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In one country, a Josef Stalin revival is under way

GORI, Georgia — In most of the world, Josef Stalin is remembered as a ruthless dictator responsible for the deaths of tens of millions of people from famine, executions, political purges and Siberian prisons.

But the story is more complicated in Stalin’s native Georgia, a former Soviet republic of 5 million inhabitants on the Black Sea and in Russia, where a Stalin revival is under way.

In his hometown of Gori, a museum dedicated to Stalin’s 1929 to 1953 rule of the Soviet Union displays his early attempts at poetry, his boots, larger-than-life portraits and his death mask. It sells T-shirts printed with his image. Other Stalin kitsch, including embossed medals, busts and pennants, is sold at flea markets in the capital, Tblisi, and even outside a monastery on the tourist circuit.

“For some, the Stalin years were good times — they were employed, had better homes,” said Natia Jolbordi, a guide at the Stalin museum in Gori, an ancient city of 70,000 inhabitants located 50 miles northwest of Tblisi.

And the Soviet Union was at the pinnacle of its power, helping to defeat Nazi Germany and grabbing half of Europe in the process. “Older people who experienced World War II support Stalin,” said Eka Tkeshelashvili, Georgia’s former deputy prime minister.

Red Army invasion

Yet many Georgians also suffered under Stalin, who engineered the Red Army invasion that ended the nation’s brief independence of 1917 to 1921. Under the next seven decades of Soviet rule, at least 80,000 Georgians were shot, according to an exhibit at the national museum. Some of the images of Stalin displayed publicly around Tblisi are defaced with a pejorative used to describe the male genitalia.

The same slogan can be seen on the T-shirts of many young Georgians that feature the face of Russian President Vladimir Putin, who has engineered a revival of Stalin as he launches his own expansionist actions, clampdowns on opponents and one-man rule.

“Putin is resurrecting the cult of Stalin,” said Irakli Porchkhidze, co-founder of the Institute for Strategic Studies, an independent think-tank in Tbilisi. “He wants people to know that strong, iron-fisted leaders are to be venerated.”

On Saturday, Russia is scheduled to open the world’s second Stalin museum in the village of Khoroshevo, 140 miles northeast of Moscow. The new museum is part of the 70th anniversary of the Soviet Union’s victory over Hitler and will portray Stalin as a statesman, politician and world leader.

A March survey by the independent Moscow pollster Levada Center showed that 45 percent of Russians believe sacrifices made under Stalin were justified by the Soviet Union’s rapid economic expansion, in contrast to only 23 percent in 2013. Thirty-nine percent said they would back plans for erecting a monument to Stalin.

“It is not surprising that both the Putin government and many Russian citizens look more favorably on the Stalin era — a time when Russia was respected, even feared; a time when Russia’s power was growing, not contracting,” wrote David L. Hoffmann, a history professor at Ohio State University, in an April editorial in the Moscow Times.

Putin’s domestic popularity soared after he defied the West by annexing Crimea and supporting pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine. He has described Stalin as an “effective manager,” and told teachers to avoid history that “makes your hair stand up” — meaning no mention of executions, starvation from forced agrarian collectivization, purges, mass deportations and gulags.

Russian textbooks now refer to Stalin as “one of the most successful leaders of the USSR,” and there is a movement to change the name of the city of Volgograd back to Stalingrad. Nikita Khrushchev dropped the name in 1961 as part of his campaign to end Stalin’s personality cult.

The strongman’s rehabilitation also appears to be rising in Georgia and other ex-Soviet republics.

Salome Samadashvili, Georgia’s former ambassador to the European Union, recently gave a speech on democracy in Kyrgyzstan when she stopped to answer a question. “As a Georgian, aren’t you proud that Stalin came from your country?” an audience member asked.

“I was shocked. Here I am talking about democracy and he wants to know my opinion on Stalin,” Samadashvili recalled. “I was unaware of how many people in former Soviet countries are strangely pro-Stalin.”

Museum adds rights abuses

Gori’s museum has added a small exhibit in its basement to acknowledge Stalin’s sins. It displays names of Georgians sent to labor camps, photos of Russian leaders executed on the dictator’s orders, a replica of a jail for political prisoners and a mural of a firing squad mowing down its victims.

There are also photos taken after the city was bombed in 2008 by Russian warplanes during a five-day conflict over two Georgian breakaway regions. More than 400 Georgians were killed.

On museum grounds, visitors can climb aboard the train car in which Stalin traveled during World War II and see the humble brick-and-timber, one-room house where he was born Iosif Visarionovich Jugashvili in 1879. His father was a shoe cobbler and his mother a fervently religious dressmaker who wanted him to become a priest. Before turning to revolution and changing his name to Stalin, or “Man of Steel,” Jugashvili studied at a seminary and sang in a church choir.

Hometown loyalty

Signs of Gori’s loyalty to its native son are also evident outside the museum.

The city’s main drag is called Stalin Street. A 20-foot monument to the dictator stood for 48 years in the main square until 2010, when then-Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili had it removed during his campaign to end all vestiges of Soviet symbolism. Two years later, the Gori municipal government voted to move the monument to the museum site. Even though a pedestal has been fashioned, the statue has yet to be mounted.

During Saakashvili’s administration, a grassroots campaign was organized to tear down Stalin statues across the country. In cities and towns that refused, residents were encouraged to throw pink paint on the monuments “so the whole community could see it and talk about it — like talking about racism in the U.S.,” said Will Cathcart, Saakashvili’s former American media adviser and managing editor of the Georgian Journal, an English-language weekly newspaper in Tbilisi.

Even some Georgians who condemn Stalin’s deeds, however, marvel at the unlikely rise to power of a choirboy who became the nation’s most famous son.

“The guy was big for small Georgia,” Porchkhidize said. “He ran an entire empire.”

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Between 2000-2009, Jack Epstein headed the San Francisco Chronicle’s foreign service, overseeing coverage by freelancers and stringers from Europe, Asia, Africa, the Middle East and Latin America. Before joining the Chronicle, he spent many years in Latin America and has a B.A. in Latin American Studies from UCLA.

He began his journalism career in 1980 freelancing from Central and South America. Jack had worked previously for two years as a Peace Corps volunteer in Brazil and Panama and traveled throughout the region, producing the 1977 travel guide, “Along the Gringo Trail.”

