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Topic Title: Public opinion and power lines, and some ill-informed MPs
Topic Summary: MPs clearly do not understand the issues regarding burying parts of a 400kV power line
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30 August 2013 02:45 PM
In the usually quiet corner of Suffolk in which I live, a battle seems to be raging between necessity and naivety, regarding the construction of a power line. This centres on National Grid's requirement to build an additional 400kV grid line between Bramford (west of Ipswich) and Twinstead (south of Sudbury) across an area of relatively unspoilt Suffolk countryside.
This has naturally been greeted with protests and posters ("Bury not Blight", and "No More Power Lines"), a natural enough reaction at the prospect of a line of 150 foot high pylons marching across the view from your windows. I don't live in the affected area, but I do cycle around it frequently and I fully understand the need to conserve the visual landscape whenever we can.
However I also live in a world that seems to have an insatiable desire for power, and like almost everyone else, I am dependent on the reliabilty of the electricty generation and supply system. It is therefore a matter of much concern to me that there seems to have been no informed debate in the local media, and worse still, our local MPs seem to be remarkably ignorant (or perhaps they choose to simply support the popular vote) on the choices that we are faced with regarding electricity distribution.
For its part, National Grid published a balanced and informative paper on its web site, explaining the relative costs of overhead versus underground distribution in the 400kV network. It is abundantly clear from this that, whilst it is possible to bury small parts of the network, it is incredibly expensive (around 16 times the cost of a pylon route), it takes far more land (as nothing can be built on our near the buried cables), the reliability of buried cables is not as good as pylons, but I feel that the 'killer' is the time to repair a fault. This is stated to be 24 hours for an overhead line and 30 days for a buried cable!
Clearly, there is no way that it would be possible to place large parts of the 400kV network underground, without compromising the reliability of the Nation's electricity supply, and yet two of our local MPs (and maybe others, I have not checked) have made their opposition to further overhead lines very clear. The web pages of my own MP Dr Dan Poulter (MP for North Ipswich and Central Suffolk), a GP by profession, say "Dan has always made clear his strong opposition to any more overground electricity pylons being installed in the beautiful Suffolk countryside and believes that any new power cables must be buried underground or placed offshore as a matter of principle."
Even more worrying to my mind, is Tim Yeo (the chairman of the Commons energy committee) who has also been a vociferous critic of National Grid's plans for the Bramford to Twinstead line. He, of all people, should surely be well enough informed to strike a balanced view.
My background is not in electricity generation or distribution but I strongly believe that the IET needs to take steps to ensure that all our Members of Parliament understand sufficiently the issues regarding power distribution. I have previously attempted to find and contact those within our organisation who are better informed than I, and those who have contacts with our MPs but I have not so far succeeded.
Would anyone care to comment on this and perhaps to suggest a way to engage the IET with our MPs on this issue?
30 August 2013 03:27 PM
Keith, Thanks for such a thoughtful piece. It is, unfortunately, in the nature of politicians to listen to those who shout loudest, and the only real answer is for people like you to write to your MP, and get others to do so.
Actually, it is possible that the pylons could be a tourist draw. They may well be the new design http://www.nationalgridt-talk.com/, and there are a fair number of people (particularly in the IET), who would go out of their way to see them in reality. Perhaps you could get the local hostelries to offer special visits, and so counter the NIMBY's.
There is a possibility that really big transmission could go back underground. See http://elpipes.blogspot.co.uk/. But I fear not in time for your particular line.
David Hirst
30 August 2013 04:37 PM
The IET was instrumental in the publication of the Electricity Transmission Costing Study (see www.theiet.org/factfiles/transmission.cfm) in February 2012. The aim of the study was to provide benchmarks for the costs of the various technologies and the report has been used by the planning authorities. The IET used the launch of the report to discuss the issue with MPs and Peers at an event in Parliament organised with the Energy Select Committee. The debate was at times quite lively but most said they found it informative.
The IET's work has clarified the costing/technology argument, leaving the politicians to debate the value proposition - is the view/ environment/ tourism economy "worth" the additional expense of undergrounding and are people prepared to pay the price via higher bills? MPs are elected to represent their constituents and as David Hirst suggests, they respond to the constituents who contact them.
I don't remember any MP (or anyone else) arguing that a proposed transmission link was not required, just that they should be buried.
Paul Davies
Manager, Policy Dept.
Institution of Engineering and Technology.
31 August 2013 10:30 AM
From what I can gather, this 25 mile stretch of ugly new pylons is being built at great environmental and financial cost purely to carry the intermittent output from offshore wind subsidy farms. So here yet again we see our countryside being ruined and yet more costs being added to our energy bills, all in the name of 'saving the planet' from man-made-global warming. Despite the fact there's been no warming this century. Despite the fact that windfarms do not reduce CO2 since they require 100% conventional backup. Despite the fact the annual increase in Chinese CO2 is greater than the entire UK CO2 output. Despite the fact the UK only contributes a tiny 0.1% of total natural CO2 emssions. Despite the fact we're sitting on 100 years worth of cheap, low-carbon shale gas which could be used to halve conventional generation CO2 emssions at a stroke.
The IET should be speaking out against this lunacy. Instead they're the biggest cheerleaders for it. Truely sickening.
03 September 2013 07:56 PM
Thank you, Paul, I will read the Electricity Transmission Costing Study. As I said in my original post, energy generation and transmission is not my field (telecoms) and I had not found this study. I want to have a clear understanding of the issues.
