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Twenty years ago the Spanish FA President Angel Villa Llona decided that youth development was the key to the future and that coaching education was crucial. They have had this long to develop a pool of young talent and their recent spectacular successes are the result. In short their brilliance has been entirely a footballing revolution by design.
Iker Casillas not only collected a World Cup Winners Medal in 2010. His first Winners Medal was whilst representing his country in the U16s European Championships in 1999. He has been collecting them ever since. Spain takes international football seriously and has a reservoir of talented players waiting in the wings. Just take a look at the quality of their bench whenever they play.
England unfortunately does not. We do not treat our national youth team properly. Clubs are not keen to release players for tournaments and they miss out on the experience and the education derived from playing other international teams at that age. Premier League teams are notorious for withdrawing prospects sometimes meaning a good young player has little game time.
They have incredible potential but the only way to realise that is to compete at the highest level. To be the best you have to beat the best. The Premier League, as good as it is, hinders our young players' development.
Medical experts are agreed that the Premier League's intensity and pace is such that our teams enter tournaments both physically and mentally exhausted. A winter break has been suggested but the "money men" won't allow it and England players are expected to pull on their shirts with the same tired grin.
There is however a Sea-change. The National Football Centre at St Georges Park will train the much needed excellent coaches in larger quantities who will bridge the gap. Academies too are slowly changing. The emphasis is now on players who are clever, quick, agile, skilful and strong as opposed to the archetypal brave and strong Englishman. We need both. There is just too many of the latter. Far too many!
Roberto Martinez has been quoted as saying that Iniesta and Xavi would never have made it in a British team 6 or 7 years ago. They are not tall or strong enough. But things are changing. There are English players who are technical but the crucial age from 18 to 21 needs improvement. Many managers fearful of the sack rely on trusted imports rather than young and raw recruits. Only the managers with the most job security like Ferguson and Wenger blood youngsters or send players out on loan (Evans and Welbeck to Sunderland and Cleverley to Watford and Wigan).
This loaning out makes players realise that they are fighting for their career. It makes you less arrogant. That is a lesson that we need to learn. The Spanish players are incredibly humble. Barcelona players are noted for their humility, and it shows in the work-rate and the way they behave and treat other people.
This all comes from the youth programme. Their aim is to mould good characters as well as good players. If you do not comply they let you go. Iniesta and Xavi are both extremely shy but they express themselves on the pitch. In Spain ability itself is not enough. It is the better professional who gets through. 9 of the Barcelona B team are undergraduate students. They are producing fine intelligent men who can think for themselves whereas we do everything for our youngsters. We want decision makers but we mollycoddle them and do everything for them.
I have witnessed children being coached in Spain. The groups were no bigger than 6 or 7. The coaches worked on technique, quick feet and movement with the ball. What amazed me was the respect these young players gave to the coaches. They wore matching training kits which were immaculate. Parents never shouted and clapped players at the end of each session. Compare that with Sunday afternoons in youth football in this country!
The erosion of social standards has led to a lack of respect shown to officials and other players at the top level and our children emulate this. It is a cultural thing! Is the right example being set? It is almost certainly not. Xavi has stated that the reason that England is lacking is down to youth development and this lack of respect. In Spain such instances are punished immediately by coaches bringing such players off. We need our own footballing revolution. When are we going to take note?


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The Hightower Report
Onshoring Corporate Accounts; and From Regulating Comcast To Joining It
By Jim Hightower, Fri., June 10, 2011
Onshoring Corporate Accounts
From Enron to Wall Street, a big cause of America's major financial collapses in the past decade has been simple deceit. Finaglers used secret offshore accounts and dummy subsidiaries in the Cayman Islands and elsewhere to avoid regulatory scrutiny and to make investors think the businesses were sounder than they really were.
The good news is that Aetna, AIG, MetLife, and other giants have now moved away from such offshore hideouts. The bad news, however, is that they have not actually moved away from the shady practice of hiding their finances from regulators and investors – they just don't have to do it offshore these days. This is because Vermont, Delaware, South Carolina, Utah, and other states have turned themselves into onshore havens for concealing the finances of insurance corporations.
In these states, insurers can set up special subsidiaries that, intriguingly, are called "captives." This scheme allows the same sort of hide-and-seek financial chicanery that offshore havens provided. For example, when AIG was hemorrhaging losses on some of its mortgage insurance policies recently, it created a captive unit in Vermont, shoveled $7 billion in claims by policy holders into it, and thus – poof! – made AIG's ugly books look handsome, allowing the giant to keep selling more mortgage policies.
Why would states be part of this hustle? Money. In exchange for limp-wristed regulations, they collect taxes and fees from the corporations. But each new state entering this game offers lower taxes to entice captives to locate there, thus compelling all states to shrink their take to stay in the game.
The real captives, as usual, are the consumers, who'll end up bamboozled by the deceit, as well as us taxpayers, who'll be asked to bail out the deceivers. It's a losing game.
From Regulating Comcast To Joining It
Meredith Baker is hardly a household name, but if you have cable television, her work might soon be entering your household.
That's because she is one of four members of the Federal Communications Commission who voted in January to approve Comcast's takeover of NBC. Okaying this takeover means that, for the first time, a giant cable TV provider will now control its own national TV programming network – an anti-competitive concentration of media power that bodes ill both for consumers and democracy.
But Ms. Baker, a Republican and former Bush official, has long been an anti-regulatory corporate ideologue – she even called mergers "consumer-enhancing and job-creating deals," which is the exact opposite of how they really play out. So her vote to let Comcast swallow NBC was no big surprise.
But four months later, a hickey has popped up on Baker's vote. It turns out that she's now leaving the FCC, and guess where she's going. Yes, to the Washington office of the newly merged Comcast-NBC behemoth, where she'll work as a highly paid lobbyist.
The New York Times reports that some are criticizing her spin through the government/corporate revolving door as "ethically questionable." No, it's not. It's ethically corrupt, no question about it! Even though she has to comply with a two-year waiting period before lobbying the FCC itself, she's allowed to start lobbying Congress and the rest of the executive branch immediately.
The head of Free Press, a media reform group, calls Baker's lucrative merger with the very corporations she helped merge a blatant example of "a so-called public servant cashing in ... No wonder the public is so nauseated by business as usual in Washington, where the complete capture of government by industry barely raises any eyebrows." Exactly.

