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The World Press Photo 13 exhibition opened at De Oude Kerk in Amsterdam on Friday, 26 April, during the Awards Days, before it will continue on a year-long tour around the world. After several years of absence, the exhibition is set to return to Riga (Latvia), Doha (Qatar), Lagos (Nigeria) and Lima (Peru), among others.
Wrapping up the 2012 exhibition
With around 100 local exhibitions produced every year that attract around 3.5 million visitors, the World Press Photo exhibition tour of prize-winning photographs is one of the most popular traveling photo events in the world. The exhibition season starts during the Awards Days in Amsterdam and continues its journey into the following year. In 2012, the exhibition was shown in a number of new locations such as Querétaro (Mexico), Lahore (Pakistan) and Minsk (Belarus), and it toured around the Balkan in five cities: Sarajevo and Banja Luka (Bosnia-Herzegovina), Skopje (Macedonia), Novi Sad and Belgrade (Serbia).
Anticipating the 2013 tour
In addition to the World Press Photo 13 yearbook, visitors to this year's exhibition can enjoy a new mobile app, the Exhibition Guide. By combining several modes of access to the World Press Photo Contest's extensive content, World Press Photo 13 exhibition visitors can have a much richer experience, both during and after their visit, on- and offline. The app is free and available for both iPhone and Android smartphones.
Visitors to this year's exhibition will also see more sports images and portraits, thanks to an adjustment in this year's contest categories.
The exhibition will return after several years of absence to Doha (Qatar), Lagos (Nigeria) Lima (Peru), and Riga (Latvia) among others. To see the most up-to-date list of stops on the tour, please see the exhibition calendar: http://www.worldpressphoto.org/events
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Texas coaches group decides to keep Clemens as speaker
HOUSTON -- Roger Clemens remains welcome to speak at a convention of Texas high school baseball coaches who earlier reconsidered their invitation upon allegations of steroid use in the Mitchell report.
Unless there is some concrete evidence he is guilty or if the media circus would keep him from coming ... it would be unfair of us not to let him come.
-- Jim Long, president of the Texas High School Baseball Coaches Association
The Texas High School Baseball Coaches Association said Monday that despite allegations against Clemens in the 409-page report, the group found no reason to not let the seven-time Cy Young Award winner speak at its annual meeting next month.
"He still wants to come," said Jim Long, president of the association. "He said he intends on speaking."
The group's decision was first reported by Houston television station KRIV.
Clemens' agent, Randy Hendricks, did not immediately return a telephone call Monday from The Associated Press seeking comment.
Clemens is among the biggest names to appear in the Mitchell Report, a study by former Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell on the illegal use of steroids and other performance-enhancing drugs in baseball. Clemens was accused in the report of having used steroids by a strength and conditioning coach.
In a video posted Dec. 23 on the Web site of his foundation and on You Tube, Clemens denied using steroids.
He is set to answer questions about the steroids accusations in an interview on the television news magazine "60 Minutes" that is scheduled to air on Sunday.
Long said the group left its options open depending on what Clemens says in the interview.
"If something else comes up, there may be a possibility he wouldn't come," Long said. "But unless there is some concrete evidence he is guilty or if the media circus would keep him from coming ... it would be unfair of us not to let him come."
Clemens had been scheduled for the last eight months to talk about pitching and what he did on a daily basis that kept him in shape during his long career to members of the country's largest high school baseball coaches association. The convention is Jan. 10-12.
"We're delighted at what they've done, [giving] him the benefit of the doubt we asked the public and everybody else to do," his attorney, Rusty Hardin, told KRIV. He said he expected Clemens to be pleased with the association's decision.
In the Mitchell report, former Toronto and New York Yankees strength coach Brian McNamee said he injected Clemens with steroids in 1998 while with the Blue Jays, and in 2000 and 2001 while with the Yankees. McNamee also claimed he injected Clemens with Human Growth Hormone in 2000.
Andy Pettitte, Clemens' teammate with both the Yankees and Astros, was also cited in the Mitchell report. He has admitted to using human growth hormone on two occasions to recover from an elbow injury in 2002.
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• Munson: Delay means Congress serious• Wojciechowski: Rocket's logic fizzles
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• Neyer: Investigate all players
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• Helyar: Not good for short-term business
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With Germany seemingly on the retreat, Polish authorities attempt to take back their capital city before the Soviet Army can lay claim.
With the Soviet Army making tremendous gains on the ground to the East and the Allies mounting a considerable presence in France to the West, the time seemed right for the remaining Polish military powers within Warsaw to make a stand and eject their conquerors from the city once and for all. Additionally, the encroaching Soviet forces proved too close for comfort and was a certainly to would bring with them a Communistic brand of government by force to the sovereign Polish nation. The plan for the Poles was to take up arms and move the Germans out of the city while "greeting" the Soviet Army as a free liberated and democratic nation.
