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Twitter reaction to Djokovic-Wawrinka
Novak Djokovic defeated Stanislas Wawrinka 1-6, 7-5, 6-4, 6-7 (5), 12-10 in the fourth round of the Australian Open on Sunday. The Twitter reaction came fast and furious during the five-hour match, as fellow players, journalists and other tennis types weighed in on the drama in real time.
Wawrinka came out of the gates on fire, riding five consecutive service breaks to a 6-1, 4-1 lead. The upset alert was on.
If you're not watching the night match I suggest you turn your TV sets on.This could be the best display of power hitting you have ever seen—
Mahesh Bhupathi (@Maheshbhupathi) January 20, 2013
How well is Stan Wawrinka playing now!?!?!!! I Like watching him play!!! This time not vs Fed in a 3rd or 4th round…. :-)—
Sabine Lisicki (@sabinelisicki) January 20, 2013
Stan playing unreal!! Can't wait to see how this turns out!—
Somdev Devvarman (@SomdevD) January 20, 2013
So this is where Stan Wawrinka removes the latex mask to reveal……Roger!
Christopher Clarey (@christophclarey) January 20, 2013
Wawrinka served for the second set at 5-2, but Djokovic roared back to win five straight games and steal the set 7-5. The assumption was that Wawrinka would fade …
6-1 4-1 to Wawrinka and Wilander says he backs Djokovic with 'every cent he has'. Good call—
Conor Niland (@conorniland1) January 20, 2013
… But he didn't.
As a tennis fan, i'm totally in awe of Wawrinka's backhand. So beautiful to watch #Wawrinka #AusOpen2013—
(@caseydellacqua) January 20, 2013
To have a single hand backhand myself an watching Stan crush his backhands just opens a whole new thought of single hand still rocks…—
Rohan Bopanna (@rohanbopanna) January 20, 2013
Every men's match is match to watch!!! Great tennis great show!!!! Great match between Wawrinka and Djokovic!!!!!—
D.Safina27 (@Dinarik27) January 20, 2013
Wawrinka also managed to shatter the court signage.
Kia Motors slogan "The Power To Surprise" , Stan indeed surprised the Kia Logo with some serious power :) … #StanTheMan—
Rohan Bopanna (@rohanbopanna) January 20, 2013
Wawrinka and Djokovic were hitting the ball hard enough to breaK things. Literally. instagram.com/p/UtNMyTjq_H/ #ESPNTennis #AusOpen—
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The two played some tremendous points, like this one with Wawrinka serving at 5-5 in the fourth set:
Wawrinka won the fourth set in a tiebreaker. To quote Brad Gilbert, "You got to get up!"
Going to ask staff to move Me to the edge of My seat for the last set #excited—
Not Roger Federer (@PseudoFed) January 20, 2013
OMG!!!!! What a match!!!! What a great schedule every night session is a great show!!!! That's exactly what people want to see!! #AO2013—
D.Safina27 (@Dinarik27) January 20, 2013
holy Stan-still……we are going 5 sets!!!! Stan the man IS TAKING IT TO the roll-nole! #bestonehandedbackhand! #7sports #fango—
rennae stubbs (@rennaestubbs) January 20, 2013
they playing so great :)So great long rallies :)Happy that i have day off today,and i can watch this match ))lucky me :)—
Irina Khromacheva (@Khromacheva) January 20, 2013
bloody hell! this match is #awesome starting to think @DjokerNole doesnt lose this now! 2 tough in the clutch on this court! #puturcashonhim—
rennae stubbs (@rennaestubbs) January 20, 2013
Yeah! It's such a good match! Who are you rooting for? :-) "@libby_trickett: We're going to a 5th!! Boom!! #ausopen #unbelievable"—
Sabine Lisicki (@sabinelisicki) January 20, 2013
so Tomic cuts his hair and loses and Nole cuts his hair and is in a battle! moral of the story, dont cut your hair samson!—
rennae stubbs (@rennaestubbs) January 20, 2013
Did Mats Wilander say that this match would finish in 3 sets??!!
Upppsss 😁😁😁—
D.Safina27 (@Dinarik27) January 20, 2013
Allezzzz Stanleyyyyyy—
yves allegro (@yvesallegro) January 20, 2013
I know that lots of women will kill me now… But equal prize money after this matches… I'm quiet…—
D.Safina27 (@Dinarik27) January 20, 2013
Come on buddy. You SO deserve it!! @stanwawrinka—
yves allegro (@yvesallegro) January 20, 2013
8 all. I love the fact the the fifth set is played out! #wawrinkavsdjokovic—
Sabine Lisicki (@sabinelisicki) January 20, 2013
1:30am and I'm still up… because of this Epic match. Love It!!! #ishouldbesleepingbynow—
Sabine Lisicki (@sabinelisicki) January 20, 2013
Wawrinka continued to battle, saving two match points while serving at 10-11. Here's one of those saves:
Let's go Stan!—
Kim Clijsters (@Clijsterskim) January 20, 2013
Forza Djokovic!!!—
Flavia Pennetta (@flavia_pennetta) January 20, 2013
Djokovic finally broke on a ridiculous match point that left jaws (and Wawrinka) on the ground.