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U.S. bishops tracking foreign priest abuse complaints
Friday, April 16, 2010
For the first time, American Catholic bishops have begun tracking complaints of sexual abuse against foreign-trained priests working in this country, raising questions about the screening process in place in U.S. dioceses.
In the U.S. bishops' most recent annual survey, church officials reported that of the 21 clergy sex abuse complaints made in 2009 by minors, nine involved priests sent by overseas dioceses. The information comes when the U.S. church is importing hundreds of priests and has been under intense scrutiny for its handling of sex abuse cases, including the movement of abusers from one country to another.
Though it's only one year of data and does not include details about any of the cases, the number of accusations involving foreign-trained priests has prompted debate within the church and among advocates for victims.
Are American dioceses stringent enough in screening priests who come from parts of the world where abuse might be less likely to be reported and background checks less coordinated? Where the definition of sex crimes and the attitude toward pre-ordination psychological testing might be different? Could the complaints sometimes be cultural misunderstandings?
Regardless, U.S. bishops are paying more attention to the subject, and for the first time required dioceses in 2008 to spell out what screening procedures they have in place for foreign priests. It did same last year.
"It started popping up, so we started to zero in on international priests," said Mary Jane Doerr, associate director for the office of Child and Youth Protection at the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. "It's a murky issue, so we're trying to do the best we can."
Screening varies widely. The Diocese of Corpus Christi, Tex., which reported last year that it had 91 priests from overseas, requires only a letter of recommendation and liability from the bishop in the priest's home country. The Diocese of Brooklyn, N.Y., which also had 91 overseas priests, requires the bishop in the priest's home country to send an affidavit that the priest has never been charged criminally, has no behavioral problems "that would indicate he might deal with minors in an inappropriate manner," and has undergone background checks by immigration and embassy officials.
The Arlington Diocese, with 56 priests from abroad, requires fingerprints and Child Protective Services checks, as well as a home visit for priests from Latin or Central America. It also requires the priest's home diocese to fill out an "extensive questionnaire." The Washington Archdiocese, which has 16 foreign priests, requires fingerprints and child protection training in their home diocese.
Experts on screening and canon law say the church has no detailed specific standards for priest training, and it varies around the world. But several times in recent decades -- including in 2008 -- the Vatican has encouraged seminaries to use psychological screening when considering candidates for the priesthood.
"There's a variability of psychological resources and funds available to do screening," said Monsignor Stephen Rossetti, a former president of St. Luke Institute in Silver Spring, the world's largest psychological treatment center for Catholic clergy. The bishops' report says that of the 21 allegations made in 2009 by minors, five were found "credible," 11 remain under investigation and five were unfounded. Those categories did not distinguish between foreign-trained and American-born priests.
The challenges involved in priests moving around the world were evident this month when an Indian priest accused of repeatedly molesting a 16-year-old girl in Minnesota was found working in an administrative education job back home despite pleas by a Minnesota bishop that he be returned to the United States to face his accuser. Earlier this week, an Indian priest who pleaded no contest in 2006 to assault on a 15-year-old during a summer stint in the Pensacola-Tallahassee Diocese was found working in a parish in Italy.
"Seminaries in other countries have not benefited from the scrutiny that U.S. seminaries received after 2002," said Terence McKiernan of the abuse-tracking nonprofit BishopAccountability.org.
While the U.S. church does not keep track of how many foreign-trained priests are in ministry in this country, experts says the number has been rising for years, partly because of the decrease in American men going into the priesthood, but also because the church has solicited priests from Latin America to minister to the booming U.S. Latino population.
The Rev. Aniedi Okure, a Nigerian-born priest who trained foreign clergy for years for the U.S. bishops, said he thinks cultural differences -- not screening deficiencies -- can sometimes cause problems. "Many priests from other countries are more affectionate, in terms of crossing boundaries, touching people," he said. "It depends what is the nature of the abuse allegations. In the mind of the priest, it may not have been an improper touch."


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Same School, Same Opportunities? Addressing Within-school Segregation
(firstname.lastname@example.com)- a Fellow at The Century Foundation.
As we mark the 60th anniversary of the Brown v. Board of Education decision this year, promoting racial and socioeconomic integration in our schools remains an uphill battle. Re- search from the Civil Rights Project at UCLA shows that much of the progress made by legal desegregation was lost after court orders were lifted, and stu- dents of color increasingly face "double segregation" in racially iso- lated schools with high poverty concentrations.
There is so much work still to be done on the first level of integration, addressing disparities among schools, that it is easy to forget about the next frontier: addressing within-school segregation. Schools that look integrated from the outside based on aggregate demographics may be sharply segregated when you look at the classrooms, see who takes part in academic enrichment or support programs, or count the students that are not in the classroom because they have been suspended or expelled.
Remedying this internal segregation in schools and classrooms requires first identifying and understanding the problem. Adding to work on this front from scholars such as Gloria Ladson-Billings and Jeannie Oakes, R. L'Heureux Lewis-McCoy, Associate Professor of Sociology and Black Studies at The City College of New York, makes an important contribution with his new book, Inequality in the Promised Land: Race, Resources and Suburban School-ing (Stanford Univ. Press, 2014, 232 pp.). The book provides a case study of the ways in which classrooms, schools and districts create unequal pathways to resources for families of different racial backgrounds and socio-economic statuses. While the study is small-scale, focused on three fourth-grade classrooms in two schools in a single Midwestern district, the patterns and pitfalls Lewis-McCoy uncovers are no doubt common in many locations across the country. The book is a worthwhile read for researchers, stakeholders and activists, who should reflect on ways that other districts may share some of these dynamics of inequality.
A District Divided
Inequality in the Promised Land profiles an unidentified Midwestern suburban school district that Lewis-McCoy dubs Rolling Acres Public Schools. (Individual schools and interview subjects in the book are also given pseudonyms to preserve anonymity.) Rolling Acres has a reputation as a good school district, garnering national academic and extracurricular accolades. It is the kind of school district that families with means flock to when choosing where to live. The district spends more than $10,000 per pupil each year, and just 20% of students receive free or reduced-price lunch. The largest racial/ethnic group in the district is white students, at 50% of the student population. Black students are the second largest group, at 15%. (Lewis-McCoy does not provide district-wide demographic data for other racial/ethnic groups.)
Over the past 60 years, the district went through a number of legal challenges and reforms to address de facto racial segregation of schools. The attitude of most white residents in the district, however, is that their schools are now well integrated. As one interviewee put it, "Our [Rolling Acres'] children are in the same classrooms.
Children in the same classrooms have the same opportunity to learn" (p. 28). Most black families, on the other hand, saw things differently. One middle-class black parent explained why her family chose to send their children to private schools instead of the generally well-regarded public schools. In Rolling Acres Public Schools, she declared, "there's two systems. It's an apartheid system" (p. 140).
"Same opportunity" or "an apartheid system"? Lewis-McCoy examines the relationships among students, families, teachers, administrators and politicians that yield such different views of the same school district. And from the picture that Lewis-McCoy paints, it is not at all the case that Rolling Acres children are in the same classrooms with the same opportunities. While elementary school classrooms in the district are not systematically segregated by race or class, and there is no ability tracking at that level, students' opportunities varied according to their backgrounds.
Lewis-McCoy writes that "race and class are conjoined twins in a process of inequality production" in Rolling Acres (p. 172). The effects of race and class showed up in small and large ways in the district. Standardized test scores showed persistent race- and class-based achievement gaps. But most important, Lewis-McCoy argues, are the "gaps in everyday schooling experiences" (p. xi).
Three students who failed to get reading logs signed by parents received different responses and consequences from the same teacher, depending on her assessment of their socioeconomic status and home environment, and whether the families were "legitimately" or "illegitimately" busy. A middle-class black student received free breakfast because school staff mistakenly identify him for the program based on race. All students brought home optional forms soliciting parent input on classroom assignments for the next year, but affluent white families were most likely to return the forms.
In one classroom, some of the black families were missing from the parent-run email listserv. Black students were also overrepresented in special education and were more likely to spend considerable portions of their day in separate classrooms for pull-out services. The cumulative effects of these differences created stratified educational opportunities and outcomes for students.
A number of racial and socioeconomic dynamics contributed to these differences in schooling experiences. Middle-class and affluent families hired housekeepers and babysitters to allow them to rearrange schedules in order to take advantage of parent volunteer opportunities and afford time to sort through information about school and extracurricular offerings. And affluent families often held out the threat of exiting the public school system as leverage for getting their child into a particular classroom or program. Social networks were also crucial pathways for finding out information about school opportunities, and these networks were highly stratified by race and class.
Affluent white parents were most likely to write letters to the editor, spark local news stories, or advocate for policy changes with school board members. And while some affluent black families would have been well-positioned to contribute to this discussion, Rolling Acres Public Schools' mixed record of providing strong educational opportunities for black students created a vicious downward cycle that marginalized black voices. Concern about the public schools caused many black middle-class and affluent families to choose private, parochial or charter schools.
As a result, the voices of the black middle class were largely absent from advocacy for the traditional district schools.
Where they were present, middle-class black voices were less effective when advocates did not themselves have children enrolled in the public schools. As a result, pro- grams targeting disadvantaged students seldom garnered much polit cal support in Rolling Acres.
Halley Potter (firstname.lastname@example.com) is a Fellow at The Century Foundation.


