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Six Members of the Icelandic Parliament were overheard making sexist and ableist comments about a number of prominent women in a bar. This is inexcusable hate speech and we call for their immediate resignation.
We, the European Disability Forum (EDF), the European Network on Independent Living (ENIL) and the European Women's Lobby (EWL) are outraged by the comments made by the Iceland MPs. At one point former MP and ENIL member Freyja Haraldsdóttir, a prominent woman's rights and disability campaigner, was compared to a seal by the MPs. These comments are hate speech. They objectify and dehumanise women and confirm that women with disabilities face double discrimination because of their impairment and gender.
Since the incident has come to the public attention Freyja has received apologies from a senior politician in Iceland. However, Freyja does not feel these apologies were genuine. They blamed the comments about Freyja Haraldsdóttir on her activism for Disability Rights. This is a typical example of victim blaming and the undermining of women active in politics.
Freyja Haraldsdóttir said "I think what I struggle the most with is that people don't see this attack much as intersected with gender and disability – but as disability mockery. But it's much deeper than that and extremely sexist."
Þuríður Harpa Sigurðardóttir, Board member of the European Disability Forum and chair of the Organisation of Disabled in Iceland added:"The fact that people with disabilities are verbally abused by Members of Parliament is a sad testimony of those people. Freyja Haraldsdóttir, is one of our most respected entrepreneurs and disability and feminist activists, and the verbal abuse she has experienced is both saddening and exposing for the MPs concerned."
She continued "MPs have a mandate from the people, are role models and expected to exercise their mandate with integrity and respect for everyone. Their words show mindsets that simply create barriers for disabled people to enjoy basic human rights and in a way explain why things are happening too slowly here in Iceland."
European Women's Lobby President Gwendoline Lefebvre declared "It is crystal clear that 100 years since women obtained the right to vote, we still have a long way to go before women can enjoy equal rights with men and to ending the impunity of male violence against women"
She added that "Ms. Haraldsdóttir's experience is unacceptable and shows how violence against women and girls continues to be pervasive in the Europe and worldwide. The EWL strongly condemns all forms of violence against women in public, private and cyber space".
We call on the MPs to resign immediately from Iceland's Parliament. It's the right thing to do.
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providing scholarships for the local teenage celebrities. Whereas an aspiring national research univ shud b talking n looking for all sorts of talents from all over the world n us thru adequate scholarship pgms. The reason, u might think me being critical, but actually objective about ranis mgmt is bcoz I hav worked under similar talk all do nothing Indian mgmt who was heavily rewarded by his American bosses but was never understood by me then. I was rather muted so that nothing -ve goes out in my reportings. Of course after a few jaw breaking punch reports none of which the American clowns sitting in Mumbai, London, ny in the name of matrix mgmt cud prove wrong. It took me 5 yrs of working with these nincompoops n aft that 15 more yrs 2 c how they unveil a nation destruction pgm designed by these 2 nations "bankers". So that is y amidst all these hyped up publicity by rani herself or others, which looks 2 me more promoting her rather then showing true
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PS: the following replacement of the Indian was a Brit. This was exactly in a similar role but less talkative. 1 xtra quality this 1 had was he wud do facial caricatures 2 show his annoyance if he cud remotely smell even a constructive criticism about his predecessor. So the east India cos divide n conquer is very much alive, in with it new imperialist america.


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Faith Saves: Bible In Driver's Pocket Stops Bullets
CHICAGO, USA: The Bible that a US bus driver kept in his pocket saved his life after it stopped two bullets from piercing his chest, stunned police said.
"There was obviously some kind of intervention involved in this incident because he probably should not be here," Sergeant Michael Pauley of the Dayton, Ohio police told reporters. Rickey Wagoner, 49, had stopped his bus to fix a problem in the early hours of Monday morning when he was approached by three teenagers in what appears to be gang-initiation attack, WCPO news reported.
"He heard one of the suspects say it was time to kill a polar bear to get into a club," Pauley said. "He fought for his life." Wagoner was shot twice in the chest but managed to stay standing and struggled to wrestle the gun away from his attackers.
"I had a book in my pocket," Wagoner told a police dispatcher in a call released to local media. "At first I thought it went through. It just feels like I've been hit with a sledgehammer in the chest."
One of the teens slashed him in the arm with a knife while he fought for the gun, which went off during the struggle and shot him in the leg. But he managed to get both weapons away. "I stabbed one in the leg with my pen," Wagoner said in the 911 call. "He hollered and that's when they all ran." Wagoner picked up the dropped gun and shot after the fleeing teens but told the dispatcher he didn't think he hit them.
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Haaaaappy Monday! Well, you know, not really. But it's the thought that counts, right? I hope you all had amazing weekends! Mine started off with a bang and then eased into glorious lazydom. It was very nice, and super fun. And also a little bit heartbreaking. Which, granted, are things that don't generally seem like they should be plausibly connected, but you will see what I mean in just a bit, I pwomise.
So Friday night kicked off with me meeting the loverly Anne P. in downtown DC! Anne invited me to go with her to this LivingSocial/Rent the Runway mash up event. I love fashion, and I love Anne (uh, duh), so I was totally down!
For those of you who are unfamiliar, Rent the Runway is an online service where you can rent expensive designer gowns for a fraction of the price they actually cost. So, for someone who didn't want to shell out hundreds on a new dress for your second cousin Delia's wedding, you can shell out like, $50 instead and get the dress for 4 days (there's also an 8-day option). This particular event was a kind of pop-up Rent the Runway studio, where you could go and try on an offering of the dresses that the company offers on their website. Very cool, actually, since ordering things sight unseen is always kind of a risk.
Since Anne had gotten invited as "press" (heh, a term I use loosely as a blogger, admittedly) we also got access to the press room where we were served adorable miniature pies, as well as champagne (win!). We chatted with some of the Rent the Runway folks for a little while, and then it was time to go get our dress-up on!
I had a lot of fun fawning over and pawing at the various dresses that were there. They had dresses of all lengths and fanciness there–from long, floor-sweeping ballgowns to cute cocktail attire. I tried on a super cute Kate Spade number that I would easily have bought then and there, had it been for sale (thank goodness they only do rentals, haha!) as well as an absolutely GORGEOUS Rebecca Taylor strapless evening gown. I mean when else am I going to get the opportunity to try on a ballgown for funsies, eh?
