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Building a stronger and more resilient society in Pakistan
In Pakistan, natural and man-made disasters affect thousands of people every year. For 60% of the population, surviving on less than USD 2 per day and already facing chronic vulnerability, these disasters hit even harder. As a result, ACTED's main goals in 2014 were to provide immediate relief and early recovery to households with the greatest humanitarian needs, following the onset of an emergency; and to strengthen the capacity of communities to manage and reduce risks, thus increasing their resilience. Concurrently, ACTED maintained its focus on strengthening inclusive income generation and sustainable livelihoods across Pakistan, to build a stronger society.
Addressing the underlying causes of the nutrition crisis in Sindh
In Sindh, ACTED worked for the fifth consecutive year as part of the Pakistan Emergency Food Security Alliance, to address the nutrition crisis. This year, ACTED was able to implement its strategic approach to addressing malnutrition for the first time – focusing on underlying causes through an integrated approach, which tackles WASH and livelihoods in partnership with direct nutrition treatment. As a result of this presence and experience in Sindh, in 2014, ACTED was also able to conduct much needed advocacy around drought, an issue which contributes severely to food insecurity, and can be fatal for the vulnerable communities of the Province.
Promoting education and supporting sustainable livelihoods across Pakistan
In line with ACTED's strategic objectives and long-term priorities, 2014 saw the organization continue to invest heavily in supporting education and sustainable livelihoods in Pakistan. ACTED has worked to increase primary-level attendance and reduce school drop-out rates, whilst also providing Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) to youth across the country. Through this intervention, ACTED links marginalized youth with employers, trade unions, and microfinance institutions, strengthening capacities for income-generation. Crucially, in all of ACTED's education and livelihoods programming in Pakistan, the inclusion and empowerment of marginalized women is always a primary focus.
Providing emergency relief and early recovery to IDPs in KP/FATA
ACTED continued to address the IDP crisis in Pakistan in 2014, providing emergency relief and early recovery assistance to thousands of Internally Displaced People, and responding to new population displacements fleeing conflict in North Waziristan and flooding in Punjab. In KP and FATA, ACTED employed an integrated approach, providing shelter, WASH and livelihood assistance to the most vulnerable households. ACTED has developed specific expertise in cash assistance, using a wide range of modalities, including online and mobile cash transfers, as well as voucher systems, to provide disaster-affected people with dignified assistance. Cash grants empower beneficiaries to manage their own assistance, tailoring the support they receive to meet their own particular needs.
Building an evidence base to support sustainable development and effective disaster resilience
At the start of 2015, ACTED Pakistan established a Research & Development Unit in order to contribute significantly to the development of an evidence-base, to support meaningful interventions in both the humanitarian and development spheres, and the implementation of innovative solutions in ACTED projects. In 2015, ACTED also remained flexible to population flows, addressing the humanitarian needs of vulnerable households in displacement and in the case of IDP returns. Finally, ACTED continued to support the building of a resilient Pakistan, both in terms of promoting education and livelihoods support, and in assisting communities to strengthen their capacities for disaster management.
Partners in 2014
Development Alternatives, Inc (DAI), DfID, EuropeAid, European Commission Humanitarian Aid & Civil Protection (ECHO), Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nation (FAO), Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance (OFDA), United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat), Welhungerhilfe (WHH).
Pakistan 2005-2014: ten years of assistance to the people of Pakistan
ACTED has been present in Pakistan since 1993, when it registered its first office in Peshawar. Since then, ACTED has become a leading relief and development aid provider in Pakistan, implementing a wide range of programmes focusing on: 1) disaster preparedness & emergency response; 2) shelter; 3) infrastructure rehabilitation & construction; 4) sustainable energy development, 5) livelihoods support, 6) agriculture development; 7) education & vocational training; 8) water, sanitation & hygiene. In addition, ACTED has been providing monitoring & evaluation and information management services to a wide range of stakeholders in Pakistan – in particular PDMA, ERRA and PMD - to contribute to improving humanitarian coordination and effectiveness.
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|Phoenix Arizona Election Questionnaire for State Legislature, AMANDA REEVE
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State Representative, Legislative District 28
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State Representative (State of Arizona) & Paralegal (Polsinelli Shughart PC)
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Financial Planning Assistant; Administrative Assistant; Fine Dining; Retail
|Date of Birth
MS, Environmental Technology Management, Arizona State University (In Progress); BA, Communication Studies: Public Relations, California State University, Sacramento (2000)
|How long have you lived in Arizona?
12 years
|What is your party registration and how long have your been registered as a member of that party?
Republican, approx. 17 years
|Previous public offices you've sought/held:
Member of the Paradise Valley Village Committee for the City of Phoenix State Committeeman, Arizona Republican Party Precinct Committeeman, Sheena Precinct, Arizona Republican Party Chair, North Valley Young Republicans
|Civic organizations in which you've been active?
Arizona Republican Lawyers Association Arizona Young Republican League
|Are you using public funds in your campaign?
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|Do you have any sort of a criminal record or any outstanding civil judgements? Please be specific.
|What is the best piece of political advice you ever received?
To listen more than I speak.
|What is your favorite book (besides a spiritual text)?
Get It On!: What It Means to Lead the Way, by Keni Thomas
|What favorite movie has meaning for you?
I have several favorite movies that have special meaning to me for various reasons.
|What is your favorite place in Arizona?
