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Choosing a dog harness can sometimes be a real challenge. There are many variations to consider: from use to the type of harness, from the breed to the size of your 4-legged friend, from the type of handle to the material with which it is made.
Unlike the collar, the harness holds the dog by the shoulders and chest rather than by the neck; it must be completed with a leash and it is much more comfortable for the dog, even if it needs a period of time for it to get used to carrying it.
Are you looking for more information to understand how to choose a dog harness that is right for you? Keep reading this guide and you will find the answers you are looking for!
Which dog harness to choose?
The choice depends on some determining factors, especially if you have a growing dog whose measures are to be monitored.
The first elements to consider when choosing the right harness are the size of the dog and the breed. These aspects will help you identify the morphology of the animal’s body, consisting of muscle mass, anatomical shape, back length and coat thickness.
This starting information is necessary because the harness must fit well , be snug and, at the same time, leave the dog free to make all the natural and daily movements: running, walking, stretching and sitting.
On the market, harnesses are sold based on a categorization: harnesses for small , medium and large dogs.
Sizes of dog harnesses
As anticipated, based on the size of the dog you can choose the size of the harness, which is usually also adjustable, so that your dog can wear it perfectly.
The bibs for small dogs , such as Chihuahuas or possums are soft and light, otherwise they risk weighing the little dog, messing up the hair and irritating the skin.
If you have to buy a harness for a medium-sized dog , however, you must pay attention to the build and strength of the dog. If it is a braccoid or a retriever, for example, it is always better to opt for more resistant materials such as reinforced nylon.
The same goes for harnesses for large dogs , always choose good and resistant materials, capable of withstanding the strength of your dog. Also keep in mind that large dogs apply a greater force on the harness than that produced on the collar, due to its enveloping conformation.
3 types of harnesses
In large stores, specialized in the sale of pet products, you can find all types of harnesses on the market.
Roman-style harness with H
The H-harness is made up of two circles, one in the neck area and another that surrounds the back of the trunk. The two circles are joined thanks to two straps, made of the same material as the circles, one placed on the dog’s back and the other passes between the two front legs. Due to its shape it is suitable for both small or medium-sized adult dogs and puppies, as well as being an excellent harness for dogs that pull.
The advantages of this product lie in the structure. Designed not to damage the dog’s posture and not to exert pressure on more delicate points such as the armpits, the H model guarantees a uniform distribution of tensions thanks to the two well-spaced bands and to the attachment of the leash positioned in the center of the trunk of the dog.
Before purchasing a Roman-style harness of the right size, it is important to know the length of your dog’s back, in order to keep the attachment point at the center of gravity of the animal.
Swedish Y harness
This harness model is made up of two circumferences, one wraps around the chest and the other around the chest, which come together in a single attachment point on the dog’s back. Unlike the previous one, therefore, it does not have an additional band on the back.
The Y harness exerts pressure on the chest area while your pet pulls on the leash, this is a very important aspect since the chest is a definitely stronger and less delicate part of the dog, compared to the neck, which protects it from any injuries caused by sudden blows and very strong tugs.
The advantage of this harness is represented by the position of the front band which, being very close to the neck, allows it to send warning and deterrent impulses to the dog. Finally, the Swedish harness is very easy to put on and has only one clip to clip on the chest strap.
Due to its conformation, this is a recommended harness for large dogs and adult dogs .
X-shaped scapular bib
This harness is composed of two semi-circumferences of fabric that hold the dog under the neck and under the armpits, joining between the shoulder blades where the closing hook and the leash attachment are provided.
The X-shaped harness , in fact, releases all the tension in a very narrow point of the animal’s body: the shoulder blades. Its use, in fact, is strongly not recommended for dogs that pull strongly as they lead the animal to open its elbows and spoil its posture, causing, in the long run, potential damage to the joints of the front legs.
Finally, by exerting pressure under the armpits, it causes hair loss due to rubbing, skin inflammation and excessive stimulation of the glands.
Harnesses with handle and pockets
The harness with handle allows the animal to be lifted and serves to block it promptly in case it gets caught by instinct; it is also useful in the case of elderly dogs to facilitate lifting, for example to get in a car or climb stairs, but also to relieve the dog of its weight if it has pathologies in the hips.
The bib with pockets are very comfortable, especially when you go to play sports with your four-legged friend. Regardless of this, you should buy one that has at least a couple of them, useful for carrying documents, keys and some kibble for your dog.
In addition to the diversity of models available on the market, to choose the best harness you will also have to take into account the material with which it was made and the use you want to make of it.
Materials and durability
One of the variables that lead to choosing the right dog harness is certainly the material with which it is made. This aspect determines its quality, which guarantees safety for you and your best friend during outdoor walks, and durability.
Remember that your choice must be guided by the size of the dog and the purpose for which you use the harness.
There are harnesses suitable for small dogs that do not pull, usually have low costs and are made with light materials such as nylon, which certainly do not last long.
If, on the other hand, you need a harness for a medium or large dog, and even more so if you need a racing, trekking or best dog harness for hiking , you will have to orient yourself on more resistant models and products with heavy materials and knitted fabrics. These materials last a long time and can cope with adverse weather conditions, as well as withstand frequent washing.
Some harnesses are equipped with reflective strips, both on the chest and on the back, an added value designed to ensure the safety of the dog, especially in the winter when it gets dark early. The reflective strips, in fact, help to keep an eye on the dog and help others to perceive its presence.
Remember that regardless of resistance and duration, the harness must first of all be comfortable for your dog, it must be breathable, especially if worn for a long time, and make the animal feel comfortable also in order to avoid rejection. .
Does your dog not want to wear the harness?
Although it is highly recommended by vets and trainers for the type of control that can be exercised on the dog without stressing too sensitive and delicate areas such as the neck and throat, sometimes you are faced with a dog who does not want to be put on the harness .
Some may have happened to witness yelps, escapes, hiding places of various kinds until they hear their dog growl at that object chosen with such care. All signals that your best friend is sending you because the harness just doesn’t want it!
To understand the problem and find a solution, it is necessary to analyze case by case as the reasons can be of various kinds.
Is your dog an adult and not used to wearing the harness ? You have to make him familiar with the new “item of clothing”.
Wore it willingly and quit? There has probably been some negative event that the dog associates with the harness.
The advice is to always listen to your dog, understand and observe his behavior, avoiding forcing him to do something that makes him feel at risk or uncomfortable. Also consider contacting an expert, perhaps a trainer, to deal with the situation in the best possible way.
Better the harness or the collar?
At this point you may be wondering if it would be better to go the collar route. Starting from the assumption that both the harness and the collar must be connected to a leash , as underlined from the beginning, the choice must be dictated by the breed of the dog and its size, but also by its nature. Some dogs, in fact, are calmer with the harness, others are more predisposed to the collar.
Always try to also contact your veterinarian who knows the animal well or in any case to go to a pet products shop where you will find expert consultants who can direct you to the purchase of the best dog harness !


