Treadmills Help You Stay In Fantastic Fitness Form

<div style='font-style:italic;' class='uawbyline'>By Surrey Lowe</div><br /><br /> <div class='uawarticle'>A mix of mobile devices, computerized gadgets, fast foods and a inactive lifestyle in today's times is causing more people to become fat, out-of-shape and often unhealthy. Exercising can help you drop some weight, lower cholesterol, increase stamina and build immunity. If you find it hard to add regular fitness and exercise into your busy routine, a treadmill trainer at home can offer the flexibility of exercising whenever convenient.<br /> <br /> Treadmill Benefits<br /> <br /> Running, jogging or even just walking on a treadmill trainer can really shape and firm up your body over time. Treadmills offer more options for engaging in intensive cardio workouts than other gym fitness systems. Most of today's treadmills come with workout apps that can help you lose bodyweight, build stamina and endurance, and tone up. Treadmills are excellent exercising products because they can be used in so many different ways. Athletes use them to train on, casual users use them to stay fit, and overweight people use them to lose weight.<br /> <br /> Common Treadmill Features<br /> <br /> The ability to adjust speeds is a feature available on a most of treadmills. You'll also find several other similar functionalities, such as incline adjustments, that can help you mix up your workout sessions. The purpose of these features is intended to help make exercising fun and different. You'll have the ability to customize your workouts so that you're always interested and engaged.<br /> <br /> Modern treadmills have many inbuilt workout apps. You'll find a wide range of fitness programs that are designed by experienced certified fitness trainers. Choose one and stick to the instructions for a helpful guided workout session. As you use the treadmill, the speed and incline will automatically change at regular intervals. The progressive nature of the exercise programs will vary, so be mindful and go with one that you know you'll be able to deal with.<br /> <br /> There are a handful of workout apps that utilize heart rate monitors to track heart rates through the duration of a workout session. may be. The more premium treadmill machines offer a chest-strap heart rate monitor which can more precisely monitor your heart rate and your calories burned. Various monitors found on a treadmill machine, including the heart rate monitor, allow you to track your workout intensity and cardiovascular fitness levels.<br /> <br /> Something. When there are other people using the treadmill trainer, this feature comes in handy, because you can easily call up your customized workout program. Select treadmills have the ability to store workout history. If you're interested in tracking and referencing previous workout sessions so that you can keep a record of fitness progress made, select one of these.<br /> <br /> Popular among treadmill trainer models today is a feature called iFit Live capability. This technology connects online and lets you load up maps and trails to workout on. Train for marathons and various renown races by loading up maps and trails for each of these events. Push yourself by seeing how you stack up on select race courses with iFit Compete Live. To use iFit Live, you need a treadmill machine that has both Internet connectivity and iFit Live capability. Check to see if these two specific features are offered on a machine if you're interested in in this technology. Other premium amenities found on premium treadmill models include features such as color touch displays or television functionalities.<br /> <br /> Parts of a Treadmill<br /> <br /> A treadmill machine consists of a wide conveyor belt controlled by an electric motor or flywheel of varying power. The motor propels the belt, which then moves over belts that spin, as you walk, jog or run on top. The belt is built into a running deck that extends into the frame of the treadmill trainer and supports your entire body weight. The deck can typically be adjusted at various inclines to provide more resistance during workout sessions. Bump up the incline levels of the running deck and you'll get a better cardio workout.<br /> <br /> Most running decks are mounted on damping components to make the treadmill trainer shock-absorbent. The most commonly used damping component is a cushioning system, which in some instances can be adjusted with diverse tension levels. The components just identified all work in conjunction in providing varying workout experiences.<br /> <br /> Treadmill structures are manufactured foldable or non-foldable. The foldable variety be more effective for home gyms where space is limited. The foldable treadmills have decks that can be lifted up vertically. Foldable treadmills tend to are more pricey than non-foldable ones. Most institutions, such as gyms, hotels, and health clubs use non-foldable treadmill platforms.<br /> <br /> Assortment of Treadmill Systems<br /> <br /> In addition to the collection of features, you'll find treadmills intended for different user types and usage. A treadmill machine engineered only for walking will cost less than a jogger's treadmill machine; a running treadmill trainer will be the most expensive. A person's body weight will affect the performance of a treadmill. Bear this in mind when looking at your choices. The treadmills with long belts and decks are great for tall people because they allow for their longer strides. Consistent use of a treadmill trainer should justify a more powerful motor and a commercial-grade frame. <a href="http://workoutwriter01.wordpress.com/2013/08/07/choosing-a-treadmill-or-an-elliptical/">Treadmill trainers</a> are potential investment products. Some models are worth spending the extra money for.<br /> <br /> Summation<br /> <br /> There are lots of techniques exercising helps improve your health and your fitness. A fitness treadmill at home can help you realize these benefits. Take some time to think about what your health and fitness needs are. Remember to take appropriate measurements of the location of where you want the treadmill machine to go to ensure that it'll fit. Find the treadmill that meets all these requirements and suits your budget.<br /> <br /> </div><br /> <div class='uawresource'><br /> <div style='font-style:italic;' class='uawabout'><br /> About the Author:<br /> </div><br /> <div class='uawlinks'><a href="http://fitnessworkoutnow.blogspot.com/2013/08/exercising-at-home-treadmills.html">Treadmill reviews</a> are good places to get more details. Read a handful and see what folks are talking about and what units are favored.</div><br /> </div><br />

Treadmills Help You Stay In Fantastic Fitness Form

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Straightforward Paths To Tone And Tighten Yourself

<div style='font-style:italic;' class='uawbyline'>By Yandy Roman</div><br /><br /> <div class='uawarticle'>To get the most out of your fitness routine and diet, you really need to have the proper info in order to make the best calls you can for yourself. Here are a handful of concepts on how you can get into the best shape of your life and stay that way.<br /> <br /> So as to maximize your exercise routine at the gym, be absolutely certain to only rest when needed between sets. This may save time, at the gymnasium and get you moving to other activities quicker. Later in your workout you will need more rests, however you can start it off robust without any ill effects.<br /> <br /> For maximum fitness results a healthy diet should be combined with an exercising schedule. The 2 processes are mutually complementary. Eating well helps you manage to work out better; working out inspires you to eat better. When you be sure to address both areas concurrently you will find yourself getting fit faster.<br /> <br /> Before beginning your workout , always remember to warm up, as this could ready your muscles for activity. Spend five minutes performing a low intensity version of your main workout, and incorporate stretching exercises. This will increase your body temperature, and increase blood flow to your muscles, making them much more flexible.<br /> <br /> If you'd like to get exercise to lose weight, but are lacking a workout chum, get a dog that likes to walk. Dogs are often ready to go for a stroll and don't bitch when they're exhausted (though they'd slow down or lay down to offer you a clue). So buy or borrow a dog - now you have got a built in work-out buddy!<br /> <br /> Change your fitness routine. We all lose interest with things in our life, and a fitness regime is not any different. By trying a new form of exercise, you'll find you are abruptly invigorated and prepared to put new effort into keeping fit. Change your routine, try a completely different exercise plan, and regard it as a new start.<br /> <br /> Keep a record of your exercise routines. Keeping a daily or weekly log, tracking all of your exercise routines, makes sure that you are making progress in your exercises and it'll help hold you accountable. Write down things, such as duration, frequency, weight sizes and sets, reps and how your workout made you are feeling.<br /> <br /> A great way to get fit is to say your targets to your acquaintances and family. Sometimes other folks just need a little elbow to get going and it is wonderful to be well placed to follow your ambitions alongside others. You will be likelier to succeed if other people are after the same.<br /> <br /> Exercising increases the oxygen to the brain. Studies have proven that incorporating an exercise program to your daily agenda will reduce the chance of getting dementia in up to 60% in older adults. Exercising releases proteins that strengthens the brain's neurons and cells which is related to memory and learning.<br /> <br /> Your fitness level is determined by the amount of work you put into it and how much you make these decisions part of your everyday life. If you put these ideas and suggestions to good use, you'll find yourself feeling and seeming better in almost no time flat.<br /> <br /> </div><br /> <div class='uawresource'><br /> <div style='font-style:italic;' class='uawabout'><br /> About the Author:<br /> </div><br /> <div class='uawlinks'> If you are looking for the <a href="http://crossfitmusclefarm.com/who-we-are/">best Crossfit</a> Fort Lauderdale has to offer then you need to stop by Crossfit Muscle Farm. Our location is also convenient for those in search of Crossfit Pompano Beach, Crossfit Wilton Manors, <a href="http://crossfitmusclefarm.com/">Crossfit Deerfield Beach</a>, or Crossfit Plantation. Come by today and see what you have been missing! </div><br /> </div><br />

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Backstory & Update

So i've realized that there have been quite a lot of changes since i started this blog about a year ago or whenever it was.  Yeah, I deleted most of it lol.  But i know some of you have been here since the beginning while others have no clue.<br /><br />The big big picture background is that i grew up in NY and I was a wild child.  I had hands-off parents.  I was shipped off for close to two years just before I turned 14.  Upon return, i rarely went home and pretty much had to figure out meals/clothes/sleeping arrangements on my own.  If was trouble to be found, i was in it.  Now i've got eyes and a smile that could get me out of anything and i managed to get through without a criminal record lol.  My husband was raised extremely conservatively in the south, going to church every Sunday and Wednesday, very involved (overbearing) parents hovering over the four kids. Now he's not a prude so don't think that, not in the friggin slightest!  He's extremely set in his ways, i guess you'd say.<br /><br />So put us together and i had to clean up my act so as not to scare him.  I played much more innocent and proper than i was, gosh i still do!  It came out in time to some extent.  Not stories or explanations, he puts his foot down and doesn't want to hear it.  Just one liners like "one time at band camp..." only it's not at band camp.  <br /><br />We've lived together for over 13 years now.  He still doesn't know what's going on inside my head.  I've tried to let him in and he doesn't want to.  As much as it hurts, I have no choice but to respect that.<br /><br />I have needs.  And I assume if you're reading this that you also have needs somewhere along these lines, or at least understand that these needs i have are actual needs.  In my perfect little world, the answer to everything i need is a full time D/s relationship, and a pretty hard core one at that.  It goes so deep as having a need to be micromanaged throughout the day.  I need to be reeled in.  I'd rebel and fight back, i'm sure.  I honestly relish the feeling of being told what to do and i despise having to figure out what to do next.  Then there's the spanko needs.  And the almost violent sex needs.<br /><br />I knew that would be far too much for hubby to stomach, so it had to be toned down.  I stumbled upon DD.  I thought this would be the answer, finally got the nerve to bring it up, and was shot down.  In no uncertain terms will this ever happen.  I think the funny part of that is he did latch onto a few things - though he denied it having anything to do with DD - and that is i have a bedtime and I'm not allowed to say bad words.  Not that he'll do anything about it, but i do get the look of death if i mess up there. Other times he'll randomly pick something that he doesn't like and deal with it "effectively" as he puts it, i call it sarcastic and more mean than anything... but i don't want to discourage him either so i accept his ideas of effectiveness.  And I do admit, even though it leaves me feeling horrible it does work.<br /><br />Our sex drives are severely mismatched right now.  When we met, I could hardly keep up with him.  That was a few times a day, anywhere in the house, middle of the night, middle of the day, inside outside upside down, in the public, in the truck, on the boat, at a party... Never, ever did i tell him no.  Now that I'm mentally at that place, he's more in the 1-3 times a month range.  I'm not allowed to initiate anything, he'll either go stone cold or get away.  So i patiently wait.<br /><br />But when we do, THAT is where a huge change has happened.  He's very take chargey and pushing me and pulling me this way or that and really feeding that fire.  And it's during all that playing that i can get my couple little spanks.  Well, they're not little, he lets me have it but they're individual spanks. So while i like it, it's not coming anywhere close to appeasing that little monster inside me.  And truly, i sorta think that this whole thing is making my fantasies get darker and possibly leaving my needs less met than before.  Like the last couple times I couldn't cum until he had his hands around my neck with all his weight squashing my entire body.  I'm the type who can cum from imagination alone, it doesn't take much... gosh even a sneeze once did it lol<br /><br />So that's where we are as a couple.  Where i am personally, perhaps i'll feel more comfortable sharing that at some point... I guess in a nutshell that i've found somewhat of an outlet or way of comforting some of these needs a bit. (no i'm not sleeping around)