However, much stood in the way of this Polish resolve. Firstly, the remaining Polish guard was withered down to about 38,000 suitable soldier personnel to which 4,000 of these were women. There were only enough light weapons to arm approximately one quarter of this fighting force. Additionally, there would be no air support, armor support, artillery support and nary an armored vehicle to which mount an attack with. Ammunition was estimated to last about one week of consistent fighting and fighting would have to be bloody house-to-house affairs against a well-armed, well-trained and battle hardened German foe. The Polish spirit was no doubt strong during this time, but logistics said otherwise.
As such, the Polish Army and their government-in-exile - now based in Britain - looked to the Allies for help. Britain offered what it could considering its current wartime commitments, as did the United States. Soviet leader Josef Stalin would refuse to assist the Polish government in any way, sensing that the success of a "Warsaw Uprising" would hinder his prospects of conquering Poland for the Soviet sphere of influence.
By this time, Soviet forces were closing in and around Warsaw to the point that gunfire and artillery was heard along the outskirts of the Warsaw suburbs. From the Polish standpoint, this instilled some haste in exacting their next move and, it seemed, that their German invaders had retreated completely out of the Capital. In reality, however, they were only relocated to counter the swift Soviet gains. Once the German retreat was halted by Adolph Hitler himself and Colonel General Heinz Guderian placed in command of the situation, the Germans stabilized and remained a potent force.
During the perceived lull throughout the Capital, Polish resistance began building up hope and numbers through localized propaganda brought about by posters, word-of-mouth and loudspeaker presentations. Momentum to win back the city and control it before the invading Soviets could enter was in full swing and patriotic fervor was winning out over logic. Polish Army General Komorowski was in charge of the insurgency plan and greenlit the uprising to its fullest potential without realizing the true scope of the surrounding situation.
With small arms and inherent determination, the Polish uprising began on August 1st, attacking the unsuspecting German forces throughout the city. At first, the gains were deemed impressive for the Germans were unprepared and had yet to settle from the reorganization brought about from the halt to the retreat. Fighting turned evermore severe and German defenses at key locations soon proved insurmountable to the lightly-armed Polish insurgency. Despite this, the Polish fought bravely with the few arms and ammunition available to them. Street fighting proved commonplace and Warsaw turned into an official battle zone where no corner was safe from danger.
As the initial push by the Poles began to diminish, they held out hope in the advancing Red Army forces whose armor and artillery could be heard nearby. Additionally, Soviet Air Force planes could clearly be seen in the skies above. However, as the fighting within Warsaw persisted, the sights of the Soviet advanced seemingly disappeared. It seemed that, in true Stalin fashion, an order was given to halt the Red Army advance against Warsaw and let the Germans deal with the pestering Poles before the Soviets geared up to take the Capital themselves. Hitler, infuriated by the nerve of the Polish uprising, committed more men and equipment to the fighting (including bands of ex-criminals, police and ex-Soviet soliders-turned-Nazi) to squash the resistance once and for all - sending a clear message to anyone under his grip with the same insurgent-minded intentions.
The situation for the Poles turned hopelessly bleak. Word soon reached British PM Churchill and American President Roosevelt of Stalin's inaction - both reportedly appalled at the Soviet leader's lack of response. Both leaders appealed to Stalin's sense of morality - if there ever was one - to deliver assistance to the Poles in need. Stalin declined on the insistence that he was never consulted about the intended uprising by the Poles and thusly could not appropriately coordinate a response. Additionally, he stated that his forces were, at present, committed to other - more pressing matters - in the region. When a request came from the British and Americans to deliver their own supplies to the Poles via Soviet-held forward airfields, the request was denied.
It was clear that Stalin was intending to take Poland for his own at the expense of its people. In one deliberately futile act, Stalin ordered a meager airdrop of supplies over the city - these landing into German Army hands and made up of a few small arms and nothing more. As time wore on, the situation for the Poles grew ever grimmer - help from the Allies, it seems, would not come in time, if at all.
The influx of German troops completed the stamping out of the uprising. Remnants of the Polish insurgency were divided into three combat groups with little in the way of communication with one another. Ammunition was now gone. Prisoners were executed by the Germans on site while wounded Poles were reportedly doused with gasoline and set ablaze, left to burn alive. Professionals such as doctors were executed at Polish hospitals and patients systematically killed. Additionally, any remaining Polish civilians caught in the fighting were killed or taken prisoner - all this with the Soviet Army less than 15 miles away from Warsaw proper.
On October 2nd, the Polish Army officially surrendered to the Germans. Between 150,000 and 250,000 Poles were murdered and killed against the loss of 26,000 German troops. Polish survivors were taken away to await a fate worse than death while Warsaw was raped of its valuables and destroyed where it could be by land or air.
Polish Lieutenant-Colonel Zygmunt Berling, having been leading a contingent of the 1st Polish Army alongside the Soviet Army, attempted to come to the aid of his beleagured comrades, breaking rank and storming the Germans. His advance was quickly repelled and the units retreated back to Soviet-held ground. For his actions against Red Army orders, Berling was stripped of his command.