I wanna cry :-(((—
yves allegro (@yvesallegro) January 20, 2013
AMAZING Match by both. Feel gutted for @stanwawrinka ! Congrats to Nole!!! #epicmatch @AustralianOpen—
Sabine Lisicki (@sabinelisicki) January 20, 2013
What a match and what an encredible matchpoint! Great stuff guys!!!—
Kim Clijsters (@Clijsterskim) January 20, 2013
What a match!!! Djokovic is such a fighter!!! #Toughness—
Monica Puig (@MonicaAce93) January 20, 2013
What a match!! Wawrinka played Amazing!! But #Novak showed one more time what a champion he is.. Very proud of my bro. Idemoo #nolefam !!!!!—
Djordje Djokovic (@djole_djokovic) January 20, 2013
Unreal match.—
Laura Robson (@laurarobson5) January 20, 2013
Winners/forced/unforced: Djokovic 51/65/66. Wawrinka 69/65/93. Very high quality stuff. #ausopen—
Ben Rothenberg (@BenRothenberg) January 20, 2013
Djokovic can hardly talk. 'It's hard to find the words. He deserved it equally. I give him a lot of credit. My whole respect.'—
Alexandra Willis (@alex_willis) January 20, 2013
"Body feels great. It's only 5 hours." Classic line from Nole gets laugh from crowd. #ausopen—
matt fitzgerald (@tennisfitz) January 20, 2013
Bon ben voilà……—
Stanislas Wawrinka (@stanwawrinka) January 20, 2013
Congrats to @DjokerNole !—
Stanislas Wawrinka (@stanwawrinka) January 20, 2013
@stanwawrinka Stan,thank you very much!! I am sorry for your loss.. Wish you all the best for the rest of the season.. It was great pleasure—
Novak Djokovic (@DjokerNole) January 20, 2013
3:00am Monday morning.Just another day in the office :-)Thank you all for the great support!Love you yfrog.com/o0yqqeyaj—
Novak Djokovic (@DjokerNole) January 20, 2013
Great line from Chris Fowler after match point: "We expected the routine. We got the extraordinary." #ausopen—
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What is Left of the Alien Tort Statute after Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum? - Podcast
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May 13, 2013Chimčne Keitner, Julian Ku, Dean A. Reuter
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On April 17, 2013, the Supreme Court decided Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum Co., holding that the Alien Tort Statute does not have extraterritorial reach. This halts the recent trend of parties being hauled into United States courts for alleged torts that occurred in another country with no connection to the United States. This teleforum discusses the implications of this landmark decision.
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An equestrian portrait of Emperor Carlos V (1500-1558) commemorating the victory of imperial troops over the Protestants at Mühlberg. The apparently straightforward composition hides a complex symbolism that portrays Carlos as both a Christian knight and heir to the imperial tradition of Rome. For example, the lance he holds in his right hand symbolizes the power of the Caesars, but it simultaneously alludes to Saint George's weapon, and to the one carried by Longinus during the Passion of Christ.
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The process of mining is described in Job 28:1-11. Moses speaks of the mineral wealth of Palestine (Deut. 8:9). Job 28:4 is rightly thus rendered in the Revised Version, "He breaketh open a shaft away from where men sojourn; they are forgotten of the foot [that passeth by]; they hang afar from men, they swing to and fro." These words illustrate ancient mining operations.
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Serena Williams hits the town with Kim Kardashian; WTA stars make rounds
What's the best cure for jet lag? Some sushi and a Kardashian, apparently.
Serena Williams rustled herself out of bed to join her pregnant buddy Kim Kardashian and the reality star's family for dinner at Nobu in Los Angeles on Tuesday night. The two have been tight for years, as evidenced by Serena's convenient withdrawal from the Cincinnati tournament in 2011 to attend Kardashian's wedding to Brooklyn Nets forward Kris Humphries.
Getting dressed now! RT "@KimKardashian: U better! We have dinner tonight! RT @serenawilliams: I simply cannot get out of bed."—
Serena Williams (@serenawilliams) January 30, 2013
Here's my question: How did Serena squeeze her swollen ankle into those boots? It's a miracle.
Yes we see you, @RedFoo, sitting courtside at last night's @Lakers' game with @vika7! twitpic.com/bzkijn—
The Slice (@TheSliceTweets) January 30, 2013
Serena wasn't the only WTA star out and about in L.A. on Tuesday. Australian Open champion Victoria Azarenka took in a Lakers game with her Redfoo-infused entourage. Australian Open semifinalist Sloane Stephens did the media rounds, which included an interview with CNN and an appearance on The Ellen DeGeneres Show that airs Wednesday.
Just about to take on @TheEllenShow in an epic tennis match. Episode airs tomorrow! http://t.co/qJdqZzjV—
Sloane Stephens (@sloanetweets) January 29, 2013
As for longtime Manhattan Beach resident Maria Sharapova, you have to respect her hustle. After a month of pushing her Sugarpova candy brand in Australia, Sharapova spent part of her evening Skypeing into the ISM candy fair in Cologne, Germany.
The new era of interviews is via Skype…here I am all the way in Cologne. At least on the screen. http://t.co/YXH8WMZb—
Maria Sharapova (@MariaSharapova) January 30, 2013
PS: As an aside, did you know Sharapova was a member of the Screen Actors Guild? Thanks, Twitter!
