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Skip to comments.Forecasting the election: Most models say Obama will win. But not all.
Posted on 09/02/2012 1:07:33 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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What do you model, gloves???
Give yourselves another pat on the back, for me.
Maybe model airplanes..
so in essence these models are predicting obama will win by basically the same margin he beat McLame in '08??? makes lotsa sense....
Isn't that a bigger margin than his win over McLame? At a time when 0bama is fairly reviled throughout the country and his own base is fairly apathetic? Nuts!
I have to quote WAPO commenter mitchellvii. I think he's got a good handle on all the data.
"I prefer the Occam's Razor Election Model. It goes like this: Obama is a lousy President. Romney wins."
Liberal Arts graduates tend to have degrees in Chemistry, Physics, Math ~ and business grads these days tend to have degrees that don't draw employers interest to them.
LOL! Yeah I think they are sniffing too much of the glue....
I thought Giselle was endorsing Obama.
As Yogi Berra observed: "It ain't over till it's over"
Rotfl! Talk about whistling past the graveyard.
Keep thinking just like that okay? Please?
Course the models predicted the recent Tea Party victories too.
The election is not about the economy. It's about pop culture and what is cool. Romney is a a white, religious, monogamous person as is Paul Ryan. White is not cool. Religion is not cool. Monogamy is not cool....But being black or Latino is cool, being sexually active and having "friends with benefits' is very cool. Children out of wedlock is cool.
People will vote for 0bama in droves because of his image, not his policies. This is the American Idol and Jersey Shore age. People are worried about image and nothing more.
You may be right. See the support and popularity polls. It's an American Idol election.
"I personally believe...that...US Americans don't have maps. Like the Iraq, therefore such as..."
If 0bama win's in November, then we will never EVER see another republican POTUS.
We also won't have a country anymore, I am more concerned about that. America as we know it will be finished
Not really. They take physics course where they learn "If you drop something, and it falls, it is gravity".
By the way, if any one wants to question my academic qualifications, I have a degree in both Business and Electrical Engineering - where I took real Math, Physics, and Chemistry.
But astrologers are saying Obama will loose.
Smells like it! Looks like it! It is it! Bull Poop!
Obviously they've been sniffing the airplane glue.
Obviously they've been sniffing the airplane glue.
One thing this election is going to tell us is if the takers now outnumber the givers. If the freeloaders now outnumber the workers.
BS on the polls, pure BS...but, the Romney campaign needs to get this stuff out there(my mom forwarded this to me - no, I don't have ONE source for it all):
Why Mitt Romney is Unlikable!
A lot is being said in the media about Mitt Romney not being "likable" or that he doesn't "relate well" to people. Frankly, we struggled to understand why. So after much research, we have come up with a Top Ten List to explain this "unlikablility."
Top Ten Reasons To Dislike Mitt Romney:
1. Drop-dead, collar-ad handsome with gracious, statesmanlike aura. Looks like every central casting's #1 choice for Commander-in-Chief.
2. Been married to ONE woman his entire life, and has been faithful to her, including through her bouts with breast cancer and MS.
3. No scandals or skeletons in his closet. (How boring is that?)
4. Can't speak in a fake, southern, "black preacher voice" when necessary.
5. Highly intelligent. Graduated cum laude from both Harvard Law School and Harvard Business School...and by the way, his academic records are NOT sealed.
6. Doesn't smoke or drink alcohol, and has never done drugs, not even in the counter-culture age when he went to college. Too square for today's America?
7. Represents an America of "yesterday", where people believed in God, went to Church, didn't screw around, worked hard, and became a SUCCESS!
8. Has a family of five great sons....and none of them have police records or are in drug rehab. But of course, they were raised by a stay-at-home mom, and that "choice" deserves America's scorn.
9. Oh yes.....he's a MORMON. We need to be very afraid of that very strange religion that teaches its members to be clean-living, patriotic, fiscally conservative, charitable, self-reliant, and honest.
10. And one more point.....pundits say because of his wealth, he can't relate to ordinary Americans. I guess that's because he made that money HIMSELF.....as opposed to marrying it or inheriting it from Dad. Apparently, he didn't understand that actually working at a job and earning your own money made you unrelatable to Americans.
My goodness, it's a strange world, isn't it?
Personal Information:
His full Name is: Willard Mitt Romney
He was Born: March 12, 1947 and is 65 years old.
His Father: George W. Romney, former Governor
of the State of Michigan
He was raised in Bloomfield Hills , Michigan
He is Married to Ann Romney since 1969; they five children.
B.A. from Brigham Young University,
J.D. and M.B.A. from Harvard University
Mormon - The Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter-Day Saints
Working Background:
After high school, he spent 30 months in France as a
Mormon missionary.
After going to both Harvard Business School and
Harvard Law School simultaneously, he passed the Michigan
bar exam, but never worked as an attorney.
In 1984, he co-founded Bain Capital a private equity
investment firm, one of the largest such firms in the
United States.
In 1994, he ran for Senator of Massachusetts and lost
to Ted Kennedy.
He was President and CEO of the 2002 Winter Olympic
In 2002, he was elected Governor of the State of
Massachusetts where he eliminated a 1.5 billion deficit.
