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Tuesday, May 06, 2008
Excelsior (ever upward)
Critical feedback is always welcome!
Download a better quality version here.
34 comments:
- Rachacuca said...
Hey, Blane..
Wot up?
I thought you mentioned it 'coz of Stan Lee, lol.
He used to write it in every introduction text he published, when he was an author on Marvel Comics.
Great video, bro.
The climb-ups are sweet, so clean and fast. Sharped technically, you know? Well done.
Take care,
Cheers from Brazil.
Bruno Rachacuca. - 03:58
russian tracer)
we try traning like you. but it's very hard, cause pk new discipline in our contry)
thank's for the video ;)
p.s. sorry for my bad english) - 16:36
great vid blane! ^^
- 20:39
Sweet f!*@ that was good. One thing I've always found very...unique? about your videos is your sense of ease and control, everything seems to be done with just the right amount of energy, so you seem to kinda drift. Anyway, a bucketload of inspiration right there.
Out of interest, whats your breakup between conditioning and technical training nowadays? - 00:11
- Unknown said...
Once again great video.
- 01:18
- Rike said...
Hey Blane!
another Perfect video!
Your parkour is so simple, seems easy. I awalys train thinking of your strenght, flow and what I need to do to improve myself. Thanks.
Greetings from Brazil too!
Excelsior :) - 03:40
- 4564984680464 said...
I got a criticism for ya!
WHERE THE HELL IS MY DOWNLOAD VERSION lol?
Loved it. Amazing stuff as always. You seem to just be improving so much all the time.
Really enjoyed watching.
Kieran - 09:03
- Chris 'Blane' Rowat said...
Thanks for the comments guys, much appreciated.
My ratio between conditioning and technical training has not changed too much. I tend to follow a mixture of repeating jumps or combinations (both arm and leg) for conditioning but more traditional exercises still play a part. I tend to have one repetition based session followed by a traditional strength training session and repeat that pattern.
The actual time between each strength/conditioning session varies depending on when I feel fresh again, there is no fixed schedule.
I train technically, in terms of just moving around and trying to do new things only once or twice per week at the moment. :-)
Kieran, there is no a download link in the main post if you still want one!
Godly balance, vicious climb-ups, killer precisions.. yup safe to say your kicking ass with your progression! Always improving.. and don't stop, cause you're my inspiration to train!
Maybe someday we can train together, by then hopefully I won't be such a newb.. lol - 17:21
- Darg said...
Hellow from Russia. Fantastic vid, Blane ;) Interesting combo's and movements. Take care.
PS. Can you say what misuc is playin' after 02:34? :) - 21:00
- Chris 'Blane' Rowat said...
Matt, there's no danger of me stopping... no need to worry about that! I'm really up for meeting to train, you're always welcome here. :)
Darg, the song playing after 02:34 is called 'Off The Record' by 'Promoe' - it's the instrumental version.
Thanks fellas!
- Igor Scheihing said...
Great video, I loove watching this kind of vids where you can see a great traceur.
You really surprise in every new video you upload.
your strenght, control, dedication, dicpipline, like some1 said before here, its seems to be easy.
Thanks for the video. I putted in my parkour blog =)
greets from Chile
Igor, "Traceur Agua" - 04:05
hellooo iam Lindsay Lochan!!!!!!!!
- 11:48
- Yariko said...
You have way too much power.. Good job, I really can see that you have been training hard. Good precissions, pull-ups, everything.. You should slow down a bit :P
Keep going!
DJariko - 17:08
dude climb-ups are insane
topss - 23:21
blane you are one amazing dude. i really want to learn parkour and your my influence. it seems like such a cool thing to be able to do. thanks for the inspiration.
- 02:04
- 18:10
Amazing to see what the body that God has designed can really do. Great work on developing the instrument that you've been given.
- 17:52
hi there,
i'd like to ask how do you make such an precise running up towards an obstacle so you have always been at the right step to do an optimal jump/leap..that's been a great setback for me for a long time now.
Please do comment, I believe this will be quite useful for all young traceurs, not particularly only for me. - 07:32
I was just given a random link by someone of your trip to Lisses. I thought it was very good, what you are all doing is really impressive. Very good : ) - 21:31
very nice video. Good to see your development up to now in your videos.
Have you any tips an the climbups? They seem so effortless an increddibly fast ^^ Is there any technique or just strengh?
And what camera do you use?
Jonas. - 10:08
- Chris 'Blane' Rowat said...
To the anonymous poster...
Foot placement on the approach to an obstacle, especially within a sequence or combination is often quite tricky to judge and I find it's just a case of regular practice to improve this.
With training you learn to realise when you're not quite going to arrive at the obstacle correctly so you can either make your next step slightly longer or slightly shorter to compensate for that. It's a matter of experience and you learn with time to notice which foot you are going to arrive at a certain place on... you can practice this anywhere too, even when you're walking down the street. Look ahead at a small feature or landmark and try to feel which foot you will have in line with it when you reach it. As you're approaching it make slight adjustments to the length of your strides as you get closer and you will find you can arrive exactly in line with it by making a few smaller adjustments on the way.
Jonas, I think fast climbups are mostly related to a powerful pulling ability. Technique plays a part since knowing when you need to kick down with your feet and when to lean forward will help, but this is quickly realised whilst practicing them.
My main goal with climbups was to build enough power in my pull to arrive almost at waist, to eliminate the need to dip much to reach the top position. The best way to do this is muscle up (planche) training.