Arizona is filled with way too many amazing places to pick one as my favorite; but my favorite place is always wherever my family and/or friends are.
|Which Arizona political figure past or present do you most admire and why?
|Has state government been spending too much money, the right amount, or not enough? Specifically, how would you change the state's approach to spending?
|Name one state agency or program you believe gets too much money. Why?
|Most of our budget is constrained by federal mandates and constitutionally-protected provisions, which means there really is very little of the budget with which the state has to work. Our goal has been to be fiscally responsible stewards of our tax dollars by ensuring that it is being spent effectively and efficiently. During the recession we tried to evenly disperse the cuts between all agencies and have restored money in vital areas like education.
|Name one state agency or program you believe gets too little money. Why?
|Most of our budget is constrained by federal mandates and constitutionally-protected provisions, which means there really is very little of the budget with which the state has to work. Our goal has been to be fiscally responsible stewards of our tax dollars by ensuring that it is being spent effectively and efficiently. During the recession we tried to evenly disperse the cuts between all agencies and have restored money in vital areas like education.
|If you favor further state tax cuts, name one tax that should be cut and why.
|Do you think the 1-cent-per-dollar sales-tax measure should be extended? Why or why not?
|Due to a language error on the petitions, whether or not this issue will come up for a vote this election will likely be determined by the court.
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|Are there any circumstances under which you would favor a tax increase to offset future state budget deficits?
|The fiscal 2013 budget contains a $450 million rainy-day fund. Were lawmakers prudent to set aside that much money, or should they use some of the money to restore programs cut over the last four years? If you favor some restoration, in what areas?
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|Continuing to support business growth, attract new businesses, and grow our economy is essential to maintaining a balanced budget. While it has been a necessity to cut programs to help us during this challenging economic recession, we realize that we cannot cut our way to prosperity. During my tenure at the legislature we have stabilized the budget and created a climate that has placed us 8th in the nation in job growth. We need to continue these policies.
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|There is no easy answer in addressing illegal immigration. However, it is essential for the State to provide local law enforcement the tools and resources necessary to protect our citizens.
|CPS isn't investigating 100 percent of the reports it deems worthy of investigating. In fact, CPS has been unable to respond to hundreds of reports since at least October 2011, including those considered high risk. Do you believe CPS should respond to 100 percent of reports? If so, how would you make sure that happens?
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|The defunding of Planned Parenthood and/or the 20-week abortion ban will not solve the concerns that many have in protecting the innocent and unborn; I am pro-life and have a record consistent with that view. Looking at laws surrounding adoption and helping those who choose to have a child knowing their child will be born with disabilities are both areas we should research to see if there is anything the state can or should do to help families who choose to keep the child.
|Should Arizona act to declare "its sovereign and exclusive authority and jurisdiction over the air, water, public lands, minerals, wildlife and other natural resources within its boundaries"?
|Should all employers be allowed to opt out of contraception coverage?
|With the recent US Supreme Court ruling on the Federal Healthcare Mandate, whether or not all employers should be allowed to opt out of contraception coverage has become a federal issue and discussion.
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|Would spending more money on public schools increase the quality of education in Arizona? Why or why not?
|Do we need tougher restrictions on gifts to legislators? How would you change existing rules?
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|Arizona remains the only state in the country with a waiting list for KidsCare. Would you support funding to lift the enrollment freeze on KidsCare and eliminate the waiting list?


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A Jewish Cambridge University student has been banned from its Union debating society after an encounter with Lauren Booth - the notorious presenter on Iranian Press TV and ardent pro-Palestinian campaigner.
Gabriel Latner, a second-year lawyer, joined her as a fellow proposer of the motion that Israel is a rogue state - which he subverted by tackling it from a pro-Israel point of view.
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VATICAN CITY -- Pope Francis on Monday took an emotional, close-up look at the tomb of Peter, the church's first pontiff, buried beneath St. Peter's Basilica, the Vatican said.
By doing so, Francis became the first pontiff to visit the necropolis, where pagans and early Christians were buried, since extensive archaeological excavations were conducted at the ancient site decades ago, the Vatican said.
The 45-minute "visit of devotion to the tomb of St. Peter" was private, the Vatican said, but it later released a video of it.
The basilica was built over the location where early Christians would gather in secret, at a time of persecution in ancient Rome, to pray at an unmarked tomb believed to be that of Peter, the apostle Jesus chose to lead his church.
The Vatican first said Francis would pray at Peter's tomb, but later said he prayed instead in the basilica.
The new pope ''paused in silent prayer, in profound and emotional meditation" in the Clementine Chapel in the vast basilica that is ''the closest place (in the basilica) to the tomb of the Prince of the Apostles," it said.
During a tour of the necropolis conducted by its director and an Italian cardinal, the pope "climbed up a bit, got closer to the place where the tomb of St. Peter lies, exactly under the central altar and the dome of the basilica," the Vatican said.
Francis walked down the entire main street of the ancient city of the dead, the statement said. The streets of the necropolis are similar to those of ancient Rome, only they are flanked by tombs instead of shops.
The Vatican said Francis walked to the necropolis entrance from the hotel on the Vatican grounds where he lives, took the tour and later -- after paying homage at the tombs of several popes in another underground level known as the grottoes, including Pius XII, Paul VI and John Paul I -- strolled back to his residence.
Popes in past years have spent the day after Easter at Castel Gandolfo, the Vatican palace in the nearby Alban Hills.


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Each hearing follows a day of presentations from county staff, developers, and representatives of various government and planning boards.
The idea is to give members of the public quality time to speak by devoting separate days to their testimony. An alternative would be to allow public comment after every presentation.