The perks of being a SAG member. Just watched Silver Lining from the comfort of my couch. http://t.co/x6p1VYze—
Maria Sharapova (@MariaSharapova) January 28, 2013


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Man arrested while hiding inside Dakota Medical Foundation buildingFargo, ND (WDAY TV) - Employees of Dakota Medical Foundation have quite the story to tell around the supper table tonight.
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Fargo, ND (WDAY TV) - Employees of Dakota Medical Foundation have quite the story to tell around the supper table tonight.
A man wanted by police ran into their office building. A woman flagged officers down, saying a man in her vehicle was assaulting her.
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The Rise of the New Global Super-Rich and the Fall of Everyone Else
Winner of the 2013 Lionel Gelber Prize
There has always been some gap between rich and poor in this country, but in the last few decades what it means to be rich has changed dramatically. Alarmingly, the greatest income gap is not between the 1 percent and the 99 percent, but within the wealthiest 1 percent of our nation--as the merely wealthy are left behind by the rapidly expanding fortunes of the new global super-rich. Forget the 1 percent; Plutocrats proves that it is the wealthiest 0.1 percent who are outpacing the rest of us at break-neck speed.
What's changed is more than numbers. Today, most colossal fortunes are new, not inherited--amassed by perceptive businessmen who see themselves as deserving victors in a cut-throat international competition. As a transglobal class of successful professionals, today's self-made oligarchs often feel they have more in common with one another than with their countrymen back home. Bringing together the economics and psychology of these new super-rich, Plutocrats puts us inside a league very much of its own, with its own rules.
The closest mirror to our own time is the late nineteenth century Gilded Age--the era of powerful 'robber barons' like Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller. Then as now, emerging markets and innovative technologies collided to produce unprecedented wealth for more people than ever in human history. Yet those at the very top benefited far more than others--and from this pinnacle they exercised immense and unchecked power in their countries. Today's closest analogue to these robber barons can be found in the turbulent economies of India, Brazil, and China, all home to ferocious market competition and political turmoil. But wealth, corruption, and populism are no longer constrained by national borders, so this new Gilded Age is already transforming the economics of the West as well. Plutocrats demonstrates how social upheavals generated by the first Gilded Age may pale in comparison to what is in store for us, as the wealth of the entire globalized world is concentrated in fewer and fewer hands.
Cracking open the tight-knit world of the new global super-rich is Chrystia Freeland, an acclaimed business journalist who has spent nearly two decades reporting on the new transglobal elite. She parses an internal Citigroup memo that urges clients to design portfolios around the international "Plutonomy" and not the national "rest"; follows Russian, Mexican, and Indian oligarchs during the privatization boom as they manipulate the levers of power to commandeer their local economies; breaks down the gender divide between the vast female-managed 'middle class' and the world's one thousand billionaires; shows how, by controlling both the economic and political institutions of their nation, the richest members of China's National People's Congress have amassed more wealth than every branch of American government combined--the president, his cabinet, the justices of the Supreme Court, and both houses of Congress.
Though the results can be shocking, Freeland dissects the lives of the world's wealthiest individuals with empathy, intelligence, and deep insight. Brightly written, powerfully researched, and propelled by fascinating original interviews with the plutocrats themselves, Plutocrats is a tour-de-force of social and economic history, and the definitive examination of inequality in our time.
The poor enjoy what the rich could not before afford. What were the luxuries have become the necessaries of life. The laborer has now more comforts than the farmer had a few generations ago. The farmer has more luxuries than the landlord had, and is more richly clad and better housed. The landlord has books and pictures rarer and appointments more artistic than the king could then obtain.
—Andrew Carnegie
Branko Milanovic is an economist at the World Bank. He first became interested in income inequality studying for his PhD in the 1980s in his native Yugoslavia, where he discovered it was officially viewed as a "sensitive" subject—which meant one the ruling regime didn't want its scholars to look at too closely. That wasn't a huge surprise; after all, the central ideological promise of socialism was to deliver a classless society.
But when Milanovic moved to Washington, he discovered a curious thing. Americans were happy to celebrate their super-rich and, at least sometimes, worry about their poor. But putting those two conversations together and talking about economic inequality was pretty much taboo.
"I was once told by the head of a prestigious think tank in Washington, D.C., that the think tank's board was very unlikely to fund any work that had income or wealth inequality in its title," Milanovic, who wears a beard and has a receding hairline and teddy bear build, explained in a recent book. "Yes, they would finance anything to do with poverty alleviation, but inequality was an altogether different matter."
"Why?" he asked. "Because 'my' concern with the poverty of some people actually projects me in a very nice, warm glow: I am ready to use my money to help them. Charity is a good thing; a lot of egos are boosted by it and many ethical points earned even when only tiny amounts are given to the poor. But inequality is different: Every mention of it raises in fact the issue of the appropriateness or legitimacy of my income."
The point isn't that the super-elite are reluctant to display their wealth—that is, after all, at least part of the purpose of yachts, couture, vast homes, and high-profile big-buck philanthropy. But when the discussion shifts from celebratory to analytical, the super-elite get nervous. One Wall Street Democrat, who has held big jobs in Washington and at some of America's top financial institutions, told me President Barack Obama had alienated the business community by speaking about "the rich." It would be best not to refer to income differences at all, the banker said, but if the president couldn't avoid singling out the country's top earners, he should call them "affluent." Naming them as "rich," he told me, sounded divisive—something the rich don't want to be. Striking a similar tone, Bill Clinton, in his 2011 book, Back to Work, faulted Barack Obama for how he talks about those at the top. "I didn't attack them for their success," President Clinton wrote, attributing to that softer touch his greater success in getting those at the top to accept higher taxes.