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Title: | Affidavit of Washington Jones: Albany, Georgia, 1868 Sept. 23 |
Date: | 1868 Sept. 23 |
Description: | In this affidavit taken on September 23, 1868 in Albany, Georgia by Freedmen's Bureau subassistant commissioner O.H. Howard, freedman Washington Jones, a thirty-eight-year-old worker on Stokes Walters's plantation in Mitchell County, gives his account of the Camilla Riot. The riot took place when Republicans together with freedmen came to Camilla to hold a political rally on September 19, 1868 and were met there with violent opposition from townspeople. Jones states that as many as three weeks previous he had overheard white men Robert Warren and Sam Dickerson talking about their intentions to perpetrate violence if Republican John Murphy came to Camilla to speak. Jones also states that he had not heard any of the freedmen planning violence beforehand. Despite what he heard, Jones went to Camilla with only a walking stick, where he saw James Johns fire the first shots, followed shortly by shooting from white men in the stores on either side of the gathering. Less than two minutes later, Jones fled the scene with the other freedmen as the whites pursued. Though he saw another freedman shot, Jones made it home safely by sundown. Document ID: cam026. Digital image and transcription created by the Digital Library of Georgia in 2001 of a photocopy held by DeSoto Trail Regional Library of an original record held by the National Archives. |
Subjects: | United States. Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands | African Americans--Georgia--History--19th century | African Americans--Georgia--Social conditions--To 1964 | Freedmen--Georgia--Political activity | Freedmen--Georgia--Violence against | Freedmen--Georgia--Personal narratives | Reconstruction--Georgia | Political violence--Georgia--Camilla | Mitchell County (Ga.)--Race relations | Mitchell County (Ga.)--Politics and government | Jones, Washington, fl. 1868 | Camilla (Ga.) | Mitchell County (Ga.) |
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Loose Cannons To The Right Of Him
Boring Boris, was my prediction at the Pro London debate earlier in the year, and Boring Boris is what's getting some of the froth-prone contingent on the right of sensible wing of the Conservative Party worked up recently. Take this from ConservativeHome owner Stephan Shakespeare (no, really, please take it, I don't want it):
There's no notable achievement, no sense that anything important will change, no grip. Real problems are not solved – in fact, there's not even a discernable attempt to solve them. You can expect several years of the famous Boris shrug as he tells us, in his attractive manner, that there's really not very much he can do.
Well, what did you expect? Boris is a Conservative, they exist to deny power to the Reds and the hippies, not to use it.
And for all that money, the traffic feels worse. A friend took two hours last Sunday morning to make the short car journey from Putney to Croydon, with the kids in the back feeling sick and then upset as they missed an important event in their lives – all because the streets were mangled with hundreds of unattended work-sites. Everywhere in London, the roads are dug up, then left untouched to wreak their havoc. You'd think it wouldn't be so hard to impose some order on this frustrating constant chaos.
Ah. He wants Boris to 'impose order' on this 'chaos'. Top down. Statist. Very…Pyong-yang. Well, Stephan, Boris is a Conservative, they exist to keep the dead hand of the state off the private sector, not to wrap it round the windpipe of the hard-working entrepreneur. Hence the New Roads And Street Works Act 1991*, which, using the famous regulatory light touch beloved of post-Adam Smith Institute Tories, laid the lightest possible burden on the thrusting newly privatised utilities when they wanted to dig the road up. Add in a decade or more of maintenance hiatus on the water and gas pipes in the name of profit and a communications revolution spurred on by privatisation and deregulation and, amazingly, you get a lot of roads dug up. Those Thatcherites and their wacky ideas, eh?
Some advice, Comrade Shakespeare – if you want to fix this you'll need something like, say, the Traffic Management Act 2004, which allows local authorities to bring in permit schemes for roadworks and thus impose some nice new regulatory burdens on private enterprise, and really show those capitalist fat cats who's boss. As it happens, 'Red' Boris is already signing up [PDF] to this manifestation of the socialist ZaNuLiebour nanny state, of course, so I can't see Stevo's complaint here. What more does he want? Someone to invent a magic inflatable six-lane highway paid for out of fairy gold for use on such occasions? Remember, this man is not some ranting libertarian blogger in a darkened room but a highly placed right-wing activist with fingers in a large number of pies. Truly epic failure to grasp the facts there.
Talking of pies, we move onto this piece of gibberish from LBHF's Clown King of Comedy Harry Phibbs, who again is perturbed by the lack of action from Boris:
So far there has been no serious challenge at City Hall to the ideological assumptions of the past. There is nothing in any of the new administration's strategy documents about irrational targets, burdensome HR practices, the problems with terms like 'institutional discrimination', the negative effects of "responsible procurement" on businesses, etc. Nor is there a programme for change; just a slightly toned down version of what went on before.
At best, this is a missed opportunity, at worst, it reinforces the view that there is no political debate to be had about this stuff – "After all, if even a Tory administration continues with the same approach, what is the problem?" etc.
What Phibbs wants, of course, is the wholesale replacement of 'the ideological assumptions of the past' with 'the ideological assumptions of Harry Phibbs', and his implied attack on his Conservative borough colleague Richard Barnes drew a fairly sharply worded response in a recorded interview with Dave Hill (which also had interesting things to say about the Stonewall debacle – Barnes is openly gay, of course):
Well I think Harry Phibbs has a lot to learn about life really hasn't he? It was drawn to my attention what he said and he also criticises the language we used that it's overly PC. Well when Harry aspires to be a little more than a councillor in Hammersmith and Fulham then I'm sure we can address and sit down and recognise the real issues.