Commission Chairwoman Mary Kohnke sees the separate day scheduling as a better method for coordinating discussion on the proposed 15,000 acre development in north St. Johns.
She said Monday that members of the public will be given five minutes, not the usual three minutes allotted to speak at public hearings.
That's a good idea.
But as important as the added time will be cooperation and decorum.
Lately, commission meetings have been cantankerous affairs with commissioners snipping at each other on various points of order and issues of the day.
Of course, doing the public's business occasionally requires abrupt qualities. But these public hearings are too important for that.
We hope the commissioners listen to the public, not argue with each other or challenge the public.
Taxpayers will make five-minute speeches all around the Nocatee development. Schools, roads, water, the New Town amendment, urban sprawl, beach access -- there will be hours of good questions, redundant questions and passionate arguments.
If commissioners break for dinner, which is in the schedule on some days, they will no doubt think privately about their constituents' concerns. As elected officials, county commissioners will not be able legally to discuss Nocatee with each other outside of public earshot because of the state's Government-in-the-Sunshine Law.
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Our review of Skellig: The Owl Man, published July 18th, 2010, is also available.
The Charge
A magical story of an unlikely friendship.
Opening Statement
Skellig began as a children's novel written by UK author David Almond in the late '90s. It won several awards, including the Carnegie medal and the Whitbread Children's Book of the Year. It was later turned into a play, an opera, and, most recently, a movie made in association with the British television channel, Sky1. Like the book it's based on, the film is a quiet meditation on faith, family, and nature. Unfortunately, someone decided that American viewers wouldn't be familiar enough with Almond's book, and that a movie called Skellig wouldn't have much of a shot in the home video market. So that same someone renamed it Skellig: The Owl Man, setting the title in a font ripped straight from the Harry Potter movies. That decision will sell a few more copies, but at the movie's expense. Those three little words rob Almond's work of its power, not only by spoiling a major plot point, but also by tricking viewers into thinking this is some kind of action-packed epic, instead of the thoughtful fantasy it really is.
Facts of the Case
Michael (Bill Milner, Pop Art) and his parents have traded their tiny apartment for a dilapidated house, thinking that the additional room will help after Michael's mother, Louise (Kelly Macdonald, Trainspotting), gives birth to his baby sister. But the house needs more work than his father, Dave (John Simm, Life on Mars) thought. While cleaning the kitchen, Louise goes into premature labor. Michael's sister is born, but with complications that leave her survival uncertain. Meanwhile, Michael discovers someone living in the shed behind their house: a cantankerous man (Tim Roth, The Incredible Hulk) with odd eyes, arthritis, and an appetite for Chinese food and brown ale. With the help of a free-spirited new friend, Mina (Skye Bennett, The Pillars of the Earth), Michael uncovers the man's strange secret and forge a unique bond.
The Evidence
That secret, of course, is blown long before you pop the Blu-ray into your player. In the movie—and in Almond's original book—the true nature of Skellig is kept hidden until well into the story. If you can keep the Blu-ray case, disc art, and menus hidden from anybody watching the movie, they'll see a beautiful, if slow-paced, gem of a film that leaves big questions refreshingly open to interpretation. What was the last family movie to do that?
Skellig was made for television. Because it was made for British television, it's a full-scale production. The cast, sets, and special effects are kept to a minimum, but the reserved approach never comes across as cheap. Because Skellig is a small, quiet story about paying attention to the world around you, it takes its time getting to any sort of action. The pacing certainly sets it apart from the ADD world of most children's movies. The trade-off, though, is that your kids might get bored long before the movie takes off, and that's not entirely your kids' fault. British or not, Skellig is a slow burn that holds back the biggest bang until the very end.
The film is packed with scenes of people talking to each other. Given the world-class cast, that's more than OK. Bill Milner, who made his feature film debut in the 2007 indie hit Son of Rambow, proves that some child actors can actually act. Michael is the heart of this story, and it wouldn't work if we didn't believe him. Milner is helped in that regard by British veterans John Simm and Kelly Macdonald play parents dealing with a sick newborn. Their emotional journey fuels Michael's desire to help Skellig recover. Even though he spends most of the movie huddled in corners, Tim Roth brings a difficult character to life. Weary and long-since resigned to death, Skellig's turnaround is the key to healing this broken family. The only character who gets short shrift is Mina. You get the feeling she is far more important in the book than in the movie, and that the constraints of a two-hour runtime keep her from being a bigger part of the film. As it is, she mostly pops in to lecture Michael about the beauty of nature, and to quote William Blake.
Skellig was one of three big-budget HD films commissioned by Sky1, and the investment shows on Blu-ray. The 1080p 1.78:1 image is sharp and rich, with natural colors. The detail, which starts to fall apart in the dark shadows that abound in the movie, comes through in force in the close-ups. Most of those close-ups are of bugs and other creepy-crawlies, though, so that extra detail might not be a bonus to everyone. The DTS-HD Master Audio track does a solid job with everything from dialogue to music to environmental touches. It's crisp, but not terribly aggressive in the use of surround effects. There are no extras on the disc—a missed opportunity for the film's creators to talk about the book on which it was based.
Closing Statement
Skellig: the Owl Man is an intelligent family film with a terrible name. My advice? When you buy the movie, grab a sharpie as well. Then when you get home, cross out "The Owl Man" wherever it appears (except maybe your TV screen). Not only is the subtitle unnecessary, it spoils the plot, sets up false expectations, and has almost nothing to do with the movie. Here's a spoiler: he's not an owl! Skellig is too slow-paced and potentially scary for young kids, but is a welcome change of pace for parents looking to satisfy a child with grown-up tastes.
