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Baseball is a durable sport. It survived the Black Sox scandal, the players' strike and the steroids era, not to mention one-man distractions like Pete Rose, John Rocker and Ozzie Guillen. But now a different kind of dilemma has emerged, and instead of hurting baseball's public image, it's quietly eating at the sport from within.
No one knows exactly when or where emerald ash borers arrived in America, but the first report came in 2002 from Canton, Mich. A decade later, the diminutive Asian beetles have invaded 15 states and two Canadian provinces, killing tens of millions of ash trees in Michigan alone, plus tens of millions more from Kentucky to Quebec. On April 18, researchers reported the first sighting east of the Hudson River, suggesting the bugs are now dangerously close to the vast ash forests of New England.
Emerald ash borers eat trees' innards and then leave them to die, a tactic that can wreak havoc without natural predators or immunities to mitigate it. It's not just ecological havoc, either: The U.S. Department of Agriculture has already spent more than $200 million battling the bugs, and it estimates they'll ultimately rob billions from the national economy. Ash wood is popular in lots of U.S. products, from guitars and archer's bows to tool handles and bar stools. And one of the most iconic uses for ash is at the core of America's national pastime: the wooden baseball bat.
Of course, it's unlikely EABs will eat baseball out of business entirely — even if they killed every ash tree in America, major leaguers could still use maple, and many amateurs could simply stick with aluminum. But lots of high-profile players swear by ash, including New York Yankees stars Derek Jeter and Alex Rodriguez, arguing it's lighter, more flexible and safer than other options. And with their tastes in timber now shared by ravenous invaders from Asia, the issue has grown to symbolize exotic pests nationwide. It has also provided a crash course in how not to contain them.
Meet the beetles
The emerald ash borer may be a big problem for North America, but the bug itself is tiny — as the photo at right shows. Its small size likely helped it sneak onto the continent undetected, possibly even years before its official discovery in June 2002. The USDA suspects it was hidden in wooden pallets, or some other type of lumber, that was shipped into southeast Michigan through the Great Lakes. But however it got here, the EAB clearly liked what it found.
Female EABs lay eggs on the bark of ash trees in summer, and after hatching, the larvae chew into the inner bark, known as the cambial layer. They feed there during fall and winter, making S-shaped tunnels as they burrow (see photo below).
BORED TO DEATH: An EAB larva bores through the inner bark of an ash tree. (Photo: USDA)
This can easily kill the tree, since the cambial layer is not only where it produces new wood and bark, but also where it transports water and nutrients through its trunk. The larvae finally pupate in late spring, and adults emerge in summer from D-shaped holes in the bark. They'll live for just three weeks after this, but that's long enough to fly somewhere new, mate and lay eggs, starting the process all over again.
Home-field disadvantage
"EAB adults are strong fliers, yet most only fly short distances," says Sharon Lucik, spokeswoman for the USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, which deals with EABs and other non-native species. "However, under certain conditions, individual beetles are capable of flying up to several miles to infest new trees. This is the natural spread of the pest." The unnatural spread, she adds, is when people move around infested timber, namely firewood. "It's this human-assisted spread that is the wild card and is the source of the widespread dispersal of the pest," she says.
While North America's main EAB population is only spreading by 2 to 3 miles per year, transportation of firewood has helped satellite colonies jump much farther afield. Federal and state public-awareness campaigns now warn people to stick with local kindling, and Lucik already notices at least a small difference. "Certainly a portion of the public has changed their behavior about transporting firewood," she says, noting that many campgrounds now forbid campers from bringing in firewood.
Growing public awareness may slow the beetles' spread, but it can't do much to save forests already on the frontlines. And since EAB damage isn't immediately obvious, it's not always clear where those frontlines are. Here's a map of the 15 states, colored green, where EAB invasions are known to be under way:
Lucik's guarded optimism is shared by Brian Boltz, general manager for Larimer & Norton, the company that makes Louisville Slugger baseball bats. His business relies heavily on ash forests in eastern Pennsylvania and New York, which have yet to show signs of EAB infestation. And even though EABs were found about 100 miles away in 2007, he says their initial five-year explosion has slowed down in the past five years.
"It's still spreading, but from 2003 to 2006, when I was following it out of Michigan to Ohio, you'd hear about another county [being infested] almost every month in the summer," Boltz says. "The findings in Pennsylvania now are kind of spread out ... so I feel a little bit better. We've at least got more time."
Production of ash bats is actually up lately, he adds, since people are cutting trees earlier in hopes of beating beetles to the punch. Still, he can't help but wonder how long that strategy will work: "There is more harvesting now, but how that affects us five, 10, 15 years from now, I am a little worried about that."
SWING THEORY: L.A. Angels second baseman Howie Kendrick has advocated for ash bats, telling ESPN in 2008 that he likes "how the ash has some give." (Photo: Lisa Blumenfeld/Getty Images)
Boltz's concern is understandable, even with the recent surge of harder, heavier maple bats. Ash has been used in Major League Baseball since 1884, while maple dates back only to the 1990s — popularized largely by slugger Barry Bonds, whose own popularity later fell amid doping accusations. The MLB banned certain types of maple in 2010, citing its tendency to shatter dangerously when a bat breaks, rather than flaking like ash. Many players also praise ash's flexibility, Boltz adds. "It's kind of like in golf, where you have a metal versus a graphite shaft. When you're swinging a bat, you get a little more flex with ash than you would with maple."
Since EABs don't eat whole trees, bats could still be made from their victims. Larimer & Norton hasn't tested that yet, but Boltz says the company tries to avoid wasting cut timber. "We have a philosophy that if someone brings in a weakened tree, we will use it — but for souvenir bats, little league maybe. We will not use it to make professional bats. We just don't want to take a chance on our highest quality product."
Boltz does have backup plans, though, if his current ash stocks vanish. "Long term, if it's all gone, we'll have to look at different areas," including New England, he says. "New England ash is heavier than Pennsylvania ash, not quite as flexible, but it will still satisfy the majority of players." Yet EABs are also nearing New England, and Boltz admits other tree types may be needed. "We did try a beech bat, also yellow birch," he says. "At this point, those are the only two other species we've worked with."
Battle of the bugs
EABs have run amok in America mainly due to a lack of natural predators. But they still have enemies back in Asia, and if one bug can travel the world, why not the other? That's the idea behind a promising EAB-control plan in which the borers' natural predators — parasitic, stingless wasps — are being released into U.S. forests.
In their native habitat, the wasps walk on the outer bark of ash trees, tapping their antennae to listen for the vibrations of EAB larvae chewing. Once they find one, they use their long "ovipositor" to penetrate the bark and lay a clutch of eggs. Up to a dozen wasps will later hatch and eat the larva — all while it's still inside the tree. Although their effectiveness remains unproven in America, these wasps can kill 60 to 90 percent of EAB larvae and eggs in Asia, according to the USDA.
Researchers began limited tests of this in 2007, proving at least that the wasps can survive a Michigan winter. More tests have since followed in five additional states, with some wasps later found half a mile away from their release points, confirming "parasitoid dispersal." The USDA is now testing several wasp species, one of which is already established at three release sites in Michigan and attacking EAB larvae. The agency is about halfway through a five-year implementation of this strategy.
WASP WARS: The parasitic wasp Tetrastichus planipennisi, native to China, is one of several species being released in U.S. forests to control invasive ash borers. (Photo: Stephen Ausmus/USDA)
While the wasp idea is intriguing, it's not the USDA's only trick pitch. The fungus Beauveria bassiana, for example, is being tested as a biocontrol agent to complement the wasps. It's already sold commercially as an insecticide, and scientists think it could be applied to infested trees before wasps are released, hitting EAB larvae with a one-two punch. (Preliminary studies suggest it doesn't kill the wasps.)
Aside from killing EABs, researchers have found clever ways to attract them, too. Purple traps are used in many states, capitalizing on EABs' odd fixation with that color. Scientists are also "girdling" some trees, cutting away a 6-inch-wide ring of bark that lures EABs into a trap. These trees become "population sinks," drawing in lots of EABs from the surrounding area, and are then cut down the next winter or spring. Along with various chemical baits, these tactics can help diagnose an invasion, but they aren't considered practical means of pest control.