Just pretend my bra is part of the dress, mmkay? But seriously, if I had an extra $925 laying around, I would buy that dress in a heartbeat and just keep it hidden in my closet until someday I had an opportunity to wear it (you know, when I'm accepting my Oscar or something). It was soooo beautiful, and it skimmed over my curves in all the right ways and a bunch of complete strangers even told me how amazing it looked on me. *Sigh*
Somewhat disappointingly, the largest size that I came across was 12 (that I saw, at any rate), which luckily happens to be my size now. But considering me wearing this size is only a relatively recent occurrence, I do wish they had offered larger sizes than that. I mean, I don't know if maybe they specified what the sample sizes were on the LivingSocial deal or something, but I just hate to think of someone buying a ticket to go to that event and then not even being able to try anything on. I know that a lot of high-end designers only make up to a certain size anyway (and a lot of times they're not even gracious enough to go up to 12!), but still. Ah well, at least there were a zillion things for gorgeous Anne to try on! 🙂
Anne and I did manage to get one blurry picture together at the event, haha. They were offering a 20% discount if you rented something at the event, but since I, sadly, do not have any debutante balls or inaugural dinners to attend in the next week, I didn't end up renting anything. But I actually think I have a Rent the Runway credit thing I got in one of my Birchboxes (or maybe my sister gave it to me, I can't remember), so now that I know the quality of the dresses, I absolutely think I'll give it a try! Maybe for a wedding or something? Man, what I wouldn't give to have a long evening gown-appropriate event to attend…
So after we left the event, the two of us headed deeper into Chinatown and ended up at Matchbox for dinner. I was super excited, because I'd actually never been before, and had always heard such wonderful things about it. It did not disappoint!
I'd had two little pies (one was this, like, pico de gallo-filled pie, and the other was chocolate pecan, haha. Balanced?) at the event, so I wasn't crazy hungry. I ended up opting for a soup & salad combo–definitely one of my more brilliant ideas.
The salad had mixed greens, pears, blue cheese, and candied pecans. Droooool. The soup was a cream of crab with soooo much crabmeat I was in Heaven. Om nom nom. Anne got a different salad that looked equally scrumptious, and a tuna tartare dish to go with it. I hear Matchbox is particularly famous for their pizzas though, so I definitely need to go back!
Obviously, a very fun (and girly, heeee) way to kick off the weekend. The rest of the weekend was pretty much made up of somewhat lazy hangouttery (Sean and I saw Django Unchained, which was AWESOME) and tears. Lemme 'splain.
While I was writing Terra I put myself on a bit of a self-imposed reading ban. At least insofar as young adult novels went. But now that I've actually gone ahead and written a book of my own, I'm finally allowing myself to go through the giant pile of books I had been purposefully putting aside. And I'm not kidding when I say it's a big pile.
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three four seven more books that I have loaded onto my Kindle. (Also, publishers, STOP PRICING KINDLE BOOKS AS HIGH AS HARDCOVERS. Seriously. My bookshelves are already too full.
I didn't want to be unduly influenced by other works, and since the books I love to read tend to fall into a similar (if not the same) genre as the book I wrote, I figured it was better to be safe than sorry. So I've been plowing through my ridiculous to-read pile at a pretty good rate (already crossed Delirium off my list and am like 25% of the way through Uglies), and my latest accomplishment was…
THIS BOOK OF UTTER AND EPIC BEAUTY. The Fault in Our Stars by John Green. God, I loved it so much, I just, I just, I just…
AUUUUGH IT WAS SO GOOD AND HEARTBREAKING. (Sidenote: Community comes back next month! HUZZAH!)
I mean, right off the bat (from the blurb on the inside cover, mind you, so no blaming me for spoilers) you know it's a book about teenagers with cancer, so the fact that it's a tearjerker should come as a surprise to no one. But, my God, is it beautiful. I loved everything about it: the writing, the teenaged characters who talk more like they're forty and are so ridiculously witty and well-read it's, well, ridiculous… even the I-can't-even-call-this-bittersweet-it's-too-sad storyline. I hate myself for waiting so long to read it. I finished it in 10 hours. Actually it was more like 6, since 4 of the hours in the middle were spent sleeping, but I swear, I was THISCLOSE to taping my eyelids open so I could keep reading straight through the night. As it was, I gave up just before 3 and started reading again around 7. Hours 8 and 9 were pretty much just spent sobbing.
Sooooo anyway, yes, I spent a good deal of yesterday morning in tears, but they were the good kind, even though they're also the sad kind. Surely you must know what I mean.
And, thus, my weekend was.
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I've recovered from the writing marathon of November, ending with 33,017 words. I didn't make my original goal of 50,000 words, but I'll take the 33,000 and a fun month with family and friends! Last week, I completed a detailed revision of the first one hundred pages of my mystery manuscript. I can see a great improvement since the summer versions. This is encouraging and inspiring.
This week, I have unexpected travel because of a family medical emergency, but I'll take my trusty computer—I really should name this little box that is my constant companion—with me so I can work even while sitting in a hospital waiting room. This week, I'll revise the second hundred pages of the mystery manuscript and begin planning another humor essay—topic as yet undetermined. The good thing about travel is that I have no housework, no dishes to wash, no food to prepare, no grocery shopping. This leaves more time for reading and writing.
As a writer you should read the genre you're writing. Recently, I read Margaret Maron's latest book, Christmas Mourning, two Michael Connelly books (his latest—The Reversal and The Lincoln Lawyer), and two David Baldacci books (his first—Absolute Power and his latest—Hell's Corner). All five books are page turners. I read each in only two days because they are so intense, I couldn't stop reading. That's the kind of suspense I want in my manuscript, but I have a long way to go before I run with these big dogs.
This week, I encourage you to read a book in your genre. Read often, especially if you plan to write and publish. Not all readers are writers, but almost all good writers are avid readers. Visit your library or your favorite book store and find yourself in a book. Once you read a book, record it in a reading journal and write a few sentences about it.
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She had the right of way, and yet, she apologized to me.
I had just checked out of the supermarket when I realized I needed to visit Customer Service. So I turned my cart around and headed back into the store. When I was done, I decided to take a shortcut to leave the store by pushing my way through the Self Check-out, where a woman in her thirties was scanning her groceries.
"Excuse me," I said, rolling my cart past her.
"Sorry!" she apologized and jumped out of my way, holding a head of lettuce in one hand and her cell phone in the other as she tried to take up as little space as possible by pressing her body up against the checkout kiosk.
"No problem," I replied, refusing to get in on the Sorry-Fest that is part of being a woman. I refused to apologize for existing in that spot at that moment.
The apology is womankind's default setting.
Knock it off, ladies.
Think about it: How often do men apologize? Are they sorry for standing where they're supposed to stand in a store? Are they sorry when you can't get your cart past them?
No, you're sorry.
You apologize.
