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Worksop teen flying all the way to pro

bnhell — Mon, 06 May 2013 23:37:26 +0000

Worksop teen, and Sheffield Hallam University student, Liam Mellot, aged 18, is an up and coming star in the extreme world of Freestyle Jet-skiing, he is at the top of the amateur leagues and is set to go professional next year.

It was five years ago when Liam was on holiday with his family when jet skiing first sparked this young talents interest. “My dad rented a jet bike and I saw other people doing freestyle and thought it was really cool.”

“I bought a jet ski for myself and I just practiced non-stop; and I just got better and better from there.” he said.

Despite the appearance of freestyle jet skiing, Liam believes that it is very much an accessible family sport. “It is a great day out for the family just having a play on the lakes. It’s also a competitive sport too, so you get the best of both worlds.”

Like father-like son, Liam’s father also used to jet ski when he was around 18-years-old, however he has not continued to compete.

Liam describes the moment he finished his first competition: “The moment you finish and the crowd is cheering for you, it’s an awesome feeling.”

In addition to training and competing in national and regional competitions, Liam studies Aeronautical Engineering at Sheffield Hallam University. Aeronautical engineering encompasses not only the design, development and manufacture of aircraft but also their operation in service.

“Once I learn how to make my own jet ski’s, I will save a lot of money in the future by designing and building my own; that is why I chose Aeronautical Engineering.” said Liam.

Liam is in his first year of University and although he is enjoying himself, it is understandable that he sometimes succumbs to the stresses of leading a double life.

“It is really stressful trying to organise everything, especially with exams and deadlines coming up”.

Liam doing a back flip

However it’s not all work for the Worksop freestyler. In the summer of last year, Liam was living in Australia “living the life of a rock star”. Whilst on holiday in Germany, he got a phone call which would change his career. He was asked if he could fill in for professional freestyler Lee Stone in Sea World, Surfers Paradise, Australia.

Lee Stone, another local star from Chesterfield, is only 22-years-old and has won five World, three European and three British championships. So when Liam was asked to fill in for him, he could not possibly pass on the opportunity.

“I was really excited, but really nervous at the same time. I was living the rock-star life basically, it was perfect. When it was my time to leave, I didn’t want to go.” he said.

“I really appreciated being offered the job, it was an amazing opportunity.”

As Sea World is essentially a family resort, it wasn’t all back flipping and air cruising for Liam. He had to perform a children’s Spongebob show which involved him driving a mini speedboat whilst dressed in a fish tinnie costume.

Sea World, which receives around five million visits a year, is a marine mammal park, oceanarium and theme park located on the Gold Coast of Queensland. The resort aims to provide ‘water ski shows that combine comedy, aqua ballet and action’.

Liam spent five weeks there doing two consecutive freestyle shows each day. “It’s a lot of showing off. It is basically a spectators sport.”

Liam in the spongebob show

Liam on his last day at Sea World

Liam is off on his next challenge of the year with the European Freestyle Competition coming up this June. He competed at last years event, and despite coming first in all the qualifying rounds, he came second in the finals and is determined to return to the event as a winner.

“I am training at least once a week at the moment, but once these next two weeks of Uni has finished, training will become a top priority. I’ve been practicing new combinations and I have been really seeing the results.”

There are three qualifiers at this year’s event, the first round is June 8th at London Docklands, then Liam will have a month to train for the second round which will be held in So Fun Village, France on 6th July. The last qualifying event which will take place in Doncaster on August 17th will be Liam’s last chance to impress before the European finals on 18th August, Doncaster.

The finalists will have to perform a two minute freestyle routine, and for Liam practice definitely makes perfect. “You can always tell when someone hasn’t practiced there routine enough. Practicing the routine is key.”

From the EFC website

As well as being sponsored by AirTime Products and Hydro-Turf, Liam has just recently been sponsored by DASA Racing which is a well established American company. DASA has been supplying engine technology support to race teams around the world for almost twenty years. This sponsorship means that Liam will get free equipment so long as he displays the company logo on his ski.

“Sponsorship’s are like qualifications; the more you get under your belt the better established you are and you will be taken much more seriously when it comes to competing.” he said.

Even though jet skiing looks dangerous (especially the way Liam does it!), he says that the trick is to be confident. “I have had a few accidents, but nothing major. When I was doing a back flip once with no helmet on, and I busted my lip and chipped my teeth.”

We expect to see great things from our local lad Liam, and we wish him all the luck in European Freestyle Championships 2013!

Words by Lexi Gagan

Video by Ryan Goff (http://www.youtube.com/user/ryangoff1?feature=watch)

Welcome!

Amber — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 21:08:38 +0000

Entrance to the Institute

Welcome to the Memorial Institute for the Prevention of Terrorism’s new blog, ’To Protect and Observe’. Our mission is to enhance the public safety through training, professional development and education.

Our vision is to train the 800,000 uniformed officers in the U.S. in terrorism/criminal warnings and indicators.

Our non-profit was founded in the days following the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing by the family members and survivors who wanted the establishment of an Institute to be forward looking and prevent similar tragedies from striking communities.

We look forward to connecting with you and hope that you join us to make our communities safer by utilizing one of our best national security tools… our line officers.

22 Mars, Friday

Мандухай — Fri, 22 Mar 2013 21:13:04 +0000

Hi guys! Hope everything is ok with you guys. Yes, my blogging mood is on as well as my training mood. Hope they lasts forever! Yesterday I hit the gym after all and now I am having a extreme workout pain, pay off my laziness I guess .

1. Power walk to the gym (about 1,6 km ) 2. At the gym (run 3 km on the treadmill, some workouts for my belly and thigh & swam 2 rounds in the pool) 3. Happy me after training.
Tomorrow I am gonna train again. Having a plan to workout 2 times a week.

Later xxx

Are You Open To Swapping Services?

John T Jurkiewicz — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 15:49:13 +0000

It’s been my experience that some of my greatest epiphany’s, those spiritual “ah-ha’s,” begin in the most innocuous of ways. I had a Facebook chat with a fellow coach last week and I asked if they used a coach themselves. Their answer is one I’ve heard before, I’ve had to rely on it myself from time to time, “It’s a matter of resource.” If you are not familiar with the intuitive coaching practice, most of us aren’t on the Forbes 100 list. (A lot of us can’t afford to subscribe to Forbes!!!) Most of us are the accounting, sales, marketing and billing departments of our own business on top of staying current in our field of interest. Most of us do what we do because we love what we do and couldn’t see ourselves doing anything else in life. (I hope there aren’t any English majors reading this!!!) Our resources are precious to us. I’ve struggled with this concept for a few years. There are things I wanted or felt I needed and I just didn’t have the money to pursue them. Off in the distance a small pathetic voice would cry “Pity party of one, your table is available.” But, then, I had one of them-there “aha moments.” What about bartering? What about trading services? That small voice inside of me kept on nudging and pushing at me.