Backstory & Update

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Beating Belly Fat

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIexQGVjdEnUlj8aGGiBZXeTGILfrpwwGNHDDYspSQ3yDSjnx5EExz9KexX4tSXHXXe0xkvJpJowYTQLSlFh0udS_LXO6fzh6aAWoRFNddl9fLmjTKn5J7lZ7vG25CGYeVrR3dueT2mJo/s1600/Beating+Belly+Fat.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Beating Belly Fat" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIexQGVjdEnUlj8aGGiBZXeTGILfrpwwGNHDDYspSQ3yDSjnx5EExz9KexX4tSXHXXe0xkvJpJowYTQLSlFh0udS_LXO6fzh6aAWoRFNddl9fLmjTKn5J7lZ7vG25CGYeVrR3dueT2mJo/s1600/Beating+Belly+Fat.jpg" title="Beating Belly Fat" /></a></span></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">Visceral fat is the most harmful type of fat, it's produces inflammation, which leads to a higher risk of heart disease, diabetes and certain cancers. It's fat that accumulates around the vital organs and around the mid section, if you have more abdominal fat, it’s probably an indicator that you have more visceral fat.</span></div> </br><center><script type="text/javascript"><!-- google_ad_client = "ca-pub-5028478688240504"; /* inPost_waysforweightloss_336-280 */ google_ad_slot = "6975892477"; google_ad_width = 336; google_ad_height = 280; //--></script><script type="text/javascript" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"></script></center></br> <div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /><br />To reduce weight in this area  it's important to go on a diet that includes fresh fruits and vegetables, </span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">low-fat dairy</span>, lean protein, and whole grains and that your fat intake is mostly unsaturated, the kind found in olive. Also fiber-rich diet may help you.<br /><br />For beating belly Fat, it's important to exercise like weights and aerobically, four times per week for one hour at a time.<br /><br /><a href="http://waysforweightloss.blogspot.com/2013/08/get-more-sleep.html" target="_blank">Getting the right amount of sleep</a>‬ and  finding ways of overcoming stress helps.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></div> </br><center><script type="text/javascript"><!-- google_ad_client = "ca-pub-5028478688240504"; /* LargeInPost_waysforweightloss_300-600 */ google_ad_slot = "6695176472"; google_ad_width = 300; google_ad_height = 600; //--></script><script type="text/javascript" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"></script></center></br>

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Basic Muscle Building Facts Covered

<div style='font-style:italic;' class='uawbyline'>By Arnold Sylvester</div><br /><br /> <div class='uawarticle'>Asking for advice on how to build muscle can seem rather daunting. This is largely due to the severe jargon which surrounds unfamiliar new techniques like body weight workouts and high intensity interval training but it is also something which needn't be so confusing.<br /> <br /> Despite the huge strides forward we have taken in the fitness industry, if you harbor dreams of building cold, hard, lean muscle you would do very well to return to the basic fundamental rules of size and strength.<br /> <br /> They are:<br /> <br /> 1. Focusing on compound lifts is imperative.<br /> <br /> Exercises such as the lat pulldown, bench press, squat and lunge remain key figureheads in any size and strength routine.<br /> <br /> Any compound exercise will recruit more muscle fibers than an isolation move, therefore you'll gain more size over a shorter period of time.<br /> <br /> 2. Learn how many reps to perform.<br /> <br /> While high rep training has it's own benefits, you should be aiming for the 8-12 range if your goal is muscular hypertrophy. This is backed up by years of key studies from medical research studies carried out on the subject.<br /> <br /> You'll be stronger on some exercises, naturally, but you can begin using your rep range as a guide to tell you if you are going too light or too heavy.<br /> <br /> 3. Adapt your program to your new strength gains.<br /> <br /> Consistency is the worst mistake made on the gym floor.<br /> <br /> Consistently doing the same routine or lifting the same figures will lead you to a plateau. In order to build a better body you need to give your body a physical reason to grow. This can only be done by giving it weights which it finds hard to deal with. <br /> <br /> 4. Sleep to grow.<br /> <br /> Muscles are broken down and torn in the gym. They don't start rebuilding until you recover after your workout has ended.<br /> <br /> If you try to get eight to twelve hours of sleep on a consistent basis, it is a guaranteed method to increase your size and strength. That's because the body releases growth hormone and testosterone at this point, so neglecting this phase of the day is not advised.<br /> <br /> This could be compared to leaving the cement to set on a brick wall, but returning the following day and trying to build on it even further. You're basically knocking yourself down all the time and going nowhere. <br /> <br /> If your goal to learn how to build muscle has so far proved fruitless, these tips will help. It is a very common trait in the fitness industry to over complicate matters and go overboard with unnecessary scientific jargon, as you will easily see by looking for tips on high intensity interval training or drop-set techniques. But these proven principles are simple, yet time-tested.<br /> <br /> </div><br /> <div class='uawresource'><br /> <div style='font-style:italic;' class='uawabout'><br /> About the Author:<br /> </div><br /> <div class='uawlinks'>Contact info: Discover key tips teaching you <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KFcTIpXe90">how to build muscle</a> and how to perform <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzpCjw7i3nk">high intensity interval training</a> properly for maximum results on the exclusive training website from leading UK personal trainer Russ Howe PTI.</div><br /> </div><br />

Basic Muscle Building Facts Covered

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Frontier Culture Museum: Silver Anniversary celebration brings together Staunton, Waynesboro, Augusta County