Boltz is encouraged by initial results of the USDA's efforts, although his experience over the past 10 years has left him with a certain respect for his enemy.
"This is the critical time for us," he says, since the flurry of ash borers in late spring and summer offers updates on their conquest. "If I can get to the end of the summer and they haven't found any EABs in the harvest areas — that doesn't mean they're not there, but then I can at least breathe a sigh of relief until this time next year."
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Teenage Christmas
This is part of the Teenage Crusade series of short films from the late 1950's/early 1960's–other titles include Teenage Testament (Question: Is it okay to proselytize at work? Answer: yes.), Teenage Conflict (Question: Is there a conflict between faith and science? Answer: No, science just hasn't discovered that faith has all the answers.), and Teenage Loyalty (Question: Is it okay to blow off youth group activities when you get a part in the school play? Answer: No, that makes baby Jesus cry.)
Family Films presents cutouts arranging themselves to illustrate the theme of the story.
Over at Trinity Church, the youth group sure is fired up, by golly! They have so darned many things to do, like making a Nativity scene and planning a skating party. But not everyone is in a good mood—Mitch is sniping at everyone, and poor Sue is "frantic" that she won't make it through Christmas. She's so busy co-chairing the Nativity committee (and I'll at least give the movie props for having a girl be a co-chair) that she doesn't even have time to look at Aunt Margaret's Christmas card! Sue's mother is worried about her daughter's frantic-ness, and suggests she send a joyful Christmas card…to herself. Oh, sure, mom, give the poor girl one more damn thing to do!
As the youth group is setting up the Nativity scene outside, a couple of little kids wander by with all sorts of questions. A few of the Christian teens would be delighted to answer, but mean ole Mitch totally blows them off, aided and abetted by Sue. But the kids will get their revenge, oh yes, they will!
Later that evening, Sue and Mitch are interrupted while decorating Sue's Christmas tree. (Wait, wasn't Sue just whining that she didn't have any time for anything but youth group stuff? And why is Mitch helping her decorate her family's tree, anyway?) Before we can receive answers to these questions, the phone rings. Someone's been throwing snowballs at the Nativity scene! Oh noes!
The Nativity scene doesn't look all that bad, really. Basically, one of the mannequins got knocked over. But the kids…oops, I mean the unknown perpetrators…took Mary's dress. "It's sacrilegious!" cries Sue.
Andy, president of the youth group, runs up with some news: the mailman spotted the kids running from the scene of the crime! He even knows where they live. Mitch is ready to go over there and lynch them immediately, but Andy counsels caution and that, "anything we do to them, we should do in the spirit of Christmas."
The kids turn out to live in an impliedly-poor part of town. Big sister Fay has to take care of them because Mom (gasp!) has to work. Fay defends the kids, but under the youth group's interrogation, the kids (now revealed to be named Freddy and Jane) crack and return the dress.
Sue: The figure wearing the dress represents Mary, the mother of Jesus. Now, you wouldn't want to take anything like that, would you?
Turns out Jane snatched the dress as a gift for their mom for Christmas (awww!). This fact revealed, Sue and Mitch share a few pangs of Christian guilt. Andy hopes to help the kids out. Not, you understand, by helping the poor kids get a present for their mom, but by teaching them "what Christmas is really all about."
Sue invites all three siblings to Christmas at the church. Fay declines, saying she is "too busy." Although the movie never touches on this, I think it's worth pointing out that Fay probably really is too busy, and busy with real concerns like taking care of small children and keeping house for a single mom who has to "work until she's ready to drop." Not, you understand, the "too busy" of Sue, whose busy activities include decorating trees, skating, and signing Christmas cards.
But that's certainly not the point. The point, explained by Andy, is that "God cares" about Christmas. Despite Fay politely declining four separate times, Andy's on an evangelizing roll, here, and he's not letting up until he's got these folks in the pews, dammit! He knows how to pick his battles, though, and convinces Fay to allow Freddy and Jane to go back with the teens and clean up the Nativity scene. Now that Andy has the kids away from their older sister, he has free reign to proselytize unhindered! The cleaning lasts for all of five seconds before the teens kneel in the snow and give the kids the whole Christmas spiel.
But despite the opportunity to proselytize to impressionable children, Sue is still in a pissy mood later at home, when Mitch calls her to remind her about going carol-singing. (First he helps her decorate her tree and now this, eh? He totally wants her.)
Just before the teens leave the church, they spot Freddy and Jane by the Nativity scene again. They must be back to throw more snowballs! The teen gang sneak up to the scene to catch the kids in the act…but it turns out Freddy and Jane have brought Fay with them, and are teaching her the Christmas story (like all nonbelievers, Fay is completely ignorant of the basics of Christianity). They've also managed to internalize some nice Christmas guilt: "Do you think God will forgive us?"
Delighted that the evangelizing has worked, Sue grins (Mainly in Mitch's direction. Yeah, she wants him, too.), and proclaims that, "Now I feel like singing!" So does Mitch. And I'm sure the knowledge that a couple of spoiled teenagers now feel a bit more cheerful will help Freddy and Jane cope with the fact that they still have no Christmas present for their hard-working Mommy.
Bah, humbug.
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I traveled to the hostel Aroza back at the days that I was a low budget backpacker. The rooms could have been a little better and safety could have been a bit stronger, it is dormetories. The best thing in the hostel is its price, it is defently for low budget travelers. All in all I would say it is a good hostel to be at, if you consider the locality around and the nearby places to visit. Simply speaking this particular hostel is not amongst the polished and trendy fashion crazy, clean, Dutch hostels.
Hostel Aroza is nearby the popular shopping avenue nieuwendijk. You will definitely find out lots of restaurants, coffee shops and bars around this street. The hostel is located perfectly in the center of Amsterdam. Yes, transport facilities around the hostel are easy pickings. Simply walk around if you like or rent a bike, tram or a bus, stroll through the subways and reach where you wish to. The Aroza hostel offers 63 beds with free facilities including bed sheets, towels, storage, and lot other facilities. This hostel is a good connection right from Schiphol Airport. Even though the bathrooms and the rooms are a bit messy, the breakfast and some other facilities brought back some smile on my face. I enjoyed the breakfast thought, bread and butter, jam and hot milk.
Rooms here are available at a rate of around 43$ per head per night. Group booking are available as well. You will have 24/7 access to the internet through WiFi in all of the 63 rooms. A hot shower after your sightseeing will always keep you fresh for the next day ride. TV lounge and WiFi is always on for your entertainment. I also get a locker to keep my personal belongings safely.
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Mervyn Kelly is EMEA Marketing Director for Ciena, responsible for helping customers transform their business through network software programmability and virtualisation, while delivering new revenue streams.
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A Fine Line
I struggle, nearly every day, to find the right place for the line that divides know-it-all lecturing from leadership. The line that divides aggressive bossiness from simple, open knowledge sharing or intended helpfulness. The line that divides backward-driving anger from world-changing progression and growth.
It's exhausting.
When my mom needed to be moved north, after my dad died, my brother and sister and I met to clean out our parent's small home in Florida, pack mom up, and ship her and her remaining stuff back to New England. We cleaned out a lot of history as well as too much junk. I'm sure every family goes through this at some point. Setting aside the inevitable yet still totally unexpected hurtful moments in deciding who gets what, it went fairly smoothly, overall. At one point we all danced in mom's cleared-out living room: my mom, brother, me, and my 6-year old son. Beautiful silliness.
There was, at the time, no electronics recycling in Florida, so, as we were hoeing out what we needed to bring to the church thrift store and what needed to be trashed, I made a pile of e-waste that I could bring it home and take to an e-recycler. I didn't bother anyone else with this, I just did what I knew I could do and placed wires, cords, old phones, small radios, and other items into a pile with a big "save for Jodi" label. I ran some errands for a few hours and came back to a disappeared pile, everything thrown in with the landfill-destined trash and carted off. Someone had decided for me that this was not worth the effort, even though the effort had already been made.