I am in a bartering relationship with 2 people. Each of those people receives Career Coaching services and in return I receive a comparable service. I can’t afford an editor and it just so happened the very talented person who edits my professional writings and musings was in need of some career development coaching a few years ago. Viola!!! We swap services. I coach, she edits and we make sure we keep things balanced and equitable. A few months ago I wanted to start working with a personal trainer but didn’t have the money to do so. I ran across someone who told me they would love to learn to meditate properly but just didn’t have the money. We trade services. She trains me twice weekly for a half hour each time and in return I have agreed to work with her in developing a mindful meditation practice in her life. Usually we meet once per week.

It takes a bit of practice and sometimes it’s not do-able. My editor is worth far more than my hourly coaching rate but she tells me she couldn’t put a dollar value on the insight she’s gained from working with me. My trainer and I are about 15 dollars an hour in difference for our services but she wrote me to say that since she’s developed a meditation practice her insomnia is abating.

I shared some of these insights with fellow coaches and I was surprised how many of them said they’d love to have a coach themselves but just couldn’t afford it. Bartering may be an answer and BTW, question for you: How many coaches have coaches? I’ve found that when I am working with an objective second party my creativity and my business seems to soar. It’s always humbling in a positive way to be reminded I don’t have all the answers.

Namaste

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making a break - in a different way

carinzil — Sat, 29 Sep 2012 13:57:24 +0000

So far I was used to make just short breaks during training. Only to let the dogs breath or to water them – here my bosses see all that in a different way and asked us to do make some experiments along the way.

So we took some sandwiches and coffee from the good fairys in the kitchen and took off for training.
As our 15km round doesn’t have any lakes we stopped at a really waterly swamp and made all the dogs loose from the gangline so they were free running around as they want to.

It was a great feeling to see all 16 dogs play and socialise.
Also they never went further away than about 100m from us and all came back when it was time to pull again.

A great feeling and we will do something like that again definitaly

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Experiential Learning – the Next Generation of Training

arrowmanagement — Mon, 10 Sep 2012 14:01:57 +0000

Experiential Learning – the Next Generation of Training

Posted by Barbara Wanless on Thu, Sep 06, 2012

University of Toronto’s Rotman Commerce Welcomes Generation Z with Experiential Learning

GUELPH, Sept. 5, 2012 /Eagle’s Flight/ – Next week, first year students at the University of Toronto’s Rotman Commerce, Canada’s “most well-rounded business education”, will be greeted with an exciting experiential learning program to begin the semester with high energy and total engagement.

This welcoming event, at 1:30 p.m. on September 15th (a second session will be held on September 22nd) at 89 Chestnut, will feature Eagle’s Flight’s immersive business simulation, Jungle Fire™. Four hundred students will participate in each session, which will ‘transport’ them to a diamond hunt in the Amazonian rainforest, designed to teach valuable business lessons.

Built around core learning objectives of self-organization, planning, risk-taking and goal achievement, Jungle Fire allows participants to challenge and change unproductive behaviours, and practice new ways of working within a supportive learning environment.

Experiential learning is fast-becoming the preferred training/teaching approach for our upcoming generations. Generations Y and Z are encountering and embracing it from high school level to university business programs and into the workplace. Already popular and successful with older generations, experiential learning shifts the focus from trainer to learner. Combined with a process of self-discovery, reflection and the space to practice new skills and ideas, this format is proving ideal for the more autonomous and hands-on, younger participants.

Although experiential learning can be traced back to the turn of the 20h Century, there are presently only a few professional exponents of business-related programs based on this methodology. Eagle’s Flight has been developing and designing such programs since 1988 and, with over 1.5 million graduates worldwide, has established a global reputation for facilitating business excellence with all types and sizes of clients—there is no upper limit on session numbers for their experiential learning programs.

Media Welcome. For further information:

MEDIA CONTACT: James Stewart, Manager Marketing Communication, Eagle’s Flight: 1-800-567-8079, ext. 5245 or james.stewart@eaglesflight.com

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Anthropomorphism: Millie's First Ride

Epona's Chosen — Tue, 12 Jun 2012 03:44:00 +0000

In a conversation with other horse people recently, a discussion of anthropomorphism and animal psychic connections developed between us. Evidently there is a book out by a woman who claims to be a psychic horse mind reader. More to the point, this woman evidently gets frequent mental calls from horses around the country and world, sometimes even when she is cleaning houses. The horses have interesting conversations with her, including their preferences for how the racing industry should be run, and the advantages and disadvantages of being a wild horse versus a domesticated horse.

I can honestly say that I never realized the erudite conversational capabilities of the average horse. I must have very boring horses. They mostly seem to think about food, attention, and food. They certainly never engage me in mental conversations using real words. At least not when I’m house cleaning.

So someone asked me, “Are you psychic?”

The question came because I had correctly recognized that a horse was being bothered by flies on his front legs, and he wanted fly spray on them. I didn’t think I was being that special– after 30 years with horses, you learn to know ‘that look’.

“Well, I’m psychotic. Does that count?” I can poke fun at myself, most days.

It does beg the question though, of whether there is a level of psychic connection needed to train or work with horses. Do horses need to speak to us? Are we listening? Or are we zipping around in blissful anthropomorphism, pretending we ‘get it’ when in reality we are making up emotions and thoughts our horses just don’t have?

Willy and Millie play in the paddock.

I rode Millie tonight. She’s been bugging me for a week, pushing me to spend more time with her, pouting when I ride the others, and generally letting me know that while she is still stick thin, she’s ready for more. So I saddled her and lunged her two days ago, and she was brilliant. Pretty obvious saddles aren’t unusual; I already knew that bridling was something she knew about. Most funny was that when I put her away two days ago after lunging her with a saddle, she flipped her nose at me in pure disgust. That was all I was going to do?! What a loser! Millie evidently expected a bit more in the way of riding.

So tonight I pulled her out, saddled and bridled her, and lunged her. She went around as if to say, “Yes, I get it, now PLEASE let’s move on!” so I led her to the mounting block in the paddock. One foot in the stirrup, and she was gone. Lovely. Thank you, Unknown Walking Horse Trainer, whoever you are. It’s not that freaking hard to teach a horse to stand to mount.

So I spent almost fifteen minutes at the mounting block, showing Millie that we could just hang out, not go anywhere, and be buddies. She knew mounting was coming, but she finally settled enough to let me on her. I mounted quickly, and it was a good thing, because we were off to the races. I am probably putting words into her mind that weren’t there, but it certainly was like riding a horse who was thinking, “About time, now this I know about. I go really fast, with my head cranked high, and I pop my feet way up like this. See Mom? I know how to ride!”