Even training for the muscle up will improve your climbups so you will see results at every stage rather than just when you can muscle up.
My camera is just some old Canon model, I'm not too sure which but I doubt it's still on the market now... it's at least 5 years old!
- JJ said...
Nice Blane, congratulations!!!
Traceur JJ de Brasil... - 15:06
loved it! I think i've already said that... congratulations... and hope to hear from you soon :)
Ixek - 05:16
- Dane Grant said...
BAH. it's rubbish This young girl is better than you:
;-) - 13:04
well done))) my congratulations, of couse. really good. I even borrow some tecnic from you to become more fluent, beauty and quickly.
P.S. sorrry for my "knotty" English)
P.S.S. I'm goint to shoot a clip, if you want, I can show it for critics) - 21:04
- ! said...
Hey Man you is very very disciplined, great video guy (sorry my bad english)
By: JC Brasil. - 01:56
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If You are not Busy on Tuesdays or Thursdays Between 3:30pm and 5pm.
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- TraceurZeno said...
I said when you first posted this clip on you tube, at how effortless you conquered this big scale obstacles, but watching again, I am equally impressed at your foot placement with regards to precise, confident and lightness of your footwork.
All the Best in Italy!! - 00:14
- Galvez said...
great vid blane, you are a master!
- 10:36
Thanks a lot for a fine read. Keep up the good work!
- 15:30
Hey there!i was just searching for a parkour program and i found your blog.seems that your program works very well judjing from your video!!i also was thinking of starting parkour.unfortunately i live in greece and the the practice places are reduceed to almost zero!whatever,i'll start practicing from september and hoppefully by next summer i will have learned a few things.any advise for a newbie?
- 12:32
That is incredible (especially the climb ups!)
ps there is a download link, if you right click on the link that says here under the video and click "save target as" - 16:45


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Do The Conspiracy Theories Pushed By Fox's Peter Johnson Come Straight From The Top?
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New York magazine is reporting that resident Fox News conspiracy theorist Peter Johnson Jr. acts as the on-air mouthpiece for Fox News chairman Roger Ailes.
Johnson is officially a legal analyst for Fox News and has appeared on the network at least 75 times* in the last six months. But rather than commenting on legal issues, he often uses his appearance on Fox to make bizarre attacks on President Obama and others.
In addition to appearing on Fox, Johnson serves as Ailes personal attorney, and New York magazine's Gabriel Sherman reports that this election season, "when Ailes has a message to communicate, chances are that it is Johnson who articulates it on air":
[I]f you want to know what Roger Ailes really thinks about the news these days, here's a tip: Pay close attention to Peter Johnson Jr., Fox News's legal analyst. The Columbia-educated lawyer is certainly not as familiar to most viewers as Bill O'Reilly or Sean Hannity, but inside the network, Johnson has become, in many respects, more influential, thanks to his ties to Ailes. To understand Fox right now, you have to understand the unique role Peter Johnson Jr. has come to play in Ailes's inner circle.
Consider this: Johnson is an on-air pundit, weighing in on topics as varied as Trayvon Martin, Occupy Wall Street, Obamacare, and Benghazi. He is a regular fill-in host on Fox & Friends. And he is Ailes's personal attorney who negotiated the network chief's new four-year contract with News Corp., said to be worth upward of $30 million a year. Fox executives frequently find Johnson conferring with Ailes privately. "He is a fixture in Ailes's office," one Fox source explained.
But Johnson's value to Ailes extends far beyond his work as a lawyer. This election season, when Ailes has a message to communicate, chances are that it is Johnson who articulates it on air.
It makes one wonder if any of these comments by Johnson consisted of a message Ailes wanted to communicate:
- Johnson repeatedly speculated that the Obama administration may have "sacrificed Americans" as a "political calculation" in Benghazi even though he admittedly had no evidence for his theory.
- Johnson pushed a theory that President Obama might send American citizens to be tried and executed in Egypt in order to appease anti-American extremists.
- Johnson claimed that Obama might send the man convicted as the 1993 World Trade Center bombing to Egypt to be released despite flat denials from the Obama administration.
- Johnson compared Obama to Machiavelli, accusing him of misdirecting voters' emotions and anger.
- Johnson has claimed that Obama has abandoned the United States.
- Johnson called birtherism a "legitimate issue" that was resolved by Obama's release of his long-form birth certificate, He also theorized that Obama publicized the birth certificate to distract from other issues.
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Lamar Odom is alert and his condition is improving after the former NBA star was found unconscious at a Nevada brothel a week ago, his family said Monday.
Alvina Alston, publicist for Odom's aunt JaNean Mercer, said the former reality-TV personality is undergoing testing, but there is no word yet on when he might be released from the hospital. Odom is overcoming "insurmountable obstacles" and defying the odds, Mercer said in a statement.
"Each day Lamar is getting stronger and reaching significant milestones in his recovery," the statement said.
Odom was found in extremely critical condition at the Love Ranch brothel in the rural community of Crystal, Nevada, on Oct. 13 and was hospitalized in Las Vegas. He regained consciousness and communicated for the first time Friday.
The brothel said workers saw him drink alcohol and take supplements sold as "herbal Viagra." The Food and Drug Administration issued a warning in 2013 against one brand he took, Reload, after it was found to contain sildenafil, the active ingredient in prescription Viagra.
