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Outdoor Adventure Sports
Carrer Joan Rosselló de Son Forteza, 14, Bajo A, 07340, Alaró
Sport and adventure in Majorca; hiking, canyoning, caving, coasteering…
Update 16/10/23. Enjoy an unforgettable experience. Contact us at 650942362 or visit our website www.outdooradventuresports.es to make your reservation.
We organize personalized adventure activities so that you can enjoy the spectacular geography of Mallorca, its mountains, its coast and its sea.
We offer a wide range of activities full of emotion, for both beginners and experts such as; hiking through the Sierra de Tramuntana, climbing, canyoning, sea caving, coasteering, etc.
“The best adventure activities in Mallorca.”
Activities you can do with Outdoor Adventure Sports.
We have a wide variety of routes for all levels, both in the mountains and along the coast. Discover the most natural side of Mallorca.
If you like adventure you will enjoy this activity. We will descend ravines using various techniques and methods. We will go down rappelling, swimming and walking.
The geography of the island allows us to find an infinite number of spectacular places where you can enjoy climbing.
Majorca has many unknown points, underground caves with ancient geological formations, caves with access from the mountains and even some from the sea.
Pure fun, the climate and geography of the Mallorcan coast allow us to enjoy a wide variety of activities such as cliff jumping, climbing, sea caves, hiking, snorkeling, etc.
We will explore impressive caves that can only be accessed by the sea, quite a challenge.
Events for children, adults or companies. We organize days full of excitement with a multitude of activities such as zip lines, archery, rope bridges, slackline, pool games, etc.
Both for small and large groups. Great variety of adventure sports activities that will help strengthen bonds.
“The most fun activities in the heart of Mallorca's nature; Hiking, Canyoning, Climbing, Caving, Coasteering ...”
The Outdoor Adventure Sports team is made up of highly qualified licensed guides who speak a wide variety of languages.
All the activities we offer are carried out safely under the supervision of our experienced team.
We adapt our activities to the wishes and needs of our clients.
Other activities that you can also do with us:
Cycling, Snorkeling, Kayaking, Deep-water Soloing, Speedboat Challenge, Boat Tour and City Tour.
Contact us at 650942362 or visit our website www.outdooradventuresports.es to make your reservation.


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Project 64k is a modified version of the Nintendo 64 emulator, Project64 (version 1.4). It was originally created by Hotquik and is currently developed by Smasherx74. Project 64k is compatible with Microsoft Windows operating systems. The main purpose of Project 64k is its "netplay" (online multiplayer gaming) capabilities, due mainly to the integration of the Kaillera networking client which enables online multiplayer gaming. Players are able to join game servers where multiple games may be hosted. This ability is not possible with Project64 at this point in time, due to the lack of online gaming capabilities. However, Project 64k shares many underlying similarities with Project64, such as with system requirements and emulator core compatibility with games, as well as cheating facilities, via GameShark code emulation.
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Project 64k is commonly used in the Smash 64 community as a means to play online. The most popular server is the Galaxy 64 server in Chicago. Due to being the only practical means of long-distance play, it is often used to host online tournaments, similar to online tournaments in Super Smash Bros. Brawl. Because of the impracticality of executing professional techniques using a keyboard, many players resort to controller plugins to give an experience similar to actual play. Note that through an emulator, access to hidden elements of the game such as the debug menu are easier.
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Dura Automotive Systems Inc. has had its corporate credit rating lowered. That will make the cost of borrowing money more expensive for the Rochester Hills, Mich., supplier of driver controls.
Standard & Poor's lowered Dura's rating to 'B' from 'B+' because of weak operating results, high debt and a weak cash position. Dura's total debt is $1.2 billion, and its outlook is negative.
The credit downgrade Friday, March 18, followed Dura's announcement two days earlier that it cut its first-quarter and full-year outlook because of the decline in North American light-truck production.

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3-4 Med Courgettes
6-8 Salad tomatoes or a punnet and a half of cherry tomatoes
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Chop courgettes. Roughly chop tomatoes. Place in an oven proof tray. Drizzle with olive oil and black pepper. Add about 300g of cubed or sliced blue cheese and bake for 40 mins on Gas mark 5. Stir half way through.
No need to add salt as the cheese has sufficient. Takes minutes to prepare and is delicious.
Meant to look rustic and none refined. Easy enough for a child to learn to cook with an adult.
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Chances are you have someone on your holiday gift list that is difficult to shop for. I know I do! Over the years, I have started giving those people food gifts. I mean, who doesn’t like to eat, right?
This year I’m short on time (what else is new), so one of the items I’m giving can be made in a jiffy — but it tastes like I slaved.
Plus, I was tickled to get my latest box of goodies from ShopRite because most of the ingredients I needed were included! Try it for yourself and please the foodie on your gift list!
5 Spice Pecans
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4 tsp vegetable oil
2 Tbsp plus 1 tsp ShopRite dark brown sugar
4 tsp water
1 1/2 tsp five spice powder
1/4 tsp ground cumin
1/4 tsp ground black pepper
2 cups ShopRite pecan halves
1/4 tsp kosher salt
Preheat oven to 350. In a medium saucepan, heat vegetable oil over medium heat. Add the brown sugar, water, five spice powder, cumin and pepper. Stir to combine and heat, stirring frequently, until sugar is dissolved and mixture is bubbly. Add pecans and stir until pecans are thickly coated, about 3 minutes. Transfer to a parchment paper lined baking pan and spread evenly. Sprinkle with kosher salt and bake 8-10 minutes. Cool completely.
IMPORTANT NOTICE: As a POTLUCKTM blogger, I received the ShopRite Dark Brown Sugar and ShopRite Pecans from ShopRite for free.


FUTEK Advanced Sensor Technology, Inc. specializes in making sensors of all sizes that measure things like torque, pressure, and physical load. Their load cells, for example, can measure changes in mass as delicate as an ounce, and as enormous as a few tons.
Their products can be used everywhere — from manufacturing environments for quality assurance, to rural farms for measuring the contents of grain elevators. Two of their sensors are even embedded in the rover currently exploring Mars. For each of these applications, they had an illustration showing basically how all the components connected together. All these illustrations were developed by several illustrators (at a variety of skill levels) and looked very different from each other.
Honest Code developed an illustration system based on an isometric grid, and is in the process of redeveloping all of FUTEK’s existing application diagrams. Utilizing a common visual language to describe products, connections, and callouts, FUTEK’s illustrations are more cohesive, understandable, and on-brand than ever before.
In addition to the illustrations, Honest Code developed a series of icons describing all the industries where FUTEK products are used. These icons are designed to be easily reproducible across all of FUTEK’s marketing materials worldwide.