Robert Kenny, a Boston psychologist who specializes in counseling the super-elite, agrees. He told an interviewer that "often the word 'rich' becomes a pejorative. It rhymes with 'bitch.' I've been in rooms and seen people stand up and say, 'I'm Bob Kenny and I'm rich.' And then they burst into tears."
It is not just the super-rich who don't like to talk about rising income inequality. It can be an ideologically uncomfortable conversation for many of the rest of us, too. That's because even—or perhaps particularly—in the view of its most ardent supporters, global capitalism wasn't supposed to work quite this way.
Until the past few decades, the received wisdom among economists was that income inequality would be fairly low in the preindustrial era—overall wealth and productivity were fairly small, so there wasn't that much for an elite to capture—then spike during industrialization, as the industrialists and industrial workers outstripped farmers (think of China today). Finally, in fully industrialized or postindustrial societies, income inequality would again decrease as education became more widespread and the state played a bigger, more redistributive role.
This view of the relationship between economic development and income inequality was first and most clearly articulated by Simon Kuznets, a Belarusian-born immigrant to the United States. Kuznets illustrated his theory with one of the most famous graphs in economics—the Kuznets curve, an upside-down U that traces the movement of society as its economy becomes more sophisticated and productive, from low inequality, to high inequality, and back down to low inequality.
Writing in the early years of the industrial revolution, and without the benefit of Kuznets's data and statistical analysis, Alexis de Tocqueville came up with a similar prediction: "If one looks closely at what has happened to the world since the beginning of society, it is easy to see that equality is prevalent only at the historical poles of civilization. Savages are equal because they are equally weak and ignorant. Very civilized men can all become equal because they all have at their disposal similar means of attaining comfort and happiness. Between these two extremes is found inequality of condition, wealth, knowledge—the power of the few, the poverty, ignorance, and weakness of the rest."
If you believe in capitalism—and nowadays pretty much the whole world does—the Kuznets curve was a wonderful theory. Economic progress might be brutal and bumpy and create losers along the way. But once we reached that Tocquevillian plateau of all being "very civilized men" (yes, men!), we would all share in the gains. Until the late 1970s, the United States, the world's poster child of capitalism, was also an embodiment of the Kuznets curve. The great postwar expansion was also the period of what economists have dubbed the Great Compression, when inequality shrank and most Americans came to think of themselves as middle class. This was the era when, in the words of Harvard economist Larry Katz, "Americans grew together." That seemed to be the natural shape of industrial capitalism.
Even the Reagan Revolution rode on the coattails of this paradigm—trickle-down economics, after all, emphasizes the trickle. But in the late 1970s, things started to change. The income of the middle class started to stagnate and those at the top began to pull away from everyone else. This shift was most pronounced in the United States, but by the twenty-first century, surging income inequality had become a worldwide phenomenon, visible in most of the developed Western economies as well as in the rising emerging markets.
The switch from the America of the Great Compression to the America of the 1 percent is still so recent that our intuitive beliefs about how capitalism works haven't caught up with the reality. In fact, surging income inequality is such a strong violation of our expectations that most of us don't realize it is happening.
That is what Duke University behavioral economist Dan Ariely discovered in a 2011 experiment with Michael Norton of Harvard Business School. Ariely showed people the wealth distribution in the United States, where the top 20 percent own 84 percent of the total wealth, and in Sweden, where the share of the top 20 percent is just 36 percent. Ninety-two percent of respondents said they preferred the wealth distribution of Sweden to that of the United States today. Ariely then asked his subjects to give their ideal distribution of wealth for the United States. Respondents preferred that the top 20 percent own just 32 percent of total wealth, an even more equitable distribution than Sweden's. When it comes to wealth inequality, Americans would prefer to live in Sweden—or in the late 1950s compared to the United States today. And they would like kibbutz-style egalitarianism best of all.
But the gap between the data and our intuition is not a good reason to ignore what is going on. And to understand how American capitalism—and capitalism around the world—is changing, you have to look at what is happening at the very top. That focus isn't class war; it's arithmetic. Larry Summers, the Harvard economist and former secretary of the Treasury, is hardly a radical. Yet he points out that America's economic growth over the past decade has been so unevenly shared that, for the middle class, "for the first time since the Great Depression, focusing on redistribution makes more sense than focusing on growth."
The skew toward the very top is so pronounced that you can't understand overall economic growth figures without taking it into account. As in a school whose improved test scores are due largely to the stellar performance of a few students, the surging fortunes at the very top can mask stagnation lower down the income distribution. Consider America's economic recovery in 2009–2010. Overall incomes in that period grew by 2.3 percent—tepid growth, to be sure, but a lot stronger than you might have guessed from the general gloom of that period.
Look more closely at the data, though, as economist Emmanuel Saez did, and it turns out that average Americans were right to doubt the economic comeback. That's because for 99 percent of Americans, incomes increased by a mere 0.2 percent. Meanwhile, the incomes of the top 1 percent jumped by 11.6 percent. It was definitely a recovery—for the 1 percent.
