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8 Reasons to Have A Bodybuilding Girlfriend
November 16, 2009 by Shaun
Filed under The Fitness Bug
This has been on my mind for weeks, but it's not until today I decided to put pen to paper to talk about it.
I have had quite a few women talk to me (vice versa), look me up about this site and fitness in general, and the vibe that I get is that most women don't want to build muscle. Or they do, it's just that they don't want to get ripped like most men do. Which is understandable. However, women bodybuilding is becoming more popular by the day, and for what type of body I personally like?
Take a look at these 2 ladies that have a presence on the web.
Fighter diet (Pauline Nordin)
Susana's is a body type that most women in the gym will achieve, and Paulines is a bit more muscular, but still a great body to have. What I like is something that is in-between both of these body types.
Your lady might already look good, but is she gym fit and lady ripped?
What ever the answer to that question is, here are 8 reasons to get her into bodybuilding.
Increased physical strength
She could give you a run for your money when it comes to the bedroom. Better be careful, she might just switch the dominance role on silent. Ever seen that movie CB4? The scene where Chris Rock loses the sex battle and goes from the one who was doing the f*****g to the one being f****ed. Who knows, that might even be something new and exciting for you and your partner.
Super Duper Curves
She will develop fine curves that she never knew she had. Once that happens, it will spark a few things. Take note.
- You might become more interested in creating diversity in her wardrobe (even more interested than she is!)
- Encourage you to take up even more sexual positions in bed, as you will want to view and appreciate her newly chiseled physique from every possible angle while in action.
- You'll probably want to do it more because of that.
- You might want to show her off more in public with that new set of clothes you bought her.
- She will notice and appreciate it.
- She will talk about it with her friends.
She will feel all new and fresh and you might find yourself as the 'go to guy' from her female friends. If that happens just know where to draw the attention line. Female attention will make you do crazy things… like cheat ;). Keep that under control and you will inject fresh long lasting stability into your relationship.
Increased health
This will happen with any kind of working out, nevertheless, good health will always lead to good things such as,
- More energy
- More motivated
- Feel good factor
- Improves self esteem
Increase metabolism much quicker
This will happen in weeks rather than months if your lady starts with some beginner weightlifting routines. Which means all of the benefits you see mentioned on this page will happen much quicker too 🙂
Upgraded Lady
Strength training will lead to an increase in self-confidence and self-awareness (hopefully leading to a less moody woman). But that will also be good for her career too as women are already scooping up much of the jobs in sectors such as residential care, computer and data processing, health services, business services, child care
Supplements for Ladies
Men have testosterone (builds muscle) and women have estrogen (stores fat). And there are numerous 'proven to work' supplements out there that can help reduce excess fat from her body. This is information that she may not have been previously aware of. Some of these supplements can also improve her performance as a body builder and help her recover strength quickly from training and 'other' strength heavy activities.
She Will Stress Out Less
That's all that needs to be said. She will stress out a lot less!!!!
Eliminating Crappy Foods Will Feel Like Second Nature
This happens naturally because in order to get the type of bodybuilding results that we are talking about here, one will need to cut out a lot of junk food from their diet. If your lady starts to do this then you are in a win/win situation. She will feel better and look better. You are what you eat after all.
Muscle cannot turn to fat! Dispel that myth for her
Muscle cannot be 'converted' into fat, as both muscle and fat both require 2 different types of tissues. Fat is formed from unburned calories and a decrease in physical body activity.
All are good reasons to get your woman to start bodybuilding, but when it comes down to the end goal, it has to be something SHE wants to do. She has to help herself before getting help from anyone else. Popular reasons are,
- To get healthier
- Gain muscle definition
- To feel and look great
Which means you will have a good year every year and can prepare for events such as get together, weddings and holidays without a second thought for body preparation.
While saving some hair on your head at the same time 🙂 (Less stress)
Now show this to your lady and get to work already!
Does your lady workout?
Has she thought about bodybuilding before?
See you in the comments.
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Sunday, October 24, 2010
In AA we trust, still
A pitching coach? With no managing experience? Anywhere?
Farrell was one of the names that had me raising my eyebrows at the lengths Anthopoulos et al were taking this exhaustive process in replacing Cito (feels good to be able to say it again). I mean, come on guys, I know you're doing your due diligence, but enough is enough. Quit fucking around with these marginal candidates and hire a sexy (in a baseball way) candidate like Timmy Wallach, or Dave Martinez, or hey - Sandy Alomar Jr.!
Then came word that Martinez didn't make the cut. Wallach's daddy didn't event let him interview with those bullies the Blue Jays, apparently. And suddenly, the hot candidate (Alomar Jr) was informed he was out of the running. And Butterfield.....oh, Butter. Was he ever really "in"? Down we were to a pair of Red Sox coaches, the venerable (I have no idea, but sounds right) DeMarlo Hale and the aforementioned Farrell. And then.... we were told that Hale was told he was out.
Welcome to the Toronto Blue Jays, John Farrell.
Say what (the fuck)?
But, y'know, like seemingly everything Anthopoulos has done in the big chair to date - it makes perfect sense. Forget about John Farrell the pitching coach. Embrace John Farrell, the coach tabbed as Francona's heir apparent. Embrace John Farrell, the former Director of Player Development for a Cleveland Indians organization which, under his watch, was tabbed by Baseball America as having the game's top farm system (2003) & made major inroads in Latin America (sound familiar?). Look at where the Blue Jays are in their life cycle - look at the strengths within the system both at the major league level (young starting pitching) and in the recent amateur draft (starting pitching).
A manager with a background as both a pitching coach and in player development? Make more sense now?
But (you knew there was going to be a "but")...... can he manage?
And once again, like everything Anthopoulos has done, it's a move made with an eye to the upside. Perhaps the safe pick would have been a candidate with extensive managing experience (Baylor - ugh). Maybe a long-time bench coach with a history of minor league success (Hale). I don't think anybody would have been outraged had they gone with the internal candidate (Butterfield). But that's not how Anthopoulos works. He's shown that he's willing to gamble on talent with player transactions, and the same holds true with the selection of his manager.
So far, the gambles have paid off, and we've been given no reason to believe the same won't continue to hold true. Sometimes, you've just gotta trust the process.
(....and in the event the Jays can't come to terms with their man Farrell.....he woulda been a lousy pick anyway. Heyo!)
10 comments:
- Steve G. said...
I think the actual managing part of a game is somewhat overrated. You can be pretty horrible at tactics, like Joe Girardi or Bruce Bochy, and still win the World Series, if you get the best out of your players. Red Sox pitchers have been a big fan of Farrell, so I think he is a good candidate from the "getting along with players and communicating" perspective.
- October 24, 2010 at 1:30 AM
Of course Butter was in it. The commenting from WEEI served their own purposes, certainly.
Wait for the news conference on Monday, and listen carefully to what was important to AA and the new manager.
- October 24, 2010 at 8:35 AM
- William J. Tasker said...
If Farrell is the guy, then it may be a great choice. It's funny how baseball runs in cycles. Bud Black's success in San Diego this year leads to pitching coaches getting more juice in consideration.
And it won't hurt at all for Farrell to know the Red Sox very well when the Blue Jays face them. Cool choice.
- October 24, 2010 at 9:57 AM
- Ty said...
I don't think Bud Black had anything to do with Farrell, though. He had a clause in his contract that prevented him from interviewing for managerial positions before this year, and Boston people already had him set up to replace Francona someday - people knew he was going to manage someday, he just wasn't allowed to until now.
- October 24, 2010 at 11:15 AM
- MJK said...
it's just intuitively hard to accept that a lack of managerial experience at any level won't be a handicap, at some point in some way.
that said, experienced major league managers almost always come with the baggage of having been fired for losing. i don't want someone who has been sitting around stewing over his losing seasons for 3 years managing the team. a truly blank slate is both unnerving and promising, but Farrell will be judged on his accomplishments with this team, and not what he did elsewhere.
ultimately if this team succeeds it will be because AA brings in good pieces, not because Farrell manages them well.