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-J1O6i7SihdnNBh077EZt8yQJxwuU-vdmWwWVEBY1j1xHCP1NyiVrqOEWW1eQhVAbHULzp6sVPCZW2dHxui2MLXOq0lHyj-X1-_yN79CTvvjauDq5p5uwBTSTC2RzJuZhn2dovErl00St/s1600/FCMV+25th+anniv+Jack+Cameron+photo+1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="298" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-J1O6i7SihdnNBh077EZt8yQJxwuU-vdmWwWVEBY1j1xHCP1NyiVrqOEWW1eQhVAbHULzp6sVPCZW2dHxui2MLXOq0lHyj-X1-_yN79CTvvjauDq5p5uwBTSTC2RzJuZhn2dovErl00St/s400/FCMV+25th+anniv+Jack+Cameron+photo+1.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"> <i>Frontier Culture Museum of Virginia celebrated 25 years on Thursday.</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbFcyBUupCQJgj2Wj9tE-rI13w82Fz5Uy-OdbzujJHHveD2lWgXw4TvnGbXiYfbSK9O3cxfhKlhGm-OLdFwqpLrcVn5XgyagROZEHoN1zUxEhyphenhyphenr-diHvb45JPw2l9sM_dvvcV9jA5Sbq8a/s1600/FCMV+25th+anniv+Jack+Cameron+photo+2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="298" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbFcyBUupCQJgj2Wj9tE-rI13w82Fz5Uy-OdbzujJHHveD2lWgXw4TvnGbXiYfbSK9O3cxfhKlhGm-OLdFwqpLrcVn5XgyagROZEHoN1zUxEhyphenhyphenr-diHvb45JPw2l9sM_dvvcV9jA5Sbq8a/s400/FCMV+25th+anniv+Jack+Cameron+photo+2.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPUN0ep0cRogm9NVM6-__SNmRY8PcUzPoVTIXCSTmBaA-ZOir8wMc_yWQOy9rBjmQgv7ooxTxM-kW2E-r6M5aDNwnIsqieabYPIeMZ2O3rChi-GlnDDl0PPq9wShQwj9MvqZmY3c1NyTjq/s1600/FCMV+25th+anniv+Jack+Cameron+photo+3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="298" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPUN0ep0cRogm9NVM6-__SNmRY8PcUzPoVTIXCSTmBaA-ZOir8wMc_yWQOy9rBjmQgv7ooxTxM-kW2E-r6M5aDNwnIsqieabYPIeMZ2O3rChi-GlnDDl0PPq9wShQwj9MvqZmY3c1NyTjq/s400/FCMV+25th+anniv+Jack+Cameron+photo+3.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1VQmN8nZ6Y4lH3SWVA77K7OAZPyzx15hPO93ky7PqXmQh7JOQttYFHWdCEBcehrYkkIVZ6r0iTgc4Jb8Ubi52_AnMPi8LnWakkxaA-1uJMU_PcayfLqlAaauCEZrGaEraMKbekG8OFPB5/s1600/3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1VQmN8nZ6Y4lH3SWVA77K7OAZPyzx15hPO93ky7PqXmQh7JOQttYFHWdCEBcehrYkkIVZ6r0iTgc4Jb8Ubi52_AnMPi8LnWakkxaA-1uJMU_PcayfLqlAaauCEZrGaEraMKbekG8OFPB5/s400/3.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><br />In the 1980s, an empty field alongside Richmond Road in Staunton, Virginia, fueled a dream for a museum that would tell the story of those who walked this land before us.<br /><br />Twenty-five years later, the <a href="http://www.frontiermuseum.org/">Frontier Culture Museum of Virginia</a> is a thriving, teaching, hands-on museum that was recently <a href="http://swacgirl.blogspot.com/2013/08/frontier-culture-museum-is-one-of-10.html">voted one of the top 10 places for kids to fall in love with history</a>. It is made up of original and reproduced homesteads from the countries that began the immigration to America ... the Old World's England, Ireland, Germany, Africa, and the Irish Forge. In the New World, the American homestead showcases a 1740s log cabin,  1820s and 1850s farm houses, barn, and a one-room school house, and the 1700s Native American village showcases the life of the very earliest Valley inhabitants. <br /><br />Offering summer camps, homeschool days, winter workshops, forums, and special events such as wine festivals, the annual beach party, and Oktoberfest, the museum continues to grow with future plans for the Montgomery Springs village. With its location in the beautiful Shenandoah Valley in the shadow of the Blue Ridge Mountains, the Frontier Culture Museum brings history alive and is a popular day's visit for all ages.<br /><br />To celebrate the silver anniversary milestone, a party was held Thursday, September 19, 2013, at the museum's Cochran Pavilion with invited guests from throughout the surrounding communities of Staunton, Waynesboro, and Augusta County. I left my camera in the car so these photos are courtesy of Jack Cameron, a volunteer at the museum, who was there with his wife.<br /><br />Those who attended included elected officials, patrons who have generously provided financial support, volunteers, staff, interpreters, and board members. The pavilion was packed as members of the Waynesboro Symphony Orchestra played and guests enjoyed drinks, d'oeuvres, and fellowship with friends and neighbors.<br /><br />A little speechifying is part of such an event, and Executive Director John Avoli was on board to welcome guests and thank everyone for their support. Long-time board member Paul Vames, Chairman of the Trustees and whom I'm proud to serve with on that board, offered remarks that remembered the museum's roots. He thanked those who had the vision, and the ones who helped put that vision in place. It was rounded out with a toast from Tom Sheets who remembered the pioneers who were here before us.<br /><br />At our trustees meeting Friday morning, I asked Mr. Vames if I could reprint his remarks and he graciously shared them. Many thanks to him, and to everyone who helps make the Frontier Culture Museum a jewel in the crown of the Shenandoah Valley.<br /><blockquote><b>Frontier Culture Museum of Virginia</b><br />25th Anniversary Keynote Remarks<br />By Paul Vames, Chairman, Board of Trustees<br /><br />For many years now, the Frontier Culture Museum has focused on its future and on moving forward as an institution. We’ve expanded our exhibits and programs, and worked to bring more school students and general visitors to enjoy this extraordinary Museum that we’ve come together this evening to celebrate. <br /><br />But now we want to pause for just a few moments to mark the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Museum’s official dedication and opening to the public. In doing this, we want to remember that the ceremony that took place on September 9, 1988, represented the culmination of more than a decade of planning, organizing, negotiating, and fund-raising on the part of many people whose imaginations were captured by a vision of what this Museum could be. Sadly, many of the key leaders of that effort have left us over the course of these twenty-five years, and we miss them here this evening. <br /><br />I ask you to remember Eric Montgomery, Governor John Dalton, Lewis McMurran, Justice George Cochran, General Arch Sproul, Dick Robertson and Klaus Wust for their vision and leadership in taking this idea for a museum and making it real. We hope they’re smiling down on us and that they’re pleased with the results of their work.<br /><br />I now want to recognize the contributions of several people who were unable to be with us tonight due to scheduling conflicts and other commitments: Senator John Warner, Governors Chuck Robb, Gerald Baliles, Doug Wilder and George Allen, and Senator Emmett Hanger, and Dr. Henry Glassie.<br /><br />While we regret these excellent people could not be here to celebrate with us this evening, we are blessed and honored to have several of the people with us here tonight who also played vital important roles in bringing the Museum effort to that September day: Lee Cochran, Senator Frank Nolen, Walt Hyer, and Carlton Abbott.<br /><br />Now, I want to recognize a fairly small group of people who have served this institution in official capacities over the years. I will begin with the Presidents of the American Frontier Culture Foundation: General Archibald Sproul, Mrs. Lisa Moore, Mr. John Avoli, Mr. Paul Vames, Mrs. Peggy Sheets, Mrs. Rica Caps, and Mr. John Dod. <br /><br />Next I want to recognize Chairman and one Chairwoman who have presided over the Board of Trustees: the Honorable George M. Cochran, the Honorable Emmett W. Hanger, Jr., Ms. Gail Nardi and Mr. Paul Vames. <br /><br />The next group I will recognize this evening are the people who have served as Executive Director of The Frontier Culture Museum. The first is Mr. Walter Heyer, who was the founding director. Walt was exceeded on an interim bases by Dr. Susan Hanson who was followed by Mr. John Walters, Mr. Gene McCombs served briefly as interim executive director and was succeeded by Ms. Jane McCome who served only briefly. She was succeeded on an interim basis by Mrs. Peggy Sheets, who then passed the office to Mr. John Avoli, who still holds it today. <br /><br />It’s interesting to note that on the day it was dedicated back in 1988 the Museum wasn’t quite finished: the Visitor Center, Museum Store, and Administration Building were still under construction, and only two of the four proposed outdoor exhibits were in place; what were then called the Ulster and Appalachian Farms. It was called the Museum of American Frontier Culture. <br /><br />Much has happened at the Museum since September 9, 1988. Over the following decade the German and English Farms were put in place to complete the original plan for the Museum, and a fifth outdoor exhibit, the Ulster Forge, was added. The next ten years saw the Museum both double in the area dedicated to its outdoor exhibits and in the number of those exhibits.<br /><br />This period has seen the completion of the Hayna Barn on the German Farm, the creation of a new American area of the Museum with the addition of the Bowman House, the relocation of the American Farm to that new area, the construction of the West African Farm, the beginning of the Settler Farm, the reconstruction of the Schuler School House, and the beginning of an American Indian Exhibit.<br /><br />Through all of this the Museum has suffered repeated budget reductions that resulted in some very dramatic staff reductions; but with patience and persistence, and much timely support from the American Frontier Culture Foundation, we have continued to grow and move forward, and we are not planning to stop any time soon. <br /><br />In the weeks ahead the Museum staff will begin the work of documenting, dismantling, restoring, and reconstructing the Mount Tabor United Methodist Church in the American area. In this year’s appropriation we received nearly $200,000 to begin detailed planning for a water powered grist mill. We’ll continue to develop plans for a Crossing Gallery to tie the old world and American areas together, and for an early American village that we have named Montgomery Springs in honor of Eric Montgomery, who had the original idea for this Museum and worked so hard to see it become a reality. <br /><br />Our invitation to you to attend this celebration is our recognition of your contributions to this Museum’s success and is an expression of our gratitude. Some of you helped bring the Museum to that day in 1988 and to see it completed as it was originally planned. Others of you worked and continue to work to expand that original plan and bring the Museum to where it is today and where it will be this time next year and the year after that. <br /><br />The plaques on display here this evening contain names of the hundreds of people and businesses that gave their money and time to build this Museum. They have been on display in the breezeway outside of the Visitor Center for nearly 25 years but we want to call your attention to them tonight and we thank everyone whose name appears on them.<br /><br />It is paramount for nonprofit organizations such as this Museum to succeed to have had great Board Members that have provided time, effort, guidance and have given financial support through the years.<br /><br />We have been very fortunate to have had very capable hard working and committed Board Members both on the Foundation and the Trustees. At this time I would like all past and present Board of Directors of our Foundation and all past and present members of our Board of Trustees to stand and be recognized. Thank you all.<br /><br />Now I want to both recognize and thank our employees, staff and volunteers both past and present. would you please stand. I sincerely believe we would not be having this celebration this evening if it weren’t for your efforts. Thanks to all of you.<br /><br />I want to encourage everyone to stay and visit for a while and enjoy your selves, and get acquainted or reacquainted as the case may be. We thank you for your attendance this evening and also thank you for all your help and support through the years, and look forward to seeing you again soon.</blockquote>If you haven't visited the museum, come on out and see for yourself what it's all about. We have golf carts for rent for those who have mobility issues or small children as well as golf cart shuttles moving visitors around the property. Enjoy a picnic at our tables, and be sure to stop by the museum gift shop for some of our mouth-watering fudge.<br /><br />See you at the <a href="http://www.frontiermuseum.org/">Frontier Culture Museum of Virginia</a>! <br /><br /><i>Photos courtesy of Jack Cameron</i><br /><br /><b>Other posts about the Frontier Culture Museum (FCMV):</b><br />- <a href="http://swacgirl.blogspot.com/2013/09/frontier-culture-museum-celebrates-25.html">FCMV celebrates 25 years with 1988 admission prices </a><br />- <a href="http://swacgirl.blogspot.com/2013/08/frontier-culture-museum-is-one-of-10.html">FCMV is one of '10 Places for Kids to Fall in LOVE with History'</a><br />- <a href="http://swacgirl.blogspot.com/2013/06/trixie-at-frontier-culture-museum-of.html">Trixie at the FCMV</a><br />- <a href="http://swacgirl.blogspot.com/2013/06/1-frontier-culture-museum-in-pictures.html">#1 ... Frontier Culture Museum in pictures</a><br />- <a href="http://swacgirl.blogspot.com/2013/06/2-frontier-culture-museum-in-pictures.html">#2 ... Frontier Culture Museum in pictures</a><br />-<a href="http://swacgirl.blogspot.com/2013/06/3-frontier-culture-museum-in-pictures.html"> #3 ... Frontier Culture Museum in pictures</a><br />- <a href="http://swacgirl.blogspot.com/2013/03/frontier-culture-museum-adds-sweet.html">FCMV adds sweet taste of fudge to Highland Maple Festival</a><br />- <a href="http://swacgirl.blogspot.com/2013/06/sally-landes-lady-of-english-house-at.html">Sally Landes: Lady of the English house</a><br />- <a href="http://swacgirl.blogspot.com/2012/12/holiday-lantern-tours-at-frontier.html">Holiday lantern tours at Frontier Culture Museum</a><br />- <a href="http://swacgirl.blogspot.com/2012/01/frontier-culture-museum-winter-lecture.html">FCMV winter lectures series</a><br />- <a href="http://swacgirl.blogspot.com/2012/05/today-may-day-at-frontier-culture.html">May Day</a><br />- <a href="http://swacgirl.blogspot.com/2012/01/frontier-culture-museum-in-winter.html">FCMV in winter</a><br />- <a href="http://swacgirl.blogspot.com/2012/01/frontier-culture-museum-in-winter.html">Bluebird trail</a><br />- <a href="http://swacgirl.blogspot.com/2012/10/staunton-creepy-tales-at-frontier.html">Creepy Tales</a><br />- <a href="http://swacgirl.blogspot.com/2010/08/frontier-culture-museum-orientation-day.html">Orientation Day</a><br />- <a href="http://swacgirl.blogspot.com/2010/08/more-photos-from-frontier-culture.html">More photos from orientation day </a><br />- <a href="http://swacgirl.blogspot.com/2011/10/2011-home-school-day-at-frontier.html">Homeschool Day</a><br />- <a href="http://swacgirl.blogspot.com/2011/05/stauntons-frontier-culture-museum.html">Photos </a>