Maybe that wasn’t what Millie was thinking, but I can tell you she knew exactly what riding was; she wasn’t behaving like a green horse, and she wasn’t trying to get me off (thank God). She just had learned a different set of expectations for what riding was. After a few tense minutes of trying to convince her to circle, to relax and drop her head, to not just blow and take off in full steam, Millie suddenly took a chance and relaxed. It was magic. All of a sudden her back started moving. I could feel so much power underneath me that it was almost nerve-wracking. That mare is going to be an amazing mover.

Is it wrong that I almost cried tonight? The first time was when she realized she could follow my hand from the saddle. I brought my hand out to the side to turn her, and as soon as she saw that hand she realized that this could be just like lunging. All she had to do was follow the hand, and she knew the hand was her friend.

The second time was when she actually turned her head to look at me. It took her forever to believe that she could look at me– she wasn’t even stealing peeks from the corner of her eye. Once she softened and gave me her eye on turns, she lost that fixed stare. She began to LOOK for me as she turned, catching me with the corner of her inside eye. Every time she did it she seemed to gain in confidence.

The last time tears came to my eyes was when I dismounted after about fifteen minutes. I loved on her, talked to her, praised her… and then she moved to stand with me at the saddle. Thinking it was a coincidence, I went back to her head and petted her. She nosed me, and once again moved so that I was next to the saddle. Anthropomorphism, right? Horses don’t say, “Hey, that was so cool. Let’s do it again!”

So I led her to the mounting block. She lined herself up perfectly the first time. It was absolutely not a coincidence. I mounted, she took off– but much more slowly– and off we went on a walk, her head beginning to drop and go level, and happiness in every hoof fall.

Millie took a chance on me tonight; I’m so glad she was happy with the result.

A glimpse........

empoweringgenerations — Mon, 28 May 2012 04:24:39 +0000

In a day where everything seems to go, everyone is demanding their rights and everyone is voicing their opinions on the two aforementioned points, how do we teach our children the path to navigate, the rocky voyage of hunting down truth and standing upon it? How do we as parents/grandparents/foster parents/aunts/uncles/siblings/friends give them the skills they need to safely navigate their way through life to be everything they have been created to be and reaching their potential?

Primarily, through relationships that are founded in truth, respect and dignity. Through boundaries and fearless advocacy. Through capturing their inquisitive imaginations and encouraging them to express their thoughts. Through encouraging them to think about their own thoughts in light of truth. Through play, fun and balanced lives. Through walking the path behind responsible adults and peers walking the same path. Sounds kinda heavy, huh? Yes, well I suppose life can seem like that at times. In some seasons of life it can seem like that ALL of the time. The truth is when you are able to see into the heart of your child/ren (those ones in your care or on your heart) the paths their lives might take can also begin to take shape. As you see their strength and weaknesses, their passions and potential it gives you great opportunity to speak into their lives with insight and honesty.

It is amazing to watch a child’s personality unfold as they feel safe in your presence without being in fear of being judged or misunderstood. Safe to listen to your guidance because they know full well that you have their best interests at heart. I know, I have tried stumbling through parenthood doing the best I can (which is never enough). What a huge job we sign up for as parents without ever reading the fine print. I think if you ask most parents that if they could’ve read the fine print they actually may have never signed up at all.

Take heart dear parental/guardian figure. You are in good company. I hope to develop my ‘about me’ section of this blog in the very near future. As I share my journey to date with you, as we share and exchange comments my hopes and prayers are that we will be strengthened for the tasks ahead, that we will have a bit of a giggle at each others and our own expenses and leave a little (or a lot) refreshed to jump back into this awesome task we’ve signed up for. Until then my prayers are with you .

Training Day 4

myrosha — Sun, 13 May 2012 16:39:20 +0000

No running today. Only cycling. I rode my bike to and from work for a total of 10km’s. That is all.

I have registered, with friend Brad Cashman (read his blog), for a Seek the Peak race clinic at Grouse Mountain on Tuesday May 15th. The clinics are free and every Tuesday at 6pm from now until the event. To register contact: training@grousemountain.com

Myrosha-4-Boobs Pledge here.

Family Education Workshop "Activities to Encourage Engagement"

homecareburnsville — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 19:04:56 +0000

Join us for a hands on Workshop for Family Care Givers who care for a loved one struggling with Alzheimer’s.

Thursday May 3rd at 6pm

1600 E. Cliff Road Burnsville, MN

Visit our Eventbrite webpage to learn more and to register: http://www.eventbrite.com/event/2834553225

For more information about Home Instead Senior Care and the Alzheimer’s Care Services that we provide please visit our website or call 952.882.9300

4/27/12 Update

Myrlin — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 11:48:17 +0000

Even though I continue with my break from running this week, I am still learning some good lessons I hope will eventually pay off in my running. I guess spending time at Disney World one-on-one with a seven year-old might do that.
#1. Keep it simple. The first lesson came from yesterday deciding what parks to go to and what rides to ride. His decision-making was quite simple, go with what makes sense and seems right. Hungry? Find the nearest food and take a break. Thirsty? Find the nearest bottle of water. Hot? Go to a park with a water ride (or better yet, take a break from the parks and go swimming). Many times I think we try to plan or analyze too much, but Grant reminded me that many times accepting the obvious answer beats a whole lot of over thinking. Whether in business or running, I know I could benefit from taking a step back for a different perspective.
#2. Have fun. I know this seems pretty basic, but we often overlook what brings joy to either ourselves or those close to us. It was obvious that Grant had ideas in his head of what would be fun and he went for it. After the basics were taken care of (#1 above), he moved on to the next level. Work has recently contained information about playing to your strengths – taking advantage of natural ability and performing the tasks you most enjoy. Running can also be connected. Run routes you enjoy – whether that’s the scenery or company of others. Take advantage of what comes naturally and it seems so much less like a task.
#3. Don’t replace one-on-one time. Spending one-on-one time is great to get to know someone, even if you already know them. Spending time with Grant in an environment that encourages all to be kids was a great way to reconnect with him. As pointed out above, his likes and dislikes were obvious in a atmosphere in which he was comfortable. And spending time just with each other totally removed any group dynamics which may hinder such expression. I feel this is true for adults as well. Whether it’s leisure time, business travel or a run, spending time individually helps to know that person better.
I hope to remember these lessons that Grant pointed out so well.