There's a similar story behind the boom in the emerging markets. The "India Shining" of the urban middle class has left untouched hundreds of millions of peasants living at subsistence levels, as the Bharatiya Janata Party discovered to its dismay when it sought reelection on the strength of that slogan; likewise, China's booming coastal elite is a world apart from the roughly half of the population who still live in villages in the country's vast hinterland.
This book is, therefore, an attempt to understand the changing shape of the world economy by looking at those at the very top: who they are, how they made their money, how they think, and how they relate to the rest of us. This isn't "Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous", but it also isn't a remake of Who Is to Blame?, the influential nineteenth-century novel by Alexander Herzen, the father of Russian socialism.
This book takes as its starting point the conviction that we need capitalists, because we need capitalism—it being, like democracy, the best system we've figured out so far. But it also argues that outcomes matter, too, and that the pulling away of the plutocrats from everyone else is both an important consequence of the way that capitalism is working today and a new reality that will shape the future.
Other accounts of the top 1 percent have tended to focus either on politics or on economics. The choice can have ideological implications. If you are a fan of the plutocrats, you tend to prefer economic arguments, because that makes their rise seem inevitable, or at least inevitable in a market economy. Critics of the plutocrats often lean toward political explanations, because those show the dominance of the 1 percent to be the work of the fallible Beltway, rather than of Adam Smith.
This book is about both economics and politics. Political decisions helped to create the super-elite in the first place, and as the economic might of the super-elite class grows, so does its political muscle. The feedback loop between money, politics, and ideas is both cause and consequence of the rise of the super-elite. But economic forces matter, too. Globalization and the technology revolution—and the worldwide economic growth they are creating—are fundamental drivers of the rise of the plutocrats. Even rent-seeking plutocrats—those who owe their fortunes chiefly to favorable government decisions—have also been enriched partly by this growing global economic pie.
America still dominates the world economy, and Americans still dominate the super-elite. But this book also tries to put U.S. plutocrats into a global context. The rise of the 1 percent is a global phenomenon, and in a globalized world economy, the plutocrats are the most international of all, both in how they live their lives and in how they earn their fortunes.
Henry George, the nineteenth-century American economist and politician, was an ardent free trader and such a firm believer in free enterprise that he opposed income tax. For him, the emergence of his era's plutocrats, the robber barons, was "the Great Sphinx."
"This association of poverty with progress," he wrote, "is the great enigma of our times. . . . So long as all the increased wealth which modern progress brings goes but to build up great fortunes, to increase luxury and make sharper the contrast between the House of Have and the House of Want, progress is not real and cannot be permanent."
A century and a half later, that Great Sphinx has returned. This book is an attempt to unravel part of that enigma by opening the door to the House of Have and studying its residents.
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Just wondering if all those people with great abs in their after photo worked on their abs more than 3x in a 2 week period.
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You are working on your abs every time you eat a clean meal and every time you do your HIIT.
That said, I am targetting my abs now that I have done the challenge and 3 x biweekly is enough. Aside from the one longer period between LBWOs, they are sore right up until the day before my workout. Find a good ab exercise, strive for your 10 and you will do fine.
Abs, just like biceps, chest, calves, etc are a muscle and there is no need to treat them differently. Treat them the same and you will get the results.
Personally, I do abs with every weight training, and I save it for last. That's just me, though. I have that "mommy pooch" that I am really trying to get rid of! (And it's going, BTW :) ! )
I agree w/ Armster. Every time you do cardio or eat well, you are shedding the fat. Getting a six-pack doesn't just involve direct abdominal strength training, it also involves shedding layers of fat off the top.
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Hope it works for you! Stay strong
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Carbs: 27.4g | Fat: 1.5g | Fiber: 1.8g | Protein: 4.4g | Calories: 130.7
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I found a recipe for low calorie pumpkin muffins but the recipe called for Splenda. Living abroad I can't get splenda but I still like to make low calorie desserts. I've used plain sugar but have added the oat bran and applesauce and cut down on the milk from the original recipe to make these yummy low calorie muffins. If yiu want them a little sweetwe you can use 2/3 cup sugar and gain a few more calories or if you want them less sweet, 1/3 cup sugar is fine as well. I have cooked them each way and my personal preference is a 1/2 cup sugar.
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Carbs: 17.2g | Fat: 0.7g | Fiber: 2.2g | Protein: 2.3g | Calories: 77.8
Rich velvet-y soup chock full of vitamins from the pumpkin, with the surprising touch of peanuts, ginger and a kick of red pepper
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Carbs: 18.3g | Fat: 11.3g | Fiber: 6.3g | Protein: 6.1g | Calories: 188
We're serious about the spice in this recipe. Whole-grain pasta and tender shrimp pair perfectly with a luxuriously rich, piquant sauce.
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Carbs: 27.6g | Fat: 15.7g | Fiber: 4.3g | Protein: 27.9g | Calories: 356.9
A delicious way to start a meal!
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Carbs: 3.4g | Fat: 7.8g | Fiber: 0.3g | Protein: 23.6g | Calories: 201
Addictively delicious and unbelievably easy, this dish is perfect on pasta, in tacos, or simply atop steamed rice and veggies.