Keith Halton.
03 September 2013 09:59 PM
Does anyone know if grid have looked at voltages over 400kV. A second twin circuit line would double capacity, the same Capacity could theoreticaly be archived with higher voltage on the existing route without extra lines ....... Clearances etc would need increasing and esqcr would need changing. I dare say that corona losses would increase but there must be an economic balance at some point. I know that higher voltages are used in other countries but I have never seen anything to suggest that 400kV is optimal for the UK?
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- A reliable, steady veteran as a backup PG? Check.
- Deadly from 3? Check.
- Reliable scoring on the second unit? He's the proverbial Hibachi, prone to heat up at a moment's notice.
And none of that counts the 25 games of playoff experience. I found myself intrigued by this little tidbit of veteran savvy he shared with Jeremy Lin:
"When you watch tape, never watch your guy — the guy you're sticking with. The guy that's sticking you is basically nonexistent. You look at the defenders behind him. How good are they? How good they are lets you know the kind of night you're going to have. Now, if you've got somebody like [Anderson] Varejao, who's going to block shots and take charges and all that, you need to know you just can't drive the lane. You might have to pull up, stay on the side and use the jumper. Or if you have a guy who likes to leave his feet a lot, you'll have a great night at the free-throw line. Look at those guys. Don't look at your guy, because in the NBA you can beat your guy any time you want because you can't touch nobody in the NBA anymore."
I don't know if Mike Conley, Josh Selby or Jeremy Pargo know that yet. But I sure would like to have a reserve point guard who sees the game at that level. Need more basketball reasons? Gil has relatively fresh legs. Or if you must be terrorized into thinking signing Arenas would be a masterstroke, simply imagine Mike Conley going down for 3-4 weeks, and asking Selby/Pargo to fill in.
If Arenas was simply serviceable as a PG & average from beyond the arc, he'd be VERY valuable. If he's good at both . . . look out Western Conference.
The Chemistry Reasons: As Gil points out, he's never had the reputation for being a "locker room cancer" before that unfortunate gun incident in DC. He would bring a different kind of wacky to the team that I think would probably mesh with Tony Allen's manic wackiness. The team culture of hard work, accountability & defense is well established and has been since Lionel Hollins told Allen Iverson who the boss was. In fact, hardened by continuity & playoff success, Gil would have to adapt to the team, not the other way around. And on a team that plays best with a chip on its shoulder, what other player has more to prove? I think all that adds up to Gil fitting in quite well — in play, attitude & work ethic.
The Fan Reasons: If Gilbert were to produce at any kind of sustained level, and contribute to team wins — both things VERY doable — I think he'd quickly reach cult status in Memphis. I think he'd dig in and start helping with charity work again. I think he'd give the Grizzlies an additional chord to the underdog/redemption story that resonates so well in Memphis.
Sure . . . go ahead and call me nutty. But this team took a flyer on a player with a checkered past before . . . And he led us to the edge of the Western Conference Finals last season. With Zach Randolph returning soon and a healthy & motivated Gilbert Arenas on board, Memphis could manufacture and even more magical run this spring.


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The New York Knicks and Portland Trail Blazers have just come to terms on a sign-and-trade that will send Raymond Felton and Kurt Thomas to New York for Jared Jeffries and Dan Gadzuric. This comes on the heels of several reports saying the Knicks were nearing a deal with Raymond Felton.
I'm sad to see Jeffries go, as he worked hard night in, night out, while Knicks fans constantly booed him. He might hold the record for most air balls by a Knick, but he worked hard on defense, drawing multiple charges and playing defense, as well as tried on offense. I wish him the best with the Blazers.
Gadzuric was a goner, either now or at the trade deadline, but I have to give Glen Grunwald props for adding the second year non-guaranteed deal on Gadzuric's contract, which gave the Knicks a chance to trade him.
Raymond Felton's return is very interesting, as it could mean the end of Jeremy Lin, or the beginning of a logjam at the point guard position. Kurt Thomas is a replacement for Jeffries, who does similar things, at an older age, and has a few more offensive skills.
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Wednesday, June 27, 2012
Vacation with littles was almost the death of me.
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I'm looking forward to reading future comments. I have nothing to offer. We just don't go anywhere. Day trips are as much as I can put up with. Sorry, traveling with kids just isn't fun for me so I don't do it unless it's to visit grandma who lives 5 hours away and we usually only do that about twice a year. Pathetic, I know!!!ReplyDeleteReplies
In the past, we've always vacationed WITH grandma, because she is so helpful. We really missed her this trip!Delete
Yeh if we EVER vacation {i.e. it's usually 2 days somewhere} it's with my in-laws or my parents. Vinnie just behaves better with them, and if he has a melt down there's other people to handle it ^_^Delete
My littlies are 5 & 3 and we went on holiday a couple of weeks ago. They were really good most of the time & spent most of their time playing on the beach - we only went 2 hours away from home though & a week was definitely enough for us all. Holidaying with children is definitely different than as a couple!!!ReplyDelete
LOL!!! What beautiful pictures! NOW I wanna go there! We just got back from a week at Disney World..it was hotter than heck, and the humidity! Ugh!!!! But we had a good time...our kids are older 22,20 and 18, so they basically took care of themselves. And if they did fight, I knew that if they have made it this far w/out killing eachother chances were pretty good that they would be fine.;) I look forward to other readers' comments!!!ReplyDelete
I would love to plan a Yellowstone vacation for next year!!!!