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⬆ Erricka Bridgeford
Bridgeford, the public face of Baltimore Ceasefire, had a lot on her plate this weekend, but she handled it with grace. She said what needed to be said—focusing on community, trauma, and joy—rather than what was "supposed" to be said, showed up at the spot of the first homicide to pray, called out the clueless media, and made her presence known at as many ceasefire events as possible. Bridgeford deserves a much-needed rest this week—like so many involved in the ceasefire, she presumably didn't sleep much because there was so much work to do.
⬆ Out 4 Justice
The men and women of Out 4 Justice were a steady presence during the ceasefire last weekend, offering food, resources, education, and just generally keeping watch over everything. PFK Boom, one of the group's more visible members, said that Baltimore will change not because of the police, but because of grassroots community efforts like Out 4 Justice and another group he is a part of, 300 Gangstas. This weekend, he said, was just the beginning. We certainly hope so.
⬅➡ Baltimore
What makes Baltimore special was on display this weekend during the ceasefire as the city did what it does so well: mixing serious organizing and activism with moments of deep understanding and also plenty of fun. What made the ceasefire so important and so Baltimore was the way in which it contained multitudes—it was never just one way. Nevertheless, the two homicides across the three-day ceasefire weekend, along with three other shootings, made it, essentially, a typical weekend in 2017, staying close to the homicide-a-day-average.
⬇ Politicians, Police
Baltimore Ceasefire was made possible purely through the efforts of citizens and activists, but that didn't stop politicians from glomming on for a good photo-op. And while some officers embodied community policing, an incident on Sunday ended with police tasing a man. BPD later said the man was "threatening to hurt himself." As police were trying to subdue him after the tasing, another man jumped into the fray. He was apprehended and later released. The confrontation only highlighted the fractured relationship between those in power and the community.
⬇ Right-wing trolls
One of the more inexplicable things that happened this weekend: the prevalence of right-wing trolls, cynical law-and-order types, and just general dickheads popping up on social media to declare Baltimore Ceasefire a near-impossibility and then a "failure" after the weekend's first homicide, as if they wanted the effort to fail from the jump. Usually, we'd ignore this nonsense, but if anything exposes the limiting and racist nihilism of these guys, it's cheering on the failure of a wildly popular grassroots initiative against violence.


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There are a lot of things that go into making a successful sports team. One of the most important is having good players. When it comes to players, the team with the better players will usually win the games played. However, there are exceptions to this situation. One of the exceptions is that outstanding coaching can sometimes allow a team with lesser player talent to beat a team with more talent.
Coaching is sometimes overlooked in the picture of team sports but coaches make a difference in many ways related to teams. Coaches provide training, teaching, and direction for players and teams. However, coaches also serve many other important roles such as a mentor, counselor, and cheerleader. Although a coach is important at every level of team sports, the college level is where many coaches serve the most good in an overall aspect of helping players on a team.
For people who have a desire to coach, the coaching profession can be rewarding in many ways. Yanni Hufnagel is an assistant basketball coach who has came a long way in his life. His desire to become a coach goes back to his childhood. Yanni Hufnagel mapped out a plan for himself to become a coach. He learned about coaching and the game of basketball in particular because he wanted to be a basketball coach.
He went to college and was able to get a manager position with the basketball team at the college because he felt it would help him learn more about coaching and basketball. His efforts gave him the opportunity to receive an internship with a professional basketball team. With the internship and the people he met while working as an intern, Yanni Hufnagel was able to get recommendations for assistant basketball coaching positions.
Yanni Hufnagel became an assistant basketball coach through these recommendations, and he has been able to launch a successful coaching career. He is currently an assistant basketball coach at a good basketball program, which is the Nevada Wolf Pack.