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How to Count Calories

<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Before i started my weight loss journey, i had no idea what calories were, they were an absolute mystery to me! But now, i am far more familiar with them. Maybe too familiar. I should point out that you DO NOT have to count calories to be healthy, it is not a must. Though i counted calories throughout my weight loss, i very rarely count calories now as i feel more comfortable with just opting for healthier options, so don't feel pressured into counting calories at all! And if you chose to count calories, please don't get obsessed with numbers- calories are just guidelines. </span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbh4flIaVhr7BBrMIThfRIp_wvoE8-l990OHPEP30vQvY-mtLQi58mSqFG7V_C6ln_kw_AZI3kY2aWlfPL15hoHcUCCNbs2cqqwgDUuyuuoc2RAEbO5f54CGkiXK7MSgi0Ua-mADr8UVG3/s1600/blog+breaker.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="44" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbh4flIaVhr7BBrMIThfRIp_wvoE8-l990OHPEP30vQvY-mtLQi58mSqFG7V_C6ln_kw_AZI3kY2aWlfPL15hoHcUCCNbs2cqqwgDUuyuuoc2RAEbO5f54CGkiXK7MSgi0Ua-mADr8UVG3/s320/blog+breaker.png" width="320" /></a></div><div><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span><h3><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>What are calories? </b></span></h3><div><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">A calorie is a unit of energy.<br />Our bodies NEED energy and we acquire this energy through food and drink.<br />So the number of calories food or drink contain, tell us how much potential energy they contain. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><h3><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>How many calories do you need?</b></span></h3><div><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Now this is the important part. Everyone is different. That means we all require different amounts of calories. You have to take into account a lot of different factors: Physical activity, age, sex, gender and shape in order to figure out how much energy your body requires. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">So to figure out how many calories you need to maintain/lose/gain weight, you must first calculate your BMR. Basal Metabolic Rate. Follow the link to this awesome website with all of the information and tools you need to figure this all out: </span></div><div><a href="http://www.bmi-calculator.net/bmr-calculator/"><span style="font-size: large;">http://www.bmi-calculator.net/bmr-calculator/</span></a></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The website will explain everything you need to know and thus far, has been the safest method for me personally, when figuring out how many calories i need to be eating. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><h4><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>REMINDER:</b> 300 calories of cake is VERY different from 300 calories of veggies. Remember to EAT HEALTHY. Make sure you're putting good foods into your body. </span></h4><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaemFYxn-RaCtOvYrWoemJLSKKuahsh9Bp8eq4eCSyLYFMWctjh6-OmqSUdgiyvirK42098S0W_7ACdCLM4Ff2bmOscUDdlSp5mjmeHvG0W5twOYcQkybGvOMkzGRUel6jIhWZARVCdhmI/s1600/bild12.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="106" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaemFYxn-RaCtOvYrWoemJLSKKuahsh9Bp8eq4eCSyLYFMWctjh6-OmqSUdgiyvirK42098S0W_7ACdCLM4Ff2bmOscUDdlSp5mjmeHvG0W5twOYcQkybGvOMkzGRUel6jIhWZARVCdhmI/s400/bild12.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Always remember to look at the nutritional label as a whole. Something that might be low in calories could still be crazily high in salt or sugar! So keep an eye out!</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">As i said before. Calories are just a guideline. They have really helped me to learn about portion sizes and what foods are best for me BUT you can do just as well not counting calories. I rarely count calories now, i just focus on eating clean and healthy and that works for me too. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbh4flIaVhr7BBrMIThfRIp_wvoE8-l990OHPEP30vQvY-mtLQi58mSqFG7V_C6ln_kw_AZI3kY2aWlfPL15hoHcUCCNbs2cqqwgDUuyuuoc2RAEbO5f54CGkiXK7MSgi0Ua-mADr8UVG3/s1600/blog+breaker.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="44" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbh4flIaVhr7BBrMIThfRIp_wvoE8-l990OHPEP30vQvY-mtLQi58mSqFG7V_C6ln_kw_AZI3kY2aWlfPL15hoHcUCCNbs2cqqwgDUuyuuoc2RAEbO5f54CGkiXK7MSgi0Ua-mADr8UVG3/s320/blog+breaker.png" width="320" /></a></div><div><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I hope this helped.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Stay healthy</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">x</span></div></div>

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Today's Teamster News 09.21.13

<a href="http://teamsternation.blogspot.com/2013/09/strikers-ordered-back-to-work.html" rel="nofollow">Striking railroad Teamsters ordered back to work, no single operators allowed</a>  TeamsterNation   ...An Akron, Ohio, district court judge this afternoon ordered striking locomotive engineers and trainmen at the Wheeling and Lake Erie Railway back to work. He also ordered the railroad to refrain from allowing supervisors or management to operate trains...<br /><a href="http://www.teamster.org/content/warehouse-workers-ikea-vote-join-teamsters" rel="nofollow">Warehouse Workers At IKEA Vote To Join Teamsters</a>  teamster.org   ...Warehouse workers, employed at the IKEA distribution center in Frederickson, Wash., have voted to join Teamsters Local 117. The 64 workers at the facility came together seeking job security, fair and equal treatment, strong representation, and respect...<br /><a href="http://www.teamster.org/content/trade-good-when-its-fair" rel="nofollow">Hoffa, Brune: Trade Is Good When It's Fair</a>  teamster.org   ...It's been almost 20 years since the signing of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), and families and communities are still reeling from its consequences...<br /><a href="http://www.teamster.org/content/teamsters-picket-rochester-wegmans" rel="nofollow">Teamsters Picket Rochester Wegmans</a>  teamster.org   ...Wegmans-picketing Teamsters from Local 118 are calling on their employer to protect good jobs in Rochester and stop retaliating against employees for standing up for their rights under Federal law. Today the union will file an unfair labor practice charge against Wegmans due to the company’s actions against employees...<br /><a href="http://www.midhudsonnews.com/News/2013/September/19/SC_Teamsters-19Sep13.htm">Sullivan settles five-year contract with Teamsters</a>  Mid-Hudson News   …Ratifying a new contract was a tossup among members Teamsters Local 445 who work for Sullivan County in New York. The union narrowly agreed to the new five-year deal by a 152 to 141 vote...<br /><a href="http://www.teamster.org/content/teamster-women-get-fired" rel="nofollow">Teamster Women Get Fired Up</a>  teamster.org  ...Teamsters General Secretary-Treasurer Ken Hall addressed the Women’s Conference on Friday, the second day of the annual event, in New Orleans. Get the full coverage of the conference <a href="http://www.teamster.org/content/2013-teamsters-women%E2%80%99s-conference-0" rel="nofollow">here</a>... |<br /><a href="http://www.teamster.org/content/ruralmetro-files-two-critical-documents%E2%80%94plan-reorganization-and-disclosure-statement" rel="nofollow">Rural/Metro Files Two Critical Documents—Plan of Reorganization and Disclosure Statement</a>  teamster.org   ...Rural Metro filed two critical documents outlining how the company plans to emerge from bankruptcy on Sunday, September 15. Those documents are the Plan of Reorganization and Disclosure Statement...<br /><a href="http://www.teamsters492.org/index.cfm?zone=/unionactive/view_article.cfm&homeID=342876" rel="nofollow">ABF Teamster Wins National Four-Axle Competition Championship</a>  Teamsters Local 492   ...Teamster and Albuquerque ABF Line Driver Ralph Garcia won first place in the four-axle competition at the 2013 National Truck Driving Championships, which was held in Salt Lake City late August...<br /><a href="http://www.tristatehomepage.com/story/labor-leaders-react-to-hotel-latest/d/story/WJG9IszSSU66gZ84OpGL3g" rel="nofollow">Labor Leaders React to Hotel Latest</a>  Tristate   ...The Southwestern Indiana Building and Construction Trades Council said Thursday it stands in full support of the proposed downtown hotel. Chuck Whobrey, president of Teamsters Local 215, wasn't at the meeting, but said the hotel is necessary for downtown redevelopment...<br /><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/feedarticle/10983942" rel="nofollow">Employers cut jobs in 20 US states in August</a>  Associated Press   ...Unemployment rates rose in 18 states, fell in 17 and were unchanged in 15...<br /><a href="http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/2013/09/target-to-hire-18000-fewer-seasonal.html" rel="nofollow">Target to Hire 18,000 Fewer Seasonal Workers This Holiday Season; Expect Other Retailers to Do the Same </a> Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis   ..."Target lowered their expectations for the rest of the year, citing a tougher-than-expected spending environment..."<br /><a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/09/20/homeless-recruited-to-buy-iphones/2844979/" rel="nofollow">L.A. homeless hired to buy latest iPhones</a>  USA Today   ...Many driven from Skid Row to Pasadena say they were unpaid and stranded after Apple Store halted scheme...<br /><a href="http://www.latimes.com/opinion/editorials/la-ed-foodstamps-house-gop-cuts-20130919,0,6891665.story" rel="nofollow">GOP's misguided attack on food stamps</a> (opinion)  Los Angeles Times   ...Unable to push a $20-billion cut in food stamps through the House in June, Republicans are now seeking to cut $40 billion over 10 years by tightening eligibility and cutting off able-bodied adults who don't find or train for jobs. ...But while it may motivate some idle adults to get to work, it would also punish those who simply can't find jobs at a time when there are three applicants for every opening...<br /><a href="http://www.brookings.edu/about/projects/bpea/latest-conference/2013-fall-elsby-labor-share" rel="nofollow">Offshoring Linked to Declining U.S. Labor Share, Likely to Continue</a>  Brookings   ...The decline in the U.S. labor share – now at its lowest level in the post-war period after the Great Recession – has been concentrated in sectors that face increased import competition in the wake of the overall rising role of imports in the U.S. economy, according to a new paper presented today at the Fall 2013 Conference on the<a href="http://www.brookings.edu/about/projects/bpea"> Brookings Papers on Economic Activity (BPEA)</a>...<br /><a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-09-20/linkedin-customers-say-company-hacked-their-e-mail-address-books.html" rel="nofollow">LinkedIn Customers Allege Company Hacked E-Mail Addresses</a>  Bloomberg   ...LinkedIn Corp. (LNKD), owner of the world’s most popular professional-networking website, was sued by customers who claim the company appropriated their identities for marketing purposes by hacking into their external e-mail accounts and downloading contacts’ addresses...<br /><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/federal-eye/wp/2013/09/19/unions-launch-offensive-against-potential-government-shutdown/" rel="nofollow">Unions launch offensive against potential government shutdown</a>  Washington Post   ...Federal employee unions, having guided their members through government shutdown threats in 2011 and 2012, are arming for another possible shutdown in 11 days if Congress cannot resolve its partisan fiscal battle...<br /><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/contractor-which-vetted-snowden-says-it-did-background-check-for-navy-yard-shooter/2013/09/19/7e778cae-2173-11e3-a358-1144dee636dd_story.html" rel="nofollow">Contractor that vetted Snowden says it also ran background check for Navy Yard shooter</a>  Washington Post   ...USIS, the Falls Church, VA government contractor that handled the background check for National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden, said Thursday that it also vetted Navy Yard shooter Aaron Alexis for his ­secret-level clearance in 2007...<br /><a href="http://www.katv.com/story/23481116/arkansans-in-line-with-house-vote-cutting-food-stamps" rel="nofollow">Arkansas lawmakers back cuts to food stamp program</a>  KATV ABC 7   ...Arkansas' four congressmen have voted to cut nearly $4 billion a year from the food stamp program, a 5 percent reduction to the nation's main feeding program used by more than 1 in 7 Americans...<br /><a href="http://www.postandcourier.com/article/20130920/PC05/130929998/1010/ex-halliburton-manager-charged-in-gulf-spill-probe" rel="nofollow">Ex-Halliburton manager charged in Gulf of Mexico spill probe</a>  Associated Press   ...A former Halliburton manager was charged Thursday with destroying evidence following BP’s 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, a case that coincides with a guilty plea to a related charge by the Houston-based oilfield services company...<br /><a href="http://www.sacbee.com/2013/09/19/5751375/chase-bank-jpmorgan-chase-to-refund.html" rel="nofollow">Chase Bank, JPMorgan Chase to refund customers $309 million for unfair billing</a>  Sacramento Bee   ...Federal regulators on Thursday ordered Chase Bank and JPMorgan Chase to refund $309 million to more than 2 million customers for illegally billing them for credit-monitoring services they never received...<br /><a href="http://news.firedoglake.com/2013/09/20/federal-reserve-program-is-socialism-for-the-rich/" rel="nofollow">Federal Reserve Program Is Socialism For The Rich</a>  firedoglake   ...Why is there such a gap between the haves and the have-nots? Probably because the Federal Reserve is pumping up assets for the haves to the tune of <a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/kitconews/2013/09/18/focusfed-leaves-qe-unchanged-at-85-billion-monthly-gold-rallies-sharply/">$85 billion, a month.</a>..<br /><a href="http://www.salon.com/2013/09/20/elites_strange_plot_to_take_over_the_world/" rel="nofollow">Elites’ strange plot to take over the world </a> Salon   ...Western elites in America and Western Europe after World War II made a serious effort to get rid of nations altogether, and combine all “freedom-loving peoples” into one giant “Atlantic Union,” a federal state built on top of the NATO military alliance...<br /><a href="http://don%27t%20take%20ax%20to%20public%27s%20right%20to%20know/" rel="nofollow">Don't take ax to public's right to know</a> (opinion) The Cap Times   ...If Wisconsinites were looking for a measure of how far out of control things have gotten under Gov. Scott Walker’s hyperpartisan approach to governing, they need look no further than an incident involving a key confidante of the governor and a process server seeking to deliver paperwork related to the state’s open records law...<br /><br />