It's a GORGEOUS part of the country! I would definitely recommend visiting. I can't wait to go out there with my boys when they are the age of yours - it would be a great family vacation for grown up boys who like to hike and fish and sight see!Delete
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It's usually hit or miss with my Kids. The being said if you are staying in a hotel with your kids always make sure that it at least has a pool, waterslides are even better. My kids are fairly young 2 4 and 6. I have taken them places and they melt down and I just want the trip to be over, and I have taken them places and they behaved wonderfully. Vacation I guess are like regular days there are good ones and bad ones. I wish I knew what it is that make kids angels one day and crazy the next.ReplyDelete
SO hit or miss! If you figure out the secret, let me know! :)Delete
Our vacations were usually short and to the point. We either drove to MN (from GA) to visit family or to FL to the beach. Later there were Colorado ski vacations. I found that travel time was hard so there was always something special and different to keep them occupied. When you get to a destination, DO something - swim in the hotel pool, play mini-golf, go souvenir shopping, talk up one thing to see and ooh and aah over it. I wonder if your littles were still too young for a 2 week road trip? And also wonder if there was too much see this, see that and not enough do this...Do your kids thrive on schedules? Was there too much togetherness? Did you divide-and-conquer with the kids-littles going with one parent, big bro with the other? Was there enough rest time for all of you? (Or maybe too much?)ReplyDelete
We finally came to the conclusion at one point that the best vacation for our kids would be just going to the nearest motel and swimming and eating out! We started the ski vacays when they 9 and 11, and even the road trip parts of those were hard. Long boring stretches (even the Rockies are boring to kids)of driving were not their thing; spilling Coke in the rental car was not their dad's thing. I think it takes as much planning to go on vacation with kids as it does to live at home with them. But I confess I was always glad to be home after "vacation" too. And somehow we have this idealized vision of what a vacation ought to be...I bet if you talk to families that do road trip vacations that the good memories outweigh the bad, and even the "bad" memories become reason for laughter and teasing years after.
Please don't say Never Again. My motto this year has been "think differently." So I use those words to encourage you - next time, think differently - about vacations and what it might look like. Thanks for the beautiful pictures - makes me want to go there again.
I'm sad you for you that your kids were so crazy! Have you vacationed with them before?ReplyDelete
We have 4 littles. 3 boys aged almost 6, 4, and just turned 2, and a 5 month old daughter. We just took them on a 9 hour road trip a couple weeks ago, just away for a few days, but we had a great time! We also go camping (in a tent!) every summer and it is always a highlight of the year for me. Maybe my kids are just used to going away together? Granted, we've never been away for two weeks at a time, but gosh, looking at your pictures, I think we'll have to! How far is Montana away from Winnipeg, Canada???
My tips for holidaying: GO WITH THE FLOW. Sometimes the kids stay up way later than usual, still get up early, nap whenever the heck it works, eat too much junk food, etc, etc. It's what makes our vacations work, I think.
Good luck next time!! (if there is a next time...)
I have done quite a bit of traveling with my children who are 6, 4, and 2. (oldest is a boy, youngeste two girls) All of them have done some traveling. :) Most of them time they are good. ;) Most recently we spent two weeks on Florida. The children did pretty well! The things I do to keep everything going well are:ReplyDelete
1. Make sure they are getting enough rest! It is ok to have a couple times for special things when they go to bed late or miss a nap, but make sure you keep a gentle routine for sleeping and eating. Lack of sleep makes everyone crabby! It is not always easy but is SO worth it.
2. State the rules as soon as you get there then stick to them. This may mean some testing on the 2nd or third day out, but this sets the tone for the trip. This is also a chance for my husband to know them, too, and be on the same wave length as I am about discipline and expectations. :) The children know Dad and Mom agree, so there will be no trying to get us upset with each other!
3. Don't leave them cooped up for too long. My son gets pretty antsy when he has to stay in the hotel room. I try to make sure he has some cut loose and run time. This keeps him and us sane, but I have to say he is the one that pushes the rules the most. I think it is ingrained in boys!
4. Try to get a few moments to yourself each day. It may only be 15 minutes, but it helps when you are cooped up more than usual. Do you hubby a favor and make sure he gets a little time to himself, too.Replies
Brooke, great advice! I particularly liked your last line, "Do you hubby a favor and make sure he gets a little time to himself, too."Delete
HAhaha, I have a 2 1/2 year old and a 3 month old, and we can't even handle a 2 night visit to the Grandparents! Thank goodness they only live 2 hours away, but all 4 of us sleeping in the same room is an absolute nightmare! I always tell my husband "I'm a SAHM, I want a vacation AWAY from the kids, not WITH the kids!" ;DReplyDelete
My mom and dad had my sister and I 9.5 years apart. That probably helped. But we were always road travelers. Mom always had a small goodie bag packed she distributed treats as needed. Books, puzzle book games. I loved those magic pen books! Roadtrip bingo too. Usually our destination was Canada in a bare bones cabin on a lake. Fishing swimming occasional trip to tiny town. If you do the fishing and swimming and card games. Kids tend to naps in the afternoon. No tv or video games. My sister was 8 when we traveled in our popup camper 3 weeks across the west. Usually campgrounds with a pool. Setting up everyone had jobs, again pool swimming, campfires, hiking. We visited lots of places but there was lots of kid explore/swim/ranger nature program time. Despite being in different places some nights I think a consistent routine of setup, getting dinner, fishing certain times helps kids stay on even keel. And mom and Dad always had clear expectations and prepared us for what came next. (Not that we didnt have the occasional melt down)ReplyDelete
My kids are ages 5 and 2.5 and we take two vacations a year... both to Disneyland. Every two or three years, we go up to Oregon (we live in California) as well. Guess which of those two locations is the most successful? The Disneyland trips!ReplyDelete
(Isn't there always a *but"?)