On a recent trip, a dear friend did nearly the same thing. As we were leaving a vacation weekend cottage, I pulled the paper, cardboard, and plastic recycling from the garbage and bagged it and set it beside the can, not knowing if they do recycling in that part of MA, but trying to make it easy for the cleaning crew to follow through if it was, indeed, a possibility. Also easy for them to toss into the trash if, bummer, recycling could not be accomplished. While I was out at the car, someone had dumped the items out of the paper bag back into the trash, which I saw when I came back in to grab something I left behind.
I was trying to draw the line with me…and only with me. I made the extra effort, myself. I did not lecture or say "we should do this, why have you not done it" in fact I didn't even think that way. I simply tried to make it easy for the person in the next phase of action to choose recycling if possible. Kind of like emailing documents. If the recipient chooses to print, they can, and I will not lecture or scold them. I will just do what I can to give them the option, instead of taking away their choice by handing them already printed documents. And when receiving things I will ask for an e-copy because that is what I prefer, and what I feel works best with the resources I manage in my life.
I politely refuse straws when servers give them to me. I say "no thanks" when I friend gets plastic single use tableware for me (if I've remembered my own travel set of metal tableware) and I bring back condiments and napkins I have not used. I carry my own reusable bag. I, someday, may try a cloth handkerchief, but I'm not there, yet.
And yet people become offended when I do…me. When I change me, when I make the extra effort to move toward what I feel are informed and achievable goals. Are they offended because I have "shown them up"? It's not my intent. I have two rather simple intents. First, to do better…me, myself, and I. Second, to be and maybe to illustrate the change I seek. I am thrilled if my actions and choices show somebody something that might work for them, that they may not have considered. I accept that it may not work for them, and I accept this without condemning them.
There are arenas where I can educate more assertively and purposefully and directly challenge people to change, and there are times when I need to be present and be a friend, not a change agent. But there is never a time when I am not me, and sustainability, collaboration, systems thinking…these are all…me.
I am doing what I can, when I can. I am striving to do so with no judgement attached. Can you do the same, please? Let me be me.
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LOUISVILLE, KY (WAVE) - After losing her young son in a tragic accident in June, a Kentuckiana mother is now finding her strength through friends, faith and fundraising.
Kids come from all over Kentuckiana to try out Louisville's Extreme Park because they don't have a safe place to test their bike and skateboarding tricks in their hometowns. But, one area mom is working to change that, in her son's memory.
"He was very thoughtful, he loved animals and he took friendship very seriously," said Chrystal Goodman of her son Prescott.
The 15-year-old was dedicated to many things in his young life but his mom tells WAVE 3 News, riding his bike topped Prescott's list." Prescott lived for this passion," she said.
Prescott was killed doing what he loved this summer when a car crashed into his bike near the Kroger in Mount Washington. Police say it was so dark the night he was killed, driver and rider likely didn't see each other.
The day before his death, Prescott spotted a sign for an extreme park while on a family trip. Chrystal remembered, " I wouldn't stop when we were going through this small town, " she said, " I wouldn't stop because as a mother we were on a time schedule."
That day stays fresh in Chrystal's mind, "when he left my world, I knew right then, this is what I wanted to do."
Chrystal is now a mom with a mission.
With countless volunteers like the folks at Shack in the Back Barbeque in Fairdale, Chrystal is raising thousands of dollars to build a safe outlet for kids in Bullitt County who love bikes and skate boards.
"Everything is a divine circle and I know we were brought out to Mount Washington for a reason," she said of raising money for the cause.
Two of Prescott's best friends are helping raise funds for the Prescott Goodman Bikes with Wings Foundation because he always talked about having his own extreme park and because they miss him. "When I first found out, I really didn't believe it," said friend Nathan Leslie, "and I still kind of don't believe it."
Another friend Brandon Eschman told WAVE 3 of Prescott, "He was always joyful and if you we're having a bad day, he was the only one who could cheer you up."
Chrystal told us, "Every time I leave the house I ask Prescott to come be my co-pilot, to come and see what we're doing," she continued, "I think he is."
The foundation raised more than $11,000 in it's first fundraiser alone.
Chrystal tells WAVE she just got a big donation of items from the foundation of skateboard legend Tony Hawk.
The Mount Washington Mayor is working with the foundation to move the plan forward. If you'd like to help you can donate to the Prescott Goodman Bikes with Wings Foundation at any PNC bank.
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Have you had esthetic enhancements to your teeth or just naturally have great looking, perfect teeth? Here are some dentistry tips to maintain your picture perfect smile.
n order to maintain a healthy smile, you have to know what types of things are damaging to the teeth. Identifying and eliminating bad oral habits is the key to retaining a great smile for many years. Sometimes we are not aware that we are harming the health of our teeth. Do you:
If you answered yes to any of these questions, you are in danger of causing a detrimental effect on your new perfect teeth and smile.
How Detrimental Are the Effects? No one can predict the exact effects that the habit will have on your newly perfect teeth, however, the longer the duration of the habit, the greater negative effect it will have on the longevity of your smile enhancements.
The first step to eliminating a bad habit is to identify and acknowledge that you have one. If your habit is crunching ice, you must alter or eliminate it from your day-to-day routine.
Other habits are harder to break like grinding your teeth. Grinding the teeth is generally an involuntary action and usually occurs when asleep. Because the habit is difficult to break, a plastic night guard is the best solution to prevent excessive wear of your teeth.
A night guard is a clear plastic mouthpiece that is custom-fitted to snap over your teeth, much like an athletic mouth guard. The night guard is designed so your teeth grind on the plastic, not your teeth. The night guard will wear out, but your teeth will not.
Do not neglect your teeth, especially if you have had esthetic enhancements. Your enhancements will not last forever, so in order to preserve your perfect teeth, have regular dental check-ups and do your best to eliminate bad oral habits.
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Are you completely happy with your smile? Or do you find yourself dreaming...what if?
What if those front teeth were less prominent, or maybe a bit more even? Or if that missing tooth could be replaced? Or those broken teeth were no longer chipped and/or stained?
These days, restorative dentistry isn't limited to "movie stars" or "young women" and, it can be very conservative. But a smile makeover can pay huge dividends in terms of self-esteem. Many people have experienced thrilling improvements in their appearance from some of the simplest cosmetic dental implants. The one regret? They hadn't done it years earlier!
21st Century materials (onlays, inlays and veneers) and procedures (cosmetic laser dentistry) exist now that can put a bright smile within everyone's reach. Not only that, new restorative dentistry techniques continue to advance-rapidly! Make sure your cosmetic dental care team keeps up with these techniques by reading clinical journals and participating in Continuing Education courses. Also, be sure to ask your cosmetic dentist about new discoveries so that you can stay informed as well.


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Real estate and investing are usually put into the "adulting category," but tomorrow on Bold Business, we'll simplify these topics for all of us who don't feel quite like "real adults" yet.
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Bold Business hosts David Grasso from GenFKD, and Selena Hill from Black Enterprise will discuss this and much more! Join us live at 9 am ET tomorrow on Facebook and Periscope!
On this week's show, we'll talk to a couple of real estate developers about how millennials and real estate intersect. Then, we'll talk to Cole Reifler about how regular people like us can access investment tools usually reserved for the top one percent.
We'll also hear from Michael Van Grinsven and Anthony Williams about the success of Northwestern Mutual's top-rated internship program, as well as Garrett Johnson and Aaron Ginn on how the Lincoln Network can help organizations harness new technology.
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This marmalade is a great addition to raw breakfast bowls. Try it stirred into Cinnamon. Crunch Cereal, Almond Ginger Apple Hemp Cereal on Breakfast Porridge or spread it on Rise and Shine Bar.
To soak the dates for this recipe, place in a bowl and add 2 cups (500 mL) hot water. Cover and set a side for 10 minutes, Drain, discarding soaking liquid.