Today's Teamster News 09.21.13

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How To Lose Weight With Only Thirteen Minutes Exercises?

<div style='font-style:italic;' class='uawbyline'>By Elhassan Errezzaki</div><br /><br /> <div class='uawarticle'>Provided that you're "averagely overweight," that is, not specialist diagnosed with amazing corpulence, or provided that you only need to feel better by losing or shedding a couple of pounds, there's great news for you - from ACCREDITED, dependable, trusted masters who likewise think about your well-being.<br /> <br /> Truth: Ten minutes of every day practice is honorable since its far superior than zero minutes of profitable vigor use. In any case, practice physiology and weight reduction science indicate 30 minutes for every day, no less than three times each week, as a feature of your best muscle to fat quotients change situation.<br /> <br /> This is the correct inverse of muscle tissue, where you can see and feel fundamentally prompt results. Smoldering fat requires understanding. You fundamentally require to permit yourself TIME to let practice impacts happen.<br /> <br /> Your body has possible life structures. Yet, to metabolize fat, your build demands that oxygen be realistic. Long-story-short: brief, "expedient" practice sessions look for fast life sources. These stay in blood and in muscle. It assumes control over a few minutes to essentially exploit your fat stores, and , to seethe of it for a long chance to lose some noteworthy structure weight.<br /> <br /> Accomplish Your Aerobic Threshold<br /> <br /> Ordinarily, practice starts with a warm-up stage, no less than 1-3 minutes. Gave your force stays inside your target heart rate preparing zone, (in the ballpark of 120 heart thumps for every moment - an expected normal for generally non health-impeded mature people) you'll use the following 7-10 minutes arriving at your vigorous limit. Staying close to, however directly underneath the focus where your muscles blaze (from a too-exceedingly extreme execution initiating lactic harsh corrosive fabricate up) will carry you to an essentially immaculate "fat-smolder." Yet, THIS very uncommon gathering just happens at medium-to-low intensities, which sits down for a bit.<br /> <br /> Lipids (a streamlined word for "non-water-solvent fats" inside your framework) need to move from the outside of a cell, through the cytosol, blend with pyruvate, in addition to oxygen... then move ahead to your "heater" (mitochondria). This is the place you separate fat into your "compensating and tremendously needed" by-items - vigor (the work you've accomplished); H2o (sweat); and carbon dioxide (a mess of consistent "sighing").<br /> <br /> Along these lines, provided that you stop at the 10-moment stamp, you deny yourself pretty nearly an extra 10 calories or more for every moment of weight lost, principally from fat stores. Halting this process at 10 minutes is much like heading off the distance to the entryway of your top choice party yet never venturing inside... for the "true" activity.<br /> <br /> With the greater part of that said, there is a more greatly compelling yet logical excuse for why you might as well work out for over 0 minutes. Indeed, no less than 30-moment practice sessions demonstrate usually advantageous for adequate weight reduction and enhanced continuance. You'll get basic profits from this:<br /> <br /> At first, you shield your LEAN shape mass (which you require in light of the fact that it seethes fat clearly superior to fat can seethe itself).<br /> <br /> Second, you get to make use of MAXIMUM calories (the correct key to getting thinner - amplifying caloric consumption, which is a period expending step).<br /> <br /> Third, your developed physical action makes you change the way your physique USES nourishment inside or metabolically for instance, getting three-fold build in calories used, contrasted with individual remaining stationary.).<br /> <br /> The main concern is that basically all specialists in diabetic science, stoutness control, dietetics & nourishment, practice science & individual preparing, and practice physiology concur that broadened, low-to-direct force physical action is yet the most noteworthy and adaptable component in vigor use for getting more fit.<br /> <br /> Blend that with common sense, sensibility, and use the accompanying tip: Base your sheltered, viable weight reduction objectives around the key rule that you have to adjust your vigor equalize in the NEGATIVE bearing by consuming around the range of 500 calories for every day from shrewdly controlling both EXERCISE AND DIET. You'll uncover that its scarcely even conceivable to achieve this deed by changing nourishment alone.<br /> <br /> The main concern is that fundamentally all specialists in diabetic science, stoutness control, dietetics & nourishment, practice science & individual preparing, and practice physiology agree that broadened, low-to-direct force physical action is yet the most remarkable and adaptable part in vigor use for getting more fit.<br /> <br /> </div><br /> <div class='uawresource'><br /> <div style='font-style:italic;' class='uawabout'><br /> About the Author:<br /> </div><br /> <div class='uawlinks'>Before looking for anything else, make sure you visit Elhassan Errezzaki weight loss blog <a href='http://www.weightloss4every1.com/'>quick fat loss</a>, and <a href='http://www.weightloss4every1.com/19-top-fat-burning-food-you-should-consume/'>great diets for a successful weight loss</a></div><br /> </div><br />

How To Lose Weight With Only Thirteen Minutes Exercises?

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Charity Clothes Swap

<span style="font-size: large;">In aid of the local hospice.</span><br /><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;">The concept is you bring along a few items of clothes you are finished with along with a donation of €10.  Then you get to browse all the other clothes and take away some items you like!</span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;">There was a raffle with tickets for €2 and also an auction of embarrassing photos of the event attendees. </span></div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRgxEwKJlBGGOywS6l9EXScSdLlDfd83gdK65Y8KAMftomlnOTD9Ca9egsSgggKH7oUT7V7D-zRYaquG5ZIoRGID25Ayjtu0nveQQbIvkFV5XssolwM5A7OpEGif08oxb2nE3NJOBXk3Nc/s640/blogger-image-1236662095.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRgxEwKJlBGGOywS6l9EXScSdLlDfd83gdK65Y8KAMftomlnOTD9Ca9egsSgggKH7oUT7V7D-zRYaquG5ZIoRGID25Ayjtu0nveQQbIvkFV5XssolwM5A7OpEGif08oxb2nE3NJOBXk3Nc/s640/blogger-image-1236662095.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: large;">I'm unsure of this top - I will try it on again at home</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeYsnpURfMtNVzxBfNmkgHS0Zxf8a0jmAZ68HHHTm6imuZnev_GzX706h5fgOwxXSjgXpS6YIcbzmK71-zESEEPcpIkzDQyGqd9bd1qZ7oj-uUtshW0PNzBCfWkepa2WFaKegWI1XNyVrk/s640/blogger-image--1563414837.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeYsnpURfMtNVzxBfNmkgHS0Zxf8a0jmAZ68HHHTm6imuZnev_GzX706h5fgOwxXSjgXpS6YIcbzmK71-zESEEPcpIkzDQyGqd9bd1qZ7oj-uUtshW0PNzBCfWkepa2WFaKegWI1XNyVrk/s640/blogger-image--1563414837.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjz8BVdjGPmpgHJUbE8oc8kFotsqWnYn6PvhcAP1ezAD-rLYMiNk4rPQ0QS-nQf2fhkqaHiaX2bLVzZ1wR-1Q76200tO1XDiMlPUlLEVXDqESPRRTuWuixU0fxCkn1Tl-LVdLLDMQjAn786/s640/blogger-image-100447955.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjz8BVdjGPmpgHJUbE8oc8kFotsqWnYn6PvhcAP1ezAD-rLYMiNk4rPQ0QS-nQf2fhkqaHiaX2bLVzZ1wR-1Q76200tO1XDiMlPUlLEVXDqESPRRTuWuixU0fxCkn1Tl-LVdLLDMQjAn786/s640/blogger-image-100447955.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: large;">There were accessories too - handbags, jewellery, shoes, etc.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjb3XmEgTgqPNQpoT3QSMmqKhi19ENxDT9WcCYIYhdcaUAcONtkuOtU6bzavNgZuJedGhBU31948Gzxp022wyoJ-nQ6ORC4k6ZxEHu2w3d3gllMhP2CMRRA-vDSmBeFp0jmW84Vv0iDYeVp/s640/blogger-image-1807427341.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjb3XmEgTgqPNQpoT3QSMmqKhi19ENxDT9WcCYIYhdcaUAcONtkuOtU6bzavNgZuJedGhBU31948Gzxp022wyoJ-nQ6ORC4k6ZxEHu2w3d3gllMhP2CMRRA-vDSmBeFp0jmW84Vv0iDYeVp/s640/blogger-image-1807427341.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: large;">This is a Per Una dress - never worn with the tags on.  Good find!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuE38l2RTgf0KWp4ftHqnTyFzWJ8iGK7u2fptcV8KynBi19OoT3zUwZU0Z5pCrOkqjBWkuTIoE7fiAfy3GUHUmTKJQqXDdSoUoZLp17i-OKvD_3y3m5zqonHV4nm9ejoJQzNaN5Q85bkJR/s640/blogger-image--897700144.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuE38l2RTgf0KWp4ftHqnTyFzWJ8iGK7u2fptcV8KynBi19OoT3zUwZU0Z5pCrOkqjBWkuTIoE7fiAfy3GUHUmTKJQqXDdSoUoZLp17i-OKvD_3y3m5zqonHV4nm9ejoJQzNaN5Q85bkJR/s640/blogger-image--897700144.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjK50O6buOp8lav4b8YphlziVGlgsqp2TwCu-pFWQ-1TCMZe8yNv_bu0uxrbxeZCG_vDvGulY31QrKphxLe1sUa836jzNx7RYpF1Pzj039u2Ar18CCC8bfzbENYUq2eiNZ21RoqKJnUvIvw/s640/blogger-image--907968973.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjK50O6buOp8lav4b8YphlziVGlgsqp2TwCu-pFWQ-1TCMZe8yNv_bu0uxrbxeZCG_vDvGulY31QrKphxLe1sUa836jzNx7RYpF1Pzj039u2Ar18CCC8bfzbENYUq2eiNZ21RoqKJnUvIvw/s640/blogger-image--907968973.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj47L32WbXQoh_OSsSDhRjVwKQWdJEhrpeQSvk0gfEDLBVVPioL-gT68SxhgKeudhUjEPIf-gVo3kk8cM7KXeiKxmPBbdmqBhEY4yg3-8SW_RKHCdxMMKS8f_cfZU-B2C9bgBWm9SPD3wkh/s640/blogger-image--175452908.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj47L32WbXQoh_OSsSDhRjVwKQWdJEhrpeQSvk0gfEDLBVVPioL-gT68SxhgKeudhUjEPIf-gVo3kk8cM7KXeiKxmPBbdmqBhEY4yg3-8SW_RKHCdxMMKS8f_cfZU-B2C9bgBWm9SPD3wkh/s640/blogger-image--175452908.jpg" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-size: large;">A fun entertaining event arranged by my aunt.  Hopefully it raised lots for the local hospice.</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></div>

