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The platform is raised off the floor and consists of layered impacts zones designed to reduce the noise associated with dropped weights during Olympic lifts.
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The same year Eleiko released a new collection of bars called Next Generation.
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Equipped with a reengineered, dustproof sleeve for greater longevity, refined knurling that caters for specific users and optimized rotation for performance at all loads – they instantly became widely appreciated in the weightlifting community.
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Designed specifically to support deadliftning, the bar Öppen Deadlift was launched in 2019.
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The bar has an open design and a built-in stand and loading system to give more people the possibility to experience free weight training through deadlifting.
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In July 2019 Eleiko signed a five-year contract with the US Army making Eleiko a preferred supplier for the US Army.
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During the length of the contract Eleiko will provide a range of weightlifting, strength and performance training equipment to morale, welfare and recreation facilities in the US and garrisons around the world.
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Eleiko has also been selected as the education partner for the United States Navy to further develop its NOFFS program (Navy Operational Fitness & Fueling System), train Navy health and fitness professionals and develop NOFFS Master Trainers.
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Eleiko is one of the leading equipment suppliers in the fitness industry.
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It employs 130 people and has offices in Finland, Germany, Norway, Russia, US, UK anf France.
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Eleiko is present in over 180 countries.
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The Eleiko range of products include products such as bars, collars, discs, dumbbells, kettlebells and functional training equipment.
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The company also offers courses for strength coaches, functional trainers, personal trainers and professional athletes.
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Eleiko manufacture all bars in Sweden using robotized manufacturing technology.
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Each bar is tested through a process including a 1500 kg bend test at the center and 2000 kg at the end of each bar.
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The bar is placed in a vise and bent with a hydraulic jack and the bar must spring back to be exactly straight with a maximum deviation of 0.2 mm.
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If it fails, the bar is removed from production and scrapped.
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Every professional bar from Eleiko has a lifetime warranty.
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Eightyfive percent of Eleiko’s products are shipped abroad.
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In the professional athlete’s segment, Eleiko sell to customers all over the world.
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In the commercial segment, the company’s main markets are the Nordic countries, the United States and Germany but beginning in 2017 the company started operations in the UK and in France.
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In the Nordic countries, Eleiko distributes exercise and strength training machines from other brands and is a complete supplier to professional sports clubs, colleges and universities, gyms and fitness facilities, and functional fitness centers.
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Schoenus exilis
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Schoenus exilis is a species of sedge endemic to the western areas of the Western Cape Province of South Africa.
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The key diagnostic character of "S. exilis" are its narrow, lanceolate spikelets and narrow elliptic nutlets.
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"Schoenus exilis" resembles "Schoenus ligulatus", but the latter species is taller (>350 mm) compared to the shorter "S. exilis".
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Another critical difference is that "S. ligulatus" has longer spikelets (mostly >4.5 mm) compared to the shorter (<4.5 mm) spikelets of "S. exilis".
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"Schoenus quartziticus" is also a similar species; however, it has broad elliptic nutlets.
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Similar to other sedges, plants in this group are very difficult to identify.
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It appears that part of this problem is caused by the tendency of the southern African "Schoenus" to form hybrids with each other.
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It appears that "Schoenus exilis" forms hybrids with other southern African "Schoenus" species, specifically "Schoenus cuspidatus".
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The genus "Schoenus" is in the tribe Schoeneae of the sedge family, Cyperaceae.
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Other genera in the tribe include "Lepidosperma", "Oreobolus", "Costularia", "Tetraria" and "Gahnia".
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The most closely-related species to "S. exilis" are other southern African "Schoenus" species, specifically, species in the "S. cuspidatus" and allies group.
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Further taxonomic work is required to delineate the difference between "S. cuspidatus" and "S. exilis", especially in the western mountains of the Western Cape Province.
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Southern African "Schoenus" were once classified as "Tetraria"; however, based on molecular and morphological differences, we now know that the two groups are evolutionary distinct.
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To ensure that this group of sedges is monophyletic (i.e.
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the genus only has closely-related species), the southern African "Tetraria" were transferred into "Schoenus".
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In the field, the southern African "Schoenus" can be distinguished from "Tetraria" species by their lack of stem leaves and the absence of reticulate sheaths at the bases of the flowering stems.
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"Schoenus exilis" is found in the western region of the Western Cape Province of South Africa.
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This species generally occurs on damp sites on sandstone-derived soils; however, it has also been collected from granite-derived soils.
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The reported elevation range of "S. exilis" is between sea level and over 400 m.
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Waterwheel (McCoy, Colorado)
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The Waterwheel, in Eagle County, Colorado, is a historic device to lift water from the Colorado River to a height where it may be distributed for irrigation.
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It was built in 1922.
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It is located southeast of McCoy, Colorado at the Colorado River.
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It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977, at a time when it was in deteriorated condition.
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It has since been rehabilitated by the Colorado Water Restoration Foundation, Ltd.
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It stands high and is about wide.
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It was built of jackpine logs crafted by hand tools.