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Major changes coming to LOVE Park
Mayor Michael Nutter and City Council President Darrell Clarke have agreed to a new plan for LOVE Park that will add green space, a new water feature and concessions for visitors.
“The result will be a beautiful public space that will serve the citizens, tourists and residents and many other visitors for decades to come," said Nutter, at a press conference at LOVE Park on Monday.
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Officials would also like to open up access to the park from all four streets its bounded by -- 15th Street, 16th Street, JFK Boulevard and Arch Street -- and keep the LOVE statue as the heart of the plaza.
"[The changes will] bring some level of vibrancy to this park that it needs and no longer will people have to talk about Bryant Park in New York and York Park in London. They’re going to talk about LOVE Park in the City of Philadelphia," Clarke said. He added that the a redesign is "long overdue." ... The city will apply for $3 million in redevelopment money from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and also hopes to generate cash for the project from the sale of the parking garage underneath the park.
Back in December, Clarke put forth a plan to sell the parking garage underneath LOVE Park, then use the $16.5 million from the sale to build indoor and outdoor restaurants there. At the time, he said he envisioned 26,000 square feet of space dedicated to restaurants.
But that idea faced criticism by Philadelphia Parks Alliance who said it would crowd out other park uses. No renderings are available yet on the new LOVE Park plan, according to a spokesperson for the City of Philadelphia.
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Upon first listen, Baaj & Baaj's new single "Don't Cry (Radio Edit)" washes over the listener with an undeniable sense of optimism and joy. Smooth synth melodies and an infectiously upbeat rhythm lay the foundation for a song that aims to lift spirits and rekindle hope. While paying homage to synth-pop's most danceable conventions, the track reveals deeper layers of meaning through its lyrical themes and Baaj & Baaj's evolving artistic vision.
As an electronic artist known for fusing diverse influences, Baaj & Baaj has developed a unique soundworld that blends contemporary pop sensibilities with experimental undertones. Across previous releases, his genre-bending approach created richly textured listens that migrate freely between moods and tempos. With "Don't Cry," this chameleonic style is on full display through the song's hypnotic ebb and flow. Driving beats lay the groundwork for layers of shimmering keys, vocals processed with atmospheric effects, and melodic motifs that constantly evolve yet retain irresistible pop momentum.
Its euphoric textures and skyward melodies seem made to accompany an outdoor dance under the summer stars. The track carries an energy that urges letting loose and forgetting worries, if only for its runtime. It has a vitality that reminds us that hope itself can become a renewed source of power and freedom when actively chosen. Baaj & Baaj crafts an aural environment where feeling the choice's truth feels irresistible.
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Music Festivals. Other way to enjoy your time in Spain
In Spain you can enjoy music, culture and art in many different ways. It is a country that throughout history there have been many different cultures, some of the most important and influential in the later development not only of Spain, but of Europe. Phoenicians, Carthaginians, Tartessos, Visigoths, Romans and Muslims are examples.
This diversity, in addition to providing a rich cultural heritage and diverse artistic that you can enjoy in your visit, perhaps could be the reason why over the spring and summer months there is a large supply of various kinds of music festivals throughout the national territory This can provide more playful ways to find in Spain leisure time while enjoying this cultural diversity.
There are great festivals in which people from all over Europe come to Spain to enjoy their favorite bands. Examples of these are:
- SONAR: International Festival of Advanced Music and New Media Art of Barcelona. New Trends.
- FIB - Benicassim, Benicassim, Castellón. Pop-Indie
- Festival de Ortigueira, Ortigueira, La Coruna. Celtic Music - Folk.
- Dreambeach Villaricos, Villaricos Beach, Almeria. Electronic Music.
- Monegros Desert Festival, Huesca-Zaragoza. Electronic Music.
- Viña-Rock, Villarrobledo, Albacete. Several trends.
- Etno-Sur, Alcala la Real, Jaen. World Music.
- Territorios, Sevilla. Several trends.
- Bilbao BBK Live Festival, Bilbao. Pop-Rock.
- Womad Caceres. World Music.
- Festimad, Fuenlabrada, Madrid. Pop-Rock
Apart from these major festivals can be found scattered throughout the National Geography festivals in smaller towns throughout the months of April to September.
A place to find information many of these festivals is the Website: www.langanzua.net/festivales/
One in which we can visually access a map is: www.festivalesmusica.es / map-of-festivals-of-music
To enjoy these festivals must take into account several things since not all have the same format:
- Accommodation: These festivals usually offer, not all, the possibility of some places for camping. If you're not in time will have to provide other forms as shelters, hostels or share the rent of a house or an apartment.
- Food: Not all populations are close to resort to buying food and drink, so you have to look for them before to prevent deficiencies.
- Transport: for the same reason that the food is important to know in advance the existing transport, not always you are going to find appropriate connections to arrive, or depart. If you have your own car get a map and ask to the people information about the place.
- Rules: To not take surprises well we must know the rules we accept when buying entry and access to the festival. There are some that you can bring food and drinks into the concerts provided they are in plastic bottles. The access rules Camping areas and the services that it offers are also important, especially with regard to the placement of tents and showers regime.
This is just one of the ways we leverage our time in Spain in summer, although some of the dates of these festivals are also in spring
Written by Eurodesk Qualified Multiplier, Ayuntamiento de Mairena de Aljarafe