The Verdict
Not guilty! Also not about an owl!
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The NSW Firearms Amnesty - last days! - it began on 1 March and will end on 31 May. 3,299 firearms have been handed in so far.Here's what the May 20 handover looked like:
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Enjoying new secret search powers.The impersonations came to an end after ABC in Australia reported that the police were investigating who was tweeting on its behalf. Mentally Friendly (clients include Discovery Channel and Sol beer) had this explanation:
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16 Oct. 1968Premiere: My Country 'Tis of Thee
23 Oct. 1968Premiere: Foxhole in Bayswater
12 Dec. 1968A Bit of Discretion
15 May 1970Dear Mr. Welfare
An ageing, disabled ventriloquist, living alone in his tiny flat, doesn't take kindly to well-meaning visitors. One day, Mike, a rather mysterious young man, arrives.
5 Jun. 1971The Switch
24 Aug. 1971The Grass Widows
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9 Sep. 1978Losing Her
16 Sep. 1978You're a Good Boy Son
30 Sep. 1978Hess
6 Jan. 1979Children of the Gods
13 Feb. 1979The Quiz Kid
26 May 1979Print Out
Corrupt builder Ballard is approached by Bernie Fermor, a young computer engineer with a roll of names from Ballard's business which he intends to blackmail him with. Ballard plays it cool and then has the engineer followed,he wants the Mr Big behind the demand, but the engineer is found dead.
2 Jun. 1979The Purple Twilight
Its 1944 and the pilot of a distressed Lancaster Bomber is preparing to ditch into the sea when he suddenly realizes that there maybe two possible outcomes to what he decides to do next.
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CASTLETON — The town hall renovation project is moving forward.
Earlier this week an architect charged with creating a preliminary schematic design told Castleton town officials the estimated cost of the renovation of the historic brick building on Main Street was $995,329.
This price tag came in $5,329 higher than the money the town has allocated for this project through a $750,000 bond and a $240,000 donation.
At its meeting Monday night, town officials decided to move forward with the project using the estimates presented by John Berryhill of NBF Architects. By a 3-2 vote, the board voted to hire Berryhill to begin more concrete designs for the project to eventually take them to bid for the project.
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The meeting will begin at 6 p.m. in council chambers at City Hall, 321 E. Fifth St.
The changes to be considered would affect how much of a utility's true cost of operation is paid for by utility customers.
They must be made before proposed utility rate adjustments are discussed at the council's Sept. 2 meeting, during a first reading and first part of a public hearing, and finally voted upon at the council's Sept. 16 meeting.
Other agenda items for Tuesday's meeting include:
■ An extension of the standstill agreement between the city and Mueller Systems, the city's smart meter installer, to be considered as part of Tuesday's consent agenda.
■ The second part of a two-part public hearing and vote on the city's proposed 2014 electric utility resource plan.
■ Consideration of a one-year $15,000 contract between the city and the Clallam County Economic Development Council.
■ A midyear report from the United Way of Clallam County.
County commissioners
The three Clallam County commissioners will consider issuing an invitation for bids for pavement repair for Old Olympic Highway when they meet Tuesday.
The meeting will begin at 10 a.m. in the commissioners' boardroom (160) at the Clallam County Courthouse, 223 E. Fourth St., Port Angeles.
Pavement repair and overlay is planned on the highway from the Dungeness River Bridge to Mariott Avenue.
Bids would be opened Sept. 9. Up to $859,723 is expected in federal reimbursement. Partial funding of $134,000 is anticipated from the county.
Other agenda items include:
■ A contract renewal with the Lower Elwha Klallam tribe for detention bed days and related care for detainees.
■ An agreement with Washington State University 4-H for portable ropes challenge training.
■ An agreement with Morningside for services to people with disabilities.
Commissioners will meet in the same boardroom at
10 a.m. Monday for their weekly work session to discuss pre-application questionnaires for a grant from the state Department of Ecology for a Streamkeepers monitoring program update and for a Rural Arterial Program grant for Edgewood Drive and Dry Creek road projects.
Clallam Transit
The Clallam Transit board will conduct a hearing on adding service on the day after Thanksgiving when it meets Monday.
The meeting will begin at 1 p.m. at the Clallam Transit System building at 830 W. Lauridsen Blvd.
The board also will consider establishing a Canadian coin fares account, evaluate the Route No. 40 Sequim shuttle service change after six months and hear a status update on a 2013 conference with the state Auditor's Office.
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The Clallam County Planning Commission will hear updates on the Carlsborg sewer project and the shoreline master plan Wednesday.
The meeting will begin at 6:30 p.m. in the commissioners' meeting room (160) at the Clallam County Courthouse.
The after-hours entrance is located on the south side of the building behind the Fourth Street bus stop.
The commission also will consider a county Department of Community Development budget proposal for 2015.
Sequim schools
The Sequim School Board will conduct a public hearing on the proposed 2014-15 operating budget when it meets Wednesday.
The meeting will begin at 7 p.m. in the boardroom at 503 N. Sequim Ave. It was moved from the usual meeting day of Monday because of scheduling conflicts.
After the public hearing, the board will consider adoption of the budget.
It also will hear updates on early childhood outreach, student testing, Wi-Fi and a public school employees' tentative letter of agreement.
Olympic Medical Center
Olympic Medical Center commissioners will consider ratification of a collective bargaining agreement and discuss a real estate purchase Wednesday.