Submitted by SGILLARD
Carbs: 2.7g | Fat: 7.9g | Fiber: 0.4g | Protein: 21g | Calories: 167.5
OH MAN, this is restaurant good!
Submitted by NINEOF12
Carbs: 8.1g | Fat: 2.5g | Fiber: 0.6g | Protein: 18.8g | Calories: 131.3
Very Good 4.8/5
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Submitted by BOXERMOM19
Carbs: 31.6g | Fat: 0.4g | Fiber: 3.9g | Protein: 2.1g | Calories: 136.5
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This is a sandwich I have alot in the morning to prevent me from the temptation of a drive thru. It also freezes and reheats well so I like to make a bunch ahead of time
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Carbs: 28.5g | Fat: 8g | Fiber: 8g | Protein: 21.9g | Calories: 239.6
Ready in 25 minutes.
Carbs: 42.4g | Fat: 24.1g | Fiber: 1.1g | Protein: 30.9g | Calories: 514.5
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I had this in an Equadoran restaurant and loved it so much. It tastes so fresh, and has little fat. Delicious for a party food.
Submitted by VALASEREN
Carbs: 39.6g | Fat: 4.9g | Fiber: 8.1g | Protein: 22.2g | Calories: 264.3
Irresistible! I like to use chicken breasts that have been marinating in buttermilk marinade overnight.
Submitted by LIBBYIMLISTENEN
Carbs: 3.5g | Fat: 6.9g | Fiber: 0.8g | Protein: 40.4g | Calories: 246.1


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Conference Call API at a glance
Conference Call is a simple web service for connecting multiple phone numbers to telephone conferences in the fixed and mobile networks, both nationally and internationally. The participants are either automatically called at the start of the conference (dial-out) or dial-in themselves (dial-in). This way, desktop, web and mobile applications can be extended by telephone conference functionalities across platforms.
- Conferences can be launched immediately (ad hoc conferences)
- Dial-out: Participants are automatically called at the specified time
- Dial-in: Dialing in to conferences in progress possible
- Conference server messages customizable
- Conferences can be planned up to 365 days in advance
- Conferences can be set up in series
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- Dial-out: Participants are automatically called at the specified time
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- Conference server messages customizable
- Conferences can be planned up to 365 days in advance
- Conferences can be set up in series
- The original conference duration can easily be extended
- The organizer of a conference decides whether a subscriber's number should be hidden or displayed
- Secure: Participants dialing in to conferences use a six to ten-digit PIN
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When planning a conference, several parameters can be defined (and changed again at any time): for example, who should be called on what day, at what time, and for how long. At the specified time, the conference initiator and all invited conference participants are automatically called.
The organizer of a conference also decides whether a subscriber's number should be hidden or displayed. Furthermore, additional participants can quickly be added while the conference is underway. It is also no problem to exclude individual subscribers or to put them on mute.
If there is much more to discuss than planned, the original conference duration can easily be extended.
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The costs for conference calls are reduced to the level of those for our Voice Call API. At the same time, an additional flat rate of 3 cent per minute will be charged for conferences in future. The number of conference participants makes no difference to the additional charge.
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Friday, October 11, 2013.
Is tomorrow night's tilt between Boise State and Utah State a de facto Mountain Division championship game in the Mountain West? Well, yes. If USU wins, it paves the way to the conference championship game. The Aggies would have a two-game lead on the Broncos and own the tiebreaker. Their remaining games are versus New Mexico, Hawaii, UNLV, Colorado State and Wyoming, and those final two against the Rams and Cowboys are in Logan. Boise State's drama the rest of the season would be reduced to bowl speculation.
If Boise State wins, it has momentum, and it owns the tiebreaker against the Aggies. The Broncos' remaining Mountain West games are against Nevada, Colorado State, Wyoming, San Diego State and New Mexico. Not that they're all sure things, but if Boise State can win in Logan tomorrow night, it will show it's capable of winning all the rest. Did you know? Utah State has won 13 straight conference games dating back to the WAC.
'Twas a time that Boise State fans could dominate the stands at Romney Stadium in and create a home atmosphere. Take 2007, for example. There were 8,000 Bronco fans in Logan for Boise State's 52-0 win over the Aggies. That was then, and this is now. There aren't 8,000 tickets available to blue-and-orange people, as USU is gunning for its unprecedented third consecutive sellout of 25,500. However, at last check there were still tickets available.
One facet of the Boise State offense in the spotlight tomorrow night will be the passing game. It'll be hard to run a lot on Utah State, but the Broncos may be able to throw despite the Aggies' Mountain West-leading pass efficiency defense rating of 117.4. The Aggies have been giving up some deep balls, including completions of 60 and 43 yards last week by BYU's Taysom Hill, who's been kind of a passing-challenged guy. Hill threw for a career-high 278 yards in the Cougar win. Boise State's Joe Southwick has a pass efficiency rating of 153.1, which—interestingly—is about a point better than Fresno State's Derek Carr, and just four points behind USU's now-injured Chuckie Keeton.