- October 24, 2010 at 11:21 AM
I think you'll like Farrell. He's very articulate and has skillfully navigated some tricky personnel issues, like Dice K. Dice K would kvetch to the Japanese media (like that wouldn't get back to the Sox!) and Farrell was given the chore of responding to his comments. Farrell did a good job of making the organization look OK without throwing Dice K under the bus.
In short, my impression of Farrell as a "manager of men" is quite good. He was always willing to take the tough questions and he was always diplomatic. He would acknowledge problems rather than run away from them. But, he gave the impression of being supportive of his players no matter what. Congrats, Blue Jays!
- October 24, 2010 at 1:10 PM
Not a bad choice at all, process notwithstanding. I'd been hearing Farrell's name as a top future managerial candidate for at least two seasons now.
I think this article is free - here's a link to an interview Farrell gave to David Laurila of Baseball Prospectus in 2007 - http://www.baseballprospectus.com/article.php?articleid=6996
This past June, Farrell also made John Perrotto's list of top ten managerial candidates who have yet to manage.
John Farrell
Age: 47
Current Position: Red Sox pitching coach.
Background: Farrell pitched in the major leagues for eight seasons from 1987-96 with the Indians, Angels, and Tigers. He spent five seasons as an assistant coach and recruiting coordinator at Oklahoma State, his alma mater, from 1997-2001. Farrell returned to professional baseball in 2002 as the Indians' player development director before joining the Red Sox as their pitching coach in 2007.
Why He is Qualified: Farrell has a wealth of experience, both on the field and in the front office, and is considered one of the game's progressive thinkers. He is also able to adeptly handle all the media attention that comes from being the Red Sox' pitching coach, something that would serve him well as a manager.
- October 24, 2010 at 4:06 PM
Considered a progressive thinker was all I needed to read.
Definetly more excited if this is the case.
- October 24, 2010 at 6:44 PM
- MJK said...
John Henry, owner of the Sox, has apparently confirmed it.
glad to start the new era.
- October 24, 2010 at 9:59 PM
- your sexual said...
Very worthwhile data, thank you for your article.
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In a previous post, I compared equivalence tests to Bayes factors, and pointed out several benefits of equivalence tests. But a much more logical comparison, and one I did not give enough attention to so far, is the ROPE procedure using Bayesian estimation. I'd like to thank John Kruschke for feedback on a draft of this blog post. Check out his own recent blog comparing ROPE to Bayes factors here.
When we perform a study, we would like to conclude there is an effect, when there is an effect. But it is just as important to be able to conclude there is no effect, when there is no effect. I've recently published a paper that makes Frequentist equivalence tests (using the two-one-sided tests, or TOST, approach) as easy as possible (Lakens, 2017). Equivalence tests allow you to reject the presence of any effect you care about. In Bayesian estimation, one way to argue for the absence of a meaningful effect is the Region of Practical Equivalence (ROPE) procedure (Kruschke, 2014, chapter 12), which is "somewhat analogous to frequentist equivalence testing" (Kruschke & Liddell, 2017).
When we perform a study, we would like to conclude there is an effect, when there is an effect. But it is just as important to be able to conclude there is no effect, when there is no effect. I've recently published a paper that makes Frequentist equivalence tests (using the two-one-sided tests, or TOST, approach) as easy as possible (Lakens, 2017). Equivalence tests allow you to reject the presence of any effect you care about. In Bayesian estimation, one way to argue for the absence of a meaningful effect is the Region of Practical Equivalence (ROPE) procedure (Kruschke, 2014, chapter 12), which is "somewhat analogous to frequentist equivalence testing" (Kruschke & Liddell, 2017).
In the ROPE procedure, a 95% Highest Density Interval (HDI) is calculated based on a posterior distribution (which is calculated based on a prior and the data). Kruschke suggests that: "if the 95 % HDI falls entirely inside the ROPE then we decide to accept the ROPE'd value for practical purposes". Note that the same HDI can also be used to reject the null hypothesis, where in Frequentist statistics, even though the confidence interval plays a similar role, you would still perform both a traditional t-test and the TOST procedure.
The only real difference with equivalence testing is that instead of using a confidence interval, a Bayesian Highest Density Interval is used. If the prior used by Kruschke was perfectly uniform, ROPE and equivalence testing would identical, barring philosophical differences in how the numbers should be interpreted. The BEST package by default uses a 'broad' prior, and therefore the 95% CI and 95% HDI are not exactly the same, but they are very close, for single comparisons. When multiple comparisons are made, (for example when using sequential analyses, Lakens, 2014), the CI needs to be adjusted to maintain the desired error rate, but in Bayesian statistics, error rates are not directly controlled (they are limited due to 'shrinkage', but can be inflated beyond 5%, and often considerably so).
In the code below, I randomly generate random normally distributed data (with means of 0 and a sd of 1) and perform the ROPE procedure and the TOST. The 95% HDI is from -0.10 to 0.42, and the 95% CI is from -0.11 to 0.41, with mean differences of 0.17 or 0.15.
In the code below, I randomly generate random normally distributed data (with means of 0 and a sd of 1) and perform the ROPE procedure and the TOST. The 95% HDI is from -0.10 to 0.42, and the 95% CI is from -0.11 to 0.41, with mean differences of 0.17 or 0.15.
Indeed, if you will forgive me the pun, you might say these two approaches are practically equivalent. But there are some subtle differences between ROPE and TOST
95% HDI vs 90% CI
Kruschke (2014, Chapter 5) writes: "How should we define "reasonably credible"? One way is by saying that any points within the 95% HDI are reasonably credible." There is not a strong justification for the use of a 95% HDI over a 96% of 93% HDI, except that it mirrors the familiar use of a 95% CI in Frequentist statistics. In Frequentist statistics, the 95% confidence interval is directly related to the 5% alpha level that is commonly deemed acceptable for a maximum Type 1 error rate (even though this alpha level is in itself a convention without strong justification).
But here's the catch: The TOST equivalence testing procedure does not use a 95% CI, but a 90% CI. The reason for this is that two one-sided tests are performed. Each of these tests has a 5% error rate. You might intuitively think that doing two tests with a 5% error rate will increase the overall Type 1 error rate, but in this case, that's not true. You could easily replace the two tests, with just one test, testing the observed effect against the equivalence bound (upper or lower) closest to it. If this test is statistically significant, so is the other – and thus, there is no alpha inflation in this specific case. That's why the TOST procedure uses a 90% CI to have a 5% error rate, while the same researcher would use a 95% CI in a traditional two-sided t-test to examine whether the observed effect is statistically different from 0, while maintaining a 5% error rate (see also Senn, 2007, section 22.2.4)
This nicely illustrates the difference between estimation (where you just want to have a certain level of accuracy, such as 95%), and Frequentist hypothesis testing, where you want to distinguish between signal and noise, and not be wrong more than 5% of the time when you declare there is a signal. ROPE keeps the accuracy the same across tests, Frequentist approaches keep the error rate constant. From a Frequentist perspective, ROPE is more conservative than TOST, like the use of alpha = 0.025 is more conservative than the use of alpha = 0.05.
Power analysis
For an equivalence test, power analysis can be performed based on closed functions, and the calculations take just a fraction of a second. I find that useful, for example in my role in our ethics board, where we evaluate proposals that have to justify their sample size, and we often check power calculations. Kruschke has an excellent R package (BEST) that can do power analyses for the ROPE procedure. This is great work – but the simulations take a while (a little bit over an hour for 1000 simulations).
