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var createSongRow = function (songNumber, songName, songLength) {

	var template =
        '
'
		  + '  ' + songNumber + '	'
      + '  ' + songName + '	'
      + '  ' + filterTimeCode(songLength) + '	'
      + '
';

	var $row = $(template); // turns the template into a jquery object

	var clickHandler = function () {
	// when user clicks on a song...

		var songNumber = parseInt($(this).attr('data-song-number'));

		if (currentlyPlayingSongNumber !== null) { // if we already had a song playing
			var currentlyPlayingCell = $('.song-item-number[data-song-number="' + currentlyPlayingSongNumber + '"]');
			currentlyPlayingCell.html(currentlyPlayingSongNumber);
		}

		if (currentlyPlayingSongNumber !== songNumber) { // if the currently playing song is not the song we just clicked
			$(this).html(pauseButtonTemplate);
			setSong(songNumber - 1);
			currentSoundFile.play();
			updateSeekBarWhileSongPlays()

			var $volumeFill = $('.volume .fill');
			var $volumeThumb = $('.volume .thumb');
			$volumeFill.width(currentVolume + '%');
			$volumeThumb.css({left: currentVolume + '%'});

			updatePlayerBarSong();

		} else if (currentlyPlayingSongNumber === songNumber) { // if the currently playing song is the song we just clicked
			if (currentSoundFile.isPaused()) { // if the song was paused
				$(this).html(pauseButtonTemplate);
				$('.left-controls .play-pause').html(playerBarPauseButton);
				currentSoundFile.play();
				updateSeekBarWhileSongPlays()
			}
			else { // if the song was playing
				$(this).html(playButtonTemplate);
				$('.left-controls .play-pause').html(playerBarPlayButton);
				currentSoundFile.pause();
			} // ends else statement
		} // ends initial if statement

	}; // ends clickhandler

	// when we hover over a song...
	var onHover = function (event) {
		var songNumberCell = $(this).find('.song-item-number');
		var songNumber = parseInt(songNumberCell.attr('data-song-number')); // Bloc's refactor
		// if it's not already playing, we show the Play button
		if (songNumber !== currentlyPlayingSongNumber) {
			songNumberCell.html(playButtonTemplate);
		}
	}; // ends onHover

	// when we nav away a song we were just hovering over...
	var offHover = function (event) {
		var songNumberCell = $(this).find('.song-item-number');
		var songNumber = parseInt(songNumberCell.attr('data-song-number')); // Bloc's refactor
		// if it's not the currently playing song we just show the song # again.
		if (songNumber !== currentlyPlayingSongNumber) {
			songNumberCell.html(songNumber);
		}
	}; // ends offHover

	// instantiates all the methods written above
	$row.find('.song-item-number').click(clickHandler);
	$row.hover(onHover, offHover);

	return $row;

}; // ends createSongRow!

// creates the album object using data from fixtures.js
var setCurrentAlbum = function (album) {

	currentAlbum = album;

 	// captures all of the album info & converts it to jQuery objects
	var $albumTitle = $('.album-view-title');
	var $albumArtist = $('.album-view-artist');
	var $albumReleaseInfo = $('.album-view-release-info');
	var $albumImage = $('.album-cover-art');
	var $albumSongList = $('.album-view-song-list');

	$albumTitle.text(album.name);
	$albumArtist.text(album.artist);
	$albumReleaseInfo.text(album.year + ' ' + album.label);
	$albumImage.attr('src', album.albumArtUrl);

	$albumSongList.empty(); // instantiating an empty song list

	 // Build list of songs from album JavaScript object
	for (i = 0; i < album.songs.length; i++) {
		var $newRow = createSongRow(i + 1, album.songs[i].name, album.songs[i].length);
		$albumSongList.append($newRow);
		// filling out the song list
	}

}; // ends setCurrentAlbum

var updateSeekBarWhileSongPlays = function () {
	if (currentSoundFile) {
		currentSoundFile.bind('timeupdate', function(event) {
			var seekBarFillRatio = this.getTime() / this.getDuration();
			var $seekBar = $('.seek-control .seek-bar');

			updateSeekPercentage($seekBar, seekBarFillRatio);
			setCurrentTimeInPlayerBar(this.getTime());

		});
	}
};

var updateSeekPercentage = function($seekBar, seekBarFillRatio) {

	var offsetXPercent = seekBarFillRatio * 100;
	offsetXPercent = Math.max(0, offsetXPercent);
	offsetXPercent = Math.min(100, offsetXPercent);

	var percentageString = offsetXPercent + '%';

	$seekBar.find('.fill').width(percentageString);
	$seekBar.find('.thumb').css({left: percentageString});

 }; // ends updateSeekPercentage

var setupSeekBars = function() {

	var $seekBars = $('.player-bar .seek-bar');

	$seekBars.click(function(event) {

		var offsetX = event.pageX - $(this).offset().left;
		var barWidth = $(this).width();
		var seekBarFillRatio = offsetX / barWidth;

		if ($(this).parent().attr('class') == 'seek-control') {
			seek(seekBarFillRatio * currentSoundFile.getDuration());
		} else {
			setVolume(seekBarFillRatio * 100);
		}

		updateSeekPercentage($(this), seekBarFillRatio);

	});

	$seekBars.find('.thumb').mousedown(function(event) {

		var $seekBar = $(this).parent();

		$(document).bind('mousemove.thumb', function(event){
			var offsetX = event.pageX - $seekBar.offset().left;
			var barWidth = $seekBar.width();
			var seekBarFillRatio = offsetX / barWidth;

			if ($seekBar.parent().attr('class') == 'seek-control') {
				seek(seekBarFillRatio * currentSoundFile.getDuration());
			} else {
				setVolume(seekBarFillRatio);
			}

			updateSeekPercentage($seekBar, seekBarFillRatio);
		});

		$(document).bind('mouseup.thumb', function() {
			$(document).unbind('mousemove.thumb');
			$(document).unbind('mouseup.thumb');
		});
	});

}; // ends setupSeekBars

// simple method for returning the index of a song within an album
var trackIndex = function (album, song) {
	return album.songs.indexOf(song);
};

// checkpoint 32 assignment - function to retrieve the song number cell
var getSongNumberCell = function (number) {

	return $('.song-item-number[data-song-number="' + number + '"]'); // brackets allow you to select attributes of a specific kind
};

// sets song and instantiates music
var setSong = function (number) {
	if (currentSoundFile) {
		currentSoundFile.stop();
	}

	currentlyPlayingSongNumber = parseInt(number + 1);
	currentSongFromAlbum = currentAlbum.songs[number];

	currentSoundFile = new buzz.sound(currentSongFromAlbum.audioUrl, {
         formats: [ 'mp3' ],
         preload: true
	});

setVolume(currentVolume);

}; // ends setSong

var seek = function(time) {
	// allows user to scroll to a different part of the song
	if (currentSoundFile) {
		currentSoundFile.setTime(time);
	}

