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Sole practitioner and PhD candidate Julia King has won the prestigious AJ Emerging Woman Architect of the Year Award
The researcher and designer, who is currently setting up practices in both New Delhi and London, saw off fierce competition to scoop the award for architects and architectural designers who have been in their current role for less than five years.
King, whose work focuses on the future of urban development, was described by the judges as 'truly inspiring'.
The British/Venezuelan has already designed and built a sewer for 322 low-income houses in New Delhi and is regenerating the Taj East drain which runs through slum areas near the Taj Mahal.
Judge and V&A director Moira Gemmill said: 'Her work has great resonance internationally. She came across as someone who is very driven, very smart and very capable of getting things done often in very difficult circumstances.'
Peabody director Claire Bennie praised the 'practical concern' of King's work, while Landmark Trust director and women in architecture judge, Anna Keay described her projects as 'life-changing'. She said: '[Julia King] is a woman who is getting things done'.
Architect Hannah Corlett, director of up-and–coming London-based Assemblage, received the commendation. The other shortlisted architects were Aranta Ozeata Cortazar of Spanish practice TallerDE2 architects, Angela Dapper of Denton Corker Marshall, Daisy Froud of AOC, Hana Loftus of HAT Projects, Yeoryia Manolopoulou of 2013 Stephen Lawrence Prize-winning AY Architects, and Nicola Rutt of Hawkins\Brown
Corlett co-founded Assemblage back in 2003, and in the past year the practice has won a string of high-profile competitions including the international contest for the new $1 billion Iraqi parliament building.
Last year's winner of the Jane Drew Prize Eva Jiricna praised all the shortlisted emerging women. She added: 'It is really encouraging that there are so many bright young women architects and that they have got their chance, and that they have taken their chances and got on with it.
'I'm sure the future of architecture is bright if these women are going to hold the flag in the next generation and the next ten years to come.'
Celebrating the ROCA-sponsored AJ Women in Architecture campaign, which is now in its third year, the awards ceremony held at London's Langham hotel today (07.02.14) also included a keynote speech from Hopkins Architects co-founder Patty Hopkins.
Q+A with Julia King
Why did you choose architecture? At school I had many interests and I saw architecture as a course which offered the opportunity to explore many disciplines, from physics to art. I still very much enjoy this aspect. However, most of all I wanted to be an architect because I believed, and still do, that architecture can be used as a tool to improve lives.
What is your design ethos? Doing something isn't always better than doing nothing. Good architecture doesn't always result in a building. There is a difference between complicated for its own sake (particularly enabled by the computer), and something that has layers of meaning and cultural depth.
Which architects inspire you? Anna Heringer and Suzanne Hall.
What is your advice to aspiring female architects? The same as to aspiring male architects: be prepared to do a lot of boring work if you aren't prepared to push boundaries, be scared and take risks.
Why do women leave the profession? Because it isn't worth it to work the hours for the pay.
What would make them stay? Better pay and shorter hours. There is a culture in architecture that you have to work long hours, which is counterproductive, inefficient and a waste of money - if this could change I think more women would stay.
What is the biggest challenge facing women in architecture? An architect's career is kicking off at a time when most women want to have children. Thus women are effectively cut off. I also think there is another challenge facing women in architecture: I call it the 'bullshit factor'. Statistically, far more men than women apply for jobs for which they are underqualified and consistently punch above their weight. This is part of a culture which celebrates men for being gung-ho, but when a woman does this she is thought of as aggressive or cut-throat.
Curriculum vitae
Place of study Architectural Association and London Metropolitan University
Current projects Housing projects in Savda Ghevra; improvement of a 5km stretch of the Taj East Drain; setting up a research unit of the NGO Centre for Urban and Regional Excellence; two week-long lecture tour of India including Delhi, Chandigarh, Lucknow, Jaipur, Bhopal and Mumbai organised by the Holcim Foundation for Sustainable Construction
Clients Sir Dorabji Tata Trust; Agra Municipal Corporation; CURE; Mahila Housing Trust and the Savda Ghevra slum resettlement colony
Julia King named Emerging Woman Architect of the Year
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The Iron Man will head to his old stomping grounds Friday to comment on his mother's recent abduction and return.
Cal Ripken Jr., a Hall of Fame former Oriole, will meet with reporters at 10 a.m. at the B&O Warehouse at Oriole Park at Camden Yards to answer questions related to Violet Ripken's July 24 abduction on behalf of his famous family, according to John Maroon, a family spokesman.
"Mr. Ripken will serve as his family's spokesperson, and no other members of the Ripken family will be commenting on the abduction moving forward," Maroon wrote about the news conference. "He will not be available for one-on-one interviews, and he will be unable to answer questions directly relating to the ongoing investigation."
Ripken told ABC's "Good Morning America" on Friday that his 74-year-old mother is doing "pretty well" and has been comforted by family members since her kidnapping last week.
The Hall of Fame infielder said his mother is a tough woman, but her sense of security has been violated. He says she has not yet returned to her Aberdeen home.
The purpose of the conference is about "keeping the pressure on" the suspect, Maroon said.
"Cal's basically going to make a plea for people to keep looking," Maroon said.
Violet "Vi" Ripken was bound and abducted from her longtime Harford County home for about 12 hours in her own car by an unidentified man, then returned home, police said.
Few details of the investigation have been made available by the Aberdeen police force in recent days.
Lt. Fred Budnick, the spokesman for Aberdeen police, released no new information in the case Wednesday or Thursday, though he said there was "a very active investigation."
Police released a 35-second surveillance video and a sketch of the suspect Tuesday.
Harford County State's Attorney Joseph I. Cassilly has said police must find the right balance of information to release so as not to lead the potential suspect to destroy evidence or intimidate witnesses.
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Just some instances over the last few years (only where they were foung guilty) of some ball tampering. People are quick to put the knife into Darrell Hair over this instance with some even suggesting he is racist.
January 2004
ICC match referee Clive Lloyd found Rahul Dravid guilty of a Level 2 offence and imposed a Level 2 penalty of 50 percent of his match fee for breach of the ICC code of conduct.
The Indian vice-captain was charged under clause 2.10 of the code of conduct, which refers to changing the condition of the ball during the tri-series match against Zimbabwe at the Gabba in Brisbane.
India coach John Wright said, 'He was applying saliva to the ball and what happened was the saliva was coloured with that sweet [he was eating] and he wiped it off because he knew immediately it was only supposed to be saliva or perspiration.'
November 2002
In the only such incident in domestic cricket, the Pakistan Cricket Board fined six cricketers -- Naved Latif, Qaiser Abbas, Yasir Arafat, Sajid Shah, Zahid Saeed and Rao Iftikhar Anjum -- Rs 3,000 each, after they were found guilty of ball-tampering during the 2002-03 Ramadan Cup one-day cricket tournament.
'I occasionally scratched the side of the ball and lifted the seam. Only once did I use an object. When Sussex were playing Hampshire in 1981 the ball was not deviating at all. I got the 12th man to bring out a bottle top and it started to move around a lot,' former Pakistan captain Imran Khan had confessed, after his playing days were over.
November 2002
Pakistan fast bowler Shoaib Akhtar was found guilty of ball-tampering during the first Test against Zimbabwe at Harare. ICC match referee Clive Lloyd said the umpires had reported the matter to him and there was agreement that Shoaib had changed the condition of the ball illegally.
May 2003
Akhtar again caught in the act. This time he was handed a two-match ban for ball-tampering. The 'Rawalpindi Express' was reported to ICC match referee Gundappa Vishwanath after the one-day international against New Zealand in Dambulla. Third umpire Gamini Silva of Sri Lanka noticed him scratching the quarter seam of the ball on television replays and brought it to Vishwanath's attention.November 2001
Sachin Tendulkar was found guilty of ball-tampering during the Port Elizabeth Test and handed down a suspended one-match sentence and fined 75 percent of his match fee by English match referee Mike Denness.