Because the BESTpower function relies on simulations, you need to specify the sample size, and it will calculate the power. That's actually the reverse of what you typically want in a power analysis (you want to input the desired power, and see which sample size you need). This means you most likely need to run multiple simulations in BESTpower, before you have determined the sample size that will yield good power. Furthermore, the software requires your to specify the expected means and standard deviations, instead of simply an expected effect size. Instead of Frequentist power analysis, where the hypothesized effect size is a point value (e.g., d = 0.4), Bayesian power analysis models the alternative as a distribution, acknowledging there is uncertainty.
In the end, however, the result of a power analysis for ROPE and for TOST is actually remarkably similar. Using the code below to perform the power analysis for ROPE, we see that 100 participants in each group give us approximately 88.4% power (with 2000 simulations, this estimate is still a bit uncertain) to get a 95% HDI that falls within our ROPE of -0.5 to 0.5, assuming standard deviations of 1.
We can use the powerTOSTtwo.raw function in the TOSTER package (using an alpha of 0.025 instead of 0.05, to mirror to 95% HDI) to calculate the sample size we would need to achieve 88.4% power for independent t-test (using equivalence bounds of -0.5 and 0.5, and standard deviations of 1):
The outcome is 100 as well. So if you use a broad prior, it seems you can save yourself some time by using the power analysis for equivalence tests, without severe consequences.
Use of prior information
The biggest benefit of ROPE over TOST is that is allows you to incorporate prior information in your data analysis. If you have reliable prior information, ROPE can use this information, which is especially useful if you don't have a lot of data. If you use priors, it is typically advised to check the robustness of the posterior against reasonable changes in the prior (Kruschke, 2013).
Using the ROPE procedure or the TOST procedure will most likely lead to very similar inferences. For all practical purposes, the differences are small. It's quite a lot easier to perform a power analysis for TOST, and by default, TOST has greater statistical power because it uses 90% CI. But power analysis is possible for ROPE (which is a rare pleasure to see for Bayesian analyses), and you could choose to use a 90% HDI, or any other value that matches your goals. TOST will be easier and more familiar because it is just a twist on the classic t-test, but ROPE might be a great way to dip your toes in Bayesian waters and explore the many more things you can do with Bayesian posterior distributions.
Kruschke, J. (2013). Bayesian estimation supersedes the t test. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 142(2), 573–603. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0029146
Kruschke, J. (2014). Doing Bayesian Data Analysis, Second Edition: A Tutorial with R, JAGS, and Stan (2 edition). Boston: Academic Press.
Kruschke, J., & Liddell, T. M. (2017). The Bayesian New Statistics: Hypothesis testing, estimation, meta-analysis, and power analysis from a Bayesian perspective. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-016-1221-4
Lakens, D. (2014). Performing high-powered studies efficiently with sequential analyses: Sequential analyses. European Journal of Social Psychology, 44(7), 701–710. https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.2023
Lakens, D. (2017). Equivalence tests: A practical primer for t-tests, correlations, and meta-analyses. Social Psychological and Personality Science.
Senn, S. (2007). Statistical issues in drug development (2nd ed). Chichester, England ; Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons.


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Halfpipe star Maddie Bowman of South Lake Tahoe is battling for the top spot with Carmel's Brita Sigourney, a former UC Davis water polo player. They enter this week's event one and two, respectively, with four Olympic spots available.
Dave Wise, a Tahoe skier from Reno, is one of the favorites in the men's halfpipe. But he trails current leader Aaron Blunck, of Vail, Colo. Kyle Smaine, who comes out of Sierra-at-Tahoe as does Bowman, has an outside chance sitting in sixth.
Mammoth's Sammy Carlson is ninth in slopestyle, another new sport.
Freestyle skiing
Piedmont's K.C. Oakley hopes to recover from health issues to earn an Olympic berth in moguls with a World Cup on Wednesday through Sunday at Deer Valley, Utah, and Jan. 15-18 at Lake Placid, N.Y. The four-skier team is expected to be named Jan 19.
South Lake Tahoe's Sho Kashima made a big statement last weekend in Calgary with a fifth-place finish after entering the event trailing six Americans in World Cup mogul rankings. He now is second among American skiers while ranked 11th in the world.
Tahoe City's Scotty Barhke, brother of Olympic medalist Shannon Barhke, trails seven Americans in aerials.
Oakley almost certainly needs a podium finish in one of the next two World Cup events to reach Sochi. She is far behind four other Americans after finishing 21st in Calgary.
"I am an underdog on my team," she said. "When my legs somewhat cooperate, I am more confident than ever with my skiing."
But Oakley, who graduated from Cal in 31/2 years, has not had much cooperation from her body. She had surgery last year for compartment syndrome but since recovering has struggled with lower leg problems.
"We have been theorizing and doing everything we can to get to the bottom of the problem," Oakley said. "I don't really like talking about it at this point because it is not going to solve anything. For now, I just need to be mentally strong and positive for the upcoming World Cups and to push through the pain."
The third of five qualifiers for halfpipe and slopestyle will be held Wednesday-Sunday in Breckenridge, Colo., moved because of a lack of snow in Lake Tahoe.
The big question involves Shaun White's ankle. The Tahoe-based snowboard star reinjured his left ankle last month after winning the first halfpipe qualifier. He also is trying to qualify in the new slopestyle event.
Mammoth Lake's Greg Bretz leads in the men's halfpipe standings with Truckee's Danny Davis in sixth, just ahead of White, who won the only contest he has entered so far.
It's tough to pick four U.S. women for Russia because 14 of the top 16 in the world are Americans. Two-time Olympic medalist Kelly Clark of Mammoth swept the first qualifiers to secure one of the four spots.
Two-time Olympian Elena Hight of South Lake Tahoe is fifth. Another two-time Olympic medalist, Hannah Teter of South Lake Tahoe, is ninth.
In slopestyle, X-Games star Jamie Anderson of South Lake Tahoe leads the pack among the women while Brandon Davis of Mammoth Lakes is fourth in the men's standings. The U.S. team can field four slopestyle snowboarders for men and women.
Mammoth will play host to the final two qualifiers Jan. 15-19 for halfpipe and slopestyle.
In snowboardcross, Nate Holland of Squaw Valley hopes to recover from a Dec. 7 surgery for a fractured clavicle to make a run at his third consecutive Olympics.
The six-time X-Games snowboardcross champion has two World Cups to prove he's recovered: Friday and Saturday in Vallnord-Arcalís Andorra, and Jan. 17-19 in Veysonnaz, Switzerland.
Other Sierra boarders trying to earn spots: Tahoe's Ross Andrews and Jayson Hale and Mammoth's Trevor Jacob.


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Terran Exchange necesitaba un nuevo diseño de página web y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
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Terran Exchange
Terran Exchange LLC is a global marketplace for software, apps, and cloud services. We advertise developers and products to boost visibility and increase sales. Terran Exchange is ground-breaking in that we have created a social marketing and sales platform for commercial software developers. Terran Exchange as a web service will rapidly connect buyers and sellers of information technology in unprecedented ways. We call Terran Exchange "The Marketplace for Ideas," in which the best products rise in a merit-based free market system.
Note: Terran = of or pertaining to the planet Earth
Buyers of Software/Apps/Cloud Services: small/medium-sized businesses, app consumers, tech users, IT-related organizations, iPad/pad/tabletPC/InternetTV users
Sellers of Software/Apps/Cloud Services: small/medium-sized software companies, freelancers, programmers, application software developers
With cloud computing on the rise and tremendous growth in apps, Terran Exchange seeks to aggregate developers and products from all across the application software industry. We hope to entice developers of extensions, addons, plugins for various development platforms to sell on our marketplace. Our listings of hundreds of thousands of products by end of 2011 will make Terran Exchange a leading software marketplace.