He also told at least one of the women that he had done cocaine, but the brothel says it did not see him take any drugs or find any there.
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Sailing the Uncharted Cosmic Sea
Zen Gardner
Before It's News
It struck me today how learning to handle these exciting new vibrations and cosmic changes is very much like learning to sail in uncharted waters. We really need to learn how to navigate these unknown waves and currents and be ready at the helm for the many fluctuations coming our way.
I'm also feeling sorry for the people who have no clue as to what's going on.
To think there are so many who don't even know there is a cosmic sea, never mind that there's huge energetic wave changes reaching our planetary system that are about to rock their proverbial boats. I guess it's like Plato's cave analogy, only here it's blind people in a boat who think all the world is the small structure and items they feel around them.
Stay on High Alert
There's a lot of very interesting information available on this transition we're going through with many interpretations, and some great advice on how to manage these vibrational changes. My personal take is to stay very alert and aware on every front, most of all of my thoughts and feelings, remaining the observer monitoring what's going on within and without me.
Don't ever forget, your very thoughts and feelings at times may not be your own but some morphed projection from this hyper-technological insane drive by the would be controllers to steer humanity as well. This is especially so when our guards are down.
For me that also means keeping abreast of the news, the real news. It's watching for trends, not just in the NWO rollout or political news, but following earth and space changes is very important. How our planet and solar system are behaving is intrinsic to getting a deeper sense of the energetic changes we're undergoing. Once you get a rounded picture of the current situation the dots connect.
But we have to keep at it, especially now.
Real information is everything. It's our food. Either we're getting the adulterated stuff or we're getting real nourishment. It makes a world of difference in how we feel and think and affects the very course of our lives and hence the rest of humanity since we each affect it so profoundly. I avoid TV at any cost. It's toxic and completely destructive. If there's something worth watching you'll find it on the net where you can be in control of it.
Even the animal channel has turned into a horror show. So called science history regurgitations are carefully manicured to misdirect and are lubricated by truths for easy assimilation into the collective mind. All deviously presented in a completely false construct of understanding.
Conscious, Observant Living Is A Must – Beware the Unconscious Crazies
Learning to listen to our hearts, our real consciousness that taps into the central Source, and observe from that point is the key. When things start to pick up more speed this will be more and more important when mental processes get more and more affected.
The mind is much like the computer that is susceptible to an EMP blast, a large electromagnetic pulse, the same kind that can stop your computer controlled car and shut down the grid. The heart, however, your conscious spirit, only revels in the additional energy and will never let you down!
Now that's empowerment! But we have be careful.
Now I drive slower than I used to. I was a speed freak before I woke up, but afterwards had a drastic change into a slow, observant driver. And lately it got even slower. I mentioned to my dear wife we need to watch out for erratic behavior on the roads when we're out, people are going to start unraveling before our eyes.
Sure enough, over the next 2 days we saw 3 accidents and had a car absolutely insanely cross an intersection well after the light turned red right in front of us. Completely strange. We're going to see a lot of this type of thing, sorry to say.
Most people aren't going to realize what's going on and many will have psychotic type reactions to these vibrational changes. It's not going to be pretty, like that veteran commercial pilot who went berserk recently. We can only imagine the effect it's going to have on military personnel who are already drugged up.
Let's hope they wake up and just quit. Same with all the zoot suits. There will be a lot of that too..people having major revelations and making life changing decisions. It's gonna be a wild time!
Surf's up!
Make Friends and Help Each Other
This has changed my life. Since my wake up I spend almost my full waking time on the internet. There is so much to learn and there are so many amazing wonderful people who have been researching and compiling empowering information I just don't have time for anything else. I get my walk and take breaks but it's my full time passion.
Contributing to this massive wake up is all that matters to me.
I'm a communicator. And I'm not afraid to ask questions, or to thank those who have contributed so much to this truth revolution. This has led to the best friendships of my life. I recently wrote how many of us seem to be alone when in reality we're most likely where we're supposed to be, yet we're united in spirit.
I received many touching comments to that post as it apparently resonated with quite a few people. Many also said they don't mind the isolation. That's the world they work and learn best in, and I relate to that. Most of the people I correspond with are the same. We savor conscious awareness and spreading it. It's an act of love that gives tremendous satisfaction that at least we're doing what we can.
These friendships that have come with meeting fellow activists are the best. They're almost like broadening your antenna array to where you can pick up clearer signals and bounce your "readings" off those you love and trust. So often a little inkling or sensation or an email and link from a friend can lead to new realms of understanding and even new researchers and whole areas you weren't aware of and a fresh re-synthesizing of what you've come to learn.
It's just fabulous.
But we have to reach out.
Conclusion – Activate or Else
These energetic changes are not the answer. We are the answer. Those they effect who in turn willingly transform and pass it on, helping others understand and utilize what's going on are the answer.
You and me.
With or without these new energies our mission is the same. But what a great time to be alive as it appears we're getting a boost…good for conscious humanity, but bad for the matrix whose minions are scared to death of what's happening.
This is why the frantic implementation of the control system. Poor puny bastards. It's like a bucket of water on a raging forest fire. Sorry guys, you already lost. You really think you can fight the Truth? C'mon.
But we do need to keep exposing them so others can see through their false projection and find Truth and Reality for themselves.
Sail On!
We're sailing the cosmic sea, the wind is picking up, and it's all hands on deck!
We're here to act out our mission, however we're each called. We can follow, we can lead. We can sit by the wayside.