Every trip we go on is peppered with many, many moments where I just want to give up and go home. The tantrums. The whining. The squabbling. The sheer craziness of it all. I think it's just part of traveling with our little ones. They thrive on their home schedule and so when things are off, they go a little haywire.
What we have found is that there must be some sort of fun payoff activity at the end of the road. The kids can't do anything that involves too many days in the car, watching scenery, "looking, but not touching" at museums, etc. They go bonkers, and therefore so do we!
Your trip, by the way, looked gorgeous and fun. Montana is one of my top places to go back and visit!
Some answers:ReplyDelete
So, where did we go wrong? - You didn't!
Are all family vacations like that? - Absolutely
Is two weeks too long? - Maybe
Did we go too far from home? - No
How do you manage littles on a vacation and still maintain your sanity? - Sanity? What's that??? Sometimes just ignoring them until they wear themselves out saves the day.
Or, is the key just to leave them at home? - No, no, no!
I remember one particular vacation with three kids on the ground and one in the belly. I was a mess. The kids were a mess. Hubster was a mess. I look at those 23 year old pictures, and now it seems like the greatest time EVER!
We spent a week in our caravan earlier in the year; boys aged 5 & 3 and little girl aged 1 but not walking, just crawling in the dirt and eating kangaroo poo.ReplyDelete
I didn't get to do any sewing or reading (you should have seen all the projects I packed!)
It was not relaxing.
Nobody slept, it was exhausting.
But we'll do it again. The boys loved it and I guess it was a change of scenery.
Hopefully everyone will get better at it!!
(BTW, I mentioned this to my mum as I always remember our family holidays when I was growing up as absolutely awesome, and she said the same thing used to happen to her!!)
Oh dear that does not sound fun! The photos are GORGEOUS though and the bison on the road is so cool. I didn't know they did that. Are they wild? We have cattle here that meander across the roads when we go to rainforests, but nothing like on a highway or anything!ReplyDeleteReplies
Yes, the Yellowstone Bison are the last remaining wild herd of bison in the U.S.Delete
Yellowstone Bison
Yellowstone is the only place in the lower 48 states where a population of wild bison has persisted since prehistoric times, although fewer than 50 native bison remained here in 1902. Fearing extinction, the park imported 21 bison from two privately-owned herds, as foundation stock for a bison ranching project that spanned 50 years at the Buffalo Ranch in Yellowstone's Lamar Valley.
After our vacation with our 2 & 4 year old boys this summer, we've decided on a couple things for our next few vacations:ReplyDelete
1) 5 days max
2) Pay the extra to book flights at normal times (as much as possible) instead of red-eyes and early mornings
3) Only take direct flights
4) Pay for a suite, condo, or other arrangement that lets them have their own room
5) Make sure their day is jam packed so they crash when it's time to sleep!
This is going to limit our vacation choices (no more Hawaii for a while). But we had a vacation just like the one you described (even with 6 grandparents with us to take kids for us to have breaks). So maybe with boys there are ways to minimize the fighting, but I think family vacations will be like this from now until who know when?
My kids are much older now....24, 22 and 20.5....and I may consider going on a trip with them again! Hee hee!ReplyDelete
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Melissa's advice is great! See Dolphins & Mosquitos:ReplyDelete
Emily, we need to look at our trip through the Tutoring-Toy Lens, and not the Exhausted-after-20-hours-traveling-in-one-day Lens.
Looking back at those visits to The Tutoring Toy and the kids laughing, playing, and loving the world, the entire trip was worthwhile. The other highlights, such as the moose and bears, kayaking with my boys, and just waking up with Hebgen Lake out the window were also great.
Having traveled with three boys for many years, I understand. Don't give up. The plan is to wear them out before they wear you down. Sitting in the car is too much for little ones, particularly just before you go into a restaurant to sit down for a meal. We always had them run laps, around the parking lot, down the sidewalk, through the rest area, any safe space we could find. We had rules about how far they could go (stop at the first tree, the third sidewalk square, the mailbox then mom will tag you and you go on to the next thing). Even a short bit of exercise can make a big difference.ReplyDelete
Also, we have LOTS of silly games with tiny rewards. A bag full of garage sale toys can be worth its weight in gold when you need a distraction.
That is not to say we didn't have our share of melt downs and trauma, but it is always worth it. (Except maybe for the sweltering campground full of tiny skunks ....)
Here's my thought, as someone who just returned from a family vacation during which we made our 22-month-old ride in the car for 12 hours IN ONE DAY. TWICE. I know, right?ReplyDelete
I think even the ugly, screamy, horrifying vacations are good ones - in a few years, you'll look back on the screamy Yellowstone trip fondly. It's the imperfect family moments that become treasured family stories.
Of course, I might still be delusional from those 24 hours in a car with the toddler. That's entirely possible!