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Although George Orwell grew up in the relative comfort of the English middle class, his socialist convictions and general sense of fairness led him to hate his country's deeply ingrained class structure. That perspective permeates this book, but the most striking elements are the quotidian details of life that Orwell observes in his first-person account of the lives of coal miners and others in the poor north of England. Wigan Pier is almost too realistic at times, as Orwell brings his unparalleled powers of observation to portray the wretched conditions of the working class. That Orwell may have slanted his reporting to make things look worse than they were is a question that does not lessen the book's interest.
Times were hard for English workers in the 1930s when George Orwell dramatized their plight in this documentary expose of the underclasses. THE ROAD TO WIGAN PIER is a trek back through time to an experience suffered by many of our parents and is an unrecognized masterpiece by the author of 1984 and ANIMAL FARM. Always courageous and original, Orwell gives us a feeling for what it must have been like to have had to cope with the grinding poverty of half a century ago.
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2 people feared dead after plane disappears in Arctic Sweden
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A mayday message was sent out late Thursday near Akkajaure after which contact with the jet was lost.The cause of the crash wasn’t immediately known.
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This is a guest contribution from Ellen Jackson of Potential Psychology.
Are you ready to rock a brilliant blog post? Do you want to write faster, think more creatively, just do it all better?
Writing is a thinking task. It requires creativity and problem solving. We need to process information, retrieve things from memory, read, develop ideas, research, plan and review. We’re considering the next word as we’re writing this one, and we’re managing our own thoughts and feelings about the process and results as we go. On top of all of this we’re typing or handwriting and probably flicking back and forth in different browsers and applications. Your brain is working hard here, people.
To get into the writing zone in which the ideas come easily, you’re not distracted by every little thing and the brilliance flows from brain to fingertips, it helps to provide your mind with the right setup. You need to give it the time, space and environment to work at its best.
Here are five tips from psychology to get you in the blogging zone.
1. Keep things quiet, but not too quiet.
Different people cope better with different levels of noise but we know from studies that if you want to get creative you need just the right amount of background sound.
If the ambient noise in your work space creeps up above about 85 decibels (about the sound of a large truck passing close by) your brain is too busy and distracted for fresh ideas and ‘a-ha’ moments. You can’t think creatively with that kind of sound.
If it’s too quiet though your brain doesn’t make it into the creativity zone. We need some sound to kick the brain into gear and get those ideas flowing. Too quiet and we tend to be distracted by our own thoughts.
The ideal ambient noise for creativity is around 70 decibels. That’s the sound of the shower running, the dishwasher humming or maybe a lawn mower out in the yard. A bit of background sound without it getting in your ear.
Different people will find different types of sound distracting. I’m writing this in a busy café surrounded by plenty of chatter and background noise. It’s perfect for me. My mind feels cocooned by the ambient noise and I can focus fully on my ideas.
Others might find the content of close conversation distracting and be better off with white noise like distant traffic, bird song or kids playing (as long as they’re not yours and on their way to disturb you).
Tip: If you’re trying to find the right noise type and level for you, play around with it. Think about when and where you’re at your creative best. What type of noise surrounds you? Turn the music up. Turn it down. Change rooms. Change locations. Try a white noise app. Experiment and find what works for you.
2. Get the timing right.
Every one of us operates on an internal body schedule known as circadian rhythm. These rhythms roughly follow a 24 hour cycle and they respond primarily to light and dark in our environment. Some of us function better in the morning and others work at our best in the evening and at night. (Not sure whether you’re a morning or night person? Try this questionnaire).
There’s some research that suggests that morning is the best time for creativity for everyone, regardless of whether you’re an early bird or a night owl. Your willpower is stronger in the morning (it’s a finite resource and may not stick with you all the way til an evening writing session) and the creative connections in the brain fire more readily in the early hours of the day, just after sleep.
If you want to get analytical, however – the type of thought required for editing – you can leave that til later in the day when those neurons have settled down and are ready for more methodical, structured thought.
Tip: Keep a journal of when your best ideas come to you (waterproof notepads do exist for the shower creatives). Do this for a week or more and look for patterns. Find ways to capture the ideas when they land. According to some research, morning people might get their best ideas at night and night owls in the morning. It’s something to do with the brain being better at creativity when it’s a little fuzzy.
Take note of your best times for editing and other blog tasks too. If you can plan your day around when your mind works best for each type of task you’ll improve your efficiency.
3. Engage in rituals.
Legend has it that Victor Hugo, to avoid procrastination and get down to writing, would strip off and instruct his valet to hide his clothes so that he couldn’t leave the house. This may or may not work for you depending on the availability of a valet but you may have other rituals that get you into the writing frame of mind.
Maybe you always use a particular pen and notebook, or you like to be seated by a window with a view of the street. You might work best after exercising or in your PJs. I get my writing mojo in my favourite café after a yoga class.
Rituals are important because they serve as ‘cognitive cues’, signals to the mind that a particular activity is about to take place and it needs to get into the zone. It creates an association between the steps you take as part of your ritual and a preparedness to knuckle down and get stuff done.
Tip: The key to creating a successful blogging ritual is consistency. You need to enact and repeat the same steps over and over to make it work. Some of you might write every day. Others will only write in a certain location. Your task is to create your writing ritual, put it into practice and repeat it again and again.
4. Ditch the phone.
As any practised procrastinator will tell you, distraction is the enemy of productivity. When you’re sitting at your desk ready to write there is no end to tiny tasks that loom up and demand your instant attention. Junk mail is fascinating. Desk items require rearranging. You may even be tempted to work on your taxes.
To write a brilliant blog post you need focus and attention. You need to train that brain on the task at hand and resist the urge to be distracted by the many little items tempting you, particularly the technology that goes ding and beep, calling you with a message, notification or email.
Cruelly, the part of your brain that you need most to focus your attention and do all of the complex thinking that writing entails (the pre-frontal cortex) is also the part of the brain that is most easily distracted. Your pre-frontal cortex loves a distraction, particularly if it’s offering something novel and entertaining. Cat videos come to mind.
Don’t think you can multi-task either. Every time you are distracted from your blogging task you lose focus and productivity. It takes longer and longer for the brain to switch back into work mode. Studies have shown that there is no such thing as muti-tasking as far as the brain is concerned. It can’t do two things at once. It can only switch quickly from one task to the other and this is inefficient and exhausting.
Tip: To increase your efficiency, remove as many distractions as you can from your work space. Switch the phone off or leave it in another room. Use only the apps or programs that you absolutely need to or set yourself up with a program like StayFocusd that locks you out of websites that you have nominated as time wasters.
To manage distracting thoughts or a busy brain trying paying attention to your attention. Acknowledge that your mind will wander and you will be distracted, particularly when your blogging task is challenging. When you notice yourself thinking about something other than the task at hand or looking around for distraction, remind yourself that it’s just a normal brain doing its thing and gently bring your attention back to where it’s meant to be. Now get back to work.
5. Find your flow.
There’s a psychological phenomenon called ‘flow.’ You might have heard of it. When you’re in flow (known also as ‘the zone’) you’re in an optimal state of consciousness for getting stuff done with the added bonus of feeling great. You’re not thinking, you’re just doing. Time disappears. Nothing distracts you and the quality of your output is unparalleled. When you’re in flow, you’re on fire.
The beauty of flow is that when we’re in it we lose self-consciousness and inhibition about what we’re doing. A segment of that pesky pre-frontal cortex deactivates and quietens our inner critic. We are free to be more creative, to think more expansively, to worry less about what we’re writing and whether it’s any good.
The experience of flow also causes of a whole avalanche of happy hormones and neurochemicals to release into the brain which further enhances our productivity and makes us feel good at the same time. It’s a great place to be.
Tip: To find your flow you need to get the balance of challenge and skill for the task just right. Challenging tasks increase the likelihood that you’ll drop into flow and stay there. If you’re not challenged, you get bored and boredom leads to distraction. If you’re too challenged and your skills aren’t up to the task, that’s when anxiety sets in and you can’t work effectively when you’re anxious.
Training your focus and attention when you’re blogging will also help. Avoiding those distractions and staying mindful and focused will improve your chances of getting into the flow state.
Finally, do what you love as much as you can. ‘Good work’ as it’s known by positive psychologists aligns our strengths, out interests, our values and our sense of meaning and purpose. It’s the kind of work that fully engages us. When you’re doing something you love you’re in the right zone for flow and you’ll be rocking those brilliant blog posts in no time.

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Superheroes, SuperVillians and everything in between joined forces today at the Chattanooga Convention Center.
But it's more than just a reason to dress up. last years event raising much needed cash for local charities.
Mr Hickey, Organizer, "last year we raised 3000 dollars so we are hoping to get that much again at least, we are shooting for a bigger crowd, we have wonderful items up for auction this year".
While there were plenty of guys around it's also an event for the whole family with children enjoying the costumes and characters.
And The girls who came along say it's not just a guy event.
Hannah,"I play video games in my spare time, I started when I was five years old because my brother played Zelda."
Adrienne,"Just cool getting to meet all the famous people and stuff like that".
One fan made his own costume inspired by video game final fantasy and summed up what the event truly stands for.
"It's really nice for a bunch of people with the same mind set, bunch of video games slash comic book people, fans of various things to come together and be in a group with like minded people".


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Florence Nightingale is most remembered as a pioneer of nursing and a reformer of hospital sanitation methods. For most of her ninety years, Nightingale pushed for reform of the British military health-care system and with that the profession of nursing started to gain the respect it deserved. Unknown to many, however, was her use of new techniques of statistical analysis, such as during the Crimean War when she plotted the incidence of preventable deaths in the military. She developed the "polar-area diagram" to dramatize the needless deaths caused by unsanitary conditions and the need for reform. With her analysis, Florence Nightingale revolutionized the idea that social phenomena could be objectively measured and subjected to mathematical analysis. She was an innovator in the collection, tabulation, interpretation, and graphical display of descriptive statistics.
Florence Nightingale's two greatest life achievements--pioneering of nursing and the reform of hospitals--were amazing considering that most Victorian women of her age group did not attend universities or pursue professional careers. It was her father, William Nightingale, who believed women, especially his children, should get an education. So Nightingale and her sister learned Italian, Latin, Greek, history, and mathematics. She in particular received excellent early preparation in mathematics from her father and aunt, and was also tutored in mathematics by James Sylvester. In 1854, after a year as a unpaid superintendent of a London "establishment for gentlewomen during illness," the Secretary of War, Sidney Herbert, recruited Nightingale and 38 nurses for service in Scutari during the Crimean War.
During Nightingale's time at Scutari, she collected data and systematized record-keeping practices. Nightingale was able to use the data as a tool for improving city and military hospitals. Nightingale's calculations of the mortality rate showed that with an improvement of sanitary methods, deaths would decrease. In February, 1855, the mortality rate at the hospital was 42.7 percent of the cases treated. When Nightingale's sanitary reform was implemented, the mortality rate declined. Nightingale took her statistical data and represented them graphically. She invented polar-area charts, where the statistic being represented is proportional to the area of a wedge in a circular diagram.
As Nightingale demonstrated, statistics provided an organized way of learning and lead to improvements in medical and surgical practices. She also developed a Model Hospital Statistical Form for hospitals to collect and generate consistent data and statistics. She became a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society in 1858 and an honorary member of the American Statistical Association in 1874. Karl Pearson acknowledged Nighingale as a "prophetess" in the development of applied statistics.