Some Interesting Facts about Romney:
Bain Capital, starting with one small office supply store
in Massachusetts, turned it into Staples; now over
2,000 stores employing 90,000 people.
Bain Capital also worked to perform the same kinds
of business miracles again and again, with companies
like Domino's, Sealy, Brookstone, Weather Channel,
Burger King, Warner Music Group, Dollarama,
Home Depot Supply and many others.
He was an unpaid volunteer campaign worker for
his dad's gubernatorial campaign 1 year.
He was an unpaid intern in his dad's governor's
office for eight years.
He was an unpaid bishop and state president of
his church for ten years.
He was an unpaid President of the Salt Lake
Olympic Committee for three years.
He took no salary and was the unpaid Governor of
Massachusetts for four years.
He gave his entire inheritance from his father to charity.
Mitt Romney is one of the wealthiest self-made men
in our country but has given more back to its citizens
in terms of money, service and time than most men.
And in 2011 Mitt Romney gave over $4 million to charity,
almost 19% of his income.... Just for comparison purposes,
Obama gave 1% and Joe Biden gave $300 or .0013%.
Mitt Romney is Trustworthy:
He will show us his birth certificate
He will show us his high school and college transcripts.
He will show us his social security card.
He will show us his law degree.
He will show us his draft notice.
He will show us his medical records.
He will show us his income tax records.
He will show us he has nothing to hide.
Mitt Romney's background, experience and
trustworthiness show him to be a great leader and
an excellent citizen for President of the United States.
You may think that Romney may not be the best
representative the Republicans could have selected.
At least I know what religion he is, and that he won't
desecrate the flag, bow down to foreign powers,
or practice fiscal irresponsibility.
I know he has the ability to turn this financial debacle
that the current regime has gotten us into. We won't
like all the things necessary to recover from this
debt, but someone with Romney's background can do it.
But, on the minus side, he never was a "Community
Organizer", never took drugs or smoked pot, never
got drunk, did not associate with communists
or terrorists, nor did he attend a church whose pastor
called for God to damn the US.
Things have changed since 2008, but they are still weighting their polls the same.
A model that ignores economic numbers is not a model at all. It is like predicting an nfl game winner based on what each team had for dinner last Wednesday.
Well, frankly, I hope the Dems believe this, so they'll get cocky, louder, and nastier before the election. That will help to display to voters just what they'll have if they vote for Obama, again.
Oh, yeah, I remember those models! They predicted Democrat wins in the 2010 midterm elections!
Oh, right formulas for resistors ~ know that one well. Now, how about topology? Not sure the cow colleges get up to that one.
These modelers are the real airheads, or they have been sniffing too much glue.
Waste of bandwidth.
Usually no one loses by getting less votes than his same party predecessor ~ McCain got fewer votes than "W" ~ but in this case Obama has to lose 10 million votes before he gets down that low so there is a cushion of sorts.
Don't just tut tut models that show Obamugabe winning ~ show the specific errors ~
Only voter fraud will give Obama the win...
If so then, it is greatly deserved. The GOP nominated the ONE person in the party who could not credibly go after Obama on one of the two glaring issues where the vast majority opposes Obama (Healthcare and the economy). If Romney and McCain are the best the party can come up with in nearly a decade, then it deserves to die.
(But sadly, the GOP has already spent a lot of effort in the past 18 years conspiring with the Dems against the US population, and has made it much more difficult for 3rd parties to become viable contenders.)
I'm sorry, Obama may certainly win but if you believe Obama will get 53.2% of the vote this time around you must be on drugs of some kind.
Sooooo Hussein will beat Romney be a larger margin than he beat McClame??!!
Uh huh.
Was this model completed before or after its creator's Rock the Vote marathon for Obama?
Hell, there will never be another election unless Zero is the only one running.
If somehow there is a small recovery (or the status quo of slow collapse is grindingly played-out) under Obama, and if there is no disastrous war with Iran, then the 2016 election will be a toss-up. I still think that the Republican would win, as Hillary is so damn divisive. She is also white, and the race card of lurking guilt in regards to criticizing Obama is effectively muted.
The only way I see Clinton not running in 2016 is if she is on the Supreme Court (I doubt she would be approved, unless the Dems have huge Senatorial gains in 2014, which will NEVER happen, as I see the Repubs picking up 3 to 5 seats: NC, NJ, NH, LA, CO, AK being the hot contests).
The Romney/Ryan team is set to win come November and as added proof, take a look at the rallies that they appear in, like "rock concert" size.
bradley effect
Do you live in the "bubble" known as the Bay Area? There's a lot of unreality there.
Setting themselves up for an epic evening of shock...I'm going to have the bubbly on ice to celebrate a little R & R.
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• Jacobs: "Does Daria count?"
• Brown: "Yoda all day long."
• McHale: "I'd be copying someone because I saw it today: a really crappy-looking Ghostbuster. He didn't even try. He just had a backpack with a vacuum attachment."
• Rash: "I think the Dean would just bring a variety of costumes, mostly thinking it might be a furry convention." (Harmon suggested that Pelton would be "a Sailor Moon type.")