'I spoke to the two umpires as well and they said they didn't find anything to report. They didn't even warn anyone,' United Cricket Board of South Africa Chief Executive Gerald Majola said about the incident.
July 2000
Waqar Younis became the first player to be suspended for a one-day international by match referee John Reid.
Television images showed Waqar and teammate Azhar Mahmood scratching the ball and lifting the quarter seam in the ODI match against South Africa in Sri Lanka. The former was also fined 50 percent of his match fee, while Azhar was fined 30 percent of his match fee.
September 1996
Pakistan cricket manager Javed Burki confirmed that his bowlers had tampered with the ball during the 1996 Test series against England.Notice a pattern ?July 1994
Mike Atherton was fined £2,000 by match referee Peter Burge for the 'dirt in the pocket' incident in the Test against South Africa at Lord's. Television footage showed the newly-appointed England captain apparently rubbing something to the ball. Atherton claimed he rubbed dirt from his pocket to aid grip on the ball.
'The dirt in my pocket was used to dry my fingers because it was a hot and humid day. We were trying to get the ball to reverse swing. You need one side of the ball to remain completely dry,' Atherton said then.


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Given that u>0 and v>0 find the smallest possible value of 1/u + 1/v given that u + v = 5 by different methods.
If x + y = -1 find the largest value of xy by coordinate geometry, by calculus and by algebra.
A point moves around inside a rectangle. What are the least and the greatest values of the sum of the squares of the distances from the vertices?
Find the maximum value of n to the power 1/n and prove that it is a maximum.
Make and prove a conjecture about the cyclic quadrilateral inscribed in a circle of radius r that has the maximum perimeter and the maximum area.
If x, y and z are real numbers such that: x + y + z = 5 and xy + yz + zx = 3. What is the largest value that any of the numbers can have?
Three fences of different lengths form three sides of an enclosure. What arrangement maximises the area?
A 10x10x10 cube is made from 27 2x2 cubes with corridors between them. Find the shortest route from one corner to the opposite corner.
There are 12 identical looking coins, one of which is a fake. The counterfeit coin is of a different weight to the rest. What is the minimum number of weighings needed to locate the fake coin?
Four rods are hinged at their ends to form a quadrilateral. How can you maximise its area?
Chris is enjoying a swim but needs to get back for lunch. If she can swim at 3 m/s and run at 7m/sec, how far along the bank should she land in order to get back as quickly as possible?
Find all the turning points of y=x^{1/x} for x>0 and decide whether each is a maximum or minimum. Give a sketch of the graph.
A ladder 3m long rests against a wall with one end a short distance from its base. Between the wall and the base of a ladder is a garden storage box 1m tall and 1m high. What is the maximum distance. . . .
Investigate the graphs of y = [1 + (x - t)^2][1 + (x + t^)2] as the parameter t varies.
What is the quickest route across a ploughed field when your speed around the edge is greater?
Can you massage the parameters of these curves to make them match as closely as possible?
Can you make sense of information about trees in order to maximise the profits of a forestry company?
Can you work out how to produce the right amount of chemical in a temperature-dependent reaction?


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by Tom Utescher
After just two seasons at the helm of the Chestnut Hill College Griffins, Brian Dougherty is making a mark as a successful collegiate lacrosse coach. The CHC community was recently reminded of the outstanding career Dougherty enjoyed as a player when it was announced that he will be inducted into the National Lacrosse Hall of Fame.
A two-time All-American goalie at the University of Maryland, Dougherty went on to play for the U.S. National Team, winning two Federation of International Lacrosse (FIL) championships. He also won three titles on the professional level in Major League Lacrosse, causing the league to designate him Goalie of the Decade for 2001-2010.
"This is a great honor for Brian, and well deserved," said CHC Athletic Director Lynn Tubman. "Obviously, we're excited to have someone of his caliber here at Chestnut Hill to build our lacrosse program."
For the 2011 season, Dougherty took over a CHC team that only came into being one year before, when the fledgling Griffins franchise had a roster consisting almost entirely of freshmen. Last spring Dougherty led Chestnut Hill to a record 7-7 overall and a mark of 3-7 in the demanding East Coast Conference, and this season the Griffins finished 8-6, 5-5.
A 1992 graduate of Episcopal Academy, Dougherty played high school football in addition to lacrosse. He also played basketball for his father, legendary Episcopal coach Dan Dougherty. He admired EA lacrosse forerunners such as Gabby Roe, who went on to play for the University of Virginia and the Philadelphia Wings, and Penn Charter star Joe Donnelly.
Joseph Donnelly, Jr. was a goalie who played for the U.S. Naval Academy, and his father Joseph Sr., was a longtime coach at Penn Charter who specialized in instructing goaltenders.
"The Donnellys were big influences on me," Dougherty said. "I learned a lot from them and they helped encourage me to see how far I could go in lacrosse."
His first stop after Episcopal was the University of Maryland, where as a junior he helped the Terrapins become the 1995 NCAA Runner-Up and was named MVP of the tournament. He also received the Lt. Raymond Enners Award as the outstanding player in the nation. Both that year and in his senior season in 1996, he was a First-Team All-American and, as the nation's top goalkeeper, was a two-time winner of the Ensign C. Markland Kelly Jr. Award.
After graduating from Maryland, he played for the U.S. National Team, winning FIL championships in 1998 and 2010. In between those two international triumphs Dougherty played with several Major League Lacrosse franchises, winning professional titles with the Long Island Lizards in 2003 and with the Philadelphia Barrage in 2006 and 2007.
Dougherty's team at Chestnut Hill College is losing only one player to graduation this year, and the school will soon announce another strong class of recruits that will be coming on board. The coach agrees that his long list of accolades, including his recent Hall of Fame selection, helps the reputation of the young program.
"When guys are looking at schools, it's nice to have that kind of recognition so that a player knows that there are people here who know what they're doing," he said.
Lynn Tubman noted "Brian's name and what he's done in lacrosse certainly helps in the recruiting process. He's able to bring in players you wouldn't ordinarily expect to attract to a program that's only a few years old."
Former CHC women's lacrosse coach and athletic director Janice Kuklick, who is still on staff at the school as chairwoman of the Physical Education Department, was inducted into the National Lacrosse Hall of Fame in 2000. Betty Shellenberger, who coached at Chestnut Hill from 1950 to 1977, is a 1994 inductee.


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Total RecallTotal RecallTotal Recall is a look back at the history of video games through their characters, franchises, developers and trends.
I get it. The GameCube was a cube. So you can show stuff happening inside a cube. It's an advertising brief that writes itself.
But for every awesome shot in this old Nintendo commercial - like samurai doing battle, or the world's only Tie Interceptor living in captivity - there's something silly. Unnecessary. A little much, considering the tone and target market for many of the games that would wind up on the console.
Still, being a failed attempt to be as "cool" as Sony, the commercial is useful as an example of just one of the many angles, messages and ideas that Nintendo got wrong during the GameCube's time


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Life in Christian County, Kentucky...
I was at Crofton yesterday, so I stopped at the Amish bulk food store there. The Crofton store doesn't have as wide a selection of bulk goods as at the Amish store at Guthrie. It's not bad though, and Crofton is closer for us than Guthrie.
The Amish at the Crofton store (and also at the Guthrie store) are New Order Amish. They dress plainly, but they don't drive horses and buggies. They travel around locally in tractors pulling a trailer that has been made from a pickup truck box.
In the Crofton store, an inventory of fancy clocks is displayed behind the cash register. Most of the clocks have chimes or play a song. There are a few minutes of much music and chiming in the store every hour and half hour.