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So, you want to save more with your local banker. Here is how. It might not seem like it but this is a good time to talk to local bankers like Columbia Bank South Plainfield about opening up new savings accounts.
And it is a good time to also start forgetting about taking out new credit lines. That is to say that you are even eligible to do so. After all, and quite rightly it must just be said, bankers have tightened their lending criteria.
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It is not so much a case of being more risk averse than ever before but should be seen by customers, both commercial and domestic alike, as an act of responsibility. You know what they say; give credit where credit is due. And then there is this; being cruel at times turns out to be an act of kindness.
Previously, bankers were never this tight-fisted when it came to lending money. But it was of course a wholly reckless time in the country’s history. It is now much better to save than to spend. Initially, this may take some getting used to. But even so, the idea of making savings each and every month is not nearly as daunting as it looks.
This is how it should work. From the moment you leave high school and you start drawing your first pay check, you begin saving. In fact, many of you would have held down part-time jobs whilst still at school, and that would have been an even better time to start saving. And years later, even whilst just recently retired, you continue saving. It does not need to be much. It could be as little as the price you pay for your regular lattes at your favorite hangouts.


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The Pros of Advertising Food on Television
There are several advantages to advertising on television. One of the main ones and the most obvious is visual. You cannot do this on the radio. You can advertise anything on television simply by having an ad run continuously even on just one station. With visuals, people can actually see what they are buying which is one of the main keys to selling your product. You can add audio if you choose too or play audio from the product if that is the type of product you are advertising. It is much easier to get your point across in television add than a radio add. Within the first few seconds of a commercial, you already know if you want to buy the ...view middle of the document...
Children start viewing television at an early age so many advertisers being marketing to children immediately.
Advertising is central to the marketing of the US food supply. The US food system is the second largest advertiser in the American economy and takes up plenty of space on television, newspapers, magazines, billboard, and radio advertisements. Nearly 13% of Americans spend their money on food and most of them buy food consistently from the same places. This means, if you like Burger King, then you tend to eat there more than you would other places. And every time you see a Burger King commercial advertising a new deal, you cannot wait to go and buy it. However, people’s views on food can change rapidly because of new information, more money in their pockets so they can afford different foods, or new health information about certain foods. Food advertising is very important for name brands which make up over 80% of the food on the market. People recognize brands like Tyson, Kellogg’s, Frosted Flakes, Big Mac’s, and the list goes on and on.
It is estimated that children in the United States watch anywhere from 20,000 to 40,000 commercials per year and will have been exposed to approximately 360,000 television ads before they turn 18 (International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity, 2013). Food ads are the most frequently advertised product category on US children's television and food ads account for over 50% of all ads targeting children (International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity, 2013). Children probably see at least one food commercial within 5 minutes of watching television and closer to 3 hours’ worth of food commercials in a week.
One study showed that food ads are very prevalent during Saturday mornings which is when children are watching cartoons the most because they normally do not have to get up and go to school on the weekends. Children watch around 53 hours of food advertisements just on Saturday mornings alone. Roughly 57% of all the commercials were food advertisements (International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity, 2013). Almost half of the commercials are advertising unhealthy foods such as candy, chips, cakes, pastries, and soda.
Fast food advertising was also very heavy, totaling around 11% of total food commercials. Breakfast cereals that are high in sugar are shown the most and they blatantly target children with Fruit Loops, Cap’n Crunch, Honey Smacks and Lucky Charms. There were no commercials marketing fruits or vegetables. Doctors like to recommend that children eat healthy but the United States television advertisements do not reflect this. This is obviously not positive, however, it works for the advertisers and that is why it is beneficial to market to children. Parents are more likely to go out and buy their small children whatever they want, whether it’s McDonald’s or Frosted Flakes. Children usually can recognize the...


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When we think about innovation in coffee, what first comes to mind are the new ways we’re drinking it – cold drip, nitro-brew, turmeric-lattes. Or alternatively, the latest, wildly popular single-origin varietal, perhaps a new Couture Caturra? Maybe a Bourbon irrigated with 100% Rye Bourbon?
The innovations that fly under the radar are often the smaller, less-marketable ones that are happening at origin. It’s these changes in how coffee is grown which over time will more permanently evolve the quality and flavours that we encounter in our cups. Nitro-brew may come and go, but it’s the beans themselves that are here to stay.
What kind of changes are we talking about here? To start, most of the innovations in coffee that occur before they’re dropped into a roaster aim to achieve one of three outcomes. These include: to create a consistently higher-quality product, to fortify the product against damage and deterioration on its way to the consumer, and finally, to make the farm more sustainable.
Often, an improvement in one of these areas gives another a boost too – a good example of this is the practice of shade-growing coffee. In a number of countries, it was once the common technique when establishing a farm to cut away any existing forestation on the land being cultivated, in order to maximise the amount of space available for planting, and therefore produce more cherries. In recent times, however, attitudes are shifting – studies have shown that leaving some taller trees to tower over coffee plants can have numerous benefits. It increases and diversifies wildlife populations, reduces pest damage as a consequence of all those extra hungry mouths to feed, and creates better fertilisation on the forest floor as a consequence of said hungry mouths being satiated. One study in Jamaica found that insect-eating birds benefitted coffee farmers $125 per acre in pest control a year, making it a great outcome for the farmer, for the birds, and eventually for the consumer (it shouldn’t surprise anyone that beans without bugs are better).
Water usage is another example of an area where innovation is proving to have multiple pay offs. New methods for monitoring and reducing how much water is used on coffee farms is improving quality, reducing wasted crop, and saving precious water reserves. Coffee production can be severely affected by long-term water shortage, especially during the delicate early stages of flowering and fruition, when insufficient rains have been known result in up to 50% yield loss in some areas of the world. It also causes the quality of the surviving crop to suffer. Coffee farmers around the world are increasingly looking into new irrigation methods in order to gain more control over the conditions their plants grow in. This allows their product to become more consistent, better quality, and to improve yield. In particular, “localised” irrigation systems such as drip feeders are proving to be highly popular due to their efficiency. According to the Dutch NGO, Water Footprint Network, a standard espresso-style coffee represents 140 litres of water that go into the bean’s production – making sustainability of irrigation a high priority.
Certifications such as UTZ (founded 2002), Fairtrade (1992), and the Rainforest Alliance (1987) are another form of innovation that is proving to have numerous positive returns. Though these institutions have existed for some time now, they’re far from accounting for more than a small percentage of the world’s coffee production. It’s a practice that has been slow to take hold in areas of the world where the cost of becoming certified can seem prohibitive for individual farmers, especially if the benefits aren’t fully understood. By following the practices that are required of being certified, farmers can receive better prices for their product, the money can be reinvested into further bettering agricultural practices, the quality of life of the workers and local community can be improved, and the local environment can benefit and often positively impact the crop quality.
“These innovations aren’t really new,” you might think – and you’d be right to some extent. In western countries, most of these concepts are already familiar to us. We have to remember where coffee is grown though, and where the technology is being introduced. The reason irrigation is still innovative in this case is because we’re talking about farmers in remote areas, often third-world countries, embracing methods that are unfamiliar and often conflicting with those traditional ones that have often been passed down through their family or local community. The availability of digital technology has made it easier for those who can afford these resources to adopt new methods, but this isn’t universal. In Ethiopia, for example, one of the world’s most celebrated origins for coffee, it’s believed that up to 90% of their crops are produced by smallholder farmers owning on average about 2.5 hectares of land that they and their family work. With limited access to the internet and libraries, these farmers depend heavily on word of mouth, and in best-case scenarios, co-operatives for information on what new methods are proving effective in the wider world of coffee.
Co-operatives are one of the most successful ways for innovations to be proven and spread through the coffee-farming community. They provide a fantastic opportunity for farmers to direct their united energy and investments into making improvements in quality, productivity, and sustainability that would be unattainable as a private pursuit for a single operator. One example of such success is COOCAFÉ, a second level cooperative of nine producer cooperatives in Costa Rica with a total of 4,000 small farmer members. Since its founding, COOCAFÉ has reduced its water usage to a tenth of original levels, as well as halved chemicals, started transitioning to organic production, and invested in reforestation.
In a sense, for quite a few areas where coffee is grown, innovation in itself is the biggest innovation. Coffee has been cultivated by mankind since the 15th Century, and in the few hundred years that have elapsed since that time, it’s only really in the last 50 years that we’re seeing significant changes to the way it is grown. While we can, in the digital age, use sophisticated technology to measure moisture, the reality is that the people who actually grow coffee are using recycled plastic bottles stuck into the earth to check soil water-retention, as was recently reported in Vietnam. Innovation can sometimes have a price, but the path to it is ultimately education, and that shouldn’t cost anyone the earth.
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India is the Marketing and Social Media Co-ordinator at Bennetts. Passionate about learning and communication, India has a Bachelor of Arts majoring in Literature and Art History from the University of Melbourne, and is continuing her Post-Graduate studies in Design Strategy and Innovation at Swinburne University. India is committed to helping Bennetts, our customers and ultimately consumers, by bringing the global coffee & tea industry closer together through collaboration, sustainable outcomes, as well as new knowledge, technologies, education and data.