Ouch. To my mind that's a bit harsher than Phibb's original criticism, and in turn drew an escalation to DEFCON 3 from the right wing, in the shape of Tim Montgomerie on Twitter:
Boris' Deputy makes childish attack on Harry Phibbs rather than addressing concerns about Livingstonian Equalities agenda
Montgomerie was 12 when Barnes was first elected to Hillingdon Council in 1982, which suggests that this is actually a young/old split as much as a PX ultra/borough boy one, with the younger, less experienced people having the 80s Conservative student smash-the-reds hard line and the arrogance allied to an enduring case of Ken Obsession (he talks about a 'Livingstone Smear Machine', for instance, which is conspiracy theory territory given that Ken is noted neither for his tact when dealing with a permanently hostile press nor a particular interest in the arts of spin, which require at the very least a friendly if not completely compliant press corps). For Barnes part, he's actually been given a job to do by Boris, and appears to be approaching it in a decidedly centrist fashion, as befits a borough boy for whom the acquisition and retention of power is the sole aim of the game, not the totemic smashing of the other side's cherished possessions. He's presumably perfectly aware that a vote is a vote whatever the colour of the hand holding the pencil.
Phibbs followed up Montgomerie's lead with a rather more bizarre take on the whole thing. The mask is slipping, Harry:
The Mayor of London Boris Johnson has now published his equalities policy Equal Life Chances for All. Plenty of the document is bland and unobjectionable but a close reading also confirms the concerns I detailed last week that the divisive approach of Ken Livingstone's regime have been retained.
Which is unremarkable as most of Livingstone's ideologocal commissars at City Hall have so far been kept in place. When Livingstone lost the election last year he used his leaving party in Covent Garden to ask his supporters not to resign but to attempt to remain in place and they have taken him at his word.
An invitation has been issued to City Hall for a member of Boris's team to respond to last week's post. This hasn't been directly taken up so far. But the Deputy Mayor Richard Barnes took a swipe at me in a podcast with Guardian blogger and Livingstone cheerleader Dave Hill.
This is veering into wingnut territory now, where everything you don't like has to have been engineered by some massive hidden IslamodemocratiKen-driven machinery that you alone are capable of discerning and exposing – when a Conservative says something you don't like, it must be because the evil Ken-worshipping Dave Hill did sumfin bad or sumfin. I also love the near-paranoid hint that City Hall *chose* to get back at a Conservative councillor via the 'Livingstone cheerleaders' at the Guardian – Phibbs hasn't noticed that Barnes's attention had been drawn to his original rant *before* talking to Dave Hill, and it's stretching the already thin credulity of the argument to suggest that whoever did that was also in the pay of the Magic Ken Spin Machine. It's surely likely to be a fellow Conservative given the location of the article and the places Barnes usually hangs out, but in Phibbsworld it can't be, it's impossible, inconceivable that an actual Conservative thinks you're a dickhead too. Blue rosette good, red rosette bad. Moan, drone.
It isn't surprising, given this backstory, to find that Phibbs lists on his Declaration of Interests a directorship of Associated Newspapers, publishers of the Daily Mail and (formerly) the Evening Standard, where Phibbs was apparently a London diarist. That'll be the same London Diary which had a cowardly anonymous go at Dave Hill via his wife. I wonder.
Talking of Ken-hating conspiraloons from the Associated Newspapers fold, we mustn't forget to check in with noted journalist kennite ross281 Andrew Gilligan, who's been increasingly jumpy in recent months as his creature fails to act on his orders and start decorating the walls of City Hall with the blood of diversity officers:
- The vanity projects that the Mayor must kill off – 9/6/2008
- Now Team Boris really needs to get into gear – 3/8/2008
- You're doing fine, Boris, but it's time to be bolder – 27/4/2009
- Come on Boris, show us what you're made of – 16/7/2009
I'd say he wasn't happy. Let's hope his new job cheers him up.
Other coverage – from PC do-gooders, ethnics and communists:
- OBV (bonus comment from Scary Angry Black Man Lee Jasper for Phibbsy to have his Two Minute Hate about)
- Hopi Sen (foreign name)
- Political Animal (freak)
- Tory Troll (foreign name and far too tall for a decent Englishman)
- Sunny Hundal (foreign name and brown, so obviously overpromoted by the liberal bruschetta munching PC elite in some way I can't quite explain but is really, really true, honest)
- Dave Hill (did you know his wife works for the Guardian and anyway he's not a proper journalist, is he, he even travels by bus.)
and from the true blue Bilious Tendency:
- Ed West (also appearing as Ed78 on CiF comments)
and from City Hall:
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The obvious conclusion from all this is that what we've considered to be the 'Tory right' aren't Tories at all, but entryists with a strikingly Trotskyite way of going about things – the tribalism, petty hatreds, propaganda, obsession with the meaning of words, personal vendettas and total divorce from the real world in favour of minutiae that really don't matter and big ticket technocratic imposed solutions made up out of whole cloth, often by charlatans. No wonder proper Tories are beginning to notice that they aren't their sort of people. It'll be interesting, when the time comes, to see how far up the Tory hierarchy they've got; Gove and Policy Exchange we know about, Dan Hannan's far too close to William Hague for comfort and ConservativeHome is infested with them but what about the rest? Phibbs, noticeably, wants to see John 'Rubber Tyre' Redwood back. How hilarious would that be? Oh, and Stephan Shakespeare's wikipedia entry suggests that he was… a student Trot. I'd love to hear confirmation of that rumour.