The meeting will begin at 6 p.m. in Linkletter Hall in the lower conference area of the hospital at 939 E. Caroline St., Port Angeles.
The board will consider the agreement with United Food and Commercial Workers 21.
It also will consider an interlocal agreement with the city of Port Angeles on an alternate power supply and transformers.
Clallam PUD
Clallam County Public Utility District commissioners will consider appointing a health care plan administrator when they meet Monday.
The meeting will begin at 1:30 p.m. at JT's Sweet Stuffs, 80 N Forks Ave., Forks.
Also on the agenda are bids for a compact track loader, pre-qualifications of contractors and the district's resource plan.
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Greg, or other coaches, I'd really like your opinion;
Just recently started doing the olympic lifts properly in training (turned from powerlifting training to pretty much only doing mid hang snatches, mid hang cleans, behind the neck jerks and pulls.. and it's awesome!)
And I really want to get decent, or dare I say it, even good at them.
So any comments on my my technical flaws so that I can improve would be hugely appreciated.
First proper set of clean training (anything other than working with the bar), but still only 60kg;
My 'light' weight attempts of 40kg snatches (with my pb only being a mere 57.5kg so far);
And on a side-note, I really don't believe that I can extend or layback any more than I am in the videos... I literally will fall backwards
As always, thanks in advance
Not a bad start. Here are some things that will help make it even better:
First on both the snatch and clean, don't start so far back on your heels that your toes are lifting from the floor - keep your feet flat. Definitely more weight on the heels than on the balls of the feet, but you don't want to be waterskiing. When you lift the toes like that, more often than not you end up rocking forward farther than you would have been otherwise. You can see in the slow mo sections that during the entire pull, you're rocking forward on your feet. You should be flat-footed for the first portion of that movement.
Also on both lifts, you need to either move the bar into a higher starting position, or you need to learn to wait longer to extend the hips (I recommend the former for now). The bar is nearly at the top of your knee - it should be much higher on the thigh. You start both lifts with immediate hip extension, but it's too early for that, which is why you shift forward like you do and don't get as good of a snap with the hips. If you want to start at the knee, your first movement needs to be pushing against the floor with the legs to extend the knees more with about the same back angle; once the bar reaches upper thigh, you can explode with the hips and legs together. The idea behind the mid-hang position is that you're putting the bar at about the position in which you would initiate this final hip+knee explosion - but if you want to practice this, you have to make sure the bar is in the right position or you're just practicing exploding too soon.
With regard to layback, you don't necessarily need to. What's happening is that because you're opening your hips too soon, you're having to finish the extension with leg drive almost exclusively. This means that you can't generate as much speed, but also that you're leaning back for longer, meaning you will end up out of balance. If you stay over the bar longer, i.e. extend the knees more before you extend the hips, you'll be able to snap the hips open more quickly and achieve more opening with the hips without falling backward.
Snatch - In your effort to turn your elbows out, you've protracted your shoulder blades dramatically. You need to keep your shoulder blades about neutral in terms of retraction/protraction and slightly depressed with the effort to arch the back with the aid of the lats. From that position, internally rotate the arms to point the elbows to the sides.
Tough to see in those videos, but it looks like you're actively extending your elbows during the pull as well. Your arms should be straight not because you're straightening them, but because you're not bending them. That is, their extension should be passive and a result of the weight stretching them long without any resistance by you to bend the elbow. Locking them will make the bar swing away from you as you try to transition under it as well as slow that transition.
Overhead, don't shrug your shoulders up. Retract your shoulder blades completely - think of pinching the top inside edges together and you'll get proper retraction with some upward rotation. This is your foundation - if this isn't tight and solid, you will have trouble stabilizing the bar.
Finally, when you transition your feet, try to punch them back down against the ground flat. Right now you're dragging your toes a bit and ending up in a marginal position with the weight on the inside edges. Part of that is flexibility, which will improve, but you need to be more aggressive with the feet and re-establish your base immediately.
I'm sure I left a few things out, but that should be more than enough to work on for now. Good luck.
Thanks a lot Greg. I can't explain enough how grateful I am that you'd take the time to respond in such great detail to my post.
I am currently working on everything that you've said. And the shoulder protraction issue should not be an issue any more. But the others are on my mind each rep, and I'm trying to address them one at a time. Hopefully I'll get there soon.
I'll post a video or two when I feel I've corrected these issues mentioned, and hopefully some attempts from the floor also. And then I'd love to get my technique ripped apart again.
Thanks a lot again for your time.
I have been practicing on your suggestions each attempt. And I hope I've improved my technique. Predominantly attempting to not start the pull too early, but starting with the bar higher on the thighs.
I even have began to try to pull from the floor (which I was not doing at the time of the last video).
The first video of the post is a 60kg clean, this new one is 90kg (a new PR).
Here is the video;
I'd love to get more criticism of my clean, so that I know how I can progress and improve.
Any help on the first pull would be hugely appreciated too (though I can see already that I scoop waaaaaaaaay to early!). Didn't put 100% effort in past the scoop as I was more concerned about getting the clean.
As always, much appreciated.
Number one problem is those pulls you start with - watch what the bar is doing - it gets inches in front of you. You're just hipping through it with locked elbows. The extension could work, but you have to relax those arms, actively push the bar into yourself the whole time, and then pull the elbows up and out a bit at the top - not a full high-pull, but if you don't give the bar somewhere to go, it has to go forward, especially with that hip extension.