Charity Clothes Swap

In aid of the local hospice. The concept is you bring along a few items of clothes you are finished with along with a donation of €10.  Then...

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Striking railroad Teamsters ordered back to work, no single operators allowed

An Akron, Ohio, district court judge this afternoon ordered striking locomotive engineers and trainmen at the Wheeling and Lake Erie Railway back to work. He also ordered the railroad to refrain from allowing supervisors or management to operate trains.<br /><br />The order by Judge John R. Adams ended the strike by the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen that began this morning. The walkout stopped virtually all activity by the railroad, which generally runs 45-50 trains a day.<br /><br />BLET President Dennis Pierce said,<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">I hope that the condition imposed by the judge will lead W and LE to recognize the importance of this issue to our members, who now will be returning to work with the assurance that while the matter is under consideration by the court, no further provocative actions may be taken by the carrier.</blockquote>According to a <a href="http://www.ble-t.org/pr/news/newsflash.asp?id=5489" rel="nofollow">BLET statement</a>, the workers walked out because the W and LE repudiated its contracts between locomotive engineers and trainmen. The railroad used supervisors to do the work of the engineers and trainmen, and running one-person operations.<br /><br />A <a href="http://www.ble-t.org/pr/pdf/Temporary-Restraining-Order-9-20-13.pdf" rel="nofollow">temporary restraining order</a> will remain in effect until a hearing can be held on the railroad’s request for a longer-term injunction.<br /><br />Pierce also thanked General Chairman Bob Linsey, Local Chairmen Kevin Nahrebecki and Lonnie Swigert, and all officers and members of Division 292, as well as general counsel Mike Wolly and his team for their outstanding efforts.<br /><br />The BLET is part of the rail conference of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters.<br /><br />

BLET rail strike Striking railroad Teamsters ordered back to work, no single operators allowed

An Akron, Ohio, district court judge this afternoon ordered striking locomotive engineers and trainmen at the Wheeling and Lake Erie Railway...

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Matt Said, Jay Said 888-727-BECK

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Matt:  Helloooooooo?<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRH82H2q07yApKDffVI3IP-PF7IP-_UQKVVUIKNyrLm9sIYxipi3szBWy9mguhjcaDwLK7o5s9jy4hEkEFxXWrkKC2z_vNUQSogPqDpNGE3iQZw1MsEEFqx_LtGxA5HnK4LBXyCFewMk3M/s1600/Scarlett+Johansson+Hot+Naked+Tits.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="323" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRH82H2q07yApKDffVI3IP-PF7IP-_UQKVVUIKNyrLm9sIYxipi3szBWy9mguhjcaDwLK7o5s9jy4hEkEFxXWrkKC2z_vNUQSogPqDpNGE3iQZw1MsEEFqx_LtGxA5HnK4LBXyCFewMk3M/s400/Scarlett+Johansson+Hot+Naked+Tits.jpg" width="400" /></a>Jay:  Hi.  How are you?<br />Matt:  I’m fine, and you?<br />Jay:  Okay, I guess.<br />Matt:  Something wrong Pumpkin?<br /><br />Jay:  Eh…It’s just that talking on the phone is way overrated.<br /><br />Matt:  But we do it every Sunday during our<i> IWS Radio Show</i>.<br /><br />Jay:  Oh I know, but that’s different.<br /><br />Matt:  How so?  Because we have a live audience, but during show prep calls you’re stuck talking only to me?<br /><br />Jay:  Noooo, not at all.  I just think actual talking is overrated.<br />Matt:  I think maybe you just don’t like talking to me on a one-on-one basis.<br />Jay:  Not at all.  And now that you are basically calling me a liar, I think you underrate me as a person.<br />Matt:  Noooo, not at all.  I adore you.<br /><br />Jay and Matt:  (awkward silence)<br /><br />Matt:  You know who Schmoop thinks is wayyyyyyyy overrated?<br />Jay:  Who?<br />Matt:  Scarlett Johansson.<br />Jay:  What?  Schmoop is out of her mind!!<br /><br />Matt:  I know right?  Schmoop says Scarlett is ugly.  Schmoop is crazy!!<br />Jay:  Hell yeah she’s crazy; I mean, just a bit.  I wouldn’t want to overrate Schmoop’s craziness.<br /><br />Matt:  Y’know what Jayman?  I think we have an idea for this week’s show.<br />Jay:  I believe you are right.  We could talk about people…<br />Matt:  Places…<br />Jay:  And things that are either overrated<br />Matt:  Or underrated.<br /><br />Jay:  Damn dude…Our brilliance is wayyyyy underrated.<br /><br />Matt:  You and I are far more underrated than The Beatles were overrated.<br /><br />Jay:  Oh my God…Buddy Acapella singing lyrics by Paul Piatt would be better than The Beatles.<br />Matt:  True dat, my underrated friend.<br /><br />Jay:  Rev. Moneymaker may have some words for the IWS Radio congregation this weekend.<br />Matt:  So will Paul Piatt.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCrzJDnImp5fqwQmTvZoyM-XpNK_W594Mx0bgWYPPRX5TL-2qWQ2FIL3AEMOgnTvxuCtQvwaZIhyphenhyphenUv-OkZtRbkwtP2WkmGBl8LMnCCRXIE6TFeK1neftTPn8pvTbAwlxY2zliReOiUSzPx/s1600/Doc+Thompson+The+Blaze+Stupid+Asshole.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCrzJDnImp5fqwQmTvZoyM-XpNK_W594Mx0bgWYPPRX5TL-2qWQ2FIL3AEMOgnTvxuCtQvwaZIhyphenhyphenUv-OkZtRbkwtP2WkmGBl8LMnCCRXIE6TFeK1neftTPn8pvTbAwlxY2zliReOiUSzPx/s320/Doc+Thompson+The+Blaze+Stupid+Asshole.jpg" width="320" /></a><br />Jay:  And we may have a few surprises as well.<br /><br />Matt:  And your phone calls at 661.244.9852, as we do the <i><a href="http://www.blogtalkradio.com/im-with-stupid/2013/09/22/overrated-and-underrated-show" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Overrated and Underrated Show</span></a></i> this Sunday.<br /><br />Jay:  It’s this Sunday from Noon-2 PM ET and we will also talk about how <i>The Blaze Radio</i> host, Doc Thompson is stealing my nearly copyrighted tag lines.<br /><br />Matt:  It’s an outrage!!<br /><br />Jay and Matt:  So…Join us this Sunday from Noon-2 PM ET on Blog Talk Radio, as <i><a href="http://www.blogtalkradio.com/im-with-stupid/2013/09/22/overrated-and-underrated-show" target="_blank">I<span style="color: blue;">WS Radio</span></a></i> discusses all that is overrated or underrated.<br /><br />To catch us<i> LIVE</i> on Sunday from Noon-2 PM ET you can click right <i><a href="http://www.blogtalkradio.com/im-with-stupid/2013/09/22/overrated-and-underrated-show" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">HERE</span></a></i>. </div><br /></div>

Matt Said, Jay Said 888-727-BECK

Matt:  Helloooooooo? Jay:  Hi.  How are you? Matt:  I’m fine, and you? Jay:  Okay, I guess. Matt:  Something wrong Pumpkin? Jay:  Eh…It’s ju...

