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PNCA offers evening and weekend classes for adults and young people. For adults we offer courses in art, craft, and design, as well as professional development classes. For children we have Saturday classes during the school year and week-long camps during the summer. In addition to our regular teen classes, we also offer immersive summer Pre-College Studios. Our blog below gives you an idea of some of the goings on, and you can see our full course catalogue online here.
Picture of the Week - 2/22/2014
We had a great second week of classes. Our MiniMasters class with MaryEllen Hartman finished up their self portraits!
If you would like to see more images from our Saturday classes, or check out what a finished self portrait looks like when completed by someone between the ages of 4 and 6, visit our Flickr Site.
Scholastic Art Awards - 2014
Another great Portland Metro Scholastic Art Awards exhibition at PNCA! This year's exhibition is exceptional. Gold Key winning artwork is on view in the Commons of PNCA's Main Campus building through February 28.
If you plan to check out the work while it is up you should set aside a good chunk of time. There is a great deal of artwork on display and the quality is such that you will want to take your time to really look at everything.
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It unlocked one bee for me too, even though I unchecked the box :|
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From haunted house to monster mouths, check out the awesomely over-the-top Halloween home decorations that these totally-in-the-spirit homeowners put up each year.
Toothy Trick or Treating
Cottage Making MommyIs a Snickers bar enough to motivate your kids to walk over a tongue-like staircase right into the toothy maw of a transformed front porch? Who are we kidding -- of course it is! Good find, Cottage Making Mommy.
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Our bones are shaking just thinking about the "Eternal Rest Cemetery" (normally a regular old house in Venice, California), where all are welcome for a free romp through a very creepy, very decked-out haunted house complete with cemetery in the front yard.
Fiery Fantasy
Forestofmirrors.comThe Los Angeles haunted house known as the "Forest of Mirrors" leaves no (head) stone unturned in its search for creepy, imaginative decor. Faux skulls and flames are among the property's haunts.
Freaky Fog Effects
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Nothing like a house that goes all out with a full-on fog machine to beckon trick or treaters! Or, um, maybe these homeowners are trying to scare them away...
Creaking Coffin
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Get off my lawn, indeed: This front yard graveyard comes complete with a creepy figure in an open coffin. Yikes!
Ghastly Green Lighting
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Holy haunted house! Green lighting and oversized phony spiders pop in every window and door for a dramatic effect. Somehow, this manages to be spooky and elegant at the same time.
Boarded-Up Beauty
Between Naps on the PorchIt's hard to make a house this pretty look uninviting -- but a few boarded-up windows and stretchy spider webs do the trick, as the Between Naps on the Porch blog discovered in Atlanta.
Giant Ghouls
Total City Girl
Blogger Total City Girl spotted these giant (and totally creepy) ghouls haunting a Staten Island home. Great way to thrill Halloween fans in the neighborhood; Bad way to make your house look big!
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Ash Tree Cottage
Over-the-top Halloween home decorations don't have to be super-creepy -- we love the collection of jack-o-lanterns blocking the front steps of this house. (Trick or treaters, probably not so much.) Good find, Ash Tree Cottage.
Spooky Spider Web
Claude Charlebois/First Light/Getty ImagesWe like how this giant spider web also doubles as a way to tell trick or treaters, "Don't walk into the area where we just laid new sod."
Creepy Clowns
The Haunted Shack
This Torrance, California home transforms into "The Haunted Shack" on Halloween night -- and solicits donations for breast cancer research as well. That's a major real-world treat to go along with those tricks!
Sinister Shadows
Lee's BlogAre sinister things are going on inside this house? The red lighting and scary silhouette decorations sure make it seem that way -- and this over-the-top Halloween home decoration brought so many trick or treaters, the folks inside used up 10 bags of candy by 7 p.m., according to Lee's Blog!
Scary Skulls and Spiders
Bunburyrealtors.comA human skull on creepy spindly spider legs? The Bunbury Realtors' blog found one totally terror-ific way of saying "no trespassing!"
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But it is when the two discover a hidden stash of Western classics in Chinese translation that their re-education takes its most surprising turn. While ingeniously concealing their forbidden treasure, the boys find transit to worlds they had thought lost forever. And after listening to their dangerously seductive retellings of Balzac, even the Little Seamstress will be forever transformed.