In 1982 he received a grant from the Fund for Investigative Journalism to research the links between Central America’s Miskito Indians and the CIA, spending four months in Nicaragua, Honduras and Costa Rica, producing a series of articles for Pacific News Service and the National Catholic Reporter.

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This last week starting on Thursday Feb. 17 and going through Saturday Feb. 19 Sheridan High School indoor track and field athletes traveled to Pocatello Idaho to compete in one of the largest national high school track meets. This year was a great year with over 20 Sheridan athletes making it to Simplot. It was a great experience for everyone that went to see some of the best athletes in the nation. Two of our athletes even placed at the Simplot Games this year with Hunter Vineyard tieing for 8th place in the girls high jump with a jump of 5'4'. Also Dylan Morin did very well taking 2nd in the boys 2 mile run. The team really enjoyed themselves and cant wait to go again next year.


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You Need To Find A Fitness Routine That You Enjoy ...

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The advice shared here will assist you how to get more fit and how to do it right. Learn all you need to know about the exercises that you choose to do.

You will anticipate your workout routine.

Strength Training

TIP! Do you think that you are too busy to stay fit? Do two shorter workouts instead of one long one. Do not increase the time you workout, but try to break it into a half.

The frequency of your strength training regimen depends solely on your personal goals. If your target goal is bigger and bulkier, do less strength training. If you’re working on building lean muscle, you need to do such workouts more often.

Try exercising during your favorite TV show in order to keep yourself going. You can use commercial or do an exercise when there is a break in the action. Another option would be to work with small weights while remaining seated. You can always have time to squeeze in somewhere.

TIP! By varying exercise activities, one can maximize the benefits their body receives. If you normally use your treadmill for exercise, you can switch things up by going for a run around your neighborhood.

Be certain you have a great pair of workout shoes before you workout. When you don’t wear shoes specifically designed for the activity you are doing, you risk injuring your feet and legs.

Muscle Mass

TIP! Lifting lighter weight with more repetitions can increase muscle mass. Gaining muscle is not about lifting the most amount of weight, but how much can you lift for the longest amount of time.

When lifting weights, this will help your muscle mass increase. Muscle mass is not built solely by lifting large amounts of weight; endurance is also key. The best lifters keep that in the world swear by this way of training.

Make time to exercise on a few minutes each day.

A kickboxing class is a great way to get you into shape is kickboxing. Kickboxing burns massive calories and can improve your strength tenfold.

Ups Easier

TIP! To increase forearm strength, try this simple strategy from racquetball and tennis players. Use a large sheet of newsprint to cover a flat surface.

Do you find chin-ups easier? It can help to alter the way you look at doing chin ups.Imagine you’re pulling down instead of pulling up while you are doing your whole body up. This bit of mental sleight-of-hand can make chin-ups easier and it will help you to do more.

Try performing actual sit-ups along with your crunches when you work out. Sit-ups have a pretty bad reputation. Do not do sit-ups with your feet. This way of sit-ups is still not good for your back.

TIP! If you want to get stronger as soon as possible, try cutting down the amount of time it takes you to do your fitness routine by ten percent. This can also help your muscles get a better workout while improving your endurance.

Listen to your body if it’s telling you to rest. It’s common to be told you aren’t allowed to rest at certain point in the exercise. Take a break if your body tells you to. Ignoring your body’s signals will just set you up for injury.

You will get tired quicker if you pedal too fast.

Lifting Weights

Lifting weights can help you build endurance to run. Runners don’t often do weight training, but it definitely something they should do! Research has proven that runners who regularly strength-train run faster and longer without feeling tired by creating a regular schedule of lifting weights.

TIP! Balance your core when it comes to working out the front and back muscles. By only working out the lower back or abdominal muscles, you are going to have back pain.

Don’t extend your thumbs around the bars when down pulldowns or pullups. You can focus on your primary back muscles by putting your thumb behind your index finger. It may not be the most comfortable position, though you will get used to it and it will allow you to work out the correct muscles.

Prior to beginning a workout routine for your arms, know exactly what you plan to achieve. If you are trying to build up bulky muscles, you need to lift heavy with fewer repetitions. If your goal is more to tone your arms, do even more repetitions of lower weights instead of increasing the weight.

This will take away a bit of swelling and color associated with the injury.

There are lots of choices when it comes to fitness. It is just a matter of finding the best method for you. The good thing about a fitness program is that you can tailor it to meet your needs. Try to learn as much as you can about fitness, and you’ll get more and more interested in it.

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Fitness means having overall health and eating a nutritious diet. When people get physically fit, their body and mind function better. Read the tips to learn about getting healthy if you’re someone looking to get in shape.

TIP! If you can find an exercise you enjoy, you’ll be more likely to stay committed. If you are doing an activity you enjoy you will start to look forward to your work outs.

Are you like many others and have very little free time and think you cannot fit in a workout? Break up the workout into two sessions. Rather than getting an hour’s worth of running in at once, run for half an hour near the beginning of your day and then again nearer the end.

Counting your calories is a great way to stay fit. Knowing how many calories you consume a day is essential to finding out if you’ll lose or gain weight. If your calorie consumption is at your maintenance level without exercise, and continue to exercise, you can be fit in very little time.

TIP! Maximize your results by varying your workout activities. If someone usually uses a treadmill, they can easily run around their neighborhood.

You need not worry if the case. You can also try bicycling as a means of becoming more fit. Biking is a great way to burn some exercise in and save some gas.

Running in an outside far surpasses the workout you get on a treadmill.Running on paved surfaces is better in the winter than a treadmill.

TIP! One smart way to get fitter is to get into the programs that offer toning, firming and flexibility. Search for classes in your region.

When doing repetitious types of exercises that you need to count, count backwards from the number you’re working toward. This will help you get a better idea of how many you have left while keeping you motivated a lot better than counting up.

This is going to give you start your day better and can help you to build healthier habits.

TIP! A good way to help you get fit is to count your calories. Paying attention to your calorie consumption helps you plan your workouts.

Many people stay motivated by seeing results before they keep their motivation. Try buying tighter clothes instead of using the scale. You will be able to see every week as you are losing inches not just pounds.