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Kobe, Japan is well known for being the birthplace of what is considered the greatest beef on Earth. During my visit, I wanted to find out if there was anything else in Kobe aside from meat.
Location, Location, Location
Kobe, located in the Kansai region of Japan in the Hyogo prefecture along the coast, just west of Osaka. Kobe is possibly the cleanest city I have ever seen anywhere! I've raved about the cleanliness of Japan in my previous posts, but Kobe sets the bar at the highest yet! Upon arriving, this beautiful coastal city became an instant love and quickly rose to what is possibly my favorite city! Facing north gives you a breath-taking mountain range, while looking south shows nothing but open waters!
Another great thing about the location of this city is that it's about 3/4 of the way down Japan. This means the weather here is mild enough to allow palm trees to grow. But don't get too pumped up picturing sunny beaches though, as Kobe isn't known for having any great beaches. However, if it did, this place would probably end up being literally perfect!
Since no place is perfect, Kobe comes really close when it comes to its spot on the globe. However, the big question is if there is anything to do here. There's no lounging in a hammock all day, so what is there to do in a port city in Japan? Yes, there are cow farms located in the outskirts, but what about sights to see and a nightlife? Does it compare at all with places like Tokyo or Osaka?
Not Just Temples
Kyoto is widely regarded as the temple and shrine capital of the world. It may not have as tall of temples as Thailand or as historical as Cambodia, but there are more than you can count! Kobe of course has it's fair share, but where it lacks in temples, it makes up for with a bigger variety of sights. Take for example the Kobe Port Tower. One thing I've noticed in Japan is that almost every city has a tower of some sort. The port tower here may not be as tall as others, but it's pretty unique and has some great views!
The glass elevator offers a nice view as you're lifted to the top where it opens to the main observatory floor. Going up one more floor is the very top and you have the option of going down 2 floors as well; one floor features a rotating cafe which is where I enjoyed my lunch on this day! The tower itself is very thin, so walking around the circumference will take you about 30 seconds (yes, it's very small). But even if you're fearful of heights like me, it's not that bad as you're not up very high.
While the Meriken Park area which includes the port tower is great, there is another great spot to the southwest where you'll find Suma Rikyu Park. Aside from a great park featuring fountains and some impressive buildings, you'll also get some great views of the southern area of Kobe. Even arriving late will offer lighting effects on the fountains which put on a good show and the sun setting over the city. Kobe is also home to one of the coolest Starbucks in the world!
Towards The Kobe Mountains
After seeing a good amount of the city I decided to head towards the range of mountains that supply the backdrop for the city. Maya Mountain isn't the tallest in the area, but it's the most accessible as the Shin-Kobe station is built right up against it. It's a bit of a hike, but a really great spot here worth checking out is Nunobiki Falls.
Of course, while the falls are the highlight, this entire area is amazing! There are several hidden temples and shrines, parks, and great spots to look out at the city. Visiting this spot during the fall is highly recommended as the trees add a nice spice of color. Unlike venturing through the forests and mountains of Kyoto which are more tourist friendly, you won't find random vending machines near the temples here. So bring plenty of water!
To call Kobe my favorite city is tough, with other competitors like Kyoto, Tokyo, and maybe even Yokohama. But, I feel a bit impulsed to say Kobe when someone asks me my favorite city. While it's true you won't find the crazy nightlife here, you will find some amazing spots to view, relax, and enjoy a bit more of the authentic Japanese culture. If you want a bit of city, country, mountains, and sea, all at once, I can't recommend a better place than Kobe!
Thank you for reading! For a full list of all my Japan articles click here. Next up will be two more cities in the Kansai region; Shiga and Nara. Followed by the smaller, but somewhat famous city of Yokohama located near Tokyo, which has some similarities to Kobe!


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B737 Fuel Management Program
Flight planning is a large part of flying the B737 –in real life and virtually.
Yes you can fly with the three fuel tanks full, however, bear in mind that you will not be simulating real flight. Airlines rarely fly an aircraft between two locations with a full fuel load unless it's required for operational use or safety.
Fuel is heavy and the additional weight requires more power and fuel to move it between locations. This equates to an increased expense. Airlines usually only carry enough fuel to reach their destination and alternate.
You can calculate the appropriate load sheets, distances between airports, winds, altitudes to be flown and alternate airports, however, this can be time consuming and often you don't want to simulate the paper trail that goes hand in hand with getting a B737 into the air.
Ross Carlson has created a very handy and functional fuel management tool to use. The program is stand-alone and does not need to be installed into FSX or PMDG. It can be installed to and run from any folder including your desktop. Initially designed to work with the Boeing 737NG developed by Precision Manuals Development Group, the utility works well for other 737NG aircraft provided they have the same operating limitations and fuel tank capacities.
Initially made to be used in conjunction with the PMDG series B737 aircraft, the utility also functions with default FSX.
The only issue to be wary of is that the aircraft you are flying matches the same weights as those used by PMDG.
- Supports 737-600, 737-700, 737-800 and 737-900.
- Values can be entered and displayed in pounds or kilograms.
- Reads payload (passenger and baggage) weights via FSUIPC.
- Calculates en route fuel burn based on cruise altitude and trip distance.
- Calculates fuel burn to reach alternate airport.
- Calculates increased or reduced fuel consumption due to forecast winds en route.
- Allowances for taxi-out fuel burn, holding fuel burn, and minimum landing fuel.
- Indicates if any parameters exceed aircraft operating limitations.
- Sets actual fuel levels in your aircraft via FSUIPC.
- One simple .exe file, no external DLLs or data files required.
- Loads first 1,000 pounds of fuel into the center tank to keep pumps submerged.
- Fully FSUIPC accredited for use with non-registered copies of FSUIPC.
I've been using this fuel planner or quite sometime and it appears to work very well. I open FSX first, then open the fuel planner and alter the figures as required. Then, after I've boarded the fuel I exit the fuel planner program.
The only let down with the program, and this probably an advanced feature not deemed necessary when the program was developed is that it doesn't provide %CG which is used in a CDU to determine your take off trim.
Search google for PMDG fuel planner and you will find several sites that allow you to download the program. You can also download from the Training & Documents Section of this site (Fuel Planner).


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Nice brunette 3D Model
Not much is left to the imagination when this brunette bombshell is done showing off her goodies. She spreads her long skinny legs for you to sneak a peek at her warm pussy. The further her legs spread, the more of her love hole you get to see! She poses in sexual ways to ensure your imagination is put to good use on how she would look from behind, on her side, and on her knees! Her soft and firm breasts are impeccablely proportioned and would be the best breasts to blow or bang! You'll get to see every detail of her sensual body as she bends and twists in all kinds of positions, assuring that you get a erect view of her best parts. Imagine what you could do to this chick as she teases your senses into overdrive! Her affy pictures will leave you wanting to see more.


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So, here we have the 1946 car accident:
The wreck of the car looks so completely horrifying that I tend to focus on that when I look at the picture. However, the caption for this photo from a newspaper article includes the following:
Those who think traveling on Interstate 81 today is hazardous can't remember what it was like on old U.S. 11 in the days before the federal interstate highway system was created. Heavy trucks moving alongside passenger vehicles on a three-lane road resulted in more than 30 deaths per year in our [our] county alone. This wreck, which occurred in [our] town in about 1946 involved a car and a tractor-trailer. The buildings in the background were on the the side of the main road across from the present day car wash.
You can see the "NOVICK" on the back of the tractor-trailer behind the group of men milling about in the first photo. If you focus on the angle of the tractor trailer, it looks like it is most likely sitting in the middle of where my front porch should be. The angle and size of the truck look like they match up with the tractor-trailer in my newly acquired photo of the accident:
Additionally, the damage done to the Nails Curio & Camera shop in the 1946 accident looks like it matches up with the damage you can see after the vehicles were removed.
Then, there's the fact that you can see a "Nails Curio" sign on my front porch after the vehicles were cleared away. Focusing on the signs for the Traveler's Inn, I didn't notice it at first. But you can see it in both the picture above and below.
Side note: My backyard used to have giant trees. Now it has none.
True, in the 1946 picture, the "Nails Curio" sign is intact and had neon lighting, but they could have had a sign on either side of the building. I'm thinking that the black square hanging from the awning in the middle of the edge of the right side of this picture...
...is this Nails Curio sign hanging above the wrecked car.
Anyways, those are my speculations. Sorry for obsessing, I'm sure you guys are bored stiff. What do you think? Same accident?
At least it gives me a starting point for the microfiche. I can look at newspapers from my town in 1946. And since the trees in the background all have full leaves, I can focus on late spring through early fall. I wanted to look at microfiche at the library after storytime today, but something told me Joseph and Juliana wouldn't sit around like patient angels while I dug into old newspapers... Ahhh! Nightmare!