}

 var setVolume = function(volume) {

     if (currentSoundFile) {
         currentSoundFile.setVolume(volume);
     }

 }; // ends setVolume

// updates the player bar per the current song being played
var updatePlayerBarSong = function () {

    $('.currently-playing .song-name').text(currentSongFromAlbum.name);
    $('.currently-playing .artist-name').text(currentAlbum.artist);
    $('.currently-playing .artist-song-mobile').text(currentSongFromAlbum.name + " - " + currentAlbum.artist);
		$('.left-controls .play-pause').html(playerBarPauseButton);
		setTotalTimeInPlayerBar(currentSongFromAlbum.length);

};

// ALbum button templates
var playButtonTemplate = '';
var pauseButtonTemplate = '';

var playerBarPlayButton = '';
var playerBarPauseButton = '';

 // Store state of playing songs
var currentAlbum = null;
var currentlyPlayingSongNumber = null;
var currentSongFromAlbum = null
var currentSoundFile = null;
var currentVolume = 80;

 // Player bar element selectors
var $previousButton = $('.left-controls .previous');
var $nextButton = $('.left-controls .next');

// function for user to skip to the next song in the list using the player bar button
var nextSong = function () {

var indexOfNextSong = trackIndex(currentAlbum, currentSongFromAlbum) + 1;

if (indexOfNextSong >= currentAlbum.songs.length) {
	indexOfNextSong = 0;
}

    var getLastSongNumber = function (index) {
        return index === 0 ? currentAlbum.songs.length : index;
			};

    var currentSongIndex = trackIndex(currentAlbum, currentSongFromAlbum);
    // Incrementing the index
    currentSongIndex++;

    if (currentSongIndex >= currentAlbum.songs.length) {
			currentSongIndex = 0;
    }

    // Set a new current song
	setSong(indexOfNextSong);
	currentSoundFile.play();
	updateSeekBarWhileSongPlays();

    // Update the Player Bar information
	updatePlayerBarSong();

		// updates all the pertinent variables
    var lastSongNumber = getLastSongNumber(currentSongIndex);
    var $nextSongNumberCell = getSongNumberCell(currentlyPlayingSongNumber);
    var $lastSongNumberCell = getSongNumberCell(lastSongNumber);

    $nextSongNumberCell.html(pauseButtonTemplate);
    $lastSongNumberCell.html(lastSongNumber);

	}; // ends nextSong

// function for user to skip to the previous song in the list using the player bar button
var previousSong = function () {

    // Note the difference between this implementation and the one in nextSong()
    var getLastSongNumber = function (index) {
        return index === (currentAlbum.songs.length - 1) ? 1 : index + 2;
			};

    var currentSongIndex = trackIndex(currentAlbum, currentSongFromAlbum);
    // Decrementing the index
    currentSongIndex--;

    if (currentSongIndex < 0) {
			currentSongIndex = currentAlbum.songs.length - 1;
    }

    // Set a new current song
	setSong(currentSongIndex);
//	currentlyPlayingSongNumber = currentSongIndex + 1;
//	currentSongFromAlbum = currentAlbum.songs[currentSongIndex];

		// Play the current sound file
	currentSoundFile.play();
	updateSeekBarWhileSongPlays();

    // Update the Player Bar information
    updatePlayerBarSong();

    // updates all the pertinent variables
		var lastSongNumber = getLastSongNumber(currentSongIndex);
		var $previousSongNumberCell = getSongNumberCell(currentlyPlayingSongNumber);
		var $lastSongNumberCell = getSongNumberCell(lastSongNumber);

	$previousSongNumberCell.html(pauseButtonTemplate);
	$lastSongNumberCell.html(lastSongNumber);

}; // ends previousSong

var playerBarButton = $('.player-bar .play-pause'); // holds play-pause button

// checkpoint 33 assignment
var togglePlayFromPlayerBar = function (playerBarItem) { // will only get called when you click on the play/pause button

	var currentlyPlayingCell = $('.song-item-number[data-song-number="' + currentlyPlayingSongNumber + '"]'); // clone of what's in clickHandler(); this makes it work, but we shouldn't repeat ourselves - check with John about a refactor

	if (currentSoundFile == null) { // if no song is playing at all

		$('.left-controls .play-pause').html(playerBarPlayButton);
	}

	else if (currentSoundFile.isPaused()) { // if song is paused
		currentlyPlayingCell.html(pauseButtonTemplate); // change song number cell from play to pause
		$('.left-controls .play-pause').html(playerBarPauseButton); // change HTML of player bar's play button to a pause button
		currentSoundFile.play(); // play the song
		updateSeekBarWhileSongPlays()
	}

	else { // if song is playing
			currentlyPlayingCell.html(playButtonTemplate); // change song number cell from pause to play
		$('.left-controls .play-pause').html(playerBarPlayButton); // change HTML of player bar's pause button to a play button
		currentSoundFile.pause();
	}

};

var playerBarClickHandler = function ()
{
	togglePlayFromPlayerBar($(this));
}

var filterTimeCode = function (timeInSeconds) {

	timeInSeconds = Math.floor(Number.parseFloat(timeInSeconds));

	var minutes = Math.floor(timeInSeconds / 60);
	var seconds = (timeInSeconds % 60);

	return minutes + ":" + seconds;

}

var setCurrentTimeInPlayerBar = function (currentTime) {

	$('.current-time').html(filterTimeCode(currentTime));

}

var setTotalTimeInPlayerBar = function (totalTime) {

	$('.total-time').html(filterTimeCode(totalTime));

}

// when document loads, set up the album
$(document).ready(function () {

	setCurrentAlbum(albumPicasso);
	$previousButton.click(previousSong);
	$nextButton.click(nextSong);
	$('.left-controls .play-pause').html(playerBarPlayButton); // by default it starts as a play button
	playerBarButton.click(playerBarClickHandler); // click event for togglePlayFromPlayerBar
	setupSeekBars();

});


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Toby Alderweireld, Kyle Walker, Dele Alli and Kane himself are transfer targets for important clubs. Kane says he would be surprised if the transfers did take place. "We're a family on and off the pitch. We work so hard as a group and the staff, the manager… look, there's not many better teams to be at around the world at the moment," Kane said.
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Discussion in 'Guitars in General' started by Shamus, Oct 15, 2008.
Esquire owners are often remarking on how much heavier a tone they get from one bridge pickup.
I hear the same argument from LP junior owners vs. Special owners.
Educate me on this. I have played vintage specials and a few choice teles. I have not played a vintage Junior or Esquire. With this being said, the obvious difference between both sets of guitars is that the factory omitted the neck route & pups - is this fair to say?
If that is the only "real" difference, then why is there such fervent claims about tonal differences. What would cause said tonal variations with such a small change in wood content?
Again, I mean not to provoke any owners. I simply want to understand both the science and tonal characteristics of both Junior and Esquires vs. their 2 pickup counterparts - specifically in the bridge postions of the two pup guitars.
Good question. I, too, will be interested in the responses.
i don't know that i get a heavier tone from my esquire compared to my tele on bridge p/u. would have a lot to do with p/u you have in there, but i would imagine, the even more simple wiring could add some thickness to the tone perhaps?
for me the beauty of the esquire is it's simplicity and "limitations" of one p/u. It forces me to just play, not tinker or switch all the time (one of the main reaosns I don't own a strat). That one p/u definitely CAN get heavy though if you want it.
The LP Jr is not routed for a neck pickup, but the Esquire is routed the same as a Telecaster. Thus, differences between the Esq and Tele cannot be attributed to different routing of the wood. Many people talk about the absence of neck pickup string pull as contributing to the Esquire tone, but I'm not sure how significant that really is. However, there is a real difference in the wiring of the vintage Esq and Tele circuits that leads to different tonal options between the two.
I don't really know why a LP Jr sounds different from a LP Special bridge pickup, but it sounds different enough on average to make me prefer the Jr.