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It lifted water in 35 buckets around its perimeter, which emptied into a wooden trough that flowed into an irrigation ditch.
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It could be raised out of the water in winter to avoid damage from ice, and lowered to appropriate level to capture the river's flow.
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It is significant as the last surviving water wheel out of many once in use on the Colorado River.
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It was built by Earl Brooks, a rancher, and Franklin Dixon and Jim Jones, without any formal design being available or produced.
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Helen Howe
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Helen Howe (January 11, 1905 – February 1, 1975) was an American novelist, biographer and monologuist.
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Helen Huntington Howe was born to Mark Antony DeWolfe Howe and Fanny Huntington Quincy Howe on 11 January 1905.
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Her father was an author and biographer while her mother was known as an essayist and author.
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Her mother was from a long line of Quincys in Boston, stretching back through her great-great-great-grandfather Josiah Quincy Jr.
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Her brother Quincy went on to become a writer, editor and radio commentator while Mark became a law professor in Harvard University and a biographer.
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Howe was educated in private schools in Boston including Milton Academy where she graduated in 1922 before attending Radcliffe College for a year.
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She also attended the Theatre Guild School in New York.
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Howe had a skill in mimicry and discovered she enjoyed writing her own character sketches to perform.
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She had a career as a monologuist for over fifteen years with shows across America.
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She gave several performances in The White House.
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In 1936 she took her show to both the Arts Theatre and Mercury Theater in London.
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Howe also produced books exploring the kinds of characters she portrayed in her sketches.
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Her first published novel was in 1943.
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She began the second half of her career more as a novelist.
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Howe married Reginald Allen who had worked as a curator of the Gilbert and Sullivan Collection in the Pierpont Morgan Library.
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She lived in New York, on Fifth Avenue.
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Howe died in 1975.
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Her service was at the Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine and her grave is in Mount Wollaston Cemetery, Quincy, Massachusetts.
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Her papers are archived in Harvard.
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Athletics at the 1987 Summer Universiade – Women's high jump
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The women's high jump event at the 1987 Summer Universiade was held at the Stadion Maksimir in Zagreb on 14 July 1987.
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Sitting on the Edge of Marlene
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Sitting on the Edge of Marlene is a Canadian crime drama film, directed by Ana Valine and released in 2014.
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An adaptation of Billie Livingston's novella "The Trouble with Marlene", the film stars Suzanne Clément as Marlene Bell, a grifter and con artist who is indoctrinating her daughter Sammie (Paloma Kwiatkowski) in the ways of crime with the help of her colleague Fast Freddy (Callum Keith Rennie); meanwhile, Sammie has other ideas about her future, and develops a romantic interest in Drew (Dakota Daulby), a devoutly Christian teenager who hangs out at the local roller rink.
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The film was shot in Vancouver, British Columbia in 2013, and had its theatrical premiere on the film festival circuit in 2014 before going into commercial release in 2015.
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In 2016, the film was picked up for U.S. distribution by Breaking Glass Pictures.
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Chris Knight of the "National Post" gave the film a mixed review, writing that it was uneven but praising Clément and Kwiatkowski's performances.
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For "Now", Radheyan Simonpillai placed the film in the context of an apparent eruption of mommy issues in Canadian cinema, alongside David Cronenberg's "Maps to the Stars" and Xavier Dolan's "Mommy", opining that the character of Marlene "resembles five Dolan characters spun into one" but praising Kwiatkowski for keeping the film anchored in smaller comedic moments.
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He concluded that "Sammie's frustrated attempts to escape either through suicide or Jesus are handled with a light touch and feel genuine and quirky, very different from the heavy mugging going on the rest of the time."
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Valine won the award for Best Director at the Leo Awards in 2014, and Grant Pearse won the award for Best Production Design.
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The film was also a nominee for Best Picture, Best Actress (Kwiatkowski), Best Screenplay (Valine), Best Editing (Lara Mazur and Fredrik Thorsen) and Best Sound Editing (Greg Stewart, Miguel Nunes, Gina Mueller, Don Harrison and Ian Mackie).
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At the 2014 Vancouver International Film Festival, Valine won the awards for BC Emerging Filmmaker and Women in Film & Television Vancouver Artistic Merit.
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At the Vancouver Film Critics Circle Awards 2014, Rennie was nominated for Best Supporting Actor in a Canadian Film and the film was nominated for Best First Film by a Canadian Director.
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Robb Cobb
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Robb Cobb (born 8 April 1999 in New Zealand) is a New Zealand rugby union player who plays for the in Super Rugby.
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His playing position is prop.
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He has signed for the Chiefs wider training squad in 2020.
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Donald Maka
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Donald Maka (born 29 January 1995 in New Zealand) is a New Zealand rugby union player who plays for the in Super Rugby.
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His playing position is hooker.
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He has signed for the Chiefs wider training squad in 2020.
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Ollie Norris
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Ollie Norris (born 11 December 1999 in New Zealand) is a New Zealand rugby union player who plays for the in Super Rugby.
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His playing position is prop.
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He has signed for the Chiefs wider training squad in 2020.
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