Do you want to make doing chin-ups? Changing your way of thinking can give you greatly. Imagine you’re pulling down instead of pulling your chin-ups. This can help them appear easier and will allow you to complete more.

TIP! Keep a daily fitness diary. This log should include not only the workouts you complete, but also any additional exercises completed throughout your day.

There are more to fitness then just physical benefits. Your emotional health and outlook on life can also benefit from a good daily workout regimen.The endorphins released by physical activity result in a workout help you to feel good naturally. You can also improve your confidence and giving yourself some confidence. You are essentially only a couple times.

This article shows the areas where you can improve fitness. It’s time for you to shed the shame of being unfit and strive to meet your goals! If you use these tips, you will find yourself obtaining your fitness goals in no time!

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To get healthier and live longer, you should definitely be health-conscious. Fitness is an important for everyone because it wards off illnesses and creates a healthier body and mind. Read the following article for some advice on how to get in better shape through simple techniques.

TIP! Don’t do crunches as your sole abdominal exercise. One study found that 250,000 crunches burns only a single pound of fat.

Pay several months in advance when you join a gym membership ahead of time. This is a good way to trick yourself into going into the gym if you have trouble attending.

The best fitness routines target your body but also include exercises designed to increase flexibility.Search for classes in your surrounding area.

TIP! It is imperative to use correct form when walking. This will lower the potential for an injury.

Don’t focus exclusively on just using crunches to work out your abdomen. A major research university discovered that it takes a quarter million crunches to burn a single pound of fat. You must exercise your abs in various different ways.

A personal trainer is great for those who are dedicated to always improving their fitness levels. Personal trainers can provide motivational insight on how to form a wealth of experience to draw from.

TIP! Each time you hoist the weights above your head, you should flex your gluteals. This will exercise your butt and is a safer way of working out in general.

Your core is vitally important to your whole body and needs to be strong.Having a strong and stable core makes exercising other muscles of your body easier. Sit-ups are quite healthy and will help your core to become stronger. Doing sit ups can also makes you experience. This can help your abs to work longer and definition.

Muscle Mass

TIP! Motivation is very important in any diet program, and adding the tactile components of seeing and feeling the results can be very motivating. As a way to check progress, don’t let the scales tell the story.

When weight-lifting, you will help muscle mass if you do a lot of reps with a light weight; that is in contrast to fewer reps with high weight. Muscle mass is is not all about being able to lift the most but to endure the longest without losing strength. The best lifters keep that in the world swear by this way of training.

Never work out of the bed and workout when you are feeling sick. The body is unable to create muscle building and increase endurance throughout this period. This means that you should avoid exercising until you feel better.While you’re waiting to heal up, get plenty of rest and eat well.

TIP! People who are primarily interested in losing weight sometimes exercise far too hard because they’re hoping to burn the maximum possible number of calories. This isn’t good because it can damage your muscles and joints.

This will allow you to be sure that your workouts are productive as well as safe. You should definitely see a doctor if you have a history of health concerns.

When you’re getting ready to start a fitness routine, see a doctor before getting into a large amount of vigorous exercise. Even if you’re in top notch shape, you can still get some great input by visiting with a professional.

TIP! A kickboxing class is a great way to get fit. No one tries a few rounds of kickboxing without working up a serious sweat and feeling like they’ve really gotten a great workout.

Your workout should leave you feeling refreshed and energized, rather than draining or exhausting you. To burn calories and decrease fat stores, your workout should involve cardiovascular exercises like aerobics or running. You also need to incorporate exercises which strengthen the muscle groups depending on your energy level.

It is great to exercise them between two and three times weekly, since your abs require rest just as your other bodily muscles do.

Exercise Routine

You need to have variety to your exercise program. There are several reasons for using a variety of routines to chose from. The first reason for mixing up your workout is that people who do the same thing every day is boring! If your body gets too used to your exercise routine, you will not get the results you want until you change your exercise routine. Keep your body working at it best by varying your exercise routine on a constant stream of new exercises.

TIP! Donkey raises can help you build your calf muscles. These exercises are specifically targeted at increasing calf strength.

As you can now see, everyone knows how important fitness is, but some think it too hard to achieve. This is simply not the case if you are smart about it. An increase in water intake and exercise can start anyone on the path to fitness. Use the tips you just read and commit to a fitness program and you will see a difference.

Simple To Follow Tips To Getting A Better Body

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Many people want to get into shape but then think it is too much of a chore. Use this article to learn all you figure out what it takes to start getting fit today.

TIP! Pick an exercise that is fun and you will be more likely to stick with it. Choose exercises that make you happy; this way you are in a great mood when thinking about exercising.

Counting your calories helps you wish to get fit. The number of calories you consume per day will determine weather you’re on track to gain or lose weight.If your calorie consumption is at your maintenance level without exercise, and you lose calories by exercising, you can be fit in very little time.

When doing repetitious types of exercises that you need to count, count backwards from your goal. This helps you know how many you have left and keep you motivated to finish.

TIP! Walking is a good way to boost fitness. Walk with your heel coming down first, which can give you the best workout and increase your level of effort.

This practice increases the likelihood that you far more likely to continue with your workouts.The reason is that you will waste your money by not completing them. You are going to want to make the most of your investment so you paid for.

Box Squats

TIP! The basic strategy of increasing muscle mass is to lift heavier weights for fewer repetitions. Begin by selecting a muscle group, such as the chest.

Box squats are a great way to increase the size of your quadriceps. Box squats give you an extra boost of power while doing squats. You just need to put a sturdy box.

If you’re trying to increase the speed and endurance you have, you should learn the Kenyan method of training. The Kenyan method is to go slow for the first third of a higher gear after that. Your pace is going to increase bit by bit over the whole length of your run. By the end of that run, you should be running at a fast pace.

TIP! Try to maintain your bicycling pace somewhere in the range of eighty and one-hundred and ten rotations per minute. Keeping a steady pace puts less pressure on your knees, and allows you to ride longer.

Start with the number of repetitions you wish to complete, and count down instead of counting to the amount of reps you are doing.This helps to shorten your workouts to feel shorter because you are now thinking in smaller amounts.