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Maybach, startade som ett pionjärsbolag inom bilindustrin som gått från att tillverka bilar och motorer fram till slutet av andra världskriget till att nu ingå som en del i Daimlerkoncernen. Koncernen använder varumärket för att marknadsföra sina mest exklusiva bilar, märket kan i prestige närmast jämföras med Rolls-Royce.

Historia

Grundandet
Maybach skapades av Wilhelm Maybach som precis som Carl Benz och Gottlieb Daimler tillhörde bilindustrins pionjärer i Tyskland. Maybach arbetade tillsammans med Gottlieb Daimler och låg bakom flera av företagets modeller och motorer. Maybach var bl.a. med vid utvecklingen av företagets första historiska bil. Det finns alltså gamla band mellan Maybach och Mercedes-Benz som legat i grunden för dagens utveckling av märket.

Maybach-Motorenbau GmbH
År 1909 valde Wilhelm att starta Maybach-Motorenbau GmbH för att tillverka flygmotorer tillsammans med Ferdinand Graf von Zeppelin. Maybach flyttade senare produktionen till Friedrichshafen där tillverkningen av lyxbilar startade. Han startade tillverkningen tillsammans med sin son Karl Maybach. Fram till andra världskriget var Maybach ett prestigemärke i samma klass som Mercedes-Benz. Få av bilarna från denna tid finns bevarande. En av orsakerna är att en stor del av dem användes i kriget och helt enkelt gick åt när de gick skytteltrafik mellan krigsskådeplatser. Under andra världskriget byggde företaget huvudsakligen motorer till stridsvagnar, så som Tiger I, Tiger II och Panther, samt marinmotorer. Biltillverkningen upphörde helt efter kriget och man koncentrerade sig på tillverkningen av dieselmotorer för industribruk, främst lok och båtar. En del av Sveriges kärnkraftverk har Maybach industrimotorer som nödaggregat för sin elförsörjning. Bolaget köptes upp av Daimler-Benz 1960. Under 1966 slogs bolaget ihop med Daimler-Benz tillverkning av tunga dieslar, 1969 bytte det nya bolaget namn till MTU.

Maybach i modern tid
Mercedes-Benz hade länge tankar om att återuppliva märket Maybach och bolaget Maybach-Manufaktur. I och med lanseringen av Maybach 57 2002 hade man tagit Maybach tillbaka till strålkastarljuset. Stora lanseringar ägde rum runt hela världen där lyxbilsköparna skulle upptäcka det nygamla märket. Den mest spektakulära var i New York dit den skeppades med Queen Elisabeth II och sen lyftes i land med helikopter, till själva lanseringslokalen tog den sig med egen motor.
Maybach gjorde också att Mercedes-Benz valde att lägga ner tillverkningen av den specialtillverkade förlängda versionen av Mercedes-Benz S-klass (600 Pullman).

Märkets framtida existens ifrågasattes 2008 av ägaren Daimlers VD, Dr. Dieter Zetsche<ref name=maybach-slutet.

Dagens bilprogram

 Maybach 57 (2002-)
 Maybach 62 (2004-)
 Maybach 57S
 Maybach 62S
 Maybach Landaulet (Limousine-Cabriolet)
 Maybach Zeppelin (Limited Edition, tillverkas i 100 exemplar)

Historiska bilmodeller

 1919 Maybach W1: Testbil baserad på chassi från Mercedes
 1921 Maybach W3: Första Maybach, visades på Berlin Motor Show. Hade en 71hk rak sexa på 5,7l.
 1926 Maybach W5: 7L rak sexa på 122hk
 1929 Maybach 12: V12 föregångare till DS7/8
 1930 Maybach DSH: Doppel-Sechs-Halbe 1930-37
 1930 Maybach Zeppelin DS7: 7L V12, 152hk
 1931 Maybach W6: Samma motor som W5, längre axelavstånd. 1931-33
 1931 Maybach Zeppelin DS8: 8L V12, 203hk
 1934 Maybach W6 DSG
 1935 Maybach SW35: 3,5l 142hk
 1936 Maybach SW38: 3,8l 142hk
 1939 Maybach SW42: 4,2l 142hk
 1945 Maybach JW61: 3,8l 147hk

Cirka 1800 st Maybach byggdes före andra världskriget.

Historiska motorer

De olika bokstavskombinationerna i beteckningar står för:
 NL =
 HL = Hochleistungsmotor, högprestandamotor
 P = Panzermotor, stridsvagnsmotor

Utställningar
 Gamla Maybachmodeller finns bl.a. på Zeppelin-museet i Friedrichshafen.
 En HL230 P30 med växellåda finns på Musée des Blindés i Saumur.
 En HL230 P30 finns på Pansarmuseet i Axvall. Motorn är från en Tiger II som Sverige köpte från Frankrike 1947.

Källor

Se även
 Mercedes-Benz
 MTU Friedrichshafen

Externa länkar
 Maybach officiella webbplats
 Zeppelin museum Friedrichshafen
 Musée des Blindés

Företag bildade 1909
Mercedes-Benz
Tyska fordonstillverkare
Tyska biltillverkare
Fordonsmärken tillhörande Daimler AG