ROFL re: the “ri”

cj_runs_like_a_girl — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 14:19:06 +0000

Yesterday a friend emailed me to share his latest triumph. A newbie to this self-inflicted torture called running, he’d had a big breakthrough: “I actually felt like I was running last night instead of plodding along,” he crowed. “Not for the whole run, but for parts of it I was actually running –even once on a (very) short uphill slope!”

We runners love to swap stories, so I shared with him mine from the day’s track session. I was to do 5 x 800 meters at 7:15-ish pace (3:42 for the two laps), with a recovery interval of two minutes between each set. This falls into my “doable but aggressive” category, so I naturally dragged along a training partner who is a much better runner (premise: if my running starts to go horribly pair-shaped, I can always wuss out and tuck in). This particular training partner often offers advice that’s helpful in retrospect but humiliating in the moment; his mid-stride ability to communicate in great-big-well-thought-out sentences (subjects! predicates! prepositional phrases even!) shines a great big ol’ spotlight on the full extent of my suck-age since I can barely eke out a responsive “uh-huh”. (Confession: I have spent many a 400 trying to think of a single-syllable response. Better yet, I could teach him a few hand gestures! Our own little track sign language! No wait; that’d throw off my form.)

With his help, I hit my pace for all five of the 800s. Hurrah! But his mid-stride observations of my form were a mixed bag. “Right now, your form looks great—you really look like a Kenyan…”

Yesssss! Here I am last Monday...in the form of a Kenyan about to win the 2012 Boston Marathon.

What a difference a lap makes. “What are you doing? Your arm motions look like you’re trying to dry your ass with a towel.”

it is hard to run this way.

Huh?

So, cut back to my running-not-plodding friend. The Kenyan-ass-drying bit didn’t raise his eyebrows. (Truth be told, I may not have shared this with him; some things simply shouldn’t be said in public, or so they say.) No no no; he was curious about the recovery interval. “What are you actually *doing* during those 2 minutes?” he asked. “ If I was actually able to maintain a 7:15 pace for 2 laps (not this week!) you’d probably find me trying to figure out where I had left my lungs.”

Ah! The Recovery Interval! It is a rich topic lately amongst the victims (I mean athletes) under the torture (I mean tutelage) of TC2Coaching. You see, our recovery intervals as of late seem to require their own recovery intervals.

Now I can’t tell you exactly what types of torture Coach Tim inflicts during ri’s. After all, I have a coach for a reason and that reason is I really do want to drop the imaginary towel and beat you (yes, you!) on race day. I admit: I am that girl, the one blogger Stride and Joy calls a “speed bully”. (An aside: maybe someday Stride and Joy and I can switch brains for a single race. She can wear my compression socks and “obnoxiously large GPS watch” and I can focus on the post-race T-shirts and beer. You know, just to see what it’s like on the other side? Wouldn’t that be fun? I think so!)

Indeed, Tim’s concept of the “ri” is an ancient Chinese secret I’m not willing to give away.

She told. I won't.

Suffice it to say that someday I would not be surprised to log on to TrainingPeaks and see something like this on the agenda:

RI = run Kilimanjaro, stopping at each camp. Odd camps = ten ab rollouts; even camps = ten side Ts with abduction. Find TRX machine I set up at the summit and use it to do body saws until exhaustion.

That’s all for now. Enjoy your recoveries, stop drying your ass whilst running and for goodness sake add a little Joy to your Stride.

- cj

Legal Research Workshops & Legal Database Training

University of Law York (Library) — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 14:49:52 +0000

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CAPITALISM, KAPUT-ALISM AND JEWRY