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Aim for a design that is both easy to use, sleek, futuristic (epitome of cloud computing), but still functional enough that the user can find what he/she is looking for. Popular websites with such simple designs (WHITE BACKGROUND) are Google, Amazon, Youtube, etc.
The header of our site should have our logo and search bar. The header should seamlessly merge to the main content below (Note: BUY/SELL/EXCHANGE tabs will be removed).
We need the user to come to our site and immediately know what to do. If the user is a buyer, the main focus should be on the best products. So we require 3 sections dedicated to products:
Products can be displayed in both gallery and list view.
Our marketplace categories should be clear (standard left side). Our main six categories of apps are: Business, Communications, Education, Entertainment, Productivity, and Security.
Additionally, we also require a image and gallery display (JQuery) to advertise/showcase best products or developers at the top of the site.
Keep register, login space on top right. Include social media (facebook, twitter) icons.
Android Market - https://market.android.com/
Other marketplaces we like:
Chrome webstore (although we think this is too crowded) - https://chrome.google.com/webstore
Appexchange - http://appexchange.salesforce.com/home
Intuit marketplace - http://marketplace.intuit.com/
Microsoft Pinpoint - http://pinpoint.microsoft.com/en-US/default.aspx
Elance - elance.com
Ecommerce model sites:
Amazon - amazon.com
eBay - ebay.com


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The Fukushima reactor building that exploded March 12 is one of a series of identical General Electric reactors constructed in Japan and the US. In this reactor design, the used nuclear fuel rods are stored in pools of water at the top of the reactor building. These "spent" rods are still highly radioactive: the radioactivity is so great the rods must be stored in water so they do not combust. The explosion at Fukushima Daiichi reactor unit 1 apparently destroyed at least one wall and the roof of the building: some reports stated the roof had collapsed into the building.
Two days later, the nearby building containing the plutonium-uranium (MOX) fueled Fuksuhima Daichii reactor unit 3 exploded. So why bother about the rubble of reactor No 1? The WaPo quotes a nuclear engineer who knows the answer:
Although Tokyo Electric said it also continued to deal with cooling system failures and high pressures at half a dozen of its 10 reactors in the two Fukushima complexes, fears mounted about the threat posed by the pools of water where years of spent fuel rods are stored.
At the 40-year-old Fukushima Daiichi unit 1, where an explosion Saturday destroyed a building housing the reactor, the spent fuel pool, in accordance with General Electric's design, is placed above the reactor. Tokyo Electric said it was trying to figure out how to maintain water levels in the pools, indicating that the normal safety systems there had failed, too. Failure to keep adequate water levels in a pool would lead to a catastrophic fire, said nuclear experts, some of whom think that unit 1's pool may now be outside.
"That would be like Chernobyl on steroids," said Arnie Gundersen, a nuclear engineer at Fairewinds Associates and a member of the public oversight panel for the Vermont Yankee nuclear plant, which is identical to the Fukushima Daiichi unit 1.
People familiar with the plant said there are seven spent fuel pools at Fukushima Daiichi, many of them densely packed.
Gundersen said the unit 1 pool could have as much as 20 years of spent fuel rods, which are still radioactive.
We'd be lucky if we only had to worry about the spent fuel rods from a single holding pool. We're not that lucky. The Fukushima Daiichi plant has seven pools for spent fuel rods. Six of these are (or were) located at the top of six reactor buildings. One "common pool" is at ground level in a separate building. Each "reactor top" pool holds 3450 fuel rod assemblies. The common pool holds 6291 fuel rod assemblies. [The common pool has windows on one wall which were almost certainly destroyed by the tsunami.] Each assembly holds sixty-three fuel rods. This means the Fukushima Daiichi plant may contain over 600,000 spent fuel rods.
The fuel rods must be kept submerged in water. Why? Outside of the water bath, the radioactivity in the used rods can cause them to become so hot they begin to catch fire. These fires can burn so hot the radioactive rod contents are carried into the atmosphere as vaporized material or as very small particles. Reactor no 3 burns MOX fuel that contains a mix of plutonium and uranium. Plutonium generates more heat than uranium, which means these rods have the greatest risk of burning. That's bad news, because plutonium scattered into the atmosphere is even more dangerous that the combustion products of rods without plutonium.
Chernobyl on steroids. When the nuclear engineer from an identical plant states there's any possibility of such a catastrophe, Washington, we have a problem. Chernobyl's contamination settled upon people and nations thousands of miles from that reactor's location. How far would "Chernobyl on steroids" travel? And where are the up to 20 years of reactor no 1 spent fuel rods that could cause such a problem, and the spent fuel rods held – until the building exploded – in the spent fuel rod pool atop reactor no 3?
Along with the rest of the planet, Washington's looking at the risk of a potential catastrophe. At least when it comes to finding the fuel rods from reactor 1, Washington possesses some unique assets. One asset – the secretive National Reconassiance Office – runs the spy satellites remote sensing devices that enable US national security to spy on planet Earth. The NRO's slightly less secretive cousin over at the the Pentagon is the Defense Intelligence Agency. The DIA, in turn, controls MASINT "measures and signatures technologies".
What is MASINT? FDL's recent guest Tim Shorrock answered that question a few years ago for CorpWatch:
MASINT is a highly classified form of intelligence that uses infrared sensors and other technologies to "sniff" the atmosphere for certain chemicals and electro-magnetic activity and "see" beneath bridges and forest canopies. Using its tools, analysts can detect signs that a nuclear power plant is producing plutonium, determine from truck exhaust what types of vehicles are in a convoy, and detect people and weapons hidden from the view of satellites or photoreconnaissance aircraft.
With assets like the NRO and the DIA's MASINT capacity, even an Obama administration that couldn't find out millions of of barrels of Corexit and crude oil would poison the Gulf should be able to help Japan's Fukushima plant locate their missing fuel rods. And do so before the missing rods – or any of the other pools of fuel rods in Japan's stricken reactors – ignite Chernobyl on steroids.
Once Obama and his generals have found the fuel rods, let's hope they'll time out from Gridion dinners and collateral damage and let the Americans who pay for all the fancy spy technology know what's happening. Because now that Americans are hearing CNN's Dr. Gupta talking about potassium iodide (KI) to prevent radiation toxicity, they're going to be wondering if they need to take KI. As long as we don't see massive uncontrolled radiation releases from the stricken reactors, they probably won't. Should we see Chernobyl on steroids, Americans may need a whole lot more than KI. And until the spent fuel rods are located, there won't be enough information to let Americans plan how to protect their loved ones. Unless we all learn the fuel rods have caught fire.
[Note: revised at 3:15 PM Pacific on 3/14/11]
[Note # 2: The next to the last comment is a link to an article from MIT Tech titled: "Opinion: What happened at the Fukushima reactor? Events in Japan confirm the robustness of modern nuclear technology — not a failure". If Fukushima's a success, pray we never see a failure.
The idea that MIT of all places replaces empirical assessment with ideological cheerleading bordering on fanaticism is as instructive as it is alarming.]


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Bristol (cities, United States)
Bristol:1 Industrial city (1990 pop. 60,640), Hartford co., central Conn., on the Pequabuck River; settled 1727, inc. 1785. Its clock-making industry dates from 1790. It also makes machinery, electrical equipment, and metal products, and is home to the ESPN television network and an elevator testing facility. The American Clock and Watch Museum is there, and on Lake Compounce is the nation's oldest continually operating amusement park.
2 Industrial borough (1990 pop. 10,405), Bucks co., SE Pa., on the Delaware River opposite Burlington, N.J.; settled 1697, inc. 1720. Its many manufactures include plastics, paper, medical supplies, and electronic equipment. The third oldest borough in the state, it was once a busy river port with important shipbuilding activities. Among its historic structures is the Friends Meetinghouse (c.1710). A restoration of 17th- and 18th-century buildings and a replica of William Penn's country manor are nearby.