From within the hopelessness and terror of one of the darkest passages in human history, Dai Sijie has fashioned a beguiling and unexpected story about the resilience of the human spirit, the wonder of romantic awakening, and the magical power of storytelling.
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"An unexpected miracle - a delicate, and often hilarious, tale." (Los Angeles Times Book Review)
"A funny, touching, sly and altogether delightful novel...about the power of art to enlarge our imaginations." (Washington Post Book World)
"Poetic and affecting...riveting." (New York Times Book Review)
An excellent tale of the Cultural Revolution and one boy's awakening to manhood. Stories that I've heard from my parents and the older generation found their echo in this story. A time period like the Cultural Revolution was so charged of emotional energy that I think it took this long for most chinese people to begin address what has happened since then.
A note about the ending, it is a chinese story after all. Every ending begets another beginning.
"Culture Shock"
What a wonderfully enlightening (and slightly shocking) introduction to Chairman Mao's Cultural Revolution in China during the 1970's. I had never studied nor read books about this historical period so this story turned out to be both entertaining and educational for me. The narrator was effective and the story flowed seamlessly to a somewhat quick conclusion. I listened to the book on a road trip and I was rather disappointed to see the book end when I still had many questions left unanswered. I recommend this story to the listener seeking cultural diversity and historical perspective.
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Fine writing and a good authentic story.
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"I finally understand The Cultural Revolution."
I have long heard good things about Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie, and I really liked it.
I thought the choice of B. D. Wong as narrator was interesting as he's Chinese-American, but of course on an audiobook, you don't see the narrator so there's no reason to have found someone of the appropriate ethnicity (particularly as he doesn't have an accent, and presumably - although I haven't researched - English is his first language.) But I liked that detail as I did picture him as the main character.
Our hero and his friend Luo have been sent out to a rural village during the Chinese Cultural Revolution to learn how to appreciate the proletariat. They are subjected to demeaning, backbreaking work, but all the boredom and stress melts away when they discover the beautiful daughter of the region's tailor, and a stash of translated Western novels.
The novel was very evocative. I found myself physically recoiling at some very accurate imagery more than once, as I was out walking. I would make faces, clench up, and sometimes even try to move out of the way, as the descriptions were so visceral that they seemed real. B. D. Wong was good at giving the different characters different voices, and I never was confused about who was speaking. With the Chinese names, I was a little glad to have someone else pronouncing them instead of me guessing, although many of the characters didn't even have names, but nicknames, like "Four Eyes," the owner of the illegal novels.
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress was a romantic, delicate story that opened my eyes to the Cultural Revolution (I had heard it referenced before but never understood what it was.) A fine gem, the book has moments of humor, fancy, danger, and passion.
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A short story about two adolescent boys sent to the hinter lands for "reeducation" during China's cultural revolution. The story is interesting in terms of the insights it gives about China during this time and the impact reeducation had for these young boys when sent away from their families. You learn, for example, that boys are boys anywhere on earth (ditto for small town people). The story is very easy to listen to and well written. Ultimately, I compared it to cotton candy - sweet and fun, but leaving you hungry with not a lot of substance.
"A great Tale sewn into real Chinese History"
This is a great story set in an era when China was killing off its intellectuals and imprisioning their children. A story that reveals a whole new world to one character and gives hope for a future.
The narration for this story is excellent - BD Wong does a superior job. The story itself starts out a little shaky, but ends up being a fantastic story. It is the story of the "re-education" of youths during the 1970's under the rule of Mao Tse-tung. This book really shows the midset of the country at the time and the plot is truly a great one.
"Balzac and the Little Chinese Mistress"
This is perfect book. The story is fascinating, the characters approachable, and the text is well crafted. Most of all it is a colorful, enchanting picture of life in China during the Cultural Revolution, an event that I knew formerly only through the dry faacts of history.
"Great little read"
Two city boys are sent into the country for re-education. Set in China in 1970's when Mao was the ruler. I really enjoyed the narration.
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I adored this book from start to finish. I am holding off listening to it a second time for now but I know I won't wait for long. A truelly wonderful story of forbidden beauty.
Id looked at getting this book all year but always went for something a little more bulky to fill my day but eventually gave in to its pretty little cover and title and im glad I did. While the cover is pretty the book is beautiful. Iv bought a couple paperbacks for gifts this christmas.
"The age still to come....."