You scoot out of the way and try to take up less space. You make yourself smaller so that everyone else can get bigger.
Knock it off, ladies.
My college soccer coach had a phrase he used to shout at us during practices that would fit in this scenario:
Sorry for clipping your foot when I stole the ball from you!
Sorry for elbowing you when you beat me to the ball!
Sorry for scoring a goal!
Knock it off, ladies.
He wanted us to stop apologizing to each other so we wouldn't take that "Sorry!" mentality to a game, where no one cares if you're sorry.
Sorry loses games.
Sorry loses space.
Sorry loses self esteem.
The next time the S-word forms at the tip of your tongue, ready to launch out for the umpteenth time today, remember this definition:
Apologize: to offer an apology or excuse for some fault, insult, failure, or injury
Standing where you're supposed to stand while checking out at the supermarket is not a fault.
It's not an insult.
It's not a failure.
It's not an injury.
Don't apologize, ladies!
Below is a video of wonderful poetry slam by Lily Myers of Wesleyan University that, despite the comments by a few eejits, isn't so much about eating disorders as it's about women's tendency to apologize for existing.
"I asked five questions in genetics class today and all of them started with the word 'sorry'."


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What is the difference between male and female brains? How does sexual orientation affect those differences?
The anterior hypothalamus is the part of the brain that helps govern sexual behavior that is more typical for males. For example, men tend to have a preference for the look, feel, and smell of women rather than men. The anterior hypothalamus has been shown to play a part in this.
Anterior hypothalamus: larger = more sexually attracted to women?
An NCBI study found that the anterior hypothalamus is 100%+ larger in straight men compared with gay men.
The size of the anterior hypothalamus in gay men is actually more similar to women's.
Another study found the anterior hypothalamus is smaller in transsexuals who became female (and would thus be more sexually attracted to men) while it is larger in transsexuals who became male (and would thus be more sexually attracted to women).
These studies would indicate that there is a correlation between the size of a person's anterior hypothalamus and the extent to which the person was sexually attracted to women.
Those attracted to women (straight men, transsexuals who became male) had larger anterior hypothalamus's. Those attracted to men (gay men, straight women, transsexuals who became female) had smaller anterior hypothalamus's.
These findings could indicate a genetic foundation for sexual orientation, beginning in the brain.
The aforementioned studies did have small sampling groups, and more research will need to be done before any conclusive findings can be drawn.
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Cold blooded human evils r arranging so called peace talks allmost every week n paying lavishly for traveling, food, hotel expenses, conference room rentals, protocol, security, hefty per diems n wot not? Each time they meet it costs up2 several hundreds of thousands of dollars. Wot they achieve at the end of 2/3 days meet? A piblic communique saying we havent achieved anything n will meet again soon 2 work out the differences. Also we c declarations such as sanctions m embargos supposedly against their friend bashar al asad but actually targeting the innocent lots most of whom r not even involved in the conflict at all. Wot a dichotomy.
The number says it all. In just the syrian conflict, within the last 5 years 300,000 people died. That is 164 people killed per day! If this not worst than ethnic cleansing wot is? This is surely n effectively wiping 1 of the oldest nations out of the map. The sad story dosent just stop there. There r almost half a million starving bcoz either the country cannot produce due 2 war or buy it bcoz the general people ran out of savings n of course foreign intervention thru banning of import of food n life saving materials. N the death toll increases.
Wot r the other countries in the ummate mohammad saw r doing about it? We r relaxed as if we will b spared fm the bite of the rattle snakes. Not only that, we r also not doing anything for the rebels n the innocent syrians who r suffering n starving.
Wot çan we do? Inshàllah we can do a lot. We can fast at least 1 day n dedicate that days 5 salats/ namajs n the fast for the syrian ill, starving. Also for the underarmed but mashallah brave rebels.figjting against the evil, by specially supplicating 2 allah for all of them. Till the end of year cancel our partys, expensive dining out programs n instead donate the anticipated bill amounts 2 the free syria fund. I am suggesting if 1 cud mashallah afford 2 contribute some fm his savings still he shud try out this additional sacrjfice for the sake of improving inshallah his own tawak n 2 get an experience of prophet mohammads way of life n teachings.
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Also allah fm yor endless bounties none of yor creations goes home hungry everyday. In this evil human made disaster dont let syrians die of starvation, pls provide them thru yor rahmah n barakah. N pls destroy urgently all the evil that kafirs n their accomoplices has plotted in that region.


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Improvements to the SHIPS Rapid Intensity Index by incorporation of inner-core information
April 2011
Improved versions of the operational SHIPS Rapid Intensification Index (SHIPS-RII) that included added predictors derived from total perceptible water (TPW), principle components of GOES-IR imagery, and GFS boundary-layer thermodynamic data were developed for both the Atlantic and eastern North Pacific basins as part of a NOAA Joint Hurricane Testbed (JHT) funded project. These revised versions of the SHIPS-RII were adopted for operational implementation by the NHC in April 2011 after they were shown to be more skillful than the existing operational versions when verified for an independent sample of cases from the 2008-2011 Hurricane Seasons.
Tropical cyclone wind radii estimation using an empirical inland wind decay model
June 2008
A method for estimating the maximum wind, and 34,50, and 64 kt wind radii of landfalling tropical cyclones utilizing the operational NHC storm structure and track forecasts and a revised version of the Kaplan/DeMaria decay model was developed as part of the NOAA Joint Hurricane Testbed (JHT). This technique was declared operational by the NHC for use in both the Atlantic and East Pacific basins prior to the 2008 Hurricane Season.
A revised tropical cyclone rapid intensity index for the Atlantic and East Pacific basins
June 2008
A revised version of the original SHIPS rapid intensity index (RII) was developed for the Atlantic and East Pacific basins as part of the NOAA Joint Hurricane Testbed (JHT). The revised RII uses predictors from the Statistical Hurricane Intensity Prediction Scheme (SHIPS) to estimate the probability of rapid intensification (RI) for 3 different RI thresholds (25,30, and 35 kt) utilizing linear discriminant analysis. The RII was declared operational by the NHC prior to the 2008 Hurricane Season.
Validation of Hurricane Surface Winds Measured by the HRD SFMR
January 2003
The HRD Stepped-Frequency Microwave Radiometer (SFMR) that is carried aboard NOAA Hurricane Hunter aircraft has been determined to be the most accurate and reliable remote sensing device available for measuring hurricane force winds at the sea surface. Results of a study show that surface winds measured by the SFMR are comparable to the Global Positioning Systems (GPS) dropwindsonde measurements that are the current standard. The benefit of the SFMR is that winds are continuously measured during flights, allowing for more complete mapping of hurricane surface wind structure.