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May 7, 2012 Posted by defensebaseactcomp | Afghanistan, Civilian Contractors, Contingency Contracting, Contractor Corruption, Contractor Oversight, Follow the Money, Halliburton, Human Trafficking, Iraq, KBR, Politics	| Commission on Wartime Contracting, David Isenberg, Foreign Workers, Human Trafficking, KBR, Modern Day Slavers, POBO, Project on Government Oversight, TCN's, Vinnie Tuivaga | 1 Comment
Africans in Afghanistan: When War Zones Become Lands of Opportunity
Thousands of skilled workers from Africa are willingly facing danger in remote areas of Afghanistan for high-paying jobs supporting coalition troops.
Think Africa Press April 26, 2012
Beyond the primal beauty of the Southern Afghanistan desert lies the unknown for newcomers, military and civilians alike. Sand and rocks spread further across that vast sea of sparsely inhabited nothingness than the eye can see. For the troops stationed in the Helmand province, the unknown coupled with the deserted surroundings speak danger.
This infamous province – a Taliban stronghold and site of frequent fighting between insurgents and NATO troops during the now 10-year-old Afghan War – has been welcoming a new breed of visitors: former soldiers turned personnel security providers, carpenters, electricians, plumbers, engineers, cashiers, information technology experts, mine specialists, or finance and administration officers. Many are Africans, who constitute the bulk of migrant workers in the area, along with civilian personnel from Eastern Europe (Ukraine, Croatia, Bosnia), and Asia (India, Philippines).
Outsourced wars, outsourced workers
The increased military presence of the US, EU and other countries involved in the UN-mandated International Security Assistance Force after 2009 resulted in a major shift in roles. As the overextended military focused on taming a local insurgency, tasks that were once the exclusive domain of trained military personnel started to be offered to civilian skilled workers. Civilians contractors came to provide the workforces necessary to maintain and run dining facilities, Morale Welfare and Recreation centres, military berthing, and equipment repair and replenishment shops.
Ethiopian Henok Tessema, 33, now lodging in the civilian section of a Helmand Province military installation, made his way to Afghanistan following a routine online job search. Tessema had been juggling four part-time positions working as a financial administrator and accountant in Harar, and saw the vacancy at the Central Asia Development Group as an opportunity to consolidate four part-time positions into a single one.
April 26, 2012 Posted by defensebaseactcomp | Afghanistan, Africa, Civilian Contractors, Human Trafficking, ISAF, Private Military Contractors, Private Security Contractor	| African workers, Central Asia Development Group, ISAF, NATO, Private Security Contractors, PSC's, TCN's | Leave a comment
GOP, Dems come together to fight human trafficking by contractors in Iraq, Afghanistan
A bipartisan group of members from the House and Senate proposed legislation on Monday that seeks to crack down on human trafficking by contractors that the U.S. military hires for work in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The End Trafficking in Government Contracting Act is a reaction to reports from the Commission on Wartime Contracting and the inspectors general of the Defense and State departments that overseas contractors are known to engage in practices that are illegal under U.S. employee rights standards. These include seizing workers' passports to trap them at a work site, lying about compensation, engaging in sexual abuse and generally keeping workers in a state of indentured servitude.
Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), the lead Senate sponsor of the bill, said the legislation would help improve the treatment of third-country workers who are lured to work in Iraq and Afghanistan only to be defrauded or enslaved.
"Modern-day slavery by government contractors — unknowingly funded by American taxpayers — is unconscionable and intolerable," Blumenthal said. "Current law prohibiting human trafficking is insufficient and ineffective, failing to prevent or punish abuses
Blumenthal's bill, S. 2234, is also co-sponsored by Sens. Susan Collins (R-Maine), Al Franken (D-Minn.), Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.), Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) and Rob Portman (R-Ohio).
The House companion bill, H.R. 4259, was sponsored by Rep. James Lankford (R-Okla.), and is co-sponsored by House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) and Reps. Gerry Connolly (D-Va.), Elijah Cummings (D-Md.) and Chris Smith (R-N.J.).
Issa's committee is scheduled to hold a hearing on the bill Tuesday morning at 10 a.m., with Blumenthal and Portman expected to testify on the bill at that time
March 28, 2012 Posted by defensebaseactcomp | Civilian Contractors, Contractor Oversight, Government Contractor, Human Trafficking, Wartime Contracting	| Commission on Wartime Contracting, Darrell Issa, End Trafficking in Government Contracting Act, HR 4259, Rep Chris Smith, Rep Elijah Cummings, Rep Gerry Connolly, Rep James Lankford, Sen Al Franken, Sen Claire McCaskill, Sen Joe Lieberman, Sen Richard Blumenthal, Sen Rob Portman, Sen Susan Collins | Leave a comment
Appeal Won't Interrupt Nepali 'Slavery' Case
Courthouse News March 7, 2012
HOUSTON (CN) – A contractor accused of trafficking Nepali laborers into Iraq to staff Al Asad Air Base cannot seek an interim appeal, a federal judge ruled.
In a 2008 federal RICO complaint, Nepali families claimed that U.S. military contractors duped 13 men into indentured servitude in Iraq.
With promises of a $500 monthly salary, many of the men believed they would be working at a luxury hotel in Jordan. But they later learned that they were actually on their way to Al Asad Air Base in Iraq, according to the complaint. At that point, the large brokerage fees they owed allegedly kept the men from turning back for home.
Insurgents from the Ansar al-Sunna Army captured 12 of the men in August 2004 as they traveled in the front of an unsecured 17-car caravan along the Amman-to-Baghdad highway in Iraq's Anbar province, the families say. The 13th man, Buddi Prasad Gurung, was in a separate car and evaded capture, according to the complaint.
When the insurgents executed the captives, international news stations aired the footage of their deaths, reaching the men's families in Nepal, according to the complaint.
The lawsuit against the military contractors, Daoud & Partners and Kellogg Brown & Root (KBR), was removed from the Central District of California to the Southern District of Texas.
On Dec. 12, 2011, U.S. District Judge Keith Ellison dismissed some of the claims against Daoud from the families, as well as some of the cross-claims that the company faced from KBR.
The 48-page order upheld personal jurisdiction over Daoud, but dismissed negligence and false-imprisonment claims by Gurung, the lone survivor
March 7, 2012 Posted by defensebaseactcomp | Civilian Contractors, Contractor Corruption, Contractors Held, Human Trafficking, KBR, Lawsuits, Legal Jurisdictions	| Al Asad, Buddi Prasad Gurung, Daoud and Partners, Indentured Servitude, KBR, RICO | Leave a comment
The DynCorp "See No Evil" Monkey
by David Isenberg at Huffington Post and The PMSC Observer
On January 30 I wrote a post regarding sexual violence by private contractors. Though the most flagrant instances have occurred in the past, it is still a problem.
Although I was not singling out any company in particular I did mention DynCorp because it served as the inspiration for the movie The Whistleblower that came out last year. This relates to the infamous cases of sex trafficking and slavery in Bosnia back in the Balkan wars of the nineties.
Okay, stuff happens. Although other things have happened with DynCorp, more specifically the DynCorp International division, over the years, it is a big company and employs lots of people. One should not tar every company with the sins of a past employee.
As big corporations go DynCorp, in my limited experience, is very decent. Full disclosure: years ago, I worked three years for one of its arms control units, not DynCorp International, and found the people there highly professional and very ethical.
Still, my past post evidently did not go down well at DynCorp HQ. I was emailed a response by one of their vice presidents taking me to task for my presumed sins. At the request of the Business & Human Rights Resource Centre in London, which had listed my post in their weekly update, they emailed a similar response to them.
I fully understand that DynCorp wants to put the best possible face on this issue but I feel its response is a little too self-serving so let me just do some parsing of some of its statement.
With regard to the movie it writes,
'The Whistleblower' centers on allegations of human trafficking, a serious crime and global problem. Although the Company was never contacted by the filmmakers to obtain even a basic description of past work in Bosnia, to fact-check allegations or to obtain our position on these issues, when the Company reached out to the representatives for the filmmakers to gain more information about the movie, we were informed that the film, in the distributor's words, 'is a fictionalized, dramatic presentation.
I realize that in times long past it was popular to kill the messenger but that is supposedly out of fashion nowadays. DynCorp seems to think the filmmaker, who is Larysa Kondracki, had an obligation to contact them to get their spin. She did not…..
Please continue to Huff Post to read the entire post
February 10, 2012 Posted by defensebaseactcomp | Balkans, Civilian Contractors, Contractor Oversight, DynCorp, Human Trafficking, NATO, Safety and Security Issues, Sexual Assault, Vetting Employees	| David Isenberg, DynCorp, Human Trafficking, Sexual Violence, The Whistleblower | Leave a comment
More DoD Investigations of Allegations of U.S. Contractor-Fueled Human Trafficking
By NICK SCHWELLENBACH at POGO January 26, 2012
It appears that Fiscal Year 2011 saw more Defense Department criminal investigations of alleged human trafficking by its contractor supply chain than in any one of the last five years, according to a Pentagon inspector general report publicly released today (it is dated January 17).
All three investigations involved or allegedly involved U.S. government contractors or subcontractors in Southwest Asia: Iraq, Kuwait and Afghanistan.
"While not criminal prosecutions, there have been some civil and administrative actions recently. Earlier this year, the Justice Department joined a whistleblower qui tam lawsuit that alleged that ArmorGroup North America had not reported trafficking-in-persons violations by its personnel as required by its contract. ArmorGroup North America, which had a contract to defend the U.S. Embassy in Kabul, settled the lawsuit for $7.5 million. ArmorGroup North America's parent company said in a statement that the settlement was made "to avoid costly and disruptive litigation—and that there has been no finding or admission of liability."
January 26, 2012 Posted by defensebaseactcomp | Afghanistan, Africa, ArmorGroup, Civilian Contractors, Contractor Oversight, Department of Defense, Human Trafficking, Legal Jurisdictions, State Department	| AGNA, ArmorGroup, ArmorGroup North America, Civilian Contractors, DoD, DoDIG, DODlG-20l2-041, G4S, Human Trafficking, Pentagon, POGO, US Embassy Kabul | Leave a comment
Evaluation of DOD Contracts Regarding Combating Trafficking in Persons: (Report No. DODlG-20l2-041)
Evaluation of DOD Contracts Regarding Combating Trafficking in Persons:
U.S. European Command and U.S. Africa Command
(Report No. DODlG-20l2-041)
January 26, 2012 Posted by defensebaseactcomp | Afghanistan, Africa, ArmorGroup, Civilian Contractors, Contractor Oversight, Department of Defense, Human Trafficking	| DoD Contracts, DoDIG, DODIG-2012-041, Human Trafficking, US Africa Command, US European Command | Leave a comment
Has the UN learned lessons of Bosnian sex slavery revealed in Rachel Weisz film?
The Whistleblower is a shocking film that reveals how Balkan peacekeepers turned a blind eye to kidnapping, torture and rape. But these abuses still go on
"Those girls are whores of war. It happens."
The Guardian January 14, 2012
We do not see the torture inflicted on one girl for trying to flee her captors, but we see the tears of her fellow slaves forced to watch. We see the iron bar tossed on to the cellar floor when the punishment is over, and we know what has happened.
The Whistleblower spares you little. It is a film about that most depraved of crimes: trafficking women for enslaved sex, rape and even murder.
As a dramatised portrayal of reality, however, The Whistleblower is "a day at the beach compared to what happened in real life", says its director, Larysa Kondracki. "We show what is just about permissible to show. We couldn't possibly include the three-week desensitisation period, when they burn the girls in particular places. We couldn't really capture the hopelessness of life these women are subjected to."
Starring Rachel Weisz, The Whistleblower, released tomorrow on DVD, is the most searing drama-documentary of recent years and has won many prizes. But more important than the accolades is that everything in the film is true. The film deals with enslavement and rape in Bosnia, not during wartime 20 years ago but during the peace. Worse, not only were the enslaved women's "clients" soldiers and police officers – so too were the traffickers, protected at the top of the United Nations operation in Bosnia
January 15, 2012 Posted by defensebaseactcomp | Balkans, Civilian Contractors, DynCorp, Human Trafficking, Rape, United Nations	| Balkan Peacekeepers, DynCorp, Kathryn Bolkovac, kidnapping, Murder, Rape, The Whistleblower, torture | 1 Comment
Lankford sounds alarm about human trafficking
The Edmond Sun November 17, 2011
EDMOND — The Department of Defense is allowing human trafficking to occur on military establishments by the tens of thousands, Congressman James Lankford said. Lankford said that he and others in Congress are trying to stop the abuse.
"We are holding people in debt bondage by the way we are doing our contracting in Iraq and Afghanistan," said Lankford, R-Edmond.
Lankford is chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Subcommittee on Information Policy, Intergovernmental Relations and Procurement Reform.
A human trafficking hearing led by Lankford in the House this month, questioned the Commission Overseas and Contingencies report. The report reveals human trafficking.
"I said this is a big issue," Lankford said. "While they didn't talk about it much, they basically said, 'Yes we are — the Department of Defense — allowing human trafficking to occur on our military establishments.'"
November 17, 2011 Posted by defensebaseactcomp | Afghanistan, Civilian Contractors, Contractor Corruption, Contractor Oversight, Department of Defense, Human Trafficking	| Afghanistan, Civilian Contractors, Congress, Human Trafficking, Iraq, James Lankford, TCN's | Leave a comment