On the clean, same deal with the arms - you are way too stiff. The first thing you do is move your legs forward toward the bar. Punch the legs up, open the hips a bit behind the legs, and push the bar BACK into your lap. Even if you don't see how you're moving forward into the bar, you can see that you're jumping forward slightly. If you have trouble figuring out how to stay back, simplify and put a line on the floor, and move your feet 1/4" backward when you clean.
Last thing to work on is changing directions faster. You definitely hang out at the top of the pull too long. Punch the legs and hips up and into the bar, and immediately pull down by moving the feet and pulling the elbows up and out, always pushing the bar back in toward yourself.
I would say #1 thing here is to relax a bit - you look like you're thinking way too much and that's making you stiff and mechanical.
I know I'm pretty slow at changing directions, I'm not blessed with the gift of speed. I know that most advocate hang cleans for increasing speed in changing direction, but as I'm already doing those and still slow, is there anything else that will work well? Or is it just my technical flaws and stiffness that are slowing me down?
I hope I won't have to think about it as much when I get more lifts under my belt, and then can be less stiff also.
I hope as you didn't bring them up again, then my previous issues are not so much of a problem any more?
I seriously appreciate the feedback as always. Hopefully will be able to post another video when I feel I've improved, and get another beat down :D
It's not so much an issue of speed, more of timing - if you were slow extending your hips, for example, I would call that a speed issue. But the problem is that there is a delay between your explosion w the legs/hips and your pull under - you just have to make the pull under happen sooner, and relaxing your arms will help that.
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Individual action is always worthwhile, even while we keep our eyes on the prize of national and international action. Energy efficiency upgrades in particular can be very profitable (see "20 steps to a greener home" and "The first five steps to a greener home are not what the NYT's Green Home column says"). Energy monitors such as the one below allow users to monitor the energy usage of a single appliance or an entire house, as explained in this CAP post.
How much energy does it take to keep that old refrigerator running? Probably more than when you bought it, and an energy monitor will tell you just how much.
There are two basic types of energy monitors: Those for a single appliance and those that measure your entire home's energy use. The best way to figure out which option works best for you is to decide what level of energy monitoring you want to achieve, how much you want to spend, and how much you want to save.
Single appliance monitors cost about $25 to $75 and calculate the usage of a single device, which is plugged directly into the monitor. Most monitors will tell you how much energy is used during a given period while displaying the current usage. Measuring usage over a 24-hour period or longer is the best way to determine your appliance's efficiency as many of them cycle on and off throughout the day.
These monitors are useful for keeping track of how your appliances are holding up. You can measure your refrigerator's energy usage at the beginning and end of a season to see if it its efficiency has changed. If it's draining more power than it did in the past, it may need a tune up.
Whole house monitors are a bit more expensive at about $100 to $200, but they are a useful way to get a wider look at how much energy you are using and how much that usage is costing you. You can enter your utility rates for peak and off-peak usage into most monitors to calculate just how much you can save by, for example, setting a timer to start your laundry or run the dishwasher during the day or in the middle of the night.
House monitors work best for measuring usage that is distributed throughout the entire house, such as central heating or cooling. It also helps you determine the savings of lifestyle changes that affect more than one appliance.
You probably won't be using your monitor every day, so try sharing it with friends and family. It's a great way to get people interested in green living and lets them see for themselves how much money they can save by turning back the thermostat a few degrees.
You can also broadcast your usage to the world using Tweet-a-watt, a modified energy monitor that broadcasts your energy using Wi-Fi. It automatically uploads domestic energy use to your Twitter account, which you can then use to share or compete with friends. Now you can use the same technology to tell your friends what you're reading on the web to brag about just how green your new OLED television is.
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Wait… on the screen.. how much is Point 25 cents?
Is it one quarter of a cent? Or is that One Quarter of a dollar ?
Just a plug for sierraclubgreenhome.com ("developed with a simple mission in mind: to help Americans make their homes more energy efficient")
…among other resources it has a forum, and someone to answer questions.
I'm horrified by the absolute math/units ignorance shown by the pictured device. KW per hour is NOT a measue of power, or energy, taken literally it the a rate of change in usage of power. The entire team that designed and marketed this device should be s@#$ canned!
Richard Pauli: Yep. 2.5 mills as it was called back then in the sixties. That was the marginal price of 1 kWh of electricity from the Churchill Falls hydro station in Labrador.
ClaudeB. Thanks so much. It would be interesting to meter my household.
But more interesting perhaps to meter other displays… such as a typical Vegas marquee sign… it must be many dollars per hour. Or perhaps stadium lights at a night game. Or streetlights in a city (why don't streetlights have motion switches on them?)
Somehow I recall that a drive-in movie would have 200amps of 220v just for the projectors.
Or how much power does a cup of Starbucks coffee require? I am certain that Starbucks knows precisely.
It is not such a bad idea to know the cost of the juice for the big users too. Why should such a meter be restricted to just homes?
There have been affordable devices for years. I have a kill-a-watt meter, which I found for $20 on the internet. Unlike the one shown here, mine was built by people who knew what they were trying to measure. Whole house measurements can be made by reading your utility meter and doing a little bit of arithmetic. Some appliances aren't easily measurable, since the plug may not be accessible.
"Individual action is always worthwhile" when it saves the individual money irrespective of any broader societal goals like climate stabilization. However, many individuals take actions like installing solar power or buying a hybrid vehicle, not because they expect to make money, but because they want to reduce their individual carbon footprint and do their part to support sustainable industries.