• Chase: "I don't know what to say! Pierce is so fuckin' dumb. I ain't got no answer."
• Jeong: "Since it's making a comeback now, Beavis or Butthead, I think."
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Welcome to Follow Your Dreams Farm! Here at our farm in New Hampshire we offer a variety of services including horseback trail riding & lessons, full horse boarding, pony parties, summer camp and more! We offer lessons in the following disciplines, hunt seat, dressage, western and English pleasure, gymkhana, barrel racing, team penning, break away roping and competitive trail.
Our exceptional equine facility consists of an arena 70x120ft with 12 stalls attached in a convenient design. The barn consists of a heated tack room, grain area, large hay loft, and new 10x12 stalls. If you really want to stretch your legs our upper arena is 100x180ft and just behind that is an extensive trail system that goes to Ballard State Park. We strive to make your experience here fun, enjoyable and safe. Personal safety and equine comfort is our highest priority.
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WASHINGTON (PAI) -- A 2-year pay freeze for workers, cuts and clawbacks in compensation for corporate executives, and a reduction in company contributions to a multi-employer pension plan are among the details of a Teamsters proposal to restructure Hostess Inc., in the firm's latest bankruptcy.
"The Teamsters proposal demands that executives, as well as all stakeholders, actually share equally in the financial sacrifices necessary for Hostess to emerge from bankruptcy instead of paying lip-service to the concept," union Secretary-Treasurer Ken Hall explained.
The proposal is to be presented to a federal bankruptcy court overseeing the firm's latest trip through a sea of red ink, its second in less than a decade.
If they don't, the Teamsters' plan says an impartial arbitrator can declare the unionists' concessions to keep Hostess financially alive "null and void."
The Teamsters represent 7,500 workers at the bankrupt baker, manufacturer of such well-known foods as Twinkies and Hostess Cupcakes. [Several unions represent Hostess workers, including the Bakery workers, Teamsters and Stationary Engineers.] Hall said Hostess management took at least $240 million out of the company before declaring bankruptcy.
"Hostess workers have already sacrificed for this company," he added. "Under management's one-sided proposal, Hostess workers again are the only ones doing the sacrificing. Executives lie and claim labor costs are to blame. But it is incompetence and greed, pure and simple, that put this iconic company in the position it is in today."
Provisions of the union's proposal order Hostess to spend at least certain minimum sums on marketing and advertising.
Other details of the Teamsters' plan, which must be also ratified by the union's Hostess locals, include particulars on membership on the company's board and finance committee, continued product marketing, conditions for use of casual transport drivers, and expenditures after the company comes out of bankruptcy.
If Hostess doesn't meet those goals for two consecutive quarters, the Teamsters may immediately file a grievance with the arbitrator. If the arbitrator rules for the union and Hostess still flunks, the arbitrator can again choose a remedy, "up to and including punitive damages and declaring the union concessions set forth in this agreement null and void."
Teamsters say their proposal is expressly conditioned upon the company's commitment to "equality of sacrifice."
Photo: Hostess Brands Inc., the maker of Twinkies and Wonder Bread, is seeking bankruptcy protection, blaming its pension and medical benefits obligations, increased competition and tough economic conditions. The filing on Wednesday comes just two years after a predecessor company emerged from bankruptcy proceedings. LM Otero/AP


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Natalie Burgener, US Olympian and one of the USA's technical lifters
One of my goals is for WCF to become a world class training facility. A huge part of that is excelling in the parts of CrossFit: Olympic weightlifting, gymnastics, running, etc. We're planning on adding a weekday gymnastics course very soon. We've also wanted to hire Coach Chiu several days a week for some time and were planning on being able to do it on 2013. However, we've partnered with Ute CrossFit and are "sharing" Coach Chiu so we'll be able to have him 3 days a week starting in May. This will also correspond with an increase in the quality of our programming I've wanted to implement for some time but which required high level Oly coaching several days a week. If you look at the results of the CrossFit Open in general the best athletes also snatch and C&J the highest percentage of their bodyweight. That's no accident. I'm incredibly excited about this and can't wait to see the impact it will have on you guys!
31/March/2012 Saturday Schedule
8:30am – Rowing
9am – Olympic Weightlifting with Kaleb
10am – Free CrossFit WOD
Looking Strong!
Today's WOD is a partner WOD. Partition the work however you want and divide it up however you want. Have fun and enjoy the new pullup rig!
Some people are worried about getting in both Olympic weightlifting sessions for the cruise challenge. I'll be doing an Oly class tomorrow at 5pm plus we have Caleb coaching at 9am on Saturday. If I can get my schedule rearranged I will also do a 9am Oly class, I will post to comments as well as Facebook if I can make it happen.
30/March/2012 Friday WOD
Teams of Two will perform:
100 Pullups
100 Kettlebell Swings (1.5/1)* CFG Standard
100 Double Unders
100 Overhead Squats (95lb/65lb)
Strength: 3×10 HSPU's. 3×5 Muscle-ups with 2 ring dips for every MU. Then do 1×10 OHS prior to the WOD as heavy as possible. Post WOD: 30, 20, 10 GHD UP & Down.