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ElBaradei admits stalemate with Iran over nuclear program
VIENNA, September 7 (RIA Novosti) - The head of the United Nations nuclear watchdog said on Monday the organization had reached a "stalemate" with Iran over its nuclear program.
Addressing the 35-nation board of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Mohamed ElBaradei acknowledged that Tehran has improved cooperation with his agency only on control over activities at its main nuclear facility in Natanz and an IR-40 research reactor at Arak.
"On all other issues relevant to Iran's nuclear program, however, there is stalemate," ElBaradei told the IAEA board, adding that Iran continued to enrich uranium in defiance of three sets of UN sanctions.
Western powers suspect Iran's uranium enrichment is aimed at developing nuclear weapons. Tehran denies the allegation, saying its nuclear program is for electricity production only.
Mohamed ElBaradei again urged the Islamic Republic to clarify all outstanding issues in the dispute over its nuclear program and implement the provisions of the Additional Protocol to the Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT).
"It is essential that Iran substantively re-engage with the agency to clarify and bring to closure all outstanding issues," he said.
In July, the G8 countries urged Tehran to discuss by September trade benefits that could be offered in exchange for abandoning nuclear enrichment, to avoid harsher sanctions.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Monday his country would continue to work in the framework of global regulations and in close cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency, but ruled out talks on Iran's nuclear plans with the Iran Six - a group of international mediators comprising the United States, France, Britain, Russia, China and Germany.
Western powers seek harsher sanctions against the Islamic Republic if it does not agree to halt uranium enrichment. Russia and China, however, insist on diplomatic steps.