3 Town (1990 pop. 21,625), seat of Bristol co., E R.I., a port of entry on Narragansett Bay; inc. as a Plymouth Colony town 1681, ceded to Rhode Island 1746. An early center of commercial trade, the port was (18th–19th cent.) a base for whaling and shipbuilding. The Herreshoff boatyard, where many winners of the America's Cup were built, was in operation until 1945. Manufacturing includes wire and cable, cotton thread, and fiberglass boats. King Philip's War (1675–76) began and ended on the site of the town, and a monument on Mt. Hope marks the spot where King Philip fell. The Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology has notable collections of Native American relics. On Hope St. is a row of preserved colonial homes. The town is the seat of Roger Williams Univ. Mt. Hope Bridge connects Bristol with Portsmouth.
4 Industrial cities on the Tenn.-Va. line, Sullivan co., Tenn. (1990 pop. 23,421), independent and in no county in Virginia (1990 pop. 18,426); settled 1749 as Sapling Grove, inc. as separate towns 1856, as Bristol city 1890. The two cities, although separate municipalities, are economically a unit that is the transportation and processing center of a mountainous region. Livestock is raised and electronic equipment, metal products, and caskets are produced there. Shelby's Fort (built 1771) was frequented by Daniel Boone. Two hundred years of controversy preceded the location of the state line down the middle of State Street. King College is in Bristol, Tenn., and Virginia Intermont College is in the Virginia city. In the area are Bristol Caverns and Bristol Motor Speedway.


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Vote For The Albums Everyone Can Love, For July 31
Apart from Rubber Soul by The Beatles, there weren't any big winners in last week's poll, the latest in our summer-long attempt to identify the albums we can all agree on. Although, if you adjust for the "haven't really heard" votes, 90 percent of those of you who have heard it "love" Otis Redding's Otis Blue, which is about as good as any album has done this summer. Most of you also haven't heard Peter Bjorn & John's Writer's Block (an incredibly catchy and popular record when it first came out in 2006) or Portishead's Dummy. You'll definitely want to check those out if you haven't heard them.
We read the comments and love getting your nominees for albums to be included in future polls, so keep them coming. Toward the end of the summer we'll publish a complete list of all the records that appeared in the polls.


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The political world has been abuzz lately over comments made by a candidate for the U.S. Senate in Missouri. When asked about whether pro-lifers would accept a ban on abortion that permitted an exception for rape or incest, the candidate made some ill-conceived remarks that seemed to minimize the horror of rape. This incident has now been used by the forces of the Culture of Death (including their allies in the media) to flog pro-lifers as being radical or anti-woman.
Some clarification and explanation is in order.
The unquestioned goal of the pro-life movement is a conversion of the hearts of individuals, and thus of our culture, so that every innocent life is protected from conception until natural death. This protection will involve changes in the law so that the practice — and even the concept — of abortion would be completely eradicated from our land. Given our presumption that every human life has inestimable value, and that innocent life cannot be taken, we work towards the ultimate goal of enacting laws to prohibit abortion with no exceptions. One vehicle for this would be a Human Life Amendment.
In short, we aim to build a Culture of Life, in which all lives are valued. To get a glimpse of this goal, and how we can get there, I suggest that people read the great statement by the United States Bishops, Living the Gospel of Life.
Unfortunately, our culture is not yet ready to accept the changes in attitude and in law that we are seeking. While there have been shifts in public opinion over the years in favor of the pro-life position, there are still a large number of individuals who either approve of abortion, or who are willing to tolerate it for a perceived "greater good". We must redouble our efforts to reach out to our brothers and sisters who believe this, to convert their hearts.
One way that we seek to achieve this conversion of heart is by taking incremental steps towards our ultimate goal — in short, building a Culture of Life, brick by brick. This is why we support measures that limit and restrict abortion in various ways, such as parental notification laws, bans on late-term abortions, and such. By supporting these initiatives, we are not accepting the morality of abortion — we are seeking to mitigate the damage, and to use these bills as a vehicle to educate people about abortion, as a way of calling them to conversion. This approach to legislation was specifically approved by Pope John Paul II in his encyclical The Gospel of Life (see paragraph 73).
This is where the "rape exception" comes into play. Pro-lifers hold steadfastly to the fundamental truth that a baby conceived in a rape is an innocent human being whose life may never be directly terminated. We see rape as a horrific act, an inexcusable violation of the dignity of a woman, a depraved crime that should be severely punished by law. We believe that a woman victimized by rape must receive our support as she strives for healing. But we do not accept that the path to healing passes through the abortion clinic. We firmly believe that one cannot heal a victim of violence, by taking the life of another innocent person.
Unfortunately, many people disagree with us — people who either consider themselves pro-life, or who are willing to support some of our goals. These people are potential allies as we try to pass common-sense laws to restrict abortion. We wish to build alliances and coalitions with these potential supporters, not alienate them. So, many pro-lifers in the political and policy arena are willing to tolerate a "rape exception" to a ban on abortion. That is not to say that we consider such an exception as a final goal — but we take what we can get, when we can get it, and press on from there, always moving forwards.
There's an old adage that "hard cases make bad law". They also make unsatisfactory compromises, and disappointment. But they sometimes can produce small steps towards our ultimate goal.


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Jobseeker's Allowance
If you are unemployed, you may be paid either Jobseeker's Allowance (JA) or Jobseeker's Benefit (JB). Both payments are paid by the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection (DEASP).
You may get Jobseeker's Allowance if you don't qualify for Jobseeker's Benefit or if you have used up your entitlement to Jobseeker's Benefit. In some cases, if you are only entitled to a reduced rate of Jobseeker's Benefit you may be better off on Jobseeker's Allowance. (This is known as Optional JA.) However, Jobseeker's Allowance is means-tested, and your means must be below a certain level to qualify.
The Jobseeker's Transitional payment (JST) is a special arrangement under the Jobseeker's Allowance scheme that aims to support lone parents into the workforce while they have young children. This payment is available to people parenting alone whose youngest child is aged between 7 and 13 years inclusive.
COVID-19 (coronavirus)
During the coronavirus restrictions, people on jobseeker's payments do not have to sign on at Intreo offices.
If your employment (or self-employment) has been affected by the coronavirus pandemic, or if you are sick or caring for someone who is sick, read our document on COVID-19 (coronavirus) and social welfare payments.
You can read our document on Employment rights during the COVID-19 restrictions.
The DEASP announced on 14 March that applications should be made either online or by post where possible. In most cases you will not have to go to an Intreo office in person.
If you have coronavirus symptoms or are medically required to self-isolate, you should apply for Illness Benefit.
To get Jobseeker's Allowance you must be aged over 18 and under 66. You must also:
- Be unemployed (you must be fully unemployed or unemployed for at least 4 days out of 7)
- Be capable of work
- Be available for full-time work and genuinely seeking work
- Satisfy the means test
- Meet the habitual residence condition
You can read more about the conditions for getting a jobseeker's payment and about the employment services for jobseekers.
There are some special provisions for older jobseekers and for pregnant women.
Jobseeker's Allowance and work
You must be unemployed to get Jobseeker's Allowance. You must also be capable of, available for, and genuinely seeking full-time work to qualify for Jobseeker's Allowance – and you must be able to show evidence of this to the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection. However, there are circumstances in which you can do some work and get Jobseeker's Allowance. Income from work affects the amount of Jobseeker's Allowance you get.
If you get part-time or casual work (up to and including 3 days per week), you may still be paid Jobseeker's Allowance for the other days. However, you must show that you are trying to get full-time employment. If your employer reduces your days at work to 3 days week or less, you may get Jobseeker's Allowance for the other days. You must meet the other conditions that apply to Jobseeker's Allowance, for example, you must satisfy a means test.