A generation of Chinese writers, artists and film-makers are growing up and finding a home in the minds, sensitivities and subsidies of the French cultural machine. Dai Sijie's novel must be read as essentially the screenplay to his 2002 film 'Xiao cai feng.' Where the film gives us the stunning landscapes of Northern China, it falls someway short of the book in developing the characters of Ma and Luo.
Still a mile behind Ha Jin and Won Kar Wei - we wait to see the next output of Dai Sijie and hope that it comes quickly to audio.
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Finance board OKs plan for 1% pay increase
MIDDLEBURY — The Board of Finance has approved a plan to give some elected and appointed town officials a 1 percent pay raise this year.
The plan, which still needs approval by the Board of Selectmen, comes a year after selectmen gave a 2 percent raise to employees earning $60,000 or less and 1 percent to employees who make more than $60,000. The raise will be paid for out of a fund for contractual negotiations, costing the town $11,245, according to data provided by Chief Financial Officer Larry Hutvagner.
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MORAVIA, IA (CBS2/FOX28) - Emergency crews now say they have identified a woman found in Iowas Rathbun Lake.
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Very Good Recipes of Rice from Bobbi's Kozy Kitchen
There are 10 Rice recipes on the blog Bobbi's Kozy Kitchen. (2838 on all the blogs)
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Slow Cooker Cream of Chicken Soup with Vegetables and Wild Rice By Bobbi's Kozy Kitchen 01/22/14 18:58 After having my oral surgery, and having 5 teeth pulled (UGH), I haven't been able to eat anything much more than mush for a couple of weeks. I seriously was living off of mashed potatoes, pudding, and jello. So you can imagine how happy I was when I was... Add to my recipe book
Orange Teriyaki Chicken Rice Bowls (gf) a Guest Post by the Heritage Cook By Bobbi's Kozy Kitchen 01/21/14 18:30 While Bobbi is a little under the weather a few of her friends are helping by writing guest posts for her blog. It is an honor and a privilege to share one of my favorite recipes with you. Growing up in the San Francisco Bay Area, we ate foods from many... Add to my recipe book
Quick and Easy Red Beans and Rice By Bobbi's Kozy Kitchen 09/25/13 22:08 Do you have a wish list of places you would like to visit? That was a silly question right? We all have places we would love to go. One of the places that I am dying to visit is New Orleans. I have wanted to go their since I was young. One of my friends... Add to my recipe book
Sausage & Shrimp Dirty Rice By Bobbi's Kozy Kitchen 01/17/13 19:32 I have been trying to break out of the rut that I seem to have gotten myself into. Mexican food, pasta, soup, repeat. I have come up with a few different things that were great, but on this night I really wanted a nice one pot meal that doesn't make you... Add to my recipe book
Cilantro Rice with Lime and Serrano By Bobbi's Kozy Kitchen 08/08/12 19:35 We have kind of been on a rice kick lately. Whenever I come up with a main dish and I ask what sounds good for a side everyone says "rice please". Well I love rice as much as the next person, but just plain old rice? Umm no. I mean I have been known to... Add to my recipe book
Lemon Pepper Rice By Bobbi's Kozy Kitchen 08/03/12 21:47 Last night was Kevin's son's girlfriend's 21st birthday. So I am moving a bit slow today. I didn't realize all of the crazy drinks there are out there now. We went through quite the list of them last night too. There were White Gummy Bears, Stupid Goods,... Add to my recipe book
Hawaiian Jalapeno Chicken with Peach Salsa Rice By Bobbi's Kozy Kitchen 06/15/12 20:35 I know today is supposed to be Food Star Friday but I am still a bit off kilter from the BlogHer Food conference last weekend. It was such a whirlwind and that seemed to carry over to this whole week. I promise Manic Monday and Food Star Friday will be... Add to my recipe book
Roasted Garlic Pork Chops and Rice By Bobbi's Kozy Kitchen 06/13/12 22:28 When I walked into my hotel room at the BlogHer Food conference this past weekend I was greeted by a bright blue Progresso bag and balloon. My first thought was "How festive" my second thought was "Ohh what's in the bag?". The answer to that question is... Add to my recipe book
Mexican Chicken and Rice Soup By Bobbi's Kozy Kitchen 02/07/12 20:02 As promised here is the second part of yesterday's recipe. Once you have made the Puffy Chicken Tacos you will have a wonderfully flavorful broth left that just begs to be a soup, and there could not be an easier one than this one!! After you put all the... Add to my recipe book
Chicken Soup with Brown Rice and Spinach By Bobbi's Kozy Kitchen 01/04/12 23:12 Now that the holidays are over my love for all things "soupy" is back. If it has broth and goes in a bowl I am all about it! Which drives Kevin crazy because he is a meat guy. You know what I mean, give him a steak and potato and he is a happy camper. We... Add to my recipe book


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The Charles Schwab Corporation today announced the completion of its acquisition of ThomasPartners, Inc. The acquisition agreement, originally announced October 15, 2012, includes an upfront payment of $85 million in cash and the opportunity for additional payments contingent on future growth in assets under management.