I don't personally condone non-action in the least. We need to be conscious responders. Not inexcusable idiots. That's thoroughly pathetic. I think we've all been through enough of that..and so have the enslaved.
Raise your voice. Yes yours.
Radiate the change any way you can!
Love, Zen


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Lonza hints at manufacturing cuts
The Swiss firm reported that its end of year sales were up 45.8 percent on 2011 to 3.9bn CHF ($4.25bn), which was deemed to be a better than expected result by analysts who mostly attributed it to the acquisition of Arch Chemicals.
However, despite increasing 15 per cent, earnings before interest and tax (EBIT) fell short of Lonza's total in 2011, which CEO Richard Ridinger said was due to the firm's increased spending.
He praised the Life Science Ingredients and Bioscience divisions, but said he was "unsatisfied with the EBIT performance of our Custom Manufacturing division."
Melanie Disa, Media Relations for Lonza, told Outsourcing-Pharma.com that Ridinger's comments were due to the ramp-up costs of its new facilities in Singapore and quality related expenses in the Hopkinton, Massachusetts facility, both of which negatively impacted performance.
Disa added that "demand in Custom Manufacturing and Development Services was steady, resulting in good capacity utilization and the outsourcing trend is considered to be solid."
Ridinger told shareholders that Lonza plans to streamline its manufacturing operations and improve on its efficiency with various structural changes of which details were not given.
He told shareholders that it intends to adjust its "manufacturing footprint" in moving from a product to a market orientated organization.
According to Disa, Lonza's manufacturing strategy is currently in the beginning stages of a transformational year. She said: "We will conduct a review of our global footprint to ensure best practices and productivity improvements are identified and implemented throughout the organization."
Disa did not offer comment regarding whether any facilities would be off-loaded and if there would be any loss of jobs.


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Their scaling strategy relies heavily on a large caching layer that focuses on caching entire HTML pages. The idea here is that the vast majority of accesses to Wikipedia are anonymous reads, so the same pages can be served up to those people.
This does work pretty well -- apparently, 78% of accesses are served from the Squid caches and another 7% on top of that get served from Memcached pages -- but it appears they basically have to toss the cache if anything on the page is different, including logged in users.
During the talk, I was a little surprised they were not more focused on caching at the data layer, focusing on making the underlying databases serve data rapidly instead of trying to avoid the databases.
If I understand it right, the Wikipedia architecture has all the Wikipedia data thrown into one giant database. Everything is in there, all the tables, even the large indexes for full text search. Then, they tossed on a few slave databases that appear to take replicated copies of the entire database.
All this data on one machine appears to mean they are hitting disk a lot on the database servers.
That doesn't seem necessary. The entire Wikipedia database appears to be a few hundred gigabytes. It should be possible to get most of that in-memory in a horizontally partitioned database cluster of a couple dozen machines.
In an ideal world, we'd be talking about something like the Google Cluster, where shards of the data are distributed across many machines and accessed in parallel, or a big virtual database like I craved in an earlier post.
But, let's stick with low hanging fruit here. So, to start, I would pull text search out of MySQL. Yes, I know, it's so lazily convenient to use MySQL full text search, but the performance doesn't seem to be where it needs to be. Moreover, it almost certainly is desirable for something like search to have its own dedicated hardware, not to be competiting for resources with an RDMS on the same box.
Then, I'd partition the data. Get it so each box only has a shard of the data big enough that the disk is quiet. I really am tempted to start rambling about something other than a simple partition of the existing MySQL tables and using MySQL replication here, but we're talking about low hanging fruit, so I'll stick with MySQL and what is simple to get done.
If almost all the Wikipedia database accesses never touched a disk, I suspect performance of the database layer might be good enough that parts of that HTML caching layer become unnecessary or even counterproductive. If so, the freed up boxes could be shifted from the HTML caching layer to the database layer, improving performance and scalability even further.
Near the end of the talk, Brion seemed to suggest that Wikipedia was going to focus their scaling efforts on boosting cache hit rates, more work on that last layer right before the client. It appeared to me that it might involve some fairly complicated work to figure out exactly when parts of the coarse-grained, HTML cache are valid.
I wonder if the focus might be better spent on the data layer, getting the performance there to the point that caching further out becomes unnecessary.
I have to say, it is great fun looking at this kind of large scale problem. I wish I could dig in deeper and pour over profile data for the site.
The efforts of the tiny Wikipedia development team are really impressive. Not only have they managed to scale to crushing loads, but also they have done it in an unbelievably meager budget. They have much deserved loyalty from a community that wants to see them continue to thrive and grow.
Update: Interesting March 2006 messages ([1] [2]) on the Wikitech mailing list from Brion Vibber show that Wikipedia is entertaining the idea of switching to MySQL Cluster. An excerpt:
We don't support MySQL Cluster at this time, as it's currently limited in many ways. (Everything must fit in memory, can't have certain field types, etc.)MySQL Cluster looks tempting but, as Brian said, it wouldn't work right now since everything wouldn't fit in memory within the maximum cluster size and other restrictions. Probably better to look at manually partitioning the data to get it in memory.
Currently waiting for the upcoming versions which allow disk-backed data, etc.
No point in rushing in when our own contributors who are MySQL employees are telling us to wait for it to mature a bit.
See also my post, "MySQL Cluster and my big virtual database".