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NDP Premier Darrell Dexter is on the right track in his call to Stephen Harper to suspend the EI changes until a comprehensive study of their impact on the region has been completed.
All four Atlantic Canadian Premiers are asking the Harper government to hand over any relevant employment insurance data so that they can conduct a comprehensive audit.
No research was done by the federal government in advance of major changes it made last May to the employment insurance system that require claimants to accept a job for which they are qualified within 100 kilometres of their home.
As we have written before, seasonal workers provide a reliable workforce. Without knowing you can count on them, farmers, for instance, will lose both predictability and confidence. And limits to foreign workers until every local person has a job will mean Nova Scotia farmers who doubled their blueberry and strawberry fields these past years will be in a precarious position.
Younger seasonal workers will move west for work because they have to. And 60 year old snow crab fishermen will bend for blueberries or lose their benefits.
MPs like Scott Armstrong say the EI changes give people "a better connection with available jobs". He's wrong. Consider the Conservatives' new 70 percent maxim: Lose your job and take another at a 30 per cent wage cut. Lose that job and take another 30 percent cut. If Conservatives really feel that Carribean crop-harvesters are stealing local jobs, the solution is not to import Carribean economies.
Gary Burrill, Nova Scotia NDP MLA:
"This is the kind of smooth and oily abuse of words that causes many people to have come to a point where they spit out the word politician. "A better connection with available jobs?" I think not. How can that be when a new EI system for seasonal workers requires people to accept a job or lose their benefits at 70 per cent of their current wages? That's not a better connection with available jobs."
Robert Chisholm, Nova Scotia NDP MP, Fisheries Critic:
"Instead of focusing on regional development, Conservatives are turning their back on Atlantic Canada, and they are telling seasonal workers to hit the road and head west."
Darrell Dexter, Nova Scotia Premier:
"The dismantling of the EI system meant that so many of the people who could at one point in time, have a sustainable livelihood in their communities, no longer can. They have had to leave."
Robert Ghiz, PEI Premier:
"If you want to come to P.E.I., and go to our beaches, watch Anne of Green Gables, and eat our oysters, and eat our potatoes, and go fishing — well guess what? We need people in those areas to work in seasonal industries and they depend on the employment insurance program."
Kathy Dunderdale, Newfoundland Premier:
"There seems to be a real disconnect between what the federal government is trying to achieve and the reality of peoples' lives in rural parts of the country."


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HARRISBURG (AP) — Pennsylvania's massive state government and teacher pension funds reported double-digit declines Tuesday, losses that reflect returns through September but not the market's continued fall since then.
HARRISBURG (AP) — Pennsylvania's massive state government and teacher pension funds reported double-digit declines Tuesday, losses that reflect returns through September but not the market's continued fall since then.
And officials with both systems warned that year-end totals could be even worse.
From July 1 through Sept. 30, the two funds fell by more than $12 billion, or nearly half the size of the current state budget.
The State Employees' Retirement System said its investments fell about 14.4 percent from January through September, while the larger Public School Employees' Retirement System's investments dropped 16.7 percent for the one-year period ending Sept. 30.
The government workers' pension fund shed $4.3 billion dollars from July 1 though Sept. 30, ending the period with a value of $29.3 billion. The teacher fund, the nation's 14th-largest public defined-benefit pension fund, lost $8 billion over the same three-month period to a value of $54.7 billion.
The stock market has experienced steep declines in October and November, and the two pension funds warned that their year-end accounting may end up looking worse.
In a statement, the state employees' pension fund said its investment performance in 2008 closely mirrored that of other large public pension funds in a prominent national comparison service.
Over the past decade, the State Employees' Retirement System has produced 8 percent a year on its investments, compared with a median of 5.6 percent for the large pension funds measured by the Wilshire Trust Universe Comparison Service.
For 2007, the system earned 17.2 percent, a $5 billion windfall that was among the best in the nation. By comparison, the S&P 500 grew by 5.49 percent in 2007.
The investment returns are bad news for state government retirees who have been pressuring the Legislature for a cost-of-living increase. Such increases are not automatic.
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There is nothing worse than laying on the beach with your iPod and suddenly you are tuneless. The battery is dead! Now what do you do? Well, that's where a cool new product called Juicebar™ comes in handy. Juicebar™ is a portable, pocket-sized battery charger that you can use to recharge just about any portable electronic device.
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The Tokyo International Anime Fair is one of the largest anime trade fairs in the world, held annually in Japan. This year's event was attended by over 120,000 people. TAF is holding a competition for their 2010 logo character and you've got until June 30th!
The application of official character competition 2010 started May 1st for the Tokyo International Anime Fair 2010 (abbreviated as TAF2010). The selected work (winner) will be the TAF2010's official character! They will use the character about one year for promotion of TAF2010.
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Book Review: Ruby Holler by Sharon Creech
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Published in 2002, Ruby Holler still speaks to today's middle grade reader. Sharon Creech weaves a magical world with her homey laid back style of writing. The reader is quickly wisked away into the story of orphan twins, Dallas and Florida.
I was hooked at the first few sentences: "Dallas leaned far out the window, his eyes fixed on a bird flying lazily in the distance. Sun slanted through the clouds above, as if a spotlight were aimed on the bird."
Twins, Dallas and Florida live in the Boxton Creek Home for Children. The Trepid's have created so many rules, that the twins are destined to fail. The twins are placed in many homes. Due to no fault of their own they are returned to the home.
Dallas and Florida have given up and being wanted by a family when Sairy and Tiller show up. Sairy and Tiller are an older couple whose children have already grown and left. They're looking for assistance for their summer adventures, Dallas and Florida are just the ticket.
That's when we learn about the magical place, Ruby Holler. When Dallas and Florida arrive they find a place beyond anything they could have imagined. But, both are highly suspicious of everyone and everything, and they plan to leave on the first train they can hop.
The story of Dallas and Florida continue as they try to adjust to life in Ruby Holler. There's a mysterious character who shows up, plotting by the Trepids, a trial run of the adventure and an accident on the river.
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In later years on her acting résumé, she listed her "special skills":
"Belly-dancing, Mother of a Star."
Photo courtesy of Jeffrey Kahn.
Little Madeline was "endearing," Hiller remembered in conversation with me, long afterward, though Freda didn't impress him much at first. Soon enough, however, he found himself caught up in her formidable charms (which I witnessed firsthand a few years ago). In 1953 in Mexico, he married her, and at his insistence, he adopted Madeline and brought her to live with them in Jackson Heights. "I wanted her to be part of the family," he told me simply. Madeline kept his name the rest of her too-short life.
Freda and Hiller divorced in 1958. He passed away on June 6; five days later, she died after several years of declining health. My condolences to their son, Madeline's brother, Jeffrey, and every member of their families are heartfelt, mingled with shock at the terrible coincidence and with gratitude that Jef consented to share them with me.
I'm struck by how many of the family dynamics came into play already at that first meeting in New York. Hiller and Freda really weren't meant to be together, as it turned out. Freda, who eventually adopted the more marquee-ready name of Paula Kahn, had studied opera and was Madeline's first voice teacher; she harbored dreams of success on stage or screen, but it was her daughter who became the star attraction: starting perhaps with Hiller, good things often came to Paula because Madeline made them happen.
But the relationships are remarkably complex. Paula trained Madeline in the talents she needed to succeed, and the same talents might have paid off for Paula, too, if only she'd been willing to work as hard as her daughter did. Instead, she seemed to expect stardom to be handed to her, and if her glorious and inevitable destiny was to be fulfilled at the expense of Madeline's finances and reputation, so be it.
A thoroughly decent guy, Hiller tried diligently to bridge the gap between him and Madeline, especially in later years, but much of the damage was done already. All of her childhood taught the lessons of abandonment, which surely marked her as an adult. Both her father and stepfather left in the aftermath of divorce; Paula left her at boarding school. Even Jef, always Madeline's indispensable emotional support, would go off to visit Hiller, leaving her alone with Paula.
Madeline's romantic relationships were affected as a result, naturally, and she wasn't consistently able to prevent her insecurities from coloring her professional relationships, too. If her personal experiences made it easier to play fragile or neurotic characters so memorably onstage and onscreen, they sometimes made her a difficult collaborator offstage and offscreen.
Treating Madeline and her parents fairly may be the greatest challenge before me as I write her biography. Misjudgments and misbehaviors by a parent can result in such painful consequences for a child, and yet there was plenty of good, too, and Madeline would not have been the person or the artist she was without their influences. The same is true of any parent–child relationship, of course, and few of us ever manage to reconcile ourselves to that. Until somebody comes up with a better system, there's nothing left but to study and to try to understand.