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Sheridan alumni take home Canadian Screen Awards
Sheridan alumni’s impact on the Canadian media scene was acknowledged last week, when two graduates won Canadian Screen Awards (CSAs). The CSAs celebrate Canadian productions and talent in front of the camera and behind-the-scenes in film, television and digital media.
This year’s winners are Kieran McKay (Computer Animation ’09) in the Best Visual Effects category for the program Vikings: The Last Ship. John Simpson (Media Arts ’05) also won for Best Talk Program or Series as part of the team behind The Marilyn Denis Show.
“Congratulations to our alumni who won CSAs this year,” says Ronni Rosenberg, Dean of Sheridan’s Faculty of Animation, Arts and Design. “Our graduates are truly the best ambassadors of the rich talent our programs nurture, and it’s wonderful to see how they are influencing Canadian media.”
The Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television presented the CSAs last week during a series of events that culminated in a gala held on March 13 in Toronto. Sheridan alumni received a total of 30 nominations for this year’s CSAs. This year’s candidates represented three decades of Sheridan graduates from programs ranging from web design and media arts to animation.
Pictured (left to right): Sheridan alumnus John Simpson, Marilyn Dennis, Michelle Crespi. Photo by George Pimentel
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The battle for holiday dollars has begun with the announcement that Walmart – the nation’s largest retailer — will open at 8 p.m. on Thanksgiving Day.
That’s two hours earlier than Walmart stores opened last year and four hours before it is actually the Friday from which “Black Friday” originates.
Not only are Walmart stores opening early, they are reportedly guaranteeing access to three special buys for customers in line between 10 p.m. and 11 p.m. The deals include an Emerson 32-inch television for $148, an LG Blu-ray player for $38 and a $399 16-gigabyte Apple iPad 2 which comes with a $75 Walmart gift card.
Once again, Walmart will stagger various deals across several time periods — 8 p.m., 10 p.m. and 5 a.m. — presumably to keep traffic flowing into the store.
Sears Holdings announced earlier this month it would open Sears stores at 8 p.m. local time and stay open until 10 p.m. on Friday. Kmart — which is also owned by Sears Holdings — has opened on Thanksgiving Day for the last 21 years. Sears will also offer two rounds of doorbusters — at the 8 p.m. opening and 4 a.m. on Friday.
Company execs for Sears and Walmart say the early openings and Black Friday specials are in response to customer demand. But what about the employees?
Last year, several employee sponsored petitions cropped up online at Change.org urging Target, Best Buy and other retailers to stall openings until Friday morning so employees could spend time with their families on Thanksgiving.
Ron Boire, Chief Executive Vice President of Sears, notes that Sears and Kmart stores will be staffed with seasonal associates and others employees who have volunteered to work on Thanksgiving Day.
What do you think about early store openings on Black Friday? Will you participate?
– Nedra Rhone, for the Atlanta Bargain Hunter blog

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A leading artist within house music for close to a decade, yet a name often found traversing multiple genres and styles, Huxley’s evolution has led to the UK talent showcasing his work via a slew of the industry’s finest imprints across his career to date. He now reveals fresh original material via his long-awaited return to Toolroom Records to deliver the driving and dynamic ‘Who Sez’.
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If you're a smoker or have other risks for lung cancer, you may want to get a screening test that can help your doctor find the disease before you notice any symptoms. The heads up would let you start treatment early, when the condition is easier to fight.
If your screening shows you may have lung cancer, your doctor will likely order up "diagnostic" tests. Those can pinpoint the type of the disease and whether it's spread to other places in the body.
"Two years ago, we didn't recommend the therapy because we had just preliminary data that it might be helpful, but not enough information to make it a generally accepted recommendation," says James Rigas, MD, director of the Comprehensive Thoracic Oncology Program at the Norris Cotton Cancer Center in Lebanon, N.H.
But in 2004 two studies showed big improvements in survival for patients who got chemotherapy over those who didn't. Here were the conclusive data that doctors had been hoping for.
How good was the news? One study by the National Cancer Institute of Canada showed that, of those who received a two-drug chemo combination, 15% more lived five years or more after their surgery, while a U.S. study showed a 12% increase in survival rates.
The chemotherapy drugs used in these studies are not new, yet with these study results doctors now have better knowledge of how to work with what's available, meaning many people may live longer without a relapse or spread of their cancer.
"I think we're going to be seeing a lot more trials to try to improve upon the fact that we know treatment helps," Rigas tells WebMD.
Targeted Treatment for Lung Cancer
Nearly 60% of all people with lung cancer die within a year of their diagnosis and an estimated 164,000 Americans -- most of them smokers or ex-smokers -- are diagnosed each year.
Fortunately, an important development in treating advanced lung cancer was announced last year.
In a large study, people taking a drug called Avastin, together with chemotherapy, lived an average of two months longer than those taking chemo alone -- a big improvement for people with a disease that can kill so quickly.
Avastin is a "targeted" treatment, meaning it more specifically targets cancer cells over normal cells. It works by disrupting the cancer cells' ability to form new blood vessels, which a tumor needs to grow.