* For some reason I keep calling this the New Boots And Panties Act. Must be spending too much time in Kilburn High Road lately.
Update: Oh, FFS, Monbiot was on this six years ago. There goes my Pulitzer.
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Quietzapple says:
Johnson B has not done well this past year.
Having won 'Voters' last 'Lent" term, with the help of the Lyin' Standard and his auld Bullers mate Chameleon D he decided to become Big Wig i/c London Transport, which means it's all his fault.
Some of the natives are getting restless, esp those who were in on Red Ken's admin, you know, those who most likely knew where les bouteuilles des rouge de Tony Banks from the GLC days were hidden:
Toodley – pippitty!
Where_art_thou_ken says:
Interesting paragraph…
"And for all that money, the traffic feels worse. A friend took two hours last Sunday morning to make the short car journey from Putney to Croydon, with the kids in the back feeling sick and then upset as they missed an important event in their lives"
a) Why are you driving – have you never heard that London has the greatest transport network in the world (even on a Sunday)? Train to Clapham – 10 mins, Train to Croydon 25 mins – or is it because you're a Tory and you thought Public Transport is only for the poor?
b) Why are you kids feeling sick? Is it the car, or you that makes them feel sick? You don't get motion sickness on trains y'know.
c) What important event? Was it one of those clubs parents make their kids go to so they can stand there dribbling with other parents about how 'awful everything is under Labour'? – were they really upset – or was that you again?
It's a typical self centred view of the world "I wanted to drive my car through London and I couldn't because it's congested – everyone else should appreciate I need to get to places and that I am obviously more important than them'
The point you make above is exceptional about privatised companies and digging up the road. A classic short-sighted policy by Tory buffoons in the past who convinced the country that selling off these institutions represented good V.f.m.
…as with most Tory plans, good for the first few years and a complete disaster after that. A bit like de-regulating the markets me-thinks…..
Tim says:
So Boris is ignoring the people you disagree with, and this is bad because?
Also Thames Water is currently digging up pipes that should have been replaced years ago when it was a publicly owned utility. But as they under invested in them, we now have lots of them being replaced at once.
Tom says:
"Why is Lee Jasper a "Scary Angry Black Man"?"
A slightly near-the-knuckle reference to how black men who dare to get worked up about social issues tend to get portrayed in the tabloid media, as a way of shifting the debate away from the actual reason why a normal, compassionate human being has got worked up to the 'fact' that he's black, he's angry and doubtless he'll end up murdering you in your beds if he isn't stopped. It's a pervasive form of subtle, unpleasant racism straight out of the old Deep South playbook.
I was being satirical about it.
Where_art_thou_ken says:
"Also Thames Water is currently digging up pipes that should have been replaced years ago when it was a publicly owned utility. But as they under invested in them, we now have lots of them being replaced at once."Unless I'm seriously mistaken, the law of competition means you do as little capital expenditure (like repairs) as you can get away with. In the case of Thames water it has a monopoly so it doesn't even need to worry about loosing customers. It's only doing the repairs because OFWAT forced them to.
……and you're forgetting that the article was written by a senior member of the Tory party – a party Boris is very much a part of. He has the same ideology as Shakespear and what you describe as 'ignoring' I say is 'just hasn't got round to doing something about it yet' – possibly because this bandwagon isn't big enough for Big B yet.
Still, if you want to join along and say how discgraceful it is that roadworks interrupt your pointless car journies – then I'm certain Boris will be only too happy to come along…
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Hi, I just moved into a home that has had everything completely redone. The seller of the home claims that all of the plumbing has been redone as well. I'm having a problem with the washing machine backing up into the kitchen sink, and causing the toilet to bubble as well. Then a few minutes later, water will leak from what seems to be the bottom of the water heater. It's not coming from the valve/tube. I have no idea what is causing this problem. Any help will be greatly appreciated! Thank you!
You may have a floor drain under your hot water tank that is backing up. Look under it, if you can to see if that is the case. With the type of back up you have described, you need to have the main drain line cleared and cleaned.
Caduceus is right. A floor waste is more than likely to be underneath the hot water heater. Other than that , it is a CLASSIC blocked drain. You need to get it cleared DC
Thanks. I did a little more investigating and realized that it wasn't the water heater leaking, but a pipe behind it that was supposed to be a drain for the condensation from the A/C, or something like that. I had plumber come out today, and he said the same thing. He suspects that since my house sat for a considerably long time before it was remodeled that roots could have possibly grown in the main drain. He's bringing an auger (sp?) tomorrow to hopefully clear the line. It will be nice to have functioning indoor plumbing again !!! THANKS FOR YOUR HELP!