The Amish (and also the Mennonites who live in our immediate neighborhood) don't wear jewelry so when a young couple gets engaged, the boy does not give the girl an engagement ring.
Instead, a young man buys his lady a practical gift. Often he'll buy a nice clock, and when they start their home, it will hang in a special place. Or, if it's a mantle clock, it will sit on a shelf of honor, perhaps with a little lace cloth to decorate the shelf. Or at least that's how it is in our neighbors' homes where I've visited.
A clock has nice symbolism. A young couple can think about spending their time together, sharing their hours. They can look forward to their new home where the clock will be used. It's also a nod to their German and Swiss heritage when they buy a nice clock to commemorate a life-event.
A few years ago, one of our "English" neighbor ladies told me about driving a local Mennonite boy and his girlfriend to choose their clock. They chose a beautiful clock, and the neighbor lady thought they seemed very happy about it.
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Show of hands--who wants to star opposite Tom Cruise in a big budget action thriller?
Hayley Atwell, Rosamund Pike, and Alexa Davalos are in the running to co-star alongside Cruise in "One Shot," according to The Hollywood Reporter. The film is an adaptation of the Lee Childs novel featuring Jack Reacher, an ex military cop who tries hard to stay off the government's radar.
Here's the synopsis from Childs' website:
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A lone gunman hides in a parking garage and shoots into a crowd in a public plaza in a small Indiana city. Five random people die in a senseless massacre. The shooter leaves a perfect trail behind him and the police quickly track him down. His name is James Barr. It's a watertight case. After his arrest, James Barr refuses to talk. Then, to his lawyer, he utters a single phrase: "Get Jack Reacher for me." But Reacher's already on his way. What could connect this obvious psychopath with our wandering ex-army cop?
Brit Marling, who took Sundance by storm this past year by starring in and co-writing both "Another Earth" and "The Sound of My Voice," recently passed on the role, opening the way for Atwell, Pike and Davalos.
Atwell made quite an impression in "Captain America" as our hero's love interest, Peggy Carter, and Pike is a former Bond Girl who's given great performances in both "An Education" and "Barney's Version." Davalos we're less familiar with, we saw her in "Clash of the Titans," but the film was such a mess, it's hardly her fault she didn't register--curiously, she's been replaced by Pike in "Clash 2."
Childs is on record as saying he wasn't exactly thrilled with the choice of Cruise, let's hope he's happier with one of these women.


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Mr. Pickles brauchte ein neues Anderes Design und hat einen Wettbewerb auf 99designs gestartet.
Aus 28 Designs von 14 Designern wurde eine Gewinner gewählt.
Ever since I graduated from the University of Texas at Austin I have always dreamed of going back one day to open up a restaurant and bar. But instead, I worked for 6 years at a job I hated, but for some reason was unable to quit.
Then, a few months ago, it hit me... I am in complete control of my life.
I can do anything and live anywhere. Life is too short to not enjoy what you do for a living especially if you have a dream that you'd like to pursue.
So I mulled that thought over for a couple of weeks and then said fuck it and quit. I am pursuing my dream of opening up a sausage house and beer garden in what I believe to be the greatest city on the planet and couldn't be happier.
So now that you know how I got here, let me tell you who I am. Hopefully this will help you with ideas for the logo...
I am a 28 year old white male and have an english bulldog named miss pickles. I was born in California but my heart has always been in Texas. I love drinking whiskey and smoking cigars. Cooking is probably my greatest passion. I also love women, and am working towards a daily yoga and meditation practice. I think Ayn Rand is a genius. I am a registered libertarian, own lots of guns and enjoy arguing about politics. I love America and American history. I do my best to never lie and try to always be conscience of the present moment... I want this logo and my restaurant to embody who I am
I wish I had some more money to throw the winner for this but as I said I quit my job and actually need to start raising cash myself, but I'll tell you what...
If I select your logo, and meet or beat my projected first year numbers, I will send you a check for another $150... you have my word
Texans & Americans... I am basically selling a variety of sausages (I currently plan to have about 30), beer (about 40 on tap) and the best god damn fries you ever put in your mouth... that's it. The reality is my audience is just about everyone since I am selling a culinary staple. Nearly every country in the world has their own brand of sausage & beer and just about anyone with taste buds likes the way they taste... so my audience is basically, any one with taste buds that either lives in the United States, Texas, or the rest of the world... Please let me know if you'd like to invest ;)
What I want is a logo that is representative of; my core values, the restaurant's design and the quality and characteristics of the food that we serve.
The space will be designed in the spirit of a Bavarian beer hall but with a slightly more modern look and feel. Think dark woods, concrete, steel, glass and exposed brick but with wood being the primary design aesthetic. I want it to be very masculine and clean. I am kind of envisioning the name written in lowercase "bratsnbrews" with maybe those two dots over one of the vowels to make it look like an actual German word instead of something I made up. Design is not my forte (obviously) which is why I hired you. So, while I encourage you to use your imagination with the clues I have given you above, if you are feeling something completely different, go for it. The worst I'll do is tell you no... I promise.


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Discover the work of Corbusier, through the Chapel of Ronchamp, unique religious building by its form and its will of dialogue between monk and architecture.
Minimal info on this ~ but this is the GLAS GIBT GAS designed by Harry Thaler... gorgeous glass stove.
Hex Robotic Bugs ~ react to sound and can automatically avoid obstacles by changing direction when you clap in their vicinity.
fans of italy's graphic art master guido crepax can get their fill of his famous heroine, valentina, any time they want with this bold mdf furniture collection.
FEATUREDNarguile by Nedda El-Asmar for Parisian Airdiem - the details of this hookah are just breathtaking.
This wood CD wall rack by Porada serves as wall art as well as a functional way to store your cds!
Designed by M. Marconato & T. Zappa
The ReactOgon is an innovative music sequencer that uses coded discs placed on top of a multi-touch surface to make music.
10.000 changing-color light globes at the Circo Massimo in Rome for the Notte Bianca. A wonderful view, night and day.
Romania-based Designer and Art Director Stefan Lucut presents his 2007 works. An inspiring and edgy collection of print and digital photography.
Stereography is still very interesting today! This Flickr member deserves noticing (view the large version of the images to see the full stereographic effect)
New illustrations made with paper on carlogiovani.com
CRANKBait! is another "get 20 artists and give them a random thing to paint" event. This time the poor hapless object is a wooden fishing lure.
Clever advert: Very, very absorbant!
FEATUREDI needed to check on the rumor that the Chanel bottles are the same shape as Plaza Vendome... and also see some pics of the original sketches and evolutions of the bottles.
The fun illustration of Philip Newsom, who makes many monsters on bikes seem like a great idea
FEATUREDI learned how Chanel seals their perfume bottles ~ and even tried it myself... it's not as simple as you may guess... Check out the whole process in pictures
When design studio Priestman Goode decided their offices needed a little brightening up, they called in illustrator Anthony Burrill
The Flowerbox ® comes with holes in the back to easily facilitate hanging on your wall. A large range of green and flowering plants in white metal cups specifically designed to fit the boxes are available in our galleries.
I LOVE Faryn Davis's work. She captures images and pieces of nature in resine. I get compliments on the necklace of hers whenever I wear it (which is often)
These suspension hangers by Dutch designers Ariëtte Bos and Tom Couvée make your clothes look as if they are flying.
im kind of loving the ikea hackers.
Rotterdam, Netherlands 2007 City Of Architecture
presenting the t.a.e 1879, a sculptural glass homage to thomas edison and the year he invented the electric light, from the folks at germany's opossum design.
Named after Houdini's most famous illusion, Filius' Metamorphosis shirts feature detachable and interchangeable collars. Presto-Chango! More ways to customize your style.