kosherhooks — Wed, 27 May 2009 12:13:02 +0000

(Chapter11, “Kosher Hooks” by S.I. Fishgal, http://stores.lulu.com/fishgal) Some men sleep alone, some with their wives. A certain Maxim Litvinov, People’s ex-Commissar (Minister) of the foreign affairs, slept with his revolver to commit suicide when they come for him. He did marry a British writer when he fled to England back in the tsarist time. Herr Stalin damped that Jew in 1939 to befriend Comrade Hitler.
When his troops marched to Moscow, the Commies sent Litvinov to the US as an ambassador to suck American and British “constituents’” money for the war efforts. That prominent Jew got great respect in the West and the access to the president’s ear any time.
   For the same reason, during the war Comrade Stalin initiated the Jewish Anti Fascist Committee consisting of the top Jewish actors, writers, a minister, a deputy minister, scientists and other celebrities – all dedicated, veteran communists. The dictator even allowed them to publish a Yiddish newspaper. The Committee excelled in writing for the foreign publications and got the capitalistic aid.
   Actor Solomon Mikhoels, the head of the Committee, had a phenomenal success in the USA, met Albert Einstein and convinced some Jewish nuclear specialists that by helping the Soviets they would help the Nazis’ victims. The scientists became the Soviet informers.
Yet, the American Jews’ noble intentions turned to the kiss of death. Comrade Stalin became suspicious: Amerikakers too easily agreed with the Soviet Jews.
   As the war progressed, the Jewish losses became evident. The Committee received devastated Jews’ numerous appeals and knocks on the door. The members wanted to resettle Jewish refugees, reestablish Jewish collective farms, revive the Jewish cultural life, and collect eyewitness testimonies about the Holocaust and the Jewish combatants. The Committee complained to the government about the discrimination, mistreatment, and hostilities toward the returning Jewish survivors. Thus, the members “slandered the Soviet reality.”
After SSoviets needed the Committee no more, they sank it, along with all the Jewish cultural institutions, into the grave. Literally. Understandably, the American imperialism’s Jewish agents and vipers headed the Committee. Litvinov avoided all that only because he had prudently died of a heart attack before.
   The state security arrested, tortured, and prepared the members, headed by Solomon Lozovski, a deputy minister of the foreign affairs, for a show trial. They allegedly demonstrated their cosmopolitanism, bourgeois nationalism, disloyalty, and planning to set up a Jewish Socialist republic in the Crimea to serve Yanks’ interests.
In 1949, China fell to communism, and the USSR ended the American nuclear monopoly. The Cold War turned to the hot one in various localities. The Yanks and Soviets supported the opposing sides and fought each other in those brush wars by proxy.
The supreme paradox was that when the Jews’ moment of supreme crisis came and they faced the end of their existence on earth, all governments, except a handful of Scandinavian tiny nations and Holland, had closed their doors to them. By a gigantic effort of organization, a million Soviet Jews moved from the path of the German invaders out of Poland and Ukraine into southeastern Russia and Siberia too, by the way. How many more would have escaped if England had opened the Palestine gate to them? No sacrifice was required. The Jewish private finds and organizations would accept the responsibility of sheltering and feeding the fellow-Jews.
When England fought for her existence, thirty thousand Palestinian Jews voluntarily joined the British army, fought and died in Africa. Yet, when the German abattoirs had gone into production, Brits limited the Jewish immigration into Palestine to fifteen thousand a year. Struggling against the mortal enemy, the British ruling class found the time, men and ships to hunt down every ship bringing the Jews to Palestine. Thousands of Jews perished in the Mediterranean.
Few nations match the generosity and nobility of the USA in taking into herself the oppressed, homeless, and wretched, nurturing and giving them human dignity. Yet, in 1939, the State Department instructed the Coast Guard to prevent landing of ship St Lois with her 907 Jewish refugees.
During 1933-43, the US admitted only 476,930 aliens, of whom 165,756 were Jews. Six million Jews died while the Yanks admitted only 16,000 a year.
During the World Slaughter II, Herr Stalin did not question where the Soviet Jews’ loyalty laid. They fought for their lives. For them, unlike Katsaps, Khokhols, Tar Tars and others, betrayal and giving up were out of the agenda. Out of 500,000 the Red Army’s Jews, 200,000 (including most Roma’s male relatives of the drafting age) fell in the battles.
During Germans’ fast initial leap, the Brest-Litovsk fortress and the Hango garrison became the heroic resistance islands in the occupied territories only because Jewish officers Chaim Fomin and Arseni Arkin commanded.
Michael Plotkin, a Jew, was the first Soviet squadron commander bombing Berlin in August 1941. In the battle for Moscow, Jewish generals Dovator and Kreiser took leading roles. So did the latter and Jewish Generals Baskin, Weinrub and Vinokur in the Stalingrad battle. There Field Marshal von Paulus surrendered his pistol to Vinokur. Similarly, in the battle for Berlin, Jewish Generals Plaskov and Krivoshein dazzled.
In general, Jews (including Roma’s relatives, neighbors, and family friends) were more educated then the rest. Thus, they heavily represented the artillery, armored corps, army engineers, the air force, Navy, and the medical corps. The Red Army’s surgeon-general was Jewish Major-General M. Vofsi (accused in the anti-Semitic “Doctors’ Plot” in 1952). The most famous Jewish navy commanders were Admiral Trainin and submarine Captains Fisanovich and Bograd.
Jews comprised only 1% of the population. Yet, decorated Jewish soldiers took the fifth place among the Soviet nationalities. One hundred and forty five Jews got the highest award, Hero of the Soviet Union. David Dragunski and General Shmushkevich became twice the Hero. In June 1942, Shmushkevich, the Soviet air force commander, was executed (albeit not as a Jew, but in a general purge).
Jewish women were the Red Army’s nurses, medical orderlies, radio operators, snipers, and pilots. Pilots Polina Gelman and Raisa Aronova became Heroes of the Soviet Union. Roma’s mom worked at a field hospital too. His aunt was in charge of a hospital-on-train bringing the wounded from the front to large cities in the rear.
The true number of the decorated Jews was much greater because some hid their Jewish identity not only in the German concentration camps, but in the Red Army too – it had anti-Semitic elements. That made easier for the anti-Semitic propagandists, especially in the rear, to lie that the Jews took no part in the war efforts.
The Soviet Jews’ participation in the war led to absurdity. To demonstrate the occupied Baltic countries’ integration into the USSR, the government created national Lithuanian and Latvian units. Because available Lithuanians’ number was too small, those countries’ Jews, not Lithuanians and Latvians, were initially the majority there. Four Jewish soldiers of the Lithuanian division became the Heroes of the Soviet Union.
Yet, when Israel, obliged to the USSR for its creation, political and military support against Amerikakers’ will and arms embargo, joined their camp, Herr Stalin thought that Soviet Jews, the most reliable against Hitler, would betray in a conflict with the USA. Thus, Soviet Jews allegedly turned out to be the keepers of the Zionist scientific trends, and rootless cosmopolitans, i.e., citizens of the world, those without kith.
While the Jewish survivors lived in the refugee camps and settlements, Christians pretended the tragedy had never happened. The Pope expressed his opposition to, and the Brits tightened the Jewish immigration into Palestine. The US stood quietly behind her own quota system.
In 1947, to the amazement of most those present, Andrei Gromyko, deputy foreign minister heading the Soviet delegation to the United Nations, dwelt there on the Palestine problem’s urgency, Jews’ sufferings during the war and the survivors wandering in Europe.
Zionist leaders had contacts with the Soviets since the German invasion of 1941. During the war Stalin, Roosevelt, and Churchill had agreed to hand over Palestine to the Jews. Soviets merely thought a Jewish state would get the Brits out, and since many Israelis were socialists, they would join the Soviet Block.
Yet, the British government needed a key to the Middle Eastern oil and fomented the Jewish-Arab discord, armed the Arabs and disarmed the Jews. The British commander of Jordan’s Arab Legion delightfully watched his Arabs torturing and mutilating dead and dying Jewish soldiers.