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Q: How to stack soul gems in my inventory to make the list smaller? I understand that some soul gems don't stack because of the size of the soul. You can't have a grand soul gem (petty) combine with a grand soul gem (grand). But sometimes my inventory has identical soul gems (with identical souls) that refuse to stack.
For example, my inventory looks like this:
Petty Soul Gem (Petty)
Petty Soul Gem (Petty) (13)

Now if I drop the 13 one, they actually drop as one soul gem, not 13 littering the floor. It's like arrows in a quiver.
My Stones of Barenziah do this too.
Can anyone tell me how to stack these into one lump?
Thanks!

A: You can't.
They have different values for selling, so they cannot be combined.

A: As already said they are different items type and cannot be combined in one lump. But if you play Skyrim on PC and you are not afraid of installing mods, there is an excellent mod called SkyUI that totally reworks how inventory is displayed and add useful features like dynamic search and so on.
Even if different soul gems cannot be combined together the result you will obtain with this mod should satisfy you enough to forgot about that problem.

A: You can NOT combine this into one lump as you desire.
This is because each soul has a different strength.
The ones that are stacked likely have identical souls in them, making them identical.
Whereas the rest, even though they fall in the same category, (petty) have different strengths.
The soul strength and soul gem used, cause different categories.

A: Soul gems do stack
Soul gems that you fill yourself will end up in individual stacks of one in your inventory, but they can be combined into a single stack by trading them to your companion and then taking them back. All soul gems you fill have the same resale value: that of an unfilled soul gem of the same grade.
You can't stack soul gems that you fill yourself with soul gems that are purchased pre-filled, because pre-filled soul gems have a higher resale value, perhaps because they've been sealed to prevent the soul from escaping when the soul gem is dropped on the ground.

A: Drop the smallest stack and pick it up one at a time. It'll merge them into a single stack.

A: Even if it has the same soul, it can't be put in stacks because of value.

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The Extraordinary Portrait of James Hackley
One of the colorful figures of Fort Wayne during the era of the military fort was Capt. James Hackley. Hackley served in the Third Infantry and had been stationed at Fort Dearborn (Chicago), where he became acquainted with Dr. William Turner, who would marry William Wells's daughter, Anne. Turner returned to Fort Wayne where he held several prominent posts, including for a time, Indian Agent.
Anne Wells's sister, Rebecca, became interested in Hackley after a cousin told her to "set your cap for him." Her uncle, Samuel Wells, also thought well of the young captain and recommended the match. The two were wed in April 1817 and moved to Fort Dearborn, where they remained a year until returning to Fort Wayne, when Hackley resigned his army commission.
The Wells daughters were prominent in the early fort community, not only because of the reputation of their father, but because they had inherited a sizable amount of property, including several Indian reservations (inherited through their Miami mother, a relative of Little Turtle). Hackley rose to prominence because of these connection. He became a Mason and held other local offices. For a time the Hackleys and Turners shared Wellsington, the former home of William Wells located near what is now Spy Run Avenue. But problems began to fester when the Wells estate was divided in 1826. Hackley became angry about the inheritance and the portion allotted to Anne Turner (whose husband had died in 1821). In a fit of rage, he tried to murder his sister-in-law while she sat in an upstairs room, but she managed to escape through a window. Despondent, Hackley committed suicide by hanging himself. A large funeral was held afterwards, mostly because his widow, rebecca, was highly respected. The Masons agreed to participate, contrary to their usual discipline.
The portrait of Hackley inthe History Center's collection is painted on ivory and obviously dates before 1818, when Hackley was still an army officer. It remains one of the museum's treasures - a rare artifact with an image from the military era of Fort Wayne's history.
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Farmers Markets in the news--then and now....
Farmer's Markets are in the news this morning--July 20, 2011--and with the Barr Street Market running every Saturday morning until September 10, we thought you'd like to know a little bit about the history of this downtown jewel.
The Barr Street Market, named for John T. Barr, is one of the oldest and best-known features of downtown Fort Wayne. The town of Fort Wayne actually was born on Oct. 23, 1823 when Barr and his partner platted the land they had bought for the city.
Samuel Hanna eventually assumed most of Barr's Fort Wayne properties and the land for the market was donated in 1837 by Hanna.
The Barr Street Market was based on the design of the Philadelphia Market. The Barr Street Market was a central feature for the provisioning of Fort Wayne as a growing trade and industrial settlement.
James Humphrey and Henry Nierman were awarded the contract in 1855 for a new brick market house. The building was notable for its squat square tower topped by an onion-shaped cupola. In 1892, when Fort Wayne's first real city hall was erected, the old market house was torn down.
Market Masters were named by the city to operate the market. Among them was Peter Kiser, one of the more interesting characters of mid-19th-century Fort Wayne. Peter Kiser was physically impressive, weighing more than 300 pounds and standing well over six feet tall.
He established the city's first butcher shop in 1832 and came to hold considerable political power, despite the fact that he could neither read nor write.
In 1910, at a cost of $20,000, the outdoor market was given its greatest embellishment -- concrete pavilions joining arches between the City Hall and Washington Boulevard. A pointed double- gothic arch made of iron was erected over Wayne Street, connecting the two market pavilions.
In the first decades of the 20th century, the market saw its best years. City Hall next to the market was the site of city police and ambulance service that operated out of the back doors. The arrival of the full patrol wagon at the police station or the detention of a rowdy always made for an interesting diversion from ordinary market business.
Less appetizingly, the bloodied stretchers of the ambulance service were dutifully scrubbed at the convenient catch basin at the end of the market near the meat and dairy stalls.
The pavilion nearest to City Hall was razed in 1957. In 1958, the Wayne to Washington Street pavilion was destroyed. The market remained idle until 1966, when the Barr Street Market Association was formed to revitalize outdoor trade in downtown.
The History Center acquired the Barr Street Market in 1990. Today, the Barr Street Market is open Saturday mornings from July to September and is presented by Young Leaders of Northeast Indiana in cooperation with The History Center.
Admission to the History Center is free when the market is open.
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In a very unexpected turn of events the Norrthern Lights had to play 24 minutes in the last quarter and kick the winning golden point to overcome a tenacious Fiji Vonu. The reigning champions had been held goal-less until the better half of the last quarter.
Both teams were welcomed by a somewhat sunny and only reasonably cold weather. Canada won the toss and proceeded to kick with a noticeable breeze. The Canadians and most independent onlookers presumed that this would be a good warm-up hit-out for the world champions. The idea from the Canadians was to push the advantage from the very onset and that's what happened. Aimee Legault #10 laid a huge tackle and the ball was pushed into attack.
The Vonu defended stoutly but some poor kicks out of defence nearly let the Northern Lights in. Eventually the Vonu were able to mount some attacks through good ruck work and rebounds from Vani Serevi #10. Aimee Legault #10 and Valerie Moreau #05 set the pattern for the day for Canada with a lot of work trying to bust out of packs formed by the tight Vonu pressure. At the end of the first quarter Canada had failed to capitalise and at the same time the Vonu had managed to contain the opposition. Canada was 5 points to Vonu 1 point.
The Vonu were buoyed by the first quarter result and their attacks late in the quarter. They immediately continued on and attacked relentlessly through likes of Litia Matanisigadrau #14,Salote Matakibaui #12 and Jennifer Goddsie #7. Indeed it took until the 7 minute mark for the ball to reach the centre line for the Northern Lights where it quickly returned to the Vonu forward line. It took until the 14 minute mark until some one-twos with Aimee Legault #10 that Canada threatened to score but it was the Vonu defence's turn to stand firm with a good saving mark from Siteri Matana Tadrau #17. When play returned to the Vonu forward line they scored the only point for the quarter despite another huge tackle by Aimee Legault #10 . So at the long break Fiji Vonu had crept to 2 points and Canada was still on 5 points. Talk abounded of a possible upset.
For the premiership quarter, The Fiji coach wanted the Vonu to continue the pressure but also run the Northern Lights off their legs by running the ball around the boundary. Canada wanted to open the game up by getting the ball out of the packs more efficiently. Canada pushed early. Margo Legault #6 ran around to miss a snap and Nicola Kirwin #8 marked an errand kick-in but also couldn't convert.
The Vonu repled quicker than the first quarter with work from Makitalena Lawebuka #22 and Iliseva Ratudina #8. For Canada, Margo Legault #6 made a good save and rebound and Renee Tong#9C displayed a good run whilst Aimee Legault #10 again chipped in with a great mark. It was the Vonu that mounted the most consistent charge and kicked the first goal just seconds before the third quarter siren. The scores were now were tied with the Fiji Vonu1 goal 2 behinds = 8 points to Northern Lights 8 points.
At the three quarter time break Canada divided into three groups as usual whilst Fiji Vonu listened intently to their single coach and his message was very straight forward – keep doing what they were doing. It started to rain to compound the closeness of the game. Luckily it was light and did not affect the game. The Canadians were reading the rucks well and looked to attack early. Vonu mistakes in defence let Canada in and a great rebound and score put Canada in front. Play then opened up and whilst Canada was slightly more consistent it was the Vonu who made the better breaks and set up a big mark and goal by Verenais Caginavanua #21.
Valerie Moreau #5 was in everything trying to swing the tide back especially as further points the Vonu put the margin at over a goal. Aimee Legault #10 was trying desperately to get some system going with some linked passes. Relentless pressure by the Northern Lights forced a point and then a goal off the ground found the score again tied at the 15 minute mark. For the next 9 minutes it seemed all the spectators had learned of the situation and descended on the center oval. It was a very brutal affair with every single player of both teams doing their utmost to procure a win. For the most part it looked like the Vonu were going to triumph and only some diving tackles and smothers by the Northwind stopped the flow. In the end some measured kicks and marks got the Canada within striking distance. After some tenacious defence Canada finally was able to get a kick and mark for a winning score.
Editor: It must be said that Canada tied the game late, and the winning point was kicked from a mark that appeared to be touched and after what appeared to be a push out - suffice to say a very lucky escape and they will need to build from here to challenge the likes of Ireland. The Fijians can consider themselves very unlucky - look out their next opponents.
A little bit of controversy at the end. The Canadian "mark" that led to the last point was initially called "touched" by one umpire, but a mark by another. (That should not happen as only one umpire should be in control. I know it does sometimes - I've done it myself.) It looked like the ball had been touched. Amidst all those hands and arms, a clean mark was unlikely.
Overall, the umpiring has been good. (Waiting for the all-American umpires game.) One could say a Canadian win was the "correct" outcome, but a draw would have been better.
Looked like a push in the back on the Fiji defender by the Canadian that marked that ball also. Agree can't have two umpires in control. But why no draws?
From my position, the final decision was probably incorrect or needed consultation i.e. bounced ball BUT it is most likely Canada would have scored a point being so close to goal. Everybody thought the Vonu was going to win as they pressured for most of the final 9 minutes. it was only some stout defense, rebound and precise play that got Canada over the line.