Endurance: Run 5k
29/March/2012 Thursday WOD
1 Snatch & 5 Burpees per minute for 20 Minutes
Gold: 165/120 Silver: 135/93 Bronze: Scale as needed
AM: 5x500m row with 1:30 rest between, damper 0. Do 15 pushups every rest interval
At different times of year our programming has certain biases. Strength, Olympic Weightlifting, gymnastics, running, skills, etc. For the next six weeks our programming will be preparing our team for Regionals and ramping up for the WCFers who want to compete in the Retro Games this summer. As always, being strong and explosive is important but you'll notice more skill work, bigger sets of gymnastic movements, heavier loading, and constant variation. Have fun, feel free to scale, and let me know if you have any questions.
With this week's Cruise challenge we had a lot of new faces in Olympic Weightlifting. I've had people tell me Oly was intimidating, please post some of your thoughts about today to comments if it was your first time training with Coach Chiu.
5 Rounds for Time
20 Pushups
20 Situps
20 Double Unders
Then: 3×5 Front Squat (Cleaned from floor). Go as heavy as you can go with good form. Post load to whiteboard.
GamesLab: Rest Day. 30 minutes of active recovery any modality is optional.
Congrats to Kasey G for a stellar Open!
The Wasatch story part 3: After starting out as an MMA/CrossFit gym at some point I realized that we weren't going to happily coexist. People would come in, try CrossFit, love it, then watch someone get their nose broken in our boxing ring and decide to never come back. Coincidentally, I broke my nose by running straight into a punch during my 3rd MMA fight while Priscilla was 8 months pregnant and decided to "retire". It was at this time that we decided to go full-time into CrossFit and to move to our current location in Layton. Our community numbered around 80 athletes at this time and 60 made the move with us. There were so many good memories in Kaysville. John P bringing fire hose over so we could do a WOD in honor of one his friends who didn't make it out of a burning building. Our crazy pullup bars with the welds that kept cracking. Going to Aromas for the last year the CrossFit Games was held on a ranch in the middle of nowhere. Thinking a 300# back squat was a big deal. Our team tryouts that only 2 girls showed up to but Priscilla and Carol still both gave it their all. Jen T coming in as an athlete with every meal and training session for something like 3 years perfectly chronicled and notated. Despite the good memories it was time to move to bigger and better things. LAYTON!
Today is Olympic Weightlifting with Coach Chiu. For those of you doing the Cruise challenge this is your chance to get in there and see what Oly is all about. Classes run at 1045am, Noon, 3:00, 4:30, and 5:30pm. If you absolutely can't make it then please do the Oly programming posted to comments.
25/March/2012 Tuesday WOD – 2011 Regionals WOD # 2
21-15-9 reps for time of:
Deadlift (285 lb /185 lb)
Box jump (30"/24")
Scaling: Scale as needed on both the box jumps and deadlift. One 25# plate and 2 45# plates should get you to 30 inches for the guys. Feel free to use the steel 45# plates on the deadlifts if needed.
Strength: Do Oly with Coach Chiu immediately followed by the thruster ladder.
Endurance: Rest
Thruster Ladder – Athletes will have 20 seconds to take a barbell from the ground, then perform one Thruster at a specified weight. They will have 10 seconds to transition to the next barbell. Their result is the highest successful thruster.
Men's weights in lbs: 155, 165, 175, 185, 195, 205, 215, 225, 235, 245, 255, 265, 275, 285, 295
Women's weights in lbs: 105, 115, 125, 130, 135, 140, 145, 150, 155, 160, 165, 170, 175, 180, 185
I know I promised the next installment of how WCF started but we've got a lot to go over so look for it tomorrow.
First of all, congrats to each and every athlete who competed in the 2012 CrossFit Open. I loved the encouragement, the community, and the cohesiveness it brought to WCF this year. Thank you to everyone who stayed to help judge, came to cheer on a friend, and who gave 100%. This year we took a calculated risk after placing 4th last year. Our goal was to qualify two teams. It almost backfired on us as we had a couple of folks get scores in late and get DQ'ed from the Open on a technicality which meant they could not score for our team. We ended up with WCF Blue in 27th and White in 38th. As this CrossFit thing blows up it gets more and more competitive and harder to get a slot. Blue team is headed to Denver where we hope to improve and place in the top 10 for the 3rd consecutive year or better.
On an individual level Tiffany took 2nd place overall and was top 50 worldwide! We had 3 women qualify as individuals and 5 in the top 100. Great work! For the guys Craig was our top male finisher cracking the top 100 and I able to break into the top 200. What's amazing is that the Open started with nearly 3000 men in our Region. That is insane. This year there were around 5000 athletes just in our Region. Thank you again to each and every one of you for your contributions, next up is Regionals and the Retro Games comes up in June. Get ready!