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Prisoners: We cannot escape our nature

<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #5e5e5e; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><b><i>Prisoners</i> </b></span></span></span></span></span></span><b>(2013) • <a href="http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/wb/prisoners/" style="color: #27a9c5; text-decoration: none;">View trailer</a></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><b> </b><br /><b>Four stars. Rating: R, for profanity, torture and disturbing violent content</b></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #5e5e5e; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #5e5e5e; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><b>By <a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/12885694730612878577" style="color: #27a9c5; text-decoration: none;">Derrick Bang</a> • </b></span>Originally published in <i><a href="http://www.davisenterprise.com/" style="color: #27a9c5; text-decoration: none;">The Davis Enterprise</a></i>, 9.20.13</b></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span> <!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <o:OfficeDocumentSettings> <o:AllowPNG/> </o:OfficeDocumentSettings></xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:TrackMoves>false</w:TrackMoves> <w:TrackFormatting/> <w:PunctuationKerning/> <w:DrawingGridHorizontalSpacing>18 pt</w:DrawingGridHorizontalSpacing> <w:DrawingGridVerticalSpacing>18 pt</w:DrawingGridVerticalSpacing> <w:DisplayHorizontalDrawingGridEvery>0</w:DisplayHorizontalDrawingGridEvery> <w:DisplayVerticalDrawingGridEvery>0</w:DisplayVerticalDrawingGridEvery> <w:ValidateAgainstSchemas/> <w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:IgnoreMixedContent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:Compatibility> <w:BreakWrappedTables/> <w:DontGrowAutofit/> <w:DontAutofitConstrainedTables/> <w:DontVertAlignInTxbx/> </w:Compatibility> </w:WordDocument></xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:LatentStyles DefLockedState="false" LatentStyleCount="276"> </w:LatentStyles></xml><![endif]--> <!--[if gte mso 10]><style> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-font-family:Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast; mso-hansi-font-family:Cambria; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;} </style><![endif]--> <!--StartFragment--> <br /><div class="MsoNormalCxSpFirst"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Revenge thrillers have become a violent — often tawdry — Hollywood staple.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Not this one.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br /></div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1V-43GzrMCo6-CbCeQ0U3cuY0VB8BzZJcDt1JGArXfhyWzjJRrKGedLKpK64RxFQN2DWRcTiD2BzzWi-fQ5Gc5niVHkkjYUElQxYM5WU-B3tQRYqunFYmuxiAXY7-j2YRac7ljonG2Tg/s1600/Prisoners+blog.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1V-43GzrMCo6-CbCeQ0U3cuY0VB8BzZJcDt1JGArXfhyWzjJRrKGedLKpK64RxFQN2DWRcTiD2BzzWi-fQ5Gc5niVHkkjYUElQxYM5WU-B3tQRYqunFYmuxiAXY7-j2YRac7ljonG2Tg/s400/Prisoners+blog.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">When Alex (Paul Dano, on his back) is released for lack of evidence, Keller (Hugh<br />Jackman) angrily confronts the younger man, convinced that he knows more than he's<br />telling about the disappearance of two little girls. Given time to think and plan, Keller<br />will continue this "conversation" in a less public setting, and with a decidedly more<br />dangerous intensity.</span></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Prisoners</i> is a brooding, atmospheric slow burn: part character drama, part mystery, part thriller ... and all-consuming. It has a distinctly European feel despite the small-town Americana setting: very much in the unsettling mode of French director George Sluizer’s 1988 chiller, <i>Spoorloos</i>, which he remade five years later with an American cast, as <i>The Vanishing</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Prisoners</i> comes from the capable hands of Québec-born director Denis Villeneuve, whose résumé includes tension-laden dramas such as <i>Maelstrom</i> and <i>Polytechnique</i>, and who garnered an Oscar nomination for 2010’s <i>Incendies</i>. Point being, Villeneuve has a superb sense of atmosphere and a knack for making the most innocent scene feel enshrouded by a blanket of malevolence.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He also has a gift for drawing persuasively authentic performances from his actors, and that’s certainly the case here. While the entire cast is compelling, stars Hugh Jackman and Jake Gyllenhaal are sensational. Both are gifted actors; both have been fine before. Under Villeneuve’s capable guidance, they’re even better.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The story opens on a cold, overcast Thanksgiving Day in a working-class Pennsylvania suburb: the kind of town where kids set up lemonade stands. The homes and yards are tidy but looking a bit distressed: fading paint and weather-beaten vehicles a testament to folks barely hanging on during the tough economy.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Out in the nearby woods, Keller Dover (Jackman) offers a solemn prayer to God before encouraging teenage son Ralph (Dylan Minnette) to squeeze the trigger and claim his first deer. It’s a clean shot; as they drive the carcass home, Keller — a survivalist by nature — explains that they must be prepared at all times, must be their own strongest advocates, must expect to take charge when others inevitably fail.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Keller collects his wife, Grace (Maria Bello), and their 6-year-old daughter, Anna (Erin Gerasimovich); the family strolls up the street to celebrate the holiday with best friends Franklin and Nancy Birch (Terrence Howard, Viola Davis). Ralph pairs off with teenage Eliza (Zoë Soul), who disapproves of the elder Dover’s fondness for hunting; Anna and 7-year-old Joy (Kyla Drew Simmons) play together with the exuberance of small children.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Cinematographer Roger Deakins’ camera ... hovers. We feel nervous: can’t explain why. Even as the adults relax after the huge meal, Franklin sharing his lamentable trumpet skills, the utter normality of this staunchly American ritual — playing out, we know, in similar homes across the entire country — is pregnant with building tension.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And yet it’s simply an ordinary celebratory tableau. All is right with the world.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Until, suddenly, it isn’t.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br /></div><a name='more'></a><br /> <div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Keller notices first: The little girls haven’t been seen for awhile. Everybody searches — initially calm, increasingly frantic — to no avail. Anna and Joy are simply <i>gone</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Police are summoned; the case falls to Loki (Gyllenhaal), a loner detective whom Keller instinctively mistrusts for his youth, his (supposed) inexperience and his failure to have a family of his own, thereby branding him as somebody who Simply Doesn’t Understand. Ralph remembers an odd, dilapidated RV that had seemed out of place when he and Eliza had taken the little girls for a walk earlier.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The vehicle is found; police arrest its driver, a quiet, withdrawn and deeply frightened twentysomething named Alex Jones (Paul Dano). Much as Loki wants this to be The Guy, there’s nothing on which to build a case. The RV contains no physical evidence; more to the point, the developmentally disabled Alex has the mind and social awareness of a child.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And yet ... he was driving the RV. By himself.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Keller seizes on this little detail, can’t let go of it; to him, this indicates proof. Then, when the police are forced to release this suspect for lack of evidence, Keller is present when Alex looks him straight in the eye and says something that nobody else hears: something possibly innocuous, but Keller thinks otherwise.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And, so, he takes matters into his own hands.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On this level, Aaron Guzikowski’s enormously taut and clever script is ripped from contemporary headlines and ceaseless discussions of post-9/11 morality. If “society” — in this case, the local police — seems ineffectual or unqualified, is individual action appropriate? How far should it go? Do the stakes justify <i>any</i> approach, no matter how cruel or heinous? And, God forbid, what if you’re wrong?<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Villeneuve subsequently cross-cuts between three simultaneous storylines: Keller’s determined effort to wrest Truth from Alex, with the reluctant participation of Franklin; the agonizing, engulfing stasis that smothers the wives and elder children left back in their homes, as every minute stretches into an eternity of self-recrimination; and Loki’s dogged pursuit of stray threads that offer the tantalizing hope of a lead, but inevitably go nowhere.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Still, something’s definitely not right; the vibes are off. Keller has badly misjudged Loki; truth be told, this young detective will move heaven and earth in order to solve this case. Nothing else matters, particularly the dubious glances coming from colleagues and his ineffectual oaf of a precinct captain (Wayne Duvall, everybody’s nightmare bureaucrat come to life).<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Pay close attention, because details matter; Guzikowski has orchestrated a wickedly fiendish puzzle. I haven’t seen a thriller this carefully layered, this meticulously crafted — one that builds to a slick payoff that puts all the pieces together — since M. Night Shyamalan’s <i>The Sixth Sense</i>, back in 1999 (when that fellow still knew how to make a good movie).<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Remember how knocked out you were, during that film’s climax? How ingenious you thought it was, at the moment of revelation? Guzikowski delivers the same sort of emotional wallop here.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Jackman unerringly navigates a tremendously difficult role, as Keller’s apparently facile personality — impatience, snap judgment, anger-management issues — yields to an unexpectedly complex and badly damaged soul. Keller sees himself as the ultimate father figure: the provider and protector, the White Knight. When he cannot fulfill that role, his notion of self disintegrates: Jackman’s very being — his commanding aura — seems to wither away, as if the bones supporting his frame are crumbling, turning every motion into a herculean effort.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But the fury never vanishes; if anything, that particular fire sucks an increasingly proportion of Keller’s life force, leaving him less able to think, feel or question the wisdom of his actions. On top of which, Keller never loses his perceptive edge: He may be stubborn and rash, but he’s not stupid.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It’s quite a portrait, and we can’t take our eyes off Jackman. We wince time and again, wondering how Keller can make this already frightful situation even worse.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Gyllenhaal has the quieter, less florid role; Loki is procedure personified, a methodical investigator who believes that slow and steady <i>always</i> wins the race. That said, his need to remain calm, to resist the same vengeful impulse that governs Keller, has taken its toll; Loki’s uncontrollably twitching eyes betray his own bottled-up rage, his fear of impotence. When that fury does erupt — quite memorably, in one unexpected moment — the result is shocking.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Otherwise, Loki is deceptively restrained, Gyllenhaal’s misleading smile a truly dangerous thing. I love Loki’s interviews with persons of interest, either in the station house or out in the world; despite his scruffy, sleepless bearing, Gyllenhaal is almost charming. Until he isn’t.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Dano, with plenty of misfit characters in his past, is perfectly cast as the helpless, overwhelmed Alex. He radiates the frightened vulnerability and fragility of an injured sparrow; Alex simply is no match for the raw ferocity of a man such as Keller, who — in Dano’s terrified expression — looms as a monster from the worst possible nightmare. Terrified, yet also uncomprehending; the Alex/Keller dynamic is like watching a deaf/mute being tortured by a sadist who doesn’t realize that his victim cannot speak.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Or is it all a sham, and is Dano playing us, the way Edward Norton did so memorably, back in 1996’s <i>Primal Fear</i>? Keller certainly thinks as much; if we share that sentiment, do we become complicit in what comes next?<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Howard is achingly raw as the conflicted Franklin, who wants no part of Keller’s “plan” but, at the same time, places far too much value on how he measures up in his best friend’s eyes. No matter what Franklin does, as a result, he’ll betray either himself or Keller; the misery of this Hobson’s Choice radiates from Howard’s agonized gaze.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Bello has the most tragic role, because Grace simply shuts down as the catastrophe continues through and beyond the second, third, fourth day. She has bought into her husband’s role as family protector, and cannot cope with his inability to bring their little girl home. Grace’s life force simply drains away.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Davis, alternatively, moves Nancy Birch in unexpected directions, suggesting that even the most civilized individual can be pushed too far. Thanks to the intensity of Davis’ performance, we’re not surprised by any of this.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Villeneuve and editors Joel Cox and Gary Roach tighten the screws with ruthless efficiency; despite clocking in at a generous 153 minutes, the tension never flags. Indeed, the intensity simply mounts, much like the long-form TV thrillers that the British deliver so well.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Prisoners</i> — great title, by the way — is quite a ride. See it quickly, before the many layers of Guzikowski’s deliciously twisty narrative are exposed by Internet spoilers and jerkwad TV personalities.</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><!--EndFragment-->

2013 drama Dylan Minnette Four Star Films Hugh Jackman Jake Gyllenhaal Len Cariou Maria Bello Melissa Leo Paul Dano Terrence Howard thriller Viola Davis Prisoners: We cannot escape our nature

Prisoners   (2013) •  View trailer   Four stars. Rating: R, for profanity, torture and disturbing violent content By  Derrick Bang  •  Origi...

