cars to park and a small sign partially hidden on the fence stating that this in fact the place to begin the walk. The sign says that it is 4-5 kilometers to the Cougals (depending on whether you finish up at the East Peak or continue onto the West Peak) but do not underestimate this hike. She may be short on km's but she sure as heck makes up for it with the huff and puff required to get to the peaks.
Running man and I adjust our packs and begin our upward ascent along the fence line to the left. And up we go. There is no easing into this one. It is up through scrub and lantana, a little overgrown in parts and then onto old sugarcane that has grown wild and unruly, towering well above our heads. When we finally break out of the cane and stop to take our breaths we are greeted with a magical view of Mount Warning to the south and looking back down into the Valley to the north.
After admiring the view and filling our lungs with much needed air we continue on. The path flattens out here and we get a break from the uphill and a great view towards the Cougals. The track then enters into rainforest where we drop down for a little bit before heading back up again. The track follows the QLD/NSW border and is mostly easy to follow up to this point. We are using track notes printed out from the Aussie Bushwalking site (these guys do pretty good track notes) and haven't lost the track at all until this point.
We get to a point where we are at a steep rocky embankment and not quite sure of which way to go. We are looking for a side trip out to a cave that was mentioned in the notes but we must veer too far to the right and we miss it. Up and up we go. This is a bit of a rock climb now, not a walk. We keep to what looks like the track and break out onto a small clearing. We have made it to the East Peak of The Cougals and it is amazing. Photos do not do this view justice, so you are just going to have to trust me and do this hike yourself to see if you agree.
This is the perfect opportunity to pull out the thermos and ginger nuts and have a well earned cup of tea and take in the view. Mount Warning, Lamington National Park the Border Rangers and Nightcap National Park all make up the breathtaking panoramic vista before us. As Running Man and I are drinking our tea we are looking out towards the West Peak. A friend had done this hike twice before us and had been unable to find the track to the West Peak, so we hadn't planned the West Peak as a definite for our days itinerary. "So what do you think? Should we try to go and do a bit of a search and see where Al got stuck and couldn't find where to go? I don't mind as this view is incredible right here" I say to Running Man. "Yeah, lets go see where this little bit goes to down here and then we will come back and have lunch" replies Running Man.
So as we are only planning on walking a few hundred meters to see where the track disappears, we drop our packs in the bushes to increase our mobility and off we go. I know. Stupid. And we have never done that before and nor will we ever do it again! We didn't just follow the track down a little bit, we dropped right down, across the saddle and somehow found some tape here and there to follow, and a rope that someone had left behind to pull us up, and made it up onto the West Peak. Go us! We were pretty chuffed with ourselves that we found it. But then the reality set in. We were sweating big time and very thirsty. plus it was so very overgrown. Our water and our snake bite kit were back in our packs on East Peak. Not like us at all, and we both agreed we had been pretty foolish to not go back for our packs.
We did a quick explore around the West Peak and then began to head back to the East Peak. This proved far more difficult than we anticipated. The bits of surveyors tape were few and far between, and we got lost 3 times and had to retrace our steps. Finally we came to the track leading up to our packs, a cold beer and lunch. We made it!
The walk back down to the car was a bit tough on the knees but easier on the lungs. The afternoon sunlight made for some beautiful afternoon walking. We made it back to the car, tired out but elated that we had made it to both peaks.
This hike made such an impression on us we repeated it again 3 months ago. This time we did find the cave (go us!) but decided not to worry about the West Peak as it is pretty overgrown and the best views are definitely from the East Peak. We also decided to add a little detour in on this hike on the drive back to Currumbin, stopping off at the Balter Brewery (started up by Aussie surfer Mick Fanning) for a tasting paddle to reward ourselves.
If you are on the Gold Coast and looking for a half day hike of about 4-5 hours then I recommend giving this one a go, it is a cracker.
At a Glance
The Cougals 4-5 km (one way) Starts at a Gate on the Garden of Eden Road, off the Tomewin Mountain Road https://www.aussiebushwalking.com/qld/springbrook/mt-cougal
Balter Brewery 14 Traders Way, Currumbin, QLD https://www.balter.com.au/


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6 Methods To Stay A Healthy Way of life
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The new button is to start out out with small, small steps. Do not attempt to overhaul your way of life in a single go. Instead begin by switching one meals for a healthier one. I agreed and off we went in a cab. The next day Sylvie received right here again to the hospital with me. The nurses greeted us like outdated buddies and laughingly knowledgeable me I was a troublemaker which I took as a praise.
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In what passes for "something that matters," the media is attempting to make a story out of the mystery surrounding why Hillary Clinton was late getting back on the stage at the last Democratic debate.
The former first lady apologized to the live television audience Saturday for returning to the Manchester, New Hampshire stage late with just a simple "sorry." The fact is that Clinton returned late because she was using the restroom during the commercial break at St. Anselm College. She reportedly had exactly one minute and 45 seconds to walk out of the gymnasium to the women's restroom, and exactly the same amount of time to return back to the stage. Even the Lizard People are not immune from having to go the bathroom.