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NASA's launch of eight microsatellites in December under the Cyclone Global Navigation Satellite System (CYGNSS) mission promises to be more than just another milestone in the U.S. space and satellite program—once in orbit, these tiny satellites will usher in a new era of improved understanding and forecasting of hurricanes, typhoons and tropical storms all over the globe.
Several institutions collaborated to bring the CYGNSS mission to life. The University of Michigan is directing the CYGNSS mission for NASA, including satellite design and production and science data processing. The CYGNSS constellation will be deployed into low-Earth orbit with successive satellites passing over the same region approximately every 12 minutes. The Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio is building and testing the CYGNSS microsatellites and will host the mission operations center at its Boulder, Colorado, location.
CYGNSS is a constellation of eight microsatellites that uses a limited set of sensors to determine in which direction the spacecraft is pointing and a limited set of actuators to control that pointing. Draper developed the unique Attitude Determination and Control System (ADCS) that is responsible for all spacecraft closed-loop functionality spanning stabilization, Sun acquisition and hold and pointing control and momentum management for all mission functions subject to the limitations arising from the small size of the CYGNSS spacecraft. This ADCS flight software leverages Draper's extensive spacecraft Guidance Navigation and Control (GN&C) heritage dating back more than 50 years.
Once in LEO, the microsatellites promise to improve current hurricane research and forecasting methods. Typically, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) measures the wind magnitude of a hurricane using specially equipped aircraft that fly directly through the eye of a storm, collecting data during an 8-10 hour mission. While these planes collect accurate data about the storm in one time and place, hurricane magnitude can often shift drastically over time.
A far more accurate approach will be implemented on December 15, 2016, when NASA launches the CYGNSS mission. The constellation of eight microsatellites will do what a single aircraft can't in terms of measuring surface wind speeds inside hurricanes and tropical cyclones more frequently, which will help to improve understanding and forecasting of how these deadly storms develop.
"Microsatellites represent an exciting new chapter in space systems and technology, and at Draper, we are seeing interest in satellites from customers all along the value chain," said Seamus Tuohy, Director of Space Systems at Draper. "Cubesats, chipsats and microsats provide new ways to bring space closer to Earth—and new ways to integrate satellite data and imagery into business, government, philanthropy and investment decisions. For Draper, CYGNSS is a welcome milestone in a story about satellites that's just beginning."