Last but not least, when you walk in today you'll notice the pullup bars have been moved and Treadzilla has arrived. The pullup bars are almost done but have to be braced to the ceiling. Please resist the urge to try them out just for today, I'll have them anchored by this evening. The high speed treadmill is for the Speed & Agility training we're bringing in. It goes up to 31mph which is faster than Usain Bolt. That's a good thing for training but is a definite safety issue with kids. With the new treadmill comes a new kids policy. I know that there are times of day when kids are in the workout area. Especially my kids. This can be a real safety concern and we're going to be strictly enforcing the policy of no kids in the gym area during class times. Please help us with this and if you have any questions let me know.
26/March/2012 Monday WOD 2011 Regionals WOD #1
Run 1K
30 HSPU's
Row 1K
Endurance: Sprints 4x400m, 4 x 200m. Each on faster than preceding
Strength: 20, 15, 10 Back squat alternated with 20, 15, 10 T2B's. Weight is Max Sn.
Anne & Coach Chiu play around on the rowing slides. Dave promised a 500m PR on these but I'm not sure I want to try.
One of the projects we're working on for next year is to get Coach Chiu full time as an Olympic Weightlifting coach. We would have 2, 3, and 4 day per week Oly programs written up and he would be available for 5 hour blocks which would alternate AM/PM daily. Rather than a specific time you could come in any time during that time block and get high level coaching. Let me know what you think, I believe it would be a great addition to WCF. As the Open wraps up it's an opportunity to think about what you excelled in and what you could improve for next year. For many of our athletes strength and Oly are areas where improvement could pay huge dividends. It has for me.
A new Cruise challenge form is posted below. If you're not sure if last week's made it in feel free to resubmit. Monday I'll post a tally of everyone who's still in this thing!
Friday afternoon we'll be bringing in the high-speed treadmill and vibration plates for the Speed & Agility training. If you're available around 3pm and would like to come help lift the 864lb treadmill your help would be greatly appreciated. It's supposed to arrive between 3 and 4pm.
Last but not least, after 2 summers painting houses I find it is something I love as much as heavy thrusters. If anyone would to trade 1/2 of their May membership dues to paint a bathroom please text me or post to comments.
23/March/2012 Friday WOD
2 Rounds for time
10 Deadlifts
50 Air Squats
Run 800
Gold: 250/163 Silver: 185/133 Bronze: Scale as needed
GamesLab Strength: 3 Min aggregate handstand hold. 2 min aggregate L-Sit hold. 1 Min aggregate ring support hold (top of ring dip)
Endurance: 5 rounds of x calories per minute on Airdyne. 10 for women, 15 for men. Must complete calories as fast as possible then slowly ride for the rest of the minute.
As far as I'm aware Maria (Now living in Bountiful, still Crossfitting!) was the first female Crossfitter in Utah to get a Muscle-up and Miranda O (Founder of Crossfit 801, now with CFHQ) was the 2nd
Once we decided to open up a CrossFit things started moving along. We found a space in Kaysville across from Barnes park. Our original idea was to put both an MMA training facility and a CrossFit in the same bldg. MMA was supposed to be the big draw. For some strange reason this crazy CrossFit thing kept growing and the trend of people punching each other in the face never got huge. At this same time Chris Spealler got his affiliation a few weeks ahead of us for CrossFit Park City and was training people out of the rec center up there. When we opened we were the first CrossFit facility in Utah. The early days were fun. There were only about 50 of us and the sense of excitement and community was palpable every day. A lot like it is now. In our first 2 years we had zero walk-ins and exactly one person signed up who had heard about CrossFit prior to trying it with us. On the bright side, it was around this time that Carol & Jen joined having no idea that they would eventually end up making a career of coaching CrossFit. Most of our equipment didn't match and much of it was homemade. There were no CrossFit Games but occasionally we'd organize mini-comps with the 3 or 4 other CrossFit Affiliates that had sprung up around Utah…801, Utah Valley, Park City, and Cache Valley. Part 3 tomorrow…I do a few MMA fights, break my nose, and decide to go 100% CrossFit and move to Layton.
For some of you 12.5 is a repeat, it was also the last WOD of the Crossfit Open last year. For me the name of the game is intelligent pacing and work sets. Don't go out of the gate too fast. Control your breathing, pace yourself, and have a strategy for how you're going to break up your sets once you get to the bigger numbers. I like to have a set number of breaths I take before I get back on the bar. 3 breaths or 5 breaths and then I grab the bar and go.
22/March/2012 Thursday WOD
MEN – includes Masters Men up to 54 years old
Complete as many reps as possible in 7 minutes following the rep scheme below:
100 pound Thruster, 3 reps
3 Chest to bar Pull-ups
100 pound Thruster, 6 reps
6 Chest to bar Pull-ups
100 pound Thruster, 9 reps
9 Chest to bar Pull-ups
100 pound Thruster, 12 reps
12 Chest to bar Pull-ups
100 pound Thruster, 15 reps
15 Chest to bar Pull-ups
100 pound Thruster, 18 reps
18 Chest to bar Pull-ups
100 pound Thruster, 21 reps
21 Chest to bar Pull-ups…
This is a timed workout. If you complete the round of 21, go on to 24. If you complete 24, go on to 27, etc.