Always use the proper form when you are exercising your biceps. The proper way to life weight with your biceps is to slightly bend your wrists backward and hold while you lift. When done, slowly bring your wrist back to a straight resting position. This is the way to do a safe manner.

TIP! Before you begin a bench workout, you should check the padding thickness by firmly pressing your fingers down into the cushion. If the padding is so thin that you can feel the wood on the bottom, look for a better machine.

Get the family involved in a fitness routine. Have members of your family rotate deciding what activity the weekly physical activities that you all can do this week. This will motivate each member to stay on track and burning calories.

Getting involved will help your child to take care of their own participation.

TIP! A great exercise to get you into shape is kickboxing. After participating in kickboxing, everyone can agree that is is a sweat-inducing, intense workout.

You should know more about how to be fit using the information from this article. This is only a fraction of the excellent information out there. The more you seek out, the better your chances of making significant progress. Start with the knowledge you have accumulated and build on it as you go. Before long you will see positive results.

Need Help Getting Fit? Use These Tips To Succeed

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Staying fit should be on the mind of many people. The tips in the next few paragraphs will teach you what you need to know to make your personal fitness objectives.

TIP! Walking is great for getting fit. Start forward by pushing from the heel and then the toes in order to work the calves harder.

One way to motivate yourself is to clearly outline a goal for your fitness regimen is setting personal goals. This helps you to move beyond obstacles instead of obsessing over their difficulty. Setting goals will keep you avoid quitting since you have something concrete to work toward.

Be creative when starting a fitness regimen. There are plenty of activities you can try without having to join a gym. You should find something that keeps you motivated and happy to continue with your regimen.

TIP! Buying a new, cute outfit to do your workouts in will give you a confidence boost to get back on track with your fitness goals. Even trinkets will be fun and motivate you to get out to the gym.

Strong thighs are important for preventing knee injuries.Tearing a ligament on your knees is a sports injury that occurs quite frequently. You can accomplish doing this by leg extensions and leg curls.

Make yourself do exercises that you don’t like least. The theory behind this is that many people tend to avoid the exercises that are hardest. Conquer any such exercises by incorporating it into your daily exercise routine and keep working on in.

TIP! Signing up at a gym and paying your yearly fee upfront can give you the motivation to stick to your workout plans. The guilt you will feel by not using the club will hopefully get you to go more often than you normally would.

Set a schedule for yourself if you don’t work out regularly or avoid it altogether. Plan the number of days, and stick to it. If something does keep you from exercising, make it up by scheduling another replacement day where you work equally hard.

When doing reps, begin with the target number and count backwards from there. This will help you get a better idea of how many you have left and keep you motivated to finish.

Some dieters overdo exercise because it doesn’t seem to burn the calories that people expect it to.

Make sure you are wearing shoes fit well. Try to buy workout shoes during the day after your feet are a little larger. Make sure you have a half an inch wiggle room between your toes and the front of your shoe. Make sure that you are able to move your toes in the shoe.

TIP! Investing in a personal trainer is a great way to improve your fitness goals. Professional trainers have insight and training that will help you do the exercises properly and help motivate you to keep working towards your goal.

Do not stop your workout routines on weekends. It’s not uncommon for someone to view weekends as the time to relax and ignore health. You should always think about weight loss every day.

This practice increases the likelihood that you will follow through with your workout sessions. Your money is already been spent. You are going to want to get what you will follow through.

You will get tired quicker if you pedal too fast.

To improve your golf putt, aim about 17 inches beyond the hole when putting straight-on. This is an area that should be free of footprint-free turf. The grass is much thicker and your ball a bit.

TIP! Flex as much as you can during all of your weight training efforts. This will firm up your rear while also ensuring that you are keeping good form.

Fitness is something many people have on their minds, but many people are remarkably ignorant about fitness, in part because of wrong or incomplete resources. This article should only be the starting point of your fitness journey.

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US Military puts on a SHOW OF FORCE in military exercise

A great video of the US Military putting on a show of force in military exercise.The United States Armed Forces[N 1] are the military forces of the United States. They consist of the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Air Force, and Coast Guard.[6] The U.S. has a strong tradition of civilian control of the military. The President of the United States is the military’s overall head, and helps form military policy with the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD), a federal executive department, acting as the principal organ by which military policy is carried out. The DoD is headed by the Secretary of Defense, who is a civilian and Cabinet member. The Defense Secretary is second in the military’s chain of command, just below the President, and serves as the principal assistant to the President in all DoD-related matters.[7] To coordinate military action with diplomacy, the President has an advisory National Security Council headed by a National Security Advisor. Both the President and Secretary of Defense are advised by a seven-member Joint Chiefs of Staff, which includes the head of each of the Defense Department’s service branches as well as the chief of the National Guard Bureau. Leadership is provided by the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.[8] The Commandant of the Coast Guard is not a member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
All of the branches work together during operations and joint missions, under the Unified Combatant Commands, under the authority of the Secretary of Defense with the exception of the Coast Guard. The Coast Guard falls under the administration of the Department of Homeland Security and receives its operational orders from the Secretary of Homeland Security. The Coast Guard may be transferred to the Department of the Navy by the President or Congress during a time of war.[9] All five armed services are among the seven uniformed services of the United States; the others are the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Commissioned Officer Corps.

From the time of its inception, the military played a decisive role in the history of the United States. A sense of national unity and identity was forged as a result of victory in the First Barbary War and the Second Barbary War. Even so, the Founders were suspicious of a permanent military force and not until the outbreak of World War II did a large standing army become officially established. The National Security Act of 1947, adopted following World War II and during the Cold War’s onset, created the modern U.S. military framework; the Act merged previously Cabinet-level Department of War and the Department of the Navy into the National Military Establishment (renamed the Department of Defense in 1949), headed by the Secretary of Defense; and created the Department of the Air Force and National Security Council.