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Distributed Real-Time Hurricane Wind Analysis System
October 2001
The H*Wind program integrates information from a variety of platforms in and around a hurricane and creates a real-time wind field analyses, for use by the hurricane specialists.
Designed a satellite-based modem method for transmitting data from the NOAA WP-3 aircraft
October 2001
Designed a system that allows satellite communication with the computers onboard the NOAA WP-3 hurricane aircraft to fascilitate the real-time transfer of data.
Rapid Intensification Index
August 2001
A technique for estimating the probability of tropical cyclone rapid intensification (RI) using the operational SHIPS model output was developed for the Atlantic basin. This product was provided to NHC hurricane forecasters in real-time in support of Joint Hurricane Testbed (JHT).
Atlantic hurricane data (HURDAT) re-analysis project
August 2000
This project has extended the Atlantic hurricane database back 35 additional years so that it now covers the period of 1851 to date. It includes the estimated tracks and intensities for all tropical storms and hurricanes every six hours, the "raw" observations from ships and coastal stations from which the HURDAT was derived, specific U.S. landfall data, basin-wide track maps of all tropical storms and hurricanes, and comments from/replies to the OAR's Best Track Change Committee.
First (only) real-time hurricane ensemble forecasting system
June 2000
A 41-member daily hurricane track ensemble forecasting system using the VICBAR shallow water model has been run during the 1998 and 1999 hurricane seasons and will be run in realtime during the 2000 hurricane season. These forecasts will provide, for the first time, estimates of the reliability of individual forecasts and probabilistic landfall forecasts based on numerical guidance.
Improvements in track forecasts / targeting of observations
By finding locations in which the atmosphere is unstable to small perturbations, and by sampling in and around these targets with dropwindsondes, improvements of up to 35% can be achieved in forecasts through four days.
Transmission of airborne surface wind speed and rainrate measurements
August 1999
The airborne Step Frequency Microwave Radiometer (SFMR) measures microwave emissions from the ocean surface at six frequencies. These are transformed with radiative transfer equations to obtain measurements of surface wind speed and rain rate below the aircraft. These data are transmitted in real time.
Ground-based hurricane wind fields from single Doppler Radar
September 1998
Doppler wind data from a single land-based radar can be used to deduce the tropical cyclone windfield in much the same manner as data from a single airborne Doppler Radar. These wind fields can provide continuous monitoring of tropical cyclones as they approach landfall along the U. S. coast for the first time.
Surface wave measurements from aircraft in tropical cyclones
August 1998
An airborne scanning radar altimeter (SRA) generates a topographic map of the sea surface in hurricanes over open ocean. Wave heights, their variation around the tropical cyclone, and their direction of motion are all measured, and can provide realtime estimates of wave height and storm surge at landfall.
First (only) skillful realtime hurricane intensity forecast model
June 1998
The Statistical Hurricane Intensity Prediction (SHIPS) model provides the first and only consistently skillful guidance for tropical cyclone intensity prediction.
Warm oceanic features and hurricane intensity change
January 1998
Regular satellite-based oceanic topographic information provides information on the underlying ocean structure, such as warm rings and boundaries. Passage of hurricanes over such features affects their intensity, allowing for improvements in intensity forecasting especially in cases of rapid intensification.
First high-resolution measurements of vertical wind and thermodynamic structure in hurricanes
July 1997
Newly-developed dropwindsondes based upon Global Positioning System technology can measure winds every half second during descent in the eyewall of tropical cyclones. These measurements have become the standard by which studies of the reduction of flight-level winds to surface winds are made, and is now standard operational procedure on all reconnaissance flights.
Empirical Hurricane Inland Intensity Model
January 1996
An empirical model for predicting the winds in landfalling hurricanes has been developed for the Gulf and east coasts of the U.S. This model predicting the two-dimensional field of maximum surface winds (wind swath) for storms after landfall. As of the 2000 hurricane season this model is included in the operational SHIPS model, to make possible over land predictions of intensity.
Shift to climatologically active Atlantic hurricane seasons
Cover article SCIENCE 20 July 2001
In the 70's and 80's, the overall hurricane activity in the Atlantic basin was much lower than the previous several decades, especially the stronger ("major") hurricanes. Several long-term climatic signals have been found to have shifted, first in 1988, and again in 1995, leading to the conclusion that the Atlantic had shifted back into a more active and destructive phase that might last for at least the next 10-20 years.
Vertically Scanning Doppler Radar
August 1996
A Vertically Scanning Doppler Radar (VSDR) has been developed for use on the NOAA aircraft. This instrument directly measures wind velocity beneath the aircraft, and can provide wind profiles through the boundary layer.
Global Positioning System Dropwindsonde
August 1996
The GPS dropwindsonde was developed for use with NOAA and Air Force aircraft to take measurements in the environment and inner core of hurricanes to improve their analysis and forecast.
Real-time hurricane surface wind analyses
August 1995
A real-time system for objectively analyzing meteorological observations in hurricanes using a common framework for wind exposure, measurement height, and averaging time, has been developed. These analyses are presented to NHC hurricane specialists as often as eight times per day and have become the standard for assessing winds from new remote sensing platforms. They are used to initialize numerical forecast models, to provide forcing for storm surge models, and in disaster management.
Transmission of airborne radar reflectivity images and Doppler windfields from within the hurricane
September 1993
Radar images of hurricanes, and analyses of windfields from Doppler rada, previously only available from coastal radars when the hurricane was near landfall, are now regularly available from the NOAA research aircraft. This enables specialists to see convective features in hurricanes generally obscured from satellites by high clouds and windfield structure inside the storm. Features such as eyewall replacement cycles and asymmetries that can help in forecasting of intensity are now regularly seen before landfall.
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Located in Beverly Hills, the Avalon experience has been hand-curated by a team of collaborators and bona fide hotel aficionados. You might say its a calling. A penchant for wanderlust. A mind for singular retreats and unrepeatable vibes. All you have to do is stay!


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Savute in the Chobe National Park in Botswana is a place that has undergone great change over the past two years, from a semi arid wet season refuge to a dry season haven for wildlife.'Lions were roaring at the dawn but sounded far away. After early coffee and tea we headed out towards Quarry Hill. On route I saw the tracks of a single lion in the road near the baobab. The track was heading down the road and eventually disappeared into the mopane'.