"We are pleased to be able to provide our retail and investment advisor clients with convenient and cost effective access to ThomasPartners' investment acumen," said Walt Bettinger, Schwab president and chief executive officer. "Their approach to the construction of growth-oriented investment portfolios that generate dividend income streams makes enormous sense as our population ages, and will be an important addition to our existing money management line-up."
Headquartered in Wellesley, Massachusetts, ThomasPartners is a growth and dividend income-focused asset management firm with $2.2 billion in AUM as of November 30, 2012, that has outperformed relevant benchmarks cumulatively since its inception in March 2003. ThomasPartners' portfolios will be available as part of Schwab's Managed Account Access service for investment advisors soon after the close and to Schwab retail clients during the first half of 2013.
About Charles SchwabThe Charles Schwab Corporation (NYSE:SCHW) is a leading provider of financial services, with more than 300 offices and 8.7 million active brokerage accounts, 1.6 million corporate retirement plan participants, 857,000 banking accounts, and $1.92 trillion in client assets. The company was ranked 'Highest in Investor Satisfaction With Self-Directed Services' in the 2012 US Self-Directed Investor Satisfaction Study SM from J.D Power and Associates. Through its operating subsidiaries, the company provides a full range of securities brokerage, banking, money management and financial advisory services to individual investors and independent investment advisors. Its broker-dealer subsidiary, Charles Schwab & Co., Inc. (member SIPC, www.sipc.org), and affiliates offer a complete range of investment services and products including an extensive selection of mutual funds; financial planning and investment advice; retirement plan and equity compensation plan services; compliance and trade monitoring solutions; referrals to independent fee-based investment advisors; and custodial, operational and trading support for independent, fee-based investment advisors through its Advisor Services division. Its banking subsidiary, Charles Schwab Bank (member FDIC and an Equal Housing Lender), provides trust and custody services, banking and lending services and products. Investment products offered by Charles Schwab & Co., Inc. are not insured by the FDIC, are not deposits or obligations of Charles Schwab Bank, and are subject to investment risk, including the possible loss of principal invested. More information is available at www.schwab.com and www.aboutschwab.com. Follow us on Twitter: @charlesschwab Read our blog: Schwab Talk
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WASHINGTON, Feb. 19 (UPI) -- China's growing digital hacking groups seem to be operating out of a building outside Shanghai that is home to an army unit, sources told The New York Times.
In an investigative piece, the Times said the 12-story building in an area that also features restaurants and massage parlors is the headquarters of Unit 61398 of China's People's Liberation Army and likely the base of China's corps of cyberwarriors.
The report said a growing body of digital forensic evidence, confirmed by U.S. intelligence officials watching the unit, showed much of the attacks on U.S. corporations, organizations and government agencies appeared to originate in and around the building.
The report said a 60-page study by the U.S. computer security firm Mandiant even tracked individual members of the highly sophisticated of the Chinese hacking groups "Comment Crew" or "Shanghai Group" to the PLA unit's headquarters.
While Mandiant couldn't place the hackers inside the 12-story building, its study said there was no other explanation why so many attacks come from that area.
"Either they are coming from inside Unit 61398, or the people who run the most-controlled, most-monitored Internet networks in the world are clueless about thousands of people generating attacks from this one neighborhood," Mandiant founder and Chief Executive Officer Kevin Mandia told The Times.
The report said other security firms, studying "Comment Crew," also said they believe the group is state-sponsored.
Separately, officials told The Times a recent classified report prepared for all 16 U.S. intelligence agencies showed the hackers are either run by Chinese army officers or work as contractors for the PLA unit.
Earlier, The Times had hired Mandiant to look into Chinese-origin attacks on its own news operations and found some other group, and not Comment Crew, was responsible.