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It also explains how these trend estimates are obtained as well as how they may be used more effectively for informed decision making. 2007.0 Information paper: Census of Population and Housing, ABS Views on Content and Procedures, 2006 (July 2003) 4518.0 - Information Paper - Sexual Assault Information Development Framework, 2003 (August 2003) Contains an information development framework for data relating to sexual assault. Provides a conceptual framework, lists data currently available, identifies gaps in data and conclusions about developing information to meet priority needs. 4613.0 - Australia's Environment: Issues and Trends, 2003 (July 2003) Presents a broad selection of environmental statistics and information which illustrate topical environmental issues. 1377.0 - Measures of a Knowledge based Economy and Society, Australia - electronic delivery (Sept 2003) This web-based product is the first ABS compendium of statistics on the knowledge-based economy and society. Demographic and Social Statistics 3101.0 - Australian Demographic Statistics, March 2003 (Sept 2003) - Quarterly estimates of total population for states, territories and Australia. Includes the most recent estimates of the population in five-year age groups; numbers (and some rates) of births, deaths, infant deaths, interstate and overseas movements. Quarterly and/or annual time series tables throughout. Also includes population projections and estimated resident households for states, territories and Australia. 3235.6.55.001 - Population by Age and Sex, Tasmania - Electronic Delivery, June 2002 (August 2003) 3319.0.55.001 - Information paper: Multiple Cause of Death Analysis, 1997 to 2001, Electronic delivery (July 2003) This paper explores potential uses of multiple cause of death data by giving examples of several methods of analysis. 3321.0.55.001 - Drug induced Deaths, Australia, 1991 to 2001, Electronic delivery (July 2003) This Information Paper is an update of information originally published in the article 'Drug-related Deaths' in the ABS publication Australian Social Trends, 2001 (cat. no. 4102.0). It presents data for drug-induced deaths registered in the years 1991 to 2001 (the latest year for which deaths data are available). 4102.0 - Australian Social Trends, 2003 (June 2003) Presents statistical analysis and commentary on a wide range of current social issues as well as how social conditions differ across Australian states and territories. A set of international tables also compares Australia with 17 other nations. 4509.0 - Crime and Safety, Australia, April 2002 (June 2003) Contains summary data on household break-ins, attempted break-ins and motor vehicle theft; and personal robberies, assaults and sexual assaults, in the 12 months prior to the survey. Provides information on the most recent incident including whether it was reported to the police and offender information. Data are classified by demographic characteristics. Includes some state and territory data and some limited comparisons with the 1993, 1995 and 1998 Crime and Safety Surveys. 4512.0 - Corrective Services, Australia, (June 2003) - Contains national information on persons in custodial corrective services in Australia. Monthly information is presented for each state and territory. 6105.0 - Australian Labour Market Statistics, April Quarter 2003 (July 2003) This publication is the flagship release for all ABS labour statistics. It draws together data from a range of sources, mostly ABS household and business surveys, to provide an overall picture of the labour market. The publication is also used to release annual data on Indigenous labour force status, and annual supplementary measures of labour underutilisation. Contains state and territory data. 6248.0 - Wage and Salary Earners, Public Sector, Australia, June 2003 (Sept 2003) 6254.0 - Career Experience, Australia, November 2002 (Sept 2003) 6291.0.55.001 - Labour Force, Australia, Detailed, Electronic Delivery, August 2003 (Sept 2003) 6321.0 - Industrial Disputes, Australia, June 2003 (Sept 2003) 6354.0 - Job Vacancies, Australia, August 2003 (Sept 2003) 6523.0 - Household Income and Income Distribution, Australia, 2000-01 (July 2003) Details are presented on the distribution of income in Australia, data on the various characteristics of households (married couple, one parent and one-person units), their composition, and the principal source of income, age and employment status of reference person.Contains state and territory data. 4183.0 - Cultural Funding by Government, Australia, 2001-02 (July 2003) Contains estimates of funding for arts and cultural activities by the three levels of government in Australia. 4810.0.55.001 - Breastfeeding in Australia, 2001 (Sept 2003) 8146.0 - Household Use of Information Technology, Australia, 2001-02 (Sept 2003) Presents statistics on the use of Information Technology (IT) by households and the IT activities undertaken in Australia. Contains state and territory data. Industry 1363.0 - Book Publishers, Australia 2001-02 (Sept 2003) This publication presents the results from the 2001–02, Book Publishers Survey covering businesses which had either book publishing as their main activity or generated $2m or more in income from book publishing. Contains a summary of operations by selected states. 