Highlights of Savute Game Drive
- Fascinating history of the changing ecology of the area
- Renowned predator interaction
- Area undergoing dramatic change at present
Lions and Warthogs
'There were three lionesses right next to road, one was limping badly on the back right leg. While watching them one suddenly pricked her ears, got up and stalked past the cars to some bushes. A family of warthogs was walking about 100m away. She showed interest until they sensed something amiss and moved off. It is amazing that the lions showed only mild interest in various impala walking past but on something like the warthog the one immediately got excited'.
Warthogs like Us
At warthog alley, found two male warthogs having a serious fight and both were bleeding badly. A short distance away a young male and a female were mating with four young piglets watching the mating intently. The fighting and mating continued for a while until one male gave way, with the other in hot pursuit.
The four piglets ran after the males and when the winner stopped they gathered around. When the male saw what was happening with the female he charged after the young male and chased him off. The family then gathered together and headed off into the bushes. The male did not show sexual interest in the female but he had chased off two other suitors. The incident made me think of ourselves and our way of life today.
Elephant and guineafowl for dinner
While we were cooking an elephant walked into camp and started pulling leaves off the apple-leaf trees a little way off. The guests were very excited watching it in the moonlight. While this was happening the guinea fowl started performing in the trees along the channel and then heard the death cries of one. Some of the others flew into surrounding trees and cackled well into the night.


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Foo Fighters
30 Foo Fighters Facts:
1. The band was founded by Nirvana drummer Dave Grohl as a one-man project following the dissolution of Nirvana after the suicide of Kurt Cobain.
2. While in high school, Grohl played in several local bands, including a stint as guitarist in Freak Baby and played drums in a group named Mission Impossible.
3. The group took its name from the UFOs and various aerial phenomena that were reported by Allied aircraft pilots in World War II, which were known collectively as foo fighters.
4. When he was 13 years old Dave Grohl went to see American punk rock Naked Raygun at The Cubby Bear in Chicago – his first ever concert.
5. Foo Fighters made its live public debut on February 23, 1995, at the Jambalaya Club in Arcata, California.
6. Guitarist Pat Smear was a founding member of punk band the Germs and the touring guitarist for Nirvana from 1993 to 1994.
7. Chart Attack voted Foos drummer Taylor Hawkins as the sexiest musician at the 2000 Summersault Festival. Dave Grohl was placed fourth.
8. The first pressing of Foos' 1999 album There Is Nothing Left To Lose came with a rub-on FF tattoo like the one on Dave's neck.
9. 'Learn to Fly' was the band's first song to enter the Billboard Hot 100, as well as their second-highest charting song on the Hot 100, peaking at number 19. The song's music video won Best Short Form Video award at the 43rd Grammy Awards in 2000.
10. Dave Grohl played drums on the soundtrack for the 1994 Beatles film, Backbeat. He was joined by Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore, R.E.M.'s Mike Mills, Gumballs' Don Fleming, The Afghan Whigs' Greg Dulli and Soul Asylum's Dave Pirner.
11. During the September 4, 1997 concert at Radio City Music Hall, right before that year's 1997 MTV Video Music Awards, Smear announced his departure and gave his instrument for the new guitarist, Franz Stahl, to finish the set. Stahl, who played with Grohl in Scream, flew from a tour he was performing in Japan after getting the invitation to join the band.
12. Before joining the band, Taylor Hawkins was Alanis Morissette's touring drummer. He appeared in Morissette's videos for 'You Oughta Know', 'All I Really Want' and 'You Learn'.
13. Dave Grohl once made a cameo appearance with his wife Jennifer on The X-Files in a 1996 episode called Pusher.
14. Taylor Hawkins overdosed on heroin in 2001, which put him in a coma for two weeks
15. Dave Grohl became friendly with the late David Bowie on the 1997 festival circuit and later played his 50th birthday party. He later contributed drums to a cover of Neil Young's I've Been Waiting For You on 2002's Heathen.
16. While the Foo Fighters were on break, Hawkins played in a three-piece cover band, Chevy Metal.
17. In 2000, while on tour with Foo Fighters in Australia, Grohl was arrested by Australian police while driving a scooter under the influence following a concert on the Gold Coast in Queensland. He was fined $400 and had his Australian driving permit revoked for three months.
18. In August 2009, Grohl was given the key to the city of his hometown Warren, Ohio. A roadway in downtown Warren named 'David Grohl Alley' was dedicated to him with murals by local artists. Later in 2012 Warren, Ohio unveiled a pair of gigantic 902 lb. (409 kg) drumsticks to honor him.
19. Dave Grohl could have joined Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. Petty offered Dave the drummer's seat on a permanent basis after he sat in with the band on Saturday Night Live.
20. Foo Fighters second album The Colour And The Shape, was a Grammy nominee for Best Rock Album in 1998. Even though Foo Fighters are an American band, the word 'Colour' in the album title is always spelled with the British spelling. This was a nod to producer Gil Norton, who is British.
21. During the band's sold out shows at Wembley Stadium in June 2008, John Paul Jones and Jimmy Page from Led Zeppelin joined the band on stage.
22. Wasting Light released in 2011 was the first Foo Fighters album to top the United States' Billboard 200 chart as well as peaking at number one on the UK chart. The album also topped the charts in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Sweden, Finland, Norway, New Zealand, and Singapore.
23. In 2012, Grohl was estimated to be the third wealthiest drummer in the world, behind Ringo Starr and Phil Collins, with a fortune of $260 million.
24. During the concert in Gothenburg, Sweden on June 12, 2015, Grohl, fell off the stage early in the set and fractured his leg, but he returned to finish the set in a wheelchair and on crutches and kept playing until the end of the concert. However, the remainder dates of the European leg was cancelled costing the band as much as $10 million in lost fees and travel expenses not offset by box office revenue.
25. Over the course of the band's career, four of its albums have won Grammy Awards for Best Rock Album.
26. Taylor Hawkins claimed that he once turned down an offer to join Guns N' Roses. He said that he was approached by Axl Rose to join his new line-up of the band following the exit of their original members.
27. In 2016 Dave Grohl leapt to the defence of a teenage heavy metal band from Cornwall, England, after their local council said they were too loud. The Black Leaves of Envy were told they would have to stop practising in a family garage after noise complaints from neighbours. Grohl penned an open letter to the authority after the band contacted him asking Cornwall Council to 'reconsider the restrictions'.
28. Taylor Hawkins once revealed that the worst gig they ever played was opening up for the Chili Peppers in the late 90s. They were so drunk they couldn't even play, and managed just three songs and then laid down on the stage.
29. As a Christmas gift, Grohl once recorded a song for his then-girlfriend, pressing and packaging it as a proper release. He gave the sole copy to her and then destroyed all the remaining tapes.
30. Grohl chews gum before and during their sets, which keeps his mouth from getting dry. He prefers Dentyne Ice, and says, 'Onstage, I need a minty-fresh microphone.'