Its a pleasure. good luck with it . d
Okay, guys, I'd really appreciate your help again. I had a some plumbers come out and clear my main drain- but water still keeps backing up. Any other suggestions of what could possibly be the problem?
Did the plumber check his work. Maybe he just didn't do a good job. You could have a secondary stoppage that he failed to check for.
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W.A.R.P. is a castle defense game that is unlike any other castle defense app on the iPhone. In fact, castle defense in its current form may not be an apt description of W.A.R.P. at all, because it is really a game of Earth defense.
For having such a lofty mission statement (saving the Earth), W.A.R.P. is a fairly simple game where you use W.A.R.P.'s to redirect incoming meteors with gravitational fields. I know that it sounds complicated, but it isn't.
You start each level with an open map of space with Earth on the left side of the screen. The Earth in this game is a lovely looking recreation of our home planet and contains exactly 10 billion people. The game then starts with a few asteroids flying in towards Earth. If they hit the lovely planet, the population takes a dip, which is obviously not a good thing. To defend the planet, you must use the Wayward Asteroid Redirection Program (W.A.R.P.), which is really just a series of black hole looking things. To activate a hole, all you have to do is touch the screen. When an asteroid approaches the hole, the gravitational field will bend the asteroid out of the way of the Earth so it can live for another day. Also, the longer you hold your finger down on the screen, the larger the hole will get… just in case you need to cover a large area.
The challenge really starts when the game starts throwing 5-10 asteroids at you at once, along with flaming meteors and ice comets. Because your W.A.R.P.'s are fairly large in size, you must try to heard as many as you can with each hole, hopefully having them crash into each other, which eliminates them from the playing field. Eventually though, you will run into instances in which you cannot defend the lovely planet, and then you must use the rechargeable planetary shield, which makes the planet temporarily invincible.
Even with all of these defense tricks up your sleeve, the destruction of the earth is inevitable. Eventually you'll get mauled by asteroids and you will see the Earth grow red with embers, and along with the red glow, you will see the population go from a cool 10 billion down to nothing, and then you'll see the planet explode into a cloud of dust. Because of this inevitable ending, W.A.R.P. doesn't score you on asteroids exploded (although it does track it) or holes created, it scores you by the number of years that you kept the world alive.
For what it is, W.A.R.P. is a fine game with nice graphics that won't disappoint. Unfortunately, after a number of plays, as well as a number of exploded planets, the thought of going through unsuccessfully saving the planet seems rather dull. With just asteroid deflection in your arsenal, one can't help but long for the day that Earth gets a gun of some sort, or some kind of space ship defender that can help out.
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This is a difficult topic to discuss with people because many myths circulate about how children should share time with their divorced or separated parents. There are certain statements that, when repeated often enough, are taken as facts or standards. The only "fact" that applies to the creation of parenting schedules is that children generally adjust to whatever their parents approve of and feel comfortable with. This means that if two parents decide that an every-other-day visitation schedule, which is typically not a good schedule for children, happens to be what is best for them, the children will most likely adjust; and if they do not adjust, the parents should modify it. Your attitude toward the long-term schedule you choose will determine your children's attitude in most cases.
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There is no visitation schedule that is all good or all bad from a purely practical point of view. You might have to experiment with a few different types of schedules before something will prove to be a good fit in the long term. You will also need to adjust the schedule based on the developmental and social needs of your children.
One very common reason a parent might deny visitation is a stated desire for their children to have "a home base," or "one home." This concern is completely without merit. Most of the time, parents who say they want their children to have a "home base" want to control visitation, or they want to be able to show that they have the children for the majority of time so that they can be awarded child support. It is perfectly normal for children to feel comfortable living in both of their parents' homes.
With a little work and cooperation, children can have two comfortable beds for sleeping, two places to do their homework, and two parents who act like real parents. The keys to this are cooperation, sharing of parental responsibilities, a common set of disciplinary rules, and civilized behavior between the parents.
When parents live in close proximity, the practical aspects of coparenting are easier, and it is easier to develop parenting schedules that include sharing weekday time. I do not favor the type of visitation that presumes that the noncustodial parent receives every other weekend visitation and one dinner visit during the week. The typical Wednesday night 6:00 to 8:00 visit rarely amounts to more than the visiting parent running out to a fast-food restaurant, helping the kids do homework on top of greasy wrappers, and running the children back to the custodial parent's home. This becomes even more difficult when the child is involved in an after-school activity like sports or music lessons.
Let's take a close look at the practical aspects of this common visitation schedule. A weekend consists of, at most, Friday evening to Sunday evening, a forty-eight-hour period of contact. If visitation is every other weekend, that makes two forty-eight-hour periods of visitation per month. I typically ask custodial parents if they think two forty-eight-hour periods a month would be enough time for them to influence their child the way they desire. Of course, most say that is not enough, yet many of them find it acceptable for children to have so little contact with the noncustodial parent.
That is because people have been told over the years that this is an acceptable schedule of contact for the noncustodial parent. If the noncustodial parent doesn't want any more time than that, you certainly cannot force it on him. But many parents want to have full and complete relationships with their children. They want to be involved. This cannot happen on an every-other-weekend schedule.