Little Otsu's non-planner datebook for the semi-organized people. Sure, you could create one yourself, but someone else's scribbles are always more fun.
Photos by Floria Sigismondi
Luke Chueh gallery openings abound.
The Aesthetic Poetic briefly examines Japanese Bike manufacturer Arrow. The bikes are sleek, logo-free, lightweight and stylish.
The Googie; a retro toy-stool for kids. I know mine would love one.
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You won't get big and bulky and you won't turn into a she-hulk. But you will gain confidence, self-esteem and a bangin' body.
How do I know? Six years ago I was a pudgy stay at home mom. I'd always been active, but for me that really meant running, yoga and the occasional "play with light dumbbells" session at the gym. I could never understand why I didn't have the lean, athletic, feminine body I yearned for. I spent hours at the gym and I was always consistent.
The answer came to me in the form of iron, and since then, the iron and I have been the best of friends. I have a more desirable physique at 30 than I did at 20, and I feel better about myself in every conceivable way.
While I am blessed to coach and inspire many women around the world who appreciate and engage in regular strength training, I'm not ignorant to the fact there are still a lot myths and misunderstandings surrounding women and heavy weight training. But before I talk about why those ideas are myths rather than truths, let's talk about the myriad of benefits that lifting weights provides.
Why is it so important to be strong?
Metabolism and muscles: Firstly, and perhaps most cogent, is the effect that lifting weights has on fat loss. The more muscle a woman has, the more calories she will burn at rest. So basically, muscles speed up your metabolism, resulting in more effective fat loss.
Bone health: Many studies have shown that lifting weights regularly can increase bone density. Those of us in our 20s and 30s don't think about this often, but someday you will. And won't you be so proud of yourself that you lifted weights and cared for your bone density before you even knew you needed to?
Independence: I always say that strong makes everything easier. You know that furniture you need moved? Well, now you can do it yourself. How about those 15 bags of groceries? One trip from car to home–all you, girl.
I remember the moment I realized how important my strength was to my independence. I had just bought a twin bed for my son when he grew out of his toddler bed, and I didn't have anyone to help me carry it into my apartment. I lugged it out of the back of my SUV and proceeded to carry it along the sidewalk, up the stairs, down the stairs and finally into his bedroom. It was exhausting, but I did it all by myself. To me, that kind of strength is priceless.
Confidence: Strong girls exude a confidence that is intoxicating. I happen to believe that this comes from the knowledge that you can accomplish pretty impressive feats at the gym. When you realize your outer strength, you can tap into your inner strength, and that begins to radiate. Confidence is a very attractive quality and that gym confidence starts to leak into every other aspect of life.
I always say, if you can crush it in the gym, you can crush it at life.
Why you won't get bulky:
Hormones: Most women simply do not possess the level of testosterone necessary to support a bulky physique. Furthermore, any woman that does have a massively muscular physique is probably supplementing with hormones. While we all have different genetics, and some of us are prone to having more muscle density than others, as a general rule you have to train for bulk to get bulk.
Ask any bodybuilder and they will tell you – gaining muscle isn't easy. You won't turn into a she-hulk just because you perform squats with your bodyweight, but you will end up with a righteous backside.
Training model: Along those same lines as genetics, the way you train will play a significant role in determining how your body develops. Hypertrophy is not as easy as you might think, and most people work incredibly hard to make sure their training program supports muscle maximum muscle growth in as short a time span as possible.
I train a lot of women and not a single one has come to me with the complaint that they are too bulky. As a general rule, most women I train are put on a 3-5x/week training program consisting of full body free weight training (squats, lunges, deadlifts, pullups, pushups, rows, presses), kettlebell training (swings, snatches) and interval training. The key is to utilize as many compound, combination and full body movements as possible, so that we aren't isolating muscle groups to increase their size, rather increasing lean mass and decreasing fat simultaneously.
Of course, much of this is dependent upon your diet, and a bulking diet looks far different than a solid nutritional protocol for a woman on a fat loss program. The bottom line is that the way you eat and train will determine how your body develops. A full body training program and a diet rich in protein, veggies and healthy fats is an effective path towards fat loss and strength for most women.
So now what?
Maybe I've convinced you. Perhaps now, you're thinking you're going to toss your 3 pound weights, hop off the elliptical and give this whole strength thing a shot. Where should you begin? The following 3x/week basic program is a great place for beginners to realize their strength potential and start their body transformation:
(I recommend beginning each training session with dynamic mobility, glute bridges, planks and Turkish get ups)
Day 1
Squats: 6-8 reps
Bent over row: 8-10 reps
Push press: 8-10 reps
Perform these in order, then complete 3-5 rounds.
After that, pick your favorite cardio exercise. Go hard for 30 seconds, then rest (or go easy) for 60 seconds. Repeat this 5-8 times.
Day 2
Deadlifts: 6-8 reps
Pushups: 8-10 reps
Kettlebell swings: 15-20 reps
Perform these in order, then complete 3-5 rounds.
After that, pick your favorite cardio exercise. Go hard for 30 seconds, then rest (or go easy) for 45 seconds. Repeat this 5-8 times.
Day 3
Reverse lunges: 8-10 reps (each side)
Assisted Chin-ups: 5-8 reps
Jump squats: 5-8 reps
Perform these in order, then complete 3-5 rounds.
After that, pick your favorite cardio exercise. Go hard for 30 seconds, then rest (or go easy) for 30 seconds. Repeat this 5-8 times.


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U.S. Women's Update - Feb. 2
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (Feb. 2, 2009) – The current edition of the U.S. Women's National Team Weekly update released on Feb. 2 includes briefs on national team players competing overseas, U.S. Women's National Team Open Tryouts, trivia questions, how to purchase replica national team jerseys, updated list of United States players competing professionally overseas (including non-National Team members) and much more.
For the complete PDF document that includes the international transfer list, trivia questions and other fan interaction sections, click here. Below are selected sections from the update.
INTERNATIONAL TRANSFERS: USA Volleyball has processed 136 current international transfers for United States women athletes competing overseas in professional volleyball leagues. To see a complete list, visit page four of the complete PDF document by click here.
McGINNIS, HUGHES UPDATE: Angie McGinnis (Fraser, Mich.), a setter and alternate to the 2008 U.S. Olympic Team, paced her Turkish professional team Besiktas to a 25-22, 25-22, 18-25, 25-18 victory over Dyo Karsiyaka on Jan. 31. She set Besiktas to a 40 kill percent and .257 attack efficiency in the victory. In addition, McGinnis chipped in four kills on eight errorless attacks, four blocks and an ace for nine points. Heather Hughes (Fallbrook, Calif.), an alternate for the 2008 U.S. Olympic Team, recently joined Besiktas and faired well in the match against Dyo Karsiyaka. She was credited with 11 kills on 27 attacks and ace for 12 points. Besiktas returns to the action on Feb. 7 in a meeting with Galatasaray, which includes U.S. Olympian Ogonna Nnamani.
NNAMANI UPDATE: Ogonna Nnamani (Bloomington, Ill.), a two-time Olympian, contributed heavily to two Turkish professional league victories last week for Galatasaray. She scored 15 points in a 25-23, 25-18, 15-25, 25-19 victory over Karsiyaka on Jan. 28. Nnamani totaled 12 kills, two blocks and an ace in the victory. Nnamani charted a match-high 20 points in a 25-21, 21-25, 25-22, 25-20 win over Gazi Universitesi on Jan. 31. She recorded 17 kills on 50 attacks, two blocks and an ace during the contest. Galatasaray returns to the court on Feb. 7 as it plays Besiktas, which has U.S. Olympic alternate Angie McGinnis as the starting setter.