But why was Hillary late? That is where the mystery lies. There are two dumb explanations, and one likely true one.
The first dumb explanation was put out by the Clinton camp itself. They claimed that the women's room was significantly further away from the stage than the men's room, so Hillary had to walk further than her male competitors. This implied some sort of odd-ball unfair advantage to Sanders and O'Malley. The explanation is unconvincing. The Clinton team knew ahead of time where the toilet was, and could have made preparations, such as using a golf cart, or repurposing another restroom. Heck, even a port-a-potty.
The second dumb explanation was that a female Martin O'Malley staffer got into Hillary's designated toilet before her. As that staffer is now the girlfriend of disgraced former NY governor Elliot Spitzer, Hillary refused to share the toilet room with her. This makes no sense because it makes no sense; there are multiple stalls and who cares who is peeing next door?
The only actual makes-sense-explanation is (Occam's Razor!) the simplest one. Hillary is protected by the Secret Service, and their protocol is that no one but their protectee is allowed to occupy a restroom at the same time. Somebody screwed up and did not clear the toilet in time. Embarrassed by the mistake, not wanting to reveal security protocol, and not wanting to make Hillary seem even more regal (She won't even share a toilet!), the other stories were created.


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Herbal Medicine includes the use of naturally occurring substances from plants and animal to help heal the body.
These herbs work in much the same way as acupuncture by affecting the flow of Qi or the Yin and Yang of the body.
If one of these forces is out of balance, we use herbs to help bring the body back to balance.
Herbal Medicine for Pets: How Does It Compare to Traditional Drugs?
In Western medicine, the equivalent to herbal medicine would be pharmaceuticals such as antibiotics, heart medications, and anti-inflammatory medications.
Eastern herbal medicine is usually a combination of several different herbs.
The herbs are blended together in order to achieve a certain goal after an Eastern medical diagnosis is made.
Therefore, Eastern herbal blends require a TCVM veterinarian's Eastern medical diagnosis.
Western herbs, on the other hand, do not require a veterinary diagnosis.
In addition, they usually single-herb formulas instead of a combination of ingredients.
Also, veterinarians use Western herbs to treat the Western symptoms of a disease.
Herbs take roughly two weeks to start working, and approximately six weeks to reach the desired effects upon the body.
We often recommend acupuncture and food therapy in conjunction with herbal medicine or therapy for the best results.
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According to one popular joke, "You might be a redneck if you've heard a sheep bleat and had romantic thoughts." Another goes, "You might be a redneck if your mother keeps a spit cup on the ironing board." Among the litany of class slurs used to ridicule poor and working-class white southerners, redneck ranks as the most popular in modern American English, and the stereotype of the benighted southern redneck, as depicted in such films as Easy Rider (1970) and Pulp Fiction (1994), remains one of the most pernicious, distinctive, and widespread in American popular culture. For more than a century, this pejorative term has been used to denigrate rural, poor white men of the American South, particularly those who hold conservative, racist, or reactionary views.
The epithet redneck emerged as a rural class slur in the Deep South in the last decades of the nineteenth century. Its first known appearance in print came in the 13 August 1891 issue of the Pontotoc Democrat, which published the epithet along with several others (yaller-heels, hayseeds, gray dillers) during a hotly contested political campaign for state representative. Two years later, Hubert A. Shands recorded its use in "Some Peculiarities of Speech in Mississippi," his 1893 University of Mississippi doctoral dissertation. "Red-neck," he reported, is "a name applied by the better class of people to the poorer [white] inhabitants of the rural districts." According to most scholars of the American language, redneck originally derived from an allusion to sunburn when a pale white complexion was still a significant class marker. One prevailing theory suggests that urban white professionals and large planters coined the slur to denigrate those white farmers, sharecroppers, and agricultural laborers who had sunburned red necks from working in the fields. Other linguists have speculated redneck may have originated in black English. According to this theory, African American slaves coined the term peckerwood, a folk inversion of woodpecker, to ridicule poor whites and that redneck may in some way be related to the red head of some species of woodpeckers. Whatever its derivation, early usage of redneck suggests that the term ridiculed not only the sweaty, manual labor of farmers and agricultural workers but also their perceived deviation from a pale white complexion.
Redneck did not come into common currency in southern speech until the 1930s, when it was increasingly used to describe racists, bigots, or reactionaries. By the 1960s the term's connotations of racism and bigotry had become firmly cemented, especially for African Americans. At Oxford, Ohio, site of the training sessions for the 1964 Mississippi Freedom Summer, experienced instructors prepared college-age civil rights volunteers for the violence they could expect to encounter from Mississippi segregationists by using a role-playing game, Redneck and Nigger. But in this context, redneck lost many of its class and regional connotations, as it came to be applied indiscriminately to any white racist, regardless of class position or birthplace.