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Say 'I Don't' to 'Shotgun Wedding'
January 19, 2023 January 20, 2023 Laura Sirikul
It's hard to believe that rom-com royalty — Jennifer Lopez (The Wedding Planner, Maid in Manhattan) and Josh Duhamel (Life As We Know It, When in Rome) — have never made a movie together until Amazon Studio's Shotgun Wedding. It makes sense to put these two together in a romantic movie as both are beautiful people with experience in the genre. But unlike their sappy romantic films that follow the same formula, Shotgun Wedding gets mixed in with some action and adventure with pirates, money laundering, and lots of explosions.
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Technical support to WHO/HRP
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•Global guidance materials on embedding implementation research in member states strategies about scaling up self-administered DMPA-SC
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Smoke tests for [Pension Wise].

## Prerequisites

* [Bundler]
* [Git]
* [Ruby 2.2.0][Ruby]
* [Redis]

## Installation

Clone the repository:

```sh
$ git clone https://github.com/guidance-guarantee-programme/smoke_tests.git
```

Setup the application:

```sh
$ ./bin/setup
```

## Usage

To start the application:

```sh
$ ./bin/foreman s
```

## Contributing

Please see the [contributing guidelines](/CONTRIBUTING.md).

[bundler]: http://bundler.io
[git]: http://git-scm.com
[pension wise]: https://www.pensionwise.gov.uk
[ruby]: http://www.ruby-lang.org/en
[redis]: http://redis.io/