The Times said Comment Crew is now focusing on companies involved in critical U.S. infrastructure, such as electrical power grid, gas lines and waterworks.
Officials at the Chinese Embassy in Washington repeated previous assertions that their government does not engage in computer hacking as such activity is illegal, adding their own country is a victim of computer hacking and that there were many hacking groups inside the United States, the report said.
However, experts say Chinese cyber attacks have grown significantly in recent years.
U.S. Rep. Mike Rogers, the Republican chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, told The Times the Mandiant report was "completely consistent with the type of activity the Intelligence Committee has been seeing for some time."
Tommy Vietor, spokesman for the National Security Council, said, "We have repeatedly raised our concerns at the highest levels about cybertheft with senior Chinese officials, including in the military, and we will continue to do so."
The Times said the U.S. government starting this week plans to begin a more aggressive defense against Chinese hacking groups and Obama administration officials plan to inform China's new leaders such attacks have become so intense to threaten bilateral relations.
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I'm happy to do so but I'm not sure how unique my opinion will be. Perhaps it could make a good discussion – so consider this an 'open mike'. What stats packages do you use on your blog? How do you use them? Which features do you look at most frequently? Share your thoughts in comments below.
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The true history of the battle for the New World will be authored by a man who does not appear on any American currency.Turn the tide of the American Revolution in this Assassin's Creed saga. Play as a Native American assassin and fight alongside some of this nation's greatest heroes, including George Washington and Benjamin Franklin, as you experience pivotal battles from the legendary conflict. For the first time, firearms play a prominent role in Assassin's Creed. Watch your enemies helplessly try to reload their weapons as you stalk your targets with tomahawks, rope darts, and other weapons used by your master assassin.
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My biggest gripe with the AC games is that they have always felt a little clunky. The combat was always stiff and the movements didn't flow as well as they could have. However, with the new engine in AC3 all of that has changed. The combat feels so good and I don't think chopping through a group of ...more
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AFTER the turbulence of the last two years, motor industry players are hoping for more stability in 2015.
A LOOMING Russian recession and the rouble slump will take a toll on a host of countries, stretching from Europe to East Asia.
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Bey Z's Former Bodyguard Was Caught Performing Lewd Act
Jay Z and Beyoncé's late bodyguard, Norman Oosterbroek, was always not too far away from the celebrity couple. But what "lewd act" did he do that warranted him being fired from such a cushy job?
In an exclusive gossip report from the blog Crazy Days and Nights, which originally published the bit as a blind item earlier this year, the New York Daily News found out the root behind the notorious news. The bodyguard to the stars, nicknamed "Dutch Giant," was fired after being found "using the family's passports in a lewd act."
What was the disrespectful act, you ask?
According to the Daily News, the 6'5" 280-pound hired help was caught masturbating over not Jay's, not Bey's, but daughter Blue Ivy's passport. The disturbing information was sold by a prostitute that Oosterbroek hired, and caught on video, which was taken by the woman. The footage shows that they are both drunk, but in it, he talks about he works for Beyoncé and was her very first employee.
After being fired from his duties, Oosterbroek's life spiraled out of control as on September 2nd, he forced his way into a neighbor's mansion, punched the resident in the face and swallowed drugs, according to investigators. The 43-year-old bodyguard died after Miami-Dade police shocked him with a Taser.
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Decorate with Vintage Doilies
See how these ubiquitous lace beauties transform into home decor.
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Doily Lamp Shade
For the lamp shade, remove the original fabric, leaving only the frame. Pin small doilies around the top, and then to one another, for a skirtlike effect. Remove pinned doilies. Machine-stitch together. Slip "skirt" over frame; hand-stitch around frame's top.
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Starched Doily Basket
To shape a basket, soak a doily in liquid starch, squeeze out excess, and place doily over an inverted glass bowl covered in waxed paper. Dry one to three days, depending on humidity.
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Some doilies are so standout, they deserve prominent display. Hand-stitch one to the front of a store-bought cushion cover. For the drapery, stitch doilies of varying sizes along the hemline, building a pleasing pattern.
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Table Runner
Create a dazzling flow of dots with round doilies. Machine-stitch them together and drape over a wood table where they can be admired.
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A Doily-Wrapped Vase and Flower
VASE Tightly wrap a doily around a vase. Snip away any excess, then hand-stitch the doily securely in place to create a snug fit.