During the 1970s redneck underwent a dramatic rehabilitation and emerged as a badge of regional class identity. Rural and working-class white southerners refashioned the epithet into a positive term to mean an honest, hardworking, God-fearing blue-collar workingman. As a result, large numbers of white southerners began referring to themselves proudly as rednecks. The 1976 election of Pres. Jimmy Carter—a wealthy but plainspoken Georgia peanut farmer who sometimes described himself and was described by Washington political reporters as "basically a redneck"—also helped to rehabilitate the term's definition. The most famous redneck of the Carter era, however, was the president's brother, Billy Carter, who on occasion hammed it up for photographers in a "Redneck Power" T-shirt with a cold beer in hand and regaled reporters with his down-home anecdotes at his Plains, Georgia, gas station. To identify oneself as a redneck suddenly became fashionable, a national craze that journalist Paul Hemphill termed "redneck chic." Dozens of guidebooks and articles taught redneck wannabes how to act the part convincingly. Female derivatives of this traditionally masculine term also gained popularity, including redneck girl, redneck mother, and redneck woman. Nashville also played a significant role in the reinvention of redneck identity. Beginning in the 1970s the term redneck surfaced as a badge of pride in numerous country songs, including David Allen Coe's "Long-Haired Redneck" (1975), Vern Oxford's "Redneck! (The Redneck National Anthem)" (1976), and Jerry Reed's "(I'm Just a) Redneck in a Rock and Roll Bar" (1977), to name only a few.
Although derogatory images of southern rednecks continue to abound in American popular culture, in less than a century the term has also come to represent a positive affirmation of identity for countless white Americans, including many who are not from the South.
Further Reading
- F. N. Boney, Georgia Review (Fall 1971)
- Jim Goad, The Redneck Manifesto: How Hillbillies, Hicks, and White Trash Became America's Scapegoats (1997)
- Patrick Huber, "Rednecks and Woolhats, Hoosiers and Hillbillies: Working-Class Southern Whites, Language, and the Definition of Identity" (master's thesis, University of Missouri-Columbia, 1992)
- Patrick Huber, Southern Cultures (Winter 1995)
- Albert D. Kirwan, Revolt of the Rednecks: Mississippi Politics, 1876–1925 (1951)
- V. S. Naipaul, A Turn in the South (1989)
- John Shelton Reed, Southern Folk, Plain and Fancy: Native White Social Types (1986)
- Raymond S. Rodgers, Journal of Regional Cultures (Fall–Winter 1982)


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Thai Food is one of the most unique cuisines in the world. It uses ingredients and techniques you won't find anywhere else. That's why it's so delicious! These are some facts about Thai food you might not know:
Good luck finding a baked pastry in Thailand! Fried and grilled foods are the norm here, so you're not likely to find cookies or cakes.
You might find a dish in northern Thailand that you love, but you won't be able to find it in the south. That is because dishes in Thailand are region-specific. For example, gaeng hanglay is a popular dish in the north but is severely lacking in quantity elsewhere. Khao soi, one of the most devoured dishes in Chiang Mai, is another dish that is super specific to the north of Thailand, and those hoping to eat it time and again will have to search extensively to find it.
Some 2,000 years ago, many Chinese immigrants made their way to Thailand, and they brought their cuisine with them. From soy sauce to rice, the staple of the Thai diet originated in China.


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5 popular exercises you should never do
What is the main purpose of going to the gym? Lifting weights? Why are you doing a particular exercise?
The reasons can be many and will vary from person to person.
It can be to build strength or increase the size of the muscles or to improve your physique. Or it can be to lose weight, get toned or any other reason that matters to you.
But I don't think anybody, in their right mind, will be interested in doing any exercise which will not give them even a single one of these benefits. And on top of that, it can serve as a recipe for injury.
Will you be interested in doing any such exercises? The answer will be a unanimous NO.
But still, there are many exercises people do which give them no benefits at all. Plus, it adds unnecessary stress on the joints.
In this article, we will list five upper body exercises which should never be a part of your workout routine.
1. Behind the neck Lat Pulldown
Lat Pulldown is a good exercise to train the back muscles (Latissimus Dorsi). But a bad variation of this exercise will be to do behind-the-neck lat pulldown.
A 2009 study, comparing lat pulldown with behind-the-neck lat pulldown, found that the muscle activation was more in lat pulldown.
So, there is no particular benefit in doing behind-the-neck variation.
The rotator cuff muscles are small stabilizer muscles which keep the shoulder joints stable.Behind-the-neck position puts the shoulder joints in a very vulnerable position. There is a lot of stress on the rotator cuff muscles when the shoulders are externally rotated to its limit.
So basically, no additional benefits with an increased risk of injury. Stick with the lat pulldown.
2. Behind the Neck Shoulder Press
The shoulder joint is a highly mobile but very unstable joint. Behind-the-neck shoulder press is a bad exercise for reasons similar to behind-the-neck lat pulldown. During behind-the-neck shoulder press, the shoulders joints are stretched to its end limit.
Now, adding weight on this already stretched shoulder joints will put your rotator cuff muscles in a very compromised position.
Also, this position will not allow you to lift the kind of weights your shoulders are capable of lifting. Thus, sacrificing the weights and gaining nothing in exchange. This is a loser's deal.