WASHINGTON – In the best of times, working at the U.S. Embassy in Pristina, Kosovo has always been difficult: pollution, poor electricity, unreliable internet service, and an inferior healthcare system made it a plight for American diplomats.
That was before the coronavirus pandemic.
In a warning cable sent to State Department headquarters last week, American Ambassador to Pristina Philip S. Kosnett described increasingly dire conditions for his staff, including depression and burnout, after trying for nearly a year publicly to balance out accessible tasks from diplomacy during the pandemic.
He said many embassy workers felt unsafe going outside, shopping for groceries, or undergoing medical exams in a country where face masks were despised. Others reported to the office independently, lacking access to government systems from home to keep up with the work demands of staff thinned by virus-related departures.
Mr Kosnett said he has not yet received any vaccines for his diplomats, despite the fact that some Washington-based staff members have been dosed for two months.
“It is more difficult to accept the logic of the department’s vaccination prioritization for junior staff in Washington,” wrote professional diplomat Kosnett on the cable, a copy of which was obtained from the New York Times. “Until the department is able to provide vaccines to places like Pristina, the effects of the pandemic on health, well-being and productivity will remain profound.”
His concerns, previously reported by Politico and NBC News, have been confirmed by American diplomats in Europe, the Middle East, and South America, who complain that the State Department’s introduction of the vaccine was incoherent at best.
In the worst case, some diplomats said it left the strong impression that the needs of executives and employees in the United States were more urgent than those of employees in countries with increasing virus cases or without modern health systems – or in some cases, both.
The outcry represents a muted but widespread mutiny among the American diplomatic corps, Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken’s first term.
Some State Department career workers have also grumbled about winning political candidates for plum posts, despite Mr Blinken’s promises to promote from within.
However, the department’s internal schism over vaccine distribution has intensified, particularly in the face of President Biden’s promise to speed up doses to Americans and after Mr Blinken found out the pandemic last month that the pandemic was five American citizens and 42 before Place employed workers in embassies and consulates around the world had killed, made the world noticeable.
On at least two cables to the department’s staff this month, Mr Blinken and other senior officials sounded pained as they tried to reassure frontline diplomats that they too would be vaccinated, if they so chose, as soon as doses became available.
“The unfortunate and difficult reality is that there are more places that need an immediate dose than we have available,” said Carol Z. Perez, the acting head of the company, on Monday’s last cable to all diplomatic Update data and consular posts on the department’s virus response. “I understand the frustration and we are doing everything we can to fill these gaps.”
She said the next batch of cans for employees, expected next month, will be sent “almost entirely overseas” as staff on “critical infrastructure” jobs in Washington have been vaccinated.
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However, the cable, signed by Mr Blinken, said it was not clear how many doses the State Department would receive from the government’s vaccination campaign in March – and where exactly they would be sent.
The department has received about 73,400 doses of vaccine to date, or about 23 percent of the 315,000 required for its employees, families, and other household members of American diplomats posted abroad, foreign-born employees working in foreign embassies and consulates, and contractors were requested.
Eighty percent of these vaccines were shipped overseas – as were the number of full-time State Department workers who work overseas, if not their family members or contractors. However, diplomats noted higher risk of infection and lower quality of health care in many countries that were not at all comparable to conditions in the United States.
A Middle East-based official said medical staff from some American embassies had been sent back to Washington to administer vaccines to officials, creating the impression that staff overseas were not a priority.
Just like in the United States, officials at the department’s headquarters are struggling to get a vaccine that requires sub-zero temperature control to be shipped to more than 270 diplomatic agencies worldwide. In the past few weeks, the State Department received more than 200 freezers for embassies and consulates to store the vaccines, 80 percent of which had been delivered, Ms. Perez said.
She also acknowledged “missteps”, such as in December when an unspecified number of cans stored in Washington at the wrong temperature had to be used immediately or wasted. They were given to department employees who were prioritized by their managers and could come to the medical department at State Department headquarters on short notice during the holidays.
Much of the first batch of doses went to the frontline staff: medical, maintenance, and diplomatic security personnel, as well as officials working 24/7 in operations centers overseeing diplomatic and security developments around the world. Foreign ministerial missions in Iraq, Afghanistan and Somalia received vaccines.
Most of what was left went to Washington area workers who worked at least eight hours a week in government offices.
In January, diplomats in Mexico City, across West Africa and Ashgabat, Turkmenistan received the vaccine – as did employees in passport offices in Arkansas, New Hampshire and New Orleans. Additional workers in the Washington area were also given cans.
That month, the bulk of the cans were destined for diplomatic missions in East Africa and Southern Africa, as well as remaining staff in the Washington area who regularly work from the office and staff of the US Mission to the United Nations in New York.
Separately, a senior official with the department said Tuesday that about a dozen senior officials in the Trump administration were also vaccinated before leaving the administration, despite the official refusing to find out who they were.
Some diplomats overseas said it might be faster to get the coronavirus vaccine from the countries they are stationed in than waiting for the State Department. In the cable on Monday, Ms. Perez said that this has been allowed by at least 17 foreign governments so far as long as they meet American legal and safety standards.
She also said the State Department was the only federal agency that used every vaccine it received from the Department of Health and Human Services without wasting or spoiling any doses. “I wish we had more,” she said.
Despite widespread outrage, at least some overseas diplomats said they also understood that global requirements for the vaccine far exceeded supply – even if the State Department could have had better plans months ago to get more doses.
In Pristina, where around 20 percent of embassy staff are infected with the virus, Kosnett said staff morale has fallen since the vaccine was announced. He said that many diplomats there doubted the embassy would ever receive cans, and some believed the State Department cared little about their plight.
He and other high-ranking embassy representatives “can and must do more on the ground to address moral issues,” wrote Kosnett on the cable.
“But we would ask Washington to do more too,” he said. “The repetitive heightening of expectations and hopes for vaccine distribution has seriously affected the future of our community.”


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Lorry driver jailed for M26 family crash deaths
A lorry driver who caused the deaths of a man and his two daughters on the M26 in Kent has been jailed for six-and-a-half years.
Juraj Orsula, 45, from Slovakia, left three other people with serious injuries, Maidstone Crown Court heard.
Michael Akande, 54, of Sarcelles in Paris, died days after last April's crash. His daughters, Helen, 22, and Mary, 16, died at the scene.
Orsula smashed into their car, which had come to a stop on the motorway.
'Trail of devastation'
The crash involving two lorries, a van, a Nissan car and a Mini happened on the London-bound carriageway of the M26, near Kemsing, on 15 April 2014.
Those who survived the smash but were left badly injured were a seven-year-old boy who sustained a severe brain injury, a three-year-old boy who suffered a broken leg and a 36-year-old man who suffered a fractured skull and brain injury.
Det Con David Holmes said: "Juraj Orsula claims he was blinded by the sun in the moments leading up to the collision, which should have been reason enough to reduce his speed.
'Instead he continued to drive as normal before crashing into stationary traffic and leaving a trail of devastation around him.
"The events of that day will linger long in the memory of those affected, some of whom will never fully recover from their injuries."
Orsula, who pleaded guilty to causing three deaths by dangerous driving and three counts of causing injury by dangerous driving, was disqualified from driving for seven years.