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It's the warmup. Gary The Bull is beside me spinning up the first slight incline.
I mention Zirra's performance numbers from this same ride the week before, and Gary's head snaps to the side, "What?!! 330 watts... Average?!!"
"Yes, with a 1600 watt max."
He almost crashes.
Finally, we were on a ride with somebody who has a power meter... and a clue.
Gary knew exactly what those numbers meant. Everybody else who was on the ride with Zirra the previous week had not a guess about what they meant, because Zirra was so far behind by the end of the ride they assumed it meant his performance was weak.
Not likely.
For those who have not been training with a power meter: Floyd Landis has reported his typical workout averages 280 watts with maybe 324 watts for the last two hours.
The next time I got Gary to snap his head and almost crash was when I continued by mentioning Mary's last six mile interval of the Hump a few days earlier.
Gary said politely, "Hmm, yes. 20+ miles an hour. Very nice..."
Then snap, "68? Did you say 68 watts?!"
Even for people who have a power meter and understand the numbers, the reality of people's effort on rides, with the simple physics and simpler mechanics revealed by an objective data source, is still surprising.
Power meters on rides are very new, and the old ways of looking at things are very entrenched.
Did you think you beat Zirra on that ride simply because he was behind you?
Did Mary put in a relatively strong performance simply because she averaged 20+ mph over that last six miles?
People are so accustomed to having absolutely no objective data about their rides, they take for granted their reliance on indices of performance based on magic, puffery, and metaphysics.
"We rode hard and fast, because it felt hard and fast," or "I think, therefore I am," or "It is, because I think it is," and the old standard, "If Bob just rode a little smarter, he could finish with the group."
In any case, on this day's ride with Gary The Bull we finally got a chance to have an objective comparison of two people of differing weights riding next to each other on the same hill. I was giddy with excitement.
In fact I was so giddy, afterwards Gary commented to somebody, "I didn't even know Bob could talk. He's never said more than a dozen words to me total."
Actually I was not talking. I was listening.
I was trying to pry every little bit of information out his head that might have relevance to the 23+ Widder's Hump, and I just wanted to be able to record a simple little comparison.
One hill, on one ride, on this day.
This climb was completed with Mary and Gary talking easily to each other for the entire climb. The effort would have provided a 20+ mph average for the Hump, but most people would think that would be impossible at such an easy effort level.
That's because most people feel the need to overwork several of the earlier hills, then maintain their blow-up for the remainder of the 34.2 mile course.
As for the interval outlined in the table above, it is the hill past the silo that gives the Silence of the Lambs ride its name, and it is rather mild.
However, the hill is long enough and regular enough to make a good test track. That section is just a little over a mile long.
I set up the test by telling Gary, "Mary will start an interval just before the silo. You set your own interval and pace beside her up to the stop sign."
Mary was to go easy holding an average of 175 watts. We wanted to see how many more watts Gary would need to consume over the same incline, at the same pace, for the same time and distance.
The simple comparison table above was culled from several they-blinded-me-with-science charts and graphs derived from two separate measuring systems plus a third party training software.
Mary was riding with a Powertap using two CPU's, because one CPU alone does not show current and average watts at the same time.
Gary was using an SRM. The third party software allowed me to look at his e-mailed numbers.
Here's a screen shot of the basis for the numbers above. Gary's on top, Mary's is behind.
What seems to be still missing in people's understanding of this natural process is the simple fact that watts is watts is watts, and a given average number of watts will equal a very specific speed over a circular course where the finish is the same elevation as the start.
Doing a circuit will assure a wind assist equals out the other side's wind resist, and the downhills make up for the uphills... so long as you keep your watts going.
What's the advantage of this? If you have a given goal speed, you don't have to guess what the effort should be... ever. If you know exactly how hard you can push for how long, you never have to worry about overdoing it... ever.
It is easy to see how the overdone flurry of info in the chartography above aids in hiding the fact that this is a rather simple matter.
The significant numbers are derived easily by understanding the most basic elements of high school classical physics along with kindergarten mechanics. It ain't rocket science.
Gary had one final shock when he realized that Mary had been staying on his wheel toward the end of the ride and that she was using only 40 watts, while he was pushing hard to catch somebody in a breakaway.
He said, "I looked around and couldn't believe Mary was still on my wheel... huh? 40 watts?!! NO WAY."
That serves to point out just how counterintuitive this can be, even for a 9/11 fireman hero who has a permanent problem breathing thanks to his efforts saving human life, plus two marathons under his belt this year before injuring his foot which is now almost recovered enough for us not to be riding with him again.
Gary commented that since he got his power meter, differences in draft and lead still surprise him, "I always knew there was a difference. I just can't get over how big the difference is."
Even somebody with the technology and the understanding of what the numbers mean finds it hard to believe what objective data reveals about the simple facts on the ground.
I often see people "pushing" against perceived effort, instead of accommodating the actual requirement. Doing that is following an old school process that has not yet caught up to the new tools which provide objective reliable repeatable results.
Typically people describe their improvement based on "how hard" their workouts are, rather than how much easier their rides are getting.
Listen up folks, you can continue making things harder and harder for yourself for as long as you like, but it is a process which is not necessarily making you healthier, stronger, or (worse yet) faster. It is just calming you in your belief that you "must" be stronger and healthier and faster, because of how hard you are working.
There's a lot more to speed than power.
We haven't even gotten to the gains that can be had merely by not putting back pressure into your pedal stroke, which might just be an artifact of your overwhelming perception that a given "speed" should feel "hard" to a given degree, and you are going to put it there yourself, if it doesn't come from the outside world.
Using the available tools correctly can provide gains well beyond a mere improvement in strength, or threshold.
Mary's watts for the comparison interval were 189 (well over her 175 watt target for it), because her newly improved movement in her left hip has given her extra watts at the same perceived level of exertion.
In fact she spent the entire interval trying to ease off the effort and lower her watts, but they were just too easy. Think about that folks: a 20+ mph pace, "...just too easy."
Efficiency and awareness is the name of this game, and it is not for everybody.
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What Is International Monetary Policy?
National governments and central banks from around the world attempt to control elements of the economy such as inflation and interest rates by imposing various types of monetary controls. The combined efforts of these governments and agencies are often referred to as international monetary policy. While each nation has the right to set its own economic policies, in some instances groups of nations negotiate international monetary policy agreements that affect the economies in multiple countries.