Shoulder Press is a safer and far better exercise than doing a behind-the-neck shoulder press.
3. Upright Rows
This is one of the worst exercises which is very popular for all the wrong reasons.
It's a movement where you hold the bar in front of your body and pull the bar vertically up till the neck or face height. This exercise is done for upper back and shoulders. Upright row is a very inefficient movement to train both the muscle groups.
Thus, there are no benefits of performing this movement.
In this movement, your arms are internally rotated which puts the rotator cuff muscles in a stretched position. You are lifting the weight up with this internally rotated arm. This creates elevation along with internal rotation.
A perfect combination to risk yourself of shoulder impingement or other types of shoulder injuries.
4. Wrist Curls
Wrist curls are done for training the forearms. First, let's get one thing straight.
Wrist curls are the most inefficient way to train your forearms and a good way to wreck your wrist joint.
Your forearm muscles are very powerful. They are capable of handling way more weight than you can lift using this exercise. It's like using a crane to lift a bucket of water. Ridiculous, right?
So giving a meagre amount of resistance to the muscles which can take a ton of load is in no way going to get you stronger forearms.
If you want to know how to efficiently train your forearm muscle Read this article.
5. Bench Dips
This is a popular exercise for triceps which puts your shoulder more at risk than building your triceps.
It's done by placing the hands flat on one bench and the feet on another bench.
When you go down from the initial position your shoulders will drive forward putting a lot of stress and strain on the shoulders.
Doing this exercise makes no sense as you have better alternatives to build bigger triceps.
No Pain No Gain – Don't take it literally.
So, unless you want lots of pain without any gain, don't waste your time and energy doing these exercises.


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Zach Scotto is entering his third season as a member of Laurier's coaching staff as Coach Daymond's Assistant Offensive Line Coach.
A young member on staff, Zach is involved in a multitude of ways, including film analysis, technical coaching, running scout team, and being part of the play-calling process on game days.
Zach is also entering his third season with the varsity Cambridge Lions of the OPFL. In the 2018 season, Zach will be taking up the role of Recruiting Co-ordinator, Run Game Co-ordinator, and the Offensive Line Coach with the Lions.
During his time with the varsity Lions, Zach was the Offensive Line Coach on the 2016 OVFL Champion team. He has also produced a number of Offensive Linemen who have gone on to begin their careers in USports, including Laurier's Bryce Bell and Alex Pigozzo.
In addition to his coaching roles with the Golden Hawks and Lions, Zach was a member of Laurier's Football Team from 2011-2014.
Prior to beginning his days at Laurier as a player, Zach represented Western Ontario on two occasions at the Canada Cup and played for Saugeen District Secondary School in Port Elgin.
Outside of coaching, Zach is entering his second and final year of the Bachelor of Education program at Laurier.


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Liars can't completely suppress facial expressions
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Although liars can reduce facial actions when under scrutiny, they can't suppress them all, says Mark Frank, who has spent two decades studying the faces of people lying when in high-stakes situations and has good news for security experts.
'Executing Facial Control During Deception Situations,' a new study he co-authored with former graduate student Carolyn M. Hurley, PhD (published earlier this year in the Journal of Nonverbal Behavior), examined whether subjects could suppress facial actions like eyebrow movements or smiles on command while under scrutiny by a lie catcher.
It turns out subjects could to a degree, but not completely and not always.
Poker-faced doesn't work
The results are derived from frame-by-frame coding of facial movements filmed during an interrogation in which participants, some lying, some telling the truth, were asked to suppress specific parts of facial expressions. Hurley and Frank found that these actions can be reduced, but not eliminated, and that instructions to the subjects to suppress one element of expression resulted in reduction of all facial movement, regardless of their implications for veracity.
Despite these findings, the majority of the 60 study participants reported believing that they had controlled all facial movement and had remained poker faced during the interview/interrogation.
Behavioral countermeasures, says Frank, are the strategies engaged by liars to deliberately control face or body behavior to fool lie catchers. Until this study, research had not shown whether or not liars could suppress elements of their facial expression as a countermeasure.
As a security strategy, he says, there is great significance in observing and interpreting nonverbal behavior during an investigative interview, especially when the interviewee is trying to suppress certain expressions.
Lying raises the cognitive load
Hurley and Frank say prior research in Ironic Process Theory (IPT) has shown that when individuals are required to monitor their thought patterns so as to suppress a thought or image, the process places that thought or image into their monitoring memory, enabling it to intrude more frequently into their regular memory.
Hurley and Frank say this is even more likely to occur when one is telling a lie because, as research has shown, lying raises the cognitive load and reduces the ability to successfully and naturally engage in interaction with others.
The study involved 33 female and 27 male undergraduate subjects who were introduced into a crime scenario in which they were randomly assigned to either take (lie) or not take (tell the truth) a pair of movie tickets from an envelope.
They were then interviewed about the theft of the tickets by an experienced but neutral interrogator blind to the experimental conditions. Participants were told they would be rewarded if they convinced the interrogator of their honesty and punished if not. All denied taking the tickets.