UPDATE ON TOM: Logan Tom (Salt Lake City, Utah), a three-time U.S. Olympian, helped Hisamitsu Springs to two more Japan V-League five-set victories. On Jan. 31, Hisamitsu topped first-place NEC 25-23, 25-19, 13-25, 31-33, 15-9. Tom scored 28 kills on 58 attacks, including six kills on nine back-row swings. She added three aces on 17 serves and two blocks for 33 total points against NEC. Tom scored 22 points in a 22-25, 12-25, 25-20, 25-22, 15-13 victory over Denso, which is tied for first place, on Feb. 1. She scored all her points on kills while adding an 83.3 positive reception percent on 36 attempts. Hisamitsu now has played in five consecutive five-set matches, and has won the last four contests. Hisamitsu faces Pioneer, which has two-time U.S. Olympian Tayyiba Haneef-Park, on Feb. 7 at Gifu, followed by a Feb. 8 match against JT.
UPDATE ON HANEEF-PARK: Tayyiba Haneef-Park (Laguna Hills, Calif.), a two-time U.S. Olympian, outscored the competition as her Japanese V-League team Pioneer was narrowly defeated by Okayama 25-22, 22-25, 15-25, 25-21, 15-13 on Feb. 1. She was credited with 24 kills on 77 attempts along with one block for 25 points. Pioneer, 7-7 in the league and in sixth place, Logan Tom and Hisamitsu Springs on Feb. 7 at Gifu, followed by a Feb. 8 match against Toyota at Aichi.
BOWN AND WILLOUGHBY UPDATE: Heather Bown (Yorba Linda, Calif.), a three-time Olympian and middle blocker on the silver-medal winning 2008 U.S. Olympic Team, was one of five Monte Schiavo Banca Marche Jesi players to score in double digits in a 25-19, 25-20, 17-25, 19-25, 15-13 victory over Despar Perugia in an Italian Serie A match on Feb. 2. Bown scored 15 points with nine kills, match-high five blocks and an ace in the victory. Meanwhile, Kim Willoughby (Napoleonville, La.) came off the bench for Perugia and played a large role in her team's near comeback victory. She totaled 10 kills on 23 attacks, a team-high three blocks and two aces for 15 points. Jesi (12-5) takes on third-place Asystel Volley Novara on Feb. 15 after a bye week in the Italian Serie A schedule. Both Jesi and Novara have identical records, but Novara is one point ahead in the standings. Perugia (9-8), ranked seventh in the league standings, takes on Riso Scotti Pavia on Feb. 14 after an idle week of the Italian Serie A schedule.
SCOTT-ARRUDA UPDATE: Danielle Scott-Arruda (Baton Rouge, La.), a four-time U.S. Olympian middle blocker, provided a stellar match for CGF Recycle Florens Castellana Grotte on Feb. 1 only to come up short against Minetti Vicenza 25-23, 21-25, 25-21, 25-22. Scott-Arruda charted nine kills, a match-high six blocks and an ace to be one of three teammates to have 16 points in the contest. Castellana Grotte, 8-9 on the season and in ninth place in the Italian Serie A league, challenges eighth-place Zoppas Industries Conegliano on Feb. 15 after a bye week in the schedule.
GLASS UPDATE: Kim Glass (Lancaster, Pa.), a 2008 U.S. Olympian playing professionally in Russia with Universitet Belogorie, paced her team to its sixth consecutive victory with a hard-fought 26-28, 25-21, 25-27, 25-23, 16-14 win over Dinamo-Yantar on Jan. 31. Glass contributed 16 kills, a block and ace for 18 points in the victory. She added a match-best 59 positive percent on 32 service reception attempts. Universitet Belogorie, 10-2 on the season and tied for first place in the league standings, returns to action on Feb. 4 against Samorodok.
JOINES, RICHARDS UPDATE: Jennifer Joines (Milpitas, Calif.), a 2008 U.S. Olympian, and Kristin Richards (Orem, Utah), a 2008 U.S. Olympic Team alternate, are competing for Fakel in the Russian professional league this winter. In a 25-9, 25-20, 20-25, 25-21 loss to Odintsovo on Jan. 31, Richards collected a team-high 13 points, all via kills on 36 attacks. Joines added three kills on 12 attacks along with a block for four points. Fakel looks to get back in the win column on Feb. 4 against Dinamo-Yantar.
PUERTO RICO LEAGUE: The Puerto Rico Super League started its season Jan. 30, and many United States citizens are sprinkled on the 10 teams competing for the title. After the first weekend, Toa Baja, Caguas and Mayaguez are in first place as the only teams winning two matches. Four teams split a pair of matches, while three teams lost both matches to start the season.
TOA BAJA FEATURES THREE AMERICANS: Toa Baja, competing in the Puerto Rico Super League, features three players who trained with the U.S. Women's National Team during 2008. Cassie Busse (Prior Lake, Minn.), Angie Pressey (Lake Mary, Fla.) and Alexis Crimes (Rancho Cucamonga, Calif.) all are sharing a heavy offensive load for Toa Baja. The trio scored 30 combined points in a 26-24, 25-22, 25-17 win over Pinkins on Jan. 30. Busse tallied 12 points, while Crimes added 10 points and Pressey eight. During the second match of the week on Feb. 1, Pressey scored 21 points in leading Toa Baja to a 23-25, 25-17, 25-21, 20-25, 15-13 victory over Vaqueras. Busse added 16 points in the victory, while Crimes tallied 12. In the loss, American Jordan Larson scored a match-high 34 points.
OTHER PUERTO RICO LEAGUE STANDOUTS: Therese Crawford (Kalamazoo, Mich.), a member of the U.S. Women's National Training Team since May 2001, has scored 27 points in two victories for Mayaguez to start the 2009 season. She scored 12 points in a five-set victory over San Sebastian, followed by 15 points in a four-set win over Guaynabo. Shonda Cole (Kings Mountain, N.C.), who saw action with the U.S. Women's National Team in 2005, has been off to a rock-solid start in the Puerto Rico with San Sebastian. She totaled 30 points in a five-set loss to Mayaguez, followed by a 24-point match in a four-set victory against Ponce. Jane Collymore, who competed with the U.S. Women's National Team early in the recent Olympic quadrennial, tallied 17 points for de Juncos in a four-set loss to Caguas. For more highlights from the Puerto Rico Super League, click here.
OLYMPIC LIBEROS TO HOST CAMP: Stacy Sykora (Burleson, Texas) and Nicole Davis (Stockton, Calif.), who have occupied the libero position for the last three Olympic Games for Team USA, will host a one-day clinic on ball control and defense for all positions on March 8. The clinic will be held at Grand Canyon University, located at 3300 W. Camelback Road in Phoenix. The session runs from 8 a.m. until 5 p.m. Cost for the clinic is $160 per athlete with a cap of 60 participants. Athletes will be broken down into two age groups – 12-14 and 15-18. Sykora served as the U.S. libero at the 2000 and 2004 Olympic Games, then earned a silver medal at her third Olympic Games in 2008 as a defensive specialist. Meanwhile, Davis was the 2008 Olympic Games libero. For more information or to register, click here.
REPLICA JERSEY AVAILABLE FOR LIMITED TIME: Are you looking for a unique holiday gift for your volleyball loved ones? USA Volleyball has the answer with replica jerseys from its 2008 Olympic Games indoor teams being made available for a limited time by clicking here. The U.S. Olympic Women's Team replica jerseys, priced at $65 apiece, are available in extra small, small, medium, large and extra large. Replica jerseys are available for all 12 U.S. players who participated in the 2008 Olympic Games. Each replica jersey will have the Olympian's name on the back with their jersey number on both the front and back. In addition, USA Volleyball has several other 2008 Olympic Games apparel items commemorating the unprecedented indoor and beach volleyball success obtained in Beijing. Products available on the online store include short and long-sleeve T-shirts, sweatshirts and hoodies in multiple designs.