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IMAGE: A STILL FROM FRIENDS REUNION SPECIAL
The FRIENDS Reunion announcement brought in a wave of joy amongst its fandom. Many fans were quick to jump to the conclusion about it being an episode where the characters reunite. But the Reunion special is completely the opposite of this. The six cast members- Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, Matt LeBlanc, Matthew Perry, David Schwimmer reunited as themselves and not as their memorable characters. Through this special episode, they took a trip down memory lane and visited the show’s iconic set, reenacted a few scenes from the show, and even met some of the other supporting cast members. The FRIENDS Reunion also did a deep dive into how this show touched the hearts of people across the globe.
The moment the six cast members reunited on the set, it felt like home. The warmth and comfort spread through the 10 seasons, was back. The chemistry between these six actors is undeniable and shines brightly till the end. The FRIENDS Reunion starts with the cast visiting the show’s set at Warner Bros. Studio and immediately they all just fit in like puzzle pieces. They talk about their memories on the show as if it was just yesterday, they filmed their last scenes. Moreover, the cast did make it feel like they were back home and were ready to welcome their fans with open arms. The cast reunited after 17 years but their on-screen presence is still eminent. This was quite visible the moment they reenact few scenes from the show. As Kit Harington rightly pointed out, “These six actors are master of physical comedy”.
The FRIENDS Reunion special was not just about the six cast members but also about its supporting actors and the crew. Marta Kauffman, David Crane, and Kevin Bright all added a new flavour to this special. They were the puppeteers who were handling these six characters that became a symbol of friendship, love and struggles of adulthood. Various celebrities also gave the audience a glimpse of how the hit sitcom meant so much to so many. Not just celebrities, but the lives of these six characters had resonated with millions across the globe, whether it was BTS from South Korea or a young woman from Ghana.
The show’s director Ben Winston made sure to not just keep the special all about talks and no laughs. Throughout the special, bits and pieces of the show’s episodes have been included. Hence the cast members were not the only ones taking a trip down memory lane but the audience did it too. Right from Pheobe's "My eyes! My eyes!" to Ross' "Pivot, pivot".
FRIENDS was a TV show that was not just about these six characters but also the supporting cast members who gave them space to evolve. So while the special was rightly focused on these six cast members, the show’s supporting actors also deserved more than a small video appearance. For example, Tom Selleck was Monica’s boyfriend for quite a few episodes, but his only appearance was kept during the 'Lightning Round Game'. Maggie Wheeler a.k.a. Janice also received the same treatment. While there is nothing bad in showing the influence of FRIENDS on the world, getting celebrities to talk about it did not make much sense. Since the supporting cast members could have shed more light on what went down on the set, back in the day.
The FRIENDS Reunion special is going to be a tear-jerker for die-hard fans for sure. Even though the cast members are significantly aged they are still the six FRIENDS you fell in love with. Lisa, Matthew, Matt, Courteney, David, and Jennifer's performances on the show get their due credit in this special. This special will make many audience members realise why these six FRIENDS will always 'be there for you, cause you have been there' for them too.
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AMERICUS - A balanced Hurricane offensive attack led Georgia Southwestern to their first Peach Belt Conference win of the season as the Blue and Gold posted a season high 97 points on the afternoon as they outlasted conference newcomer Young Harris, 97-89, in the Storm Dome.
In the first half, freshman forward Jasmine McSwain posted 10 points and team newcomer Kayla Dayton (transfer) and returner Briana Walker (injury) combined for 16 points, eight a piece, as the Lady 'Canes scored a season high first half points as the two teams took a 39-39 tie going into the locker room.
Sheffield proved to be the catalsyt as the junior combo guard poured in 20 second half points on scorching 7 of 10 shooting.
A Sheffield layup at the 15:37 mark gave GSW the lead for good at 50-49.
A 11-1 GSW run shortly after stretched the GSW lead to 68-57 and the Lady 'Canes made their free throws down the stretch to put away the Mountain Lions, 97-89.
Five Lady 'Canes finished in double figures led by Sheffield who finished with a career-best 20 points.
GSW point guard Stormey Smith also notched a career-high as she finished with 17 points, 12 in the second half, and six assists.
Guard Danisha Green continued the trend as her 16 points, 12 in the second half, was also a personal best.
Freshman forward Jasmine McSwain coupled her 10 first half points with a pair of well-timed three pointers in the second to finish with 16 points on the afternoon.
Walker's return from injury proved successful as the senior forward finished with a career best-tying 15 points to round out the five Lady Cane double digit scorers.
The 97 points was the most a GSW team scored since December 4, 2011, when the Hurricanes posted 101 points in a 101-57 victory against Montevallo.
Southwestern finished the game shooting a season-best 50 percent from the field (32-64) including a season-most 12 three pointers.
YHC forward Ladondra Johnson scored a game-best 21 points and nine rebounds to lead five Mountain Lions in double figures.
Guard Lauren Smith posted 12 points and six assists.
Georgia Southwestern improves to 3-7, 1-3 in the PBC, while Young Harris falls to 7-3 (1-2 PBC).
Southwestern returns to the court next Saturday, Jan. 12, as they travel to Francis Marion for a 1:30 p.m. tip.