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Hello! I'm Mark Olsen, and welcome to another edition of your regular field guide to a world of Only Good Movies.
As this hits your inbox, I am with Jen Yamato in Austin, Texas, covering the South by Southwest Film Festival. I always find this festival to be a highlight of the year, a place both for discovering fresh new voices and for seeing off-center mainstream films that benefit from the raucous audiences and upbeat atmosphere.
Back in Los Angeles, we have two more exciting screenings coming up, with Marc Webb's "Gifted" on March 30 and James Gray's "The Lost City of Z" on April 3. Exact details for the Q&As are still being worked out, but these should both make for great events. Keep on the lookout for updates at events.latimes.com.
South by Southwest Film Festival
South by Southwest is a real highlight of the annual calendar. This year, in particular, looks to be an exciting one, mixing films by fresh talent with new work from filmmakers like Edgar Wright and Terrence Malick. I filed a preview/overview of this year's fest, and we'll be covering the big premiere titles and the new discoveries too.
Jen was at Friday's opening-night screening of Terrence Malick's "Song to Song," starring Rooney Mara, Michael Fassbender and Ryan Gosling in a story of romantic complications set against the world of Austin's music festivals.
"Every day was different," Gosling said of Malick's unconventional style. "Suddenly, Patti Smith was there, and she's with you for a few days and you get to hang out with her and watch her work."
And I was at Friday's night screening of "Alien," with new footage from the upcoming "Alien: Covenant."
I talked to Noël Wells about "Mr. Roosevelt," which she wrote, directed and stars in. In the film she attacks the archetype of the "quirky girl," and as a performer she shifts gears from a manic comic energy to something with more emotional depth with startling speed.
"The trick that I have in my back pocket is that I am very OK with becoming very vulnerable really fast and just being incredibly honest," she said. "It's the most interesting part of people, and the most interesting things about characters is when you get to see them flip."
I'll be dropping interviews with Frank Oz for "Muppet Guys Talking — Secrets Behind the Show the Whole World Watched," with Aaron Katz for "Gemini" and with Janicza Bravo and Brett Gelman for "Lemon." Jen will have a story on musician Warren G and the doc "G-Funk." And besides all the other work she'll be doing, Jen is on a panel about film festival karaoke that should produce some of the finest videos of all time. Stay tuned.
The collaboration between filmmaker Olivier Assayas and actress Kristen Stewart seems to have paid off for a second time with "Personal Shopper," the tale of a young woman in Paris attempting to connect with her dead brother. The film is part ghost story and part treatise on modern malaise.
In his review for The Times, Justin Chang called the film "a quietly profound portrait of grief and loss, and perhaps Assayas' most surprising attempt yet to grapple with the anxieties of modern life — a global condition in which strange new connections are forged and seemingly rigid boundaries are violated." He added of the film and its star, "It is also, first and foremost, a testament to the eerie powers of Kristen Stewart, a movie star who has now twice pulled off the trick of chipping away at her celebrity and redefining the boundaries of her talent in the same instance."
Jen spoke to Stewart, who talked of the techniques to her live-wire performances. "Rather than trying to show someone something, accidentally revealing something is so much more interesting," she explains. "I always want to set myself up, to put myself within parameters so I can just completely lose it, so it's always me. I can't bring anything other than myself."
Also in The Times, Akiva Gottlieb wrote an overview of Assayas' work, noting its deep connection to the disassociations of modern life, saying, "These films — which are being celebrated at Cinefamily this month, alongside the release of his latest film, 'Personal Shopper' — are fluent in an international lexicon of cool. The best of them are restlessly modern, coolly erotic, obsessed by the communicatory possibilities of new technology."
In the New York Times, A.O. Scott compared Stewart's performance to that of Maggie Cheung in Assayas' films "Irma Vep" and "Clean" in the way that Stewart exudes 'a quality of self-enclosed detachment that becomes its own peculiar form of intensity. She possesses an uncanny ability to turn her natural charisma into diffidence. You can't take your eyes off her, even as she seems to be making every effort to deflect your attention, to obscure her radiance, to disappear onscreen.
In Film Comment, Jonathan Romney wrote about the film, finding an unlikely connection, "'Personal Shopper' is built around a disparity between the abstraction of the idea of contact with the dead and the quotidian familiarity of text messaging and Googling. That contrast is essential to a key idea in the film: that the realm of digital communication is to us what the supernatural was to past generations."
Among the most talked-about recent movies has been Julia Ducournau's French-language cannibal movie "Raw." Besides a strong debut from Ducournau, it also features an impressive lead performance from Garance Marillier. Visceral, upsetting and with deeper issues on its mind, "Raw" arrives fully formed.
In his review for the Los Angeles Times, Chang wrote "Ducournau is hardly the first filmmaker to mine the body-horror lexicon for ripe pubescent metaphors, but hers may be the most audacious and controlled spin on this particular tale to emerge in some time .… Ducournau embraces the tenderness and the ferocity in her material (Jim Williams' score amplifies the contradictions beautifully), and she cleverly uses the veterinary setting to collapse the assumed distinctions between woman and beast."
At Vulture, Emily Yoshida noted that following the recent boom in stories about zombies, "Now cannibalism, one of humanity's greatest taboos, is having its moment in the spotlight. The time seems right: We seem to be bulldozing past all other niceties these days, why hold back from eating each other?"
At the LA Weekly, April Wolfe said of the film "'Raw' isn't derivative — it's fresh, funny and grounded in reality. Underneath all the blood and guts, this is the story of a woman whose body demands love in extremity and the only person who'll ever understand her fully: her sister."

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Morgan State Intends to Convert Lake Clifton High School into A Satellite Campus
Morgan State University has agreed to purchase the former Lake Clifton High School site and expects to invest $200 million in converting a 73-acre parcel into a new satellite campus, according to municipal authorities.
The Land Disposition Agreement includes a 59-acre lot with the former school as well as 14 acres of surrounding land.
Morgan State will demolish the former school, stabilize the historic Valve House, repair five public artworks on campus, relocate a basketball court, and build a convocation center under the terms of the agreement.
Morgan State will spend the next 15 to 20 years constructing the property if a master plan for the site is approved by the Baltimore City Planning Commission, with initial plans calling for academic buildings, sporting fields, a wellness center, and mixed-use housing at the satellite campus.
Morgan will pay the city $93,652.80 for the land, which will fulfill the city’s outstanding bond debt service to the state. According to Comptroller Bill Henry’s office, selling the property will save the city $724,379 in annual maintenance and security costs.
The arrangement was announced on Friday by the Baltimore City Department of Real Estate, which is part of the Office of the Comptroller.
The city must surplus 26 former school buildings as part of the 21st Century Schools Program. The deal is still subject to approval by the Board of Estimates, the Board of Regents of Morgan State University, and the Maryland Board of Public Works.
During its April 6 meeting, the Board of Estimates will receive a presentation on the plan.

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Following a period of incapacitation, physiotherapy treatment plays a crucial role in getting you back on your feet again, safely and with appropriate guidance.
Who can benefit from rehab?
Even after a stroke or other neurological injury, there is always the potential for enhanced healing and greater return to your normal activities. Stroke patients deserve more attention than the hospital system can provide, and the possible benefits are huge. Whether your aim is simply to live independently again, or to climb Croagh Patrick, we can devise a regime to help.
And it’s not just neurological patients who can benefit. Whether you have had a joint immobilized in a cast, have recently undergone surgery, are recovering from a period of hospitalisation/immobilisation, our Chartered Physiotherapists will be on hand to assist you in returning to your maximum physical potential.
Our new state-of-the-art rehabilitation gym is designed to assist patients to speed up their recovery, and is a welcome addition to the clinic.
Our Chartered Physiotherapists utilise the full functionality of the new gym to conduct Medical Exercise Therapy. Medical exercise therapy is a complete, active rehabilitation approach, to assist our patients with acute or chronic pain. It is suitable for all patients, up to and including elite athletes. Find out more about Medical Exercise Therapy.
Patients availing of Medical Exercise Therapy will attend an hour-long supervised rehabilitation session with our Chartered Physiotherapist, whilst still availing of their regular physiotherapy treatments here at Physiotherapy Works, or in the hospital system.
Several members of our team – David Gardiner, Kishan Mistri, Eimear Hoare, Louise O’ Rourke, Tomas O’ Connell and Eadaoin Ponisi – are fully qualified to supervise your rehabilitation session.
An individual and detailed rehabilitation programme will be devised by our Chartered Physiotherapist, in conjunction with your regular physiotherapist.
Each hour-long rehab session costs €50 and a discount is available when you book five sessions together. These fees qualify for reimbursement (part or full depending on the policy) by Irish medical insurers.

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Philosophical dialogue in the British Enlightenment : theology, aesthetics, and the novel / Michael Prince
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The British moralists and the internal "ought", 1640-1740 / Stephen Darwall
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A history of philosophy. Vol. V, Modern philosophy : the British philosophers from Hobbes to Hume / Frederick Copleston
Books/Textual Material | 1994, c1959.
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Things, thoughts, words, and actions : the problem of language in late eighteenth-century British rhetorical theory / H. Lewis Ulman
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Defining the common good : empire, religion, and philosophy in eighteenth-century Britain / Peter N. Miller
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Mary Wollstonecraft's social and aesthetic philosophy : "an Eve to please me" / Saba Bahar
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Rated input: DC 5V, 120mA.
This Zumreed 'Heart Speaker' is ideal for those times when you find yourself needing immediate and portable volume. Via its 3.5 mm cable it will plug it to your iPod, iPhone, PC, or any audio player. Crisp, clean and powerful sounds at your fingertips. Great for late nights around the campfire.
Charge time: Approx. 1 hour
Usage of fully charged battery: Approx. 3 Hours
Battery Life: Approx. 300 charges
Compact Heart-Shaped Mobile Speaker, Rechargeable Lithium Ion Battery Included.
Type : Monaural
Impedance : 4 Ohm
Input plug : 3.5mm stereo gold plated plug.
Cord Length : Plug 160mm. USB 600mm
Weight : Approx. 18g (approx. 85g with package)
Product material : ABS, etc
Size : Approx. W52.8 x H45.5 x D34.5 (mm)
Package size : Approx. W177 x H185 x D80 (mm)
Package Material : PVC, Paper
Colors : Pink, Red.