Expression suppression
Prior to the interview some subjects were specifically instructed to suppress upper face activity (manifested through eyebrow-raising actions) and lower face activity (manifested through smiling).
Although these facial movements are not necessarily guaranteed signs of deception, says Frank, expression suppression - regardless of its validity as a clue to deception - is clearly one of the more popular strategies used by liars to fool others. What we didn't know was how well individuals can do this when they are lying or when they are telling the truth.
Based on the research literature on the nature of facial expressions of emotion, the neuroanatomy of the face, emotional suppression research and IPT research, he says, we correctly predicted that in interrogations in which deception is a possibility, individuals would be able to significantly reduce their rate and intensity of smiling and brow movements when requested to do so, but would be able to do so to a lesser degree when telling a lie.
And, since the lower face (and smile in particular) is easier to control than the upper face, we predicted that our subjects would more greatly reduce their rate of smiling, compared to their rate of brow movement, when requested to suppress these actions, he says, "and that turned out to be the case as well. We can reduce facial movements when trying to suppress them but we can't eliminate them completely."
Whether we are dealing with highly skilled and motivated liars who have practiced their nonverbal expression in high-stakes scenarios, or untrained individuals who learn from a television program about a particular brow or lip movement that is allegedly a telltale sign of deception, Frank says, the findings of this study have important implications for security settings.
Neuro Research
At Neuroscience 2011, researchers at the University of California, Irvine and Charite University Medicine Berlin provided insight into one of neuroscience's most intriguing mysteries: how the human brain learns and remembers. These studies - involving topics as diverse as musical memory, "change blindness," and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) - illustrate the profound influence that specific changes in either the brain's structure, function, or both, can have on human behavior.
Specifically, the studies showed that:
Two brain regions associated with personal recollections and obsessive compulsive disorder are larger in individuals with highly superior autobiographical memory, a rare condition that allows people to remember nearly every event of their lives.
A German cellist with severe amnesia not only performs normally on a standardized test for musical memory, he is also able to acquire new musical information. The finding suggests musical memories are stored differently than other memories in the brain.
The phenomenon of "change blindness," the common inability to notice changes that occur right before our eyes, may result from a failure to consciously compare consecutive scenes, according to new research using a 100-year-old card trick.
A key cognitive control area of the brain functions abnormally in children with ADHD - a factor that may make it more difficult for these children to perform in school.
The brains of postmenopausal, middle-aged women with cognitive complaints work harder when performing a working memory task than the brains of women without such complaints - a difference that may help identify those at risk for dementia.
"This research is helping us better understand the extraordinary complexity of what goes on in the brain as we're absorbing, and later recalling, information of all kinds," said Howard Eichenbaum, PhD, of Boston University, an expert on memory formation. "Such research will also help us develop more effective interventions and treatments for brain diseases and conditions that interfere with - and sometimes even destroy — our ability to learn and remember."
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This is a quick hike and easy hike of ~1 mile roundtrip. This is a good one for the whole family. The trail is less crowded than the rest of Bryce Canyon. See a waterfall on the right fork of the hike.
This short hike cannot be reached from the main area of Bryce Canyon, but with a 15 minute drive from the main entrance you can access this less crowded portion of the park. Check out a park map for the directions. This is very family-friendly, and is actually more of a "walk" than a "hike."
It is just over 1 mile out-and-back to a cave (rocky overhang) that drips water continuously throughout the year, resulting in a lot of moss on the walls. My favorite part of this hike is actually not the cave, but rather the beautiful waterfall that you get to see from the trail! It is fun to take a side trail to the base of the waterfall, feel the mist and snap a few pictures.
This short trail is a beautiful way to end a day at Bryce Canyon. You can see the famous hoodos, a waterfall, a cave, with minimal effort and avoid the large crowds that are in the rest of the park!
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Mayra Infante
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No Water
Fairly easy but no waterfall
Joanne Howard
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Easy and Quiet
This isn't the most spectacular thing you'll see in Bryce, but it's an easy walk with no crowds. Definitely off the beaten path, and it's nice to take in the silence and have the place to yourselves. The bridge is a picturesque spot to take in the hoodoos, and the cave itself has a neat ecosystem if you look closely.
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With Katelyn Ohashi wowing audiences (get that NCAA Floor title, girl) and Simone Biles being Simone Biles, I thought it would be nice to reflect on awesome gymnasts from the past you may not be familiar with.
I always remember Chinese gymnast Liu Xuan and French gymnast Elvire Teza from the 1996 quad. They both pioneered moves that were way ahead of their time. In the minds of the International Gymnastics Federation (FIG), Liu Xuan was too far ahead and her eponymous move was devalued in the name of safety.
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Liu attempted to break the glass ceiling on one arm giants. Even though FIG refused to appropriately value her skills, she still performed her routine at the Olympics (bars skills are valued from A through G, and her one arm giant is only valued as a B skill; one arm to Geinger is valued only as a D skill),
Next up is Elvire Teza. Teza faired a bit better with her eponymous E valued skill on beam (like bars, beam skills are rated A-G with G skills being the most difficult).