I've yet to go on trips with kids (not too much longer now!), but I almost died at Yellowstone all by myself....so I think you did a fabulous job with three littles!ReplyDelete
Seriously gorgeous places you visited and since I have been at home this summer with my three I can safely say that the fighting, tantrumming and all around craziness would be more bearable with the scenery you had. Today I almost put myself in a time out. For like six hours. With a bottle of wine.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 12, 2012 at 5:39 PM
sounds exactly like a family vacation i took once...except i had just graduated highschool...my sister is 2 years younger than me..my brother..3 years younger than me..and my other sister 9 years younger than me..haha!!...my parents decided that it would be fun for us to take 2 months and drive from ontario, CAN to british columbia , CAN to visit family..and we camped pretty much the whole.way.there-and back...and fought the whole.way.there-and back...my dad refused to get a dvd player because wouldn't the scenery be enough? :)..i had just started dating my now husband and missed him terribly and my brother endured 2 months of endless teasing from all his sisters...he kept a journal about the whole thing and we all laugh at it now...but than again we are old enough to laugh at ourselves and feel bad for our poor old parents and the trauma we put them through...ReplyDelete
i would say though...keep trying...eventually it will be fun for everyone and you'll all look back on them as fun memories and forget all the bad ones :)
I think two weeks might be a bit long, but if you have the time use it!!!! We took the boys (then 7 months) to the OBX last year - fun was had by all, but no one got rest or relaxation. I was still on 'mom' duty 24/7 - oh yeah, and I was pregnant and sick as a dog. So fun ;op We are trying to go again this fall and I know it will be more of the same (except not pregnant and sick!!!). At least the boys sleep better now and baby girl will hopefully be on a sleep schedule by then. We will bring tons of activities, we always get a house with a pool, the beach is steps away. But I still wont get to read a book or take naps - family vacations are just not relaxing until kids are older or gone ;o) *We share a house with my hubs' brothers and their spouses, but no one else fully understands having more than one kid. We are trying to convince friends of ours to come with us this year to be an extra set of eyes (now that the boys can RUN) and maybe to let us have an evening out. Who knows - it could get better.ReplyDelete
I live in Europe where it is totally normal to go on vacation for 2 weeks every year and my kids are used to it. Of course traveling is stressful but once you get to your destination it's great and my kids always have fun. I try to keep the taveling time under 6 hours wether its a flight or drive and that really helps we don't travel cross country from site to site because that is not fun for kids and thats when they fight. Other then that I get really mean and ignore them completely if they act up. I won't have vacation ruined that I worked hard for just because they are bored and whiny.
- K goffinAugust 17, 2012 at 9:23 AM
It is so refreshing to read an honest post about a less than perfect moment as a parent. I find most posts show the pretty pictures and talk about their darling family and leave out all the mess that comes with being a parent. Thank you for your honesty. I don't know how many times we have sworn never to take another family vacation, but we just got back from one that was fun for all of us. Maybe the next one will be OK for you too.ReplyDelete
Oh my goodness. That doesnt sound much like a relaxing vaca at all! I have 4 heathens ( all boys) and we have been on a vaca with and without Dad on several occassions. I tell you the most important thing was QUIET! I made sure we had LOADS of alone time activities to do in the car and when we got there. The teenagers have their electronics(ipods and DS's) and the younger two have their books and coloring things and some of their toys. Its kind of funny. When the kids are home, you are teaching them to share and to be kind to one another. When you go on vacation, you make every effort possible to keep them indiviually entertained. haha! Now when we got to Grandmas house or to Universal (we're in FL), they had to put up with each other. Thankfully if two werent getting along, they walked with Dad or were sent on little errands to get them away from each other. Not all children are the same. This goes for all vacations! The pictures were lovely. Specially the ones that the children are getting along in ;)ReplyDelete
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Là phụ nữa bao giờ cũng muốn mình trong thật đẹp trong mắt người khác. Những thực phẩm chữa bệnh mất ngủ.Nhưng nếu cuộc sông mà lúc nào củng lo sợ tăng cân,Chăm sóc tóc bằng phương pháp tự nhiên. không được thưởng thức những món ngon, thì còn gì là cuộc sống.Bệnh thoái hóa khớp nên ăn gì ?. Nhất là đối với chị em phụ nữ làm việc văn phòng, một ngày ngồi tám giờ ở văn phòng, không có chế độ ăn hợp lý cũng như tập thể dục thường xuyên thì rất dể sẩy ra tình trạng tăng cân, nhất là đối với vòng hai.cách trị nám da từ thiên nhiên. bạn có thể tham khảo thêm nhiều cách làm đẹp tại Cách trị sẹo lõm bằng phương pháp tự nhiên. HOT HOT HOT ===> Cách làm trắng da tự nhiên cấp tốc. Mẹo chữa mất ngủ cho bà bầu.
bí quyết giảm cân cho người khó giảm cânChuối có chứa nhiều chất vitamin B6 giúp tế bào thần kinh khoẻ mạnh. Nên ăn 2-3 quả chuối mỗi ngày sẽ tốt cho sức khoẻ và giúp bạn an thần dể ngủ.ReplyDelete
các món ăn chữa bệnh mất ngủCơ thể bị rối loạn đường huyết cũng thường xuyên buồn ngủ, mãnh liệt nhất là sau bữa ăn.
cách trị sẹo thâm bằng dầu dừaCách làm rất đơn giản, mỗi tối trước khi đi ngủ bạn rữa mặt thật sạch, dùng dầu dừa thoa lên những vùng da bị sẹo do mụn.