Winnebago Solis Pocket vs. Pleasure-Way Tofino
Many manufacturers attempt to replicate the quality and innovations of Winnebago but fall short. One example includes the Winnebago Solis Pocket and Pleasure-Way Tofino. Both RVs are built on the ever reliable and maneuverable RAM ProMaster chassis. However, this is where the similarities end when comparing quality, features, floorplan, and more. Learn more in our Blog!


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Animal Print - Giraffe Legs
Beautiful giraffe print. This would look fabulous in a safari themed room!
Beautiful rustic boho colours can be seen throughout this print, would look lovely in a gallery wall.
A4: 21 x 29.7 cm
A3: 29.7 x 42 cm
A2: 42 x 59.4 cm
Printed on 220gsm Satin Pearl and packaged in a postal tube. Frame not inc.
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Peter C. Okafor is the Group Leader of the Corrosion and Electrochemistry Research Group and a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Pure and Applied Chemistry, University of Calabar, Calabar, Nigeria. He holds a Ph.D. degree in physical chemistry from the University of Calabar, Calabar, Nigeria. He was a Visiting Researcher (Fulbright Scholar) at the Institute for Corrosion and Multiphase Technology, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio, USA (2003-2004) and a CAS-TWAS Postdoctoral Fellow at the State Key Laboratory for Corrosion and Protection of Metal, Institute of Metal Research (IMR), Shenyang, China (2008-2009). Dr. Okafor is currently a TWAS-UNESCO Associate at IMR, Shenyang, China (2010–2012) and a TWAS Young Affiliate Fellow (2010–2014). His research efforts are focused on understanding the mechanism, inhibition, and modeling of corrosion processes, and environmental pollution as it relates to corrosion. Dr. Okafor has published extensively in both national and international peer-reviewed journals. He was the Lead Guess Editor of a special issue of International Journal of Corrosion entitled Green Approaches to Corrosion Mitigation.
Biography Updated on 20 December 2011

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- It’s estimated that the average deadlift weight for novice lifters is around 173 pounds.
- There are various factors that’ll influence your deadlift weight standards, including your height, bone length, and core strength.
- You don’t need to deadlift in order to gain muscle, but it is handy.
Whenever you’re asked a question about averages or estimates, all the relevant information should be taken with a grain of salt. How much weight you can move will depend on a host of factors, including your height, core strength, and even bone length.
That said, on average, most males can deadlift 173 pounds.
Whether you’re an avid lifter looking to gauge your progress or simply intrigued by the impressive feats of strength, the deadlift is probably the way you’re going to test yourself.
So, let’s look at the deadlift as a whole and how to improve yours.
What Is the Male Average Deadlift Weight?
As mentioned, it’s estimated that the average male deadlift is around 173 pounds. But what does that actually mean?
The average body weight of the American man is 197.9 pounds, meaning they aren’t able to deadlift 1x their own body weight.
The heaviest deadlift of all time was done by Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson (above), who deadlifted 1104 pounds — or 501 kilograms (2.44x his body weight). The ‘strongest deadlifts’ in the world are in the realms of 5x their own body weight.
With this information, we can assume that the ‘average man‘ is between 4 – 5x weaker than the strongest men on the planet — when only looking at the deadlift.
Another thing to consider is some biological differences that will make the deadlift easier or harder, such as:
- Height: Taller folks may face additional challenges due to having longer limbs, which can increase the range of motion and leverage required to perform the lift.
- Femur Length: Femur length, specifically relative to overall leg length, can impact deadlift performance. Those with shorter femurs relative to their torso length may have a mechanical advantage, as they can maintain a more upright torso position and reduce the distance the bar needs to travel..
- Grip Strength: Holding onto the bar is crucial in deadlifting. If you ain’t holding on to that bar, it will fall (logically).
There are some other factors as well. However, most of these won’t influence how much the average man can lift, as it’s based on lifting experience.
What Does the Deadlift Train?
Literally everything. And if you think I’m kidding, check out the list of muscles the deadlift trains:
- Hamstrings (back of your legs)
- Glutes (your bum)
- Quadriceps (front of your legs)
- Erector spinae (lower back muscles)
- Trapezius (upper back muscles)
- Latissimus dorsi (lats, side of your upper body)
- Rhomboids (upper middle back)
- Forearm muscles (including flexors and extensors)
- Core muscles (including abdominals and obliques)
- Grip muscles (finger flexors)
That’s darn nearly every single muscle in the body! However, there are some parts of the body that the deadlift certainly trains more than others.
The hamstrings play a significant role in extending the hips and contribute to the upward movement of the lift. The glutes are the primary hip extensors and are especially important once the bar crosses the knees.
The quads are essential for the initial rip off the floor, similar to the squat technique. The core muscles are also massively significant for generating power and stability throughout the movement.
Because the deadlift trains so many muscles and is so demanding, some athletes will even wear a deadlift suit to allow them to increase their deadlift standards and move way more weight.
How To Deadlift More Weight
The meat of this article is for those looking to become experienced lifters and not remain the ‘average untrained man.’ Fantastic! You’ve come to the right place!
Now, while I can’t promise you the current deadlift world records, I will help you increase your deadlift strength by a large margin.
Here are the steps you need to take:
Deadlift More, Duh
If you wanna get good at something, you need to do it more — as you might imagine. The average lifter might then need to deadlift two or three times per week to actually build the form and strength they want. That said, you might not use the same heavy weights for each session.
- Speed days or speed training sessions often involve performing exercises with lighter loads at a higher velocity or speed of movement. The goal is to increase the rate of force development, improve mind-to-muscle coordination, and increase power output.
- Volume days focus on performing a higher number of sets and repetitions with relatively heavier weights (compared to lighter loads used in speed training).
- Heavy days are meant to drive muscular and neuro adaptation, getting you used to heavier loads.
Do Different Types of Deadlifts
There isn’t just one deadlift. Doing various different versions could allow you to train other muscles in a greater overloading pattern causing muscle mass growth in the areas you need it most, such as:
|Type of Deadlift
|Adductors, Glutes, Quadriceps, Lower Back, and Upper and Middle Trapezius
|Romanian Deadlift (RDL)
|Hamstrings, Glutes, and Lower Back
|Trap Bar Deadlift
|Quadriceps, Glutes, Hamstrings, Lower Back, and Upper and Middle Trapezius
Doing a combination of these will allow you to grow additional muscle mass without only relying on the normal deadlift — which can get exhausting.
Practice Progressive Overload
Gradually pushing beyond your comfort zone forces the body to grow stronger — mentally and physically. Thus, in order to grow more muscle mass, you need to use more weight as the weeks go by.
- Set a baseline weight that you can comfortably lift for 3 sets of 8 repetitions.
- Focus on maintaining proper form and technique.
- Increase the weight by a manageable increment (5-10%).
- Perform 3 sets of 6 repetitions with the increased weight.
- Add another incremental increase in weight (similar to week 2).
- Perform 4 sets of 4 repetitions with the higher weight.
Or, if you like keeping things simple, just add 5 pounds each week. This may sound crazy, but if you add 5 pounds even every other week, you’d have gained more than 100 pounds in a year.
Keep in mind it might be easier for some and harder for others, but we should all be able to deadlift more a year from now.
Use the Correct Assistance Exercises
While we could go on about the various exercises that will increase your deadlift strength, we whittled it down to the top 4 in order to keep things simple.
1. Romanian Deadlift (RDL)
These are remarkably good at targeting the hamstrings, glutes, and lower back. RDLs strengthen the posterior chain, specifically the hamstrings, and glutes, while reinforcing proper hip hinge motions.
2. Barbell Hip Thrusts
Barbell hip thrusts target the glutes and hammies like no other while not really causing back pain. Hip thrusts isolate and activate the glute muscles effectively, even more so than squats.
3. Bent-Over Rows
The upper back and biceps will be on the block with these rows as well as your lower back. Since the position is so similar to a deadlift, you’ll build strength and mind-to-muscle connection.
Pull-ups and chin-ups target the entire back and biceps. They strengthen the upper back and biceps while also increasing grip strength and lat strength. Since the deadlift doesn’t really train the lats, adding these to your program is a must.
In order to get stronger, you probably need to be building muscle and — therefore — gaining weight. This means being in a calorie surplus, around 150 – 250 more than maintenance.
Furthermore, you need to eat the right types of macros in the right amounts to allow for the most muscle growth:
- Protein: 0.8 – 1.2 grams per pound of body weight
- Fats: At least 0.3 grams per pound of body weight
- Carbs: The remainder of your calories should be ‘spent’ on carbs
Your weight gain or strength gains might stop at some point. This is when the simple addition of another 250 calories will make the wheels start turning once again, allowing you to progress.
When choosing your foods, aim for high-protein options that aren’t filled with added sugars or fats. The less processed a food is, typically, the better it is.
Opting for some select supplements like creatine and protein powder could allow you more progress, but only if your diet and training are already pretty darn good. They won’t work miracles, so don’t expect it.
Oh, also, if you really are serious about this, invest in a high-quality lifting belt. This will help keep you safe and sound while you become the strongest person in your gym. Do not cheap out on this!
How To Deadlift with Proper Form
- Stand with your feet shoulder-width apart, with the barbell on the floor in front of you.
- The barbell should be centered over the middle of your feet.
- Position your shins close to the bar, almost touching it.
- Your toes can be slightly turned out.
Gripping the Bar
- Bend down and grip the bar just outside your shins.
- Use a grip that’s comfortable for you, such as a double-overhand grip or a mixed grip (one hand overhand, one hand underhand).
- Your hands should be slightly wider than shoulder-width apart.
Starting Your Lift
- Lower your hips and bend your knees until your shins touch the bar.
- Keep your spine in a neutral position, with your chest up and your back straight.
- Engage your core muscles by taking a deep breath and bracing your abs.
The Lifting Motion
- With a controlled movement, push through your heels, extend your hips, and stand up straight.
- As you lift the bar, keep it close to your body, maintaining a straight line from your shoulders to the bar.
- Avoid rounding your back or letting your shoulders hunch forward.
- Focus on driving your hips forward to initiate the movement.
- Once you’re in an upright position, squeeze your glutes at the top to fully extend your hips.
- Keep your shoulders pulled back and down, maintaining a tall posture.
- Pause briefly at the top before starting the descent.
Lowering the Bar
- To lower the bar, initiate the movement by hinging at the hips and pushing them back.
- Keep your back straight and your chest up as you lower the bar down to the floor.
- Your hips and shoulders should descend at the same rate.
- Once the barbell reaches the floor, you can reset it and then perform another repetition.
How Much Weight Can the Average Man Deadlift?
To answer that question, we would need a study so massive and so advanced that we wouldn’t really be able to pull it off. However, it’s estimated that the average deadlift weight of a male is around 173 pounds, which is still less than the average weight of a male.
This is slightly worrisome, seeing as not being able to deadlift 1x your own body weight has been linked to obesity, cardiovascular disease, and even diabetes.
So, in order to improve your deadlift, you simply need to do the following:
- Deadlift more so that you learn how to do it and that you have time to practice the craft.
- Include several variations of deadlifts so you can train all the muscles in different ways.
- Use the correct form and assistance work to allow the most amount of progression while limiting injuries.
- Practice progressive overload in the weight room as well as in the kitchen.
Doing these few things over the course of several months is a surefire way to get you stronger.