If you have been getting long-term Jobseeker's Allowance (over 390 days or 15 months) and you take up part-time work for less than 24 hours a week you may be eligible for the Part-time Job Incentive Scheme (PTJI). This scheme allows you to take up part-time work and get a special weekly allowance instead of your jobseeker's payment.
Find out more about how income from work is assessed for Jobseeker's Allowance. You can also take up to two weeks holiday in a year and continue to get your payment.
If you are getting JA, you can use a benefit of work estimator from the DEASP to help you assess the financial consequences of taking up full-time work. The Reckoner works out the total amount you would receive on taking up full-time work (including any Working Family Payment) and compares this to what you are getting in jobseeker payments (including Rent Supplement). A Back to Work Family Dividend is available for lone parents and long-term jobseeker families with children who find or return to work.
If you are self-employed, you may be entitled to Jobseeker's Allowance, depending on your income from your business. You can find out more about self-employment and unemployment. Self-employed farmers on a low income can apply for Farm Assist.
Under a pilot scheme launched in June 2017, self-employed visual artists and writers who apply for Jobseeker's Allowance will not be subject to the activation process for at least 12 months. All other scheme conditions will apply, including the means test. To participate in this programme, artists will need a certificate from a relevant professional body. If you are a visual artist, the body that issues certificates confirming professional status is Visual Artists Ireland. If you are a writer, the Irish Writers Centre is the relevant body. The pilot scheme for artists became a permanent scheme and was extended to other art forms (performing arts and film) in September 2019.
Means test
Jobseeker's Allowance is a means-tested payment. Your means must be below a certain level to get Jobseeker's Allowance. A means test looks at all your household sources of income including your spouse's, civil partner's or cohabitant's income. (A cohabitant is a person living in an intimate and committed relationship with a person of the same or opposite sex who is not that person's spouse, civil partner, or a close relative.)
However, some income may not be taken into account. Your total household means is deducted from the maximum payment for your household's circumstances to find the actual amount of Jobseeker's Allowance you are entitled to.
If your spouse, civil partner or cohabitant is getting a social welfare payment in his or her own right (with some exceptions) or is on a Further Education and Training (FET) course or VTOS course and getting an allowance you will not get an Increase for a Qualified Adult but you will get a half-rate increase for any qualified children. A limitation applies which means that if you are claiming Jobseeker's Allowance and your spouse, civil partner or cohabitant is getting certain social welfare payments, the total amount paid to you as a couple cannot be more than the maximum amount that would be paid to one person (including adult and child dependants) on one social welfare payment. Find out more about the means test for Jobseeker's Allowance.
You can claim an increase for your spouse, civil partner or cohabitant while they are taking part in a Community Employment (CE),Tús or Gateway scheme. Their earnings from the scheme are assessed in the same way as earnings from insurable employment (and your combined means are not halved).
If you are 24 years of age or under and you are living with a parent or a step-parent in the family home, some of your parents' income will also be taken into account in the assessment for Jobseeker's Allowance. The Department call this an assessment of the 'benefit and privilege' you get from living with your parents. Find out more about how living with your parents is assessed in the means test.
Disqualification and reduction in payment
You may be disqualified from getting Jobseeker's Allowance for 9 weeks if you:
- Left work voluntarily and without just cause
- Lost your job through misconduct
- Refused an offer of suitable employment or training - if you have been on a penalty rate of JA for at least 21 days
Your payment can be reduced if you refuse or fail to attend meetings requested by the Department or if you refuse or fail to participate in an appropriate employment support scheme, work experience or training (see also Penalty rates below). Read more about sanctions that may apply if you do not fulfil the conditions of your jobseeker's payment.
If you have just left school, you cannot get Jobseeker's Allowance. To get Jobseeker's Allowance you must have been out of school for 3 months and you must be at least 18 years of age.
Third-level students cannot claim Jobseeker's Allowance or Benefit while they are studying full-time. This disqualification also applies to the summer holiday periods between academic years (unless you are a mature student). However, once you have finished college permanently you can claim a jobseeker's payment if you cannot find work. This is also the case if you leave college without finishing your course.
The 3 month disqualification rule does not apply to Youthreach participants.
Short-term employment or training
The Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection operates a fast-tracking system for people who sign off a jobseeker's payment to take up work for a short period (up to 12 weeks) or to go on a short training course (up to 12 weeks). This ensures that your payment is re-instated without delay. It is important that you inform your Intreo Centre or local Social Welfare Branch Office in advance that you are taking up work or training. Your Rent Supplement claim can also be suspended for up to 12 weeks.
Jobseeker's Allowance rates 2020
|Maximum personal rate
|Increase for an adult dependant
for a child dependant
From 6 January
|Aged 25 and over
|€147 (from 25 March 2020)
|Child aged
under 12
€36 (full-rate), €18.50 (half-rate)
Child aged 12 and over
€40 (full-rate), €20 (half-rate)
|Aged 18-24 and living independently*
|€147 (from 25 March 2020)
|Aged 18-24 and not living independently
|People aged
18-24 with children qualify
for the maximum personal rate €203
The weekly rate for an adult dependant is temporarily increased from €134.70 to €147 for 12 weeks. This temporary increase will end on the week of the 15 June 2020.
*Jobseeker's Allowance for people aged under 25 is €203, only if the person is living independently and getting a state housing support such as Rent Supplement, Rental Accommodation Scheme (RAS) or Housing Assistance Payment (HAP).
Reduced personal and qualified adult rates of Jobseeker's Allowance (JA) for people between 18 and 24 do not apply to:
- People with dependent children
- People transferring from Disability Allowance to JA
- People who were in the care of the Child and Family Agency during the 12 months before reaching 18.
If you were getting an age-related reduced rate of JA and you take part in a course of education, training or an employment support scheme the appropriate personal rate of payment applicable to that course or scheme will apply as long as you are aged under 25. When you complete the course you will go back to your previous age-related JA rate.
All Back to Education Allowance (BTEA) participants aged under 25 who were getting a reduced age-related Jobseeker's Allowance payment, get a maximum BTEA rate of €203 per week. Any means you have are deducted from this rate.
Penalty rates
Your payment can be reduced if you refuse or fail to attend meetings requested by the Department or if you refuse or fail to participate in an appropriate employment support scheme, work experience or training. You can find out about sanctions for not meeting the conditions of your jobseeker's payment.
Payments for dependants
If you qualify for Jobseeker's Allowance you get an amount for yourself, which is called the 'personal rate of payment'. You may also get an increase in your payment for an adult dependant and any child dependants you may have.
Child dependants
A child dependant is usually a child up to 18 years of age who lives with you.
If you have been getting Jobseeker's Allowance for at least 156 days and your child is in full-time education, an Increase for a Qualified Child (IQC) will be paid up to 22 years of age or up to the end of the academic year in which he or she reaches 22. You will only get a half-rate IQC if you and your spouse, civil partner or cohabitant are both getting a social welfare payment. You will each get a half-rate IQC.
Adult dependants
You may get an Increase for a Qualified Adult (IQA) for an adult dependant (this is usually your spouse, civil partner or cohabitant). If you are single, widowed, divorced, separated, a former civil partner or not living with your civil partner, and living with a person aged 16 or over, you can claim an IQA for them but only if he or she is caring for a child dependant of yours.
If your spouse, civil partner or cohabitant works or is taking part in a Community Employment (CE scheme), Tús or Gateway their earnings from insurable employment are assessed in the same way as your earnings from part-time or casual work. Find out more about work and Jobseeker's Allowance.