The U.S. military is one of the largest militaries in terms of number of personnel. It draws its manpower from a large pool of paid volunteers; although conscription has been used in the past in various times of both war and peace, it has not been used since 1972. As of 2013, the U.S. spends about 4.2 billion annually to fund its military forces, and appropriates approximately .5 billion to fund Overseas Contingency Operations.[4] Put together, the U.S. constitutes roughly 39 percent of the world’s military expenditures. The U.S. Armed Forces as a whole possess large quantities of advanced and powerful equipment, along with widespread placement of forces around the world, giving them significant capabilities in both defense and power projection. As such, it is widely accepted that the United States Armed Forces constitutes the most powerful military in the world.[10]

The U.S. has the world’s largest defense budget. In fiscal year 2010, the Department of Defense had a base budget of 3.8 billion. An additional 0.0 billion was requested for “Overseas Contingency Operations” in the War on Terrorism, and over the course of the year, an additional billion in supplemental spending was added to Overseas Contingency Operations funding.[17][18] Outside of direct Department of Defense spending, the U.S. spends another 8–262 billion each year on other defense-related programs, such as Veterans Affairs, Homeland Security, nuclear weapons maintenance, and the State Department.

By service, 5.2 billion was allocated for the Army, 1.7 billion for the Navy and Marine Corps, 0.5 billion for the Air Force and 6.4 billion for defense-wide spending.[19] By function, 4.2 billion was requested for personnel, 3.3 billion for operations and maintenance, 0.1 billion for procurement, .1 billion for research and development, .9 billion for military construction, and .1 billion for family housing.[20]
In fiscal year 2009, major defense programs also saw continued funding.

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¿Quieres un cuerpo fitness? Practica estos HÁBITOS de Nutrición.

En este video te traemos 7 HABITOS DE NUTRICIÓN los cuales puedes poner en practica al instante. Los hábitos te determinan como persona, ¿tienes buenos hábitos? Necesitas buenos hábitos para llegar a grandes niveles de felicidad. Disfruta del video.

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5 Minute Butt and Thigh Workout for a Bigger Butt ...

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Work up a sweat and burn fat and calories with this 30-minute workout. This workout uses high intensity exercises to get your heart going, followed by lower intensity exercises to lower your heart rate. This is a great workout for moms to relieve stress and keep your energy levels high. Don’t quit! The more you do this workout, the easier it will get.

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Rogue Fitness Black knocked out all four workouts of the CrossFit Team Series in one day in Cookeville, TN. Rogue Fitness Black is Rich Froning, Sam Briggs, Josh Bridges and Margaux Alvarez.

The workouts completed, in order, are:

For time:
Females complete:
100 double-unders, each
75-calorie row, total
50 dumbbell step-ups, total
Then, males complete:
100 double-unders, each
75-calorie row, total
50 dumbbell step-ups, total

Rx’d Standard
F – 30-lb. dumbbells to 20-inch box
M – 45-lb. dumbbells to 24-inch box

As FF and MM pairs, complete as many reps as possible in 20 minutes of:
30 clean and jerks (females)
30 clean and jerks (males)
30 clean and jerks (females)
30 clean and jerks (males)
Rx’d Standard
Switch athletes after every 5 reps and increase the weight of the barbell after each set of 30 reps.
Females use 95, 105, 125, 145, 155, 165 lb.
Males use 135, 155, 185, 225, 245, 265 lb.

Rx’d Workout
42-30-18 reps for time of:
Muscle-ups, with static deadlift hold
350-lb. partner deadlifts
Rx’d Standard
The 45-lb. barbell must be loaded with 135 lb. on one side and 170 lb. on the other side.

Complete as many reps as possible in 15 minutes of:
Male 1 and Female 1 each perform:
5 thrusters
5 chest-to-bar pull-ups
Then, Male 2 and Female 2 each perform:
10 thrusters
10 chest-to-bar pull-ups
Then, Male 1 and Female 1 each perform:
15 thrusters
15 chest-to-bar pull-ups
Then, Male 2 and Female 2 each perform:
20 thrusters
20 chest-to-bar pull-ups
Etc., following the same pattern
Rx’d Standard
M – 95-lb. thrusters
F – 65-lb. thrusters

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Best Home Gym Equipment – For Any Budget!

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Best Home Gym Equipment - For Any Budget!

This is just a quick overview of the equipment I suggest you start accumulating now. You may already have a good portion of these small, inexpensive pieces of fitness equipment.

I will continue to use these very same fitness gadgets in my workouts videos.

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Apple got the jump on itself Monday, unveiling two new iPads a week ahead of a company event slated to be held at the Steve Jobs Theater at the company’s headquarters in Cupertino.

Apple took the wraps off a new iPad Air with a 10.5-inch screen, and an update to the iPad Mini that comes with at 7.9-inch screen. Both new iPads run on Apple’s A12 Bionic microprocessor, have screens with the company’s Retina display technology and can run for 10 hours on a fully charged battery.

Both iPads come with either 64 gigabytes or 256 gigabytes of storage and are available for ordering immediately. The iPad Mini starts at $399, while the iPad Air has an introductory price of $499.

While Apple’s iPhones have shown signs of declining sales, the iPad continues to grow its share of the tablet market. Apple no longer reports quarterly sales figures of its iPads; during its fiscal first quarter, which ended in December, Apple reported $6.73 billion in iPad revenue, a 17 percent gain over the same period in 2017.

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Friday Link Love

These are the only pictures I have left to show you, all taken yesterday via Instagram and my cheapie Android phone.  Little Sis feels better, Mabel is doing fine (and comes home in 6 days!), and we had a little snow yesterday.  Then it warmed up just enough to stop and indeed melt, then the temperature dropped again.  It's 16 degrees this morning, but should be in the 50s later today.  I can't stop sneezing.

So I'm taking a cue from Melissa and other cool bloggers and giving you a little Link Love.  I have some great stuff planned for February, though!  I hope to have it all planned out this weekend.

  • I wonder if our remaining big box store will carry this magazine.  (Last time I looked for Mollie Makes, it wasn't there.  That's okay, I have an electronic subscription now.)
  • Oooo, I want this party, too.  With campfires and blankets and slightly warmer weather...

So this weekend we have cookies to sell, birthday parties to attend, I have to see a play, and I even have rehearsal.  We'll see how much I can accomplish!  But today, I have a playroom to attack!

Really attack.

It's trying to kill me.

If you don't hear from me next week, blame the playroom.

Happy February!  Merry Reading!  Happy Weekend!

My Morning Girl

My littlest is sick.  She stayed home from school yesterday, and she has no school today.  That's a bit hard on the oldest, who would love to stay home with Mom.