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I think the job of teacher and prison jailer should be kept separate. Somehow they have become merged in the modern schooling system, where children don’t have a choice whether to be in a certain classroom or not. This is bad for the child and bad for the teacher. It's impossible to teach someone who doesn't want to learn and if they don't want to be in the classroom they just become a disruptive influence. This puts the onus on the teacher to "control" the child, which is really a nightmare for anyone but the most mean-spirited and controlling of people. As a result, teaching attracts controlling types rather that those with a true vocation for education and a love of children.
Rather than the current limiting system it would be far more effective to give children a choice on where they go and what they do with their time. This would make them happier and feel more in control of their life and would help to reduce the overwhelming resentment many youths feel towards the "adult" world. this doesn't mean 2 year old should be given complete freedom but it does mean that children should be given as much choice as they can handle and soon as they are able to handle it rather than keeping them under adults tight control until they reach adulthood. This would enhance their decision making ability, helping them as they mature, rather than them being trained to be passive receivers of experience.

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Having talked a lot about software development in general in this blog, I’ve now finally released a piece of software which may be genuinely useful for an actual end-user. I hereby present SubWay, an automated YouTube channel batch video downloader, as freeware.
Note: In this blog post, I’ll talk about the background of developing the SubWay software from a software engineering point of view. If you’re just interested in downloading and using SubWay, please head over to its download page. It’s free :-)
AboutYouTube has become a great place to watch high-quality video content online. There are a few apps which allow downloading YouTube videos, which is great as well. However, I always felt there was one piece missing: A software which not only lets you download a single or many videos, but which watches for new video releases on the channels you’re interested in, and downloads them automatically. This is exactly what SubWay does: Add channels to your favorites – search for new videos – download them. Again, head over to its download page to see it in action.
So I really wanted to create a software which I personally thought to be genuinely useful. I then decided to release it as freeware such that others may use it as well.
When compared to similar software products, SubWay provides this one unique feature, and it was my goal to realize it in a very user-friendly manner. This includes an easy-to-use GUI, an alternative command line client to support scheduled automation, and config files stored in a human-readable JSON format.
ImplementationSubWay actually doesn’t realize any video download functionality itself – it doesn’t even talk to the internet in any way. Instead, it relies on the youtube-dl command line tool which does the talking to online servers. All SubWay does really is invoking youtube-dl with the appropriate command line parameters, managing files, doing the appropriate calculations, and, of course, displaying the GUI.
It was in fact after I discovered the existence of the youtube-dl tool that I decided to create a download manager on top of it – I’ve never been interested in developing the complex YouTube API consumption myself, and reusing the youtube-dl functionality seemed like a great way to save me from reinventing the wheel (apart from the obvious legal issues).
Hence, the actual implementation work of SubWay mainly consisted of these parts:
youtube-dl process invocation and parsing of its JSON output
- Developing the appropriate model entities and match them against youtube-dl output
- Implement the actual business logic, the heart piece of which is the logic which checks for newly-released videos per channel which haven’t been downloaded yet.
- Building the GUI
- Building the command line client
TechnologyAs a professional Java developer, using a JVM technology stack was a natural choice for me. Given that the underlying youtube-dl program is written in Python, a Python implementation would have been favorable, but I literally don’t know anything about that programming language.
In fact, I implemented about 10% of functionality in Java 8, and 90% in statically-typed Groovy. Implementing the business logic in Groovy tremendously increased ease of development, code readability and maintainability. A while back, I created a blog post about the main reasons to use Groovy in a project.
Of course, this technology choice implied that the resulting fat JAR file would increase by about 400% to > 8.5MB. Considering the application is targeting a PC with enough disk space to store hundreds of video files, this issue seems negligible. As far as performance is concerned, I haven’t observed any impact which could be attributed to Groovy.
The GUI is implemented with JavaFX 8.
JSON serialization / deserialization for youtube-dl output as well as for config files uses the Jackson XML parser. Of late, I’ve written a blog post about the Groovy / Jackson combination.
Command line parsing makes use of the Apache commons cli package.
Finally, I used ProGuard for code shrinking / obfuscation.
Where’s the source code?So far, I’ve used this blog to discuss topics related to software engineering, and to publish open source software projects which I hope to have some educational value for fellow software developers; and I will continue to use my blog this way in the future.
However, this project is different. This is the first time I created a proper “end-user” software which I think may be considered useful by a broad audience. Also, this is the first “bigger” project I ever realized using JavaFX, and I certainly have yet a lot to learn about this technology. During development, I have really concentrated on creating actual functionality, and less on creating interesting abstractions or using interesting programming techniques. I think thus that educational value of this software currently is low, and I don’t feel like the code quality reaches the usual standards of my open source projects yet.
Hence, I decided to not publish the software open source.
However, I built a few general-purpose library functions in Groovy, and I may publish them open source soon.
Development experienceMajor development effort has been demanded by the following tasks:
- External process handling
- JSON deserialization
- ProGuard code obfuscation, especially in combination with Groovy / JavaFX
External process handlingInvoking and consuming the youtube-dl.exe process has been quite challenging to implement; most of all because it is naturally very uncomfortable to test as in the end, you really need that actual output from the program running against the YouTube API.
The actual functionality consists of running the external process, consuming its output in real-time or as a whole, triggering callbacks, checking the sterr for errors, allowing the caller to abort the process, and doing all these things in a background thread such that the callbacks can update the UI in real time.
This needs interplay of different standard components of Java and Groovy. I eventually abstracted this to a helper class. I will publish this open source soon.
JSON deserializationJSON deserialization happens in two places: When consuming youtube-dl’s JSON output (e.g. video information) and when loading the application’s settings files. I really wanted to store the settings in JSON format to stay (expert) user friendly.
I tried out different JSON frameworks before finally discovering that Jackson does its job really well with a minimum amount of configuration required.
JavaFXI’m quite new to JavaFX 8 and a lot of trouble I’ve had building the GUI clearly can be explained by lack of experience. However, I still think that quite a few aspects of the framework seem… fishy, to say the least. I’ve posted a rant about Lambdas, and another one about Java 8 Promises, and I feel like there’s much room for yet another rant about JavaFX 8.
As JavaFX is here as the successor of Swing (which clearly needs a more modern-looking alternative), I expected the programming model to be much superior in every aspect. However, I found so far that this is not the case:
- The FXML editor (which by the way is no longer shipped with the JDK) really only assists basic GUI building. The good ol’ Swing editor in NetBeans at least supported proper Java code generation (e.g. action methods).
- The whole “data binding” story seems to be of very limited use, and its API is as bad as that of lambdas.