2 tbsp. finely grated orange zest 30mL
2 cups chopped orange segments 500mL
1 cup chopped pitted dates, soaked
in a food processor fitted with the metal blade, process orange zest, orange segments and soaked dates until smooth, Transfer to a bowl. Serve immediately or cover and refrigerate for up to 3 days. make 2 cups (500mL)
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Add 1/4 cup (60mL) chopped peeled gingerroot to the mixture.
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The following details my secondary back workout. I slightly deviated from the plan because the workout took place at the elitefts Compound and Dave Tate took over the biceps programming portion.
Why do I send e mails every morning? Because only writing e mails when I feel like it is the sign of an amateur. Yesterday while doing a Instagram Live I was asked how and why I am still so fired up and motivated, even after almost 30 years of training. My answer was nothing …
The punch heard round the bodybuilding world! In episode 15 of Shawn Ray Unleashed, Shawn recaps the altercation between Rich Piana & Mac Trucc at the 2017 LA Fit Expo. Shawn also gives the bullet points from some of his interviews over the weekend & answers popular questions that arose from them.
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When you continue to push and grunt with no concrete strategy other than "hard work," you get injured or beat-up. Few things devour reasonable progress faster than what we'll call "middle ground" training. That is, always training with the same set or rep scheme and with the same intensity. If you default to training in the 8, 10, or 12 rep range, I hate to break it to you, but your growth is simply wallowing in no-gain's land.
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One way to do that is to raise the resistance curve at the point where it starts to decline so that the muscles are at a disadvantage for a longer period of time. This is where accommodating resistance comes into play, like using bands to increase the resistance where it normally would descend.
3. The Bulk Up plan revolves around "straight sets" versus the use of "super-sets" or "tri-sets". Once you complete a set of an exercise you will rest, then repeat for the prescribed number of sets that follow. This is another strategy to allow for ample recovery. The only time "tri-sets" will be used are for short ab/core workouts at the end.
Do you truly use all the food you buy? You probably don't. Before stepping out of the house to buy more food, take an inventory of what you already have. Condiments, spices, frozen and canned food items should be on at that inventory list; this can easily slash your weekly food bill. Next on the list should be leftovers. Last night's dinner can be today's lunch, freeze it and it could be next week's lunch too. If you're one to toss food after a meal, then you are that average American who's a national statistic. That stat: 28 to 43 dollars of about 20 pounds of food a month gets tossed. So lesson learned here, learn to love your leftovers.
This part is easy. Just keep the lower body tight. Sure, you can squeeze the glutes and flex the quads, but you don't need to go full-blown high-threshold when you're doing a standard push-up. Instead, find a normal amount of tension for the task at hand. Save all those high-tension strategies for when you're doing those single-arm, blindfolded push-ups on a medicine ball.
Lifting weights is a skill, a skill that only gets better with practice. Ask any world-class pianist, ballerina, or artist, and they would agree: You can't just show up once a week and expect to perfect your craft. Yet by working each muscle only once a week, as with a body-part split, that's exactly what you're doing. On the flip side, by increasing frequency, you give yourself more opportunities to practice.
Don't train because you're motivated; train to become motivated. Unless you're preparing for a competition, you probably won't feel fired-up on a daily basis. So show up, put in the effort, and find your motivation in the middle of the set. It'll be there waiting for you... unless you are completely physically burnt out. And that likely will only happen if you're an advanced athlete who trains constantly or is ill.
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This is a classic movement that's been all but forgotten. I'm bringing them back with a twist that Tom Platz taught me. While visiting him, we did iso-holds, but while in the hold position, Tom actually applied additional pressure, making me "tense" the muscle even more. This is probably the most brutal high-intensity technique I use, pain-wise.
New Year's has a way of getting you amped up to make some serious health and fitness changes while simultaneously bog you down with the pressure to fulfill such resolutions. You're intimidated, a little confused, and probably reeling from weeks of holiday party binging.
Because the joints in the shoulder are very mobile, they're more susceptible to injury than other body parts, especially when you're pressing heavy weights. Warming up properly so that the shoulders are pumped and well-prepared for heavier training to come cuts down your risk of feeling something pop or strain. That's why we want you to follow the warmup we've included before the real lifting begins. It's also why we put traditional meat-and-potatoes muscle-building moves like the military press later in the workouts. Yes, the exercises you do beforehand might fatigue you and limit the weight you can use on these lifts, but you'll make it up in short order as you adapt.
We're all for pushing yourself to the limit, but even fit athletes can fall prey to body breakdowns like rhabdo and dehydration. Study up—and make sure you know when to call it quits before you do any damage.
Go back only as far as you can handle while still maintaining your original spine position. If you start to arch excessively and/or feel them in your lower back, you've gone too far. They're a lot tougher than they look, so it probably won't take much range of motion to feel them working.
Cut back on carbs : Remember how insulin has the biggest impact on fat storage? Well, carbs have the biggest impact on insulin. "Too many carbohydrates leads to a spike in the hormone and then to more fat storage," Seedman explains. Not only should you cut back on carbs, but your insulin will spike even more from processed ones, so cut any carb that's not a whole grain or from real produce completely. And don't worry: Carbs are traditionally thought of as your body's main source of energy, but your body also has the ability to fuel from fat, so if you're increasing your fat and protein intake, your body doesn't need as many carbs to run. You still need some amount of carbohydrates to regulate certain biological processes, like your muscles' ability to stay hydrated and maintain structural integrity, so don't cut the macronutrient completely, Seedman warns. For a high-fat, low-carb diet, aim for at least .5 of your bodyweight (so a 200 lb person would eat at least 100 grams of carbs per day), he suggests. For a more balanced calorie-restricted diet, that number jumps to .75 to 1.5 grams per pound of bodyweight.
Here's an easy way to strengthen your abs. And a hard way. And a ridiculously hard way. Take a look.
For years FLEX has recommended that bodybuilders drink plenty of black coffee every day. And we're happy (and a bit surprised) to welcome the U.S. government aboard now that a dietary panel made a similar recommendation earlier this year: Every healthy adult should drink three to five cups of black coffee per day for optimal health. That's particularly good news for bodybuilders who are trying to cut body fat while staying energized for intense workouts. Here are five ways black coffee helps support your bodybuilding gains.
Considering those six rules, here's an important caveat: just because someone at your gym, or even a pro bodybuilder like me, tells you to do something, that's no reason to follow his every move. Analyze the advice you receive as you apply it to yourself, and don't follow a routine or diet endlessly if you're not seeing tangible results. That's not to say you should haphazardly switch directions at every sign of a plateau — far from it. But be ready to tweak your approach while evaluating its effects.
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Also known as urtica dioica, stinging nettle root is a type of nettle that predominantly grows in South America. Your dad or grandfather may take it to relieve symptoms of his enlarged prostate and to reduce his blood pressure. But even young guys can benefit from using this supplement - stinging nettle root can help to naturally boost testosterone levels by keeping the testosterone molecule free from a carrier protein known as sex hormone binding globulin (SHBG). While SHBG helps testosterone stay in the blood longer, it also prevents it from binding with its specific receptors in muscle cells. By freeing up testosterone from SHBG, you'll experience higher levels of free testosterone in the body, which can induce muscle growth. Stinging nettle root also helps boost T levels by preventing its conversion to dihydrotestosterone. While testosterone has anabolic effects in muscle cells, dihydrotestosterone has negative effects such as prostate growth. Preventing this conversion by adding stinging nettle root to your supplement regimen means you'll have more anabolic testosterone available.
Here's a simple drill that'll make your back and lower body feel better and even boost your squat numbers.
Building well-capped shoulders , some would say, takes years and years of heavy pressing and experimentation. Those folks aren't entirely wrong but it's not exactly what you want to hear if you're already behind the curve in this department. By training your delts with a simple, exercise-minimal routine, twice per week, you can start to make up ground on the lifetime pressers pretty quickly. Delts are fast to respond to proper overload and they can handle a reasonable amount of volume. So even if you can't overhead press 250 pounds for 3-4 reps, you can still reap some appreciable gains from a more conservative press-first approach.