I remember the first time I saw Teza do this skill and I was just amazed. It was the first time I saw anyone treat the beam like the bars.
I'm not going to spoil it for you. Watch Teza's beam routine and you'll know immediately which move is the Teza.
Here's a second look at the Teza:
Anyways, these are just two gymnasts I've been reminiscing about recently. Now you can say you know gymnasts that aren't Simone Biles and/or American. lol
Next TBT, I'll post some of my favorite figure skating routines from back in the day!


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Christmas time turned out to be the season of retirement this year, as one of our longest serving teachers decided to throw in the towel before the taxman got his hands on his lump sum.
If any of the kids should have threatened him with 'you're history', he would probably have nodded in agreement as old Martin was actually a teacher of that august subject.
We'll all be sorry to see him go, but having first stepped up to the chalkface back in the late 1960s, lately he had seemed to be a character out of the history book itself. Navy blue slacks and the hush puppy shoes combined with the beard and black-rimmed glasses all amounted to an uncannily extemporaneous image of the male Irish educator.
In spite of having graduated in an era when 'Puff the Magic Dragon' was a hit single, he was still a fine teacher in the era of songs of such delicate subtlety as 'Horny' and 'Smack My Bitch Up'.
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There I am, snarling like Dirty Harry (feel lucky, pupil? Well do ya?) seizing Dean O'Thugarty's school journal, pen cocked to write a demand that he be suspended ASAP. I'll sign it off with a flourish and eject him from my class with a "don't come back again". I know that bit is highly unlikely, as like Carlsberg, we don't do expulsions, but I do enjoy the odd coup de grace.
Not so, wise old Martin. He just told them to stop being so silly and sit quietly while he wrote notes on the board. When they had taken them down he'd explain everything in a way that made you see the 'story' bit in history.
That 's why I forgave them all, all the old fogeys, when I walked into Martin's retirement do in the school hall to the sound of Foster and Allen, Margot and someone called Larry Cunningham. I thought music like that had been banned after the Good Friday Agreement. That's why I danced with Martin and his contemporaries to all those dodgy traditional songs.
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Specialist motorhome insurance brokers rely on the success of the recreational vehicle market as a whole in order to grow and expand their businesses, as without a steady amount of sales there isn't sufficient demand for motorhome insurance products. Furthermore, it's not just the motorhome market in the UK that brokers need to keep an eye on, as the US and UK markets are closely linked, with some of the most popular recreational vehicle brands being American.
This is why brokers should take note of the fact that motorhome sales have been increasing steadily for a number of months now in both the UK and the US. In fact, the market is doing so well that Ford has had to increase their production of chassis for A-Class motorhomes.
According to Statistical Surveys, overall motorhome sales in the US were up 13% in May, with sales of A-Class motorhomes up 12% and C-Class motorhome sales up 14%. A-Class motorhomes are the largest and most luxurious types of motorhomes on the market, and the increasing demand for these types of recreational vehicles shows brokers that consumers are now more inclined to purchase high-end recreational vehicles and protect them with extensive insurance policies.
Ford sales analyst Erich Merkle said: "Motorhome sales are cyclical, and correlate with improving economic performance. Like boats, homes and luxury cars, motorhomes – especially Class A – are big-ticket items, so when we see a continued upward trend in sales, it means people have far greater confidence to make a large, discretionary purchase. We believe we will see further growth as the industry continues to recover. Demographic drivers of this overall growth in the RV market include retiring baby boomers with more time for travel and leisure."
In the UK we are seeing reports of motorhome dealerships experiencing an increasing amount of interest from consumers, such as Salop Leisure who recently gained a huge amount of leads after their annual sponsorship of the Shrewsbury Flower Show. The company claim that at the show they gained one hundred per cent more quality sales leads compared to last year, which is good news for brokers as it means there is also a potential for them to receive more insurance leads.
Used motorhome and caravan specialist Caravan and Motorhome Sales is also benefiting from an increase in market demand, so much so that they are now helping a number of motorhome enthusiasts buy and sell motorhomes. Caravan and Motorhome Sales' Shane Malpass said: "Every day we are picking up the phone to hear the enthusiastic tones of 'sell my motorhome' and 'buy my motorhome' and that's exactly what we are doing day in, day out. We only buy and sell quality used motorhomes which we check thoroughly, and with years' worth of experience, we confidently offer the most competitive prices in the industry'."
Even though increasing demand for motorhomes benefits motorhome insurance brokers and enables them to expand their businesses, there are also some pitfalls that they should be aware of. For instance, motorhome insurance providers will need to address the issue of fraud, as with more customers looking for motorhome insurance there is a higher risk of fraud in the sector.
Once the summer has ended the demand for motorhomes and motorhome insurance will start to decline, however with the market being so lucrative right now brokers should be able to cover themselves during the winter months. All signs point to seeing motorhome sales and insurance leads increasing next year as interest in recreational vehicles both the US and the UK continues to flourish.