Cách làm tinh dầu bưởi trị rụng tócCái răng cái tóc là gốc con người, nhưng do một số nguyên nhân khiến tóc bạn bị rụng. Có thể do cơ địa của bạn không tốt, hoặc là do chế độ dinh dưỡng bạn không phù hợp, nhưng do nguyên nhân gì đi nữa thì điều này chẳng tốt chút nào.
Cách trị nám da từ thiên nhiênCó nhiều nguyên nhân khiến da chúng ta bị nám, có thể do bẩm sinh và cũng có thể do những tác động bên ngoài từ cuộc sống.
Cách trị sẹo lõm bằng phương pháp tự nhiênNha đam là loại thảo mộc không chỉ tốt cho da, mà còn có khả năng làm lành da nên rất hữu hiệu với những vùng da bị sẹo lõm do mụn, viêm.
Cách làm trắng da tự nhiên cấp tốcSử dung bơ để làm đẹp rất hiệu quả, bơ giúp tái tạo và giữ ẩm, giúp da không bị khô, có tác dụng làm sáng và tăng khả năng đàn hồi của da
các loại thực phẩm tốt cho mắtTheo các chuyên gia, trong cà chua có chứa nhiều carotenoid và lycopene giúp ngăn ngừa những tác nhân làm ảnh hưởng đến võng mạc và khu vực khác của mắt.
chăm sóc tóc từ thiên nhiênDầu dừa có tác dụng rất hiệu quả đối với tóc, giúp tóc bóng khoẻ, ngăn ngừa gầu và giảm nguy cơ gẫy rụng.
những thực phẩm giúp tăng cường trí nhớĐể có một trí nhớ tốt bạn cần phải chăm sóc bản thân thật chu đáo. Những loại hoa quả hằng ngày trong tủ bếp nhà bạn có tác dụng tăng cường chức năng của não bộ và thậm chí còn phòng ngừa nguy cơ mất trí nhớ.
bị thoái hóa khớp nên ăn gìHiện nay có rất nhiều người bị viêm khớp, đàn ông, phụ nữ, người già, lẫn trẻ em. Vậy, thoái hoá khớp là gì ? nó là bệnh lý thoái hoá ở khớp làm suy giảm chức năng của khớp theo thời gian.
cách làm tinh dầu bạc hàReplyDelete
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Any good power workouts with absence of weights?
Is there any good workouts to build power WITHOUT bench-bars ect.
What are you looking to improve? Kicking, Punching, grappling?
You can just replicate all the movements of normal weighted exercises but with bags of sand or jugs of water.
Weight-free workouts.. burpies are good, any plyometric exercise is going to have a positive affect on your 'explosiveness' in motion.
pushups, plyometric pushups, hindu pushups, plank exercises, pullups, chinups, crunches, jumping jacks, sprints, stairs, dips, squats, wallsits
just off the top of my head. not all power workouts, but you need cardio too.
There's a good program by Pavel Tsatsouline called "the Naked Warrior". Basically it's ass to ground 1 legged squats(pistols), chin ups and pushups. You basically do the chins and push ups until you can do them 1 handed. Very challenging shit!
Plyometrics and resistance training. It all depends on what you want to look like and perform like. For me, more resistance = more endurance and a leaner body
Explosive press ups, burpees, bastards (burpee with a press up), Jump squats, jump lunges, explosive get ups and tuck jumps. All these are good to help improve explosive power if your short of kit.
plyometric training...
Deep stances and handstands to build muscular endurance, with clapping pushups and squat kicks (coming up out of a squat and throwing a kick) for explosive strength.
At least those have worked for me when I'm in a position where I don't have access to weight training equipment as well as most of the time when I'm prepping for a fight.
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5 Bruce Lee Principles to Help You Pursue Your Dreams.
Bruce Lee's philosophies and quotes can teach us so much about how to live a positive and inspiring life!
Bruce Lee was an actor, martial arts teacher, philosopher, film director, and screenwriter. He was also the father of today's mixed martial arts movement which has now since evolved into an organized sport known as the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC).
Dana White, the founder of UFC, said, "The father of mixed martial arts, if you will, was Bruce Lee. If you look at the way Bruce Lee trained, the way he fought, and many of the things he wrote, he said the perfect style was no style. You take a little something from everything. You take the good things from every different discipline, use what works, and you throw the rest away."
Bruce Lee massively influenced popular culture, he was called the Elvis of Martial arts by several people during his time. A recent documentary named "I am Bruce Lee" recently showcased how he influenced the world. The History Channel also did a special on his life entitled "How Bruce Lee Changed The World."
The movie producer Brett Ratner who worked on films such as X-Men: The Last Stand and the Rush Hour series with Jackie Chan said, "Bruce Lee inspired me and made me dream. He made me realize I wanted to be a film maker."
LL Cool Jay the multi-platinum rapper and movie star said, "He inspired me to want to do something with my life."
Here's five Bruce Lee principles you can use in your life to pursue your dreams!
1. Take knowledge from as many fields as possible
When Bruce Lee was developing his martial arts philosophy's he took information from a vast field of knowledge; such as boxing, fencing, and even dancing to develop his system.
Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own.
~ Bruce Lee
True innovation in any field comes from simplifying a vast amount of information into something that is useful. Bruce Lee became one the most iconic figures of martial arts and the film industry because he rejected what was not needed and adapted what works. If you're an entrepreneur or working on any type of creative project take what is useful and disregard anything that is not.