- The components have in general a quite strange API, somehow similar to Swing, but yet different, and especially proper layouting is in no way simpler than in Swing.
- A good portion of the API just doesn’t seem to make any sense at all. They tried to build an MVC-like programming model, but it is so bad that we still fall back to procedural Swing-style coding.
I seriously consider creating a minimalistic helper framework for dealing with JavaFX. For now, my GUI code mainly consists of a collection of hacks and workarounds.
ProGuard code obfuscationAfter I decided to release this program closed-source, it became apparent that I needed a means of obfuscating the resulting JAR.
Here, the use of Groovy clearly made things more complicated, even in strict statically-compiled mode. I finally decided to really only obfuscate / shrink my own code, rather than trying to shrink the whole fat JAR (including the sources of Groovy and other 3rd party libs), which however turned out to be uncomfortably challenging to realize using Maven as the build tool.
Another setback was to find that Java FX’s FXML files apparently make it impossible to apply code obfuscation as it breaks connection between the FXML and the Java code.
I decided to use ProGuard for the actual obfuscation. It’s free, highly configurable in terms of what to keep and what to obfuscate, and it can be integrated in Maven builds. On the other hand, the actual quality of code obfuscation is more or less set, and doesn’t allow for much configuration.
ConclusionI’ve now released the very first public beta version of SubWay, v. 0.1-beta. Feel free to head over to its download page, try it out and give me feedback in the comments. I hope to build an updated version soon.
In the meantime, I will continue to discuss all kinds of software development-related topics on this blog. Thank you for your interest.


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Been thinking about eras recently. As a comic fan, I am less and less invested in the big two and I am less financially capable of deep diving into another publisher’s stuff, with the exception of comixology sales, so my ongoing comic reading seems destined to be back issues and gems to be discovered/re-discovered. So I am in a different stage in my comic reading life and this has left me questioning do these things have phases/ages?
Maybe I could look at these things in the same way comics themselves are looked. Maybe there’s Golden, Silver and Bronze ages of my comics fandom? It’s an idea that I have seen online before, but have never felt the need to apply it to myself. Why would I? After a point, I never stopped reading comics, so there’s little to act as demarcation. But the more I thought about it, the more there is actually distinct phases that my comics reading has gone through.
The Golden Age: April 1983 to June 1991
In one of my earlier posts 5 Comics that changed my life I mentioned Original X-Men 1
This was a UK comic that reprint US comics that came out 20 years earlier and was my first exposure to comics in general and the X-Men in particular after being given this issue by my mother. A world came open to me from that point. Since it was the mid 1980’s there were saturday morning cartoons and I was introduced to Spider-Man and his Amazing Friends, showing me the all-new all different X-Men, Thor, Doctor Strange, Namor and other new characters that I could love. There was also Superman: The Movie as well as the 1970’s Spider-Man series and the earlier 80’s Hulk show as well as the mid-80’s Hulk cartoon (still my favourite animated version) and so my love for comic characters grew. By this point I was back living in Liverpool after 18 months in Yorkshire and moved into the house I would spend the next 20 years in and two streets across from the top of the road was a newsagents called JayCee’s. It had newspapers, sweets, magazines and on the bottom shelf underneath the TV magazines and it got almost weekly deliveries of imported US comics. I got loads from there, early issues of New Warriors, Web of Spider-Man, Avengers West Coast, Avengers Spotlight and my first B-list team, the Guardians of the Galaxy who in 1990 managed to get their own series after nearly a decade in limbo. This was a series that no one knew about, no one cared about, but I loved dearly. I have re-read the series several times and still love it, one of the team now adorns my right arm and that was the point where I was probably irrevocably lost. In Garston, half way between home and school was another newsagent, this one had DC comics, some Detective Comics, Justice League Europe and another B/C-lister Peter Cannon: Thunderbolt. Most of those comics are gone now, mistaken for rubbish and thrown out, but that love of comics was now very much a part of who I was and as I found myself more and more alone in school and life, an important one. Comics were a big thing and I just needed to get my hands on more of them.
Comic Highlights: Guardians of the Galaxy, Justice League Europe, Alex Saviuk on Web of Spider-Man, Peter Cannon: Thunderbolt
The Silver Age: July 1991 to February 2000
I found out about a comic-mart, a sort of car-boot sale thing in the Blue Coat chambers in Liverpool’s City Centre. I headed there with some pocket money and a bit of curiousity. I will be honest with you Internet People, I don’t remember how I heard about it, or who told me, I just remember going and finding all these back issues, but on one table were new comics. One of them was X-Men 1. It was a Jim Lee cover and it sat next to a sign telling me about a comic shop that was about 5 minutes away. I bought X-Men 1 and 2 and headed over to this shop, which was called Worlds Apart. There I saw more new comics, X-Men 3, Guardians of the Galaxy 17, X-Factor 70 and so many more, there were different publishers I had never heard of and comic fans all around, it was a place for me. I was there most weekends and in 1993 when I had dropped out of college it was where I spent my first paycheque. Got a bit of a telling off over that one I remember.
I wasn’t a casual reader anymore buying whatever came out, I was a collector now. More new comics came, the return of the JSA, the Death of Superman, there was also Image Comics, Marvel’s 2099 imprint and then I found a second store in 1994.
I spent the next 6 or so years in Liverpool Comic Co, as a customer and then for a time as a shop assistant, working Saturday’s for the princely sum of all the comics I would have bought anyway. I first read Dark Knight Returns there, V for Vendetta and Watchmen. I made friends there, recommended comics to people and felt very much that I had arrived. I felt very much part of the comics world, even met a couple of artists, but all good things do come to an end and I stepped away from there as problems that I can no longer remember became bigger than my being there and then I had to start paying for comics again.
Comic Highlights 90’s X-Men,Transmetropolitan, the Authority, Grant Morrison’s X-Men, George Perez on Avengers, Marvels, Kingdom Come
The Bronze Age 2000 to 2013
Something of a lost period for me, still buying comics moving between DC and Marvel enjoying the events that kept coming. It was a period of change for me more personally than anything else. I went from being single man with no money living with his mum and dad to a husband and father and the comics weren’t the most important thing, as always they were a backdrop to the rest of life, a bit of background. It was a long period with a definite end point.
The Modern Age 2013 to Present
Something happened to me, something I have spoken about many times and it changed my relationship with comics, comic fandom and entertainment in general. Fearing my own thoughts, I turned to podcasts to battle the demons that lived there. Through podcasts I got to more online fandom via facebook and that led to my blogging as part of my recovery.
Now my comics are more digital than ever, not even back issues now thanks to the recent lockdown and I no longer buy new comics on a regular basis and the closest I get to new comics now is the sales on Comixology. Whilst buying the least amount of comics since the early 90’s, it’s also the most comic heavy time, with so many comic related properties hitting TV and cinema and a large part of my collection being digital, I am reading more.
What I have realised is that I have given a lot to comics, invested a lot in comics and so now, I really just want to read what I like. I don’t follow the trends, don’t want to buy into the current versions of Marvel or DC, I just want to read and enjoy my comics. I have so many that if I never buy another, I will still never want for a comic to read. They are my stories, I read them, I talk about them, I share them and even now, still love them.
Comic Highlights, all of the above.
I just had some thoughts in my head, just wanted to get them out, before I went to bed.