Otherwise, Big Sis is my morning girl.  I made it easy on her this morning:  blueberry muffins and Dennis the Menace.

Her favorite breakfast.

Her favorite TV show.

Yesterday's reading with Daddy.

Chocolate milk.

Last night's reading with Mom.

She's becoming more self-conscious.  She can't stand to watch or hear herself on video.  She was starting to stink-eye me about pictures.  She had to change shirts - I pointed out that the one she had on was looking rather small - and she did not want to be photographed in her comfy old sweatshirt.  Sigh.  She's becoming more like...

Me.  Except that I am not a morning person.

P.S.  Yesterday, Little Sis told me it was nice to be sick, because "I can catch up on my sleep."  I told her, "Yeah, but that's why you're supposed to go to sleep at night, instead of fighting it."  "But I'm nocturnal," she explained, not missing a beat.  "I'm like an owl."  And that's how that one is more like me...

Clementines, Both Edible and Readable

Oh, January.  Brown, sluggish January.  We need some laughs.  Something sweet, something tangy.  We need clementines.  Some to eat...

...and some to read.

I made Nigella Lawson's famous clementine cake.  And it was delicious.  And I know I should just type the recipe out, but if you click here you can find it on the Food Network website, in Nigella's own voice.  Try not to read it without hearing her voice, I dare you.  (You can also find the recipe in its original metric system format at Nigella's website.)

Okay, okay, okay, enough.  Time to be real.  Let me tell you the truth:  I've been sitting on this post for over a week.  There's a reason for that.  My springform pan broke when I tried to loosen the latch to release my cake.  Mr. B had to pull the pan open with his hands, and...

 The cake broke down the middle.  Here I was, writing a blog post in my head and tying it in with the books I planned to start reading with the girls, and my pretty little cake fell apart.

My friends are funny.

Something you should know when you make this cake.  A springform pan in a must!  This is a very sticky cake.  And the parchment paper?  That is a must, too.  And while my glaze tasted good, because my cake was already broken, the bottom of the cake became gooey.

But remember how I was going to tie this in with a readable Clementine?  Well, this Clementine is a bundle of energy and constantly in trouble.

Her friend Margaret, she says, looks like a girl in a magazine.  Margaret's mother looks like a mother in a magazine.  Her apartment and bedroom look like pictures in magazines.

Clementine does not look like a picture in a magazine.  Neither does her family.  Or apartment.  Or bedroom.  She comes to realize that's perfect after all.

My cake did not look like a picture in a magazine, either.  (It did taste good, though!)

Perhaps my less-than-perfect cake is a good tie-in for this series of books.

Clementine series by Sara Pennypacker, illustrated by Marla Frazee.

I discovered this series in a sweet, old-fashioned way.  We had just finished lunch at our favorite indie bookstore a few years ago and decided to look around the children's area.  The girls were tiny then.  Little Sis was only a baby.  There was a cardboard standee on top of one of the shelves.  It was of an adorable curly-haired ragamuffin named Clementine.

One of my favorite names in the world.  Really.

(Or maybe I've seen this movie too many times.)

So I found the book on the shelf and read the first page.
I have had not so good of a week.  Well, Monday was a pretty good day, if you don't count Hamburger Surprise at lunch and Margaret's mother coming to get her.  Or the stuff that happened in the principal's office when I got sent there to explain that Margaret's hair was not my fault and besides she looks okay without it, but I couldn't because Principal Rice was gone, trying to calm down Margaret's mother. Someone should tell you not to answer the phone in the principal's office, if that's a rule.  Okay, fine, Monday was not so good of a day.  - from Clementine by Sara Pennypacker (Hyperion Books for Children, 2006)
I bought the book.  Never mind that my girls were too little to read it yet.  I knew I was going to love it.  I've bought each book in hardcover as they come out, because they make me giggle.  I read the first three to Big Sis when she was four.  She doesn't remember, though.

Back to dull, brown January.  We finally finished On the Banks of Plum Creek.  I'm still reading Winnie-the-Pooh and The Wonderful Wizard of Oz to Little Sis, and Big Sis has her Junie B. Jones books, but we needed some laughs together.

The Clementine series is providing the laughs.  If you haven't read the books, but love characters like Ramona Quimby, Judy Moody, or Junie B. Jones, you should enjoy Clementine.

You can read a synopsis of each book on this page, courtesy of Sara Pennypacker's website.  The next book, Clementine and the Spring Trip, comes out this March!

I don't see a career in food blogging in my future.  I think I'll go back to my kiddie-lit/vintage mama bubble now.

And here is one last attempt to make a pretty bloggy picture.
It isn't a pretty bloggy picture.  Okay, fine*.
*Clementine says, "Okay, fine" a lot.

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Happy Birthday, Kansas!

Among the places pictured here:  Wichita (Keeper of the Plains, Wichita Troll, Old Cowtown Museum, Wichita-Sedgwick County Historical Museum, Sedgwick County Zoo, street musician sculpture); Independence (Little House on the Prairie Museum); Gypsum (old Gypsum High School); Canton (hot and cold water towers); abandoned farm house (on drive to Gypsum); Coronado Heights; Bonner Springs (Kansas City Renaissance Festival); Topeka (Kansas Silent Film Festival); Peabody (Peabody City Park); a rest area in Montgomery County (historical marker for the Bloody Benders); Lindsborg (grain elevators)

Today is Kansas Day.  The Sunflower State entered the union on January 29, 1861, as a free state.  And yes, I had that date memorized.  You see, Kansas Day was a big deal in my elementary school growing up.  At the main school I attended,Chisholm Trail - as in that Chisholm Trail! - we would have beans and Jiffy corn muffins, and we'd celebrate all things Kansas.  Our state flower?  The sunflower, of course.  Our state tree?  The cottonwood.  Our state bird? The Western meadowlark.  Our state animal?  The American bison (or buffalo, if you insist).  Our state reptile? The ornate box turtle.  Our motto?  "Ad astra per aspera" - "To the stars with difficulty."  Our state song?  "Home On the Range."  We colored pictures of Jayhawks.  (You're a Jayhawker if you're born in Kansas.)  We colored our state flag and learned about famous people from Kansas.