OLYMPIC COMMEMORATIVE APPRAREL ON SALE: USA Volleyball has unveiled five commemorative logo designs to appear on apparel saluting USA Volleyball's medal successes at the recent Olympic Games and Paralympic Games in Beijing. Apparel can be purchased by clicking here. Men's and ladies' T-shirt designs are $15, while the youth T-shirt size is $13. Long sleeve t-shirts are $18, crew sweatshirts are $23 and hoodies are $30. Sizes XXL and larger have a slightly higher price. USA Volleyball's success on the Olympic grand stage in Beijing has never been achieved by any other nation since volleyball was added to the Olympics in 1964. The U.S. Olympic Men's Indoor Volleyball Team, which was named the United States Olympic Committee Team of the Month for August 2008, captured the gold medal at the Olympic Games without losing a single match. Women's Beach Volleyball (Misty May-Treanor and Kerri Walsh) and Men's Beach Volleyball (Phil Dalhausser and Todd Rogers) both came back from Beijing with Olympic Games gold medals. The U.S. Olympic Women's Indoor Volleyball Team captured the silver medal in Beijing, as did the U.S. Women's Sitting Team during the Paralympic Games. No other country has ever participated in the gold-medal match of all four Olympic Games volleyball disciplines during the same year. Team USA added a fifth gold-medal appearance at the Paralympic Games.
2009 PAN AMERICAN CUP COMING TO MIAMI: USA Volleyball will host the Eighth Annual Women's Pan American Cup June 26-July 4 in conjunction with the USA Junior Olympic Girls' Volleyball Championship in the Miami area. The nine-day Pan American Cup, which will tentatively have three of the four 2008 Olympic Games semifinalists (Brazil, USA and Cuba), will be played on the campuses of the University of Miami and Florida International University. "USA Volleyball is extremely excited about the opportunity to host one of the largest international volleyball events in Miami and to pair it with the 2009 USA Junior Olympic Girls' Volleyball Championships," USA Volleyball Chief Executive Officer Doug Beal said. "It will provide a unique opportunity for our developing young volleyball players to be exposed to elite international volleyball teams from North America, South America and the Caribbean. The two events will also generate terrific excitement in the community and lead to greater popularity for the sport." USA Volleyball is hosting its first-ever Women's Pan American Cup, which serves as a qualifying event into the 2010 FIVB World Grand Prix. The event is the largest international volleyball event hosted by USA Volleyball in terms of country participation. Team USA has not hosted a women's senior-level international tournament since the 1998 FIVB World Championship Qualifier tournament in 1998. Due to international scheduling and professional league commitments, matches on domestic soil have become a rarity with only seven contests against foreign teams in the most recent Olympic quadrennial (2005-2008).


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So, three of us have colds, one of us is out of town and indisposed, and the other one hates you all. (Kidding. Mostly.) Until we're back into blogging shape, have some links.
I wrote about Lincoln University requiring fat students to take a "Fitness for Life" course before they can graduate here. I've got more thoughts, and we've got a half-assed SP roundtable going on about it behind the scenes, but that might take a while to get anywhere (see above), so start there.
I'm also writing for Broadsheet 5 days a week now (usually two posts a day), if I haven't officially mentioned that, so there's lots of other stuff there. For instance, I wrote today about a British "Next Top Model" kinda competition for women with disabilities, and a couple weeks ago about Candy Crowley's weight and how The Rules will. not. die.
I would link to stuff other people are writing, but between working and and traveling and getting laid out with a cold over the holiday weekend (and thus spending 3 straight days doing nothing but watching 21 Jump Street on Hulu, which was actually kind of awesome), I haven't been reading shit. Well, I did read Nick Hornby's latest novel while I was traveling, and I loved it, but that's about it.
One more link, though! Women, Action and the Media (WAM!) is auctioning off a bunch of cool stuff to support their work for gender justice in the media, and one of the items is an opportunity to have me edit any prose manuscript up to 25 pages. I actually used to do that for a living, and I really miss it, so if you need feedback on something you're writing, support WAM! and give me the chance to have some fun with it.


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A few months ago, when we first decided to commit to our digital platforms and provide more Dynamo coverage than ever to our fans, we made the decision to also use that same philosophy with regard to our gameday magazine. It was determined that our magazine, in the current form, was not reaching the audience that we desired and we were looking for new ways to engage our fans with the new content we were creating.
Thus sprang the idea of the digital gameday magazine. It's something that professional clubs around the world have had much success with and something that clubs have found to be an intricate part of their fans' gameday experience.
Ideally, we would have launched our first digital gameday magazine prior to the first match. Unfortunately, we underestimated the process of getting a magazine approved through Apple's Newsstand.
So after four rejections from the App Store, we are proud to announce that our first digital gameday magazine is now available for download for iPhone users. Moving forward, we hope to have each gameday magazine available for download at least 36 hours prior to each match. It will also be available on multiple platforms so fans who do not have an iPhone will be able to download and enjoy the content.
The first edition includes the following features, plus more:
Welcome to 2013 with Dynamo president Chris Canetti
Xs and Os with Dominic Kinnear
Kickin' it with Corey Ashe, presented by BMC Software
Houston Dynamo home opener history
Road to the first team, presented by Statoil
We thank everyone for their patience and welcome their feedback on the first edition. Also, if you have content ideas that you would like to see in future editions please let us know in the comments section below.


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Samus Aran is iconic. So are the Metroid heroine's outfits. Yes, outfits—plural.
Unlike many characters, who have a single set of trademark threads, Samus has two: her Power Suit (or its upgrades) and her Zero Suit. Some fans did not like the advent of Zero Suit Samus, saying it not only sexualized a strong female character, but pointing out that it made her weaker when she wore it.
Both suits, however, have found their place in fandom. And both suits offer challenges for cosplayers. For the Power Suit, cosplayers need, well, a Power Suit—no easy task! Then there's the skin tight Zero Suit, which requires a degree of confidence to pull off.
In the above gallery, there's a sample of some of the best Samus cosplays—in heavy armor and out. Which one portrays the Metroid heroine the best?
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Liberal anchor Chris Matthews on Friday stooped to new low, smearing John McCain as an "angry" Vietnam veteran who is having a "flashback." Resorting to the cheapest of stereotypes, the Hardball host attempted to explain why McCain so aggressively opposed Chuck Hagel's nomination to be Secretary of Defense.
Matthews opened the show by sneering, "Why is John McCain so angry? Forty years after the Vietnam POWs came home, the most famous of them is angrier than ever." Regarding Thursday's congressional hearings, the journalist asserted that Vietnam "flashbacks must haunt still the mind and heart of John Sidney McCain." Dredging up the cliches of the unstable Vietnam veteran, Matthews declared, "...But I'm absolutely convinced we're watching a flashback." [See video below. MP3 audio here.]
Talking to liberal guests Joy Reid and David Corn, Matthews impunged the motives of McCain's questioning: "It looks like a flashback. McCain is so angry. Is it really about the surge?"
Considering how Matthews rails against the birther movement, it's shocking that he would turn around and engage in such cheap, paranoid attacks on a Vietnam veteran.
A transcript of the February 1 segment, which aired at 5:01pm EST, follows.
CHRIS MATTHEWS: Why is John McCain so angry? Forty years after the Vietnam POWs came home, the most famous of them is angrier than ever. Why is America, why are we fighting the Vietnam war all over again in the United States Senate? The ticked off vitriol against Chuck Hagel, what is it about is? Is it for show? Is it about something Hagel said in the cloakroom? Is it about the basic unfairness of Vietnam itself that some went and some didn't? Is it about Lyndon Johnson's inability to either win that war or end it? What is it that burns so deeply in John McCain these days? It seems to excite those who knew nothing of Vietnam, but for hard reasons want to replay it again and again in Iraq and Afghanistan and Libya and Syria and, yes, eventually in Iran. Well, tonight, we dig into the deep well of resentment burning in John McCain's patriotic heart.