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Final Cut Pro Timeline for a 40 minute video…
Although my job is in graphics, I’ve always enjoyed the process of taking images and music and creating video projects for myself. Through the years, I have made a few things I’m proud of…a reunion video for my 1987 high school class, music videos for my family & a few friends, little things here & there to pass my time. For my son’s senior football season last October, I decided I wanted to do something for he and his teammates so I made the longest project that I had done up to that point. Clocking in at just over 25 minutes, I honestly assumed that would be the longest project I would ever put together. But…I was wrong.
When a virus decided to upend my senior’s final couple of months of high school and there is nothing going on to keep my mind busy, I decided to start to put together a video for Chris for his senior year. I figured I could put it together and he could watch it for his last day of school. But then my wife created a private Facebook page for senior parents to post photos & memories of their kids and an idea blossomed…why not make a video for his entire class?
The funny thing about how these projects go is…I don’t have any idea what I’m doing when I start to put the storyboard together in my head. Usually I rely on the music. I love finding songs that fit my mood for making these videos and for this particular project, I had found one early. The song was called “Senior Year” by the country artist Drew Baldridge. It’s a perfect song for a graduating senior. So…with that I started processing how I wanted to create this single video accompanied by a 4 minute song.
As the years have passed, I have a pretty good library of photos of Chris. I mean…he IS my kid so…who doesn’t take a million photos of their kids? But his classmates? Well…not so much. Honestly…other than his best friends that he’s had since he was 6, I don’t really know his class very well. Chris has never been one to stray out of his social group so I’ve heard names through the years, met parents at school events but for the most part? I didn’t know a lot of his class. So I asked my wife what she thought of me making a video for the entire class. She loved the idea and encouraged me to ask the parents on her Facebook page to allow me to use their posted photos. So…that’s what I did.
After posting this on Facebook…all hell broke loose.
Look…most projects that I have done in the past have been videos that I can control. I use photos & video that I have already and I put it all together and viola! A cool little video. But this became insane as far as organization is concerned. On average, I would say I probably use a couple folders for photos, a folder for video and a miscellaneous folder for scenics and such. For THIS project, the flood of photos on Facebook kept growing and I was getting email with photos attached and video sent over Messenger and more photos texted to me and before I knew it…there was NO way this was going to be a 4 minute music video.
Ok…so I needed more music. Which is fine because I love listening to music and this was a good reason for me to hop onto iTunes and check out some new stuff. I found a song by Tyrone Wells called “Time Of Our Lives” which was, at first initial listen, a perfect song for the video. I asked my kids what they liked. Ava said “Memories” by Maroon 5 would be a good song…so I added it. Chris liked “Forever Young” by Alphaville. No wait…”Forever Young” by Jay-Z. “NOT Alphaville Dad. That song sucks!” (Nevermind that Jay-Z basically took the original song by Alphaville and sampled it to make his own song. Heavy eyeroll here). I voted the Jay-Z song down, but I liked “Memories” so…it’s in. Anything else?
Chris told me a story about how, whenever he and his friends went to pick up their friend, Ethan, they would crank up the music in the car and play this song that he liked. They always recorded him when he came out of the house and it was like at basketball games when they announce a player before the game. Ethan would pump his fist in the air and come running to the car. It was all kind of preplanned and they did it every time they went to his house. The song was called “Runaway (You & I)” by a dance group called Galantis and from the moment he showed me the TikToks of Ethen coming out of his house and after hearing the song? My creative brain was turned on. I now had a 3rd song.
So I started searching the photos and videos, taking a lot of the group photos, hoping that I was getting as many seniors as possible. As is the usual, there are a handful of parents who take millions of photos of their kids (I raise my hand) and there are parents who have, throughout the years, maybe taken 10. So trying to sort through those millions of photos became my full time job for maybe 2 weeks. In that time, I thought…why not interview a couple teachers? Maybe get them to say a few words to the kids? So I emailed the principal at our school and asked him if he would be interested in doing a Zoom meeting and he could give me a couple soundbites for this video I was trying to produce. Mr. Kaiser couldn’t have been nicer and we set up a time to virtually meet.
Here’s the thing…I can’t record a Facetime call of the person I’m interviewing (something to do with privacy issues). The person being interviewed has to record it. So we did the interview but for some reason it didn’t record. So we decided to meet at the school (at a socially acceptable 6 foot distance) so I could interview him there. I figured I would ask him a couple questions at his desk and that would be that. But he decided he would give me a tour of the school, talking about a couple classrooms and places in the school that could provide memories for the kids years down the road. It was a BRILLIANT idea! So…we walked the deserted hallways at Beechwood, me shooting video wherever we went. Now…at this point I had thought this was just going to be a couple music videos and a couple teachers talking about the kids. But now this had turned into something a little bigger than that.
After that interview, I started editing the first music video for this project. I knew I wanted to highlight the kids when they were in elementary school, but I wasn’t sure at this point HOW I wanted to work it into this project. Mr. Kaiser was hired when the kids had entered 7th grade, so he really didn’t talk about the early years at all. I figured maybe I could “guide” a teacher into talking about them at a younger age but getting teachers to talk on camera can be a test. Most don’t want to be on camera (or so I learned) so getting someone to talk to me about the kindergarten years was problematic. I found a new song from a new artist named Conan Gray called “Little League” which was PERFECT for their early years. I had tons of photos and it literally took me maybe a couple of days to put the video together. But I still didn’t know how to work it into the storyline of the seniors. Then I asked my daughter what she thought of it and she said…”Just put it at the beginning.”
“No introduction or anything?”
And so…that’s what I did. The first stage was in place. After that, it all started to come together in a flood. Mr. Kaiser’s interview was the centerpiece of the project and I realized that it was the glue to keeping this thing on track. I already had a football video edited that I had created on the fly when the team made it to the state semifinal. I figured I’d stick that in there somewhere. I found a news story online, a video that was produced by the school and some band footage. I found another song I really liked called “Time Moves On” by Phantom Planet that stuck in my head. I really wanted to do something with it if I could. So now I’m up to 5 songs to edit music too, plenty of photos and videos and my head is swimming from trying to keep it all together. The only thing missing?
Video of teachers and students.
Look…at this point, teachers are still working. They had virtual classes to conduct, their classrooms and lives have been upended and here I was, asking them to let me interview them for a music video? Obviously…most don’t have time for this kind of stuff. They have things to get done. But a couple of them generously gave me their time and their memories and together became the most important part of this project.
As for the students, it was announced that on April 27th, the school would be making chicken patty sandwiches for the seniors. Apparently this is a fan favorite at lunch for these kids and they were told that they could drive up and get a sandwich to enjoy for the final time. While I had no idea what kind of video I could get from something like this, it was a beautiful day and I wasn’t doing anything so I headed over to the school to see if any of the video could be useful. As I watched the first couple kids come through the drive-thru line, there were teachers helping hand out the sandwiches and they were talking to the kids while they stayed in their cars. The idea hit me that maybe I could ask them if they would say a few words for their classmates after they passed through the car line. Sure enough…maybe 10-12 kids stopped and gave me a quick comment. And just like that…I had everything I needed.
After a couple long days in my basement editing, I was pretty much done. The entire video was a little over 27 minutes long, had 5 music videos, the band, football team, theater ensemble, as many photos of kids as I could possibly muster and the teacher interviews. It really was fun to put together and I was all set to “put it out there” for all of the families to watch.
BUT…it wasn’t done yet.
The school was setting up a Senior Month in May. This video was going to be a part of that. And the school had plans of their own. They had asked all of the teachers to say something about the class of 2020 and had put together a 13 minute video of the teachers and senior photos of the kids. It’s funny how my mind works because after watching the video of all of these teachers talking about the senior class, I realized that honestly? That’s really all they need for now. My video, while a project of good intentions, really isn’t for now. Hearing the teachers all give their thoughts on Chris’ class and the students is what this class needs right now. They all miss each other, they miss their teachers, they miss the moments that should be taking place as they wind down this chapter of their lives. They don’t need music videos and photos they’ve seen and all of this pomp & circumstance. They just need those calming voices, the ones they’ve been hearing for the past 4 years, telling them that they miss them and love them.
MY video? Well…I imagine in 15 years, my video will be important to them. It’s fun and flashy and will hold memories that perhaps they had forgotten. And while I waited to release my dedication to the class of 2020, I discovered a couple more things to add onto the back end of it, some funny moments that didn’t work in the body of the piece. So I added some “Tiger Extras.” And then the school put up some signs of each student in the Class of 2020 that lined the main road outside the school…so I added one more music video. Not a lot of editing needed to be done. I chose that Tyrone Wells song for that because the lyrics spoke to me and I simply walked down Beechwood Road and recorded each sign. And that, as they say…was a wrap.
To my son and his friends, I hope you enjoyed the video. It really was a lot of fun to put together and I hope that in 15 or 20 years, you can play it and remember what a wonderful time in your life high school was. I can’t believe it’s been 13 years since I took Christopher to kindergarten for the first time. Time flies and I truly believe in the quote above, the one I ended the video with. Go and paint your own masterpieces and make the most out of your lives. It’s time for Chapter Two! #WeAreBeechwood
Editors Note: Oddly enough, the first song I had found for this project (Drew Baldridge’s “Senior Year”) never made it in. Funny how things change as the creative process works…