One little-understood characteristic of cap-and-trade is that it can nullify the environmental impact of individual action, and thereby diminish the incentive for such action. I explained this issue on Romm's blog recently. ("In cap-and-trade's relentless drive to 'reduce costs at any cost' any action you take to reduce your emissions will just allow someone else to increase their emissions, and all you will be doing is subsidizing polluters.") This is not just an issue for "altruistic" individual action; it is also an issue for individual, corporate, and industry action motivated by regulatory incentives.
A carbon tax would not undermine individual action because there would be no regulatory incentive to increase emissions up to a predetermined cap limit. I don't favor legislative tax proposals like Stark/Larson/Inglis because they seem to be more concerned with extracting money from regulated industries than reducing emissions. But a regulatory approach that is more focused on reducing global emissions than reducing the global emission price would preserve the relevance of individual action.
Waxman-Markey is a kind of ambiguous case, because while it employs cap-and-trade, it also imposes a price floor starting out at $10/ton and increasing at a 5% real annual rate. If allowances are selling at the floor price the system would operate as a fixed-price sale of allowances (aka "carbon tax") and individual actions would result in additional emission reductions. But if the market price is above the floor, then individual actions that impact emissions within capped sectors will free up surplus allowances that would be used to increase emissions elsewhere.
[JR: This isn't "little-understood" — it's just not terribly important. CAFE standards already vitiated the benefit of buying a Prius or other fuel-efficient car. So we shouldn't have CAFE? A tax by itself can't solve the problem, so the comparison is irrelevant.]
JR – Re "CAFE standards already vitiated the benefit of buying a Prius or other fuel-efficient car."
CAFE is a fuel economy standard, not an emission standard like California's Pavley regulations. CARB plans to develop more stringent vehicle emission regulations ("Pavley 2") under California's AB 32 legislation, but W-M would nullify the environmental benefit (and hence the primary policy justification) for Pavley 2. This is a concern for CARB and several other public-interest groups — not just for Pavley 2 but also for other state and local GHG policies (not to mention individual and corporate actions). The Senate could make some legislative changes to at least partially fix the problem.
[JR: Don't follow you, I'm afraid. Yes, federal standards often trump state standards. Such is life when addressing national and global problems. And a cap-and-trade, like CAFE, tends to supersede individual action. You have, however, failed to consider the immense benefits of this approach when it comes to the electrification of the transportation system. And, again, a tax can't possibly solve the problem at a national or global level.]
Gentlemen and gentlewomen,
You seem to be a tallented, intellectually capable group of people here discussing climate change (and actions against it). But then please remember that the carbon emissions of the western lifestyle are 50% related to the food we eat and the products we buy. If we just focus for the next 40 years on greening up our direct energy consumption and forget about the little detail that 50% of our GHG emissions stem from product we buy and which have been imported, we would have achieved a 25% cut in emissions at best.
Saving energy is best achieved by avoiding stuf you do not need in the first place. Who needs a new cellphone every 2 years? But we all buy them since the average life of a cellphone is 2 years. Who needs a new computer every 3 years? Yet we all buy them since the average life of a computer is 3 years (because the Windows du jour needs more "umpf" from your computer). Who needs a flat panel (they
suck since plasma isn't burn proof and neither is LCD) so you'll have to buy a new on every 3 years. A digital camera lasts 3 years untill it is replaced while I take pictures with an analog Nikon F being 40 years old. All this crap needs energy to be produced, distributed, used, scrapped and recycled (the sorry bit that is being recycled anyway).
Our consumption society has replaced "NEED" with "GREED" which prevents us from being "GREEN", no matter how much energy saving crap we buy! Pardon my French!
Ed Kuipers
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OK, technically the display should be showing KWH (killowatt hours, which is what the power company measures as your consumption and then bills you for on a per-KWH basis). But 99% of the people won't know the technical difference and don't need to. But I do prefer the Kill-A-Watt meter which does use the correct terminology and does not attempt to display cost (since cost varies from one power company to the next) but instead shows consumption purely in watts (the same unit of measurment stamped on all light bulbs. This allows you to see exactly how much a device uses on start-up, what it consumes when running "normally " and what it is still sucking down when it is just sitting idle (supposedly).
For the $20 to $30 price tag, the Kill-A-Watt meter is the real hero in the battle to get average people to realize just how much electricity they are using/wasting. People can afford that much for a meter, but most won't pay much more, while all need to know what their household devices are using. After putting in CFL light bulbs, this is the next thing everyone should do… get a Kill-A-Watt meter and go on a voyage of discovery around your home. And no, I have no connection with the company that makes them. I just congratulate them for breaking the old boys price club and offering a truly low-cost yet accurate usage meter when everyone else was asking $80 to $400 for one.
Joe, your post made me have an idea. Why not legislate so that after a certain year, any appliance manufactured (or possibly sold) in the US (or whichever country or state is covered by the legislation) has to display how much power it is using when in operation, if it uses more than a certain amount of energy per year.
One other remark. There is a third type of energy monitor — tthe spinning wheel that you get in most electricity meters. By counting how many times it spins in a certain period of time (e.g. 60 seconds), it is not hard to work out how much power you are using. I was able to work out how much power most of the appliances in my home use, by doing this.
JR – Re "You have, however, failed to consider the immense benefits of this approach [cap-and-trade] …" I actually did consider those benefits. Two problems: First, WM's cap-and-trade system will create a marginal incentive of only around $0.25/gal for energy efficiency (aka fuel economy), which is the cheapest way to reduce emissions. (The incentive for fuel substitution, e.g. electrification, would be less due to the cost and GHG emissions of alternative fuel.) $0.25/gal is an order of magnitude less than the breakeven technology investment level, based on fuel savings alone. Second, the consumer would only see the $0.25/gal incentive at the fuel pump, after the consumer has bought their gas guzzler (whereas standards, feebates, or financing incentives would apply the price incentive directly to the vehicle price).