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Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney on Tuesday chided President Barack Obama for using a cartoon character named "Julia" to explain how his policies benefit women and middle-class voters.
"Liberals envision government guiding and providing every need of every citizen," Romney said, reading from a teleprompter in Lansing, Michigan. "Government will be at the center, the most important player in our lives."
"Have you seen, by the way, the president's vision for the future?" he asked. "To help us see it, his campaign has even created a little fictional character. It's on the website, living an imaginary life filed with happy milestones for which she will spend the rest of her days thanking President Obama. It's called 'The Life of Julia.' And it's a cartoon."
"Julia progresses from cradle to grave, showing how government makes every good thing in her life possible. Weak economy, high unemployment, falling wages, rising gas prices, the national debt, the insolvency of entitlements — all these are fictionally assumed away in a cartoon produced by a president who wants us to forget about them."
Romney added: "By the way, what does it say about a president's policies when he has to use a cartoon character rather than real people to justify his record?"
The Obama campaign unveiled the interactive cartoon, "The Life of Julia," on its website last week. It attempts to show how the character would be affected differently by the policies of Obama and Romney throughout her life.
The website suggests, for example, that Julia would not have been enrolled in the Head Start program at the age of three under Romney's budget cuts. Julia's education might also suffer if Romney cuts funding for public education and allows Pell Grants to expire, according to the Obama campaign. The fictional character also benefits from Obama's policies on health care for young adults, fair pay for women, low interest rates on student loans, birth control coverage, prenatal care, small business loans, Medicare for seniors and Social Security.
"What does it say about the fiction of old liberalism, to insist that good jobs and good schools and good wages will result from policies that have failed us time and again?" Romney remarked on Tuesday. "President Obama is looking in the wrong direction. Looking backward won't solve the problems of today, nor will it take advantage of the opportunities of tomorrow. His are the policies of the past."
"The challenges of the present and the promise of tomorrow must be met by a new and bold vision for the future, and I will bring it."
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Our long term strategy is to build a sustainable international cider-led, multi-beverage business through a combination of organic growth and selective acquisitions.
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Our core businesses are strongly cash generative. We therefore focus on cash. We critically review the value for money of all brand and capital investment. Our current emphasis is on investment at the customer interface, to drive revenue. Group management relentlessly drive to reduce costs - in production, distribution and marketing.
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In our core markets of Ireland and Scotland, we seek revenue generation through a full-service multi-beverage portfolio model predominantly focused on brands and customers. In the rest of the UK and internationally we focus on volume growth.
We seek to make brand innovations at low cost and exploiting niche markets.
We seek earnings growth through revenue generation, cost control and margin improvement.
We engage with our workforce and incentivise them to ensure alignment with shareholders.
Local management are incentivised with financial targets relevant to their local business unit.
Where necessary, we are prepared to buy in expertise on a margin-sharing basis.
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We seek local expansion in our core territories. Potential acquisitions must complement our business and meet our strategic objectives.
We are prepared to make larger transformational acquisitions, and we are ready to seize opportunities as they arise. The strength of our balance sheet and experience at integrating businesses minimises execution risk.
We will make disposals where they will enhance shareholder value.
In the absence of capital investment opportunities we will return surplus cash to our shareholders.
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C&C has five business segments, which comprise:
Republic of Ireland
The Bulmers sales and marketing team has now been integrated into the Gleeson wholesaling and distribution business to create a major new player in the Irish market offering an enhanced portfolio of long alcoholic drinks, soft drinks and water. The Irish manufacturing plants are located in Clonmel and Borrisoleigh in Co. Tipperary.
Cider - UK
This segment covers the sale of cider brands in Great Britain and Northern Ireland. The volumes of cider sold by the Group in the UK make our UK cider business a key focus for management. The Shepton Mallet Cider Mill division, based in our cider mill in Somerset, exploits the catalogue of brands acquired with the Gaymers business in 2010 and acts as a nursery for innovation in cider. Marketing and sales execution of the division has been outsourced to Green Light Brands Ltd, a specialist team experienced in rejuvenating historical brands.
Tennent's - UK
The Tennent's beer business is headquartered at Wellpark Brewery, Glasgow and operates in Scotland and Northern Ireland. Profits of the business have been increased from €3.7m when it was acquired in 2009 to €34.6m in FY2014. This has been achieved through brand investment, cost control and improved trading terms. Our brands portfolio, which is centred on the iconic Scottish brand Tennent's, has been expanded with the introduction of Caledonia Best and Heverlee, and niche Tennent's products.
During FY2015 the Tennent's UK sales and marketing team will be integrated into Wallaces Express, the Scottish wholesale business, of which the Group acquired full control in March 2014.
Third Party Brands - UK
This business segment comprises two divisions: agency brands and private label.
The principal agency brands sold in the UK by the Group are the AB InBev brands, which the Group distributes in Northern Ireland and Scotland.
In addition the segment includes IWS International Wine Services, which handles the former Waverley portfolio of wines and spirits brands. Sales and marketing is outsourced to Monuriki Ltd, a specialist wine-marketing team.
The private label contract production division manufactures cider and beer at Wellpark and Shepton Mallet for a range of customers, including the major supermarkets and other contract brewers.
The international division now comprises two main elements: Vermont Hard Cider Company, LLC (VHCC) in the US and the international beer and cider business.
VHCC manufacturers the Woodchuck, Wyder's and Hornsby's brands at its cidery in Middlebury, Vermont, which it distributes in the USA alongside Magners, Tennent's and other C&C brands.
Outside the US, the Group operates through distributors, notably in continental Europe and Australia, with Magners being the principal product.


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There's a sad, puppyish quality to Iron Fist, Netflix's latest colorless Marvel series. It has this eager and hopeless air about it, an ugly shelter dog that wants to be loved despite its crude proportions, its hurried design. So you kinda feel sorry for it, trying to be all cool and edgy, striking an awkwardly defiant pose as it insists that it has any sense of narrative consistency or momentum. Aw, poor Iron Fist! Tragic little thing.
But then you think about it some more, and that pity hardens into frustration. Because this is not Netflix's first time at this frequently unrewarding rodeo. This is the streaming service's fourth (and not final) Marvel series, so they should have learned some lessons by now. But they haven't. If anything, Iron Fist is a regression, not building off the mild promise of Luke Cage, instead slapping something together that's as ill-considered—or maybe not considered at all—as we've yet seen from Netflix. Aimless and dull, Iron Fist would be bad television even without its unseemly racial missteps. With them, it borders on unconscionable.
Iron Fist has always been a white character in the comic books, but some online protest surrounding the TV series has suggested that perhaps Netflix could have tempered the inherent Orientalism of Iron Fist's mythology by casting an Asian actor in the lead role. Because, you see, Iron Fist is the best kung-fu boy in the world, a monk-blessed avenging hero with a magical fist (the porn parody is going to be harrowing) who is destined, or ordained, or something, to fight The Hand, an insidious and far-reaching criminal enterprise that employs ninjas to do its dark deeds. Having a white guy, played by Game of Thrones veteran Finn Jones, lecture Asian characters about zen and martial arts is . . . not the best look. And when housed in a series that's as shoddy as Iron Fist is, it all begins to seem like a rather cruel and witless act of aggression.
Iron Fist can't justify any of this problematic stuff with a cracking plot or engaging characters. The tale of a rich kid, Danny Rand, who returns to New York City 15 years after he's thought to have been killed in a Himalayan plane crash, Iron Fist dribbles and drags along, never offering the satisfying moments this kind of premise easily sets up: the thrill of the reveal, the catharsis of identity confirmed, the re-learning of the world. These are sturdy, basic tropes that Iron Fist somehow screws up, the show playing as if every episode was written by an entirely different staff. Its plotting is disjointed and erratic, while character motivations change like weather—leaving the actors completely unmoored, unable to make any real choices because the people they're playing make no sense. They just drift around in the show's squishy protoplasm, undeveloped fragments of a real TV series bouncing off each other and spinning into the abyss.
Jones, so bratty and appealing in his brief stint on Game of Thrones, is stymied by his character's American accent. In some metaphorical sense, it may be the keystone of the performance; everything else crumbles without it. Jones can't get Danny off the ground—or rather, he can't rescue him from the gross, childish chosen-one gunk the writers have bathed the character in. (There is actually a scene in which Danny says, "Hey, check this out," and then does some cool nunchuck moves.) Jessica Henwick plays Colleen Wing, a martial arts instructor who runs a dojo in Chinatown and whom Danny enlists in his fight against the Hand. Eventually, anyway. The first few episodes of the show aren't sure what to do with Colleen, so they have her participate in underground cage fights and lecture some urban teens. Oh, and she does get condescended to by Danny, who has trained in an extra-dimensional dojo, so he knows far more about fighting and the philosophy behind it than Colleen—a paid professional!—ever could. It's not good. (Nor is the surprisingly unconvincing fight choreography—you had one job, Iron Fist!)
Jessica Stroup and Tom Pelphrey play Joy and Ward Meachum, siblings whose father was Danny's dad's business partner, and who react to Danny's return in a variety of confusing ways. Joy, played on mute by Stroup, is happy to see her old childhood friend again, but also drugs him and sends him to a mental hospital out of some sense of familial protectiveness. She'd be an interesting character if any of her shifts in morality and loyalty seemed intentional, or building toward something. As is, she's a rudderless cipher, an amateurish approximation of a cool, icy businesswoman. (That's not Stroup's fault, really—she's perfectly fine. It's the material that does Joy in.) Pelphrey's Ward is a tad more dynamic, but he's harmed by the writing as well, swerving wildly from murderous villain to tragically put-upon son to pitiable drug addict. That might all sound like the makings of a complex and interesting character, but there's no weight behind any of it, no shape or texture or purpose. The show has no idea what to do with any of its people, or any of its mythology. It's as if the whole thing is improvised by a level-one UCB class who were explicitly told not to be funny.
I've never been a fan of Netflix's Marvel shows. They're all plodding and empty, too little plot stretched out over too many episodes. But Iron Fist is on a different level than Daredevil's dimly lit tedium, or Jessica Jones's repetitive plot mechanics. Iron Fist is all the bad things from the other Marvel Netflix shows condensed into one staggeringly incompetent series, one that's so toxically bad that I kind of hope it takes the whole enterprise down with it. Not Netflix itself—just this iteration of Marvel world-building, slapdash and dismal as it is. Iron Fist might work as a two-hour movie—he comes back from the dead! He meets a pretty, katana-wielding love interest! They destroy the Hand together!—but as a series it's an offense. For its clumsy (at best) handling of Asian culture first and foremost, yes. But also because it has the gall to assert itself as something worthy of our time. I've only seen the first six episodes, so maybe things improve in the back half. But what kind of hellish Stockholm syndrome have we been battered into where that is a reasonable thing to say? "Maybe the show gets good after the first six hours, I should give it a chance"? That's an insane amount of trust and patience to ask of audiences. And nothing I've seen so far suggests that Iron Fist deserves it.