One year, we made paper sunflowers.  It was a much colder winter.

Sometimes Kansas drives me a little crazy.  Many of my friends have left for good, running off to New York or Seattle or Chicago.  Others stay and gripe.  I'm a firm believer in seeing the beauty in what's around you, looking for the good in things.  My roots are here.  Most of my family is here, and the ones who are not are within driving distance.  My own city has an arts scene I am proud of (and AWESOME Lebanese food), and there are some wonderful things to explore in our smaller towns.  (See my Lindsborg posts for proof of that!)  Kansas has Lawrence and the Kansas City area.  There are many other places in my own state I have yet to explore.  You can see so much more on my Sunflower State Pinterest board.

And yes, we get tornadoes.  We get lots of crazy weather.  Yesterday, January 28, it hit the mid-70s!  Today, the temps should start at around 60 F then plummet through the day.  While I won't count on it, there is a slight chance for snow tonight.  What the hey?

Kansas, we may not always get along, but in the famous words of Dorothy Gale,

"There's no place like home."

Taken from Coronado Heights, near Lindsborg, KS

I'll have something kiddie lit-related to share with you tomorrow. Did any of you celebrate special regional "holidays" in school?

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Obsessive Nostalgia Disorder Monday: The Nancy Drew Files (and More)

Remember my post last week about our "haunted clock" and the pictures I posted of the first Nancy Drew book, The Secret of the Old Clock?

I read that book when I was ten years old.  I read a few more of the old hardcovers, too.  But my Nancy Drew gateway drug?  Hey, I was an '80s kid.  I was an avid reader of The Nancy Drew Files.

Look at Nancy, a modern '80s teenager.  Look at the romance novel covers, with a hunky guy always posed behind her.  (It was seldom Ned Nickerson, although he is still her boyfriend through most of the series.)  The modernized series made its debut the summer of 1986.  Published by Archway/Pocket Books, a division of Simon & Schuster, the series lasted through 1997.

I was addicted to cheap series paperbacks.  I was nine years old and in the fourth grade when this series launched - the same year as The Babysitters Club - and once a month, I begged my dad to take me to the mall to buy my books.  There was a B Dalton downstairs and a Waldenbooks upstairs, and if one didn't have them out yet, we raced to the escalator to try the other.  It sounds expensive, but when I first started reading my series, the prices were $2.50 for a BSC and & $2.75 for a Nancy Drew File.  (I had that memorized, but I just checked my books to confirm it.)

The first thing I would do was read the back of the book.  Ooooo, what's this one about?

Back Cover of Nancy Drew Files, Case 30: Death By Design

Then I opened the front cover.  It was always the same: "From the Nancy Drew Files..."

Nancy Drew Files, Case 30: Death By Design (December 1988)

Nancy Drew Files, Case 15: Trial By Fire (September 1987)

Then I would read the list of books in the front, mentally checking off in my head which mysteries Nancy had solved until now.

The Nancy Drew Files, Case 13: Wings of Fear (July 1987)

When I was in fifth grade, 10 years old, I went as a book for Halloween.  I made myself a sandwich board out of two pieces of poster board and did my best to recreate the front and back covers of the latest Nancy Drew Files installment, Case 17: Stay Tuned for Danger.  If I knew where any pictures might be, I would post one, I assure you.

The books were such trashy fun.  Romance, danger, fashion, thrills...  I read my series until I was 13 and in the eighth grade, then decided I had "outgrown" them.  Series books about teenagers were only fun when I was a preteen.  I think it's because my own high school experience was so far removed from Sweet Valley High...  I stopped reading in 1991, on book 50-something, maybe 60-something.

You can still find used copies of the books at Amazon, among other places.  You can read more at this Nancy Drew website and here on this series book fan site.

One More Unrelated Piece of Nostalgia:
My daughters have discovered Pound Puppies, the newish Hub series, on Netflix.  Of course, I had to find this:

("That's just weird, Mom.")

which led to me showing them this:
 ("I wish they still made Pound Puppies!")

which somehow led to this:
("Mom!  I saw one of those at Grandma's!
I saw the last one at Grandma's!")

When Mr. B and the girls went to my grandma's yesterday to check on Mabel the kitten, I asked him to bring me back a handful of my Nancy Drew Files books to blog about.

The girls brought home this:

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Happy Birthday, Lewis Carroll

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Big Sis at her Alice-themed fifth birthday party.  More pictures here.

Charles Dodgson, aka Lewis Carroll, author of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Saw There, was born on this day 181 years ago.

I thought I'd do a round-up of some of my favorite editions of the books.  (I did one for early Alice films here.)  Alas, I am overwhelmed!  I love these books so much.  But here are a few.

Top Row:  The Annotated Alice, illustrated by John Tenniel, edited by
Martin Gardner.  WW Norton, 1999.  Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, with
artwork by Yayoi Kusama.  Penguin, 2012.  The Nursery Alice,, illustrated by John
Tenniel.  Reprinted by MacMillan, 2010.  Middle Row:  Alice's AdventuresUnder Ground, illustrated by Lewis Carroll.    Facsimile edition by Oneworld Classics, 2010.  Alice's Adventures in Wonderland &Other Stories (Barnes & Noble Leatherbound Classics), illustrations by Tenniel.  Sterling, 2010.  Bottom Row:  Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, illustrated by Camille Rose Garcia. Harper Design, 2010.  Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass (Penguin Hardcover Classics), illustrated by Tenniel.  Penguin, 2010.  Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Through the Looking Glass (Everyman's Classic).  Random House, 1992.

You can still find used copies illustrated by Lisbeth Zwerger and Helen Oxenbury, too.

I was limiting myself to editions actually written by Lewis Carroll.  You can hunt down picture book adaptations pretty easily.  I covered a couple of them here and here.

Someday, I will own this book.  Fabulousness.  (And now they have one for Oz!)

For more Alice material than you'll know what to do with, I must recommend Lenny's Alice in Wonderland site.  Here is the site for the Lewis Carroll Society of North America.  And this site attempts to catalog all the Alice illustrations by artists other than John Tenniel.

And of course, I have a crazy Alice Pinterest board, full of way too many pins of AWESOMENESS.  Many lead to awesome links - look at all the wonderful Alice parties!