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Apple Butter Festival Saturday at Skyland

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0D7dLx2GL7QjpcK1bEF-ejS29fAuEhJjHtnHgxJupcCxSftJn1PeqnsSZ1FPb4tpCk8gFupD4ZhWuypslH3lDBr9zD7CPgBrvOouKh8Im6lqaoyhlkOl_DclTERUrSCz2pJFoWHWo0WdO/s1600/11.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="350" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0D7dLx2GL7QjpcK1bEF-ejS29fAuEhJjHtnHgxJupcCxSftJn1PeqnsSZ1FPb4tpCk8gFupD4ZhWuypslH3lDBr9zD7CPgBrvOouKh8Im6lqaoyhlkOl_DclTERUrSCz2pJFoWHWo0WdO/s400/11.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>Saturday, September 21. Come to Skyland as the staff sets up the copper kettles and stokes up the fire for a day of apple boiling. Watch the process, give the kettle a stir, and try a delicious sample. Then take home some fresh-from-the-kettle jars of apple butter. The Chef will be creating a great menu of items such as grilled chicken with an apple salsa, apple smoked barbecue, granny apple cole slaw, apple cobbler and hot & cold apple cider. Wine tasting, pony rides, children’s crafts, and live entertainment featured throughout the day. Held on the historic lower level area at Skyland Resort, miles 41.7 or 42.5 on Skyline Drive.<br /><br />Photo by Lynn R. Mitchell <br /><br />

Apple Butter Festival Blue Ridge Mountains Shenandoah National Park Skyland Skyline Drive Apple Butter Festival Saturday at Skyland

Saturday, September 21. Come to Skyland as the staff sets up the copper kettles and stokes up the fire for a day of apple boiling. Watch th...

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The Typical Retail Trade Employee's Near Miss

The following chart shows the 12-month moving average of weekly hours worked by production and nonsupervisory retail trade employees.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_gGX16Onn9kDm3Zc5cweIEQEsGOwgfSarDJ5udgue4jIcJIT1M3JcqBujhalq3NX3oMu_uZW4K9Iq2pRyERvVVVwV_6Z-sM6isM0qizENRvJJAURHo48qAwd2MufAlrew9HCQ-bObGUc/s1600/The+Typical+Retail+Trade+Employee%27s+Near+Miss.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_gGX16Onn9kDm3Zc5cweIEQEsGOwgfSarDJ5udgue4jIcJIT1M3JcqBujhalq3NX3oMu_uZW4K9Iq2pRyERvVVVwV_6Z-sM6isM0qizENRvJJAURHo48qAwd2MufAlrew9HCQ-bObGUc/s320/The+Typical+Retail+Trade+Employee%27s+Near+Miss.jpg" /></a><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;">Click to enlarge.</span><br /><br />This is your captain. I have good news and bad news.<br /><br />First, the good news. Although it appeared to be a sure thing, I am pleased to report that we averted the disaster of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Near_miss_%28safety%29">hitting the median</a>. The plane stalled just in the nick of time.<br /><br />Now, the bad news. Similar to the period from 2003 to 2009, we are once again screaming towards the ground again. Please assume crash positions.<br /><br /><b>See Also:</b><br /><a href="http://news-these-days.blogspot.com/2010/06/sarcasm-disclaimer.html">Sarcasm Disclaimer</a><br /><br /><b>Source Data:</b><br /><a href="http://www.bls.gov/data/#employment">BLS: Employment</a>

The Typical Retail Trade Employee's Near Miss

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Red Lobster in Mourning (Musical Tribute)

<b>September 20, 2013</b><br /><a href="http://finance.yahoo.com/news/revamps-olive-garden-red-lobster-140839710.html">Revamps for Olive Garden, Red Lobster fall flat</a><br /><br /><div style="color: #666666;"><i>Despite the moves, sales fell 4 percent at Olive Garden restaurants open at least a year in the latest quarter. The figure was down 5.2 percent at Red Lobster, where the company added more non-seafood options to attract a broader audience. Darden has blamed its troubles on a variety of factors, including more cautious spending by consumers.</i></div><br />Red Lobster at night<br />Investor's delight<br />Red Lobster in mourning<br />Investor's warning<br /><br /><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/HXfc7VMyj94" width="420"></iframe><br /><br />This post inspired by Watchtower in the comments found <a href="http://news-these-days.blogspot.com/2013/09/real-retail-and-food-services-sales-per.html">here</a>.<br /><br /><b>See Also:</b><br /><a href="http://www.loc.gov/rr/scitech/mysteries/weather-sailor.html">Is the old adage “Red sky at night, sailor’s delight. Red sky in morning, sailor’s warning” true, or is it just an old wives’ tale?</a>

Red Lobster in Mourning (Musical Tribute)

September 20, 2013 Revamps for Olive Garden, Red Lobster fall flat Despite the moves, sales fell 4 percent at Olive Garden restaurants open ...

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Peak Covered Employment per Capita

<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLdXg_OiZCQKqYuWKgAGZSFAZKnXEsN8D8lEgtE8Vd0a2ME4p5wPq5j7IQLqidi40GBSkA2lsYj3lPJoDftJoRz_X7l6fl6YsK6VXo8YxiXD5X23dcvxHnbImxycfTACm4IHM8qxiqECQ/s1600/Covered+Employment+per+Capita.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLdXg_OiZCQKqYuWKgAGZSFAZKnXEsN8D8lEgtE8Vd0a2ME4p5wPq5j7IQLqidi40GBSkA2lsYj3lPJoDftJoRz_X7l6fl6YsK6VXo8YxiXD5X23dcvxHnbImxycfTACm4IHM8qxiqECQ/s320/Covered+Employment+per+Capita.jpg" /></a><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;">Click to enlarge.</span><br /><br />How can any rational person look at that chart and only see <a href="http://www.thefreedictionary.com/optimism">the best possible outcome</a>?<br /><br />As a side note, we're currently being pulled down and away from the long-term parabolic trend by the 41% reading in July.<br /><br /><b>Update:</b><br /><br />Here's a chart of the raw data so you can see where we currently are relative to the long-term trend.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-QK6YrZLR6aLOOxlWrLB9j8UZpUay9PVkJNGKzoz8RjVzPURWsA6s74Q6fnG8NEu9as1lrO34lCu2jopjsKwY3em3Df0ByPEOg4_wW9OBclpRjOwSwSFD45ZUmApZGh7SuGy9InDd564/s1600/Covered+Employment+per+Capita+v.2.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-QK6YrZLR6aLOOxlWrLB9j8UZpUay9PVkJNGKzoz8RjVzPURWsA6s74Q6fnG8NEu9as1lrO34lCu2jopjsKwY3em3Df0ByPEOg4_wW9OBclpRjOwSwSFD45ZUmApZGh7SuGy9InDd564/s320/Covered+Employment+per+Capita+v.2.jpg" /></a><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;">Click to enlarge.</span><br /><br /><b>Source Data:</b><br /><a href="http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/graph/?g=mBx">St. Louis Fed: Custom Chart</a>

Peak Covered Employment per Capita

Click to enlarge. How can any rational person look at that chart and only see the best possible outcome ? As a side note, we're currentl...

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Railroad Teamsters strike Wheeling & Lake Erie Railway today

More than 100 members of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen (BLET) today struck the Wheeling and Lake Erie Railway (WLE). The railroad is trying to run trains with one operator even after the recent Lac-Megantic tragedy that killed 47 people.<br /><br />Picket lines were posted at seven primary WLE terminals in Ohio and Pennsylvania, shutting down the railroad’s entire operation.<br /><br />General Chairman Bob Linsey said they were forced to strike to defend their contracts. The railroad,<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">...has used management officials to perform the work of bargaining unit employees, namely locomotive engineers and conductors. In defiance of the union’s warnings, the carrier has also recently ignored longstanding crew consist agreements and operated single-person operations in an effort to eliminate trainmen.</blockquote>The WLE outright admitted that it has no right to run the railroad that way. It made proposals at the bargaining table to lift the restrictions on single-person operations and letting management do the work of conductors and locomotive engineers.<br /><br />BLET national President Dennis R. Pierce blasted WLE for its actions, saying the WLE loaned money to the Montreal, Maine and Atlantic, which declared bankruptcy after <a href="http://bangordailynews.com/2013/08/22/business/trustee-named-to-oversee-montreal-maine-and-atlantic-railway-during-bankruptcy/?ref=latest" rel="nofollow">one of its trains rolled driverless down a hill and derailed in Lac Megantic, Quebec</a>. The explosion killed 47 people. Pierce said,<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">The WLE bankrolled Ed Burkhardt’s failed one-person operation on the Montreal, Maine and Atlantic to the tune of a $25 million loan, so this doesn’t come as much of a surprise. When General Chairman Linsey asked for strike authorization on behalf of our members, the stakes involved made this a fairly easy decision for me to make. It is clear that WLE’s actions are in outright defiance of its obligations, a major dispute in and of itself. BLET will not idly stand by and allow this totally unsafe abrogation of its collectively bargained agreements.</blockquote>Pierce said Republican and Democratic members of Congress sponsored a bill — H.R. 3040, the Safe Freight Act — requiring at least two crew members on all freight trains in the nation. He called on the House leadership to move forward with the legislation.

BLET railroad strike Railroad Teamsters strike Wheeling & Lake Erie Railway today

More than 100 members of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen (BLET) today struck the Wheeling and Lake Erie Railway (WLE). ...

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Today's archidose #707

Here are some photos of the Cultural Center "SDK" (2013) in Warsaw, Poland, by <a href="http://www.wwaa.pl/">WWAA</a> and <a href="http://137kilo.pl/">137kilo</a>, photographed by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/wojtekgurak/">Wojtek Gurak</a>.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/wojtekgurak/9796374653/" title="Służewski Dom Kultury by Wojtek Gurak, on Flickr"><img alt="Służewski Dom Kultury" height="427" src="http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5475/9796374653_ccd1fe2ede_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/wojtekgurak/9796296535/" title="Służewski Dom Kultury by Wojtek Gurak, on Flickr"><img alt="Służewski Dom Kultury" height="427" src="http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3755/9796296535_81679ecb51_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/wojtekgurak/9781742551/" title="Służewski Dom Kultury by Wojtek Gurak, on Flickr"><img alt="Służewski Dom Kultury" height="427" src="http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3740/9781742551_73d7f2c4be_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/wojtekgurak/9781948996/" title="Służewski Dom Kultury by Wojtek Gurak, on Flickr"><img alt="Służewski Dom Kultury" height="427" src="http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3767/9781948996_0ea287669c_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/wojtekgurak/9781948326/" title="Służewski Dom Kultury by Wojtek Gurak, on Flickr"><img alt="Służewski Dom Kultury" height="427" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7320/9781948326_5269e4752b_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br /><br />To contribute your Flickr images for consideration, just:<br /><blockquote>:: Join and add photos to the <a href="http://www.flickr.com/groups/archi-dose/">archidose pool</a>, and/or<br />:: Tag your photos <span style="font-style: italic;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/archidose/">archidose</a></span></blockquote>

Today's archidose #707

Here are some photos of the Cultural Center "SDK" (2013) in Warsaw, Poland, by WWAA and 137kilo , photographed by Wojtek Gurak . ...

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