Getting paid
You can collect your Jobseeker's Allowance payment weekly from your nearest Post Office. You must bring valid photographic identification (photo ID) with you to collect your payment. The following is considered to be valid photo ID:
- Public Services Card
- Driving licence
- Passport
- Irish Residence Permit card
- EU/EEA nationals may use a National Identity Card
Staff working in the Post Office may ask to see your photo ID before giving you your payment.
Other benefits
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Posted by angelapagano in Uncategorized on 31 July 2011
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"Some HIV-positive patients in Swaziland are so poor they have resorted to eating cow dung before taking anti-retroviral drugs, Aids activists say.
The drugs do not work on an empty stomach, so patients have to use the dung – mixed with water – instead of food, the activists say.
The shortage of money forced King Mswati, who is sub-Saharan Africa's last absolute monarch, to cancel his silver jubilee celebrations this year.
He has an estimated personal wealth of $200m (£122m) and each of his 13 wives has a palace paid for by the state, correspondents say."
What a fuckup.
On the one hand, you've got people so poor they have to eat cow shit; on the other, you've got King Mswati III.
He has to give up one of his many, many luxuries — canceling his silver jubilee celebrations, which celebrates how he's now ruled for 25 years, paid for by the people of Swaziland (as are his birthday celebrations) — but he still has his $200 million and his 13 palaces paid for by the state, a possible $10 billion in trust (from his father, the now-dead King Sobhuza II), and who-knows-what else. He is so wealthy and yet he is the one that the state provides for? That's where the state puts massive amounts of money towards in a place where people are so poor they have to eat cow shit so that they have some type of substance for their HIV drugs to work?
"The king has also been criticised for requesting public money to pay for new palaces, a personal jet and luxury cars. Street protests led him to abandon the aircraft purchase."[*]
So, now that the "royalty" is having to cut back a bit, what's being done?
"It has asked neighbouring South Africa for a bailout."[*]
A news article from 21 July 2011 said that South Africa has agreed to granting $202 million to Swaziland. (Note the figure — quite close to King Mswati's "estimated personal wealth".)
So, are bailouts actually all about the people who live in extreme luxury wanting to continue living that lifestyle no matter the consequence? It's not about the people forced to live in extreme poverty; it's about the super-rich — because this current system works for THEM. Was there such strong efforts to get more money before the super-rich started having to subtly cut back their luxurious lifestyles? The small percentage of the very wealthy reap all the benefits while the majority of this world live a very, very different life, basically bearing all the nasty consequences.
Swazis have a life expectancy of around 48 years old.[*] (However, I've seen other sources place that figure in the 30s.)
At 39%, Swaziland has the highest HIV-prevalence in adult population in the entire world.[*] This looks like it will even get worse — and their lack of access to sufficient food is pushing some of the already-infected to consider stopping their HIV meds since it's required to take with something in the stomach (which has had to be cow shit for some, as mentioned previously).
There is a 43% unemployment rate — and the 2009/2010 Swaziland Household Income and Expenditure Survey says 63% of Swaziland live in poverty, and 30% live in extreme poverty. (The people of Swaziland additionally pay for the royal family's "upkeep," which is an outrageous sum, when the majority struggle to survive.)
The solution: The Equal Money System — a system that takes all equally into consideration. That means the end to a world where the super-rich continue to live in excessive luxury while the majority suffer and struggle to survive. No-one will be forced to eat cow dung; all will have access to sufficient food. It would mark the immediate end of poverty.
No bailouts required in an Equal Money System. The term "economic crisis" could cease to exist; we'd never have to use it.
No Kings, monarchs, family dynasties / ruling families, "royalty". No more corrupt governments. Instead, equality and real leadership. In a Best-For-All world system, Life would be absolutely honored and the planet would thrive in a way that we've never gotten to see.
We'd have a high life-expectancy worldwide. All would have equal access to food, clean water, quality education, quality medical care — to all that is required. Real prevention would be a priority — an end to the half-assed efforts to prevent the various problems in this world.
A world of haves, as it should be.
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10 June 2010
General Grant National Memorial, Manhattan, New York, USA
Ulysses S. Grant, b. Point Pleasant, Ohio 27 April 1822, d. Mount McGregor, New York 23 July 1885, served as President of the United States from 1869 to 1877. He married in 1848 Julia Boggs Dent (1826-1902).
The tomb, the largest mausoleum in North America, was completed in 1897, and is located near Hudson River at the Upper West Side of Manhattan, New York. To reach the memorial by subway, take either the 7th Avenue-Broadway No. 1 or No. 9 subway train. Both stop at West 116th Street Station on Broadway, two blocks east and six blocks south of Grant's Tomb.
For more information, see the Website of the Grant Monument Association or Nps.gov (US National Park Service). You are also recommended to read Brian Lamb's Who's Buried in Grant's Tomb? A Tour of Presidential Gravesites, which is a great source of information about the gravesites of the US Presidents (and Vice Presidents).
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So Mr. Historian here is a trivia question for you. How many Ohio natives have been President?ReplyDelete
How do you define "native" in this regard? Born in Ohio? Or lived there when he grew up? Anyway, not a question I would be able to answer right away, would have to consult my books (and that would be cheating, wouldn't it...). I would *guess*, though, that 5-6 "Ohio natives" have been President...ReplyDelete
It seems that 7 is the right answer: Grant, Hayes, Garfield, Benjamin Harrison, McKinley, Taft and Harding. In addition William Henry Harrison lived in Ohio for most of his life.ReplyDelete
The website I linked to hasn't been updated in a while, though, but 7 Ohio natives is still the answer. But the number of Presidents who have been State Senator should be 10, not 9...ReplyDelete


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Zone 3
- After a light frost, begin harvesting sweetened turnips, parsnips, and other late veggies left in the ground.
- Collect and store flower bulbs—such as gladiola, freesia, calla, and cannas—after their tops have frozen.
- Water trees, shrubs, perennials, roses, and lawns before the ground freezes hard.
- Cut back tender roses to 10 to 12 inches, and remove all foliage so insects and diseases can't winter over.
- Cover tender, hybrid roses with leaves or straw to protect against winter temperature changes.
- Harvest late apples before the end of the month.
- Clean up garden debris before the first snowfall.
Zone 4Check the Zone Map for your area.
- Harvest or heavily mulch the last carrots, beets, and other root crops; store them in a cool place that won't freeze.
- Plant garlic and shallots.
- Sow a cover crop of winter rye in vacant beds.
- Plant spring-blooming bulbs.
- Remember that it's still time to plant potted trees and shrubs.
- Dig up and store gladiolius and other tender corms and tubers.
- Cover tender roses and grapes.
Zone 5
- Thin out one-third of the oldest branches of forsythia, lilac, spirea, and potentilla for better bloom and shape next spring.
- Dig up tender tubers and corms of dahlias, cannas, caladium, and gladiolius.
- Don't cut back ornamental grasses, sunflowers, and wildflowers—leave them for winter interest and for wildlife.
- Collect leaves to shred (with a shredder or mower) and compost.
- Clean up all fallen fruits to reduce disease and pest problems.
- Work well-rotted manure or compost into asparagus beds.
- Dig up geraniums, and bring them indoors for the winter.
- Pot up some paperwhite bulbs for holiday forcing.
Zone 6
- Squeeze in a few last sowings of spinach and other cold-hardy greens, beneath row covers or coldframes.
- Have frost protectors handy to extend the harvest of tender veggies.
- Begin cleaning up the garden.
- Compost all spent plants, shredded leaves, and the last grass clippings.
- Continue planting spring-blooming bulbs, trees, and shrubs.
Zone 7
- Bring zonal geraniums and vacationing houseplants indoors before the first frost.
- Thin the radishes, carrots, and turnips you sowed last month; then sprinkle the bed with 1 inch of compost.
- Dig up sweet potatoes before winter rains cause them to split and rot.