A resentment not against the North Vietnamese who imprisoned and toured him all those years, not against George W. Bush and his political henchmen who tried to stain McCain's reputation back in 2000, but against a guy who fought against fear and rallied against wounds just like he did in the same army of America's long nightmare in Vietnam, Chuck Hagel. A nightmare by the way whose flashbacks must haunt still the mind and heart of John Sidney McCain. I'm joined by David Corn of Mother Jones and Joy Reid of the Grio. Both are MSNBC analysts. Both of you, sir and lady, are younger than me but I'm absolutely convinced we're watching a flashback. Watch this. Here is Senator John McCain. He did a long, angry windup before he launched into his first so-called question. It was really an indictment for a former Senate colleague and former friend and fellow Vietnam veteran Chuck Hagel. It included putdowns as well as references to Vietnam.
MATTHEWS: It looks like a flashback. McCain is so angry. Is it really about the surge?


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March 2016 Philly Fed Manufacturing Survey Also Returns To Expansion
Written by Steven Hansen
The Philly Fed Business Outlook Survey returned to expansion. Key elements improved. Both manufacturing surveys released so far for this month are in expansion,
This is a very noisy index which readers should be reminded is sentiment based. The Philly Fed historically is one of the more negative of all the Fed manufacturing surveys but has been more positive then the others recently.
The index improved from -2.8 to +12.4. Positive numbers indicate market expansion, negative numbers indicate contraction. The market expected (from Bloomberg) -4.0 to 0.9 (consensus -1.4).
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Econintersect believes the important elements of this survey are new orders and unfilled orders . Both new orders and unfilled orders improved but unfilled orders remain in contraction.
This index has many false recession warnings.
Summary of all Federal Reserve Districts Manufacturing:
Richmond Fed (hyperlink to reports):
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Kansas Fed (hyperlink to reports):
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Dallas Fed (hyperlink to reports):
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Philly Fed (hyperlink to reports):
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New York Fed (hyperlink to reports):
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Federal Reserve Industrial Production - Actual Data (hyperlink to report):
Holding this and other survey's Econintersect follows accountable for their predictions, the following graph compares the hard data from Industrial Products manufacturing subindex (dark blue bar) and US Census manufacturing shipments (lighter blue bar) to the Philly Fed survey (yellow bar).
Comparing Surveys to Hard Data:
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In the above graphic, hard data is the long bars, and surveys are the short bars. The arrows on the left side are the key to growth or contraction.
Caveats on the use of Philly Fed Business Outlook Survey:
This is a survey, a quantification of opinion - not facts and data. Surveys lead hard data by weeks to months, and can provide early insight into changing conditions. Econintersect finds they do not necessarily end up being consistent compared to hard economic data that comes later, and can miss economic turning points.
This survey is very noisy - and recently showed recessionary conditions. And it is understood from 3Q2011 GDP that the economy was expanding even though this index was in contraction territory. On the positive side, it hit the start and finish of the 2007 recession exactly.
No survey is accurate in projecting employment - and the Philly Fed Business Outlook Survey is no exception. Although there are some general correlation in trends, month-to-month movements have not correlated with the BLS Service Sector Employment data.
Over time, there is a general correlation with real business data - but month-to-month conflicts are frequent.
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Jane Lynch pulls off her tracksuit to go cabaret
NEW YORK (AP) -- Jane Lynch has zipped off the tracksuit and left the Cheerios behind. The "Glee" star is going cabaret.
The Emmy- and Golden Globe Award-winner makes her nightclub debut this week with a four-night stand in front of a three-piece band at 54 Below, a club in the cellar of what was a notorious, coke-fueled disco in the 1970s.
The show gets to show off another part of Lynch, who has been roaring to take a stage again since she made her Broadway debut last summer as Miss Hannigan in "Annie."
Audiences can expect a few of Lynch's favorite songs, including Irving Berlin "Mister Monotony" and "Slappin' the Cakes On Me" by Dave Frishberg, a song she did for an episode of "Glee" but was cut.
One thing that will definitely not happen is dancing. "I'm unteachable," she says.
Lynch recently sat down with The Associated Press to chat about her set, "Glee," ''Hollywood Game Night," Broadway and who she most admires in the business.
AP: What can we expect of your show?
Lynch: It's just a bunch of songs that I like to sing, hopefully some engaging patter, and I hope everybody has a good time and I'm not holding people hostage.
AP: Is there a theme for the evening?
Lynch: Everybody told me as you pick songs that a theme will emerge all by itself. Nothing emerged. There's very little tying these songs together. I say, 'Come with me on a musical journey through a world of songs that actually have very little to do with each other.'
AP: Why did it take so long for you to do cabaret?
Lynch: I didn't have any conscious plans to do Broadway but I always wanted to. So when I got the 'Annie' gig, everything in me screamed 'No!' but of course I said, 'Yes.' I was so happy I did it and I got the bug back. I saw ("Glee" co-star) Matt Morrison perform here and I said to myself, 'Self, this would be fun for you, Jane.' And then I got the call: Would you like four days? Everything inside of me screamed 'No!' but I said, 'Yes.'
AP: What the latest with 'Glee'?
Lynch: We're going into a sixth season. I think it's going to be half a season. I think we're going back to McKinley High. I think. I don't know any of this for sure. But that's the word on the street.
AP: What's the show's legacy?
Lynch: I don't think you can underestimate truly how powerful this show has been and will continue to be: It's the place where you can go where you're celebrated for who you are. It's this safe refuge for kids. That's what we're all looking for. We're still in high school, a lot of us.
AP: For you personally, what did 'Glee' do for your career?
Lynch: It was a total game-changer. They would not have asked me to do 'Annie' if I weren't on 'Glee.' At the time I was kind of known for the Christopher Guest movies. I was enjoying my career. I was happy doing guest spots here and there. But this really upped it.
AP: Who do you look up to in this industry?
Lynch: Neil Patrick Harris. He's all over the place, but in a good way. There's a method in what seems to be the madness of him doing this and then doing that, hosting this and then doing that. I'm always watching Neil from the corner of my eye.
AP: Your improv skills are on show on "Hollywood Game Night." How do you prepare your star guests?
Lynch: What I really learned is that if I'm not relaxed, they're not relaxed and the audience is not relaxed. So I just really have to be relaxed. And I do clunkers -- I have jokes that don't go over. Somehow they get on the air and they look funny. I don't know how they do it. They funny-ize them.


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(Bloomberg ) United Utilities Plc and Severn Trent Plc, Britain's biggest publicly traded water companies, are increasingly feeding human waste into tanks of bacteria whose methane emissions generate electricity.
Sewage-derived power supplies 22 percent of Severn Trent's energy, almost double that of 2005. At United Utilities, it's 14 percent. British utilities are shifting fecal matter to vats of bacteria that consume the waste, releasing biogas that's burned to drive water treatment. The result is lower energy bills and surplus power sent to the grid that heat more U.K. tea kettles.
Water businesses in Britain aren't the only ones finding value in waste. Companies in Europe and China are turning more to biogas to counter fossil-fuel costs and energy price volatility. Microsoft Corp., the largest software maker, uses effluents to help power a data center in Wyoming. Skiers in northern Arizona speed down slopes on artificial snow made entirely from treated wastewater.
"We live in a resource-constrained world, we're going to have to squeeze more and more out of our waste," said Christopher Gasson, the publisher of Global Water Intelligence in Oxford, England. Sewage sludge "smells like money to an increasing number of entrepreneurs."