2. Break the rules
Bruce grew in Hong Kong where he was taught Traditional Martial Arts. At the time it was against the rules not to follow the traditional teaching of martial arts. Most of the teaching during this time was taught in fixed patterns. Bruce went against the grain, and said fixed patterns do not work in real life.
All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.
~ Bruce Lee
Every new invention or scientific breakthrough comes from outside of conventional thinking. Steve Jobs did this when he brought the desktop computer to the public. At the time, it was said that there was no need for a computer in someone's house. Steve Jobs revolutionized the entire computer industry because he broke the rules.
3. Develop your true potential
Bruce was an avid reader of all forms of philosophy and used them to influence not only his perspective on martial arts but also in his film making career.
Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth. To me, the function and duty of a quality human being is the sincere and honest development of one's potential. ~Bruce Lee
Don't let your dreams be controlled by the fear of other people's opinions of yourself. Work on your self, do something every day that causes you to expand and grow.
4. Don't listen to other people
Bruce was seen as a "Super Hero" because he leveled the playing field for stereotypes within his culture. He provided an example that anyone from any background or ethnicity could become a movie-star or have a massive impact on the world.
I'm not in this world to live up to your expectations and you're not in this world to live up to mine.
~ Bruce Lee
So many of us get caught up in other people's opinion of us that drowns out our true potential. Do what's unique to you, don't listen to people who tell you what you should do. Be yourself!
5. There are no limits
On January 9, 1970,Bruce Lee sat down and wrote himself a letter. He stamped on the letter "secret." The letter says, "I, Bruce Lee, will be the first highest paid Oriental super star in the United States. In return I will give the most exciting performances and give the best of quality in the capacity of an actor. Starting in 1970 I will achieve world fame and from then onward till the end of 1980 I will have in my possession $10,000,000. I will live the way I please and achieve inner harmony and happiness."
If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.
~ Bruce Lee
Although his life was short, since he died at the young age of 32, Bruce Lee was on the verge of fulfilling all of the goals that he had written down on that piece of paper. His legacy still lives on and his philosophies provide an example how anyone from any background can become a cultural icon.
July 20, 2012 will be the 39th year since Bruce Lee passed away. His legacy and influence still lives in the hearts and minds of the people he inspired.
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Thanks Robert, I really enjoyed this piece. He was a true artist. I had no idea about the letter-to-self. Really inspiring.
Thanks Andréa, at one point that letter was framed and hanging up on the wall at a Planet Hollywood, the title of the letter is "My Definite Chief Aim."
There's a bunch of his memorabilia out there, he wrote a ton of letters and they sell for big money. People even buy his old checks because he signed them.
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lovely piece…
one small thing…there are limits. limits exist. without limits, there can be no matter, no mass, no experience. duality implies inherently limits. to adopt a philosophy which downplays or denies the existence of limits, is to live a philosophy that is inherently untrue. Bruce himself encountered limits he could not go beyond. while his message is meant to inspire, the philosophy of 'no limits' is at best, dishonest, and at worst, dangerous. in this case, a more honest philosophy would be viveka, the proper discernment of true limits from false limits.
I think you're missing the point. He's talking about surpassing the limits within your own potential. That, within itself, is plausible. There are too many people who aren't anywhere near their true potential because they mentally limit themselves when they face difficulties. If you always quit when you have a problem, then you're never going to advance to the next level in mental and physical evolution. I can see why you're strawmanning his philosophy, although your argument about theoretical physics is completely irrelevant.


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What an amazing, short story this was. First, let me comment on the way of writing: the perspective of a 200-page monologue, or rather one-sided dialogue was entirely new to me. It worked, however. It really did, and is perhaps the best suited way to narrate this story about love, confusion and beliefs.
Second, as a European doing business in Pakistan for more than six years, I feel I can kind of relate to the main character's motivations and actions. What I love about this tale is that rather early on you know exactly what is going to happen, yet you get lulled by the narrator all the time into believing that it might turn out differently after all. Just like I know a Pakistani would! :-)
I would have given it four stars only, but for the fact that I very much like the Pakistani nation and supposedly could relate to the story in a far greater extent than most of its Western readers.
Brilliant piece of work.
Well from the size of the type I would say that the publishers have stretched out a neat little novella so they can charge the same as a full length novel. This may have annoyed the purchasers but as they are now giving it away for free (World Book Night) perhaps we can excuse them.
It's highly readable, consistently interesting and the monologue format is great fun but I fail to see what all the fuss is about. It's a bit of a fingernail paring. I would recommend it on the basis that it will keep you entertained on a quiet afternoon.
Narrated as a Pakistani man at a market in Lahore telling his story to a visiting American, this is the tale of Changez, who wins a scholarship to Princeton and then gets a job in New York for a very prestigious firm which values companies. Everything changes for him after the September 11 attacks and by the end of the story he has returned to Lahore and is working as a lecturer and inciting his students against American involvement in Pakistan and its neighbours.