WOMEN – includes Masters Women up to 54 years old
Complete as many reps as possible in 7 minutes following the rep scheme below:
65 pound Thruster, 3 reps
3 Chest to bar Pull-ups
65 pound Thruster, 6 reps
6 Chest to bar Pull-ups
65 pound Thruster, 9 reps
9 Chest to bar Pull-ups
65 pound Thruster, 12 reps
12 Chest to bar Pull-ups
65 pound Thruster, 15 reps
15 Chest to bar Pull-ups
65 pound Thruster, 18 reps
18 Chest to bar Pull-ups
65 pound Thruster, 21 reps
21 Chest to bar Pull-ups…
This is a timed workout. If you complete the round of 21, go on to 24. If you complete 24, go on to 27, etc.
Welcome back! Shane was with us back in Kaysville during what I call "The old dirty days."
A brief history of Wasatch Crossfit: Many of you know that I've been doing Crossfit for around 8 years now. Back in 2004 I enrolled my son in Jiu-Jitsu. It looked fun especially with my wrestling background. The very first class two things happened: I realized that jogging and triathlons hadn't prepared me for combat sports and I nearly passed out from exhaustion. I needed to train rather than "work out." This led me to finding kettlebells, ordering a few online, and doing KB workouts with Priscilla in our backyard and kitchen. We both quickly got bored which somehow led me to Crossfit.com. My very first workout was "Helen." 3 RFT of Run 400m, 21 KBS, 12 Pullups. By the end of round two I was hyperventilating on the ground while Priscilla stared at me in dismay, hoping my heart wasn't going to explode. Of course I was totally hooked. Back then there were no Crossfit gyms. I ordered some equipment, made the rest, and started doing the workouts from Crossfit.com. I still remember how heavy 95lbs felt and how 100 airsquats seemed impossible! Nobody had heard of CrossFit, they just thought I weird for doing "those crazy workouts."
At some point I had acquired the worlds greatest Crossfit garage gym and was seriously thinking about starting my own Affiliate. There were about 50 Affiliates by this point and none in Utah. I had an employee who worked for me who was borderline obese and had always expressed a desire to workout. I offered to train her in my garage for free figuring that CrossFit's claim of being scalable for anyone would be put to the test. The first couple days the warmup killed her. Then she could air squat. Then do a clean and jerk. A year later she had lost nearly 50lbs and was doing pullups. I decided to Affiliate, becoming #140 out of what is now nearly 4000 worldwide.
To be continued…..
21/March/2012 Wednesday WOD
Max Effort Back Squat : 10, 5, 3, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1
Max Effort Press: 10, 5, 3, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1
Reach your one rep max within 7 heavy singles.
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Burke's view of Goodrich shows he is ill-informed
As a resident of the Spaulding Lake community in Clarence, I was both astounded and saddened when I read the comments of Erie County Legislator Patrick Burke about the reconstruction of Goodrich Road in Clarence in the Jan. 24 News. He declared, wrongly, that Goodrich "ends at Spaulding Lake, the wealthiest area in Western New York," in what I assume was his argument for not repaving it, despite it being identified as one of worst county roads in Western New York. He suggests that Goodrich was built as an access road to our community, when actually it is one of the oldest roads in the county, having been built long before the homes in Spaulding Lake were constructed.
In truth, Goodrich runs for many miles through the town and ends at Main Street near Clarence High School, not far from the Clarence food pantry and senior center. It is a much-used thoroughfare, important for school buses and emergency vehicles. Full disclosure, it does happen to pass an entrance to Spaulding Lake, about a quarter-mile before it reaches Main Street, and for this I apologize.
What I found most appalling was Burke's implication that the supposed wealthy inhabitants of Spaulding Lake are undeserving of having their surrounding public roads repaved with county funds, despite the fact that we pay some of the highest taxes in the region and, ironically, likely use a disproportionately smaller amount of county services. Perhaps he should have done a little research before making factually incorrect, divisive and inflammatory statements designed to stoke the passions of city taxpayers against their suburban counterparts.
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|(Aurora, COLO.) – The Graebel Companies, Inc. has announced nine consecutive months of double-digit growth and year-to-date an increase in revenue of 22-percent over prior year from its combined relocation, moving and commercial workplace services businesses. Although the economy continued to sputter during 2010 and has improved slowly for the past three quarters, the privately-held company's robust growth resulted primarily from the resurgence in volume from its Fortune 1000 clientele, combined with new revenue from recently signed accounts. During 2010, Graebel added over eighty multi-year, high-volume corporate and government clients to its relocation services and household goods moving portfolio; and, forty-three new large commercial workplace services accounts that have a national real estate footprint.
"We're benefitting from an improving economy, a resurgent relocation industry, the optimism of our clients and the very energetic business development activities that Graebel embarked on over eighteen months ago during the economic down-turn," said Tim Callahan, chief operating officer at Graebel. "And, we are very optimistic about the future."
At the divisional level, Graebel Relocation Services Worldwide, Inc., ranked the number one relocation company in 2010, surpassed its prior fiscal year's strong volume with a double-digit increase, and year-to- date this division's business has grown by 50-percent over prior year. Likewise, the Graebel Commercial Workplace Services division has experienced 35-percent growth versus the prior year. Graebel Movers Inc., the U.S. domestic moving and storage division, reports its year-to-date revenue is up 18-percent over 2010. And Graebel Movers International, the company's international household goods move management and forwarding division, has grown its revenue by 36-percent from a year earlier.