Monetary policies have an effect on the ability of importers and exporters to buy and sell goods with trading partners based in overseas locations. Some countries have minimal natural resources and people in these countries rely on foreign companies to supply valuable commodities such as oil and natural gas. High energy prices can cause an inflationary cycle to begin and when rising export prices often cause nations to fall into recession. Consequently, most national governments make economic decisions that are based upon domestic needs but also take into account the international monetary policy decisions being taken in other nations.
Central banks have the ability to lower lending rates and this means that people and businesses can borrow money inexpensively and goods become more affordable. During recessions, nations sometimes agree to lower lending rates in unison as part of a drive for a unified international monetary policy that will lower export costs and make trade between nations more affordable. Central banks often agree to raise interest rates in unison during inflationary cycles in order to limit consumer spending and drive down prices. Trade disputes often arise when differing economic conditions in two nations cause central governments to make contrasting monetary policy decisions that make international trade more difficult.
The European Union (EU) is comprised of most of the nations in Western and Central Europe and elected officials from each of these nations have the authority to make some international monetary policy decisions on behalf of the EU. Nevertheless, individual nations have the right to veto some policy decisions and some countries choose not to participate in EU economic programs. The United Kingdom and Denmark decided to opt out of the EU policy decision to introduce a single European currency. In other parts of the world such as the Americas and parts of Asia, other less formal economic groups comprised of various nations sometimes make regional international policy decisions that affect the lives of people in many nations.
Economic decisions are sometimes influenced by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) which is a United Nations (UN) agency that was created in part to facilitate international trade and commerce. The IMF has no official role in developing policies but the entity can make recommendations on policy decisions to UN member nations. Additionally, the IMF operates an emergency cash fund and economically troubled nations can obtain loans from the IMF if the organization's policy makers believe that the loans will benefit both the nation in question and the global financial scene as a whole.


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"Good to see you, man," said a slight young man in a too-big dress shirt and tie. He was beaming. "You're a normie, but I respect you."
He spoke to his friend who had chosen a seat toward the back of the Chan Centre's Telus Theatre to hear Dr. Jordan Peterson speak.
"What?" his friend said.
"This is the normie section."
The young man in the tie walked back to his seat in the front row, a smile still glued to his face.
Tonight was going to be great.
Peterson, the University of Toronto psychology professor who has turned an online lecture series into a goldmine that nets him at least $800,000 a year, came to UBC Friday night to talk about the perils of postmodernism and "neo-Marxism" — the ideologies that, he puts forth, have turned our universities into "walking corpses" and our children into despot-worshipping sociopaths.
Now, he says, it's coming for the rest of us.
Peterson rose to prominence protesting bill C-16, which gives gender expression and identity protection under the Canadian Human Rights Act and Criminal Code. More specifically, it's now illegal to deny services, employment, accommodation, etc. to individuals based on their gender identity, or to promote genocide against them.
Peterson believes that this will result in "compelled speech" — that if a person refuses to use someone else's preferred gender pronouns, they'll be charged with a hate crime.
The panic is misplaced, according to the Canadian Bar Association and most other legal experts. But Peterson's refusal to give up the fight has only endeared him further to the right, including UBC's own Free Speech Club, which organized the event.
Peterson began his talk by defining postmodernism as a "very dark view" — a "Hobbesian nightmare" where everyone is at everyone else's throat. This is the ideology of the people who are teaching our children and dictating what we should think, Peterson said.
And they're not misguided — they're evil. Their morals are bad and their hearts are in the wrong place.
Peterson's work for the New Democratic Party (NDP) when he was younger illuminated this for him. He thought the leaders were honourable people, but he didn't like the low-level activists — they seemed "peevish and resentful."
Instead, he found himself enjoying the company of the Alberta capital-C Conservatives on his school's board of directors.
Young Peterson was conflicted. Why had he come to respect those who he ideologically disagreed with, when he struggled to do the same for his NDP colleagues?
But then it clicked:
"They don't like the poor, they just hate the rich."
The radical left ruins everything
Peterson's easy demonization of the "radical left" is familiar to anyone who has watched his clips on YouTube. The talk was a selection of crowd favourites, down to the ethical basis for play in rats and 350-million-year-old dominance hierarchies.
It's Peterson's reverence for natural hierarchies — a "stable solution" to the chaos of society — that is so appealing to fanbase of young men who feed on the idea that white males are unfairly portrayed as the root of all evil, and who feel personally attacked by feminism.
In the West, Peterson said, hierarchies are based on competence — not power or privilege. If a hierarchy becomes too corrupted, it crumbles. We can see this because "everything around us works all the time."
For instance, Peterson cited Harvey Weinstein as evidence of the hierarchical system running smoothly. He worked hard, achieved a position of power, started to act like a "tyrant" and was removed from his position of power.
"That's the definition of a functioning state," Peterson said.
He skipped over the multiple accounts that Weinstein had serially abused women for decades, employing underlings to run interference, planting scandalous stories in the press on those who refused his advances and ruining the reputations and careers of those who displeased him. He was caught out because a tiny fraction of his victims were convinced by the media to speak publicly about something that "everybody fucking knew."
But his dismissal of uncomfortable bits of Western society doesn't bother those who paid to see him. They came for the greatest hits, and Peterson delivered.
He speaks with the passion and conviction of a preacher, and the authority of a tenured professor who has it all figured out. His hands literally draw out his thoughts in real time as he places ideas on front of him and then ties them all together. It's just as easy to picture Peterson on a mount as a stage, and it's difficult not to become enraptured.
It's this zeal, combined with a black-and-white, good-and-evil stance against leftism and preference for Western civilization's status quo, that appeals to such a broad swath of the self-identified right and centre — classical liberals, neoconservative reactionaries, the alt-right, the anti-politically correct and, yes, some Nazis all love Peterson.
He is revered by the anti-"social justice warrior" crowd because he's able to perfectly encapsulate what they've been feeling so viscerally in the language of academia, while simultaneously discrediting the rest of academia.
You don't have to engage with postmodernists, socialists or Marxists because they are wrong, Peterson tells his followers.
When you're arguing with a socialist, you're arguing with someone who is "murderous and genocidal," and who would be more than happy to fill our streets with blood if it meant winning the ideological war — "the precise antithesis of good."
"Postmodernists don't believe in facts," he said. They are motivated by hatred, not compassion, and they see truth as an obstacle to overcome before implementing their sick agenda.
Peterson's teachings excuse his followers not only from the burden of argument, but from reflection — for instance, on the societal structures that put white men at the top of nearly every systemic hierarchy.
Structural racism is brushed aside — people prefer "the familiar to the novel"; disparate hiring rates for men and women come down to biology; and any oppression you might feel should be outweighed by thankfulness that you live in a wealthy nation.