There are several ways to accomplish a more complete relationship between the children and both parents. The first and easiest way is to be certain that the noncustodial parent has access to after-school activities and functions. That way, even if there is only every-other-weekend visitation, the child can see the noncustodial parent during the week in a traditional parenting role. The second way to accomplish this is to permit the noncustodial parent to stop by the children's residence after school to say hello.
This situation might not seem realistic if you and your co-parent hate each other, but the question always boils down to whether you want to do what is best for your children or vent your rage at the co-parent for the rest of your children's lives.
When parents cannot tolerate one another's presence, the children should not suffer for lack of contact with either parent. Mom not liking Dad or Dad not liking Mom is not a sufficient reason for denying a child access to a parent. Yet it is the most common reason why visitation is denied or limited.
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At this age, you can probably lift peak amounts of weight, but go ahead and lose the bench press. "How many muscle groups are you using? Maybe three?" asks Sam Iannetta, a trainer based in Boulder, Colorado. Instead, Sam suggests the cable push with lunge. (You can do a modified version at home with resistance bands.) Facing away from the cable-cross machine, on the balls of your feet, with your hands in start position up by your armpits, press out until your arms are fully extended in front of your chest, one arm at a time, then in tandem--all while holding a lunge position with your feet. "Now you're working five or six hundred muscles at once," Iannetta says. _ Supplemental work: prone push-ups from toes, on exercise ball. Do 2 sets of 10 to 12 reps.
If you haven't jumped rope in years, you'll be amazed by how difficult it is to do for even five minutes. Robert Ferguson, an L. A. boxing trainer who puts middleweight Fernando Vargas through his paces, prescribes the rope to all clients who want to cut weight in a hurry. "And if you add boxing moves"--intersperse jabs, crosses, straight rights and lefts--"and do it consistently, it's a total-body workout in 15 minutes." _ Good advice for losing weight at any age: Knowing your resting metabolic rate (RMR) enables you to tailor meals and workouts precisely to your metabolism. Most sports-medicine centers can measure RMR inexpensively, then help you develop menus and fitness routines to get you to burn many more calories than you store.
"Jumping rope burns twice as many calories as a treadmill and is great for shoulders as well as legs."
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For combined strength and anti-injury, antiaging benefit, try step-ups with dumbbells. Facing a shin-high step or bench, with head up and 10- to 20-pound dumbbells at each side, step up with one leg while looking straight ahead, keeping your spine straight. As you rise, lift your opposite knee toward your chest, accentuating the move. Descend slowly, keeping your back aligned but not stiff. 3 sets, 10 reps. _ Supplemental work: a Bar Method move known as reverse push-ups. Sit with bent legs in front of you, feet on the floor. Palms are on the floor directly under your shoulders, fingers forward. Now lower your upper body by bending the elbows slowly, keeping your chest wide open and your neck "long." Lift slowly back up to start position. Repeat five times.
By your mid-30s, you should be focusing less on gym-buffed show muscles and more on your heart and lower body. Spinning (indoor group cycling with intervals and a merciless instructor) is a still-too-often-overlooked aerobic-and-sports powerhouse. Once you've had your VO2 max (the amount of oxygen processed during maximal exercise) measured by a trainer or sports doc, mix in one spin workout a week and aim to top out at 75 to 80 percent of your V02 max. (You'll sweat buckets in a 45-minute class.) The trick is not to burn out with all the focus on out-of-saddle interval bursts but to train your hamstrings and Achilles and core--as well as your quads. You'll do best to join the indoor "peloton" gradually and stay with it for much of the rest of your aerobic life.
Welcome to the era of fusion in fitness. New workouts such as the Bar Method (a grueling blend of isometrics, yoga, and, um, dance) are grabbing converts by the gymful, which doesn't mean that aerobics or weights are dead--just downplayed as athletes mix torturous innovations like a two-hour "indoor biathlon" with old-school work such as jumping rope. To make sense of all these converging trends, we talked to four of America's top trainers, then incorporated their favorite exercises into this customizable fitness grid. Match your age to your goal(s), then mix it up whenever monotony sets in. --CURTIS PESMEN
The squat with overhead press builds glutes, hamstrings, quadriceps, and shoulders. Begin with legs spread, thighs shoulder width apart. Next, hoist two 10- to 20-pound dumbbells (consult trainer for best weight) to start of press position--elbows bent at 90 degrees. Now bend into a deep squat (thighs should be parallel to the floor), return to standing, then press the dumbbells above your head till elbows nearly lock (as if signaling a touchdown). Depending on the weight, aim for 15 to 20 reps.
Anything and everything that's fast--running, cycling, in-line skating, swimming--will keep your heart pumping smoothly and bring long-lasting gains. Cross-training is key to keeping the spark alive during longer, capillary-building workouts. Aim for four times a week (knowing that you'll sometimes have to settle for three), with your heart rate (yes, get a monitor and strap it on) at cardio-training level, which is typically 70 percent of your maximal heart rate.