Boise State's string of years with a marquee season opener will reach seven with the news that the 2015 season will begin against Washington in Bronco Stadium. The date will be either Thursday, September 3, or Friday, September 4, depending upon which of its feature spots ESPN wants the game in. The Broncos-Huskies matchup was originally scheduled for September 19. Beginning in 2009, Boise State has faced Oregon, Virginia Tech, Georgia, Michigan State and UW in succession to open the season on national TV. That will continue with Ole Miss next year and now the Huskies again the following season. Who's going to fill that original date on Washington's schedule? Utah State will play at Husky Stadium September 19, 2015.
Air Force had San Diego State on the ropes last night before the Aztecs rallied with three touchdowns in the fourth quarter to top the Falcons, 27-20. The loss dropped the Falcons to 0-5 in Mountain West play. Elsewhere in the conference, there aren't any games that'll set your hair on fire tomorrow. But there will be some enlightenment. San Jose State's and Colorado State's seasons are at a crossroads as the Spartans and Rams play in Fort Collins. New Mexico and UNLV are trying to prove they've turned the corner. The Lobos will have a tough time doing that at Wyoming tomorrow, although the Cowboys do struggle to stop the run. The Rebels should nail their fourth win of the season, as they host Hawaii. Nevada, who visits the blue turf next week, has a bye (as does Fresno State).
Idaho punter and placekicker Austin Rehkow got the positive headlines following the otherwise forgettable 61-14 loss to Fresno State last Saturday. The Vandals hope they earn some more standard kudos when they visit Bryan Harsin's Arkansas State Red Wolves tomorrow. Rehkow, the true freshman from Veradale, WA, was named the Ray Guy National Punter of the Week after averaging 51.1 yards on seven punts against the Bulldogs. Five of his boots topped the 50-yard mark. Idaho would prefer he not have to rack up that many punts in Jonesboro. Rehkow is averaging 47.5 yards per punt for the season. He's 5-of-10 on field goals with a long of 41 yards.
Man, has the world view of Austin Pettis changed the past two years. The former Boise State star had a nondescript rookie year in 2011, which ended with a four-game suspension for violating the NFL's PED policy. Pettis came on last season, and now he's the guy St. Louis quarterback Sam Bradford depends on. "You can't say enough good things about Austin Pettis," Bradford told ESPN.com. "I've said it since OTA's. He's so smart; you can put him all over the field. He knows every route that everyone's supposed to run, and I can trust him. Of Pettis' 22 catches this season, 14 have gone for first downs and four more have gone for touchdowns. Over the past two seasons, Pettis has 52 catches with 38 of them going for a first down or a touchdown. Sounds familiar to followers of Boise State. The Rams play at Houston Sunday.
Troy Merritt isn't going to make the cut at his first PGA Tour event in two years. Yes, the stage is a little different now. Merritt struggled to a seven-over 78 yesterday in the first round of the Frys.com Open, the opening event of the reconfigured PGA Tour season for 2013-14. Merritt, the former Boise State star who earned his way back to the big circuit through the Web.com Tour Finals, bogeyed four of the first six holes on the CordeValle Country Club course in San Martin, CA.
While Portland is building, Utah is rebuilding as the Blazers and Jazz go into their exhibition game tonight at CenturyLink Arena. The new household names in Salt Lake City are going to be guys like Gordon Hayward and Trey Burke. Entering his fourth season, Hayward is already a grizzled veteran. Burke, the NCAA Player of the Year out of Michigan, was the ninth overall pick in the NBA Draft in June. Utah routed the Golden State Warriors 101-78 Tuesday night despite the absence of departed veterans Al Jefferson, Paul Millsap, Mo Williams, Randy Foye, DeMarre Carroll, Earl Watson and Jamaal Tinsley. The Jazz will see Williams and Watson tonight in Boise, wearing Blazers uniforms.
Other notes: The Idaho Steelheads play their first exhibition game against Utah tonight in Logan before returning to CenturyLink Arena to play the Grizzlies tomorrow night in the "season ticket holders only" game. Boise's Brian Scott makes his first NASCAR start tomorrow in the Bank of America 500 at the Charlotte Motor Speedway. Scott, who'll be driving his No. 33 Shore Lodge car, earned his keep in the Nationwide Series this year with three top-five finishes, including a second-place result in Richmond, VA., last month. And the Boise State wrestling team will be ranked to begin the 2013-14 season. The Broncos, an affiliate member of the Pac-12, debuted at No. 20 in the Preseason InterMat College Rankings. They open the season November 2 at Wyoming's Cowboy Open.
This Day In Sports…October 11, 1991:
Chip Beck, who just two weeks earlier was playing in the Albertsons Boise Open, ties Al Geiberger's PGA Tour record by shooting a 59 in the third round of the Las Vegas Invitational. Beck birdied 13 of the 18 holes in matching Geiberger's feat at the 1977 Memphis Classic. Despite the record round, though, Beck would finish third in the 90-hole Las Vegas event. There have been four 59's since, from David Duval, Paul Goydos, Stuart Appleby, and—last month at the BMW Championship—Jim Furyk.
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Juan Mata highlighted the need to perform more consistently against the sides occupying league positions around Chelsea when he spoke to the club's own channel in the wake of the weekend game.
The defeat at Manchester City follows a home draw against Roberto Mancini's men earlier in the season. We secured a double over Arsenal and beat Tottenham on their turf but lost to Man United at home back in October, in a game when decisions by officials did not go the Blues' way.