Before attempting your first double under, make sure you get comfortable with single-under skipping at a fast pace. Practice adding velocity with every turn of the rope, even if it doesn't seem necessary. Doing this ensures you're fully in control of the rope. Many beginners allow the rope to turn on its own once they get it started. This will eventually set the rope and foot speed out of sync (the rope is influenced by the friction of the ground). Set the pace of the rope – don't allow the rope to set your pace.
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But sometimes our habits in and out of the gym unknowingly can sabotage our hard work—or at least make us less efficient in producing the results we're striving so hard to achieve. Here are the 10 worst things you're doing for your muscles and what you can do instead.
well that was it for the entire day, walked around a bit and went to the hospital later just to check for internal injuries, if there were any. Took some x rays, nothing is broken. Might've strained my left wrist/arm though so... I've 0 fully functioning hands now. That and I got some scratches on my ear and some bruising all over the place.
Get stuck in such a rut and your results are bound to level off, to plateau. At this point, it's about time to switch things up. If you're like me, you're not a fan of high reps – sets of 15, 20+ – so the only other option for changing things up from a rep-count standpoint is to decrease reps, which naturally means you'll have to go a little heavier than you're used to with 8-12 reps. When my routine starts to get a little stale, one thing I love doing is working in heavy sets. Not necessarily sets of one, two or three reps (I'm not a powerlifter), but rather sets of five and six reps. Going heavy like this, I feel, gives the body a different training stimulus to promote plateau-busting. Plus, I just like the way my muscles feel when they've handled some heavier weights – they feel stronger, of course, but also a bit harder, and I feel leaner, too. I like that.
"You can mix and match all of the workouts below to create nearly endless weekly programming," Perkins says. Aim to complete any three routines on non-consecutive days per week. "For example, you could do workout 2, 7, and 8 if you want to focus on legs and chest," she explains. "All of these mini-workouts are designed to work together as long as you allow for one day of non-strength training in between each."
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Thursday, January 19, 2017 - Reality reins you in now and you probably won't like having your wings clipped if you recently took an issue too far. Although you can't fly freely today, retreating won't help the situation either. The stress from assertive Mars' dynamic square to repressive Saturn in your sign can be irritating, especially if you're itching for a little adventure. But it's not useful to blindly ignore the signs; instead, postpone any new activities until you address the current blockages. If you are persistent without forcing the issue, the resistance will play out on its own.
But if you don't have access to antique strength training equipment, then the dumbbell pullover is a solid alternative. Problem is, once the dumbbell crosses over your face there's basically zero resistance in the movement. Here's how to solve that problem.
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Machine training is great for calf work because it allows you to isolate the muscle and train it as hard and heavy as you want, but what about adding a little athleticism to the mix? If you're bored with banging out set after set of machine raises, there are myriad other ways to give your calves their due, most of which offer exponentially more benefit than standard gym exercises in terms of improving your overall athletic ability and mobility while adding all the mass and definition you want. Read on to see the moves.
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Also from my experience there is no better way of keeping your shoulders healthy than doing power snatches at the start of each session where you maybe doing pushing exercises! In all honesty rotater cuff work external rotations with bands or dunbell never did much for me! But my shoulders were bullet proof from doing power snatches from hang it strengthens those rotaters amazingly and keeps the strength ratio in check as I don't see how doing 5kg dunbell external rotation can balance out the weight that you bench or overhead press! So I believe that everyone should learn to power snatch if they want healthy shoulders plus amazing mobility in the shoulder girdle. Anyway just another option for you
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I do not suggest intermittent fasting to people whose diet is not based on whole foods. In my experience, someone who is not in optimal health often has a sluggish metabolism. If the metabolism is sluggish, spacing all your meals into a six- to nine-hour window will not make the body burn fuel and fat optimally, thus slowing fat burning and decreasing energy. You may lose weight and even sometimes feel more energetic for a week or so, but at the price of wasting muscle. In fat-loss terms, breaking down muscle often leads to long-term failure. I recommend first building a strong foundation, then trying some quick results—stuff like intermittent fasting if you really want to.
When you eat carbs, your body responds by releasing the hormone insulin. Insulin helps energize your training by pushing glucose, the basic energy unit found in carbs, into your muscle. Insulin also helps push protein into muscles, leading to growth. The downside of eating too many fast-digesting carbs and triggering insulin release is that it facilitates the conversion of any excess carbs to fat. The solution is to choose natural (slow-digesting) carbs and to consume them in amounts and at times that support your bodybuilding goals. Gram for gram, they release less insulin than fast-digesting carbs, helping you control your bodyfat levels.
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From the Vault: New Pulp Mash-Ups
I'm currently reading The Golden Vulture, a Shadow novel originally written by Lester Dent and later modified by Walter Gibson. The notion of a Dent/Gibson collaboration is enticing, isn't it? Couple that with news that Josh Reynolds and Derrick Ferguson have co-written something called The Vril Agenda and you have the wheels turning in my head. I've never done much in the way of co-writing, mainly because I'm A) Too much of a control freak and B) I tend to write a lot faster than my collaborators. But it is a notion that's crossed my mind a few times.
It led me to think about switching up characters, too — inspired by having Doc Savage's primary author borrowing Walter Gibson's Shadow. So I figured it would be fun to take some New Pulp authors and "assign" them to other people's characters. So here's what I came up with:
1. Chuck Miller's The Black Centipede by Derrick Ferguson. Derrick writes great action stories but the Centipede would be something different for him, focusing as it does on Lovecraftian horror and real-world mysteries. I think it would make for an interesting read.
2. Tommy Hancock's YesterYear by Jim Beard. Jim has quickly made a New Pulp name for himself and I think he'd have the perfect sensibilities to write stories in Tommy's superhero universe.
3. Ron Fortier's Captain Hazzard by Lee Houston, Jr. This Doc Savage pastiche is a fun character who straddles the line between pulp and comic sensibilities — and Lee has shown with both Hugh Monn and Project Alpha that he's capable of mixing both of those into a frothy mix.
4. Joel Jenkins' Dire Planet by P.J. Lozito. The Dire Planet series is a John Carter-style planetary romance… while PJ Lozitio's pulp debut was the smash hit Sting of the Silver Manticore, which mixed elements of The Shadow with a few other pulp heroes. I'm really curious to see how P.J." s style would translate into what's almost another genre entirely.
5. Derrick Ferguson's Dillon by Nancy Hansen. Nancy is probably the # 1 pulp fantasy author right now — so seeing her handle a he-man pulp hero like Dillon would be a hoot.
6. Lee Houston's Hugh Monn by Andrew Salmon. Andrew is a writer of varied genres but he's done quite a few Sherlock Holmes' tales. I'd like to see him take a crack at a hardboiled alien P.I. like Hugh Monn and see if his ability to craft solid mysteries would function in a wildly different setting.
7. Jim Beard's Sgt. Janus by Percival Constantine. Again, this would be about seeing how an author would do with a character unlike the ones he's known for. Percival writes wonderful modern day pulp heroes that are infused with a 21st century mentality. Could he take on a Victorian ghost buster and handle it well? I think he could — and it would be fascinating to see!
8. My own Lazarus Gray by Adam Garcia. I'm very protective of Lazarus and crew but I think Adam could take Assistance Unlimited for a great spin. He's shown us with the Green Lama and other stories that he's an awesome writer so I'd love to see what he could do.