After the Jews experienced so much death, they decided to die quietly no more. Comrade Stalin supported their armed struggle and branded the Arab resistance as the British imperialism’s function. He provided Israel with arms via Czechoslovakia and economic assistance via Poland, permitted Jewish emigration from Eastern Europe to Israel and allowed the Red Army’s Jewish officers to join Israel’s army.
But the ungrateful kosher pigs of Israel allied themselves with the West. Therefore, in 1948, Ilya Ehrenburg, a writer and official Soviet Jew, wrote in Pravda (Truth) newspaper that Soviet Jews should have nothing to do with Israel, a remote, foreign capitalist state. Golda Meir, the Israeli ambassador, made the final blow. Moscow’s Jews enthusiastically welcomed her.
Whereas national repression, such as Muslims deportation from the Northern Caucus and the Crimea were secret, with no political campaign, the state anti-Semitic campaign started openly in January 1949. It was not like tsars’ pogrom. Comrade Stalin called this campaign “anti Zionism” and “anti cosmopolitan” because anti-Semitism compromised socialistic and international principles.
In the best Soviet tradition, the writers headed by K. Simonov, whose solely one nice verse Roma recited in the front in 1942-43, demanded to prosecute the cosmopolitans. Later the weathercocking chameleon went ahead with a leading newspaper’s headline (Jewish) Killers in the White (doctor’s) Smocks and with driving B. Pasternak, Soviet writer and Nobel Laureate, to his illness and death.
Thus, Simonov proved that not only French of questionable repute offer quite good stuff, and in broad daylight too. He became Stalin’s highly decorated favorite, Stalin’s Prizes laureate, a Communist Party Central Committee candidate, and a high-ranking official of the Writers’ Union. After the dictator’s death, Simonov pleased next party bosses.
Never mind that communism itself stands for nations’ cosmopolitan merging and assimilation. The only defense was a proper so-called nationality listed in the passport – an internal identification document.
Back in 1940, Stalin’s Nazi comrades-in-arms complained of the Jews’ preponderance in the Soviet press. The wise and sagacious friend of all nationalities jumped over his Jewish obstacle in a day:
“Substitute the reporters’ Jewish names with Russian pen-names.”
Four years after Fuhrer’s death, the media’s most important task became to decipher the Jews’ Russian pen names and to prove that the Jews stuck their stinking scribbles to the great Russian literature and art. Of course, ones who write might have other bad habits too.
The regime quietly fired most Jews from responsible jobs as “rootless cosmopolitans” and ignored their Marxist honors and decorations. Once again, well-meaning Jews’ own ideology betrayed them.
The state of workers and peasants blossomed year after year, but only the media saw the fruits. The humane Communist party leaders could face neither the devastation, nor the ruined industry and agriculture anymore.
“The most important thing is to establish the priority of our glorious Russian scientists and inventors in all fields,” the government solemnly heralded. Soon that campaign became a butt of vicious jokes, the shortest one had only one word – communism.
From November 1948 onward, the authorities liquidated the Jewish culture leftovers, arrested the Jewish authors, artists, actors and journalists, dismissed Jews from leading positions, introduced a quota system in colleges, scientific institutes and factories up to zero in some instances.
Tsarist Kiev had 15% quota for the Jewish university students. Now they did not dream even about 1.5%. Besides, Tsarist universities accepted Jewish high school gold medalists. The Soviet universities still did not exam them, but set up so-called interviews to weed out the Jews.
To get the gold became out of question. Roma knew many Jews that got two “good” marks out of twenty-five subjects listed in the school-leaving certificate (one “good” qualified for the silver medal). Later he himself got one good mark and had to fail the entrance exams therefore.
It was not as bad as in KKKanada, for example. In the 1930s, Toronto’s public schools would not hire Jewish teachers, no Jews were allowed at St. Michael’s and Trinity Colleges. The University of Toronto’s School of Medicine had a strict quota.
In 1937, Jewish ball players defeated the British ones in Toronto’s Christie Pit Park. British and Italian Fascist sympathizers tried to beat the Jews up. Yet, the Jews and their Ukrainian sympathizers won the battle known as the Christie Pit riot, or massacre.
In 1949, Toronto Star’s editor said to a Jewish job seeker that they already have a Jew on staff. That was still okay because Toronto Telegraph ran articles about the unclean race, and Toronto’s Sunnyside Beach had signs No Dogs, No Jews Allowed.
The Soviet regime was still above all that. It only wiped out all the victories of the revolution, robbed the Jews of their dignity, turned them again into less than second class citizens and stopped just short of extermination. The regime hustled important Jews off to prisons and detention camps for “redevelopment and reorientation”, if they survive. While the listed Jews comprised only 1.5% of the population, Moscow’s notorious Lubyanka prison contained five times more Jews, than Russians.
Sadism stroked the society everywhere. If there were no guilty ones, they were appointed. The people watched, as the forum’s crowd did the lions who blessed the Jewish Christian meal they were about to take. The spectators were not against each other. They were merely for themselves.
Most folks developed their own division of people. Dr. A. Chekhov saw everyone as lean and stout. The black advocates see as black and white, the socialists – as rich and poor, the feminists – as mean man and good women, the French Canadians and Marxists – as exploiter and exploited, Muslims as believers and infidels, Jews – as Jews and gentiles.
More than ever, late Carl Radek, a prewar notorious Jewish enemy of the people, was right when he said:
“We have two parties – one in power, another – in a prison.”
As Soviet citizens’ life worsened, anti-Semitism, the great simplifier, became the national policy.
Ukrainians greatly welcomed all that and fired Jews from the positions in foreign affairs, defense, transport, press and the like. In Kiev, non-Jewish managers often had a Jewish deputy who, in fact, was in charge and did all the work. In that respect, a quarter century earlier, Stalin’s list of appointments amazed Lenin:
“None of Jews? It won’t work. Russians are lazy, will start, but won’t finish. We are specialists to chat, but not to organize.”
After Lenin’s death, the regime milled his “Jewish party” along with millions of Jews and other nationalities who had absolutely nothing to do with that party.
The Jews were their countries’ best citizens, got top results in sciences, engineering, medicine and management. They studied, worked, and defended the country better than the rest and the latter detested them for that.
Uneducated riffraff hated the talent. A talent is a threat to any totalitarian regime. The cosmopolitan campaign succeeded. Repression and persecution devastated literature, social, biological, agricultural, and chemical sciences. Once in Germany physics became Jewish. Now in Russia cybernetics and genetics became Jewish at worst or bourgeois at best.
The huge xenophobic campaign was against everything foreign. Prominent people who failed to show the right attitude were dead wrong to cow tow to the west, “dead” being not the figure of speech. Some talented Goyim suffered too. They were cosmopolitans without kith or kin not by blood, but by the spirit.
The Soviet leaders, good and capable – good for nothing and capable of anything failed in the Jewish physics though. At that time, best Soviet specialists developed nuclear weapons. The rejects taught students. The Moscow University became especially active against not only the kosher theory of relativity, but the Goyim quantum theory too. The defeat of the best would come on the special meeting devoted to physics in March 1949.
Comrade Beria, the fine, energetic, hairsplitting organizer in charge of the nuclear bomb development, knew well about his fate in case of the project failure. He asked Igor Kurchatov, the scientific project leader, about those damned theories and got his response:
“The Nazis failed in the bomb because they rejected those theories too.”
Abraham Joffe, the Jewish founder of the Soviet physics, bravely argued:
“Physicists will work either on the nuclear matters, or on fighting cosmopolitans.”
They did not arrest him – just fired from his managing position. The bosses’ predicament was that the American and British scientists sympathized, cooperated with the USSR, and thus set up all Soviet intelligence work on the nuclear matters. The arrest of the famous Soviet colleagues would discredit the government and diminish the foreign scientists’ contribution. Prudently, Comrade Beria lowered the priority of cleansing the cosmopolitans from the Zionist physics and spared the bomb talent:
“Let them work so far. We’ll always have time to shoot them later.”
Those Jews who were not cosmopolitans were AmeriKKKan imperialists’ agents.
Back in 1948, Comrade Stalin warned that the war with the US was inevitable. He had air bases built opposite to Alaska to intercept American bombers on the way to the Soviet centers and to strike first. Now 22 Soviet fliers became the Heroes of the Soviet Union and Chinese infantry routinely fought Yanks in Korea. Russia lost 335 planes and 200 fliers there. Thus, the fight for peace would demolish the earth to pieces.
The Kremlin was convinced that Americans would start the war in 1954 or earlier. Having sorrowful experience of the German sudden invasion, Stalin decided to start first this time.
While Western Europe is defenseless, the USSR and China have enough territory and people to absorb the losses, he reasoned. His pre-emptive nuclear strike will crash Yanks and turn capitalism to kaput-alism. Those kakers used to hide behind somebody else’s backs. They will capitulate in panic fear. Since American Jews set the tone there, the Soviet ones comprise the fifth column.
“Any Jew is a nationalist and an American intelligence agent,” Stalin said in 1952. “Jews think they are indebted to Americans for saving their nation.”
So, on one hand, the Soviet Jews were James Bonds whose activities required undoubtedly some courage. On the other hand, they were cowards who bought their war decorations in the Central Asia. Such contradicting rumors propagated at the same time.
In most countries, cash manages their citizens’ fate – no buck, no luck. In the USSR, a document managed a Homo Sovieticus’ kismet. The fate coddled neither the Soviet Jews, nor ethnic Germans and Finns, nor Crimean Tartars, nor Caucasian Muslims, nor many other smaller minorities. Yet, the Soviet regime was not the heir of the Third Reich and did not examine the voluntary marking of the Jewish males’ middle extremity.
Tsarist Russia had so-called yellow, white and wolf cards.
The yellow card was a prostitute’s ID printed on yellow paper. The Soviet Union gave freedom to her working women and eliminated the yellow cards.
The white card was a military draft exemption on medical grounds. No man might get a job without his military card received after his service.
Tsarist Russia’s wolf card was a certificate denying access to state jobs and institutions on the grounds of a person’s political or moral infidelity.
The vitality of a tree and a Homo Sovieticus was not in their top, but in their roots. The most crucial questions of the standard questionnaire of personal data, one might not get a job, nor enter a college without, were the name and so-called nationality – one’s bloody origin.
In fairness, the questionnaire was not a Soviet invention. One fine night called appropriately the St. Bartholomew’s Day, Catholics marked the doors of Huguenots’ (the French Protestants) houses with chalk crosses to massacre the inhabitants. (Russians call that pious event Bartholomew’s night – the massacre’s right time.)
Times have changed since dark Middle Ages. In our bright educated times certain characters do such pious deeds in the broad daylight.
The Soviet Union had three documents that could serve as the wolf card. The internal passport listed so-called nationality which was not such, but a breed like a German shepherd dog.
Homo Sovieticus was like Elephas – an elephant. Not because of the healthy appetite (as environmentalists would say), or the gluttony (as the rest would do). There are two existing species of elephants: Elephas indicus and Elephas africanus – the Indian and African elephants appropriately. An Elephas indicus born in the Moscow circus or the San Diego zoo remains an Indian elephant, neither Russian, nor American one.
So was a Soviet citizen. If parents were listed as, say, Ukrainians, Jews, Poles or Germans, so were their children, no matter the place of the birth. The Soviet system identified Jews not as religious group, but as a breed, even if they were Christians.
Roma’s kosher neighbor had Jewish parents and wife for that matter, but was a Byelorussian. A soldier during WW2, he got into and broke out of a German encirclement in Byelorussia. He joined partisans and enlisted himself as a Byelorussian. Luckily, nobody checked out his fashionable Jewish cutoff.
Partisans were not exactly Jew-lovers and even attacked, robbed and murdered Jews. Moscow forbade accepting them too. Besides, the problem was that a non-Jewish partisan was an able-bodied person. Most Jews, however, fled to the forests with the heavy burden saved from Germans – the old, women, and children. In general, the Jews had to prove their ability and readiness to fight, to obtain their own weapons before the partisans permitted them to join. That is why many Jews posed as gentiles or established their own partisan units to defend their own family camps against both the Germans and the non-Jewish partisans.
In the fall 1942, Moscow created the partisan supreme headquarters and sent political instructors to reorganize the partisan units, to disband the Jewish ones, to distribute its members among the rest, to replace the Jewish commanders and to incorporate non-Jewish partisans into the Jewish units.
When the Red Army liberated those areas, the partisans joined the army in the drive to Berlin.
For a while Roma’s own brother, the blue-eyed blond offspring of his Jewish mother and father, listed himself as a Russian named Konev. He changed his surname when he got into orphanages during the war.
In general, listing as a Jew in the brotherly family of the Soviet people was not a crime. It was the largest kosher swinishness. The brothers of the Soviet nations’ happy family considered the Jews as cousins. The crime was to be an ethnic German, Finn, Crimean Tartar and a Chechen. Earlier the Soviet government deported them out of harm’s way into her remote areas.
However, a smart fellow can profit even from a wormy apple. Take Sir Isaac Newton, for instance. Once he was sitting under an apple tree and thinking perhaps why God did not arrange watermelons to grow that way. Then a wormy apple dropped on his head – the good ones do not drop easily. Then Isaac understood Creator’s wisdom. Thus, the wormy apple turned on the gravitation theory.
Similarly, out of any kosher swinishness, a Jew could cut out a little bit of ham. In 70′s, the Jewish part of Russian Jews permitted them to immigrate to Israel, but their Russian part did not allow them to assimilate fully there and even somehow assimilated Israelis instead. Since that time, a Jewish spouse in the USSR became not an extravagance, but a means of conveyance.
Who is a Jew was a question not only in Russia. In Israel, it is still the question. In 1938, everything was clear in Switzerland too. The friendly Germans agreed to apply a rubber stamp “J” to the passports of their Jews because German nationals were not required entry visas for Switzerland. Swiss thought that none of Jews was too many, and shut out the most vital escape route.
Besides, Soviet passports listed citizens’ propiska (a residence permit) in major cities to gain access to work, housing, and the medical care. The militia handled both the passports and propiska. They prosecuted persons living at an address not matching the residence permit.
Nobody might get a work without a workbook listing all jobs, including temporary, from the very beginning of one’s working life. Besides, one had to fill in a standard questionnaire listing his nationality (i.e., breed), party-membership, the party reprimands and warnings, the personal data of the close relatives and the list of all jobs held. In addition, one needed a reference signed not only by the manager, but by the trade union (the membership was compulsory) and party officials of the previous workplace.
For most Soviets, the nationality was on the fifth place – the fifth line of the questionnaire. While the medical establishment divided invalids by three groups, people called the Jews as invalids of the fifth group therefore. In reality, the fifth paragraph was bloody only for the Jews. Authorities did not care if a person was an Uzbek or whoever. Having Jewish roots was not a great crime, but the greatest kosher swinishness. That is why a Jew asked about the nationality customarily answered “Yes”.
That fifth question was of no importance for Roma’s family. With the Karpfengal surname on the first line, what a loony would ask any further?
Roma hated personal documents. His data always were not proper: old, or young, overqualified or lack of the related experience and progressive positions, a bird of passage, the wrong ethnic background or sex, or whatever.
Not born from the right parents, not soiled his reputation and not made anything right or wrong yet, he discovered his inferiority and helplessness in that respect at the ripe age of three. Then a kind neighbor made a quite flattering remark that even a lousy Yid might have a pleasant mug. Thus, Roma first found he was a Jew not from his loving parents.