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The Characteristics of Fresh Fruit & Vegetables
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have conducted studies which indicate that a plant-rich diet of fruits and vegetables is associated with a decreased risk of chronic diseases including heart attack and stroke. Depending on your personal nutritional goals, understanding what characteristics are possessed by fruits and vegetables can assist you in making wise food choices.
Folic Acid
Folic acid is also called folate. This nutrient is especially beneficial to women of childbearing age or those who are within the first trimester of a pregnancy. Folic acid assists in the formation of red blood cells and contributes to a reduction of birth defects in fetal development. Oranges and orange juice, as well as dark, leafy green vegetables, such as spinach, are all items which are characteristically high in folic acid.
Dietary fiber reduces blood cholesterol levels and may possibly lower the risk of heart disease. The selection of fruits and vegetables containing fiber is extensive. Foods to consider for this benefit include raspberries, pears (with skin), oranges, bananas, apples (with skin), figs, raw carrots, Brussels sprouts, sweet corn, peas, artichokes, and skin-on, baked potatoes.
Adequate intake of calcium reduces bone loss brought on by aging. Bones and teeth are the largest concentrations of calcium in the human body. Vegetables which are dark green in color are high in calcium. These vegetables include kale, collard greens, broccoli, mustard greens and spinach.
Increasing your intake of potassium rich fruits, such as bananas, apricots, cantaloupe, prunes,and honeydew melon, may help to maintain healthy blood pressure levels. These foods should be eaten as close to their natural state as possible. Excess boiling, steaming or cooking, can destroy potassium levels.
Weight Maintenance Characteristics
The low-fat, low-calorie content of fruits and vegetables make them ideal for obtaining and maintenance of a healthy weight. Learning how to redefine what constitutes a snack can help with weight issues. If a person who used to reach for a handful of chocolate candies when they were hungry can train themselves to instead reach for a handful of grapes, they will experience the same level of fullness without it negatively impacting their weight.
- Mayo Clinic: Tips to Bone Up on Bone Health; 2011
- Centers for Disease Control: Fruit and Vegetable Consumption Among Adults --- United States, 2005; 2007
- My Pyramid: Why Is It Important to Eat Fruit; 2011
- United States Department of Agriculture: Dietary Guidelines for Americans; 2011
- WebMD: Potassium; R. Morgan Griffin; 2010
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- Medioimages/Photodisc/Photodisc/Getty Images


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Specialty Cheese
At Lion, we're rightly regarded as a leader in specialty cheese. With the home entertainment explosion and increased interest in the provenance of food, cheese lovers are experimenting with new styles and trading up in quality. We have recently invested in an impressive new cheese making facility called The Heritage to position Lion to innovate and further grow the category.
Australians who love 'no fuss' entertaining head straight for South Cape. Whether hosting a weekend BBQ, a brunch for friends or a special family celebration, South Cape has a range of cheeses that will delight people of all tastes.
- South Cape 4 Cheese SelectionFind out more
- South Cape Persian FettaFind out more
- South Cape Greek FettaFind out more
- South Cape Apricot and Almond Cream CheeseFind out more
Tasmanian Heritage originates from one of Australia's oldest specialty cheese producers with a heritage dating back to 1955. Nestled in the north-west corner of Tasmania, Tasmanian Heritage sources milk from a region with geographical and latitudinal similarities to the famous French cheese making province of Normandy. This makes it the perfect environment for creating high quality cheese.
- Tasmanian Heritage Double BrieFind out more
- Tasmanian Heritage CamembertFind out more
- Tasmanian Heritage Oval BrieFind out more
- Tasmanian Heritage Oval CamembertFind out more
Guarding the stormy western entrance to Bass Strait is a lonely, rugged island. With mineral rich soils, cool annual temperatures, abundant rainfall and a consistent salt spray thanks to the constant westerly winds, the environment at King Island is perfect for quality milk production, which helps us create some of the finest cheeses on earth.
- Cape Wickham Double BrieFind out more
- Seal Bay Triple Cream BrieFind out more
- Lighthouse BlueFind out more
- Stokes Point Smoked CheddarFind out more
Mersey Valley cheese has been made in Tasmania for over 35 years and is one of Australia's best loved vintage club cheddars. As well as the popular Original and Classic styles, Mersey Valley lovers are spoilt for choice when it comes to flavour, with delicious flavoured varieties such as Cracked Peppercorn, Pickled Onion and Ploughmans to experience
- Mersey Valley Vintage ClassicFind out more
- Mersey Valley Vintage Club OrigFind out more
- Mersey Valley Vintage Club Pickled OnionFind out more
- Mersey Valley PloughmansFind out more


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In January 2017, Omega announced, with zero fanfare, a limited edition Speedmaster, made in collaboration with Fratello Watches, called Speedy Tuesday, named after the popular hashtag. Four-and-a-half hours later, all 2012 watches were gone.
Well, hold onto your hats and get ready to flex those credit cards, because it looks like it's about to happen again. The watch-oriented corners of social media have been buzzing with this intriguing image, part of what looks to be an email signed off by Omega President and CEO Raynald Aeschlimann. This image is also on Fratello's Instagram with a single word caption: "Wait."
And as for the possible watch itself? Well, based on the image, speculation is leaning heavily in favour of the so-called Speedmaster Ultraman, a 1971 design made with an orange chronograph seconds hand. It's a hot and somewhat controversial model much loved by Speedy fans. In short, the perfect choice for Speedy Tuesday II. I guess we'll have to wait a few hours to find out. Our bet would be noon in Switzerland, which is 8PM AEST.


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Last reviewed on October 4, 2011.