The increase in demand has created a large area of potential for brokers who have yet to explore this area of the leisure market, and the increase of brokers working with motorhome specialist insurers is expected to continue to rise with the market for motorhomes.
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Vastu in West Virginia [WV]:
Population wise this state is very small. But people of West Virginia state are good. Most respectable citizens.
When searching for good vastu house, then don't buy the foreclosure house. When the resident wish to buy the foreclosure home then they should get vastu consultant advice before buying it. Otherwise, new problems may arise.
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When there are water bodies adjacent to the interesting house, then need to take one Vastu specialist opinion. Without vastu specialist opinion don't buy it.
When there are hillocks in and around the site or house then its best to take vastu pandit honest comment. The house will be lifelong, one should not neglect on vastu shastra, take patience vastu consultation. Approach only the genuine vastu experts. They will confirm the final decision.
If there is any street focus to the house, then without one Vastu guru decision, the resident should not buy it. Please note that road thrust homes are aggressive, if any mistake happened, it may chase lifelong. Some vastu pandits express their ideas like, construct the boundary fence having the hedge, but they may not give the expected results. Doing what we do best here, helping people discover balance in their hectic lives and clearing the entire negativity.
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West Virginia {WV} Information:
West Virginia is a US state that lies in the Southern United States locality. The state has mountainous and terrain and rich geographic features.
Due to this, the state is famous for several outdoor activities including hiking, mountain biking, rock climbing, rafting, camping, etc. In addition, there are numerous museums, 19th-century buildings, and civil war memorials, which are a point of interest for visitors.
The region of West Virginia served as hunting grounds for Native Americans for thousands of years. At that time, agriculture was not well known among them and they were totally dependent on hunting gigantic species that later got extinct.
"Paleoindians" were the first people that arrived in the region approx. in 10,500 BC. It is also estimated that around 100 BC, the Native people were burning down the forests to make land for agriculture or other purposes.
Agriculture was inducted by the people as the time passes and they were actively growing corn and tobacco. Some "mound" building cultures also thrived in the region and their remains can still be seen today. The region was first explored by the British which came from the Western colonies of America.
Numerous skirmishes were also fought between the British and the Natives tribes. The Natives also attacked the new settlers due to their claim on the region. British enjoyed sovereignty over the region until the "American Revolution War".
The state remained part of Virginia until the "American Civil War" when it declared separation from Virginia due to its alliance with the Confederate.
Bordering states of West Virginia include Kentucky towards the Southwest, Pennsylvania, and Maryland towards the Northeast, Ohio towards the Northwest and Virginia towards the Southeast.
The state lies in the mountainous "Appalachian region" and this is the reason the entire state is full of mountains and pleasures. Also, the state nicknames as "The Mountain State".
In addition, there are several protect sites e.g. Appalachian Scenic Trail, Canaan Valley National Wildlife Refuge, George Washington National Forest, etc.
West Virginia has a high-income economy and if it would be a separate country, it should be ahead of several developing countries. The economy is highly diversified and main sectors include tourism, services, chemicals, industries, manufacturing, aerospace, biotechnology, energy, and research.
According to a survey conducted in 2015, West Virginia was 7th "highly-religious" state. 70% of the people adhere themselves towards "Protestant" (a Christianity sect). Other religions include Catholics Mormons, Muslims, and Jews.
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- Area 62,259 km²
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- Population 1.816 million(2017 est)
- Language English, Spanish, French, German
- Main Cropshay, peaches, corn, soybeans, apples, tobacco, grain
- State Bird Northern cardinal
- State Animal Black Bear
- State Flower Rhododendron
- State Tree Sugar maple
- Popular Rivers New River, Ohio River, Shenandoah River, Monongahela River
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- Border States Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, Ohio, and Kentucky
- Tourist Attractions The Greenbrier, New River Gorge National River, Black Water Falls State Park, New River Gorge Bridge, Monongahela National Forest, Dolly Sods Wilderness, Snowshoe Mountain Resort, Spruce Knob, Babcock State Park, Cass Scenic Railroad State Park, Coopers Rock State Forest, Hawks Nest State Park, John Brown's Fort, Jefferson Rock
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Celebrities came together to participate in a Global Benefit for Earthquake Relief for Haiti. The event was broadcasted in three locations: The Kaufman Studios in New York, CBS Television Studios in Los Angeles and at The Hospital Club in London. The Event was given by MTV studios in an effort to provide Relief for the Millions of Haitians devastated by the 7.1 Earthquake last week. Big name celebrities donated their time and performed Inspirational Music (available for purchase on Itunes). All Celebrities clearly checked their egos at the door. Well Done! For more information on how to donate, Click Here
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Perry got the party at the "Katy Kat Club" going with a cabaret-style medley of Black Eyed Peas' "I Gotta Feeling," David Guetta's "When Love Takes Over," featuring Kelly Rowland, Kings of Leon's "Use Somebody," Beyoncé's "Halo" and Lady Gaga's "Poker Face." Gotta admire this girl! Beyonce, Jay Z, Tokio Hill, U2 and others performed.