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A Lace Doily Stretched Over a Bowl
BOWLED OVER Even when doilies are imperfect, their intricate finery shines through. Stitch little favorites end to end to create a band, then slip it tightly around a bowl. Clear glass lets light pass through the handiwork.
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For those seeking the same kind of lean silhouettes and fine Italian tailoring that earned Bond a permanent spot in cinematic fashion history, Brioni has opened a 2,634-square-foot boutique on level two between Carousel Court and Jewel Court at South Coast Plaza last weekend.
Brioni is part of the recently renamed company Kering, formerly known as PPR. Kering's other luxury brands include Gucci, Saint Laurent Paris, Boucheron, Bottega Veneta; the company also owns half of Stella McCartney and Alexander McQueen. Costa Mesa-based action-sports clothing Volcom also is a Kering subsidiary.
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High School: Played soccer at Overton Grange High School in Sutton, Surrey, England ... member of England's U19 and U21 national teams ... helped her team to a third place finish in the U21 Nordic Cup in 2005 ... played club soccer and captained AFC Wimbledon where she was coached by Stewart Castledine ... also played basketball.
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Situated near the beach in Quarteira, this hotel is close to Aqua Show Park, Quarteira Beach and Trafal Beach. Local attractions also include Vilamoura Marina and Falesia Beach.
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Summary: In Addicted to Incarceration, author Travis Pratt uses an evidence-based approach as he explores the consequences of what he terms America's "addiction to incarceration," highlighting the scope of the problem, the nature of the political discussions surrounding criminal justice policy in general and corrections policy in particular, and the social cost of incarceration.
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Trying different ethnic cuisines to give you a taste treat is possible while counting calories and fat. Many ethnic cuisines offer lots of low-fat, low-calorie choices.
So if you want to eat healthy and still have lots of different choices, take a taste adventure with ethnic foods. Here's a sample of healthy food choices (lower in calories and fat) and terms to look for when making your selection:
Chinese: Zheng (steamed); jum (poached); kao (roasted); shao (barbecued); steamed rice; and dishes without MSG added.
Italian: Red sauces; primavera (no cream); piccata (lemon); sun-dried tomatoes; crushed tomatoes; lightly sautéed; and grilled.
Mexican: Spicy chicken; rice and black beans; salsa or picante; and soft corn tortillas.
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The US House of Representatives quietly passed a last-minute addition to the Agricultural Appropriations Bill for 2013 last week - including a provision protecting genetically modified seeds from litigation in the face of health risks.
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Monsanto I am 1 of your many enemies!! You laugh all the way to the bank I will fight you by warning people about your tactics. I do my part by eating local and not from your contamination just like all your employees do.
The dangers of GMO
I want to see the vote by state.
I am totally sick of the entire system with it's greed motive and lack of compassion. That is why I have moved to the Big Island (HI) and have an acre where I grow my own GMO free crops, spear fish and have my home powered by the sun. All I need now is for Abby Martin to come live with me - :) she really is da bomb yah.
What a classic piece of deception to the public at large! No one or any comapny involved in GM should be immune from prosecution! They are playing with peoples lives for the sake of profit!
Damnit, Umbrella ... I mean Monsanto is at it again.
How dare they and naming it an innocent sounding bill to cover it up . No conscience. Sociopaths
Corporate greed, stealth and buying out our president world. This is evil at work
Good for Congress. We need genetically improved seeds
Now I KNOW the government is corrupt and trying to kill us.
Hey, you can trust Monsanto.
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Mary is right, notice how the bee population has disappeared from news coverage?
quote "A foreign power, Monsanto..."
Evil's favourite usual way: make it's victim carry the guilt
Monsanto owns our politicians. Our government is not by the people, for the people. It is by big business for business. When we have given these large corporations control over our food and food ways then we will eat what they tell us to eat.
Time for Regime change everywhere their influence reached Life prison for those who supported them
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NEW YORK ( TheStreet) -- For Shauna Wekherlien, the owner of Tax Goddess Business Services PC in Scottsdale, Ariz., the scariest tax audit she saw was a corker, including threats from the Internal Revenue Service and a dash of ignorance and hostility.