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This two-day course is designed to help middle and high school educators focus on what adults and students should know about the topic of biological evolution. Participants in this course will work with AMNH educators using museum exhibitions and resources to examine the cutting edge of evolutionary theory. A main focus will be the construction and interpretation of evolutionary tree diagrams using both morphological and genetic data. Examination of research on student misconceptions about evolution will strengthen understandings and abilities to teach about evolutionary processes. Teachers will receive digital and print resources to use for teaching in the classroom and in the Museum.
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Regardless if you are a Soldier or a Marine, or just a patriotic American, this is a very motivating speech by a Gunny (Marine Gunnery Sergeant) to his Marines the night before they launched a major operation to take back Marjah from insurgents. This is how we talk in the Infantry (Army or Marine), it is not vulger to us and pretty much nobody is offended. They are only words, and don’t hurt near as bad as getting shot or blown up.
He knows how to use humor and realistic situations to motivate his men. Bravo, Gunny…you did good.
The U.S.-led military coalition in Afghanistan incorrectly reported a decline in Taliban attacks last year, and officials said Tuesday that there was actually no change in the number of attacks on international troops from 2011 to 2012.
The corrected numbers – from the original reports of a 7 percent decline to one of no change – could undercut the narrative promoted by the international coalition and the Obama administration of an insurgency in steep decline.
So it seems that a “clerical error” continues to try and support the notion of faking progress.
In mid-December, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said “violence is down,” in 2012, and that Afghan forces “have gotten much better at providing security” in areas where they have taken the lead role. He said the Taliban can be expected to continue to attack, “but overall they are losing.”
On Tuesday, Pentagon spokesman George Little said Panetta was “concerned to learn of the errors” and was only very recently briefed on the matter.
“This particular set of metrics doesn’t tell the full story of progress against the Taliban, of course, but it’s unhelpful to have inaccurate information in our systems,” Little said.
I chalk it up to Panetta, who in my opinion is probably the worst Secretary of Defense this country has had in 40 years, trying to pad his legacy and resume as he walks out the door as the self-proclaimed champion of military equal opportunity.
It supports why I think he is one of the worst as he tries to spin the numbers and make it look like our warfighters are not fighting the hard fight, like they know they are. This country deserves more than putting lipstick on a pig and calling it pretty. It deserves the damned truth, as ugly as it may be. Our young men and women are not being wounded and dying for politicians to cover it up and create a great sounding soundbite on the 6PM news.
Bouhammer’s Note- I spent a large majority of my Infantry career as a mortar maggot (nickname for mortarman) so these guys are near and dear to my heart. I also not only served in the sister unit of this BN on airborne status but I have also worked with some of these soldiers as a DOD Contractor a couple of years ago on a trip back to Alaska.
Around 3 1/2 years ago I wrote about a brave bunch of Airborne Paratroopers who fought with honor and courage on July 4th, 2009.
Both were about that day in July when two young PFCs who were not even old enough to drink made the ultimate sacrifice on a day when most are popping open beers and throwing ribs on the BBQ.
As I mention in the second post, PFC Casillas’s mom reached out to me and gave me a lot more information about her son. I was then and still am in awe of her bravery in reaching out to me and letting me know so many personal things.
Well now, my good friend Wendy has let me know about the video below that was made about this attack specifically and talks a lot about these two young mortarmen. Please take the time to watch this video and learn more about what all these brave men went through on July 4th, 2009. This isn’t hollywood or some made-for-tv movie, this is the real deal. This is what .45% have been going through.
So now we face the threat of not being able to even training our soldiers and prep them for war?
Gen. Raymond Odierno, the Army chief of staff, said the military will be able to fund training and operations for combat units in Afghanistan now and for those deploying in the summer and fall. But he says there will be delays in training for those deploying in 2014. If those training delays can’t be made up, Odierno said he would have to send forces to war that aren’t ready or extend deployments of units already there. A number of combat brigades will be deploying later this year and next year, even as the U.S. winds down the war.
So what does this mean for one of the richest and most powerful countries in the world? It means that in a time where our soldiers are not stretched too thin we can’t afford to prepare soldiers properly and send them over to combat. Some may say “they all have combat experience, why do they need trained?”. Even though that is true for the most part, it does not mean they all have experience doing the job they would be doing on the next deployment. Guys who may be Company Commanders now, were maybe a platoon leader before or even an enlisted soldiers. NCOs who may be platoon sergeants now may have been a squad leader or team leader on the last deployment.
Not to mention that new equipment has been fielded, fixed, upgraded that soldiers need to train with and train on. Like the title says, this is probably reason 10001 why Sequestration is going to be very bad for our country and our military. Congress has to work together and get past this “my way or the highway” attitude they have had. March 1st is coming and when that date hits, all is going to hell in regards to the defense of our country. What you see in the news is the tip of the iceberg. Ranges on major military bases are being shut down, DA Civilians are being prepped to be furloughed without pay, government contracts are going to be allowed to expire, equipment is not going to be purchased or even reset for it to be continued to be used. That is what I can mention publicly, but just know this…for every “bad” thing you hear in the news about what the sequestration will do to our military, there are 1000 other worse things really happening on the back end.
Maybe this news story about how soldier’s combat tours are going to get extended because the United States of America can’t afford to prepare its son’s and daughters for combat will either motivate our elected officials to work together or at least get Americans to wake up and contact their elected officials and demand action.
Right now the most important thing effecting this country is not 30 round magazines, Obamacare or broken down cruise ships. It is this, the temporary destruction of our military readiness.
The draft handbook offers a list of “taboo conversation topics” that soldiers should avoid, including “making derogatory comments about the Taliban,” “advocating women’s rights,” “any criticism of pedophilia,” “directing any criticism toward Afghans,” “mentioning homosexuality and homosexual conduct” or “anything related to Islam,” according to the Journal.
Yes there is a new handbook being considered for our soldiers in Afghanistan that tells them to ignore some of the most basic human rights and values we as a sane western society adhere to, pedophilia.
I have written about this and many other atrocities conducted by the Afghan security forces that our soldiers have to deal with and struggle with in how to react. Now the Center for Army Lessons Learned has seriously drafted a handbook telling soldiers that speaking up about these and other “taboo” things in the Afghan lifestyle is why the forces we have been embedded with for 10 years are all of a sudden turning on us an trying to kill us.
The draft of the newest Army handbook seems to suggest that ignorance of Afghan culture is to blame for deadly attacks by Afghan soldiers against the coalition forces, according to The Wall Street Journal, which got a peek at the 75-page document. But its message of walking on eggshells around the locals is not going over well with U.S. Marine Gen. John Allen, the top military commander in Afghanistan.
Do they think our soldiers just recently started these practices? I was there FIVE years ago and I admonished Afghan soldiers for homosexual acts and drug use on missions, beastiality, and pedophilia among many other acts of indecency and unprofessionalism. There were green on blue acts back then but DOD and ISAF were not tracking them. They didn’t officially start that until 2009. However I never felt threatened by an Afghan for talking to them about these things. They only time I or anyone on my team felt threatened is when we tried to correct an act by an Afghan which put the lives of US soldiers, Afghan soldiers, Afghan civilians at risk or compromised a mission. Not every time these things happened, but some times when they did.
I am encouraged to see that Gen. Allen thinks this handbook is crap too.
“Gen. Allen did not author, nor does he intend to provide, a foreword,” said Col. Tom Collins, a spokesman for the U.S.-led coalition in Afghanistan. “He does not approve of its contents.
As long as he holds his ground and is not forced by the administration to allow this handbook then maybe there is a chance this will never see the light of day. Regardless this just shows how disconnected some senior leaders in our military have become, along with other “experts”.
Whoever authored this handbook and approved it, needs to have their teeth kicked in and then sent to Afghanistan to live among the locals for a few months. Then I would like to see how touchy-feely and PC they would like to be.
They next thing they are going to say is that we should not talk bad about, cuss out, or say anything derogatory about the Taliban as it may upset them and encourage them to try and kill us.
I wrote this the the other day for a Veteran’s Day tribute on VeteransUnited.com. I would like to share it here too.
There is a difference between wanting to go to war and willing to go to war. Veterans Day is all about recognizing and thanking those who were “willing” to do the tough job that may be asked of our military. This day is for everyone who has served, from the airman who served three years in the 1980s and never saw combat, to the Soldier who served 20+ years and maybe spent a couple of years in combat. Regardless of branch, time spent serving or where they served, every man and woman who raised their hands and swore the oath to defend our country deserves to be thanked.
So please take a moment and thank anyone and everyone you know who ever raised their hand to “defend this country against all enemies, foreign and domestic.”
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This is a serious problem and the Army is desperate to try and stop it. Don’t believe me, look at the graphic below.
If that graphic doesn’t tell the story then just ask about anyone in the Army or that has been in the Army for the last 10 years and I am sure you will find they know someone who has taken their own life or has tried to. I personally have had fellow soldiers take their own lives and have had several friends who have thought about it seriously or tried to.
There is no silver bullet, magic phrase or flashy PowerPoint that will stop the growing suicide trend. It comes down to two simple things to lower the number of suicides in the Army, if not completely stop it. Yes I am about to tell you the secret to fixing this problem and what is worse the Army has both of these things within their control.
We need real Sergeants and real leaders, not a plastic dog tag with the Army Values written on them.
That is a quote from a great blog post on SofRep.com and the author sees what I do.
The secret to stop suicide is the SOLDIER and the LEADER. Yes the SOLDIER and the LEADER. Not a cool acronym like ACE or a piece of plastic to hang on your dog tags or put in your helmet or a Powerpoint. Those are all tools to educate the SOLDIER and the LEADER, who are truly where the power lies to stop this terrible trend.
Peer to Peer counseling, SOLDIERS looking after each other and are willing to listen, reach out and step up and LEADERS who take this problem seriously and set the example for all of their soldiers to follow. If you haven’t heard of the Spartan Pledge then check out this video by Boone Cutler from the Gallant Few.
The individual SOLDIER is the first line of defense to stop a fellow SOLDIER from committing suicide. That is what the video is trying to accomplish. Put your pride aside, don’t act like you are too tough to sit down with your buddy and talk about this and make a pledge to each other not to take your own life. It is amazing that two army buddies will sit around and talk about their sexual conquests over a weekend, plan out a kegger or bullshit each other about what bad-asses they were back in High School but they can’t look at each other and say;
“I will not take my own life by my own hand until I talk to my battle buddy first.
My mission is to find a mission to help my warfighter family.”
The training, pieces of plastic and Power-points are there to educate SOLDIERS on how to deal with it, help their buddy and get them to seek help and stop any attempt to take their own life. Those things are there to empower the SOLDIER and the LEADER not to relieve them of any responsibility. I think many view this mandatory training as just that. I believe many in the Army feel that “hey we attended the training, so what do I need to do?”. They see the training as a distraction and as a block-checker to say everyone is trained not to kill themselves.
That is where many SOLDIERS and LEADERS miss it. The training doesn’t mean squat without SOLDIERS and LEADERS to execute on it. You can’t train a SOLDIER to not kill themselves, you train others to stop it.
So yes it comes down to the SOLDIER to be the first line of defense and they depend on the LEADER to stress the importance of protecting each other and to take suicide prevention seriously and not as another “mandatory training” event.
I had my first experience with a friend who wanted to commit suicide in elementary school. I may have forgotten a lot in my life but that moment is burned into my memory. I will never forget a classmate who came to me to talk about wanting to kill himself. I didn’t have any training or cool acronyms, I had values and morals that knew he should not do this and that I had to talk him out of it. I have had others in my life kill themselves, try to kill themselves, or seriously contemplate it. Some of those I am reffering to read this blog and will know who they are.
When I have had the chance to intervene, I did and every time I felt over-whelmed and hoped that I said and did the right thing. Personally I pray to God to always put the right words in my mouth and to allow them to penetrate someone’s heart to stop them from doing the ultimate selfish act. Then every time I talk to them or see them after that incident I smile inside to know that they are still here and I thank God for allowing me the chance to intervene.
Stopping someone from suicide should be taken as serious as stopping the bleeding and saving the life of your buddy on the battlefield. The SOLDIER needs to realize that, and the LEADER better realize that. If they don’t then they should take off the uniform and walk away, cause I don’t want an Army of soldiers who wouldn’t care for and save the life of their fellow soldier.
That is the tagline for the Infantry Mortarmen which I spent almost my entire 22 years in the Army doing. So needless to say, this video strikes close to home and I love watching young “mortar maggots” in action.
This is just a sliver of the type of jobs our brave warfighters are doing downrange.
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| A moment from the match between Mizoram (in red) and Karnataka at Dibrugarh outdoor stadium on Tuesday. Picture by UB Photos |
Golaghat/Dibrugarh, May 6: Hosts Assam had to bite the dust against Jharkhand 0-2 in a Group-D match of the 20th Senior National Women’s Football Championship at Golaghat District Sports Association ground today.
Jharkhand took the lead in the 20th minute through Dular Marandy.
Pushpa Kumari Toppo further enhanced the lead in the 25th minute.
In spite of having better ball possession in the second half of the game, the home team could not make a difference in the scoreline.
In another match of the group at the same ground, Pondicherry smashed Arunachal Pradesh 9-0.
Elsewhere at the Butolikhowa ground in Golaghat district, Tamil Nadu blanked Uttarakhand 5-0.
At Dibrugarh, Mizoram edged past Karnataka 2-1 in a group B match at Jalan outdoor stadium.
Midfielder B. Lalhriattiri of Mizoram converted a pass from Brtsy Lalhlimpuii and opened the account for her team in the 22nd minute.
Midfielder K. Lalruatfeli scored another goal in the 45th minute.
Amoolya Kamal fired in the only salvo for Karnataka through a free kick in the 78th minute.
In another Group-B match at the same ground, Haryana humiliated Gujarat 18-0. Kavita Devi of Haryana scored six goals for her team.
In yet another Group-B match at Chabua in Dibrugarh district, Odisha blanked Goa 3-0.
Subha Prava Rout opened the account for Odisha in the eighth minute through a penalty kick conversion.
Meneka Mallick scored the second goal for her team in the 32nd minute and Pyari Xaxa netted the third goal for her team in the 54th minute.