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Best Video: Beyoncé, "Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)"
Best Female: Beyoncé
Best Group: Tokio Hotel
Best European Act: maNga
Best Push Artist: Pixie Lott
Best Male: Eminem
Best New Act: Lady Gaga
Best Alternative: Placebo
Best World Stage Performance: Linkin Park
Best Song: Beyoncé, "Halo"
Best Rock: Green Day
Best Urban: Jay-Z
Best Live Act: U2
Madonna gave an awesome speech introducing the Michael Jackson Tribute.
Janet Rocked the house and her perfomance honoring her brother the late great Michael Jackson.
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The Performances were outstanding at the 2009 BET Awards held at the Shrine Auditorium on June 28, 2009 in Los Angeles, California
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Barbecue in the Age of Intelligent Robots
Ardie Davis
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BBQ Hall of Famer
2020 at The Jack (fiction)
Donna and Teddy were all pumped up. After 20 years of fruitless effort they finally got the call: "Congratulations! D-T B-Q is invited to compete in the 32nd Annual Jack Daniel's World Championship Invitational Barbecue!"
They loaded up their autopilot all-weather RV with luxury bedroom, bathroom, kitchen, solar-powered silent generators, next-generation ceramic-lined stainless steel smart pellet cooker and their robotic personal assistant/pitmaster, Roboerta (pronounced "Roberta"), with their robotic pets, Emilee the kitten and Mikey the puppy.
After setting up camp in Wiseman Park on Friday morning, they socialized with old friends, met new friends, shared responsible quantities of the local product, and joked about who got the X-factor Magic Hickory Nut this year to win GC.
At midnight the curtains around D-T B-Q's cooking area were closed. Roboerta emerged from her secret closet and went to work, prepping each contest category in sequence while Emilee and Mikey stood guard. At the sound of a loud meow and bark, Roboerta would retreat to her closet until any uninvited visitors walked away. To Donna and Teddy's relief there were no visitors after midnight, thus affording them a blissful night of cuddly deep sleep on a perfect fall night in the Lynchburg hollow while Roboerta applied her Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) to the tasks at hand.
D-T B-Q got so many category calls at the Saturday night awards ceremony that no one was surprised when they got the final call: Grand Champion! Although the contest rules didn't prohibit use of robotic pitmasters with AGI, Roboerta remained Teddy and Donna's discreet secret. Donna kissed and held up their Magic Hickory Nut during the celebration on stage.
Welcome to Barbecue in the Fourth Age! First, some background.
Futurist Byron Reese and others have raised some cultural and scientific issues that will impact the current and future barbecue contest, restaurant and outdoor cooking scene.
In his new book, The Fourth Age: Smart Robots, Conscious Computers and the Future of Humanity, Reese maps human development from early times to present in four major ages.
1. Speech was first. Imagine what communication between individuals and in groups was like when grunts, growls, squeaks, squeals and gestures prevailed. The closest we get to it today are pre-turn-in competition barbecue team rituals. After speech came
2. Agriculture. Agriculture and the domestication of animals made congregate living in towns and cities possible. Agriculture was a major substitute for continuous seasonal migration. Next came
3. Writing and the Wheel. Transporting people, livestock and freight accelerated exponentially when some long-forgotten genius invented the wheel. Likewise, religion, law, history, literature, poetry, music and commerce developed exponentially with the advent of writing and mass communication. We've had thousands of years to take speech, agriculture, writing and the wheel for granted, but we have barely stuck a toe in the water of the Fourth Age of
4. Smart Robots and Conscious Computers. Popular culture is inundated with sci-fi stories and movies featuring robots with Artificial Intelligence (AI) capable of interacting with humans. Most, like R2-D2, bear no resemblance to human beings in voice or appearance. Same goes for the robotic devices we are using in our daily lives.
Industrial robots assemble vehicles, electronics, and virtually every other product that used to be produced on assembly lines staffed by humans. Lately we've been hearing predictions that by no later than 2030, 40% or more of today's jobs will be done by robots instead of humans.
Robots Enter the Barbecue Scene
Robotic technology in the barbecue scene has the potential to increase exponentially. AI is literally a no-brainer. It harnesses massive amounts of data and applies it in response to your commands. Smart cooking and temperature control/monitoring devices are already common barbecue helpers at contests, in restaurants and in backyards. Much more barbecue technology is on the horizon.
Reese and other futurists, as far as I know, haven't addressed the impact of AI on barbecue, but their discussions of robots with Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) that exceeds human intelligence has direct relevance to the future of barbecue. Robots with AGI can make radical changes in the barbecue restaurant industry as well as making barbecue and grilling contests irrelevant. Why bother with contests when robots with AGI can outperform the greatest human pitmasters on the planet? In the interim, why bother with human barbecue judges when robots with AGI can master every aspect of judging excellent Appearance, Tenderness and Taste, rendering consistent judging results every time without fail?
I like to think that the future of barbecue will never come to that. Robots can't love, be happy and have fun—and that's what barbecue is all about! Robots can make our lives easier, but they can't replace us. Be kind, generous, and full of love. Happy Valentine's Day!