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San Francisco always seems imaginary to me. Unlike many of my friends I've never felt the urge to move here because it would be like asking to live in a daydream: beautiful and otherworldly but insubstantial. But then, the digital worlds that we build of which Silicon Valley is the spiritual home are no more … Continue reading
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Mozilla Festival 2015
I went to Mozilla Festival again this year, Mozilla's annual convention dedicated to building a better web. What I noticed most this year was the greater emphasis on discussion in sessions. The first two years that I went were much more focused on building and doing. I had mixed feelings about this: I always view … Continue reading
Who Needs an Ethnographer? Update
The folks over at Ethnography Matters picked up my post Who Needs an Ethnographer? considering the ways that a volunteer ethnographic project could be designed and how it could be community-led. I'm chuffed to bits to be featured on Ethnography Matters which I think is a fantastic publication with a great archive of useful insights. … Continue reading
Guest Post: Volunteer Ethnography
Following my post Who Needs an Ethnographer? a few weeks ago, I had several very interesting conversations on the purpose and possible methods of volunteering expertise as an ethnographer. One of these was with Eugenia Lee who is today's guest blogger on her experience of working on a volunteer ethnography project in conjunction with Tufts … Continue reading
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The lovely folks over at Little Miss Geek, who run an initiative designed to inspire more women and girls to get into technical careers, allowed me to write a post for them on why humanities students make great geeks. Digital technology pervades all aspects of our lives and careers, a trend that looks like it's … Continue reading
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Last Tuesday night I was fortunate enough to hear Genevieve Bell, anthropologist, future-thinker, and director of Intel Corporation's Interaction and Experience Research, speak. It was a really compelling talk with lots of big thoughts. There was a small one I wanted to pick up on, though: in a discussion about seamless technology integration, Bell told … Continue reading
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Let's talk about 'lifestyles'. Yesterday I found myself invited to a "lifestyle and shopping event for professional bloggers" called RegentTweet organised by some clever marketers over on Regent Street. I signed up for a chance to attend through London Girl Geek Dinners, a group which should be pretty self-explanatory. I didn't think I'd get selected … Continue reading


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Jones started his first environmental program, Reclaim the Future, only six months ago. Notably, it wastes little time critiquing the negative aspects of society, but rather accentuates the positive. As such, it exemplifies the new concept of environmentalism's so-called third wave -- a movement refocused on neither conservation nor regulation, but investment. Jones envisions West Oakland and other depressed neighborhoods as healthy, thriving hubs of clean commerce. He hopes to "build a pipeline from the prison economy to the green economy" by training prisoners reentering society to help build a solar-powered, energy-efficient future. He believes the flourishing of "green-collar jobs" can give gainful employment to those who most need it, and give struggling cities an economic boost into the 21st century.
But since the Ella Baker Center itself will neither start green businesses nor run job training programs, what precisely does Jones do?
As the staff runs the day-to-day operations of the center's three programs, Jones' job is to raise money, manage personnel, and propagate the group's ideas beyond the office walls. "Van's role and [the center's] role is really to evangelize, to spread the word of this vision," said Juliet Ellis, a member of the Ella Baker Center's board and the executive director of the nonprofit Urban Habitat.
Jones spreads his gospel at every conference, speech, and awards ceremony that finds its way onto his busy schedule, and he has found receptive ears from coast to coast. His rise to prominence has a lot to do with timing. As environmentalists and progressives grope to rebuild their respective movements after years of disarray, Jones is often pointed to as an avatar of Environmentalism 3.0. Lefties have come to one conclusion since the debilitating defeats of 2000 and 2004: that they need to present a positive vision Americans can latch onto and vote for.
"The country is waiting for a movement that inspires people, that doesn't just critique," Jones said. "That's my gut instinct. And when it's resonant, when it's right, people feel how they fit into it. We want a green economy that's strong enough to lift people out of poverty."
It took a personal crisis for Jones to conclude that complaint-based politics can get you only so far. Since 2000, when he watched a budding political movement destroyed by infighting, he has tried to be a voice for solidarity while showing other activists that "there's a path out of this self-marginalizing place without compromising your constituency." But while his vision brings many submovements together under one tent, some of the people who helped Jones devise that vision aren't invited to the revival.
It's been a little more than a year since two of Jones' fellow travelers dropped a bomb on the environmental movement in the form of a paper provocatively titled "The Death of Environmentalism." The paper played an important role in the debate that followed the re-election of President Bush. Shaken progressives had to admit that their best electoral efforts had failed, and began to cast about for the reason. There was "The Death of Environmentalism" with its bold declarations: Environmentalism had defined itself as a special interest, its message was too negative, and it presented narrow technical solutions instead of an inspiring vision tied to values voters hold dear.
Commentators quickly pointed out that all these criticisms could just as easily be leveled at other segments of the left. What was the movement besides a collection of special-interest campaigns? Just like that, the paper became a mirror reflecting back the fears of a disenfranchised movement.
Predictably, there was an angry backlash, which the authors chalk up to the movement's reluctance to admit its failures. "There's a lot of fear," said Michael Shellenberger, one of the paper's authors, in an interview. "We have to come to grips with the fact that our current strategies not only aren't helping, but might even be counterproductive." While Shellenberger said he and coauthor Ted Nordhaus didn't set out to write a generational statement, they may have done so inadvertently. "The responses have been disproportionately positive from young people," he said, "and disproportionately negative from the older generation that's more invested in older ways of doing things."
Although the paper was primarily an assault upon the strategies of the left, Shellenberger and Nordhaus praised a few people and projects. One was Van Jones, whom the authors called an "up-and-coming civil-rights leader," extolling his vision of a broad alliance between environmentalists, labor unions, civil-rights groups, and businesses. His focus on investment, they said, pointed the way to the environmental movement's future.
The glowing words were no coincidence. Jones and the authors met in 2005 and became close allies who brainstormed ideas for the new shape of the environmental movement. Although Jones says the Ella Baker Center's environmental program isn't based on the ideas in "The Death of Environmentalism," it benefited from conversations he had with Shellenberger. The two worked together on the Apollo Alliance, a national environmental organization that promotes many of the ideas associated with environmentalism's third wave. It was Shellenberger who convinced alliance leaders to include Jones on the national board.
Yet last spring, Jones spoke out against "The Death of Environmentalism" at a panel discussion about the progressive movement's future, where he shared the stage with luminaries of the activist left. "I love the authors, I love the analysis," he said. "It breaks my heart the way that it was brought forward." He thereafter repeated his criticisms in stronger terms, and now calls the paper an "immoral attack."
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File associations are what allows Windows to know which programs should be used to open each file type. But what if you'd like to change those associations?
Here's where Default Programs Editor comes in handy. It's a standalone tool – no installation required – that enables you to review, check, change or delete file associations in Windows. Plus it includes tools to change the icon assigned to each file type, as well as changing the description of each file.
Default Programs Editor has a simple interface with three big buttons corresponding to the program's three main options. Click the appropriate button and follow the steps. Oh, bear in mind that you may need administrator rights in order to tweak these settings.
Everything in Default Programs Editor is pretty straightforward, which is a good thing since the program doesn't have documentation of any kind.
With Default Programs Editor you can easily configure the way Windows manages file associations, and change them any way you like.


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- Start: 1 October 2015 8:00 pm
Radkey is a punk band from St. Joseph, Missouri that is made up of three brothers. Dee the lead guitarist and vocalist is into learning to read and write Japanese, watching anime and enjoys books by Stephen King, Michael Crichton and Edgar Rice Burroughs. He hates milk and not only because of his lactose intolerance. It's the kind of hate that comes from deep down inside, the kind of hatred you would hold towards someone that has wronged you in an unmentionable way. He does have a soft spot in his heart for cheese though.
Isaiah the bass player and middle brother watches a shit ton of movies…I'm talking HOLY SHIT! That's a lot of movies. Some of his favorite directors include Guy Ritchie, Robert Rodriguez and Wes Anderson. Please don't mention X-Men 3 around Isaiah because it may cause a rant that will make you wish you had never been born. He reads comic books, manga and fiction by J.R.R Tolkien, George R.R. Martin and C.S. Lewis. He plays all kinds of video games including first person shooters, RPG's and no he does not play Angry Birds "phone games don't fucking count".