7106.0 - Australian farming in Brief, 2003, Brochure (August 2003) 7121.0 - Agricultural Commodities, Australia, 2001-02 (July 2003) This publication contains final estimates for the main commodities collected in the 2001–02 Agricultural Survey.Contains state and territory data. 7503.0 - Value of Agricultural Commodities Produced, Australia, 2001-02 (Sept 2003) Detailed statistics of the gross and local value of crops, pastures and grasses, fruit and nuts, vegetables, livestock slaughterings by type, livestock products; average unit gross value (i.e. prices) of principal crops, livestock slaughterings and livestock products. Contains state and territory data. 8104.0 - Research and Experimental Development, Businesses, Australia, 2001-02 (August 2003) Expenditure and human resources devoted to research and experimental development (R&D) carried out by businesses in Australia, classified by industry, type of expenditure, source of funds, type of employee, enterprise employment size, field of research, socioeconomic objective and location of expenditure. Contains state and territory data. 8155.0 - Australian Industry, 2000-01 (August 2003) Presents estimates derived using a combination of data from the Economic Activity Survey and business income tax data provided to the Australian Taxation Office. The estimates include total income and expenses, and operating profit before tax. Contains state and territory data. 8412.0 - Mineral and Petroleum Exploration, Australia, June 2003 (Sept 2003) 8556.0 - Market Research Services, Australia, 2001-02 (July 2003) Contains information about the market research services industry. Includes major souces of income, components of expenditure, characteristics of employment, performance ratios and key characteristics by state. 8558.0 - Employment Services, Australia, 2001-02 (August 2003) Contains information on businesses involved in providing employment placement services and/or contract staff (labour-hire) services in Australia. The data include: major sources of income, components of expenditure, characteristics of employment, job placements, performance ratios and key characteristics by state. 8667.0 - Legal practices, Australia, 2001-02 (June 2003) Contains information about legal practices in Australia. Includes the number of practices, employment, wages and salaries, items of income and expenses, net operating profit/surplus and data by practice size. Some data are classified by state. 9314.0 - Sales of New Motor Vehicles, Australia, August 2003 (Sept 2003) 9208.0 - Survey of Motor Vehicle Use, Australia - Nov 2001 to 31 Oct 2002 (Sept 2003) 9502.0.55.001 - Framework for Australian Tourism Statistics - Electronic delivery, 2003 (Sept 2003)Economic and Financial 5439.0 - International merchandise Imports, Australia, August 2003 (Sept 2003) 5678.0 - Venture Capital, Australia, 2001-02 (June 2003) The survey provides details of venture capital activity from venture capital fund managers. SELECTED EXPECTED RELEASES 1371.0 - Book Retailers, Australia, 2001-02 (expected release 14/10/03) 2033.6.30.001 - Census of Population and Housing: Socio-economic Indexes for Areas (expected release 30/09/03) 2048.0 - Census of Population and Housing: Ageing in Australia, 2001(expected 13/10/03) 2050.0 - Australian Census Analytic Program: Counting the Homeless, 2001 (expected release 10/10/03) 4114.0 - Attendance at Selected Cultural Venues and Events, Australia, March to July 2002 (expected 1/10/03) 4130.0.55.001 - Housing Occupancy and Costs, Australia, 2000-01 (expected release 30/10/03) 4156.0 - Sport and recreation: A Statistical Overview, Australia, 2003 (expected release 14/11/03) 4159.0 - General Social Survey, Australia, 2002 ($32.00)(expected release 15/10/03) Presents results of the first General Social Survey, which brings together a wide range of information to enable it to be linked in ways not previously available. 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Provides a range of information not previously available from household surveys for smaller states. 4390.0 - Private Hospitals, Australia 2001-02 (expected release 31/10/03) 4713 - Population Characteristics, Aboriginals and Torres Strait Islander Australians, 2001 (expected release 06/11/03) 4815.0.55.001 - National Health Survey: Private Health Insurance, Australia, 2001 (expected release 01/10/03) 5232.0 - Australian National Accounts: Financial Accounts, June 2003 (expected release 26/09/03) 6105.0 - Australian Labour Market Statistics, October 2003 (expected release 03/10/03) 6401.0 - Consumer Price Indexes, Australia, September 2003 (expected release 22/10/03) 6427.0 - Producer Price Indexes, Australia, September 2003 (expected release 20/10/03) 8635.6.55.001 - Tourist Accommodation, Small area Data, Tasmania - Electronic delivery, June 2003 (expected release 03/10/03) 8752.0 - Building Activity, Australia, June 2003 (expected release 13/10/03) 8762.0 - Engineering Construction Activity, Australia, June 2003 (expected release 10/10/03) HOW TO SUBSCRIBE TO STATISTICAL NEWS TASMANIA - EMAIL NOTIFICATION The ABS now has a new email notification service. 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WASHINGTON – Life changed in an instant for victims of the Boston bombings.
Exactly one week ago, some were completing the most famous marathon in the world. Dozens of others were watching near the finish line.
Now, a number of them are amputees.
Both psychological and physical recovery will be challenges.
But amputees will begin therapy with greater chances of restored mobility than would have been possible just a decade ago.
Combat veterans have returned from two wars with similar injuries. Their needs have pushed the development of prostheses at a remarkable rate.
"That offers great encouragement for all individuals with limb loss," says Paul Pasquina, medical director of the amputee program at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center.
"We have advances in socket technology, advances in computer-based prosthetic components, as well as motorized lower limb prosthetics that were not available 10 years ago," he says.
It may be too soon for victims of the Boston bombings to embrace the path ahead as amputees. But their capabilities after recovery are far reaching.
"We have prosthetic components that are available today that will allow one to return to running a marathon or even potentially an ultra marathon," Pasquina says.