"Postmodernists have zero, zero, zero gratitude," Peterson said. "It's all, 'Oh my god, I'm oppressed.' Of course you're oppressed, but you're not oppressed by the patriarchy, my god."
Peterson finishes his lectures with a bow on top, in case you had any doubts: "and that's that."
Let's talk about white privilege
Toward the end of the night, Peterson announced that he'd like to talk about white privilege, which elicited a "yesss" from a solid portion of the crowd. Some applauded. There was a woo.
The thing about white privilege, Peterson said, is that it doesn't exist. Well, it does, but there are many types of privilege — the privilege of being young, old, male, female, black, white — and who's to say which ones are more important than others?
There's no evidence that being a man grants you more privileges than being a woman, he said.
"Women live about eight years longer. They're multi-orgasmic."
(In North America, women only live about four years longer. They're also far more likely to be paid less, married off as children, and raped.)
Further, it's racist to point out white privilege because racism, as Peterson sees it, is painting one racial group with the same brush.
"That's what racism is — there's no other way of defining it!" he said.
Peterson didn't engage with the definition of racism as a set of systemic and institutional functions which promote the continued dominance of a particular race, that being the one most academics agree on.
This is Peterson's favourite rhetorical play. Once you define the "other" as evil, bloodthirsty tyrants, you leave no room for any definitions they propose — anything your opponent says becomes an extension of Pol Pot's ideology, and we all know how that turned out, don't we?
It paints your opponents into a corner: they can accept the wisdom you are willing to dispense, or they can live a savage life, untethered by morality.
It makes you a hero, and it makes them easy to dismiss.
On the bus ride home, I overheard a young man speaking to his partner with increasing agitation about the "leftists" on campus.
He echoed Peterson's assertion that neo-Marxists are actuated solely by contempt for the rich, not love for the working class.
They're all the same, he said.
He squared up against an imagined foe.
"You're against individuality," he spat. "You're against business owners employing people, which is the basis of Western civilization."
His partner listened politely.
"I don't want any young person to grow up to be a leftist. They're degenerates to society."


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Pinch strength is an often forgotten area of climbing training, it certainly isn't very sexy, but you can get some great gains if you take the time to develop it.
To get the best results out of pinch grip training you need to be engaging your thumb and really squeezing it in opposition to you fingers. Unfortunately, most pinches on fingerboards and even system walls don't fully target pinch grip strength development as they tend to encourage compression (pulling your hands towards each other), rather than true pinching.
Luckily, there is a pretty simple way to really target this thanks to some of the sweet training products on the market these days. My go to training tool are the elephant balls by Awesome woodys, which are perfectly round wooden balls on a cord. They do an amazing job of working your pinch strength and it can be an effort just to hold onto them.
I'm a big fan of the elephant balls, but if you are struggling for dollars, a simple and very effective alternative to this are blocks of wood that you can fashion for yourself. Essentially you can go for any thickness you like, but I've found a medium to wide pinch hold to be the best for me.
In the past, I've just used a piece of 70 x 35mm pine and doubled this up for thicker grips. Just cut a couple of lengths around 10-15cm long and screw in an eye bolt or drill a hole to take a loop of cord.
There are a couple of ways to use pinch grips, both are effective for training, but one is a little more precise than the other.
To really get a handle on your pinch strength ability and track your progress, you will need access to some weights. Rig a sling through the middle of these and attach them to the pinch grips. Experiment with the weight (in a similar way to the max hang, minimum edge protocol) to find something you can hold for about 12 to 13 seconds, this is your working weight and there is a good chance that it will be different for each hand.
If you are using the balls, hold them wherever feels comfortable, but try to keep your fingers under the top line etched into the wood so you are really working that pinch. Lift the weights at the same time (one grip in each hand) and hold for 10 seconds before lowering them back down. Take a 3-minute rest to fully recover and then go again for 5 sets.
This is a pretty short set and you may not feel too taxed physically, but it is highly likely your grip will be compromised by the end, so don't do it before a climbing session.
You should aim to complete 2-3 session per week for 5 weeks, take a 1-week break, then evaluate your progress by adding some more weight to the grips to see if you have improved.
If you don't have access to weights, you can carry out the same program by hanging from the balls with your feet up on a step, or simply out in front of you on the ground, depending on the resistance required to hold on for 12-13 seconds. This is obviously harder to track quantitatively, but you should see a result in your climbing, which is all the proof you need.
I'd suggest either adding this to a fingerboard workout as an additional grip, or as a stand-alone exercise and cycle it with some other grip training after 1-2 blocks so you don't overdo it.
Grab the free interval timer below and go wrap your hands around some balls!
Make sure to let me know what you think in the comments, or by giving @Climbingmeta a shoutout on Facebook or Instagram.
Remember, train hard and climb smart.
don't you mean mm instead of cm for the size of the boards? They look like 2X4's (inches really 1.5X3.5in) in the U.S.


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How Long Will I Take Hormonal Therapy?
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Waiting on Wednesday
Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted by Jill at Breaking The Spine. It is for bloggers to show which upcoming releases they are looking forward to. My selection for this week is a little different than my previous choices:
Sowing the Seeds of Forgiveness by Immaculee Ilibagiza
Release date: 15 October 2010
In "Sowing The Seeds of Forgiveness," Immaculee reveals how the simple message of forgiveness in her earlier books resonated in the hearts of readers around the world. The hunger to find inner peace is so universal that Immaculee now spends much of her life sharing her story in churches, synagogues, concert halls, and stadiums all over the globe. Along the way she offers us moments of true inspiration by taking us into the lives of people whose hearts have been freed from a lifetime of pain by finding forgiveness. In this book, we join Immaculee as she travels from Iceland to Japan, from Hollywood to the Holy Land, to the White House luncheon and a meeting with the first family, and much more. In each country, no matter what the culture or language, Immaculee is greeted with the same question: "How do we forgive?" Her answer is always the same, and it is what "Sowing The Seeds of Forgiveness" is truly about--"Love."
Immaculee has a truly amazing story. She is a survivor the 1994 Rwandan Genocide. Her entire family was killed, except for one brother who was out of the country at the time, and she survived by hiding in a bathroom in her neighbours house with seven other women for three months. She wrote her story in "Left to Tell: Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan Holocaust." She then went on to write "Led by Faith" in which she talks about finding her way in the world following the genocide and moving to the United States. Hers is an inspiring story and it's great to see that she is now sharing the stories of others around the world who have learned how to forgive in the most extreme circumstances.


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He started already in 1985 to develop and manufacture own equipment for the printing industry. The last twelve years he has worked with agencies for the packaging industry.
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