"We chose to not participate in the Great Recession", explained chief executive officer, Bill Graebel. "Rather, we focused our companywide attention on better understanding and proactively responding to the rapidly changing needs of our clients in the wake of the global economic disruptions. For instance, we introduced the relocation and moving industry's first mobile apps that furnish real-time status reporting and communication with our staff via a customer's smart phone. We also opened our APAC regional center in Singapore and expanded our EMEA regional center in Prague, the Czech Republic, much to our clients' delight."
"I am really proud of the way that our team rallied and became ever more strategic and effective for our clients worldwide," emphasized Graebel.
With growth in all Graebel business segments out-pacing the economy at large (real gross domestic product expanded 3.1-percent in the fourth quarter of 2010 and 3.8 percent is estimated for summer), Graebel has been aggressive in acquiring new, experienced talent expanding its workforce by 21-percent. The company has also been actively recruiting additional experienced household goods drivers to fulfill its goal of expanding its household goods fleet size by 20-percent in the build-up to the 2011 peak moving season.
"Throughout the weak economy, our people remained highly engaged; and retention among our employees and household goods drivers is outstanding," said Bill Graebel. "As we continue to add capacity, Graebel is uniquely positioned to meet our clients' workforce and workplace relocation needs and to exceed their expectations. For nine successive months, we have witnessed impressive growth and momentum. Going forward, we believe that each one of our business lines will continue to hit new high-water marks in revenue, key performance indicators and service level scores in 2011."
About Graebel Companies, Inc.
Founded in 1950, Graebel is a relocation and moving company that provides global relocation and move management services, domestic U.S. and international moving and storage services, freight forwarding, and commercial office moving and workplace services. Divisions include: Graebel Relocation Services Worldwide, Inc., Graebel Movers International, Inc., Graebel Commercial Services, Inc., Graebel Van Lines, Inc., Graebel Movers, Inc., and Move Management, Inc. The World Headquarters is in Aurora, Colorado and on-the-ground services are performed in 153 countries. Graebel centers are located throughout the U.S., and in Prague, the Czech Republic, and Singapore. Graebel is a privately-held company that boasts a strong balance sheet, real-time technology for business intelligence reporting and employs an extensively background-screened and trained employee workforce worldwide. Clientele include respected firms in the Fortune 500 and the global 100. For two consecutive years, 2011 and 2010 Graebel has been ranked the number one relocation company in the 'HRO Today' Baker's Dozen. Among its multiple industry-first innovations is the launch of the moving industry's first relocation and move managements apps. To learn more visit: www.graebel.com
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Visiting the other Barnes icon - the arboretum, not the art museum - just got a whole lot easier.
For the first time, the 12-acre landscape on North Latchs Lane in Merion is open to the public on weekends with none of the old constraints on visitation.
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"Instead of being the place you keep people out of - which, in some ways, is part of our history - we want to be a place that welcomes you," said Margaret B. Zminda, acting director of the Barnes Foundation, which oversees the horticulture and the art that moved in 2012 to a new site on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway.


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More than 7 million women in the U.S. have COPD, and millions more have symptoms but have yet to be diagnosed. The number of deaths among women from COPD has more than quadrupled since 1980, and since 2000 the disease has claimed the lives of more women than men in the U.S. each year.
"What we now know is that more women than men in this country are dying from COPD — and nearly half of women currently living with COPD dont even know they have it," MeiLan Han, MD, medical director of the Womens Respiratory Health Program at the University of Michigan Health System, and national spokesperson for the report, said in a news release.
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Only heart disease and cancer kill more Americans than COPD, according to the news release. Smoking is the primary cause of COPD, but there are other important causes such as air pollution.
The report identifies an interplay of risk-factor exposures, biological susceptibility and sociocultural factors contributing to COPDs disproportionate burden on women.
Foremost, the rise of COPD in women is closely tied to the success of tobacco industry marketing. Cigarette smoking was rare among women in the early 20th century, but started increasing in earnest in the late 1960s after the tobacco industry began aggressively targeting its products specifically to women. While nationwide anti-tobacco campaigns and policy changes have successfully decreased smoking rates for both women and men in the recent past, the tobacco industrys past success in addicting women smokers continues to result in new cases of COPD and other tobacco-related illness in those women as they have aged.
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• Women with COPD have more frequent disease flare-ups, a sudden worsening of COPD symptoms that often is caused by a cold or other lung infection.
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• The quality of life for women with COPD is impaired at an earlier age, and is worse overall than that of men with similar severity of disease.
The American Lung Association calls on government agencies, the research and funding community, insurers and health systems, employers, clinicians, women and their families to take steps to address this deadly disease.
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Police investigated former University of Northern Colorado baseball coach Kevin Smallcomb for allegations of financial improprieties from his school, a Greeley Police Department report said, though charges never were filed.
Weld County deputy distinct attorney Rick Wetmore reviewed the case, but determined there was not enough evidence to support filing criminal charges against Smallcomb, barring a confession from him. Smallcomb opted not to speak with police and hired Greeley attorney Melanie A. Sedlak to handle the case.