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He arrives, he kills then he’s gone – like a thief in the night.
A woman in her 50s was attacked on Saturday night at a pizzeria in Gothenburg. The woman was severely cut and taken to hospital with serious injuries.
The police in Region West received an alarm during the night on Saturday that a person had been cut. The attack happened at a pizzeria in Kyrkbyn on Hisingen, in Gothenburg. Police blocked off the site of the technical investigation and have also heard several guests at the pizzeria.
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A suspected perpetrator, whose signal element is not stated, was seen running from the scene after the deed and is still reported to be on the loose.


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“This is a big deal,” Vice President Biden exclaims to President Obama applauding the health care legislation. Yes, “expletive deleted”, but give credit to a momentous political accomplishment. Expending extensive time and force, while ignoring pressing societal priorities, President Obama, Senator Reid and Speaker Pelosi achieved the ultimate aspiration of the progressive Democrats.
The king of the progressive Democrats is Senator Russ Feingold (D) of Wisconsin. An admirer of the progressive hero Robert La Follette, Feingold enthusiastically and boldly champions federal legislation controlling health care, environment, commerce, poverty, education, etc. In the 2008 election cycle, he contemplated running for president as the “authentic” progressive.
On Labor Day, President Obama and Senator Feingold were in Milwaukee, Wisconsin addressing a large union-sponsored rally. Obviously, this is a time to celebrate the great health care victory. Yes, the two great progressive champions congratulating each other and extolling the virtues of the great new law.
Wrong. The President made random mentions of a "health care that will be there when you get sick." Incredibly, Senator Feingold made a brief appearance and was long gone before President Obama arrived.
What is wrong?
First, Americans believe the new law will increase costs, diminish their care and increase the deficit. Hey, the President and the earnest progressive Senator can surely persuade the people of Wisconsin. No, no, no, that was attempted by progressive organizations – Health Care for America Now, MoveOn, AARP and many unions. Oodles money has been expended on commending the benefits of the new law and Americans continue to know the costs will rise and health services will decrease. Thus, political operatives have coached the progressives to say, “The health care legislation does some good, and improvement must be made.”
Now for the overriding reason the President and Senator Feingold did not share the stage at the Labor Day rally. Feingold has a serious challenger, an unknown businessman with a strong libertarian bent for smaller government, less taxes and more personal freedom – the antithesis of the progressive agenda.
So what is Feingold touting? Today Feingold’s message is about spending less. As Patrick McIlheran, a writer for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, observes in Real Clear Politics:
Feingold lately has been calling himself a penny-pincher because he opposed earmarks.
To the contrary writes McIlheran. Feingold has voted in unison with President Obama's agenda, enormously expanding federal spending and debt:
He (Feingold) also voted for Obama's stimulus, for Obama's swollen budget, for Obamacare and against the president's jihad on the financial sector only because he didn't think it punitive enough. As Obama yanked the nation to the left, Feingold kept pace.
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America’s embrace of “change we can believe” Feingold and many Democrats eagerly supported Obama’s agenda. Now, as election day approaches and most Americans prefer smaller government, Feingold is for a frugal government. Alas, all politicians count votes.
The question for the Wisconsin voter is clear. A day after the election, will Senator Feingold be king of the progressives or will he actively support a limited and frugal government? Remember Walter Lippmann’s judgment. They advance politically only as they placate, appease, bribe, seduce, bamboozle or otherwise manage to manipulate the demanding and threatening elements in their constituencies.


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I've been considering getting this gun from the same place. Over all, would you say its worth the money just to plink around in the basement?
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