Solomon the drummer and youngest brother has burned hundreds of hours playing Halo, Mario 64 and several other video games. He loves the Kansas City Royals and Chiefs and doesn't care what anyone says about it. He can't get enough spicy food and he can be found putting sriracha chili sauce on and in just about anything. Comic books and anime are high on his list as well as the movies of Edgar Wright. He's hates flying insects with stingers, but he loves beef jerky.
They also like music.
Donkey Song is Confirmed for Oct. 1st: Donkey Song featuring myself (giraffes), Chris Turco (Trans Am, White Hills, Ultraam), Matthew Cullen (Ultraam, Sean Lennon), and Jeff Mercel (Mercury Rev). instrumental. grime/doom/psychedelia.


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Class Zero, you've received marching orders. Imperial vermin have infested the area surrounding Akademeia. Exterminate them.Kurasame
Operation Reconquista (レコンキスタ作戦, Rekonkisuta Sakusen?) is the second mission in Chapter 2 of Final Fantasy Type-0. It takes place on Pet. I, 842 and its mission level is 13. Participation on the mission is optional, but it can be replayed in the Missions menu.
Briefing Edit
Through the conscription and deployment of the Agito Cadets, the dominion successfully liberates McTighe. Using the newly retaken city as a base of operations, the dominion launches a large-scale campaign to reclaim the Rubrum Region. Under the command of their CO, Kurasame, Class Zero joins the campaign to execute special missions as an autonomous unit.Briefing
The mission Edit
The cadets must head out the main gate to the world map to begin the mission. For completing the mission the cadets get Auric Ring.
S-rank requirements Edit
- Time - 20:00
- Objectives - 9
- Casualities - 0
Victory Conditions Edit
Rewards Edit
- Completing this mission on Officer difficulty unlocks Mega-Remedy at the SPP Post.
- Earning S-Rank yields a Phoenix Pinion/Silver Bangle
Strategy Edit
- Occupy Domain 1
In front of McTighe there is Domain 1. The cadets should defeat its enemy units as they emerge. Chocobos' chocobo kicks finish them off in a single attack. When Rubrum troops start to circle Domain 1, the cadets should head southeast toward the forest to find an Autoturret. Taking it down gains full control of Domain 1.
- Invade Aqvi
In Domain 1 the player can press the Action button for troop production and dispersal. The goal is for Domain 1 to produce Blaze Units that should be sent to Aqvi, a town near McTighe. The party should take down the enemies emerging from Aqvi until the energy shield is weakened. The cadets should approach the town and initiate the invasion.
In Aqvi the cadets should head down to three Imperial Troopers. Finishing them off opens the door to the north where the commanding officer (Major Herriot) awaits. The party has five minutes to take him out after entering the town, any longer and he'll escape. When reaching the commander in the next area, the cadets should focus on him first, then engage the magitek armor. Afterward the party can take down more Imperial Troops until victory and the town is occupied.
- Invade Corsi
Both Aqvi and Domain 1 should send Blaze Units toward Domain 2. When Corsi deploys Warrior Units toward McTighe, the cadets need to destroy them. Trey can attack from outside of the Warrior Units' range. Once Domain 2 has been taken, the Warrior Units cease their attack.
Once the energy shield surrounding Corsi has fallen the invasion can begin. Blizzard BOM destroys barricades easily. In Angular Alley there are three more Imperial Troopers, as well as snipers on the balconies and Shock Troopers further down. The cadets can ignore the snipers, as only the Shock Troopers and Imperial Troopers need to be taken out. The best way to deal with the Shock Troopers is to attack them from behind or wait for them to attack, then attack them while their defenses are down.
The cadets can head to the Town Square to find the Commanding Officer (Lieutenant Hamilton) using a magitek armor. The party can stay behind him to avoid most of his attacks. If he charges in the player's direction, one can quickly circle around to his back to avoid it. If one struggles dodging his attacks, one can stay on the move and try to remain behind him. Defeating the CO completes the mission.
Rubicus Edit
- Pet. I – Operation Reconquista
Once they had finally regrouped, the dominion legions established a base of operations at the newly liberated town of McTighe, and initiated a large-scale offensive to reclaim the Rubrum Region by deploying the recently conscripted Agito Cadets. Both the dominion and the empire unleashed a constant stream of reinforcements, turning Rubrum's Operation Reconquista into quite the contest of military might. Thanks to the participation of the cadets, however, the legions freed one town after another, and the dominion eventually succeeded in driving the empire entirely out of the area surrounding Akademeia.


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New Music: Snoop Lion Feat. Angela Hunt "Here Comes the King"Posted by Mr.North under New Music
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Snoop Lion draws inspiration from the island sounds in "Here Comes the King," the second release from his forthcoming Reincarnated album. Dropping the west coast slang and lyrics, Snoop displays his knowledge of Jamaican patois over the relaxed Major Lazer-produced cut. The second single off his new project reflects the West Indian culture soaked in during his journey to Jamaica earlier this year with producer Diplo.
Listen to Snoop reincarnated on "Here Comes the King" below….
New Music: Snoop Lion Feat. Angela Hunt – "Here Comes the King" (prod. by Major Lazer, Ariel Rechtshaid, and 6Blocc)
Previously: Snoop Lion – "La La La" (Video)
3 Responses to "New Music: Snoop Lion Feat. Angela Hunt "Here Comes the King""
skateboard hector Says:
December 4th, 2012 at 2:00 am
Oh now this nigga is Jamaican?
brucebaner1 Says:
December 4th, 2012 at 8:54 am
Sounds like mid-life crisis time……
Young Scuba Says:
December 4th, 2012 at 10:06 am
Did you forget he converted to rastafarianism?


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Various Positions in Bodh Shiksha Samiti
Employer: Bodh Shiksha Samiti
Address: Bodh Shiksha Samiti, AA-1 Anita Colony, Bajaj Nagar, Jaipur, Rajasthan
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Phone: Bodh Shiksha Samiti
Skills: Proficiency in English, Hindi language & Computer is must
Experience: Experience in girls education programs and program coordination is desirable.
Education: PG with good academic record
Job Location: Jaipur and Thanagazi, Umren Distt. Alwar (View Jobs in Jaipur and Thanagazi, Jobs in Umren Distt. Alwar)
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Various Positions in Bodh Shiksha Samiti
1. Program Coordinator (1 UEP, 1 REP) - Supported by Michael & Susan Dell Foundation & Goodearth Education Foundation
• Manage and coordinate with project team on aspects of programme designing, planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation & reporting under guidance of Secretary, Organization; will be responsible for meeting programme targets and goals.
• Plan, organize and participate in programme activities (training; evaluations; workshops; meetings and other)
• Maintain programme updates and manage communications with partners and govt. functionaries; maintain clear channels of communications for smooth implementation of programme activities and regular monitoring.
• Initiate and develop resource mobilization and fund raising opportunities along with conceptualizing, designing and operational zing new projects.
• Perform other duties as necessary.
Qualification and experience
• Qualified professional preferably with a masters degree in Social Work / Management / Education with equivalent experience.
• Minimum 2 years experience in project coordination, Monitoring & Evaluation in development sector.
• Strong program management skills including strategic planning and work plan development with a strong focus on maintaining quality across project milestones.
• Experience in grant design, proposal writing, Monitoring & Evaluation, research, report writing and documentation.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English and Hindi language.
• Working knowledge of computer skills.
• Ability to undertake regular travel required including out station travel.
2. Coordinator - Pre School Education (1 REP) supported by Oxfam India
• Would be responsible for coordinating the pre-school education component of the program.
• Would ensure proper planning, implementation, capacity building of the team, curriculum and Teaching Learning Material (TLM) development for pre-school education.
• Would carry out research and documentation within the program.
Qualification and experience
• PG in child developement with good academic record.
• Minimum 2 years experience in working with pre-school as children.
• Experience in training and capacity building, pre-school teachers, developing and implementing innovative classroom management practices and teaching learning material for pre-school education is desirable.
3. Associate Senior Academic Support Fellow (10) supported by Goodearth Education Foundation
One each for Hindi, English, Science, Math, Social Science, Music, Fine arts, Dramatics, Computer Education and Pre-school Education.