'The most important games are when you play against the best teams in the Premier League and you have to show you are at this level,' Mata told Chelsea TV.'On Sunday it wasn't enough, the job that we did, and what we have to do now is just carry on, the season is not finished yet.
'When you play teams like Man City you have to perform at your best. We tried but in the first 25 minutes they were better at pressing us. At the end of the first half we changed the game a little bit and after we had a few chances, and in the second half it was an important moment with the penalty and Joe Hart did a very good save.'
Gary Cahill also considered the top-of-the-table matches and the effect this season's unusually crowded fixture list is having.
'At the start of the season we had spark and we had zip and sometimes a little bit of fatigue plays its part,' said the defender. 'Man City had a clear week before the game and we didn't and they were a lot fresher and sharper than us.
'It does take its toll, we have not had a clear week for many weeks and you are expected to go into games 100 per cent fresh, trying to push on for every competition. You don't want to make excuses but it is a fact. It is something we have to deal with.'
The latest round of league results have seen Chelsea slip to fourth in the table and Mata says moving back up the league is the number one priority in the remaining months.
'Our main objective now is to play the Champions League next season,' stated the Spaniard. 'Obviously we want to win the FA Cup and the Europa League and we are still alive in these competitions, but the main aim is to be third and play in the Champions League.
'We have the two cups and we have to get in the Champions League spots, that is our aim until the end of the season,' agreed Cahill.
'That is what we have to focus on and we have to go again. All three of them are in our own hands so we need to keep going, keep plugging away and make sure we achieve those goals.'


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6. Texas A&M's Kevin Sumlin is excited about his SEC debut.
7. Georgia linebacker Jarvis Jones is the SEC's top player according to The Gainesville Sun.
8. Tennessee linebacker Herman Lathers is pushing forward after missing 2011 with an injury.
9. Vanderbilt is taking advantage of NCAA rule changes in basketball.
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Babe Ruth: E-Center, H-Mann too much for Unicoi10:18 am | May 23, 2012
Through two and a half innings, the only success either Eagle Center or Unicoi had at the plate was through errors or walks. That all changed in the bottom of the third.
Eagle Center tallied six runs on five hits, including a two-run inside-the-park homer from Darion Simerly, to key a 14-4 victory over the Devils in Tuesday's Babe Ruth tilt at Elizabethton High School.
Unicoi also lost the nightcap, falling 10-5 to Horace Mann.
"We got a few key hits there," said Eagle Center coach Scott Simerly of the opener. "A couple of nice shots into the outfield. It just happened to be some of my fastest runners too, so they were able to get around the base pads pretty quick.
"Their pitchers were throwing strikes all night long, all we had to do was hit the ball. It was a good night at the plate for us. Just every kid up there put the ball in play tonight."
Eagle Center tallied 10 hits on the night, led by a three-hit outing from Justin Maupin who scored three times and drove one run across the plate.
Garrett Hartley added two hits and two RBI, while Chase Markland, Malik Campbell and Simerly each scored three times on the night. Brian Sehrer reached four times, twice on errors, with one hit, scoring three times with an RBI.
Hartley picked up the win on the mound for Eagle Center, striking out seven, allowing four runs on four hits with seven walks and a hit batter.
"He did a great job," Simerly said. "His fast ball isn't the fastest thing in the world, but when he throws that off-speed stuff they just couldn't do anything with it. It was a well-played game all the way around for us tonight."
Unicoi starter Corey Hatcher, who dealt the first four runs, took the loss on the mound after giving up four hits. He was relieved in the third by Luis Reynoso, who gave up 10 runs on six hits with four walks.
Aside from the six-run third, Eagle Center scored six in the fourth thanks to three hits sandwiched around six errors and five passed balls.
Unicoi, which scored one run in the fourth, plated three on a single and error from Colton Myers to keep the game alive.
But Maupin scored on an error and Sehrer reached on a passed ball to end the game via the run rule.
Eagle Center improved to 1-1 on the season with the win.
Horace Mann………………. 15
Unicoi Co………………………..5
Horace Mann used 11 combined runs over the final three innings to pull ahead and seal a win via run-rule at 11:10 p.m..
Justin Maupin and Nate Childress delivered four hits apiece for the winning team. Maupin tallied a pair of triples, scored four times and drove two runs across while Childress had a triple and double and scored three times with six RBI.
Hunter Townsend added an RBI double and run, reaching four times including two walks and being struck by pitch, while Duncan Hodge reached four times, once on error, with two walks and a dropped third strike. Brady Varner also plated a run with an RBI double.
Duncan Hodge got the start for Horace Mann, but gave way to Nate Childress in the fourth inning. Childress retired nine of the ten batters he faced for the win, striking out eight in three innings of work.
Ryan Simmons took the loss for Unicoi, who went through three pitchers in the game.
Unicoi was led by two hits from Eric Cooper, while two others delivered a hit. The Devils trailed by one before a four-run fourth inning.
Horace Mann knotted the game with three runs in the third and regained the lead with two runs in the fourth followed by a four-inning fifth and five-run capper in the sixth.


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applewagon on Dec 27, 2010 at 19:45:39
clever naming
Firelord Mandy on Nov 25, 2010 at 16:49:10
silentcelle on Oct 11, 2010 at 09:18:45
Nice design!~ =)))) If only there's one that's "Children of Colemak" though haha XD