Re "a tax can't possibly solve the problem …," I agree with you on that point.
[JR: No realistic carbon price can drive up the price of fuel enough to change behavior — as I have blogged many times. Peak oil will do that, plus Obama's big CAFE boost. I wasn't talking about the incentive for electrification from the bill, I was talking about the carbon reductions.]
JR – Re "No realistic carbon price can drive up the price of fuel enough to change behavior;" on that point I also absolutely agree with you. That's why the price incentive needs to be applied directly to vehicles, not just to fuels.
Obama's "big CAFE boost" will induce technology investments at less than half the economic breakeven level, just considering fuel savings at today's prices. (Never mind energy security and environmental benefits.)
We must keep in mind that what W&M came up with is about as good as we could of hoped for at this time, considering the hair thin vote victory.
Yes, we would all like a better bill but we are going to have to fight like hell to keep what we got.
"The only battle worth fighting is the one that you lose and lose and lose and finally win." (?)
We HAVE come a long way.
For many people the cost (on your bill) will be the same regardless of time of day. However, it will cost your utility more to ship you power during peak times, less during off-peak. {And will cost you a great deal more in future if peak demand rises enough that your utility gets the ok to build yet another power plant.)
If you are able to sign up for time-of-use rates you may find it most helpful to put certain appliances on a timer I would think. When I looked into it in the mid-1980s only 0.2 percentage of customers had signed up or something really low. You could live without the AC during peak hours in summer, (5-6.45 pm) but maybe not heat on winter mornings. The old time of use rates we had here were such that the typical household would I think pay more, so it was not an attractive option.
The pictured monitor appears to show pretty average rate of cost since it appears to be showing 25 cents for 2.34 kw demand per hour (that hour), = 10.68 cents per kwh (kilowatt hour). But it also appears you dial in your kwh rate.
But as noted in the comments, you can do the math yourself by just finding out what the demand of a particular gizmo is, though in the case of a refrigerator, it is extremely useful to know what the overall use is because how often it cycles on can really vary and as noted in Joe's post, could increase over time (increased electrical consumption, decreased efficiency/performance.)
In a utility service area where utilities are still regulated, decreased customer demand through increased efficiency does have in impact on overall reduced emissions regardless of cap and trade and so on, because it affects whether or not utilities can build additional coal plants. For instance this is currently an issue being re-litigated at the utilities commission level regarding Duke Energy (dba Duke Power) and a huge coal plant (Cliffside) they got the ok to build near Charlotte NC.
Duke claims it would shut down some smaller, older, dirtier coal plants, but the new coal plant is larger than all of them and so CO2 emissions would go up. The demand isn't there to add coal capacity (besides the fact that gas would be less catastrophic.)
Individual action also matters because it's important to try things out yourself before suggesting them to other people and campaigning or lobbying for them to be standard. Back in the mid 1980s when I was able to devote more time to being an environmental activist, which is to say undesirable/polluting projects were being constantly proposed for or sited in my county, it was commonplace to have either company PR people or the people who they'd hypnotised accuse one of being a hypocrite because one was presumably using a lot of electricity but worrying about a nuclear plant, or generating a lot of hazardous waste but not wanting an incinerator next door.
Most hilarious example: the man who said "the thing that gets me is all these people using their hair dryers and then going to an anti-nuclear protest."
Me: "Do those people look like they even own a hair dryer?"
Him: "No, now you mention it."
As for big customers, if they are in a competitive situation they should have looked at their energy usage already. The worse offenders are school systems and local governments because they are run by elected boards who control the purse strings and are often people who really don't have a clue, or worse, have an axe to grind.
Wake County, North Carolina has all its public buildings controlled from some central entity (I was told in a freezing building last summer) and they were all set at 72 degrees in summer. So its worth going after those very large low hanging fruits in those sectors.
Sorry this comment is way too long.
yea i know alot of this stuff works i need that plug and save device. it seems to be cheap enough. my other opinion is why are there credits being sold by al goor when there should only be tax incentives given to power companies. after all they produce a lot of ommissions. when they produce less ommisssions they get a tax break like the rest of us and theres should be mandatory. thx for listening


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Guests driving to Marina Bay Sands may wish to note the following key changes and adjust their routes, as advised by the Land Transport Authority:
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The Thomas & Friends Wooden Railway Tidmouth Sheds is a wooden roundhouse with roundabout action turntable to get the train engines in and out of their sheds. There are five tracks, and this playset can hold 10 train cars if kids place the engines back to back. The back of the roundhouse is open so kids can easily access the trains to play. Turn the green knob to line up the tracks on the turntable with the tracks at the sheds. Then push a train engine out of the shed and onto the turntable. Kids can add additional track, sold separately, to build off of the turntable so the engines have somewhere to go. No trains are included with this set. This set is compatible with other Thomas & Friends Wooden Railway trains and track, which are sold separately.
So many of the Thomas stories start or finish at Tidmouth Sheds. Kids will enjoy recreating the stories or coming up with their own adventures for Thomas, Percy, James, or whichever train they're playing with.
The Thomas & Friends Wooden Railway Tidmouth Sheds is for Thomas fans ages 3 and up.
While most of this set is wooden, the turntable base is plastic and the doors of the roundhouse are plastic, too. But they do work with the wooden accessories and are high-quality plastic.
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