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Baumerthof (Alsace, France)
Baumerthof, an estate in Upper Alsace near Altkirch, which was settled probably soon after the Thirty Years' War (1650) by Mennonites from Switzerland. There is evidence that about the middle of the 18th century Daniel and Hans Rich lived there. They were "tenants and milkers." The inhabitants belonged to the church at Neineich, which was represented in the Amish conference at Steinselz in 1752. The Ordnungsbrief of the meeting at Essingen in 1779 was signed by Peter Kaufmann as the representative of the congregation. It did not have a meetinghouse, but met at various farms such as Baumerthof, Birkenhof, Blochmund, Liebenstein, Leyhäuserhof, Montigo, and Schweighof. The earliest meeting at Baumerthof took place on 20 June 1790; it was led by Peter Rich of Birkenhof. Peter Rich and Hans Roth of Feldbach were then the elders. On 28 October 1798, Hans Klopfenstein of Buringen and Hans Rich were ordained on the Baumerthof. On 19 September a conference was held here, attended by outside preachers, to settle a dispute between Peter Rich of the Birkenhof and Peter Rich of Liebenstein. It was, however, not settled until at a second meeting at Baumerthof on 5 April 1801. The "peace that was made" was to be entered into the church records. On 17 January 1802, Peter Rich of Baumerthof was ordained as preacher. At a meeting on 8 December 1802 it was forbidden that a member should secure a fellow member's farm through mortgage-foreclosure. ("Dass keiner dem andern sein gut weglehnen darf bei Bannstrafe.") On 24 July 1803, another conference gathered there in the "church room." Hans Freienberg of the Basel congregation at St. Jakob and preachers from three other congregations were present. Two preachers were removed from office. At a meeting on 16 October 1803 the Ordnungsbrief adopted at St. Jakob near Basel on 2 August 1803 was read and accepted. On 26 November 1803 Peter Rich of the Baumerthof was removed from office and on 3 December 1809, reinstated, after the charge brought against him had been proved false. At a meeting on the Baumerthof on 21 May two brethren were excommunicated because they had "used the sword." They had evidently accepted military service. Two years later this question greatly disturbed the Mennonites of Alsace-Lorraine. They sent two brethren to Paris to assert their nonresistance. On this matter there were many meetings with Palatine Mennonites and many conferences as at Bildhausen near Schlettstadt, at which Peter Rich of Baumerthof represented his church. Mention must also be made of the definite position taken in a conference at Baumerthof on 17 February 1811 against "offensive marriage of cousins."
Hege, Christian and Christian Neff. Mennonitisches Lexikon, 4 vols. Frankfurt & Weierhof: Hege; Karlsruhe: Schneider, 1913-1967: v. I, 14.
Author(s) | Christian Neff |
Date Published | 1953 |
Cite This Article
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Neff, Christian. "Baumerthof (Alsace, France)." Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. 1953. Web. 26 Feb 2024. https://gameo.org/index.php?title=Baumerthof_(Alsace,_France)&oldid=144788.
APA style
Neff, Christian. (1953). Baumerthof (Alsace, France). Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. Retrieved 26 February 2024, from https://gameo.org/index.php?title=Baumerthof_(Alsace,_France)&oldid=144788.
Adapted by permission of Herald Press, Harrisonburg, Virginia, from Mennonite Encyclopedia, Vol. 1, p. 250. All rights reserved.
©1996-2024 by the Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. All rights reserved.


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Conference Discussions
- Social Discussions
- Discuss where to meet during the conference, catch up with friends, share tips about places to eat or things to see.
- General Discussion
- Discuss any topic you'd like.
- Meet Ups
- Suggest events or locations to meet up with friends and colleagues during the conference.


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How to build miniature Work Camp Tents
Build your own Camp Tents for your Adventureaweek.com games!
Note: instructions follow the visual presentation!
The instructions and photos given were created in ¼" scale, meaning, ¼" would equal 1 foot in the real world. You can use the same construction process to build in any scale you desire.
1. I cut my center posts and rafter to the size of the tent I want.
I use flat boards for my flooring and more solid strips of wood for the main posts and rafters and beam. I like to use bass wood versus balsa just because it is stronger.
2. Glue two "T" shapes together, these will become the main beam and posts for your tent. I use ACC glue, the thick variety, it comes in medium and thin viscosity.
3. Stand the two "T" pieces upright and glue your beam in between the two upright posts. Now you have your first free standing piece.
4. Place four upright posts on the corners, these pieces will be half the length of your main posts. I use a spritz of glue accelerator to speed up the drying process.
5. Cut cross beams that attach the short posts to the long posts.
6. Lay your tent framework on its side on top of a strip of beam wood and make your angle cut marks with a pencil. This makes it easy to find your angle. I use a utility blade to cut the angles, cutting on a plywood board.
7. Glue in place using ACC glue and a spritz of accelerator. This will cure the glue instantly instead of holding it in place for a few seconds.
8. Place your tent framework upright and sand off any wood that may be extending out with fine sandpaper if you desire.
9. Cut flat strips of wood to span the width of your floor. Run a thin line of glue along the base where the strip flooring will go. This way you won't have to glue each piece individually. Its also much easier to place them with tweezers rather than your fingers.
10. Build a short porch in the same manner as the floor and attach at the end of the project.
11. Lay your tent armature on its side on top of inexpensive artists sketch paper and trace an outline. I start with the entry and back side of the tent first
(Pads of this paper are inexpensive and can be found at crafts stores or some grocery stores. It's thicker than copier paper and has a rougher texture and sags realistically like canvase when wetted as you'll see in a later step of the construction process.)
12. Place a fine line of glue along the wood where the paper will go. Less glue is better, you only want enough for the paper to stick when pressed onto the wood.
13. For the entryway, use your utility blade cut a vertical slit in the paper "canvas'. Using your fingers, delicately roll the paper to make an open flap into the tent.
14. Lay your tent on its side now and trace the outline and carefully roll the tent along the paper and trace until you have one continuous long piece of paper for the top and sides of the tent. Glue to wood as before. Cut off excess paper if there is any.