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The Kissimmee Convention and Visitors Bureau recently announced that they are adding 13 positions to help attract international visitors to their Central Florida destination. This raises the bureau's total employee count to 47.

According to an article from the Orlando Sentinel,  the Kissimmee CVB is looking at prospects who are fluent in English and Spanish or Portuguese. It is the CVB's goal to increase the number of annual visitors by 30 percent - 300,000 people.

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Checklist For a Successful International Expansion

Checklist For a Successful International Expansion

Expanding your e-commerce business outside your domestic market might sound ambitious, but many sellers have found selling internationally is the key to a significant boom in sales and profits.

Marketplaces with global presence provide sellers with access to multiple countries, as well as an audience much bigger than their local market. Expanding to other countries opens up a new world full of opportunities for sellers of all sizes. Challenges derived from depending on a single market no longer exist, as selling globally distributes your eggs into different baskets and you’re therefore less prone to domestic market fluctuation. Sellers of seasonal goods should make selling internationally a priority, as buyers in the southern hemisphere are always happy to buy that summer dress you have sitting in stock while we wrap ourselves up in cashmere scarves during our northern winter.

All that being said, a successful international expansion does take planning. Sellers often get discouraged when facing mountains of information online and that’s why we’re going to provide you with a simple checklist to help you plan your expansion and boost your sales worldwide.

Which countries and marketplaces do you expand to first?

Conduct some (basic) market research to discover which countries and marketplace are the best for your items. Follow these steps and build yourself a list of potential markets to kick start your international expansion:

1.      Analyze your product portfolio and find out which countries and marketplaces are of the highest potential for you. Asking yourself questions like: “where do I already get orders from?”, and “where are my competitors selling?” can be helpful. As an example, if you’re a UK fashion seller and are already receiving orders from France via your account, search for your items and compare the price of those of your competitors on Amazon France.

2.      Now do the same on another marketplace in that same country to get a more holistic view on the general competitiveness of your items in that country. Make sure you include the shipping cost in your price comparison, and research as many marketplaces as possible.

3.      By now you should have a better idea about your items in the French market. Try and repeat step two in marketplaces of another country.

4.      Congratulations! Once you’ve gathered similar information for the second country, you have an apples to apples comparison of which countries offer the most ROI, and on which marketplaces you should be selling your items.

While it may seem like a lot of work, there are services and tools to help with your research. Keep in mind that research is fundamental to a successful international expansion. Expanding based on instincts and gut feelings can be risky and therefore should be avoided.

Here we have a list of 7 marketplaces for you to take a look beyond Amazon and eBay

  • Are your product listings ready to be launched in foreign marketplaces?

Are all your listings properly translated into the language of your target country? While marketplaces serve as a doorway to foreign buyers, professional translation is the key to the acceptance of your items by those buyers. Don’t cut corners by using machine translation as they simply don’t know what should and should not be translated. A good example of a machine missed translating is a brand name like Under Armour.  Machines inadvertently translate brand names, turning it into Unter Rüstung for the German audience.

Localisation is another aspect that’s often overlooked during international expansions. Selling in other countries means dealing with different currencies, measurements and search terms. You might not get much traction on your flip-flop selection in New Zealand unless you localise the search terms properly and refer to them as thongs or jandals.

  • Have you met the regulations of selling internationally?

One important element to consider before your international expansion is VAT compliance (Value Added Tax). Do your due diligence and find out if you need to be VAT registered in your target countries. Price your items accordingly so you remain competitive in countries where VAT compliance is required.

Pay attention to different marketplace regulations. Even with global platforms such as Amazon and eBay, there’ll be restricted categories which may vary from country to country, and this bring us to the next point…

  • Are your supporting services in place?

It’s almost a prerequisite in any marketplace that the seller provides customer service in the language(s) used in the target countries. Some marketplaces even take a step further in setting a time limit for claims and questions to be solved. Beware of cultural differences when handling foreign buyers, and always have native speakers as your customer service representatives to avoid misunderstandings and potential negative feedback.

How to fulfill your orders is another question you’ll want answered before starting your international expansion. Thanks to fulfillment service such as Amazon FBA, selling globally is now much easier than it used to be. However, it’s an unspoken rule in some countries for sellers to offer 24-hour delivery to remain competitive. Explore your options and choose a mix that works best for your expansion strategy.

Read about 4 Reasons Pan-European FBA Might Be Right for You

Once you start shipping items abroad, a return service is required. This allows foreign buyers to return unwanted products to an address in their home country. The service provider then consolidates those items and ships them back to you in bulk. This can save you lots of time and money in comparison to sending returns individually.

  • Do you have the last-mile measures set up to maintain your success?

It takes serious effort and time to start selling in new marketplaces, not to mention establishing brand awareness in a new country. To maximise your online presence, marketing like PPC campaigns is strongly recommended in a competitive e-commerce environment. Amazon Sponsored Products and eBay Promoted Listings are good ways to boost on-site exposures. If you have an online store, Google Ads is also great for generating market buzz and bringing traffic to your online shop.

You’d have noticed by now that there isn’t a one-size-fits-all formula when it comes to a successful international expansion. Don’t be intimidated by the time and financial investment that may occur during the process. Bear in mind that with great dedication comes great reward. Follow our checklist, and you’d be on your way to successful international expansion.

This was a guest post by Jia Li, e-Commerce Marketing Specialist at intercultural Elements. She enjoys helping online retailers expand internationally and home-made blueberry cheese cakes.


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Family Roller Coaster
Dimensions Track Length 288m
Area 52mx38m
Number of Seats 16P
Height Dimension 9.9m
Motion Power 56kW
Rated Voltage 380V
Version Park Model

TAG:  Roller Coaster

A famiyly roller coaster is one of the most popular amusement rides in amusement parks and theme parks around the world.
Generally speaking, this ride can employ a form of elevated railroad track designed with tight turns, steep slopes, and sometimes inversions, and people ride along the track in open cars, feeling nervous and excited. The track in a coaster design does not necessarily have to be a complete circuit, as shuttle roller coasters demonstrate. Most roller coasters have multiple cars in which passengers sit and are restrained.

TAG:  Roller Coaster
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