Four workouts a week has replaced three as the new cardio mantra. Shoot for 45 minutes per session, and don't forget to cool down for five to seven.
We've all run in place; we'd all do a lot better to do running push-ups in place. This is more than a mere speed drill; running push-ups also warm up multiple muscle groups--chest, triceps, shoulders, abs, hip flexors--prior to a game, set, or match. Starting in push-up position, perform 15 regular push-ups. Next, still in push-up position, bring your right foot toward your hands without raising your hips. Keep your back stable and abs flexed before switching feet back and forth for a count of 20 "running" push-ups. Return to push-up position and knock out a final 15 standard push-ups.
This is the prime decade to develop a serious cross-training cardio plan, like the state-of-the-art "Performance Max" workouts at Club One, a California fitness chain: Rowing-machine exercise is combined with spinning workouts to create a grueling two-hour indoor biathlon. One reason indoor rowing is experiencing a resurgence, says Jim Karanas, Club One's group fitness director: It can burn up to 1,000 calories an hour.
As we age, our first serious knee and hip problems can arise (along with the inevitable gradual loss of muscle tissue). To stave off the decline, do quadriceps and hip-flexor stretches: Lie on your stomach and loop a resistance band around your foot with your knee bent. Gently pull the strap (and thus your ankle and instep) toward your head until you feel tension but not pain. Hold for 15 seconds, repeat three times, and then switch legs.
By focusing on large muscle groups--thighs, glutes, and chest--the Bar Method helps raise metabolism more effectively than regimens that focus on smaller muscle groups. "The wall sit [a standard isometric move] doesn't work, but the fold-over does," says Burr Leonard, co-owner of eight Bar Method studios in California and Connecticut, of the Bar Method's targeted isometric work. The fold-over: Stand a few feet from a waist-level surface. Cross your forearms, lightly palming each elbow, and lean over so elbows are resting on the surface. Now smoothly raise your right leg and bend at your waist until your back is parallel to the floor, eyes ahead. Your left leg should be a pillar. Next, flex your right knee into a 90 degree bend--a kind of curl--and hold it for five seconds. Lower your leg to horizontal and repeat five times, then switch legs and do five more reps.
No time to slack off; on average, a man loses half a pound of muscle each year after age thirty. (By 65, absent exercise, that's 17 pounds of vanished muscle.) Start with "active isolation" floor work: stretching the lower back and glutes from a back-on-floor position, using resistance bands looped around the arch of the foot. With your knee straight, gently pull (stretch) your leg across the midpoint of your body and hold for a 15 count. Your leg should be a foot or so off the floor as you keep your back and shoulders down on mat. Repeat with your other leg. _Supplemental work: lat-machine pull-downs from a stable squat position instead of a bench.
To keep weight down and workout interest up in middle age, routines should produce "showy" results, if not quite rippling muscles. A move called "back dancing" works the seat and lower back. Start by lying down on the floor on your back, arms at your sides, palms down. Raise your pelvis slightly, slowly, clenching your glutes, and hold for a five count. Lower halfway, raise quickly, and repeat. You're aiming for three to five minutes of work; you'll need to build up to that.
Cable triceps press: This two-handed, two-legged move mimics myriad throwing and swinging motions; therein lies its value to midlife athletes. It coolly preps the body for "traumatic" motions--your 100-mile-an-hour first serve, for example--that might otherwise cause strain to rotator cuffs and upper-arm and upper-back muscles. Start in slight lunge position, one leg forward, back to the cable machine (or with resistance bands at home), with both hands on one grip. Now, keeping elbows bent to take up the slack of the cable, press your arms forward into the extension of the lunge. Let up slack and repeat lunge with other leg extended through a 10-rep set.
Whatever your preferred form of cardio work--running, cycling, swimming, or even walking--interval training is the best way to enliven your routine and stave off boredom. Mix in two minutes of six-mile-an-hour roadwork after every ten minutes of five-mile-an-hour work, for example. Or incorporate a half-dozen sprints or out-of-the- saddle climbing bursts on the road bike (or spin cycle) during a 45-minute ride. _ Oh, and if you're not using a heart-rate monitor by now, you need to start.
Any exercise that does double duty by building muscle and helping prevent injury rates as a keeper. The standing rotation, a favorite of trainer and competitive power lifter Sam Iannetta, qualifies: Start at the cable column machine (or at home with resistance bands), with your body in a "stable sideways squat" position (think crouched and coiled, as if surfing). Arms are in front, shoulder width apart. Next, while holding one grip/cable slightly taut in hand, twist slowly and steadily 90 degrees away from the machine, then return. The goal: 10 reps, each side.
In your 50s, your focus should be on conquering the cardiorespiratory declines associated with age. (VO2 max dips 1 percent per year on average, absent aerobic work.) And while you may have preferred the treadmill or road running earlier in life, consider switching to the elliptical machine for one very good reason: less chance of injury. Aerobic activity on the ellipticals, according to one study, may exceed that of treadmills over the same time and "rate of perceived exertion." In other words, an average health-club schlub will stay on the elliptical machine longer and perform more work than he otherwise might on a treadmill. Shoot for 30-minute sessions.