I liked many things about this story, including the gentle dry humour and the way we grow increasingly suspicious of the reliability of the narrator. The suspicion Changez experiences after he grows a beard and his treatment by immigration when he returns to the US from a business trip are also well done. However, I found the sub-plot with Erica perhaps too large a part of the story. It was tragic, but seemed to me irrelevant to the larger picture. [I have since read other reviews where it is pointed out that this is an allegory about how Changez must "become Chris" if he is truly to be able to pursue a relationship with Erica - I see what they mean, but it passed me by.] I was also taken aback by Changez' pleasure at the destruction of the twin towers. At that point in the story there had been nothing to suggest that he felt any resentment towards the US. I had expected a slow disillusionment, but it was more like a switch flipping. (There was the scene where he feels that the local man in Manila dislikes him and feels more Pakistani than American, but still...)
I found the ending a bit rushed overall. It does not seem to me that there is such a direct parallel between, on the one hand, working for an American firm, doing a job you are good at and enjoy for a boss to whom you owe great loyalty and, on the other, thereby feeling you are signed up to endorse that country's foreign policies. I think I was more interested in Changez when he was identifying with both his own and his adopted countries than when he felt so dramatically forced to choose between them.
How does an educated person go from rising star at a valuations company to teacher and activist against the country which educated him back home? The Reluctant Fundamentalist is such a story told in conversational monologue at a table in a bazaar in Lahore, where Changez tells his story to an American. This is a subtle story about what happens to allegiances after 9/11, and how America's insistence on imposing its values on other countries often comes back to bite us. It's also the personal story of a man who thinks he lives and works in a country of equal rights for all, until those around him begin to notice he's not from "around here."
Really well written and entertaining. All the while I kept thinking, "See! This is how it happens. This is how people become alienated and search for something which gives meaning to their life. Even at the expense of what was once comfortable."
Clever, witty account of American capitalism from the point of view of a middle-class Pakistani. It would have made a good short story, but it's a little disappointing as a novel: there aren't really enough new ideas to keep it going, so the last part of the book relies very heavily on the Ancient Mariner/Wedding Guest schtick of the narrative frame.
It seems that Hamid would have us understand the novel's title ironically. We are prodded to question whether every critic of America in a Muslim country should be labeled a fundamentalist, or whether the term more accurately describes the capitalists of the American upper class. Yet these queries seem blunter and less interesting than the novel itself, in which the fundamentalist, and potential assassin, may be sitting on either side of the table.
There's undoubtedly a great novel waiting to be written out of the anguished material of these kinds of east/west encounters. This book may not be it, but its author (who won a Betty Trask award for his first novel, Moth Smoke) certainly has the potential to write it.
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Amazon.com Amazon.com Review (ISBN 0151013047, Hardcover)Mohsin Hamid's first novel, Moth Smoke, dealt with the confluence of personal and political themes, and his second, The Reluctant Fundamentalist, revisits that territory in the person of Changez, a young Pakistani. Told in a single monologue, the narrative never flags. Changez is by turns naive, sinister, unctuous, mildly threatening, overbearing, insulting, angry, resentful, and sad. He tells his story to a nameless, mysterious American who sits across from him at a Lahore cafe. Educated at Princeton, employed by a first-rate valuation firm, Changez was living the American dream, earning more money than he thought possible, caught up in the New York social scene and in love with a beautiful, wealthy, damaged girl. The romance is negligible; Erica is emotionally unavailable, endlessly grieving the death of her lifelong friend and boyfriend, Chris.
Changez is in Manila on 9/11 and sees the towers come down on TV. He tells the American, "...I smiled. Yes, despicable as it may sound, my initial reaction was to be remarkably pleased... I was caught up in the symbolism of it all, the fact that someone had so visibly brought America to her knees..." When he returns to New York, there is a palpable change in attitudes toward him, starting right at immigration. His name and his face render him suspect.
Ongoing trouble between Pakistan and India urge Changez to return home for a visit, despite his parents' advice to stay where he is. While there, he realizes that he has changed in a way that shames him. "I was struck at first by how shabby our house appeared... I was saddened to find it in such a state... This was where I came from... and it smacked of lowliness." He exorcises that feeling and once again appreciates his home for its "unmistakable personality and idiosyncratic charm." While at home, he lets his beard grow. Advised to shave it, even by his mother, he refuses. It will be his line in the sand, his statement about who he is. His company sends him to Chile for another business valuation; his mind filled with the troubles in Pakistan and the U.S. involvement with India that keeps the pressure on. His work and the money he earns have been overtaken by resentment of the United States and all it stands for.
Hamid's prose is filled with insight, subtly delivered: "I felt my age: an almost childlike twenty-two, rather than that permanent middle-age that attaches itself to the man who lives alone and supports himself by wearing a suit in a city not of his birth." In telling of the janissaries, Christian boys captured by Ottomans and trained to be soldiers in the Muslim Army, his Chilean host tells him: "The janissaries were always taken in childhood. It would have been far more difficult to devote themselves to their adopted empire, you see, if they had memories they could not forget." Changez cannot forget, and Hamid makes the reader understand that--and all that follows. --Valerie Ryan
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"Changez is living an immigrant's dream of America. At the top of his class at Princeton, he is snapped up by the elite valuation firm of Underwood Samson. He thrives on the energy of New York, and his budding romance with elegant, beautiful Erica promises entry into Manhattan society at the same exalted level once occupied by his own family back in Lahore. But in the wake of September 11, Changez finds his position in his adopted city suddenly overturned and his relationship with Erica eclipsed by the reawakened ghosts of her past. And Changez's own identity is in seismic shift as well, unearthing allegiances more fundamental than money, power, and maybe even love"--Book jacket.… (more)
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