Pinarello F4:13 vs. Cervelo P2C (Road Bike vs. Tri Bike)

talipio — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 05:26:47 +0000

Hi guys, I am back, to talk more and more about triathlon and triathlon training. I disappeared because I am working and traveling a lot, so, its hard to have time to write or blogging , but, when I can, I will. Well, rigth now, I am traveling by plane and writing this post, of course that I am not connected hihihi.

I decided to training and finish an Ironman Triathlon race this year, but isn’t too easy. As you can read, I am traveling a lot and is very hard to keep training, specially for cycling training.

Today I done my biggest ride of the year, until now of course . 3 hours under my pinarello F4:13. I wish to ride today using my cervelo P2C, but, forgot to install the bottle support, so, ride 3 hours by bike without water is insane, so, take my road bike pinarello and go ride.

I really like my pinarello F4 bike, but, how I am not more a professional triathlete, I just want to compare it with cervelo to make a choice and sell the other one. If I didn’t, maybe I will have more money with bikes than my car costs and now I need to buy a car for my wife.

Quick Tips to Boost Your Metabolism

davidbpowers — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 17:52:32 +0000

There are a lot of people who would give a lot to increase their metabolism. Having a high level of metabolism enables one to maintain burn fat and lose weight fast with the least amount of activity. Metabolism is the rate by which the body produces and consumes energy and calories to support life.

There are several factors that affect the metabolism of a person, such as the amount of muscle tissue, the frequency of the meals one consumes, genetics, stress levels, personal diet and activity levels. Metabolism slows done due to the following: loss of muscle because of not enough physical activity, the tendency of the body to cannibalize its own tissue because there is not enough food energy to sustain it, and the decrease of physical activity that comes naturally with old age.

Here are several ways to fire up one’s metabolism:

1. Build up on lean, mean body mass. It is only natural that metabolism decreases along with age, but it is possible to counter the effects. The amount of muscle a person has is a very strong determinant in the ability to burn calories and shed fat. So it goes without saying that exercise is essential. Build strength and resistance by working out at least twice a week, preferably with weights. Do easy exercises in between workouts. Simple tasks such as walking the dog and using the stairs in place of the elevator can already take off calories. The key is to match the amount of eating to the amount of activity one has. Here are some guidelines in getting the right exercise:

For strength training

-Increase the amount of repetitions of a particular exercise.
-Add the level of resistance
-Utilize advance exercise techniques if possible

For cardiovascular training

-Insert intervals between exercises
-Perform cross-training and combine the exercises
-Add up on resistance and speed

2. Eat breakfast. A lot of people are ignoring the fact that breakfast is the most important meal of the day. Surprisingly, the ones who eat breakfast are thinner than the ones who do not. Metabolism can slow down considerably if breakfast is taken during mid-morning or if one waits until the afternoon to eat.

3. Avoid sugar. Sugar enables the body to store fat. It is recommended that a person consumes food that helps sustain an even level of blood-sugar. Additionally, progressive execerise 2-3 times a week should be in order to stabilize blood sugar.

4. Eat spicy foods. Hot cuisine with peppers can increase metabolism.

5. Sleep more. According to research, it is riskier for people who do not get enough sleep to gain weight. Also, muscles are regenerated during the last couple of hours of slumber.

6. Increase water intake. Water flushes out toxins that are produced whenever the body burns fat. Majority of bodily functions involves water, and lack of water causes the body system’s operations to decrease its speed, and produces unneeded stress as a result.

7. Eat smaller meals. It is advisable to consume 4 to 6 small meals that are timed 2 to 3 hours apart.

8. Never skip meals. People tend to skip meals in order to lose weight, which is a big mistake since it slows down metabolism.

9. Plan meals in detail. Always prepare the right amount of food to be consumed at the designated intervals. Do not commit the mistake of eating meals in sporadic patterns.

9. Ditch the stress! Stress, be it physical or emotional, triggers the release of a steroid called cortisol, which decreases metabolism. Also, people tend to eat excessively when stressed.

10. Guzzle up on green tea. It can be used as a substitute for coffee. Tea has the ability to stimulate metabolism, and unlike coffee, it has no undesirable side effects when too much is consumed.

11. Include more energy foods in the diet, such as fruits and vegetables, beans and whole grains.

Achieving the desired body weight is never impossible if one has the determination and patience needed to stabilize the metabolism level, which plays an important role in weight loss. A person needs to realize that eating right and working out is not just a passing fancy, but a way of life.

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Adobe Flash Tutorial! Scrolling Thumbnails w/ Mouse Control!

flashru — Tue, 13 May 2008 20:58:29 +0000

We will start with nothing more than a blank Flash document and 10 100px X 100px thumbnails and from that little bit we will construct this sweet scrolling thumbnail bar. This thumbnail bar will move in different directions depending on where the users mouse is. It will also stop when the user rolls onto a certain part of it and each thumbnail will light up as the user rollover each individual thumbnail! Lots to learn! Have fun with this one!

Communication Skills Training

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The importance of sleep

Joonas Laurila — Mon, 05 Sep 2011 05:31:07 +0000

Last weekend was so relaxing. From Friday to Sunday I had three good trainings and tons and tons of sleep. I didn’t even realized how much I needed some extra sleep. Now I’m ready for my last training week before easy week.

Friday’s training was easy 12K’s with my friend and after that some strength training. We had a good chat about HR monitors and running computers in general. It’s interesting to see how different experiences we have had with same models. And the conclusion was that every manufacturer has some good features and some bad features in functionality. I also learned a lot about Garmin’s models and who knows if my next device is from them. After that, me, my girlfriend and our friends went out to see Plutonium 74 (http://www.plutonium74.net/), which was nice.

Saturdays I did a nice 13K run (@4:27/km pace) and it felt great! I think that last Thursday’s intervals opened my muscles because all trainings after that has been awesome. Sunday I decided to take it easy so I did easy 18K’s (@4:38/km pace) with my girlfriend who we’re cycling with me. After that we went out to eat and did some recovering walking.

Todays training will be some cycling and running plus a little circuit training. The training plan changed again, but this is how I like to do it when I’m feeling good. It’s good to do want you want in basic training season, before all the really hard weeks.

Joonas