haha! Everytime I do a really long run I almost always have some sort of junk food. It's ok, afterall, I just ran ___ miles!
Justifiable rewards. Let's face it, unless you are running to earn your keep, what better motivation than a frosty mug of beer and a double death burger with extra cholesterol!
All the time. My worse thing is drinking too much pepsi on a daily basis. I eat too much espically fast food and pizza.
I definitely find myself using my running as an excuse to over-indulge... we deserve it. But shhh, it's a secret among runners!
I eat pretty healthy, espeially at home...but I will justify ice cream, wine and martini's any day of the week! And holidays are also a free-for-all! Seriously, we deserve it!!
More than anything, I feel like I'm getting too old to overindulge in food or alcohol. I'm tired!
After packing on 10+ lbs. between Christmas and my recent marathon, I no longer subscribe to the practice of eating anything just because I run far! I have started moderating what I eat and have lost 5 lbs. Still have some work ahead of me, though!
I don't do it as much with food as with, say, driving a quarter of a mile to the library instead of walking. Or taking the elevator instead of the stairs. Or parking in the spot closest to the entrance of the grocery store. "I ran today," I say to myself. "Of course I should spend the rest of the day napping, not moving a muscle."
I had TCBY and oreos on Saturday, and I didn't feel the least bit bad about it. It was amazing.
I definitely can relate to this. You can either be an unhealthy runner or an unhealthy couch potato. I chose the unhealthy runner. As somebody who was a semi-couch potato (not working out on a regular basis), running allows me to eat some of the things we all love, and not feel so guilty and ashamed. I will say that being a runner has improved my eating, so I don't indulge near as much as I did before.
I'm a sucker for the beer. Unfortunately, it can sneak up on you when your not looking!
I like my treats. And pizza. I tend to think calories don't count on days I've run more than 10 miles. And if I ran a race? Free for all.
Frankly, I wanted to see if having an unhealthy diet and running does help. It does not. My cholesterol did go up. I just have to practice what I preach... maintaining a healthy diet and exercise is the way to go. Psst.. I tend to cheat once in awhile. It just between us.
I definitely don't run nearly as much as you do, but I have found myself justifying occasionally eating badly because I do run and exercise. Another thing I do is... while I'm out on a run and thinking about how difficult it is and how my body is dying to stop, my mind flashes back on the bad food or drinks I recently consumed. Then I mentally beat myself up for having no business eating or drinking that. Ugh!
So true! I read somewhere that people who work out, often consume more calories, because they feel entitled.
I'm nowhere near perfect, and I know if I gave up some bad habits, I would see a lot better results. Instead, it's so easy to settle for mediocrity. It is a constant struggle for balance with me.
Oh geez....I am the queen of "I just ran such and such mileage, so I should be able to eat that steak, potatoes, half that jar of icing, AND top it off with wine". I try to be good for the most part, but when I'm off, I'm waaay off.
Ha - the wine & beer consumption might exceed the "recommended amounts" on um, EVERY weekend. But uhh, ya know, I still run. ;) this post cracked me up!
Okay, Beth - I've known you a long time and except for back when you weighed 150 pounds you've always been slender unlike some of us poor souls. And you are a good, healthy cook. (with good abs, bee-auch) Yes, you and we all indulge sometimes but - and okay if it's daily wine (me too!) - I'd recommend you giving yourself an effing break. Mostly, in a weeks time you are on it, my friend. On your legs running your heart out. Everyone needs rest from all the stringencies from marathon training. I decided I wouldn't put anything in my mouth that would make it harder for me to run 26.2 miles. I works sometimes and sometimes it doesn't. I still love the wine. Daily.
Of course we justify our habits, but is eating a bag of chips cause the 2 hour ride was extra sweaty and you needed to replenish your salt really worse than eating the same bag of chips cause you feel like it?


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my creative life
How To Meet Ladies: Decoding "Silicon Valley" Player Erlich Bachman's Zen-Bro Look
Aviato's founder is more than the sum of his amazing T-shirt collection. Here, Silicon Valley's costume designer unpacks his style.
By Evie Nagy 4 minute Read
Earlier this season on Silicon Valley, we learned that Erlich Bachman, the loutish owner of the incubator that launched Pied Piper, had the nickname "Kool-Aid" in college. The character, played by comedian T.J. Miller, believes it's because he was cool. A former classmate reveals that it's because he would constantly come bellowing into a room when he wasn't wanted, figuratively busting through the wall.
Now the cult of Erlich is in full bloom–replete with multiple Reddit threads and a wondrous Twitter parody account. Erlich is both supremely self-confident and often hilariously un-self-aware–a combo we've seen in a slew of memorable contemporary characters, from Ricky Gervais's squirmy boss in the original Office to Stephen Colbert as Stephen Colbert. But Erlich is not all boor–he's obviously savvy enough to have founded the airline booking aggregator Aviato and sold it for enough to incubate other startups; he's pulled Pied Piper out of as many scrapes as he's gotten them into; and he's had his share of success with the ladies. And then there's his style: high schlubbiness at first glance, Erlich's wardrobe is one of calculated leisure, equal parts geek, stoner, and earth mother. He's not afraid to let himself or his clothes take up space, and his style is part of how we know that he's the only member of Pied Piper who's truly comfortable in his own skin.
"He's regally comfortable," says Silicon Valley costume designer Christina Mongini, who joined the hit show this season and has been critical to the evolution of Erlich's character. (Mongini was also the brains behind the identical wardrobes of the parade of venture capitalists wooing Pied Piper in the season premiere.) "He enters the room, he has this sort of kingly quality about him. He's commanding, and he's regal, which makes me laugh even saying that."
Mongini calls Erlich "a good bad dresser," and says that one of the challenges this season was figuring out how the character, who in season one usually stuck to ratty robes and Birkenstocks, would deal with dressing up for meetings with VC firms.
"We decided that he's just always going to wear his black cargo pants," says Mongini. "Black cargo pants are dress pants. And then, we would just give him a different kind of earth-tone shirt and some sort of textural blazer that's not sharp and crisp, but kind of soft. He's weird, but at the same time you know that there is a good heart in there and he's soft. There's a softness, and I like that contrast."
According to Mongini, Erlich probably has "more clothing in his closet than the rest of the guys." She says that when she got to the show, "it was sort of like, look, these guys, they're not out shopping. For him, though, to me it feels like he would be the one that would have the most gear that he just gathers from people over the years, keeping things, finding something. I don't know if I'd say at the thrift store, but finding something and then keeping it and adding it to his collection. Nothing would surprise me that he would say or come out wearing. You could put him in anything, and somehow it makes sense because, 'Oh, of course you have that.'"
One of this season's funniest episodes actually used Erlich's almost sacred relationship with clothing, in contrast with his fellow hoodie-clad coders, as a plot point. When Pied Piper (very temporarily) moves out of Erlich's house, he gifts mousy CEO Richard Hendricks with a kimono as a gesture of respect (a kimono that Richard looks like he would rather die than wear). Preparing for this scene, says Mongini, turned out to be surprisingly stressful.
"We had to find multiple kimonos, because they had to be specially prewrapped in that beautiful wrapping and could each only be opened once," says Mongini. "We had to try to find them quickly, and none of them could match the kimono that Erlich was wearing. It sounds like the simplest thing, like 'just go with some kimonos,' but it wasn't. It was kind of an event, actually."
Then there are Erlich's T-shirts, emblazoned with nerd humor like the element "Nintendium," the message "I Know HTML (How To Meet Ladies)," and the binary code for bitcoin. Mongini says that none of the shirts were designed for the show, but rather found on the Internet. (The shirts of the invented companies can be bought at HBO's online store.)
"There's a danger that you'll stare at his T-shirt instead of watching the show," says Mongini. "I never want it to be distracting. But I know that in the first season, people loved the Atari T-shirt. So I just wanted to find T-shirts this season that could play along with that theme, not be distracting, and not be so stupid, because there are so many out there. It's also up to [showrunners] Mike [Judge] and Alec [Berg] to decide if the shirts work or are just stupid."
But over those T-shirts invariably come flannels, the chunky sweaters, and the kimonos that represent the many layers of Erlich Bachman. "There's a paternal element there, too," says Mongini. "It's like, you kind of do maybe want to hug him."
So hug away, but be warned: it might take a while before you can wash the patchouli off.
Evie Nagy is a former staff writer at FastCompany.com, where she wrote features and news with a focus on culture and creativity. She was previously an editor at Billboard and Rolling Stone, and has written about music, business and culture for a variety of publications
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