"This client was in manufacturing," she says. "They sent out a young auditor, who CPAs refer to as 'iPod auditors' because during the whole audit all they do is listen to their iPods. This auditor came in and asked for bank statements -- a very normal thing for an auditor to do. However, in this instance, the auditor kept telling the client that he was missing the November bank statement. Of course, the auditor had the November bank statement, but didn't understand the bank statements didn't close exactly on the first of each month and end on the 31st of each month."
That led to further problems, Wekherlien says.
"The auditor actually threatens my client, saying that if he did not provide the November bank statements he would have the 'entire IRS come down on him so hard that he wouldn't know what hit him.' It was at this point that we requested a new auditor. When you have an auditor doesn't know how to read bank statements, you know you're in trouble," she says.Sometimes, a tax audit horror story doesn't point the finger of guilt at the big, bad, IRSm but on "toxic" tax professionals. "We have had a couple of matters -- one involving a forge company and another one in general manufacturing -- where each had hired 'tax professionals' who represented them in examinations," says Walter Harris, a former IRS executive and current director of IRS practice and procedure at New York City-based Alliant Group, a tax services firm. "In both cases, the examinations went south because of poorly prepared materials, unreasonable arguments and tax positions that obstructed the IRS personnel." For the tax client, the fallout was huge, and not in a good way. "The impact was exposure to extensive tax liabilities, each in the mid-six-figure range," Harris adds. "When we were hired to come in and help, we had to rebuild the arguments from scratch and look for offsets. It's not always easy to regain the confidence of the audit team, particularly when they have been so frustrated to that point in the examination." But first comes the shock of finding out you're targeted for an audit. What can taxpayers do if they're in the IRS' line of audit fire? Once again, we have enlisted the help of an all-star lineup of tax specialists: Tax Goddess' Wekherlien To handle an IRS auditor, taxpayers should:
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An IBM computer that analyzes flavor molecules and develops recipes is on the way in five years, scientists say. They are hoping to find not only novel and tasty flavor combinations, but ones that will appeal to us without adding to our waistlines.
Mario Batali, watch your back.
Computer scientists at IBM have already built a computer that can beat human contestants on the TV quiz show, "Jeopardy." Now it appears they're sharpening their intellectual knives to make a computer that might someday challenge the competitors on "Iron Chef."
This is no trivial pursuit. Beating humans in a quiz show was a high-water mark for the computer science field. It meant designing a computer that understood how humans think. Now the plan is to design a computer that can understand how humans dream up new ideas, including new recipes.
"The goal in computational creativity is to come up with new things that have never been seen before," says Lav Varshney, a computer scientist at IBM. (Watch him explain the idea in the video below.)
Why focus on food? "Because food is so visceral," says Varshney. Everyone eats. It helps define our culture."
Culinary creativity isn't just about coming up with something novel. Varshney and his colleagues are hoping to make a computer that will be able to come up with recipes that taste good and don't add to our waistlines.
So how do you turn a computer into a culinary genius? The first step is to give the computer access to a database of recipes that are already being used successfully. "Then we remix them, substitute things, do all kinds of other modifications and generate millions of new ideas for recipes," says Varshney.
"The second step is to take those millions of ideas and find the best ones. To do that we try to predict what humans will find flavorful, based on some basic ideas from chemistry and psychology."
For example, they started with an idea known as the flavor pairing hypothesis. "The basic idea is that two ingredients that share a lot of flavor compounds will go together well in Western cuisine," says Varshney. (We wrote about a University of Cambridge study on this concept just last year.)
But Varshney and his colleagues are not just interested in things that are flavorful, but also food combinations that are perceived as novel — like bell peppers and black tea, blue cheese and dark chocolate — even turmeric and black currants. They have some ideas from information theory and psychology that will help them come up with more.
The computer has already spit out some interesting suggestions. For example, last week Varshney and his colleagues tried a computer-generated recipe that was a mash up of a Spanish paella and an Indian curry. "It had turmeric and some other Indian spices and potatoes, pork and beef and then it has a kinda of a mango rum topping," says Varshney.
And how did it taste? "I'm actually vegetarian so I didn't eat that one, but the team did," he says. "They thought it was pretty good."
Varshney is hoping that their work will lead to make school lunches more attractive to students. They also hope it will help combat obesity by finding dishes that will satisfy people's food cravings without the accompanying calories.
Varshney says the work to create to a computerized top chef is just starting. IBM doesn't expect the computer will be ready for prime time for five years or so.
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