Some investors in Europe see an opportunity in such a market. Last year, Bayerische Motoren Werke AG heiress Susanne Klatten, Germany's wealthiest woman, bought 20 percent of Paques BV, a Dutch biogas technology business.
There are about 2,250 facilities in Europe now using sewage sludge to produce biogas that can generate power, according to the European Biogas Association.
Germany and Switzerland have the highest concentration with 980 and 463. The U.K. and Sweden have at least 100 each.
Berlin Water
Berliner Wasserbetriebe, Germany's biggest water provider that serves 3.7 million people in and around the capital, has turned sewage sludge into power and heat for at least two decades, said Stephan Natz, a spokesman.
Last year it produced 22 percent of the electricity the utility consumed, mainly from sewage sludge. The company produces power and heat from sewage sludge at all six of its wastewater-treatment plants, Natz said on Feb. 18.
While Gasson estimates more than two-thirds of wastewater utilities in northern Europe are investigating the technology compared with less than 10 percent in 2008, that's not quite the case in the U.S.
American Water Works Co., the largest U.S. publicly traded water company, has no plants that produce energy from sewage. It's being considered and is at a very preliminary stage of discussion, the company said by e-mail in response to questions.
'Minority Taste'
Sewage sludge is broken down in a process called anaerobic digestion, which is also used to convert food waste into power.
Aqua America Inc., the second-biggest U.S. water utility by market value, said it has one anaerobic digestion facility that doesn't produce electricity and they're unlikely to build any such plant for power.
"The technology remained a minority taste until about five years ago," according to Gasson of GWI, a U.K. market research firm. Rising gas prices in Europe forced wastewater utilities to focus on energy bills "at the same time renewable energy was attracting serious investment: Anaerobic digestion technology suddenly came back to life."
The European Biogas Association and Gasson both say Europe is leading the way with the most established market while China is one of the fastest-growing areas.
Waste Streams
The proportion of wastewater collected and treated in China more than doubled from 2004 to 2010 from 33 percent to 74 percent. The nation will spend about $68 billion to 2015 collecting and treating wastewater, showing "significant" potential for energy from biogas, Gasson said.
By 2020, electricity produced from waste streams may be equivalent to meeting the energy demands of about 2.5 million British homes, or 10 percent of U.K. households, according to a Ernst & Young LLP report that cites the think-tank CentreForum.
Water companies already treat about 66 percent of Britain's sewage sludge using this process.
Fluctuating energy prices and the rise in fuel costs are helping spur utilities' investments.
The shift is a "mind-set change" as the industry starts to view the by-product of the wastewater process as something of value rather than an inconvenience that's costly to dispose of, said Mark Turner, water sector leader at Ernst & Young.
Pennon Group Plc through its Viridor Ltd. unit is investing about 1 billion pounds to 2015 developing at least 300 megawatts of facilities that turn waste from homes and businesses into energy. That project pipeline will drive the company's growth, Chairman Ken Harvey said in November.
Biogas Beetle
United Utilities, which has biogas plants at 23 of its sites, said this makes "good" business sense and it plans to invest more. Diverting waste from landfills saves regional provider Wessex Water Services Ltd. millions of pounds, it said.
Seeking to exploit rising landfill taxes, water businesses are expanding their expertise to generate power from food waste. Wessex Water built a food waste pre-treatment facility to help chains find an alternative way to dispose of scraps.
Wessex Water said clients including supermarkets also ask whether sewage-gas can be used to power their trucks. It showed the technology by operating a Volkswagen Beetle car on biogas.
Severn Trent, based in Coventry, treats excrement from about 4 million homes and businesses and turns it into electricity equivalent to power 50,000 U.K. households. Wessex Water said it produces sewage-derived electricity equivalent to power 12,000 homes.
'Delivering Value'
Southern Water Plc processes human waste equal to 1,120 Olympic-size swimming pools, plans to start four new plants in 2013, and Anglian Water Group Ltd. last year generated energy equivalent to supplying 11,500 U.K. homes with power for a year.
"It's about controlling our costs and ultimately delivering value to our customers and it's about doing the right thing for the environment and the U.K. in terms of renewables and carbon reduction," said Jonathan Davies, general manager for group business development at Severn Trent.
Severn Trent and Anglian Water have seen a cost-reduction from their facilities partly through government incentives that currently grant them two Renewable Obligation Certificates per megawatt-hour of electricity produced, equating to about 82.96 pounds ($128) a megawatt-hour at current ROC prices.
Southern Water Ltd. exports about 10 percent of its electricity and United Utilities last year fed 9 percent into the grid.
Biogas gas be used as a fuel to generate electricity and power cars as well as for heating and cooking.
Which means that "technically you could wake up one morning and be cooking your breakfast with gas derived from human waste," said Mohammed Saddiq, general manager of Geneco, Wessex Water's clean-energy unit.


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Chemical disinfectants such as chlorine and fuels to boil water often are unavailable for disinfecting drinking, cooking and washing water.
To help solve the problem, researchers have developed a battery-powered disinfecting "pen," which is approximately seven inches long and weighs four ounces. The device electrochemically generates mixed oxidants from a salt solution that individuals can use to purify drinking water.
Investigators evaluated the new battery-powered tool to see how well it inactivated waterborne parasites, viruses and bacteria. Several alternative pen cell designs also were tested by seeding oxidant solutions generated from the pen with test microbes, including highly chlorine-resistant Cryptosporidium parvum, a major source of contamination in water. "There was dramatic—more than 99.99 percent—reduction of all test bacteria and viruses within one to 10 minutes," Sobsey said. "Considerable inactivation of Cryptosporidium parvum was also achieved within 90 minutes."
Experiments demonstrated that the miniature pen cell electrochemically generated a mixture of oxidants from a salt solution that was able to inactivate Cryptosporidium parvum eggs, as well as bacterial spores, bacteria and viruses to produce safer drinking water in minutes, he said.
"The pen cell makes it possible for people to easily and quickly have safe supplies of personal drinking water in remote and isolated areas and during situations where water supplies are at risk of being contaminated," Sobsey said.
Users put a small amount of water into the pen, and then salt pellets dissolve in the water, which comes in contact with battery-powered
electrodes, he explained. Within 30 or so seconds of flicking a switch, a chemical reaction known as electrolysis generates chlorine and other oxidants from the saltwater. "The solution contents are then added to a quart bottle of water or a canteen," Sobsey said. "This delivers enough oxidants to disinfect the water in 10 minutes even better than plain chlorine does."
Tests of the invention took place at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's Environmental Health Microbiology Laboratories. Dr. Mark D. Sobsey, professor of environmental sciences and engineering at the UNC-CH School of Public Health, led the effort with doctoral students Maren E. Anderson and Julie A. Kase. Los Alamos Technical Associates and MIOX Corp. of Albuquerque developed the pen, and the latter funded the UNC-CH research. Results of the independent analysis are being presented at a news conference at the 100th annual general meeting of the American Society for Microbiology in Los Angeles Wednesday (May 24).
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This card is inspired by the picture and colors from Mona Pendleton's Color Challenge: CR84FN4 I must get me a new pack of plum pudding. I cannot believe, but this hue is one I am starting to gravitate toward more and more. Odd, but fabulously! This card in the trio of sketches is also for a few other challenges!
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Fab n' Funky: Forget me NOT! I have had this Gina K. Lovely Labels 1 set since it was released and I just inked this houndstooth image for this card. I know the image is supposed to go with another spellbinders label, but I thought it looked pretty good with the label 14, too! Sort of unexpected, but I heart that about playing with my stamps.
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Southern Girls: Fav color (plum pudding lately)!
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