- Set out garlic cloves and continue to plant onions.
- Sow late spinach to overwinter; it will resume growing in spring.
- Clean up the blueberry patch: Prune broken or diseased limbs, and thicken the mulch with a layer of pine needles or shredded oak leaves.
Zone 8
- Plant more lettuce, Chinese cabbage, spinach, carrots, beets, peas, radishes, onions, turnips, garlic, shallots, and cress.
- Set out strawberry plants.
- Sow a cover crop of winter rye (Secale cereale), purple vetch (Vicia benghalensis), Austrian winter peas (Pisum arvense), or 'Elbon' rye (Secale cereale 'Elbon') in vacant beds.
- Use rye clippings to add nitrogen to compost, speeding the breakdown of fall leaves.
- In flowerbeds, plant anemones, oxalis, and ranunculus for spring bloom.
- Also, seed annual candytuft (Iberis umbellata) in bare spots of flowerbeds for spring bloom.
- Broadcast wildflower seeds to establish a meadow.
- Plant trees and shrubs: Warm fall temps will help them get established before winter.
Zone 9
- For spring bloom, broadcast wildflower seeds over soil that has been lightly cultivated.
- Plant fast-growing, frost-resistant veggies: radishes, mustard, spinach, 'Tokyo Market' turnips, and corn salad.
- Divide and transplant bearded irises, daylilies, phlox, cannas, and Shasta daisies.
- Harvest sweet potatoes after tops wither, but before the first hard frost.
- Harvest winter squash, pumpkins, and peanuts before frost.
- Clean up fallen fruit in the orchard.
- Build a hot compost pile to kill pathogens lurking in garden debris: Use a high-nitrogen material, such as grass clippings or seafood shells.
Zone 10
- Set out transplants of tomatoes, peppers, and eggplants.
- Mulch and water well—dry spells this month can last a week or longer.
- Finish pruning fruit trees so new sprouts can harden before cold arrives.
- Plant colorful bloomers, such as sweet alyssum, begonias, petunias, and pansies.
- Prepare beds for planting roses; plant them late this month.
- Fertilize plants that flower in winter.
- Plant strawberries and brassicas (except brussels sprouts—it's too warm) early in the month.
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The MacTaggart is the headline performance at the MediaGuardian Edinburgh International Television Festival, the biggest event in the UK television industry. It's a special event, an opportunity for an insider to speak their mind to other insiders. The MacTaggart is famous as an occasion where speakers don't hold back. Anyone invited to do it knows they've been given a special platform, with an intimidating history.
In 2010, the then Director-General of the BBC, Mark Thompson described the ingredients of a "classic" MacTaggart: "First you need anger. If you can manage it, rage ….. Next you need a villain. If you study the best MacTaggarts, there's always a proper, black-hearted villain. Sometimes the villain is called Murdoch…. Finally – and this is the mark of true class – if you can, you should insult your audience."
Two Murdochs have given the MacTaggart lecture before Elisabeth, and each took the "insult the audience" approach. James Murdoch told them in 2009 that they were the "Addams family of world media." 20 years earlier, his father Rupert Murdoch "seized his opportunity to vent his frustration and anger on the British television establishment, attacking …class-ridden attitudes, museum-style costume drama…hostility to enterprise, and the elitism of its executives."
Elisabeth seems to understand all this. Her gift is to know what her audience will be thinking, and by confronting it, to get them on side. She is measured, understated, and sometimes self-deprecating, but she has authority, and gives advice she wants them to heed. While diplomatic enough not to break ranks with her family, she is candid enough to set herself apart from them. It's a well-executed and impressive example of someone retaining their integrity in a tight public spot.
Her introduction is blunt: the invitation is an honour and "a pain in the ass," one you can't decline, but you worry about. Half-seriously expressing her anxiety over what to wear leads her to an attack on the organisers for not inviting a woman to give the lecture once in the last seventeen years. She reels off a list of female industry leaders who should have made the grade and chastises the committee for ignoring them. But then she moves on to the really big elephant in the room.
"Writing a MacTaggart has been quite a welcome distraction from some of the other nightmares much closer to home. Yes, you have met some of my family before." By squaring straight up to this, Murdoch disarms her audience and wins their allegiance for the talk to come.
Her personal story is the spine of her speech. Her love of television is intense. "It has been my friend, comfort, window to the world, a source of ideas emotions and experiences," all of which shape who she is. As a child, an outsider, TV helped her understand the culture she'd been transported to. As a teenager she could not stop watching MTV. Of course, neither could most of the people in the room. She bonds with the audience by listing the shows they all grew up with, and praises that era of "socially and politically astute television" whose true purpose is to build human connections.
She is honest about her father's help with her career, but there's a refreshing reality to her description of starting work at Australia's female-free Channel 9; followed by a stint as one of only two non-Mormons at Fox in Utah; time at BSkyB, when she couldn't understand what anybody said; and her decision at 26 to go out on her own, with her father's skeptical support.
If you are not in the TV business, a lot of her speech may be bamboozling. But some of her messages have wider resonance: She believes in TVs power to enliven and enrich. Always put the audience first. A company needs an explicit statement of values based on a sense of purpose. It's best to have investors with like minds – that's why she sold Shine to News Corp ("I can hear you thinking 'No Shit, Sherlock'").
Towards the end of the speech she takes issue with what her brother James said in 2009, and this is what made the headlines. She disagrees with his attitude to the BBC, instead praising its openness to harnessing creativity. Where he said the only reliable guarantor of independent news coverage was profit, she calls profit without purpose "a recipe for disaster." And she describes the "unsettling death of integrity across so many of our institutions," an obvious reference to News International, and to the politicians and police who are implicated in the phone hacking scandal. "The absence of purpose, or of a moral language within government, media or business, could become one of the most dangerous own goals for capitalism and for freedom."
Murdoch uses some homey homily. She says the industry spends too much time fighting over crumbs when "we should be baking a bigger cake." She cites the Olympics, happening just a few weeks after the speech, as the best example of how collaboration and competition can co-exist, and says that is the industry embraced the mindset of the Olympians they'd be world champions in a digital age. She's more compelling when she's talking the intricacies of media strategy, because her true power is in her business experience, where we easily get the feeling she plays the game well.
Her speech was described by some as a pitch to be the heir to the family's empire. Listening to her presentation might or might not lead you to that conclusion. What you will take away is the understanding that this is a businesswoman who knows what she's doing.
What can speakers learn from Elisabeth Murdoch?
- Acknowledge audience concerns. Candour begets trust. If landmines are lurking, or skeletons are hiding in cupboards, you can win the audience over by dealing frankly with them. It's better to be upfront than to leave obvious issues unaddressed. Murdoch does this professionally and tactfully, which saves embarrassment for everyone.
- Decide how you want the audience to see you. Murdoch constructs a strong professional persona and supports it consistently throughout. The line about what to wear is her only really personal remark. Her passion for her business is clear and stories from her life and career are only used to explain it. She acknowledges the help she got from being a Murdoch, but she takes credit for what she has done herself. She is respectful of others, and generously offers "lessons learned" for the good of the wider industry.
- Work with your setting. Murdoch gives a static presentation -- there's no choice. It's an hour of voice and voice alone, standing on one spot, a hard task for anyone. She's a slow speaker, and deliberate. She sounds well rehearsed and she keeps the whole audience constantly under her gaze. There's not a lot of scope for variety in this format but her gestures are limited and they become repetitive. It might have been a good idea to put her hands away altogether and gesture only when it assists with emphasizing or illustrating a point. I'd rather she were a little livelier and there was more variety and animation in her delivery, as it would offer some relief in what is a very long lecture. However she certainly sounds authentic and that's the most important thing of all.
You can read the full text of Murdoch's speech here, and watch it in the video below. What do you think of this famous speech?


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