• Would work as an expert in the 'Central Research and Recourse Centre (CRRC)' of the subject and would lead the process of curriculum development, tools and techniques and the ensuring implementation of the same.
• Would be responsible for subject based research, academic work & conceptualization of concept tools, methods and assessment techniques.
• Would be responsible for contemplating on the subject Pedagogy & would lead implementation of the same.
Qualification and experience
• PG with good academic record. Experience of secondary classes teaching is desirable. Rich working experience & sound knowledge of subject will be preferred.
4. Coordinator Govt. Liaising (1 REP) Supported by Oxfam India
• Would be responsible for liaising with the Govt. officials associated with the Govt. intervention programs.
• Would be responsible for coordinating different the dimension of work with the Govt. as per the project.
Qualification and experience
• PG with minimum 3 years work experience of Govt. Liaising.
5. Fellow - Learning & Assessment (1) Supported by Oxfam India
• Would be responsible for conceptualization of tools & formats regarding learning and assessment.
• Would be responsible for contemplating on learning and assessment, processes for evolving appropriate techniques and the implementation.
Qualification and experience
• PG with minimum 2-3 years experience in student's learning assessment & evolution system in schools is desirable.
6. Associate Senior Fellow - Kasturba Gandhi Balika Vidhyalaya KGBV (Female, 1 REP) Supported by Oxfam India
• Would be responsible for coordinating Bodh's intervention in KGBV.
• Would ensure proper implementation, planning, academic support, monitoring & documentation of the program.
Qualification and skills
• PG with good academic record. Experience in girls education programs and program coordination is desirable.
• Should be confident and comfortable for travel (within the program) and have interest in adolescent issues, deprived communities pertaining education.
Consolidated Salary for post no. 1 is Rs. 35,000 (UEP), Rs. 40,000 (REP) for the post no. 2 & 3 - Rs. 20,000, for the post no. 4 - Rs. 18,000, for the post no. 5 - Rs. 25,000, and for the post no. 6 - Rs. 15,000.
Maximum Age:
45 years for all posts.
Proficiency in English, Hindi language & Computer is must consolidated monthly salary has been indicated for all posts.
How to apply
The applicant should submit his / her CV (please clearly mention the post applied for) via Email at the mentioned E-mail Id or Post on the following address:
Bodh Shiksha Samiti, AA-1 Anita Colony, Bajaj Nagar, Jaipur, Rajasthan
Or E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com
About Employer
Bodh Shiksha Samiti, as a non-government organization, has been working in the area of school education since 1987. Some important components of the organization include-quality improvement in the teaching learning practices through child-centered pedagogy and approaches; establishing common community schools, intervention in Govt. schools, policy advocacy capacity development programs with the other non-govt. Organization and providing support to Govt. in educational initiatives. We are reaching out to more than 15000 children in our project located in Jaipur City (Urban education program, referred as UEP) Alwar district- Umrain & Thanagazi Blocks(Rural education program referred as REP).
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Alex fan raising from London-to-Amsterdam to raise money for Prostate Cancer
Crewe Alexandra will be hosting a prostate cancer awareness day on Saturday 15th March against Oldham. Don't forget to book in an appointment on the day to get yourself tested.
Craig will be representing Crewe Alexandra and will be supporting him in his fund raising in the build-up to the event. If you would like to donate for such an amazing cause please visit Craig's Justgiving page at www.justgiving.com/Craig-Berrisford.
If you haven't already please make a small donation to the Prostate Cancer UK campaign through Crewe Alexandra Football Club and our supporter Craig Berrisford. Craig is embarking on the Football League's London-to-Amsterdam cycle ride in June with all proceeds going to Prostate Cancer.


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Good governance
Under the Local Government Act 1989, councillors must provide leadership and good governance for the municipal district and the community.
Councillors must provide good governance in a range of activities including:
- civic leadership
- representation and advocacy
- inter-governmental negotiation
- marketing and communication
- decision-making and enforcement of local laws
- local policy and planning development in a regional and state context
- accountability and performance measurement
- resources and asset management.
When local government practises good governance, its communities are more connected and engaged, better services are provided, community confidence in council is improved, resources are better used and better outcomes are achieved.
What is good governance?
- Governance is the process of decision-making and the process by which decisions are implemented (or not implemented)
- Good governance exists when a government governs for, and on behalf of, its community
- Good governance is underpinned in local government by specific provisions in the LG Act including a councillor code of conduct, councillor conduct principles, provisions relating to misuse of position, improper direction and improper influence, treatment of confidential information and the disclosure of conflicts of interest
- Good governance is participatory, consensus oriented, accountable, transparent, responsive, effective, efficient, equitable, inclusive and law abiding
- The principle and practice of democratic governance underpins governance in the local government sector. Democratic governance refers to the democratic nature of local government and the accountability of councils and councillors to their communities.


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'Tis the season for Windows Mobile 6.1 updates. Following closely on the recent updates for the HTC Tilt and the Verizon VX6800, Samsung has decided to bless us with a little 6.1 love for the Blackjack II. The specs should be old hat for you by now, but in case you've been living under a rock for the past several months, the new firmware brings threaded SMS, a new paned home screen, better power management, and more to the WM Standard device. The update can be downloaded effective immediately, and while the process is not exactly painless (all of your data will be wiped) we can't think of a good reason not to make the jump.
UPDATE: It looks like Samsung has pulled the download page for the time being. No word on when it might return, but we'll keep checking and keep you posted.
Windows Mobile 6.1: Samsung Blackjack II edition
via Boy Genius Report by Joshua Karp on 8/28/08


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The cool blue shades that Vu Quoc Dung used in this painting instantly soothes the viewer's hearts are they first look upon the artwork. The specks of colour scattered in the painting, Vu Dung's signature style of impasto, stands out remarkably from the contrasting shades of blue in the background. The foilage of the trees that lie in the middle of a crop field are round and full, suggesting the field's promise of a bountiful harvest.
Born in 1982, Vu is a Vietnamese artist based in Ho Chi Minh City. Growing up, he always had a strong passion for drawing and drew on whatever he could, or was on hand - even school textbooks (a move which quite upset his teachers.) He graduated from the Fine Arts University of Ho Chi Minh City in 2008 and is now a faculty member at the university and an art teacher. Most recently, his works were displayed in the "Graphic Art Exhibition" in Ho Chi Minh City. Unlike many young Vietnamese artists his age who paint with critical realism, Vu chooses to capture splendid moments and brings them into his pictures so that everybody can feel, enjoy and treasure the beauty of life and what surrounds it. Read More
Selected Exhibitions
Participated in GRAPHIC ART EXHIBITION
Have a painting in Operation Smile Auction
Participated in My homeland Ocean & Islands, organized in Vietnam
Had painting in National Art Exhibition
Participated in Exhibition of Creativity Campus of Ho Chi Minh City Art Association
Participated in Youth Exhibition (BIEAMALE)
Many private collections in USA, France, Holland, Switzerland, Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia.
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"When you absolutely positively have to know, ask a librarian"
American Library Association
"Outside of a dog,
a book is man's best friend.
Inside of a dog,
it's too dark to read"
Groucho Marx
"The only thing that you absolutely have to know,
is the location of the library"
Albert Einstein
"When the going gets tough, the tough get a librarian"
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Hi, my name is Meryl McCay … welcome to my ePortfolio.
I have over 25 years of experience as an Information Professional, and have recently transitioned into web content roles.
My professional career includes:
- web content editing and management
- writing for the web
- intranet development
- experience with systems such as Drupal, SharePoint, Squiz Matrix, WordPress and Joomla!
- accessibility and WCAG 2.0
- the Australian Government's Digital Service Standard
- software support, training and documentation
- managing an integrated Library Management System for a large public library (more than one million loans/yr)
- managing a K-12 school library
- academic writing
- information management.
Possessing a wide range of ICT skills, I am currently expanding my capabilities in information architecture and website development and am a Certified Microsoft Office Master.