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"Businesses lining up for space in Polaris Towne Center" was published on Wednesday, July 29, 1998 in This Week in Worthington, page 14. Jeff Donahue is the Author.
It covers the location Local Area .
It covers the topic business.
Available at Worthington Libraries on microfilm roll number 1255242537. Contact library staff for more information.


MSCI Works With Trade Group Allies To Oppose Business Tax Increases
The Metals Service Center Institute (MSCI) signed two letters last week asking U.S. lawmakers to oppose the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022. (Please note that while the title of this bill claims the legislation would reduce inflation, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office found it actually would slightly increase inflation.)
As Connecting the Dots reported last week, as originally written, the Inflation Reduction Act would have created a 15 percent corporate minimum tax to raise $313 billion over 10 years, reformed to reduce Medicare prescription drug pricing, boosted the IRS enforcement budget by $124 billion, and close the so-called “carried interest loophole.”
The first letter, organized by the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) and signed by MSCI and more than 125 other organizations, opposed the inclusion of a tax on the financial statement income of certain businesses (“book tax”) in the bill. The nonpartisan Joint Committee on Taxation found nearly 50 percent of the burden of this tax would fall on manufacturers. The NAM found that in 2023 alone the tax would result in 218,108 fewer jobs, reduce real economic growth by $68.45 billion, and decrease total wages by $17.11 billion.
The second letter, organized by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and signed by MSCI and more than 250 other organizations, said the book tax “would be neither simple nor administrable,” would pose “a competitive disadvantage to U.S.-headquartered businesses while increasing the incidence of unrelieved double taxation,” and would have a detrimental effect on the quality of financial reporting.
Shortly after the letters were sent, Senate Majority Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) announced a deal with Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.) to eliminate the carried interest provision, add a one percent excise tax on stock buybacks, and adjust the corporate minimum tax provision to exempt depreciation tax deductions.
That last concession will benefit industrial metals companies and manufacturers, which frequently use accelerated depreciation on equipment purchases.
Despite the revisions, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce (USCC) said it will continue to oppose the bill. In a statement, USCC Vice President and Chief Policy Officer Neil Bradley said the “new excise tax on stock buybacks will only distort the efficient movement of capital to where it can be put to best use and will diminish the value of Americans’ retirement savings.” The National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) also still opposes the bill.
The Senate voted on the revised plan this past weekend, approving it on a partisan 51-50 margin with Vice President Kamala Harris casting the tie-breaking vote. House lawmakers could consider the measure as soon as this Friday, August 12 even though the House is currently out of session for August recess.
MSCI member company employees who want to make their voices heard in opposition to the legislation can use this portal from NAM to send a letter to their member of the House asking them to vote against the Inflation Reduction Act this week.


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Bhubaneswar, Sept 20:
Supporters of National Confederation of Dalit Organisations (NACDOR) and dalit school students on Friday staged a demonstration in front of Assembly here to press their demands before the state government.
NACDOR members criticized the inaction of Kendrapada police in giving justice to dalits and demanded immediate intervention of the Chief Minister. They accused the State Government of not taking any concrete measures to check the increasing atrocities on dalit not just in Kendrapara, but across the State
“Atrocities on dalit people are on the rise in the State,” alleged NACDOR State president Ashok Kumar Mallick, pointing out the case of a minor girl in Patkura police station under Kendrapara district is running pillar to post for justice for the last several days after being raped by miscreants.
Besides, another minor girl in Pikrali village under Mahakalapada police station is crying for justice from police since last two months after being beaten up by villagers for touching a tube well in the village,” rued Mallick.
In a fresh case of police inaction, Mallick said when a dalit school girl in Chakada Gagua village under Mahakalpada police station tried to break a coconut in front of the deity on the occasion of Ganesh Puja on September 9, she was thrown out of the school by her teacher. “But the police are yet to initiate any step on her complaint,” he added.
“In all these cases, the Kendrapada police action is not satisfactory. The Kendrapada district superintendent of police himself threatened the victims’ families to withdraw complaints,” alleged Mallick.
The protestors demanded immediate arrest of the culprits, speedy police action in dalit atrocity cases pending in various police stations and stringent action against the Kendrapada SP as per the Scheduled Caste and Tribe (Atrocity Prevention) Act-1973, failing which they threatened to resort to a State-wide agitation.

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