15. Mix half water and half white glue for the canvas overcoat. Paint this on the paper until it just begins to become saturated. Do not paint too much in one area or else the paper will weaken too much and you might poke a hole right through it. You will notice the paper will sag realistically, and after it dries, you will have neat stretched canvas areas. While the tent is wet, you may want to press on some small patches of paper "canvas". I like to mix a bit of dirt in my glue and water mixture to get that dirty appearance but you may also dry brush on dirt or chalk after the tent is dry for weathering. You can add details once dry, like a pot belly stove, crates, a bed roll and tools. Don't forget to glue on your porch when done. Note: these tents look great if they are illuminated with a small bulb or LED, or even a tiny flickering flame bulb found online or a hobby shop.


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Getting off the ground
Posted on:Now that we've created the group, we need to get it off the ground and working toward a common goal.
The starting point is the current SDshare draft, which has some known issues.
We (that is, the chairs) think the next steps should be
- publish the current draft as a first community group draft (with correct formatting etc),
- settling the existing issues,
- reviewing the existing draft and raising new issues.
Please make your thoughts known in the mailing lists (see upper left).


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ForumsGetting Things Done®Projects with no next actions?
Projects with no next actions?
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Levi Wallach |
I'm just wondering how people guard against projects that have no next actions? If I check something off within a next action list, I don't necessarily know that it's part of a larger project, or even if I do, I may not have the time to go looking for that project in order to find a new next action. I wish Toodledo had a mechanism to prompt you to specify a new next action for the now next-action-less task, but at the very least it might be nice to create a search that accounted for tasks that had zero (or more than one for that matter) subtasks labeled as next action. There doesn't seem to be a way to do this.
Speaking of such searches, wondering what other ones people have come up with that try to account for potential situations that aren't "legal" based on their implementation of GTD - ie tasks that don't contain status, tasks that have contradicting statuses, etc. |
Proximo |
During your weekly review, you should be able to catch this and assign your next action as needed.
Not sure how Toodledo would automate this because it's more of a GTD practice. |
cjuzda |
There are a few programs that allow auto sequencing for projects where when a task is marked "Done", the next task in the project automatically becomes active. this would be a great feature to add
Levi Wallach |
Actually, I posted this (or something like it) as a support ticket feature request and Toodledo got back to me basically saying that this was essentially "task dependency" and was on their to do list as a planned feature in the future.
In the mean time I was able to figure out how to create a search that among other things finds projects that have no subtasks. The search criteria go like this: is subtask = no and Has subtasks = no and Folder is Projects and Checked off = no This works fine because currently I put my lone-actions (not part of a project) in an "Actions" folder, and my tasks that are part of a project in my "Projects" folder. So far this seems to be the main way I can ferret out such issues. I would love free up folders for some other use, since I find the whole idea that you could potentially have subtasks that are in a different folder from their parent confusing. In any case, it's an extra bit of management that I think gets in the way. The main issue, to me, is that tasks are seen as tasks or subtasks. There's no real way to distinguish a task that doesn't have subtasks (but isn't a project) from a task that doesn't have subtasks but IS a project - that is without adding some workaround like putting it in a folder. If projects were really supported by Toodledo, they would be distinguished in a way. Some people actually used folders as a way to specify projects, but doing so can make things pretty unwieldy if you have (as many people do) a couple dozen, or even more, active projects. |
robert.lynch |
I know I'm posting on a three-month-old discussion, but this is where my search led me.
I think I'm doing something similar to Levi, where I have a "Projects" folder that has my projects in it. I've built a search that shows me all my unfinished projects that have no subtasks, so I can make sure all my projects have actions. Now I want to build a search that shows me projects that have all their subtasks checked off. If all the subtasks are done, I need to do one of two things: add a new subtask, or check off the project as completed. Can someone help me build that search? |
Linden |
There isn't any way to do this search right now, unfortunately, since the search criteria can't look at the status of dependent tasks. So, a parent task can't identify whether its subtasks are checked off or if they have a particular status and so forth.
I believe this is something on Toodledo's list of things to implement, though. |
robert.lynch |
It looks like there's no way to get the result I'm looking for with the folders-as-projects method either. The number of tasks on the folders page includes completed tasks.
I'll just have to troll through my projects one at a time to look for zero incomplete tasks -- which is easier to do with folders as projects rather than tasks as projects. |
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L'Aquila, Italy—A study recently published by the Journal of Cellular Biochemistry revealed that regular consumption of cocoa polyphenols could help to maintain brain health and even offer neuroprotection against age-related cognitive degeneration.
To come to this conclusion, a team lead by Annamaria Cimini of the University of L'Aquila used in vitro methods to examine how the phenols in commercial cocoa powder reacted at a cellular level. Aside from proving that cocoa has antioxidant properties, the study indicated that the polyphenols in cocoa activate the brain-derived neurotropic factor (BDNF, a protein that controls neuron development, function and existence) survival pathway in Abeta plaque-treated cells and Abeta oligomers-treated cells. This process essentially prohibited simulated neurodegeneration from taking effect; such degeneration is often found in Alzheimer's disease patients.
While the researchers have not discovered a cure for Alzheimer's disease, the data are important and further research into cocoa's potential in the brain health category is warranted.
Published in WholeFoods Magazine, July 2013 (online 5/30/13)