Attempts to reach Smallcomb for comment were unsuccessful. The Tribune also tried to contact Sedlak, but messages left on her voicemail were not returned.
UNC officials would not speak directly to any of the allegations against Smallcomb calling it a "confidential personnel matter." Nor would they comment on whether the allegations were the main reason for Smallcomb's contract not being renewed after eight years at the helm.
The police investigation stemmed from a more than two-month internal investigation by the university headed up by Walt Francis, a special assistant to UNC athletic director Jay Hinrichs. In that investigation, UNC alleged that Smallcomb was unlawfully using per diem travel funds meant for the players totaling $1,558. The $1,558 was the difference between what was recorded on per diem meal signature sheets and travel authorization expense sheets as compared to what student athletes and coaches said they received for five different road trips.
The allegation stemmed from a meeting Francis had with 12 players on the team, all three assistant coaches and team trainers April 5 after university officials received an anonymous tip claiming Smallcomb was withholding per diem money from the players.
Seven of the 12 players interviewed by Francis at the meeting claimed Smallcomb would give them a portion of the money they were supposed to receive for meals as they departed for trips, but not the entire amount. Players are to receive $25 per day for three meals or $6 for lunch and breakfast and $13 for dinner if only two meals are used.
After completing the investigation, UNC authorities turned the matter over to UNC police, who opted to hand the investigation over to the Greeley police to avoid a conflict of interest.
According to the report, seven players interviewed by Francis alleged Smallcomb gave each player $50 of per diem money on a four-game road trip to New Mexico, $50 on a two-game swing at Nebraska, $60 on a four-game trip to Huntsville, Texas, and $100 on a three-game trip at Arizona. The five other players interviewed said they did not remember the amounts given to them.
Francis also indicated he went through records for five different 2010 road trips and that there was unaccounted cash on all four previously mentioned trips and another trip to Salt Lake City that totaled $1,558, the report said.
Players also alleged Smallcomb was the sole person dealing with the cash and he would have the players usually sign the receipt forms for the funds late at night when they arrived back home at Jackson Field after the road trips. All the players interviewed claimed they did not pay attention to what they were signing nor had they ever been told what the authorized per diem amounts were per athletic department policy.
Wetmore said in the report one of the reasons he would be unable to seek criminal charges against Smallcomb was because of UNC's accounting and reporting practices. According to the report, UNC and Smallcomb had a history of reconciling trip expenses in the past by reimbursing one another over discrepancies or overages.
Wetmore also cited the fact that Smallcomb was allowed to correct or modify records after the allegations were raised. The report said Smallcomb allegedly was given back some of the authorization sheets he turned in during a meeting with Hinrichs after the allegations surfaced and that Smallcomb brought them back later with changes made. It also said that Smallcomb attached personal checks to the authorization sheets in what Francis believed was an attempt to pay back the difference. UNC did not cash the checks.
When asked if UNC planned to change any of their accounting practices or the way coaches are to distribute per diem funds in light of the investigation, UNC spokesperson Nate Haas said the university frequently reviews its policies and procedures as part of its belief in "continuous improvement," but the university does not see a need to "change accounting practices here."
When asked whether the university might consider a civil lawsuit against Smallcomb to recover the missing funds, Haas said "we consider the matter closed."
Smallcomb went 194-235 as the coach of the Bears. He was coming off his first winning season since 2004, going 34-24 and placing second in the inaugural season of the Great West Conference.


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So, today we were at a big family get together. My yds (10 weeks) is a very cranky baby. He is easily overstimulated and I pay dearly for it later if he gets too much input at once. The party was loud and kids were running around, etc. He refused to nurse, because it was too loud. I told DH we would need to be going home so I could nurse him. As he was getting things together I was letting people know we would be leaving. Suddenly, everyone and their brother wanted to hold the baby. I told everyone that asked, "No, he is very cranky right now." I even had to pull him away from one lady (one of my mother's in-laws that I don't even know). She was trying to take him out of my arms while asking if she could hold him. Then the lady's husband actually pulled the baby from my arms. I only let go because I could tell this guy was actually going to play tug of war with my baby, and I didn't want him to hurt yds and I didn't want to make an ass out of myself yelling at the guy. After about three minutes, yds started crying and I took him back. Then, we got the hell out of there.
My question is about the way everyone was reacting to me telling them no. Everyone was acting surprised that I was telling them no. They were acting like asking was merely a formality, and I was in some way obligated to let them hold ds. I felt like they thought I was being rude. So, is it rude? If someone asks to hold the baby, are you just supposed to let them? I figured the ladies of the BHB could answer this or at least get into an interesting bitch fight about it.
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The Barns is situated on a working farm approx. 1 mile from the National Exhibition Centre and LG Arena, 2 miles from the International Airport and Birmingham International Rail Station, 8 miles from Birmingham City Centre, NIA arena and the IPC centre. Hampton-in-Arden railway station is just a short walk away providing a service to the NEC and Birmingham every 30 mins !! We have 11 bedrooms all with ensuite baths/showers , T.
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